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Speaker 2: De from Pike Build to Maduka. It is a big
Speaker 2: LU insider. Dick Gabriel bo Robinson in tonight for Billy
Speaker 2: who worked a long day yesterday and was up early
Speaker 2: today filling in for mister Leech and Aaron Gershan. What
Speaker 2: times you get back from Knoxville. I got back about
Speaker 2: one o'clock this afternoon. Oh so you stayed over, stayed overnight. No, no,
Speaker 2: that's that's a smart thing to do, because you got
Speaker 2: to stick around and write. Yep.
Speaker 12: I was at the Orient until about eleven and got
Speaker 12: a bite to eat after late because didn't eat much
Speaker 12: at five o'clock early tip, which I love.
Speaker 2: But uh got back to here about one today. So
Speaker 2: you find out, well, Butler's not going to play, then
Speaker 2: carr is game time. He played what I'm in in
Speaker 2: ninety seconds, you admitted to me before went on the air.
Speaker 2: You were very surprised. I'm not shocked at Kentucky won.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was also it's very eerily similar to the
Speaker 12: game down there two years ago where Kentucky just lost
Speaker 12: to South Carolina was a quad four loss. At the time,
Speaker 12: I actually finished as a quad four loss at home.
Speaker 12: It felt like all hope was lost. I forget exactly
Speaker 12: if both I don't I want to say case either
Speaker 12: Cason Wallas, ors Vere Wheeler or both of them were out.
Speaker 12: It was one of the other and Adu Thierro, who
Speaker 12: at that time was a very skinny, undersized fresh over
Speaker 12: I guess too tall to be a point. I don't know,
Speaker 12: just six ' nine skinny guys kind of a tweener. Yeah,
Speaker 12: was running point and very very discombobulated Tennessee, always stifling defensively,
Speaker 12: and Kentucky went down there and they won a absolute
Speaker 12: slug fest. It was like sixty three fifty five against
Speaker 12: the number five ring team in the country, and this
Speaker 12: game was eerily similar, except this is a better Kentucky team,
Speaker 12: I think, than that one. And you know, Kentucky came
Speaker 12: out of the gates and kind of made a statement
Speaker 12: where they hit four to five threes early, they're up
Speaker 12: twelve to four. They let go the rope at the
Speaker 12: end of the first half, which was frustrating, but you know,
Speaker 12: they came out same way in the second half. I
Speaker 12: think they got the lead to eleven when Trent Noah
Speaker 12: hit that three from Marlin County. Yeah, and they opened
Speaker 12: the half on I forget the exact run, but I
Speaker 12: know they scored the first six or seven points.
Speaker 2: Of the half.
Speaker 12: Theay had the breakaway dunk to make it thirty four
Speaker 12: to thirty three. They never trailed again, so they kind
Speaker 12: of were outside the last two minutes of the first
Speaker 12: half in control of the whole way. They nearly let
Speaker 12: go the rope. A couple different times, which scares you,
Speaker 12: but overall gritty, gritty performance and a surprising but huge
Speaker 12: win for this team.
Speaker 2: Mark Pope got a call tonight on the show about
Speaker 2: those last few minutes in the first half, and that
Speaker 2: has happened more than once this year. That was an
Speaker 2: eleven zero run. Yeah, you've covered every game you've been
Speaker 2: at most of them. Yes. Is there a contributing factor
Speaker 2: each time or is it just one of those things
Speaker 2: that's happening.
Speaker 12: I think really it's the last three games. I think
Speaker 12: it comes down under fatigue, simply put. And it's not
Speaker 12: an excuse. They got to get better with that. But
Speaker 12: when you're down in this game's case, Lamont Butler and
Speaker 12: Andrew Carr and Kirk Curious, so you got to remember
Speaker 12: this guy they were counting on who's been out since
Speaker 12: beending in December. At Vandy, they didn't have Andrew car
Speaker 12: Lamont Butler was not himself, probably shouldn't have been playing
Speaker 12: in that game, and then obviously down Carisa. And then
Speaker 12: the Alabama game, same thing. Butler and car both fighting
Speaker 12: through stuff, not looking themselves, and Carisa down. It just
Speaker 12: seemed like they ran out of gas and all at
Speaker 12: the end of each of those halves. Yeah, and you
Speaker 12: know last night was more the same. You saw Jackson
Speaker 12: Robinson was dealing with cramps. Otega Oway was banged up
Speaker 12: after that huge hit he took on the Tonk. I'm
Speaker 12: just glad he's okay. Mark Pope said he was okay
Speaker 12: on the radio show tonight. That was a it looks
Speaker 12: so bad, it looks so it was violent. We were
Speaker 12: underneath that basket. The media see that was a I
Speaker 12: don't know how he got back up from that. I'd
Speaker 12: still be laying on the ground at Thompson Bowling. But
Speaker 12: uh yeah, I think it's been fatigue for sure. I
Speaker 12: think it was a twenty to four run for Vandy
Speaker 12: at the into the first half, and then a six
Speaker 12: hour run to finish the game in that one. This game, honestly,
Speaker 12: I know Kentucky out scored Tennessee in the last five
Speaker 12: minutes of the game, but they didn't hit a field
Speaker 12: goal in the last five minutes.
Speaker 2: They spent a lot of time at the line. I
Speaker 2: spent a lot of time at the And that leaves
Speaker 2: me to my next question. My next observation is for
Speaker 2: as pretty for lack of a better term, as Mark
Speaker 2: Pope's offense can be yeah, and efficient and assist of
Speaker 2: made field goals and all that free flowing whatever you
Speaker 2: want to call it. But in the last five and
Speaker 2: a half minutes, the ball would stick.
Speaker 12: It did, Yeah, it did, and uh, it's hard to
Speaker 12: explain why. I mean, obviously you want to kind of
Speaker 12: grind things out late when you're up, and you want
Speaker 12: to try to get as much time off that clock.
Speaker 12: But yeah, the ball sticked, and there were some turnovers too,
Speaker 12: And honestly, Tennessee got off so many shots because I
Speaker 12: want to go count, I know they had eighteen offensive rebounds.
Speaker 12: How many were in the last three minutes of the
Speaker 12: game there like seven? It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: The three point that came after what four offensive four
Speaker 2: four by Lanier to make it a one point game
Speaker 2: with four offensive rebounds really four opportunities.
