October 10, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Everyone is Kentucky Sports Radio. Friday, October tenth.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
This is the Friday before the last Saturday until April
that there are no UK sporting events or no UK
basketball or football games. We are here at Wild Eggs
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Speaker 4 (01:02):
He'll make them pay.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
We are here at Wild Eggs today, Mark Pope will
join us by phone at ten thirty.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
He's gonna give us.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I'm told we've got one segment and I have to
be out at ten forty five, so I'm gonna apologize
in advance if I cut him off at all, because
they are making me get him off at ten forty five.
And Shannon, but looking forward to have Mark Pope as
we get ready for a big Blue Matt.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
He's a busy man, so, you know, just to be
able to get well. He's got a cruit thirteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Recruits here, and I was like, and they're like, we'll
give you fifteen minutes, but we ever stuff. And I
understand that I don't want to be unlike Billy. I
don't want to be the one that ruins a recruit
commitment as he did wearing khaki paants the other day.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
What did Mark Pope just bring the recruits? I hear
to Wild egg have breakfast, brunch and lunch with a
bar and be able to settle their recruitment.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
They I'm sure they thought about it.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
We are here at Wild Eggs and it is of
course a great place for breakfast, and you are one
of the endorsers. Give me the top. They always bring
food out for us. The sample I'm looking for. Give
me the top. Two or three things you eat here.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Potato head cast role without a doubt, the yellow submarines.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Those are the potato well obviously, but they're like the
hash browns, cheese and all that.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
And if you get like a sandwich or something, you
can ask for the tots on the side.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It's kind of a secret. On the mean, it's not
a secret.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You say that every time, and I think it's actually
on the.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Me it's actually listed underside.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Yeah, it's sides you can add tots for.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, they are very very good.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
You know, brand would just tell me the pumpkin pancakes.
This is like the last weekend for it, so that's
been a real popular item.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
They have strawberry pancakes. Yeah, what else do you eat?
Oh me, yes, you're you're literally wearing the wild Eggs shirt.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
The biscuits and gravy and you can get sausage gravy
on one biscuit and terreso gravy on the other biscuit.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, your son works here as well, walking around.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
He's actually inside doing work.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
You got to see him because he doesn't come home
a lot while he's at school.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
First time I seen him in a couple months, so
I just got to catch up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Hey, how you doing. Don't for get dad?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
You know when you comes see dad once in a while, once'
you get dad to called text Dad and see our
dad's doing.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
You were saying, you're still very Yeah, you're still very
like lonely.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I hate it.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I mean I just absolutely hate walking that house and
it's not nobody's there.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Can always come to wild if you want to see him.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
But do you that's true?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So you you were saying, like you don't you go
somewhere every night, like you're not you don't want to
be at home.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
At all, Poor younger girl.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I've been on her house like every night, having dinner,
watching TV because I don't want to be by myself
in my house.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Are you worried you're gonna like suffocate her with you
with your attention?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, that's just tough.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's part of me and my girlfriend that I can
find out if she really likes you or not. Just
show up at her house every night.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Again, you've been married many more times than me, But
I don't know that, like she's just gonna like it
is a good is a good tool for relationship.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm trying to like entice her, like I'm bringing dinner.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I'm like you said, she was the one though that cooks.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
She cooked sometimes, but like I like, I'll go Panera
last night to get dinner.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
And I know she likes Yeah. Okay, so I haven't
talked you about this, but I purposely trying not to call.
You'll say, and not, you know, let him do his own.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Smart especially since his first semester.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, you can still act like he exists though died.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
But but I think that's important. You don't want to
overwhelm me with attention.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I like, how often are you calling?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Well?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I did really well for a long time, but this
past week, I think I've called him every night.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I have a right, that's that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I know, I agree, and I flow him today. Let's
let's step back, maybe like every other night.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
To understand, like this is his transition into like manhood,
it's not your transition into life. Like you need to
give him some space. Let him like you're the dad,
he's the son. You don't want him to have to
be the dad and you're the son, like making sure
you're okay.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
And apparently I don't know how he's doing in the classroom,
but the ladies departing.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Very well, very.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Well, that's not first of all, he's standing right over.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
There, proud dad. But huh yeah, well that now we
see why you want even to go to college. You
this is why I cut you off. A five nine
to two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A text
machine is seven seven two seven four five two five
four Big Blue Madness is uh tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You know. I was told they'll be a surprise. I've
actually kind of heard.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I don't want to share it because I don't want
to I want to spoil it, but I've.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Heard what it is, and here's my hint, Shannon.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
It's something I've been wanting to see but from another sport.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But they're bringing it to basketball. Interesting, and I'll just
leave it at that.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
So it's something I've wanted to see done, and I
wanted to see it done on another sport, and oddly
to me, they're doing it in basketball, which would seem
to me to be harder than it would have been
to do it in football. So I'm excited to see
what they do and we'll see if it will see
if it works.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm going to guess that is hockey and is traditional
and hockey that they throw octopuses onto the floor.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I think that's what we're gonna do tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
A big I don't know, now, there there are a lot.
I think there's gonna be a bunch of recruits here.
It'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I know there had been a hope that they were
gonna try to get some uh some former players involved.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
We'll see.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I mean, the NBA preseason's going on, so I don't
know how many of those guys, uh, you can get here,
but but nevertheless, should be good.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Are you you know?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'd gotten to the point where, if I'm being honest,
I had not watched The Big Blue Man. This is
towards the end of the cal era. Watched it last
year because it was the first with Pope. Obviously we
had the Rick Patino thing. Are you excited to watch
this one this year?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I am, because it kind of you know, Pope gets it.
You know, he was here part of the you know,
the mid nineties when Patino and and Midnight Manus was
a big deal. He gets it, and so now I
think it's gonna get back to that level of where
it's more of a production and excitement and gonna be
entertaining and not just boring run up and down the court,
not even trying to play anything.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I hope they show it.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I mean again, like I can't believe I keep saying this,
but I hope they actually show the action. I know,
like Tom Hart's done like the last seven or eight,
he's not doing this one. They're producing it locally. The
guy that you met whose name you didn't remember, Noah Noah.
This will be his debut as as the Kentucky sort
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of secondary basketball announcer where he does those games that
are on the computer. I think Georgia Amore is doing
the women's one, which I think is kind of cool is.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I think she'll be good at that, but that's a
lot of pressure.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
The girl just graduated college and I think she's doing
the women's one right.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Unfortunately, she got injured so she's not able to play
this year. So it's a perfect time to bring her
in get her apart, because she created a lot of
excitement here.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
She was really good on the show, and she was
on it those couple of times, so I think that's
a really good opportunity for her, and I believe it's
I think it's Jack Givens and Noah, and then I
think maybe Noah and Georgia Amore for the women.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
She's got a great personality to do it, so I
think that she'll do great. Can I tell you though,
The thing that I'm looking forward to the most at
Madness are the awkward dances the.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Guys that don't really they do that anymore. We're not
gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I think that was a cow thing. I think now
it's a different I don't think they do that that
that vibe. But the players want.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
To introduce the players, but I think.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They just stand there, Hi, everybody. No, I mean what
they did last year.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
They did something else last year.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Where they ran down the stairs like they did during
when Patino was here and Labot Butler coming out in
it was it him that was rapping.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
He did rap.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, that's right, he did rap last year. Which gets
me to it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
We do this a lot for the various Big Blue Madnesses,
but we were we were gonna talk the biggest moments
in the history of Big Blue madness. Now I want
to do We used to just do the Calier, but
I'm gonna lean on you, old man here. I want
to go through all the history of big blue madness
for a second, and I want to say, what are
the biggest moments?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
All right?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Objectively? Number one has to be the Wall dance, right,
has to be. I think that would would anybody dispute
the John Wall Dance is the number one one. But
let me give you some some some possibilities for the others,
and then we'll rank them, all right. I think Enus
Canter and the whole Undertaker entrance was a big.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
One, big one, right.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I think last year with Patino uh coming, it is
a big one.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Even though we don't look back at his time fondly.
