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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Stockyards Banks. Sunday Morning Sports Talk on Anthony
White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vacht, coming to
you from Clark's Main Street Market studios in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.
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and refuse whenever you have an opportunity. Good morning, Jack Pilgrim,
(00:23):
how are you feeling?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I have never been more alive in my life?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Anthony?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
How are you? I am good?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I figured, uh, I figure you've been waiting all year
for this point, although there's only a couple what do
we got ten more days in this year? I feel
like you've been waiting all year for this moment, and
I'm happy for you. I was worried about you the
past couple weeks, but this week I'm happy for you.
So and I'm good. Plus cuse today we are going
to get our second Natty. I'm unbiased. I played football,
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I love basketball, but I'm unbiased. I take championships however
they come, and I smell feel taste one today, So
I'm probably just as happy as you, Jack, if not more.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Is that okay?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm so excited for this volleyball, Like just the vibes
in Lexington where you get the final four on Thursday.
How fun that was being able to you know, win
in the fashion that they did, and then that you
know women's team responds with a big win, blowout win,
feel good win on Friday, and then yesterday, just how
all of that unfolded, the debut of Jaden Quainton's and
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getting Jalen Lowe, the hides and lows of the emotions
there and then man to set up today with match
day for National Championship. Just said, what a weekend for BBN.
It's been a long time since we've had a kind
of a stretch like this.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Larry Vaughan, how are you doing? You want to join
in on some of this happiness, sir? You still just
just chugging along.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I've been happy for months.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
No, we're talking about a UK for us in general.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Oh okay, yeah, yeah. It was a good weekend. But
like I said, my focus is on volleyball right now,
because as you said, this is National Championship weekend. They
don't come around very often on the UK. Second time
the final four, second time of the title game, second
time to Win's what it's what I'm hoping for, so
looking forward to really fun afternoon. I just remember the rules, Anthony.
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If you're watching and things aren't going well, you gotta
quit watching. And if you're not watching and things aren't
going well, you suddenly got to start watching.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I met I.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
My phone was blowing up Texas here and tweets and
are you watching the games? If you watch, if you're
watching the match, turn it off. Let me go over
here and see what's going on.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And I kid you, not, my buddy.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I was watching the game or the match with was like, man,
y'all getting y'all tails torn up? And I was out
only in the first match though, and came on the
second match.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
It was up and down.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
We started showing a little continuity. You did warm me
before I turned it on, and we we didn't seem
in sync. We weren't, you know, doing our skinners winners things.
And it turned around pretty quickly. After we watched that.
It looked felt like we got things in hand, and
I went ahead and relax. So I thought it was
if I watched, it was bad luck. But I turned
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it on this week because we were losing it changed
turned it around. So I really would love to witness
the national championship game, but I'm gonna start off not watching.
Not because I don't want a witness, but I'm going
to start off not watching. So make sure you text
me or if things are are.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Going the wrong direction.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
What does that say about UK volleyball where we are
all stressed out about the final four in the championship game?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Bo, what's this? Is what it says to me? And
Larry alluded to it but did not finish the sentence correctly. Larry,
what you said? We are in our second final four,
second championship, and we are looking to get our second
national championship. We have been, we have been the epitome
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of basketball in this conference forever. We have been I'm
gonna say the lower third in football forever.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Volleyball, Larry Vaud.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You realize we will have the only we will be
the man woman in volleyball.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
With the only two national championships in.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The conference, you know who everybody will have to come
to for permission about anything and volleyball in this conference,
even Texas, they got to come to us, Larry, because
the two national championships that I'm calling it the ahead
of time that we will have will be in Lexington.
You didn't say that, You said Kentuck you have to.
The whole conference will have too, and they both belong
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to us.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Larry Valk, I'm just trying to be conscious. I don't
like to put the card ahead, you know, get too
far away ahead of myself right now, so I'm just
trying to keep the same pace and head all here.
Just take it one at a time what skinners winners do,
so it's it's gonna be okay. But you are right,
it's pretty amazing they could if they do win only
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two titles, but it was Texas wasn't in the SEC
when they won. Their titles will belong to Kentucky. But
I just got to believe Anthony that hopefully they got
their one match kind of out of the way where
they didn't play as well as what they have been
and now they're ready to go. You know, Texas A
and M has looked really good the last two weeks.
Kentucky did beat them during the season, but I think
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today's going to be a really, really fun match to watch.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But I will say before we get to men's basketball,
because I know everybody's anxious to talk about James Quainton's debut,
and but you just can't stop the electricity and the
excitement in the air for bat or for volleyball. But
I will say Larry fought, and we talked about this
all season. We expected to be here. I don't know
if I expected it one hundred But the beating their
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Texas and them during the season is great. We play
all the top match so and we've been here, well,
these girls haven't been here before. But Craig has I
think Craig has filled out his roster to see, you know,
what justments he has to make. He's been making adjustments
here late in the season, you know, just to see
who performs under depression, what what what group of girls
you want on the court at the same time. So
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I do say that this is it's a different time.
We beat Texas at him during the season. This is
a tournament that electricity is going to be high. All
the stakes are going to be high, So everybody's gonna
be a little more tense and tight. But we have
played every level of competition. We played the number one,
played the number two, We've played everybody in the country.
So I think I feel more like we've been here
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and done that, maybe a little bit more than Texas
in them. And so I don't I think that may
be an age from you, Larry.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Well, I'm hoping.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
So nobody played a better schedule that Kentucky. I don't
think they've been on national TV. They've been in front
of huge crowds, they played tough matches on the on
the road. So all the preparation hopefully comes suit today.
And some of the players that have been on with us,
and we are very fond of hoping they all have
great days.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I do too, both and you came in this morning
a little extra happy, a little extra giddy.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I don't want to leave you out of it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You may be more excited.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You probably may be more excited than Jack I and Larry,
but I don't know. I give you an opportunity to
give you a level of excitement.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
I'm very excited. I mean, I think the fan base
deserves something good. I mean, after what we went through
with football and the emotional rollercoaster that was and Mark
Stoops on the way out and getting will Stein and
then basketball has just you know, been all over the
place for us, and the one consistent sport that we've
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had has been volleyball, and I'm really like disappointed and
beating myself up that I can't be at the watch
party this afternoon at Memorial Coliseum. I've got family things
going on that was booked long ago before this ever happened.
So go out support the volleyball team. Get to Memorial Coliseum.
I think doors open up at two thirty today. It's
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going to be fun. And let's have a parade and
celebrate UK's national championship on Christmas morning. Let's just go
ahead and do that.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Bring the family, what are you talking about? Bring the family?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I should, but I can't. Robinson family if you're listening,
or whoever the family is. I don't want to put
Bowl's business out there. Maybe a special young lady or
someone else out there. But Robinson family, if you're free,
bring bow to Memorial.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Well we won't be far huh. We won't be far
from Memorials, So I'll see.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
And Jack Pilgrim.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Before we came on the show, Bo and I were
talking and just because, as coach Brooks said, Kenny brook said,
you know you get fan fatigue, and I think I
got fan fatigue because of trying to wild Kentucky football
to doing something positive, getting to Bowl, getting back to
bowl games, and you know, jumping on and off the bandwagon,
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you know, expectations high and low, and waiting for basketball
to cure all the the ls of football. I'm done
with this bandwagon thing, Jack Pilgrim. But when we come here,
the first thing out of Bowl's mouth was I'm driving
the band wagon. I told you boys just to wait.
You don't get don't get upset too early, and so
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both so Bo Robinson, Jack, but Bo Robinson has fixed
up the bandwagon and he's driving that thing in basketball.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Are you riding with them? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, And I think that's you can now see that
they've earned that right, like right right, they've They've they've
shown the vision of hey, well this is what the
twenty two million dollars looks like when you have all
twenty two million dollars on the floor, Like, that's you
you can't like. And that's why Rick Patino gave us
a talking to. Is as media members last night said,
you know, you can't judge a full product without seeing
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the full product first. You can't call these you know,
say these guys are underperforming and underwhelming and all that stuff,
uh until you see them all together on the floor.