Speaker 12: So look they got they got away with one a
Speaker 12: little bit toward the end there, But at the same
Speaker 12: time they did they controlled this game really from start
Speaker 12: to finish. I'd love to see how long they were
Speaker 12: in the lead for this one. It probably thirty six
Speaker 12: thirty five minutes. So you can't be overly critical, especially
Speaker 12: when they're short handed. A win is a win is
Speaker 12: a win, especially going down to Knoxville against a really
Speaker 12: the number one defense in the country per Ken Palm.
Speaker 12: Even after tonight or even after last night and doing
Speaker 12: it shorthanded, you can't complain too much. There's still some
Speaker 12: things that worry you, for sure, But what are they
Speaker 12: six and one against top fifteen teams.
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. No one, no one has a resume like
Speaker 2: that right now. Well, as I mentioned, Billy's off tonight,
Speaker 2: Bo Robinson is in and bois if you don't know,
Speaker 2: one of the Go Big Blues Brothers, and I'll come
Speaker 2: back to the Tennessee game. But obviously one of the
Speaker 2: hottest topics looking ahead, and Mark Pope addressed it tonight
Speaker 2: on his show is Arkansas coming in with a certain
Speaker 2: head coach. And the debate has been going on really
Speaker 2: since since Caliperi left is how will you treat him?
Speaker 2: How should he be treated by the fans, by the
Speaker 2: crowd coming into upp arena? How will the Go Big
Speaker 2: Blues Brothers approach this?
Speaker 5: Well, I can't speak for the other half of the
Speaker 5: Go Big Blues Brothers TBA, so if you want to know,
Speaker 5: get to the game Saturday. As for me, I probably
Speaker 5: will not cheer, but I'm not going to boom. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I just keep my hands in my pockets. And when
Speaker 5: the Kentucky lineup goes Patrick Whitmer does this thing, then
Speaker 5: I'll be cheering.
Speaker 12: I gotta save my energy for the game. There you go,
Speaker 12: But I'm not going to boot Calip. You gotta wait
Speaker 12: all day for it too. Nine o'clock tip.
Speaker 5: And I go back to this, And yes, I can
Speaker 5: be frustrated about how the last four years ended with Caliperry,
Speaker 5: but he was always nice to me when I ran
Speaker 5: his Collins shed It first year when I met him
Speaker 5: Mountain in public and him and I had a twenty
Speaker 5: minute discussion at dunkin Donuts one morning, real about our dogs.
Speaker 2: Dying of all things. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 5: And this was I think two years ago. And it
Speaker 5: was almost like he kind of came down to my
Speaker 5: level and we had donuts or came up to you
Speaker 5: maybe or maybe I came up to it.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: We were on the many level. Where were that level?
Speaker 5: What that's good to hear? And it was kind of surround.
Speaker 5: I'm like, this is John cal Perry. We're not talking basketball,
Speaker 5: We're talking about dogs.
Speaker 2: Dying and how did that come up? At a donuts shot.
Speaker 5: I walked into dunkin Donuts on Broadway one morning and
Speaker 5: he was sitting there, and I remember on his calling
Speaker 5: show he was talking about his dog dying. He was
Speaker 5: just so upset about this, and I just randomly said, hey, coach,
Speaker 5: I've been there. I'm thinking about you. It's not easy,
Speaker 5: not easy at all. And they looked at me.
Speaker 2: He goes, how'd you do it? How to do what?
Speaker 5: And I don't want to turn the show into my
Speaker 5: braving process of my dog? Did you take him to
Speaker 5: the vet? And then all of the sun this just
Speaker 5: opened up this conversation. Yeah, for twenty minutes because he
Speaker 5: It's interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean I had interviewed him one on ones Aaron,
Speaker 2: you have too, but never had the opportunity to speak
Speaker 2: to him away. I mean I tried a couple of times,
Speaker 2: you know, on the perimeter of a work setting. He
Speaker 2: wasn't having it just just a you know, a little
Speaker 2: chit chat. Nope, wouldn't have just completely ignored me. All right,
Speaker 2: that's fine, that's fine. Uh but yeah, that's that's that's
Speaker 2: a little bit of a different situation. It was.
Speaker 5: And when he said, how'd you do it and not
Speaker 5: tell him? I said, look, yeah, I buried him and
Speaker 5: probably took a shot of bourbon and I played all
Speaker 5: the way up. He smacked me on the knee. He goes,
Speaker 5: you will Rascal you wow? Yeah, Well, you know it's
Speaker 5: funny a different side.
Speaker 2: I never had the opportunity to speak to Ellen Caliperry. Uh,
Speaker 2: just never did until I think it was the last time. Aaron.
Speaker 2: We were at the house on selection Sunday and I'm
Speaker 2: in the back of the room and there they had,
Speaker 2: at the time, I think, three dogs and they were
Speaker 2: kind of locked up in a sun room because the
Speaker 2: house was full of people, and I kind of leaned
Speaker 2: over and she was standing there and I said, what's
Speaker 2: the breed on that dog right there? And whatever? And
Speaker 2: we start talking dogs, you know, So there you go.
Speaker 2: So they were a dog family.
Speaker 5: To bring this full circle, yeah, he was on a
Speaker 5: Tuesday morning and they were getting ready to play Arkansas
Speaker 5: that night at nine o'clock and I just looked at him.
Speaker 5: I said, coach, give him hell tonight, and he said
Speaker 5: thank you, and that was it.
Speaker 2: Wow. Cool, that was a coincidence playing Arkansas that night.
Speaker 2: You got along with him, didn't.
Speaker 12: You that was all right, nothing crazy, He didn't. I
Speaker 12: don't think I covered him for five seasons. I don't
Speaker 12: think he ever learned my name. My best interaction was,
Speaker 12: you know, I asked him after the Georgia loss two
Speaker 12: years ago when they lost down there, because that was
Speaker 12: a game they were completely lethargic, and I asked about
Speaker 12: the energy the bank can remember to it? And then
Speaker 12: the next game, Yeah, the next game in Starkville, it
Speaker 12: was a one eighty and someone asked him about the
Speaker 12: one eighty and energy level and he said some while
Speaker 12: looking me dead in the eye. Some guy in the
Speaker 12: media told me last game, so it was.
Speaker 2: It was funny.
Speaker 12: I remember that look. And you know what, I'll give
Speaker 12: him more credit. If we're going to keep giving him credit.
Speaker 12: He's doing a pregame press conference to what he Yes,
Speaker 12: he's speaking with Arkansas.
