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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome in Stockyards Bank Sunday on the Sports Talk, I'm
Anthony White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vuck coming
to you from Clark's Main Street Market Studios and beautiful
downtown Lex TOI Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Nielsen has put out their report and just want to
think if you see any of our listeners, anybody that
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Speaker 1 (00:44):
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Speaker 2 (01:36):
The critique Larry Vaught.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I was messing around AI this weekend and there's a
there was a character on my AI thing that looked
exactly like you, Larry Vaught. He was like fifty one,
fifty five years old or something, so I boosted his
age up a little bit and I named that AI
character Larry Vaught. So you will be getting this what
do they call them a storyline with you in it.
We're trying to get away from some robots who's trying
(02:01):
to take over the world with taking over the the system,
the computer system whatever. But Larry Vought, I'm tapping into
AI and the first thing I see on AI as
a character who looks exactly like you, dressed like you,
your hair like you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
How's your week going?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I get.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I don't know whether that's scary or exactly what to
make of that. So I'll I'll have to think on
that little bit as the show goes on. But my
week has been okay. I got to experience snow at
the beach, which was quite a fun time and quite
a memorable experience, and then got home and got to
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experience a not so great Kentucky basketball game on Saturday.
So it's been an interesting week. It's a tough time
right now for Kentucky basketball. I think about when I
were talking before the show, start thinking back to May
and June and July, how kind of a storyline was
(03:05):
While Mark Pope really glad to have him, seems to
be doing a great job, you just can't expect a
whole lot this year though, the way you had to
rebuild the roster, you know, for.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
A year or two.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Just kind of got to give him a pass and
take what you can get. And then my mid December
it was this is a Final four team. And then
now folks are really really upset and questioning everything that
Mark Pope is doing. And I think the expectations just
got a little bit out of hand for this basketball team.
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I mean, I think it's a good team, not a
great team, and I think that people are just going
to have to understand that. And I know back, I
think it was actually the Louisville game when you got
on me a little bit when I said, even though
they're winning, there's still some troubling sides, and you kind
of threw me under the bus a little bit, but
beat up off of that a little and all. But
(03:58):
I think, I mean, I think at that time I
said something like I thought, Kentucky maybe go ten and
eight sec play, And I think that's what caused the buzz.
And I still think right now ten and eight might
be a pretty good mark for this team in SEC play.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, it's two things, Larry. You said that you watch
some bad Well it wasn't bad basketball, but it wasn't
the basketball you wanted to see from the men's basketball team.
But you ain't see a whole much of the UK
back any good well, not any good any.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Things.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You didn't see anything in UK basketball period, whether it
be a man or a woman, that you would you
were happy with. I'm assuming you said men's and now
you you left out old Kenny and sixty one points
fifty five points ain't a whole lot of points.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
No, they had their first what I would call really
bad game of the of the season, and Kenny let
him know about it after the game. But I'll give
them one before. But they're also getting ready to come
into their really brutal stretch right in sec playing. I
think they should be able to handle Arkansas Okay today
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and then after that there's not what I would call
it gimme game. Weft on their.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Schedule absolutely, and I think both can correct me if
I'm wrong. Because the game is at twelve noon Eastern
Standard time. They are We will be off at eleven,
So once we hit that at eleven thirty, when we
come back on eleven thirty, that will be the last
year here. So if you're expecting to come on and
listen to us to twelve or it's on radio, time
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is eleven fifty seven. We won't be on that segment
because we're gonna turn it over to a UK and
Sports network and we will be off. Is that correct, boat,
We're off. We're getting paid extra overtime for not doing
the whole show.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We will be.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Off the air at eleven forty this morning, and then
at eleven forty five I will switch over and bring
in the ubiquitous voice of UK Women's basketball. Darren Hendrick
for UK in Arkansas at high noon over at Memorial
Coliseum this afternoon. So if you have not turned in
tuned in to Darren Hadrick. He is the WWE of
SEC announcers and he's fun to listen.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
To, right and you can listen to it if you
don't have the old style radio as we talked about
where Bo has the one you can crank and put
energy in in case the power goes down.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Get on iHeartMedia, get on.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The iHeart app on your you can do it on
your TV, any mobile device, just any handheld device you can.
You can get on there. Because the Nielsen ratings have
come out and we again appreciate you, Jack Pilgrim. You
are probably most of the reason that the Nielsen report
reported the way it reported about certain radio stations. So
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congratulations you, kudos to you and appreciate all the work
you do.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
How is your week, Ben? Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I'd love to know what.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We can't We're now discussing it on their go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Tell me during the break. I got back from Nashville
at midnight last night. It was a rough one. It
was my first time going to Memorial Gym. Actually, as
all these years time. Thompson lives in Nashville, so she's
usually a resident Nashvillian who goes to the Vanderbilt home game,
so that's usually when we could take it. But I
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was like, hey, you know, be kind of fun to
go go check out that cool environment, cool arena for
the very first time. So went down there really enjoyed myself.
The arena itself was really cool, really unique. The fans,
I mean it was I'm telling you, it was like
seventy thirty Kentucky fans in there. It was unbelievable. It
was go big blue chants. Yeah, it was really really
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really cool to see just Kentucky fans take over that
building and just kind of experienced that for the first time.
And with eight minutes to go, I thought, man, this
is going to turn out into a pretty darn cool win.
You know, you fall behind by fourteen a halftime and
come back, and you know, sucks that you had to
have the starve that they did, but you felt the
momentum flipping and you're like, ooh, all right, but go
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b blue chance and you know, my momentum completely on
our side, and you know then they just kind of
let go of the rope and say, you know, coach
to a win, we'll be fine, and Vanderbilt punches back
and you know, gives Kentucky's a business down the stretch.
So a very sad, disappointing drive home after what was
a you know, pretty cool start, pretty cool event offens
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considered without considering the.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Outcome, and Jack Pilgrim, Larry Vaught kind of stated.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That this basketball team, he thought it would be ten
and eight whatever in the sec which he looked like
he may be very very intelligent or may no a
whole lot about basketball. We dropped two back to back
weekends Alabama ninety seven to one to oh two loss
at home and down in Vanderbilt, which Vanderbilt did knock
off Tennessee who we have next?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But is this something worried about?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And and the problem is that Larry Vaux said that
we were going to be ten and eight and he
said I gave him the business, yeah, which I should
have gave him the business man. Mark Pope deserves hope.