So I think the issue that Rick is missing with that,
and I hope is not the internal messaging about uh,
you know how the criticism has been relayed to them
and and and all that is that fans weren't booing
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and weren't losing their minds over over losing the basketball games. Yeah,
it's inexcusable and unacceptable to uh, you know, lose any
game at Kentucky because that's why we are Kentucky Basketball
and everybody else isn't. Like it's a standard, that is
the gold standard for a reason. They they booed and
and had that reaction, and we had that reaction because
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it was the energy and the effort and the fight.
What it didn't feel like they wanted it the same
way that we did. And and why why are we
carrying the same you know, caring as much in and
they're not. It was it was like, hey, we're talking
about representing Kentucky in the name on the front of
the jersey and.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
All that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Well, why does it feel like these guys aren't aren't
don't care about doing that? That was where all the
frustration came from, you know, when you lose by thirty
five points and just feels like they couldn't care less
about it. That's where those emotions came in for the
fan base. So, yes, there was a give and take
to it. Yes, fans were probably a little reactionary. I
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was a little reactionary by saying, no, the roster construction's
bad and these pieces don't those sorts of things. Well, yeah,
you're missing two of your three best players, arguably with
Jaden Quaints and Jayle Low out of the lineup. So
there's a lot of truth to get back on the
bandwagon and believing in this team, and you know, praying
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to the basketball guys that the injury situation stays calm
and nothing drastic happens, and you can just say keep
all these guys on the floor together. But there's a
little bit of both. And they deserved a lot of
the criticism up to get to this point, and we
deserve to eat some pro now that the full product
sure does look pretty darn.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Fun and Jack and I know the dollar a miles
all speculatory to me just from what I know of
what I've heard, But Jaden's I don't know what Jaden
Quainten's nil is. But in seventeen minutes, in thirteen seconds,
you give me ten and eight and two blocks. He
may have bought Mark Pope maybe another two years if
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they progret, if they continue to progress weekly with plus
eighteen on the floor with Quaintance and plus twenty on
the floor with as you just said, Jalen Lowe.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
So those guys could have and Quaintans man, he's just
a bully man.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
He just changed the whole outcome of the game, like
just does what he wants to do, takes the ball,
top of the key, gets the bucket, just bullying people around.
Ball comes off the rim, we putting it back in, dunk,
get it back in, not just you know, lay up heart.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So I am pretty impressed with what Jalen did. And
I know you're going to talk a little bit more
later about the expectations of them, how the minutes are
going to go. Is how did feel after That's that's
the big thing to me. How did he feel after
his first time of real game action.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
How does the injury come back?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Because you know, I told Larry and we always talk
about in the show, after the first game. In football,
you have injuries like so you just got to get
throughout the whole season, just making sure you're getting back
close to one hundred percent as possible. By the end
of the season, you'd probably be glad to be playing
at sixty percent, but everybody in the conference is playing
that way, so it's not really a huge thing. But
I feel like Jaden Quaints may have helped Big Blue
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banking and financial needs. Larry vaugh we were talking for
we went to break about the Jalen Lowe contribution thirteen points,
three assists, three rebounds in fourteen minutes. Jadan Quaints only
gave us seventeen minutes and also had ten and eight
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and two blocks. But I think the contribution those guys
had are biggerest for the say continuity, it seems like
more like for the confidence. Now, mind you, we still
have a whole lot of defensive problems. We can't stand
in front of a lot of people. But just the
confidence we play with, the grit we play with, their
pretty aggressive was pretty impressive. But I stated before we
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went to break, do you think the lineup and Jayden
Quaintan's in putting to the lineup is gonna keep the
fan base happy, keep Mark Pope in a positive light?
Or is this too early to decide after one appearance
against the top twenty five team in Saint John's that
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you still need to see more or is this what
you expected to see when all the pieces came together,
which aren't all the way together yet. Because I'm expecting
twenty at least twenty five minutes out of low and
Quainton's both, that might be the easiest question.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Do you ever asked me, I'd be like, the son's
going to come up. If you think it's going to
excite the u GET fan base, I mean, that's the
ultimate softball right there. Yeah, I think they're excited. I
think they're excited a lot. It's amazing the difference from
two weeks ago till till now when two weeks, so
you knew the guys were hurt. Now they're playing and
it's like everything is different. I mean, I think Quainton
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is just verified what everybody thought about him. And I
think Low with what he did the second half. I mean,
and you probably you know better than Jack and I
on this. I mean the only worry with Low. I
mean it looked like he's what reached out and the
shoulder that has popped out in the first half, and
I guess they went back and nailed it back in
place and put him back in there. I mean, he's
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got to be a tough dude to keep playing through that.
You just wonder how long can Kenny hold up and
what's he going to be able to do. But when
he's out there, there's no doubt what difference he makes
in that team. And it was pretty sweet to see
him at that three point shot at the end like that.
Because he also gets to where he can make a
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few of those, it's just gonna be unbelievable. But I
also don't forget how well Cam Williams played the second half.
Yeah two. I mean, between Low, Quaintance and Williams, they
didn't have a point the first half and finished what
with thirty five forty four or something or forty whatever
it was, Jacket, it was amazing. Why they just those
three just lit it up the second half?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Jack about Cam Williams, Well, yeah, I mean what he said,
he just felt it was amazing. I was gonna ask
you more again about lineups because now I'm a a
little bit more intrigued a by lineups. But yeah, were
you surprised with Cam Williams performance? And is he gonna
be fighting for minutes? So is that gonna show the
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lineup you expected to see us? Our key lineup?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Man?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I think Cam has already proven that he needs to
be on the floor in all the other ways he defends,
he gets rebounds, he's you know, long and athletic. If
he kind of just gives you a different look that
not many people elsewhere on the roster are giving you.
So I've loved everything about Cam outside of the fact
that he just couldn't hit a darn shot. Like it
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was just frustrating to bring in a guy who shot
forty one percent of TWU lane a year ago from
three and it was kind of knowing what was brought
in to be kind of the knockdown shooter, you know,
system shooter for Pope, kind of the Kobe brea Ish replacement,
and he just hasn't been able to hit a shot,
so to be able to still do all the other
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things that makes them so valuable and then finally get
some shots to fall, I was like, all right, baby, yeah,
this is the vision. This is exactly what we kind
of thought we were getting with Cambo. It was tremendous.
I really you know, he got a standing ovation on
his way out when he checked out there at the
end of the game. I loved what I saw of him.
I think there is something to be said about that
four or five uh kind of the look that we
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were getting with cam at the four and Jaden Quainton's
there at the five. I think that's a super super
super interesting front court lineup and giving you some versatility
and shot making and you know, switchability and all that
fun stuff with the four and five. So yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
All in on.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Williams is a high minute, high usage guy.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I'm with you when we come back. Actually we're going
to talk a little volleyball. But once we talk a
little volleyball, I do want to get back to this
because now it is interesting some of the things we
saw how we started this season off, given injuries, all
all that included. But now does Morano still get minutes
and as you said, does Cam get in you death? Absolutely,
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I mean you're gonna plug Quaintance and you're gonna plug
Low back in. But it is interesting to find out
how we're gonna move forward. And this is like Jack said,
when we had the season on the season started, the
expectations before all the injuries and things were kind of
where we are now is too may still be too
early to decide, But as Rick said, I mean without
all the pieces, how can you even make a judgment.
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When we come back, we will talk a little UK
volleyball Chasing number two. We'll be back after this year.