Speaker 2: The first this year. It's the first first and several
Speaker 2: years he hasn't he didn't know. I think he did
Speaker 2: one last year, the Champions Classic game. He did the
Speaker 2: Champions Class that's true, that's true. And of course he
Speaker 2: had to do pre tournament, yeah, you know, but regular
Speaker 2: season never nothing. So in a way, I keep saying,
Speaker 2: especially when Kenny was still here, we were better off. Yes,
Speaker 2: we got better sound bites. Yes from really from all
Speaker 2: the assistant coaches. Yeah, and now we don't talk to this.
Speaker 2: They weren't trying to drive the drive the narrative.
Speaker 12: It's a complete difference now we I've never I couldn't
Speaker 12: even tell you what Cody Fieger, Alvin Brooks, Jason Hard
Speaker 12: I'm sure they're great guys. I couldn't tell you what
Speaker 12: they sound like. Yeah, they were to say something over
Speaker 12: the phone and like they're a caller on this show.
Speaker 2: I'd have no clue with that. I spoke to all
Speaker 2: of them just just to say hello prior to pro day.
Speaker 2: And Cody Figuers a Packers guy, naturally we chatted. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but otherwise, but I mean, yeah, I've had plenty of
Speaker 2: talking to. Hope was so accessible, you know. Before we
Speaker 2: get to the break, speaking of Hope, your counterpart where
Speaker 2: they Go Big Blues Brothers. Yes, he was part of
Speaker 2: an award winning photo correct which we saw posted this week.
Speaker 5: So John Coffee, the other half of the Go Big
Speaker 5: Blues Brothers entertainment act. Then we bring to Reperena for
Speaker 5: Home Dame.
Speaker 2: He's Jake.
Speaker 5: Yes, he is Jake, and he's got the physique for
Speaker 5: it too. The press conference last April, which was introduced correct,
Speaker 5: I remember that spring day. I'm here in the iHeart Megaplex.
Speaker 5: I'm running baseball. We are running late to get down
Speaker 5: to Repperena a couple of blocks away. He is so
Speaker 5: mad at me that I am running late doing baseball,
Speaker 5: your job, doing my job. Correct. We get down there.
Speaker 5: There's a line that held the press conference up for
Speaker 5: about thirty minutes. There were so many people trying to
Speaker 5: get into Reperena.
Speaker 2: We may have line.
Speaker 5: Jump just a little bit to get the appropriate seats.
Speaker 5: We're right in front of Coach Pope. He does press conference,
Speaker 5: He makes the rounds on the reparena floor. Brother Jake
Speaker 5: reaches out his hand. Mark Pope reaches up his hand
Speaker 5: from the floor. They get this great, great picture normally
Speaker 5: from the student paper Kentucky Colonel. Her name's Abby Cutter,
Speaker 5: and over the weekend she won first place for best
Speaker 5: Sports Photography in a student publication from the Kentucky Press
Speaker 5: Association Award. So Abby was in the right place at
Speaker 5: the right time. Out of everything that I've heard since April,
Speaker 5: you were late I got the best picture out of that,
Speaker 5: and I've always told him if I wasn't late, you
Speaker 5: would have never had that picture. Yeah, and he still
Speaker 5: wants to argument with me about it, you know.
Speaker 2: And then I've got a soft spot in my heart
Speaker 2: for the Colonel. You worked for the Colonel. I worked
Speaker 2: for the Colonel for you did not know? I thought
Speaker 2: you did. I did not. But how'd you dad working
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 5: That's true when you were in school, you worked for me.
Speaker 5: That's right, speaking of the colonel, and you know this.
Speaker 5: I've done a deep dive on the Kentucky Colonel since
Speaker 5: the fall. The archives are available online finally, so if
Speaker 5: you want to go back and look what Dick Gabriel
Speaker 5: wrote as a student, it's a lot of fun to
Speaker 5: get in there. Oh, I've enjoyed it, and you learned
Speaker 5: so much about the campus and just how Lexington was
Speaker 5: back in the seventies, and it's a lot of fun
Speaker 5: to tell.
Speaker 2: I posted something the other day and you might have
Speaker 2: seen this, Aaron, but I did. It was actually fifty
Speaker 2: years ago this spring that I literally fell into my
Speaker 2: career in radio because working for the Colonel, I would
Speaker 2: sit next to the campus radio station and I looked
Speaker 2: over one night and there was warn't to three people.
Speaker 2: Usually there was just the station manager, no equipment, no nothing.
Speaker 2: And I looked over to him and I said, aren't
Speaker 2: you doing the game tonight? As well? I lost my
Speaker 2: announcer and I'm just watching the game. Wasn't even look
Speaker 2: at him. I said, you know, I've always kind of
Speaker 2: wanted to try that call me. So we set up
Speaker 2: an audition. I got the gig. Did three years of
Speaker 2: play by play for basketball and football home games while
Speaker 2: I was working for the Colonel. So when I got
Speaker 2: out of school, I'm looking at newspaper jobs and I
Speaker 2: fell into a radio job. It just happened to be
Speaker 2: open here in Lexingon, which got me onto the UK
Speaker 2: network a year later, and I've been there ever since.
Speaker 2: So it just dumb luck. And it was fifty one
Speaker 2: years ago. Then I covered Aaron You'll appreciate this my
Speaker 2: very first war City basketball game because it was a
Speaker 2: year they went thirteen and thirteen under Joe Haul and
Speaker 2: I kept bugging the sport. I covered rugby soccer, and
Speaker 2: I volunteered to cover freshman basketball. You remember that when
Speaker 2: they had a freshman team. Yes, And it was the
Speaker 2: last year for freshmen, and I said, I'll cover the
Speaker 2: freshman team. He's like, all right, well, I'm fine, whatever,
Speaker 2: you know. And there were like ten games or so,
Speaker 2: but I kept bugging him to do a varsity. He
Speaker 2: had me to a feature story on one of the
Speaker 2: players and the team was terrible. We're thirteen and thirteen.
Speaker 2: So he flips me the press pass. We had two,
Speaker 2: one for at shoot photographer, one for a writer. This says,
Speaker 2: all right, go ahead and cover tomorrow night's game. It
Speaker 2: turned out to be the worst loss in Memorial Coliseum
Speaker 2: history for Kentucky. That was the game I covered CM Newton.
Speaker 2: One of those really good Alabama teams came in and
Speaker 2: destroyed Kentucky and I had to write it up. But
Speaker 2: good experience that is. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So for young kids that are getting in radio, because
Speaker 5: there's over eighty years of radio experience in this risk
Speaker 5: right now, take every gig you can and get in
Speaker 5: front of somebody.
