Sunday Morning Sports Talk - February 2, 2025 - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in stock Yards Bank, Sonday, one of the Sports
Talk I'm Anthony White, along with Larry Vaught and Jack
Pilgrim and an angry Bout Robinson, Well not angry, but
hurt bo Robinson, coming to you from Clark's Main Street
Market studios and beautiful, beautiful downtown le Senick, Kentucky. I
believe John Kyler Perry and the Arkansas Razorbacks have escaped

(00:28):
the city at this point and they are gone. So
if you are a little bit upset, hurt, perturbed at
yesterday's events, then you got to take it out on yourself,
or you can join us this morning for some Sunday
morning therapy. I'm not sure how much therapy we can

(00:48):
render to you this morning, as we typically do, because
I'm disappointing our fan base for booing our former head coach.
That guy has done nothing to you, then he came
here and beat you. So if you boode after the
game was different. But your booed in the beginning, and
I don't think Caliperry deserved that. And I know most
of the people who listen to this show and a

(01:09):
lot of the fan UK fan base does not probably
feel that is those darn millennials. They because the culture
and the history of UK basketball is a respectful culture.
It is a brand that is known to be reckon
with some of them. Millennials don't go back far enough
where they can appreciate what this program means in the

(01:32):
University of Kentucky and the Blue and White means. So
you just want to just if you're upset with something
or you don't like them where you think it's cute
you Bow the coach. I don't think that's fine, but
Jack Pilgrim, that is my stance on this. But the
sun did rise this morning, and I'm sure you and
Billy have had breakfast already and you're on the show.
So I'm happy for that, and I'm happy to see

(01:53):
Bow's smiling face this morning. Yeah he was rough.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
It really was just you know, the worst case scenario, Bone,
I were talking before me, and it's like, you have
these visions of what that game looks like, and you know,
one of the visions is an absolute butt kick in
you know, Arkansas stinks and you go and you know,
beat them to a pulp, and yeah, we're punching down

(02:21):
and it's like this, yeah, you know, well yeah we
we we won the break up. Congrats Kentucky like that.
That's one of the the visions in this like multi
verse of BB end them.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Uh you know.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Then there's the like the squeaky tight win where it's
back and forth the entire time, but the talent wins
out at the end of the day with Kentucky being
it's a little bit better and it's like, oh, well,
at least, you know, at least things went okay for
for Cow didn't embarrass them, you know, they they put
up a good fight and you know, glad the good
guys won. And then there's the reality that we're living

(02:55):
in and that's where uh he comes in and knocks
are teeth in and it leads to an absolute riot
from the fan base that all the told just sell
people are coming out of the woodwork and saying, you
know what, you guys ran him out of the you know,
ran him out of the building, and now he's coming
in and you know, trying to kill us. So it sucked.

(03:17):
It was an all time environment. The crowd is incredible,
the build up was awesome. It's just the game itself
stunk out loud, Anthony.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
We are talking about Kentucky versus Arkansas men's basketball game
last night. Arkansas beat US eighty nine to seventy nine.
When John Caliperry returned to the University of Kentucky for
the first time after taking a job at Arkansas, he
was not fired. He left because whatever portion of the

(03:48):
fan base felt like it was time for a change
and going forward. That's what most of the show was
going to be about. Talk about the game and going forward.
It's probably the best thing this game right here. You're
gonna soak for a minute, but Mark Pope is gonna
do great things here. We dropped the ball yesterday. There
are some injuries I really can't explain, and I'm gonna

(04:10):
have Jack Pilgrim explain some of the lineups that we
had playing for extensive minutes when we just beat Tennessee,
when we can't throw that out the door. We did
beat Tennessee, played a heck of a game against Tennessee,
and I thought we had a historic game against Tennessee
where we're not going to see the way we played
against Tennessee regularly. And then we came home on one

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of the biggest nights everybody had this game circled at
the beginning of the year of the Circle. Everybody circled it,
and we kind of, I don't know, I think we
dropped the ball. Maybe we exhausted all of our resources
against Tennessee to get that win. But Larry vaught ten
point lost at home to a team that we were

(04:53):
nine at some points ten nine to ten point favorites
over But Cali Perry, did they come home and they
did boo? Where were you at on the spectrum? Did
you enjoy the game? Do you feel bad that they boo?
And how are you just overall doing.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
What?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
No?

