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Speaker 2: I'm Darren Hendrick.
Speaker 11: Please to be joined on the phone at this time
Speaker 11: by the voice of the Vanderbilt Commodorees for Learfield. He
Speaker 11: is Andrew Alakretta. And Andrew, thanks for being with us
Speaker 11: on this Monday night. And I have to ask, first
Speaker 11: of all, what's the delirium level like right now along
Speaker 11: West End Avenue there near First Bank Stadium today?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 18: Sizable? You know. I there's probably a bunch of different little,
Speaker 18: you know, anecdotes I could give you. I could tell you.
Speaker 19: You know, we're still doing all of our construction right
Speaker 19: and when I walk past the construction workers and I
Speaker 19: can hear one of the construction workers talking with an
Speaker 19: under construction worker.
Speaker 18: Going, you know that that Diego Pobby is pretty good.
Speaker 18: I feel like we've gotten this.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no doubt about it. The game Saturday obviously was
Speaker 11: a terrific start for the Commodores to score and then
Speaker 11: get the defensive score. What were the emotion like for
Speaker 11: you though, as the game got deeper and deeper and
Speaker 11: you in everybody in that stadium began to realize what
Speaker 11: they were witnessing with what Vanderbilt was accomplishing on the field.
Speaker 19: Boy, that's a difficult question to answer because there's so
Speaker 19: much as you know about the history of the matchup,
Speaker 19: all of the times that Vanderbilt perhaps has come close
Speaker 19: to moments and hasn't been able to get over the
Speaker 19: top of that.
Speaker 18: You also understand the play by play aspect.
Speaker 19: Where you're trying to do the job and make sure
Speaker 19: things are executed to a certain standard. So it's hard
Speaker 19: to like think in the moment about all of that. Personally,
Speaker 19: I think I would tell you that I remember asking
Speaker 19: our color analysts normal off air at one point, like
Speaker 19: late in the fourth quarter, and I tried to counter
Speaker 19: it because I felt like someone talking about a perfect game,
Speaker 19: you know, with one out in the ninth and I
Speaker 19: was like, if they find a way to get to
Speaker 19: the finished line, would this be the biggest win in
Speaker 19: program history? And he said, no doubt. And I think
Speaker 19: when you start talking about things in those terms, you
Speaker 19: sort of understand we're pretty close. We're at the precipice
Speaker 19: of something that you're going to remember for a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I originally was wanting to ask you just the simple
Speaker 11: question of how did Vanderbilt do this? How did they
Speaker 11: accomplish this win? But I think more important the question
Speaker 11: is how did this team in that locker room find
Speaker 11: or develop the belief that they could go out there
Speaker 11: and stand toe to toe and beat Alabama When you
Speaker 11: think about the fact that they were so close against
Speaker 11: Missouri and they had beaten Virginia Tech, where did that
Speaker 11: belief come from and how did it get there?
Speaker 2: For the Commodores, I think he's from New Mexico.
Speaker 19: I think we signed him in the transfer portal. I
Speaker 19: think he's quite a significant little player. I say that
Speaker 19: like mildly facetiously, but I don't think all of this
Speaker 19: is possible and whatever this is Darren, in terms of
Speaker 19: the entire twenty four season, we don't know yet, but
Speaker 19: I don't know that a lot of what's happened and
Speaker 19: unfolded is not possible without Diego Pavia. I've said a
Speaker 19: handful of times and this is just flat out in
Speaker 19: my take, just me, but to me, Diego Pavia.
Speaker 18: Is exactly what clarkly wants the program to be.
Speaker 19: And it's what he wants the program to be and
Speaker 19: has for a long time.
Speaker 18: For better or for worse.
Speaker 19: Because Clark is so professorial, so of Vanderbilt and of
Speaker 19: NDA for folks that know Nashville, he's a bit of
Speaker 19: an imperfect messager for.
Speaker 18: That tough, gritty work ethic thing. But now you've got
Speaker 18: the player in the.
Speaker 19: Locker room that can reinforce what Clark wants the team
Speaker 19: to be, and he can do it with the guys,
Speaker 19: and he's got such a strong will. He's thirty five
Speaker 19: and thirteen all time as a starting quarterback.
Speaker 18: Wow in college football.
Speaker 19: It's and he's self made right Like he didn't go
Speaker 19: to any of the Elite eleven camps and they wouldn't
Speaker 19: have let him participate even if.
Speaker 1: He wanted to.
Speaker 18: He was not one of those guys, but.
Speaker 19: He made it happen for himself, and when you've got
Speaker 19: one of those type of people at the right position,
Speaker 19: with the right system and all of the other stuff
Speaker 19: kind of coming together, you can have a moment like
Speaker 19: you did versus Alabama.
Speaker 11: I'm glad you mentioned about Clark Lee looking for that
Speaker 11: type of player and what he's wanting, because I was
Speaker 11: going to ask you how he's built this program. I
Speaker 11: know it's required patients, and it just sounds like from
Speaker 11: watching the broadcast and hearing the announcers on television talk
Speaker 11: about his program some of the course corrections he's had
Speaker 11: to make, including using the nil and the portal and
Speaker 11: all that stuff available in modern college football. What's it
Speaker 11: been like though, from your perspective, working with him and
Speaker 11: interviewing him on almost a daily basis and watching him
Speaker 11: build this program to where he's gotten it coming into
Speaker 11: this week.