The Billy Gillespie buss the curtain. They actually did those
pretty well those years, right, production the tubby Smith, Batman
and Robin One.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Right, isn't that a big one?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That was Patino?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
I think, wasn't that when Walter McCarty was and Tony
Duck with Batman?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Robin?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Is that? Is that? Right?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Fair enough? That that one?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
What other ones stick out to you? Those are the
ones that come to my mind immediately, Drake, I mean
we it's hard to talk about Drake now it's a
different well, but the old Drake plane and doing warm
ups and all that was big at the time.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
What else?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Bill Kittley popped out of a cake one time of
the floor when what?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Why was there? Was his birthday?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Why? Why did they do that?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I don't know, I don't know what that was all about,
but I remember that was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
What else?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You know?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
For several years, I thought the highlight was of the
Matthew Mitchell dance when he came out and did a dance,
you know what was his.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
First one of those? Shannon was huge.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I mean they were always good, but his first one
kind of shocked everybody.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
People didn't know he could do that.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And then it kind of put pressure, I felt like,
on coach Mitchell to come out and try to top
what he did the previous year the next year.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Every year we expected that.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
No doubt it did. Yeah for a while, can you
think of any more? You know he used to do
him at midnight? Yeah, yeah, right, and that was a
whole nother thing.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Those Beatino ride a Harley out one year somebody wrote
a Harley out one.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yeah, I think you're right, but there's one what I
feel like there's one from Tubby we're missing?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Is there one from Tubby? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I thought that was right? Tubby was on the Harley
all right. So just with the ones we've said, Wall
one is number two. I think the contenders are you
Matthew Mitchell dancing, Enis Canter or last year with Patino?
Which one do you which one do you think would
be number two?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
As much as I love coach Mitchell dancing and that
was something we look forward to every year, I think
just that moment of bringing Rick Patino back, we knew
at some point it was going to happen, but it
was the perfect scenario with the former player Mark Pope
now being the head coach and bringing Rick Patino back
and Patino actually getting cheered.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I almost like.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Kind of lead doubt that he was gonna be there.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
So there was like a buzz in the crowd like
this is gonna happen, like you you kind of knew,
And I think that actually oddly made it more exciting
because people were just like, when's he coming out? When's
he coming out? When's he coming out? So I kind
of agree with you. I think Patino is two.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Because he was carrying the trophy to he walks out,
he's carrying the ninety six championship trophy.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I would say number three. It's probably even though he
didn't play a game Enis Cancer. I mean, I think
when Enis Cancer came in and you had that no
man like and there he was, and he had kind
of been this mystere his figure that you didn't really
know much about.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
So I actually would put that number three. What about you?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, I like that one.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I'm sure Drew would probably didn't Archie Goodwin do a
dance one time and that was Drew one of Drew's
favorite ones.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah, really, he really liked it because it was it
was I don't think it was very good. I think
it's why Drew liked it.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
But you're like back in you know, on the Patino era,
there was always like a gimmick or something and then
just got away from that the last one.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
So it all became after a while seeing and it
became cal Perry's speeches, right.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
He always would give the sort of address to the
nation and then he would get on and tell us
how we needed to assume our team stunk.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, like that, that was kind of what.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
He was, like a sermon from Calipari. And then he
would drop the mic and say, let's ball.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
He didn't do that, that was good the year he did.
The one year he just dropped the mic and did that,
that was actually good.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So I think number four for me would probably be
all the years with Matthew Mitchell and probably the first
one being number four.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I like that. I think that's good.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
And then yeah, I remember at the time, did someone
maybe did someone repel from the ceiling back in.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
The other day the mascot and he got stuck halfway
coming down halfway and he kind of got panicked.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
He got stuck.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
He was like halfway down and kind of got stuck
there from it, nobody knew it, but like he was.
He said he was panicking inside his costume because he
got stuck. Finally got it loose, made it down to
the floor.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Really that could have been disaster.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Well, at least need to give him number five. Whoever
is wait, we're forgetting one way on the floor.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
You and I are part of a video for a
Matthew Mitchell dance. One time he came into the studio
and shot a video and played it on the JumboTron.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And then Matthew came out.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Oh that's right, Yeah, you were exactly So we were
part of a big We were part of a big
respect before you got his band.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
With your Katina Powell statement.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Hey if I'm nine two twenty two eighty seven, it's
Big Blue Man's tomorrow, UK fan Fast.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
We're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Potentially a massive weekend in UK recruiting with potentially the
number one player in America deciding, although no one knows
for sure, and Mark Pope will join us. At ten thirty,
we are here at Wild Eggs in Hamburg. This is
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Wow, that's a lot of words.
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The text machine is full of memories, but there's a
big argument about whether or not it was Patino or
Tubby on the Harley. Half the people say it was Patino,
half the people say it was Tubby.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
We found a picture of Patino on it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Tubby was on the Harley at Texas Tech and he crashed.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I don't remember remember an you know that.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I feel like this is our own version of the
Mandela effect.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
One person writes, what about Bill Kiteley and Tubby getting
out of the DeLorean in two thousand and three?
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Yeah, I forgot about that one, but I remember that
also had come out in the DeLorean.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Another person writes, what about Jason Parker tearing his acl
in the back getting ready for introduction.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That's a true story. I was there that day.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Talk about that. That was a huge deal.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Jason Parker was gonna be like our second best player
that was on that Tayshawn team.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And then he tore his acl and the introductions.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Yeah, they were doing like a little you know, huddle
before they went out, and I jumping up and down,
you know, and boom, tell me, he blew his knee out.
So when he when he got introduced, he's walking out
with a limp, and you could tell he's upset, and.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
He was He was good.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, he was good.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
He was good.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
You remember the like he played like three games the
year before and then he got hurt. Yeah, and then
he came back the next year and got hurt, so
we really never got to see him play.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It's a shame he's one of those dead guys that
need to do over because.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I's definitely a guy that you look back and you
go if he had might have been a different.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I know we got a lot of great depth on
this roster, but I hope that nobody tears an a
c l trying to stretch tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Everybody take it easy at Big Blue Mast Rights.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
My least favorite moment was Andre Rinneck got on the
mic and told the entire crowd he had named a
new dunk.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It was going to be called the Brooklyn Roughneck.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
The crowd went crazy, started clapping their hands and all
he did was run up into a one handed dunk.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Quite the build up.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Wow, I didn't know that was true.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
That's a great story of it is I kind.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Of like that story. Yeah, Hey, everybody, I got a
new dunk.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Something you've never seen before, a one handed dunk the
Brooklyn Roughneck.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
I thought of something that really, every time someone gets
a one handed dunk, this year's shit and I'm calling it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
There you go for it. The day that the they
had the floor that lit up.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, and that was a big That was great. That
was one of the coolest things in the last ten years,
I think, right, I.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Feel like we have to note, uh today the passing
and one hundred and six years old of Sister Jean.
Loyola's Sister Jean passed away last night, just before midnight,
one hundred and six years old. I mean, first of all,
is she the most famous nun in America? She would
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How many nuns in the history of America have been
more famous than Sister Gene.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Nobody. She's the best. Bet, there's none better. You were
waiting on that.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
No better.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
One hundred and six years old sort of captivated the
country on that run with Loyola kept going to the games. Yes,
she know, she kept going to the games. One hundred
and six long time to live. Of course for this show,
we all remember because during the hype, and people forget
how huge that was. I mean, she was everywhere. It
wasn't just in sports. She was on the Today Show,
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she was on like the Tonight Show. She was everywhere
during that whole thing. Then Sister Jean created a Twitter
account that got massive. I mean it was mentioned on TEA,
was mentioned on the Today Show. It was Sister Jean's
Twitter account, and it turns out it was run by
Shannon the dude.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Created.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Tell the story of how you created that.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well, we were in Atlanta and were like the first
round of the.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
First round of the NCAA tournament, and we were doing
the pregame show and Drew said, I can't wait for
Loyola to lose so I can see Sister Jean's tears,
you know, just he was hating my sister Jean.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
He had already won their first game in a big upset.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, he was already tired of her.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
He was already and she had just gotten it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
So then I had just created this fake Twitter account
just to after Kentucky lost to Kansas State. I put
the crying Jordan face on Drew's face, yes, as sister Jean,
And somehow people thought that was real. Somehow that just
got retweeted and retweeted, and all of a sudden, this
Twitter account was born. And next thing I know, I've
got like ten thousand followers in a day, and I'm going, well,
(18:57):
maybe I should tweet something else, and it just kept
getting more leverage. Yeah, and I had people, you know,
reputable news sources actually retweeting this, which gave it more
credence as being a legitimate.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Well, we didn't tell anybody no, so what like after
the final four. I mean you told us, I think
right before the Final four, but for like a week
you kept it to yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's right, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
My favorite part was watching the Today Show Savannah Guthrie
and Hote Copy and they're quoting my my tweet as.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
If it was sister g Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And you know, I said in the tweet, people have
asked me what I've given up her lent. My answer
is simple losing. And they read that on the Today
Show and Hoda Katti goes, that's sister Jean.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
She is just so witty.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And I'm sitting there about to spit up the coffee
that I was sipping on because I was laughing so hard.
But rest in PA's sister, Jean, what an amazing life.