My point is we have injuries like Carr. I'm not
sure Carr would have helped us in this game. I'm
not certain that Car would have helped us maybe maybe not.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We're gonna we got injuries. We know that, Butler's not
one hundred percent. There's things going on. Is that a
do we give?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The season's gonna go on whether we're full, uh fully
healthy or not. So is there something to worry about
at this point? After the lost to Vanderbilt again, as
I stated, who also beat Tennessee past weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Not the past week the weekend before back? Uh? Are
we are we supposed to be concerned? Jack Pilvar Uh you.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I'll answer that question next Sunday. I think that is
It just depends with the season and how the SEC
is built. You have to know that lumps are coming
one way or the other. You're gonna, I mean, this
this league is going to cannibalize itself. It is going
to be just an absolute mad house. To get to
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the and you know, get to the finish line where
the margin for error is just rais or rais or
razor thin and uh, it's gonna take just you know,
overcoming some adversity and responding with a hey, two game
losing streak, you got to respond with a two game
winning streak if you you know, take a lump here
you got to you know, make up ground and you know,
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kind of build back the good good will with you know,
a statement win the next time out. You know, you
just got to kind of take the ebbs and clothes
with the SEC, because if you let one turn into two,
turn into three, turn into four, I mean, before you
know it, you're I mean hate to bring this up,
but you know, next Saturday, our opponent, you look at
their one in six start in the SEC. That's kind
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of how it started for them. They just kind of
let one turn into three, turn into five, turn into six,
and now they're you know, staring a pretty darn ugly
SEC record in the face. So it just you can't
afford flip ups over the long term. You can afford
them here and there, but you just can't afford, you know,
let it turn into you know, a longer, longer term,
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longer term thing. So no, I'm not concerned yet, but
they're on the cusp of it, kind of getting wavering
and things kind of turning for the worst. So I
just got a regroup, big opportunity to go down to Knoxville.
If they go down and make a statement win down
there and you know, take care of business against one
of the best teams in college basketball today. We're, you know,
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back in everybody's good graces and let's go be you know,
Arkansas next Saturday. If you lose that one and you're
staring at three game losing streak right in the face,
and you know that's that, it's gonna be a tight one.
That's gonna be a very uncomfortable feeling going approaching next Saturday.
So Tuesday, because you lose this one, Tuesday is a
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very very very important game.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Bo Robinson, go over to AutoZone, a van Sala, one
of them, get us alternator, bring it to my bringing
band waggon my house.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'll slap that bad boy in there. We'll get the
band wagon back going.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But but Larry Vaught, what Jack Pilgrim just said makes
a lot of sense. Larry Vat anytime we've scored under
seventy points, if we have not produced more than seventy points,
we have lost, with the exception of the Alabama game
at home, which was a slug fest and we were
just it was just a shootout.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So the fact that if we let.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Someone hold us under seventy points, which means everybody knows
defense is a key to beating beating Mark Pope's team.
You did say you thought they were gonna be ten
and eight. You poked your chest out, you pumped your
chest a little bit, and you called me out for
throwing you under the bus. But nonetheless, this is a
really good basketball team. But you cannot deny that injuries
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are hurting the team. So if you could have projected
those injuries in your ten and eight, then I can
patch you on the back. But you still underneath the
bus as far as I'm concerned, the one that Bo's
getting an alternative for it. And are you is there
reason for concern or are you still saying that you
know we are what we are considering the injuries.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Larry Vaught, Well, I think there's reason for concern that
the schedule was part of that because the SEC is
so much better this year than normal. There just aren't
There are not any easy wins at any time in
the SEC. And then again, I think probably I said
that Villain and I were talking about the expectation has
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got a little bit out of hand early for this team.
I think this is a good team, probably not what
you would consider a great team, and it has a
pretty thin margin for ERA and SEC play and it's
got some weakness, is just like every team has. But
I think I don't know if Jack would agree or disagree.
(14:03):
But the puzzling part to me right now is is
that it seems like suddenly a lot of the fifty
to fifty balls and hustle plays that Kentucky was making
for two months have suddenly just kind of gone away.
And I don't know if that's because you get into
SEC play and all those guys that you're playing against
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now are maybe just a tad quicker, a tad faster
than what Kentucky is, and it makes it look like
you're not out there hustling because there's a little bit
quicker to the ball than you are, or what. But
it just seems like the lack of those hustle plays
and lack of fifty to fifty type balls that Kentucky's
losing or just just increasing every game. And that's a really,
(14:49):
really bad trend.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It seems to me that is Larry Vaught, We will
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
Thank you for that, Bo Robinson, Jack Pilgrim. Larry Vault stated,
before we went to break there was the fifty to
fifty balls. Mark Pope said, We're not getting to anymore,
just kind of the excitement of you know, I guess
being the UK a basketball player, these lights are bright.
And this one thing I beat Larry Vault up about
(17:06):
Georgia A Moore. Can she keep up this forty minutes
a game pace you're gonna wear it down at the
end of the season. I may be on this panel
of the only college athlete no matter how much energy
I give, no matter how much potential force I give,
it's gonna diminish. Like one hundred percent is not gonna
be what it was in September of football. That is
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gonna be in October and November. It's just not gonna
be due to injuries, just due to especially in this conference,
because if you have to run one hundred percent in
practice every day, it's gonna be hard to replicate what's
gonna look like on a game day. So I think
some of these guys were excited when they came to
UKI and the lights were bright and the schedule wasn't tough.
(17:49):
Now the schedule is tough. It's getting grueling, and Jack Pilgrim,
are we Is that something concerning to us? Larry Vault
didn't put it that way, but I put it that
way as an athlete. What Larry, what I surmised from
what Larry Vass said was that they you know, they're
not fit. We're not getting to the fifty fifty because
the energy is not there, like it is not there.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Jack Pool, I think it's it's tough because it's I
don't think it has to do with them caring or
wanting to win.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I think this is a group that you know, they're
awesome kids who genuinely care and want to be here
in Ore, you know, represent the Kentucky brand and where
Kentucky crossed our chests unbelievably well as well as any
group that we've seen in greecent memory it. Kentucky love
this group, but I just don't know if the urgency
(18:44):
is there. And I don't know if it's because they
have come from so many different h you know, backgrounds
as players you know by U and Drexel and Dayton,
and you go down the list and there's so many
different you know, guys coming from different programs and never
had the target on their back that comes with being
a Kentucky to where you know their abilities that they
(19:07):
it's like they did their their holes. They get down
early and get the math they out of Hold.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
On, Hold on, Jack, Jack, you about to do math.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Hold on, hold I thought, you know, we got to
pay bills, so hold that math. Once you got to
the math, I had to hold you up. Bring it
back on the other side. We'll be back after you
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Speaker 7 (19:27):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP.
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Speaker 2 (19:43):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We're gonna have Dennis Johnson on the athletic director at
Woodford County High School to talk about the Court fourteen
Classic that is going to be happening February second, right
after the Hogs come to town. How ironic is that
you get to watch our former coach against our present coach.
And then Jasper Johnson will be in for sales at
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Woodford County High School, the new wood For County High School,
with a lot of other talent, which we're not going
to talk about it now, but I'll let Jack Pilgrim
lightness on some of the other talents besides our very
own Jasper Johnson that will be there. Tickets, but I'm
gonna have to ask Dinniswick. Tickets are arranging from twenty
two dollars to two hundred and eleven dollars two hundred
(20:29):
dollars for a high school ticket, and I guess that
at the New Times, Jack Pilgrim, sorry have cut you
off when we were talking prior to break as far
as the fifty to fifty balls, and maybe the Brice
Delights being too bright, or just the energy of playing
for Kentucky basketball and the expectations starts to wear you down,
and you were doing mathematics and I had to cut
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you off.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I apologize.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, I think in nine of the team's games they've
fallen behind by at least seven in the first half
in as many sixteen points. That was the Gonzaga game
that we saw the historic come back out out in Seattle.