Speaker 6 (05:10):
I wouldn't say I enjoyed the game. When a trio
of former UK players outscored the whole current Kentucky team
in the second half, that was kind of hard to
enjoy if you're discovering Kentucky basketball, because the best coach
in the building last night was sitting on the visiting in.
I mean, he out coached Mark Pope. The first half.

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Kentucky give Arkansas an unusual number of open looks from three,
which part of I could understand earlier because they haven't
hit those shots. But when they were hitting them, you've
got to change some things around.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
They didn't.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
The second half. Arkansas didn't need to shoot threes because
John caliper knew they couldn't defend him go in the basket,
So Wagner and thero just went to the basket at
wheel and the really either nothing. Pope could do nothing
he chose to do. I don't know, because it was
just one time after another and it was the same thing.
Did they hit some tough shots, yes, but they got
into the paint anytime that they wanted. And the booing

(06:08):
didn't bother me because in all my years of covering
Kentucky basketball, I can't remember very many opposing coaches that
have ever got any applause. I took the booing just more.
That's that's Kentucky fans booing the Arkansas coach, whether it
had been Eric Musselman, whether it had been John Caliperry.
I mean, I don't think they're going to give Bruce
Pearl a standing ovation when he comes in in a

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couple of weeks. I don't think go to give Rick
Barnes an ovation when he comes in. That's just kind
of typical. So I don't think it bothered I mean
I even watched an interview that before the game that
John cali Perry did with Jimmy Dykes. He said, I'm
coming here to win. Well, when the coach on another
bench said coming there to win, I don't think it
mattered who it was. So to me, that didn't bother

(06:50):
me because that's just kind of how typical how it
goes when an opposing coach comes into the arena. I mean,
John cali Perry was booed in a lot of arenas
when he was the coach of Kentucky, and I think
that's just part of it. So I didn't let that
really impact what I was thinking one way or the other.
I think John knew it was coming. I think most
people knew it was coming, just because that's how you

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do in sports with the opposing coach. So I didn't
take any big deal out of that. To me, if
you're a Kentucky fan today, it's a lot more worrisome
about what lies ahead for this team. And I know
Mark Pope was talked after the game about great things
are still lying ahead. But when you have the kind
of defense that Kentucky has, because they turned an Arkansas
team that struggles to get into the sixties and gave

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them what was it, nine and fifty nine. I mean,
I mean, you got guys that had trouble consistently scoring
when they were at Kentucky, and they combined for what
forty seven points or fifty six points or whatever it
was last night? They just scored it will last night.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And he is talking about a duke the Arrow had
twenty one points, zanimir I Viisich had fourteen, and DJ
Wagner had seventeen. DJ Wagner seven or thirteen shooting ifvisag
five of eight shooting, and there he changed his name.
That's the crazy thing. Well not the crazy thing, because

(08:13):
I respect people's names and whatever their brand is. But
here he was a dude Thero. Now he's a dude
theor So Thero had was five or ten shooting for
twenty one points. So that is what Larry Vaut. Before
we get back to Jack Pilgrim, I did want to
ask you said, any coach that come that's not any

(08:34):
coach that's your former coach. So if you had a
former player to come back, and you're saying ay boo
because it was Arkansas, I kind of I kind of
agree with that. And this kind of I want to
talk about this a little bit later in the show,
on what Cal meant to University of Kentucky the way
he left, I think people think differently. He did us

(08:55):
a favor. He could have left us in the hole.
He could have left us in the deficit up until
this point. Also, I felt like he could have had
this team, the team that was one and six in
the conference. He could have had that team at the
University of Kentucky instead of us being four and three.
We could have been one and six in the conference
with that same team, or we could be now at
this point, what a four and four in the conference

(09:17):
because that team beat us. So I do want to
ask you again, Larry Vault. You said you expected some
booze and you don't have a problem with it. So
let me ask you this. Were you booing or cheering
inside of your I know you wouldn't do it outwardly,
just because you're more respectful than that. But were you
booing or cheering when he came back? Were you.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
I really wasn't doing either. I mean John I got
along well or okay with him when he was coaching
at Kentucky. I appreciated what he did. I mean early
in his tenure he was a godsend, and people just
I think sometimes forget how good things were when he
first got here. At the end things were not very good.

