Speaker 1: Hell. Everybody to the facilities of the iHeartMedia Megaplexis is
Speaker 1: Dick Gabriel. This is the statewide edition of the Big
Speaker 1: Blue Insiety. You've heard comments from Mark Pope and Kenny Brooks,
Speaker 1: and tonight we'll talk with Aaron Gershan of The Cat's
Speaker 1: Boss and our own Billy Ruttledge. Stay tuned. It's the
Speaker 1: statewide BBI Border to Border. It is the Big Blue Insider.
Speaker 1: Dick Gabriel, Aaron Gershan of The Cats Boss, Billy Rutledge,
Speaker 1: our UK network producer, and you hear him on some
Speaker 1: of these same radio stations every morning. Following the Leech report,
Speaker 1: Aaron was in Tuscaloosa, yep. And at what point did
Speaker 1: you say to yourself, I don't think they can get
Speaker 1: this one, because man, they were in it.
Speaker 2: They were in it, but it was probably how they
Speaker 2: finished the first half. If we're being honest, you're up
Speaker 2: twelve with nine minutes to go in that half, you're
Speaker 2: feeling really good. And Alabama look, even when Kentucky was
Speaker 2: ut full strength, we saw their tough matchup with how
Speaker 2: fast they play, they're simply more athletic. They're coming off
Speaker 2: a Final four and Kentucky's got a brand new ross.
Speaker 2: That's to be expected. So you know, Kentucky goes down
Speaker 2: seven and a half after they were up twelve seven
Speaker 2: minutes earlier. They only scored ten points in the last
Speaker 2: ten minutes of the first half against the worst defensive
Speaker 2: team in the SEC. As far as scoring goes, you
Speaker 2: kind of felt like things were a little bleak, but
Speaker 2: they did to their credit, they kept fighting and clawing.
Speaker 2: They were I think they cut it the three with
Speaker 2: ten or so minutes left and they kind of just
Speaker 2: ran out of gas. But look, Mark Pope was right,
Speaker 2: Kentucky's not a program that's going to celebrate moral victories.
Speaker 2: And there were some missed opportunities in this game, like
Speaker 2: when Alabama came out really slow in the second half,
Speaker 2: you couldn't get anything to fall. So there's still things
Speaker 2: that frustrate you with this loss. But to go in
Speaker 2: there with your two lead guards down and against the
Speaker 2: number four team in the country that beat you at
Speaker 2: full strength in their house and put up that type
Speaker 2: of effort, I think you got to be, in hindsight,
Speaker 2: pretty pleased with that. If you're a Kentucky faner Mark Pope.
Speaker 1: Your two point guards are down, your best shooting guard
Speaker 1: is down, yep, and your best all around offensive player
Speaker 1: from the back court is largely ineffective. Yo, what you're
Speaker 1: looking at in that game in hindsight, and obviously Away
Speaker 1: played but four of your top seven guys basically, I know.
Speaker 2: It was in foul trouble, so I didn't see what
Speaker 2: his final minute count was. He fell out like six
Speaker 2: minutes later. So even yeah, like you said, they were
Speaker 2: basically down four bodies in the players. Yeah, on the
Speaker 2: road at the number four team in the country, and
Speaker 2: it was great to see Andrew Carr looking himself. Remember
Speaker 2: here when Carr was dealing with the back injury, Grant
Speaker 2: Nelson kicked his butt and it was the other way around.
Speaker 2: So there, Look, there were some good signs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty two minutes and two points for Away in
Speaker 3: that game, one to nine from the field. If he
Speaker 3: just gives somewhat of a normal effort. I mean the
Speaker 3: Kentucky's right in that game, So I mean there are
Speaker 3: reasons to be encouraged. Another one is some of the
Speaker 3: player getting off of guys that are normally should be
Speaker 3: on the bench, like Travis Parry's great. I mean, he
Speaker 3: didn't have the best shooting night from three. But I
Speaker 3: mean I thought he played with energy and effort and
Speaker 3: a couple times he should have been called over the
Speaker 3: foul but didn't. Colin Chandler or somebody who. I didn't
Speaker 3: know if he would have a lot of minutes on
Speaker 3: this year's team, but over the last couple of games,
Speaker 3: he's proven himself a little bit. Brandon Garrison is the
Speaker 3: one for me. Yeah, when he comes in and Amaro's out,
Speaker 3: a nervous makes me nervous. He there's usually one moment
Speaker 3: in the game where he tries to go coast to coast.
Speaker 2: Brandon Garrison time and.
Speaker 3: So and Mari has just been so good. He's improved
Speaker 3: so much that.
Speaker 2: Garrison gets for me.
Speaker 1: It's a little lack of days ago with even handoffs, passes,
Speaker 1: but it just seems like every once in a while
Speaker 1: it's like.
Speaker 2: What are you doing? He tries to do too much
Speaker 2: a little bit. I mean, he's probably, but you know,
Speaker 2: I got to get him a little slack because somehow
Speaker 2: in the year his assistant turned it over. He shows
Speaker 2: fifty four to thirty two at center. That's pretty good,
Speaker 2: damn good. So he gets I think sometimes it gets
Speaker 2: a little bit of a bad rap, But it's the
Speaker 2: selfish moments with him that even in the I think
Speaker 2: there was a shot against Vandy where there are still
Speaker 2: twelve seconds on the clay, you take this step back
Speaker 2: fifteen firs. Oh, like you can't have those and like
Speaker 2: Billy you said, the coast to coast stuff can't happen,
Speaker 2: and defensively is a liability right now. He's not a
Speaker 2: great rebounder getting despite his size. But yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: When he comes in the game, you're holding your breath,
Speaker 2: and especially because of Maari Williams has been that good
Speaker 2: and you want to keep him on the floor. But
Speaker 2: you know, for fans who are calling in and they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's got to play thirty five minutes, he's seven foot
Speaker 2: two sixty, like, that's a really hard ask.
Speaker 1: Well, it's so glad you brought that up because I
Speaker 1: was going to ask both of you guys. What was
Speaker 1: your comment. Billy, I'm not sure if you were able
Speaker 1: to guess. You're running the board producing answer and calls.
Speaker 1: But when Pope talked about tonight again and he's mentioned
Speaker 1: this many times, why essentially he doesn't play the rotation.
Speaker 1: In fact, it was when somebody called an answer, you're
Speaker 1: going to tighten a rotation and he basically said no,
Speaker 1: but he explained it the way he's explained it all year,
Speaker 1: and that is and I thought this was really interesting
Speaker 1: to me and I'm going to start watching this more.
Speaker 1: When he talked about it in possessions, there aren't lulls
Speaker 1: when they have the ball, and I started thinking about
Speaker 1: but boy, he's right, and maybe him thinking too much
Speaker 1: about cal Perry's team last year when the ball would stick.
Speaker 1: But I mean, just your average team can rest a
Speaker 1: little bit on offense.
