WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:12.400 From border to border across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. This 2 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:17.559 is Big Blue Insider. Talk to Tick Gabriel. Call eight 3 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:21.199 five nine two eight zero cats that's eight five nine 4 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.359 two eight zero to two eight seven. Or state wide 5 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:28.280 that's one eight hundred six oh six came that's one 6 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:31.719 eight hundred six oh six four two sixty three. Or 7 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:35.119 you can tweet the show. That's Big Blue Insider one. 8 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:37.000 Now here's Tick Gabriel. 9 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.759 Hell Everyboddy to the facilities of the iHeartMedia megaplex. This 10 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.240 is Dick Gabriel. This is the state wide edition of 11 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.280 the Big Blue Insider. We had the week off last. 12 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:48.240 Week, so we're gonna get caught up. 13 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:51.000 You've heard the comments from Mark Pope, Kenny Brooks. Tonight, 14 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:55.200 Aaron Gershawan back from Austin, Texas. We'll talk Kentucky basketball, 15 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.840 a little bit of football, and the go Big Blues 16 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:01.520 brother in the house us here on the state why BBI, 17 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:14.400 Border to border. It is the fab Blo Insider. Dick 18 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.359 Abriel joined my eron Gershawan. Somebody left the door open 19 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:19.799 and Billy rud Ledge slipped out. So Bo Robinson is 20 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:22.599 pushing all the buttons. Tonight, one of the go big 21 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:24.519 Blues Brothers. We'll come back to that though. It's an 22 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:28.719 important weekend for Blues Brothers fans. But Aaron, who did 23 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:32.439 not make the Texas football trip because well, season was 24 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:36.000 kind of broken down by this. But this was an 25 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:39.560 important game for the Wildcats, and you know, I have 26 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:45.560 a feeling eron well, I know that on Selection Sunday, 27 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.280 we will look back we being the media and probably 28 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:53.079 fans too, at games like this one. Yes, and there 29 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:56.000 have been more than one. Yep, when you wonder about 30 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.760 why is Kentucky a filling the blank seed and not 31 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:02.879 a whatever seed with all the big wins, Yep, it's 32 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.040 these losses the damage. 33 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.039 You Yeah, especially like look, you're gonna have an Unfortunately 34 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:09.960 it came on a night that was so emotional. You're 35 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:11.919 gonna have knights like Arkansas where you just don't play 36 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:14.680 well and you lose. You're gonna have nights like Ohio 37 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.719 State where you just stink. But it's the van the 38 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:19.960 way they lost at Vanderbilt where they came back and 39 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:21.840 took an eight point lead and choked it, and the 40 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:25.240 way that it fell apart here in Austin in the 41 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:28.919 last game. Yeah, they took multiple leads, and it was 42 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:31.039 I mean, they started the game hot, nine to two, 43 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:33.919 run back and forth first half, take a four point 44 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.520 lead in a halftime, came out of the gates pretty hot. 45 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.199 In the second half. They were back up I think 46 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:41.240 by seven when all Minor hit that corner. 47 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:41.560 Three. 48 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:44.759 Texas comes back. But then Kentucky's up five with three 49 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.240 point fifty left, and a lot of people were unhappy 50 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:50.000 with me on the good old Twitter because I posted 51 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.439 after the game that really, you can't this game is 52 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:55.879 not because they didn't have Jackson Robinson and Lamont Butler. 53 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:58.840 And I'm not at all diminishing the fact that you're 54 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.800 without Lamont Butler's best your point guard, your best defense player, 55 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:05.080 and Jackson Robinson your best all around shooter. But they 56 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.120 had the game won. And I'll tell you being there 57 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:08.960 in the building something that may not have been showed 58 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.080 on TV is Texas the body language was not good. Really, yeah, 59 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.520 it was not. They kind of seemed like never came up. 60 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:17.879 They looked pretty defeated when Kentucky went back up by five, 61 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:20.800 especially after I think it was Omari had the n one. Well, 62 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:24.520 there's a time out. The cameras follows the team then right, 63 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:27.400 so the and won by Amari that he ends up 64 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.599 missing the free throw and then they called the lane 65 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:32.960 violation that wasn't but after that Texas looked pretty dejected. 