You know, she just released a book a couple of
years ago at one hundred and four. That's pretty amazing.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I mean, what, first of all, one hundred and six
just living that long is amazing. But then also, I mean,
what year was that?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Was that two eighteen eighteen, so you're talking about she
was ninety nine? Yeah, and going to the games and
being that big of a presence, what you know.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
What you can imagine, you know, living a relatively quiet
life I would think as a nun.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Probably not out the club.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And then at ninety nine you become this almost household
name across America. It's pretty crazy. But where does she.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Rank, like in the most famous fans during the college
basketball tournament? I mean, for question, for US, we had
Ashley Judd for a number of years going to games
and they would show her all the time. Can you
think of people during tournament runs that were more famous
fans of a team?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Didn't Julia Luis dreyf as her son played for Northwestern.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I think she was.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
She did, but they only won like one or two games.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I'm trying to think of a team that went like
a long way that had a person I mean, Ashley judds.
It could be the answer, because she would be at
all those games.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, I don't know what nobody else really comes to
mind on the basketball side. I think, you know, like
on the football side, Matthew McConaughey with Texas obviously, But
in basketball during the tournament, I don't think anybody really
comes to mind.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yeah, I mean most of the ones I can think
of are people who played there, like Charles Barkley with
Auburn when.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
They've when they've when they've made runs.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
But uh, sister Jean and famous fans Bill Murray when
his son is one of the coaches.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, that's good one. He didn't go to the game.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
They will show them.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
John Cooger Mellen Camp used to go to all the
IU games.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Well that was so long ago that nobody and nobody
would remember. Have they been in the tournament in the
last thirty years.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I don't remember being in tournament.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah. By the way, they're supposed to be good. This year. Yeah,
are you you're excited about those two teams playing again?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Are you?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I am?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
You know, I'm the older generation where those the Indiana
Kentucky game was the game every year, always sold out.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Do you think fans are gonna care?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I mean, like, if that game that game this year
against Indiana, Let's see what the equivalent is if do
you think fans will care more that it's Indiana than
let's say, if it was Houston. Like if the schedule
was Kentucky Houston, would that be any less exciting than
Kentucky Indiana?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Maybe it'd be more exciting. Houston might be top five.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Yeah, a lot of people think Houston is one of
the top two teams that might win the title. So
maybe the younger generation would probably want to see a
Houston team, But then the older generation, like, man, those
Indiana games, those were the best. We gotta go with that.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, I mean, playing Houston would probably actually be the
better game. But just for me, you know, growing up
watching the rivalry throughout the nineties, I kind of liked
that as back.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Well, I'll continue to argue Indiana is a no win
game for us because we are expected to beat them
and we've already seen. Go back to the Christian Watford game.
How what they do if they beat us? They make
popcorn boxes of it? And I'm not sure that it
really matters all that much to us if I'm nine
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. When we come back,
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Speaker 3 (23:00):
Here's not Jones, Welcome back.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Tucky Sports Radio. Here live and wild Eggs in Hamburg.
We are now joined on the phone by UK basketball
coach Mark Pope. Mark, it is the day before Big
Blue Madness and we have a huge crowd out here
in Hamburg, Kentucky fans in blue getting ready for tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
How excited does that make you?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Man? Listen, I have loved this time of year for
the last thirty five years, ever since I got here
to Kentucky. You know, there's a little chill in the air.
I love this time here. When you wake up and
there's a tiny chill in the air, it's time, guys,
this is gonna be really, really special. I can't wait
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for big blue madness.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
So I was at pro Day and it was my
first time getting to see your group, and the thing
that's stuck out to me is just how athletic they are,
how explosive they are. It just seems like a group
you can do so much with.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Am I right about that?
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Yeah? I think this is a really you know, one
of the things that we want to do is you
want to get more mobile, so and that comes out
in all the words you said and in other ways. Also,
I think this team has a chance to kind of
really utilize all the space on the court. I think
they they you know, I think we have guys that
are really athletic, that can cover ground both offensively and defensively,
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that have some physicality to him. I think it's gonna
and and just have I'm telling you, I'll talk about
this all year long, but man, that the competitive spirit
of this group, with with that with their ability to
get around the court, is going to make this group special.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I said during I've said this all summer.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I'm buying all the Jalen Low stock like anybody that
wants to sell any from his time at pitt whatever
he took bad shots. I'm buying all of it because
I think this kid's going to be a star. Tell
me I'm right about that.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Yeah, I think he's. I think he has the potential
to grow into a great leader. Actually, he is cat quick.
He is as good as anybody I've ever coached at
being able to get wherever he wants to on the
court whenever he wants to get there. Uh, he's, he's,
he's got the potential to be an elite level playmaker.
He's he's he's really got a high IQ and how
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he kind of understands the game and he tries to
attack the game, and he's he's learned that fast. I think, uh,
you know, for us to be what we want to be,
he's gonna have to be a star, and I think
he's ready to do it.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
One of the things that struck me exciting and seen
him in a while was Trent Noah, he looks stronger
than me. To me, he looked like he's gotten in,
he's lost some weight, he looks leaner.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Am I right about that? And what have you seen
from him this offseason? Well?
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Am I right about the fact that he's stronger than.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You know that, he's stronger than he was last year.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I'm sure he was stronger than me last year too.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
No No, I think I think listen, Trent Noah is
crushing it so far in camp. He's he's right near
you know, he's just under you know, he's in the
mid sixties in live five on five shooting the three.
He's making great decisions on the floor. He is he
(26:15):
is he You know, it's fun year or two because
guys just you know, they they walk in the gym
already understanding what's trying to be accomplished, how to do it,
and so they get to start to riff off of it,
like they really get to start to play the game
instead of just doing the game. And he's certainly doing that.
He's he's been. He's been absolutely outstanding so far in camp.
(26:40):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I had a fan ask me, and I think it's
a good question. If if you were to everybody enjoyed
that team last year, how much they gave to the group,
how what great kids they were went to Sweet sixteen.
But if you were to say to fans, what's the
biggest difference in how they'll see you play? What you'll
do with this group versus what you did last year?
How would you answer that?
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I think I think, uh, I think this group has
you know, on the defensive and I think we have
the ability to make more adjustments. I think we have
the ability to exert more pressure. Uh you know, I
think we have the ability to be more disruptive. You know,
(27:24):
we we kind of felt like we were gonna be
able to do that at the beginning of last year. Also,
we just you know, we just with the with the
the changes in in roster composition through the season, that
became more difficult. I think we have that in spades
this year. I think we really on the defensive end,
I think we have uh you know, we have a
chance to exert to make teams uncomfortable. On the offensive end,
(27:45):
I think our mobility really stands out to me. We
were a good cutting team last year, but I think
we're gonna be great. We have so many more players
that that that can attack off the bounce downhill. I
think that that the pace of our game has a
chance to really take a step forward this year.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Let me ask you a bigger picture college basketball question.
Everything's changed so much and a lot of coaches who
are legendary have decided to step away in the last
few years, and I've kind of been of the opinion like,
you got to embrace what's new, even if it's not
what people want it to be. It's what it is,
so you got to embrace it. I feel like you've
done that. I feel like you kind of have an
old school soul, but you're really embracing the way college
(28:27):
basketball is going to be. Would you agree with that characterization.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
I love coaching right now. I think it's probably the
most challenging, fascinating, stimulating, you know, energizing time to ever
coach the game of college basketball. It's, you know, our
responsibilities as a staff have broadened, so every time you
add a new slice of what you need to do
as a coach, the job gets more interesting. Right. It's complicated,
(28:57):
and it's and it can be. It can I would
be exhausting at times, but it is. I think it's
the greatest time to be a coach. It is just unbelievable.
And the thing is this, Matt, I can't remember if
we've talked about this. I've talked about this a couple
of times, but I'll be super transparent there was a time,
uh this spring with.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
We lost him there. Well, he was just he was
about I think you felt like he was going to
tell a great story right there. Yeah, okay, oh there
you are. Sorry I lost you. Go ahead. You said
there was a time this spring and then you disappear.
Go ahead, I'm.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Sorry about it. So there was there was there was
a time this spring where I felt like, you know,
this is more of a it's more of a professional
tenor now in college basketball, there's so many of the
rules have led us to be in that space, and
so there was a point where I was like, I'm
gonna start treating these guys like pros. I'm gonna be
more like an NBA coach. I spent a lot of
(29:58):
time in the league, and I have a very good
vibe for that. And then the first time we met
with our whole team and I got to see my
guys and how eager and how hungry and how still
young people that they are, it changed my whole view.
And I feel like it's not only the best time
(30:19):
to coach college basketball, but our players need us as
mentors more than they've ever needed coaches before, because their
lives are more complicated. Their lives have got better, but
they've got way more complicated. And these are still incredible
young people that are chasing their dreams, that are trying
(30:42):
to grow into the young to the men that they
want to be someday. And so it is, like I'm saying,
for all those reasons, I think this is the best
time ever to be a coach.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I'm very excited about what you guys are doing tomorrow.
