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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, May the fourteenth.
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Speaker 4 (00:48):
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
Not yet, though, we're gonna keep the phone lines closed
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He'll make him pay so Uh. Cody Figer will be
on the show at ten thirty, UK assist at basketball
(01:15):
coach He of the Booms Uh will make his first
appearance on the show. I don't know him, never met him, uh,
only this morning, kind of realized what he looked like.
But excited to have Cody because I'm really he's kind of,
you know, the analytic mind, uh.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
That was brought with Pope and be interesting to hear him,
hear him talk. You know.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
I'm like, you don't know him, never met him, never
talked to him, but I already feel like I like
the guy from his gifts, those boom gifts that he
puts out on a on a commitment. I love that.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You like that? Yeah? Why do you like it so much?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Just something kind of different, something kind of a relatable.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
What would what would yours be?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You get to I just did one?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You get to pick your Which one did you do? Oh?
You did the one over there?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well, I mean a famous one.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You you did one for social media, which was just
you taking your shirt off. I know that's gonna surprise
you Shannon next to Bert Kreischer. This man takes his
shirt off more than any person in America.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
What about you? Were you excited about Cody. I'm very
excited about Cody.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
To your boom question, the Kenny Powers boom that Brandon
Garrison already use would be my boom. But I don't
like to hear from him. I want to hear more
about how they operate with that offense. We do a
lot of watching YouTube and trusted the internet to teach
just but it'll be nice to actually hear from one
of the men behind it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, it'd be nice to I mean, we talked to
Pope already, and there's kind of an introductory interview that
you have to do with people where you sort of
talk about what.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Made him come here, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, I'll ask him at least a question about that.
But then I'm I'm with you, I'm sort of interested
in the basketball. Now we're gonna look like, what are
we gonna look like?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
What's the what's the way we play, what's the way
we do.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's really probably what I'm most interested in hearing him
talk about.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yeah, because it was when when Pope was on with you.
You know, he was talking about the roster construct action
and how okay we got this piece, we got to
do this piece, go get that piece. So it is
more definitely analytical. And you don't use the word algorithm
the things they put together to try to put this
team together.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Do you know what an algorithm is?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
In math? An algorithm is like what like abe square
plus B squared equal C squared.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
No, that's calculus.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Oh that's calculus. I was really good in calculatus.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I'm sure that's I'm sure that's true. So so Drew.
We we found out today or yesterday. The SEC opponents
yep for Kentucky and if you haven't heard Kentucky basketball.
This year, we'll play every team wants. The highlights are
every team wants except Arkansas, Tennessee, and Vandy. We play
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excuse me, Alabama, Tennessee, and Vandy. We play twice. Arkansas
is at RUP, not down there. And then we go
to Oklahoma and Texas. Oklahoma and Texas do not come here.
We go there for their first time there. Auburn is
only here. So two of the harder road environments Auburn
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and Arkansas, we only have to play here. But we
do go to Texas and Oklahoma. What did you think
of the schedule when it came out.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I think, like everyone, we were excited to get that
confirmation that Col's coming to UP. I think that's the
game everyone's looking forward to most on the entire schedule.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So it's good to see that.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Is now firm. Kind of like we're not giving them
the return trip. They don't get their Superman. You don't
need a T shirt game your free T shirt. The
other time I found indiestioning Alabama got the the doubleheader
with Kentucky. It's been Florida forever, so it just shows
that they.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
They're changing the schedule.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It seems like if you look at what the other
team's got that in the future they're gonna do. You
have two teams you play every year, and for us
it's gonna be Tennessee and Vandy, it looks like, and
then one team will change every year you play twice.
And for Kentucky it's probably gonna be whoever the best
team is in the conference. You're gonna play them two yep.
So Alabama's predicted to be the best team, so we're
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gonna play them.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
That's why it's kind of the league. You know, given
Alabama their credit, they've been in recent years the best
team where they won the league twice, won the tournament twice.
It's gonna be weird not having two against Florida, but
it shows how good Alabama was.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
When's the last time we haven't had two against Florida?
I mean the sixties? Is it with it? The sixties? Yeah? Sixties?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I mean we because you know, you played them in
the SEC East for a long time, and that was
before you played everybody twice. Then you played the SEC
East twice, and then we went to the three teams
twice and we always had Florida as one of them.
So this is weird. First time since the sixties won't
be playing Florida twice.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I think, like Drew said, not surprise Arkansas is at
rub not surprised they get Alabama twice because they're supposed
to be the best team in the conference. Also not
surprised they're sending us to Oklahoma and Texas. Kind of
they welcome to the SEC. We're gonna bring the big
show to your town this first season. So hard schedule
Oklahoma in Texas. I said, I'm sorry, would you say
I think, I said Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, we've been there before.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah it is, it's a hard scanual, but I don't
think it's like I mean, we got a In my opinion,
the three hardest road environments in the SEC are probably Auburn, Arkansas,
and probably Tennessee. But we're gonna play them twice anyway,
So with Auburn and Arkansas, I think you can make
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an argument we don't have to go to the two
hardest places to play Drew.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
So in that respect, I don't think it's too awful difficult.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yeah, you dodge the emotional road game against Cal. I'm
interested to see. I don't know what Texas roster looks
like right now, haven't done as much research on the
rest of the league, but I think they'll be very
excited to host Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I think there's must to be pretty good.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I think that'll be a wild atmosphere and a probably
a pretty good team as they've been in the past.
So I think that's one our first trip there, they'll
be fired up to host.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I was going to suggest if we took a little
mini basketball road trip if we're you know, if we're
gonna do football for Texas, maybe we go to Oklahoma, like,
there's no like, I mean, when have you? I was
thinking I met on on a plane when I was
sitting in Cincinnati or in Dallas delayed a metal woman
who went to Oklahoma. Yeah, and it made me realize
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that might be the biggest school that you and I
have never been to. I've never been to Norman. I
was trying to think, you take Big twelve, Big.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Ten ACC schools.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I've been to almost all of them, but I don't
think I've been to Oklahoma, and so that might be
a good one to go to.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Right, And I was like, we're going.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Eventually the football team is going to play there in
the near future. So yeah, I think I'm a trip
to Oklahoma. I mean, what next year? Is it? Next year?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, I mean next year we're going to Technics. But
the year after that, I think isn't the way the
schedule goes, We'll go.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Everywhere everywhere over a course of a four years.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, you're right, everywhere over four years, not everywhere over
over two years. So now that you know the schedule,
what's it going to be like when cow walks in here?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Now do we know what's gonna happen? First?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Of all, when do they play it? Is it a
Saturday night six o'clock.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's gotta be Saturday.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Remember, CBS doesn't have sec basketball games anymore. So, and
by the way, this happens with football.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Two.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It got sort of hidden yesterday, but football made announcement
about schedules too.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Did you see this?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So football and basketball will be scheduling much different than
we've done. Let's start with basketball, since what we're talking about,
they will have games on Saturdays at twelve, two, four, six,
and sometimes eight. And those games quote unquote good games
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could be on any of them because they're gonna try
to spread the good games out all day. So it
will be much harder to predict ryan win good games off.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So, like it used to be on a Saturday, you
were the four o'clock CBS game, absolutely, or the six
or eight o'clock ESPN game. Now they might put you anywhere,
especially during the NFL playoffs, right right, So, so we
really have no idea when they'll play, but I would say,
you want to get that place wild, you do it
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at four or six something like that.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
And they're gonna make this judgment before the season starts too.
The tip off times will be made.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Basketball times will all be before, and not every football time,
but most of the football times will be before too.
So one of the complaints fans have had is you
didn't know all two weeks before the game when it
would be. I think I don't think they're gonna do
all of them, but I think they're gonna do a
lot of them. They also announced no team will have
more than two noon home games for football, So that's good.
(09:41):
Alabama's complaining because they've had, for whatever reason, a ton
of noon games because whenever they play a bad team,
they put them at noon. Now, Drew, I think they
said almost every team will have two noon home games,
but nobody will have more than two, which is a difference.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, forever, we've had in our mind how they pro games.
You know, it was out it was oh miss, that's
who always would happen to but go.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Ahead, Sorry, but yeah, you get in our head. Okay,
these two teams are gonna be the CBS game. They're
the best, and you just kind of went down the
order that's completely changed, completely changed. I mean, you might
have the best game at noon. For years, they just
currentered that time slot to the Big ten. But now
the SEC will try to put a Marque game there
as well.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, they're gonna put base in the In football, basically
noon three thirty and seven, they will take the three
best games and put one on each and then the
others will fill in behind it. So you could have
the third best game and be at noon. You could
have the seventh best game and be in prime time,
depending on how it goes.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
For football, well, the the best game of the day
always be on.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But they're doing a lot of this in advance, so,
like you know, they used to two weeks out, go
all right, what's the best game of the game. Yeah,
three thirty second best game of the game, day seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Now a lot of it will be picked in advance.