(10:00):
Was probably the best that he did what he did.
But yeah, I didn't really have any strong emotions one
way that I usually just figure that's something that's up
to each person to do what they do. But like say,
over fifty years of covering Kentucky basketball, I mean, I
guess there's been a few coaches that have come in
that have got I mean, I know when Tubby came
in with high Point, he got cheered, but you really

(10:22):
worried about high Point winning that game or anything like that.
Other than that, I really just don't remember many coaches
not being booed when they came into when they played
him Atmorial Colosseum, or certainly after they got into.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Rupp Arena and Jack, we saw a lot of Colin Chandler,
and I'm more I watch him figuring he's a little
bit athletically handicap where there's certain things he can do.
But did you not find interest or concern in the
lineup that we beat Tennessee with noid didn't get no,

(10:57):
didn't get any minutes, but he had a like I said,
we had Chandler playing extended minutes car with his injury.
He did some good things, I guess, I mean knocked
down a shot. But other than that, like as Larry said,
they were getting to their spots, they were getting to
the lane, they were getting into the paint as much
as they wanted to, and we played a different line

(11:20):
Was there something that lead us to play a different
lineup than we played That beat a good Tennessee team
and we were in the dog fight with them, but
we actually did, you know, come out on the other
side this time. We kind of struggled in the second
mostly in the second half, we struggled a lot and
kept playing the lineup that none of us had seen.
I know we've had injuries, but we haven't seen that lineup.

(11:43):
And the lineup wasn't doing anything. And I know Mark
Pope is a better coach and that then if there
was a period of time we just went io with
Maury Williams. Don't you've all You've told me he's sick.
He's seven foot something two hundred and sixty pounds, which
is a big human being, but that is not we wanted.
We also want to take twenty five to three pointers

(12:03):
a game, and so there were there were just some
uncharacteristic things of Mark Pope that went on in that game.
Maybe he out coached himself. Maybe whatever the case may be.
I don't know if I agree with Larry that the
other the best coach was was wearing red yesterday. But
there were some one characteristic things going on. Jack Pilgrim,
can you give me some explanation.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
I think that Mark Pope was out coaching yesterday. I
agree with Larry. I think that in a moment where
Big Blue Nation wanted this game more than any other. Like,
I think if you were to give that, you know,
ask them for an honest assessment of like, Okay, here's
the schedule, made the top three to five wins that

(12:45):
you are you would consider must haves for Mark Pope
to consider this year's success. Yeah, the Dukelin is important. Yeah,
Like he has nailed every single kind of musk that
the big statement opportunities that he has had in front
of him all season long, he's nailed and this but
this was the one that mattered just a little bit

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more than the rest. So when you're talking about the
lineups and you're talking about the rotations, and you know,
you listen to them talk after the game, and there
were just so many would it could have shout us.
They were, Yeah, you know, we probably need to get
the lineups right. We got to get the you know,
I thought the guards got a little, you know, a
little tired. At one point we had three guards in

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that were all a little tired. And it's like John L.
Davis played thirty eight minutes, Pope, Like they have seven
eight scholarship players, Like I got it. I can't keep
hearing the complaints about the fatigue and my guys are
just a little worn down. This is SEC basketball, dude.
Like every team is banged up. Every team, a team

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that just kicked your butt, was without its starting point
guard too. Boogie Flan's been out for a couple of
games and is out for the year with a broken thumb. Like,
I don't want to hear that. I just I just
thought there were a lot of missed opportunities with you know,
after the game, Hey, what why Trentoah has been such
a you know, and I'm not saying Trentoah would have
won or lost the game for Kentucky. But I'm just

(14:11):
saying when when a reporter says, hey, you ride the
way with Trent Noah, he the last couple of games,
he has his best game as a Wildcat down in
Knoxville four days ago, and you know, clearly find something there.
And then now he's a coach's decision DNP And the
answer is, yeah, I gotta find ways to get him

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into the game. It's like we just heard this, that
same spill with Cal last year. The reason why we
got pissed with Cal was those types of answers. Well,
it's like, well, why would you Why didn't you do
it during the game? Why are we waiting until now
to go?