When I heard and I only heard about it Monday, Boy,
when I heard you were doing this fan fast tomorrow
from twelve to four point thirty at the Convention Center,
free of charge for people to come meet listen to
you meet, you meet the basketball players. Same for Kenny
Brooks and his young women. I thought, that's what I've
(31:14):
been waiting to see Kentucky basketball do for quite some time.
Talk to me about that process and for people out
there listening, what is the event going to be?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Well, it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be everything. I'm
not There's some things I'm not allowed to say because
they're gonna be surprises, which I think is gonna be
so awesome.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Oh I like that. I like surprises.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
It'll definitely be with with you know, the team will
be there to meet people, sign autographs, do some presentations.
I'll get to be on on stage, I think with
camera mills and do some Q and A and do
a We're gonna do a straight I think we're trying
to do a straight x's and those breakdown and sign
some autographs. There's gonna be all kind of booze and
(31:56):
food there. We have everything from food to vendors to
I guess there's even some some some tattoos fecialists that
are coming to do some tattoos for people that lose
their minds and want to go put tattoos tattoos. I
love it all right, It's going to be it's going
(32:18):
to be epic. And the whole thinking behind it is
the only bad thing about Kentucky Basketball is that RUP
only holds around twenty thousand people. And so those those
pickets were gone in twenty nine minutes. It just doesn't
seem fair. And so until we until we expand out
(32:40):
RUP to one hundred thousand, we're going to take all
the opportunities we can to to see fans interact with
BBN like this is our family man, so this should
be a family day. It should be a family day
where families get to come together, and it should be
a family day in terms of us as a staff
and our players MBBN being together. It's really for us.
(33:00):
And so I'm telling you, I'm so excited about this.
Kroger has jumped on as our is our key sponsor
for this. They've been unbelievable partners. So they're gonna have
some specialists up there. Our marketing team here at universityk
Entucky has done an unbelievable job preparing this. If you
get a chance, man, come early, be there. You know,
(33:21):
I think it's twelve to four p thirty. I think
I'm jumping on stage right at the beginning. It's going
to be a great event and we just want to come, like,
hug it out man, just just to give everybody some
love and celebrate this real inaugural first day, ceremonial day
of our season.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I love though that's it's first of It starts at twelve.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Mark goes on right after it starts, then Kenny Brooks,
then the women's players, then the men's players.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I love that you guys are doing it for free.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I mean, I understand the money push in everything now
and I get it, and it's a big part of it.
But still doing something for free for the average face
and that that means a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
So I appreciate you all doing that last question because
I know you got recruiting stuff. Should people expect some
kind of surprise at Big Blue Madness that night?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yep?
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Well, we we are, we are. We are down to
the wire working on a couple of special things. We'll
see if it can actually happen. Uh, wherever we end up,
it's gonna be. It's come on, It's Big Blue Madness.
There's nothing like it. It's gonna be great. It's gonna
be it's gonna be so fun. So I'm so excited
to see everybody there and and for us to share
(34:33):
this experience together.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well I heard what one of them is. I hope
you pull that off. That would be awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Mark, Thank you very much for taking Thank you for
taking the time. I know you're very busy today, and
we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Hey, Matt, you got can I feel one more minute?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Of course?
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Okay? So among the other things at the the meet
and greet tomorrow, UH is gonna be there's gonna be
a booth for the National UH Marrow Donor Registry. So
Leanna and I are this has really important us. Kentucky
is the number one state in terms of incidents and
(35:12):
mortality from cancer, and this is like, this is this
is a mission of US and the Market Cancer Institute
and everybody else in this state. Like we got to
make some progress. So there's this incredible program where if
you come and just get swabbed, it's just a five
second swab, painless, not invasive of your cheek, you can
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get on a registry where at some point if there
is somebody that needs a stem cell or bone marrow donation,
you'll be on the registry and you actually can go help.
It really is only people from eighteen to thirty five,
so there's an age group that works. But Leanna and
I have been doing this for the last several years.
(35:57):
We actually had a manager that worked for us before
that that actually had a cheek swap, got a call
a year later, and then was able to go make
a donation that ended up saving a girl's life, a
young girl. And so this like together in the state
of Kentucky, we kind of need each other to take
(36:19):
every shot we can at getting out of first place
in terms of incidents and mortality, and this is one
of the ways we can do it. So everybody coming
a fan fest tomorrow, if you have a chance and
you're in the right age group to stop, buy this booth.
Leanne and the girls are going to be there helping
with that. But it's just one of them of the many,
(36:42):
many steps that we can take as a state to
help each other and to help with our health. So
just thanks for letting me put in that pitch. It's
really important to me. It's really important, Leanne. I think
it's really important. The Carmeonwealth of Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Of course, twelve to four thirty tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
If I was in the age group, i'd do it,
But eighteen to thirty five year olds, there's some of
them here. Make sure you all go. Mark, good luck
with the season. We will see you tomorrow night.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Thank God.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
All right, there you go, Mark Pope, We'll take a break,
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Mark Pope. I hope he gets I know what they're
trying to do. I'm not sure they're gonna be able
to do it, but I hope they do. And I like,
I'm gonna say again, I know I said this yesterday.
I'm so glad they're doing this thing tomorrow afternoon. I've
been I'm not the only one people saying do something
(38:08):
Ryan that does not require money to go. And they
went and did it, and they did it on a
busy day, and they did it with both teams.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I think that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
The fan base deserves this man after what we've been
through last couple of years with cal we need this
that feel good feeling we got.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Again shot at Cow.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
I just think it was we all got the point
where we I'm not.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Saying at all.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
I'm just saying like, I don't know how many schools
shinning are doing free things anymore. I mean like that
people are just it's all based on how do we
generate revenue. We gotta generate revenue, and to take the
time on a big day to do something that will
generate no revenue.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
And also, honestly, Big Blue Madness doesn't generate any revenue either.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
I mean you're basically giving Kentucky fans a free day.
I just think that's cool that they will still do this.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
FanFest sounds like it's going to be awesome. You get
to hear from Pope, you get to see them break
down the x's and nose, and you can get a
neck tattoo while you're doing that.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
And then they say on the X and so you're
gonna get in there.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
That is a very lovel thing. Though. Getting tattoos at
that feels like something Lobel would do.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Say this, if you get a tattoo tomorrow. A UK
based tattoo. While you're at the thing, I need you
to send me an answer so I can post. My
guess is Mark will like take a picture with you.
I'm not promising that, but I'm gonna guess. You know,
he said he's gonna do the X and O thing.
If you've never seen Mark like X and o a
basketball situation, he speaks, you know, he's like a scientist
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talking about physics. I mean, he he will. You'll sit
there and go, WHOA. I think that would actually part
of me. I may walk over up from my house
just to see that tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
It's a different language these coaches speak these days, with
analytics and breaking things down.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
But he's particularly good at him. I think his mind
is just analytic. And he said one thing that I
thought was really interesting. He said, with every new edition
that they change in college basketball, I think you have
to be creative and smart to ad ap to it.
And you know what, He's right. And I was sitting
there thinking, I'm really glad, shinning, we have a smart coach. Yes, no,
(40:06):
I mean it, like every single new rule requires okay,
how do we navigate this? And I think having somebody
really smart, you know, people say that about john Shire Duke,
that everything happens the new rules that he looks at it.
He meets with his staff and says, Okay, how do
we exploit this to our benefit?
Speaker 4 (40:23):
I think Mark Pope probably does.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
He's a very smart man, so meticulous in his game prep,
his in game plays that he draws up as well.
You know, he said a lot of things. The one
thing he didn't say, beautiful. I didn't hear one beautiful
that entire interview.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
I didn't hear one amazing. Yeah, I know, right, guy, amazing.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Right.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
That's the first time he ever talked about Trent Noahen
not called him beautiful ever.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Thought I was saying that I was stronger than Trent I.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Think you did. You didn't say that, he did you say?
Speaker 4 (40:54):
I think you did not say.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
You said is it true?
Speaker 7 (40:57):
That?
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Is it true that I'm stronger than I?
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Did? Everybody shaking your head.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
I did not say true that I'm stronger.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Than Trent no Yeah, yeah you could be.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
We could put you to that could be a great
event for madness. He's at Jones versus Trent Noah and
a weightlifting contest. I pay money to see that.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
What you yes, did I really say in my strong
it's okay.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Though it was a live interview, people sometimes get their
words confused.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
I hear Mario take up for me.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Stop stop going hunting for deer, and take up for
me for a second.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
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wild eggs.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Why do you have to say it like.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
That he does.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
He smells wonderful. You order snipping them? Joe Biden, We're.