I think I think the.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
First seven or eight weeks of the season, Drew will
be picked in advance, which like a I don't think
that's ever ever happened.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yeah, it used to matter so much, I guess for
that CBS slot the two Mondays before that's when they
denw this is our best game because you didn't want
to do it before the season. But now with it's
so scattered, it's not as important to have a specific
time slots. They're already filling him in ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So go back now, Rick walk or see me Rick
Cow walking in this place. There's a lot of debate
when the schedule came out. What's gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
If you had asked me a week after he left,
I thought he's getting booted. I kind of don't know
if he will.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I think there's gonna be a huge movement amongst people
to not do it. So I think it'll end up
being people over cheering to compensate that they're worried people are.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Gonna boot That's my tech. Now again, this is months out.
What do you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I mean, he is at a conference rival and he's
coming in and probably what's gonna be an important game
for conduct to win. So I mean I can almost
see us applauding for a Do you know more? Will
they applaud for Cow? There'll be some that applaud, But
what will be the overall sentiment?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Of course there'll be some, But will it be more
boo will be forget about numbers. If you're standing on
the floor, will he hear booze or cheers predominantly?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I'm gonna go boo all right, I think it's gonna
be pretty even divide, but I'm leaning boo. I think
when people get in the moment, people might even say
they're not gonna boo. But when you get in there
and that energy is in the building and he walks out,
there's a few booze.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I think some people won't be able to help himself.
What spirit of the game that day, It.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Will definitely be a mix, But I think the people
booing will be louder than the people cheering.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
He will hear the booze, all right, Well.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
He will hear the booze because I know that's just
how he And I'll give you a perfect example during
that press conference when they if you listened live, if
you listen to the tape, people were cheering when they
said my name.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
But there were a.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Couple of people and I heard a cop and I
almost wanted to win up to him, go what do
you want something?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I'm gonna here. You want to race, I can beat
you in a race. He'll hear the booze. I'm gonna
beat I think you got Here's what I think it's
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Two weeks before the game, there's gonna be a somebody's
gonna get up and say, let's not boo this guy.
Mark's gonna say that. Don't you think Mark Pope will
say that. Mark Pope will say that. And I think
there'll be some peer pressure not to boo, and it
will keep some people from booth. I mean, let's be real,
there's three U three and there's four people sitting in
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the thing. I'm not gonna say who says what? Turn
the camera off? Mark, turn it off? That's off, not
off off. How many of you you would if it
was anonymous boo? Six to one? Shant it boo?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Really wow?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And you wouldn't have guessed who was who? You wouldn't
have guessed. So maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there will be
more books. I think we'll reveal my Well, now you
can't really your bone, that's true. I mean it'd be
too obvious.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
When he walks out of the tunnel, I can see
him maybe get a little moral applause. But when they
introduce him and head coach to the Arkansas Raised Backs
John Calo Perry, it will.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Boo if this makes it. I don't think it's gonna
be booing because they dislike cow.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
I think it's just gonna be the energy of Arkansas's
on the court.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
There he is.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yeah, it's just you're booing him in that one moment.
It's not like I don't like you, I've forgotten what
you've done for us. It's just that you're right in
front of me, right before a big ravery game, probably
gonna let off a boo.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Uh well, we're not gonna open the phones yet.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
So the text machine is seven seven two seven seven
four five two five four. Cody Figer will be on
it ten thirty. When he's off, we'll take your calls.
A lot of stuff to get to SEC schedules out.
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five four One person rights Matt. In most things in life,
it seems like the most negative people are online. I
would agree with that, yes, but with cal Sometimes I
wonder if there are more positive people.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Online the negative.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
No one I know in my life would do anything
than boom, But online everyone says we should cheer. What
do you think is the right What do you think
is the best example of the fan base. I don't
know the answer.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
To that. I tend to think.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
There are more vocal cal So I look at the
fan base in like a multiple facet thing.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I think casual like Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Fans like your grandma Right. I think I really like
right because they're I think those kind of people, the
people who wear the Kentucky sweaters, you know, and who
are very sweet, I think they're they're they're pro cow.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I think the male.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Part of the fan base is very negative for the
most part. Online I actually think it splits up age wise.
I think the younger fans tend to be more pro
cow than the older fans. But so it's weird in
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the g Here's what I would say. I haven't met
a woman, and I don't mean to be like gender
based on this, but I really feel this. I have
not met a woman that comes to our shows that
doesn't like Cow, but I haven't met a lot of
men who weren't.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Done with him. But online, especially Twitter, is mostly a.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Male thing in terms of who host the most right
like about Kentucky Sports. The younger ones are much more
positive than the ones Drew's age and older.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Do you agree with that? And so I just find
it interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Normally, I don't think opinions always focus demographically, or if
they do, it's because of politics.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
In this one, it's kind of all over the board.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Depends on who you talk to, right, depends on what
form you're on. So I actually think that's why it's
hard for me to predict what will be in that arena,
which has also a different kind of fan base. The
arena is a little wealthier in general than the average
fan base, a little more for football. The football people
(17:46):
come from all over the state. The basketball people tend
to be more Lexington based.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Would you agree with that? So it's hard to know
what that's what that arena will do as opposed to
just the fan base is Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
I wonder because a lot of the people that will
be in the REPP areena for that game, you kind
of wonder are they upset that they've spent so much
money on tournaments lately, because that's people that are spending
money and traveling too.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
No doubt the SEC tournament crowd was very next.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Oh, lots of booing there, But also those are the
people if there's season ticket holders, they might have several
fond memories with Cal in that build.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
It's true they do and a lot of those people
just by their very stature in life. Many of those
people have met cow over the end they want to
be but whatever, that's exactly right. So it's it's interesting.
It's just it's kind of all over the place. And
so that's why it's hard for me to predict what
will happen. And again there's a time element, what happens
over the next six months. Are they good when they
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come here? Yes, Okay, if they're eleven and nine, he'll
get a better reception than if they're eighteen and thirty.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Oh, no doubt. You know what I mean, no doubt.
It's interesting to hear you kind of play it out.
Like the younger generation, they don't know any different. All
they know is cal.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Okay, let's use Mario.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
The day col left, Mario was panicked like Kentucky basketball
is over.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Now he's all in on Pope.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So I do think the younger fan base over time
will go all in on Pope if they haven't already.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, they have not had to go through that before.
This is their first time they've had to go from
one era to the next. And I agree with you
about the older fan You know, we get a little
more forgiving the older we get. So I think they're
a little more forgiving of cal and ready to welcome,
not welcoming back. They wouldn't maybe boo.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Him second time he comes here, it will be positive
unless he's won a national championship. Yeah, but the first
time is the one that I don't know what to say.
How about this NBA draft combine yesterday read Shepard the
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highest vertical jump YEP.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Of anyone in the combine? Crazy?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I mean, first of all, for people who say I
don't know if he's athletic enough for the NBA, clearly,
that's not.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Clearly he is. But Drew that shocked me. The highest
of everyone.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
And I want to say, I don't have that in
front of me. It was maybe like the twenty second
highest all time, forty two inches.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It was an inch and a half higher than anyone else,
white guy from London, Kentucky highest. But he doesn't he
doesn't play like that, No, you know what I mean,
He doesn't play way above the rim.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
The way I like to look at it yesterday is
Jeff Shepherd's kid has a higher vertical than lebron James kid.
Because Bronnie was there and Reid got him by a
couple of inches, but Jeff played more above the rim.
You know, you think lebron James Kid's gonna be nothing
against Bronnie's shattering numbers. But no other kid from London,
Jeff's kids, the one that's out jumping every Reed is
going in the top seven.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Oh yeah, oh like he is.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
And I know they are still fans. I still have
people say to me, you know, in the end, do
you really think he's gonna Yeah, he is.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I mean when he when I saw him shooting threes
at that thing, just bam, bam, bam bam. I mean,
Broni made eleven straight threes in the in the combine
and people are like, wow, I feel like Reid could
make fifty straight.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yeah, you know, and I think he's top four the
word does? The Spurs love him and their fourth so
I don't know if he gets past them.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
If Reid or Rob goes to the Spurs, like they
become kind of the new Kentucky team, right, wouldn't you say?
