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show will start at four point thirty from here at
the bar Cats and Hoya's ready to go second exhibition game.
I'm getting pretty excited about it.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How about you? You're ready for a little rematch of
eighty four.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I know we're gonna get to it, but after what
we did yesterday, I am so excited about this upcoming season,
especially tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Me too.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
And I'm just ready to get to Rapperena again. I
know it's not the number one team, but if the
crowd is anything like it was last Friday, it's gonna
be a real game in there.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Ope, it's a good crowd.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I mean, I think it's kind of nasty outside, and
it's gonna be nasty.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We broke the record for most rain in October. Here's
an interesting stat all right, it was Matt's weather Stats. Okay,
they broke the record for most rain in in October
on in history.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
But it's only rain six days. Wow, So it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So the quantity of rain in those six days though,
was something else.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, that one day we got like six feet of rain.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
We want to play with six feet, but it was
it was a good.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Good amount of Arai it ended up my basement, so
I knew we had a lot of rain.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Did you call serve pro?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
They called me, Remember, they actually reached out to me.
How good customer relation is that?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's good?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Uh? Well, so we are excited after a Yesterday was
I think I can speak for the group collectively, a
very cool uh cool day for everybody. And we're gonna
talk about probably spend a decent part of the first
part of the show here talking about what happened, both
the experience and then getting to actually watch the basketball
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team in a practice form, because I think for all
of us that's the first time we got to do
it in sort of a real practice, you know, not
kind of the fake pro day practice.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
First time for a pope practice for me for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah. So for people who don't.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Know, they they basically opened it up for UK media
members and their families. I'm gonna do a mia culpa.
I may have screwed up it just a little bit.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It was that. I wasn't supposed to say until after
the event. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So I said it on Tuesday, and I think I'm well,
I don't think I did mess that up. So I
think maybe some people then contacted. There might have been
more people there than were originally intended, and that's my fault,
and I need to apologize. I need to drew read
the emails a little long more.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I did see a lot of new faces that aren't
normally covering the team. It was a thank you for
covering the team event and saw a lot of new people.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, that's I apologize, that's okay, And I was made
very clear that was not intentional. I was just excited,
you know, And I didn't read the email, So it's
something that's something you would do to Ryan that I did.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I guess on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Now it makes sense why there wasn't enough chairs for
the press conference.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It was my fault.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But more people got to have a good experience, very true,
A lot of people did. So they opened it up
and it was it was just like, I don't know
what's the best way to say.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It was just wholesome Ryan in such a sweet way.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So people could bring their kids, or they could bring
one family member, and a lot of people brought their kids.
The kids were so cute, very like kids just everywhere.
So Pope does the press conference and he says media members.
You cannot ask a question. Only the family members can.
I ask a question, which means you got like little
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kid questions, but you also got wives questions. I think
you get a couple of cases, maybe got dad's questions.
I encouraged my mom to ask a question, but she
wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I thought that would be good. I joked with Larry
before we got in there. I was like, Larry, you should,
said Larry. When we get there, you should just go
who is this? Like the person taught Mike Mark Pope
and he laughed. What I didn't realize is that he
would actually do that. And you know, he he's got
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his volume sometimes can be because he's you know, he's
here and he's eighty eight years years old. So Mark
Pope's talking, and all of a sudden, right in the
middle of it, he just reaches over and goes, who
is that?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And it was loud?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Did you hear it?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
God?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Hear it? It was loud.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So my mom and I start laughing, and he's laughing
because he's made every fluck, he's made us laugh. But
we do all that, and then I just I really
just want to thank Uk and Pope for making that happen,
sitting over there with my parents. They'd never been to
anything like that, right, I'm not sure they'd ever been
on the floor of RUP. I kind of don't think
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they would have. They were just so happy throughout the
whole thing. I mean, you know they're sitting there. Jack
Gibbons comes and sits with him. That's like my mom's
favorite player of all time. You know, my parents are
so pro Trent Noah because he's from Harlem. Yeah, that
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it's out of control. Like Trent Noah is the only
player that Larry knows. So what the drills would go on,
he would commentate to me, but only what Trent Noah
was doing. So he'd be like, he hasn't missed a
three yet. Look at that pass. He hasn't missed a
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shot yet. Like that was constant. And then my mom
she would cheer for Trent Noah like it was a game,
but she didn't cheer for the other players. So he
would make a shot and she would go yeah, and
I was like, Mom, this is a practice. We cannot
we cannot scream, And then we can't scream only.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
For Trent Noah.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You would have thought it was me out there playing
the way they were with Trent Noah. But it went
on through the whole thing, and then when it was over.
This is what people need to understand about that about
Mark Pope. When the practice was over, the players and
the coaches not only came over, they came over and
stayed ryan for a long time.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Oh yes, they did.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Like the players interacted with all the children. Trent Noah
went and Malachi Marino. I asked them to take pictures
with my family. They could not have been nicer those
two kids. You talk about two kids that get Kentucky.
I'm sure Jasper the same way.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I just didn't get to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And I watched those players. I've seen that look in
other eras. We've had players go up in the crowd
and sometimes the like. There'd be individual players that were nice,
and then sometimes players wanted to go. Every single one
of them not just went in the crowd, stayed in it,
interacted with people, thank them, I mean, they thanked them.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
For covering the team. That's not many people that will
do that in this business.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And then just on a personal level, like it meant
a lot to me, you know, as we were walking
through the back my Mom, there's this there's this thing
that's outside the UK locker room and it looks like
a movie, you know when they have a movie and
it'll say cook play next blah blah blah, and it'll
be the next game. And then they have a picture
of a famous UK player doing the why and they
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change it every game.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They actually changed it.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It was John Wall when we got there, and it
was Tony Delk when we left. But my mom is
seeing the quotes and seeing the pictures and seeing the
locker room, and like she starts crying, and she said,
I so wish my dad. That meant her father, so
my grandfather could be here. And she's right, like he's
the one that got me into the game, into UK basketball.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The thought that I watched these games as a kid,
and now I get to do this and I get
to be back there from Middlesbroo, Kentucky. It's crazy and
it made my mom emotional to be back there, it was,
and then to go and do it, to watch a
real practice, to have the coach come up after ask
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my mom about her the stuff she's doing with the
doctoral with being the doctor of Religion and Wheaton College
and all this and him be interested.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It was legit. He was interested, and.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You know, Larry looks at him and says, you know,
my brother was the chaplain under Joe B. Hall.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And then like he could, he just goes with that
and talks to him.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It was just a great night and it's something I
always remember and I really really thank them.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
It was a special event that Kentucky has never done
anything like that ever before, and letting us invite our
families and it was so cool for me. I took
a moment and kind of watch you there, you are,
You're sitting there with your mom and dad, Alan Cutler
sitting here that his grandson looked my right, Jack Pilgrims
there with his three month old. It was just all
a three month old to Larry who was eighty eight,
and everybody was like you could tell it was like
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Christmas Day almost. He was so excited to be there.
I loved watching your parents fanboy over Trent Noah. That
was really kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
My parents, I've never you know, my parents are not
really sports people, Like I grew up a sportsperson, but
my it was really all from my grandfather. Like my
parents were not really sports people. But they were sports
people yesterday. They were you know, and they were into it.
And uh and then you with your son. That's what
I gonna say, Like, you got to sit there with
your son and your son was into it. I've been
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around your son a lot when he's not into things.
He was into it. That was very cool.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You know, I don't get to see much anymore since
he's gone off to college, but then he and he
goes man, it's kind of weird. I've played against Jasper Malachi,
Trent and Rhese Potter and there they are. They're out
there mouth playing and you Pope talk about this.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, so and he did that that conversation you all
may have seen. Mario posted a video of my and
my mom's interaction with Pope. But here's what you should know,
because people have said really really nice stuff about that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Everybody had that interaction that with that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
He did that with lots of different people and they
all got to have that moment.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And the one thing I wish is I was wish there.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I wish there's a way that over time, other groups
of Kentucky fans get to do something like that, Like
other groups of Kentucky fans get to have that experience,
because you know, it's it's what makes this place like
really great. It's the days like yesterday or what. And
Pope said that in the back he basically said, what
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makes Kentucky basket? I thought this was really articulate by him.
What makes Kentucky basketball different from everything else? All right,
even from your Dukes, your North Carolina's and your Kansas
What makes it different is there is a connection to
the people of the state that is stronger here. And
somebody asked, you know, how do you get your players
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to realize that?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And he goes, it's the most important thing. He's like,
you come here.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You can get this experience at these other schools, except
that part. That's the part you can't get at other schools.