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Everyone is Kentucky Sports Radio. Friday, October tenth.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
This is the Friday before the last Saturday until April
that there are no UK sporting events or no UK
basketball or football games. We are here at Wild Eggs
in Hamburg and you can give Sean Mclark's puppet shop
foam nine A five to nine two eight oh twenty
two eighty seven A vision auto glass text machine is
seven seven two seven seven four five two for in
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this edition sponsored by the t J Smith lofas you
call TJ.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
He'll make them pay.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
We are here at Wild Eggs today, Mark Pope will
join us by phone at ten thirty.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
He's gonna give us.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I'm told we've got one segment and I have to
be out at ten forty five, so I'm gonna apologize
in advance if I cut him off at all, because
they are making me get him off at ten forty five.
And Shannon, but looking forward to have Mark Pope as
we get ready for a big Blue Matt.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
He's a busy man, so, you know, just to be
able to get well. He's got a cruit thirteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Recruits here, and I was like, and they're like, we'll
give you fifteen minutes, but we ever stuff. And I
understand that I don't want to be unlike Billy. I
don't want to be the one that ruins a recruit
commitment as he did wearing khaki paants the other day.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
What did Mark Pope just bring the recruits? I hear
to Wild egg have breakfast, brunch and lunch with a
bar and be able to settle their recruitment.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
They I'm sure they thought about it.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
We are here at Wild Eggs and it is of
course a great place for breakfast, and you are one
of the endorsers. Give me the top. They always bring
food out for us. The sample I'm looking for. Give
me the top. Two or three things you eat here.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Potato head cast role without a doubt, the yellow submarines.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Those are the potato well obviously, but they're like the
hash browns, cheese and all that.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
And if you get like a sandwich or something, you
can ask for the tots on the side.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It's kind of a secret. On the mean, it's not
a secret.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You say that every time, and I think it's actually
on the.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Me it's actually listed underside.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Yeah, it's sides you can add tots for.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, they are very very good.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
You know, brand would just tell me the pumpkin pancakes.
This is like the last weekend for it, so that's
been a real popular item.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
They have strawberry pancakes. Yeah, what else do you eat?
Oh me, yes, you're you're literally wearing the wild Eggs shirt.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
The biscuits and gravy and you can get sausage gravy
on one biscuit and terreso gravy on the other biscuit.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, your son works here as well, walking around.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
He's actually inside doing work.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
You got to see him because he doesn't come home
a lot while he's at school.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
First time I seen him in a couple months, so
I just got to catch up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Hey, how you doing. Don't for get dad?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
You know when you comes see dad once in a while, once'
you get dad to called text Dad and see our
dad's doing.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
You were saying, you're still very Yeah, you're still very
like lonely.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I hate it.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I mean I just absolutely hate walking that house and
it's not nobody's there.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Can always come to wild if you want to see him.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
But do you that's true?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So you you were saying, like you don't you go
somewhere every night, like you're not you don't want to
be at home.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
At all, Poor younger girl.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I've been on her house like every night, having dinner,
watching TV because I don't want to be by myself
in my house.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Are you worried you're gonna like suffocate her with you
with your attention?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, that's just tough.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's part of me and my girlfriend that I can
find out if she really likes you or not. Just
show up at her house every night.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Again, you've been married many more times than me, But
I don't know that, like she's just gonna like it
is a good is a good tool for relationship.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm trying to like entice her, like I'm bringing dinner.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I'm like you said, she was the one though that cooks.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
She cooked sometimes, but like I like, I'll go Panera
last night to get dinner.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
And I know she likes Yeah. Okay, so I haven't
talked you about this, but I purposely trying not to call.
You'll say, and not, you know, let him do his own.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Smart especially since his first semester.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, you can still act like he exists though died.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
But but I think that's important. You don't want to
overwhelm me with attention.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I like, how often are you calling?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Well?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I did really well for a long time, but this
past week, I think I've called him every night.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I have a right, that's that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I know, I agree, and I flow him today. Let's
let's step back, maybe like every other night.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
To understand, like this is his transition into like manhood,
it's not your transition into life. Like you need to
give him some space. Let him like you're the dad,
he's the son. You don't want him to have to
be the dad and you're the son, like making sure
you're okay.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
And apparently I don't know how he's doing in the classroom,
but the ladies departing.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Very well, very.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Well, that's not first of all, he's standing right over.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
There, proud dad. But huh yeah, well that now we
see why you want even to go to college. You
this is why I cut you off. A five nine
to two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A text
machine is seven seven two seven four five two five
four Big Blue Madness is uh tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You know. I was told they'll be a surprise. I've
actually kind of heard.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I don't want to share it because I don't want
to I want to spoil it, but I've.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Heard what it is, and here's my hint, Shannon.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
It's something I've been wanting to see but from another sport.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But they're bringing it to basketball. Interesting, and I'll just
leave it at that.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
So it's something I've wanted to see done, and I
wanted to see it done on another sport, and oddly
to me, they're doing it in basketball, which would seem
to me to be harder than it would have been
to do it in football. So I'm excited to see
what they do and we'll see if it will see
if it works.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm going to guess that is hockey and is traditional
and hockey that they throw octopuses onto the floor.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I think that's what we're gonna do tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
A big I don't know, now, there there are a lot.
I think there's gonna be a bunch of recruits here.
It'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I know there had been a hope that they were
gonna try to get some uh some former players involved.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
We'll see.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I mean, the NBA preseason's going on, so I don't
know how many of those guys, uh, you can get here,
but but nevertheless, should be good.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Are you you know?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'd gotten to the point where, if I'm being honest,
I had not watched The Big Blue Man. This is
towards the end of the cal era. Watched it last
year because it was the first with Pope. Obviously we
had the Rick Patino thing. Are you excited to watch
this one this year?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I am, because it kind of you know, Pope gets it.
You know, he was here part of the you know,
the mid nineties when Patino and and Midnight Manus was
a big deal. He gets it, and so now I
think it's gonna get back to that level of where
it's more of a production and excitement and gonna be
entertaining and not just boring run up and down the court,
not even trying to play anything.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I hope they show it.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I mean again, like I can't believe I keep saying this,
but I hope they actually show the action. I know,
like Tom Hart's done like the last seven or eight,
he's not doing this one. They're producing it locally. The
guy that you met whose name you didn't remember, Noah Noah.
This will be his debut as as the Kentucky sort
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of secondary basketball announcer where he does those games that
are on the computer. I think Georgia Amore is doing
the women's one, which I think is kind of cool is.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I think she'll be good at that, but that's a
lot of pressure.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
The girl just graduated college and I think she's doing
the women's one right.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Unfortunately, she got injured so she's not able to play
this year. So it's a perfect time to bring her
in get her apart, because she created a lot of
excitement here.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
She was really good on the show, and she was
on it those couple of times, so I think that's
a really good opportunity for her, and I believe it's
I think it's Jack Givens and Noah, and then I
think maybe Noah and Georgia Amore for the women.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
She's got a great personality to do it, so I
think that she'll do great. Can I tell you though,
The thing that I'm looking forward to the most at
Madness are the awkward dances the.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Guys that don't really they do that anymore. We're not
gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I think that was a cow thing. I think now
it's a different I don't think they do that that
that vibe. But the players want.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
To introduce the players, but I think.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They just stand there, Hi, everybody. No, I mean what
they did last year.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
They did something else last year.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Where they ran down the stairs like they did during
when Patino was here and Labot Butler coming out in
it was it him that was rapping.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
He did rap.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, that's right, he did rap last year. Which gets
me to it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
We do this a lot for the various Big Blue Madnesses,
but we were we were gonna talk the biggest moments
in the history of Big Blue madness. Now I want
to do We used to just do the Calier, but
I'm gonna lean on you, old man here. I want
to go through all the history of big blue madness
for a second, and I want to say, what are
the biggest moments?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
All right?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Objectively? Number one has to be the Wall dance, right,
has to be. I think that would would anybody dispute
the John Wall Dance is the number one one. But
let me give you some some some possibilities for the others,
and then we'll rank them, all right. I think Enus
Canter and the whole Undertaker entrance was a big.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
One, big one, right.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I think last year with Patino uh coming, it is
a big one.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Even though we don't look back at his time fondly.
The Billy Gillespie buss the curtain. They actually did those
pretty well those years, right, production the tubby Smith, Batman
and Robin One.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Right, isn't that a big one?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That was Patino?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
I think, wasn't that when Walter McCarty was and Tony
Duck with Batman?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Robin?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Is that? Is that? Right?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Fair enough? That that one?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
What other ones stick out to you? Those are the
ones that come to my mind immediately, Drake, I mean
we it's hard to talk about Drake now it's a
different well, but the old Drake plane and doing warm
ups and all that was big at the time.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
What else?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Bill Kittley popped out of a cake one time of
the floor when what?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Why was there? Was his birthday?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Why? Why did they do that?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I don't know, I don't know what that was all about,
but I remember that was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
What else?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You know?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
For several years, I thought the highlight was of the
Matthew Mitchell dance when he came out and did a dance,
you know what was his.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
First one of those? Shannon was huge.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I mean they were always good, but his first one
kind of shocked everybody.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
People didn't know he could do that.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And then it kind of put pressure, I felt like,
on coach Mitchell to come out and try to top
what he did the previous year the next year.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Every year we expected that.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
No doubt it did. Yeah for a while, can you
think of any more? You know he used to do
him at midnight? Yeah, yeah, right, and that was a
whole nother thing.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Those Beatino ride a Harley out one year somebody wrote
a Harley out one.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yeah, I think you're right, but there's one what I
feel like there's one from Tubby we're missing?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Is there one from Tubby? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I thought that was right? Tubby was on the Harley
all right. So just with the ones we've said, Wall
one is number two. I think the contenders are you
Matthew Mitchell dancing, Enis Canter or last year with Patino?