There gonna be so much fun to watch and whoever
like so the Rockets have the third pick, they're actually
getting better, so whoever comes in might not immediately start.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Whichever those guys go to. The Spurs is playing for
moment one, yes, and he's playing a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And I think our fans will really get into whoever.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
It is that is.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I think there's a chance they can go back to back.
Both those teams are looking at guards at three and four.
I don't know who would prefer which one, but whoever
ends up Wimby, that would be a fun young duo
to keep up with.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
And it would be And what a perfect spot because
you're gonna get a spotlight on you because Wimby's gonna
have I mean, Wimmy's gonna be the best player in
the league in four or five years, and you have
a chance to be a teammate right of the best player.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
In the league. Good culture, good coach.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yes, you got Popovich, a legend who's coached legends over
the years. I'm such a great spot, yea. And you know,
even the Rockets people don't people they've been bad for
a long time.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
They got a good young group. They got what Odulko,
I can't get it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Right, but he the guy with the Celtics who was
great there and he's a good coach. So I think
wherever they go. I think they have a chance to succeed.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, like you said, they can kind of grow together
if they Robber, Reed and Wimby just kind of watch
them grow and become superstars together.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
That's right, all right.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Cody Figer of the Kentucky's assistant coach will join us.
The man who created the booms. That's next right here
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Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.
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Speaker 3 (23:06):
Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio now happy to be joined
on the phone by UK assistant basketball coach Cody Fieger
and Cody, first of all, welcome to Lexington.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
How do you How do you like it so far?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
And what made you decide to join Mark here once
he took the job.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Oh shoot, man, I appreciate you having me on today. Well,
I love Lexington so far. I've been here off non
for like the last three weeks. It's absolutely beautiful. Got
to go to the horse race the other day learning
more and more about this play. But been to Jeff Rubies,
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a couple of times and some recruits around. It's been
It's been absolutely amazing so far. And the reason I
took the job is because it's Kentucky. You know, I
think of Kentucky as a top five basketball job in
any you know, whether it's Europe, whether it's NBA, I
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think it's a top five job. And absolutely logus place.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh, I like that in all of basketball. That's that
we like to hear stuff like that. Well, Cody, I
you know, we talked to Mark a couple of weeks
ago about his philosophies, et cetera, and about recruiting. I
want to talk to you a little bit about just
the basketball side of it because I know you're heavily
involved in that. A lot of us at this point
have watched a lot of BYU games and sort of.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
But how would you describe the staff and.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Mark Pope's philosophy when it comes to actually, you know, offense,
defense and the x's and oh's of basketball.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Yeah, So, I mean, how coach Pope likes to build
his program, his team. Just give these guys a Tommy
confidence first and foremost. He wants them to play you know, fast,
free and fearless, you know, offensively where we're trying to
get up thirty five threes a game, and if you
turn down an open shot, you're coming to sit on
the bench. Like that's how he coaches. Wants to give
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these guys tons of freedom and wants them to play
off their instincts. So that's a huge thing for us offensively,
just playing fast, playing the transition and let these guys
make plays and make reads. And then defensively, we like
to you know, our bases mana man, but well we'll
do a bunch of punches during the game, whether it's like,
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you know, we'll trap a ball screen or come out
in a press or we'll change it up after timeouts
things like that, or or if we feel like we
can get one quick in the half court.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You know, when you look at the roster you've built,
you know you got three guys who were their conference
player of the year on defense, was that an intentional
goal to try to I mean, you got some guys
who could also fill it up, but to get guys
who can defend and strong one on one man to man.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Yeah, that was something that we definitely talked about. Is
we want to be obviously, we want to get better defensively,
and then we also feel like we can help them
improve improve, you know, offensively and just different skills and
how we play. We just feel like with our freedom
and just help them with these guys make decisions offensively,
we feel like we can really help help them grow
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that way.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
One of the guys we know little about because didn't
really watch him in high school and then he's been
on his mission is Colin Chandler. I'm sure you do.
You guys have high hopes. What's what's he like as
a player?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Oh, he is. Uh, he's a high level athlete, high Q. Kid,
makes the right play, unbelievable offensive player, can really shoot
the ball, and really good passer. Uh, great finisher on
the rim, you know. And then defensive man, he's got
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a he's got a great sense for the passing lane
and feels like and things like that. He's a high
level basketball player. We're we're really excited to have him
here at Kentucky's.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Do you you know, looking at the roster as it's
been built, a lot there are a lot of guys
who've had college success but maybe haven't been the primary
score on their team, or maybe in one case, I
have but sometimes not. Do you feel like a couple
of those guys and if so, who can flourish or
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do you think this will be a team next year
that really the points are distributed kind of widespread amongst
a bunch of guys.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Yeah, that's kind of always the goal is the points
distributed a bunch around everybody, you know, you know, And
we feel like giving these guys more and more freedom
and more and more confidence that we're gonna have guys,
you know, build up and get more confidence that way
like we did it. We did it in previous years
with the other players where they weren't looked at as
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a as a you know, high level scoring option, and
we turned a guy in like Alex Barcelo from somebody
who wasn't looked at anything like that into a you know,
an All American for us at BYU. And and we
feel like just with our confidence and our development and
how we play, and we'll give you a ton of
freedom and we able to you know, develop into.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
That you right now, have I believe ten guys on
the roster, do you how many do you all expect
to add? You think, I mean you can do thirteen scholarships?
Do you expect to fill all of them. Do you
expect when do you think the roster will be filled?
You know, I mean, we're recruiting obsessed with this fan base.
Where tell folks where you think it's going in the
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next few weeks.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
You know, I think we'll close out to twelve here
in the next couple of weeks or so, and then
you know, maybe it could be thirteen. But we're definitely
to get thirteen. We're definitely gonna feel all thirteen scholarships,
but we're gonna feel you know, one and two and
then and then we'll keep this third unless we feel
like it's a no brainer and we got to have somebody.
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But you know, we're gonna fill this roster. We're just
gonna take our time, probably in that thirteenth to one.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Okay, that makes in case something comes up later, because
I guess in today's world it always can.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Right, Something's always changing. I mean, look, just you know,
the Wyoming coaches want to be insisted at Texas Tech,
and you know, you never know what European kid's gonna
want to, you know, play college basketball late. I mean,
it's just things are so fluid and changing in this
college basketball environment.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Right now, it.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Looks like you're gonna have a team full of you know,
when I look at that roster, and depending on what
you add, it doesn't look like it looks to me
like all ten of those guys come and could say
I think I can get minutes, and maybe when you
add the other three they'd be the same way.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Do you expect? Is that what you guys want?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
A big cop petition with people to try to actually
get minutes on the floor.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, we want these guys coming
in hungry and starving to play and competing for minutes,
right like at the end of the day, Like Coach
Pope can sell that better than anybody, right he was.
He came off the bench and won a championship in
ninety six and he was drafted. And that's the most
important thing is competition, and it's just going to breed
everyone to get better. And that's what we're all about,
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getting these guys better.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Kentucky fans are obviously used to over the last you know,
fifteen years, going after top five, ten fifteen recruits, got
a ton of them. Well, you're alls recruiting style for
high school guys be to go get guys like that,
or to try or will it be a different type.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I think a lot of people have wondered.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Filling this roster was one thing because you have to
do it quickly, but long term, what's your what is
your thought process on high school guys going forward?
Speaker 7 (31:00):
You know, on high school guys going forward, We're just
going to kind of mesh it young guys with with
older guys for sure, Like we are for sure going
to go after the best players in the country that
are going to fit the way we want to play
and fit our style and fit like this program. Right,
So we're gonna We're gonna do both. We're gonna mesh
this together best we can and get guys that want
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to win championships here.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
So everybody now knows you as the guy who does
the boom thing. Ryan Lemon already created his own one
a minute ago. Uh So tell me how did that
come about? And is it true that you do actually
ask the kids which boom they want in order to
put it?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Yeah? Great question. So I mean this started. You know,
I've been you know, putting little gifts out when I
was at Utah Valley and BUYU anytime we'd get a
recruit and things like that. And also in this first one,
we had you know a bunch of different guys on campus.
You know, I think we had like what the seven
or cruits in five days something crazy like that. And
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and uh, you know, just during one of it, I
just you know, dropped this boom gift. But it wasn't
meant to be just for specifically that, but it just
kind of turned into its own thing. And now I
gotta do the boom for every single one of them.