But this team just has this, you know, lack of urgency,
lack of understanding of the target on its back of like, hey,
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you know they're approaching this game, you know, the everybody's
super Bowl thing, Like I just don't think that has
resonated extremely well with this group to where it's this,
we gotta every single position. We've got to value every
single possession, every single defensive stop, every single shot opportunity.
You know, if you get up seven points with eight
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minutes left, like we saw against Vanderbilt, Like the game's
not over, Like they're not going to roll over and
die like they may have seen other teams do at
Day at DYU at you know, go down the list
of the school you know, directs, all the schools that
they came from. I just think there's a disconnect there
at times where they just the engagement isn't of full
(22:00):
forty minutes. You see it almost always, you see how
very rarely have we seen I think Ohio State's the
only game that we've seen team really just forty minute
not knowing what the heck they're doing, not not having
any type of you know, rallies and you know, getting
back into it, fighting, clawing, you know that. I think
Ohio State's really the only game that we haven't seen that.
But in the other four losses, I mean we've seen
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them to get back in position to win the game
and then just kind of not put together the execution
down the stretch. So I do think it's a lack
of urgency and just kind of a you know, really
understanding that this is a super Bowl for every team
that you're going up against, they they are going to,
you know, die before they lose that game, and sometimes
you just want to see that same urgency on Kentucky's bench.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And the big as Sayings hotline is wide open and
everybody typically knows where to go. But if you don't
know where to go to get on, there's eight five
nine to eight zero two to eighty seven. That is
eight five nine to eight zero cats bo, let's get
back to the big ass fans hotline and see what
my man John Short has for us. John Short, you
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are a great American, my guy, the great American.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
To a note good game yesterday.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It has not been very many good games this week
for UK Athletics.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
I know we'll bounce back be tnc about five Biggins
and it'll be a great game, and we will and
another this much today, but we're gonna be Arkansas to
day by thirty Biggins day thirty.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
That's lofty for you, and you're an optimistic individual, and
that is lofty for you, John Short.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
I know, because we'll win that game. Then I know
if it's a trothing.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Game, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You could catch it here because we're gonna have to
get off the airwaves early for Darren Hendrick, and you
can also watch it on the SEC network. It's not
SEC Plus, it's not any of those extra things like
mathematics science behind it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You can just catch it on SEC network.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
I have a turn a sound down on that, and
he's here, Henrick on the radio.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Hey, uh, let me ask you this before we get
you off here, John Short, Do you watch other SEC
sports or is it just UK?
Speaker 9 (24:13):
I saw that the others too, you like I see
the others to you?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Did you watch the l s U South Carolina game
that was that was a bra? That was a bra?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I did?
Speaker 9 (24:23):
I didn't. I didn't watch that when I watched the
ten game.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Okay, I got you. I got you as you should.
I try to. We try to on this show.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We try to try to be more informed on the
women's side because a lot of the media, everybody covers
UK basketball in the UK football. Larry Vaughton and several
other people pay a whole lot of attention to a
lot of the Olympic and female sports just because that's
you know, if you want coverage from it, you got
to find coverage there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You can get that. Hero Sunday Morning Sports Talk, Uh, John.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
Short, that's right, man. How mean it means to be
having nature for women's sass? The only younger bat one,
don't we?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yes, we had one the week after we had who
do we have on the show? We had we got it.
We got one a week after we had someone on
the show, so we Larry Valley, Are we up to tour?
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Or one?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I think maybe there's two.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yes, we had Georgia and then we've had.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
No no, how many recruits? How many? How many? How
many have we signed it so far? I thought it
was two?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Just one?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I think, Okay, I was maybe.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I think I was thinking of maybe another sport that
we signed someone on.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
One of them is a junior.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I was thinking of volleyball. That's what I got to
mixed up when I thought the other one was volleyball.
We had when we had Skinner on here. That's why
I said, after we got him off the show.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Oh you tell you? And when when y'all came back
from breaking, we don't play that so samebody, and I
remember that Sophore team one that they came out of
the late sixties.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Huh, all right, well Boat takes both takes requests, not
that he needs them, but John sure.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You are great America.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So he will take care of you, and we appreciate
your call.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
So he does.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Uh, let's stay with the phone lines and see what
Larry has to say. Good morning, Larry, what do you
have for us?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Hey guys?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
You know talking about the women, they I watched the
game against six and m They just couldn't shoot. They
played a good game, I mean from three, yeah, I
mean they returned. I mean it made the war out.
Ask me, I don't know, me know, I just I'll
give my pass on that. They've had a great year.
But you know, at texting a little fiscal, but they
would have won the game thinking shot anything at all.
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But as far as the men, you know, we were
down first half. I thought myself, ain't no way we're
gonna come back. Well we came back and went up
at seven, and that's what really this pointed me and
we kind of got in that mold. We just start
throwing them all away, and and you know they stormed
the core of course, you know, and that that's five
hundred thousand dollars five of course it goes uk way
(26:58):
I read on the internet. If that's it, we'll take
that money next year, and we'll buy us the best
center we can find. You know, we buy us one
that actually can jump over an orange, you know. Uh,
not not to knock on our big guy, just you know,
seems like that he just cannot dump the ball. He's
just he's not real, real fast. But he gets your
shot blocks a lot be a seven foot and two
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hundred sixty pounds. But but I'm not blaming it all
on him. Our guards, you know, they had a bad
night and uh and you know, grade grady, I'm trying
to call it very grady. I don't know why, but
anybody cand of reminding each other for for for the
life of me, our shooters seem like they can't get
open We're Vandy shooters all get open threes, you know,
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I don't know. They just can't create that Robinson he
can't create some you know, he can get that little
short shot. But when them guys don't play good, it
seems like that, you know, that's where we have a downfall.
You know. Of course, oh way, he really doesn't good.
And and what's the name, Aminar, I can't pronounce his name.
He came and done fatherway, But I watched tennesseeing him
(28:03):
last night, that wasn't nothing to brawl. So I don't know.
We're gonna go down here. Hopefully we'll play good. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Well, thank you for the call, Larry.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I did want to ask you, Jack Pilgrim, I was
gonna go Larry, Bob says Jack Pilgrim brought up that question.
I mean, since Larry brought up that question, Jack Pilgrim,
Larry does have a point about our bigs. And here's
the thing I think our fan base is cognizant of
and we are all aware of. Were re late to
the party when it came to grabbing players out of
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the portal, just getting players to come to Kentucky. We're
relate to the party because we had to make a
coaching change and it went on and we got a really,
really good coach. And Larry is complaining about the bigs,
which I think some of it is warranted. But the
fact that we relate to the party, I'm not certain.
And I thought for it. And we're not gonna talk
about Kayleb Wilson yet. We're not gonna talk about that yet.
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But I thought Santos Sarria was going to be on
our roster. But I think once you got John Caliperry
out of here, all of those expectations changed because Mark
Pope doesn't just roll the ball out and expect you
to play basketball. He wants you to understand x's and o's.