Which one do you which one do you think would
be number two?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
As much as I love coach Mitchell dancing and that
was something we look forward to every year, I think
just that moment of bringing Rick Patino back, we knew
at some point it was going to happen, but it
was the perfect scenario with the former player Mark Pope
now being the head coach and bringing Rick Patino back
and Patino actually getting cheered.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I almost like.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Kind of lead doubt that he was gonna be there.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
So there was like a buzz in the crowd like
this is gonna happen, like you you kind of knew,
And I think that actually oddly made it more exciting
because people were just like, when's he coming out? When's
he coming out? When's he coming out? So I kind
of agree with you. I think Patino is two.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Because he was carrying the trophy to he walks out,
he's carrying the ninety six championship trophy.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I would say number three. It's probably even though he
didn't play a game Enis Cancer. I mean, I think
when Enis Cancer came in and you had that no
man like and there he was, and he had kind
of been this mystere his figure that you didn't really
know much about.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
So I actually would put that number three. What about you?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, I like that one.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I'm sure Drew would probably didn't Archie Goodwin do a
dance one time and that was Drew one of Drew's
favorite ones.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah, really, he really liked it because it was it
was I don't think it was very good. I think
it's why Drew liked it.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
But you're like back in you know, on the Patino era,
there was always like a gimmick or something and then
just got away from that the last one.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
So it all became after a while seeing and it
became cal Perry's speeches, right.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
He always would give the sort of address to the
nation and then he would get on and tell us
how we needed to assume our team stunk.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, like that, that was kind of what.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
He was, like a sermon from Calipari. And then he
would drop the mic and say, let's ball.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
He didn't do that, that was good the year he did.
The one year he just dropped the mic and did that,
that was actually good.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So I think number four for me would probably be
all the years with Matthew Mitchell and probably the first
one being number four.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I like that. I think that's good.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
And then yeah, I remember at the time, did someone
maybe did someone repel from the ceiling back in.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
The other day the mascot and he got stuck halfway
coming down halfway and he kind of got panicked.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
He got stuck.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
He was like halfway down and kind of got stuck
there from it, nobody knew it, but like he was.
He said he was panicking inside his costume because he
got stuck. Finally got it loose, made it down to
the floor.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Really that could have been disaster.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Well, at least need to give him number five. Whoever
is wait, we're forgetting one way on the floor.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
You and I are part of a video for a
Matthew Mitchell dance. One time he came into the studio
and shot a video and played it on the JumboTron.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And then Matthew came out.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Oh that's right, Yeah, you were exactly So we were
part of a big We were part of a big
respect before you got his band.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
With your Katina Powell statement.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Hey if I'm nine two twenty two eighty seven, it's
Big Blue Man's tomorrow, UK fan Fast.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
We're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Potentially a massive weekend in UK recruiting with potentially the
number one player in America deciding, although no one knows
for sure, and Mark Pope will join us. At ten thirty,
we are here at Wild Eggs in Hamburg. This is
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Mimosas Oh, that sounds like.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Something Billy already has. Unfortunately, the apple caramel mamo he's got.
Oh yeah, well, there you go.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
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Wow, that's a lot of words.
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Calamity Katie eight five nine two twenty two eighty seven.
The text machine is full of memories, but there's a
big argument about whether or not it was Patino or
Tubby on the Harley. Half the people say it was Patino,
half the people say it was Tubby.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
We found a picture of Patino on it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Tubby was on the Harley at Texas Tech and he crashed.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I don't remember remember an you know that.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I feel like this is our own version of the
Mandela effect.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
One person writes, what about Bill Kiteley and Tubby getting
out of the DeLorean in two thousand and three?
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Yeah, I forgot about that one, but I remember that
also had come out in the DeLorean.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Another person writes, what about Jason Parker tearing his acl
in the back getting ready for introduction.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That's a true story. I was there that day.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Talk about that. That was a huge deal.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Jason Parker was gonna be like our second best player
that was on that Tayshawn team.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And then he tore his acl and the introductions.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Yeah, they were doing like a little you know, huddle
before they went out, and I jumping up and down,
you know, and boom, tell me, he blew his knee out.
So when he when he got introduced, he's walking out
with a limp, and you could tell he's upset, and.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
He was He was good.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, he was good.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
He was good.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
You remember the like he played like three games the
year before and then he got hurt. Yeah, and then
he came back the next year and got hurt, so
we really never got to see him play.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It's a shame he's one of those dead guys that
need to do over because.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I's definitely a guy that you look back and you
go if he had might have been a different.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I know we got a lot of great depth on
this roster, but I hope that nobody tears an a
c l trying to stretch tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Everybody take it easy at Big Blue Mast Rights.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
My least favorite moment was Andre Rinneck got on the
mic and told the entire crowd he had named a
new dunk.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It was going to be called the Brooklyn Roughneck.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
The crowd went crazy, started clapping their hands and all
he did was run up into a one handed dunk.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Quite the build up.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Wow, I didn't know that was true.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
That's a great story of it is I kind.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Of like that story. Yeah, Hey, everybody, I got a
new dunk.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Something you've never seen before, a one handed dunk the
Brooklyn Roughneck.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
I thought of something that really, every time someone gets
a one handed dunk, this year's shit and I'm calling it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
There you go for it. The day that the they
had the floor that lit up.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, and that was a big That was great. That
was one of the coolest things in the last ten years,
I think, right, I.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Feel like we have to note, uh today the passing
and one hundred and six years old of Sister Jean.
Loyola's Sister Jean passed away last night, just before midnight,
one hundred and six years old. I mean, first of all,
is she the most famous nun in America? She would
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How many nuns in the history of America have been
more famous than Sister Gene.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Nobody. She's the best. Bet, there's none better. You were
waiting on that.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
No better.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
One hundred and six years old sort of captivated the
country on that run with Loyola kept going to the games. Yes,
she know, she kept going to the games. One hundred
and six long time to live. Of course for this show,
we all remember because during the hype, and people forget
how huge that was. I mean, she was everywhere. It
wasn't just in sports. She was on the Today Show,
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she was on like the Tonight Show. She was everywhere
during that whole thing. Then Sister Jean created a Twitter
account that got massive. I mean it was mentioned on TEA,
was mentioned on the Today Show. It was Sister Jean's
Twitter account, and it turns out it was run by
Shannon the dude.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Created.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Tell the story of how you created that.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well, we were in Atlanta and were like the first
round of the.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
First round of the NCAA tournament, and we were doing
the pregame show and Drew said, I can't wait for
Loyola to lose so I can see Sister Jean's tears,
you know, just he was hating my sister Jean.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
He had already won their first game in a big upset.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, he was already tired of her.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
He was already and she had just gotten it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
So then I had just created this fake Twitter account
just to after Kentucky lost to Kansas State. I put
the crying Jordan face on Drew's face, yes, as sister Jean,
And somehow people thought that was real. Somehow that just
got retweeted and retweeted, and all of a sudden, this
Twitter account was born. And next thing I know, I've
got like ten thousand followers in a day, and I'm going, well,
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maybe I should tweet something else, and it just kept
getting more leverage. Yeah, and I had people, you know,
reputable news sources actually retweeting this, which gave it more
credence as being a legitimate.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Well, we didn't tell anybody no, so what like after
the final four. I mean you told us, I think
right before the Final four, but for like a week
you kept it to yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's right, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
My favorite part was watching the Today Show Savannah Guthrie
and Hote Copy and they're quoting my my tweet as.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
If it was sister g Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And you know, I said in the tweet, people have
asked me what I've given up her lent. My answer
is simple losing. And they read that on the Today
Show and Hoda Katti goes, that's sister Jean.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
She is just so witty.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And I'm sitting there about to spit up the coffee
that I was sipping on because I was laughing so hard.
But rest in PA's sister, Jean, what an amazing life.