Speaker 2: Who's going to pay attention. That's about who you get
Speaker 2: in front of. Well, and I got it. I don't
Speaker 2: know how many people listened to me and my partner
Speaker 2: doing UK games because of course very few games are
Speaker 2: on TV. Everybody listened to k would So one day
Speaker 2: I said, down, all right, who's listening? The station manager,
Speaker 2: the station engineer, the guy running the game back at
Speaker 2: the station, the r Bau Robinson back then maybe my
Speaker 2: mom and the guy sitting next to me, my color man.
Speaker 2: So what is that? Five people listening? But that's okay,
Speaker 2: you know you did it. I did it, had a
Speaker 2: great time, got some tapes for it, and wound up
Speaker 2: sitting with Bow and Aaron tonight we'll take it right,
Speaker 2: come back and talk more about the Wildcats heading into
Speaker 2: Arkansas and looking back at that Tennessee win. Here on
Speaker 2: the state Wide BBI from Pipe Hill, Tippaduka is the
Speaker 2: statewide edition of the BBI. Did Gabriel Baul Robinson, Aaron
Speaker 2: gershawan back from Knoxville earlier today and you pointed out
Speaker 2: something again before went on the air about one of
Speaker 2: the characteristics of this team, and it's it's understandable, I
Speaker 2: think for multiple reasons about Kobe Brat. Yeah, yeah, said
Speaker 2: did you write about it?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm gonna pull up the stats exactly what I
Speaker 12: was referring to. But it's pretty simple. When he plays well,
Speaker 12: they usually win. When he doesn't, they lose.
Speaker 2: And I play, well, you mean score, I score the ball.
Speaker 12: I mean here it is. These are the numbers I
Speaker 12: was looking at. Okay, So when Kobe Bray hits at
Speaker 12: least three threes in the game, Kentucky's eight to zero.
Speaker 12: When he hits at least two, they're eleven and four.
Speaker 12: In games he scored at least ten points, they're ten
Speaker 12: to one. It's pretty simple math. And so score ten
Speaker 12: from Kobe Bray, you have a good.
Speaker 2: Chance to win.
Speaker 12: The only loss in there is Alabama, which was obviously
Speaker 12: probably your the one loss. You probably are like, all right,
Speaker 12: that is what it is. So when he's on, it
Speaker 12: does wonders for this team, and you could see why.
Speaker 12: And I thought last night, all three, especially the last
Speaker 12: one Bray hit, those were tough threes, like they were
Speaker 12: not open. And I was really happy to see him
Speaker 12: just pull the trigger because he's good enough to hit
Speaker 12: contested looks, and he was able to get in the
Speaker 12: lane for the next two. He got to the free
Speaker 12: throw line of bunks seven. That's the most free throsdays
Speaker 12: to put up. He had a block that should have
Speaker 12: been a block, and they called the foul on But
Speaker 12: that's okay. So but you know, moving into the starting
Speaker 12: lineup for just the second time this season, and he
Speaker 12: had been in a slump seven for twenty six from
Speaker 12: three since the Georgia game. And he I mean, he
Speaker 12: didn't carry them because it was a team effort, but
Speaker 12: he was a massive reason why they won that game.
Speaker 2: Well, it's I was gonna say, he's the worst kept
Speaker 2: secret in America. He's not even a secret anymore. Everybody
Speaker 2: knew that. In fact, Jimmy Dike's last night on the
Speaker 2: broadcast talked about the fact that he was one of
Speaker 2: the two most highly coveted players in the portal. The
Speaker 2: other one was a kid who went to Tennessee, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Chessil near Yeah, and they tried to get a near
Speaker 2: of Kentucky do but I sure did. But of course
Speaker 2: he knew if Bray goes, he doesn't need to go
Speaker 2: to Kentucky. But uh, obviously everybody is going to shade
Speaker 2: their defense toward him, no question. And you got to
Speaker 2: know that's happening at Dayton over the last two three years.
Speaker 2: But they're defenders in that league now as good as
Speaker 2: the defenders in the SEC. So now he's got bigger, faster, stronger,
Speaker 2: guys guarding him. And I bring that up because I'm
Speaker 2: impressed with how he has developed his offensive game. Scoring
Speaker 2: off the bounce, yes, scoring inside the arc, getting to
Speaker 2: the rim. Am I imagining that. Are you seeing it too?
Speaker 12: I'm seeing it too. I think his all around game
Speaker 12: is improving. And I actually thought last night, you know,
Speaker 12: it wasn't perfect, but it was one of his better
Speaker 12: games on the defensive end, an area where his game
Speaker 12: obviously isn't.
Speaker 2: His strong suit.
Speaker 12: And you know that's the one thing with these older guys, right,
Speaker 12: you're kind of they are what they are. There's some
Speaker 12: room for growth, of course, but there's not the ceiling.
Speaker 12: They're kind of almost there for what they're going to
Speaker 12: be at college in college. But I think you have
Speaker 12: seen braand make some jumps on the defensive end. That's huge.
Speaker 12: They need it. And talk about jumps on the defensive end,
Speaker 12: I know it. He scored zero points in the box score,
Speaker 12: but I thought Colin Chandler gave him a man really
Speaker 12: impressive minutes last night. I mean there was some There
Speaker 12: was one play, forget who he was matched up with
Speaker 12: under the basket, and he forced a miss and he
Speaker 12: that was I was really impressive. He's not ready as
Speaker 12: an offensive player yet you see it with the erratic turnovers.
Speaker 12: You see it with the shaky passes, the shots not there.
Speaker 12: But if he could play like that while they're short handed,
Speaker 12: he's gonna get some run just to mix things up defensively.
Speaker 12: And it's kind of something this team is missed is
Speaker 12: having just there or not missed, I would say, because
Speaker 12: they haven't had it, but something that maybe in hindsight
Speaker 12: would have been good to add to this rosters. Just
Speaker 12: the guy off the bench that is a gritty defender.
Speaker 12: And if Colin Chandler, which it would probably be one
Speaker 12: of the last guys have projected to be. But if
Speaker 12: he could be that for you, that that changes an
Speaker 12: outlook on things a little bit.
Speaker 2: You're athlete, really good athlete. And he had a couple
Speaker 2: of deflections.
Speaker 12: He did, and he had on the offensive end he did.
Speaker 12: I criticized the passing, but he had one beautiful pass
Speaker 12: to I believe almon Or for a quarner three. So
Speaker 12: that was impressive. A lot of guys chipped in last night,
Speaker 12: but to me, it's still it goes back to Kobe Brayle.
