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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty lap.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in too, Sunday Morning Sports Talk here from the
lovely Clark's Pumping Shop Studios. Beautiful morning outside. I'm Larry
vald I'm in studio this morning with Bo Robinson, pushing
all the right buttons and opening the right door so
I can get in here for Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning
Sports Talk. Our normal show host Anthony White is with us.
(00:27):
He's just step visiting mom this weekend. So good morning
to you, Anthony.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Good morning. I'm not just visiting apparently why was not
a parent? But I will be. And that's been the
whole talk since I've been up here. You take your
mom back with you. Yeah, so I ain't just visiting, Larry,
I'm stealing.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh you're going to bring her back with you. Huh okay,
So that'll.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Be a treat, always a treat. Right, You're already you
were a little shape that week.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
I hope she wouldn't listen.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We've already had a week up here, and we're gonna
have a week down there. Her and I we can
get along for about good thirty six hours, maybe forty eight.
So I'm gonna see how fourteen days turns out.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Okay, all right, well that'll that'll be a challenge, but
we both and I have confidence in you, Anthony, So
we've got a good show lined up for you today.
Our other regular co host, Jack Pilgrim's not with us today,
so we'll be taking your calls at eight five nine
two A two two eight seven and we'll talk on
UK basketball, UK football, UK anything that you want to
(01:39):
talk about. Got several different guests lined up today. At
ten o'clock, we're gonna have I'm not even sure I've
had change to tell Anthony this yet, but we're gonna
have super UK fan JD. Shelburne, country music singer. Last night,
Anthony made his debut at the Grand O Opry, so
he is pretty and I don't know how much sleep
(02:01):
you've got last night, but I'm pretty sure it's more
than JD got. So but he will join us at
ten o'clock to talk about that experience and probably talk
a little UK basketball because he talks that.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Year round anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And then at ten thirty, Garrett Witherington out of one
plank there for a minute, defensive lineman out of Georgia
who is committed to Kentucky another ann Or Stewart addition
to that defensive line for next year, it's going to
join us. I think you'll really enjoy talking to him.
(02:34):
Kind of a hybrid type player, it looks like on
that defensive front, the kuy that animal really likes.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
And then at.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Eleven o'clock we're going to have twenty Beckham join us
talk about the champions weekend coming up in connection with
the Lo Familia and then the TBT tournament coming up.
Of course, twenty is one that puts the team together,
and I'll be able to tell us all about the
different guys, including the YouTuber who I had never ever
or heard of when they had him join the team.
(03:03):
But my grandson's bost seemed pretty excited about having him
on the team.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You know what's fun?
Speaker 7 (03:07):
You going to YouTuber?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, see, I figured you would know you know all
this so anthe was his name, yes or or something
like that.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Bo I don't even know his name. I don't even
know what he does on YouTube. But when I did
see his name and people were asking me, well, who's
this too, I'm like, oh, he was a walk on
during Cow's time here. You don't remember him? So I've
been going around kind of playing a prank on people
and they're like, no, we don't remember him. We don't
not at all. But I couldn't tell you what he does,
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so and I was just having fun. We'll find out
more from twenty And I'm glad you have confidence in
me pushing the right buttons and opening the right doors
because apparently I can't turn the correct knobs in my
bathroom to replace the uh, the knobs and the stems
in the bathtub. I've had some issues over the weekend
trying to do some home repairs and it got a
(03:58):
little rough last night and where I had to turn
the water off.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
That's why we have plumbers.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Bo.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, I know I'm not.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
A plumber, so bo tidy, righty, lefty, Lucy. I know that.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I know that that's a simple something you should learn.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Now we were about five or six.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Oh, I've done it once before, but I don't know.
I don't have the right combination of something turning those
stems correctly. And there's some adapters. So I'm just like,
you know what, I'm just going to replace all of
this and I'm just going to call plumber and do it.