And so I have to make sure they appreciate what
they're getting. And Drew, I just thought that was really
it's really smart by him and true absolutely.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
And I thought, you today, going into it was gonna
be awesome. I thought it was a great idea from
the moment the email popped up, but I didn't realize
just how much it was gonna affect people. I was
excited as anyone to see a practice I can't even
remember the last time I got to go just watch
a practice. But I had just as much fun watching
other people's family. I didn't even know a lot of them,
like I. Set By Cuttler and his family had some
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other kids around me.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
There was a moment where Lee K. Howard's daughter hit
a shot where the team didn't have to run the ball,
and she hit a shot from this set.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
The end of practice.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Every day, apparently, what they do is they pick a
player and they have to hit a free throw, and
if they don't hit it, the team runs, and so
it's to put them in the moment of difficult shot
with a lot on the line, because the team is like,
you better make it. In this case, they brought a
little girl out there to do it, and then she
made and she made it, and the place went absolutely nuts,
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and that was that was That was awesome. But the star,
by the way of the entire event was later, no doubt.
I mean, everybody was coming up to him. He It
almost made me cry. He showed up in his little
ks he did so I called him Larry the intern
all day. I made him clean up after it, like
he's low man on the totem Pole right.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He hasn't worked there very long, but he.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
The first thing I noticed.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It was so cute to see them fanboy over Trent Noah.
I can't believe they love.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Trent Noah more than me. I can just say, like
Trent Noah and they're not the only ones. Like everybody
from the Mountains has that Trent Noah thing. I wasn't
really here when Richie Farmer was here, all right. I
was a Richie Farmer stand as a kid, but I
don't know. I didn't even go to a game I went.
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I saw him in the SEC tournament. That's the only
time I ever saw him. So I don't know what
it was like with Richie Farmer. And I'm sure in
some ways it was like this with rich Chapman, but
I've never seen anything like it is as great as
as much as people loved Reed Shepherd, it's different with
Trent no Especially for the people from the Mountains. They
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all act like Trent Noah is their son. My mom included,
how did that happen?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Jersey in the media. There were people wearing trenton like I.
The Mountains connection to Trent Noah is something Ryan I've
not seen.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
In my lifetime. Is it just because he's from Harlan.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I think it's because harl That's part of it. He's
from like the most mountain place. And then I think
because he looks like a baby a little bit like
he's got that red the red cheeks and all that.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
God overlooked and then gets the state championships.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
The scholarship from Pope takes Harlan County to the state
champions It's part of it.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, I do think that's part of it.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I want to go back to the press conference is
for a minute. We did get a couple of really
good questions. The one little girl asking about his hair.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You know, the little girl said, you're not bald, why
don't Why do you shave your head? I like that question. Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Then I think it was a mom or. A girlfriend
asked about what he's gonna wear for Halloween tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
He said he didn't know, Jack, I don't. By the way,
I don't like when coaches do that. You know it's Halloween.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Can gess you've seen the decorations up like you? I mean,
I know you're focused, but you know it's Halloween.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Just lying so you're gonna be a ghost, like you know,
it's Halloween.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
But anyway, it was.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It was a great day and it was fun having
you all there, Mario documenting all of it.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It was very cool and it was good to kind of,
you know, people got to see you in a different light.
You were there as a sun. You weren't there as
Matt Jones KSR. You were there. That's not a Matt Joe.
Oh yeah, Like I don't do that. I'm Matt Jones,
I'm KSR. You were there's Matt Jones the Sun yesterday.
Kind of get to see you in a different light
for people. We get to see that sometimes a lot
of people don't get to see you in that light.
You were so happy to introduce your parents to Mark Pope.
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We were so happy to introduce him to Trent Noa.
You could just see it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I was. You're right about that, but I'm normally very
chill Matt Jones.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
That's your impersonation. Yeah, thank you very much. AF I'm
nine twenty two eighty seven. Now I want to talk
about the basketball actually, cause I thought it was very
interesting to watch the practice and some of the things
they were doing insane. I was kind of surprised they
did us some of that in front of us where
we were allowed to talk about it. So we will
when we returned this KSR welcome back. It is Kentucky
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Sports Radio. I just retweeted the picture of the little
girl making the free throw.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
That was kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
And then they, you know, they also broke down the
huddle at the end of practice and let the little.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Girl do the thing.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Yeah, they did. I wish we could have heard what
they were saying, Like Pope went to every player in
the huddle to say something, but then Cutler's grandson and
Lee K's daughter let them say something also to the group.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
So let me let me say is as I talk
about some of what we're gonna talk about with the practic,
I want to say none of this is to say
a criticism of the past regime. I just want to
compare to you because the difference in the kind of
practice I went to yesterday and the kind of practice
we would go to with cal. I'm not saying one
or the other is better. I just want to sort
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of explain the difference because I've now been.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
To both, and so I think it's important to see that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
The first here's the number one thing that I took
away more than any well, really two things I took
away from the practice. Number one, they are studying and
constant teaching Ryan every single thing that's done. Yep, literally
every single thing. They are recreating situations in games. They
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are stopping after every play, each coach will go up
to a different person and kind of tell them what
they did and didn't do right. It is constant coaching,
and it is very situational and play ouational, meaning like
if you went to a cow practice. There was a
lot of just going up and down the court, putting
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players in situations where they're like, all right, you're gonna
have to make these decisions.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Just keep making them and eventually you'll get it right.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
They're making a decision and then coming out and analyzing
it and in the moment coaching.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Did you notice what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
A lot of coaching, a lot of teaching defense. They
were working and coaching on defense. They work on the press,
they work against the press, they work on out of
bounds plays. I mean, they were just constant teaching.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And they would do things like when we make a
basket and they imbound it, he would say to the
point guard. I heard him say, you're gonna give one
jab step to the point guard and if you don't
get the ball, get back. His point was, you gotta
either steal the inbound or get back. Do not steal,
then try again, or you'll get beat down the court.
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Little thing, probably something everybody that played big time basketball knows.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Something might actually never hurt.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
You can might why in the game he said, I
want whoever's guard, whoever's guarding the point guard to the
moment it comes in, make a quick movement.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
If you don't get it, run back down the four.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
We'll see We'll probably see that alone. Probably we'll see
that a lot. Little things like that. He happened throughout.
Then you mentioned the defense. They spent a lot of
time on defense. I'm sure they've spent a lot of
time on offense, but they probably spent fifty percent of
the practice drew on defense. And like run, he had
a group that was Colin Chandler, U O Way Noah,
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which surprised me a little bit for this Diabate and
Garrison right, and they played I want to say, most
of practice, but they were the majority of the court
wouldn't you agree with the Blue team? They were the
Blue team. Lowe and Aberdeen were out, so they didn't practice.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
So that's what I think.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Aberdeen's probably in that group if he's not hurt. Well,
I don't know if he's heard. He just didn't he
didn't practice much. He would stop that group and go,
you all can be the best group of five defenders
in the country. He was like, this group of five,
you all can be the best five and he's and
later one of the staff told me it's because that's
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the one group they can put on the floor where
everyone could switch and guard every man. They could switch
on everything with that group, which is again away Uh, Oway, Noah, Chandler,
Garrison and Diabate. He said, you all should be the
top five group of defenders in the country.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And I just thought that was interesting. Who would have
thought Triton Noah group.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
You know, looking at Trentoa last year, I would have
thought Pope's just being Pope, kind of doing the Patino
hyperbly a little bit. But this new trent Noah, you
can see how Pope could consider that. I still don't
know that he's gonna be a lockdown guy, but as
we've said from pro day and everybody seen him at
madness and blue white. He looks completely different, and I
do not stopped moving.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I don't even think it's lockdown. It's they they literally
switch every screen.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
When you do that, they don't ever get picked because
they're just switching everything. And you know, I remember Bobby
Knight many many years ago. I heard Bobby Knight say
the perfect defense would be one where you could switch
every pick. He was like, if you could have a
team where you could do that, you could beat everybody.
And I think that's his was his is his theory
with that group, they're all versatile enough to guard all
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five positions.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
And the only time Pope got mad the whole practice
is whndya Bote didn't switch.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
That's the only time I've ever I was thinking that
I've ever heard him raise his voice.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I thought he yelled. I've never heard him yell. Diabate
got the first yell I've ever heard from Mark Pope.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I mean, he was laid into him.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I remember I wrote down what he said. He said,
you're joking around, and I've told you four times, but
it was extremely loud and aggressive in his face.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Now, just how you were go back to cal There
was one of those moments fifteen times of practice. But
it probably works more in some ways the Pope because
since you never hear it, when you do hear it,
you gotta be like, oh.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Everyone around me kind of had a jump. They were
all startled the moment. We looked at each other like
did Mark Pope just snap?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It was also we saw from me the first Okay,
this is what Cam Williams can be practice because Cam
Williams was deadly in that first half of the practice.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
He was maybe my biggest takeaway out of all the players.