Speaker 2: They don't do that, right, And yeah, look he almost
Speaker 2: like a hockey ship, right, And his point was with
Speaker 2: Amari specifically, was we yes, we're clearly more effective with
Speaker 2: him on the floor, but we're equally equally as ineffective
Speaker 2: without him on the floor than when he's overextended. So
Speaker 2: that was kind of the point he was making. And look,
Speaker 2: ideal world, Yes, you're getting thirty plus minutes out of him,
Speaker 2: but again, with what you just said about the offense,
Speaker 2: they're always moving and this dude is seven foot two
Speaker 2: sixty two. That's that's a hard, hard ask. And Brandon
Speaker 2: Garrison was a McDonald's All American just two years ago.
Speaker 2: It's in there somewhere, and they got it. They got
Speaker 2: in spurts like the Duke game. He played a great
Speaker 2: game at that one. Even earlier in SEC play, I
Speaker 2: think of South Carolina had a really strong game. Uh,
Speaker 2: they got to get that out of him somehow, or
Speaker 2: Ghost Small and Andrew Carr's playing really well, but man,
Speaker 2: it's a gauntlin in the SEC. So even when he's
Speaker 2: putting in minutes, it's it's it's physicality and and he's
Speaker 2: wearing down and and it's a lot of it is
Speaker 2: him initiating the offense and not really.
Speaker 3: The drop off on Amar Amari Amari. Yeah, when Garrison
Speaker 3: comes in that you just see that drop off. And
Speaker 3: that's why you know Amar.
Speaker 2: How do you think he's going to handle a Jedi
Speaker 2: Broom on Saturday when Lamar needs a break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that might be tough as well.
Speaker 2: But Broom's a guy can step. I need to put
Speaker 2: car on him and see if he can do anything.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: One thing I think of though, is the NCAA tournament
Speaker 3: has more commercial breaks, right, more chances for you to
Speaker 3: break more, but longer longer. Do you think that could
Speaker 3: play a factor in Amari playing more minutes in the
Speaker 3: because Garrison cannot be putting in fifteen minutes a game.
Speaker 3: I don't think. I think he's got to go down
Speaker 3: more to ten well.
Speaker 2: And that I don't think you're going to see that
Speaker 2: guy friand I just I want to think a bandon
Speaker 2: what he I don't think he's going to abandon him.
Speaker 2: The only thing I can think of, and he's done
Speaker 2: it a little bit, is play small and Andrew Carr,
Speaker 2: now that he's healthy, do you stick him at the
Speaker 2: five instead and burning Garrison? With how he's struggling, You
Speaker 2: just sit him, And I think that might be something
Speaker 2: that's matchup based. I think you know, against LSU and Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: you're gonna try to get Garrison going. Maybe against Auburn.
Speaker 2: If against really tight and Omar he needs a break,
Speaker 2: you go Car there. But also Cars coming off a
Speaker 2: back injury, you don't necessarily want to overextend him either.
Speaker 2: I think he played twenty eight minutes on Saturday, which
Speaker 2: is the most he's played in a while, and he
Speaker 2: looked great. Yeah, but it's a tricky predicament. That's how
Speaker 2: he built this front court.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned matchups, And immediately, Billy, when you talk
Speaker 1: about Garrison, my mind immediately went to the NCAA tournament
Speaker 1: because I think Kentucky's going to be one of most
Speaker 1: teams that have a shot at winning a couple of
Speaker 1: games where it's all gonna come down to the bracketing,
Speaker 1: who's in your bracket, what are your matchups? You know,
Speaker 1: they may find themselves with teams where Garrison can play
Speaker 1: and they can absorb some of his mistakes, you know,
Speaker 1: especially if he's not.
Speaker 2: Playing like a Vanderbilt who's really small, like as him
Speaker 2: like that, Yeah, somebody like that.
Speaker 1: So and there's so much basketball to be played between
Speaker 1: now and then they can figure it out at least
Speaker 1: get better.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, And speaking of small teams, I think it
Speaker 3: was Andrew Carr that played so well versus Vandy.
Speaker 2: Wasn't He was excellent? Yeah, and then he was excellent again.
Speaker 3: So it's a very very physical and big Alibamon boy.
Speaker 3: They needed him, and you kind of didn't know which
Speaker 3: way that was going to go. With back pain. It
Speaker 3: was is he ever going to be himself? And he
Speaker 3: looked like the guy that was playing major minutes in
Speaker 3: the beginning of the year, So.
Speaker 2: I'm shot better than he has all year.
Speaker 3: No, I want to jinx it, but man, that's a
Speaker 3: huge key. But you know when Aley Almore, Almanor has
Speaker 3: a night like he's had over the it feels like
Speaker 3: two of the last three games, he's just kind of disappeared.
Speaker 3: But you can live with that. When Andrew Carr's playing
Speaker 3: that well.
Speaker 1: He was, Well that's why because he cars getting Almanor's minutes.
Speaker 3: Well, that too, but he has to have more productive minutes,
Speaker 3: like well, sure he's going ten minutes and registering one shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think he's a guy who needs to
Speaker 1: be in the game a little bit longer to get
Speaker 1: to it's just not much of a defender.
Speaker 2: That's the problem with them. What what's the term for
Speaker 2: the zero stat line across the trillion club? He was
Speaker 2: the shot attempt was the only stat he put on
Speaker 2: the sheet against Alabama, the one to three in the corner,
Speaker 2: which is his spot too, and he just missed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you can look at the Alabama game as
Speaker 1: and I know they don't want a moral victory. Was
Speaker 1: it a step forward?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think when you talk about that the younger guys, right,
Speaker 1: when you talk about Perry, Noah Chandler. Anytime they're out
Speaker 1: there on the floor like this and Chandler knocking the
Speaker 1: rust off and the guy hadn't played basketball, really played
Speaker 1: basketball in two years. I think he's better, a little
Speaker 1: bit better athletically than both Noah and Perry. They're better
Speaker 1: shooters than he is. At least they've shown it, so
Speaker 1: it gives Pope a lot of options.
Speaker 2: That was such an it for Perry specifically. I know struggled.
Speaker 2: I think you shout, what was it? One for seven
Speaker 2: from three? Yeah, but the fact he got in the
Speaker 2: lane against the again. Alabama is a big team, like
Speaker 2: even the Jared Stevenson who's a kinds of place of
Speaker 2: the three for them, but guard some guards. He's six eleven.
Speaker 2: They just got big dude after big dude, and he's
Speaker 2: going in the lane, unafraid and getting contact, drawing a
Speaker 2: valley to an one, no turnovers in such a fast
Speaker 2: paced game. That was really an encouraging night for him.
Speaker 2: That was the one I was like, Okay, you can
Speaker 2: really build off this, especially God forbid La Momp. Butler
Speaker 2: doesn't come back. I think he is going to come
Speaker 2: back and give it a go soon. But that was
Speaker 2: very very encouraging, specifically with Perry on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Could Oklahoma be a trap game?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean this they're on the bubble right now,
Speaker 3: like this would be a huge win to get him
Speaker 3: into the NCAA TORONMA.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And they do some things that I'm pulling up
Speaker 2: the stats in front of me. They do some things
Speaker 2: that Kentucky doesn't handle well, and that's they shoot really well.