Because I'm tired of messing with it, so that's been
my fourth.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Okay, we'll go to you Tube because that's where he's
nicknamed the mister Beasts of Basketball, and he goes by
the name of Jess. Really he goes by the name
of Jess or Anthony. He has thirty one million subscribers,
So how much he can buy I don't know, but
we will let twenty kind of tell us about that
because it's a very interesting addition to the team. It's
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kind of creative thinking. I don't know whether he's just
going to be on there to do content, whether twenty
thinks he's going to really be able to play some.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
And help them.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I don't know, but we will find out. But then Lyric, yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
No, you missed the new I think, well you're still
you're still rallying off, but you missed an important part.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
And now I'm going to say this.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You said he had thirty one million subscribers and he's
going to come in and promote. So apparently when we
lost Drake along with when Cal left, Apparently we lost
Drake because he's he don't mind jumping from team to team.
But don't forget Larry, because this is the thing that
is extremely interesting to me. The district, the area or
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the entertainment district at at Krogerfield. I don't know if
you know about that yet, oh but it had If
you don't know about it in the break, look it up.
That should be a huge topic because it is a
little bit in front of to me, is a little
bit more for Ms Barnhard in UK Media, UK Athletics however,
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they do things, but it is perfect like it is
something that we should be doing. It's something we should
have been doing. And the last couple of shows some
of the interests in our sporting teams. I think this
is a perfect time to hit it because I think
we'll be losing I don't think we're losing interest, but
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it will absolutely restore interest and probably polarized interest in
the sporting events.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
But uh, the.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Entertainment district over at Kogerfield is supposed to be area
where's all entertainment that now we now mix got some
people working over there now and maybe it's the Maybe
it's a YouTube streamer who suggested that Larry.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's certainly be something I'd be interesting to see if
we get some calls this morning about the entertainment district.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
So remind me where I'm supposed to park in.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, that's that's the main thing. If you're going to
go to a football game and this entertainment district comes
in part, I'll shuttle you over.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Well, it could be on the sidewalks, Larry, it could
be on the sidewalks.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
We're just gonna have to uber from the Red Mile
over to Commonwealth. That's all there is to it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
If they're smart, we put it inside of the stadium,
so you got to pay to get here at first.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, but I don't know that the business could survive
that way because they only to be open. What it's
that you only have seven or eight home games a year.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Only? Yeah, but only pusses on the road three four
or five games a year.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
But hang on, let's look at this long term. Is
outside having seven football games, are we also looking at
concerts because they've done that in the past, now over
the last few years, are we looking at having a
couple of concerts throughout the summer there to really generate
the revenue and the interest in getting people over there
to the stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I think you would have to if you built hotels
and restaurants and all like that, like what is being
talked about, You're going to have to do something to
generate business here. I mean, you do still have baseball
and softball soccer going on, but not enough I don't
think to sustain the businesses in that area. But maybe
not the just the concept has been thrown out there.
I guess we'll get more details going forward as things
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start to fall in place.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Maybe I didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Know that, uh, I see, I didn't know what extem
that far aside, and I never thought about. But Larry Vaught,
I thought you have in the past have talked about
before games. Haven't we been doing counsel in the past
couple of years or has that just been Has this
just been appearances from performers.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
They had what they called concerts, but they were just
kind of set up in different portions of the around
the stadium. But it's been several several years since they
have have have done that. Because remember well our guests
coming up to ten o'clock. J. D. Shelburn came up
and did one or two of those. Of Montgomery Gentry
did a couple of them that I know, and several
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other people did too, but there weren't full blown concerts
like what Bo was talking like what they had.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, having Chris Stapleton a
couple of years ago and Willie Nelson, and then back
in April it was Tyler Childers concerts like that, big
national touring acts that has these massive crowds. Is that
what we're looking at when we say putting in an
entertainment district around in hotels, because I don't know if
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something like that can survive for seven games throughout the season.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
As Larry said, we have other teams. Are you talking
during football season?