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and as keeping in I can't keeping in tune with
the show, Chris Shows joins us another week. We made
an appointment last week because Larry Vaught and I as
well as Jack, but he wasn't on Aaron new that
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our Kentucky women's volleyball team would be playing in the championship.
So good to see, good to hear from me this morning, Chris.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Good to have you guys.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Thank you for talking with me.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
We were talking to what is the vibe like down there?
What's the vibe like down there? On game day for
the for the Natty?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
There's nothing going on around here. It's been pretty quiet
at all, you know, I know there's a lot of you.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Know, just no just kidding.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Obviously, there's a lot of clibing for today. I think
this team has been building forward to, you know, play
in this game all season. They've had their site set
on being one of two teams that season is still
going today. And you know, that was kind of one
of the messages last night where there were only two
teams that were having team meetings last night and we're
lucky to be one of them. And you know, this
team has played with unbelievable fire and passion and grit
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and competitiveness all season long, and there's only one more
opportunity to do that, and it's this afternoon for the
biggest prize that our sport has to offer. So there's
a lot of excitement. I'm sure there's a lot of
nerves as well. I have some. I'm sure the players
and coaches do as well. That means that you care.
But this team has done a really good job of
channeling their nerves and Big Matt all year and coming
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up with big points and big moments. So it should
be a fantastic match.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And Chris, I know you evolved in the scheduling and
setting up of some of setting up somebody, do you
guys look back at this season and just wring your
hands and says job well done. If once everything concludes,
and it concludes like you guys expect, because I mean,
you had to set back against the number one team
in the country, had to set back against Pittsburgh. But
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you guys have played the schedule where Larry Vaught and
I were talking, this is just basically another game, another match.
You guys have set your scheduled up, everything has been
set up. There probably is not a tougher schedule in
the conference. Do you guys look at that and say
this is why we did that, And at the end
of the day, no matter what happens today, you know say,
job well done, this is where we want to be
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because of the way we planned our year.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Well, I think you can say that, But you know,
the reason that you schedule the way that we schedule
is score two reasons. Number one, it prepares you for
conference play so that when you get into conference play
you can have a better season. And I think what
we saw this year was that preparation that we put
ourselves through was needed in the SEC, and it really
just got reaffirmed by the fact that we had two
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teams in the final four, two teams in the championship match.
Texas was the number one seed in their region. So
you know, the SEC required a certain level of preparation
that has not required in years past. So that's number one.
But the other reason that you schedule the way that
we did is you try to prepare yourself for all
different types of teams, all different types of situations, all
different types of atmospheres, travel, game times, things that could
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be out of your control when you come to the
NCAA tournament. And now having kind of gone through this
experience with the team. You think that if okay, we
got here on Tuesday, the practice days, Wednesday, you play Thursday,
you get Friday and Saturday off, and I have to
play Sunday. I will tell you as someone who has
you know, obviously I was a part of the team
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that won a national championship in the Bubble in twenty twenty.
But that is a very unique experien compared to a
normal final four, And there are so many different things
that are pulling at you for your time that are
you know, required in terms of you know, mandatory dinners
to welcome you from the Kansas City Sports Council and
the ABC All American banquet, and meetings with the NCAA
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social media folks and then people with the SEC, and
then you have ESPN obligations, and so you know, the
game was a really late one that we played on Thursday,
having to turn around and practice on Friday morning, and
then yesterday was a lighter walkthrough, and so there's a
lot of things that happen in a final four that
you think you have all this time, but you don't.
So what our non conference schedule does is allows us
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to be able to put the players in these positions
where they might be uncomfortable, but when we get to
them now, they have a better understanding of the barometer
that it takes to manage themselves through these situations.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Chris, I'm just curious, what did you all kind of
do yesterday? Because you've got a group that gets along
so well that kind of like they have fun with
each other. Now, what did you do yesterday other than
the walkthrough? And then again, just kind of tell folks
because you've been you've been out with us and you've
talked for a month month that Hay just about how
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special this team is with all the intangibles. Just kind
of go over some of those things again with folks too.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Yeah, yesterday it was a pretty light day. It was
definitely by far the lightest day that we've had here
in Kansas City. That is by design with the NT
Doblake Committee to try to give the teams the chance
to kind of decompress. But the players had breakfast in
the morning and then they kind of had all morning
to talk to their families and be with their friends
that are in town. A lot of them have people
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that are here in Kansas City with them and they
haven't had a lot of time to spend with them,
so they basically got the whole morning to be with themselves.
They then sat down and reviewed some of the film
from the Wisconsin match, and then we looked forward to
the Texas A and M match and just kind of
rewent over what their hitters are, their tendencies, you know,
how we think we can some of their weaknesses. We
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talked a little bit about the match in College Station
that was back in October. So we went to the arena,
we did a light practice session. We got ninety minutes,
but we only ended up using about seventy minutes or
so on the court, just you know, trying to get
the bodies moving, get them acclimated to some rotations that
we want to exploit with the aggis. And then after
that was over, came back and our wonderful support staff
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that is on the trip decorated the room and Christmas team.
So they had a team meeting that they thought was
going to be, you know, a serious one and then
ended up being you know, they got a few gifts
from a couple of sponsors and partners that we have
at UK and they were able to kind of let
loose a little bit. We had a team dinner, canter
back to the hotel, and then they were off the bed.
So it was a light day yesterday by far the
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lightest that we had of the trip. And I think
it was much need for one to kind of hit
the reset button to focus on today.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
And Chris does I know when we played the outback bow.
Larry Vault likes to tell stories about that, but you know,
just those being different venues and you know, like I said,
you got so many things you have to do. You
have to do media, you gotta you know, entertainment, you
gotta practice, you got to prepare, But at the end
of the day, you're there to win a game. Are
the girls pretty much staying relaxed and that to you know,
people say it all the time about the Super Bowl.
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The biggest thing about playing in the Super Bowl, I've
always heard is keeping your keeping your anxiety and your
UH on level, so you don't you don't peak too early.
So are they doing a good job of, you know,
just having fun, relaxing, relish in the moment or uh
Is that something that you guys are kind of putting
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things together for.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Yeah, I think we've done a really good job of
that all year and I don't think that this trip
is any different. You know, I passed even this morning
downstairs going to breakfast, and she seems like she was
in a great spot, and Molly tells you I passed
as well. I think this team is incredibly confident, not
necessarily in the fact that oh my god, we're gonna win.
This isn't gonna be close, but I think this team
is confident that they've been put in the situation that
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they understand what is going to be required of them
today to win this match on this stage, in this arena,
And I just think that they have a very good
understanding of what is going to be asked of them,
and they are ready for it. They're ready for it
from a physical standpoint, They're ready for it from a
mental standpoint. I think they're ready from an emotional standpoint.
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It's just a matter of going out and executing against
the team that is playing as high level volleyball as
we've seen across the country this year. And I think
it's it's actually really cool that it's a team that
we've already played, because I think it's a team that
obviously is better than when we played them when they
were you know, matched up in October. But it's also
a team that you know, we know the hitters, and
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we know the tendencies, and we know their coaching staff
and we have relationships with those people. So there's a
really high level of mutual respect there that is required
to win a game like this.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And yeah, let me it real quick, Anthony up. You've
talked about the friends and family aspect, and you know,
so many people getting to be around their loved ones
out there in Kansas City. It is obviously a unique
one for Brooklyn, you know, being being kind of local
around there. There was a report yesterday that she's been
playing for porn meniscus her parents told to a local
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TV station out there, just a how special is this
event for her to be able to do this on
this stage and you know, be able to have those
friends and family in front of her, but also just
the toughness for her to to kind of gut this
out and still be able to perform it at the
level that she is.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Yeah, Brooklyn's a warrior. I mean she really is. I
think she's everything you'd want in a Kentucky Wildcat. I
think everything that you know mister Barnhard and doctor Capeludo
talk about and Craig talked about about, you know what
identifies somebody as a Kentucky Wildcat. Brooklyn embodies that. She's
an unbelievable teammate. She's a great person. She is a
three point seven GPA. Obviously, she's one of the top
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five players in the country. If you would ask anybody
that is unbiased and looks at the numbers and looks
the production that they provide for their team. You know,
my whole thing with Brooklyn is watched her after a match,
regardless of the result.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The way that she.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Comes back and signs things for all the kids in
our arena and talks to all the families that want
to have a word with her, and she's always putting
herself stuck in. I mean, there's just not enough good
things I can say about Brooklyn Delay. And it's not
like necessarily that that has all of a sudden become
something this year. I mean She's been that way since
she steps foot in Lexington. She's somebody who is team first.
