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Just The Cats 08-03-26 · Just The Cats

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Just the Cats with Michael Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, big Flute Nation, Welcome to justin Kats. My name
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  Speaker 2: is Michael Bennett, coming to you from Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: As I just, oh my gosh, I'm just having a
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  Speaker 2: hard time getting that out right now. But it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to believe. We're thirty days away from football here in
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  Speaker 2: the Bluegrass, and I'm looking forward to those days with
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  Speaker 2: a new regime and positive outlooks. So we'll see how
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  Speaker 2: it goes. But it's Monday, August third, and I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a different show today. Just is
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  Speaker 2: not going to be able to join us, even though
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  Speaker 2: he's producing it. But a little hard for us to
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  Speaker 2: communicate when we're not together in the same studio. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm here on top of the patio here at the
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  Speaker 2: recruiting room at CommonWell Stadium with two good friends I've
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  Speaker 2: known for many years, Larry Vought as well as John
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  Speaker 2: Doctor excuse me, doctor John Long. Good morning everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, my morning.
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  Speaker 3: How great is this man?
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  Speaker 2: Listen? You know the three of us did this you
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  Speaker 2: I think it was you or was it you Larry
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  Speaker 2: that reminded me we did it about what five or
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  Speaker 2: six years ago on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Something like that after COVID, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Right after?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well all right, just didn't help me out here.
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  Speaker 2: Now what uh in put three? Is that right? You
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  Speaker 2: tell me if that's it? Or speaker? Yeah? Okay, all right?
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  Speaker 2: Is that testing right there? John? You're talking to you?
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  Speaker 2: You're doing a little Corey price there. Okay, we gotta
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  Speaker 2: get you to speak up. But yeah, So was it
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  Speaker 2: you that told me, Larry and reminded me that we
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  Speaker 2: did it on the field.
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  Speaker 1: I did mention that to you, but it could have
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  Speaker 1: been somebody. It could have been some of your others.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I was either one of you because I thought, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, I've forgotten all about that, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: it would be a lot of fun for us to
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  Speaker 2: come back and kind of celebrate a new regime coming
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  Speaker 2: into the University Kentucky taking it over the football program.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately we're na able to get us on the field,
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  Speaker 2: but we're overlooking Commonwealth Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Probably better, you think, so? Yeah, I think this is probably.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think this is better? Because I love
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  Speaker 2: being down there on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you got the whole view right here. You can
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  Speaker 1: see everything going on.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fair, Yeah, all we need is a jumbo tron
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  Speaker 2: working correctly without it flashing about to give me a migraine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Michael, you and I we've always talked about how
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  Speaker 3: this Commonwealth Stadium Kroger Field was our happy place.
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  Speaker 2: Growing Oh yeah. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: To be here on UK Football media Day and to
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  Speaker 3: be able to experience it live and in person, and
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  Speaker 3: this is a dream come true. It's almost as good
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  Speaker 3: as Asian horse racing.
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  Speaker 2: My god, Larry's looking at you like you're crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Those of you who have been listening in the last
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  Speaker 3: few shows know how enamore Michael Bennett is about Asian
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  Speaker 3: horse racing. If we couldn't have Asian horse racing, he
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  Speaker 3: at least wanted to have at least one Asian here
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  Speaker 3: to represent.
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  Speaker 1: My communized daily form out there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if it's not me, it's probably even
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  Speaker 2: worse for Nick Raus, who's really gotten into it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he put the funniest tweet I'd read on Friday. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: my name is Nick Rause and I am addicted to
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  Speaker 2: Asian horse racing videos and I am too. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they are hilarious. I don't know what kind of horse
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  Speaker 2: racing they're doing over there, But it's horrible horse racing, well,
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  Speaker 2: are dangerous at the very.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead and stop right there before we get into
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  Speaker 3: trouble with the Chinese community.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not on TikTok right now, so they have no
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  Speaker 2: idea what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So I bet they do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, And you know what, guess how much I care.
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  Speaker 2: If they knew what I was saying, you.
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  Speaker 1: Probably ought to care a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Why should I care? I had a conversation yesterday at
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  Speaker 2: lunch with somebody and a nice couple from Nashville that
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  Speaker 2: came up, and I told they're evidently having a huge
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  Speaker 2: argument down in Nashville, Tennessee because of the fact they're
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  Speaker 2: putting up these things around the entire town where it
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  Speaker 2: scanned your license plate and it can tell you wherever
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  Speaker 2: you are in the city. And it's really mainly to
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  Speaker 2: look at where bad guys are and that kind of stuff,
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: and they claim it's helped quite a bit. They're doing
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  Speaker 2: it in Florida. A lot of people in the Saint
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  Speaker 2: Petersburg area are going nuts over this. I looked at him, says,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care. I have nothing to hide. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: doing anything illegal. Why do I care? Leary bought about
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  Speaker 2: any of this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't fare you care about anything, so really it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make any difference at all, up or not? I mean, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so so yeah, I didn't. I haven't heard anything about that.
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  Speaker 1: A nice My daughter and son in law lay there
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  Speaker 1: and had had heard them complaining, So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, get your michae a little closer to you
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  Speaker 2: if you can. But anyway, there we go, perfect, all right,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully that helps you there.
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  Speaker 3: Justin Yeah, big big brother is always watching you.
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  Speaker 2: Now. They're always going to it's not going to change.
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  Speaker 3: Especially nowadays, even more so. They've got all these big,
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  Speaker 3: huge data centers. Everything that you your keyboard, everything that
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  Speaker 3: we're saying on the radio right now is going into
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  Speaker 3: those data centers. It's it's a new new world we
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  Speaker 3: live in right now.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I just don't care. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: people are just going nuts for it. It's an invasion
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  Speaker 2: of privacy. It's like, well, I mean, what's there to
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  Speaker 2: hide anymore? They're watching us from satellite, so what difference
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  Speaker 2: does it make they're gonna implant something in Michael Bennett
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  Speaker 2: one But all right, let's talk about football, because you
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  Speaker 2: know y'all, especially you, Larry, And I'm promised I'm not
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  Speaker 2: picking on your age at all, I promise you.
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  Speaker 1: But here comes okay, here cufs.
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  Speaker 2: But you know when you I'll start with you, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: because you've been in the UK media the longest. How
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  Speaker 2: many years does this makeing now? Fifty two? Fifty two
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  Speaker 2: years in UK media? If when you come here to
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  Speaker 2: Commonwealth Stadium, you sit here on this field, tell me
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  Speaker 2: what's the first thing you think and what are some
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  Speaker 2: of the more fonder memories that you have being a
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  Speaker 2: part of.
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  Speaker 1: UK media, well, not being part of the UK there's
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  Speaker 1: two different questions. Part of the UK media and my
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  Speaker 1: favorite memory. Those are two different things.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I would like to hear both of them.
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  Speaker 1: Then, Well, because in the start of the nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: nine football season, I was sitting right over there and
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  Speaker 1: that's where I met my wife, who today is our
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  Speaker 1: fifty second anniversary today at opening game of the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine season or nineteen seventy three season. Nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: three season dates mixed up? Now, Yeah, that was wow. Careful, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three season.
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  Speaker 2: Tventy three season. I couldn't even tell you. Let's see, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: fran Cursey was the head foot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it came and was injecting excitement into the UK
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  Speaker 1: football program. He'd been out and gathered, he came out
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  Speaker 1: and met with students, and he was a young, charismatic guy,
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  Speaker 1: was going to change the whole fortune of UK football.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of familiar, does it?
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  Speaker 1: It does? And of course he went ten and one
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  Speaker 1: in seventy seven. Yeah, took UK to the Peach Bowl
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  Speaker 1: in seventy six, and remember that he was on top.
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  Speaker 4: Of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I remember about that we went down there.
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  Speaker 2: My dad's car was broken into downtown Atlanta. They stole
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  Speaker 2: his golf clubs. He had played golf that day. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And we were living in Richmond, Virginia at the time.
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  Speaker 2: And because it was a beautiful day the day before
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  Speaker 2: the game, the next day it was snowing and cold
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  Speaker 2: and we had to put up some kind of box
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  Speaker 2: to tape around the window as we drove from Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: back to a Richmond, Virginia in the coldest car you've
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  Speaker 2: ever read. So all right, all right, so congratulations, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And who was the team that they played. Do you
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  Speaker 2: remember that?
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  Speaker 1: Ah, not sure it might have No, Alabama was the
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  Speaker 1: next week. I think yeah, but it wasn't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember who the opening game was.
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  Speaker 2: Now you just remember the love of your life. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she hustled me and I gave in.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So as a media member, what was your
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  Speaker 2: favorite memory here? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, There's There's been a lot. I mean
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  Speaker 1: watching that nineteen seventy seventeen was pretty darn special. Still
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  Speaker 1: the best UK team I've seen play, So I would
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  Speaker 1: probably go all the way back to watching the Arts
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  Speaker 1: Steel Derrick Ramsey Jerry Blanton team a lot. But also
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  Speaker 1: you don't watching How Mommy come in do what he did?
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  Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And also he see what was so memorable about that too.
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  Speaker 2: I remember how Mommy being interviewed and he would say, look,
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  Speaker 2: just because we're losing, look at all the people that
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: are still here. He had broad excitement. I love that
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: How Mummy era as well, because of the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you had Mike Leach and all the different assistant coaches
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  Speaker 2: he had on his team. You had the air raid,
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  Speaker 2: you had the soaring going, had they changed the name
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  Speaker 2: of Cooper Drive to Mummy. Yeah, and he was a
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  Speaker 2: big Jimmy Buffett fan. I was all about that Mummy. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He just had thought a little bit about defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just a little.
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  Speaker 1: He did to think much. He just had thought a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about it because the shame of it was
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  Speaker 1: he had good defensive players, he just didn't have great
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  Speaker 1: defensive coaching.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what it was? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, John wat
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  Speaker 2: same question back of you. What are your favorite memories
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  Speaker 2: as a fan of UK football and then as a
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  Speaker 2: media member?
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  Speaker 3: Well as a fan, I've been a fan for almost
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  Speaker 3: fifty years now. I can't believe I'm saying that because
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  Speaker 3: that also means that I am old too. But probably
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  Speaker 3: my fondest memories are back to my college days. This place,
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  Speaker 3: Commonwealth Stadium, had just opened, so I was coming in.
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  Speaker 3: I was a sophomore that year. I remember the Derek
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  Speaker 3: Ramsey teams. And I'm not here to promote my books,
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  Speaker 3: but I actually did a book. Great Derek Ramsey, who
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  Speaker 3: I say is one of the most accomplished players ever
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  Speaker 3: to wear the Kentucky uniform.
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  Speaker 4: That's over across all.
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  Speaker 3: Sports when you consider what he did. But when you
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  Speaker 3: look at that team, especially that nineteen seventy seven team
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  Speaker 3: that went undefeated through the Southeastern Conference. In this day
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  Speaker 3: and age, I don't think you're ever going to see
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  Speaker 3: a team that's ever going to go undefeated in the
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  Speaker 3: Southeastern Conference. Again, not a Kentucky team. If that happens,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be the first to be jumping up and down
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  Speaker 3: and doing cartwheels. But that those teams were probably my
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  Speaker 3: favorite because that was when I was just getting started,
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  Speaker 3: and those are usually the memories that kind of stick
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  Speaker 3: with you.