And and the last three it's it's kind of gone
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to all right, which which one do you want?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
That's awesome. That's a great tradition to start, though.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I mean, like, and you're scooping all the reporters, like
everybody's trying to break your break, the scoops on who
commits and Cody, you're beating everybody on it.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Yeah, and and they you know a lot of people
are reaching out and different reports this and that, and
you know, I don't want to say who it is
or anything like that, because you know, I want the kids,
I want it to be their moment, right, But I
just want to make sure I get I let our
fans know, like, hey, something good is about to happen,
this and that, and and I still want the kid
to be able to do it themselves. That's that's that's
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It's been a lot of fun for the kids. Like
I got other recruits, parents and and all these people
hitting me up. They're like, oh man, this is awesome.
I love that you guys are doing that.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, it's a great that's it's a great idea. I mean,
it's amazing to me. Maybe other coaches do it, but
I don't know of it. I think it's actually really
really smart.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Yeah, it's been it's been a lot of fun, and
the parents and the kids are really enjoying it. So
I guess I guess we're gonna stay with it.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
You I guess I guess you have to. That's right.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
One more thing, and then I want to talk about
the Club Blue part of this, you guys. You guys,
I think the media here and we're part of this
is probably a lot different than what you're used to
it BYU. And honestly, what's a most programs people trying
to find out everything at all times, and even and
in recruiting specifically, does that make it hard? Like the
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media knows about some of your interest in somebody maybe
before you want them to. Is that ever something you
guys have to worry about.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
I guess here and there, you know, you're kind of
are like, oh, man, like that get out already, just
because you want to. You want to protect the kids
at the end of the day. So I guess that's
the only thing that's kind of like, you know, I
love it, like that's what we want. We want a
fan base that really cares. We want people that really care.
But you also want to protect these kids at the
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end of the day. So I guess that would that's
the That's the only time where I just kind of
have like, all right, let's let's take a break here
for these seventeen eighteen, you know, nineteen twenty year old
kids that that that trying to figure out their lives.
That's the only thing that I get kind of a
little you know, irritated about.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
I guess, yeah, well I understand that. All right.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
So today is the last day Cody to sign up
for the experience at Rupperina June fifteenth, Club Bluenil dot com.
I want you to talk to the fans for a
second about the importance of that of the of that
collective of the organization and also the event that will
take place on the fifteenth.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Yeah, I mean, I mean it's everything for us for
this program, and we're so close. We're at like nine
hundred and fifteen thousand members and we want to get
to a million, you know, recurring members here. You know,
it's we've got a huge event going on June fifteenth,
and everybody who signs up for this can come meet
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the fan or come meet the team and take photos.
It's gonna be kid friendly, free food, games for the kids.
It's going to be an unbelievable event. But we really
need to get this thing up to a million. We
are so close, like I said, nine hundred and fifteen thousand,
and we're right there. We're hoping to close that thing out.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You know, we're gonna do it today. We're gonna get
that today. So tell Club BLUEIL dot com. Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Yes, sir, that is correct.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Club BLUEANIL dot com And you can sign up for
a recurring membership and do the event on the fifteenth.
And you said, you said that people path have been
asked this a lot. People will be able to maybe
get pictures.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, pictures with the new teams, whole staff
will be there. It's gonna be so much fun. And I,
you know, I get hit up by all our players
you know that are incoming, and they're just so excited
about the fan base that's here. Like Kerk Chris talks
to me all the time about just how excited he is.
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He's like, man, I've been at Arizona, I've been at
a top ten program, and it's like it's nothing compared
to Kentucky. This place is unbelievable. So we got a
lot of our players that are excited to meet these
friends and be a part of this deal.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Just between me and you, Cody, nobody's listening. Is that
Carr dude talk as much trash as it seems like.
He seems like the kind of guy his fan base
is gonna love.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Oh, it's it's all day every day. He was at
West Virginia, you know this last year. Yeah, he was
at West Virginia and I recruited him. I got an
unbelievable relationship with the kid. I recruit him at BYU
fifteen different times. It feels like and the whole game
long he's making shots or doing something free throws, he
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is talking to me all game long.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
I love it.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
Hey, you better make sure they're guard me. You better
make sure they're doing this.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
He talked trust to Luca, Cody, Luca, how do you
talk trusted to Luca?
Speaker 7 (37:30):
I know, I know he's He's going to be so
much fun for this program.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Yeah, well, I can't wait to see him and the
rest of the guys. So Club blueinisle dot com. They're
eighty five thousand away from the goal. The event is
June fifteenth. Today's the last day to sign up, So everybody,
Club blueinisle dot com. Cody, thank you very much. Look
forward to meeting you in the near future, and good
luck with everything.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Yes, sir, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
All right, we will take a break and be right back.
This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Tell you sports radio get stuff from Cody figure Ryan.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
It's amazing to talk to a coach about basketball, you know,
and get basketball answers and basketball perspectives and playing the
game of basketball.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Probably the two news pieces.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
They're gonna take two more spots and then leave the
thirteenth for somebody else. So when you hear people sign
if they get you know, they got a guy on
campus today from Fairley Dickinson. If you get someone that
probably means only one more, right.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Yeah, someone's special comes along, they'll they'll have it ready
for them, like Aaron gonna shoot a lot of threes.
That's not really surprised if you've read anything about BYU
in the past and gonna be a deep bench. It
sounds like I'm looking forward to it to how things
look us.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
At every scholarship, you know. I mean again, we'll see
what works and what does it. But it's clear completely
different mindset than what we had before, right, and it
will be interesting. I don't know that there's gonna be
very many cultural changes quicker than what we're gonna go
through over the next few months, I think.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
So you know, we saw cal Cal preferred to only
play seven guys mainly, you know, and we did roll
with those guys. Well we say, even Pope and by
you man, they've had ten guys. Man, they rotate everybody in.
That's why they like to put these pieces together strategically
to make the roster.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
All right, So where are we tomorrow? Let everybody do.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
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Speaker 4 (39:40):
Yeah, so it's in Hamburg, in Hamburg. So this, folks,
I think is our last Lexington remote before I leave, right.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
I believe it is.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
So love to have you come out tomorrow and say
hi to everybody, and because we'll be doing that because
then on Thursday and Friday we are at the PGA
Championship at Valhalla.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Looking forward to that. That's going to be.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Ryan is already dreading getting on the media bus from
the hotel to go he I can already tell that
he is not excited about it.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
But you and I are looking forward to.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
But Ryan is He's already acting like he's gonna have
to go to the dentist to go to Baja.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I'm going today just to practice the media shuttle. Check
it out.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
See everything is get my pass. I would be there
every minute that they're open if they'd let me during
this week, because I can't get enough of tournament.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Go the show. You have a media you have a
media creditiale you.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
Tiger was supposed to do interviews today at noon and
it's been killing me. I can't get there in time,
and they just canceled it. I feel bad for everyone else,
but that made me feel a little better that Tiger's
not speaking to anyone.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I see he's right up there on the screen right now. Yeah,
well that's old. That's old. Oh is that old?
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I'm supposed to go on at noon today and they
canceled all interviews today.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Oh okay, Well then good you didn't.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
You did supposed to get through this morning and clear up.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I think I saw that the day they think it'll
rain is from So if you have tickets Friday, eh,
sorry about your luck, but pretty but for the.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Rest of the time they feel like the weather will
be okay. Are you hanging around after the shows? Also?
That is live, so maybe they.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Move Tiger up and I am going to Uh, I'm
gonna I'm gonna definitely walk around some On Friday Thursday,
you don't have Trivia that night, we have the finals
of Trivia, so after the show, I'm probably gonna have
to head back. But then Friday after it's over, I'm
gonna walk around and then I have all day Saturday. Saturday,
I'm doing a I've just regular tickets marathon, and then
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Sunday it'll I mean, like you know, if Rory's in contention,
I probably go out there and go. I remembering eight,
I have my media credential for the Ryder Cup and
it was Sunday and I wasn't gonna go. And then
if you remember the Ryder Cup teed off, it was
Anthony Kim versus Sergio in the first group. If you
remember Anthony Kim teed off, Sergio went in the water
(41:57):
and he took a questionable drop that and then Anthony
Kim was like, do what you want, bro, and they
were talking trash and I thought, man, I gotta get
out there, and so then I went and it was awesome.
One of the best sporting events I've ever been to.
So I'll probably taught myself into doing.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
You will I can predict her, but you'll be there.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
Yeah, I'll be there Sunday.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, May the fourteenth.
