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This 23 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:25.239 is Clark's pump and Shop, Big Blue Nation Radio. 24 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:27.040 Second for one, make the turn, got him, Game's over, 25 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:28.239 Kentucky WAM. 26 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.319 Interact with the show by calling eight five nine two 27 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.799 eight oh Cats that's Saint five nine two eight oh 28 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.879 to two eight seven, or statewide at eight hundred six 29 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:43.120 oh six game that's eight hundred six oh six four 30 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:44.200 to two six three. 31 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.439 Second or tweet the. 32 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:51.840 Show at UK Sports Network. 33 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:56.439 Hi for the eighth time college basketball National Championship Trophy 34 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:58.200 is coming home to Kentucky. 35 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:00.799 Now your host Aaron Hendrick. 36 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.799 A full week of UK athletics is in front of 37 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.120 us as we welcome you to Clark's Pumping Shot BOEBN 38 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.879 Radio here on the UK Sports Network. Friday night, it 39 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:13.800 is the first preview of basketball season with Big Blue 40 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.680 Madness at Rupp Arena, and then Saturday a big showdown 41 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.319 between Kentucky and Vanderbilt. Our coverage on the UK Sports 42 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.599 Network begins at five thirty pm Eastern. You can join 43 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.680 Christy Thomas, Jeremy Jarman, and Logan Stenberg for our Jack 44 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:31.479 Burford Chevrolet countdown to kickoff, and then Jeff Bicoro, Dick 45 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:33.800 Gabriel and Tom Leach will have all the action of 46 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:37.159 the Cats and the Commodoores from Kroger Field right here 47 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.439 on the UK Sports Network. You just heard from head 48 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:44.439 coach Mark Stoops and the Kentucky perspective entering this weekend's 49 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:48.000 matchup with Vanderbilt. 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He 118 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:11.120 is Andrew Alakretta. And Andrew, thanks for being with us 119 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.000 on this Monday night. And I have to ask, first 120 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.319 of all, what's the delirium level like right now along 121 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.120 West End Avenue there near First Bank Stadium today? 122 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:23.279 Uh? 123 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:31.199 Sizable? You know. I there's probably a bunch of different little, 124 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:33.879 you know, anecdotes I could give you. I could tell you. 125 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.720 You know, we're still doing all of our construction right 126 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:40.000 and when I walk past the construction workers and I 127 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.560 can hear one of the construction workers talking with an 128 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:44.079 under construction worker. 129 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.959 Going, you know that that Diego Pobby is pretty good. 130 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:48.720 I feel like we've gotten this. 131 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:53.439 Yeah, no doubt about it. The game Saturday obviously was 132 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.240 a terrific start for the Commodores to score and then 133 00:06:56.279 --> 00:07:00.639 get the defensive score. What were the emotion like for 134 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.000 you though, as the game got deeper and deeper and 135 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:06.839 you in everybody in that stadium began to realize what 136 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.920 they were witnessing with what Vanderbilt was accomplishing on the field. 137 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:15.879 Boy, that's a difficult question to answer because there's so 138 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.120 much as you know about the history of the matchup, 139 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:23.639 all of the times that Vanderbilt perhaps has come close 140 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:25.839 to moments and hasn't been able to get over the 141 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:26.399 top of that. 142 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.000 You also understand the play by play aspect. 143 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.160 Where you're trying to do the job and make sure 144 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:35.199 things are executed to a certain standard. So it's hard 145 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:38.920 to like think in the moment about all of that. Personally, 146 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:44.079 I think I would tell you that I remember asking 147 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:48.040 our color analysts normal off air at one point, like 148 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:50.959 late in the fourth quarter, and I tried to counter 149 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:54.160 it because I felt like someone talking about a perfect game, 150 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:58.160 you know, with one out in the ninth and I 151 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.160 was like, if they find a way to get to 152 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.160 the finished line, would this be the biggest win in 153 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:06.199 program history? And he said, no doubt. And I think 154 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:10.600 when you start talking about things in those terms, you 155 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:14.920 sort of understand we're pretty close. We're at the precipice 156 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:17.399 of something that you're going to remember for a long time. 157 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:19.319 Yeah. 158 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:21.720 I originally was wanting to ask you just the simple 159 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:23.879 question of how did Vanderbilt do this? How did they 160 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:27.399 accomplish this win? But I think more important the question 161 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:31.439 is how did this team in that locker room find 162 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.200 or develop the belief that they could go out there 163 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:38.039 and stand toe to toe and beat Alabama When you 164 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.080 think about the fact that they were so close against 165 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:42.919 Missouri and they had beaten Virginia Tech, where did that 166 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:45.200 belief come from and how did it get there? 167 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:49.240 For the Commodores, I think he's from New Mexico. 168 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.759 I think we signed him in the transfer portal. I 169 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:56.519 think he's quite a significant little player. I say that 170 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:01.120 like mildly facetiously, but I don't think all of this 171 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.559 is possible and whatever this is Darren, in terms of 172 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.320 the entire twenty four season, we don't know yet, but 173 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:10.120 I don't know that a lot of what's happened and 174 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:15.559 unfolded is not possible without Diego Pavia. I've said a 175 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:17.679 handful of times and this is just flat out in 176 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:22.240 my take, just me, but to me, Diego Pavia. 