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  Speaker 2: Though as a media member.
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  Speaker 4: I'm relatively new in that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, we're not new anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Over for twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Years right now, I can't believe how quickly that that
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  Speaker 3: has gone. But it has to be the Mark Stoops here,
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  Speaker 3: especially those can win season.
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  Speaker 1: That's only are you've known, if you've twelve years, say
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  Speaker 1: it has to be the Mark. I could choose a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other heroes right there, Buddy, Well sign there. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just starting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that is fair to say, because you're right there,
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  Speaker 2: because as a media member, we don't have much to remember.
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  Speaker 2: It's just Mark Stoops and that's it. Yeah, which was
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  Speaker 2: a good time, absolutely well until the very end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty ugly but well, not totally ugly but UK
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  Speaker 1: longtime football standards.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, because I see ugly. I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you sitting right over there on that wall are standing
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  Speaker 2: on the wall. That's where my family and I would
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: sit for many years. And dad moved us. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why, but it's just right there. I remember being
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  Speaker 2: with my mom and my dad because you know, John
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  Speaker 2: he wrote that beautiful aur on me a few years back.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, that's that's those are memories right there. I
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  Speaker 2: love and being with my mom and dad, and how
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could be and it wasn't just my
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: mom and dad, it'd be my entire family. We'd be
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  Speaker 2: up there, and those are the great memories for me,
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  Speaker 2: is just family. The tailgating, uh yeah, coming up here,
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  Speaker 2: watching the Alabama game, watching Tim Couch throw that pass
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  Speaker 2: to who is that wide receiver, Larry Yeah, Craig East
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  Speaker 2: and uh and then the LSU game when LSU comes
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  Speaker 2: in here and uh and number one in the country
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  Speaker 2: and and and Rich Brooks beats them. I mean, how
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  Speaker 2: what a tremendous night that was. And every time we
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: were down there in the the field, and I remember
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  Speaker 2: to this day, Max still has it. I'm standing there,
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  Speaker 2: We're all on the field with Max, Mason, Patrician, myself,
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  Speaker 2: and this gentleman comes over and taps me on the
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  Speaker 2: shoulder and goes, sir, is that your son? I said yes,
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: and he goes, would you please tell him to stop
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: picking the grass? He's making a hole? Look down. He
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: had picked so much grass there was nothing there. It
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: was like as a big divot. He just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: keep the memory of UK beating LSU that night.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a beauty. A lot of University of Kentucky
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  Speaker 3: sports and those of us who are big, big, lifelong fans,
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  Speaker 3: we remember not only the moments, but even more importantly,
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  Speaker 3: we remember who we were with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, during those moments.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm kind of tearing up as you're going through
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  Speaker 3: all this reminiscing because both my parents have passed. But
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  Speaker 3: as you were bringing up being in the stadium with
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  Speaker 3: your dad and the memories that you remember seeing with him,
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  Speaker 3: you can't help but think about them, and you want
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  Speaker 3: those memories to be happy, and most of the time
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  Speaker 3: they are because they were associated with the happy moment.
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  Speaker 3: University of Kentucky Sports in general.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think about you know, there are so many things.
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  Speaker 2: As far as a media member, I can remember, because yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Mark stoops era up, but you're right, up until
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  Speaker 2: the end, was a lot of fun. And of course
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  Speaker 2: what made it fun is getting to know the coaches,
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  Speaker 2: like the three of us have getting to know Vince
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  Speaker 2: Merrill as much as we loved him. Uh, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a shame to come here and you know, well everything's
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  Speaker 2: completely changed again. I'm not great with change. Don't You're
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  Speaker 2: giving me a look like.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm not, You're I'm just I'm just controlling my
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  Speaker 1: emotion right now.
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  Speaker 2: And see that's what I want to hear, the most
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  Speaker 2: of your emotion.
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  Speaker 3: But jolly, Michael Bennett, I'm still seeing pictures of.
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  Speaker 7: That.
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  Speaker 2: That was a fun night. I mean, yeah, probably yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he had come over to me right before that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm standing over there on the sidelines before
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  Speaker 2: the game started at Missouri, and uh, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: the court of my eyes see somebody walking towards me.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm the only one right there on the sideline,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, who the heck is coming over here
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  Speaker 2: to I want to be by myself a little.
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  Speaker 1: You thought it was a security guard telling you were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be there exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what I thought. I thought. So here comes
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  Speaker 2: some Missouri security guard tell me, sir, you're not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be here. And then all of a sudden I turned.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, holy crap, it's Mark Stoops. We had never
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  Speaker 2: really engaged at all other than he'd been on the
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  Speaker 2: radio show. Outside of that, that was it. And then
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: he comes up to me and says, Michael, if there's
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to meet you face to face. It's
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: great to meet you. If I could ever do anything
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  Speaker 2: for you. That's when he shared his phone number with me,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, I didn't know what to say.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I was a little Fane Bennett. What you
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: don't know what to say? Come now stop it? But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we can call him right now if you own an
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: you want to answer. But uh, anyway, it was it was.
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  Speaker 2: That was a fun night. And then of course they
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: went on with the clock at zero before the play
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: even started because there was ye Terry Wilson and threw
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: it to see j Conrad and uh. And then I
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  Speaker 2: remember Mitch Barnhardt jumping like with some guys with a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of Mark Hill was there jumping like a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of little teenage girls. I mean it was crazy, how
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  Speaker 2: excited they were. I start running out the field. Here
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  Speaker 2: comes Mark Stoops puts his arm around me and it
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  Speaker 2: gives me a big hug. And those are fun memories
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  Speaker 2: to me. But anyway, I just I miss that now.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know from you, Larry. But besides the
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: obviously we have to have our favorite coach right now.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: But in the past, who who has been your favorite
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  Speaker 2: UK football coach?
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  Speaker 1: Hell? Mummy it was? Yeah, well, well I don't know.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: But I mean I like Rich Brooks, I like Cercy.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I liked them all. That's not been one
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I haven't liked.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: You like Bill Curry.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I like Bill Curry a lot. Yeah, I like Bill
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Curry a lot. But but how just because of the
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: fact that those years ago I wrote the story suggested
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: that he'd be a great coach for the UK before
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: anybody else did and got ridiculed. I mean I went
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: through two weeks of hell, everybody tell me how I
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: was deranged, And then when Hal got the job, it
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: was pretty nice, pretty nice.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, it was pretty nice. And because you know
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: who had ever I don't even know if I had
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: heard of Valdosta State back then, and I knew where
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Valdosta was because that was always the last little town
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: you'd go through. And of course Steve Curry, what wasn't
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: it Newton that went to the head coach down there
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: at Florida, Uh, Steve Spurrier, Steve Spurrier and asked him,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: who's a coach we should go higher? And he said,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: you need to go talk to how Mommy.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I've never heard that. I've never heard that.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: It was more a group of high school coaches in
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Kentucky that suggested to see him Newton, that this is
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: somebody that he should look at. And that's hell. It
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: all kind of got started there.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I see, I'm right there with you.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm either between Rich Brooks and how mummy. But
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: then I look back. Even though he didn't do a
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: great job, my dad loved and respected Bill Curry. Yeah,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: because he how he was not just on the field,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: but especially off the field. It was hard not to
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: like if you didn't get to know him. If you
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: knew him personally, he was he was just a great
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: human being. Yeah, just so I'm kind of like you though,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I'll probably go how mummy, Rich Brooks probably ate one
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: A and one B. As far as I'm concerned, John,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: what do you think.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: From a purely football watching football standpoint, it would have
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: to be how his offense and air RAI brought a
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: lot of excitement. I remember when I was in dental school,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: was when he was hired and we had him come
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: in and speak to us. And we're just a bunch
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: of dental students and he came in and he was
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: just the most natural and most friendly, the most down
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: to earth guy that you would ever meet. He was
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: just like he was talking to your neighbor. Didn't give
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: a speech or anything like that. But in terms of
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: actual personalities, I probably do like Mark Stoups And and
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: that was mainly because he was a neighbor of mine,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: so I saw him in a little bit of a
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: different light. I saw him shooting baskets with his kid.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I saw him during the crawfish boils. The oh yeah, Mark,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Mark stoops crawfish boils. So it was always good to
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: see him in that light. It was sad how it
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: ended how his tenure ended.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: That yeah, yeah, but he but he did the University
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: of favor by not forcing them to uh make them
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: pay that one bill and do it installments, don't you think,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of a.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: It's not like you said this cove check for two
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: me and we'll call it even exactly.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I take it, I mean, but.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I don't blame me. It was Julium, So.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, exactly, But I mean, the contract was a contract,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: but he kind of gave into the university and helped
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the university out quite a bit. But uh, all right,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: we gotta take a break and come back. Uh we
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: talk a little more about history if y'all want to,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: but we are going to concentrate on will Stein and
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: his first UK media day here at Lexington, Kentucky. We're
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: coming to you live right now from Commonwealth Stadium, so
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: stay right there if you want to join us. We're
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: not taking calls today, but we can take your text
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: FABO two four one four fourteen fifteen. I'll get to
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: those in a little bit. Stay right there.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: This is just a cat Prow Street Bullion.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Row two years ago. Now we'll work on million. How
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: we bow it? You know that roll that's a true
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what are we playing there? Justin I
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: kind of like that. But all right, if you're just
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: joining us as Justica's coming to you, and we're in Lexington,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Kentucky today, overlooking the beautiful field here at Commonwealth Stadium,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: which which I I've always now, y'all are, y'all are?
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I got John Wong and Larry Vaught with me just
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: to let you know, y'all are a little older than me.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Did it upset you when they changed the name from
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Commonwealth sadum like it did me to that other name,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: because I'm always I'm never gonna call it the other name.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: It's always going to be Commonwealth Stadium. To me, it did.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: I was upset about it. But the thing I think
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: that it surprised me was how Kroger.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Field is essentially kind of taken over.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Now, unless you're of the old era, Commonwealth Stadium is
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: something that's kind of gone from.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: This new generation.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: They're thinking Kroger Field completely, and I never.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Thought that would happen. I didn't either.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I never thought that it would be assimilate. But
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: turns out Kroger.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: They got a good deal out of it, doesn't that.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, they got a really good deal compared to
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: what a lot of stadiums are charging today because you
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: gotta believe. Uh, if UK had to do it all
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: over again, knowing we gotta pay players now, they would
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: have charged a lot more money.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Larry Vought, they probably still will. It's probably coming Kroger
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: better and George why they.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Can't exactly So it didn't bother you? Or no, you
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: don't care.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Now, not really got to figure. It's just a way
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to make money. That's just the what was gonna start
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: happening more and more than quite a vision. It happened
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: all that it has. But uh, the name didn't bother
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: me a whole lot.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: No, what this idea of advertising our jerseys right now,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: that probably doesn't bother you at all either.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: No, No, I mean it's it is right, but it's
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: never I've never been one to worry about what color
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: jersey and helmet you wore and all like it. Just
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: win the damn game I've ever been worried about. So
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I don't care what you put on the er and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: all like that. But if it, I mean, you got
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: a pro team here now, so it's is that really true?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: You don't care at all what goes on to the jersey.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Surely you have.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Why do I care.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: What you can't? So you care? You care?