He wants you to execute xs and o's. But am
I right that you You anyone who's upset about our
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big man play that, I guess it is fair to
be upset, but we haven't. But when we were we
got to the party, there was if it was if
there was a potential uh, five star blue blood talent available,
it wouldn't they would not have been available that late.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, that that was kind of the the big caveat
asterisk if you will going into this season of you know,
how Pope constructed this roster was you know, when you
when you start the process mid mid April, when you
know other teams are starting first second week of March,
if they're if they're missing you know at ncub A
(29:59):
R them and not participating in ni T postseason, you know,
other tournaments whatever. You know, they have a month ahead
start on what Pope was able to do and some
of those you know, talents that are entering the portal quickly.
And that's not even considering the high school recruiting classes
that you spend you know, two three years trying to
build and build, you know, develop relationships and do all that.
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Like that's just not something that he was able to do.
So everything that he was able to build on the
fly in a matter of a couple of weeks is
all gravy. I mean, for how limited the resources were,
considering the time you considering all the circumstances, I don't
think he could have put together a better roster, like
in terms of the fifth and finding guys that fit together.
(30:44):
I don't think that there was a better roster for
him to put together. He nailed it. I mean, the
whole staff absolutely nailed it. But that doesn't mean every
player is perfect. If they're in their fifth year of
college basketball. I mean, that's five draft cycles that they
did not miss that they missed instead of you know,
turning pro, like they're not good enough to turn pro
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or they're not pro talents. You have to kind of
pick and choose, you know, the guys that are just
going to be really really productive at the college level,
like an Otega Away, like you know, Amari Williams go
down the list. So it's just, yeah, it's part of
just the timing of bringing in a head coach as
late as Kentucky had to. And you know, I can't
can't blame them for the guys that they were able
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to bring in because they were the best of the
best at the time.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Uh yeah, lar Vaud, where do we stand?
Speaker 9 (31:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
We had how many turnovers? Do we have? Seventeen turnovers?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
And you kind of I mean, I guess Mark Pope
said it was there was some hustle issues whatever. I
think the turnovers from fatigue, mental, physical fatigue, those things
get into play. We having we had shrin and Perry
both play a lot of minutes, which as being hometown guys,
we love to see him on the court. But once
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you get in the conference, you need your big guns,
I think. I mean, I know you're not saying he's
not doing a good job of coaching or whatever, but
it's not who. No one has sympathy the rest of
the country, the rest of the SEC doesn't have sympathy
for us having the lack of availabilities for some players,
and we may have to play some players that would
(32:25):
not be playing otherwise. Due to injuries. But like I said,
you had a preseason. Going ten and eight will be
a good season for us. But there are other, i
think again outstanding factors that are leading to the way
we're playing in the rosters we're putting out there.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Larry Well, I thought ten and eight would be a
realistic expectation for this team with the roster for the
things that Jack just talked about it for the level
of play there was going to be in the SEC.
So it's it's again, I think it's not a it's
not a it's not a great team. It's just a
(33:06):
good team. And this your good teams. Sez, You're going
to lose a lot of games because there's a lot
of really good teams. That margin veria is pretty pretty small.
You can't turn it over that many times. You cannot
get beat to some loose balls like what they did.
You could not have some of your so called shooters
just not show up and not get anything done. I mean,
(33:30):
Kobe has just got to find a way to either
to get more shots and make more shots. I mean,
teams just crowd him and he just doesn't have a
lot of answers for that right now. And I think
you saw and Jack was there, so he made add
to this. But I think Trent Noah played just because
the energy that it looked like he was playing with.
I'm not sure he could do. There's some he still
(33:53):
has some limitations too, but I think it just looked
it just looked like he was playing harder and more
energetic than what some other guys were at certain times.
And I think that's why he got the minutes that
he got yesterday. That Mark was just looking for somebody
to kind of help energize that team. And I don't
know that Trimp can do that, but he certainly came
(34:14):
out and his to me, his energy level was very
noticeable compared to what it was for a few of
the other guys.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That is Larry Vut. We will be back after this year.
Listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on news
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Speaker 1 (34:34):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm your man,
Anthony White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vot. The
Big Gass Fans hotline is lit up, so let's get
over there. Before we get back to break, Mike, what
do you got for us this morning?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Guys, this morning? I kind of think that there were
a step slow yesterday, but I thank a lot of us.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Hello, Uh, well, Mike, we have to drop you because
I don't hear any audio coming through. If you if
there's a problem with your phone, call us back. We
will have to be at the top of the hour
because we are short on time, but we want to
hear what you got to say. Started off. Well, let's
get back to the big ass fans hotline to see
(35:25):
Roy has to say. Good morning, Roy, what do you
got for us?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (35:29):
I feel yeah. Hello. I think Butler is still hurt
because he had two or three turnovers in that game
where he just lost the ball and I got let
me say one one thing and I'll get off here.
I think he's still hurting from that Texas A and
M game. I think next time we play Texas A
(35:50):
and M and I they to bring Butler up there
with the football helming and thanks. Thank you for taking
my call, sir.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I appreciate you. Roy.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah again, Mike, if you have a chance, call back
callback Jack Pilgin Before we went to break, Uh, the
caller talked about Noah or Larry talked about Noah getting
plenty of minutes because of his efforts and those things.
Is that where we're gonna hang our hat? Is that
the route we are? Is that just the route we
have to go? Or is that the best route for
(36:22):
us to go? You know, playing Noah some minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
I'll be honest, I didn't love Mark Pope's answer on
Andrew Carr and just what the stats, you know, his
status look like moving forward. Just doesn't sound like a
guy that's going to be playing anytime soon, Probably not Tennessee,
maybe not Arkansas. I mean, it's uh, he kind of
let it slip, said, you know, we'll check back in,
(36:49):
you know, a couple of weeks or a couple of days,
and you know, he kind of backtracked a little bit,
so just some some uncertainty there, said that he was
was going to have to you know, not get to
the point where he was back to square one every
single time he played a game, so that you know,
he was so hurt that you know, all the progress
that he didn't make with his ZAC. Every time he'd
(37:10):
play a game, he would just have to hit complete
reset and start from square one, so that opens the
door to more Trent Noah playing time. And obviously Angeley
Almanol was the fourth leading minute guy last night. So
I really liked what I saw from Trent Noah. We've
seen him come in and hit shots at a high level,
just clearly the confidence is there. Dude just will fire
(37:30):
away and not even think twice about it. But yeah,
he was the hustle guy. With what I was talking about,
it kind of like the want to the urgency. It
did feel like at times Trentoah was the only guy
that had the urgency and had the want to out there,
So I mean that was part of the reason why
he was in the game with a minute and a
half left to go and you know, kind of crunch
time minutes, so we had shout out Trenton Nolla. Man.
That was a great debut for him. And we'll see
(37:53):
what happens with Andrew Carr, but if he's out from
an extended period of time, I would expect to see
more more out of Trentoa.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Jack Pilgrim one Hour Down, We'll be back after this
year listening to Stockyards Bank someday when the Sports talk
on Dues Radio six thirty wlap
Welcome in Stockyards Bank Sunday on the Sports Talk, I'm
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (01:36):
The critique Larry Vaught.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I was messing around AI this weekend and there's a
there was a character on my AI thing that looked
exactly like you, Larry Vaught. He was like fifty one,
fifty five years old or something, so I boosted his
age up a little bit and I named that AI
character Larry Vaught. So you will be getting this what
do they call them a storyline with you in it.
