2025-07-01- KSR - Hour 1

Ryan and Billy speak with two special guests: Sean Woods and Cisco Bryant.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
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.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
A little bullpen game.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
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.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
He'll make them pay, He'll make them pay.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
We'll have our whiskey thief call today.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
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

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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.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Well, I hope you have your journalism hat on or
I hope you're gonna ask some tough questions today.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Who's our first guest?

Speaker 6 (01:36):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
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

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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,

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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.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Then today, how do you like the line up?

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Okay, I like it a lot. It's got a lot
of potential. Ryan, So let's let's let's do it.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
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.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
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.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
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.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Unforgettable.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
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.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
Uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah did did did did
did well.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I want to talk about the TVT job first, obviously,
because that's that's coming up.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Man.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
That's like you guys playing, like what two weeks, two
weeks you're playing two weeks a week from Friday.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's about two and a half weeks.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
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?

Speaker 6 (04:13):
No, we have, they don't. The guys don't report until
the eleventh.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
We got that.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
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

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an all star game where former players, especially.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Locally, will be playing in it.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
And then the guys report on Sunday, our first meet
and then we kick it off far as practice starts
on Monday.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
So the roster set though, right, is it? Right? Yeah?
I don't. Willie's back.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
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?

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Uh? You got the DeAndre Liggins is playing. We got.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
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

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Cantor's brother, who was the MVP of the league last year.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
He was a tv T.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
You needed him because he's like a big, big butt,
big brawler guy in the middle.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
Do you need he's a guy that you can go
to the well and go get a bucket.

Speaker 7 (05:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
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.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Man, you feel pretty good about when you look at
the roster. It makes it as a coach.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
Doubt about it. I think we're deeper. I think we
got more guys that are gonna come in.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
And in shape.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
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

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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

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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

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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.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
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.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
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.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Man.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

(09:43):
And I al, there's no pride nowhere, but the only
place that you can get that pride from is right here.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, I think that's probably why Willy Harrison Twins want
to come back and play again this year, no.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Doubt about it.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
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

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than those other guys.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
And that plays a difference.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
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.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
So there's eight teams in this region.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
You feel pretty good about getting out of the region
and maybe enough people come by the tickets we can
host the regional.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
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.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
They have to be turned in?

Speaker 6 (10:49):
Y doesn't have to be turned in for a little bit,
so you know it's hard to do.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
You got a good other guys added to your roster.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
You think we may have one one more.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Really we may have one more.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Really they had one more.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
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,

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I would have fun.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
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.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
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.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
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.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
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.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
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.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
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

(12:32):
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.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
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.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
So if you got a.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Call, give us a call eight five nine two two
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Speaker 4 (13:40):
They've been a good part with us for a long time.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
All right, welcome back Ryan Leman here on the patio
of Ksbar and Grill because we've.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Got a kind of a.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
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.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
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.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
So your other job you picked up this summer, you
were named the head basketball coach at Scott County high School.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
So I've really not seen you since the congratulation. Appreciate it,
Appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
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.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
Sicks, know that about it. Did a great job.

Speaker 6 (14:24):
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.

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And he he created that and and you know it's
I got some shoes to you know, some pig shoes
to feel.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
But I'm looking forward to it because you always, as
a coach, want to.

Speaker 6 (14:57):
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

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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.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
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.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
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

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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

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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.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
So it was timing big time.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
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.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
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.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
This is the Commonwealth's team.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
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,

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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.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
I thought they were pretty good. I thought he had
silent guys.

Speaker 6 (17:55):
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

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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

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last week and it was a different type of aura.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Really, it's a toughness era.

Speaker 6 (18:43):
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

(20:31):
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?

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Is this a roster that most fans believe can get
to the Final four?

Speaker 6 (20:51):
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

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the Houston's and the Saint John's and.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
The people like that.

Speaker 6 (21:14):
You know, at that level, that Ectly, that elper echeline
level to the Connecticut's.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
I think we'll be able to compete with him. From
a physical and defensive.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
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.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
He's got to be good, right, Low has to be good.
I mean, I know Lowe's dad.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
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

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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.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
We need to hear.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
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?

Speaker 4 (22:22):
We right back. Special Guest number two is here.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
We're gonna bring you on. We come back r after
this break. I recognize that voice, Billy, that's our boy.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
It's our guy, Shannon the dude.

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

Speaker 4 (22:38):
You know it sounds pretty good. You know.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
We hate to brag on him too much, Billy, because
then his head gets so big. But they're actually really
really good.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah, I'm really proud of him, and I really liked
this song too, So he keep it up.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Alice move.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
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.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
So, uh so, I hope they're.

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

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

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

Speaker 2 (23:11):
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

(23:32):
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.

Speaker 7 (23:46):
Yeah, bowling you're high and bowling your high purple.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
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.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
I wasn't torn when they play in the state title.
Blood is sticker than water, Yeah, I was all federate dodmis.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
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.

Speaker 8 (24:15):
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.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
It's your first time on the show.

Speaker 8 (24:24):
First time because I'm I I'm not you know, uh
d Key who gets invited all the time.

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

Speaker 2 (24:31):
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.

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

Speaker 4 (24:40):
He deserved it.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
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.

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

Speaker 8 (25:02):
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.

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

Speaker 2 (25:15):
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.

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

Speaker 8 (25:30):
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.

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

Speaker 2 (25:42):
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.

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

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

Speaker 8 (26:02):
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.

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

Speaker 2 (26:18):
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?

Speaker 8 (26:30):
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.

(26:51):
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

(27:11):
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

(27:33):
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

(27:54):
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.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
As a receiver.

Speaker 8 (28:08):
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.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
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.

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

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

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:35):
Uh.

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

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Sure.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
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.

(29:05):
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,

(29:25):
yell at him.

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

Speaker 8 (29:28):
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.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
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.

Speaker 7 (29:42):
I disagree.

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

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

Speaker 8 (29:53):
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.

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

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

Speaker 7 (30:05):
This year. It was amazing.

Speaker 8 (30:09):
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.

Speaker 7 (30:17):
I say that, I appreciate that.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
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.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Uh.

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

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

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

Speaker 4 (30:50):
You know?

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

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

Speaker 8 (31:01):
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

(31:25):
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.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
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.

Speaker 8 (31:48):
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

(32:10):
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,

(32:32):
you know, offense and defensive coordinators.

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

Speaker 8 (32:39):
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.

Speaker 7 (32:50):
Yes, I think.

Speaker 8 (32:52):
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.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
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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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.

(34:45):
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.

Speaker 7 (34:58):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
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,

(35:20):
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.

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

Speaker 8 (35:36):
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

(35:57):
White and coach Pafano, they both saw that.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
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.

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

Speaker 2 (36:08):
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.

Speaker 8 (36:15):
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

(36:35):
to win for the University of Kentucky, not just for himself.
So and no other kids see that. Other young kids
see that.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
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.

Speaker 8 (36:56):
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

(37:18):
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.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
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.

Speaker 8 (37:45):
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.

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

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

Speaker 8 (38:02):
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

(38:23):
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

(38:44):
is in Lexington. Nobody thinks of the Yankees. So if
he says Yankee to me, I'm running. If I say Yankee, that.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
Means right now.

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

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

Speaker 7 (39:02):
So so here, I.

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

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

Speaker 8 (39:10):
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.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
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.

Speaker 7 (39:40):
God's willing.

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

Speaker 4 (39:47):
He you.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
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.

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

Speaker 8 (39:54):
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.

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

Speaker 8 (40:06):
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.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
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.

Speaker 5 (40:26):
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.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
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

(40:58):
Sports Radio.