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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Back, Stockyards Bank, Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I am Anthony
White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vaught coming to
you from Clark's Main Street Market Studios and beautiful Sonny
yet lightweight, snowy downtown Lexington, Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Uh BO.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Before we get back to this, appreciate you again for
staying overnight roughing it through. Did you know that you
have to I don't know if you have to shove
your own driveway. Did you know we're responsible for the
sidewalks in front of your house? Yes, I did not know.
I know that For years, I did not know if
that was illegal to leave them covered in snow.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
So now the next time it snows, I need to
come over to your house and not shovel, but just
walk on the sidewalk and then accidentally fall down.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
No, if you come to my house, you need to
bring a shovel and shovel cat junk like my neighbor did.
And I did not realize, why is this old lady
out there shoveling? And then I talked to my other
neighborhood was a former copy here was like, you know,
that's a you got it.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah, you get to keep the sidewalks clear. And I
started doing that a few days ago, chipping away the ice.
I'm gonna give you a hint. We were all about
snow removal and how to survive cold weather last week
in the snow. Let me give you a hint to Anthony.
Do you have a spud bar? What is a You
don't know what a spud bar is. And next time
you go to a good auction, you need to get
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a spud bar, big iron bar. It's got a wedge
at the bottom of it, and you take it and
you just you use it to pride, I don't know,
fence post out of the ground and things like that,
kind of use it as a leverage. I took my
spud bar and start chipping away the ice in my
driveway and that helped over the last few days, especially
yesterday with the sun coming out and had my sidewalk clear.
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I didn't do it all the way through, but just
a little bit at a time, because a spud bar
will wear you out.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'll give you a better tip at the end. I'm
gonna get at eleven forty five, I'm gonna give you
a better tip. Okay, So I'm fun your door, so
I know how to deal with this. So Jack Pilgrim,
your young self, did you know that you're responsible for
the sidewalk in front of your house?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
From your home?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I did, and uh not that it matters for me
because in the great city of Shelbyville, the uh there's
not a snow shovel within a one hundred mile radius
for for me. Unfortunately, I've looked at all of the
like it, checked every single store imaginable, never found one.
So the first snowstorm came and went last week and
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it's still sitting there that the snow is still just
you know, driving through on my driveway was waiting for
the sun to melt it because I've looked everywhere and
have not been able to get my hands on a
snow shovel. In fact, what sucks is while I'm gone,
you know, you get the ring ring doorbell notification and
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U there was a group of kids in the neighborhood
that rung rung my doorbell with all three having shovels,
clearly like the one moron in the neighborhood. It still
has a driveway, Like, hey, bro, you know you're kind
of making the rest of the neighborhood look bad. It's like, yeah, dude,
I've been out of town. Have been beautiful Starkville for
the last three days. I mean, I got my priorities, obviously,
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so that that was a really tough, tough site, you know.
Obviously I was thinking about like paging through the ring doorbell,
like talking like yes, please, please please kids shovel my driveway.
I didn't know how I was how I would pay
pay them from afar. So I don't know what. I
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don't know what I'm gonna do. I guess I'm just
gonna have to find a snow shove on my way
back from Starkville and my work cut out for me
when I get back home tonight. I'm hoping that the
temperature is just a little bit warmer up there and
it's melted by the time I get home. But I
think that's just just.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Wishing it's going to be a few days before all
this melts. Because there is a sheet of ice underneath
the snow that came in on Friday, that is true.
So I walked to my backyard and it was just
everything was crunching with the ice blow the couple image
inches of snow we got on Friday, and Anthony, I
do not want you to think that I'm a jerk
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when it comes to snow removal, because I shoveled my
neighbor's driveway and sidewalks out yesterday too.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Now, well, if you when you get off today, since
you're not gonna be snowed in, I still got the
other side of my uh sidewalk in these shovelings, So
come on over bring you.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Would you call it spuzz mackenzie? What did you call it?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Spuds Mackenzie, I've got a spud bar. I've used my
leaf blower to blow off the snow at the top
of the ice. I ordered something a couple of weeks
ago it should be in this week to help a
snow removal too. And I've got a couple of shovels.
How much you're paying me?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Larry Vaught?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Uh, let's get Larry before we get back to the
ninety five ninety wind down in Starkville. Larry Vaught, please
tell me I'm not the only person who didn't know
that you were responsible for Because Twinsburg Heights we didn't
have sidewalks growing up. We had ditches, So please tell
me I'm not a telling person.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I can't tell you that, Anthony. I mean, I've been
shoveling my sidewalks for well fifty years I've lived there
and growing up. Anytime it's snow. When I was eight, nine,
ten years old, that's what I went out and went
around the neighborhood, making money shoveling snow and with mostly
to the same people that I was delivering papers to,
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and made a very nice little amount of money every
time that it did snow.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Sheesh.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
All right, well, hey, I don't mind. I don't mind
putting my ignorance on display. That's fine because if I'm
not the only person who people who listened to the show,
you get everything you find out about nature. There's one
point we talked about guarding. We always talk about something
different on here, but we're gonna get back to talking
about the ninety five ninety wind.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Jack Pilgrim.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yesterday was you're the one who said we got do
we still want in Starkville as Mississippi State.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That good.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You're one who said we have to steal a couple
on a row. We may have stolen, we didn't steal
want in Georgia and that Athens. But was yesterday one
that we stole? Or was yesterday one you had on
your slate that we should we should kindt of as
win already, like.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
The Hamburglar Anthony would just went went down to Starville
and ripped it from them. Just being here, seeing the
fan base, you know, people camping out since midnight, and
just it had that feeling that like they were going
to get the weight of this stupid streak off their shoulders,
like they were they were so certain that this was
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going to be the year that that eighteen eighteen game
regular season streak was going to ask Like they were
so confident. It just I mean, the vibe of the
game just felt like, you know, when you're up fourteen
and the momentum slips and they storm back and retake
the lead, it's like, yep, it's you know, it's just
their time. You just got to kind of sometimes tip
your cap and say, what are you gonna do? You know,
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it's it's the street can't last forever. It makes sense
that now is the time for it to and you know,
just can't can't get that monkey off of Mark Pope's
back with the you know, on the SEC true road
road winds, so it just kind of felt like we
were trending that direction and you lose a little bit
of you know, you build up a pretty solid cushion
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in the SEC where the margins are just so thin
in this league because of how strong it is that
you just kind of have to take the winds as
they come and ride the waves. So you beat Florida,
build up a nice little cushion, you kind of lose
a lot of that and kind of get back to
square one by losing in the way they did down
at Georgia, So you kind of needed to build back
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that cushion and get back in the good graces of
the league. If you truly want to separate, you know,
if you just want to be average and whatever, you'll
just you can trade off win loss, win loss, win
loss all conference, go into postseason with a nine to
nine record and say, have a nice day. But if
you truly want to be among the best of the
best in the league and finished with a you know,
eleven and five, twelve and six something like that in
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the eleven and seven, twelve and six, thirteen and five
something like that in the league, then you need to
you know, steal a couple like this. So for them
to do it in this moment and this environment when
it kind of felt like everything was pulling against them,
it was a really really impressive thing for me.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
This team really reminds me of that ninety eight team,
like they were gonna find a way to win, and
you know, and it's funny because Lamon Butler kind of
reminds you of Oh my god, I can't remember the
point guard in the ninety eighteen Wayne Turner. That guy
can get down hill, can get to get a buget.
I don't want us trying to shoot us out of
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a game. I don't want him trying to win a
game with his shooting. But man, he's gonna control the tempo.
The guy controls the ball, You're not gonna take the
ball from him. It reminds me that ninety eight, we're
gonna find a way. Yes, last two weeks, two games ago, uh, everybody,
Kobe Bred was a guy. Man, he shot lights out,
and we got Amanor showing up. We got different guys
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showing up to you know, to win. That car has
a terrible game but comes up late in the game
to give us an edge. He gave us an edge
two game three games ago. So this team is always
going to be somebody who shows up to help this
team win. And that kind of reminds me that ninety
eighteen there was not one perch you can count on.