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She wants to win, she wants to compete. I think
she enjoys competing, which is required of special athletes. And
you know, I think that doing it in Kansas City,
a place that she knows very well. And I don't
know if she's played in this particular arena before, but
I know that she's played hundreds of matches in the
Kansas City Convention Center just down the road and club.
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I think that it means a lot to her. I
don't think that she's getting caught up in the moment
of oh my gosh, this is Kansas City, I have
to play well, it's all my friends. But I think
that she's a appreciating the moment and the opportunity that
she's been given to win our sports biggest prize in
a city that you know means so much to her
and her family.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And Chris my last question, I don't And Larry said,
there's not thinking about more. I say it, I should
know better as a player, not trying to put the
not trying.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
To put the buggy before the before the horse.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Are there any things to look forward to say everything
goes away we want or UH would expect? Is there
any are there things planned in Lexington if things do
go our way? Or do you guys stay there and
UH overnight and just enjoy the moment, or are you
guys coming back immediately after that.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
We're not yeah, we are not staying the night. We
after the match, we will come back to the hotel
and wrap everything up and packed up and then head
to the airport. Obviously, you know, when you're in the
institab a tournament, you don't really get to control your travel.
That's more controlled by a travel company that the instably hires.
But our plane is going to be in Kansas City
at ten o'clock Central time to pick us up tonight,
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so we'll have some time to come back to the
hotel and decompress a little bit and reflect on what
an amazing season it was, and hopefully just to celebrating.
We expect to land in Lexington Write about one o'clock
Eastern time in the morning, and should things go our way,
we'll have some communication about some other fun things that
may or may have just not got out of a
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meeting for So, I don't know if that answers your
question directly, I don't want to get.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
We will communicate what we need as we need to
communicate it once once some cool things happened this.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Afternoon, Larry, what do you have anything else now?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
This?
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Good luck to you. Chris keep our buddies, Resuit and
Trinity out of control with day, Okay, if.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
We're going to try it, I just I hope everybody
takes the most sorry and me a little monch here,
I hope everybody just takes a moment to appreciate this
team for what it is and the people that they are.
It's been just an incredible season. They are an incredible
group of people. I know, Larry, you've had the chance
to come to a lot of the games and watch
how they play. And Texas A and M is an
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incredible team and they're going to pose a lot of
really challenging problems for us today, and they're playing it
maybe the highest level of any team in the country.
But I just hope people kind of take a step
to appreciate what Craig has done with this particular team,
the way it's been constructed, because I think that it
has a chance to go down as a team that
really defines what Kentucky Athletics is all about. So I
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just hope that while you're watching and cheering and losing
your mind over stuff today, I hope people take a
moment to appreciate what this is all about.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Well, Chris We appreciate you joined us this morning and
we wish you all the best. And either way, we
do appreciate the excitement you alls have brought us this season.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You got it, guys, We'll talk soon.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
We'll talk to you lady. We will continue the show
after this.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You are listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning sports Stalk
on news Radio six thirty WLAP is.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
The home of the Wildcats. Six thirty w l a P.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday, when the sports Stalk from
Anthony White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vault. A
good uh good interview with Chris shows one am is
the key time, Larry Vault, so take a nap after well.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I don't know. I don't want you off that late.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Jack Pilgrim and I may be able to come greet
the young ladies, or maybe me and vote be able
to free hisself up by that time.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
I'll be I'll be fine. And I got to stay
up late in any way working on a project, so I'll
be around. If you want to go out to the
airport and greet the volleyball team coming back, I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
I think I want to go. All right, let's do it.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Let's make a Blaine for it.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
We're gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Uh, Larry Vaught, I did want to before we get
to the phone lines. I did want to ask you
about the volleyball Player of the Year. Babcock won it
for the second year.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Do you think that has.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Anything to do with Hudson and Delay being on the
same team maybe?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Or is she just that good?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Don't I don't have enough u film toll.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
She is really good, and I think anytime you're the
returning national Player of the Year and you get your
team to the final four. They did have a win
over Kentucky, and her stats were pretty amazing. I mean,
you can't really argue with her selection, even though I
think all of us here in Kentucky think it should
have been Eva Hudson because we watch Eva.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
But Babcock is certainly deserving. It's not like you can
look and say, well, how in the world they vote
for her? Well, if you watch or play you can
see how they vote for her. So but but again,
I think Eva will be very happy to let Babcock
be be national champion, because Babcock can't be watching her
play today.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Do they have an MVP for the championship match? Can
there be a Player of the match?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
They should have one for the final four? Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Okay, cool, So maybe we're rooting for even come on, Even,
we got our fingers crossed, or any Kentucky Wildcat at that.
Let's get to the phone lines and see what Larry
has to say. Good championship morning, Larry. What do you
got for us?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Well, I'll touch on football a little bit. I watched Oregon.
I was gonna watch them, but I side, I don't
watch too What kind of offense they run? I was pretty
impressed at first half. Of course they kind of let
the second half. If he can bring some of that
to Kentucky, you know, and of course you got to
have the athletes say, I'm sure Oregon they got two
of everything, but I was. I was impressed with them.
Nobody they run their offense, you know. I just I
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think maybe you know, he can, like I say, if
he can recruit some of these kids from these other
schools and go to Ford and hit some stuff, you know,
he might turn this thing around. As far as back
I was.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
James Madison, Larry, you do know that, right? The other
team was James right, Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Right, but still though I think their offense. I like
the team, but to run. But anyway, as far as
far as the basketball, you know, first half, I missed
the first half. I had to go to the Fennel,
so I'm watching it right now matter of factice Uh,
but I was surprised, you know with Kentucky. Uh, I
didn't get to see Clinton's first half when he come in,
and of course Jaya wats them. I think he got
(36:14):
hurt or our first place. They said he didn't play
much first half, but a team want you put them
two kids in Clinton's I just couldn't believe his lateral movie.
I said to him, watching them way he guarded that guy,
he's a beast. You take him and do uh, what's
the kid from Alabama's name? You take them two guys
on the baseline. Man, that's a load there and need
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for somebody to handle.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Uh, you know, we don't have to worry about doubling
down on us now no more. You know they you
know they're gonna have to double down on us, you know,
and it gives our guards more open shots. And it
just made such a difference for their point guard in
and quaint this man of guards. This guy he was
that morning kid for for h Saint John's that played
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the center. I think Kentucky four and I can't pronounce
his name. He was really hurting his first fat but
I was watching in billy him up. I mean, Clayton
has got so quick for a guy his size. He
was pushing him off the box. You know that kid
is hard to move.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I agree, But anyway, you.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Know, like I said, uh uh one one.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
We have to get to a break. So I had
a dog.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I agree with a lot of things you you said.
And when we come back, we will talk a little
bit more UK basketball. We had some volleyball conversations going on,
so we kind of converted to volleyball. But I do
want to get back to basketball because now things are
Bo has the has the bandwagon rolling.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
So we got to get back on that man. We
got to load that thing up for him.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
If you'd like to join the show eight five to
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You're listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on
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Welcome in Stockyards Banks. Sunday Morning Sports Talk on Anthony
White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vacht, coming to
you from Clark's Main Street Market studios in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.