Speaker 19: You know, another interesting one that is kind of it's
Speaker 19: just so difficult, But you know, I think I'm trying
Speaker 19: to figure out exactly where I want to take all
Speaker 19: of that because it's so loaded with Clark. I just
Speaker 19: you know, he this was the vision that they had
Speaker 19: back in twenty twenty when they hired him. When you
Speaker 19: have a chancellor that green lights the athletic department in
Speaker 19: a way that no other chancellor in decades have. When
Speaker 19: you've got an athletic director who understands Vanderbilt and a
Speaker 19: football coach that understands.
Speaker 18: Vanderbuilt they wanted to create a moment like this, but.
Speaker 19: Clark has talked about in the past that it didn't
Speaker 19: work on his timeline, right, Like, we thought we had something, respectfully,
Speaker 19: he said in twenty two after beating you guys at
Speaker 19: your place and then coming back and beating Florida that's
Speaker 19: Levis and Richardson and back to back weeks, and then
Speaker 19: it cratered.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 18: I think what has been so impressive about what Clark
Speaker 18: has done is the fact.
Speaker 19: That he did get through the twenty three season and
Speaker 19: say this cannot sustain.
Speaker 18: I think in terms of like trying to do things the.
Speaker 19: Right way and trying to build up people and recognize
Speaker 19: the fact that you've got to do it in a
Speaker 19: way that fits Vanderbilt, not just academically but on the
Speaker 19: field because we're not going to compete with Georgia and
Speaker 19: Alabama for five stars. I don't know that that much
Speaker 19: has changed, but I feel like he was able to
Speaker 19: take the vision of what he wanted the program to
Speaker 19: be and extract it out and place it in more
Speaker 19: of a modern sense within the past twelve months. So
Speaker 19: he's been able to kind of grab from column A
Speaker 19: and Coluin B. And we'll see where the rest of
Speaker 19: the season goes, right, Because I just referenced the fact that,
Speaker 19: you know, two years ago we thought we had something
Speaker 19: at a crater, So we all recognize that all of
Speaker 19: this sort of wave is very, very fragile, and it
Speaker 19: certainly could be equally frag coming to you guys later
Speaker 19: on this week.
Speaker 11: Yeah, And I think in a broader perspective, that's kind
Speaker 11: of been the sec EI this year. Every time it
Speaker 11: feels like there is a team obviously A and M
Speaker 11: sitting there three and oh in the league. Today, Texas,
Speaker 11: I think is still one to oh in the league,
Speaker 11: but everybody else has at least one loss. And we've
Speaker 11: seen teams like Georgia and Alabama and Tennessee and Ole
Speaker 11: Miss look really dominant and then they're brought down to
Speaker 11: earth by a team that's able to go toe to
Speaker 11: toe and beat them. And I think, like to your point,
Speaker 11: it's very fragile in this era of college football.
Speaker 2: But Also, it speaks to the depth of this league.
Speaker 18: I think it speaks to the depth of the league,
Speaker 18: he said politely.
Speaker 19: I think it speaks to kind of the fragile nature
Speaker 19: of working with eighteen, nineteen twenty year olds.
Speaker 18: Again he said it respectfully. And three, I do you
Speaker 18: think it speaks to.
Speaker 19: The moment in time that NIL affords you. Yes, not
Speaker 19: deeply rooted in name, image, likeness, We're not deeply rooted.
Speaker 19: We're not some sort of transfer portal program through and through.
Speaker 19: But what it can do is it can lift your depth.
Speaker 19: Perhaps someone that was overlooked, like a Diego Poby against
Speaker 19: his shot at a level that he deserves, or perhaps
Speaker 19: someone that was going to be a second or third
Speaker 19: stringer at Albabama or Texas or Georgia has the opportunity
Speaker 19: to come to you and make an impact.
Speaker 18: And certainly you guys have a starting quarterback that was, you.
Speaker 19: Know, again struggling to break through as the guy at Georgia.
Speaker 18: But now he can make an impact for you guys.
Speaker 18: And I think all of that has on a weekend, week.
Speaker 19: Out basis leveled the playing field where all of a sudden,
Speaker 19: the total depths that certain programs could overwhelm you with
Speaker 19: doesn't quite have the chance to.
Speaker 18: Overwhelm you with it. I think you could put it
Speaker 18: in a baseball.
Speaker 19: Perspective, Darren, Right, like Vanderbilt for about a decade would
Speaker 19: hit you with waves of.
Speaker 18: Depth that looked dizzy. That's not the case anymore. Like
Speaker 18: there's enough talent that.
Speaker 19: Goes dispersed that you guys get to go to the
Speaker 19: College World Series last year.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 11: And that leads me back to what I was going
Speaker 11: to ask you your thoughts on the matchup this weekend,
Speaker 11: because I look at the Cats and the Doors, and
Speaker 11: I think this could be a fun matchup. Both teams
Speaker 11: like to hit you in the mouth. Both teams have
Speaker 11: gotten terrific quarterback play over the last few weeks. How
Speaker 11: do you what was your first impression when you kind
Speaker 11: of sit down and looked over Kentucky and Vanderbilt.
Speaker 19: My first impression was, Hey, both of these teams really
Speaker 19: control the clock, which means all of that sort of
Speaker 19: stuff is not going to be relevant in this game.
Speaker 19: It's going to be like whoever hits the seven yard bombs?
Speaker 19: And right, okay, great.
Speaker 18: The other thing that I would tell you is like
Speaker 18: we sat down to.