66 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:35.280 I thought, even if you even when he missed the 67 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:36.560 free throw in the lane, I was like, I think 68 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:38.080 they have them where they want them. I think they're 69 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.520 going to pull it out. But they just it was 70 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:44.400 all preventable mistakes they didn't. I mean, the they gave 71 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.599 up the quick layup and one right after the Amari 72 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.680 the Amari lane violation, they have an awful turnover where 73 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:54.080 they're after Otega misses a free throw, they're up by one, 74 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:58.719 uh awful entry pass turnover by Travis Perry, and then 75 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.719 that turns into foul where Perry ends up fouling to 76 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:04.479 stop a break. Johnson gets to the line, he misses 77 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:07.960 the second and you're like, and he's so automatic that 78 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.240 it was almost as if Amari Williams was like, he's 79 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:12.479 not gonna miss I'm not even gonna block out. Well, 80 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:16.319 he misses, Johnson gets his own rebound, misses the put back, 81 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.120 and then another Texas player gets the rebound. Dunks at home, 82 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:20.800 and that felt like in the middle of four among 83 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:25.240 four Blue Jersey. Yes, just not terrible execution. And maybe 84 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:27.560 and it's not an excuse because these are, you know, 85 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.800 world class college basketball players, but I don't know if 86 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.160 that's basketball. No, I'm saying this one like maybe they 87 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:36.560 got fatigued, but still exactly got a. 88 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:37.079 Box their team. 89 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:39.879 No, you have to have exactly they were without two 90 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.279 starters two which is something that was not taken into 91 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:44.680 a camp a Kentucky fan, so very much a preventable 92 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.959 loss to into something we were talking about off air 93 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:51.399 Trey Johnson stud top five pick Tremon Mark Kentucky killer 94 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:52.199 the last two years. 95 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:53.759 Other than that, it's not a very good text. 96 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:54.759 They really aren't. 97 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:55.360 Uh. 98 00:04:55.560 --> 00:05:00.879 And your tweet when I saw it, I immediately said, yep, yep, Uh, 99 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:03.160 it doesn't surprise me. People weren't happy with you. 100 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.279 No, and but that's just what I was about to 101 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:09.000 show up my column on it because you tweeted that before. 102 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.759 Mark post Absolutely, he said when he was asked like it, 103 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:14.279 did you know the angle that Ben Roberts took was 104 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:17.040 the fatigue play a factor? It's a fair question, and 105 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:18.800 he was like, we're not going to have a space 106 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:20.519 for that way really good players and to his point. 107 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:23.360 You know, Travis Perry, the turnover stunk, but he stepped 108 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:25.439 up and played some valuable minutes and did some big 109 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.879 shots and tryan Noah had a really deep three again 110 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.759 at six rebounds at you know, six six whatever he is. 111 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:35.040 So you had guys step up to where for thirty 112 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:37.800 six minutes you were the better team without your two 113 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:38.959 lead guards. 114 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.959 But you let go of their open the four minutes 115 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:41.759 that matters, right. 116 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.439 I had never heard that expression until Cali Perry got here, 117 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.160 and now I find it popping in Yeah, popping into 118 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.040 my head all the time, and it's exactly what happened. 119 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:55.360 Yeah, Trendonah. By the way, fifty to fifty balls. 120 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:58.959 Oh, very entertaining is Yeah, he works his butt off. Yeah, 121 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.759 that's the type of play. That's what makes a guy 122 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:03.720 like him, not only the fact he's from you know, 123 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.439 Harlan County, but that's what makes it. He dad at 124 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:08.480 Harlan County. Yes he did, but it makes you a 125 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:11.800 fan favorite even if he weren't from Kentucky. If anyone 126 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:13.959 that dives on the floor like that is so aggressive 127 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.920 on fifty to fifty balls, he plays unafraid, which is 128 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:21.680 both with that and the threes. He takes just ridiculous 129 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.160 shots that he is making at a high rate. So 130 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.079 you know, he gave them what they needed. Amari Williams 131 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.480 had an excellent game outside of the end there with 132 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:32.720 the boxing out issues and you know, take away wasn't great, 133 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.360 but he still scored twenty points. It's like, you gotta 134 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:35.959 win that game. 135 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.720 Tell you a great fifty to fifty moment. Fifty to 136 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:40.519 fifty ball moment. Go an old guy on you. 137 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.319 All right, you know who Chuck Hay is. Yes, right, you. 138 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:48.360 Are a student of Kentucky basketball. His first game and 139 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:50.879 they put him in, he comes off the bench, there 140 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.600 was a fifty to fifty ball that was flying at 141 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:58.120 of bounds. Chuck has laid out like a receiver to 142 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:00.319 go after that. But like he was actually like a 143 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:03.040 lineman trying to recover a fumble. But I mean he 144 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:05.519 dove and it turned out to be out of bounds, 145 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.519 you know, but the fans went crazy for it. And 146 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:12.759 from that point on, he was the patron saint of 147 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.959 fifty to fifty balls at Kentucky, and he set an example. Yes, 148 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:19.560 you know, there were some factionalism on one or two 149 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:21.680 of his teams, but you know, the guys in the 150 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:23.360 Chuck Hayes camp they were. 151 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:24.720 Fifty to fifty guys as well. 152 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:27.319 Yeah, it makes a huge difference, especially right now when 153 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:30.519 you're shorthanded. Those are the little things in games. So 154 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:33.319 and they did against Tennessee. They were very scrappy in 155 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.680 that Tennessee game, I thought, and even in this game, 156 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:37.839 I didn't think they were terrible defensively in this game. 157 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:41.079 I think Trag Johnson's just he does that to everybody. 