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Bow?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Would you suggest a Friday night or you suggesting before
the games in the mornings.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
I'm not suggesting that talking about during the summer.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh, I thought I thought you said okay, and that
and how does oh because UK Athletics would support that,
they would or they would they would be yeah, supporting
it or or or directing it.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, that's exactly right, or that's the least the way
the concept seems to have come out. So again, if
you'd like to join us to talk about that on
Sunday Morning Sports Talk with us, you can give us
a call of eight five nine two eight zero two
two eighty seven the Big As Fans Hotline. We would
love to hear your thoughts on that we're gonna take
our first break here when we come back. We'll kind
(10:18):
of give have maybe a little Jasper Johnson talk about
how he's doing with Team USA over in Switzerland. So
stay with us here on Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Welcome back to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk here
on News Radio six thirty WLAP. I'm Larry Valt, joined
as always by Anthony White and our producer Bo Robinson
pumping out the tunes for us here at very Timely
is always there, Bo. But Anthony, what about how our
buddy Jasper Johnson's been doing over in the FOEBA and
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Under nineteen World Championship in Switzerland. His team plays and
then the gold medal game today and Jasper coming off
a very good game yesterday. We're at fourteen points when
rebound one assist in his fourteen minutes and played really
really well.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Again.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, they play Germany at two o'clock today. Jashper doesn't
do anything but Win and Larry vaugh He that's nephew.
And I was talking to someone last week about I
think we were talking about cutting a little bit and
some of the local guys who stayed home and the
pressure of you know, being a lexting kid playing at Kentucky.
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And I ain't a pessimist. It may sound like that.
I just raised the right questions, Larry Vaux. But Jasper
going in fourteen points off eleven shots, three of them
were three, nine of the points with three pointers. It's
we talked about it last week. Is Jasper gonna be
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expected to be that guy? Because, like I said, when
the guy gets high or gets in the streak or
gets in his rhythm, yeah, he can knock down the
trade ball. But I just so he's doing great. He's
doing great on the USA team. I said, as you said,
they played Jerremany the day at two o'clock. When as
a freshman that is a Perry. That is a heavy
load to bear, knowing that we need a shooter because
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in the past we've had in the past couple years,
we had a couple three point shooters.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
But the way Jasper's shooting that thing.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Asked Jack last week if he thinks, well, you know what,
freshman may come off the bench and they start. He
didn't think a freshman would start. Maybe Jasper if they
had a chance. But the way he's playing over there,
I don't know how Mark Pope is gonna keep him
off the floor real early.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Larry Well, I think he's gonna play a lot. But
you've also got Denzel Aberdeen from the transfer from Florida,
who I think is probably a little bit better shooter
than what he's getting credit for. So whatever role Jasper
has will be found. That's that's the one thing I
like about him being on this team right now, Anthony,
because he's on there with all the best players in
the at that same age group. But in six games,
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he's averaging fifteen minutes a game, he's scoring eight point
five points per game. He's shooting forty six percent overall
from the field, forty two percent from a three point range.
So that's that's pretty darn good and that shows he
can kind of fit into the team however you needing to.
So I think whatever Jasper's role is, he will be fine.
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But I think he is certainly established during this FEVA
Championship that he can fit in very very well. And
I know when he went to try out for this team,
there was some he wasn't exactly sure when he went
if he wanted, if he did make the team, if
he's going to go ahead and go to Switzerland and
give up being here for two two and a half
weeks with his future teammates. I think Mark Pope encouraged
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him to go ahead and take part in this and
hopefully win a gold medal, and I think he's going
to come back and better better for it.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Like you said, Larry, that's a good that's a good
team point. You think about it. He wants to be
here for the team. And Pope's a you know, just
a great guy, great leader in general that maybe Jasper
doesn't understand. This is once in a lifetime opportunity. You
are gonna be this age once. You're only gonna get
a chance. I mean, you could probably play for the
for the country on some other levels or some other
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points in time in life, but you don't know that.
You know that you're gonna play at Kentucky for at
least one year maybe for if you if you desire to.
But the fact Larry, that he's thinking about giving it
up like, you know, I want to be there for
my team. I want to make sure, uh that I
get an opportunity to be on the court or help
my team, because you wouldn't expect anything less from Jasper.