Speaker 20: Do our radio show earlier today and like Clark's talking about,
Speaker 20: you know, this could be a quick game because both
Speaker 20: teams like the two clocks, and then Kevin Ingram, who
Speaker 20: works with us, it is like it's supposed to be
Speaker 20: a beautiful day, and like I felt like they both
Speaker 20: jinxed us, like there's gonna be a pop up thunderstorm
Speaker 20: in this game is going to take nine hours. I
Speaker 20: do think it will be because both teams typically speaking
Speaker 20: quote unquote, control the ball, Like at a certain point,
Speaker 20: there's going to be a turnover, there's going to be
Speaker 20: a pick six, there is going to be.
Speaker 19: That seventy yard bomb, there is going to be that
Speaker 19: breakaway play. And if you if you are the team
Speaker 19: that walks away with that particular play.
Speaker 18: Then you're probably going to win. If you're not the team,
Speaker 18: you know, then you're going to be trapping at the end.
Speaker 18: I would be surprised if it's not close.
Speaker 19: But again we're we're coming off with something that this
Speaker 19: program has never sees. And it's not necessarily the mental
Speaker 19: headspace that I worry about when the team. I think
Speaker 19: it's just the overall body and mental fatigue. Right, Like
Speaker 19: so much goes in. Can you find your focus Saturday night?
Speaker 18: I expect them to be okay.
Speaker 19: It is again such a hard thing to do when
Speaker 19: you have just been physically and emotionally trained for the
Speaker 19: better part of you know, forty eight hours.
Speaker 11: Well, the good news is with a seven forty five
Speaker 11: kickoff they'll get to sleep in a little bit on Saturday. Andrew,
Speaker 11: thanks so much for taking some time on this Monday
Speaker 11: not to call in and chat with us. We appreciate
Speaker 11: it and look forward to having you guys in this weekend.
Speaker 18: See you guys soon.
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 11: but we chatted with nov and buyers, and for Jackson Novy,
Speaker 11: I asked him about the importance of these fall exhibition games.
Speaker 11: How important are those fall exhibition games against an opponent,
Speaker 11: just to kind of learn everybody and just get the
Speaker 11: team out there and see it perform in life.
Speaker 26: I have ball action, Yeah, I think it's it's really important.
Speaker 26: Obviously freshman year, obviously, all three years I've gotten the
Speaker 26: chance to throw in those games, and I think it's
Speaker 26: more so just an opportunity to just show that what
Speaker 26: you've been working on. Obviously from a personal level, you know,
Speaker 26: just show the development you've been working with pitches, doing
Speaker 26: the stuff you have with coach Rozell, but just kind
Speaker 26: of getting us, getting us away from you know, the
Speaker 26: back and forth kind of battle we have right now
Speaker 26: between pitchers and headers. Obviously, all pitchers are cheering for
Speaker 26: all pitchers, All headers are cheering for all headers. You know,
Speaker 26: when we're doing inner squads downside downstairs in the cages today,
Speaker 26: just getting us all on the same squad. You know,
Speaker 26: everyone's fighting for one for one goal and one reason.
Speaker 26: And I think last year at Presco was awesome, small dugout,
Speaker 26: everyone travels, all on top of each other, just going
Speaker 26: ham and just getting the new guys, you know, a
Speaker 26: sense of you know, how the game atmosphere it works.
Speaker 26: That's one thing that I think really translate well to
Speaker 26: the spring necessarily where you know, not necessarily that first
Speaker 26: game is you know, all, what do I need to
Speaker 26: be doing in the bullpen? What do I need to
Speaker 26: be doing here? You know, it gives you you know,
Speaker 26: the run throughs of you know, BP stretch, you know
Speaker 26: how everything works with timing and the bullpen. Just small
Speaker 26: things like that that you don't necessarily think of that'll
Speaker 26: come up, but just make a big difference when you
Speaker 26: get to springtime.
Speaker 8: Okay, so you get home from Omaha, Evan Byers's arm
Speaker 8: is shot.
Speaker 2: Get tired.
Speaker 8: What we don't do tired? But what does July and
Speaker 8: August look like like? What has your rollest development been
Speaker 8: like for these last three or four months, you know,
Speaker 8: since coming off that.
Speaker 27: So me and Noby basically kind of spent the summer together.
Speaker 27: So we worked with coach Jones, our strength coach here
Speaker 27: and shut down for a little bit, just really focused
Speaker 27: on trying to move more explosive in the weight room,
Speaker 27: trying to move things faster. For me, it's not really
Speaker 27: a strength thing. It's just about moving things faster, so
Speaker 27: kind of really focus on that. We did a lot
Speaker 27: of sprint work this summer. Unfortunately it was for the better,
Speaker 27: but it was not fun. Six I am.
Speaker 8: A little bit is okay.
Speaker 27: So yeah, we would do that and then eventually we
Speaker 27: started to throw a little bit. So Nevie took hiatus
Speaker 27: till Iowa. I'm not really sure what he did there,
Speaker 27: but he left me for two weeks. So I threw
Speaker 27: some of the freshmen, trying to get acclimated with them,
Speaker 27: and so we were working out and throwing.
Speaker 1: So it was it was good to have a little
Speaker 1: bit break.
Speaker 27: You know, I played summer ball the past three years
Speaker 27: and it was about time I needed a break.
Speaker 1: Like I really wanted to go play sommerball.
Speaker 8: But you've been going. Yeah you've been going since December, right, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Just a constant grind.