158 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:43.279 And then Tremon Mark had a great game, and I 159 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:45.639 thought even some of the defense on him wasn't terrible. 160 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:48.120 It was just to me more so. 161 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.319 The four organ It just goes back to those last fours. 162 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:55.759 I wondered about helpside defense on Johnson when he turned 163 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:58.680 a corner head for the basket, and he's good enough. 164 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:01.519 He probably would have scored anyway. Matter, No, probably didn't. 165 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.920 But no, I mean, look, I mean I thought Trent 166 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:05.639 no it did an admirable job. I mean they only 167 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:07.680 I think he only made one three. I think they 168 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.399 held him in check from three for the most part. 169 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:11.199 That's not a three point shooting team. 170 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.519 No, No, but I'm talking about Johnson himself, right, I think, right, 171 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:17.480 he only hit one. Uh, you know, I thought, you know, 172 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.759 Colin Chandler got on him for possession. He struggled to 173 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.240 Andrew Carr, they put him on him. That didn't go well. 174 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:25.079 But look, he's a that's a top five pick. That's 175 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:26.680 I mean, he's the leading scorer in the SEC as 176 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:27.120 a freshman. 177 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:30.720 Andrew Carr still doesn't look No, clearly he's not one 178 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:31.439 hundred percent. 179 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.080 Yeah, it looks better, but he's not on. 180 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:33.440 Yeah. 181 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.840 But I just wonder where he is because you know, 182 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:38.879 it's interesting every time I see him struggle. I think 183 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.159 back to the first handful of games when he was 184 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:45.159 really playing well. Jackson Robinson was trying to find his way, 185 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.559 and I remember a lot of people, myself included, thought 186 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:49.399 this team will. 187 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.559 Go as Andrew Carr goes. Sure, and some of the 188 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:54.159 national heads thought the same. He won them the Duke 189 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:56.840 game down the stretch exactly, but that wasn't the only 190 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:59.399 There were stretches in other games. Sure, and now this 191 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:03.799 team has chored and blossomed and all that. Meanwhile, he's 192 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:05.120 hurt and struggling. 193 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.279 He is, so whatever they can get back from him, 194 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:10.399 whatever else but me and a back injury. 195 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:12.639 Back injury is tough and he's already not you know, 196 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.919 coming into this season, defense wasn't necessarily his calling card. 197 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:17.799 And that's more the issues are on the mind. I mean, 198 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.399 they're still finishing at the room, okay. And I actually thought, 199 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:21.679 you know, when I thought they were going to win 200 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.080 the game. The two plays I had circled were, of course, 201 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.120 a Mario Williams sitting a three. It was like, how 202 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:27.840 do you lose a game where you get that? First 203 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:29.759 of all, but no, And then the other one where 204 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:31.279 I think it was early in the second half, might 205 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.120 have been late in the first where Carr kind of 206 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:35.360 dives on the floor for a loose ball and he's 207 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:37.200 kind of looked like he was stuck and he was 208 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.799 able to kind of maintain a dribble. There's a great play. Yeah, 209 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:41.120 And he got up and he drew a foul and 210 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.039 he made both free throws. Like those were the type 211 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.080 of we were talking about the scrapping its Trentonoah, Like, 212 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:47.759 those are the type of plays when you're short handed 213 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:49.840 when you basketball games. And I was kind of gonna 214 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:51.919 write about those type of things after the game, but 215 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:53.919 unfortunately they gave me something more negative. 216 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.159 Throw it up, Jimmy Dike's mentioned and I told you earlier. 217 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.039 I listened to Tom and Jack in the first half, 218 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:00.559 listened to TV in the second half, which I usually 219 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.759 try to do because people end up complaining about something that. 220 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:06.519 You know, whoever did the game said, I want to 221 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:11.279 be able to speak to that. But anyhow, he mentioned 222 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:15.879 how smart it was for Car, a veteran player, to 223 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.879 start dribbling the ball before he got up, because most 224 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.879 people don't. And I got to admit, I know that 225 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:28.120 when somebody's on the floor like that and they're rolling. 226 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:30.600 And you hear so many people, oh's that not walking, 227 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:33.480 Well it's not ever. 228 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.039 But here, you know, people don't understand the rule. But 229 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:37.919 the rule is trying to advance the ball. 230 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:40.519 Uh. And I've always you know, I've been told by. 231 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.600 A referee, if you try to get up, you know, 232 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.360 and you've established a pivot foot, now that's travel. 