177 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:25.600 Is exactly what clarkly wants the program to be. 178 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.120 And it's what he wants the program to be and 179 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:30.039 has for a long time. 180 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:31.799 For better or for worse. 181 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:36.200 Because Clark is so professorial, so of Vanderbilt and of 182 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.399 NDA for folks that know Nashville, he's a bit of 183 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.279 an imperfect messager for. 184 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:46.200 That tough, gritty work ethic thing. But now you've got 185 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:47.320 the player in the. 186 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:51.039 Locker room that can reinforce what Clark wants the team 187 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.360 to be, and he can do it with the guys, 188 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:59.200 and he's got such a strong will. He's thirty five 189 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:01.679 and thirteen all time as a starting quarterback. 190 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:03.720 Wow in college football. 191 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:06.879 It's and he's self made right Like he didn't go 192 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:09.320 to any of the Elite eleven camps and they wouldn't 193 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.000 have let him participate even if. 194 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:11.399 He wanted to. 195 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:13.600 He was not one of those guys, but. 196 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:15.759 He made it happen for himself, and when you've got 197 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:19.039 one of those type of people at the right position, 198 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.080 with the right system and all of the other stuff 199 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.120 kind of coming together, you can have a moment like 200 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:25.440 you did versus Alabama. 201 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:29.799 I'm glad you mentioned about Clark Lee looking for that 202 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:32.360 type of player and what he's wanting, because I was 203 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:34.639 going to ask you how he's built this program. I 204 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:38.360 know it's required patients, and it just sounds like from 205 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:42.759 watching the broadcast and hearing the announcers on television talk 206 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:45.600 about his program some of the course corrections he's had 207 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:50.039 to make, including using the nil and the portal and 208 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:53.440 all that stuff available in modern college football. What's it 209 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:56.799 been like though, from your perspective, working with him and 210 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:00.399 interviewing him on almost a daily basis and watching him 211 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.519 build this program to where he's gotten it coming into 212 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:04.320 this week. 213 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:10.320 You know, another interesting one that is kind of it's 214 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:15.120 just so difficult, But you know, I think I'm trying 215 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.000 to figure out exactly where I want to take all 216 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:20.399 of that because it's so loaded with Clark. I just 217 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.360 you know, he this was the vision that they had 218 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:26.799 back in twenty twenty when they hired him. When you 219 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:30.039 have a chancellor that green lights the athletic department in 220 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.720 a way that no other chancellor in decades have. When 221 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.360 you've got an athletic director who understands Vanderbilt and a 222 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:37.960 football coach that understands. 223 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:40.039 Vanderbuilt they wanted to create a moment like this, but. 224 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.639 Clark has talked about in the past that it didn't 225 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:46.480 work on his timeline, right, Like, we thought we had something, respectfully, 226 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.960 he said in twenty two after beating you guys at 227 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:51.679 your place and then coming back and beating Florida that's 228 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.200 Levis and Richardson and back to back weeks, and then 229 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:54.720 it cratered. 230 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:55.000 Right. 231 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:59.679 I think what has been so impressive about what Clark 232 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:01.120 has done is the fact. 233 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.360 That he did get through the twenty three season and 234 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.120 say this cannot sustain. 235 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:08.720 I think in terms of like trying to do things the. 236 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:12.600 Right way and trying to build up people and recognize 237 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:14.039 the fact that you've got to do it in a 238 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:16.720 way that fits Vanderbilt, not just academically but on the 239 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:18.879 field because we're not going to compete with Georgia and 240 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:21.720 Alabama for five stars. I don't know that that much 241 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:24.039 has changed, but I feel like he was able to 242 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.279 take the vision of what he wanted the program to 243 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:30.399 be and extract it out and place it in more 244 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.440 of a modern sense within the past twelve months. So 245 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:35.879 he's been able to kind of grab from column A 246 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:38.000 and Coluin B. And we'll see where the rest of 247 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.679 the season goes, right, Because I just referenced the fact that, 248 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.279 you know, two years ago we thought we had something 249 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:47.080 at a crater, So we all recognize that all of 250 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:50.679 this sort of wave is very, very fragile, and it 251 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.840 certainly could be equally frag coming to you guys later 252 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:55.480 on this week. 253 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:59.159 Yeah, And I think in a broader perspective, that's kind 254 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:01.200 of been the sec EI this year. Every time it 255 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.759 feels like there is a team obviously A and M 256 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.960 sitting there three and oh in the league. Today, Texas, 257 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:08.679 I think is still one to oh in the league, 258 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.639 but everybody else has at least one loss. And we've 259 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.360 seen teams like Georgia and Alabama and Tennessee and Ole 260 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:17.480 Miss look really dominant and then they're brought down to 261 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:19.840 earth by a team that's able to go toe to 262 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:23.559 toe and beat them. And I think, like to your point, 263 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:27.159 it's very fragile in this era of college football. 264 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:30.720 But Also, it speaks to the depth of this league. 