Speaker 2: They're they're forward Jaalen Moore, who's six' seven is a
Speaker 2: thirty eight percent three. Shooter they have two, guards including
Speaker 2: one who was teammates With Kobe braa last year At.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma one's a forty three eight and one's a forty
Speaker 2: four percent point four shooter from three at a high.
Speaker 2: Volume and then then they have This Jeremiah fears freshman
Speaker 2: who doesn't shoot it at a great, clip but he's
Speaker 2: coming off a twenty seven and ten game in points
Speaker 2: and assists against The Mississippi. State and like you, Said,
Speaker 2: billy they're fighting for THEIR ncaa tournament. Lives they went
Speaker 2: thirteen and zero non, conference Beat, michigan they Beat. Louisville,
Speaker 2: uh there's another big win in there that's blanking. Me
Speaker 2: but and then THE sec play has been, tough but
Speaker 2: they just got a big win Over Mississippi state and
Speaker 2: they're looking for another one to kind of solidify their.
Speaker 3: Bid, yeah but it's the otakea away revenge.
Speaker 2: Camp it is the oh take away revenge. Game and
Speaker 2: Also oklahoma by far the worst rebounding team in THE, sec.
Speaker 1: Although top pointed out that only ONE i think kid
Speaker 1: on ou roster played with OH i.
Speaker 2: Fact checked him on that he's, right he's. Wrong, yeah
Speaker 2: well not usually the, case but it's actually like it's
Speaker 2: only like four scholarship, guys but it's like six or seven,
Speaker 2: total so there's a couple.
Speaker 1: Guys and Then garrison played it Out Glahoma, state.
Speaker 2: Yep and Then, JACKSON i know he's probably not going to,
Speaker 2: play but he's from me To. Oklahoma and then last
Speaker 2: year B yu obviously played At oklahoma and lost as
Speaker 2: a rank. Team oh, wait didn't do much in that,
Speaker 2: game but Clearly oklahoma Gave Mark pope and his staff.
Speaker 2: Fits it was a pretty lopsided lost eighty two sixty.
Speaker 1: Four you, know in a backhanded, WAY i think the
Speaker 1: fact that he's having to lean on or is able
Speaker 1: to lean on these. Freshmen maybe that works in his
Speaker 1: favor when it comes to whether or not this is
Speaker 1: a trap, game because they're going they got to be
Speaker 1: going into all these.
Speaker 2: Games wide, eyed, buddy you know WHAT i? Mean?
Speaker 3: Sure, Sure and you Know Colin chandler And Travis perry
Speaker 3: playing in those positions allows the other guys to stay
Speaker 3: in the position they're most comfortable.
Speaker 2: In good.
Speaker 3: Point if you want to look towards the. Future they
Speaker 3: Asked Mark pope tonight how many freshmen he's going to
Speaker 3: take on a. Roster he said about one to. Three
Speaker 3: but the most important thing is. Continuity and if you're
Speaker 3: going to get multiple, players he got three like like
Speaker 3: that and and like, Those, yeah like freshmen that could
Speaker 3: come back like. That that makes next year's roster even more,
Speaker 3: so maybe more of the method to the.
Speaker 2: Madness, Wellney he Referenced Rick bettino's.
Speaker 1: COMMENT i was gonna bring that up with you guys
Speaker 1: When rick, said we're not even looking at, freshmen we're
Speaker 1: not even looking at highest signing high. School and of
Speaker 1: course With, rick you know you sort of take. It
Speaker 1: he meant it when he said, it how many time
Speaker 1: about you guys weren't? Around you, KNOW i can't tell
Speaker 1: you how many times there was A patino comment that
Speaker 1: completely reversed an earlier statement or. Position, well he meant
Speaker 1: it when he said, it you, know so he might
Speaker 1: have meant it when he said, It BUT i wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if he signed one or two. Freshmen you
Speaker 1: can't just keep going to the portal every. YEAR i
Speaker 1: think it was making a, point BUT i think if
Speaker 1: you're A kentucky and you can sign kids who are
Speaker 1: the caliber of the kids that are. Signing and Now
Speaker 1: aaron AND i were talking about this coming, up AND
Speaker 1: i know you've talked about it, Before, billy you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry quite as much with a kid going
Speaker 1: to THE nba unless he's a lottery pick and then
Speaker 1: you get into some crazy, money right because there are
Speaker 1: kids who can make any deals at. Match would he
Speaker 1: get in the first round incredibly of THE Nba? Draft,
Speaker 1: Absolutely and that's.
Speaker 2: Why, YEAH i think that's WHY i would, say, you oh,
Speaker 2: way ultimately ultimately be back and that that's.
Speaker 3: Huge, yeah he's got another, year he sure.
Speaker 2: Does. Wow, Yeah But Rick patino just he. Bends he
Speaker 2: had a comment on today About Kadari, richman WHO'S i
Speaker 2: think they're leading scorer up, there and he, says it's
Speaker 2: the most Hurt i've ever had a. Player uh before
Speaker 2: in my coaching. Career he had a guy snap his
Speaker 2: leg in the nca tournament if you remember, It kevin
Speaker 2: who Could, yeah but that was one. INJURY i. Know
Speaker 2: but how has he been injured a lot of? Time,
Speaker 2: no he, said he's currently the most injured he's ever
Speaker 2: had a. Player he's having the most serious injury he's
Speaker 2: had as.
Speaker 3: A Coach Florida state.
Speaker 2: Players that's What i'm trying to. Say he's likes to
Speaker 2: Be Rick patino bends the truth little they, will and
Speaker 2: they went very hard After Boogie flann after he decommitted
Speaker 2: From kentucky to so, yes why. Not i'm just, saying,
Speaker 2: no Freshman john's rocking right.
Speaker 3: NOW i, mean that looks like a fun. Environment Nason
Speaker 3: Square garden non contact injury here for This florida, Sake
Speaker 3: it does not look.
Speaker 2: Good, gosh oh, no the. Garden, Yeah Buddy garden's rocking right.
Speaker 2: Now it really.
Speaker 1: Is although they Beat yukon in their own, gym didn't
Speaker 1: they know?
Speaker 2: That? Yeah because they did back because they HAD.
Speaker 1: I was watching one game where they did in their own.
Speaker 2: Gym, yeah they did player game recently in their Own.
Speaker 2: Yeah but, Yeah yukon was at The garden because they
Speaker 2: had That Duke illinois game Where duke just Slaughtered hillis
Speaker 2: On saturday and quick turn Around sunday Of Saint John's, Ukon.
Speaker 1: Well and you knew that was going to, happen and
Speaker 1: the Moment betino signed a contract With Saint, john's back
Speaker 1: to The, garden you.
Speaker 2: Know but you, know it's like When Kim molki was.
Speaker 1: Trying to, say you know that uk ought to be
Speaker 1: playing womens. Up you, know what good does it do
Speaker 1: if nobody shows? Up OR i shouldn't say, that if small.
