2025-02-24- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Well, welcome back. I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Old Spaghetti Factory Shannon opened August twenty third, nineteen eighty five. According to Corey Price, the amount of people on the text machine that have said they've eaten there in the last month shows me why it's still opened.

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Speaker 5: Really that many people?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, one person says Matt. I went last week because my mother in law wanted to go. I hadn't been in there since the eighties, and it looks exactly the same. But it was packed, and I have to say the food was really good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The atmosphere there was really cool too. I mean that's I think that's the main drawl.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. One person rates Matt, I went back to Old Spaghetti Factory about a month ago after an event at the Young Center. The line was out the door. We waited, and I have to say it was worth it.

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Speaker 2: Wow. It's kind of cool that the old staple was still doing good business.

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Speaker 5: Now, Wow, after today, it's gonna be doing a lot better.

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Speaker 4: There was a time that it was the only restaurant ryan in downtown Louisville, or at least one of the very few that I remember back when, down back before Jerry Aberson, when downtown Louisville was kind of just dead dead. There still was an old spaghetti factory, but I just thought it was. And now you know, downtown's gone down a little bit in the last few years, but there's a lot more places now and yet there it goes still persevere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of places down here have coming gone over the years. Yeah, even here at four Street lives exactly right.

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Speaker 4: Let's do a couple of things real quick. Ryan. First of all, we got to mention I mentioned on the pregame show. We got to mention here Ellie de la Cruz. It's the summer of Ellie. It's the summer of Elle. Okay, it's the summer of the rest. It's gonna be the summer of Ellie and the rest. He gets up for spring training. What it doesn't matter, split squad, We're not. We ain't worried. You don't try to win in spring training. We're winning when it came you need both squads a boat. Squads are gonna be good. It doesn't matter. We have Ellie, Ellie Daylight MVP. Okay, he gets up spring training first at bat left handed home run, second to bat right handed home run. Are you ready for the Summer of Ellie?

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Speaker 2: The dude is awesome? I mean, I do like watching him play. There's no doubt about it. Come on, man, it's the Red Summer of Elly. You'll be out of the playoffs by the end of April.

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Speaker 4: You're out of the playoffs right now. Summer of Elly.

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Speaker 5: They still lost the game, doesn't Matt.

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Speaker 4: No, they won that one.

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Speaker 6: Game.

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Speaker 4: They won. They wont Ellie's game. He's only played one game. Look, we're not who cares if they play Joe Thurstbury. They've got Ellie when he plays, got Drew. You gotta be excited about my man. Two bats, two at bats, two home runs.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I'm excited about a lot of things. Red's not in the conversation, but I do love the joy you have. That starts about right now, and we collectively hear it go away by June.

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Speaker 4: So we're gonna run back a couple of years ago. It was over in May.

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Speaker 5: I'm more impressed with Carson Hanson.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know who that is, but we do know who Elie day La Cruz.

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Speaker 5: Is Kentucky Baseball. He hit two and three pitches.

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Speaker 4: Same thing. Carson Hanson is the Elie de la Cruz of UK baseball. They got to sweep this weekend by the way over Belmont. Congratulations to them. Second, Jay Lucas, all right, for those of you longtime KSR people, you know what Jay Lucas means.

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Speaker 2: It means a lot to this.

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Speaker 4: To me, Jay Lucas. There are three turning points for ksr's success, and turning point one is Patrick Patterson and Jay Lucas. And we all know Patrick Patterson. Jay Lucas gets lost because he didn't come here. But Jay Lucas was crucial in KSR success. Jay Lucas was really liked us more than he liked than even Patterson did. Jay Lucas was like a person who got KSR on the recruiting map. And yesterday it was reported he'll be the next head coach at Miami. I cannot believe Ryan Lemon that I'm old enough that Jay Lucas, who I watched play as a junior in high school and who sat with me and Chris Moseley and talked about video games, is now old enough to become the head coach of a major Division one university.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a major program that's had great success and he's stepping in there. He's a guy that you you could step up to him right now, you and him and not miss abeat. I think because he had that connection from all that we.

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Speaker 4: Always we always knew. I mean even when he was you know, for the year he was here, right, Yeah, he he's just I like, I have a special spot in my heart for that guy, even though I don't know him well anymore, but I we would, we could, we could talk. For the fact that he is old enough, Drew to be coaching a Division one college team is wild to me. Wild.

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Speaker 7: Three years ago he was my neighbor. I'd pass him on the sidewalk with his kids a nod. And now he's the head coach of Miami. Imagine going from living by me to now you're the head coach of Miami Miami.