You just knew they were all gonna come together. And
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it's funny because Mark Pope didn't play on that team,
but it was the championship after they won one, Larry Vaught,
is this win and Mississippi State does that give you
on when looking at the end of the season what
you're projected goal for them, Does this give you an
edge saying Okay, you know we're up one on us.
(09:45):
Maybe you had the Georgia game as a win, in
this Mississippi State game as a loss. Maybe had both
of them as a win. Is this one in Mississippi State?
Is that one that you said, well, yeah we got one.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I did.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I wasn't certain we were gonna get Or is that
one that you said, yeah, I knew we were gonna
get in and you just counting that as a win.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
I mean I thought any road win was gonna be
hard to get. So I've almost basically thought any anytime
you can win one on the road. That's going to
be a steal because it's just going to be that
difficult to win road games, not just for Kentucky but
for everybody else. And I think it's gonna it started
out that way. I don't think it's gonna change. So yeah,
(10:26):
I think that's when I would put in the steel
column and be very very happy to have it, because
I still think Mississippi State is a really good team,
and I think Kentucky has played a terrific game again
to get a win. And I don't know that anybody
else all season was score ninety five points Againssissippi State.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, now that is true.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Mississippi State was one of the top teams in the
country defensively. But I think everybody, well everybody that we
play is probably gonna get ninety except for George. I
guess everybody's gonna get about eighty five ninety points from
us Jack Pilgrim, Amari Williams six assists, ten, ten, ten points,
twelve rebounds. Is he is this draft stock rising? Are
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these the things you expected? Because you did say he
was a distributor. He's a kind of a freak. He's
kind of a unicorn when it comes to athletic ability.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Uh are those.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Numbers something that you would expect or is that that
what we're going to have all season from Mamary?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Mary Williams is just one of the most frustrating players
I think we've covered in a really long time at Kentucky.
Has nothing to do with like, you know, him not
being capable or you know, having a bad attitude or
you know. Mark Pope said that, you know, he's one
of the most beautiful human beings that he's ever been
around in basketball. Gave you know, he gave the pregame
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speech and Pope Pope said it was a two liner. Uh,
said that, you know, I just want everybody, you know,
everybody on this team to know that I love him
and I'm just grateful to be here, and you know,
he's a beautiful kid. The issue is we see him
play like an NBA All Star so often, and then
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he just goes through these these ruts of you know,
playing small. You know, he's seven foot, two hundred and
sixty pounds with a ridiculous wingspan, and he plays like
he's six seven, one hundred and ninety pounds and you
just want to know, like, hey, like, do you just
forget that you're as big an athletic and strong as
you are, Like, how do we go through the highs
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and lows of you know, just kind of forgetting of
how you know, physically dominant you can be as a
basketball player. So it's frustrating not because we don't, you know,
believe he's capable, but it's because we know he's capable
and want him to play at that very clear pro
level so much more often than he shows. And last
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night I think we got more spurts of that than
we have seen in of him in a Kentucky uniform.
I thought he was really good for eighty percent of
the game, and sometimes you know that it's fifty percent
with them, Mari, So you kind of got to take
the wins when you can get them. But those those
other twenty percent where you're like, buddy, where the rebounding
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fundamentals that like boxing now just you know, you put
put a hip on somebody, like so use your body
to your advantage. You know, you go through those frustrating
ruts where you know, in unfortunately in that swing where
it went from a fourteen point lead to unfortunately a
deficit in the second half, very unfortunately a Mariy Williams
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has some pretty poor minutes, but hey, to his credit,
he responded really really well down the stretch and the
kind of final couple of minutes and helped, you know,
give give the cap the spark to to you know,
go across the finish line with a win. So I
love Amar Williams. I think the absolute world of him.
I just want to see more of the best version
of Amary Williams. And to his credit, we saw a
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whole heck of a lot more of that yesterday in
Starkville than we've seen where, you know, eighty percent of
his versus twenty percent of the No show kind of
you know, this is this disappearing. I want to see
more of the eighty percent less than the twenty percent
and then clearly trending in the right direction. I was very,
very impressed with his performance last night.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That is Jack Pilgrim coming to you from Starkville. But
Bo Robinson, I have got GoFundMe going. I got about
five dollars I can pay you to shovel my snow.
If Bo's gonna come over after the show, I got
five dollars for him. We will be back after this
you're listening to Stockyards Banks Sunday Morning Sports Talk on
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Speaker 1 (14:34):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on Anthony
White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vauk. Stockyards Bank
is your trusted partner since nineteen oh four, So head
on over to syb dot com for all your banking
and financial needs. And uh, I'm gonna catch up on
some of this x feed Twitter feed. Jack pierrom Brady
(15:04):
says he appreciates you and Steve making the trip to
Starksville through the through the snowstorm. It's great report you guys.
Did he watched on TV since since everyone's Super Bowl
is Kentucky coming to their town, he wants to know
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what game in the sec remaining schedule is he looking
most for it to play? Are you looking most for
it to cover? Because he wants to pay attention. But
he appreciates you making the trick in this weather.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Well, I appreciate the kind words. We've had an absolute
ball having as much fun as there is to have
in Starkville. Not a whole lot going on down here.
But we've made the most of it in our seventy
two hours here down south trying to beat the snowstorm
and coming down here and there was no snowstorm. It's
like a dusting and you know a little bit of
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ice there on that Friday morning, but really just not
not a whole bunch. So it was it was an
extended stay, really not for a whole bunch, but we
got a whole heck of a lot out of it,
and the wind definitely made it worthwhile. But I'm not
sure if he was talking about like road trips after
this or just you know, covering a game in general
for Entucky basketball, and you know, including home games. And
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I'd say there's a pretty important one on February first
that I'm pretty pretty jazzed about. It was an old
friend coming to coming to town and seeing how that
one goes. I think that's going to be an all
time environment, obviously, and very very very much looking forward
to seeing just how the dynamic of that one works
out and all of the build up and the hype
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and the suspense that that go into it. It's gonna
be fun to poke fun and you know, leading up
to it, but man, I think there's going to be
a couple hours leading up to that one where tension
is going to be really high. It's going to be
really stressful, a lot on the line because Pope can't
lose that one. That was one that's one that I
think fans will be as a non negotiable, you know,
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gotta gotta beat the old coach, gotta make a statement
in that first head to head matchup, so that that
is definitely, by far number one I've got on my list.
But like every single game in the SEC is an
absolute juggernaut. So did did I expect the you know,
the trip to Starkville for Mississippi State to be you know,
an all time performance for the cast and one that
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we'll remember for a really long time. Of course not.
But this league is such, you know, on such a
different planet that you know, the stuff like this is
going to pop up and we're gonna have a whole
bunch of other performances like this, wins and losses all
the way through the final home stretch. And that's why
Mark Pope says, if you don't play in this league
this year, he feels sorry for you because it's an
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absolute ball and we're gonna get a whole bunch more
of it.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Let's get back to the big ass fans hotline and
see what Alvin has to say.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
A good moye to Alvin, what do you got for us? Play?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Good morning? How you're doing guys?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Uh, Anthony, why you're gonna have to buy uh buy
your shovel and just hang on to it for the
nice next, big, big uh show storm. You're not gonna
be able to uh solicit the bowl robson to come
help you. But hey, I'm glad I always was some
safe Uh. It's been some tough weather related events throughout America,
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to include the fars out in California. Uh it was
terrible as well. Uh, so it's good to be alive
on a Sunday morning. Uh. With that said, Uh, I
think the Tuckey played great basketball last night. Uh. They
wasn't influenced by bad referee whistles as we've seen down
in Georgia, which I think sorted through Little Wildcats house.
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Uh that's the two quick files that always got in Georgia.