Also visit your local Clark's Pumper shops and return, refresh
and refuse whenever you have an opportunity. Good morning, Jack Pilgrim,
(00:23):
how are you feeling?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I have never been more alive in my life?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Anthony?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
How are you? I am good?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I figured, uh, I figure you've been waiting all year
for this point, although there's only a couple what do
we got ten more days in this year? I feel
like you've been waiting all year for this moment, and
I'm happy for you. I was worried about you the
past couple weeks, but this week I'm happy for you.
So and I'm good. Plus cuse today we are going
to get our second Natty. I'm unbiased. I played football,
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I love basketball, but I'm unbiased. I take championships however
they come, and I smell feel taste one today, So
I'm probably just as happy as you, Jack, if not more.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Is that okay?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm so excited for this volleyball, Like just the vibes
in Lexington where you get the final four on Thursday.
How fun that was being able to you know, win
in the fashion that they did, and then that you
know women's team responds with a big win, blowout win,
feel good win on Friday, and then yesterday, just how
all of that unfolded, the debut of Jaden Quainton's and
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getting Jalen Lowe, the hides and lows of the emotions
there and then man to set up today with match
day for National Championship. Just said, what a weekend for BBN.
It's been a long time since we've had a kind
of a stretch like this.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Larry Vaughan, how are you doing? You want to join
in on some of this happiness, sir? You still just
just chugging along.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I've been happy for months.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
No, we're talking about a UK for us in general.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Oh okay, yeah, yeah. It was a good weekend. But
like I said, my focus is on volleyball right now,
because as you said, this is National Championship weekend. They
don't come around very often on the UK. Second time
the final four, second time of the title game, second
time to Win's what it's what I'm hoping for, so
looking forward to really fun afternoon. I just remember the rules, Anthony.
(02:25):
If you're watching and things aren't going well, you gotta
quit watching. And if you're not watching and things aren't
going well, you suddenly got to start watching.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I met I.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
My phone was blowing up Texas here and tweets and
are you watching the games? If you watch, if you're
watching the match, turn it off. Let me go over
here and see what's going on.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And I kid you, not, my buddy.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I was watching the game or the match with was like, man,
y'all getting y'all tails torn up? And I was out
only in the first match though, and came on the
second match.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
It was up and down.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
We started showing a little continuity. You did warm me
before I turned it on, and we we didn't seem
in sync. We weren't, you know, doing our skinners winners things.
And it turned around pretty quickly. After we watched that.
It looked felt like we got things in hand, and
I went ahead and relax. So I thought it was
if I watched, it was bad luck. But I turned
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it on this week because we were losing it changed
turned it around. So I really would love to witness
the national championship game, but I'm gonna start off not watching.
Not because I don't want a witness, but I'm going
to start off not watching. So make sure you text
me or if things are are.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Going the wrong direction.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
What does that say about UK volleyball where we are
all stressed out about the final four in the championship game?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Bo, what's this? Is what it says to me? And
Larry alluded to it but did not finish the sentence correctly. Larry,
what you said? We are in our second final four,
second championship, and we are looking to get our second
national championship. We have been, we have been the epitome
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of basketball in this conference forever. We have been I'm
gonna say the lower third in football forever.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Volleyball, Larry Vaud.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You realize we will have the only we will be
the man woman in volleyball.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
With the only two national championships in.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The conference, you know who everybody will have to come
to for permission about anything and volleyball in this conference,
even Texas, they got to come to us, Larry, because
the two national championships that I'm calling it the ahead
of time that we will have will be in Lexington.
You didn't say that, You said Kentuck you have to.
The whole conference will have too, and they both belong
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to us.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Larry Valk, I'm just trying to be conscious. I don't
like to put the card ahead, you know, get too
far away ahead of myself right now, so I'm just
trying to keep the same pace and head all here.
Just take it one at a time what skinners winners do,
so it's it's gonna be okay. But you are right,
it's pretty amazing they could if they do win only
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two titles, but it was Texas wasn't in the SEC
when they won. Their titles will belong to Kentucky. But
I just got to believe Anthony that hopefully they got
their one match kind of out of the way where
they didn't play as well as what they have been
and now they're ready to go. You know, Texas A
and M has looked really good the last two weeks.
Kentucky did beat them during the season, but I think
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today's going to be a really, really fun match to watch.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But I will say before we get to men's basketball,
because I know everybody's anxious to talk about James Quainton's debut,
and but you just can't stop the electricity and the
excitement in the air for bat or for volleyball. But
I will say Larry fought, and we talked about this
all season. We expected to be here. I don't know
if I expected it one hundred But the beating their
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Texas and them during the season is great. We play
all the top match so and we've been here, well,
these girls haven't been here before. But Craig has I
think Craig has filled out his roster to see, you know,
what justments he has to make. He's been making adjustments
here late in the season, you know, just to see
who performs under depression, what what what group of girls
you want on the court at the same time. So
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I do say that this is it's a different time.
We beat Texas at him during the season. This is
a tournament that electricity is going to be high. All
the stakes are going to be high, So everybody's gonna
be a little more tense and tight. But we have
played every level of competition. We played the number one,
played the number two, We've played everybody in the country.
So I think I feel more like we've been here
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and done that, maybe a little bit more than Texas
in them. And so I don't I think that may
be an age from you, Larry.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Well, I'm hoping.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
So nobody played a better schedule that Kentucky. I don't
think they've been on national TV. They've been in front
of huge crowds, they played tough matches on the on
the road. So all the preparation hopefully comes suit today.
And some of the players that have been on with us,
and we are very fond of hoping they all have
great days.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I do too, both and you came in this morning
a little extra happy, a little extra giddy.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I don't want to leave you out of it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You may be more excited.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You probably may be more excited than Jack I and Larry,
but I don't know. I give you an opportunity to
give you a level of excitement.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
I'm very excited. I mean, I think the fan base
deserves something good. I mean, after what we went through
with football and the emotional rollercoaster that was and Mark
Stoops on the way out and getting will Stein and
then basketball has just you know, been all over the
place for us, and the one consistent sport that we've
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had has been volleyball, and I'm really like disappointed and
beating myself up that I can't be at the watch
party this afternoon at Memorial Coliseum. I've got family things
going on that was booked long ago before this ever happened.
So go out support the volleyball team. Get to Memorial Coliseum.
I think doors open up at two thirty today. It's
(08:07):
going to be fun. And let's have a parade and
celebrate UK's national championship on Christmas morning. Let's just go
ahead and do that.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Bring the family, what are you talking about? Bring the family?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I should, but I can't. Robinson family if you're listening,
or whoever the family is. I don't want to put
Bowl's business out there. Maybe a special young lady or
someone else out there. But Robinson family, if you're free,
bring bow to Memorial.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Well we won't be far huh. We won't be far
from Memorials, So I'll see.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
And Jack Pilgrim.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Before we came on the show, Bo and I were
talking and just because, as coach Brooks said, Kenny brook said,
you know you get fan fatigue, and I think I
got fan fatigue because of trying to wild Kentucky football
to doing something positive, getting to Bowl, getting back to
bowl games, and you know, jumping on and off the bandwagon,
(09:00):
you know, expectations high and low, and waiting for basketball
to cure all the the ls of football. I'm done
with this bandwagon thing, Jack Pilgrim. But when we come here,
the first thing out of Bowl's mouth was I'm driving
the band wagon. I told you boys just to wait.
You don't get don't get upset too early, and so
(09:21):
both so Bo Robinson, Jack, but Bo Robinson has fixed
up the bandwagon and he's driving that thing in basketball.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Are you riding with them? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, And I think that's you can now see that
they've earned that right, like right right, they've They've they've
shown the vision of hey, well this is what the
twenty two million dollars looks like when you have all
twenty two million dollars on the floor, Like, that's you
you can't like. And that's why Rick Patino gave us
a talking to. Is as media members last night said,
you know, you can't judge a full product without seeing
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the full product first. You can't call these you know,
say these guys are underperforming and underwhelming and all that stuff,
uh until you see them all together on the floor.