We're trying to get away from some robots who's trying
(02:01):
to take over the world with taking over the the system,
the computer system whatever. But Larry Vought, I'm tapping into
AI and the first thing I see on AI as
a character who looks exactly like you, dressed like you,
your hair like you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
How's your week going?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I get.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I don't know whether that's scary or exactly what to
make of that. So I'll I'll have to think on
that little bit as the show goes on. But my
week has been okay. I got to experience snow at
the beach, which was quite a fun time and quite
a memorable experience, and then got home and got to
(02:42):
experience a not so great Kentucky basketball game on Saturday.
So it's been an interesting week. It's a tough time
right now for Kentucky basketball. I think about when I
were talking before the show, start thinking back to May
and June and July, how kind of a storyline was
(03:05):
While Mark Pope really glad to have him, seems to
be doing a great job, you just can't expect a
whole lot this year though, the way you had to
rebuild the roster, you know, for.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
A year or two.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Just kind of got to give him a pass and
take what you can get. And then my mid December
it was this is a Final four team. And then
now folks are really really upset and questioning everything that
Mark Pope is doing. And I think the expectations just
got a little bit out of hand for this basketball team.
(03:36):
I mean, I think it's a good team, not a
great team, and I think that people are just going
to have to understand that. And I know back, I
think it was actually the Louisville game when you got
on me a little bit when I said, even though
they're winning, there's still some troubling sides, and you kind
of threw me under the bus a little bit, but
beat up off of that a little and all. But
(03:58):
I think, I mean, I think at that time I
said something like I thought, Kentucky maybe go ten and
eight sec play, And I think that's what caused the buzz.
And I still think right now ten and eight might
be a pretty good mark for this team in SEC play.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, it's two things, Larry. You said that you watch
some bad Well it wasn't bad basketball, but it wasn't
the basketball you wanted to see from the men's basketball team.
But you ain't see a whole much of the UK
back any good well, not any good any.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Things.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You didn't see anything in UK basketball period, whether it
be a man or a woman, that you would you
were happy with. I'm assuming you said men's and now
you you left out old Kenny and sixty one points
fifty five points ain't a whole lot of points.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
No, they had their first what I would call really
bad game of the of the season, and Kenny let
him know about it after the game. But I'll give
them one before. But they're also getting ready to come
into their really brutal stretch right in sec playing. I
think they should be able to handle Arkansas Okay today
(05:10):
and then after that there's not what I would call
it gimme game. Weft on their.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Schedule absolutely, and I think both can correct me if
I'm wrong. Because the game is at twelve noon Eastern
Standard time. They are We will be off at eleven,
So once we hit that at eleven thirty, when we
come back on eleven thirty, that will be the last
year here. So if you're expecting to come on and
listen to us to twelve or it's on radio, time
(05:36):
is eleven fifty seven. We won't be on that segment
because we're gonna turn it over to a UK and
Sports network and we will be off. Is that correct, boat,
We're off. We're getting paid extra overtime for not doing
the whole show.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We will be.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Off the air at eleven forty this morning, and then
at eleven forty five I will switch over and bring
in the ubiquitous voice of UK Women's basketball. Darren Hendrick
for UK in Arkansas at high noon over at Memorial
Coliseum this afternoon. So if you have not turned in
tuned in to Darren Hadrick. He is the WWE of
SEC announcers and he's fun to listen.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
To, right and you can listen to it if you
don't have the old style radio as we talked about
where Bo has the one you can crank and put
energy in in case the power goes down.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Get on iHeartMedia, get on.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The iHeart app on your you can do it on
your TV, any mobile device, just any handheld device you can.
You can get on there. Because the Nielsen ratings have
come out and we again appreciate you, Jack Pilgrim. You
are probably most of the reason that the Nielsen report
reported the way it reported about certain radio stations. So
(06:46):
congratulations you, kudos to you and appreciate all the work
you do.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
How is your week, Ben? Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I'd love to know what.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We can't We're now discussing it on their go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Tell me during the break. I got back from Nashville
at midnight last night. It was a rough one. It
was my first time going to Memorial Gym. Actually, as
all these years time. Thompson lives in Nashville, so she's
usually a resident Nashvillian who goes to the Vanderbilt home game,
so that's usually when we could take it. But I
(07:25):
was like, hey, you know, be kind of fun to
go go check out that cool environment, cool arena for
the very first time. So went down there really enjoyed myself.
The arena itself was really cool, really unique. The fans,
I mean it was I'm telling you, it was like
seventy thirty Kentucky fans in there. It was unbelievable. It
was go big blue chants. Yeah, it was really really
(07:45):
really cool to see just Kentucky fans take over that
building and just kind of experienced that for the first time.
And with eight minutes to go, I thought, man, this
is going to turn out into a pretty darn cool win.
You know, you fall behind by fourteen a halftime and
come back, and you know, sucks that you had to
have the starve that they did, but you felt the
momentum flipping and you're like, ooh, all right, but go
(08:07):
b blue chance and you know, my momentum completely on
our side, and you know then they just kind of
let go of the rope and say, you know, coach
to a win, we'll be fine, and Vanderbilt punches back
and you know, gives Kentucky's a business down the stretch.
So a very sad, disappointing drive home after what was
a you know, pretty cool start, pretty cool event offens
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considered without considering the.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Outcome, and Jack Pilgrim, Larry Vaught kind of stated.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That this basketball team, he thought it would be ten
and eight whatever in the sec which he looked like
he may be very very intelligent or may no a
whole lot about basketball. We dropped two back to back
weekends Alabama ninety seven to one to oh two loss
at home and down in Vanderbilt, which Vanderbilt did knock
off Tennessee who we have next?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But is this something worried about?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And and the problem is that Larry Vaux said that
we were going to be ten and eight and he
said I gave him the business, yeah, which I should
have gave him the business man. Mark Pope deserves hope.
My point is we have injuries like Carr. I'm not
sure Carr would have helped us in this game. I'm
not certain that Car would have helped us maybe maybe not.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We're gonna we got injuries. We know that, Butler's not
one hundred percent. There's things going on. Is that a
do we give?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The season's gonna go on whether we're full, uh fully
healthy or not. So is there something to worry about
at this point? After the lost to Vanderbilt again, as
I stated, who also beat Tennessee past weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Not the past week the weekend before back? Uh? Are
we are we supposed to be concerned? Jack Pilvar Uh you.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I'll answer that question next Sunday. I think that is
It just depends with the season and how the SEC
is built. You have to know that lumps are coming
one way or the other. You're gonna, I mean, this
this league is going to cannibalize itself. It is going
to be just an absolute mad house. To get to
(10:18):
the and you know, get to the finish line where
the margin for error is just rais or rais or
razor thin and uh, it's gonna take just you know,
overcoming some adversity and responding with a hey, two game
losing streak, you got to respond with a two game
winning streak if you you know, take a lump here
you got to you know, make up ground and you know,
(10:38):
kind of build back the good good will with you know,
a statement win the next time out. You know, you
just got to kind of take the ebbs and clothes
with the SEC, because if you let one turn into two,
turn into three, turn into four, I mean, before you
know it, you're I mean hate to bring this up,
but you know, next Saturday, our opponent, you look at
their one in six start in the SEC. That's kind
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of how it started for them. They just kind of
let one turn into three, turn into five, turn into six,
and now they're you know, staring a pretty darn ugly
SEC record in the face. So it just you can't
afford flip ups over the long term. You can afford
them here and there, but you just can't afford, you know,
let it turn into you know, a longer, longer term,
(11:20):
longer term thing. So no, I'm not concerned yet, but
they're on the cusp of it, kind of getting wavering
and things kind of turning for the worst. So I
just got a regroup, big opportunity to go down to Knoxville.