A guy with a lot of energy like that, if
he's allowed to play without being strapped with files. That
was sort of negotiate him having that energy. We told
that he was able to put up a double double
last night fifteen and eight, which was important to win
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that game. We can't say enough about Jackson Robinson, who
reminded me of the Ron lamb Bo. Robinson told me
that he and Larry Baltic chaired another player that was
similar to the performance that Robinson put up last night,
and I didn't know. He wanted to think who that
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player was.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Haven Will got We only got a couple, We only
got a couple of segments. Sorry to do this till
you only got a couple of segments. I need you to
wrap up when we got about ten seconds.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Real quick, yeah, real quick. I think that the Pope
is doing a great job. I think the win down
you put up ninety points, it's important. I think moving forward,
I think, like Jack Bogle said, the Arkansas game will
be very very important and hopefully they won't blue coach
cal It'd be similar to when Rick Patino went to
Liver and came to play. So yeah, there's a great
win for Kentucky. Great coaching from Pope. You know well
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to look for little for the winning ways with the Wildcats.
Thank you A lot.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Thank you for the car, Alvin. We will be back
after this.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
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Speaker 1 (20:13):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty w LAP.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I am
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I at this point, and I we did. We It
was a glorious win down in Startville, no doubt we fought.
And this is how the season is going to be.
I think this is how the season is going to be.
And one great thing about this basketball team, you don't
watch half of the game, and once you get down
that you feel like, well, it's gonna get worse from
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here on out because we're not gonna do anything.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
As you've pulled it out last week.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
We even got inbound, played inbounds plays and things of
that sort. But we cannot be we cannot overlook the
fact that we went down to Georgia and laid an egg.
That's why I would have loved to have been able
to take calls last week because I would love to
see what the temperature was after the Georgia game, before
this Mississippi State game, and even after the Georgia game,
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which I don't think we expected to lose in that
fashion although it was a road game in the SEC,
we I think we expected to win it, but they
were in control of the whole game. We really didn't.
We put up a little fight here and there, but
it was not enough. And then to come and play
against Mississippi State team, which they're not known for a
whole lot of nothing, maybe a little bit of football,
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and it be a barn burner that we have to
go back and forth with them. Where do you stand?
Where we're basically? Where did you stand after Tuesday? After
Georgia loss?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Was it? See?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
While on Sunday I knew we shouldn't have bought into
it because someone said on Twitter X that we you're
talking about this basketball team is good? College basketball is
just down, which is lightweight disrespectful? Is light weight disrespectful?
But that was a comment made, so I just kind
of wanted to address that.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Oh, I think after Tuesday. You had to have had
some concerns because they just didn't play very well, and
you wanted to, I think, believe that they could bounce
back like they had after Clemson loss or after the
Ohio State loss. But again, you just didn't know. And
I also knew that Missisippi State was a really good
team and they were a team that we're going to
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have to do anything different to try to play physical
against Kentucky. That's just how they play every game. So yeah,
obviously I was worried some about it, but they came
out and played great. But I like to say, I
think it's just gonna be that way every game in
the SEC. I mean, they'll probably have their hands full
just trying to beat Texas A and M at home
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on Tuesday night, because everybody in this league is so
good that there's just not a game you can just say, well,
no matter how we play, we're gonna win that one.
So it's just gonna be a season of ups and downs,
a lot of rides up and maybe some hits that
you take when you're down, and you're just gonna have
to roll with the punches and kind of not get
two up or two down.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Hit us on the Big Ass Fans Hotline and let
us know what you think. Eight five nine to eight
zero two to eight seven eight five nine to eight zero, cats.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Larry, What is it fair? Though?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
This is my Is it fair that every we lost
three games this year after well, I think the first
loss was just kind of you know, it was a
bump in the road. The lost to Ohio State. Everybody
took I think took a little personal that Georgia loss,
Like you said, it was kind of we they were
in control the whole game. We made a little push
there in the second half and cut it down to
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like two points or something. But is is it fair
to this team? Is it fair to Mark Pope? Is
it just fair too big Blue nature in the culture
that every time we lose a game that is the
end of the world, Like we've been losing at the
last coach we had we lost too.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Many games, which we didn't.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We won a lot of games, but we lost too
many games to appease the fan base. Is it fair
to Mark Pope in this team that every time we
lose a game that end of the world.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Oh obviously not. But that's life at the UK. I mean,
that's been going on for as long as I can remember,
so I don't think that's going to change. The good
thing is got a coach now that understands that he
does fanic cover it. He just keeps doing what he does,
and I think that's a that's a good thing. But yeah,
it's just going to continue to happen. It's the good
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and bad of Kentucky basketball, the passion of the fans.
They all every one gets a little overreact sometimes to
the to the good or the bad, and if you're
the coach's kind to kind of keep that balance. That's
what Pope seems to have a really good way of
being able to do.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Larry, correct me if I'm wrong, But wasn't the old
UK football coach Jerry Claiborne that gave the Big Blue
Nation the nickname Fellowship of the Miserable?
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Exactly right, Bo.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Anthony.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I wish you would have heard Larry and I this
conversation we had on Friday night talking about the Georgia
loss and the scene, and it was doom and gloom
for about fifteen minutes. I mean we started giving up
on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
From you you Park, you well, I don't know Larry's
typically I guess realistic, maybe a little pessimistic at some point.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
But you are the You are the you are the
driver of the band wag.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
I am.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
So you parked the band wagon to join the miserable
in the gloom and do.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Here's the problem. I cannot get the bandwagon out of
the driveway because of the snow and ice on Friday.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
And it was evident when I talked to Larry because
we were just talking about how Georgia really did push
around Kentucky. And Larry said, you know, if you think
Georgia really pushed around Kentucky, wait till Saturday night. Yeah,
And he was right, And the best thing was Kentucky
pushed back and they had an answer for everything. Of
course Mississippi State did too. I wasn't convinced of anything.
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So I guess my question is, and we kind of
answered this, are we still unsure of what we got
with this basketball team?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
And that is the best question.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's why, like I said, that's why I wanted to
see what the fan base thought because it's gonna be
up and down season and that's I don't know, Bo,
how much you remember Larry or bow how much you
remember the ninety eight season. There were games You're like,
oh my god, like and we just it don't matter
if it was Shepherd, It just anybody just comes up
with big plays and big three pointers and what's the
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kid from Dunbar that's in the pastor now the works yeah,
the camera like, it was just different people just knocking
down shots, and I'm just like.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Wow, Well, think about and I hate to go back
to caliberry talk here, but if we're comparing, if you
are comparing teams, think about his second team with Doron
Lamb and Terrence Jones. They could not get a road
wind in the SEC Yeah. Yeah, and then they ended
up going to the Final four that year. We were
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very unsure of what we had with that team.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, but I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I just feel like the ninety eighteen we had coaching
that could get us out of ruts. And I'm not
certain we had that for the past twelve years, but
I do know we have coaching coaching that can get
us out of ruts. And Larry va bo is talking about, uh, like,
how can we sustain this these popcorn wins? You don't
know who's gonna do it. You don't know how it's
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gonna happen. You've said it for weeks on weeks. We
do know that if we're in a situation, we trust
Mark Pope to make the right decisions, right adjustments, do
what he has to do. But we even talked about
last week about Jackson Robinson. Is he should he still
on the court that much? Is he impactful throughout the game?
Is he gonna be detrimental to the end of the game.
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And then Almanor comes around and knocks down just has
this two minute session of one one he curls off
of a screen and just pulls up a three like
he's a three point shooter, Like that's his ford tight,
like he's Kobe Bread. So what did you think or
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I mean kind of based off of what both saying,
just you know, we don't know who's gonna win it,
and you've been steady on you got faith in you
don't know, you don't care, you just have faith in
this the skill sets of our players and the coach
making the right decisions to put us in position. Is
that true? And what do you think about Lee's three
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pointers just in just in a role, just for that
short period.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Well, well you might remember I've been a angela almanor
believer since he committed to Kentucky and immediately agreed to
come on the show with us. If you remember how
pleasant he was and how much fun it was, and
how he talked that he couldn't wait to be here,
didn't care what role he was in. He just wanted
to come, and he believed in himself and thought he
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could help Kentucky win games. So and he's done nothing
but accept his role and everything he's been supposed to
do he's done. I would love to build to have
him on the show with us this morning, but that's
not possible. But how cool would that be if we
could have. But I've been a big believer in Annsley.