233 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:48.759 But not if you're dribbling, you know. And that was 234 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:51.080 such a smart play. It was a great play Car. 235 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:51.720 Yeah. 236 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.480 And you know, again, those they made, that's what was 237 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:56.600 so frustrating about it. They made a lot of winning 238 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.519 plays and had a lot of winning uh segments, But 239 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.120 those last four minutes were some of the worst basketball 240 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:03.960 they've played all year. 241 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:06.399 And that's why. Uh, you know, I saw it on TV. 242 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:08.120 I didn't really see it in lifetime because at that 243 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:09.799 point in the game, your head down on your computer 244 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.159 trying to get your buzzer work done. But uh, that 245 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:15.000 was as animated as angry as I've seen Mark Pope 246 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.960 look really. Yeah, there's a clip going around. Uh he 247 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:20.879 was pissed off, and yeah, I get why. 248 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:24.200 Well, I saw him more than once looking pretty angry 249 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.440 on the shot and I don't remember which which place. 250 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.000 They were down by six with thirty four seconds aft, 251 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.600 they threw it away on an inbounds pass. 252 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:35.399 Yeah, that was particularly bad, ugly. 253 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:37.600 One of the things that you and I discussed when 254 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.799 we first sat down we're talking Aaron Gershan of the 255 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:46.039 Gash Boss, was you offered your response and reaction to 256 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:46.639 the arena. 257 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:48.559 Oh gosh awesome. 258 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.919 Yeah, I was joking, like, can we we get the 259 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:52.840 SEC tournament here? 260 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.399 Something you can get us here more often? It I mean, 261 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:55.840 it's a brand. 262 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:57.919 I think it's three or four years old, and they'd 263 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.360 host a lot of concerts and it it kind of 264 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:02.679 has an NBA vibe to it outside, like they have 265 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:05.080 a lot of things going on, like festivities. They have 266 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.399 like a green space that kind of looks like those 267 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:09.960 football fields that they set up at NFL stadiums. 268 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:11.039 There's just a lot going on. 269 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.480 And then you get inside and as you probably saw 270 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:17.200 on TV, they have these ginormous beautiful screens around the 271 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:20.360 entire upper level and they have you know, whether they 272 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.759 have stats on them. They had the UT Texas softball 273 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.600 game and baseball game going the whole time. It was 274 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:29.279 really cool and really the whole time. 275 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:30.639 Yeah, and on. 276 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.759 One that's yeah, there's like nine ten sures, but really cool. 277 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:37.200 And they had but anytime you won, you've can look 278 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:41.120 up and yeah, super innovative. And then you had you know, 279 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:42.879 all this crazy food options. 280 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:43.519 The media. 281 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:47.480 They had a media buffet with in this beautiful lounge 282 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:50.200 room where there was literally couches to sit in. They 283 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:52.879 had coffee makers and all this great stuff. They took 284 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.840 care of us, So shout out to It's always bigger 285 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.440 in Texas, I guess, but it's also brand new, so 286 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:00.480 you know, really cool place watch a game. 287 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:04.320 When I worked in Dallas with the Football Radio Network, 288 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:09.960 one of our assignments per Jim Host, and he sold 289 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:11.639 the league on this we're going to try to help 290 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:16.240 all sports, including basketball. Obviously, the basketball coaches loved to 291 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:19.080 hear that, and we had a weekly show for when 292 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:22.159 all the coaches rotated. The only coach you wouldn't participate 293 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:27.759 Eddie Sutton at Arkansas. But anyhow, the one school I 294 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:32.840 was told that had a really good basketball facility Texas. 295 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:35.159 I was told it was the best in the league. 296 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.480 And that's the one that's history now. Yes, but so 297 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:40.080 they've always kind of had an eye on. 298 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.639 I mean, look they've they're not known for it, but 299 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:45.639 they've had some really good years and some really good 300 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.960 players come through. Kevin Durant is the one that comes 301 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.360 to mind, and some really good coaches too. So yeah, 302 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:55.879 it was a first class environment. Experienced a lot of 303 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.600 Kentucky fans there he felt bad for. I don't know 304 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:00.440 if they traveled. 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But Aaron 393 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:55.480 and I are talking about Kentucky's loss. He was down 394 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:59.039 there in Austin when the Wildcat lost Texas damaging loss. 395 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:02.599 And this comes right after that Tennessee game, and that 396 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:04.200 brings us and this has happened. 397 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.279 More than once this year. Week it feels like they 398 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:06.920 win a game. 399 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:09.440 Honestly, I thought, no, they're not going to beat Tennessee 400 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.960 because they they're missing too many key people. Yep, and 401 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:16.000