Joe saide I talked about on the way home, who's
your one big takeaway? We both said Cam Williams, Hey.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's the first time I've seen him, Like, okay, yeah,
that's what they're talking.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
That's why NBA guys, like why.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
The NBA guys won him that Okay, now I see
that was the first I mean you saw him.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
He was talking trash the whole practice that.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I was so glad to see that because I've been
really skeptical a little bit of him.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
That was the practice where I saw, Okay, now I
get it.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I kept up with the play by player road a
full game recap on the site, and he's a big
part of it. He had the stealing slam, then immediately
almost another stealing slam, but they blew a whistle as
he was on the fast break, and then late in
the game hit a deep three that really mattered as
they were getting intense.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah, yeah, really cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
So if you have questions, if I'm nine to two
eight oh twenty two eighty seven, I have a couple
more things. We want to talk about that, and then
we also got to talk about what's going on in LSU.
You think things are bad here, just be glad we're
not at La shot right now. That's what maybe be fun.
But be glad you're not. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah. I don't I don't like that commercial sky Isy.
What is sky Isy?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
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Speaker 3 (23:15):
I don't like the commercial.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I don't like how they, in their regular frame of
mind say I have moderate to severe plax risis, because
no one talks like that. No one says I have
moderate to severe like I've got a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I've got a little. But what is it? What's plau rises?
I don't know, plaque is in your teeth.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
It's got to be. It's it like your teeth hurt.
I guess sounds like a personal problem with.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
A lot of people, and it can be moderate to
severe in the medical field.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
But that's not how you normal human beings talk.
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Sure, but then you know the answer. You go to
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from yesterday.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
From the baschool basketball?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
But like actual practice.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
That they flat out get after it. I mean, those
guys are competing they've got They were going five on
five and acting like it was like in a big
SEC game. They were getting after it. That was my
big takeaway that in Cam Williams.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
By the way, shout out to the Scout team. Yeah,
the Blue and White team trade off.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Scout team goes the whole practice, that group of five dudes,
there's like it's it's Walker Horn, three the guys who
look like they may have played last couple of years,
and then the forty five year old band.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Like they go, he's a buck. He almost dunked up
Brain and Garrison again. Yeah, he he almost got Hi McGinn.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
I'll put our grad assistant saint somebody in the country, Dude, our.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Grad assistants can play. One of those guys played at Trancy, right, there's.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
A new one that was a Liberty last year that
looked like Steph Curry for a few minutes yesterday.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
He was good.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Larry at one point was like five on the Green
team is really good.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I'm like, well, he's not on the team. He played
at Trancy.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Last year, but uh, but those dudes are good and
they go the whole practice like the Blue and White
team come in and out they go the whole time.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
That's uh, sticking with your your changes from how it
used to be. It used to be a table in
the middle, Cow with a whistle, maybe aerobic, maybe Kenny.
And they were leading practice, which was fine. Now Pope's
got fifty dudes that are doing something. All of them
are doing They're everywhere. Everyone has an assignment. At one point,
Cody fingers leading and everybody else shuts up. Another point,
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other assistants leading a little bit. Guys that I've never
even seen in my life have an iPad out there
given instruction.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And let me say, some of you all that really
didn't like the way you'd go, Well, Cow didn't draw
up offense, you would be in heaven because they called
time out and he pulls up the little clip board
and he's drawn plays for practice for the scrimmage, overdraw
and played. The scrimmage went to overtime, so he was
drawing plays for practice and Collin shit, they were right
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in front of us, And Collin Chaan was like, well, no,
what if we backcut like they were.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I was just thinking, this is so the opposite of
the last time.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And I'll note the blue team, which are your starters,
needed a bucket. With twenty seconds left, they called time
out and drew up a perfect play where Noah Pump
faked and hit Garrison for an open dunk. I mean
that looked like a just a perfect smooth like you
said to be. October and early practice, they're out there
running sets and also just simply practicing in reparina. They
were pumping in crowd noise.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, let's mention that UK did not practice in Reperena
under cow, which is kind of crazy if you think
about it. They've now set up where they're going to
practice two days before most games this year, not all
of them because they don't always have the arena, but
most days.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And you and they pumped in.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Crowded it got loud, crow they had to go the
free throw line and they turned up the volume. Diabata
and Jasper Johnson both made one and one to hit
their team in it with the with the noise pumping.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
One person rights, Matt.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I love the video of you with your mom because
you look like a proud dad talking about his kid.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
When you were talking about your mom.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
My wife said, I hope our son looks at me
the way Matt looks at his mom.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Now that's very sweet.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
And now I thought, I'm trying to say that we
got to see you as a proud son, and you
were introducing your mom and dad to a new world,
your world that you live in that they don't get
to be a part of most of the time. So
that was kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
It was all right, one more thing before we go
to the phones.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
What about what's happening in LSU.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Honestly, it looks like, oh, brother, where art that? Like?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I thought we kind of I thought we were past
this time in American history.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So Brian Kelly gets fired.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I think most people's presumption is, okay, the AD's gonna hire.
Next thing, you know, the governor gets up there. Not
sure who asked him, but he gets up there. First
of all, how come nobody told me the Virginia or
the Louisiana governor sounded like that?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Did you hear him? Yeah? He sounds like fog hornleg
ho hees.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I mean like the kind of what you want from Yes,
if you're gonna have a governor, it sounds like that
he needs to be from Louisiana. I just didn't know that,
I gotta be honestly, I didn't know there were still
people like that, Like I thought that was all relics
of movies about the nineteen thirties. You know, I've been
around people would buy you accents. But he usually don't
end up the governor. So I don't know how somebody
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didn't tell me he sounded like that. He gets up
there and he's.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Just going off about college sports.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
You know, he sounds like some.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Of our callers.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Sometimes he's like college foksing route and uh.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Then they say are you gonna let that?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Like when is the ad gonna make the higher And
he just goes Brian Wood, what has He's gonna have
no role in this?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
We're keeping him away from it, And I'm like.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Whoa, he is the athletic director.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Why do you have an athletic director if he doesn't
get to be part of the higher drew.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
It's the governor's in charge there something with the board.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Help.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Can you imagine Andy Basher staying standing up and going,
Mitch Barnhardt will not be making this higher?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Can you? I mean can you even picture that?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
No, not at all. I can't be doing that. What
he say? What would even.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Mitch can't be doing that. I mean he's up there. Wow, well,
I say, I say it when I'm gonna have the
wood one out now.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
And then uh so then he's They say, well, who's
gonna do it?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
And he says, the Board of Supervisors, which is basically
like our board of trustees.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
They're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Okay, Well that's weird because like, how many of you
even know who the chairman of the board of trustees
is at Kentucky?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Does anyone know? No, does anyone in here know? I don't,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Do you know who the chair? Do not know who
it is?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Okay, So imagine that was the person picking our next
football coach. That's basically what they said. So they went
to that guy. Yeah, now like, hey, so we're here,
you're picking the new football coach.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
And he goes, oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
The look on his face he didn't even know didn't
know that was not an act. He didn't found.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Out for the first time in front of the media
that he was gonna be the dude picking the coach.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Yeah, they said, you're heading up the committee, you know
what you're looking for? Like, uh, first.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I've heard this.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I guess we're gonna go get a good coach.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I was about to go home to Jamaica. I mean,
what a what a show down there? Right?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Obviously? Uh, this people debate which is the biggest job
in the country. For me, it's not a question. This
is the biggest job in the country that's open right now,
and they do not seem to be on the same
page whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Since moving on from Kelly, I.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Mean, if you were Elaine Kiffin and you got like
a pretty good situation at Old Miss and you out
there seeing the government go I.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Say, spa old Nanuel Flower hour like.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I mean, would there be a part of you that say,
maybe I just stay at Old Miss?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Right?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Oh, you don't want to go work for the guy
who didn't know he was in charge of hiring?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Is you or is you not my constituency? I would
think you might move away.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
You definitely have found your next voice for the UK
film credit. I just couldn't. I couldn't believe that guy.
I couldn't let the let the governor do the governor things.