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, you probably probably right, should should have probably done that.
It's like, this was a game that DBN wanted more
than just about ever any any other And the guy
that has understood the assignment from the minute that he
arrived on campus and and said has said every right
thing along the way and checked every PR box along
the way. Either this was the first game that he

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just did not understand the assignment. What BBN needed.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
That is Jack Pilgrim. We will continue this conversation if
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over Stockyards Bank. All right, Manthony White along with Larry
Vault and Jack Pilgero licking our wounds after eighty nine
seventy nine lost to John Caliperry, not the Razorbacks. John
Caliperi's who we lost to. And the Twitter machine is
going off. Big Ass Fans Hotline is going off, everybody's
going off, Bow's going off. Jack and Larry both felt

(16:16):
like we were out coach. We probably were. I can't
really argue with that, but I do think we have
the better coach. At the end of the day, I
think they were playing more inspired yesterday because some guys
returned home and had games. DJ Wagner learn how to shoot,
and he made quite a few shots which led to
us losing by ten points at home when we were

(16:38):
nine points at I think at the started game we
were nine point they were nine point dogs. We were up.
We were plus nine points. But the big ass fans
hotline is lit up, and I do want to throw
this at you guys before we get to the big
ass fans hot line. K Y Tom, who the regular listener,
regular tweeter, wants to know. Larry and Jack, we're going

(16:59):
to get to the phone line, so you just let
this marinate. But they want to know. Was a victory
over Tennessee more surprising than the loss loss over Arkansas?
That is something we're gonna throw around as we get
through our calls. But let's get to the biggest fans
hotline and see what Larry has to say. Good morning, Larry,
what do you got for us?

Speaker 7 (17:17):
Well, if I was a drinking man, I'd be drunker
now I'm gonna tell you what, guys, I'm so disappointed
in Mark. I mean, and Mark, you know is just coaching.
I mean, man, I would look for ris game for
in the Tuggie fans. I'm I speak for a lot
of us. You know, this is one game I told
y'all last week, I said, is the honeymoon gonna be over?

(17:37):
We losing? Y'all said, definitely, Well, the honeymoon is over.
I can't believe that we lost this game. You know,
the our kids just didn't have the energy stuff. Of course,
I watched Arkansas lot this year and they didn't hit
in there with all these shots. They had a lot
of over shots and bullet needled them and Big Z
made us pay and Wager played a game of his

(17:58):
life and there, well, I knew we'd have trouble with
the Arrow because his drivel drive. But you know, we
all made fun of that drivel drive. We don't ensure
burn us last night did. But but you know, on
the bright side, we got the women. You know, at least,
you know, they may lose a to day, but at
least they play a good brand of basketball. But you know,
and you know, I don't know, I tell you what

(18:19):
I like, uh, Mark, but my first choice was first Pearl.
And a lot of people may disagree. But because this
guy or he's had good teams, he's lost some. But
this guy is a veteran and he knows how to
bring kids in her you know, he brings kids in
and they and he really he's just not because he's
winning right now. But I think over you look over

(18:39):
this whole career, this guy knew how to win. Of course,
of Barnhart wouldn't hire a guy because he had a
barbecue dinner and tennessee, you know stuff like that, which
is chicken feed now. But but you know, as far
as me, I'm just so disappointed Mark. And when we
lost the game away, we lost it. It's like the
second half we were down a half time was down one.