So I think the issue that Rick is missing with that,
and I hope is not the internal messaging about uh,
you know how the criticism has been relayed to them
and and and all that is that fans weren't booing
(10:15):
and weren't losing their minds over over losing the basketball games. Yeah,
it's inexcusable and unacceptable to uh, you know, lose any
game at Kentucky because that's why we are Kentucky Basketball
and everybody else isn't. Like it's a standard, that is
the gold standard for a reason. They they booed and
and had that reaction, and we had that reaction because
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it was the energy and the effort and the fight.
What it didn't feel like they wanted it the same
way that we did. And and why why are we
carrying the same you know, caring as much in and
they're not. It was it was like, hey, we're talking
about representing Kentucky in the name on the front of
the jersey and.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
All that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Well, why does it feel like these guys aren't aren't
don't care about doing that? That was where all the
frustration came from, you know, when you lose by thirty
five points and just feels like they couldn't care less
about it. That's where those emotions came in for the
fan base. So, yes, there was a give and take
to it. Yes, fans were probably a little reactionary. I
(11:17):
was a little reactionary by saying, no, the roster construction's
bad and these pieces don't those sorts of things. Well, yeah,
you're missing two of your three best players, arguably with
Jaden Quaints and Jayle Low out of the lineup. So
there's a lot of truth to get back on the
bandwagon and believing in this team, and you know, praying
(11:37):
to the basketball guys that the injury situation stays calm
and nothing drastic happens, and you can just say keep
all these guys on the floor together. But there's a
little bit of both. And they deserved a lot of
the criticism up to get to this point, and we
deserve to eat some pro now that the full product
sure does look pretty darn.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Fun and Jack and I know the dollar a miles
all speculatory to me just from what I know of
what I've heard, But Jaden's I don't know what Jaden
Quainten's nil is. But in seventeen minutes, in thirteen seconds,
you give me ten and eight and two blocks. He
may have bought Mark Pope maybe another two years if
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they progret, if they continue to progress weekly with plus
eighteen on the floor with Quaintance and plus twenty on
the floor with as you just said, Jalen Lowe.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
So those guys could have and Quaintans man, he's just
a bully man.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
He just changed the whole outcome of the game, like
just does what he wants to do, takes the ball,
top of the key, gets the bucket, just bullying people around.
Ball comes off the rim, we putting it back in, dunk,
get it back in, not just you know, lay up heart.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So I am pretty impressed with what Jalen did. And
I know you're going to talk a little bit more
later about the expectations of them, how the minutes are
going to go. Is how did feel after That's that's
the big thing to me. How did he feel after
his first time of real game action.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
How does the injury come back?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Because you know, I told Larry and we always talk
about in the show, after the first game. In football,
you have injuries like so you just got to get
throughout the whole season, just making sure you're getting back
close to one hundred percent as possible. By the end
of the season, you'd probably be glad to be playing
at sixty percent, but everybody in the conference is playing
that way, so it's not really a huge thing. But
I feel like Jaden Quaints may have helped Big Blue
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banking and financial needs. Larry vaugh we were talking for
we went to break about the Jalen Lowe contribution thirteen points,
three assists, three rebounds in fourteen minutes. Jadan Quaints only
gave us seventeen minutes and also had ten and eight
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and two blocks. But I think the contribution those guys
had are biggerest for the say continuity, it seems like
more like for the confidence. Now, mind you, we still
have a whole lot of defensive problems. We can't stand
in front of a lot of people. But just the
confidence we play with, the grit we play with, their
pretty aggressive was pretty impressive. But I stated before we
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went to break, do you think the lineup and Jayden
Quaintan's in putting to the lineup is gonna keep the
fan base happy, keep Mark Pope in a positive light?
Or is this too early to decide after one appearance
against the top twenty five team in Saint John's that
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you still need to see more or is this what
you expected to see when all the pieces came together,
which aren't all the way together yet. Because I'm expecting
twenty at least twenty five minutes out of low and
Quainton's both, that might be the easiest question.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Do you ever asked me, I'd be like, the son's
going to come up. If you think it's going to
excite the u GET fan base, I mean, that's the
ultimate softball right there. Yeah, I think they're excited. I
think they're excited a lot. It's amazing the difference from
two weeks ago till till now when two weeks, so
you knew the guys were hurt. Now they're playing and
it's like everything is different. I mean, I think Quainton
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is just verified what everybody thought about him. And I
think Low with what he did the second half. I mean,
and you probably you know better than Jack and I
on this. I mean the only worry with Low. I
mean it looked like he's what reached out and the
shoulder that has popped out in the first half, and
I guess they went back and nailed it back in
place and put him back in there. I mean, he's
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got to be a tough dude to keep playing through that.
You just wonder how long can Kenny hold up and
what's he going to be able to do. But when
he's out there, there's no doubt what difference he makes
in that team. And it was pretty sweet to see
him at that three point shot at the end like that.
Because he also gets to where he can make a
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few of those, it's just gonna be unbelievable. But I
also don't forget how well Cam Williams played the second half.
Yeah two. I mean, between Low, Quaintance and Williams, they
didn't have a point the first half and finished what
with thirty five forty four or something or forty whatever
it was, Jacket, it was amazing. Why they just those
three just lit it up the second half?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Jack about Cam Williams, Well, yeah, I mean what he said,
he just felt it was amazing. I was gonna ask
you more again about lineups because now I'm a a
little bit more intrigued a by lineups. But yeah, were
you surprised with Cam Williams performance? And is he gonna
be fighting for minutes? So is that gonna show the
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lineup you expected to see us? Our key lineup?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Man?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I think Cam has already proven that he needs to
be on the floor in all the other ways he defends,
he gets rebounds, he's you know, long and athletic. If
he kind of just gives you a different look that
not many people elsewhere on the roster are giving you.
So I've loved everything about Cam outside of the fact
that he just couldn't hit a darn shot. Like it
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was just frustrating to bring in a guy who shot
forty one percent of TWU lane a year ago from
three and it was kind of knowing what was brought
in to be kind of the knockdown shooter, you know,
system shooter for Pope, kind of the Kobe brea Ish replacement,
and he just hasn't been able to hit a shot,
so to be able to still do all the other
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things that makes them so valuable and then finally get
some shots to fall, I was like, all right, baby, yeah,
this is the vision. This is exactly what we kind
of thought we were getting with Cambo. It was tremendous.
I really you know, he got a standing ovation on
his way out when he checked out there at the
end of the game. I loved what I saw of him.
I think there is something to be said about that
four or five uh kind of the look that we
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were getting with cam at the four and Jaden Quainton's
there at the five. I think that's a super super
super interesting front court lineup and giving you some versatility
and shot making and you know, switchability and all that
fun stuff with the four and five. So yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
All in on.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Williams is a high minute, high usage guy.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I'm with you when we come back. Actually we're going
to talk a little volleyball. But once we talk a
little volleyball, I do want to get back to this
because now it is interesting some of the things we
saw how we started this season off, given injuries, all
all that included. But now does Morano still get minutes
and as you said, does Cam get in you death? Absolutely,
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I mean you're gonna plug Quaintance and you're gonna plug
Low back in. But it is interesting to find out
how we're gonna move forward. And this is like Jack said,
when we had the season on the season started, the
expectations before all the injuries and things were kind of
where we are now is too may still be too
early to decide, But as Rick said, I mean without
all the pieces, how can you even make a judgment.