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Well, it depends on me. If you're talking about going
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: ahead and putting something nefarious on a University of Kentucky jersey,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: the sacred piece of flow, people would be okay with that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Something reasonable.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's two million dollars a year. What
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: do I care what they put on his jersey?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Exactly? Oh? Notre Dame fans care. And it's like, why
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: why do you care? So far just gave you the
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: largest contract in the history of college sports. Why do
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: you freaking care what SOFI is given you?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Besides where most people are saying they won't go to
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: see what's on the jersey anyway.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: That's the part I don't understand. Why would a company
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: want to do it when it's so small you can't
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: see it, So what difference does it make?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's about to say I don't know they're doing.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: It's just gonna be a little patch or something. Right,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: maybe Chris, you have twenty of them.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Well, now you're gettings, car, Yeah, so if you'll probably
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: put it down the pants leg like they do, Uh,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: jockey pants get tattoos. Oh geez, No, Well, I tell
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: you what if somebody, well I might that might be
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the one and only time I might consider. I don't
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: like tattoos. I've never wanted one. Somebody paid me, you'd
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: get one, I probably would, Hannah, I mean, I just
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I would not tell him it's not permanent, but I'd
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: go down to Gatlinburg where they had that Hannah stand.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: You know where it is, Larry, You're there every other weekend.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: So uh, price, right? Absolutely?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I think I think he'd get a real one for
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the right price.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Oh geez, if it allowed me to win a Kentucky Derby,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: go buy that, right horse, I probably would do it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: See there we go. Yeah, if it may unlimited access
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: to Willstein, you'd get one.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Oh that's a great idea. No, no, no, it had
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: to be more than that. It has to be access
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: to every coach, doesn't matter if they're there anymore or gone.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: So when a new one comes in, I get access
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to him. Yes, yes, yes, I want a lifetime contract
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: for that testoo.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: So you get a tattoo favorite coach then, no, no,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that's a little match.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I told you it'd be a high price.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It don't give me that crap, all right, let's talk
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: about will Stein. I mean, what is your Let's talk
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: about two things. Number one, John Wong, what is your
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: expectation for this upcoming year with will Stein's first year
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: here at u K.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Are you talking about a record one lost.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Record or yes? What else? So what I be talking about?
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Well you could there You're different. If I say six
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: and six, I mean a lot.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Of it will depend on how that six and six gus.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: There are six and six records of which you can.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Actually be somewhat disappointed.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: But on the other hand, there are six or six
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: records of which it could be extremely extremely happy. It
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: all depends on how the team plays, how they progress.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: But I'm thinking, okay, let's go ahead and get to
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: a bowl game.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: That's realistic.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Larry Wow, I don't know bowl game realistic. I don't know.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: It certainly should be the standard because when Mark Stoops
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: didn't get the bowl game, he was gone.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, So that's how Mark happened. You've raised the bar exactly.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: People get excited and they want more.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: But byself, I don't know enough about the team. You
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: really know what an expectation should be because I haven't
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: seen many of these guys play and I think maybe
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: they can be pretty good. But I mean we've heard
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: some quarterbacks the past couple of years of Kentucky that
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: were supposed to be I ever walk on water, and
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: when they got to play football, they couldn't quite do that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: So yeah, if Kenny Minchi is really good, maybe they
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: can be that good. But if they get the six wins,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I think everybody should be jubilant. And I don't think
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: it's because their schedule is any harder than any other year.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna play nine SEC games, when
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you're ever gonna say well, our schedule's easy this year,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: you're not. They're not playing the top three team, the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: teams that are picked to be one, two and three
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: in the conference. So to me, sec wise, schedule, that's
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: about as good as you can hope for. So but
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to still to me to sit here and try to
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: pick out a path where I think they could win six,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, Tennessee they beat them on
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: once over thirty years, so there's one. I mean, Louis
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Louis has been to by a combined seventy points the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: last two years, so I mean, how's that go? South
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Carolina now is flipped it where they seem to have
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Kentucky's numbers. So but again, an new coach, new staff,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: coming in, seventy new players, whatever it is, I think
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: we'll know a whole lot more ato that Alabama game.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: They could win.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: All those games that you just mentioned. It it's a possibility.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: It's not like many many years ago when you chop those.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Up as an automatic LT.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Right now, so you're home, it's just uncertainty.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: That's us right now.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Well, there's always uncertainty with UK football, But I think
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that's kind of the case everywhere right now. You're kind
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: of uncertain about every team. You don't know how good
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of these other teams exactly either. I mean
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: some of them could be stinky exactly, some of them
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: could be really great. So that's why makes it so
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: hard to really predict and set expectations, I think. And
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the thing is, you can go from four to eight
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to nine and three pretty easy if you bring in
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the right people.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Well, and I think kind of the precedence has been
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: bringing back the big Blue wall, and he certainly has
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: brought in some big time transfers into the football program
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: this year, and then hopefully Kenny Minsche turns out to
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: be a lot better than some people are saying, and
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: some people aren't saying that.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: The only thing hesitation I have about the offensive line, Yes,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: as we all hear all the time, Boy, how hard
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: is it to find great offensive linemen? It's it's really hard, right,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: It's what everybody says.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: So if people he's brought in are as great as
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: we're hoping or being told they're gonna be, why did
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the schools where they were let them leave?
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: See that's always been my skill. We'll worry exactly. So
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: if they were so good, why wouldn't they just whatever
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: it takes to keep them? If you feel like that's
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: the way with Minschi from a Notre Dame, is that
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: why he's uh that they just didn't think he was
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: going to turn out to be a great I still
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: go back. I know everybody's gonna roll their eyes as
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: soon as I I still think, uh uh, vander Vandergriff
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: was better than we really saw because he just had
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: no time, He had zero offensive line at that time.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I still feel like he would have been a better quarterback,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: probably better than Will Levis. Well like that, I'm just
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: telling you.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Will Levisy just said there was.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: About a little bit and we are going to talk
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: about that, and I'm not gonna.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Go out on that ledge with Rock had such a
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: bad experience that he retired from exactly right.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: It couldn't get much worse than that.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Here's what's really scary. Also about the offensive line. Kentucky
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: has paid a lot of money for their own line
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: So in we think to him, we don't really know.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's assume that they have.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: If they have, and if they don't end up being
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: any good, then what does that say for the future?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Will they ever ever be any good? The expectations are
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: super high right now. If you paid a lot of
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: money for these guys, they better perform. If they don't perform,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: then Kentucky's in big, big trouble.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And if you're really feeling good about your offensive line,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: and then to me and then you're thinking, well, we're
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: gonna be able to run the ball, then why two
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: weeks ago are you adding two junior college running backs
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to the roster.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Well, you look at the wide receiver room, you look
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: at the running back room, and you get all these
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: people in there, When are they going to have time
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: to play? Why are they, Larry Vott adding, all these people.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know. If you get Will Stein on here,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: you can ask.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: It might be a good question.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Otherwise we'll never know, well because we sitting up here talking,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: so I don't know. That was really kind of baffling
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to me. They had two junior college running backs a
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: week and a half for training camp starts, so I
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: don't know. But they've got so many, like I said,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: got so many guys that a lot of these different positions,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and they gat somebody to kind of emerge to be
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the go to type guys. And also we will see,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: but they're banking on a lot of guys that were
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: really highly ranked coming out of high school when they
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: were recruited. Now they're transferred in here coming off some injuries.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: There's a little bit non production. But Will's had a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: pretty good record of kind of reviving some of those
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: guys careers. So hope that's what he's gonna be able
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: to do here.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Larry Vott, is there a player out there you think
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be a bit of a surprise that you'd
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: like to talk about. Is there a player that has
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: been hype that you think is going to be really
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: good and deserves that hype.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I don't really know. I would hope c J. Baxter
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and the running back is going to be that gap.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Nick Anderson will be that guy. Or maybe
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: it'll be somebody like a DJ Miller who's already been
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: here and didn't get used probably as much as I
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: thought he should have last year. That could be that.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: That could be that gay on offense. So but it
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: all starts with minshe minshe better be that guy.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Is there a surprise player out there where we don't
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: know the name of yet.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there is, but we just don't know's gonna
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: be a surprise?
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: John Wong, same question to you. You think there's a
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: player out there that's deserved all this hype and he
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: is going to be that player?
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Or I hope it's gonna be c J. Baxter because
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: when you think about it, this guy was wasn't he
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: the number one high school recruit coming coming out exactly?
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Right, So think about number one high school running back
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: recruit coming out of high school. It's now playing for
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: the University of Kentucky. When did you ever think that
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: would happen? Probably never?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Never?
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, probably never.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: But here I am listening to Larry Vault and all
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: his wisdom, and I am actually getting depressed.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I'm gone from six wins now go down to probably
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: about three listening to what Larry has to say. Well,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: I'm not just missing it, I'm not just missing questions.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: But it's hard to know because you haven't seen it.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: That's absolutely true.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Well, see, that was always my issue with UK basketball
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: when Cal was still here. It's like, how can you
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: say they're number one in the country and we don't
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: know who the complete roster is yet I never understood that.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And yet they just counted on Cal bringing in all
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: these great recruits from high school and they'll be one
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: of the greatest teams out there. And sometimes it worked
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: a lot of times it did not. I'm hoping that
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: UK is that sleeper team. I mean, because what has
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: changed so much? What has changed from Mark Stoops last
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: year to will Stein coming in here and creating more
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: excitement and all the excitement that we have here for
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: UK football. What do you think the one thing or
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: is there a couple of things that he's done to
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: create this excitement to have all these plays or is
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: it just money?
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I ain't his three words because of me. Oh boy,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I think it's that confidence factor. That young guy swashbuckler.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: He's coming in and he's gonna kind of change this
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: entire outlook of the program. We've gone from very very
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: conservative of Mark Stoops, somebody who's worried about everything that
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: he says it is going to be taken the wrong way,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: to somebody who's not afraid to go out there and pump,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: you know, beat his own chest and pumps himself up
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: and provide confidence for the team themselves. That's changed the
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: whole mentality of the fan base. And I'll be honest,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm sucked into that. I'm excited about I am too.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: And the closer you know, sitting right here where we
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: are at Commonwealth Stadium, the more excited I get. But
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: you're right, Larry Vaught's bringing me back down. It's like
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: I just want to reality. I'm to that point now, Larry.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: You know in fact that.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding?