(19:00):
Well they took the game and we never I told
my wife, I said, we're not gonna win this game.
There's no way. I just we give it them sticks.
And that brought out eleven or twelve and the head
to fifteen at one time is just embarrassing. In Seth Greenberg,
I magine he's dancing on a on the stage now.
Of course he's had it with some of these tuggy fans.
I don't get in that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
But Larry, Larry, we're gonna appreciate the call because we
have to get the break. I echo a lot of
your sentiments again once again, out of echo a lot
of those centims. We're gonna continue this conversation on the
other side of this break. You were listening to Stockyards
Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on news radio six thirty WLAP.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty w LAP.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Welcome back Stockyards Banks Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I am
Anthony White, along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vat this hour,
Sunday Morning Sports Talk has brought to you by a
country boy brewing the big Ass Fans hotline that let up.
Our Twitter feed is bouncing everywhere. Are X feed is
bouncing everywhere. Guys. The questions on the table now, We're

(20:05):
going to get to the phone lines. But the questions
on the table now are bigger win or bigger surprise
to win over Tennessee or the loss to I'm not
even gonna call the loss to Arkansas. It's gonna be
the loss to John Caliperry and Larry, the last caller, asked,
where do you at this point are people questioning the
higher of Mark Pope? And if you are, I think

(20:26):
you think you're foolish. I don't think that's a good decision.
I think we do have the better coach and that
will show in March, because the coach that we just
lost to does win a lot of good games, plays
the entertaining brand of basketball. But when it comes to March,
we are all sitting here watching other teams play instead
of our teams play. And with that said, let's get

(20:46):
to the big ass fans hotline boat and let me
see what Alvin has to said. Alvin always lifts our spirits.
Alvin lift our spirits.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Hey, good morning, Das. I think that the local radio
shows really gave motivation to John Caliperry and the three
formal basketball guys that was on our roster last year.
With the boy and cheering. I think that John Caliperry
used that to fuel his team and particularly those three guys,

(21:20):
DJ Wagner, A Dude, and big Z to come in
and play above the head. In fact, DJ Wagner probably
played the best second half of last of last Night
game that he played all last year, and I just
think that that bowing and cheering, haulkin chatter and noise

(21:44):
was inspirational to John Caliperry and motivation to those guys,
and I think that that lifted his team to motivot
those guys to play. I think that Mark Pope got
tripped up and some coaching strategy. Y'all guys just talked
about it. I don't know why Noah didn't touch the floor.

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I don't know why Colin got more minutes than Noah.
I thought that the other guys, it seemed like that
once we got down. I always thought that this team,
if it got down in a game by ten or twelve,
they had enough three point guys, enough hustle guys, enough
energy guys like always to get us back in a

(22:27):
game and help us to win that game. Different from
what John Caliperry was done in previous years with his
team being down by ten. But it just didn't happen
that John kind of Perry towed his signature gibil drive
with DJ Wagner and Thierro in particular, and that was
the difference of the game. The difference other game was

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DJ's and talk radio guys in this region gave inspirational motivation.
John caliper and the three guys and the fact that
he employed and our coach Mark Pope yesterday. And my
question answer this is who is one of the most
unappreciated coaches as ever coached? Rich Books with UK basketball,

(23:12):
Josh colib Pry with football, Rich Books with football, John
Caliperry with basketball, Seemy Tuby Smith is love is a
beloved coach by this fan base. She didn't get booed
when he came. What happened one. I think that John
Caliperry is a lightning rock for criticism because of his personality.

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So that's my take on it.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Thank you for the call, Alvin, appreciate it as always,
Jack Pilgrim, he did it. I don't know why. I'm
on the other side of the fence with a lot
of the fan base and you are. It's typically me
and somebody else against others, either me and Larry against you,
or me and you against Larry. You and Larry are
on one side of the fence. I'm on the other
side of the fence. But Alvin did say he thought

(23:57):
that the do you do you blame the outcome on
the booing do you think they played a little extra
harder because of booing or John Calli Perry decided to
learn how to coach because of the booing. Do you
think the booing had any impact on the outcome? Jack
Zero and I.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Understand from an outsider's respective and all the just that
we got to at some point address all the former
UK players that are running their mouths on Twitter and
Reed's shirt and all that, Like that's obviously a talking
point for another segment. But I if you were there
in the building, you felt in real time that Kyle