Speaker 2: Crowds you, know maybe she just didn't like that it
Speaker 2: was actually a home court advantage Usually i'm To kentucky
Speaker 2: and it wasn't this. Year it WAS i don't, know,
Speaker 2: WELL i think.
Speaker 1: She saw it perhaps as though and what DO i,
Speaker 1: know but like it was some kind of slight to
Speaker 1: the women's, program AND i, TWEETED i think it's a.
Speaker 1: COMPLIMENT i wouldn't afraid to tweet. THIS i have covered
Speaker 1: this program, Forever. OKAY i have never privately or publicly
Speaker 1: had a women's coach tell, me, MAN i wish we
Speaker 1: were playing in Rupp. Arena i've had coaches tell me,
Speaker 1: honestly we would rather stay in the.
Speaker 2: Coliseum. YEAH i actually think it's a. Compliment you have
Speaker 2: a whole building that they just renovate and it looks
Speaker 2: incredible and if you haven't been, there check it. Out
Speaker 2: that's dedicated to women's, sports the women's, basketblay, volleyball. Gymnastics
Speaker 2: like so women's. Sports and you.
Speaker 1: Bring a recruit, in this is. Ours, yeah we don't
Speaker 1: share with the. Men, yeah this is. Ours and uh
Speaker 1: WHEN i was, there okay telling my age my first two, years,
Speaker 1: uh the men's, varsity well everybody the varsity team played
Speaker 1: there my FIRST uk basketball games for a couple of,
Speaker 1: years or in The Memorial, coliseum and let me tell
Speaker 1: you something eleven five hundred back then before they, renovated
Speaker 1: and they've renovated it three. Times and you talk about
Speaker 1: a home court. Advantage there were opposing players who would
Speaker 1: tell us, man and of course they had just been. Beaten
Speaker 1: we felt like fans could reach out and touch.
Speaker 2: Us well really they, couldn't but it felt that. Way
Speaker 2: that's why there's all this discourse now about HOW rup
Speaker 2: And Thompson bowling there was environment stink and then you
Speaker 2: go To auburn or you go To Ole miss when they're,
Speaker 2: rocking or someone like those smaller ten thousand person. Gym
Speaker 2: you know Why Thompson bowling was built and built the
Speaker 2: way it was, built? Right do you know?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 3: No is it like a sound echo chamber and.
Speaker 2: Copyrup the copy. Rup. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow their whole thing, was we want to build something
Speaker 1: as good or even better than Rupp, arena and they.
Speaker 1: DID i can't, say but it's. Bigger but after a
Speaker 1: few years of nobody in the top, sections that's when
Speaker 1: they put the curtain. Up now you've been to several
Speaker 1: games there when it's when.
Speaker 2: It's, full, absolutely but for years there's a curtain up
Speaker 2: there like there can be In, repperena either for concerts
Speaker 2: or for for smaller. Games The Moody center does it
Speaker 2: with the big screens down In.
Speaker 3: Austin but so, hypothetically if if the women's team got
Speaker 3: a full crowd AT, rup you still wouldn't think it's
Speaker 3: a better home environment Than memorial if.
Speaker 1: They consistently but, see could they could they fill that?
Speaker 1: Place could even fill the lower bowl?
Speaker 2: Consistently? Right now and even if the but the other thing.
Speaker 1: Too is you, know you've got to create the need for.
Speaker 1: It you got to create people that are turned away
Speaker 1: consistently At Memorial.
Speaker 2: College. Team why do you Think repperena was built Because.
Speaker 1: Memorials, yeah they doubled, it and believe it or, not,
Speaker 1: NOW i wouldn't hear when it. Happened when they opened the,
Speaker 1: Coliseum Adolph rupp didn't think they'd fill it because they
Speaker 1: played across the street At Dinkey Little alumni like, coliseum
Speaker 1: And Adolf rupp was, like we're never going to fill this.
Speaker 1: Place but that's also sadly why when he asked for
Speaker 1: permission in nineteen sixty two to leave THE sec so
Speaker 1: they could recruit black, players the board members are, like,
Speaker 1: well we wouldn't be able to fill the coliseum because
Speaker 1: TRADITIONAL lesseec opponents won't come. Here who's going to come
Speaker 1: here and play? Us it'll become a white. Elephant we
Speaker 1: won't be able to fill the, place which was. Lame but,
Speaker 1: YEAH i mean it's applying to man. Brother he got
Speaker 1: on one on, One.
Speaker 3: Well we got to get back to playing at least
Speaker 3: one men's game At memorial each, year just One. DICK i,
Speaker 3: KNOW i know it'd be tough TO i. GUESS i,
Speaker 3: mean does do it a preseason just do it for
Speaker 3: the students student only? GAME i mean it would have
Speaker 3: to be like A TEXAS a and m.
Speaker 2: Commerce, okay no. Conference who's going to tell the season ticket? Holder,
Speaker 2: Well i'm, sorry are you going to volunteer for?
Speaker 1: Them?
Speaker 3: Sorry but you're handling your sweater vests and not stand
Speaker 3: up is going to be rocking standing up the entire
Speaker 3: yet your hand?
Speaker 1: Up if you'll volunteer to tell the season ticket holders
Speaker 1: who are supplying the nil money as, well you're gonna
Speaker 1: take on that.
Speaker 3: Job, No i'll let the k that's their.
Speaker 2: Job they'll be thrilled to that's their.
Speaker 1: Job, yeah, hey, Look i'd be all for. It and
Speaker 1: when they played the N I t, game were you
Speaker 1: here for?
Speaker 2: You back for?
Speaker 1: That when The gillispie team played the N I t
Speaker 1: game in the, coliseum.
Speaker 2: Nobody happened THAN i. Was, man it was. Great but you,
Speaker 2: Know i'm with you talking about that happening two years
Speaker 2: ago until they went on a.
Speaker 1: Run, yeah exhibition gave me five with me with?
Speaker 2: Me they did it with the blue and white this.
Speaker 2: YEAR i. DON'T i. DON'T i wasn't, there SO i
Speaker 2: don't know how it turned. Out we were In. Florida
Speaker 2: but we'll step, back come, back talk more.
Speaker 1: Basketball we're gonna throw a little football in the second
Speaker 1: half hour as, well Because aaron AND i get to
Speaker 1: meet some of the players. Tomorrow back in a. Minute
Speaker 1: you on a state WIDE bbi quick one here as
Speaker 1: we head to the bottom of the, Hour dick Gabriel
Speaker 1: are and Ger Sean Billy. Rutledge you were talking on
Speaker 1: The Leach report earlier, today Mister, SHAWN i don't know
Speaker 1: if you had one ear on it while you were.
Speaker 3: Preparing a little celebrity over there on The Leach report.
Speaker 2: About that and get it.
Speaker 1: Done our Buddy Darryl, bird longtime friend of, mine your,
Speaker 1: boss believes he believes that if you've got the guys
Speaker 1: coming off, injury just save him for the. Tournament, Nope
Speaker 1: and you today, SAID i Love, darryl but.