Speaker 12: I mean, when he when he's shooting the ball well,
Speaker 12: and he's scoring at least ten points. This team's winning
Speaker 12: games before we get to the break.
Speaker 2: Bo, you are you the go big Blues brothers. You
Speaker 2: were very fun to Joe B. Yes, and he of
Speaker 2: you guys, And I kept I thought about you guys
Speaker 2: last night as a game was winding down. How much
Speaker 2: Joe Hall would have loved that win, because I know
Speaker 2: how much Jack Gibbons loved that win. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Jack's always fun to listen to on the radio. But
Speaker 5: you yes, you could really hear the enthusiasm and just
Speaker 5: how excited he was. And I always love when he
Speaker 5: says and you can tell he's getting a little frustrated
Speaker 5: where he says, come on man, Yeah, I love to
Speaker 5: hear that. But you're right about Joe B. Because Joe
Speaker 5: By had a hard time in Knoxville during his career
Speaker 5: at the old Stokely Athletic Center and it was liveral
Speaker 5: games there, yes, and you know a little bit before
Speaker 5: my time.
Speaker 2: And you know that that's where the dream game happened. Yes,
Speaker 2: insult to injury when we come back, and I bring
Speaker 2: this up every once in a while. UK basketball historians
Speaker 2: would like this or not like it. But a loss
Speaker 2: at Stokeley regular season loss to this day, and I
Speaker 2: can't get any of the guys on the team to
Speaker 2: admit it. I firmly believe a regular season loss to
Speaker 2: Tennessee cost Kentucky a national title. How's that for a tease?
Speaker 2: There go going into the break. But oh man, it
Speaker 2: was one of the most frustrating losses I ever covered. Yes,
Speaker 2: I was there. Welcome back. It's the statewide edition of
Speaker 2: the Big Moon Sider Dick Gabrielle, Aaron Gershawan and Bo
Speaker 2: Robinson and for Billy Rutledives Well one year down there
Speaker 2: in Knoxville stoke Lee with that tartan surface. You remember
Speaker 2: those bow those rubber floors they used to have. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it's seventy six, seventy seven, a year prior to Joe
Speaker 2: B's championship. It was a year after the nit which
Speaker 2: Kentucky had won and had virtually everybody back, including a freshman.
Speaker 2: But they had a freshman named Jay Scheidler, and that
Speaker 2: was when he was white lightning with a white hair.
Speaker 2: That Kentucky team destroyed people. Now the following year they
Speaker 2: beat almost everybody when thirty two and four won a
Speaker 2: national title, and they were one of the best national
Speaker 2: championship teams overlooked. I think in the history of you
Speaker 2: college basketball, not as good as the ninety six team
Speaker 2: in my opinion, But I firmly believe the seventy seven
Speaker 2: team was just a little better. And that's not a
Speaker 2: knock on Kyle Macy, who's a friend, But it's more
Speaker 2: about because Larry Johnson was a point guard. It's more
Speaker 2: about how that team played. They were like a kid
Speaker 2: with a new toy. They realized early on, after about
Speaker 2: the third game. Have you got the season up on
Speaker 2: the computer? I do, well. I know the first game
Speaker 2: was a very first game in rup. They beat Wisconsin
Speaker 2: by what eight or nine points something like that. Let's
Speaker 2: see here.
Speaker 5: Yes, they defeated Wisconsin seventy two sixty four.
Speaker 2: All right, and that was not the first event there. Well,
Speaker 2: Lawrence welk concert, don't remind me, was it fair?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 2: Your sister loved that is I wasn't there.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: But then they began look at the scores, man, they
Speaker 2: began to just obliterate people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one O three I mean Texas Christian, But one
Speaker 5: O three I see one O two to seventy No
Speaker 5: shot time no.
Speaker 2: Three pointer. They destroyed people.
Speaker 5: One thirteen to seventy three against Vanderbilt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had Mike Phillips and Rick Broby in the
Speaker 2: game at the same time, or they put in James Lee.
Speaker 2: So now they're either crushing people or blowing them out,
Speaker 2: running them off. They just absolutely evstrated people. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, you had Bernie and Ernie down in Knoxville, right,
Speaker 2: So they go down to Knoxville and late in the
Speaker 2: season they had already beaten Tennessee up here, and they lose,
Speaker 2: and they missed free throws and some of their better
Speaker 2: free throw shooters missed free throws, and they lost to Tennessee.
Speaker 2: So they shared the SEC championship there, you'll see it
Speaker 2: top of the page there maybe they tells you, but
Speaker 2: they were coach champs with Tennessee. But because of that,
Speaker 2: Tennessee got to go to Upp Arena to play in
Speaker 2: the NCA Tournament. Back then, there was no rule against
Speaker 2: playing on your home floor in the NCA Tournament. That
Speaker 2: didn't you know why that changed? That change when Kentucky
Speaker 2: won the regional in nineteen eighty four on its home floor,
Speaker 2: beating Illinois and Louisville in some really toughly contended games,
Speaker 2: and enough people complained because that was a Booie Turpin team,
Speaker 2: and oh.
Speaker 6: It's not fair.
Speaker 2: They get to play on their own floor. And after
Speaker 2: that they changed. That's why Young Squire all these games
Speaker 2: are on neutral floors now. But back then, if Kentucky
Speaker 2: wins the SEC, the Wildcats play in rupp Aerna and
Speaker 2: there was none of this pod stuff where they're going there.
Speaker 2: They're playing their way to the final four in Rupperina
Speaker 2: and you know who wins the region or wins the
Speaker 2: amid East That year, UNC Charlotte with Lee Rose playing
Speaker 2: through election. Tennessee lost in the first or second round.
Speaker 2: Kentucky gets shipped East and they've got to play North
Speaker 2: Carolina in cole Field House on the campus at the
Speaker 2: University of Maryland. You know who lost in Colefield House?
Speaker 2: Two the runs. Wow, Kentucky gets down eleven thirteen points
Speaker 2: to Carolina and what happens? What do they do? Back then?