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: But when you think about is why are people excited
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: about Will? I think it goes back to the same
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: thing that we're excited about with Hell because you think offense, Yes,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: most of us have got to see a four game
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the way you're seventeen to ten exactly, the fact that
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: may still be a one touchdown game. We want to
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: see offense, and we think will Stein is going to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: provide offense. I think people get more excited about that.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: And will does have a younger overall staff who's kind
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: of I think helping you to rate some enthusiasm. But
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: right now it's easy to talk and say all the
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: right things and Kentucky football fans. The best time of
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: year for Kentucky football fans is June through August because
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: we get the docs and you're always optimistic. Kentucky football
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: fans undefeated. That's why I've always said that this is
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: a football state, even though a lot of people don't
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: want to believe it.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: It's easy to be a UK basketball fan. It used
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: to be easy because you're winning all the time. Who
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: like Kentucky football fans came when they were setting through
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: some bad years of football, tough years, but it came
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: back year after year after year because they want to
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: see a good football than.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: I remember those first couple of years with Jerry Clayburn. Yeah,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: had that one year was oh ten and one. Yeah,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: then you had the Bill Curry years and how miserable
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: that was. And it's like Joker years. Oh the joke.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I completely forgot about Joker Phillips year, because that's one
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: of the questions. When Rich Brooks was on with me
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: one time and he said off the air how disappointed
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: he was. He's like Michael, I'd put all that working
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: effort into UK football only to see it just completely
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: go away in one year.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was disappointing. And also I think there's
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: just a lot of want of belief. People want to
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: believe in will and hope and I think but just
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to talk about offense and Will comes across as a
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: very confident Yeah, you could say Ericant, but that's okay.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I think the most successful coaches are want you want.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: You want your coach.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: You don't want him to come there, I hope we
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: can score right. You want to come and say you
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: we're gonna score right and all. But still there's just
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: so many things just to kind of wonder about, and
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the transfer portal era just makes it harder. Me. If
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: you've got an offensive line, you've watched the progress for
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: four years, you think of, wow, these guys, we have
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: a much bigger they are there's they're better. They've been here,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: they've all played together. I mean, we all grew up
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: listing every coach you knew talk about, well, you've got
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to have continuity of that offensive line actually changing people
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: in and out of there. They've got to play together
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: three or four years. And now it's like, let's just
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: get seven new ones every year and throw them in there,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: so maybe they'll be the best offensive line ever in Kentucky.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: But I still got to see it, Yeah, I and
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I completely understand that. That's my heart gets going and
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: my heart gets pumped and blood gets gets flowing. It's like,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: this is gonna be exciting, exciting, But then the realistic
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: side comes out, and that's that's the voice in my
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: head is Larry Vaught right there. So uh, anyway, we
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: gotta take a break.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: I don't have.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: We're gonna take a break. This is just the cats,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: stay right there.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: Don't think I'm so sad, nobody, Oh.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Man, we are. We are playing some music today. I'll
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: tell you that right now. I don't know if Larry
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Vod or John Wang would approve of any of this
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: music here justin but it's it's okay. I I it's
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: it's it's unique and I'm enjoying it, so thank you
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: very much. But instead of justin being with us today,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: we got doctor John Wong as well as uh Larry
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Vaud two is with us, and it's it's this has
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: been a lot of fun. I do enjoy having both
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: of you on because, uh, you know, you're both hard,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: especially Larry Vodd. It is really hard to handle every
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: now and then. But uh uh well, let's let's get
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: to a couple of the texts right now. Scooter Dingus
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: texted in and said, the TBT jerseys had four logos
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: by my count, and they didn't look bad. Did y'all
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: notice those last night? All right, yesterday afternoon? I did.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: I I wasn't at the games, but I was watching
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: on TV, so sometimes you get a little bit better
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: close up shots of those logos when you're watching on television.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: But I remember one of them was kind of orange,
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: and I didn't like the contrast with the blue associated
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: with that.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Well, I tell you that they need to be able
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: to get more of those, because I think last night,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: from what I'm told like sponsorship money, that the team
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that won the tournament had about four times the sponsorship
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: money that the Kentucky team has.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Really.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you see that, David Steel? People are having
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: that cash in the locker room after they won, just
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: giving them handfuls of really something like you could have
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: done after your horse wins.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, that's exactly what I'm gonna do. Ok.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: They weren't waiting on the tv T to get them
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: two media. They were pacing that cash. But they had
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: a substantially more sponsorship money than what the law Fa
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Melia team does. So if they're gonna be able to
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: want them to compete, they're going to be able to
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: raise more sponsorship money.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Did it bother you that it's a Kentucky company that
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: sponsored that team and it beat the UK company because
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: it wasn't that wasn't much of a game yesterday, wasn't
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: no better team won? Yeah? Clearly.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the deeper, more athletic, and younger team, I think.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: So.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Now I didn't bother me that that's what they want
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: to spend their money on. Yeah, I'm sure that's what
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: they thought they did, and they they spend.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: It on La Familia though, is what I would ask them.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Why why would they want to sponsor a completely separate
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: team and not a team here, and unless they're Western
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Kentucky fans. The only thing I can't think of, No.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: They they've been sponsors of the La Famela team in
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the past, but they just switched their sponsorship over and
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I guess it paid all for them.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Clearly it did well. Does it pay off to them?
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: They didn't win any money, just the players win the money.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Had you ever heard of David Steele before fair?
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, well i'd probably. I know where the place
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: is because you passed right by it going down to Nashville.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: You've passed it. Have you ever noticed it? I didn't
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: pay attention to the name, but I.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Know exactly where it is right there in Casey County.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that moved to russ Yeah.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Why would they move from Casey County to Russell Springs?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Maybe too much competition gatewise and all they're in Casey
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: County than the gate capital of the world.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: The fence competition. Okay, so there might be some fencing
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: wars down there.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure there's a direct payoff in terms of
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: a patch on a Jersey versus more more revenue for
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: your business. For example, if we were to put just
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: the katz on the University Kentucky basketball jersey.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Do you do you think that would truly draw a
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: lot more?
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Well, see, that's a question I asked last week.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: It wouldn't be banged for enough bank for the buck.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: It wouldn't be good return on investment.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: In my mind, it'd be good for your ego. Sure, absolutely,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: it'd make Michael, It'd make me look very proud of myself. Look,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sponsoring that team right down there, just like with
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: so far. So far have spent all that money with
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Will they get any return from all that money?
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: I find it hard to be because you know they
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: they got the Sofi Stadium where the MS and the
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Chargers play. Uh and But honestly, I wouldn't have known
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: them otherwise if that wasn't the case.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Those people, those people make money somehow. They must know
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: what they're doing.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Clearly, A lot of times, I think all these sponsorships,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: especially for sports programs, when you're sitting in stadiums and
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: you see all these things lined up on the outfield wall,
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're really really improving the revenue stream
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: of the sponsorship of the sponsors who are doing that,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: the sponsors feel like that they're somehow being a part
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: of the program, that they're contributing in some way. It's
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: their way of being invested in the program itself. I
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: don't really think they're getting any money from it.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: We can't have you on our high school fundraising team.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Then this is him being realistic, like you are selling sponsorships.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: I'm talking specifically about patches on jerseys and signs in
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: the outfield. There are things like radio. Radio works. On radio, it.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Works, yeah, exactly right there. Well I will find I'll
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: tell you a story. So I'm at a Tropicana field
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: down Saint Petersburg watching a Tampa Bay Rays game, and
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: a buddy of mine who's the president of a Republic
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: bank in Louisville, said, Michael, you need to come sit
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: in our seats. And I'm like, really, y'all have seats
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: down here. He's like, Michael, we have banks in Saint Petersburg.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Do you not know it? Look up, there's Republic Bank
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: advertising at Tropicana Field. And I had never noticed it before.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: But now you get their seats, So you're happy.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: I'm getting free seats exactly. I mean, I probably while
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: we're sitting here at commonweal see I have probably noticed
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Larry Vought, John Wong, the Keenland up there, the advertisement,
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: but I've never noticed the Central Bank, maybe Kentucky Farm Bureau.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: I've never noticed UK Health. I mean, I just when
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: I'm looking up there for the scores of other games,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm not paying attention what advertisements are coming across.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: I'm waiting for them to hurry up and show me
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: the stinking scores. I don't care about the stupid the
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: advertisements or anything. I know that sounds kind of rude,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: but it is.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: I think you're not.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: That's pretty much how most of the people sitting in
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: the stud.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: Now, the president of Central Bank maybe feel a sense
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: of pride when he sees that that sign out there.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I got sign right right here.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I think there's count lef. He keeps seeing it, seeing
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: it and seeing it. Sometime that if repetition it pays off.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I think that's what they're hoping for.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, I before we have to take a
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: heard break in a couple months, what did y'all think about?
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: You brought it up a minute ago Larry about Will
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Levis and his comments about there are thirty two quarterbacks
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: out there and they can't. There's can't be thirty two
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks out there better than me.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I think that's what he should say. If you're gonna
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: keep playing, that's what you gotta believe, don't you think?
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: And I don't know that I'd totally disagree with him.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Oh really?
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, So you think he is good enough to play
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: in the NFL as a quarterback?
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he came on the right team. I don't think
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: he's probably on the team he can maybe do for
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: the Titans. Be on a better team, he would be
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the right team for him.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Then that's exactly what I thought. None of them.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Well, somebody's got a better defense and a little bit
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: better offensive line.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, John, what was the first thought you had when
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: you read that?
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm I'm thinking to myself, all right, you
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: gotta you gotta show me something first. If you're somebody
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: like a Kurt Signetti who's won a national championship, you
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: should be able to say anything that you want.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: And he has been you know, he's.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: Been throwing darts at the SEC and all that, but
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: he's also earned the right to do that. If you
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: haven't earned the right to do that. You might want
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: to be a little bit careful. As a fan, I
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: love hearing it, I love seeing it. But as a
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: human being, you know, we talk about pride and humility
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: and all that. You want to be a little bit
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: careful because.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I'm not good enough. Nobody should have me on their team.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: He can't say that he wants.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: In the competition. In the world of competition, you've got
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: to be that way.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: To say what, I'm not good enough? No, didn't surprise me.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: That's how he was here. I mean, he was pretty
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: confident his ability when he was here.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Well, I I looked at it and I thought, oh boy,
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: because I listen, he's a great athlete. Did I think
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: he was a good quarterback at UK? He was okay,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: he was pretty good. But to look at him and
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: think that there is a spot for him on an
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: NFL team, I just I don't see it. Well right now,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: isn't he Yeah, but but he's on the roster, but
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: he's not going to start, And I just don't see
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: him doing that. I really don't. But we got to
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: take a hard break right now. If you want to
• 47:57
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• 48:03
  Speaker 2: We got one more hour and hopefully coach will Stein
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: will be joining us too, so stay right there.
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: This is Just the Cats, the money playing fellaws like,
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: tell me please don't shoot up to play because I
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: see somebody.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Just the Cats with Michael Bennett.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: All right, our number two, Just the Cat says we're
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: coming to you live from Commonwealth Stadium over in Lexington.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: It's it's trying to spit rain, but thank goodness, it's
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: holding off. I I I would have sworn up and down.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: It would have been pouring down. But anyway, I uh,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: I'm glad it's held off. I'm a little surprised, but
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: I've got John Wong as well as Larry Vaught with me.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Uh and hopefully in a little bit. I was just
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: told coaches running a little late, we'll have Stein joining us,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: uh for a little bit. But as Larry Vought laughs
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: at me, but I listen, you gotta be Larry, Larry,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: You and I need to stick around each other because
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: you know what, I'm gonna bring that optimism up for you. You
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: gotta stop being the pessimistic one. We need optimism. Okay,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: so just move on, let's go.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: So no facts, that's what you're saying.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, John Walk please please help me with this guy
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: over here. No facts. Yeah, I don't like the facts.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: That's why I watch the news every night at six
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: o'clock because there's no facts. I'm just kidding. I said, Well,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: maybe I'm not kidding, but no response for being the
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: one Bee.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: I love that You're not gonna get well, I don't
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: think because I'm just looking. I believe he's still got
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: to get his picture taken with his family. He's gotta do.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: He started as his press conference at nine thirty, so
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: maybe he was jump in here for right quick.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of his press conference, Larry, what what do
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: you expect to come out out of that?