Speaker 27: And I tell you what, like I'm throwing the fall
Speaker 27: right now, like barm feels way better than it's ever
Speaker 27: So it needed it.
Speaker 2: It went home. I bet he was doing chores. It
Speaker 2: was folks. How many acres your your parents have the farm.
Speaker 26: Is yeah, my dad and my grandpa farm probably roughly
Speaker 26: about three thousand.
Speaker 8: Any windmills on them, No, dude, No.
Speaker 26: That's more like talking about the central Iowa, not in Eustern.
Speaker 8: To get to Maha, draw your whole state.
Speaker 26: Oh, plenty of them.
Speaker 8: I saw twenty three.
Speaker 26: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's a lot of grass and windmills out there.
Speaker 2: Three thousand acres though, wow.
Speaker 26: But yeah, to add on to add on evis part
Speaker 26: about the summer. I thought it was really good. Obviously,
Speaker 26: you know, playing summer ball in the two summers past.
Speaker 26: You know, one, getting that break for your arm was
Speaker 26: obviously really really cool. But obviously, you know, we had
Speaker 26: probably about seven to a maybe ten pitchers, slush positional
Speaker 26: players that were here over the summer. So just you know,
Speaker 26: building that connection with them early on in the summer
Speaker 26: just made this transition to the fall this one is easier,
Speaker 26: you know, just not having to learn you know, thirty
Speaker 26: new guys, you know, you know, it's more so like twenty.
Speaker 26: So you know, building those connections early was really nice.
Speaker 26: You know, having some of those guys over to our
Speaker 26: house occasionally, just you know, trying to build those foundations early,
Speaker 26: trying to build a culture with them so you know
Speaker 26: they can help, you know, the freshman just as much
Speaker 26: as we do. But yeah, also getting to go home
Speaker 26: and you know, spend some time with friends and family
Speaker 26: that I haven't necessarily gotten to do the past two summers.
Speaker 26: So it was a good break. But excited to be
Speaker 26: back here at school and nice.
Speaker 8: It's nice to have a breather after working like that
Speaker 8: for six seven months straight, pitching two times a week. Really, yeah,
Speaker 8: something break, kumba, calm down.
Speaker 2: You know they don't do tired, but that was a
Speaker 2: good tired at the end. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 2: this year's pitching staff.
Speaker 11: I know there's still a lot to be uh sorted out,
Speaker 11: and that's what the fall is for. But what excites
Speaker 11: you most about this group? The new faces, the guys
Speaker 11: coming back. What excites you most about this staff?
Speaker 27: I'd say, like, I feel like we have quite a
Speaker 27: bit of an experience from different leagues and different avenues
Speaker 27: of college baseball. We have another seventh year, Dub's little
Speaker 27: friend o here, another seventh years from South Dakota State,
Speaker 27: Nick McKay. Just a guy that really goes about his business.
Speaker 2: The right way.
Speaker 1: He gets here super early in the morning because he.
Speaker 27: Said his body takes a while to warm up, probably
Speaker 27: because it's his seventh year of college.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he.
Speaker 1: Looks really good. He's a starter.
Speaker 27: We got, you know, Cole Henchel Scottie. And honestly, I
Speaker 27: think we have some really polished freshmen this year. From
Speaker 27: being in the program five years, I've seen some good freshmen,
Speaker 27: some bad freshmen. It's just part of, you know, the
Speaker 27: learning curve. But I got some.
Speaker 1: I see some freshmen that can you know, contribute to
Speaker 1: the staff this year, and I'm.
Speaker 27: Excited about that to see how well they have already
Speaker 27: progressed as being that young, because I can tell you
Speaker 27: when I came in here as a freshman, I looked.
Speaker 2: Terrible, like it was bad. They look great.
Speaker 27: That's a big jump to the sec Yeah, and it's
Speaker 27: you can definitely see when they get out there. Sometimes
Speaker 27: the nerves get the best of them. But I'm like, hey, man,
Speaker 27: just in their squad, just an their squad. It's easy
Speaker 27: for me and to say, because this is like an
Speaker 27: inner squad. We thrown it the people and having buds
Speaker 27: so nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 26: To add on to part obviously, the experience is good,
Speaker 26: but I would say, just like the like diversification that
Speaker 26: we have within pictures, I feel like a lot of
Speaker 26: guys have a different a lot of different stuff, a
Speaker 26: lot of different strengths, and just honestly just I feel
Speaker 26: like for the most part, all the new guys have
Speaker 26: been really open minded about the new process. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 26: being in a program for three four years, like some
Speaker 26: of these you know, transfers have been in, you know,
Speaker 26: it's different learning from Coach Rozel. You know, he coaches
Speaker 26: a different way. But they've been really respectful and they've
Speaker 26: been really good at asking questions, you know, to us,
Speaker 26: you know, how does this work?
Speaker 1: What do we need to do about this?
Speaker 26: I feel like everyone's just done a really good job
Speaker 26: of just you know, buying into the new culture and
Speaker 26: buying into like how we navigate the pitching staff and
Speaker 26: how Coach Roseel does you know, the stuff that he does.
Speaker 26: So I feel like I feel like we've not necessarily
Speaker 26: I feel like in years past, like it's taken a
Speaker 26: little bit for the pitchers to get there, But I
Speaker 26: feel like this year we've somewhat hit the ground running
Speaker 26: and I'm excited to It's such a different philosophy in
Speaker 26: the spring versus the full trying to win.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like all the only word the matter is when
Speaker 8: you know. But in the fall, man, it's all about developing, yep.