Speaker 2: Four corners right again? No shot clock Kentucky against the
Speaker 2: four corners, mind you, and there were twelve minutes to
Speaker 2: go cuts it to one, and there's a controversial block
Speaker 2: charge on Larry Johnson and it goes against Kentucky North
Speaker 2: Carolina shot thirty six free throws to ten or twelve
Speaker 2: for Kentucky, and Carolina goes to the final four along
Speaker 2: with UNLV, Marquette, UNC, Charlotte North Carolina. And that was
Speaker 2: Al McGuire's year to win the national title. But I
Speaker 2: firmly believe Kentucky was better than all four of those
Speaker 2: and if it beats Tennessee as it should have in Knoxville,
Speaker 2: the Cats go to rupp Arena, blow everybody out and
Speaker 2: win the championship. I think it was in Atlanta that year,
Speaker 2: went in the next year, but still Stokely Athletics Center
Speaker 2: was a hall of horror.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you about this last summer. I went down
Speaker 5: to Knoxville to do wrestling commentary, which you know, yes,
Speaker 5: of course, and had a blast. First time i'd actually
Speaker 5: been out on the road to do wrestling commentary. Great
Speaker 5: production down there, and Manerjeck.
Speaker 2: It wasn't wrestling, it was wrestling, yes, And so my
Speaker 2: commentary partner we drove down to Knoxville and it had
Speaker 2: a great trip down there, and hadn't been to Knoxville
Speaker 2: in years. Had a good, great.
Speaker 5: Time, So just kind of randomly there's a tag team match,
Speaker 5: and I said, they're working as great as the old
Speaker 5: Burt and Ernie show.
Speaker 2: So I snuck in on you say Burt and Ernie.
Speaker 2: It's Ernie and Bernie.
Speaker 5: Ernie and Barnie. Yes, I did say Ernie and Barney.
Speaker 5: Ok So I did say that, didn't Sesame Street? No,
Speaker 5: I did not go Sesame Street.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: So, which is the only piece of Tennessee member Billy
Speaker 5: I really do have? Is Bernard and Ernie on cover
Speaker 5: sports illustration?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do have that in my collection? Or is
Speaker 2: Ernie Grunfield called him Bernard, you know because he was
Speaker 2: from New York. There you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And so I snuck that reference in there, just
Speaker 5: you know, maybe I can get over with the Tennessee
Speaker 5: fans first time down here and everything. We're done. And
Speaker 5: he looked at me and he said, how in the
Speaker 5: hell did you pull off Bernard King in Ernie Grunfeld
Speaker 5: in a wrestling match? He goes, that's amazing. So last
Speaker 5: night after the game, I texted my friend and I said,
Speaker 5: biggest win in Knoxville since we went down there and
Speaker 5: did wrestling commentary.
Speaker 2: Nice. You know, Bernie and boy where they were great.
Speaker 2: They were just great, and they came up here. And
Speaker 2: I do not recall if Kentucky won the game or not,
Speaker 2: but there was an infamous game where Grunfeld shot free
Speaker 2: throws for a teammate, a guy named Mark Chapman, got foul.
Speaker 2: They're post players and Aaron. I don't know if you've
Speaker 2: ever witnessed this, but at a crucial point in the game,
Speaker 2: this guy gets foult and was not a great free
Speaker 2: throw shooter. Ernie Grunfeld stepped to the line and at
Speaker 2: the last minute Jobi's somebody on the bench alerted Joe,
Speaker 2: and Joe started trying to get the referees attention. They
Speaker 2: were looking at him like what, and he was trying
Speaker 2: to tell him and they were like whatever, and he
Speaker 2: shot the free throws and oh man, they you know,
Speaker 2: the following Monday morning, they called the league office and
Speaker 2: everybody wanted an investigation, and to this day, Grunfeld won't
Speaker 2: admit it. And again I told you, I was working
Speaker 2: campus radio right I broadcast the game and we were
Speaker 2: talking about it, my partner and me at the radio
Speaker 2: station the following Monday, and the station manager who was
Speaker 2: listening said, you guy, you know you guys got it right.
Speaker 2: We said what so they say, he said, yeah, you
Speaker 2: guys mentioned it. So we went back and listened to
Speaker 2: the tape and I said, Adison Mark Chapman to the line,
Speaker 2: and I looked up and said, well, Ernie Ernie Grunfeld's shooting.
Speaker 2: I thought Chapman got fouled, you know. And it was.
Speaker 2: It was quite the controversy. And to this day you
Speaker 2: mentioned to it to a vintage Kentucky fan, Ernie Grunfeld
Speaker 2: shooting free throws. And ironically enough, how many years later
Speaker 2: that must have been nineteen seventy six, maybe in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety four, I think it was or ninety three, Travis
Speaker 2: Ford got caught doing the same thing. Now, he got
Speaker 2: caught during the game, didn't he.
Speaker 5: I think he did. And if I remember correctly, he
Speaker 5: was pointing. He was like navigating, Yeah, on the floor, Hey,
Speaker 5: come up here, coming, you know so, but you're right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: Travis Ford did that. I lied about my Tennessee memor Bill.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I can't believe I'm admitting this on the air. I
Speaker 5: have an additional piece of Tennessee memorabilia, but it's a
Speaker 5: Kentucky program. They played Tennessee up here, I bought this
Speaker 5: at auction because of the autographs, eight alf Rup signature
Speaker 5: is on there, which is the first eight all up
Speaker 5: signature I have. Mike Pratt signature is on there. Ah
Speaker 5: happy Chandler. Wow, here's the other one. Ray Mears, no kid, is.
Speaker 2: The Tennessee coach who had the entire staff decked out
Speaker 2: and Bruce Pearl brought him back when he was a
Speaker 2: coach at Tennessee Orange Blazers. God were they ugly. And
Speaker 2: you know what else he did. You might remember this.
Speaker 2: He had a guy on a unicycle juggling basketballs during pregame,
Speaker 2: juggling basketball trying to bring attention to basketball at Tennessee.
Speaker 2: And for the longest time, I'm Tennessee would kind of
Speaker 2: challenge Kentucky and they played this slow down brand of
Speaker 2: basketball and they had a point guard named Jimmy England
Speaker 2: and all he would do is dribble. That's it, dribble
Speaker 2: out front. What are you telling me you've heard of
Speaker 2: Jimmy England? Now, I said, that's it.
Speaker 12: He said, all I do was dribble, Yeah, right off
Speaker 12: r up.
Speaker 2: One night had managers count the number of dribbles. I
Speaker 2: don't know to what end. I don't know why, but
Speaker 2: it just frustrated him so much. But now you know,
Speaker 2: the league's caught up, everybody's challenging and now and you
Speaker 2: go on the road. Now, that was a great crowd
Speaker 2: last night. Absolutely, And it was probably ninety five percent Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because i've covered games, maybe you have to
Speaker 2: ire fifty to fifty down there. I went.