Let the a D do the a D things.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I mean, I listen, I like Andy Basher, But do
I think Andy Basher should hire the next like football coach?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That's not why you elect him.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
He's got other things going on.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
And the board, I mean, we don't know who the
board is, like I mean, Mitch.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Art for better or worse. There's the accountability of having
a job and people know who it is, and if
it doesn't work, people know who's at fault. I just
I could not believe watching that scene yesterday. And you know,
by the way, other governor's gonna do this. Oh yeah,
like when's Ron DeSantis is gonna have his because I mean,
Florida job's open. Florida State job might be open too,
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he might get two of them.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Got a chance to get my name out there, get
some people to support me. If I picked the.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Right coach, it was crazy. Would it make you less
likely to want to go there?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
If I was Lane Kiffin or another Yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You're not like a coach that that job would be
the highlight of their career. But if you were Lane Kiffing,
would you be like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
I don't know if I wouldn't want to tiptoe into
that train wreck that's going on down there where Governor's
trying to do the ad your your boss's job.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I mean it might be good news for us, because
if you're John Sumrall, who right now is the betting
favorite for that job, there's a world in which he
would say, well, it's a better job than Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
But and Sheer's not gonna.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Be calling me up like that, you know, and you
could have a head start on getting some wrong while
LSU doesn't even know who's supposed to call him. While
they're tripping over their own feet. You have a little
bit of an advantage if you want to give him
a call.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I love that video they the supervisor guy when they
asked him, but you could tell a look at his face,
he's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
This is my prediction. I think that dude.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I think that governor just got worked up, you know
what I mean when he was talking, and I don't
know if he thought the whole thing through, Like I
can't imagine that he went on stage saying, i'most say
the ad has no role in this, because then why
don't you just fire the athletic direct Like why why
is he the athletic director if you're not gonna let
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him hire the coach?
Speaker 5 (33:48):
It's a good point, why not.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Just hire the dude who doesn't know what's going on
as the athletic director. If he's gonna be the one
hiring the.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Coach, the governor's trusting his board and the board hasn't
yet learned that that's part of me.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Look, this is how wild it is. First take next segment.
Louisiana governor to hire the FELLASU football coach. That's how
you know it's crazy. The fact that they're going into
a fi I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven.
We're gonna take a break. Be right back to KOSR.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, So since we
mentioned this, I guess you should know. We should know
who the UK Board of Trustees are. First of all,
if you go online to the UK website, looks like
a group of partying people. I'm gonna speak up if
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you know any of these people?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
All right, ready to go? The chair is Brit Brockman, MD.
Do we know? Do not?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Claude Skip Barry the third who looks to be a
nice guy. Do not Samuel Boone, Todd Case, David fig Ron, Gagan,
Brenda god Knee, Jim Gray. Hey, there's one former mayor
(35:04):
of Lexington, Janeye Greer, Lance Lucas, Elizabeth McCoy, Hannah Minor Myers.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Oh shout out Madisonville you know her?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah wow, look at your too, Uh, Paula Leech, Pope.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
See Frank Shoop does he have a car dealership?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Doesn't have a car?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Shoop cars?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
All right?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And then that's a staff member, faculty member and uh
Bob Vance, I think he went to Trancy all right.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
So that those are your those are your UK board
of Trustees.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Those would be the people that would be hiring your
your football coach in the.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
World, like l s u let's go win the SEC.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
You think that'd be ready for it.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
I think that's a good committee.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Before we go the phones big game this weekend, Ryan
Middlesbrough versus Sayer. Sayer High School is coming from the
big city of Lexington, their little private you know, uniforms
and and all that, and they're going all the way
to Middlesborough, deep into the mountains. It's gonna be quite
a culture shock for our folks at Sayer.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
The sort of you know down here in a.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Rich part of town, gotta come all the way to
Middleswoth Sayers eight and one Middlesborough's eight no final game
of the regular season.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
What airport do you even have? They can handle there,
there's gonna be Where are they who gonna farm?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
They're private gen. I don't know where they're gonna land.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
This could be the Class A state championship. These are
two Class A powerhouse teams meeting down on the fields
of Middlesborough. If you said Middlesborough's ain't no, must have
been a hell of a recruiting year through the tunnel
to get those recruits. We think we recruit well because
you do. We do not recruit. Harriget, Tennessee has been
good to Middlesborough.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Harrigett has like three thousand people. Why do you act
like there's so many people in here? They produce I
guess a lot of good football.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Tell it.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Okay, So I was gonna I was thinking about this
when I saw they were playing.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Is there a bigger culture.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Difference between two teams that could play each other than
Sayer and Middlesborough?
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Well, when was it Martin County went to Louisville to play.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, But the thing about Martin Care wasn't Martin, It
was Jackson K Jackson, Jackson County in Iroquois is it
at least the there is a cultural difference between West
end of Louisville and eastern Kentucky, but they both are
kind of economically similarly, very similar.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
I mean, Sayer is like, you know, champagne and caviar.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
It's Middlesborough. Middlesbrough is uh, chicken livers and beer. We
do not our kids do not.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Eat chicken livers and beer in Middlesbroo.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I was gonna say loaded potato casserole and uh, but.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
But it all sounds good.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
So from that perspective, I mean, I would say Sayer
is one of, if not the richest schools in the state.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
In Middlesborough is probably one of the poorest schools in
the state.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
And they both super football programs right now.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
So that's it's kind of that that's would be cool
to see.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Larry French kind of a blue blood football coach down
there in Middlesborough. And then you got Chad Pennington, but
that's another quarterbat.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Pennington is the coach former Marshall and New York Jets quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
That's the Sayer coach.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
So anyway, I think Middlesborough at Bradner Stadium there'll be
a big it'll be a big event this Friday.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Who's next, Adam is a Adam? Go ahead, Adam?
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Hey, what's up? Mat? I really appreciate you sharing your
story about your your parents getting to go to the
besketball event meet Martin Pope. I kind of grew grew
up in something similar that I was going to Kentucky
football games very like four or five and just went
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with my grandparents and it just grew in me that
I love Kentucky football so much because of that experience
that I had with them. So I appreciate you sick
sharing story.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, well, I thank you, and uh, you know, I
appreciate the call for me.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
You know, when I.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Growing up at the Mountains. The reason I love the
state is through the basketball program, which was through my
grandfather and just the you know I mean I had.
I didn't go to Rapperina. I don't know that I
ever went until college. I got to go see him
a couple times in Thompson Bowling Arena. We would go
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watch Kentucky and I think we lost every single time
we went. And then my grandfather and his friends would
go to the SEC tournament, which became a tradition that
I then continued with my friends thirty five years later.
But uh yeah, there's something about being in Reperina, Drew,
that's kind of like that. And you know you you
were like you were there with life in a similar.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
That And I have the same connection with my grandparents.
Their living room had a frame picture of Scott Pageant
in ninety eight the Jack Given Sports Illustrated cover. It
wasn't like family photos, but grandparents of living room was
like a man gave from growing up. So I also
think about them often when I'm doing stuff, like why
am I here in the locker room right now?
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Yeah? I completely agree. Who's next? David is up there? David?
Go ahead, David, Hey, Matt, what's going on? David?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Good?
Speaker 7 (40:23):
I'm excited for the game tonight, and I just I
just realized something last week. I was that this is
the first time I think this is the first time
Georgetown's been to up since they lost to Villanova nineteen
eighty five.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Yeah, well we talked about that yesterday, David.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Not only is Georgetown not played Kentucky since eighty four,
of course, this is.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Their moment where they lost to Villanova.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Here in Rupp Arena two in eighty five the.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Uh probably the last.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I guess that's the last time they've been to the
national championship as well.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
So a lot of memories for both schools.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
Yeah, I guess that's what them moving the up was
Kara for beating us any eighty four is how I
see it?
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Well, it was did did you go to You didn't
go to the Georgetown Villanova game?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Did you? No?
Speaker 4 (41:07):
I remember watching it on TV? Though, who is It's
Saint John's? There were three teams in the Big East.
Who's the fourth team?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I know the answer? Do you do you want to guess?
Do you want to know who? The fourth team in
the Lexington Final four was? Georgetown, Villanova, Saint John's. And
you may hear no, I know, I don't say it, David,
I know. I'm okay, Well, I'll I'll let you gay
if it's if if nobody hears knows that? Wait a minute,
did you look it up?
Speaker 4 (41:29):
David? No?
Speaker 7 (41:31):
I just remember, I just remember it.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Okay, what is it? Memphis?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
I'm gonna say that Memphis, that's right, except back then
it was Memphis State. Keith Lee. Yeah, could call well done? Well, David,
and I I hope you enjoy the game tonight. All right,
A five twenty two eighty six games big for both
fan bases.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
They haven't been back to RUP since one of their
worst moments, and we haven't seen Georgetown since eighty four
when they knocked us out. So both teams Tames have
some revenge to get you feel good about us winning tonight.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I do.