Speaker 2: They need they need. Reps like. You don't want their
Speaker 2: first game back in a month to be THE ncaa
Speaker 2: tournament with everything on the. LINE i, think at the bare,
Speaker 2: minimum hav them ready for THE sec, tournament but that
Speaker 2: only might be one. Game, uh to me ideal, world
Speaker 2: they're back for the last two or three games of
Speaker 2: the regular. SEASON i just. DON'T i don't know how
Speaker 2: you throw them in without playing basketball for a, month
Speaker 2: even if they're playing a fourteen high point or something like. That,
Speaker 2: like you just. Can't to me that that's just not,
Speaker 2: practical it's not.
Speaker 1: SMART i will be pleasantly surprised If robinson comes back at.
Speaker 2: All oh, really, YEAH i think Maybe butler comes. BACK
Speaker 2: i will Say robinson had the big cast off At,
Speaker 2: alabama so that was. INTERESTING i Think butler's back IF
Speaker 2: i had IF i were a betting, man Which i'm
Speaker 2: not BECAUSE i always, Lose he's Back saturday Against. Auburn
Speaker 2: robinson Or. Butler butler Or, ROBINSON i have NO i
Speaker 2: don't have A i think he'll be. Back we don't
Speaker 2: know when your thoughts in thirty.
Speaker 1: Seconds on saving your players or playing.
Speaker 3: HIM i think it kind of depends on the player
Speaker 3: and the. Injury, HONESTLY i Think, Butler i'd throw him
Speaker 3: back in there even if he wasn't played a game.
Speaker 3: Before robinson with the wrist issue on his shooting, HAND
Speaker 3: i think that's much more of A i want to
Speaker 3: see you knock off a little rust BEFORE i put
Speaker 3: you back out. There, LAMAN i just need you to
Speaker 3: stay in front of your.
Speaker 2: Guy that's, True that's that IS i agree with.
Speaker 1: That would come, In, andy wouldn't it more to come
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Speaker 1: is The Big Blue, Insider Dick gabrielle And gershan to
Speaker 1: the Cast Pause Billy, rutledge OUR uk network producer and
Speaker 1: co Host billy and The dude every morning on most
Speaker 1: of these same, stations talking About kentucky. Basketball, Tomorrow aaron
Speaker 1: AND i get a chance to meet some of the
Speaker 1: new football. Casts we'll talk about that coming up a
Speaker 1: little bit later, on but there's still more basketball to chop.
Speaker 1: Up let's say That Mark pope is still juggling injured
Speaker 1: players going into postseason. Play and let me back that
Speaker 1: up by saying people are upset that he's not in
Speaker 1: a on the mid season list or finalist For coach
Speaker 1: of The. Year and in all, fairness we all predicted
Speaker 1: a five hundred season in THE sec and that's what we're.
Speaker 1: Seeing but, nobody, right nobody expected a whole slew of
Speaker 1: quad one. WINS i, mean one of the most impressive
Speaker 1: thank you good. Word one of the most impressive records
Speaker 1: when it comes To quad one wins In america and
Speaker 1: yet games they never should have.
Speaker 2: Lost it's it's kind of and you look At Mark
Speaker 2: pope AT byu last, year it's kind of, similar right
Speaker 2: where they went To lawrence When kansas was rolling and killed,
Speaker 2: them killed. Them they lost At, oklahoma who. Stunk they
Speaker 2: lost To Oklahoma, state lost lost in the first, round
Speaker 2: The Big twelve AND. NCA i don't know about The Big.
Speaker 2: TWELVE i think they might have won a game there
Speaker 2: but lost To. Decayane we were In pittsburgh and everyone's
Speaker 2: going nuts While creighton And akron are, playing and you
Speaker 2: look up THE, Tv oh, wow De kaine's about to
Speaker 2: win down the road and they're the host. Site so uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's just it's kind of weird how that's. Gone
Speaker 2: AND i don't know if it's A i think it's
Speaker 2: just there's more to it than unranked versus. RANKED i
Speaker 2: think there's some matchup. Things the injuries kind of like
Speaker 2: The texas kind of throw out the games with the
Speaker 2: injuries out the, window but Like, georgia the what's another?
Speaker 2: One early when they were healthy and yet they Beat tennessee.
Speaker 1: Twice in both games they were short.
Speaker 2: Handed, Yeah clems it. Comes it's pretty good, Though Ohio
Speaker 2: state is more. So that was Just dick AND i were.
Speaker 2: There it was. TERRIBLE i feel like there's ANOTHER sec
Speaker 2: One i'm. Missing but, Regardless, vandy thank. You, yeah it's
Speaker 2: it's just been. Though Andrew carr was out for that,
Speaker 2: too so it's just, yeah they got to win that.
Speaker 2: Game so it's just been a weird. Year but look they.
Speaker 2: Haven't would it surprise anyone around here if they lose
Speaker 2: tomorrow Or, wednesday excuse, me At oklahoma and then go
Speaker 2: Beat auburn On saturday with how this, YEAR.
Speaker 1: I would be, YEAH i actually for this, one, yes.
Speaker 2: Just because of How i'm telling you That auburn Just,
Speaker 2: oklahoma But, Auburn i'm Just i'm playing. Devils they've looked.
Speaker 2: Mortal you're. Right They arkansas had him on the rope
Speaker 2: In auburn just a couple of games of The florida
Speaker 2: is really, good but they lost To florida and Then
Speaker 2: georgia had them on the Rope, Saturday georgia In, auburn
Speaker 2: Yep Old kentucky At reperina where they, honestly outside of
Speaker 2: the they've. Played outside of The arkansas, game they've because
Speaker 2: they Lost alabama in a really good. Game they've played
Speaker 2: excellent At Rep. Aina and if they have At Momp
Speaker 2: butler back and you can keep A mari in the,
Speaker 2: game maybe a little bit to bang Around Jani. BROOM
Speaker 2: i don't. Know broom never plays the ball Against kentucky,
Speaker 2: either just saying.
Speaker 3: There's definitely an adjustment being a transfer player and then
Speaker 3: joining THE sec this, year there's no. Doubt BUT i
Speaker 3: wouldn't say this team isn't ready for the spotlight or
Speaker 3: big games because they beat teams Like duke And gonzaga
Speaker 3: early In florida And, florida so, LIKE i, mean they
Speaker 3: had it clicking and rolling against some of the best.
Speaker 3: Teams but then you, know injuries come and you know
Speaker 3: you have to change your plan of, attack and it's
Speaker 3: more about you, know everybody's got a plan until you
Speaker 3: get punched in the face and you just kind of
Speaker 3: have to. Adapt and and you, know let's be, Honest
Speaker 3: Mark pope doesn't have a win in THE Ncaa tournament this.
Speaker 3: YEAR i, mean there's still some questions that need to be,
Speaker 3: answered and you, know despite all of, THAT i think
Speaker 3: Any kentucky fan they have to be excited about what they've.