You know, she just released a book a couple of
years ago at one hundred and four. That's pretty amazing.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I mean, what, first of all, one hundred and six
just living that long is amazing. But then also, I mean,
what year was that?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Was that two eighteen eighteen, so you're talking about she
was ninety nine? Yeah, and going to the games and
being that big of a presence, what you know.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
What you can imagine, you know, living a relatively quiet
life I would think as a nun.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Probably not out the club.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And then at ninety nine you become this almost household
name across America. It's pretty crazy. But where does she.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Rank, like in the most famous fans during the college
basketball tournament? I mean, for question, for US, we had
Ashley Judd for a number of years going to games
and they would show her all the time. Can you
think of people during tournament runs that were more famous
fans of a team?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Didn't Julia Luis dreyf as her son played for Northwestern.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I think she was.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
She did, but they only won like one or two games.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I'm trying to think of a team that went like
a long way that had a person I mean, Ashley judds.
It could be the answer, because she would be at
all those games.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, I don't know what nobody else really comes to
mind on the basketball side. I think, you know, like
on the football side, Matthew McConaughey with Texas obviously, But
in basketball during the tournament, I don't think anybody really
comes to mind.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yeah, I mean most of the ones I can think
of are people who played there, like Charles Barkley with
Auburn when.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
They've when they've when they've made runs.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
But uh, sister Jean and famous fans Bill Murray when
his son is one of the coaches.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, that's good one. He didn't go to the game.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
They will show them.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
John Cooger Mellen Camp used to go to all the
IU games.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Well that was so long ago that nobody and nobody
would remember. Have they been in the tournament in the
last thirty years.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I don't remember being in tournament.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah. By the way, they're supposed to be good. This year. Yeah,
are you you're excited about those two teams playing again?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Are you?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I am?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
You know, I'm the older generation where those the Indiana
Kentucky game was the game every year, always sold out.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Do you think fans are gonna care?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I mean, like, if that game that game this year
against Indiana, Let's see what the equivalent is if do
you think fans will care more that it's Indiana than
let's say, if it was Houston. Like if the schedule
was Kentucky Houston, would that be any less exciting than
Kentucky Indiana?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Maybe it'd be more exciting. Houston might be top five.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Yeah, a lot of people think Houston is one of
the top two teams that might win the title. So
maybe the younger generation would probably want to see a
Houston team, But then the older generation, like, man, those
Indiana games, those were the best. We gotta go with that.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, I mean, playing Houston would probably actually be the
better game. But just for me, you know, growing up
watching the rivalry throughout the nineties, I kind of liked
that as back.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Well, I'll continue to argue Indiana is a no win
game for us because we are expected to beat them
and we've already seen. Go back to the Christian Watford game.
How what they do if they beat us? They make
popcorn boxes of it? And I'm not sure that it
really matters all that much to us if I'm nine
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. When we come back,
(22:45):
Mark Pope will join us on the phone to get
you ready for Big Wee Madness. This see is Kentucky
Sports Radio.
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Speaker 3 (23:00):
Here's not Jones, Welcome back.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Tucky Sports Radio. Here live and wild Eggs in Hamburg.
We are now joined on the phone by UK basketball
coach Mark Pope. Mark, it is the day before Big
Blue Madness and we have a huge crowd out here
in Hamburg, Kentucky fans in blue getting ready for tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
How excited does that make you?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Man? Listen, I have loved this time of year for
the last thirty five years, ever since I got here
to Kentucky. You know, there's a little chill in the air.
I love this time here. When you wake up and
there's a tiny chill in the air, it's time, guys,
this is gonna be really, really special. I can't wait
(23:41):
for big blue madness.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
So I was at pro Day and it was my
first time getting to see your group, and the thing
that's stuck out to me is just how athletic they are,
how explosive they are. It just seems like a group
you can do so much with.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Am I right about that?
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Yeah? I think this is a really you know, one
of the things that we want to do is you
want to get more mobile, so and that comes out
in all the words you said and in other ways. Also,
I think this team has a chance to kind of
really utilize all the space on the court. I think
they they you know, I think we have guys that
are really athletic, that can cover ground both offensively and defensively,
(24:23):
that have some physicality to him. I think it's gonna
and and just have I'm telling you, I'll talk about
this all year long, but man, that the competitive spirit
of this group, with with that with their ability to
get around the court, is going to make this group special.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I said during I've said this all summer.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I'm buying all the Jalen Low stock like anybody that
wants to sell any from his time at pitt whatever
he took bad shots. I'm buying all of it because
I think this kid's going to be a star. Tell
me I'm right about that.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Yeah, I think he's. I think he has the potential
to grow into a great leader. Actually, he is cat quick.
He is as good as anybody I've ever coached at
being able to get wherever he wants to on the
court whenever he wants to get there. Uh, he's, he's,
he's got the potential to be an elite level playmaker.
He's he's he's really got a high IQ and how
(25:18):
he kind of understands the game and he tries to
attack the game, and he's he's learned that fast. I think, uh,
you know, for us to be what we want to be,
he's gonna have to be a star, and I think
he's ready to do it.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
One of the things that struck me exciting and seen
him in a while was Trent Noah, he looks stronger
than me. To me, he looked like he's gotten in,
he's lost some weight, he looks leaner.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Am I right about that? And what have you seen
from him this offseason? Well?
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Am I right about the fact that he's stronger than.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You know that, he's stronger than he was last year.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I'm sure he was stronger than me last year too.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
No No, I think I think listen, Trent Noah is
crushing it so far in camp. He's he's right near
you know, he's just under you know, he's in the
mid sixties in live five on five shooting the three.
He's making great decisions on the floor. He is he
(26:15):
is he You know, it's fun year or two because
guys just you know, they they walk in the gym
already understanding what's trying to be accomplished, how to do it,
and so they get to start to riff off of it,
like they really get to start to play the game
instead of just doing the game. And he's certainly doing that.
He's he's been. He's been absolutely outstanding so far in camp.
(26:40):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I had a fan ask me, and I think it's
a good question. If if you were to everybody enjoyed
that team last year, how much they gave to the group,
how what great kids they were went to Sweet sixteen.
But if you were to say to fans, what's the
biggest difference in how they'll see you play? What you'll
do with this group versus what you did last year?
How would you answer that?
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I think I think, uh, I think this group has
you know, on the defensive and I think we have
the ability to make more adjustments. I think we have
the ability to exert more pressure. Uh you know, I
think we have the ability to be more disruptive. You know,
(27:24):
we we kind of felt like we were gonna be
able to do that at the beginning of last year. Also,
we just you know, we just with the with the
the changes in in roster composition through the season, that
became more difficult. I think we have that in spades
this year. I think we really on the defensive end,
I think we have uh you know, we have a
chance to exert to make teams uncomfortable. On the offensive end,
(27:45):
I think our mobility really stands out to me. We
were a good cutting team last year, but I think
we're gonna be great. We have so many more players
that that that can attack off the bounce downhill. I
think that that the pace of our game has a
chance to really take a step forward this year.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Let me ask you a bigger picture college basketball question.
Everything's changed so much and a lot of coaches who
are legendary have decided to step away in the last
few years, and I've kind of been of the opinion like,
you got to embrace what's new, even if it's not
what people want it to be. It's what it is,
so you got to embrace it. I feel like you've
done that. I feel like you kind of have an
old school soul, but you're really embracing the way college
(28:27):
basketball is going to be. Would you agree with that characterization.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
I love coaching right now. I think it's probably the
most challenging, fascinating, stimulating, you know, energizing time to ever
coach the game of college basketball. It's, you know, our
responsibilities as a staff have broadened, so every time you
add a new slice of what you need to do
as a coach, the job gets more interesting. Right. It's complicated,
(28:57):
and it's and it can be. It can I would
be exhausting at times, but it is. I think it's
the greatest time to be a coach. It is just unbelievable.
And the thing is this, Matt, I can't remember if
we've talked about this. I've talked about this a couple
of times, but I'll be super transparent there was a time,
uh this spring with.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
We lost him there. Well, he was just he was
about I think you felt like he was going to
tell a great story right there. Yeah, okay, oh there
you are. Sorry I lost you. Go ahead. You said
there was a time this spring and then you disappear.
Go ahead, I'm.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Sorry about it. So there was there was there was
a time this spring where I felt like, you know,
this is more of a it's more of a professional
tenor now in college basketball, there's so many of the
rules have led us to be in that space, and
so there was a point where I was like, I'm
gonna start treating these guys like pros. I'm gonna be
more like an NBA coach. I spent a lot of
(29:58):
time in the league, and I have a very good
vibe for that. And then the first time we met
with our whole team and I got to see my
guys and how eager and how hungry and how still
young people that they are, it changed my whole view.
And I feel like it's not only the best time
(30:19):
to coach college basketball, but our players need us as
mentors more than they've ever needed coaches before, because their
lives are more complicated. Their lives have got better, but
they've got way more complicated. And these are still incredible
young people that are chasing their dreams, that are trying
(30:42):
to grow into the young to the men that they
want to be someday. And so it is, like I'm saying,
for all those reasons, I think this is the best
time ever to be a coach.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I'm very excited about what you guys are doing tomorrow.