I am Matt Jones here on a cloudy day at
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Hang out Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, and Drew Franklin. You
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He'll make him pay so Uh. Cody Figer will be
on the show at ten thirty, UK assist at basketball
(01:15):
coach He of the Booms Uh will make his first
appearance on the show. I don't know him, never met him, uh,
only this morning, kind of realized what he looked like.
But excited to have Cody because I'm really he's kind of,
you know, the analytic mind, uh.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
That was brought with Pope and be interesting to hear him,
hear him talk. You know.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
I'm like, you don't know him, never met him, never
talked to him, but I already feel like I like
the guy from his gifts, those boom gifts that he
puts out on a on a commitment. I love that.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You like that? Yeah? Why do you like it so much?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Just something kind of different, something kind of a relatable.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
What would what would yours be?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You get to I just did one?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You get to pick your Which one did you do? Oh?
You did the one over there?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well, I mean a famous one.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You you did one for social media, which was just
you taking your shirt off. I know that's gonna surprise
you Shannon next to Bert Kreischer. This man takes his
shirt off more than any person in America.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
What about you? Were you excited about Cody. I'm very
excited about Cody.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
To your boom question, the Kenny Powers boom that Brandon
Garrison already use would be my boom. But I don't
like to hear from him. I want to hear more
about how they operate with that offense. We do a
lot of watching YouTube and trusted the internet to teach
just but it'll be nice to actually hear from one
of the men behind it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, it'd be nice to I mean, we talked to
Pope already, and there's kind of an introductory interview that
you have to do with people where you sort of
talk about what.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Made him come here, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, I'll ask him at least a question about that.
But then I'm I'm with you, I'm sort of interested
in the basketball. Now we're gonna look like, what are
we gonna look like?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
What's the what's the way we play, what's the way
we do.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's really probably what I'm most interested in hearing him
talk about.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yeah, because it was when when Pope was on with you.
You know, he was talking about the roster construct action
and how okay we got this piece, we got to
do this piece, go get that piece. So it is
more definitely analytical. And you don't use the word algorithm
the things they put together to try to put this
team together.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Do you know what an algorithm is?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
In math? An algorithm is like what like abe square
plus B squared equal C squared.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
No, that's calculus.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Oh that's calculus. I was really good in calculatus.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I'm sure that's I'm sure that's true. So so Drew.
We we found out today or yesterday. The SEC opponents
yep for Kentucky and if you haven't heard Kentucky basketball.
This year, we'll play every team wants. The highlights are
every team wants except Arkansas, Tennessee, and Vandy. We play
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excuse me, Alabama, Tennessee, and Vandy. We play twice. Arkansas
is at RUP, not down there. And then we go
to Oklahoma and Texas. Oklahoma and Texas do not come here.
We go there for their first time there. Auburn is
only here. So two of the harder road environments Auburn
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and Arkansas, we only have to play here. But we
do go to Texas and Oklahoma. What did you think
of the schedule when it came out.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I think, like everyone, we were excited to get that
confirmation that Col's coming to UP. I think that's the
game everyone's looking forward to most on the entire schedule.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So it's good to see that.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Is now firm. Kind of like we're not giving them
the return trip. They don't get their Superman. You don't
need a T shirt game your free T shirt. The
other time I found indiestioning Alabama got the the doubleheader
with Kentucky. It's been Florida forever, so it just shows
that they.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
They're changing the schedule.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It seems like if you look at what the other
team's got that in the future they're gonna do. You
have two teams you play every year, and for us
it's gonna be Tennessee and Vandy, it looks like, and
then one team will change every year you play twice.
And for Kentucky it's probably gonna be whoever the best
team is in the conference. You're gonna play them two yep.
So Alabama's predicted to be the best team, so we're
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gonna play them.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
That's why it's kind of the league. You know, given
Alabama their credit, they've been in recent years the best
team where they won the league twice, won the tournament twice.
It's gonna be weird not having two against Florida, but
it shows how good Alabama was.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
When's the last time we haven't had two against Florida?
I mean the sixties? Is it with it? The sixties? Yeah? Sixties?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I mean we because you know, you played them in
the SEC East for a long time, and that was
before you played everybody twice. Then you played the SEC
East twice, and then we went to the three teams
twice and we always had Florida as one of them.
So this is weird. First time since the sixties won't
be playing Florida twice.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I think, like Drew said, not surprise Arkansas is at
rub not surprised they get Alabama twice because they're supposed
to be the best team in the conference. Also not
surprised they're sending us to Oklahoma and Texas. Kind of
they welcome to the SEC. We're gonna bring the big
show to your town this first season. So hard schedule
Oklahoma in Texas. I said, I'm sorry, would you say
I think, I said Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, we've been there before.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah it is, it's a hard scanual, but I don't
think it's like I mean, we got a In my opinion,
the three hardest road environments in the SEC are probably Auburn, Arkansas,
and probably Tennessee. But we're gonna play them twice anyway,
So with Auburn and Arkansas, I think you can make
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an argument we don't have to go to the two
hardest places to play Drew.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
So in that respect, I don't think it's too awful difficult.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yeah, you dodge the emotional road game against Cal. I'm
interested to see. I don't know what Texas roster looks
like right now, haven't done as much research on the
rest of the league, but I think they'll be very
excited to host Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I think there's must to be pretty good.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I think that'll be a wild atmosphere and a probably
a pretty good team as they've been in the past.
So I think that's one our first trip there, they'll
be fired up to host.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I was going to suggest if we took a little
mini basketball road trip if we're you know, if we're
gonna do football for Texas, maybe we go to Oklahoma, like,
there's no like, I mean, when have you? I was
thinking I met on on a plane when I was
sitting in Cincinnati or in Dallas delayed a metal woman
who went to Oklahoma. Yeah, and it made me realize
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that might be the biggest school that you and I
have never been to. I've never been to Norman. I
was trying to think, you take Big twelve, Big.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Ten ACC schools.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I've been to almost all of them, but I don't
think I've been to Oklahoma, and so that might be
a good one to go to.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Right, And I was like, we're going.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Eventually the football team is going to play there in
the near future. So yeah, I think I'm a trip
to Oklahoma. I mean, what next year? Is it? Next year?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, I mean next year we're going to Technics. But
the year after that, I think isn't the way the
schedule goes, We'll go.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Everywhere everywhere over a course of a four years.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, you're right, everywhere over four years, not everywhere over
over two years. So now that you know the schedule,
what's it going to be like when cow walks in here?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Now do we know what's gonna happen? First?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Of all, when do they play it? Is it a
Saturday night six o'clock.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's gotta be Saturday.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Remember, CBS doesn't have sec basketball games anymore. So, and
by the way, this happens with football.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Two.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It got sort of hidden yesterday, but football made announcement
about schedules too.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Did you see this?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So football and basketball will be scheduling much different than
we've done. Let's start with basketball, since what we're talking about,
they will have games on Saturdays at twelve, two, four, six,
and sometimes eight. And those games quote unquote good games
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could be on any of them because they're gonna try
to spread the good games out all day. So it
will be much harder to predict ryan win good games off.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So, like it used to be on a Saturday, you
were the four o'clock CBS game, absolutely, or the six
or eight o'clock ESPN game. Now they might put you anywhere,
especially during the NFL playoffs, right right, So, so we
really have no idea when they'll play, but I would say,
you want to get that place wild, you do it
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at four or six something like that.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
And they're gonna make this judgment before the season starts too.
The tip off times will be made.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Basketball times will all be before, and not every football time,
but most of the football times will be before too.
So one of the complaints fans have had is you
didn't know all two weeks before the game when it
would be. I think I don't think they're gonna do
all of them, but I think they're gonna do a
lot of them. They also announced no team will have
more than two noon home games for football, So that's good.
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Alabama's complaining because they've had, for whatever reason, a ton
of noon games because whenever they play a bad team,
they put them at noon. Now, Drew, I think they
said almost every team will have two noon home games,
but nobody will have more than two, which is a difference.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, forever, we've had in our mind how they pro games.
You know, it was out it was oh miss, that's
who always would happen to but go.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Ahead, Sorry, but yeah, you get in our head. Okay,
these two teams are gonna be the CBS game. They're
the best, and you just kind of went down the
order that's completely changed, completely changed. I mean, you might
have the best game at noon. For years, they just
currentered that time slot to the Big ten. But now
the SEC will try to put a Marque game there
as well.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, they're gonna put base in the In football, basically
noon three thirty and seven, they will take the three
best games and put one on each and then the
others will fill in behind it. So you could have
the third best game and be at noon. You could
have the seventh best game and be in prime time,
depending on how it goes.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
For football, well, the the best game of the day
always be on.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But they're doing a lot of this in advance, so,
like you know, they used to two weeks out, go
all right, what's the best game of the game. Yeah,
three thirty second best game of the game, day seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Now a lot of it will be picked in advance.