Speaker 5 (42:05):
I'm not sure about Aberdeen because he didn't practice, but Georgetown's.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Like, had they said something about him?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
I mean he didn't practice at all.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
He was in uniform, but he nothing.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
He in low basically did the same stuff, which is
not a lot during the practice. We'll take a break
and come back out. Number two. I have a weird
story to tell you right after this
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I'm getting pretty excited about it.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How about you? You're ready for a little rematch of
eighty four.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I know we're gonna get to it, but after what
we did yesterday, I am so excited about this upcoming season,
especially tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Me too.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
And I'm just ready to get to Rapperena again. I
know it's not the number one team, but if the
crowd is anything like it was last Friday, it's gonna
be a real game in there.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Ope, it's a good crowd.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I mean, I think it's kind of nasty outside, and
it's gonna be nasty.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We broke the record for most rain in October. Here's
an interesting stat all right, it was Matt's weather Stats. Okay,
they broke the record for most rain in in October
on in history.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
But it's only rain six days. Wow, So it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So the quantity of rain in those six days though,
was something else.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, that one day we got like six feet of rain.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
We want to play with six feet, but it was
it was a good.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Good amount of Arai it ended up my basement, so
I knew we had a lot of rain.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Did you call serve pro?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
They called me, Remember, they actually reached out to me.
How good customer relation is that?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's good?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Uh? Well, so we are excited after a Yesterday was
I think I can speak for the group collectively, a
very cool uh cool day for everybody. And we're gonna
talk about probably spend a decent part of the first
part of the show here talking about what happened, both
the experience and then getting to actually watch the basketball
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team in a practice form, because I think for all
of us that's the first time we got to do
it in sort of a real practice, you know, not
kind of the fake pro day practice.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
First time for a pope practice for me for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah. So for people who don't.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Know, they they basically opened it up for UK media
members and their families. I'm gonna do a mia culpa.
I may have screwed up it just a little bit.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It was that. I wasn't supposed to say until after
the event. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So I said it on Tuesday, and I think I'm well,
I don't think I did mess that up. So I
think maybe some people then contacted. There might have been
more people there than were originally intended, and that's my fault,
and I need to apologize. I need to drew read
the emails a little long more.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I did see a lot of new faces that aren't
normally covering the team. It was a thank you for
covering the team event and saw a lot of new people.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, that's I apologize, that's okay, And I was made
very clear that was not intentional. I was just excited,
you know, And I didn't read the email, So it's
something that's something you would do to Ryan that I did.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I guess on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Now it makes sense why there wasn't enough chairs for
the press conference.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It was my fault.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But more people got to have a good experience, very true,
A lot of people did. So they opened it up
and it was it was just like, I don't know
what's the best way to say.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It was just wholesome Ryan in such a sweet way.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So people could bring their kids, or they could bring
one family member, and a lot of people brought their kids.
The kids were so cute, very like kids just everywhere.
So Pope does the press conference and he says media members.
You cannot ask a question. Only the family members can.
I ask a question, which means you got like little
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kid questions, but you also got wives questions. I think
you get a couple of cases, maybe got dad's questions.
I encouraged my mom to ask a question, but she
wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I thought that would be good. I joked with Larry
before we got in there. I was like, Larry, you should,
said Larry. When we get there, you should just go
who is this? Like the person taught Mike Mark Pope
and he laughed. What I didn't realize is that he
would actually do that. And you know, he he's got
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his volume sometimes can be because he's you know, he's
here and he's eighty eight years years old. So Mark
Pope's talking, and all of a sudden, right in the
middle of it, he just reaches over and goes, who
is that?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And it was loud?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Did you hear it?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
God?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Hear it? It was loud.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So my mom and I start laughing, and he's laughing
because he's made every fluck, he's made us laugh. But
we do all that, and then I just I really
just want to thank Uk and Pope for making that happen,
sitting over there with my parents. They'd never been to
anything like that, right, I'm not sure they'd ever been
on the floor of RUP. I kind of don't think
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they would have. They were just so happy throughout the
whole thing. I mean, you know they're sitting there. Jack
Gibbons comes and sits with him. That's like my mom's
favorite player of all time. You know, my parents are
so pro Trent Noah because he's from Harlem. Yeah, that
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it's out of control. Like Trent Noah is the only
player that Larry knows. So what the drills would go on,
he would commentate to me, but only what Trent Noah
was doing. So he'd be like, he hasn't missed a
three yet. Look at that pass. He hasn't missed a
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shot yet. Like that was constant. And then my mom
she would cheer for Trent Noah like it was a game,
but she didn't cheer for the other players. So he
would make a shot and she would go yeah, and
I was like, Mom, this is a practice. We cannot
we cannot scream, And then we can't scream only.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
For Trent Noah.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You would have thought it was me out there playing
the way they were with Trent Noah. But it went
on through the whole thing, and then when it was over.
This is what people need to understand about that about
Mark Pope. When the practice was over, the players and
the coaches not only came over, they came over and
stayed ryan for a long time.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Oh yes, they did.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Like the players interacted with all the children. Trent Noah
went and Malachi Marino. I asked them to take pictures
with my family. They could not have been nicer those
two kids. You talk about two kids that get Kentucky.
I'm sure Jasper the same way.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I just didn't get to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And I watched those players. I've seen that look in
other eras. We've had players go up in the crowd
and sometimes the like. There'd be individual players that were nice,
and then sometimes players wanted to go. Every single one
of them not just went in the crowd, stayed in it,
interacted with people, thank them, I mean, they thanked them.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
For covering the team. That's not many people that will
do that in this business.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And then just on a personal level, like it meant
a lot to me, you know, as we were walking
through the back my Mom, there's this there's this thing
that's outside the UK locker room and it looks like
a movie, you know when they have a movie and
it'll say cook play next blah blah blah, and it'll
be the next game. And then they have a picture
of a famous UK player doing the why and they
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change it every game.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They actually changed it.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It was John Wall when we got there, and it
was Tony Delk when we left. But my mom is
seeing the quotes and seeing the pictures and seeing the
locker room, and like she starts crying, and she said,
I so wish my dad. That meant her father, so
my grandfather could be here. And she's right, like he's
the one that got me into the game, into UK basketball.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The thought that I watched these games as a kid,
and now I get to do this and I get
to be back there from Middlesbroo, Kentucky. It's crazy and
it made my mom emotional to be back there, it was,
and then to go and do it, to watch a
real practice, to have the coach come up after ask
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my mom about her the stuff she's doing with the
doctoral with being the doctor of Religion and Wheaton College
and all this and him be interested.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It was legit. He was interested, and.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You know, Larry looks at him and says, you know,
my brother was the chaplain under Joe B. Hall.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And then like he could, he just goes with that
and talks to him.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It was just a great night and it's something I
always remember and I really really thank them.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
It was a special event that Kentucky has never done
anything like that ever before, and letting us invite our
families and it was so cool for me. I took
a moment and kind of watch you there, you are,
You're sitting there with your mom and dad, Alan Cutler
sitting here that his grandson looked my right, Jack Pilgrims
there with his three month old. It was just all
a three month old to Larry who was eighty eight,
and everybody was like you could tell it was like
(09:46):
Christmas Day almost. He was so excited to be there.
I loved watching your parents fanboy over Trent Noah. That
was really kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
My parents, I've never you know, my parents are not
really sports people, Like I grew up a sportsperson, but
my it was really all from my grandfather. Like my
parents were not really sports people. But they were sports
people yesterday. They were you know, and they were into it.
And uh and then you with your son. That's what
I gonna say, Like, you got to sit there with
your son and your son was into it. I've been
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around your son a lot when he's not into things.
He was into it. That was very cool.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You know, I don't get to see much anymore since
he's gone off to college, but then he and he
goes man, it's kind of weird. I've played against Jasper Malachi,
Trent and Rhese Potter and there they are. They're out
there mouth playing and you Pope talk about this.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, so and he did that that conversation you all
may have seen. Mario posted a video of my and
my mom's interaction with Pope. But here's what you should know,
because people have said really really nice stuff about that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Everybody had that interaction that with that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
He did that with lots of different people and they
all got to have that moment.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And the one thing I wish is I was wish there.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I wish there's a way that over time, other groups
of Kentucky fans get to do something like that, Like
other groups of Kentucky fans get to have that experience,
because you know, it's it's what makes this place like
really great. It's the days like yesterday or what. And
Pope said that in the back he basically said, what
(11:17):
makes Kentucky basket? I thought this was really articulate by him.
What makes Kentucky basketball different from everything else? All right,
even from your Dukes, your North Carolina's and your Kansas
What makes it different is there is a connection to
the people of the state that is stronger here. And
somebody asked, you know, how do you get your players
(11:38):
to realize that?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And he goes, it's the most important thing. He's like,
you come here.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You can get this experience at these other schools, except
that part. That's the part you can't get at other schools.