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Speaker 4: What a climb. Yeah, Masterson Station to South Beach. It's a normal it's a normal move. I when I saw that thing, I mean, he's he's a he deserves the job. But when I saw that thing come across the news, I couldn't believe it, Like I cannot believe.

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Speaker 2: And the young people don't realize what a big deal Patrick Patterson J. Lucas was during that.

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Speaker 4: Recruiter I would say to you, in my years of doing this, this is a the second biggest, first biggest question I've ever been asked was last year, throughout the year, is cal Perry gone? That was That's the question I've been asked the most. But the second most question I was ever asked is what's happening with Patterson Lucas?

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Speaker 2: It was crazy, It was wild, and you guys were at the forefront of you guys the only one that had any good information.

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Speaker 4: He would only talk to us. Yeah, but what's happening with Patterson and Lucas? And Lucas wasn't even that good, but we were so desperate and it was right at the moment when the Internet became how like it was a perfect storm. Rine it was when Internet and recruiting became like widespread, was like right that year.

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Speaker 2: And somehow this this little blog, the only people that had information on those two guys came from you guys.

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Speaker 4: So what's happening with Patterson and Lucas?

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Speaker 2: Yep, He's a big deal, and you know, and you know what's crazy. Patrick Patterson was only rank like sixteenth, but to us he was like the number one recruit we've ever had there for a while.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna make you sad. Some breaking news here, Shannon, go ahead, what running? I believe you like this guy Lester Holt is stepping down from NBC Nightly.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's my dayline intro guy here, Lester's voice every night.

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Speaker 4: That's a terrible impression.

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Speaker 2: We met him at the Republican Convention in Cleveland. We met Lester hold Yes, you and you and I did. We were walking and we met him. We stopped and talked to him, just at a low.

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Speaker 4: So you're so wise you like him? So I thought it was Shannon. It's you Ryan that likes Leicester hold a lot.

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Speaker 2: I think he's just a really good anchor, and he seems to be very charismatic. And I think he's a guy I can hang out with.

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Speaker 4: We can now he's retired. Yeah, okay, I get all of it. Why do you think you could hang out with? Why would he want to hang out with you?

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Speaker 2: You know, former old TV guys?

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Speaker 4: You and he would be friends?

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Speaker 8: Sure?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we'd be friends.

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Speaker 4: I kind of think Ryan would creep Lester holdout. Shit what do you think?

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Speaker 5: Probably so, I wonder why he's retiring.

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Speaker 2: He's not that old. He could he's only good.

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Speaker 5: He's only been doing that evening show for ten years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean this is a weird time, man, it's weird. First of all, you say he's not that old. He's got He's probably in his sixties.

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Speaker 9: Isn't he.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not that old.

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Speaker 5: Ye might not want to be on TV for everything else with their live sixty five?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, sixty five.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be doing this, right Not everybody wants to be like you in the spotlight for the last moment of their lives. Right. Well, Bride'll never give it up. Bride'll be eighty four filling in for Dick Gabriel.

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Speaker 5: I will right nursing home.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go to Bronck. What's up, bron.

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Speaker 10: Hey, guys, you talked about the minutes earlier, and I looked at it another injury skew it. But the six guys you mentioned you wanted to play one hundred and eighty minutes this year, you got them up there at one hundred and fifty five. Not that far, but that No.

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Speaker 4: I disagree that twenty five is huge because that twenty five tends to be when we give up a ten oh run, right, Like, one hundred and fifty five sounds like a lot. I want it to be one hundred and eighty or one hundred and seventy five, because I genuinely think the difference between one hundred and fifty five and let's maybe I'm exaggerating with one to eighty, but one seventy one seventy five might be the difference between winning a game and losing a game.

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Speaker 10: Yes, I understand that, But here's the most important thing.

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Speaker 11: That I saw.

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Speaker 10: The last three games, Perry, Noah, and Chandler are averaging fifty nine minutes between.

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Speaker 4: The three of us. I love those guys, but that's too many. That's too many now now to be fair, though, we've got these injuries. Okay, so like that, Yeah, so that to be fair to those guys, like, we've got these injuries. But the reality is, and I appreciate the call. You he's right about that. Perry, Noah and Chandler can't play sixty of the two hundred minutes. This year, Drew and us be very very successful.

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Speaker 7: And with Perry back to our point earlier about you just have to change what you think of this team right now within being so limited. If we go back to April, when Pope is on that podium and he waves at Perry in the crowd, if someone told you Perry would play thirty minutes a game in February in the sec what in the hell is about to happen? I mean, this is just such unique circumstances that they've fallen into. At least decent job.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let me say about him. I thought he gave I thought he played pretty well Saturday. He cannot guard the Alabama guards maybe one day, but not that day's not today. But he scored in double digits. I thought he played hard. I thought he wasn't scared. So I actually give Perry a a an a for effort. But also like I thought he played well, right, I thought he did about as good as he could have done.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, Yeah, in a hostile environment against some of the best guards in the conference, you go down there and you hold your own as a true freshman. I was kind of proud of him. I know he didn't shoot the ball particularly great, but he did a lot of other things. I thought he did really well.