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But you know that says it's a once in a
lifetime thing for him, for him to even juggle the
decision of you know, I want to be here for
my team everyone. I want to be here when we
kick off camp now. And Pope wouldn't allow him to
do that, because you're gonna look back on life at
some point and say, man, I had I had a
chance to play my senior year play over a in
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Switzerland or and did you ever gonna get that time back?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's right now now, talk I get the time back.
We're gonna go to the Big Ace fans hotline right
now and let h Larry tell us what's on his
mind this morning. So Larry, thanks for giving us a call.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Hey Larry, Uh, you know, I guess I still can't
get on the fact that Morrell went to Louisville. I
know him and brom are friends, but something has to
be deeper in that. You just don't go to the enemy.
I mean, even though it's kind of like, you know,
him and Stoops are lifetime friends. I guess what I understand.
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I read, you know, but you know, we haven't got
in state recruit got read of your stay and and
they got warned it to be committed. And then one
that I've produced him, And I'm sitting there thinking, I'll
say four games maybe for Lucky to win, but I
don't know whether it's uh Myrrol seemed the beginning of
the end of the whole thing thing for Mark, you know,
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I like Mark, you know, and but Tugi football, I
I you know, we went on a five game winn Street.
You know, I thought it was gonna be six, but
it more keptized they be pretty bad. But I'm thinking, Lois,
we may not beat him for a long time after this.
You know, of course that the SEC is so tough,
you know, like you know, when you're not one of
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the top dogs off with ore in basketball, it's just
you know, it's bad enough, you know that that that
you can beat your lesser teams that loves now become
pretty good, you know that probably contend for a SEC title,
you know, and but it's just hard to swallow and
looking the other side to see see Vince. I I
like mar I was really I was one of those fans.
But I look across our now thinking, guys, you know
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we're gonna be in the the end of the score.
I hope we didn't, you know, like it was last year.
I just really don't unders know what's gonna happen, you know,
I don't know whether mark a beer in a year
or two more or maybe I hope he pulls it out.
Maybe some miracle will happen. But look like me, it's
gonna have to be a miracle, guys.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
And what y'alls on, Larry, Larry, let me ask you.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Let me ask you this, Larry, which Larry Vaut pointed
out to us last maybe two weeks ago, Vince Mary
is the longest tenured assistant coach at the university ever. Now,
so that means, Larry, I don't know if you know
this or not. That means he got promoted somewhere. All
the other people got promoted somewhere or got can was
(17:27):
Vince was supposed to stay here until he got fired
or And I understand everybody's upset that it's Louisville. If
you if it's a family member of yours. Would you
tell them now you can go anywhere but that place
if they're gonna pay you, and they and they admire you,
and won't you.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Oh, I'm not I'm not faulting him. I'm saying, you know,
the money talks and little krap Waltz. But you know,
it's just the fact that Kentucky. It's just the fact
that Kentucky. Well, I know what's getting ready to come, guys,
I mean, unless the miracle happens, I mean, I know
some them see us winning three or four games and
gonna turn around. The Loivel is gonna probably be in
the playoffs because of the ACC is a weaker league
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by long shot, but they don't have as many hard
games in Kentucky. Everything Tucky's playing is going to be
you know, uh, even our worst teams SEC is gonna
be hard to beat. And and you know Vance, I mean,
I guess he's seen the righting on the wall too,
you know. And but it's just tough that a guy
that was our main recruiter O of old how especially
you know, I think we leaves ol'hile base and and look, guys,
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we didn't get a we didn't get a recruit out
of Kentucky. Now, these kids that ever committed in Kentucky
when he was here, Look, they're all de committing and
going to Louisville and wherever else. You know, we haven't
got one player out of Kentucky I read. I mean,
you know you think about that where we get our recruits.
So are we going back to recruiting against Eastern Kentucky
and some of these lessons schools?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, we're gonna be up against the break here, so
appreciates kind of we'll uh. I'll let Anthony expand even
more on that when we come back. But because I
wanted to ask Anthony this morning if, in a strange
way that maybe the Vince Merrill leaving Kentucky could help
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Kentucky something I've been kind of pondering over this last
week and everything. Could it kind of rejuvenate Mark Stoops.