And so I have to make sure they appreciate what
they're getting. And Drew, I just thought that was really
it's really smart by him and true absolutely.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
And I thought, you today, going into it was gonna
be awesome. I thought it was a great idea from
the moment the email popped up, but I didn't realize
just how much it was gonna affect people. I was
excited as anyone to see a practice I can't even
remember the last time I got to go just watch
a practice. But I had just as much fun watching
other people's family. I didn't even know a lot of them,
like I. Set By Cuttler and his family had some
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other kids around me.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
There was a moment where Lee K. Howard's daughter hit
a shot where the team didn't have to run the ball,
and she hit a shot from this set.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
The end of practice.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Every day, apparently, what they do is they pick a
player and they have to hit a free throw, and
if they don't hit it, the team runs, and so
it's to put them in the moment of difficult shot
with a lot on the line, because the team is like,
you better make it. In this case, they brought a
little girl out there to do it, and then she
made and she made it, and the place went absolutely nuts,
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and that was that was That was awesome. But the star,
by the way of the entire event was later, no doubt.
I mean, everybody was coming up to him. He It
almost made me cry. He showed up in his little
ks he did so I called him Larry the intern
all day. I made him clean up after it, like
he's low man on the totem Pole right.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He hasn't worked there very long, but he.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
The first thing I noticed.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It was so cute to see them fanboy over Trent Noah.
I can't believe they love.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Trent Noah more than me. I can just say, like
Trent Noah and they're not the only ones. Like everybody
from the Mountains has that Trent Noah thing. I wasn't
really here when Richie Farmer was here, all right. I
was a Richie Farmer stand as a kid, but I
don't know. I didn't even go to a game I went.
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I saw him in the SEC tournament. That's the only
time I ever saw him. So I don't know what
it was like with Richie Farmer. And I'm sure in
some ways it was like this with rich Chapman, but
I've never seen anything like it is as great as
as much as people loved Reed Shepherd, it's different with
Trent no Especially for the people from the Mountains. They
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all act like Trent Noah is their son. My mom included,
how did that happen?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Jersey in the media. There were people wearing trenton like I.
The Mountains connection to Trent Noah is something Ryan I've
not seen.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
In my lifetime. Is it just because he's from Harlan.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I think it's because harl That's part of it. He's
from like the most mountain place. And then I think
because he looks like a baby a little bit like
he's got that red the red cheeks and all that.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
God overlooked and then gets the state championships.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
The scholarship from Pope takes Harlan County to the state
champions It's part of it.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, I do think that's part of it.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I want to go back to the press conference is
for a minute. We did get a couple of really
good questions. The one little girl asking about his hair.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You know, the little girl said, you're not bald, why
don't Why do you shave your head? I like that question. Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Then I think it was a mom or. A girlfriend
asked about what he's gonna wear for Halloween tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
He said he didn't know, Jack, I don't. By the way,
I don't like when coaches do that. You know it's Halloween.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Can gess you've seen the decorations up like you? I mean,
I know you're focused, but you know it's Halloween.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Just lying so you're gonna be a ghost, like you know,
it's Halloween.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
But anyway, it was.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It was a great day and it was fun having
you all there, Mario documenting all of it.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It was very cool and it was good to kind of,
you know, people got to see you in a different light.
You were there as a sun. You weren't there as
Matt Jones KSR. You were there. That's not a Matt Joe.
Oh yeah, Like I don't do that. I'm Matt Jones,
I'm KSR. You were there's Matt Jones the Sun yesterday.
Kind of get to see you in a different light
for people. We get to see that sometimes a lot
of people don't get to see you in that light.
You were so happy to introduce your parents to Mark Pope.
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We were so happy to introduce him to Trent Noa.
You could just see it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I was. You're right about that, but I'm normally very
chill Matt Jones.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
That's your impersonation. Yeah, thank you very much. AF I'm
nine twenty two eighty seven. Now I want to talk
about the basketball actually, cause I thought it was very
interesting to watch the practice and some of the things
they were doing insane. I was kind of surprised they
did us some of that in front of us where
we were allowed to talk about it. So we will
when we returned this KSR welcome back. It is Kentucky
(16:32):
Sports Radio. I just retweeted the picture of the little
girl making the free throw.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
That was kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
And then they, you know, they also broke down the
huddle at the end of practice and let the little.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Girl do the thing.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Yeah, they did. I wish we could have heard what
they were saying, Like Pope went to every player in
the huddle to say something, but then Cutler's grandson and
Lee K's daughter let them say something also to the group.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
So let me let me say is as I talk
about some of what we're gonna talk about with the practic,
I want to say none of this is to say
a criticism of the past regime. I just want to
compare to you because the difference in the kind of
practice I went to yesterday and the kind of practice
we would go to with cal. I'm not saying one
or the other is better. I just want to sort
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of explain the difference because I've now been.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
To both, and so I think it's important to see that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
The first here's the number one thing that I took
away more than any well, really two things I took
away from the practice. Number one, they are studying and
constant teaching Ryan every single thing that's done. Yep, literally
every single thing. They are recreating situations in games. They
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are stopping after every play, each coach will go up
to a different person and kind of tell them what
they did and didn't do right. It is constant coaching,
and it is very situational and play ouational, meaning like
if you went to a cow practice. There was a
lot of just going up and down the court, putting
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players in situations where they're like, all right, you're gonna
have to make these decisions.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Just keep making them and eventually you'll get it right.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
They're making a decision and then coming out and analyzing
it and in the moment coaching.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Did you notice what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
A lot of coaching, a lot of teaching defense. They
were working and coaching on defense. They work on the press,
they work against the press, they work on out of
bounds plays. I mean, they were just constant teaching.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And they would do things like when we make a
basket and they imbound it, he would say to the
point guard. I heard him say, you're gonna give one
jab step to the point guard and if you don't
get the ball, get back. His point was, you gotta
either steal the inbound or get back. Do not steal,
then try again, or you'll get beat down the court.
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Little thing, probably something everybody that played big time basketball knows.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Something might actually never hurt.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
You can might why in the game he said, I
want whoever's guard, whoever's guarding the point guard to the
moment it comes in, make a quick movement.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
If you don't get it, run back down the four.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
We'll see We'll probably see that alone. Probably we'll see
that a lot. Little things like that. He happened throughout.
Then you mentioned the defense. They spent a lot of
time on defense. I'm sure they've spent a lot of
time on offense, but they probably spent fifty percent of
the practice drew on defense. And like run, he had
a group that was Colin Chandler, U O Way Noah,
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which surprised me a little bit for this Diabate and
Garrison right, and they played I want to say, most
of practice, but they were the majority of the court
wouldn't you agree with the Blue team? They were the
Blue team. Lowe and Aberdeen were out, so they didn't practice.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
So that's what I think.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Aberdeen's probably in that group if he's not hurt. Well,
I don't know if he's heard. He just didn't he
didn't practice much. He would stop that group and go,
you all can be the best group of five defenders
in the country. He was like, this group of five,
you all can be the best five and he's and
later one of the staff told me it's because that's
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the one group they can put on the floor where
everyone could switch and guard every man. They could switch
on everything with that group, which is again away Uh, Oway, Noah, Chandler,
Garrison and Diabate. He said, you all should be the
top five group of defenders in the country.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And I just thought that was interesting. Who would have
thought Triton Noah group.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
You know, looking at Trentoa last year, I would have
thought Pope's just being Pope, kind of doing the Patino
hyperbly a little bit. But this new trent Noah, you
can see how Pope could consider that. I still don't
know that he's gonna be a lockdown guy, but as
we've said from pro day and everybody seen him at
madness and blue white. He looks completely different, and I
do not stopped moving.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I don't even think it's lockdown. It's they they literally
switch every screen.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
When you do that, they don't ever get picked because
they're just switching everything. And you know, I remember Bobby
Knight many many years ago. I heard Bobby Knight say
the perfect defense would be one where you could switch
every pick. He was like, if you could have a
team where you could do that, you could beat everybody.
And I think that's his was his is his theory
with that group, they're all versatile enough to guard all
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five positions.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
And the only time Pope got mad the whole practice
is whndya Bote didn't switch.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
That's the only time I've ever I was thinking that
I've ever heard him raise his voice.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I thought he yelled. I've never heard him yell. Diabate
got the first yell I've ever heard from Mark Pope.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I mean, he was laid into him.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I remember I wrote down what he said. He said,
you're joking around, and I've told you four times, but
it was extremely loud and aggressive in his face.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Now, just how you were go back to cal There
was one of those moments fifteen times of practice. But
it probably works more in some ways the Pope because
since you never hear it, when you do hear it,
you gotta be like, oh.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Everyone around me kind of had a jump. They were
all startled the moment. We looked at each other like
did Mark Pope just snap?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It was also we saw from me the first Okay,
this is what Cam Williams can be practice because Cam
Williams was deadly in that first half of the practice.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
He was maybe my biggest takeaway out of all the players.