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Speaker 7: He actually finished at the rim.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, shit three.

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Speaker 7: And he had a career high with four steels, so.

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Speaker 4: He was playing at four steels. You're right, that's exactly right, Mike. Go ahead, Mike. He's good at like coming like a guy. He's good at like when a guy drives, it's not his man reaching in and getting the ball. That's I think something he's really he's got a knack for that, Mike. Go ahead, Mike.

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Speaker 12: You know, one thing is you know, I used to get, you know, a little agitated sometimes the cow would take unfair criticism and but the lineup thing was real, and so it is so with with Mark Pope, and it curiates me. People get mad when you say that Amory should play more. I mean, it's an obvious thing. If you go back and look, I bet you most of those twelve old runs are with Garrison on the floor. And I think, and to that point, I don't care how much Perry and no A play. I just want Tomorray playing thirty plus. I think you got to play him every minute you can. And I realize he's doing a lot more and he could probably play more with Butler there, but sometimes you just got to suck it up. Play because I know you know they played Randall thirty eight minutes in.

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Speaker 4: That year they raised That's exactly right. I'm with you on that like that. That's Julius Randall's a perfect example. I appreciate the call. That team was struggling and the only way they were going to win is Julius Randall playing a lot of minutes, so he played like thirty seven minutes a game. He drugged that team. He drugged that team, especially through the regular season, because we were not good during the regular season and Randall won us games to get us into the tournament. And then Aaron Harrison, some of those guys started playing really well.

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Speaker 2: I will say this about Amari. He did go back to some bad turnover.

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Speaker 4: Did but you know what, I'd still I'll take it. I mean, all can can we talk about the worst play? I mean, you know what I'm gonna say. When Garrison got that rebound and drove all the way down the court by himself. Yeah, Shandon, I nearly if you could, if there was a live camera on me, I would have exploded.

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Speaker 5: What did he think was gonna happen?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I literally from the moment he got the ball screamed, pass pass pass pass, no pass, But I do like he can make threes, but like it's a big difference. It's a big difference. Volunteers of America MIDST is part of Volunteers of America, the oldest nonprofit helping hand, serving about two million people a year. They work on housing, justice, veteran support, shelter, helping people recover from substance abuse, and we have a new location here in downtown Louisville where I am. It's for unhoused individuals to access a variety of services like family shelter and permanent affordable housing. To learn more about this campus or how you can donate, visit VOAMD dot org because it's the Mid States of Volunteers of America VOAMID dot org. Learn more about your new resource in Kentucky at voamid dot org. We will take a break and be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, tell you sports radio text machine seven seven two seven seven four or five two four. I feel like you've played this song a lot recently.

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Speaker 5: Is there a reason I have not played this song in probably a year?

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Speaker 4: Isn't this the one with the girl that dances on the bus.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if it's this song or not.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought we just talked about that, But you may be right if I'm nine eight twenty two eighty seven. One person writes, Matt, tell Shannon the Braves are zero and two in spring training and he can eat it.

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Speaker 5: The one bragging about world serious.

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Speaker 4: Somebody over there needs to eat it.

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Speaker 5: Give me some ketchup.

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Speaker 4: That would be That would be nice. One person writes, Matt, what do you think about the Eagles refusing to go to the White House. I don't like it. I think you should go. It's not about the president. It's about the thing, so I think. But you know, it is what it is. I think you're going to see that happen more and more.

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Speaker 9: So.

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Speaker 3: What if you're a player for the Eagles and you actually want to go.

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Speaker 4: You can't think they just like, yeah, maybe you could like just take a tour by yourself. Yeah, they probably take a vote or something. Yeah, you know, I would assume. I mean, I know when when when Trump was president last time, maybe the Warriors didn't go. I think one of the hot teams maybe didn't go when Biden was president.

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Speaker 5: But you know, I think you want to go to the White House just because the White House.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you should go. I mean to me, if you don't want, if like you really have that big of an objection, you go. And then maybe when it comes time for the photo where they hold up the jersey, you just sneak out the back or something. I would go. But I believe in I believe in institutions. I think what has what is becoming normal now is on the right and the left. A lot of people hate institutions. They hate they think about the deep state and all this. I believe that, like that office is more important than anyone in it. But people just don't believe that anymore. Like, and I hate that. I think that's I think that's a negative. But that's a different point. If I were them, I would go. But you know, what are you gonna do? Uh? I'll tell you what else I would do. I would go to Omaha and watch the Outrunners.