I've also tried to be a big believer and try
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to stay realistic and not get over excited about what
this team may or may not do because of the
grind that had had ahead and they were still guys
that come January February March, you had to see how
they were going to be. But the more you watch,
the more you dislike. And as I said, I think
there's going to be some ups and downs, and bo
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is right. I did worry about this game. I'd talked
a lot and excuse me, just got patched during the week,
and he was just kept telling me about how he
thought Mississippi State was better than the past two teams
when they'd gone to the NCAA Tournament, that they had
more scores, and that their defense it was continually to
be really good like it always was. And he said again,
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and they didn't have to change anything to be physical
against Kentucky because that's just how they played. So all
that had me kind of worried. But Kentucky to get
ninety five points in that game is just remarkable. Ones
I said, it started, you could just go down. There
was a long list of guys who all did something
unique and special. And it's interesting you referred to, like
back to that ninety eighteen because Scott and I were
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talking about how that ninety eighteen lost at home with
Old Miss on February fourteenth and got booed by the
rap Areena fans, and Scott said, there's a story you
know that got posted after the game where he said
he was quoted as saying we're the worst twenty two
and four college basketball team that ever played. And but
what he told me is. He said they hadn't lost
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that game, he didn't think they would have won the
National championship because that finally convinced him that some of
the things that Tubby Smith was telling them they needed
to listen to instead of just thinking, well, we've been
in the national championship game in the last two years
without Tubby, we can get there. We know what we're doing.
But that convinced so they had to make some changes
and they went out and won the next thirteen games,
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won the national Championship.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I did not know. I did not in the Scott pageant.
Is coaching in Mississippi State?
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Yeah, he's an assistant coach there.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yes, I did not know that. And how did Mark
Pope not get him here? Is he happy there? And
obviously he's a coach on a good team, so that
team is just as good.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Well, he's happy, But he would have loved I have had
a chance to be on Mark Pope staff and was
one of the final candidates I think for a spot.
And then Mark Uinn was a more of an analytical
type guy, and Scott understood that. But yes, Scott would
love to be back or to be coaching at Kentucky
or anywhere in the bluegrat He's still a Kentucky guy,
but he's very happy working for Chris Jay and I
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think that Chris is a terrific coach. And again, like
I said, they've been in the NCAA Tournament the last
two years and I will be shocked if they're not
back this year. But I just had to after talking
to Scott. He had Meek convinced that this was going
to be a game Kentucky was gonna probably have a
lot of trouble in And never ever did I dream
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they have scored ninety five points in Mississippi State.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
That is the truth.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And then it reminds me of when you talk about
the ninety eighteen losing an old miss and then kind
of redirecting themselves. Kind also reminds me of Tim Tebow,
given that you'll never see a team players hard speech
because I am not an Ohio State fan, but Ohio
State is ripping through the college playoffs and I don't
think anybody's gonna touch them. Those guys are untouchable. They
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have ripped through the college playoffs and in the championship.
So when you spoke about that ninety eight season that
one lost and I think that lost to Michigan. I
think that catapulted Ohio State to rethink some things, readjust
regroup and come back. And they've come back stronger than ever,
and we will come back stronger than ever.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
After this.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
You're listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on
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Speaker 1 (33:32):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Larry Vaught. This hour Sunday Morning Sports
Talk has bought. Has been brought to you by Country
Boy Brewing, the big Ass Fans Hotline and lit up
Larry Vault. I fumbled last segment and the phone was
lit up the half of the segment and I missed
out on it. So we got to go rapid fire,
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Larry Vault. Let's get to the phone lines and see
what Randy has say. Good morning, Randy. I'm sorry we
got to go rapid fire. What do you got for us?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Big thing?
Speaker 8 (34:08):
After the Georgia game, I thought that we went to
the basket stronger this time, showed a little bit more
physicality going to the rim and going back to ninety eight.
That was a Valentine's Day massacurf I remember, right, that
was the headline. That was maybe in a paper in Lexington,
I can't remember, but that was my biggest takeaway. So
I think they regrouped, took it was physical, and they
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took the physicality a little bit better, did a better
job rebounding. Thanks guys, all.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Right, appreciate the car. Randy.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I think Randy still on the bandwagon, so Bo, you
might need to get some more seats put in the
bandwagon because Randy still believes and I still believe. I
believe I got hope in Pope. Let's get back to
the big ass fans hotline to see what Mike has
to say. Good morning, Mike, what do you got for us?
Speaker 9 (34:53):
Good morn guys. I've been hearing a lot about the physicality,
and I don't think, you know, I don't think that's
the problem. I think it's like energy in there games
and when they're making shots there, when the paysc I
think it's just a like you know, I think when
Pope says focus, that's a nice way of saying bringing
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that energy from tip to finish. And I was glad
to say Jack and Robinson get going. I think we're
gonna need him and go cats.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I appreciate the call, Mike, well both you need more
seats because Mike is still on the bandwagon. Now we're
going to cross my fingers and see what this third caller,
Larry if Larry not Larry Vault, but Larry from Levinon,
Larry from Levon, we rappid fire.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
Hey, guys, before I get started to tukey Larry, what
do you think? How do you think a thing's going
in Arkansas right now?
Speaker 6 (35:48):
I think they're zering three and hope fights and chicken
people are happy.
Speaker 10 (35:55):
M Well obviously there when it come back. He's their
best player by far. But as far as the men
and women, uh you know, Uh, Kenny Brooks man, I
tell you that was stale. We got this guy. I'm
a brag.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Run him.
Speaker 10 (36:08):
I'm kang, I'm a I was a Brooks fan my
first time I heard that guy talking. And I don't
know who's bringing in next year with this guy, he
can coach who if you know, Pope has done a
heck of a job too. But other two I know,
I'm gonna put you in a spot with you and Anthony.
Who do you think he's done the best job or
are you don't want.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
To say.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Between who Poping.
Speaker 10 (36:33):
And Kenny Brooks, which one you thinks he's done the
best job? Right now? Both of them are doing good jobs.
Don't me wrong.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Give them both a plus.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
As myself, I think Pope may have been doing the best.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Thank you, Thank you for the call Larry which said
we got to go rapid fire, Larry Vaught. I think
Pope has probably done a better job because I think
he's played a little bit more tougher competition to this
point than Brooks. Now Brooks has done the hell of
a job. That is not a conversation I would like
to have as far as judging one over the other,
but I would probably give poth the edge just because
he may have played a little bit more streddent, stricter
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schedule thus far, where he's beat some top ten teams
and to this point Brooks may have what Louisville game,
and is there another signature of victory you consider a
Florida or any of those victories signature.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
He had a couple of non conference wins that were
good wins, not top ten wins, but good wins. He
also hadn't had the bad a couple of bad losses
like what Marks team has haden. That's what I say.
I give them both a pluses. I mean, they both
have been magnificent.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I do not argue that. When we come back. We
have Chad Greenway, Minnesota Vikings linebacker. You may know him
as that, but his daughter Madden is coming to join
Kenny Brooks this year. So we're gonna talk to him
a little bit about his daughter committing to the University
of Houcky as a junior and fifty one point something
like that going on. We'll be back after this year.
Listen to Stockyards Bank Sunday Wont of Sports Talk on
(38:06):
news radio six thirty WLAP
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Back, Stockyards Bank, Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I am Anthony
White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vaught coming to
you from Clark's Main Street Market Studios and beautiful Sonny
yet lightweight, snowy downtown Lexington, Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Uh BO.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Before we get back to this, appreciate you again for
staying overnight roughing it through. Did you know that you
have to I don't know if you have to shove
your own driveway. Did you know we're responsible for the
sidewalks in front of your house? Yes, I did not know.