Joe saide I talked about on the way home, who's
your one big takeaway? We both said Cam Williams, Hey.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's the first time I've seen him, Like, okay, yeah,
that's what they're talking.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
That's why NBA guys, like why.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
The NBA guys won him that Okay, now I see
that was the first I mean you saw him.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
He was talking trash the whole practice that.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I was so glad to see that because I've been
really skeptical a little bit of him.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
That was the practice where I saw, Okay, now I
get it.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I kept up with the play by player road a
full game recap on the site, and he's a big
part of it. He had the stealing slam, then immediately
almost another stealing slam, but they blew a whistle as
he was on the fast break, and then late in
the game hit a deep three that really mattered as
they were getting intense.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah, yeah, really cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
So if you have questions, if I'm nine to two
eight oh twenty two eighty seven, I have a couple
more things. We want to talk about that, and then
we also got to talk about what's going on in LSU.
You think things are bad here, just be glad we're
not at La shot right now. That's what maybe be fun.
But be glad you're not. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 2 (23:16):
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I've got a little. But what is it? What's plau rises?
I don't know, plaque is in your teeth.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
It's got to be. It's it like your teeth hurt.
I guess sounds like a personal problem with.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
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from yesterday.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
From the baschool basketball?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
But like actual practice.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
That they flat out get after it. I mean, those
guys are competing they've got They were going five on
five and acting like it was like in a big
SEC game. They were getting after it. That was my
big takeaway that in Cam Williams.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
By the way, shout out to the Scout team. Yeah,
the Blue and White team trade off.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Scout team goes the whole practice, that group of five dudes,
there's like it's it's Walker Horn, three the guys who
look like they may have played last couple of years,
and then the forty five year old band.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Like they go, he's a buck. He almost dunked up
Brain and Garrison again. Yeah, he he almost got Hi McGinn.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
I'll put our grad assistant saint somebody in the country, Dude, our.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Grad assistants can play. One of those guys played at Trancy, right, there's.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
A new one that was a Liberty last year that
looked like Steph Curry for a few minutes yesterday.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
He was good.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Larry at one point was like five on the Green
team is really good.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I'm like, well, he's not on the team. He played
at Trancy.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Last year, but uh, but those dudes are good and
they go the whole practice like the Blue and White
team come in and out they go the whole time.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
That's uh, sticking with your your changes from how it
used to be. It used to be a table in
the middle, Cow with a whistle, maybe aerobic, maybe Kenny.
And they were leading practice, which was fine. Now Pope's
got fifty dudes that are doing something. All of them
are doing They're everywhere. Everyone has an assignment. At one point,
Cody fingers leading and everybody else shuts up. Another point,
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other assistants leading a little bit. Guys that I've never
even seen in my life have an iPad out there
given instruction.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And let me say, some of you all that really
didn't like the way you'd go, Well, Cow didn't draw
up offense, you would be in heaven because they called
time out and he pulls up the little clip board
and he's drawn plays for practice for the scrimmage, overdraw
and played. The scrimmage went to overtime, so he was
drawing plays for practice and Collin shit, they were right
(26:27):
in front of us, And Collin Chaan was like, well, no,
what if we backcut like they were.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I was just thinking, this is so the opposite of
the last time.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And I'll note the blue team, which are your starters,
needed a bucket. With twenty seconds left, they called time
out and drew up a perfect play where Noah Pump
faked and hit Garrison for an open dunk. I mean
that looked like a just a perfect smooth like you
said to be. October and early practice, they're out there
running sets and also just simply practicing in reparina. They
were pumping in crowd noise.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, let's mention that UK did not practice in Reperena
under cow, which is kind of crazy if you think
about it. They've now set up where they're going to
practice two days before most games this year, not all
of them because they don't always have the arena, but
most days.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And you and they pumped in.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Crowded it got loud, crow they had to go the
free throw line and they turned up the volume. Diabata
and Jasper Johnson both made one and one to hit
their team in it with the with the noise pumping.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
One person rights, Matt.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I love the video of you with your mom because
you look like a proud dad talking about his kid.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
When you were talking about your mom.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
My wife said, I hope our son looks at me
the way Matt looks at his mom.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Now that's very sweet.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
And now I thought, I'm trying to say that we
got to see you as a proud son, and you
were introducing your mom and dad to a new world,
your world that you live in that they don't get
to be a part of most of the time. So
that was kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
It was all right, one more thing before we go
to the phones.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
What about what's happening in LSU.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Honestly, it looks like, oh, brother, where art that? Like?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I thought we kind of I thought we were past
this time in American history.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So Brian Kelly gets fired.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I think most people's presumption is, okay, the AD's gonna hire.
Next thing, you know, the governor gets up there. Not
sure who asked him, but he gets up there. First
of all, how come nobody told me the Virginia or
the Louisiana governor sounded like that?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Did you hear him? Yeah? He sounds like fog hornleg
ho hees.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I mean like the kind of what you want from Yes,
if you're gonna have a governor, it sounds like that
he needs to be from Louisiana. I just didn't know that,
I gotta be honestly, I didn't know there were still
people like that, Like I thought that was all relics
of movies about the nineteen thirties. You know, I've been
around people would buy you accents. But he usually don't
end up the governor. So I don't know how somebody
(28:52):
didn't tell me he sounded like that. He gets up
there and he's.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Just going off about college sports.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
You know, he sounds like some.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Of our callers.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Sometimes he's like college foksing route and uh.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Then they say are you gonna let that?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Like when is the ad gonna make the higher And
he just goes Brian Wood, what has He's gonna have
no role in this?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
We're keeping him away from it, And I'm like.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Whoa, he is the athletic director.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Why do you have an athletic director if he doesn't
get to be part of the higher drew.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
It's the governor's in charge there something with the board.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Help.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Can you imagine Andy Basher staying standing up and going,
Mitch Barnhardt will not be making this higher?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Can you? I mean can you even picture that?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
No, not at all. I can't be doing that. What
he say? What would even.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Mitch can't be doing that. I mean he's up there. Wow, well,
I say, I say it when I'm gonna have the
wood one out now.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
And then uh so then he's They say, well, who's
gonna do it?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
And he says, the Board of Supervisors, which is basically
like our board of trustees.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
They're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Okay, Well that's weird because like, how many of you
even know who the chairman of the board of trustees
is at Kentucky?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Does anyone know? No, does anyone in here know? I don't,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Do you know who the chair? Do not know who
it is?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Okay, So imagine that was the person picking our next
football coach. That's basically what they said. So they went
to that guy. Yeah, now like, hey, so we're here,
you're picking the new football coach.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
And he goes, oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
The look on his face he didn't even know didn't
know that was not an act. He didn't found.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Out for the first time in front of the media
that he was gonna be the dude picking the coach.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Yeah, they said, you're heading up the committee, you know
what you're looking for? Like, uh, first.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I've heard this.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I guess we're gonna go get a good coach.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I was about to go home to Jamaica. I mean,
what a what a show down there? Right?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Obviously? Uh, this people debate which is the biggest job
in the country. For me, it's not a question. This
is the biggest job in the country that's open right now,
and they do not seem to be on the same
page whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Since moving on from Kelly, I.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Mean, if you were Elaine Kiffin and you got like
a pretty good situation at Old Miss and you out
there seeing the government go I.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Say, spa old Nanuel Flower hour like.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I mean, would there be a part of you that say,
maybe I just stay at Old Miss?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Right?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Oh, you don't want to go work for the guy
who didn't know he was in charge of hiring?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Is you or is you not my constituency? I would
think you might move away.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
You definitely have found your next voice for the UK
film credit. I just couldn't. I couldn't believe that guy.
I couldn't let the let the governor do the governor things.