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Speaker 5: Guys had a great weekend.

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Speaker 4: ME tell you some. I know you all most almost everybody in here doesn't know who the Outrunners are. You need to look them up. They were former wrestlers with ov W. They were wrestlers when I came in to put it, a bigger thing, Drew is when we talk about Shannon's mysterious Christmas party that he doesn't invite us to. One of the people that goes and there's only like six or seven is one of the outrunners. This is Shannon. These are Shannon's boys. But when I came to ov W, like they're they're in their forties. They're both really nice guys. The one guy is that Turbo has been really nice to me. But they've both been nice to me. I like them both.

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Speaker 5: Well, Shiloh, I mean he still comes to ov W, just behind the scenes.

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Speaker 4: Yes, he'll just be there on a Thursday night. Yes, so that Shiloh and turtis so anyway, long story short, these two guys in their forties decide to change their gimmick, make themselves like crazy like Hulk Hogan guys. They spin in circles they've taken off. Now amazingly, they're in a W and Omaha. The Omaha basketball team invites them to come give their pregame speech. Now, Shannon, I am fascinated as to how that happened. How did they end up together?

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Speaker 5: I don't know. Maybe they're the pregame.

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Speaker 4: Speech They show up in little midriff shirts with their muscles out, and they get up there and they go and the name of the speech was Succeeding requires success.

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Speaker 5: Nothing succeeding nothing success.

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Speaker 4: Nothing succeeds like success. Come on, what an amazing title?

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Speaker 5: And what did I tell you you had to do? He said, you gotta you gotta win to beat your opponent.

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Speaker 4: He said, you're have to win to beat your opponent. His starting speech started with this sentence, which might be my favorite sentence anyone's ever uttered. If you're anything like me, and I know I am. What a great sentence. If you're anything like me, and I know I am. So they give the speech to the Omaha basketball team. Omaha team goes out that night and wins. When the game is over, they go into the locker room to celebrate with the team. They've clinched a share of the Summit title, and in one of the great videos that's ever existed, the team and the outrunners just beat up a trash can.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what that poor trash can.

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Speaker 4: What did the trash can do to those people? It's so cool to see all these players so excited with these guys. I have to tell you right, I loved that those videos are on my social media, but it's one of my favorite things I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: The videos are fantastic, both of them. That locker room video at the end, though, is one of my favorites. These guys, like you said, in their forties, receding hairlines.

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Speaker 5: They're spinning in circles. I had a receiving hairline.

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Speaker 2: They're spinning in circles, and they're wearing rainbow cloth.

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Speaker 4: They go to Shannon's Christmas party. He doesn't even invite us, and he invites the outrunners.

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Speaker 2: The outrunners.

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Speaker 5: Oh you don't come in and spin and beat up my Garver's can Well I.

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Speaker 4: Will next year because nothing succeeds like success, right, shout out to the outs And now I'm now a huge Omaha basketball fan. I am like, I'm all in on Omaha from now on. Let's go to PT. What's up? PT?

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Speaker 13: Hey, thanks for taking my call, and Shannon, thanks for the invite to the Christmas party last year.

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Speaker 9: It was great.

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Speaker 4: Stop.

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Speaker 13: I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: Stop.

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Speaker 13: I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I do want to talk about the minutes thing. And I'm mainly like, I look at Almador's line of all Zeros but ten minutes, and think what would have happened if Carr and Amari had gotten those ten minutes. How the game would have looked different. So I agree we need to pair down the the lineup a little bit and just played you know, six or seven like Cali PARTI did. And then the other thing. I thought it was classless of the of the UK or the Alabama fans enchant Usa USA. But I don't really expect much from a student section led by Timu karate Kid, and you know the class was to begin with, so.

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Speaker 4: That's well, they're also students. I mean, they're students. Students are going to do stuff. What I appreciate the call, I just I didn't love it. It's not the worst thing in the world. Like, I'm not gonna go nuts about it. I just didn't love it. Probably part of it drews. I just want to beat him, right, you know, I mean I just wanted to beat him. And Amari missed those two free throws too, So yeah.

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Speaker 7: Otherwise at the free throw line, though Mari the last two games has been hot, he missed against missed. I think, yeah, he had a great night at the line and with his backup, and we're all pulling for Brandon Garrison, but he just seems to have completely reverted since earlier in the year. I mean, you mentioned the turnover he had, but you know, adding to the Moromari argument, it's just a huge gap at that position. Right now, going to the bench, Let's go to Jack.

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Speaker 4: What's up Jack? Not much?