Speaker 8: And you know you've got to get you got it.
Speaker 8: You got to learn something every day. And you speak
Speaker 8: about those freshman pictures like you got to develop a
Speaker 8: lot in four months here in the fall if you're
Speaker 8: gonna help in the spring. Yeah, So like what specific
Speaker 8: things are you all working on on developing right about now?
Speaker 1: I mean right now, everybody's just trying to get their
Speaker 1: legs underneath them because.
Speaker 27: They're just like we do a lot as pitching staff.
Speaker 27: We're trying to get in the best shapes of our life.
Speaker 27: I think that development wise, I mean Salo and Fits
Speaker 27: are doing a great job of helping coach Zell navigate
Speaker 27: the pitching staff. They give us plenty of like water
Speaker 27: bag and medball stuff to do right now, which is
Speaker 27: kind of like been added in. Like probably last year
Speaker 27: was when we really added in.
Speaker 1: We didn't do much that twenty three.
Speaker 8: Yeah we got them, but yeah we got it wasn't
Speaker 8: but we didn't do the like what not.
Speaker 27: So like we have an implemented plan like you have
Speaker 27: personal stuff that like coach Salo will like look at
Speaker 27: and implement in for you and he'll he'll kind of
Speaker 27: like walk you through it and watch and stuff.
Speaker 1: And Coach fitzwill too.
Speaker 27: So coaches really manages like that pitching, like watching your
Speaker 27: catch play and stuff and be able to critique there.
Speaker 1: But he kind of like gives the reins to them.
Speaker 27: With Salo having such a big background and pro ball
Speaker 27: and then fits just seeing like all the places that
Speaker 27: he's been and they combine their knowledge and they're really
Speaker 27: helping just the young guys being able to just move
Speaker 27: their bodies in a more efficient way. And it's really
Speaker 27: cool to see because like I benefit from it more
Speaker 27: than anybody, and I'm a fifth year, you know, so's
Speaker 27: it's cool to see that having new perspective on things
Speaker 27: and like new eyes can help so much because it's
Speaker 27: just it's just all compounds together with all their knowledge.
Speaker 8: So it's awesome if any of our listeners are like.
Speaker 11: And that was a segment of our Behind Kentucky Baseball
Speaker 11: podcast featuring Jackson Noby and Evan Byers. That one is
Speaker 11: out now. Look out for a new episode dropping this
Speaker 11: week featuring Kaya Scarget and Ethan Hindle, a couple of
Speaker 11: the young guys from last year's team that could fill
Speaker 11: some big roles this year with baseball. Andrew Capus will
Speaker 11: join us when we come back. This is Clark's Puppinshop
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Speaker 2: It's Andrew Kappus who.
Speaker 11: Serves as studio host for men's basketball during the season,
Speaker 11: and also you'll hear him as the play by play
Speaker 11: voice for Kentucky volleyball and even some softball games throughout
Speaker 11: the year. And he'll be behind the mic when the
Speaker 11: volleyball team hosts Texas on Sunday at Historic Memorial Coliseum.
Speaker 11: That's at one o'clock first Serve for Kentucky and Texas.
Speaker 11: And Andrew, thanks again for taking some time and finding
Speaker 11: some time to join us here tonight. I guess I'll
Speaker 11: start you with volleyball because you host that match on Sunday.
Speaker 11: Kentucky's on a three match winning streak, starting to play better,
Speaker 11: continuing to get better as a team, and that's certainly
Speaker 11: what you want to see as you dive into the
Speaker 11: heart of your conference schedule.
Speaker 29: Yeah, I think there is a lot of optimism there.
Speaker 29: And thanks for having me. My man has always but
Speaker 29: I think there was a lot of optimism coming into
Speaker 29: this SEC schedule because you look at how well they
Speaker 29: played in the non conference against I would argue the
Speaker 29: toughest non conference schedule in the country. Coach Craig Skinner
Speaker 29: played four top ten teams and don't I don't really
Speaker 29: know of anybody else that schedules that way, to be honest,
Speaker 29: and that's what he that's what he prefers. You know,
Speaker 29: he wants to see this team challenged early. He doesn't
Speaker 29: want to wait until the SEC or you know, postseason play.
Speaker 29: And it's certainly paid off for them. They're they're looking
Speaker 29: for their eighth straight Southeastern Conference title, as we well know,
Speaker 29: and that obviously takes a big, big challenge this year
Speaker 29: given that that Texas and Oklahoma have entered the league,
Speaker 29: which Kentucky took care of Oklahoma at Memorial Coliseum. But
Speaker 29: Texas is is obviously a national power and provides a
Speaker 29: new rival that I think they'll become instant rivals on
Speaker 29: the volley volleyball floor in the SEC. So you're exactly right, though,
Speaker 29: this three match winning streak is a really good time
Speaker 29: because you want to be playing some good volleyball when
Speaker 29: you take on the Longhorns, because it's a great litmus
Speaker 29: test of where you're at. Because remember, this is a
Speaker 29: team that relies on a lot of young players, true freshmen,
Speaker 29: red shirt freshmen, and sophomores that are currently playing really
Speaker 29: big roles. So it's a really good progress report if
Speaker 29: you Will midway through the season.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was looking at the schedule and I remember
Speaker 11: on the night that this happened. The stunning loss to
Speaker 11: Auburn is the first time in a long time that
Speaker 11: Kentucky fell to Auburn in a volleyball match. But the
Speaker 11: way they've responded is what has impressed me. They have
Speaker 11: to go to Gainesville and take on a Florida team
Speaker 11: that is usually the biggest competition Kentucky has in the
Speaker 11: SEC in terms of trying to win a championship. They
Speaker 11: go down there and beat Florida three out of four
Speaker 11: sets to win the match, a top fifteen Florida team
Speaker 11: on the road, and then you come back a five
Speaker 11: set victory at home against Oklahoma. But maybe the most
Speaker 11: impressive one, Andrew, is the three games or the three
Speaker 11: set sweep match win against Missouri, which has been a
Speaker 11: tough out in the SEC over the last couple of years.