Let the a D do the a D things.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I mean, I listen, I like Andy Basher, But do
I think Andy Basher should hire the next like football coach?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That's not why you elect him.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
He's got other things going on.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
And the board, I mean, we don't know who the
board is, like I mean, Mitch.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Art for better or worse. There's the accountability of having
a job and people know who it is, and if
it doesn't work, people know who's at fault. I just
I could not believe watching that scene yesterday. And you know,
by the way, other governor's gonna do this. Oh yeah,
like when's Ron DeSantis is gonna have his because I mean,
Florida job's open. Florida State job might be open too,
(32:22):
he might get two of them.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Got a chance to get my name out there, get
some people to support me. If I picked the.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Right coach, it was crazy. Would it make you less
likely to want to go there?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
If I was Lane Kiffin or another Yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You're not like a coach that that job would be
the highlight of their career. But if you were Lane Kiffing,
would you be like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
I don't know if I wouldn't want to tiptoe into
that train wreck that's going on down there where Governor's
trying to do the ad your your boss's job.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I mean it might be good news for us, because
if you're John Sumrall, who right now is the betting
favorite for that job, there's a world in which he
would say, well, it's a better job than Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
But and Sheer's not gonna.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Be calling me up like that, you know, and you
could have a head start on getting some wrong while
LSU doesn't even know who's supposed to call him. While
they're tripping over their own feet. You have a little
bit of an advantage if you want to give him
a call.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I love that video they the supervisor guy when they
asked him, but you could tell a look at his face,
he's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
This is my prediction. I think that dude.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I think that governor just got worked up, you know
what I mean when he was talking, and I don't
know if he thought the whole thing through, Like I
can't imagine that he went on stage saying, i'most say
the ad has no role in this, because then why
don't you just fire the athletic direct Like why why
is he the athletic director if you're not gonna let
(33:48):
him hire the coach?
Speaker 5 (33:48):
It's a good point, why not.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Just hire the dude who doesn't know what's going on
as the athletic director. If he's gonna be the one
hiring the.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Coach, the governor's trusting his board and the board hasn't
yet learned that that's part of me.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Look, this is how wild it is. First take next segment.
Louisiana governor to hire the FELLASU football coach. That's how
you know it's crazy. The fact that they're going into
a fi I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven.
We're gonna take a break. Be right back to KOSR.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, So since we
mentioned this, I guess you should know. We should know
who the UK Board of Trustees are. First of all,
if you go online to the UK website, looks like
a group of partying people. I'm gonna speak up if
(34:36):
you know any of these people?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
All right, ready to go? The chair is Brit Brockman, MD.
Do we know? Do not?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Claude Skip Barry the third who looks to be a
nice guy. Do not Samuel Boone, Todd Case, David fig Ron, Gagan,
Brenda god Knee, Jim Gray. Hey, there's one former mayor
(35:04):
of Lexington, Janeye Greer, Lance Lucas, Elizabeth McCoy, Hannah Minor Myers.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Oh shout out Madisonville you know her?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah wow, look at your too, Uh, Paula Leech, Pope.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
See Frank Shoop does he have a car dealership?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Doesn't have a car?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Shoop cars?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
All right?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And then that's a staff member, faculty member and uh
Bob Vance, I think he went to Trancy all right.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
So that those are your those are your UK board
of Trustees.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Those would be the people that would be hiring your
your football coach in the.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
World, like l s u let's go win the SEC.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
You think that'd be ready for it.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
I think that's a good committee.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Before we go the phones big game this weekend, Ryan
Middlesbrough versus Sayer. Sayer High School is coming from the
big city of Lexington, their little private you know, uniforms
and and all that, and they're going all the way
to Middlesborough, deep into the mountains. It's gonna be quite
a culture shock for our folks at Sayer.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
The sort of you know down here in a.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Rich part of town, gotta come all the way to
Middleswoth Sayers eight and one Middlesborough's eight no final game
of the regular season.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
What airport do you even have? They can handle there,
there's gonna be Where are they who gonna farm?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
They're private gen. I don't know where they're gonna land.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
This could be the Class A state championship. These are
two Class A powerhouse teams meeting down on the fields
of Middlesborough. If you said Middlesborough's ain't no, must have
been a hell of a recruiting year through the tunnel
to get those recruits. We think we recruit well because
you do. We do not recruit. Harriget, Tennessee has been
good to Middlesborough.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Harrigett has like three thousand people. Why do you act
like there's so many people in here? They produce I
guess a lot of good football.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Tell it.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Okay, So I was gonna I was thinking about this
when I saw they were playing.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Is there a bigger culture.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Difference between two teams that could play each other than
Sayer and Middlesborough?
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Well, when was it Martin County went to Louisville to play.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, But the thing about Martin Care wasn't Martin, It
was Jackson K Jackson, Jackson County in Iroquois is it
at least the there is a cultural difference between West
end of Louisville and eastern Kentucky, but they both are
kind of economically similarly, very similar.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
I mean, Sayer is like, you know, champagne and caviar.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
It's Middlesborough. Middlesbrough is uh, chicken livers and beer. We
do not our kids do not.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Eat chicken livers and beer in Middlesbroo.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I was gonna say loaded potato casserole and uh, but.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
But it all sounds good.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
So from that perspective, I mean, I would say Sayer
is one of, if not the richest schools in the state.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
In Middlesborough is probably one of the poorest schools in
the state.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
And they both super football programs right now.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
So that's it's kind of that that's would be cool
to see.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Larry French kind of a blue blood football coach down
there in Middlesborough. And then you got Chad Pennington, but
that's another quarterbat.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Pennington is the coach former Marshall and New York Jets quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
That's the Sayer coach.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
So anyway, I think Middlesborough at Bradner Stadium there'll be
a big it'll be a big event this Friday.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Who's next, Adam is a Adam? Go ahead, Adam?
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Hey, what's up? Mat? I really appreciate you sharing your
story about your your parents getting to go to the
besketball event meet Martin Pope. I kind of grew grew
up in something similar that I was going to Kentucky
football games very like four or five and just went
(38:49):
with my grandparents and it just grew in me that
I love Kentucky football so much because of that experience
that I had with them. So I appreciate you sick
sharing story.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, well, I thank you, and uh, you know, I
appreciate the call for me.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
You know, when I.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Growing up at the Mountains. The reason I love the
state is through the basketball program, which was through my
grandfather and just the you know I mean I had.
I didn't go to Rapperina. I don't know that I
ever went until college. I got to go see him
a couple times in Thompson Bowling Arena. We would go
(39:30):
watch Kentucky and I think we lost every single time
we went. And then my grandfather and his friends would
go to the SEC tournament, which became a tradition that
I then continued with my friends thirty five years later.
But uh yeah, there's something about being in Reperina, Drew,
that's kind of like that. And you know you you
were like you were there with life in a similar.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
That And I have the same connection with my grandparents.
Their living room had a frame picture of Scott Pageant
in ninety eight the Jack Given Sports Illustrated cover. It
wasn't like family photos, but grandparents of living room was
like a man gave from growing up. So I also
think about them often when I'm doing stuff, like why
am I here in the locker room right now?
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Yeah? I completely agree. Who's next? David is up there? David?
Go ahead, David, Hey, Matt, what's going on? David?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Good?
Speaker 7 (40:23):
I'm excited for the game tonight, and I just I
just realized something last week. I was that this is
the first time I think this is the first time
Georgetown's been to up since they lost to Villanova nineteen
eighty five.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Yeah, well we talked about that yesterday, David.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Not only is Georgetown not played Kentucky since eighty four,
of course, this is.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Their moment where they lost to Villanova.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Here in Rupp Arena two in eighty five the.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Uh probably the last.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I guess that's the last time they've been to the
national championship as well.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
So a lot of memories for both schools.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
Yeah, I guess that's what them moving the up was
Kara for beating us any eighty four is how I
see it?
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Well, it was did did you go to You didn't
go to the Georgetown Villanova game?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Did you? No?
Speaker 4 (41:07):
I remember watching it on TV? Though, who is It's
Saint John's? There were three teams in the Big East.
Who's the fourth team?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I know the answer? Do you do you want to guess?
Do you want to know who? The fourth team in
the Lexington Final four was? Georgetown, Villanova, Saint John's. And
you may hear no, I know, I don't say it, David,
I know. I'm okay, Well, I'll I'll let you gay
if it's if if nobody hears knows that? Wait a minute,
did you look it up?
Speaker 4 (41:29):
David? No?
Speaker 7 (41:31):
I just remember, I just remember it.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Okay, what is it? Memphis?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
I'm gonna say that Memphis, that's right, except back then
it was Memphis State. Keith Lee. Yeah, could call well done? Well, David,
and I I hope you enjoy the game tonight. All right,
A five twenty two eighty six games big for both
fan bases.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
They haven't been back to RUP since one of their
worst moments, and we haven't seen Georgetown since eighty four
when they knocked us out. So both teams Tames have
some revenge to get you feel good about us winning tonight.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I do.
Speaker 5 (42:05):
I'm not sure about Aberdeen because he didn't practice, but Georgetown's.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Like, had they said something about him?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
I mean he didn't practice at all.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
He was in uniform, but he nothing.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
He in low basically did the same stuff, which is
not a lot during the practice. We'll take a break
and come back out. Number two. I have a weird
story to tell you right after this
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