I think I think the.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
First seven or eight weeks of the season, Drew will
be picked in advance, which like a I don't think
that's ever ever happened.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yeah, it used to matter so much, I guess for
that CBS slot the two Mondays before that's when they
denw this is our best game because you didn't want
to do it before the season. But now with it's
so scattered, it's not as important to have a specific
time slots. They're already filling him in ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So go back now, Rick walk or see me Rick
Cow walking in this place. There's a lot of debate
when the schedule came out. What's gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
If you had asked me a week after he left,
I thought he's getting booted. I kind of don't know
if he will.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I think there's gonna be a huge movement amongst people
to not do it. So I think it'll end up
being people over cheering to compensate that they're worried people are.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Gonna boot That's my tech. Now again, this is months out.
What do you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I mean, he is at a conference rival and he's
coming in and probably what's gonna be an important game
for conduct to win. So I mean I can almost
see us applauding for a Do you know more? Will
they applaud for Cow? There'll be some that applaud, But
what will be the overall sentiment?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Of course there'll be some, But will it be more
boo will be forget about numbers. If you're standing on
the floor, will he hear booze or cheers predominantly?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I'm gonna go boo all right, I think it's gonna
be pretty even divide, but I'm leaning boo. I think
when people get in the moment, people might even say
they're not gonna boo. But when you get in there
and that energy is in the building and he walks out,
there's a few booze.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I think some people won't be able to help himself.
What spirit of the game that day, It.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Will definitely be a mix, But I think the people
booing will be louder than the people cheering.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
He will hear the booze, all right, Well.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
He will hear the booze because I know that's just
how he And I'll give you a perfect example during
that press conference when they if you listened live, if
you listen to the tape, people were cheering when they
said my name.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
But there were a.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Couple of people and I heard a cop and I
almost wanted to win up to him, go what do
you want something?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I'm gonna here. You want to race, I can beat
you in a race. He'll hear the booze. I'm gonna
beat I think you got Here's what I think it's
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Two weeks before the game, there's gonna be a somebody's
gonna get up and say, let's not boo this guy.
Mark's gonna say that. Don't you think Mark Pope will
say that. Mark Pope will say that. And I think
there'll be some peer pressure not to boo, and it
will keep some people from booth. I mean, let's be real,
there's three U three and there's four people sitting in
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the thing. I'm not gonna say who says what? Turn
the camera off? Mark, turn it off? That's off, not
off off. How many of you you would if it
was anonymous boo? Six to one? Shant it boo?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Really wow?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And you wouldn't have guessed who was who? You wouldn't
have guessed. So maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there will be
more books. I think we'll reveal my Well, now you
can't really your bone, that's true. I mean it'd be
too obvious.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
When he walks out of the tunnel, I can see
him maybe get a little moral applause. But when they
introduce him and head coach to the Arkansas Raised Backs
John Calo Perry, it will.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Boo if this makes it. I don't think it's gonna
be booing because they dislike cow.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
I think it's just gonna be the energy of Arkansas's
on the court.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
There he is.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yeah, it's just you're booing him in that one moment.
It's not like I don't like you, I've forgotten what
you've done for us. It's just that you're right in
front of me, right before a big ravery game, probably
gonna let off a boo.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Uh well, we're not gonna open the phones yet.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
So the text machine is seven seven two seven seven
four five two five four. Cody Figer will be on
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five four One person rights Matt. In most things in life,
it seems like the most negative people are online. I
would agree with that, yes, but with cal Sometimes I
wonder if there are more positive people.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Online the negative.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
No one I know in my life would do anything
than boom, But online everyone says we should cheer. What
do you think is the right What do you think
is the best example of the fan base. I don't
know the answer.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
To that. I tend to think.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
There are more vocal cal So I look at the
fan base in like a multiple facet thing.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I think casual like Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Fans like your grandma Right. I think I really like
right because they're I think those kind of people, the
people who wear the Kentucky sweaters, you know, and who
are very sweet, I think they're they're they're pro cow.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I think the male.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Part of the fan base is very negative for the
most part. Online I actually think it splits up age wise.
I think the younger fans tend to be more pro
cow than the older fans. But so it's weird in
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the g Here's what I would say. I haven't met
a woman, and I don't mean to be like gender
based on this, but I really feel this. I have
not met a woman that comes to our shows that
doesn't like Cow, but I haven't met a lot of
men who weren't.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Done with him. But online, especially Twitter, is mostly a.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Male thing in terms of who host the most right
like about Kentucky Sports. The younger ones are much more
positive than the ones Drew's age and older.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Do you agree with that? And so I just find
it interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Normally, I don't think opinions always focus demographically, or if
they do, it's because of politics.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
In this one, it's kind of all over the board.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Depends on who you talk to, right, depends on what
form you're on. So I actually think that's why it's
hard for me to predict what will be in that arena,
which has also a different kind of fan base. The
arena is a little wealthier in general than the average
fan base, a little more for football. The football people
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come from all over the state. The basketball people tend
to be more Lexington based.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Would you agree with that? So it's hard to know
what that's what that arena will do as opposed to
just the fan base is Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
I wonder because a lot of the people that will
be in the REPP areena for that game, you kind
of wonder are they upset that they've spent so much
money on tournaments lately, because that's people that are spending
money and traveling too.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
No doubt the SEC tournament crowd was very next.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Oh, lots of booing there, But also those are the
people if there's season ticket holders, they might have several
fond memories with Cal in that build.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
It's true they do and a lot of those people
just by their very stature in life. Many of those
people have met cow over the end they want to
be but whatever, that's exactly right. So it's it's interesting.
It's just it's kind of all over the place. And
so that's why it's hard for me to predict what
will happen. And again there's a time element, what happens
over the next six months. Are they good when they
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come here? Yes, Okay, if they're eleven and nine, he'll
get a better reception than if they're eighteen and thirty.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Oh, no doubt. You know what I mean, no doubt.
It's interesting to hear you kind of play it out.
Like the younger generation, they don't know any different. All
they know is cal.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Okay, let's use Mario.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
The day col left, Mario was panicked like Kentucky basketball
is over.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Now he's all in on Pope.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So I do think the younger fan base over time
will go all in on Pope if they haven't already.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, they have not had to go through that before.
This is their first time they've had to go from
one era to the next. And I agree with you
about the older fan You know, we get a little
more forgiving the older we get. So I think they're
a little more forgiving of cal and ready to welcome,
not welcoming back. They wouldn't maybe boo.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Him second time he comes here, it will be positive
unless he's won a national championship. Yeah, but the first
time is the one that I don't know what to say.
How about this NBA draft combine yesterday read Shepard the
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highest vertical jump YEP.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Of anyone in the combine? Crazy?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I mean, first of all, for people who say I
don't know if he's athletic enough for the NBA, clearly,
that's not.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Clearly he is. But Drew that shocked me. The highest
of everyone.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
And I want to say, I don't have that in
front of me. It was maybe like the twenty second
highest all time, forty two inches.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It was an inch and a half higher than anyone else,
white guy from London, Kentucky highest. But he doesn't he
doesn't play like that, No, you know what I mean,
He doesn't play way above the rim.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
The way I like to look at it yesterday is
Jeff Shepherd's kid has a higher vertical than lebron James kid.
Because Bronnie was there and Reid got him by a
couple of inches, but Jeff played more above the rim.
You know, you think lebron James Kid's gonna be nothing
against Bronnie's shattering numbers. But no other kid from London,
Jeff's kids, the one that's out jumping every Reed is
going in the top seven.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Oh yeah, oh like he is.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
And I know they are still fans. I still have
people say to me, you know, in the end, do
you really think he's gonna Yeah, he is.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I mean when he when I saw him shooting threes
at that thing, just bam, bam, bam bam. I mean,
Broni made eleven straight threes in the in the combine
and people are like, wow, I feel like Reid could
make fifty straight.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yeah, you know, and I think he's top four the
word does? The Spurs love him and their fourth so
I don't know if he gets past them.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
If Reid or Rob goes to the Spurs, like they
become kind of the new Kentucky team, right, wouldn't you say?
There gonna be so much fun to watch and whoever
like so the Rockets have the third pick, they're actually
getting better, so whoever comes in might not immediately start.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Whichever those guys go to. The Spurs is playing for
moment one, yes, and he's playing a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And I think our fans will really get into whoever.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
It is that is.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I think there's a chance they can go back to back.