I know that For years, I did not know if
that was illegal to leave them covered in snow.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
So now the next time it snows, I need to
come over to your house and not shovel, but just
walk on the sidewalk and then accidentally fall down.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
No, if you come to my house, you need to
bring a shovel and shovel cat junk like my neighbor did.
And I did not realize, why is this old lady
out there shoveling? And then I talked to my other
neighborhood was a former copy here was like, you know,
that's a you got it.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah, you get to keep the sidewalks clear. And I
started doing that a few days ago, chipping away the ice.
I'm gonna give you a hint. We were all about
snow removal and how to survive cold weather last week
in the snow. Let me give you a hint to Anthony.
Do you have a spud bar? What is a You
don't know what a spud bar is. And next time
you go to a good auction, you need to get
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a spud bar, big iron bar. It's got a wedge
at the bottom of it, and you take it and
you just you use it to pride, I don't know,
fence post out of the ground and things like that,
kind of use it as a leverage. I took my
spud bar and start chipping away the ice in my
driveway and that helped over the last few days, especially
yesterday with the sun coming out and had my sidewalk clear.
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I didn't do it all the way through, but just
a little bit at a time, because a spud bar
will wear you out.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'll give you a better tip at the end. I'm
gonna get at eleven forty five, I'm gonna give you
a better tip. Okay, So I'm fun your door, so
I know how to deal with this. So Jack Pilgrim,
your young self, did you know that you're responsible for
the sidewalk in front of your house?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
From your home?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I did, and uh not that it matters for me
because in the great city of Shelbyville, the uh there's
not a snow shovel within a one hundred mile radius
for for me. Unfortunately, I've looked at all of the
like it, checked every single store imaginable, never found one.
So the first snowstorm came and went last week and
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it's still sitting there that the snow is still just
you know, driving through on my driveway was waiting for
the sun to melt it because I've looked everywhere and
have not been able to get my hands on a
snow shovel. In fact, what sucks is while I'm gone,
you know, you get the ring ring doorbell notification and
(02:47):
U there was a group of kids in the neighborhood
that rung rung my doorbell with all three having shovels,
clearly like the one moron in the neighborhood. It still
has a driveway, Like, hey, bro, you know you're kind
of making the rest of the neighborhood look bad. It's like, yeah, dude,
I've been out of town. Have been beautiful Starkville for
the last three days. I mean, I got my priorities, obviously,
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so that that was a really tough, tough site, you know.
Obviously I was thinking about like paging through the ring doorbell,
like talking like yes, please, please please kids shovel my driveway.
I didn't know how I was how I would pay
pay them from afar. So I don't know what. I
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don't know what I'm gonna do. I guess I'm just
gonna have to find a snow shove on my way
back from Starkville and my work cut out for me
when I get back home tonight. I'm hoping that the
temperature is just a little bit warmer up there and
it's melted by the time I get home. But I
think that's just just.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Wishing it's going to be a few days before all
this melts. Because there is a sheet of ice underneath
the snow that came in on Friday, that is true.
So I walked to my backyard and it was just
everything was crunching with the ice blow the couple image
inches of snow we got on Friday, and Anthony, I
do not want you to think that I'm a jerk
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when it comes to snow removal, because I shoveled my
neighbor's driveway and sidewalks out yesterday too.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Now, well, if you when you get off today, since
you're not gonna be snowed in, I still got the
other side of my uh sidewalk in these shovelings, So
come on over bring you.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Would you call it spuzz mackenzie? What did you call it?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Spuds Mackenzie, I've got a spud bar. I've used my
leaf blower to blow off the snow at the top
of the ice. I ordered something a couple of weeks
ago it should be in this week to help a
snow removal too. And I've got a couple of shovels.
How much you're paying me?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Larry Vaught?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Uh, let's get Larry before we get back to the
ninety five ninety wind down in Starkville. Larry Vaught, please
tell me I'm not the only person who didn't know
that you were responsible for Because Twinsburg Heights we didn't
have sidewalks growing up. We had ditches, So please tell
me I'm not a telling person.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I can't tell you that, Anthony. I mean, I've been
shoveling my sidewalks for well fifty years I've lived there
and growing up. Anytime it's snow. When I was eight, nine,
ten years old, that's what I went out and went
around the neighborhood, making money shoveling snow and with mostly
to the same people that I was delivering papers to,
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and made a very nice little amount of money every
time that it did snow.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Sheesh.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
All right, well, hey, I don't mind. I don't mind
putting my ignorance on display. That's fine because if I'm
not the only person who people who listened to the show,
you get everything you find out about nature. There's one
point we talked about guarding. We always talk about something
different on here, but we're gonna get back to talking
about the ninety five ninety wind.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Jack Pilgrim.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yesterday was you're the one who said we got do
we still want in Starkville as Mississippi State.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That good.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You're one who said we have to steal a couple
on a row. We may have stolen, we didn't steal
want in Georgia and that Athens. But was yesterday one
that we stole? Or was yesterday one you had on
your slate that we should we should kindt of as
win already, like.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
The Hamburglar Anthony would just went went down to Starville
and ripped it from them. Just being here, seeing the
fan base, you know, people camping out since midnight, and
just it had that feeling that like they were going
to get the weight of this stupid streak off their shoulders,
like they were they were so certain that this was
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going to be the year that that eighteen eighteen game
regular season streak was going to ask Like they were
so confident. It just I mean, the vibe of the
game just felt like, you know, when you're up fourteen
and the momentum slips and they storm back and retake
the lead, it's like, yep, it's you know, it's just
their time. You just got to kind of sometimes tip
your cap and say, what are you gonna do? You know,
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it's it's the street can't last forever. It makes sense
that now is the time for it to and you know,
just can't can't get that monkey off of Mark Pope's
back with the you know, on the SEC true road
road winds, so it just kind of felt like we
were trending that direction and you lose a little bit
of you know, you build up a pretty solid cushion
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in the SEC where the margins are just so thin
in this league because of how strong it is that
you just kind of have to take the winds as
they come and ride the waves. So you beat Florida,
build up a nice little cushion, you kind of lose
a lot of that and kind of get back to
square one by losing in the way they did down
at Georgia, So you kind of needed to build back
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that cushion and get back in the good graces of
the league. If you truly want to separate, you know,
if you just want to be average and whatever, you'll
just you can trade off win loss, win loss, win
loss all conference, go into postseason with a nine to
nine record and say, have a nice day. But if
you truly want to be among the best of the
best in the league and finished with a you know,
eleven and five, twelve and six something like that in
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the eleven and seven, twelve and six, thirteen and five
something like that in the league, then you need to
you know, steal a couple like this. So for them
to do it in this moment and this environment when
it kind of felt like everything was pulling against them,
it was a really really impressive thing for me.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
This team really reminds me of that ninety eight team,
like they were gonna find a way to win, and
you know, and it's funny because Lamon Butler kind of
reminds you of Oh my god, I can't remember the
point guard in the ninety eighteen Wayne Turner. That guy
can get down hill, can get to get a buget.
I don't want us trying to shoot us out of
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a game. I don't want him trying to win a
game with his shooting. But man, he's gonna control the tempo.
The guy controls the ball, You're not gonna take the
ball from him. It reminds me that ninety eight, we're
gonna find a way. Yes, last two weeks, two games ago, uh, everybody,
Kobe Bred was a guy. Man, he shot lights out,
and we got Amanor showing up. We got different guys
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showing up to you know, to win. That car has
a terrible game but comes up late in the game
to give us an edge. He gave us an edge
two game three games ago. So this team is always
going to be somebody who shows up to help this
team win. And that kind of reminds me that ninety
eighteen there was not one perch you can count on.