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When we come back, we will talk a little UK
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and as keeping in I can't keeping in tune with
the show, Chris Shows joins us another week. We made
an appointment last week because Larry Vaught and I as
well as Jack, but he wasn't on Aaron new that
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our Kentucky women's volleyball team would be playing in the championship.
So good to see, good to hear from me this morning, Chris.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Good to have you guys.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Thank you for talking with me.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
We were talking to what is the vibe like down there?
What's the vibe like down there? On game day for
the for the Natty?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
There's nothing going on around here. It's been pretty quiet
at all, you know, I know there's a lot of you.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Know, just no just kidding.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Obviously, there's a lot of clibing for today. I think
this team has been building forward to, you know, play
in this game all season. They've had their site set
on being one of two teams that season is still
going today. And you know, that was kind of one
of the messages last night where there were only two
teams that were having team meetings last night and we're
lucky to be one of them. And you know, this
team has played with unbelievable fire and passion and grit
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and competitiveness all season long, and there's only one more
opportunity to do that, and it's this afternoon for the
biggest prize that our sport has to offer. So there's
a lot of excitement. I'm sure there's a lot of
nerves as well. I have some. I'm sure the players
and coaches do as well. That means that you care.
But this team has done a really good job of
channeling their nerves and Big Matt all year and coming
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up with big points and big moments. So it should
be a fantastic match.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And Chris, I know you evolved in the scheduling and
setting up of some of setting up somebody, do you
guys look back at this season and just wring your
hands and says job well done. If once everything concludes,
and it concludes like you guys expect, because I mean,
you had to set back against the number one team
in the country, had to set back against Pittsburgh. But
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you guys have played the schedule where Larry Vaught and
I were talking, this is just basically another game, another match.
You guys have set your scheduled up, everything has been
set up. There probably is not a tougher schedule in
the conference. Do you guys look at that and say
this is why we did that, And at the end
of the day, no matter what happens today, you know say,
job well done, this is where we want to be
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because of the way we planned our year.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Well, I think you can say that, But you know,
the reason that you schedule the way that we schedule
is score two reasons. Number one, it prepares you for
conference play so that when you get into conference play
you can have a better season. And I think what
we saw this year was that preparation that we put
ourselves through was needed in the SEC, and it really
just got reaffirmed by the fact that we had two
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teams in the final four, two teams in the championship match.
Texas was the number one seed in their region. So
you know, the SEC required a certain level of preparation
that has not required in years past. So that's number one.
But the other reason that you schedule the way that
we did is you try to prepare yourself for all
different types of teams, all different types of situations, all
different types of atmospheres, travel, game times, things that could
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be out of your control when you come to the
NCAA tournament. And now having kind of gone through this
experience with the team. You think that if okay, we
got here on Tuesday, the practice days, Wednesday, you play Thursday,
you get Friday and Saturday off, and I have to
play Sunday. I will tell you as someone who has
you know, obviously I was a part of the team
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that won a national championship in the Bubble in twenty twenty.
But that is a very unique experien compared to a
normal final four, And there are so many different things
that are pulling at you for your time that are
you know, required in terms of you know, mandatory dinners
to welcome you from the Kansas City Sports Council and
the ABC All American banquet, and meetings with the NCAA
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social media folks and then people with the SEC, and
then you have ESPN obligations, and so you know, the
game was a really late one that we played on Thursday,
having to turn around and practice on Friday morning, and
then yesterday was a lighter walkthrough, and so there's a
lot of things that happen in a final four that
you think you have all this time, but you don't.
So what our non conference schedule does is allows us
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to be able to put the players in these positions
where they might be uncomfortable, but when we get to
them now, they have a better understanding of the barometer
that it takes to manage themselves through these situations.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Chris, I'm just curious, what did you all kind of
do yesterday? Because you've got a group that gets along
so well that kind of like they have fun with
each other. Now, what did you do yesterday other than
the walkthrough? And then again, just kind of tell folks
because you've been you've been out with us and you've
talked for a month month that Hay just about how
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special this team is with all the intangibles. Just kind
of go over some of those things again with folks too.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Yeah, yesterday it was a pretty light day. It was
definitely by far the lightest day that we've had here
in Kansas City. That is by design with the NT
Doblake Committee to try to give the teams the chance
to kind of decompress. But the players had breakfast in
the morning and then they kind of had all morning
to talk to their families and be with their friends
that are in town. A lot of them have people
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that are here in Kansas City with them and they
haven't had a lot of time to spend with them,
so they basically got the whole morning to be with themselves.
They then sat down and reviewed some of the film
from the Wisconsin match, and then we looked forward to
the Texas A and M match and just kind of
rewent over what their hitters are, their tendencies, you know,
how we think we can some of their weaknesses. We
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talked a little bit about the match in College Station
that was back in October. So we went to the arena,
we did a light practice session. We got ninety minutes,
but we only ended up using about seventy minutes or
so on the court, just you know, trying to get
the bodies moving, get them acclimated to some rotations that
we want to exploit with the aggis. And then after
that was over, came back and our wonderful support staff
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that is on the trip decorated the room and Christmas team.
So they had a team meeting that they thought was
going to be, you know, a serious one and then
ended up being you know, they got a few gifts
from a couple of sponsors and partners that we have
at UK and they were able to kind of let
loose a little bit. We had a team dinner, canter
back to the hotel, and then they were off the bed.
So it was a light day yesterday by far the
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lightest that we had of the trip. And I think
it was much need for one to kind of hit
the reset button to focus on today.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
And Chris does I know when we played the outback bow.
Larry Vault likes to tell stories about that, but you know,
just those being different venues and you know, like I said,
you got so many things you have to do. You
have to do media, you gotta you know, entertainment, you
gotta practice, you got to prepare, But at the end
of the day, you're there to win a game. Are
the girls pretty much staying relaxed and that to you know,
people say it all the time about the Super Bowl.
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The biggest thing about playing in the Super Bowl, I've
always heard is keeping your keeping your anxiety and your
UH on level, so you don't you don't peak too early.
So are they doing a good job of, you know,
just having fun, relaxing, relish in the moment or uh
Is that something that you guys are kind of putting
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things together for.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Yeah, I think we've done a really good job of
that all year and I don't think that this trip
is any different. You know, I passed even this morning
downstairs going to breakfast, and she seems like she was
in a great spot, and Molly tells you I passed
as well. I think this team is incredibly confident, not
necessarily in the fact that oh my god, we're gonna win.
This isn't gonna be close, but I think this team
is confident that they've been put in the situation that
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they understand what is going to be required of them
today to win this match on this stage, in this arena,
And I just think that they have a very good
understanding of what is going to be asked of them,
and they are ready for it. They're ready for it
from a physical standpoint, They're ready for it from a
mental standpoint. I think they're ready from an emotional standpoint.
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It's just a matter of going out and executing against
the team that is playing as high level volleyball as
we've seen across the country this year. And I think
it's it's actually really cool that it's a team that
we've already played, because I think it's a team that
obviously is better than when we played them when they
were you know, matched up in October. But it's also
a team that you know, we know the hitters, and
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we know the tendencies, and we know their coaching staff
and we have relationships with those people. So there's a
really high level of mutual respect there that is required
to win a game like this.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And yeah, let me it real quick, Anthony up. You've
talked about the friends and family aspect, and you know,
so many people getting to be around their loved ones
out there in Kansas City. It is obviously a unique
one for Brooklyn, you know, being being kind of local
around there. There was a report yesterday that she's been
playing for porn meniscus her parents told to a local
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TV station out there, just a how special is this
event for her to be able to do this on
this stage and you know, be able to have those
friends and family in front of her, but also just
the toughness for her to to kind of gut this
out and still be able to perform it at the
level that she is.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Yeah, Brooklyn's a warrior. I mean she really is. I
think she's everything you'd want in a Kentucky Wildcat. I
think everything that you know mister Barnhard and doctor Capeludo
talk about and Craig talked about about, you know what
identifies somebody as a Kentucky Wildcat. Brooklyn embodies that. She's
an unbelievable teammate. She's a great person. She is a
three point seven GPA. Obviously, she's one of the top
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five players in the country. If you would ask anybody
that is unbiased and looks at the numbers and looks
the production that they provide for their team. You know,
my whole thing with Brooklyn is watched her after a match,
regardless of the result.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The way that she.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Comes back and signs things for all the kids in
our arena and talks to all the families that want
to have a word with her, and she's always putting
herself stuck in. I mean, there's just not enough good
things I can say about Brooklyn Delay. And it's not
like necessarily that that has all of a sudden become
something this year. I mean She's been that way since
she steps foot in Lexington. She's somebody who is team first.