Speaker 29: Yeah, that's a really good three match stretch. If you're
Speaker 29: trying to I don't want to say warm up for Texas,
Speaker 29: because as you said, Florida has been arguably their biggest
Speaker 29: rival during this seven season winning streak throughout the Southeastern Conference,
Speaker 29: and that's a really tough place to play. Just about
Speaker 29: every Kentucky team, whether it's baseball, football, basketball, you get
Speaker 29: challenged when you go to Gainesville. That's a really good
Speaker 29: rivalry from a department level, and that's a really really
Speaker 29: good team that I know they dropped one set, but
Speaker 29: you really didn't feel like the match was ever in
Speaker 29: danger in that match in Gainesville. So that was a
Speaker 29: really good, I guess statement win that you could say
Speaker 29: that maybe this team lacked going into conference play and
Speaker 29: then obviously in the first few weeks of conference play.
Speaker 29: But it is great they've shaken off that loss against Auburn.
Speaker 29: I think the one little silver lining with that is
Speaker 29: Auburn has been on the upswing here lately throughout the
Speaker 29: Southeastern Conference. So obviously not a game you want to lose,
Speaker 29: but as we know in other sports, it's maybe sometimes
Speaker 29: best to get those losses out of the way early
Speaker 29: in the conference slate.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
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Speaker 11: A couple of segments left with Andrew Cappus here on
Speaker 11: Clark's Pumping Shop BBN Radio. He is the second Andrew
Speaker 11: that we've had guesting with us tonight. We just talked
Speaker 11: to mister Cappus. We just had Andrew Alligreta on early
Speaker 11: in the hour to talk about the Kentucky Vanderbilt matchup
Speaker 11: this weekend. Historically, this has always been one that can
Speaker 11: Tacky and Vandy both circled as a potential win in
Speaker 11: their schedules. But after the way Kentucky took care of
Speaker 11: business and toppled Old Miss in Oxford the way they played,
Speaker 11: and after watching the way Vanderbilt took the fight to
Speaker 11: Alabama and beat them last weekend, there's a lot more
Speaker 11: intrigue and excitement around this matchup now between the Doors
Speaker 11: and Cats this Saturday.
Speaker 29: Yeah, I thought Vanderbilt was much better coming into the season,
Speaker 29: and I know they've had a couple of stinkers in
Speaker 29: the non con a little bit going into that game
Speaker 29: against Alabama, but especially with what happened a couple of
Speaker 29: years ago in Lexington. You knew this wasn't a game
Speaker 29: that Mark Stoops and company were going to take lighty
Speaker 29: to begin with, but fitting that on the bye week
Speaker 29: that Vanderbilt does that, and so certainly nobody is going
Speaker 29: to be taking these Commodorees for granted. And who would
Speaker 29: have funked when you looked at the schedule in early August,
Speaker 29: once things were starting to get solidified that this would
Speaker 29: be a game that would be intriguing really beyond the
Speaker 29: two fan bases like this has a lot of locations
Speaker 29: in the Southeastern Conference, especially the way that Kentucky schedule
Speaker 29: kind of sets itself up leading into that game in
Speaker 29: Knoxville at Tennessee in about three weeks or so. If
Speaker 29: you can take care of business against Vanderbilt at home,
Speaker 29: then you got Florida and Auburn. Those are three games
Speaker 29: that if you win all of a sudden, you're setting
Speaker 29: yourself up for a heck of a ballgame in Knoxville.
Speaker 29: But obviously that's me the broadcaster talking. I know anybody
Speaker 29: in the building isn't looking anywhere past Saturday, in which
Speaker 29: should be a thriller under the lights.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no doubt about it. I was just sitting here
Speaker 11: thinking who would have thought when the season kicked off
Speaker 11: this year in that three game stretch Vanderbilt, Florida and Auburn.
Speaker 11: Who would have thought that as we get into it
Speaker 11: in the way the games have played out so far,
Speaker 11: that Vanderbilt might be the toughest of those three matchups.
Speaker 11: Obviously going to Gainesville, like we talked about in the
Speaker 11: last segment, no matter, the sport is tough. But Auburn's
Speaker 11: had some issues this year offensively and have had some
Speaker 11: turnover issues. But Vanderbilt they've beaten for you Tech at home,
Speaker 11: and buddy, they they skate. They put a real scare
Speaker 11: into Missouri out in Columbia, Missouri. So yeah, this is
Speaker 11: looking like a tough matchup in that Diego Pavia who
Speaker 11: transferred to Vanderbilt from New Mexico State, He's already got
Speaker 11: a win against Auburn on the road under his belt.
Speaker 11: Now he's got one at home against Alabama. This young
Speaker 11: man has brought a lot of confidence in belief into
Speaker 11: that Commodore locker room.
Speaker 29: Yeah, his postgame interview, while maybe not stay for work
Speaker 29: at all times, was electric there on the field after
Speaker 29: beating Alabama.