(24:41):
was getting boothed like it had nothing to do with, oh,
you know, we hate this guy, you know he's a
trader's It was just a feeling of this is an
opposing coach coming into the building, but it's an important
coach coming into the building. We're booing like. It didn't
feel like it was a it was an anger directed

(25:01):
toward cal. It felt like a spirit of the competition.
Boot I felt no animosity in the the emotions of
the games, and like bo being there would would kind
of assume would feel kind of the same way. I
just didn't get that vibe, but I did get the
vibe that Cow's guys, his players knew how big this

(25:24):
game was for the coach, that this was one that
after you know, a one and six start, after they've
been you know, abysmal for a lot of the years
against the games that mattered, and you know, just not
living up to the expectations that they kind of put
on themselves as an Arkansas program, that they wanted this
one for their coach. It felt like, you know, DJ

(25:46):
was willing those shots in the basket, the Z was
playing free and loose and just try and do whatever
took to win that game for his guy, A do THEO,
same things go down the list. It just felt like
it was, you know, their guys wanting it more for
their coach. Then I think that you know, even Kentucky's
guys wanted it from Mark Pope. I think them being

(26:06):
almost disconnected from the rivalry part in the storyline of
the coach Cal versus Kentucky storyline, there's a beauty you know,
kind of just being removed from the situation and saying, hey,
that's not that's not our rivalry, that's not my battle
between Cal and the fan base, Cal and you know Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
That's Jackson Robinson and you know, Andley almonor guys that
just didn't have a you know, a part to play
in this that you just kind of you can kind
of tell that one side just saw it as another game,
which is in some games that's good, but in this one,
it just felt like the guys in Red wanted it

(26:49):
a little bit more. And I think the realization of
like you know, letting BBN down, letting the program down
after the game kind of hit it. Talking to players afterward,
they work, they were down and remorseful, and Pope at
the podium you can kind of tell was really just
not himself and struggling to accept the loss, and just
you know, I think on Kentucky side of felt like

(27:10):
a misopportunity where the want to just wasn't there the
way that Arkansas wasn't. You just have to tip your
captain Arkansas. They were better prepared, they were well coached.
In my opinion, I thought that the scout was excellent,
the game plan was excellent, and they flat out beat
Kentucky and they deserve credit for that.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
This good point. Larry Vaught Alvin also asked most underappreciated
coach before we get back to the big ass fans hotline.
Hold on, Gary, we will be with you in the second.
Uh the most underappreciated coach. He named Brooks, he named
Caliperry named Tubby. I'm gonna say for me, I'm thinking

(27:51):
maybe either Tubby or uh Rick, Tubby R Rick. I'm
gonna say Tubby. I want to say Rick, but I
think Tubby may be a little bit more underappreciated. But
I think he gets more love shown than Rick does.
But I think Rick came off of some bad times
turning the progress. So I really want to say Rick,

(28:13):
but I can't deny Tubby. And you may think it's
Brooks most unappreciated coaching. You may go with another coach
in the history of UK sports, Larry what.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
I'm going to go with Joe Home. I know it
goes back aways, and I know that Joe was beloved
in these later years. That's what most younger people would remember.
But he got brutalized a lot when he was coaching, executing,
and there wasn't even social media to do it. But
he got second guests about everything that he did, So

(28:42):
I think for what he accomplished, I would still rank
Joe haw as the most underappreciated coach while he was coaching.
Now at the time of his passing, No, that was
not the case. But if you just talked about the
time he was coaching, I'd go with Joe Hall.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
I will take that under I don't go back that far,
but I'm gonna take your word for it. And I
never known Joe Joe by Hall not to be loved,
So I'm gonna take your word for it. People that
are listening, if you disagree, or if you think there's
an other undappreciated coach that we didn't mention, you can
say that. Let's get back to the big ass fans

(29:19):
hotline to say what John Short has to say. Good morning,
John Short, you are a great American.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
Be ready American too? Was that a good game last night?