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Nothing? Nothing? I mean, I mean nothing new. I mean,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: look look how I mean he's spent there. He spent
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: four hours at the SEC media days, I mean, and
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: he's very open. He answers anything you ask.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: He said, got.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Lunching here, has been different places talking. I just really
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: can't think of anything he's suddenly going to spring out
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: there today coming out Yeah, that's what I meant. I
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: think he'll answer anything that he's asked, but I just
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: know what information or question you could really ask is
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: going to be way different.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: I think he will address the general manager position, and.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: I think he'll skirt around it. I think he'll give
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: an answer without saying a whole well, depending on if
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: somebody asking. Somebody's got to be the.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: One thing that I'd like to hear from from this something.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: New, because he's really not address it's kind of been
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: the elephant in the room right now, ever since we've
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: heard him speak down to the SEC media days. You know,
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: this new development with the abrupt resignation. What's what's really
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: going on with Batus.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and from a purely selfish personal view, I'd like
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: to know why every player on the football team's not
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: available for interviews at media day. That's what media day
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: is supposed to be about.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: That's also something extremely different. I'm looking around and it
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: looks like they've got all the different kents set up
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: with all the different positions, But it's not going to
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: be like it used to be where we had access
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: to everybody.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no assistant coach, no assistant coaches available today
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: at all. But as I was told last year at Oregon,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: the media day consisted of of the head coach and
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: four players.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: So he's just kind of following the same act from there.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: I think there's about twenty players available today, but again
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: there's like I requested nine four the nine I requested
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: not available. Yeah, because, like I say, as John and
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I thought, we're not wanting just to ask about what
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: do they think about Alabama. We're looking to try to
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: get some kind of personal information, some feature type information. Sorry,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: if you want to right at a month from now,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: you can talk to a guy about it. Right at that,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: you know, right you can't really talk about during the
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: season and all, but that just puts a limit on
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: it today. So byself, I just wondered why what he
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: thought somebody was going to say that they didn't need
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: to say, or what they're going to be doing for
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: that forty five minutes. It's so important they couldn't be
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: out here for media see.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: And I understand you're disappointed. I think all three of
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: us would be disappointed from that standpoint, but it's just different.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: This is it's a new era. It's going to be
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: different as far as that goes. And and yeah, we're
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: disappointed about it as.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Well, But I just would like that explanation as to why. Yeah,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, what differences make whether twenty players are out
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: there forty five?
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, do you have any idea why?
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: No, I don't have a clue. That's why I can't
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: because there's nothing to hide, That's what I'm saying. I mean,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: who's going to come out here on med today as
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: a player and knowing they want to play at the
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: universit connected here and say, yeah, our coaches suck, you know,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: they don't know what they're doing and why they don't
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: have me starting nobody They're all going to come out
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: and say the best things possible. Yeah, this is if
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: you chance to dig into a little bit more about
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: their backgrounds, where are they from, you know, maybe they
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: got some different unique hobby and stuff like that. This
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: is really the only day of the year you can
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: get to spend time talking with them about that. You're
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: not going to get that after a game. You're not
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: going to get that after a practice. This is a
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: day where you kind of have a chance to delve
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: into personalities and do storytelling because it's not like do
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: you speaking. You can come over to see who you
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: want when you want.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, why can't they do the same thing like
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: the University of Kentucky women's basketball team did last week.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Now, everybody was available, everybody was summer.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: And I got I probably got more from that. I've
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: got enough from that to last me the entire year.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Because you had the freedom to just talk to anybody.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Else like you know them a little bit better.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Now there wasn't somebody hovering over you making sure that
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: you didn't ask the wrong question and give you the
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: stink eye.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: You know, Michael, you know what I'm talking about.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: I have no idea what you're talking about. It's but
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: you know why. You know why I do because.
• 54:00
  Speaker 8: He's asking that people exactly nobody and I'm not picking
• 54:05
  Speaker 8: on either one of you.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Nobody asked him. And people tell Michael wanted to ask
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: these questions, and I'll go up there and ask. And
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: it's just because I listen, this is a fun job
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: for me. If I lost this job in the UK
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: didn't give me a credential, it doesn't bother me. And
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: I feel like that not you, not you John, not
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: you Larry. But I feel like there are some media
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: members out there they're a little afraid to because of
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: the fact that there might be repercussions. There's a lot,
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: and so therefore I don't want to be that way.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: I want to be the guy that's kind of outside
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: the box. That's why I asked certain questions to certain
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: people that guess what, after I'd asked those questions, I'd
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: get the phone call Michael, you can't ask those questions.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Part of it was your timing, though I don't care
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: about the time, and I don't care about the time.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: Ends with John Caliperry, he asked why he didn't play
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: his bench enough. You know, first question right out of
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: the gate.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: That might have been the only time I got, though
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: everybody don't when you got it. Well, there was that
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: goof that has another show in about an hour that said,
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: you can't ask the question that that can't be the
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: first less one that might be my only opportunity asked
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: that question. I'm asking it and I'm not going to change.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't blame you go for it.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Well, he's making fun of John Hogg making fun of me.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna do that. Here comes the greatest
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: s I d in the all of college sports. It
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: says I he looks fantastic put a microphone on him
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: for Terry Neely. Uh, Sports, all right, that's all right
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: by yeah, Terry, I know that. I Tony Neely, I
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: am so sorry to sports maybe the best introduction in
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: the history of intersections. Well, you know, I messed up
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: my wife's name on the altar when we were getting married,
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: so she still swears to this day we're not married.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: So Tony Neely, Uh, you are ahead as a sports
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: information director for the University Kentucky. I mean, this is
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: how many years you've been at UK starting my thirty
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: third year. Congratulations because you came up here from Vanderbilt University, yes,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: and lived in Lexingon ever since. And when is a
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: day like this for you? I mean, coming here thirty
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: three years of doing this, do you get excited? It's like,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: oh geez, here we go again. I mean because you
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: got a brand new football coach, you got brand new everything.
• 56:28
  Speaker 9: On a day like this, Yeah, football media day is
• 56:31
  Speaker 9: always excited. I mean you're always undefeated at that point.
• 56:33
  Speaker 9: There's always fresh and optimistic. But you know, I think
• 56:37
  Speaker 9: we concentrate actually more on trying to get everything done
• 56:42
  Speaker 9: because we're trying to pack a whole lot of things
• 56:44
  Speaker 9: in a two and a half hour period. The phrase
• 56:47
  Speaker 9: I use is we're trying to put ten pounds of
• 56:49
  Speaker 9: mud and a five pound sack, and.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: So maybe manure, but I think mud it's probably better.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: MUD's better. That's better.
• 56:57
  Speaker 9: So it's it's a very hectic day and we've got
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: everything playing down at the last minute, and so it's
• 57:02
  Speaker 9: a little bit of tints just to make sure we
• 57:05
  Speaker 9: get everything done because the coaches want to get on
• 57:07
  Speaker 9: to the next thing.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 57:08
  Speaker 9: It's not like, well, we can just hang around here
• 57:10
  Speaker 9: until we get it all done. We got to do
• 57:11
  Speaker 9: it because they've got, you know, plays for the stuff.
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: So anyway, but it seems to always work out.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: The one question we've been talking about is media days
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: a little different, And I don't want to put you
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: on the spot, and hopefully it's not an uncomfortable question
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: for you, but it's completely different than what we're accustomed to.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Only a certain number of players coming out, one coach,
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: no assistant coaches.
• 57:34
  Speaker 9: Why the change, Well, just every coach has a way
• 57:38
  Speaker 9: he wants to do things and way wants to prioritize things.
• 57:42
  Speaker 9: So we're doing that this year. We will have in
• 57:46
  Speaker 9: addition to the head coach. We'll have news commerce today
• 57:49
  Speaker 9: with coach Sloan coach Bateman, the offensive defensive coordinators, and
• 57:52
  Speaker 9: then our assistant coaches will be available one each day
• 57:55
  Speaker 9: during pre season camps, so they will be available, just
• 57:58
  Speaker 9: not today.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know, we're used to seeing the entire
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: team here and it's different just seeing a couple of
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: things out here. And but it's okay. I mean I
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: figured that was the case. He wants to do it
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: his way, and I get it. How's it been working
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: with will Stein so far? It has been great.
• 58:16
  Speaker 9: I tell you, I have been incredibly impressed with the
• 58:23
  Speaker 9: intensity and passion of Coach Stein and this entire coaching staff.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: And it's not just a random energy. It is a very.
• 58:34
  Speaker 9: Focused, intentional energy.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 58:38
  Speaker 9: They know what they want to do and they get
• 58:41
  Speaker 9: after it. You know, everybody's the popular cliche is, well
• 58:45
  Speaker 9: they hit the ground running. This group hit the ground
• 58:48
  Speaker 9: sprinting and they haven't stopped.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: So I have just been.
• 58:52
  Speaker 9: Incredibly impressed with the first how many ever months it is,
• 58:57
  Speaker 9: for the first seven months, eight months that they have
• 59:00
  Speaker 9: been here, what they've been able to accomplish.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: You look at the transfer portal. We ranked tenth in the.
• 59:06
  Speaker 9: Country as far as our exactly, folks, Yeah, tenth in
• 59:09
  Speaker 9: the country and the transfer portal, and you look at
• 59:12
  Speaker 9: recruiting for next year. Of course I can't get any
• 59:15
  Speaker 9: individuals or anything like that.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: But be more specific, but you say our high.
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: School recruiting for next year has gone very very well.