If they go down and make a statement win down
there and you know, take care of business against one
of the best teams in college basketball today. We're, you know,
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back in everybody's good graces and let's go be you know,
Arkansas next Saturday. If you lose that one and you're
staring at three game losing streak right in the face,
and you know that's that, it's gonna be a tight one.
That's gonna be a very uncomfortable feeling going approaching next Saturday.
So Tuesday, because you lose this one, Tuesday is a
(12:01):
very very very important game.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Bo Robinson, go over to AutoZone, a van Sala, one
of them, get us alternator, bring it to my bringing
band waggon my house.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'll slap that bad boy in there. We'll get the
band wagon back going.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But but Larry Vaught, what Jack Pilgrim just said makes
a lot of sense. Larry Vat anytime we've scored under
seventy points, if we have not produced more than seventy points,
we have lost, with the exception of the Alabama game
at home, which was a slug fest and we were
just it was just a shootout.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So the fact that if we let.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Someone hold us under seventy points, which means everybody knows
defense is a key to beating beating Mark Pope's team.
You did say you thought they were gonna be ten
and eight. You poked your chest out, you pumped your
chest a little bit, and you called me out for
throwing you under the bus. But nonetheless, this is a
really good basketball team. But you cannot deny that injuries
(12:58):
are hurting the team. So if you could have projected
those injuries in your ten and eight, then I can
patch you on the back. But you still underneath the
bus as far as I'm concerned, the one that Bo's
getting an alternative for it. And are you is there
reason for concern or are you still saying that you
know we are what we are considering the injuries.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Larry Vaught, Well, I think there's reason for concern that
the schedule was part of that because the SEC is
so much better this year than normal. There just aren't
There are not any easy wins at any time in
the SEC. And then again, I think probably I said
that Villain and I were talking about the expectation has
(13:41):
got a little bit out of hand early for this team.
I think this is a good team, probably not what
you would consider a great team, and it has a
pretty thin margin for ERA and SEC play and it's
got some weakness, is just like every team has. But
I think I don't know if Jack would agree or disagree.
(14:03):
But the puzzling part to me right now is is
that it seems like suddenly a lot of the fifty
to fifty balls and hustle plays that Kentucky was making
for two months have suddenly just kind of gone away.
And I don't know if that's because you get into
SEC play and all those guys that you're playing against
(14:24):
now are maybe just a tad quicker, a tad faster
than what Kentucky is, and it makes it look like
you're not out there hustling because there's a little bit
quicker to the ball than you are, or what. But
it just seems like the lack of those hustle plays
and lack of fifty to fifty type balls that Kentucky's
losing or just just increasing every game. And that's a really,
(14:49):
really bad trend.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It seems to me that is Larry Vaught, We will
be back after this year. Listening Stockyards Bank Sunning one
of a sports talk on news radio six thirty WLA.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
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(15:26):
because our gymnastics team hasn't performed yet, but they will
perform this evening at six o'clock and they could stop
this bleeding we have going on in UK sports because
right now we are taking our lumps, but the neils
are ratings are out Larry, I mean Jack bow Robinson,
and I think I'm not certain that most of our
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
Thank you for that, Bo Robinson, Jack Pilgrim. Larry Vault stated,
before we went to break there was the fifty to
fifty balls. Mark Pope said, We're not getting to anymore,
just kind of the excitement of you know, I guess
being the UK a basketball player, these lights are bright.
And this one thing I beat Larry Vault up about
(17:06):
Georgia A Moore. Can she keep up this forty minutes
a game pace you're gonna wear it down at the
end of the season. I may be on this panel
of the only college athlete no matter how much energy
I give, no matter how much potential force I give,
it's gonna diminish. Like one hundred percent is not gonna
be what it was in September of football. That is
(17:28):
gonna be in October and November. It's just not gonna
be due to injuries, just due to especially in this conference,
because if you have to run one hundred percent in
practice every day, it's gonna be hard to replicate what's
gonna look like on a game day. So I think
some of these guys were excited when they came to
UKI and the lights were bright and the schedule wasn't tough.
(17:49):
Now the schedule is tough. It's getting grueling, and Jack Pilgrim,
are we Is that something concerning to us? Larry Vault
didn't put it that way, but I put it that
way as an athlete. What Larry, what I surmised from
what Larry Vass said was that they you know, they're
not fit. We're not getting to the fifty fifty because
the energy is not there, like it is not there.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Jack Pool, I think it's it's tough because it's I
don't think it has to do with them caring or
wanting to win.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I think this is a group that you know, they're
awesome kids who genuinely care and want to be here
in Ore, you know, represent the Kentucky brand and where
Kentucky crossed our chests unbelievably well as well as any
group that we've seen in greecent memory it. Kentucky love
this group, but I just don't know if the urgency
(18:44):
is there. And I don't know if it's because they
have come from so many different h you know, backgrounds
as players you know by U and Drexel and Dayton,
and you go down the list and there's so many
different you know, guys coming from different programs and never
had the target on their back that comes with being
a Kentucky to where you know their abilities that they
(19:07):
it's like they did their their holes. They get down
early and get the math they out of Hold.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
On, Hold on, Jack, Jack, you about to do math.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Hold on, hold I thought, you know, we got to
pay bills, so hold that math. Once you got to
the math, I had to hold you up. Bring it
back on the other side. We'll be back after you
listen to Stockyards Bank Sunday went the sports Talk on
news radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP.
Stockyards Bank Sunday one is Sports Talk. I'm Anthony White
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Speaker 2 (19:43):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We're gonna have Dennis Johnson on the athletic director at
Woodford County High School to talk about the Court fourteen
Classic that is going to be happening February second, right
after the Hogs come to town. How ironic is that
you get to watch our former coach against our present coach.
And then Jasper Johnson will be in for sales at
(20:05):
Woodford County High School, the new wood For County High School,
with a lot of other talent, which we're not going
to talk about it now, but I'll let Jack Pilgrim
lightness on some of the other talents besides our very
own Jasper Johnson that will be there. Tickets, but I'm
gonna have to ask Dinniswick. Tickets are arranging from twenty
two dollars to two hundred and eleven dollars two hundred
(20:29):
dollars for a high school ticket, and I guess that
at the New Times, Jack Pilgrim, sorry have cut you
off when we were talking prior to break as far
as the fifty to fifty balls, and maybe the Brice
Delights being too bright, or just the energy of playing
for Kentucky basketball and the expectations starts to wear you down,
and you were doing mathematics and I had to cut
(20:50):
you off.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I apologize.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, I think in nine of the team's games they've
fallen behind by at least seven in the first half
in as many sixteen points. That was the Gonzaga game
that we saw the historic come back out out in Seattle.