Speaker 2: But you're right.
Speaker 29: In college football, the National Football League, whatever level it is,
Speaker 29: sometimes you're only as good as your quarterback is. And
Speaker 29: you mentioned those three matchups for Kentucky coming up in
Speaker 29: the next three weeks. Who would have thought that Vanderbilt
Speaker 29: probably has the best quarterback situation out of the three.
Speaker 29: I know there's a lot of talent in Gainsville between
Speaker 29: DJ Lagway and Graham Mertz, but there's just a question
Speaker 29: of consistency and a question of who actually is the
Speaker 29: guy there in Gainsville that should be starting and then
Speaker 29: on all the issues offensively for Auburn, that the most stable,
Speaker 29: at least in my opinion, quarterback situation is there in
Speaker 29: Nashville with Vanderbilt. In today's football game, when you have
Speaker 29: a stable quarterback situation, you're going to have, for the
Speaker 29: most part, a really good chance to win if you
Speaker 29: have a good game plan that you can execute well,
Speaker 29: which is exactly what the Doors did against Alabama.
Speaker 2: Andrew.
Speaker 11: I know we try on this show to keep things
Speaker 11: central to Kentucky or focused on Kentucky, but just to
Speaker 11: go off a point you were making just a second
Speaker 11: ago with the parody in this league this year, when
Speaker 11: we look a and M sitting there three and oh,
Speaker 11: I think Texas is one to O. Everybody else has
Speaker 11: at least one loss already. It almost feels like the
Speaker 11: SEC is becoming college football's version of the NFL. The
Speaker 11: transfer portal and the NIL have really brought some teams
Speaker 11: or helped them be more competitive, and has made it
Speaker 11: to the point where if you're one of those top
Speaker 11: five top ten teams, you've got to be ready to
Speaker 11: come to the ballpark or the stadium and play every.
Speaker 2: Week, no doubt.
Speaker 29: And I think the big concern with NIL coming in
Speaker 29: and we're still learning a lot about it, obviously because
Speaker 29: it's still in its infancy and they're still molding exactly
Speaker 29: how it looks. But I know the biggest concern for
Speaker 29: me and for really most people with NIL was, well,
Speaker 29: I guess, you know, are the big teams just going
Speaker 29: to get stronger? Are the rich just going to get richer?
Speaker 29: And I'm not saying that the Alabamas and the Georgia's
Speaker 29: haven't benefited from NIL and from the transfer portal, but
Speaker 29: look at what it has done. You mentioned Domingo Pavia.
Speaker 29: He's a guy that is a guy that's in transfer
Speaker 29: product at Vanderbilt. You look at all these other SEC teams, Texas, A,
Speaker 29: and m they kind of had to rebuild really quickly
Speaker 29: with Mike Delko taking that job, which, by the way,
Speaker 29: everybody wrote those guys off, myself included, because of that
Speaker 29: really lost and as you said, I saw the get
Speaker 29: in price for that game against Texas is now somewhere
Speaker 29: around two thousand dollars on aug So safe to say
Speaker 29: I will not be attending that game. But nonetheless, it
Speaker 29: really has created this, I think dream scenario for Greg
Speaker 29: Sankee that you have in the Southeastern Conference a number
Speaker 29: of teams that have a chance at making a run
Speaker 29: for the college football playoff, and it makes the month
Speaker 29: of October, I think so huge. We talked about that,
Speaker 29: this upcoming three game stretch for the Cats that leads
Speaker 29: into the game in Knoxville at Tennessee against Vanderbilt, Florida
Speaker 29: and Auburn. Kentucky's not the only team like that that
Speaker 29: has that three game stretch where you say, well, if
Speaker 29: you win those three games, you go into the month
Speaker 29: of November very much alive and very much in the conversation,
Speaker 29: which was not really going to be the truth in
Speaker 29: the fourteen playoff model. So I think that's been really
Speaker 29: exciting and is really exciting for the league as well.
Speaker 11: And oh, by the way, I feel sorry for people
Speaker 11: that have weddings planned this Saturday, because the slate this
Speaker 11: Saturday in college football, you get Florida Tennessee. You've got
Speaker 11: obviously Kentucky Vanderbilt, but you also get Penn State at
Speaker 11: Southern cal Texas and Oklahoma and the Red River rivalry
Speaker 11: at the Cotton Bowl. You've got Old Miss at LSU.
Speaker 11: And at seven thirty Saturday night, you've got Ohio State
Speaker 11: and Oregon in the Big Ten. What a huge slate
Speaker 11: of games in college football this weekend.
Speaker 29: I know, if you're a big college football fan and
Speaker 29: you're going to be at Kroger Field, you really should
Speaker 29: be checking that phone for that Oregon Ohio State game
Speaker 29: because that's you look at Ohio State schedule. They really
Speaker 29: haven't played anybody, right, they dominated people, and this is
Speaker 29: supposed to be the redeemed team right for for Ohio State,
Speaker 29: the team that finally is going to get over that
Speaker 29: Michigan hump that they've been experiencing the last three years.