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She wants to win, she wants to compete. I think
she enjoys competing, which is required of special athletes. And
you know, I think that doing it in Kansas City,
a place that she knows very well. And I don't
know if she's played in this particular arena before, but
I know that she's played hundreds of matches in the
Kansas City Convention Center just down the road and club.
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I think that it means a lot to her. I
don't think that she's getting caught up in the moment
of oh my gosh, this is Kansas City, I have
to play well, it's all my friends. But I think
that she's a appreciating the moment and the opportunity that
she's been given to win our sports biggest prize in
a city that you know means so much to her
and her family.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And Chris my last question, I don't And Larry said,
there's not thinking about more. I say it, I should
know better as a player, not trying to put the
not trying.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
To put the buggy before the before the horse.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Are there any things to look forward to say everything
goes away we want or UH would expect? Is there
any are there things planned in Lexington if things do
go our way? Or do you guys stay there and
UH overnight and just enjoy the moment, or are you
guys coming back immediately after that.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
We're not yeah, we are not staying the night. We
after the match, we will come back to the hotel
and wrap everything up and packed up and then head
to the airport. Obviously, you know, when you're in the
institab a tournament, you don't really get to control your travel.
That's more controlled by a travel company that the instably hires.
But our plane is going to be in Kansas City
at ten o'clock Central time to pick us up tonight,
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so we'll have some time to come back to the
hotel and decompress a little bit and reflect on what
an amazing season it was, and hopefully just to celebrating.
We expect to land in Lexington Write about one o'clock
Eastern time in the morning, and should things go our way,
we'll have some communication about some other fun things that
may or may have just not got out of a
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meeting for So, I don't know if that answers your
question directly, I don't want to get.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
We will communicate what we need as we need to
communicate it once once some cool things happened this.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Afternoon, Larry, what do you have anything else now?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
This?
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Good luck to you. Chris keep our buddies, Resuit and
Trinity out of control with day, Okay, if.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
We're going to try it, I just I hope everybody
takes the most sorry and me a little monch here,
I hope everybody just takes a moment to appreciate this
team for what it is and the people that they are.
It's been just an incredible season. They are an incredible
group of people. I know, Larry, you've had the chance
to come to a lot of the games and watch
how they play. And Texas A and M is an
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incredible team and they're going to pose a lot of
really challenging problems for us today, and they're playing it
maybe the highest level of any team in the country.
But I just hope people kind of take a step
to appreciate what Craig has done with this particular team,
the way it's been constructed, because I think that it
has a chance to go down as a team that
really defines what Kentucky Athletics is all about. So I
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just hope that while you're watching and cheering and losing
your mind over stuff today, I hope people take a
moment to appreciate what this is all about.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Well, Chris We appreciate you joined us this morning and
we wish you all the best. And either way, we
do appreciate the excitement you alls have brought us this season.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You got it, guys, We'll talk soon.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
We'll talk to you lady. We will continue the show
after this.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You are listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning sports Stalk
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Speaker 4 (33:00):
The home of the Wildcats. Six thirty w l a P.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday, when the sports Stalk from
Anthony White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vault. A
good uh good interview with Chris shows one am is
the key time, Larry Vault, so take a nap after well.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I don't know. I don't want you off that late.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Jack Pilgrim and I may be able to come greet
the young ladies, or maybe me and vote be able
to free hisself up by that time.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
I'll be I'll be fine. And I got to stay
up late in any way working on a project, so I'll
be around. If you want to go out to the
airport and greet the volleyball team coming back, I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
I think I want to go. All right, let's do it.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Let's make a Blaine for it.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
We're gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Uh, Larry Vaught, I did want to before we get
to the phone lines. I did want to ask you
about the volleyball Player of the Year. Babcock won it
for the second year.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Do you think that has.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Anything to do with Hudson and Delay being on the
same team maybe?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Or is she just that good?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Don't I don't have enough u film toll.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
She is really good, and I think anytime you're the
returning national Player of the Year and you get your
team to the final four. They did have a win
over Kentucky, and her stats were pretty amazing. I mean,
you can't really argue with her selection, even though I
think all of us here in Kentucky think it should
have been Eva Hudson because we watch Eva.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
But Babcock is certainly deserving. It's not like you can
look and say, well, how in the world they vote
for her? Well, if you watch or play you can
see how they vote for her. So but but again,
I think Eva will be very happy to let Babcock
be be national champion, because Babcock can't be watching her
play today.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Do they have an MVP for the championship match? Can
there be a Player of the match?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
They should have one for the final four? Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Okay, cool, So maybe we're rooting for even come on, Even,
we got our fingers crossed, or any Kentucky Wildcat at that.
Let's get to the phone lines and see what Larry
has to say. Good championship morning, Larry. What do you
got for us?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Well, I'll touch on football a little bit. I watched Oregon.
I was gonna watch them, but I side, I don't
watch too What kind of offense they run? I was pretty
impressed at first half. Of course they kind of let
the second half. If he can bring some of that
to Kentucky, you know, and of course you got to
have the athletes say, I'm sure Oregon they got two
of everything, but I was. I was impressed with them.
Nobody they run their offense, you know. I just I
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think maybe you know, he can, like I say, if
he can recruit some of these kids from these other
schools and go to Ford and hit some stuff, you know,
he might turn this thing around. As far as back
I was.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
James Madison, Larry, you do know that, right? The other
team was James right, Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Right, but still though I think their offense. I like
the team, but to run. But anyway, as far as
far as the basketball, you know, first half, I missed
the first half. I had to go to the Fennel,
so I'm watching it right now matter of factice Uh,
but I was surprised, you know with Kentucky. Uh, I
didn't get to see Clinton's first half when he come in,
and of course Jaya wats them. I think he got
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hurt or our first place. They said he didn't play
much first half, but a team want you put them
two kids in Clinton's I just couldn't believe his lateral movie.
I said to him, watching them way he guarded that guy,
he's a beast. You take him and do uh, what's
the kid from Alabama's name? You take them two guys
on the baseline. Man, that's a load there and need
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for somebody to handle.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Uh, you know, we don't have to worry about doubling
down on us now no more. You know they you
know they're gonna have to double down on us, you know,
and it gives our guards more open shots. And it
just made such a difference for their point guard in
and quaint this man of guards. This guy he was
that morning kid for for h Saint John's that played
(36:57):
the center. I think Kentucky four and I can't pronounce
his name. He was really hurting his first fat but
I was watching in billy him up. I mean, Clayton
has got so quick for a guy his size. He
was pushing him off the box. You know that kid
is hard to move.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I agree, But anyway, you.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Know, like I said, uh uh one one.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
We have to get to a break. So I had
a dog.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I agree with a lot of things you you said.
And when we come back, we will talk a little
bit more UK basketball. We had some volleyball conversations going on,
so we kind of converted to volleyball. But I do
want to get back to basketball because now things are
Bo has the has the bandwagon rolling.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
So we got to get back on that man. We
got to load that thing up for him.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
If you'd like to join the show eight five to
nine to eight zero two two eight seven eight five
nine to eight zero cats, we will be back after this.
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