When I heard and I only heard about it Monday, Boy,
when I heard you were doing this fan fast tomorrow
from twelve to four point thirty at the Convention Center,
free of charge for people to come meet listen to
you meet, you meet the basketball players. Same for Kenny
Brooks and his young women. I thought, that's what I've
(31:14):
been waiting to see Kentucky basketball do for quite some time.
Talk to me about that process and for people out
there listening, what is the event going to be?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Well, it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be everything. I'm
not There's some things I'm not allowed to say because
they're gonna be surprises, which I think is gonna be
so awesome.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Oh I like that. I like surprises.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
It'll definitely be with with you know, the team will
be there to meet people, sign autographs, do some presentations.
I'll get to be on on stage, I think with
camera mills and do some Q and A and do
a We're gonna do a straight I think we're trying
to do a straight x's and those breakdown and sign
some autographs. There's gonna be all kind of booze and
(31:56):
food there. We have everything from food to vendors to
I guess there's even some some some tattoos fecialists that
are coming to do some tattoos for people that lose
their minds and want to go put tattoos tattoos. I
love it all right, It's going to be it's going
(32:18):
to be epic. And the whole thinking behind it is
the only bad thing about Kentucky Basketball is that RUP
only holds around twenty thousand people. And so those those
pickets were gone in twenty nine minutes. It just doesn't
seem fair. And so until we until we expand out
(32:40):
RUP to one hundred thousand, we're going to take all
the opportunities we can to to see fans interact with
BBN like this is our family man, so this should
be a family day. It should be a family day
where families get to come together, and it should be
a family day in terms of us as a staff
and our players MBBN being together. It's really for us.
(33:00):
And so I'm telling you, I'm so excited about this.
Kroger has jumped on as our is our key sponsor
for this. They've been unbelievable partners. So they're gonna have
some specialists up there. Our marketing team here at universityk
Entucky has done an unbelievable job preparing this. If you
get a chance, man, come early, be there. You know,
(33:21):
I think it's twelve to four p thirty. I think
I'm jumping on stage right at the beginning. It's going
to be a great event and we just want to come, like,
hug it out man, just just to give everybody some
love and celebrate this real inaugural first day, ceremonial day
of our season.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I love though that's it's first of It starts at twelve.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Mark goes on right after it starts, then Kenny Brooks,
then the women's players, then the men's players.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
I love that you guys are doing it for free.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I mean, I understand the money push in everything now
and I get it, and it's a big part of it.
But still doing something for free for the average face
and that that means a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
So I appreciate you all doing that last question because
I know you got recruiting stuff. Should people expect some
kind of surprise at Big Blue Madness that night?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yep?
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Well, we we are, we are. We are down to
the wire working on a couple of special things. We'll
see if it can actually happen. Uh, wherever we end up,
it's gonna be. It's come on, It's Big Blue Madness.
There's nothing like it. It's gonna be great. It's gonna
be it's gonna be so fun. So I'm so excited
to see everybody there and and for us to share
(34:33):
this experience together.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well I heard what one of them is. I hope
you pull that off. That would be awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Mark, Thank you very much for taking Thank you for
taking the time. I know you're very busy today, and
we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Hey, Matt, you got can I feel one more minute?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Of course?
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Okay? So among the other things at the the meet
and greet tomorrow, UH is gonna be there's gonna be
a booth for the National UH Marrow Donor Registry. So
Leanna and I are this has really important us. Kentucky
is the number one state in terms of incidents and
(35:12):
mortality from cancer, and this is like, this is this
is a mission of US and the Market Cancer Institute
and everybody else in this state. Like we got to
make some progress. So there's this incredible program where if
you come and just get swabbed, it's just a five
second swab, painless, not invasive of your cheek, you can
(35:36):
get on a registry where at some point if there
is somebody that needs a stem cell or bone marrow donation,
you'll be on the registry and you actually can go help.
It really is only people from eighteen to thirty five,
so there's an age group that works. But Leanna and
I have been doing this for the last several years.
(35:57):
We actually had a manager that worked for us before
that that actually had a cheek swap, got a call
a year later, and then was able to go make
a donation that ended up saving a girl's life, a
young girl. And so this like together in the state
of Kentucky, we kind of need each other to take
(36:19):
every shot we can at getting out of first place
in terms of incidents and mortality, and this is one
of the ways we can do it. So everybody coming
a fan fest tomorrow, if you have a chance and
you're in the right age group to stop, buy this booth.
Leanne and the girls are going to be there helping
with that. But it's just one of them of the many,
(36:42):
many steps that we can take as a state to
help each other and to help with our health. So
just thanks for letting me put in that pitch. It's
really important to me. It's really important, Leanne. I think
it's really important. The Carmeonwealth of Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Of course, twelve to four thirty tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
If I was in the age group, i'd do it,
But eighteen to thirty five year olds, there's some of
them here. Make sure you all go. Mark, good luck
with the season. We will see you tomorrow night.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Thank God.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
All right, there you go, Mark Pope, We'll take a break,
be right back. This is KSR. Welcome back.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
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Mark Pope. I hope he gets I know what they're
trying to do. I'm not sure they're gonna be able
to do it, but I hope they do. And I like,
I'm gonna say again, I know I said this yesterday.
I'm so glad they're doing this thing tomorrow afternoon. I've
been I'm not the only one people saying do something
(38:08):
Ryan that does not require money to go. And they
went and did it, and they did it on a
busy day, and they did it with both teams.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I think that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
The fan base deserves this man after what we've been
through last couple of years with cal we need this
that feel good feeling we got.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Again shot at Cow.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
I just think it was we all got the point
where we I'm not.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Saying at all.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
I'm just saying like, I don't know how many schools
shinning are doing free things anymore. I mean like that
people are just it's all based on how do we
generate revenue. We gotta generate revenue, and to take the
time on a big day to do something that will
generate no revenue.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
And also, honestly, Big Blue Madness doesn't generate any revenue either.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
I mean you're basically giving Kentucky fans a free day.
I just think that's cool that they will still do this.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
FanFest sounds like it's going to be awesome. You get
to hear from Pope, you get to see them break
down the x's and nose, and you can get a
neck tattoo while you're doing that.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
And then they say on the X and so you're
gonna get in there.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
That is a very lovel thing. Though. Getting tattoos at
that feels like something Lobel would do.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Say this, if you get a tattoo tomorrow. A UK
based tattoo. While you're at the thing, I need you
to send me an answer so I can post. My
guess is Mark will like take a picture with you.
I'm not promising that, but I'm gonna guess. You know,
he said he's gonna do the X and O thing.
If you've never seen Mark like X and o a
basketball situation, he speaks, you know, he's like a scientist
(39:31):
talking about physics. I mean, he he will. You'll sit
there and go, WHOA. I think that would actually part
of me. I may walk over up from my house
just to see that tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
It's a different language these coaches speak these days, with
analytics and breaking things down.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
But he's particularly good at him. I think his mind
is just analytic. And he said one thing that I
thought was really interesting. He said, with every new edition
that they change in college basketball, I think you have
to be creative and smart to ad ap to it.
And you know what, He's right. And I was sitting
there thinking, I'm really glad, shinning, we have a smart coach. Yes, no,
(40:06):
I mean it, like every single new rule requires okay,
how do we navigate this? And I think having somebody
really smart, you know, people say that about john Shire Duke,
that everything happens the new rules that he looks at it.
He meets with his staff and says, Okay, how do
we exploit this to our benefit?
Speaker 4 (40:23):
I think Mark Pope probably does.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
He's a very smart man, so meticulous in his game prep,
his in game plays that he draws up as well.
You know, he said a lot of things. The one
thing he didn't say, beautiful. I didn't hear one beautiful
that entire interview.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
I didn't hear one amazing. Yeah, I know, right, guy, amazing.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Right.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
That's the first time he ever talked about Trent Noahen
not called him beautiful ever.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Thought I was saying that I was stronger than Trent I.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Think you did. You didn't say that, he did you say?
Speaker 4 (40:54):
I think you did not say.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
You said is it true?
Speaker 7 (40:57):
That?
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Is it true that I'm stronger than I?
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Did? Everybody shaking your head.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
I did not say true that I'm stronger.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Than Trent no Yeah, yeah you could be.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
We could put you to that could be a great
event for madness. He's at Jones versus Trent Noah and
a weightlifting contest. I pay money to see that.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
What you yes, did I really say in my strong
it's okay.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Though it was a live interview, people sometimes get their
words confused.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
I hear Mario take up for me.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Stop stop going hunting for deer, and take up for
me for a second.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Mario smells really good today too, by the way, like
wild eggs.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Why do you have to say it like.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
That he does.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
He smells wonderful. You order snipping them? Joe Biden, We're.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Gonna take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.
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