Speaker 2 (29:28):
It was not a Jim Dandy of a game.

Speaker 8 (29:31):
I think that's not for artists. I think we can
be anything that more repaired this side than the word.
The last time there was someone did be Arkansas.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
There was someone on Twitter who asked if we were
to play Arkansas again today after what we know from yesterday,
if we played Arkansas again today, John Short, do you
think we win that one or do you think the
outcome is the same.

Speaker 8 (29:50):
I'll believe will win it.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
I'll will win it.

Speaker 8 (29:53):
Okay, who did beat in women's basketball?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
We did. We beat them eighty nine to sixty nine
last Sunday. That was after the show. So yeah, we
did beat them eighty nine to six. The women are
rocking and roll. And we beat Alabama as well. We
beat Alabama on Thursday. Alabama would not go away, John Shore,
but we beat them sixty five to fifty six, and
we did.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
We're gonna be Oklahoma today. Whens basketball when today by
twenty five Biggins.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Twenty five biggest against number thirteen Oklahoma. Larry Void jump
in there, twenty five.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
Biggest, settle down. Let's just hope for two biggests you.

Speaker 8 (30:38):
I know it's on Agency Network, but it'll be a
great game. Winn played Oklahoma in the Whanna I says
Man Mitchell was a coach of Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Now that is true, and we beat them.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
The one good thing Kentucky has going today, John is
that Oklahoma and they're lost to Tennessee. One of their
bigs kind of got in a little bit of a
fight and one of the LSU players and was suspended
and can't play today. That could help Kentucky maybe.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Josh Short.

Speaker 8 (31:04):
Okay, so you know who coaches? Okay, I don't. Then
I ain't know who coaches the Lahoma gens, Matt, I
don't know where to coach somebody haven't heard of them.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
Probably, I don't need to write off John, but.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
John Short and you can't catch him before you can?
You said SEC networking that staft four o'clock. Uh Bo Robinson?
Are we gonna be on the l A P. You
are correct? Air time three forty five with Darren Hendrick
And where are you gonna catch it at? John Short?
And you're gonna catch them the SEC network or you're
gonna catch it on these airwaves.

Speaker 8 (31:39):
Well, here's gonna do it. We're gonna turn the sound
down and here Henrick on the radio. That's the best
way to do it.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
That is absolutely that is that is the best. That
is the best way to take in any type of
UK athletics events. Turned down the volume and listened to
w l A P.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah, I believe we are gonna.

Speaker 8 (31:59):
I believe we aregue he win Jim nastis Man talk
we won Jim Nasty Vist Friday night and then it's
coming Friday, but Oklahola and Jim.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Nast six, Larry Vaught and I were in the house.
We were we won one ninety seven point oh five,
I think to one ninety six point six, and we
Larry Vaughton, I were in the house. We did check
it out. John Short, we appreciate your call. I don't
know about them twenty five Biggins. I will tell Coach
Brooks that you thought it was gonna be twenty five Biggins.

(32:27):
That's how much support you have. Larry and I showed
you to temper your expectations even if it's one biggin.
If you could do half points, I would take a
half biggin just to beat Oklahoma women's basketball team. We
will be back after this. You're listening to Stockyards Bank
Sunday Morning Sports Talk on news radio six thirty WLP.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty w
L a P Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
I'm Anthony White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vaught.
The big Ass Fans Hotline have been lit up as
per normal. You know, things don't go the way we
wanted to go. Everybody has to everybody wants to call
in and talk about it, and this is a safe place. Guys.
Every time are running somebody in bowl. Robinson can't echo this.

(33:14):
We run this. People who listen to the show, they
love the fact that when they listen to our show,
we're not judgmental. Everybody's opinion counts, and we allow you
to have an open opinion and we're open minded. So
we're gonna keep doing that. We try to render therapy. Well,
you know what we're gonna call this?