Could it light a fire under the returning players? Could
there do something like that to kind of get everything
going back in a different direction than what it has been,
Because when you come off a four and eight season,
some things have to change. Maybe it's your recruiting philosophy,
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maybe it's your team culture, maybe it's staff members. I
don't know, but when you come off a four and
eight season, you got to make some changes. So when
we come back here on Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk,
I want to get our football expert, Anthony White, and
we're going to dive into that just a little bit more.
So stay with us here on Sunday Morning Sports Talk
on WLAP.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Welcome back to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk here
on news Radio six thirty WLAP. This hour Sunday Morning
Sports Talk is brought to you by Country Boy Brewing,
and we're gonna go right to the big Ace Fans
hotline because we have Mike on the line with us,
who wants to Anthony talk with you about the entertainment district.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Gentlemen, good morning. I hope you're doing wonderful today.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
We're doing great, Mike, Thank you for calling.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
So I was really excited when I heard about the
concept of the idea of this entertainment district, and then
all the questions start flooding in whereing the heck you're
gonna put it? And there are some areas over there
that you can take advantage of that will not and
this is the important part, that will not take away
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spots for tailgating, which is the lifeblood in and around
Kroger Field. There's some activities that you can bring in.
I mean, obviously you've talked about concerts, but there's when
you think about what's to do during the summer when
football is not going on, that you could take advantage
of that facility over there with an entertainment district. There's
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baseball and softball summer travel team tournaments, AAU tournaments that
you can host there that could actually also be used
as a recruiting tool at the same time for the
baseball and softball team's mind. You you obviously can do
high school tournaments, which they already do there. You could
bring in car shows and truck and tractor pools and
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put them into Kroger Field. There's all kinds of stuff.
But one thing's for certain. If a hotel is built
over there, it has to come with the caveat that
the hotel will build the parking structure and it has
to be self contained. You got to park all the
cars that are in that hotel staying in that hotel
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underneath it. You've got to bury the parking structure so
it doesn't take any other parking spots away from tailgators
that are going to football games. You can also enhance
some of those tailgate areas. Instead of nothing but black top,
you could add some greenery or at least change the
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aesthetics of it to make it a little more pleasing
to the eye to make people want to come in
and participate in that area. There's a lot of things
that you can do, but that I think it's great.
The university is thinking in this way to say, hey,
let's invest to get people to come here, to make
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this a destination location where people want to come watch
a football.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
Man.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Well, I think about that, Mike.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Mike, if you don't mind my asking what's your what
is your profession? That was pretty profound. I like, I
like what you said, what's your profession? If you don't
if you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Uh, well, I used to be in your all's business.
My degrees in TV and radio broadcasting, but I've been
an HR manager for the better part of thirty years,
so I deal with I'm the complaint department and business
is always good and you're different people complaining all the time,
and very rarely do people ever take advantage and say
we're going to put acts behind it and change what's
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going on. And I like the fact that UK is
thinking more in the forefront to say, how can we
change this so it's better in the future. So people
want to come here, not so they have to go
watch a football game and have to deal with the
traffic and all that. Their mindset is. Man, I can't
wait to go this weekend because it's going to be
outstanding and fun, even if we don't win the football
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man all.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Right, Mike, very very profound thought. Thank thank you very
much for Colin. Don't be a stranger, just give us
call more often than also we appreciate that, and glad
to have Mike on the big as Fans hotline there
with us. And now we're going to go to a
man who never complains about anything, always mister optimistic John Short,
how are you today?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
John?
Speaker 10 (23:51):
Then to find everybody, y'all great American.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Thank you, We feel the same about you.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
Here.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
You have in locke of a commanswer between twenty six
seas one twenty five hasn't begun?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, I guess so what's what else? Is kind of
on your mind this morning, John, I.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
Look forward to that to the basketball thing on eighteenth
through twenty two. You see high Kentucky players, gon'll do.