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Speaker 11: Thanks Matt for takemo call. I got two things. One like, when we talk about football, we say, you know, there's one play that could change the outcome of a game. But that non call against Perry when he shot his three and when Otega got the I don't know if he has fingertips or what he did that that was a crucial part. And if Carr doesn't get a couple of quick fouls, then I mean that really hurt us.

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Speaker 4: But Grant Nelson got up. I mean, to be fair, I'm not trying to take up for the refs, but Grant Nelson got two thousand and three minutes.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, that's true, that's true. Well that was one point and then another point. I didn't catch your post game.

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Speaker 12: I know, I.

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Speaker 11: Listened to Ryan and there were people down in Pope. I don't like the out the you know, the change of guard or whatever, change the lineup all at once. But if it wasn't for him playing Chandler, Noah and Perry at the beginning of the game or beginning of the season, then we're not getting the play that we're getting right now from them, which is a lot better.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't, but I don't think anybody was complaining about them playing at the end of the year. I mean, I appreciate the call. It me any year we were playing teams that were were not good. Where did he listen to you? Ryan? Have you done the show since SATA?

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Speaker 2: I think he's talking about the Texas postgame show when we had a call or call in and said he's done with Pope. Pope's not the right guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's dumb. Pope's had I think Pope's done a very good job. You can think somebody's done a very good job, which I do and still say I would still do this rather than this. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. We'll take a break very back. KSR.

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Speaker 5: I'm not really sure. I got to know the band, but I don't know like the members of the band so much.

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Speaker 2: I was trying to remember what he looked like.

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Speaker 4: Had rand hair and beard, and he was like, does nobody remember what this guy look like?

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Speaker 2: He was very he was the lead singer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he had a very distinct look. If I remember correctly, Well, I can't even remember. I want to see them. It's good. Bourbon Beyond's got a good lineup, Ryan, I yesterday got surprised during the ESPN show and it made me so happy. I thought you would appreciate this.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about it.

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Speaker 4: So when we sometimes, especially after the football, we lead into an NBA game every day. Okay, so every Sunday, like we ended either twelve thirty or one, and we go off to an NBA game. Now we'll do that for the next couple months, and usually we get one of the announcers for the game as a guest before we on the show, but they never tell us who it is. So sometimes it's PJ. Carlssimo, it's been Mike Breen, It's been various people. So we're like a minute out from my segment at noon and the producer goes, Kalinna Azubuki is on, really And I went what I was like, Kalina Azabuki and he goes, yeah, he's doing the game on radio, and I said for ESPN. He's like, yeah, he's done it for two years. I had no idea, by the way, that Clint Ozabuki was doing ESPN games. Did you know that?

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Speaker 2: Well, I knew he was doing color on the Golden State, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But this is this is the nationally ESPN. I knew he's been doing Golden State for a decade, but did you know he was doing ESPN? Nope. I had no idea. So I didn't really even have time to process it. Ryan and then they come on and I just immediately talked to Klinna. I'm like, Clinn Ozubuki. You remember when you got that dunk against Vandy in two thousand and.

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Speaker 2: Three, still the best nonk I've seen livery.

00:25:45
Speaker 4: And he was like he was clearly surprised Drew because I don't think he knew that a guy from Kentucky was going to interview him. And I go, well, wait a minute, I do Kentucky Sports Radio like it was, and so I just kind of fanboyed with Kalina Azubuki for like three or four.

00:25:59
Speaker 7: Minutes, as you should. You should be like doing the Chris Farley SNL. Do you remember when all Kentucky questions completely ignoring his current jobs?

00:26:06
Speaker 4: Who cares?

00:26:07
Speaker 10: You?

00:26:07
Speaker 4: Remember when the ball bounced on the rim against Michigan State and then it went in.

00:26:12
Speaker 2: You remember Tubby's famous line about him?

00:26:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they didn't. I mentioned that in the in the break and the producer said, don't say that on this, So I didn't, but it was very cool to Uh. I didn't know play. You know, we always talk about former Kentucky guys in the media. Is he the biggest former Kentucky player in the media? He is?

00:26:34
Speaker 2: Now? I don't think there's any doubt, right, There isn't one. We don't have anybody that does anything any I.

00:26:40
Speaker 4: Don't think so so so like his name doesn't get brought up in it, but I think that's true.

00:26:47
Speaker 2: He left school early, didn't get drafted, and still ended up having a decent career in the NBA.

00:26:52
Speaker 4: He did and now has been doing Warriors games for ten years. He does the pregame show for him and now I think he's even on the game broadcast. UK Women lose to lsh Drew. They got up sixteen in the first half and we're rolling. Gave Kim Maulke a stink face and then LSU just kind of blew through in the second half. We cut it to one light, but we're not able to beat him.