You just knew they were all gonna come together. And
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it's funny because Mark Pope didn't play on that team,
but it was the championship after they won one, Larry Vaught,
is this win and Mississippi State does that give you
on when looking at the end of the season what
you're projected goal for them, Does this give you an
edge saying Okay, you know we're up one on us.
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Maybe you had the Georgia game as a win, in
this Mississippi State game as a loss. Maybe had both
of them as a win. Is this one in Mississippi State?
Is that one that you said, well, yeah we got one.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I did.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I wasn't certain we were gonna get Or is that
one that you said, yeah, I knew we were gonna
get in and you just counting that as a win.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
I mean I thought any road win was gonna be
hard to get. So I've almost basically thought any anytime
you can win one on the road. That's going to
be a steal because it's just going to be that
difficult to win road games, not just for Kentucky but
for everybody else. And I think it's gonna it started
out that way. I don't think it's gonna change. So yeah,
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I think that's when I would put in the steel
column and be very very happy to have it, because
I still think Mississippi State is a really good team,
and I think Kentucky has played a terrific game again
to get a win. And I don't know that anybody
else all season was score ninety five points Againssissippi State.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, now that is true.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Mississippi State was one of the top teams in the
country defensively. But I think everybody, well everybody that we
play is probably gonna get ninety except for George. I
guess everybody's gonna get about eighty five ninety points from
us Jack Pilgrim, Amari Williams six assists, ten, ten, ten points,
twelve rebounds. Is he is this draft stock rising? Are
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these the things you expected? Because you did say he
was a distributor. He's a kind of a freak. He's
kind of a unicorn when it comes to athletic ability.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Uh are those.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Numbers something that you would expect or is that that
what we're going to have all season from Mamary?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Mary Williams is just one of the most frustrating players
I think we've covered in a really long time at Kentucky.
Has nothing to do with like, you know, him not
being capable or you know, having a bad attitude or
you know. Mark Pope said that, you know, he's one
of the most beautiful human beings that he's ever been
around in basketball. Gave you know, he gave the pregame
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speech and Pope Pope said it was a two liner. Uh,
said that, you know, I just want everybody, you know,
everybody on this team to know that I love him
and I'm just grateful to be here, and you know,
he's a beautiful kid. The issue is we see him
play like an NBA All Star so often, and then
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he just goes through these these ruts of you know,
playing small. You know, he's seven foot, two hundred and
sixty pounds with a ridiculous wingspan, and he plays like
he's six seven, one hundred and ninety pounds and you
just want to know, like, hey, like, do you just
forget that you're as big an athletic and strong as
you are, Like, how do we go through the highs
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and lows of you know, just kind of forgetting of
how you know, physically dominant you can be as a
basketball player. So it's frustrating not because we don't, you know,
believe he's capable, but it's because we know he's capable
and want him to play at that very clear pro
level so much more often than he shows. And last
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night I think we got more spurts of that than
we have seen in of him in a Kentucky uniform.
I thought he was really good for eighty percent of
the game, and sometimes you know that it's fifty percent
with them, Mari, So you kind of got to take
the wins when you can get them. But those those
other twenty percent where you're like, buddy, where the rebounding
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fundamentals that like boxing now just you know, you put
put a hip on somebody, like so use your body
to your advantage. You know, you go through those frustrating
ruts where you know, in unfortunately in that swing where
it went from a fourteen point lead to unfortunately a
deficit in the second half, very unfortunately a Mariy Williams
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has some pretty poor minutes, but hey, to his credit,
he responded really really well down the stretch and the
kind of final couple of minutes and helped, you know,
give give the cap the spark to to you know,
go across the finish line with a win. So I
love Amar Williams. I think the absolute world of him.
I just want to see more of the best version
of Amary Williams. And to his credit, we saw a
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whole heck of a lot more of that yesterday in
Starkville than we've seen where, you know, eighty percent of
his versus twenty percent of the No show kind of
you know, this is this disappearing. I want to see
more of the eighty percent less than the twenty percent
and then clearly trending in the right direction. I was very,
very impressed with his performance last night.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That is Jack Pilgrim coming to you from Starkville. But
Bo Robinson, I have got GoFundMe going. I got about
five dollars I can pay you to shovel my snow.
If Bo's gonna come over after the show, I got
five dollars for him. We will be back after this
you're listening to Stockyards Banks Sunday Morning Sports Talk on
News Radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on Anthony
White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vauk. Stockyards Bank
is your trusted partner since nineteen oh four, So head
on over to syb dot com for all your banking
and financial needs. And uh, I'm gonna catch up on
some of this x feed Twitter feed. Jack pierrom Brady
(15:04):
says he appreciates you and Steve making the trip to
Starksville through the through the snowstorm. It's great report you guys.
Did he watched on TV since since everyone's Super Bowl
is Kentucky coming to their town, he wants to know
(15:25):
what game in the sec remaining schedule is he looking
most for it to play? Are you looking most for
it to cover? Because he wants to pay attention. But
he appreciates you making the trick in this weather.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Well, I appreciate the kind words. We've had an absolute
ball having as much fun as there is to have
in Starkville. Not a whole lot going on down here.
But we've made the most of it in our seventy
two hours here down south trying to beat the snowstorm
and coming down here and there was no snowstorm. It's
like a dusting and you know a little bit of
(16:00):
ice there on that Friday morning, but really just not
not a whole bunch. So it was it was an
extended stay, really not for a whole bunch, but we
got a whole heck of a lot out of it,
and the wind definitely made it worthwhile. But I'm not
sure if he was talking about like road trips after
this or just you know, covering a game in general
for Entucky basketball, and you know, including home games. And
(16:24):
I'd say there's a pretty important one on February first
that I'm pretty pretty jazzed about. It was an old
friend coming to coming to town and seeing how that
one goes. I think that's going to be an all
time environment, obviously, and very very very much looking forward
to seeing just how the dynamic of that one works
out and all of the build up and the hype
(16:47):
and the suspense that that go into it. It's gonna
be fun to poke fun and you know, leading up
to it, but man, I think there's going to be
a couple hours leading up to that one where tension
is going to be really high. It's going to be
really stressful, a lot on the line because Pope can't
lose that one. That was one that's one that I
think fans will be as a non negotiable, you know,
(17:08):
gotta gotta beat the old coach, gotta make a statement
in that first head to head matchup, so that that
is definitely, by far number one I've got on my list.
But like every single game in the SEC is an
absolute juggernaut. So did did I expect the you know,
the trip to Starkville for Mississippi State to be you know,
an all time performance for the cast and one that
(17:29):
we'll remember for a really long time. Of course not.
But this league is such, you know, on such a
different planet that you know, the stuff like this is
going to pop up and we're gonna have a whole
bunch of other performances like this, wins and losses all
the way through the final home stretch. And that's why
Mark Pope says, if you don't play in this league
this year, he feels sorry for you because it's an
(17:50):
absolute ball and we're gonna get a whole bunch more
of it.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Let's get back to the big ass fans hotline and
see what Alvin has to say.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
A good moye to Alvin, what do you got for us? Play?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Good morning? How you're doing guys?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Uh, Anthony, why you're gonna have to buy uh buy
your shovel and just hang on to it for the
nice next, big, big uh show storm. You're not gonna
be able to uh solicit the bowl robson to come
help you. But hey, I'm glad I always was some
safe Uh. It's been some tough weather related events throughout America,
(18:23):
to include the fars out in California. Uh it was
terrible as well. Uh, so it's good to be alive
on a Sunday morning. Uh. With that said, Uh, I
think the Tuckey played great basketball last night. Uh. They
wasn't influenced by bad referee whistles as we've seen down
in Georgia, which I think sorted through Little Wildcats house.
(18:46):
Uh that's the two quick files that always got in Georgia.