• 59:24
  Speaker 9: So I think that's reflective of again the passion and
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: intensity and intentionality of this group.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I know you're ready for football season to
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: start because that's one of the more exciting seasons since
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: you're of course, you're ahead of all the sports information.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: Break near and dear to your heart is the football
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: program because you've worked closely with the coaches a number
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: of years since you've been here at the university.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 59:48
  Speaker 9: Well, when it came here as primary contact for football
• 59:50
  Speaker 9: and stayed that way for twenty one years, and then
• 59:53
  Speaker 9: the job just grew so much that it just wasn't
• 59:57
  Speaker 9: most efficient for me to try to oversee the off
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 9: and be the primary contact for football.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: So we put Susan in that role.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 9: But I help her with football because I've you know,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 9: just been around it so long about the knowledge and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 9: all those kind of things. But try to keep my
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 9: hand my fingers in all all twenty three sports, but
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 9: only got ten fingers and sports.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: That's a job trying to do that. This is the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: man that we all as media members suck up to.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, we always have to be nice in We
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: can't say a bad word to him. I mean, we
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: just and we loved Terry, Tony whatever your name is,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Tony Neely. But thank you for coming on a few
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: minutes and spending some time with us.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 9: Tony, Well, thank you, but I'm just impressed, thank you
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 9: for coming in all the way from Louisville to do
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 9: your show here this morning on media Day.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Greatly appreciate that.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 9: And and I know you've got some folks coming later
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 9: on and just glad to have you here.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Thanks for making that trip. Absolutely, you're my favorite, Tony.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, of all the s IDs I've ever worked with,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: he's the only one. He's my favorite, bar none, am
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: I right? Just look at Larry Vod Yeah but yeah,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: but Larry John on the spot.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: Now, one of these days you'll actually get his name, right.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we're gonna take a quick break, and
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: when we come back, Coach will Stein's going to join us.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Stay right there more Justicat's coming right up. That was Tony,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: Bob and Nick pluck me and watch me domin shout.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: It's looking like a bow food all right. If you're
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: just joining us now, Coach will Stein is sitting here
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: with us. Right here, Coach is good to have you
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: on again for a couple of minutes. I know you're
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: getting ready to head in there. Uh as you know
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: you're experiencing. We're watching you with your family down here
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: getting your picture taken. What's going to be the most
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: exciting part that you look forward to when you approach
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: your first game?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 10: Well, right now it's uh being done for for the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 10: most part, with with talking to media and getting back.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: You know, the last thing you want to do is
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: look at this.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 10: We enjoying it for sure, but now it's time to
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 10: walk the walk and time to get out there and practice.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 10: And we've been talking for a long time about what
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 10: we are planning on doing and what we want to
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 10: do with this program. Now it's about going out there
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 10: and performing, and it starts with our practice. It starts
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 10: here on Thursday.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: You look at what you keep bringing in more play.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: You got a really large wide receiver room, you got
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: a really large, now even more large, a larger running
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: back room. Why are you bringing in more? Continue to
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: bring back in more players.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 10: We want to add add as much depth as we can
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 10: to this roster. You know, I'm big on strength and numbers,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 10: and the more players that we can have they can
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 10: play winning football, the more it's gonna help us, you know,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 10: in late October November, when everybody's beat up in this
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 10: league and you gotta go win football games. So we
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 10: we obviously want to have as much quality football players
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 10: as we can. And so when we had the ability
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 10: to add two more running backs to our roster from
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 10: the junior college rank, we jumped all on it.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: Did you know a little bit what was going on
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: with your general manager before it happened? Did you know
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: this was coming? Was that a bit of a little
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: bit of a down or for you knowing that you
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: were going to be losing him or with him having
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: and then bringing Knacta as your GM.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 10: Now, yeah, it goes back to strength and numbers. Like
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 10: Pete is somebody I have known since I was eighteen
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 10: years old, trust him with my life. Has been in
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 10: football for a long time, played and coached under Bobby
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 10: Petrino and knows the game inside and out, so to
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 10: be able to add Pete to our staff. When I
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 10: first got here as one of my first early hires,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 10: I knew it was an opportunity for him to continue
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 10: to grow and if his moment came that we put
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 10: him in place. So we're excited about Pete and what
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 10: he's going to do for us. And yeah, you can
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 10: never you never know what's going to happen on a
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 10: day to day basis at times, especially in college football,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 10: So you just wake up the next day, the show
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 10: rose on and we keep pushing.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: How's the blue feel on there? I mean, you you
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: were as a player red, you're wearing the blue. Does
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: it feel any different? Does it feel a little better
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: because y' know you grew up as a gigate like
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: all three of us, huge fans of the UK football.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean my favorite colors have been blue and
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 10: green my whole life. Blue for Kentucky and green for
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 10: Trinity High School.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: How about you, mat money.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 10: You're making all the money in the world now, so no,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 10: it's it definitely is. It feels extremely comfortable when I
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 10: when I put it back on when I was hired. Initially,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 10: it felt right at home. So it's a it's a
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 10: great color.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of players that have been
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: hyped up on this team, obviously Kenny Minshee, and then
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: you got the big running back room, you got the
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: offensive line that you're rebuilding. Thank goodness, I think John Schlarman,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: God rest his soul. What a great friend he was,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: uh and a great coach for the university. It's good
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: to see that you're building that back up to Is
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: there a player that nobody knows about that you're kind
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: of in the back of your mind real excited about
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: getting out there on the field.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I think there's there's a multitude of
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 10: the on our entire roster. I think we have good,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 10: good players on each side of the ball that, like
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 10: I mentioned, could play winning football. And so that's what
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 10: fall camp is really about, is Okay, we installed our
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 10: initial schemes in winter and spring and again in summer.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 10: Now it's about seeing what these guys can do. Being
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 10: the fourth time they've heard these calls and the fourth
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 10: time they've learned it, can they go out and execute
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 10: at a high rate? And so, yeah, there's plenty of
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 10: young guys on our roster on both sides of the
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 10: ball that I'm excited about.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: Because I love it's all about you know, it's because
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: of me. I love that you said that. I love
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: the confidence that you instilled in this program and the
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: coaching staff. Your prediction on how you're going to do
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: this year, Well, we.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 10: Want to improve every single week, you know. That's to me.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 10: The biggest sign of a successful program and a championship
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 10: level program is do they get better from week one
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 10: to week twelve? And honestly, Michael, do we get better
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 10: from practice one to fall camp to practice two? And
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 10: when we look up at the end of the season,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 10: we're gonna be really proud.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: All Right, coach, I know you gotta go. Appreciate you coming.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Y'all want to ask a question before you go.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: Real quick thing. Michael mentioned that we are all lifelong
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: followers of University of Kentucky football, and when a new
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: coach comes in new regime, people expect a whole lot
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: of changes, wholesale changes. So let me ask you, coach,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: what is one thing that you've really liked about the
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: University of Kentucky football program that you have not changed
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: that you want to see continue to propagate.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 10: I think the passion and love of this program from
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 10: our fans. I mean, we have exceptional fans that are everywhere.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 10: They are across the country. Everywhere I go. You know,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 10: people recognize me right now, you know, which is like
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 10: you just don't really understand until you're kind of in
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 10: these shoes. And you know, I was recognized as often
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 10: as a Cordinator organ but mostly out on the West coast.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 10: Now you go nationwide and everybody knows the University of Kentucky.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 10: So that to me, hopefully never changes because that shows
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 10: me that this is a passionate fan base expectin.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, you're getting ready to be done with
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: all this for this year and then you know, I
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: look forward to the season start and I appreciate you
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: coming on from absolutely good to see you. Coach. That's
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: coach will Stein coming on with us for a few
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: Just hand out to Larry. He's he's you know, he
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: talks a lot, so he's got to talk to the coach.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: All right, But thank you, coach. Good to see you.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: But listen anytime, I know, I just know that that
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: was not the case at all.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: But you got everything in though I think I got Yeah, fantastic.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: But uh, we didn't get the one question answered though,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: But that's okay, exactly how can you play? But I
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: love the fact that uh uh Susan Lax who takes
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: care of coach Stun, brings him over here and takes
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: care of us and has him sitting right there. And
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: that was a lot of fun. I thought, I listen,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: I like confidence. I know you are on the realistic side,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: Larry Vott, but I know you don't. I know you did,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: and I'm not saying that, but I mean the realistic
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: side comes out. I want my coach to be like that.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: I want my coach to have that kind of confidence
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: because I asked them, what you're going to be your outlook.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: At how would you not like a confident person?
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Well exactly, I Well, you know, my dad every day
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: of his life, greatest day of my life. I've always
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: been around confident people for the most part of my life. Now,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: when I'm around somebody that's not confident, yeah, they're difficult
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: to be around. I want somebody who's like as much
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: as you look at it. I'm envious of Indiana right
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: now and Kurt Signetti because he kind of has an
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: aura about him and people want to be around that,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: they want that associated with their school. And I'm hoping
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: that guy right that was sitting right there across from
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: us a couple of minutes ago, will Stein is going
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: to be that same type of person.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Well, I think will is very I think John would
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: agree me, very immediate. He can answer questions and take
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: a while to answer him and still not really give
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: away what you need to know. But he answers your questions.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: He's not going to give out anything he doesn't want to,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: but he knows the message he wants to get out there,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: and he does a good job of coming across with that.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: And you're not going to trick him into frustrate him
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: into saying anything like that. He's not going to be
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: rude to the media, but he's going to be guarded
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: in what he lets out. Like surprise players, he's not gonna,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: you know, because he thinks you guess hope they're all
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: going to be a surprise and you're trying to bait
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: him into put him in a corner there. He's just
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: not going to be able to be a guy like that.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: But whereas say a Rich Brooks or a Mark Stoop,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: sometimes we mighte get a little irritated at you if
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: you ask a question like that, where will just kind
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: of let it roll and just give you a general manager.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: He'll us brag on his new one, which is nothing
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: wrong with that.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: No, I couldn't agree more. All right, as if you
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: don't mind, if you would please Michael Bennett, very nice
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: to meet you. Introduce yourself. Who you are? I feel
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: tell yeah, you're gonna lose a mic for a second.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry you. Your name is Kenny minshe uh
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: and you do what here at the University of Kentucky.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: I play football, Yes, you do, and we hope that
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: you're gonna play really great out there too. I'm excited
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: to have you here. I appreciate you coming over for
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. Tell us this whole process, how
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: you got introduced to UK and what it's meant to
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: you to be here so far.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 11: Yeah, first, you know, started talking to UK obviously in
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 11: the portal one, that whole thing was going on, started
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 11: to get really connected to Sloan and Stein, and then
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 11: you know, made the decision to come here.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: It was a great decision.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 11: A lot of good people around the facility, around the campus,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 11: just a great atmosphere, really good coaches, really good players,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 11: and we're really excited about this upcoming season.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's hard not to be excited, you know,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: as far as you're looking at an old guy right
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: here that's been a fan of UK ball. Yes, I
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: love basketball, but football has always been my sport at
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: University Kentucky, and these guys will admit I'm a die
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: hard of all diehards. Okay, So I'm going to be
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: a little fanboy with you right now, even though I'm
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: a lot older than you. Okay, So, but it's exciting
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: to have Kenny Minchi on here, who will be your
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: quarterback this year, and I'm looking forward to seeing you
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: out there and play. What's it going to mean because
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: you know, you spent what the last two years at
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: three years at Notre Dame and now you're coming to Lexington, Kentucky.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: Explain to me what the environment changes like coming from
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame that's you know, traditional football powerhouse to come
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: into Kentucky that has had some success. The fan base
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: when they're really into this team, you haven't seen it yet,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: loves football, I mean, talk about the little bit of
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: a difference there.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think there's similarities and differences. Difference would obviously
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 11: be you know, playing in a conference wasn't something I'm
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 11: used to.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: You know, something to a player, doesn't it.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean you have a little bit more of
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 11: you know, goals throughout the season of obviously winning your
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 11: conference game. So I feel like that's a big difference.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 11: But there's definitely similarities. Like you said, my previous school
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 11: is very traditional, you know, powerhouse and everybody that cares
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 11: about football, and it's I feel like it's the same
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 11: thing here being in the SEC. So I feel like
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 11: there's a lot of similarities.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: And yeah, do you do you have a favorite receiver already?
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 11: I can't say a favorite yet because we haven't played,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 11: but I think we'll see after the first few weeks.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: Good. Good. You want to ask something too.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: We hear so much about how accurate you are with
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: your throws. What is probably one of the most difficult
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: throws that coach Stein expects you to make consistently.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 11: I wouldn't say it's any specific throw or some sort
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 11: of route concept, but I would just say playing on
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 11: time and just playing within the framework of the offense,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 11: and just being able to stand in the pocket and
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 11: make throws when I need to.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: How many times do you feel like that you can
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: switch off? Do you feel comfortable with that? Do you
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: think there's enough trust in you making that play at
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage?
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, whenever you know something shows up, if
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 11: the defense has given us a look that we don't
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 11: like in our in our play that we're doing, you know,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 11: we have the you know, the free range. The coach
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 11: gives us the opportunity to make us right at the
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 11: line of scrimmage. You know, we're not gonna be doing
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 11: that all the time, but if it does show up
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 11: and we can, you know, make us put us in
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 11: a better play, he gives us a full authority to
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 11: do that.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: So Kenny Canna tell me, as Will turned the offense
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: over to Joe Sloan, there's Will involved every day in that.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: How you think it's gonna be on game day? You
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: think we'll it's gonna be able to let coach Sloan
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: call the play. So how's that gonna work?