Speaker 3 (33:26):
What are we gonna call after Kentucky loses and it's
just a complete heartbreak for us, We're gonna call this
therapy session.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Cope with Pope. I can't, I can't do anything. All right,
let's get back to the big guest fans outline. Corey
As both said, we're trying to cope with Pope. We
got We'll will make a final decision in March. But
right now I'm a little bit irritated with the loss.
But I think we still we still got a lot

(33:57):
of good ahead of us, Fellers, can you hear me, yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Okay, I just want to be I want to be
quick because I know we got a lot of calls.
Jack I hope you talk about this on social Sety
Jackson Robinson has to be more selfish. Three or four
in the first half, you finished six or nine. You
gave the ball up the guys who had cusha turnovers.
In the second half, he should have had thirty. Talk
to you guys, let it go cats.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Thank you for the call. Corey got right to the point,
Jack Pilgrim, And this has been on this show. This
has kind of been an ongoing thing. And the last
couple of games, even against Tennessee, Jackson stepped up, you know,
in the absence of Butler and some of the other
guys we didn't have. What do you say to Corey
says he has to be selfish he has Does he
have it in him? Is he that guy?

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Hey, Corey, you're speaking my language.

Speaker 7 (34:49):
Man.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
I like the punctuality. I like'll he gets in he says, hey,
he's here, here's the deal, let's you know, let's talk
about it. I love that. Yeah, I totally agree. I
think that's one of I think Jackson Robinson is an
unbelievable basketball player. I think that's probably one of his
worst qualities is that he finds his groove gets rolling

(35:12):
kind of he there's a there's a spunk about him
that when he's feeling it, he makes it very well
known that he's feeling it. And I thought there were
a couple of times that he was kind of riding
the wave and you can kind of tell that he was,
you know, ready to get after it, and then he
kind of disappears. He has this this knacks for these
disappearing acts that I really think come at in opportune times.

(35:37):
And look, I'll be honest, I did not like the
vibe that Mark Pope gave last night talking about Lama Butler.
I mean, when you start and you know, his mom
goes on Twitter says that it's just you know, it's
a bruised shoulder. He's playing through it, he's struggling with it,
and then he's you know, missing some time. And then
you know, Pope gets more and more vague as the

(35:58):
time goes on, and you know, says last night basically
like we're there's some information that we're just not willing
to let you know, like in terms of an actual
medical thing. And you know, if I had to guess,
I'll give him one last run at it before we start.
You know, being concerned, you know, worrying about the long term.
Basically like, hey, we're gonna this could be a more

(36:21):
serious thing. We're going to let him try to play
through the pain one last time and see how that goes,
and if it doesn't, then we might need to close
up shot. That was kind of the vibe. That's not
his words, but it's kind of the vibe that I
got from that conversation. If Lamant is out for an
extended period of time, ay, I think Kentucky might just
be screwed. Like, I don't know how you recover from
having your starting point guard out and your backup point

(36:42):
guard for what could be the rest of the year.
We'll see what happens with Kirkriesa. But not I mean,
no team can. That's not sustainable for any team. But
in that case, Jackson steps up his point guard one
and then he has to be the most selfish guy
on the floor. He has to be a guy that's
firing away, trying to take games over and say, hey,
this is my team. This is why I'm the high

(37:03):
dollar free agent that came in, and you know, and
the nil era as a statement piece for Marcope, this
has to be my team, and there were spurts of
that last night. I just didn't think that we got
enough of that last night, when you know, Amari Williams
had some spurts. But you know I sometimes his Jackson's
threes are worth I'll like of a lot more than
Amari's twos, even though he was he was racking up

(37:25):
a whole bunch of them.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
That's Jack Pilgrim. Let's get to the phone line really quickly. Mike.
I'm sorry to do this to you, but uh, we
have a break coming up. We're gonna see what you
have to say. Hopefully we can keep this pretty quick
and we'll talk well. Actually, no, hold on, yeah, Mike,
hold on. If you can hold on through the break
or give us a call back, we will take you
on the other side of the break because I only

(37:48):
have about fifteen seconds and I would not like to
do that to you. If you like to join the
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