I believe we're gonna win the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, well, we're gonna have twenty Beckham on here with
us at eleven o'clock to talk about that, and that's
twenties go. We put the team together. But they'll also
be having a Champion's weekend coming up this next weekend
with some different things going on, so you make sure
you stay with us, so twenty can tell you all
about that too, John.
Speaker 10 (24:34):
Okay, if we need to do the same thing too,
for take women's past, but they need they need to
do the same thing to feel at the men's team.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Well that would be great, that would be nice. I
don't know if there's quite a market for that yet,
but maybe there will be. Because in the last week
or so, Kentucky got a Kentucky women got another huge commitment.
I'm sure you probably saw that from from Savvy Swords,
who plays originally from Canada, now plays in New York.
Top ten player in the twenty twenty six recruiting class.
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So Kentucky now has two top ten players in the
twenty twenty six recruiting class in Madden Greenway and Savvy Swards.
That's a pretty good combination.
Speaker 10 (25:11):
I know, I thought you were. You mentioned another command.
I thought too, so we got another time we got,
but it gives me done. I thought we got a
circument for twenty six seasons.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Guess they're they're they're working on one.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That would be a pretty big working on several, but
there's one that you kind of hear some speculation about
and nothing officially.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yet that I know of.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
He all right, John, we appreciate you Colin as always. Okay, welcome,
all right again, that's a that's our very mister optimistic
John Short. And now we're going to go to mister
knowledge Anthony White.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Larry Arry, Larry Vaught.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I were with you. I don't know if the market
is there. Like you said, I have to do a
women's team, But this didn't cross my mind. And it's
gonna sound out landish for some people listening. Think Valerie
still would be will be on TBT team?
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Would she be?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Not?
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Would she be? That's why I said, sounds landish? Why
would she? But could she be?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Could she be? Probably because she was that good? But
she's uh, it might she might.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Not want to put her body's tooth.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Has just been a few years since she played Anthony.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
That's my point.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I if you staying meeting at just because I'm probably
a little smaller, if you stood me next to her brother,
you would think you would think Art is probably thirty
eight thirty five.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Yeah, that was my point.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
When you see them now, they don't age at all.
So I'm like, you know what I'm if I've still
if I look like Art did and I'm in my
sixties and somebody asked me to play a flag football,
I do it just because, I mean, if it helps
out of the university. But like you said, I wouldn't
want to put my body through it because when things
breaking this age.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, you remember Darius Miller talking about last week, that's
kind of what he didn't want to do playing for TVT.
Even though I think I've got this right. When I
looked up yesterday about uh DeAndre Leiggins, who's going to
be on the team, how do you think DeAndre is?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
See them years of DeAndre legs he played with he
was the only championship PI he wasn't on the championship
team was right after that.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Right now, he's before that. He was before that, Lyns.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Okay, now I'm doing the mad Oh wow.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
So you remember a couple Remember a couple of weeks
ago when Larry wasn't with us, You and I were
having this conversation about how off we how often, how
time is skewed to where? Right now the Marcus Cousins
and John wall they are the old dudes of the
Calipery tenure at Kentucky. Well Leiggins is on that too.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
I think Liggas might.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Be thirty four. I'll say thirty four.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I think he maybe thirty seven years old. Where I
looked up said he was born in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Which means we're getting older.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Uh that would make him ada make them uh about
forty three?
Speaker 5 (28:17):
I mean thirty thirty seven, right, No, my little.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Brother is about to be forty. He was born eighty six. Yeah, yeah,
he could be depending on his birthday. It'd be thirty seven,
depending on his birthday, thirty seven.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So so yeah, so just think about deanre getting out
there and getting after it the way he's going to be. So,
like I said, well, we'll let twenty kind of confirm
that for us.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
But uh, I mean at forty eight, I don't even
want to go out in more grass.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Now I play with them chunks.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Now I go to football camps and I go get
some little jokers because I want to understand.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
I want them to understand.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
You want legitivity, you gotta think you got to use
your head and everything. Now, when I pull a heavy
or tear Mike Keeley, then I'll sit my tail down somewhere.