Speaker 12: Yeah, the first one I did was pretty close to him.
Speaker 12: It was Vandy was seventy thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Was it full? Yes, Okay, yeah, most.
Speaker 12: I've never seen Vandy like that, you know, a testament
Speaker 12: to them being good this year. But also Big Blue
Speaker 12: Nation showed up. Probably I've seen Vandy full. I've seen
Speaker 12: Knoxville full thanks to Kentucky fans. Yeah different now, Yeah, no,
Speaker 12: Kentucky still was the reason Vandy was full, but it was.
Speaker 12: And also it was a Saturday game.
Speaker 2: I think that too.
Speaker 12: They played a lot of midweeknds there lately. But yeah,
Speaker 12: there's really trying to think. There haven't been many places
Speaker 12: in the SEC the last couple of years. You go
Speaker 12: to be like, eh, I think LSU in the first
Speaker 12: half last year was probably the lightest crowd I saw,
Speaker 12: and then by halftime when LSU fans saw they had
Speaker 12: a shot started filling in so hell in the court.
Speaker 5: Hell ould was the big blue go, big blue chant.
Speaker 2: Because the game.
Speaker 12: Yesterday really good last Yeah, once Allway was at the
Speaker 12: line to finish it, it got loud in there. Tennessee
Speaker 12: fans were hitting the exits and Kentucky fans stuck around
Speaker 12: to chair them on.
Speaker 2: It was good.
Speaker 12: And even when they went up eleven, I think I
Speaker 12: think it was Nos three that put them up eleven.
Speaker 2: You could you can in hear it. I've covered some
Speaker 2: games down there where the Kentucky crowd was so big
Speaker 2: and the score was so lopsided that with ten minutes ago,
Speaker 2: the entire building was almost blue. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: just amazing. But you know, like we said, Tennessee's good,
Speaker 2: but that's a good Tennessee team defensively, but going into
Speaker 2: that game, yeah, all we could hear was, you know,
Speaker 2: they have a hard time scoring. But that wasn't that
Speaker 2: their own fall last night, Aaron, I mean, forty five
Speaker 2: to three, that's just stupid.
Speaker 12: I think I saw stats somewhere where thirty three of
Speaker 12: them were uncontested. So it's not like Kentucky and part
Speaker 12: of it was Kentucky and Pope said it after the game.
Speaker 12: They were taking the shots we wanted them to take.
Speaker 12: So part of it was Kentucky knowing the scout and
Speaker 12: letting them have some. And then some of it was
Speaker 12: just kind of see failing to exeic.
Speaker 2: Ziggler wasn't a good three point shooter going.
Speaker 12: And then he put up eleven of them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 12: I hit a rough night.
Speaker 2: I texted a buddy of mine. I said, if they
Speaker 2: needed three at the end and Ziggler takes it, it'll
Speaker 2: go in. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Now, Lanier and MILITCHI were they only two hitting shots
Speaker 12: for them last year. So yeah, look Kentucky got and that.
Speaker 12: We were talking about it on the way in here.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't be surprised if it's a similar game play
Speaker 12: and going into Saturday's game because Arkansas is offensively challenged.
Speaker 12: I don't even think they've scored seventy in an SEC
Speaker 12: game yet, and their top three point shooter is big
Speaker 12: z Wow. He is shooting forty, so you got to
Speaker 12: give him a I'll check on that, but he is
Speaker 12: their leader in three point average. I think their next
Speaker 12: guy is like thirty five percent.
Speaker 2: I want to see in person, because I've seen him
Speaker 2: play on TV a couple of times, a doocey Arrow. Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I've put on muscle. He's having a great so he's
Speaker 2: slowed down an sec play. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: It's a tough league. And you know, I was doing
Speaker 12: some research today. We're going down trivia here. But you
Speaker 12: know these are only going to be the eighth, ninth,
Speaker 12: and tenth former Wildcats to play against Kentucky really only. Yeah,
Speaker 12: so you have you have to go way back on
Speaker 12: a lot of them. I did a whole store on
Speaker 12: this last night. I started working on it last night.
Speaker 12: Save Aaron Bradshawn, Bryce Hopkins. You'll add Damien Collins.
Speaker 2: At the Drase Hopkins by the way after the year
Speaker 2: and again, I know, poor kid. Then you have Mark
Speaker 2: Corey if you remember him. I wrote about Mark Corey
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. Yep, how about that.
Speaker 12: That's crazy. So Cornell Cornell, yep. Then you have to
Speaker 12: go way back.
Speaker 2: Started for Billy Clyde. Couldn't start at Cornell.
Speaker 12: Yeah, an yeah, and the numbers he put up for
Speaker 12: Billy Clyde Warren great. Oh, so then you have to
Speaker 12: go to the forties for the next few Mark, Malcolm
Speaker 12: McCullum played against Kentucky one game while Xavier. You have
Speaker 12: Bob Brainham, who was an All American at Kentucky in
Speaker 12: nineteen forty four. He was with Michigan State at the end,
Speaker 12: played one game against them, and.
Speaker 2: He's a guy who was again All American here. Yes,
Speaker 2: but what happened was all Americans came back from the war,
Speaker 2: that's right, and so he wasn't going to play yep.
Speaker 12: And then you have Duard Compton who was here from
Speaker 12: from forty four to forty six, and then he went
Speaker 12: on to be a captain at Louisville, elected into the
Speaker 12: Louisville Athletics Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Marvin Stone wasn't the first.
Speaker 12: There you go, and then you have to go way
Speaker 12: back because Marvin Stone played against Kentucky.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 12: Then you have to go way back to a guy
Speaker 12: that played here in nineteen thirteen and four teams, Tom Zephyross.
Speaker 12: He also went to Vanderbilt for four years, played football
Speaker 12: and basketball, played three games against Kentucky and won all
Speaker 12: three of them all at Vandy, and then he went
Speaker 12: on to be an assistant football coach and athletic director.
Speaker 12: Is a deep dive and shout out big Blue history
Speaker 12: dot Net makes it possible you can do there. Johnson
Speaker 12: got to give him a shout out for the for
Speaker 12: the help.
Speaker 2: Bandy back in the day had a football season where
Speaker 2: it was undefeated and unscored on you could look at
Speaker 2: I believe it. We'll take a break back with more
Speaker 2: to Stay Wide BBI segment as we wrap up this
Speaker 2: edition of the s Whye BBI with Aaron ger shaan Oo,
Speaker 2: Robinson and I assume to go Big Blues Brothers will
Speaker 2: be there uh Saturday evening.