265 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.279 I think it speaks to the depth of the league, 266 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:34.840 he said politely. 267 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.440 I think it speaks to kind of the fragile nature 268 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:39.679 of working with eighteen, nineteen twenty year olds. 269 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:42.639 Again he said it respectfully. And three, I do you 270 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:43.519 think it speaks to. 271 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:50.159 The moment in time that NIL affords you. Yes, not 272 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.559 deeply rooted in name, image, likeness, We're not deeply rooted. 273 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:57.799 We're not some sort of transfer portal program through and through. 274 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.639 But what it can do is it can lift your depth. 275 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:06.000 Perhaps someone that was overlooked, like a Diego Poby against 276 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.559 his shot at a level that he deserves, or perhaps 277 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:11.200 someone that was going to be a second or third 278 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:14.720 stringer at Albabama or Texas or Georgia has the opportunity 279 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:17.519 to come to you and make an impact. 280 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.639 And certainly you guys have a starting quarterback that was, you. 281 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:24.360 Know, again struggling to break through as the guy at Georgia. 282 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.039 But now he can make an impact for you guys. 283 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.960 And I think all of that has on a weekend, week. 284 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:32.679 Out basis leveled the playing field where all of a sudden, 285 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:37.159 the total depths that certain programs could overwhelm you with 286 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.039 doesn't quite have the chance to. 287 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.120 Overwhelm you with it. I think you could put it 288 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:42.240 in a baseball. 289 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.440 Perspective, Darren, Right, like Vanderbilt for about a decade would 290 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:46.399 hit you with waves of. 291 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:50.039 Depth that looked dizzy. That's not the case anymore. Like 292 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:51.559 there's enough talent that. 293 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.080 Goes dispersed that you guys get to go to the 294 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:55.480 College World Series last year. 295 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.559 Right, Yeah, no doubt about it. 296 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:00.799 And that leads me back to what I was going 297 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:03.039 to ask you your thoughts on the matchup this weekend, 298 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:06.080 because I look at the Cats and the Doors, and 299 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:08.120 I think this could be a fun matchup. Both teams 300 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.360 like to hit you in the mouth. Both teams have 301 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:13.879 gotten terrific quarterback play over the last few weeks. How 302 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.320 do you what was your first impression when you kind 303 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:19.159 of sit down and looked over Kentucky and Vanderbilt. 304 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:23.679 My first impression was, Hey, both of these teams really 305 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:25.679 control the clock, which means all of that sort of 306 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:27.440 stuff is not going to be relevant in this game. 307 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.879 It's going to be like whoever hits the seven yard bombs? 308 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.840 And right, okay, great. 309 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:35.519 The other thing that I would tell you is like 310 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:36.360 we sat down to. 311 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.320 Do our radio show earlier today and like Clark's talking about, 312 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.120 you know, this could be a quick game because both 313 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:43.399 teams like the two clocks, and then Kevin Ingram, who 314 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:44.679 works with us, it is like it's supposed to be 315 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:47.200 a beautiful day, and like I felt like they both 316 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:49.399 jinxed us, like there's gonna be a pop up thunderstorm 317 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:53.879 in this game is going to take nine hours. I 318 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.240 do think it will be because both teams typically speaking 319 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.159 quote unquote, control the ball, Like at a certain point, 320 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:02.799 there's going to be a turnover, there's going to be 321 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:04.679 a pick six, there is going to be. 322 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:06.399 That seventy yard bomb, there is going to be that 323 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:09.240 breakaway play. And if you if you are the team 324 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.200 that walks away with that particular play. 325 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.000 Then you're probably going to win. If you're not the team, 326 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.679 you know, then you're going to be trapping at the end. 327 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:19.600 I would be surprised if it's not close. 328 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.399 But again we're we're coming off with something that this 329 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.200 program has never sees. And it's not necessarily the mental 330 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.200 headspace that I worry about when the team. I think 331 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.919 it's just the overall body and mental fatigue. Right, Like 332 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:38.000 so much goes in. Can you find your focus Saturday night? 333 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:39.720 I expect them to be okay. 334 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:42.440 It is again such a hard thing to do when 335 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.960 you have just been physically and emotionally trained for the 336 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.559 better part of you know, forty eight hours. 337 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:51.480 Well, the good news is with a seven forty five 338 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:54.240 kickoff they'll get to sleep in a little bit on Saturday. Andrew, 339 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.320 thanks so much for taking some time on this Monday 340 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:58.720 not to call in and chat with us. We appreciate 341 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.039 it and look forward to having you guys in this weekend. 342 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:02.679 See you guys soon. 343 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:03.600 All right. 344 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:07.599 That's Andrew ali Grada, the Vanderbilt Commodore's radio voice. It's 345 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:10.559 the Cats and the Door is this Saturday at Krogerfield, 346 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.640 seven forty five kickoff and the game is presented by 347 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.200 Elliott Services. Connected to a proud tradition of electrical excellence. 348 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:22.039 Elliot Services is Central Kentucky's full service residential and commercial 349 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.079 electrical contractor. Call eight five nine two five five five 350 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:29.200 seven eight eight to schedule a service. Call today. More 351 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:31.960 Clark's Poppin Shop BBN Radio. 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