But this team just has this, you know, lack of urgency,
lack of understanding of the target on its back of like, hey,
(21:17):
you know they're approaching this game, you know, the everybody's
super Bowl thing, Like I just don't think that has
resonated extremely well with this group to where it's this,
we gotta every single position. We've got to value every
single possession, every single defensive stop, every single shot opportunity.
You know, if you get up seven points with eight
(21:38):
minutes left, like we saw against Vanderbilt, Like the game's
not over, Like they're not going to roll over and
die like they may have seen other teams do at
Day at DYU at you know, go down the list
of the school you know, directs, all the schools that
they came from. I just think there's a disconnect there
at times where they just the engagement isn't of full
(22:00):
forty minutes. You see it almost always, you see how
very rarely have we seen I think Ohio State's the
only game that we've seen team really just forty minute
not knowing what the heck they're doing, not not having
any type of you know, rallies and you know, getting
back into it, fighting, clawing, you know that. I think
Ohio State's really the only game that we haven't seen that.
But in the other four losses, I mean we've seen
(22:22):
them to get back in position to win the game
and then just kind of not put together the execution
down the stretch. So I do think it's a lack
of urgency and just kind of a you know, really
understanding that this is a super Bowl for every team
that you're going up against, they they are going to,
you know, die before they lose that game, and sometimes
you just want to see that same urgency on Kentucky's bench.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And the big as Sayings hotline is wide open and
everybody typically knows where to go. But if you don't
know where to go to get on, there's eight five
nine to eight zero two to eighty seven. That is
eight five nine to eight zero cats bo, let's get
back to the big ass fans hotline and see what
my man John Short has for us. John Short, you
(23:07):
are a great American, my guy, the great American.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
To a note good game yesterday.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It has not been very many good games this week
for UK Athletics.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
I know we'll bounce back be tnc about five Biggins
and it'll be a great game, and we will and
another this much today, but we're gonna be Arkansas to
day by thirty Biggins day thirty.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
That's lofty for you, and you're an optimistic individual, and
that is lofty for you, John Short.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
I know, because we'll win that game. Then I know
if it's a trothing.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Game, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You could catch it here because we're gonna have to
get off the airwaves early for Darren Hendrick, and you
can also watch it on the SEC network. It's not
SEC Plus, it's not any of those extra things like
mathematics science behind it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You can just catch it on SEC network.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
I have a turn a sound down on that, and
he's here, Henrick on the radio.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Hey, uh, let me ask you this before we get
you off here, John Short, Do you watch other SEC
sports or is it just UK?
Speaker 9 (24:13):
I saw that the others too, you like I see
the others to you?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Did you watch the l s U South Carolina game
that was that was a bra? That was a bra?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I did?
Speaker 9 (24:23):
I didn't. I didn't watch that when I watched the
ten game.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Okay, I got you. I got you as you should.
I try to. We try to on this show.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We try to try to be more informed on the
women's side because a lot of the media, everybody covers
UK basketball in the UK football. Larry Vaughton and several
other people pay a whole lot of attention to a
lot of the Olympic and female sports just because that's
you know, if you want coverage from it, you got
to find coverage there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You can get that. Hero Sunday Morning Sports Talk, Uh, John.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
Short, that's right, man. How mean it means to be
having nature for women's sass? The only younger bat one,
don't we?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yes, we had one the week after we had who
do we have on the show? We had we got it.
We got one a week after we had someone on
the show, so we Larry Valley, Are we up to tour?
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Or one?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I think maybe there's two.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yes, we had Georgia and then we've had.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
No no, how many recruits? How many? How many? How
many have we signed it so far? I thought it
was two?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Just one?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I think, Okay, I was maybe.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I think I was thinking of maybe another sport that
we signed someone on.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
One of them is a junior.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I was thinking of volleyball. That's what I got to
mixed up when I thought the other one was volleyball.
We had when we had Skinner on here. That's why
I said, after we got him off the show.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Oh you tell you? And when when y'all came back
from breaking, we don't play that so samebody, and I
remember that Sophore team one that they came out of
the late sixties.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Huh, all right, well Boat takes both takes requests, not
that he needs them, but John sure.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You are great America.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So he will take care of you, and we appreciate
your call.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
So he does.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Uh, let's stay with the phone lines and see what
Larry has to say. Good morning, Larry, what do you
have for us?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Hey guys?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
You know talking about the women, they I watched the
game against six and m They just couldn't shoot. They
played a good game, I mean from three, yeah, I
mean they returned. I mean it made the war out.
Ask me, I don't know, me know, I just I'll
give my pass on that. They've had a great year.
But you know, at texting a little fiscal, but they
would have won the game thinking shot anything at all.
(26:37):
But as far as the men, you know, we were
down first half. I thought myself, ain't no way we're
gonna come back. Well we came back and went up
at seven, and that's what really this pointed me and
we kind of got in that mold. We just start
throwing them all away, and and you know they stormed
the core of course, you know, and that that's five
hundred thousand dollars five of course it goes uk way
(26:58):
I read on the internet. If that's it, we'll take
that money next year, and we'll buy us the best
center we can find. You know, we buy us one
that actually can jump over an orange, you know. Uh,
not not to knock on our big guy, just you know,
seems like that he just cannot dump the ball. He's
just he's not real, real fast. But he gets your
shot blocks a lot be a seven foot and two
(27:18):
hundred sixty pounds. But but I'm not blaming it all
on him. Our guards, you know, they had a bad
night and uh and you know, grade grady, I'm trying
to call it very grady. I don't know why, but
anybody cand of reminding each other for for for the
life of me, our shooters seem like they can't get
open We're Vandy shooters all get open threes, you know,
(27:40):
I don't know. They just can't create that Robinson he
can't create some you know, he can get that little
short shot. But when them guys don't play good, it
seems like that, you know, that's where we have a downfall.
You know. Of course, oh way, he really doesn't good.
And and what's the name, Aminar, I can't pronounce his name.
He came and done fatherway, But I watched tennesseeing him
(28:03):
last night, that wasn't nothing to brawl. So I don't know.
We're gonna go down here. Hopefully we'll play good. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Well, thank you for the call, Larry.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I did want to ask you, Jack Pilgrim, I was
gonna go Larry, Bob says Jack Pilgrim brought up that question.
I mean, since Larry brought up that question, Jack Pilgrim,
Larry does have a point about our bigs. And here's
the thing I think our fan base is cognizant of
and we are all aware of. Were re late to
the party when it came to grabbing players out of
(28:35):
the portal, just getting players to come to Kentucky. We're
relate to the party because we had to make a
coaching change and it went on and we got a really,
really good coach. And Larry is complaining about the bigs,
which I think some of it is warranted. But the
fact that we relate to the party, I'm not certain.
And I thought for it. And we're not gonna talk
about Kayleb Wilson yet. We're not gonna talk about that yet.
(28:57):
But I thought Santos Sarria was going to be on
our roster. But I think once you got John Caliperry
out of here, all of those expectations changed because Mark
Pope doesn't just roll the ball out and expect you
to play basketball. He wants you to understand x's and o's.