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: You think?
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 11: I think the entire offensive staff definitely has input.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 11: I feel like every time I walk by, they're all
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 11: they're all together talking, scheming, watching practice, watching walkthroughs. So
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 11: I feel like it's definitely a collective effort between all
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 11: the position coaches, assistant coaches, and including coach Stein. I
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 11: feel like he, you know, him, being the head coach,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 11: offensive guy, He's definitely gonna have his his touches all
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 11: over the offense. But you know, I think I don't
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 11: know who's calling the plays.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 11: You know what that what that information is. But but everyone,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 11: everyone definitely has a, you know, a piece of the
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 11: pie in terms of what we're doing on offense and
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 11: how it's gonna look on Saturdays.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: But I mean, you came here because you wanted to
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: play for him. So does he work and coach you daily?
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: I mean when he's trying to walk all around the
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: practice feel how much time do you get to spend
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: with coach Will one on one?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: Uh one on one?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 11: A few times here and there, you know, I feel
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 11: like it's mainly the quarterback coaches that I'm with. Coach Loan,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 11: Nate Dotson, Nate Yarnell, Trusty Buchanan, those are the guys
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 11: I spend most of my time with. But like you said,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 11: Will Stein, he's all over the facility. Sometimes he'll come
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 11: in out by sitting on meeting room, you know, give
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 11: us some give us some pointers.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: And then on the field.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 11: I feel like that's where I get most of my
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 11: coaching from him, because he's typically, you know, not with
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 11: the off he's with the offensive defense.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: He's with both sides.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 11: But if he, you know, has something to say or
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 11: have some sort of pointer for what we're doing, a
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 11: drill or a team rep or whatever it may be,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 11: he's definitely right there giving very very good advice.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: And I appreciate that.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: Kenny, All, this is fun and games right right now.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: It's talking season. You're undefeated right now, But tell me
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: something about this team that fans won't know until the
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: season actually gets started.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 11: I feel like being in the SEC, everyone kind of
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 11: as a tendency to look forward, look past, look at
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 11: the quote unquote big games on your schedule. But I
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 11: feel like our team is very very rooted in today
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 11: and you know, all we care about is today and
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 11: the only thing that we're focused on is fall camp
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 11: and then week one. So feel like something that fans
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 11: don't know is that all we care about is Youngstown State, YO.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: Kenny Mention, the starting quarterback for University Kentucky, how does
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: First of all, how does that feel that you're the
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: starting quarterback of a Division one SEC football school? Feels great?
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 11: You know, obviously a childhood dream to you know, play
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 11: with the best, play against the best, and you know
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 11: it's reality.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: So I can't wait. Is all your family coming to
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: see the ball game the first game? Yeah? Yeah, they'll
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: be at every game. They'll be in every game. See.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: I love that. I love that the fact your family's
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: very involved. Your biggest strength in your mind is what
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: my biggest strength? Yes? Oh?
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 11: And like in terms of playing football, I think you
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 11: touched on it earlier. I feel like my accuracy is
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 11: a very big strength of mind. And then just decision making,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 11: taking care of the ball. I've played, you know, a
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 11: lot of football, so I know what it should look like,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 11: you know, mys and yeah, just being a smart player,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 11: smart quarterback.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what, it's it's been fun meeting you.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: I wish you nothing but safe and success out there
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: on that football field because we need you for the
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: entire entire season. Okay, especially when we go to the
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: bowl game after this first year? Can you mention great
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: meeting you buddy? All right, best of luck to you
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: this year. All right, Colton Price, come on in here.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: This is a gentleman. It's just may I call you
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: mister Price. Her what a handshake? Feel those steaking hands,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: Colton Price, My goodness. I mean, uh, it's fun having
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: you here.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 7: I appreciate it. How do you like being at UK Man?
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 7: It's a definitely a different environment. The fan base is amazing,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 7: I mean, coaching staff is amazing. The players around here
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 7: are amazing. I mean, there's nothing you could say that's
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 7: bad about it. I mean I enjoy it for sure.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: It's kind of feel good to have the jersey. That's
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: one of the things been a dream of my life.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: I have that jersey right there exactly. I mean, because
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: the ugliest color in the world is what I probably
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: it's either orange your red. I can't figure out. We
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: can definitely wear that around the facility. Sure, I would
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: agree with that. I mean, what's it been like with
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: the new coaching staff here? Yeah, I mean I.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 7: Think I think the coaches have done a really well
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 7: job of getting all the guys together and be able
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 7: to build this culture that probably wasn't here prior. It
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 7: definitely brings like a top of energy that I haven't
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 7: seen before from a team. You can definitely see the
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 7: confidence within the players, and I mean that all goes
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 7: into the preparation that we do every each and every day.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 7: But I really do enjoy everything that we've done to
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 7: get our bodies right, get our minds right, and just
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 7: hopefully prepare that for the for the field on Saturday.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, I see your little tattoo there with
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: the Fiesian six ten. Tell tell me about that. Evidently
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: your faith is very important.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say I love faith and I'm a
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 7: big believer, but yeah, this says like finally be strong
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 7: in the Lord and in the strength of his mind.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: So like I'm right here.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 7: You can see that. It's almost like a Spartan type
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 7: gladiator type thing. And so that starts talking about wearing
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 7: the armor of God each and every day, like each
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 7: morning you wake up, you know you're gonna face all
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 7: these different obstacles from the enemy, and you know, I
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 7: think having this on my arm reminds me of that,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 7: and so be able to live in my faith and
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 7: be really close to God. Then it's gonna get me
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 7: to where I want to be in the future. So
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 7: I really believe in that, and I.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: Love it cautin. What do you like to do out
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: away from football if you have any spare atastic?
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, big big fan of my dogs. Me and my
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 7: wife just hang out with my dogs.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: Really.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 7: I love to fish, love to hunt, outdoors type guy.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 7: But yeah, I really really like any I really like everything.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: So there's not an abundance of college players that are married, right,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna assume, since it's today's by fifty second anniversary,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume that's a big plus. Yeah, So tell
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  Speaker 1: me the advantages that you have because you are married
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: over the guys that aren't.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, So I would say, be able to go home
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  Speaker 7: to a wife, to hang out with someone whenever you're
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 7: not by yourself. So I'm obviously living in a house,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 7: and so she does a lot for me each and
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 7: every single day.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we were.
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  Speaker 2: Able to hang out outside of here. Be able to
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: take football.
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  Speaker 7: Football itself is a really awesome thing, and sometimes you
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 7: can get a lot of pressure on you, and sometimes
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 7: you can get too obsessed to where it almost breaks
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 7: you down. So be able to come home and be
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 7: able to spend time with your wife or whatever and
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 7: get away from that a little bit. It it gives
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 7: me an advantage for sure to be able to focus
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 7: on that.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, now my wife is not always the most
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: loving at times. She could also kind of get on
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: my butt and tell me not to feel sorry for myself.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: A very good job today. She like that too. Oh yeah,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: she definitely pushes me.
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  Speaker 7: She makes sure I'm always doing something and I mean
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 7: I'm always like that too, always got to be up
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 7: doing something. But she definitely motivates me throughout the data
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 7: to figure something out and enjoy it.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: So and the last thing for me. But suddenly you've
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: got a whole new group of offensive line. They came
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: from everywhere, and yet you got some of the like
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: analysts saying might be the best offensive line of Kentucky
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: ever has or has ever had. How can you come
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: together that quickly? You never played with any of these
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: guys before.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, like I said, it all starts with like
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 7: having that preparation and whenever we're doing the walkthroughs or
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 7: wherever you're in the meetings and we're taking time out
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 7: of that go and eat dinner and coming over to
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 7: my house and eating some steaks sometimes and like just
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 7: taking that little bit of time and be able to
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 7: put that towards your guys and be able to create
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 7: that almost like camaraderie with one another. And it all
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 7: starts in the film room. It all starts in the
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 7: practice field, but you're able to take time out of that.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 7: And but I mean, each of these guys come from
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 7: different places, including myself, and so we're all new with
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 7: one another, but were able to find like a bond,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 7: Like you know, five is one. There's like also a
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 7: lens that I also talked about once was there's five
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 7: guys out there, ten eyes, but you're able to look
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 7: through all one lens, you know, And so whenever you're
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 7: you're out there, you're able to rely on another, trust
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 7: in one another, and that it all goes.
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  Speaker 2: Into the preparation that we do each and every day.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 7: And so I couldn't be more excited for being able
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 7: to play next to these guys gold and give us.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: A little glimpse of what it feels like for the
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: other side of the line and practice. Who has been
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: somebody who's probably been a pain in the butt for you.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say our nose guards are actually I
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 7: would say a whole entire D line is actually pretty dominant.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say anything bad about him. I mean, they're
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 7: they're a force.
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  Speaker 2: Larry Bo called him a chicken. They're definitely a force
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: to be record with.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 7: And so I wouldn't I wouldn't link down on anyone
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 7: that we have, but I would.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: Say, like, let's say, I probably say Chops. Chops is
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: a big dude.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 7: In the in the zero no's, you know, and so
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 7: it's definitely gonna be hard to run the ball against
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 7: him and in duo scheme, And so I would say that.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 7: And I mean, we definitely got a lot of other
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 7: guys like JDub he's really uh sad be good as
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 7: his hands, I mean, gats some amazing guy as well,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 7: really good with his hands. But yeah, all over the board,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 7: we have really good, really good guys to go against.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 7: And so it's gonna make me better at the end
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 7: of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I want to make sure you're okay with that,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: because we're gonna be asking those guys the same thing about.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: Well, the one thing I want to ask because you
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: transferred here from Baylor. Baylor's in a conference called the
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: Big Twelve, you are now playing in the Southeastern Conference.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: How different do you think that's gonna be Yeah.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 7: So I would say, like, you're playing against more dominant guys.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 7: To be honest, I wouldn't say it's too big of
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 7: a difference scheme wise over all the board, but uh,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 7: I would say, you're playing with bigger guys on the
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 7: D line, more dominance, and so I would yeah, that's
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 7: all I'd say. I'd say you're going against better, better
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 7: guys to give you better looks.
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  Speaker 2: And so, well, you know, happy wife, happy life. I mean,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: is your wife prepared because I assume she's from Texas
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: like you are, So are you prepared for the winner
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: up here?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, that's true. I mean Texas over there
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 7: can get pretty toasty over there. And so my first
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 7: my first couple of weeks here in Kentucky, it was
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 7: it was a big old snow storm.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: I've never even seen anything like it.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 7: But uh, it was definitely definitely new to me, definitely
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 7: something to get used to.
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  Speaker 2: But I would say it's gonna be great. And you know,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: I asked Kenny Minsche the same thing about his family.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: He said, all his fam' is gonna be here every game.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: How about your family coming up from Texas?