But I always try. I'm always try to see what
I got left. That's why I said, if I look
like Valerie and Art Man, I'll be trying everybody.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, okay, well here's why I want you to try.
While we take our break here on Stockyards Bank Sunday
morning sports talk, I want when we come back, I
want you to talk about whether you think Mark Stoops
is kind of rejuvenated. Whether it's the four and eight
finished from last year, whether it's Vince Mara going to Louisville,
or whether it's other circumstances. I want to get your
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opinion on whether you think Mark Stoops seems rejuvenated to you,
and if that could lead to a better than expected
season for Kentucky this year, So stay with us. We'll
be back on Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on
news radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Welcome back to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk with
here from the Lovely Clark's Pumping Shop studio in downtown Lexington.
Had kind of posed a question for Anthony, but we're
going to go back to the Big Ace Fans hotline
first because alvit is on. Maybe Alvin wants to talk
about the same thing. But good morning to you.
Speaker 11 (30:10):
Alvin, Hey, good morning, how you guys doing, how you're doing?
Larry and Anthony, I did want to shift the conversation
to the history of Kentucky sports. Actually, Larry and you
being the historian with the program, and Anthony knowlan a
little bit about it as well. I want to talk
about Kentucky football and some of the men that made
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it great. And one of the men that doesn't get
a whole bunch of credit for making UK football great,
in my opinion, was Rich Brooks, who won went to
five straight Bowl games. I don't I forget if you
won five in a row, went four and one, I
kind of forget that, But he also had a guy
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that played quarterback, Andre Woodson Anthony. That really doesn't get
a whole bunch of conversation when it comes to great
football quarterbacks to play the UK. Generally that particular Accolade
go to the great Kim Couch and even Loreenzing gets
a jersey that's a whole bunch of talk about him
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being there, being a healthy lefty and going on to
the New York Johnson winning a Super Bowl. So I
think that that Rich Brooks completely is never in a
conversation on what he's done for the program. And then
I pivot toward to Kentucky basketball. Larry and coach Tubby
Smith comes to mind. A guy came out of nowhere
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hard to come to take over the program by Cem
Newton comes his first year and lead to comeback Cats
to a national championship in nineteen ninety eight. He doesn't
get a bunch of credit. Some of the men and
young guys that played with him rarely get talked about.
And Tayshine Trnce Anthony comes to mind is being part
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of Tubby Smith's program along with Jeff Shepard, along with
Nazi Mohammad and others that don to Blue and White.
But Tubby Smith as well doesn't get enough credit for
what he done as the head man in the UK basketball.
So I guess I want to talk about those two
men and maybe others that was instrumental in advancing detechive
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sports here locally, in the state and abroad. And I
hang up and listen to you to sports Me and
talk about that.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Thank you, all right, thank you Elvin. Well, what do
you think about that, Anthony? But probably a long list
of folks who don't get enough recognition in both sports,
I would say, and.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
I agree with that, and I'm always candid, I'm always honest.
A lot of people like the show because of it,
A lot of people dislike the show because not a
lot some people dislike the show because of it and Larry.
But I think that's due to our fans, and I
think that's due to UK Athletics, because we talked a
couple of weeks ago about Benny Snell and Chris Rorieguez.
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The thing they've done are remarkable, I will tell you this.
And as much as I like Alvin Larry, we love
Alvin Colin and he always gives you something to think about.
I do not agree to Andre Woodson. I think Andre
Woodson is the name if you ask about UK quarterback history,
if you say top three, Tim is always going to
be in there, and that I'm kind of partial, you know,
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I mean, I got a reason I'm biased about that.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
But the next name is usually Andre.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Some people like Jack, but Andre is always in the
top three, and I don't think it's I don't think
anybody can argue that Tim shouldn't be in the top two.