Speaker 5: To Yes, we'll probably be down there Saturday afternoon because
Speaker 5: we can't wait for this game nine events.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you said you were going to be there,
Speaker 2: but are you always in character? Yes? What character?
Speaker 5: And here's the thing about this, This kicks off my
Speaker 5: birthday week, so I'm celebrating all week long because I
Speaker 5: have a myriad of activities I'm going to be involved in.
Speaker 2: And so I'm really your report next week.
Speaker 5: Yes, so I'm really including a rest reporting.
Speaker 2: And by the way, bo is one of these guys
Speaker 2: who isn't going to look as old as he is
Speaker 2: because his hairstyle is that of.
Speaker 5: Mister Mark Pope. It is, and it has been going
Speaker 5: on since day one. Matter of fact, when we walked
Speaker 5: down the press conference, somebody turned around look at me
Speaker 5: and said, hey, it's Mark Pope and I'm like, what
Speaker 5: you're six days we're talking about you. And so it
Speaker 5: is happened non stop that I've been mistaken for Mark Pine.
Speaker 2: No kidding. I had some little old lady, even with
Speaker 2: a beard.
Speaker 5: Yes, three days later, some little old lady. I'm at
Speaker 5: a coffee shop and I'm on my phone, I'm drinking coffee.
Speaker 5: She comes up and she gets you get off that
Speaker 5: phone right now, and you start recruiting. And I'm like,
Speaker 5: this woman is serious, Pope?
Speaker 2: Now? Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: It happened at Josepheth during the holidays when I was
Speaker 5: Christmas shop.
Speaker 2: Next time somebody does that, you should lean in to
Speaker 2: lay the points.
Speaker 5: The wheeler story back in April, that's the best one
Speaker 5: because I was sitting next to Oscar and he didn't
Speaker 5: say a word, and all these people kept thinking I
Speaker 5: was Mark Pope.
Speaker 2: Coach.
Speaker 5: We've been waiting on coach and the poor waitress there
Speaker 5: she thought I was Mark Pope and she said, you
Speaker 5: did free pie.
Speaker 2: I tried.
Speaker 5: I've tried to get free meals everywhere, and she said,
Speaker 5: we've been waiting on you.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, I've been waiting to eat.
Speaker 5: So I signed an autograph and I didn't tell her
Speaker 5: I wasn't, but she said, would you sign this one?
Speaker 5: Did so I signed the back the check of her
Speaker 5: little pad. I wrote on there, I am not the Pope,
Speaker 5: go big blue bo Robinson and the disappointment on her face.
Speaker 2: I should have done that. Yeah, it's been fun and
Speaker 2: we're gonna give you the floor toward the end. Tell me,
Speaker 2: what do you expect to see Saturday night? Is are
Speaker 2: they I was gonna say they were going to be
Speaker 2: in a position, I think to blow out this Arkansas
Speaker 2: team which is struggling. But no Butler and no Andrew Carr.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I would assume they're both going to be out.
Speaker 12: We'll see what happens there. But uh, look, Kentucky's still
Speaker 12: the better team I think even with that, and especially
Speaker 12: giving Boogie flanned unfortunately being out for the year for Arkansas.
Speaker 12: He was second in the SEC and assists behind ze
Speaker 12: Kay Ziegler. So, uh, I still like Kentucky in this game.
Speaker 12: I just think the emotion in that building that they
Speaker 12: played great at home. They played really every game almost honestly,
Speaker 12: their worst game at home was probably like Western Kentucky
Speaker 12: even Alabama, Like they lost, but they played really well
Speaker 12: in that game, at least on the offensive end. So
Speaker 12: I think Kentucky's going to come out firing. I think
Speaker 12: this Tennessee game was a big confidence boo booster. I
Speaker 12: just I can't see them losing. But I do know
Speaker 12: that if there's a game Arkansas is going to be
Speaker 12: ready to play and bring their best, it's probably gonna
Speaker 12: be Saturday night.
Speaker 2: Because it ain't just Caliperry coming back.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, it's big Z, it's a do, it's
Speaker 12: it's DJ Wagner, it's the whole coaching staff who they've
Speaker 12: heard a lot, the assistance. We're probably more so than
Speaker 12: cal Honestly, I will say this, I'm a little surprised.
Speaker 12: Maybe it's because it's getting late, but or maybe it's
Speaker 12: because Arkansas has been bad. But the get in prices
Speaker 12: dropped significantly. It's two hundred down ticket backs. Wow, we
Speaker 12: were looking at like thousand. Yeah, it was a thousand,
Speaker 12: and they got to like the five to six hundred rings.
Speaker 12: So maybe that's the product of Arkansas thinking or the
Speaker 12: tickets just being so outrageous.
Speaker 5: If you sold your Arkansas ticket, you would have been
Speaker 5: able to pay for the rest of your season ticket.
Speaker 8: Probably.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh it was like the shock market back when
Speaker 2: it was you know, yeah, all right, how much booing
Speaker 2: there will be booming?
Speaker 12: I think majority of how much for cal I think
Speaker 12: it'll be a majority for the play I do. I do,
Speaker 12: just given the facts. He's look, Arkansas is a historic rival,
Speaker 12: like it's not the nineties, but that's thirty years ago.
Speaker 12: The head coaches, it's we're bringing it back. I think
Speaker 12: he's going to get mostly booed in this game.
Speaker 2: I really do. The players I know when the game begins.
Speaker 2: I think when he's introduced, introduced, you think the building
Speaker 2: will erupt in booze. Not I think it'll be sixty
Speaker 2: forty boots okay, no, during it, during it, and I'm
Speaker 2: good with that. During the game, I'm good with that.
Speaker 2: I think intros will be that that too. I think
Speaker 2: he'll be booed.
Speaker 12: I don't know, maybe again eventually, even maybe if they
Speaker 12: play two games next year and they're back.
Speaker 2: Maybe not.
Speaker 12: I think the first time he comes back it's still
Speaker 12: fresh and again it's not like he went to it's
Speaker 12: not like he went to know Ohio State.
Speaker 2: But he did what a lot of people, the people
Speaker 2: who are booming boom him gone right, student class.
Speaker 12: That's also going to be the you know, the big
Speaker 12: part of the crowd here saw nothing but losing more.
Speaker 2: That's true, very true. That's gonna do it. My thanks
Speaker 2: to Aaron, My thanks to bo, thanks to you for listening.
Speaker 2: That said, good night from Lexington.