He wants you to execute xs and o's. But am
I right that you You anyone who's upset about our
(29:19):
big man play that, I guess it is fair to
be upset, but we haven't. But when we were we
got to the party, there was if it was if
there was a potential uh, five star blue blood talent available,
it wouldn't they would not have been available that late.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, that that was kind of the the big caveat
asterisk if you will going into this season of you know,
how Pope constructed this roster was you know, when you
when you start the process mid mid April, when you
know other teams are starting first second week of March,
if they're if they're missing you know at ncub A
(29:59):
R them and not participating in ni T postseason, you know,
other tournaments whatever. You know, they have a month ahead
start on what Pope was able to do and some
of those you know, talents that are entering the portal quickly.
And that's not even considering the high school recruiting classes
that you spend you know, two three years trying to
build and build, you know, develop relationships and do all that.
(30:21):
Like that's just not something that he was able to do.
So everything that he was able to build on the
fly in a matter of a couple of weeks is
all gravy. I mean, for how limited the resources were,
considering the time you considering all the circumstances, I don't
think he could have put together a better roster, like
in terms of the fifth and finding guys that fit together.
(30:44):
I don't think that there was a better roster for
him to put together. He nailed it. I mean, the
whole staff absolutely nailed it. But that doesn't mean every
player is perfect. If they're in their fifth year of
college basketball. I mean, that's five draft cycles that they
did not miss that they missed instead of you know,
turning pro, like they're not good enough to turn pro
(31:06):
or they're not pro talents. You have to kind of
pick and choose, you know, the guys that are just
going to be really really productive at the college level,
like an Otega Away, like you know, Amari Williams go
down the list. So it's just, yeah, it's part of
just the timing of bringing in a head coach as
late as Kentucky had to. And you know, I can't
can't blame them for the guys that they were able
(31:28):
to bring in because they were the best of the
best at the time.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Uh yeah, lar Vaud, where do we stand?
Speaker 9 (31:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
We had how many turnovers? Do we have? Seventeen turnovers?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
And you kind of I mean, I guess Mark Pope
said it was there was some hustle issues whatever. I
think the turnovers from fatigue, mental, physical fatigue, those things
get into play. We having we had shrin and Perry
both play a lot of minutes, which as being hometown guys,
we love to see him on the court. But once
(32:04):
you get in the conference, you need your big guns,
I think. I mean, I know you're not saying he's
not doing a good job of coaching or whatever, but
it's not who. No one has sympathy the rest of
the country, the rest of the SEC doesn't have sympathy
for us having the lack of availabilities for some players,
and we may have to play some players that would
(32:25):
not be playing otherwise. Due to injuries. But like I said,
you had a preseason. Going ten and eight will be
a good season for us. But there are other, i
think again outstanding factors that are leading to the way
we're playing in the rosters we're putting out there.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Larry Well, I thought ten and eight would be a
realistic expectation for this team with the roster for the
things that Jack just talked about it for the level
of play there was going to be in the SEC.
So it's it's again, I think it's not a it's
not a it's not a great team. It's just a
(33:06):
good team. And this your good teams. Sez, You're going
to lose a lot of games because there's a lot
of really good teams. That margin veria is pretty pretty small.
You can't turn it over that many times. You cannot
get beat to some loose balls like what they did.
You could not have some of your so called shooters
just not show up and not get anything done. I mean,
(33:30):
Kobe has just got to find a way to either
to get more shots and make more shots. I mean,
teams just crowd him and he just doesn't have a
lot of answers for that right now. And I think
you saw and Jack was there, so he made add
to this. But I think Trent Noah played just because
the energy that it looked like he was playing with.
I'm not sure he could do. There's some he still
(33:53):
has some limitations too, but I think it just looked
it just looked like he was playing harder and more
energetic than what some other guys were at certain times.
And I think that's why he got the minutes that
he got yesterday. That Mark was just looking for somebody
to kind of help energize that team. And I don't
know that Trimp can do that, but he certainly came
(34:14):
out and his to me, his energy level was very
noticeable compared to what it was for a few of
the other guys.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That is Larry Vut. We will be back after this year.
Listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on news
Radio six thirty w.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
LA, Pete.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
This is the home of the Wild Guts six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm your man,
Anthony White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vot. The
Big Gass Fans hotline is lit up, so let's get
over there. Before we get back to break, Mike, what
do you got for us this morning?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Guys, this morning? I kind of think that there were
a step slow yesterday, but I thank a lot of us.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Hello, Uh, well, Mike, we have to drop you because
I don't hear any audio coming through. If you if
there's a problem with your phone, call us back. We
will have to be at the top of the hour
because we are short on time, but we want to
hear what you got to say. Started off. Well, let's
get back to the big ass fans hotline to see
(35:25):
Roy has to say. Good morning, Roy, what do you
got for us?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (35:29):
I feel yeah. Hello. I think Butler is still hurt
because he had two or three turnovers in that game
where he just lost the ball and I got let
me say one one thing and I'll get off here.
I think he's still hurting from that Texas A and
M game. I think next time we play Texas A
(35:50):
and M and I they to bring Butler up there
with the football helming and thanks. Thank you for taking
my call, sir.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I appreciate you. Roy.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah again, Mike, if you have a chance, call back
callback Jack Pilgin Before we went to break, Uh, the
caller talked about Noah or Larry talked about Noah getting
plenty of minutes because of his efforts and those things.
Is that where we're gonna hang our hat? Is that
the route we are? Is that just the route we
have to go? Or is that the best route for
(36:22):
us to go? You know, playing Noah some minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
I'll be honest, I didn't love Mark Pope's answer on
Andrew Carr and just what the stats, you know, his
status look like moving forward. Just doesn't sound like a
guy that's going to be playing anytime soon, Probably not Tennessee,
maybe not Arkansas. I mean, it's uh, he kind of
let it slip, said, you know, we'll check back in,
(36:49):
you know, a couple of weeks or a couple of days,
and you know, he kind of backtracked a little bit,
so just some some uncertainty there, said that he was
was going to have to you know, not get to
the point where he was back to square one every
single time he played a game, so that you know,
he was so hurt that you know, all the progress
that he didn't make with his ZAC. Every time he'd
(37:10):
play a game, he would just have to hit complete
reset and start from square one, so that opens the
door to more Trent Noah playing time. And obviously Angeley
Almanol was the fourth leading minute guy last night. So
I really liked what I saw from Trent Noah. We've
seen him come in and hit shots at a high level,
just clearly the confidence is there. Dude just will fire
(37:30):
away and not even think twice about it. But yeah,
he was the hustle guy. With what I was talking about,
it kind of like the want to the urgency. It
did feel like at times Trentoah was the only guy
that had the urgency and had the want to out there,
So I mean that was part of the reason why
he was in the game with a minute and a
half left to go and you know, kind of crunch
time minutes, so we had shout out Trenton Nolla. Man.
That was a great debut for him. And we'll see
(37:53):
what happens with Andrew Carr, but if he's out from
an extended period of time, I would expect to see
more more out of Trentoa.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Jack Pilgrim one Hour Down, We'll be back after this
year listening to Stockyards Bank someday when the Sports talk
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