Both those teams are looking at guards at three and four.
I don't know who would prefer which one, but whoever
ends up Wimby, that would be a fun young duo
to keep up with.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
And it would be And what a perfect spot because
you're gonna get a spotlight on you because Wimby's gonna
have I mean, Wimmy's gonna be the best player in
the league in four or five years, and you have
a chance to be a teammate right of the best player.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
In the league. Good culture, good coach.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yes, you got Popovich, a legend who's coached legends over
the years. I'm such a great spot, yea. And you know,
even the Rockets people don't people they've been bad for
a long time.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
They got a good young group. They got what Odulko,
I can't get it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Right, but he the guy with the Celtics who was
great there and he's a good coach. So I think
wherever they go. I think they have a chance to succeed.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, like you said, they can kind of grow together
if they Robber, Reed and Wimby just kind of watch
them grow and become superstars together.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
That's right, all right.
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Speaker 3 (23:06):
Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio now happy to be joined
on the phone by UK assistant basketball coach Cody Fieger
and Cody, first of all, welcome to Lexington.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
How do you How do you like it so far?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
And what made you decide to join Mark here once
he took the job.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Oh shoot, man, I appreciate you having me on today. Well,
I love Lexington so far. I've been here off non
for like the last three weeks. It's absolutely beautiful. Got
to go to the horse race the other day learning
more and more about this play. But been to Jeff Rubies,
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a couple of times and some recruits around. It's been
It's been absolutely amazing so far. And the reason I
took the job is because it's Kentucky. You know, I
think of Kentucky as a top five basketball job in
any you know, whether it's Europe, whether it's NBA, I
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think it's a top five job. And absolutely logus place.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh, I like that in all of basketball. That's that
we like to hear stuff like that. Well, Cody, I
you know, we talked to Mark a couple of weeks
ago about his philosophies, et cetera, and about recruiting. I
want to talk to you a little bit about just
the basketball side of it because I know you're heavily
involved in that. A lot of us at this point
have watched a lot of BYU games and sort of.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
But how would you describe the staff and.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Mark Pope's philosophy when it comes to actually, you know, offense,
defense and the x's and oh's of basketball.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Yeah, So, I mean, how coach Pope likes to build
his program, his team. Just give these guys a Tommy
confidence first and foremost. He wants them to play you know, fast,
free and fearless, you know, offensively where we're trying to
get up thirty five threes a game, and if you
turn down an open shot, you're coming to sit on
the bench. Like that's how he coaches. Wants to give
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these guys tons of freedom and wants them to play
off their instincts. So that's a huge thing for us offensively,
just playing fast, playing the transition and let these guys
make plays and make reads. And then defensively, we like
to you know, our bases mana man, but well we'll
do a bunch of punches during the game, whether it's like,
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you know, we'll trap a ball screen or come out
in a press or we'll change it up after timeouts
things like that, or or if we feel like we
can get one quick in the half court.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You know, when you look at the roster you've built,
you know you got three guys who were their conference
player of the year on defense, was that an intentional
goal to try to I mean, you got some guys
who could also fill it up, but to get guys
who can defend and strong one on one man to man.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Yeah, that was something that we definitely talked about. Is
we want to be obviously, we want to get better defensively,
and then we also feel like we can help them
improve improve, you know, offensively and just different skills and
how we play. We just feel like with our freedom
and just help them with these guys make decisions offensively,
we feel like we can really help help them grow
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that way.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
One of the guys we know little about because didn't
really watch him in high school and then he's been
on his mission is Colin Chandler. I'm sure you do.
You guys have high hopes. What's what's he like as
a player?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Oh, he is. Uh, he's a high level athlete, high Q. Kid,
makes the right play, unbelievable offensive player, can really shoot
the ball, and really good passer. Uh, great finisher on
the rim, you know. And then defensive man, he's got
(27:00):
a he's got a great sense for the passing lane
and feels like and things like that. He's a high
level basketball player. We're we're really excited to have him
here at Kentucky's.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Do you you know, looking at the roster as it's
been built, a lot there are a lot of guys
who've had college success but maybe haven't been the primary
score on their team, or maybe in one case, I
have but sometimes not. Do you feel like a couple
of those guys and if so, who can flourish or
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do you think this will be a team next year
that really the points are distributed kind of widespread amongst
a bunch of guys.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Yeah, that's kind of always the goal is the points
distributed a bunch around everybody, you know, you know, And
we feel like giving these guys more and more freedom
and more and more confidence that we're gonna have guys,
you know, build up and get more confidence that way
like we did it. We did it in previous years
with the other players where they weren't looked at as
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a as a you know, high level scoring option, and
we turned a guy in like Alex Barcelo from somebody
who wasn't looked at anything like that into a you know,
an All American for us at BYU. And and we
feel like just with our confidence and our development and
how we play, and we'll give you a ton of
freedom and we able to you know, develop into.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
That you right now, have I believe ten guys on
the roster, do you how many do you all expect
to add? You think, I mean you can do thirteen scholarships?
Do you expect to fill all of them. Do you
expect when do you think the roster will be filled?
You know, I mean, we're recruiting obsessed with this fan base.
Where tell folks where you think it's going in the
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next few weeks.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
You know, I think we'll close out to twelve here
in the next couple of weeks or so, and then
you know, maybe it could be thirteen. But we're definitely
to get thirteen. We're definitely gonna feel all thirteen scholarships,
but we're gonna feel you know, one and two and
then and then we'll keep this third unless we feel
like it's a no brainer and we got to have somebody.
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But you know, we're gonna fill this roster. We're just
gonna take our time, probably in that thirteenth to one.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Okay, that makes in case something comes up later, because
I guess in today's world it always can.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Right, Something's always changing. I mean, look, just you know,
the Wyoming coaches want to be insisted at Texas Tech,
and you know, you never know what European kid's gonna
want to, you know, play college basketball late. I mean,
it's just things are so fluid and changing in this
college basketball environment.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Right now, it.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Looks like you're gonna have a team full of you know,
when I look at that roster, and depending on what
you add, it doesn't look like it looks to me
like all ten of those guys come and could say
I think I can get minutes, and maybe when you
add the other three they'd be the same way.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Do you expect? Is that what you guys want?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
A big cop petition with people to try to actually
get minutes on the floor.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, we want these guys coming
in hungry and starving to play and competing for minutes,
right like at the end of the day, Like Coach
Pope can sell that better than anybody, right he was.
He came off the bench and won a championship in
ninety six and he was drafted. And that's the most
important thing is competition, and it's just going to breed
everyone to get better. And that's what we're all about,
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getting these guys better.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Kentucky fans are obviously used to over the last you know,
fifteen years, going after top five, ten fifteen recruits, got
a ton of them. Well, you're alls recruiting style for
high school guys be to go get guys like that,
or to try or will it be a different type.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I think a lot of people have wondered.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Filling this roster was one thing because you have to
do it quickly, but long term, what's your what is
your thought process on high school guys going forward?
Speaker 7 (31:00):
You know, on high school guys going forward, We're just
going to kind of mesh it young guys with with
older guys for sure, Like we are for sure going
to go after the best players in the country that
are going to fit the way we want to play
and fit our style and fit like this program. Right,
So we're gonna We're gonna do both. We're gonna mesh
this together best we can and get guys that want
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to win championships here.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
So everybody now knows you as the guy who does
the boom thing. Ryan Lemon already created his own one
a minute ago. Uh So tell me how did that
come about? And is it true that you do actually
ask the kids which boom they want in order to
put it?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Yeah? Great question. So I mean this started. You know,
I've been you know, putting little gifts out when I
was at Utah Valley and BUYU anytime we'd get a
recruit and things like that. And also in this first one,
we had you know a bunch of different guys on campus.
You know, I think we had like what the seven
or cruits in five days something crazy like that. And
(32:02):
and uh, you know, just during one of it, I
just you know, dropped this boom gift. But it wasn't
meant to be just for specifically that, but it just
kind of turned into its own thing. And now I
gotta do the boom for every single one of them.
And and the last three it's it's kind of gone
(32:24):
to all right, which which one do you want?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
That's awesome. That's a great tradition to start, though.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I mean, like, and you're scooping all the reporters, like
everybody's trying to break your break, the scoops on who
commits and Cody, you're beating everybody on it.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Yeah, and and they you know a lot of people
are reaching out and different reports this and that, and
you know, I don't want to say who it is
or anything like that, because you know, I want the kids,
I want it to be their moment, right, But I
just want to make sure I get I let our
fans know, like, hey, something good is about to happen,
this and that, and and I still want the kid
to be able to do it themselves. That's that's that's
(33:01):
It's been a lot of fun for the kids. Like
I got other recruits, parents and and all these people
hitting me up. They're like, oh man, this is awesome.