Speaker 1: Seen If kentucky can somehow remain a three seed or
Speaker 1: something that, high which it has, been, yes then they've
Speaker 1: got a real. Shot AND i Know i'm skipping ahead
Speaker 1: to the nca. Tournament but if there's because of the
Speaker 1: injuries and they don't win enough games to hang on to,
Speaker 1: that let's say they're a five or six or, something
Speaker 1: obviously their matchup gets a lot. Tougher and as we,
Speaker 1: know the five versus twelve has been historically tough and
Speaker 1: six eleven's gotten.
Speaker 2: Tougher, yeah they gotta win these two games that they should. Win,
Speaker 2: yes you. Gotta it's A quad, one but it's Like
Speaker 2: quad ONE b Against oklahoma that think their fiftieth in the.
Speaker 2: Net auburn'd be great if you. Won who knows gotta
Speaker 2: BEAT lc? WOULD i think It's quad? Two? Now it
Speaker 2: Was quad three recently here at home On senior. Night
Speaker 2: and then you go To. Missoo that's another really tough,
Speaker 2: one but tough, man but they just lost At. Arkansas,
Speaker 2: yeah and let's say that happens and you're playing On
Speaker 2: wednesday at THE sec. Tournament you'll have to go five
Speaker 2: games in five, days the best conference of all time
Speaker 2: in college, Basketball summer saying you have to Play auburn
Speaker 2: on the, thirteen and my, brothers you're.
Speaker 3: Shorthanded, yeah that's why you gotta Y pulpe said fatigue
Speaker 3: was a. Factor, sure, yeah what it would be after?
Speaker 2: That, well AND i think thanks the.
Speaker 1: Format now that takes us back to why his player
Speaker 1: rotation is what it, is because he demands them to
Speaker 1: play hard Like. Patino, uh not quite the same way
Speaker 1: and didn't have the same kind of. Depth but you're
Speaker 1: not going to see thirty five minutes From Amari Amari.
Speaker 1: Williams here's another good question that came up that it
Speaker 1: was good because it was just interesting.
Speaker 2: AND i knew exactly what he was going to.
Speaker 1: Say somebody called the show tonight wanting to, know are
Speaker 1: you going to start coaching defense at any point the
Speaker 1: Way Rick patino did or?
Speaker 2: Does and you.
Speaker 1: Knew right away the answers, no because, look there's nobody
Speaker 1: who can coach that way Except Rick, patino and Only
Speaker 1: Rick patino can be Like Rick, tino you. Know. Uh
Speaker 1: and if you Remember Sean woods telling me and there
Speaker 1: was reason for this that he felt Like rick had
Speaker 1: softened up a little.
Speaker 2: Bit and this goes back to believe it or.
Speaker 1: Not the Weekend Billy gillespie's and m team won a
Speaker 1: couple of games here in lexing it h and people
Speaker 1: thinking they Be, louisville and people to this day believe
Speaker 1: That Mitch barnard sat there courtside and watched that game and,
Speaker 1: said By, god that's my.
Speaker 2: Next.
Speaker 1: Uh Mitch barnard wasn't even in the, building but it
Speaker 1: just added To billy's rep and his. Resume long story,
Speaker 1: anyhow in the locker room After louisville's win Over, STANFORD,
Speaker 1: Uh sean went back to say hey To, patino who
Speaker 1: didn't recognize him at, first, uh OR i guess his
Speaker 1: mind was. Elsewhere he just you, know took him a.
Speaker 1: Second AND i had shaved my beard off not long
Speaker 1: prior and people still didn't know. Me But patino recognized,
Speaker 1: me which which amazed. Me, anyhow in the locker room
Speaker 1: there was A louisville player and this is after a
Speaker 1: win across the room mill they coach what times the bus,
Speaker 1: leave And sean. Ducked sean flinched because he knew that
Speaker 1: player was going to be shredded by the head coach
Speaker 1: for not knowing what time the bus was gonna, leave
Speaker 1: Because sewn had lived that. Right Seawan woods was a
Speaker 1: guy who had made a bad play in a game
Speaker 1: on the, road and as they walked in the locker,
Speaker 1: room just As woods walked in and set it, In
Speaker 1: patino walked, in took his shoe off and threw it
Speaker 1: at him across the, room missed him and hit a locker.
Speaker 1: Boom but that Was Rick patino, Then So shawn's, like,
Speaker 1: oh this poor kid's gonna get, it And patina said
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes And sean's, like, WHOA i see you,
Speaker 1: know but if you watched the, series have you seen
Speaker 1: any of that or at least the clips of What
Speaker 1: Red storm? Rising, yeah he sets records for THE f
Speaker 1: bomb or so people, Think i'm sure he talked to that.
Speaker 2: Passion so that's why you.
Speaker 1: Know AND i can tell you this from producing the
Speaker 1: documentary on the ninety, sixteen And pope was a big
Speaker 1: part of that telling stories And Cameron mills, especially they
Speaker 1: were scared to death Of Rick. Patino Mark pope cannot
Speaker 1: coach in a manner that ultimately leads to his players
Speaker 1: being terrified of, HIM i mean terrified of. Him that's
Speaker 1: not who he. Is and to get that kind of,
Speaker 1: passion to use your, word billy out Of Defender's you got.
Speaker 2: To coach the Way patino does and Only patino can do.
Speaker 1: That somebody else may be out there doing, it but
Speaker 1: not as well or as visibly as he.
Speaker 2: Is that's.
Speaker 3: Interest you, know you don't see a lot of full
Speaker 3: court press, either feel Like patino was doing. That you
Speaker 3: didn't do it, Now, yeah who doesn't?
Speaker 1: Know not the way he did it. Here he had
Speaker 1: the white press and he had a black. Press the
Speaker 1: white press was when he denied the, ball they didn't
Speaker 1: guard the. Passer the black press they. Did but they
Speaker 1: also had the athletes, right they were nine deep OF nba.
Speaker 2: Players it's.
Speaker 3: AMAZING i, mean the whole college basketball world wouldn't touch
Speaker 3: him with a ten foot pole there for a, while
Speaker 3: and he's revitalized himself and now he's on top of
Speaker 3: the sport. AGAIN i did find an Interesting pope's comments
Speaker 3: today about when you can yell at the, officials like
Speaker 3: there's a timing to, it and you, know you can
Speaker 3: take it up to a level and then you need
Speaker 3: to kind of turn, away and they won't not all
Speaker 3: the times if your back is turned to the, official
Speaker 3: they won't necessarily call. Something they wait until they get
Speaker 3: into your. Face ahab the what was? It the walk down?
Speaker 2: That what was? That dick had the ego ego? Trip
Speaker 2: that's ALL i. Got ego.
Speaker 3: Trip you gotta find the guy for something like, that.
Speaker 2: Right there should be something it. Was it stopped like
Speaker 2: the whole crowd was, booing AND i guess they thought
Speaker 2: Like pope was because they were like to you them
Speaker 2: up to m. Up they Thought pope was holding up
Speaker 2: the game very. Well ogle was holding up the.
Speaker 1: Game, Yeah I'm i'm again as sympathetic to officials as
Speaker 1: anybody you'll ever, hear read or see on the.
Speaker 2: Air but that's.