00:27:14
Speaker 7: No, the one positive was the camera panning to Kim Mulkey after that Kentucky basket was truly unbelievable camera work, so kudos to ever frame that up. But it hurt watching him kind of lose down the stretch. They even had an eight to zero run in the fourth quarter to retake the lead, but then LSU took it right back in one Kentucky shot like fifteen percent from three. I think that that tells yeah. I mean their best players mostly all of them were cold, so rough night on the day. Even though there's one more home game left. That was the senior day game for George A. Moore and Dejah Lawrence, two players that have been awesome otherwise this year.

00:27:47
Speaker 4: Well it was it was a good game. You know, Kentucky is still four seed in the SEC tournament. Hopefully they're able to hold that. Maulkey had great things to say about Kenny Brooks after the game, said thinks, not only is he great, coach said like, he's one of the best people in the profession. And then she said, why don't they play this game in Rupp Arena. She was like why, She was like, why do they play here? Why don't they playing Rup? And then she goes, I think Big Blue Nation could fill it up. And I was like, well, that's a little bit of stir in the pot. But you know, they used to play one game a year there. I'm kind of surprised they didn't do that this year. I think if they had played that LSU game in RUP, you wouldn't have filled it, but you might have gotten like fifteen thousand people there.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: They always picked one game and it would be a high profile game like Louisville or Tennessee or somebody, and the crowd would pretty much pack it.

00:28:37
Speaker 4: Yeah. One thing about Kenny's team, they got to get more physical. These teams, like you can tell, it's kind of a very similar thing Drewdihur bat men's basketball team. They just the physicality is not something they enjoy. Yeah.

00:28:51
Speaker 7: We first saw that when they made the jump from the top or bottom tier to the top tier playing Texas a week or two ago, and again with LSU. I don't remember the final rebounding numbers, but it seemed pretty lopsided. Really, it was just the third quarter killed him. What was it like, twenty four to six, Yeah, yeah, six points. Yeah, the third quarter completely determined the game.

00:29:11
Speaker 4: Our tall girls are very like thin and then and then when they get into a rebounding battle, they's get it taken from them a lot of the time. Let's go to boys, Go ahead, boys, Matt.

00:29:23
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't know, but I think our two centers and our two forwards is going to have They haven't been great. A's why we're not blocking shots. I think we had Vanderbilt against Vanderbilt. We had seven. We got to be more aggressive. But I haven't been in press with our two centers and our two forwards.

00:29:51
Speaker 4: I disagree with you. I appreciate the call. I think Amar, especially in the last little bit, has been really, really good. Andrew Carr played well Ryan. I mean he had seventeen and he kind of looks like we're back to the Andrew Carr from the beginning of the year.

00:30:05
Speaker 2: That's the Andrew Carr. I think we thought we were going to get all year long, coming out hitting threes, scoring in traffic in the lane, I mean, showing some confidence with he shot. I think that's the guy I thought we'd have all season.

00:30:16
Speaker 7: Yeah, behind him, Ansley Almanor almost had another trillion, though not a good game for him.

00:30:20
Speaker 2: What happened to him? He didn't not he play.

00:30:21
Speaker 7: He had zero across the board except for one miss three in about ten or eleven minutes. So not not a good game from Ansley.

00:30:27
Speaker 4: Yeah you got we I mean they need ten good minutes from him and they haven't, you know, two in the last three games. They haven't had it. He did have a good game against Bandy. Who's next?

00:30:37
Speaker 2: Uh you tell me?

00:30:39
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, who do you want to be next? Well, I mean you you said to pick boys, so I'll go to Seth. Go ahead, seth Uh yep.

00:30:48
Speaker 8: Travis Perry in the game on Saturday, had a nice little move driving to the basket and he slowed up and kind of backed in the guy on him. He got an and one out of it. He did yes, kind of raised my eyebrow saying, you know, he could maximize his potential maybe over the course of his career. My question is, does he am I right in thinking he has a higher ceiling than Jared Poulsen?

00:31:14
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, Now let me say this about Poulson, he liked physicality and could play some defense. Perry's a much better offensive player. But he's got to get And I appreciate the call. I saw a picture of him last year Drew when he was a senior in high school, and he has put on muscle since then, but he needs more muscle. And I mean, I don't know what he can do about his lateral quickness like that is kind of kind of is what it is. But he's gonna be a dude probably his whole career that's gonna give off, give up points. So he's got a score, and I did think that was one good thing we saw Saturday. He only made one three, but he scored in double digits, which showed he could score another ways.