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 7: Every single game? Every single game is gonna be challenging
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 7: because they got work and stuff, but they can make time.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: For me, you know. A well, Colton, I appreciate you
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: coming up here. It's such an honor to meet you,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: and I wish you was like minche Please be safe
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: out there, but have a great season. I'm looking forward
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: to it, all right, great, look Collady's hands are huge.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, my goodness, I should say, mister Price. But
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: thank you for coming on for a few minutes. All right,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: to everybody, We're gonna take a break right now. We'll
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: we'll have you come back in just a minute. Five
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: oh two, four one, four, fourteen fifty. You want to
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: text in on the Whisky Thief text line and I'll
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: get to those as well. Stay right there. One more
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: segment of Just the Cats with me, John Wong Long
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: and what I went along John Wong, So about that?
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: Long Wong so sorry about that? Uh and Larry Vas
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: and it's like this and like that, like this, and
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: I drank creeping like a fan.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 9: I'm creeping, but I got because people could be and
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 9: that was tough for me to make my.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: Fresh Films radio. All right, welcome back to the last segment
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: of Just the Cats. As we just finished up having
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: will Stein, Colton Price and Kenny Minche Larry, I, I
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: mean John, I have to say I, uh, I really
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: enjoyed that. I mean three really good looking guys, very
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: confident people, and uh I thought they did a great job.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: You want me to pinch you to make I know,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: I know exactly, mister pessimistic over here, Larry bought Michael. Right, Well,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: only got a few minutes now. They got to start
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: the whole press compensation. They're not coming on, They're not
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: coming on.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not past fistic at all. I just went
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: over and talked about the best team on campus.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: Oh volleyball. Oh yeah, Well see the part I woant
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: to know is how excited they are going up to
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: Wrigley Field and playing the game up there.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: Let's get Chris over here.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: See Chris, come on, Chris, come over here, Larry, why
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: don't you introduce Chris.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: This is Chris shows yes volleyball, he knows about winning,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: So go ahead, nice.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, wow, you.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: Know the volleyball team was just picked the SEC for
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: hemmy years in a row? Do you know?
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: Is it the seventh year in a row?
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: Oh? Michael?
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: Oh sorry, ten the second ago, Chris, it's good to
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: have you on. We were just talking about you a
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: few minutes ago. That's a concerning thing and it should be.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: But I I because I think this is awesome with
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: the volleyball team. Craig Skinner and you were doing. Chris.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: You're the sports information director for the volleyball team, so
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: you're with Craig pretty much, probably on a daily basis. Yep,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: which I'm very jealous of you because I love Craig.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: But what how did the whole volleyball playing at Wriggly
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: Field come about? And how excited is this is this team?
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: The play up there.
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  Speaker 12: I'll take the second part first, Humped. I think it's
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 12: gonna be really cool. You're starting to see the TV
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 12: network slatch onto volleyball a little bit more, which is
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 12: opening up more opportunities to play in bigger venues with
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 12: more marquee matchups and better time slots. In terms of
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 12: how it opened up, it is part of the Big
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 12: ten sec Challenge, which is an inaugural event, and so
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 12: basically they've taken two of those matches and moved them
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 12: to a neutral site. For the most part, this is
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 12: the Big Tens event in the sense that they are
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 12: running the logistics of it. They are coordinating with the
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 12: folks that Wrigley that are running the event through the Cubs,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 12: because obviously the Big Ten is very big in the
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 12: Chicago market, and so the teams that got selected had
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 12: openings in their schedule and try to make it a
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 12: marquee event. We were informed of the idea and we're interested,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 12: and of course there's there's a lot that goes into
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 12: an outdoor volleyball match, right There's a lot of things
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 12: that have to have to make it work, and one
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 12: of those is uncontrollable with the weather. But we've made
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 12: significant backup plans in case you're be able to see
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 12: a volleyball match and too high level. But it's gonna
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  Speaker 12: be an unbelievable opportunity and I'm stoked.
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  Speaker 2: For it and you should be, and I'm sure the
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: team is as well. We need to have coach come
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: on sometime within the next week or two, if that's
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: okay with you, And.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 12: Yeah, spen a little time with us Wednesdays our media day.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 12: Excited to get some some messages out there, and I
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 12: think we've got some really cool things that are going
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 12: to happen on Wednesday that people are going to be
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 12: excited about. And we've got a really good team and
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 12: another good group of girls that are going for like
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 12: Larry said, ten in a row, which is just in
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 12: this day and age of college athletics is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: Lunch included.
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  Speaker 8: Lunch is included. That's speaking my language. Oh yeah, fantastic. Well,
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 8: it depends on what lunch is. So I mean, if
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 8: it's a good lunch, and I'll be there. If that's
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 8: the case, I'll take the lobster. I'll probably won't eat
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 8: the steak.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: But yes, you just committed to being a volleyball media
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: to day. That's what you just say. I've never been
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: to one, so I want to get this. So let's
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: see now, mister optimism, and let's see are you gonna
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: stick at this? You're gonna win?
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're gonna do?
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 12: Okay, all right, what time does it happen? We will
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 12: have lunch at noon. Craig takes the podium at one o'clock.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Larry. If Larry Bot's going to be there,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: I guess I'll have to be there, so Chris, I'll
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: be there for you. No, we can't wait you got
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: four National Player of the Year finalists you can talk
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: with as well.
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  Speaker 12: After that, Oh my goodness, most of anybody in the country.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 12: It'll be worth it, is it?
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  Speaker 2: Really? Congratulations? Tell coach Skinner congratulations on his success, because
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: there's no other volleyball coach out there that I don't
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: love more than him. I mean, he's he's the best
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  Speaker 2: at Thanks for being off for a couple of minutes, Chris,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. All right, so guys, we only got
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: a few minutes left. I mean, let's talk about the season. Uh,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk football. We're at the football media day. Larry,
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: come on, I'm going to start with mister pessimistic over here,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: because I know John is going to finish the show out.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, Larry, what what is going to
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: be your prediction as far as how this team is
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: going to come out first year?
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: I think I don't know. I'm really kind of I'm
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: right there with you. I'm hoping they're going to be
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: even better than I think. But I also think they've
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: got certain things they've got to try to overcome. I
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: think what John said, open it up. I think if
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: if you get the six wins, it would be a
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: fantastic season this first year, with the overall changes that
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: you've made, everything that you have to kind of overcome
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: the unknowns that we don't know about. So I'm gonna
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: go with John. I think I would be I would
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: consider five wins a good season starting out this year?
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're predicting? Though?
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: If I had to predict, I would predict five and
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: hope for six or seven.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: Really, you're more than me, I hate to tell you.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: Oh so now I have.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 4: To agree both of you guys.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: I know John, all right.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: You're at six, John, what are you doing?
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 3: Well? You know I hate myself because this time of
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 3: the year, that's when my prediction number always goes up. Yes,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: two months ago, I was predicting four. Now I'm up
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: to six. I'm saying seven is not out of the wow.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: If they beat Alabama, I think seven beat Alabama.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: You can beat South Carolina on the road, you can
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: beat Florida at home. Now you're that oh boy at home?
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: You know, those are games that are definitely definitely win
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: a boy, And if you put them on that w line,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: then you're talking seven and five.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 4: I'm going seven and five now.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Okay, so upsets you're upset alert for
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: for which team?
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: Uh? Well, you can pick any team you want. I
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: think they're going to be favored.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: In two Yeah, exactly, So okay? Uh but but but really,
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: who do you think would be the biggest upset? Oh boys,
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: I'm worried about Vanderbilt.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: If I had to pick it upset, I would maybe
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: go with the one at South Carolina.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: Because you just said Alabama minute ago too, So I
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: mean that would be here in Lexington.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: I still think there's an awful lot of optimism about
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: beating Alabama. But I think God, remember Alabama was still
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: in the football playoffs last year, weren't absolutely And I
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: hear all they got questions at quarterback. Well, Kentucky's got
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: a new quarterback. They got questions offensive line of Alabama.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: Well Kentucky's got a new offensive line. So and I
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: think Alabama. I've seen Alabama beat Kentucky a few times.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: That makes two of us. John, what do you think?
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: What about you?
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: Though?
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: We can't let you off of he's going too and ten?
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I hate to tell you I was probably h
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: three in there are optimission I know, I know I was.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: It's but but that's fun giving it to you. So,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: but I see three wins. I'm hoping four wins. If
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: this team does get the five or six wins, I
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: see that as a big, big win for the program,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: for the coaching staff coming in here, taking over and
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: just making the excitement all over again. So, John, you're
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: at seven wins, Larry you're at five or six, which
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: just totally shocked me. But because did you see what
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: South Carolina you spoke about about the South Carolina minute ago?
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: Did you see they're selling tickets at Costco? So if
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: you spend eighty dollars, you get two tickets, and twenty
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: dollars goes to concession stand food. I thought, that's that's
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: interesting that South Carolina is selling tickets now. They're probably
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: they said it's certain games. It's probably the games nobody
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: cares about. So I just kind of find surprising they're
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: doing this at Costco. Is it good marketing or is
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: it a little embarrassing?
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 4: What's next?
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 3: I s s consterships on jerseys.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's good market You have a full stadium,
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: four or five six sand nights.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But I don't know. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: a good idea to me to go sell tickets at
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  Speaker 2: Costco and people buying them there. Maybe that's just me.
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  Speaker 2: It just seems it is okay, it just seemed a
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: little embarrassing. Maybe not whatever.
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  Speaker 1: All right, then all right, besides that team then on
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  Speaker 1: the field, you just picked them to win what three games?
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell any of them, especially uh Colton Price. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think he just cracked my head open with his
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  Speaker 2: one hand. But I just can this team raise enough
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  Speaker 2: money to be a championship team? That's the other big question.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course they can. According to Jay Bad, of
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  Speaker 3: course they can.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm asking y'all, what does on one thing? Can
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  Speaker 2: they raise enough money?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's gonna be difficult because Kentucky is a state
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  Speaker 3: there's just not money flowing. We're not Texas, we're not Florida,
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  Speaker 3: we're not Georgia, and we don't have the corporate sponsors.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have that big money that's gonna be flowing
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  Speaker 3: in from that standpoint, so I think to compete with
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  Speaker 3: the true big boys, it's gonna take a truly unconcerted
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  Speaker 3: effort from a grassroots level.
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  Speaker 4: Also from big Blue Nation.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they talk with their wallets I'm not quite sure
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  Speaker 3: at this point.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't sell them at costco, I guess you
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  Speaker 1: can't get no. But I think just if you just
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: look at the facts to think that Kentucky can raise
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  Speaker 1: the money that some of these other places can, the
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  Speaker 1: answer is no. They're just not the financial resources here
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  Speaker 1: to do it. I don't think it's the people don't
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  Speaker 1: want to. Just there's not a lot of people that
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: can afford to be a heavy contributor. I mean, you
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: could kick in if you wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't asking.
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  Speaker 1: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, let's let's not go there. But guys, I
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: gotta tell you, this was a fun day. I appreciate
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: y'all taking the time and him coming over here and
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: doing this for me. Appreciate you having absolutely all right
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: everybody our happy place. Yeah exactly, we are in the
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: happy place. Justin. I appreciate you producing the show. Sorry
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: we didn't get to talk to you much, but tomorrow
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: I'll be back in studio with Justin. So stay right there, everybody,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: have a great day. This was just a cat cheat
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: on your man one.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 13: That's how you get in his head. Killer with degree
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 13: I know, killers in the street with the still to
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 13: make you feel like chinchilla and they hate. So don't
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 13: try to run up on my head talking all that rap,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 13: trying to ask me one month for your best. Th
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 13: ain't gonna pass me. You should think about it, take
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 13: a second. Matter of fact, you should say