A guy with a lot of energy like that, if
he's allowed to play without being strapped with files. That
was sort of negotiate him having that energy. We told
that he was able to put up a double double
last night fifteen and eight, which was important to win
(19:06):
that game. We can't say enough about Jackson Robinson, who
reminded me of the Ron lamb Bo. Robinson told me
that he and Larry Baltic chaired another player that was
similar to the performance that Robinson put up last night,
and I didn't know. He wanted to think who that
(19:27):
player was.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Haven Will got We only got a couple, We only
got a couple of segments. Sorry to do this till
you only got a couple of segments. I need you to
wrap up when we got about ten seconds.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Real quick, yeah, real quick. I think that the Pope
is doing a great job. I think the win down
you put up ninety points, it's important. I think moving forward,
I think, like Jack Bogle said, the Arkansas game will
be very very important and hopefully they won't blue coach
cal It'd be similar to when Rick Patino went to
Liver and came to play. So yeah, there's a great
win for Kentucky. Great coaching from Pope. You know well
(20:00):
to look for little for the winning ways with the Wildcats.
Thank you A lot.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Thank you for the car, Alvin. We will be back
after this.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You're listening Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on news
Radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty w LAP.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I am
Anthony White along with Larry Vaught continuing this segment. Stockyards
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(20:39):
I at this point, and I we did. We It
was a glorious win down in Startville, no doubt we fought.
And this is how the season is going to be.
I think this is how the season is going to be.
And one great thing about this basketball team, you don't
watch half of the game, and once you get down
that you feel like, well, it's gonna get worse from
(21:01):
here on out because we're not gonna do anything.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
As you've pulled it out last week.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
We even got inbound, played inbounds plays and things of
that sort. But we cannot be we cannot overlook the
fact that we went down to Georgia and laid an egg.
That's why I would have loved to have been able
to take calls last week because I would love to
see what the temperature was after the Georgia game, before
this Mississippi State game, and even after the Georgia game,
(21:27):
which I don't think we expected to lose in that
fashion although it was a road game in the SEC,
we I think we expected to win it, but they
were in control of the whole game. We really didn't.
We put up a little fight here and there, but
it was not enough. And then to come and play
against Mississippi State team, which they're not known for a
whole lot of nothing, maybe a little bit of football,
(21:50):
and it be a barn burner that we have to
go back and forth with them. Where do you stand?
Where we're basically? Where did you stand after Tuesday? After
Georgia loss?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Was it? See?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
While on Sunday I knew we shouldn't have bought into
it because someone said on Twitter X that we you're
talking about this basketball team is good? College basketball is
just down, which is lightweight disrespectful? Is light weight disrespectful?
But that was a comment made, so I just kind
of wanted to address that.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Oh, I think after Tuesday. You had to have had
some concerns because they just didn't play very well, and
you wanted to, I think, believe that they could bounce
back like they had after Clemson loss or after the
Ohio State loss. But again, you just didn't know. And
I also knew that Missisippi State was a really good
team and they were a team that we're going to
(22:48):
have to do anything different to try to play physical
against Kentucky. That's just how they play every game. So yeah,
obviously I was worried some about it, but they came
out and played great. But I like to say, I
think it's just gonna be that way every game in
the SEC. I mean, they'll probably have their hands full
just trying to beat Texas A and M at home
(23:09):
on Tuesday night, because everybody in this league is so
good that there's just not a game you can just say, well,
no matter how we play, we're gonna win that one.
So it's just gonna be a season of ups and downs,
a lot of rides up and maybe some hits that
you take when you're down, and you're just gonna have
to roll with the punches and kind of not get
two up or two down.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Hit us on the Big Ass Fans Hotline and let
us know what you think. Eight five nine to eight
zero two to eight seven eight five nine to eight zero, cats.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Larry, What is it fair? Though?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
This is my Is it fair that every we lost
three games this year after well, I think the first
loss was just kind of you know, it was a
bump in the road. The lost to Ohio State. Everybody
took I think took a little personal that Georgia loss,
Like you said, it was kind of we they were
in control the whole game. We made a little push
there in the second half and cut it down to
(24:02):
like two points or something. But is is it fair
to this team? Is it fair to Mark Pope? Is
it just fair too big Blue nature in the culture
that every time we lose a game that is the
end of the world, Like we've been losing at the
last coach we had we lost too.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Many games, which we didn't.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We won a lot of games, but we lost too
many games to appease the fan base. Is it fair
to Mark Pope in this team that every time we
lose a game that end of the world.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Oh obviously not. But that's life at the UK. I mean,
that's been going on for as long as I can remember,
so I don't think that's going to change. The good
thing is got a coach now that understands that he
does fanic cover it. He just keeps doing what he does,
and I think that's a that's a good thing. But yeah,
it's just going to continue to happen. It's the good
(24:53):
and bad of Kentucky basketball, the passion of the fans.
They all every one gets a little overreact sometimes to
the to the good or the bad, and if you're
the coach's kind to kind of keep that balance. That's
what Pope seems to have a really good way of
being able to do.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Larry, correct me if I'm wrong, But wasn't the old
UK football coach Jerry Claiborne that gave the Big Blue
Nation the nickname Fellowship of the Miserable?
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Exactly right, Bo.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Anthony.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I wish you would have heard Larry and I this
conversation we had on Friday night talking about the Georgia
loss and the scene, and it was doom and gloom
for about fifteen minutes. I mean we started giving up
on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
From you you Park, you well, I don't know Larry's
typically I guess realistic, maybe a little pessimistic at some point.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
But you are the You are the you are the
driver of the band wag.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
I am.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
So you parked the band wagon to join the miserable
in the gloom and do.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Here's the problem. I cannot get the bandwagon out of
the driveway because of the snow and ice on Friday.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
And it was evident when I talked to Larry because
we were just talking about how Georgia really did push
around Kentucky. And Larry said, you know, if you think
Georgia really pushed around Kentucky, wait till Saturday night. Yeah,
And he was right, And the best thing was Kentucky
pushed back and they had an answer for everything. Of
course Mississippi State did too. I wasn't convinced of anything.
(26:29):
So I guess my question is, and we kind of
answered this, are we still unsure of what we got
with this basketball team?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
And that is the best question.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's why, like I said, that's why I wanted to
see what the fan base thought because it's gonna be
up and down season and that's I don't know, Bo,
how much you remember Larry or bow how much you
remember the ninety eight season. There were games You're like,
oh my god, like and we just it don't matter
if it was Shepherd, It just anybody just comes up
with big plays and big three pointers and what's the
(27:00):
kid from Dunbar that's in the pastor now the works yeah,
the camera like, it was just different people just knocking
down shots, and I'm just like.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Wow, Well, think about and I hate to go back
to caliberry talk here, but if we're comparing, if you
are comparing teams, think about his second team with Doron
Lamb and Terrence Jones. They could not get a road
wind in the SEC Yeah. Yeah, and then they ended
up going to the Final four that year. We were
(27:31):
very unsure of what we had with that team.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, but I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I just feel like the ninety eighteen we had coaching
that could get us out of ruts. And I'm not
certain we had that for the past twelve years, but
I do know we have coaching coaching that can get
us out of ruts. And Larry va bo is talking about, uh, like,
how can we sustain this these popcorn wins? You don't
know who's gonna do it. You don't know how it's
(27:59):
gonna happen. You've said it for weeks on weeks. We
do know that if we're in a situation, we trust
Mark Pope to make the right decisions, right adjustments, do
what he has to do. But we even talked about
last week about Jackson Robinson. Is he should he still
on the court that much? Is he impactful throughout the game?
Is he gonna be detrimental to the end of the game.