Speaker 29: And now the Carball's gone, they retooled that roster and
Speaker 29: I know Lane Kiffin has put a number on it,
Speaker 29: and I'm not willing to put a number on how
Speaker 29: much they spent, but it's it's a lot. It's a
Speaker 29: lot in the in the portal. So that's going to
Speaker 29: be interesting to see how they play against Oregon their
Speaker 29: first real test of the year. And then Texas Oklahoma
Speaker 29: as always red River rivalry, big SEC game, right, so
Speaker 29: that's going to be a lot of fun. Is it's
Speaker 29: in its first coronation in the Southeastern Conference. But yeah,
Speaker 29: the funny thing is, though everybody said that this past Saturday,
Speaker 29: you know, it's kind of a it's kind of a
Speaker 29: boring slate. Let's let's get to next week. And he
Speaker 29: had all sorts of chaos. But now you kind of
Speaker 29: have guaranteed chaos right this upcoming weekend, just because of
Speaker 29: how many Titans are colliding.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that means we'll just have a bunch of blowouts.
Speaker 11: We got we gotta get to a final break here
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Speaker 11: Four minutes slept in the show one final segment as
Speaker 11: we chat with Andrew Kappus here on Clark's Pumping Shop
Speaker 11: BBN Radio, and want to switch over now to basketball
Speaker 11: because we are entering that crossover time of the Here Andrew,
Speaker 11: you're getting ready to be on the air hosting things
Speaker 11: from studio for men's basketball. We got Big Blue Madness
Speaker 11: this Friday, which amazing BBN. You guys are the greatest
Speaker 11: sold out Big Blue Madness in twenty five four minutes
Speaker 11: those tickets were taken. We've got the Blue and White
Speaker 11: event at Historic Memorial Coliseum next Friday. Then there's a
Speaker 11: couple of exhibition games for the men, and then both
Speaker 11: the men and women tip off their seasons first in November.
Speaker 11: We're off and running, Andrew. It feels like we just
Speaker 11: started the football season end of August, first September.
Speaker 2: Now here we are. Man basketball's here starting this week.
Speaker 29: I swear they move they move the first week of
Speaker 29: where you can officially practice. Move up. They move it
Speaker 29: up one week per year. I know that's not true
Speaker 29: because if that were the case, it would be in
Speaker 29: middle of June by now. But right the Big Blue
Speaker 29: Man just always sneaks up on me, and it's sneaking
Speaker 29: up on me again this year, so I'm a little bummed.
Speaker 29: I'm gonna miss it. I'll be at men's soccer on
Speaker 29: Friday night, but very excited to get out at the Bell.
Speaker 29: But that's gonna be really fun of it. You mentioned
Speaker 29: twenty four minutes the sellout. Big Blue Nation just does
Speaker 29: everything better in my opinion, as they're some other official
Speaker 29: startup practices that had a much lower attendance. It won't
Speaker 29: go any further than that, but twenty four minutes to
Speaker 29: sell it out. I think it's going to be a
Speaker 29: really really fun environment on Friday. I have it set
Speaker 29: to DVR, if that's really the term anymore. But I'm
Speaker 29: really looking forward to that court. Saw it the NBA
Speaker 29: All Star Game. That's going to be really really cool.
Speaker 29: I'm really looking forward to that, and obviously seeing the
Speaker 29: guys in a more formal setting as far as an
Speaker 29: organized practices, which is somewhat going on right now for
Speaker 29: the Pro Day.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 11: And you know when you look at it, I've had
Speaker 11: a chance to go to women's basketball practices with their
Speaker 11: new coaching staff and a lot of new faces in
Speaker 11: that locker room. Men's basketball obviously brand new coaching staff,
Speaker 11: a lot of new faces there. We talked to Cameron Mills.
Speaker 11: It's the energy you feel walking into the Joe Kraft
Speaker 11: scender on both sides truly excites me and gets me
Speaker 11: fired up for the basketball seasons. What is it about
Speaker 11: the new era that we're going to experience that has
Speaker 11: you most excited, most fired up, ready to go?
Speaker 2: What is it? What is it there for you that's
Speaker 2: scotch you gung ho about it?
Speaker 29: I think the biggest thing, and there's a lot, as
Speaker 29: you said, but I think the biggest thing is with
Speaker 29: both head coaches, they know what it means to be
Speaker 29: at Kentucky. I know Mark Pope obviously a little bit
Speaker 29: more intimately because he's won a national championship with Kentucky,
Speaker 29: But with coach Brooks, you can tell when he took
Speaker 29: the job he just understood the history of not only
Speaker 29: the Southeastern Conference, but Kentucky basketball as a whole, and
Speaker 29: how important women's basketball is too at the University of Kentucky.
Speaker 29: So you have two people that are leading those programs,
Speaker 29: that are that understand the assignment, so to speak, that
Speaker 29: they understand that this is a religion in Kentucky and
Speaker 29: that and that winning is the expectation, and that there
Speaker 29: really isn't grace periods or anything like that or rebuilding
Speaker 29: years or anything like that. So when you have two
Speaker 29: people that understand what this is all about and that
Speaker 29: can connect with the fans like these two coaching stats
Speaker 29: have so far, I think that's really really infectious and
Speaker 29: it gets you really excited a lot earlier, maybe than
Speaker 29: what you normally would, because again we're sitting here on
Speaker 29: a Monday, and I can't wait for Friday and not
Speaker 29: trying to wish the week aways, but the less.
Speaker 11: Andrew, thanks for joining us. Man appreciate you going out
Speaker 11: of your way to make some time for us. Budd
Speaker 11: appreciate it.
Speaker 29: Thanks as always, Darren.
Speaker 11: That's Andrew Cappus, and we appreciate Andrew Aligreta, the voice
Speaker 11: of the Vanderbilt Commodores, for joining us tonight as well.
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