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Chris Landry on the future of Kentucky · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  I want to get into some of the Southeastern Conference teams that we don't talk
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  about normally with you and just kind of get your take. As we've moved
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  out of obviously sixteen teams. You know, we're getting questions that I've got
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  to find that I can't find right now, don't. I don't. It
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  doesn't like sound like tie breakers at the top. But when you look at
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  teams like Kentucky, let's start right there. I mean, this is a
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  team that you know, under Mark Stoops have been very competitive. They've won
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  ten ball games here, you know, recently last few years. Is their
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  success a product of playing in the SEC East in your mind having Vanderbilt,
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  maybe a down Florida, maybe a Missouri team that isn't always what they were
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  last year, or is this team ready for you know, this this shift
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  in this league to where they can still be middle of the pack or upper
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  part of the pack. I think they've benefited from the East for one.
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  For one, and I would throw in not including the guys type years at
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  fantasy, but Tennessee being down. Yeah, So when people look at it,
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  boy, you know, yeah, you're when you're in the East.
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  So I think we're going to start to see them slip a little bit as
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  we're kind of looking at the whole conferences. One, they're gonna fall a
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  couple of rungs down the list. Here's the other thing that they have done
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  well under Mark. That's perhaps, and I empathize, perhaps gonna change.
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  They don't know, I don't want to assume. But they've been a good
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  developmental program. They've been bring guys in, they identify their type of guys
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  what I would call the up first South area into the big ten area.
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  So they're right near Ohio and they go get some big tennis guys that they
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  get those big guys and they develop offensive linemen usually developed back. Well,
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  what's happened is in this transfer portal era, they haven't been as good as
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  plugging and planned. So they've been really good at developing. But if you
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  keep keep those guys with your program going forward, that may be more difficult
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  to have a developmental program in this day and age and can they plug and
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  play guys. They haven't had a lot of success with that, and even
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  at the quarterback position, it's been spotty. And I think we saw that
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  a little bit and with Mark just March frustration level. You know, remember
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  he had that call from you know, after they got drawn by George It,
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  which they will inevitably do most every year, call her in his bosses
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  just when are you going to take that next step? And he's he snapped
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  back with maybe not quite like daviotween these, but he said, well,
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  won't Le's new step up and pay? We start paying like Georgia pay you
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  know in the nil that's when it's gonna change. And I think that frustration
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  started to spill over because he's seeing that it's not the same. And by
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  the way, that's the reason why he flirted more than flirted with Texas A
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  and M. He wanted that job, and some powers that NA and M
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  backed out on it. That's why Young Uote unquote, there was a rush
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  to who was going to back out first. But you know, he said,
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  look, if we're going to be judged on how elite the talent when
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  you get I better go somewhere that's going to be willing to pay the top
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  money for football. And I think that's something to watch and not say this
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  year, but beyond what is Kentuckee's committmon going to be relative to the upright
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  lawn of the SEC because if it's not, they won't say nearly the status
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  for the reasons we mentioned that it's tougher, and then the back that NIL
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  and Transport Porter's going to hurt him