(28:21):
And then Almanor comes around and knocks down just has
this two minute session of one one he curls off
of a screen and just pulls up a three like
he's a three point shooter, Like that's his ford tight,
like he's Kobe Bread. So what did you think or
(28:42):
I mean kind of based off of what both saying,
just you know, we don't know who's gonna win it,
and you've been steady on you got faith in you
don't know, you don't care, you just have faith in
this the skill sets of our players and the coach
making the right decisions to put us in position. Is
that true? And what do you think about Lee's three
(29:02):
pointers just in just in a role, just for that
short period.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Well, well you might remember I've been a angela almanor
believer since he committed to Kentucky and immediately agreed to
come on the show with us. If you remember how
pleasant he was and how much fun it was, and
how he talked that he couldn't wait to be here,
didn't care what role he was in. He just wanted
to come, and he believed in himself and thought he
(29:29):
could help Kentucky win games. So and he's done nothing
but accept his role and everything he's been supposed to
do he's done. I would love to build to have
him on the show with us this morning, but that's
not possible. But how cool would that be if we
could have. But I've been a big believer in Annsley.
I've also tried to be a big believer and try
(29:50):
to stay realistic and not get over excited about what
this team may or may not do because of the
grind that had had ahead and they were still guys
that come January February March, you had to see how
they were going to be. But the more you watch,
the more you dislike. And as I said, I think
there's going to be some ups and downs, and bo
(30:12):
is right. I did worry about this game. I'd talked
a lot and excuse me, just got patched during the week,
and he was just kept telling me about how he
thought Mississippi State was better than the past two teams
when they'd gone to the NCAA Tournament, that they had
more scores, and that their defense it was continually to
be really good like it always was. And he said again,
(30:35):
and they didn't have to change anything to be physical
against Kentucky because that's just how they played. So all
that had me kind of worried. But Kentucky to get
ninety five points in that game is just remarkable. Ones
I said, it started, you could just go down. There
was a long list of guys who all did something
unique and special. And it's interesting you referred to, like
back to that ninety eighteen because Scott and I were
(30:58):
talking about how that ninety eighteen lost at home with
Old Miss on February fourteenth and got booed by the
rap Areena fans, and Scott said, there's a story you
know that got posted after the game where he said
he was quoted as saying we're the worst twenty two
and four college basketball team that ever played. And but
what he told me is. He said they hadn't lost
(31:19):
that game, he didn't think they would have won the
National championship because that finally convinced him that some of
the things that Tubby Smith was telling them they needed
to listen to instead of just thinking, well, we've been
in the national championship game in the last two years
without Tubby, we can get there. We know what we're doing.
But that convinced so they had to make some changes
and they went out and won the next thirteen games,
(31:40):
won the national Championship.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I did not know. I did not in the Scott pageant.
Is coaching in Mississippi State?
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Yeah, he's an assistant coach there.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yes, I did not know that. And how did Mark
Pope not get him here? Is he happy there? And
obviously he's a coach on a good team, so that
team is just as good.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Well, he's happy, But he would have loved I have had
a chance to be on Mark Pope staff and was
one of the final candidates I think for a spot.
And then Mark Uinn was a more of an analytical
type guy, and Scott understood that. But yes, Scott would
love to be back or to be coaching at Kentucky
or anywhere in the bluegrat He's still a Kentucky guy,
but he's very happy working for Chris Jay and I
(32:24):
think that Chris is a terrific coach. And again, like
I said, they've been in the NCAA Tournament the last
two years and I will be shocked if they're not
back this year. But I just had to after talking
to Scott. He had Meek convinced that this was going
to be a game Kentucky was gonna probably have a
lot of trouble in And never ever did I dream
(32:44):
they have scored ninety five points in Mississippi State.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
That is the truth.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And then it reminds me of when you talk about
the ninety eighteen losing an old miss and then kind
of redirecting themselves. Kind also reminds me of Tim Tebow,
given that you'll never see a team players hard speech
because I am not an Ohio State fan, but Ohio
State is ripping through the college playoffs and I don't
think anybody's gonna touch them. Those guys are untouchable. They
(33:11):
have ripped through the college playoffs and in the championship.
So when you spoke about that ninety eight season that
one lost and I think that lost to Michigan. I
think that catapulted Ohio State to rethink some things, readjust
regroup and come back. And they've come back stronger than ever,
and we will come back stronger than ever.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
After this.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
You're listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on
news radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Larry Vaught. This hour Sunday Morning Sports
Talk has bought. Has been brought to you by Country
Boy Brewing, the big Ass Fans Hotline and lit up
Larry Vault. I fumbled last segment and the phone was
lit up the half of the segment and I missed
out on it. So we got to go rapid fire,
(33:58):
Larry Vault. Let's get to the phone lines and see
what Randy has say. Good morning, Randy. I'm sorry we
got to go rapid fire. What do you got for us?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Big thing?
Speaker 8 (34:08):
After the Georgia game, I thought that we went to
the basket stronger this time, showed a little bit more
physicality going to the rim and going back to ninety eight.
That was a Valentine's Day massacurf I remember, right, that
was the headline. That was maybe in a paper in Lexington,
I can't remember, but that was my biggest takeaway. So
I think they regrouped, took it was physical, and they
(34:31):
took the physicality a little bit better, did a better
job rebounding. Thanks guys, all.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Right, appreciate the car. Randy.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I think Randy still on the bandwagon, so Bo, you
might need to get some more seats put in the
bandwagon because Randy still believes and I still believe. I
believe I got hope in Pope. Let's get back to
the big ass fans hotline to see what Mike has
to say. Good morning, Mike, what do you got for us?
Speaker 9 (34:53):
Good morn guys. I've been hearing a lot about the physicality,
and I don't think, you know, I don't think that's
the problem. I think it's like energy in there games
and when they're making shots there, when the paysc I
think it's just a like you know, I think when
Pope says focus, that's a nice way of saying bringing
(35:14):
that energy from tip to finish. And I was glad
to say Jack and Robinson get going. I think we're
gonna need him and go cats.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I appreciate the call, Mike, well both you need more
seats because Mike is still on the bandwagon. Now we're
going to cross my fingers and see what this third caller,
Larry if Larry not Larry Vault, but Larry from Levinon,
Larry from Levon, we rappid fire.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
Hey, guys, before I get started to tukey Larry, what
do you think? How do you think a thing's going
in Arkansas right now?
Speaker 6 (35:48):
I think they're zering three and hope fights and chicken
people are happy.
Speaker 10 (35:55):
M Well obviously there when it come back. He's their
best player by far. But as far as the men
and women, uh you know, Uh, Kenny Brooks man, I
tell you that was stale. We got this guy. I'm
a brag.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Run him.
Speaker 10 (36:08):
I'm kang, I'm a I was a Brooks fan my
first time I heard that guy talking. And I don't
know who's bringing in next year with this guy, he
can coach who if you know, Pope has done a
heck of a job too. But other two I know,
I'm gonna put you in a spot with you and Anthony.
Who do you think he's done the best job or
are you don't want.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
To say.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Between who Poping.
Speaker 10 (36:33):
And Kenny Brooks, which one you thinks he's done the
best job? Right now? Both of them are doing good jobs.
Don't me wrong.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Give them both a plus.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
As myself, I think Pope may have been doing the best.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Thank you, Thank you for the call Larry which said
we got to go rapid fire, Larry Vaught. I think
Pope has probably done a better job because I think
he's played a little bit more tougher competition to this
point than Brooks. Now Brooks has done the hell of
a job. That is not a conversation I would like
to have as far as judging one over the other,
but I would probably give poth the edge just because
he may have played a little bit more streddent, stricter
(37:09):
schedule thus far, where he's beat some top ten teams
and to this point Brooks may have what Louisville game,
and is there another signature of victory you consider a
Florida or any of those victories signature.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
He had a couple of non conference wins that were
good wins, not top ten wins, but good wins. He
also hadn't had the bad a couple of bad losses
like what Marks team has haden. That's what I say.
I give them both a pluses. I mean, they both
have been magnificent.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I do not argue that. When we come back. We
have Chad Greenway, Minnesota Vikings linebacker. You may know him
as that, but his daughter Madden is coming to join
Kenny Brooks this year. So we're gonna talk to him
a little bit about his daughter committing to the University
of Houcky as a junior and fifty one point something
like that going on. We'll be back after this year.
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