I love that you guys are doing that.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, it's a great that's it's a great idea. I mean,
it's amazing to me. Maybe other coaches do it, but
I don't know of it. I think it's actually really
really smart.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Yeah, it's been it's been a lot of fun, and
the parents and the kids are really enjoying it. So
I guess I guess we're gonna stay with it.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
You I guess I guess you have to. That's right.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
One more thing, and then I want to talk about
the Club Blue part of this, you guys. You guys,
I think the media here and we're part of this
is probably a lot different than what you're used to
it BYU. And honestly, what's a most programs people trying
to find out everything at all times, and even and
in recruiting specifically, does that make it hard? Like the
(33:52):
media knows about some of your interest in somebody maybe
before you want them to. Is that ever something you
guys have to worry about.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
I guess here and there, you know, you're kind of
are like, oh, man, like that get out already, just
because you want to. You want to protect the kids
at the end of the day. So I guess that's
the only thing that's kind of like, you know, I
love it, like that's what we want. We want a
fan base that really cares. We want people that really care.
But you also want to protect these kids at the
(34:23):
end of the day. So I guess that would that's
the That's the only time where I just kind of
have like, all right, let's let's take a break here
for these seventeen eighteen, you know, nineteen twenty year old
kids that that that trying to figure out their lives.
That's the only thing that I get kind of a
little you know, irritated about.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
I guess, yeah, well I understand that. All right.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
So today is the last day Cody to sign up
for the experience at Rupperina June fifteenth, Club Bluenil dot com.
I want you to talk to the fans for a
second about the importance of that of the of that
collective of the organization and also the event that will
take place on the fifteenth.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Yeah, I mean, I mean it's everything for us for
this program, and we're so close. We're at like nine
hundred and fifteen thousand members and we want to get
to a million, you know, recurring members here. You know,
it's we've got a huge event going on June fifteenth,
and everybody who signs up for this can come meet
(35:26):
the fan or come meet the team and take photos.
It's gonna be kid friendly, free food, games for the kids.
It's going to be an unbelievable event. But we really
need to get this thing up to a million. We
are so close, like I said, nine hundred and fifteen thousand,
and we're right there. We're hoping to close that thing out.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You know, we're gonna do it today. We're gonna get
that today. So tell Club BLUEIL dot com. Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Yes, sir, that is correct.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Club BLUEANIL dot com And you can sign up for
a recurring membership and do the event on the fifteenth.
And you said, you said that people path have been
asked this a lot. People will be able to maybe
get pictures.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, pictures with the new teams, whole staff
will be there. It's gonna be so much fun. And I,
you know, I get hit up by all our players
you know that are incoming, and they're just so excited
about the fan base that's here. Like Kerk Chris talks
to me all the time about just how excited he is.
(36:35):
He's like, man, I've been at Arizona, I've been at
a top ten program, and it's like it's nothing compared
to Kentucky. This place is unbelievable. So we got a
lot of our players that are excited to meet these
friends and be a part of this deal.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Just between me and you, Cody, nobody's listening. Is that
Carr dude talk as much trash as it seems like.
He seems like the kind of guy his fan base
is gonna love.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Oh, it's it's all day every day. He was at
West Virginia, you know this last year. Yeah, he was
at West Virginia and I recruited him. I got an
unbelievable relationship with the kid. I recruit him at BYU
fifteen different times. It feels like and the whole game
long he's making shots or doing something free throws, he
(37:18):
is talking to me all game long.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
I love it.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
Hey, you better make sure they're guard me. You better
make sure they're doing this.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
He talked trust to Luca, Cody, Luca, how do you
talk trusted to Luca?
Speaker 7 (37:30):
I know, I know he's He's going to be so
much fun for this program.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Yeah, well, I can't wait to see him and the
rest of the guys. So Club blueinisle dot com. They're
eighty five thousand away from the goal. The event is
June fifteenth. Today's the last day to sign up, So everybody,
Club blueinisle dot com. Cody, thank you very much. Look
forward to meeting you in the near future, and good
luck with everything.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Yes, sir, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
All right, we will take a break and be right back.
This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Tell you sports radio get stuff from Cody figure Ryan.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
It's amazing to talk to a coach about basketball, you know,
and get basketball answers and basketball perspectives and playing the
game of basketball.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Probably the two news pieces.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
They're gonna take two more spots and then leave the
thirteenth for somebody else. So when you hear people sign
if they get you know, they got a guy on
campus today from Fairley Dickinson. If you get someone that
probably means only one more, right.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Yeah, someone's special comes along, they'll they'll have it ready
for them, like Aaron gonna shoot a lot of threes.
That's not really surprised if you've read anything about BYU
in the past and gonna be a deep bench. It
sounds like I'm looking forward to it to how things
look us.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
At every scholarship, you know. I mean again, we'll see
what works and what does it. But it's clear completely
different mindset than what we had before, right, and it
will be interesting. I don't know that there's gonna be
very many cultural changes quicker than what we're gonna go
through over the next few months, I think.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
So you know, we saw cal Cal preferred to only
play seven guys mainly, you know, and we did roll
with those guys. Well we say, even Pope and by
you man, they've had ten guys. Man, they rotate everybody in.
That's why they like to put these pieces together strategically
to make the roster.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
All right, So where are we tomorrow? Let everybody do.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Assured Partners, which is on Ali sheeba Way seventeen ninety two.
Ali sheeba way, it's sweet three hundred. It's one of
the big office buildings out there in Hamburg. There're been
a good sponsor of us for a long time. So
we're gonna do our show out there tomorrows a rare
Wednesday remote.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Yeah, so it's in Hamburg, in Hamburg. So this, folks,
I think is our last Lexington remote before I leave, right.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
I believe it is.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
So love to have you come out tomorrow and say
hi to everybody, and because we'll be doing that because
then on Thursday and Friday we are at the PGA
Championship at Valhalla.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Looking forward to that. That's going to be.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Ryan is already dreading getting on the media bus from
the hotel to go he I can already tell that
he is not excited about it.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
But you and I are looking forward to.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
But Ryan is He's already acting like he's gonna have
to go to the dentist to go to Baja.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I'm going today just to practice the media shuttle. Check
it out.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
See everything is get my pass. I would be there
every minute that they're open if they'd let me during
this week, because I can't get enough of tournament.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Go the show. You have a media you have a
media creditiale you.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
Tiger was supposed to do interviews today at noon and
it's been killing me. I can't get there in time,
and they just canceled it. I feel bad for everyone else,
but that made me feel a little better that Tiger's
not speaking to anyone.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I see he's right up there on the screen right now. Yeah,
well that's old. That's old. Oh is that old?
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I'm supposed to go on at noon today and they
canceled all interviews today.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Oh okay, Well then good you didn't.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
You did supposed to get through this morning and clear up.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I think I saw that the day they think it'll
rain is from So if you have tickets Friday, eh,
sorry about your luck, but pretty but for the.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Rest of the time they feel like the weather will
be okay. Are you hanging around after the shows? Also?
That is live, so maybe they.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Move Tiger up and I am going to Uh, I'm
gonna I'm gonna definitely walk around some On Friday Thursday,
you don't have Trivia that night, we have the finals
of Trivia, so after the show, I'm probably gonna have
to head back. But then Friday after it's over, I'm
gonna walk around and then I have all day Saturday. Saturday,
I'm doing a I've just regular tickets marathon, and then
(41:34):
Sunday it'll I mean, like you know, if Rory's in contention,
I probably go out there and go. I remembering eight,
I have my media credential for the Ryder Cup and
it was Sunday and I wasn't gonna go. And then
if you remember the Ryder Cup teed off, it was
Anthony Kim versus Sergio in the first group. If you
remember Anthony Kim teed off, Sergio went in the water
(41:57):
and he took a questionable drop that and then Anthony
Kim was like, do what you want, bro, and they
were talking trash and I thought, man, I gotta get
out there, and so then I went and it was awesome.
One of the best sporting events I've ever been to.
So I'll probably taught myself into doing.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
You will I can predict her, but you'll be there.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
Yeah, I'll be there Sunday.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
All right, eight five, twenty two eighty seven. We are
gonna open up the phones, take your calls. Ask anything Wednesday,
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