00:31:53
Speaker 7: Hey, we went won for seven from three, which is not him at all, but you know, you have cold days. But I liked late in the game he cut to the basket wide open and Amari hit him for a layup. It's things like that. When you're not making threes, you gotta find other ways to contribute and score, and he at least did that. And I thought he did as best as he could on Mark Series with all those fouls as I do that in quotation marks, with that flopping around he did, I thought, you know, you'd want to win and wanted to play a little better, But overall, I thought he did his best given the circumstances, playing thirty minutes in his third career start.

00:32:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, and to be fair, Series was one of the best players in the country, so you know, I mean All American last year. Yeah, right, I mean he does. There's not a lot of people that can guard him, and Travis isn't a great defender at all, so I think he did the best. He could on it.

00:32:37
Speaker 2: You know, you gotta think this year with Travis Perry haffing to guard, Wade Taylor and Mark Sears, Hubbard and Ziggler, all these top point guards, it's just going to make him better for the rest of his career.

00:32:48
Speaker 7: He was guarding Madisonville North Hopkins last year. I love you Maroons, but that's a big jump from regional to SEC on the road playing Alabama.

00:32:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the championship game of the Sweet sixteen last year, he was guarding my guy from Harlan with the long hair. Now that guy's good though. What's his name?

00:33:03
Speaker 2: Reggie?

00:33:04
Speaker 4: Reggie? Reggie, Yes, Reggie. They might make the Sweet sixteen again.

00:33:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got that Huff kid. He's good, Maddix Huff. He's come back. He was one of their best players last year.

00:33:13
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00:33:14
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00:34:14
Speaker 2: This is the original.

00:34:15
Speaker 4: She was eighty seven years old. Wow. She had Grammy winning hits, including the first time I ever saw your face. Just passed away this morning. She was discovered by Lexington's own Less McCann. I don't know who Less McCann is, but that's an interesting little tidbit. She was discovered by someone from Lexington.

00:34:36
Speaker 2: Now I want to know the whole story. How'd that happen?

00:34:38
Speaker 4: Well, why don't you look it up? You're a journalist, I'll report back.

00:34:43
Speaker 7: He discovered her while she was playing jazz in Washington, DC.

00:34:47
Speaker 4: What was his job?

00:34:48
Speaker 7: He's a jazz guy. I'm reading all of this on the internet.

00:34:51
Speaker 4: I don't know it off the top. Okay, yeah, I would have been impressed if you knew that, because like, anyone could discover someone Shannon. But it doesn't they have to do something about it. Ry, Yeah, they discovery.

00:35:01
Speaker 5: Nobody knows that.

00:35:02
Speaker 4: If you're nothing, then you can discover somebody.

00:35:04
Speaker 5: It won't do them any good discovered about them.

00:35:08
Speaker 4: It's love it. But Robert rob I keep saying, Robert robert to Flack, Roberta. I keep saying Roberta, ROBERTA Flack, Robertea, ROBERTA Flack uh passed away eighty eight, I said, eighty seven, eighty eight years old. The Pope Ryan is sick, Yes, Pope is very sick. Hope he hope he gets better and pulls through. They say he's a little better today. But you know, we watched the movie didn't we about Conclave?

00:35:40
Speaker 2: Conclave?

00:35:41
Speaker 4: Did you think about that when you saw the news about when they all get together and pick the new pope and and it's all intrigue and all that. Have you been thinking about that, because I know you like that movie.

00:35:52
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I was thinking about that because that's the basis of the movie, is true. That's how they do it. You know, these these Roman Catholic priests all gathered to pick the new pope. So you know, they fabricated the storyline, but that's still how they do it.

00:36:05
Speaker 4: Have you seen have you all seen the movie? Drew, Shannon, I have not, Drew, did you say it? I recommend it. It's nominated for Best Picture, has a shot at winning. So, Shannon, they all get together, they bring they bring is it cardinals? Is that right? Is that they're cardinals? They bring cardinals from all over the world. They bring them into one building. They take their phones. They're not allowed to have any not only any communication with the outside world. They're not allowed, Shannon, to even know what's happening in the outside world.

00:36:39
Speaker 5: Could you imagine that kind of life?

00:36:41
Speaker 4: But well, it's just for like a week. I mean, so for a week though, for no communication with the outside world, and they are not allowed to leave until they come up with a pope and they have to get what is it Ryan, like seventy five percent or something. It was, it was a very high number. And this movie is all about like they have all of them have secrets, and there's intrigue and.

00:37:04
Speaker 3: There's like, you know, I would have my mind made up as soon as I walked into that building.

00:37:08
Speaker 4: But but but they trust some people do. But the politics, there's a lot of politics because what if what if your guy drops out? Yeah, you know, and then somebody else drops in, and.

00:37:19
Speaker 5: Then when they make their decision, don't they send smoke?