Now when you get down to two and three, the
heart line comes up sometimes other people.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
But Andre's always in the top three, don't you think, Larry.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I don't think Andre's being underrated unless he's saying he
deserves to be up there with Tim, which I do
not agree with.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
But yeah, I think unless you go back to very
very very veteran UK fans like maybe Oscar Combe somebody,
it might throw in a baby Perilli somebody like that,
that goes way way back. But if you're just talking
in the modern era, I think Tim won Andre two
is what I always hear, you know, a couple.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Of years and that's that's. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
What I wanted to say a couple of years ago, Anthony,
you were on this panel, Larry you were, I was too,
and Corey Price had to ask us putting together our
all Commonwealth Stadium team. And when you looked at when
it came down to quarterback, Anthony, you brought it up.
You're talking about Tim Couch obviously, and Jared Lorenzen, and
then you get down and you're looking at Mike Hartline.
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But then you look at Andre Woodson and you're like,
all right, kind of forgot about him. But if you
look at his stance, it's pretty convincing that he needs
to be up there on that list.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Just like Anthony White needs to be in the UK
Athletics Hall of Fame. Can you just look at stats?
Speaker 6 (34:58):
I'm all about that. I'm on that band wagon.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Now.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
And the other thing was Larry Uh rich Brooks. I
think Rich rich Brooks kind of changed the culture. Now
we just talked about the last segment. Once you start
going to digging in and numbers, looking at stats, Rich
Brooks and and I know the fan base will be
upset because Rich Brooks. Rich Brooks is a great guy
and he changed the culture. Rich Brooks. When you look
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at the numbers, he's not. He's not all that close
to what Stups is doing. You got with Bear with
Bear is done. There's I think he deserves credit for
changing the culture. To me personally, honestly, I think he
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saw the direction the program was going, maybe because the
administration didn't get behind him, and that's why maybe.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
He could have done like Stoops.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Stoops took a couple of years to get his to
get his uh his feet dug in is he dug in?
And once he got him dug in. Stoops has done
a great job. But when I look at the SEC
record from rich Brooks, it ain't remarkable. But him as
a coach, the players he put in the NFL or
the guys he established and all the players love him.
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So Rich Brooks goes way beyond the numbers. But when
people just say it because they remember us going to
all these bowl games, he was he was four and
his overall records four and foreign bowl games where he's coach,
he's he's four and foreign bowl games.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
But at least at Kentucky two bowl games.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Absolutely absolutely, so I think, I know, I think I
think he and I and I say this also that
Mummy probably if he had done a couple of things differently,
because Mummies had two five hundred seasons in SEC and
coached four years.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And and Hall made football fun and relevant back in
the state of Kentucky. He got cut Kroger Field to
the situation is in now with an expansion. He did
a remarkable job. So there's a lot of folks now
on the basketball side, I would agree with what he
said about Tubby. Tubby probably doesn't get I agree all
the credit that he deserves. And part of that's because
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Cali Perry came in here and had such a fabulous run.
And now it's also been what fifteen years since Tubby
was here. You kind of tend to forget a little
bit as things get away. But Tubby did a really
really good job, and if not for an injury or
two and a couple of things, he could have easily
had two or three national championships.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Also, no, I.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
Don't agree with you.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
He he won one championship with Potinos players, And that's
Toby's history.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
That was Anthony White just said that, folks.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
So no, that's the narrative. I think that's kind of
a little bit more where Alvam was going. You can't
argue the type of guy is what he's done for
the program. But if if you do want to go
Alvin's direction on him being underappreciated, that's the biggest slap
in the face he's gotten.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Yeah, I was. I would agree the champion.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
Everyone in one chair.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Like you said, if he didn't have some some tough
spind some tough turns.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
It could have been.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
But the narrative now is his one championship came with
the Patinos guys, which is not fair to him.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
No, it's not.
Speaker 7 (38:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
When we come back, we're going to have mister uk Basketball,
a guy that I always loves to talk basketball.
Speaker 8 (38:18):
J D.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Shelburn, who just happened I also play at the Grand
Ole Opry for.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
His debut last night. So stay with us.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
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