Speaker 1: Bogus you, know a supervisor should have had a serious
Speaker 1: conversation with him and then after the game and then you,
Speaker 1: know maybe you don't assign him to a.
Speaker 2: TOURNAMENT i don't, know, yep do. That and then he
Speaker 2: was he went and again another reminder of the fans
Speaker 2: separate like THE. Sec there's no BASKETBALL sec officials. OFFICIATE
Speaker 2: i have tweeted that when people TAG sec, OFFICIATING i
Speaker 2: just want to pull my hair, Out But Terry. Hogles
Speaker 2: my point is he went into The Indiana purdue game
Speaker 2: there in The Big, ten by the, way, folks and
Speaker 2: he had a terrible game there, Too so it have
Speaker 2: been a bad. Weekend we were talking in the.
Speaker 1: Break about A Saint john's game and it might have
Speaker 1: Been Saint John's villanova or THE u.
Speaker 2: Shows, yes he did The Yukon Saint john's game up
Speaker 2: in stores a few weeks. Ago that's. It, yeah it's,
Speaker 2: like come, on, people it's not let's see.
Speaker 1: It it used to be that, way AND i get,
Speaker 1: it but for years and years it's.
Speaker 2: Not it's not. Anymore it's.
Speaker 1: Not and it used to be that they played different. Styles,
Speaker 1: yes you know The Big ten was more, physical and
Speaker 1: that might still be the. Case but in terms of
Speaker 1: how officials are assigned, now how they get from conference a,
Speaker 1: conference you, know that's a different. Story but you AND
Speaker 1: i went To Doug hampton's house For. Pizzah it's both.
Speaker 2: His sons are.
Speaker 1: Officials both his sons worked THE, sec Worked big. TWELVE
Speaker 1: i don't know if they worked A big, ten BUT
Speaker 1: i know his younger, Son, brent who's a very good
Speaker 1: well they both are worked a and m, games and
Speaker 1: When kentucky Signed Billy, Gillespie brent told his, dad here's
Speaker 1: what to, expect you.
Speaker 2: Know, well and his dad is the, guy folks who
Speaker 2: Sits you see him ON.
Speaker 1: Tv he's the guy when the officials go to look
Speaker 1: at the, Replay, doug the guy on the right side
Speaker 1: of your screen with a headset on and, uh he
Speaker 1: is the timeout. Coordinator so he sits there and you,
Speaker 1: know he doesn't have anything to do with the with
Speaker 1: the replays except that he talks to the truck about
Speaker 1: when they're. Ready but he also listens in on the
Speaker 1: conversations and.
Speaker 2: He knows a. Lot, well you AND i talk to
Speaker 2: him about.
Speaker 1: That he knows a lot of the officials for that.
Speaker 3: Reason, yeah, Yeah, well ninety percent of these referees must be,
Speaker 3: overworked Done, dick because there's been some terrible. Calls they
Speaker 3: do six games a.
Speaker 2: Week worked they, are you.
Speaker 3: Know pope said he had never seen a call overturned
Speaker 3: due to arguing that.
Speaker 2: Love that's a great time and also history of.
Speaker 1: Basketball he kept, saying he set it up so well
Speaker 1: it goes in the history of. BASKETBALL i have never
Speaker 1: seen Him, like what's he going to? Say and then he's.
Speaker 3: Right, well it made me think of Like Mark, stoops
Speaker 3: Because stoops is famous for kind.
Speaker 2: Of going, out so he's like cows more than.
Speaker 3: Kinda and and.
Speaker 1: He's not nearly as Bad stoops as he was when
Speaker 1: he got.
Speaker 3: Here and and this is something we've got to Ask
Speaker 3: doug because it's human. NATURE i, mean you're gonna be.
Speaker 3: Unbiased but if a guy's screaming at you the entire,
Speaker 3: game isn't there a part of you, that's you, know
Speaker 3: wants to get back at him a little? Bit?
Speaker 1: Now WHEN i WHEN i worked, baseball, no the answer.
Speaker 3: You don't think, that doesn't that you think that there's
Speaker 3: some there's gotta be some ego in the. Yelling there's.
Speaker 2: Ego but it's like but and then you, know AND
Speaker 2: i have.
Speaker 1: Argued my brother's been an official for fifty. Years he
Speaker 1: was telling me about a play like we were talking about,
Speaker 1: baseball AND i said something about you know HOW i
Speaker 1: thought this was tough or you, know.
Speaker 2: How do you call this or?
Speaker 1: That at one point he, said and if the kid does,
Speaker 1: this does, that and doesn't try to show me, Up i'm, like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: whoa Whoa when did this become about you showing me.
Speaker 1: Up come, on, man you, know BUT i just saw
Speaker 1: a clip on on the on the The instagram. FEED
Speaker 1: i guess it was from a spring. Game you might
Speaker 1: have seen this where there was a foul. Ball catcher
Speaker 1: puts his mid out waiting for last, year and then
Speaker 1: and then for whatever, reason pulls his mid back and
Speaker 1: the empire drops the ball and it hits the ground
Speaker 1: and immediately throws him out.
Speaker 2: Of a spring training. Game and they were they were
Speaker 2: the catcher and the manager were all, like what what
Speaker 2: are you doing up through the. Catcher, yes because.
Speaker 1: He thought he was a miscommunity showed.
Speaker 2: Him up over a.
Speaker 1: Miscommunication, yeah so there are guys who get a little too.
Speaker 2: SENSITIVE i think that's a.
Speaker 3: THING i think coaches could be, like now look for
Speaker 3: this hook and. Hold you, know it's happening every single
Speaker 3: time down the. Floor that could, help you, know get
Speaker 3: a favorable. Call but like cal and how he would
Speaker 3: just beat these officials.
Speaker 2: From the first minute of the, GAME i.
Speaker 3: Think officials hurt.
Speaker 2: Him, well, yeah that's what point.
Speaker 3: Is THERE'S i think that has to play a factor
Speaker 3: absolutely and.
Speaker 1: Negatively, WELL i don't think they said about screwing, Them.
Speaker 3: No, no, no but like over a course of a
Speaker 3: game and you guys get into it many, TIMES i
Speaker 3: think that's just a human.
Speaker 2: ELEMENT i agree to it.
Speaker 1: All, WELL i can tell you and games THAT i
Speaker 1: CALLED i never said to, Myself i'm gonna stick it
Speaker 1: to this guy because he's been giving me a hard time.
Speaker 1: Myself if he says one more, word he's, going you, know.
Speaker 3: He'd be a better ref THAN. I then, here it'd
Speaker 3: be just personal agenda drift out.
Speaker 1: There you wouldn't last for Uh, no but YOU'RE i,
Speaker 1: mean you're right about Ego.
Speaker 2: Aaron, yeah you, Know oh that that's what all the terror.
Speaker 1: TERRY i had players telling me they're going to meet
Speaker 1: me in the parking lot and all that. Stuff and
Speaker 1: you KNOW i had a fraternity team came after me with,
Speaker 1: bats you know WHAT i?
Speaker 2: Mean, people you know.