00:37:22
Speaker 4: So every at the end of the every day, if they don't have a pope, they send out black smoke. But if they have a pope, they send out white smoke.

00:37:31
Speaker 3: Wow, do you imagine gathering around that house just waiting to see what's happen.

00:37:35
Speaker 4: It's a big, a big old thing. It's the building, it's the Vatican, right, isn't that where they do it? Yes?

00:37:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, right there close to Saint Peter Square that we can gather and watch the smoke coming out of the chimney.

00:37:47
Speaker 4: So right, I've never really followed that process. But now after watching that movie, I mean, I want Pope Francis to survive. He seems like to me, he's been a good pope. I don't really know a lot about it, but it seems like it. But but if he is a way at some point, then I want to watch. I hope they should live stream it. I know they won't, but they should because I would watch it.

00:38:07
Speaker 2: I'm the same way. Just based on that movie, I'm kind of more involved in it. And it's just a it's a tradition that he's going back with hundreds and hundreds of years.

00:38:14
Speaker 4: Thousands of years. I mean, as long as the Catholic churches existed, this.

00:38:18
Speaker 2: Is the and they do it's kind of the same way.

00:38:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, the way they've done it. But you too should watch that. Honestly, that's a movie I think everyone would like, wouldn't you agree, Ryan, Like, there aren't many movies that I would say everyone would like. I think everybody would like that movie.

00:38:33
Speaker 2: I told you this after I saw it. I really really liked it and hated the ending. Hated it.

00:38:38
Speaker 4: You just didn't like who they picked.

00:38:40
Speaker 2: No, they just well I don't want to spoil, but they just kind of left it, left it hanged.

00:38:43
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, it was white smoke.

00:38:50
Speaker 4: Don't spoil. He wants to spoil the ending shit and you can tell.

00:38:55
Speaker 5: Just glad to tell me Ryan save me two hours, Ed go ahead, Ed.

00:39:03
Speaker 6: Yes, calling for Louisville, Kentucky. First time caller. I'm really glad listen to your show every day.

00:39:09
Speaker 4: Uh.

00:39:10
Speaker 6: The thing that concerns me about Kentucky is we've won a lot of tough games early in the season, but the reality of it is we were just outscoring those teams. Our defense has been a problem all year, Okay. And the problem is Perry and Noah just do not have the foot speed to stay with these guards.

00:39:29
Speaker 4: Okay.

00:39:31
Speaker 6: And I'm just really I just want to get a comment from you all that with the injuries, everybody's talking about the injuries and how it's hurt, it's also hurdess in practice because those guys Perry and Noah gotta be guarding people that are walk on or start or force strings beyond them and they're not challenged. You're as good as you practice.

00:39:48
Speaker 11: And I am a little like, what are we gonna do about it?

00:39:51
Speaker 4: But what are we gonna do about it? I mean, there's nothing we can do about it. Like like those guys, I agree with your with your analysis.

00:39:59
Speaker 6: Play some zones, but they can't.

00:40:03
Speaker 4: You can't play zone against that. You can't play zone against Alabama. They'll kill you. They shoot like they shoot threes.

00:40:10
Speaker 6: Well, you can't in front of them either. Just Alabama. If you get beat by jump shot, then you gotta live with that. But they have been blowing pants our guards all.

00:40:20
Speaker 4: To be fair. To be fair, I appreciate the call. We had our two best defensive games, two of our I mean, we rose forty four points in defense in the last two weeks, so they have gotten better. But Drew, you can't zone Alabama. They'll kill you. They'll kill you.

00:40:38
Speaker 7: Alabama would love to see a zone.

00:40:40
Speaker 4: So yes, he's right. Our dudes can't stay in front of guys. And honestly, Ryan, they haven't been able to stay in front of guys all year. But that's like a roster thing. I just don't think we have a great defensive roster. Maybe next year we get more athletes and it's better. We have to outscore these teams, and the problem is with our two best players out, we just don't have enough firepower ride to outscore in Alabama. Now we can beat other teams, but a team that can score ninety, I just don't think we have enough points in us.

00:41:10
Speaker 2: You know, our defense has really gotten a lot better. We held South Carolina at under sixty. I think Tennessee had like sixty four. Vanderbilt had sixty one, only twenty one on the second half. Our defense has gotten better with our best defender not even playing right now.

00:41:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Butler, sometimes it just is what it is, you know, Sometimes you just not if we had our full roster, I think we can keep up with Alabama offensively. If we don't, what are you gonna do? But if we go zone, they'd score one hundred and twenty points.

00:41:40
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00:42:16
Speaker 4: The White House, by the way, just send a statement out that said that the Eagles have not declined to go to the Can you believe anything any more likely? No? Who's this?

00:42:29
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00:42:33
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