Speaker 3: They get the bats from the. Trunk get this? Official?
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, man just turn? Around what's on your? Mind? Boys?
Speaker 2: Stopped so?
Speaker 1: Anyway all, right, well speaking of, stoops we'll talk about
Speaker 1: football on the way back here on The Big Boone
Speaker 1: siders six thirty W ip final segment of The Stay
Speaker 1: Wide Big Boon. Side they're coming up. Tomorrow you're gonna
Speaker 1: start hearing and reading and seeing a lot about this
Speaker 1: New kentucky football team because they're making more stoops available
Speaker 1: to us and more than almost.
Speaker 2: Three dozen players thirty.
Speaker 1: One so we're all going to get a chance to
Speaker 1: fill our notebooks and fill our cameras and our. Recorders
Speaker 1: and if you're a basketball, fan don't get. Upset we're
Speaker 1: not giving up on.
Speaker 2: BASKETBALL i will be at this football event at the
Speaker 2: basketball media at noon and then on a flight To
Speaker 2: oklahoma tomorrow, night So i'll have it all for. Y'all
Speaker 2: learned to be in show. Business, yeah, right but this.
Speaker 1: Is going to BE i keep, saying this a season
Speaker 1: Unlike i've ever.
Speaker 2: Covered it's thirty one new. Play that's just. Spring they've
Speaker 2: signed forty. Two, yeah and spring all there. Exactly there's
Speaker 2: going to be more after the. Spring, yeah it's going
Speaker 2: to be more than half the roster is going to be.
Speaker 2: New they've got to bring this calendar under. Control, oh
Speaker 2: it's a. Joke it's a, mess just a. Mess and
Speaker 2: that's WHY i don't. Understand that's why you're seeing the
Speaker 2: death of spring. Games have you seen how many spring
Speaker 2: games have gotten banged? Already texas said, No missouri said.
Speaker 2: NO a couple other prominent programs out there said no
Speaker 2: spring game just because they don't want to get players.
Speaker 1: Poached Chris doring of THE Sec network has said this
Speaker 1: on my Show, locally he says it on THE Sec.
Speaker 1: Network he wants to do away with LIKE uk PLAYING
Speaker 1: eku play him in the. Spring, well in, theory that
Speaker 1: sounds pretty, good but that would have worked when he
Speaker 1: was playing college football now for exactly the reason you
Speaker 1: just said that ain't gonna.
Speaker 2: Work it's not gonna. WORK i mean a real. Game,
Speaker 2: nope not gonna. Work AND i mean we saw At
Speaker 2: kentucky last Year Jeremia, england who unfortunately never played at
Speaker 2: pitt and he's back in the portal sitting in. There
Speaker 2: he has the big spring game coming off his torn
Speaker 2: acl as the pick six and has was the star
Speaker 2: of and they didn't even put that ON. TV i don't,
Speaker 2: think correct me If i'm. Wrong it was kind of
Speaker 2: a water. Down they had all the injuries and they
Speaker 2: pretty much played two hand, touch but he bawled out
Speaker 2: and he was in the portal two days later Because
Speaker 2: kentucky knew he wasn't gonna. Play and it's just i.
Speaker 2: DON'T i don't mind that coaches are doing, this but
Speaker 2: the only way to stop it is getting rid of
Speaker 2: the spring window and do all the transactional stuff in the.
Speaker 2: Winter that's WHAT i was gonna.
Speaker 3: Ask so is there another transfer portal window after the spring?
Speaker 2: Game?
Speaker 3: Fifteen it's opened for fifteen days after saving eliminate. THAT
Speaker 3: i think.
Speaker 1: Is that fair to the players because there are kids
Speaker 1: coming out of the, spring like this kid who realized
Speaker 1: HE i can play at this, level but you know there's.
Speaker 2: Not happening here eight kids ahead of. Me i'm not
Speaker 2: going to play.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 3: YEAH i understand that. Sentiment but that's what the transfer
Speaker 3: portal window is. For that's What i'm.
Speaker 2: Saying, now you don't know that until the spring, game, right,
Speaker 2: say you're going into the, spring you think you're gonna
Speaker 2: Be i'm gonna play myself into the second or third,
Speaker 2: team and and you're, like, Oh i'm not even gonna
Speaker 2: be on the depth. Shart, yeah well.
Speaker 3: TOUGH i, mean we got to have that's The but
Speaker 3: they open.
Speaker 2: With that with, THAT i l in the, portal they
Speaker 2: enter the can of worms where the players have all the,
Speaker 2: power which to a DEGREE i agree, with and it's
Speaker 2: almost now too, much and it's see to.
Speaker 1: ME i THINK i WOULD i would leave that one,
Speaker 1: alone BUT i would also tighten things up in a winter.
Speaker 1: TIME i would move it so that you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: so many kids sitting at bowl games and things like
Speaker 1: that unless they're hurt or. Whatever BUT i do think
Speaker 1: the coaches ought to be able to put their heads.
Speaker 1: Together but when they do the problem is there's no
Speaker 1: representation for the.
Speaker 2: Players, no, no you, know it's not like there's a
Speaker 2: n f L P. A, yeah.
Speaker 1: Although lord knows what they're thinking by, changing you, know.
Speaker 2: It's just it's unfortunate you're seeing so many Great the
Speaker 2: bowl games have already been watered down to opt outs
Speaker 2: and portal, guys and now spring, games which are supposed
Speaker 2: to be totally fun for. FANS a lot of schools
Speaker 2: make it free to, attend and that's going, away.
Speaker 1: And it gives fans of football programs something to look
Speaker 1: forward to and talk about when if they're not into
Speaker 1: basketball or baseball or.
Speaker 2: Whatever so, no there, WILL i can, GUARANTEE i just
Speaker 2: just a. Prediction there will be some sort of announcement
Speaker 2: Come march That kentucky's not doing a spring. Game but
Speaker 2: there'll be an open. Practice, sure they're knocking to last. Year,
Speaker 2: yeah and maybe even less where they do less camera
Speaker 2: work and maybe don't let the media in or something
Speaker 2: so they can't put. Out, Oh Jeremiah england had a
Speaker 2: great day. Today, no that's.
Speaker 3: IT i think it Was Kent spencer did A louisville
Speaker 3: spring game one time and drew pictures of like stick
Speaker 3: figures doing the plays and played them as the. Highlights
Speaker 3: so Because Bobby petrino didn't allow them to shoot, This.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that that stuff like that until they
Speaker 2: clean this crap, up it's going to start. Happening was
Speaker 2: A LEE.
Speaker 1: K howard and Ka. Waititi somebody couldn't show highlights of
Speaker 1: YOU ok tournament game because it wasn't over yet or
Speaker 1: something he was doing ON.
Speaker 2: Cw so he had A nerf. Basketball that's.
Speaker 1: Awesome he re enacted the players in the. Studio but
Speaker 1: that Can't that doesn't surprise. Me can'ts as creative as it.
Speaker 2: Gets thanks so much for. Listening thanks To aaron And.
Speaker 2: Billy that's a good night From. Lexington