KSR - 2024-06-27- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

It's a Pardon My Take takeover with Big Cat and PFT Commenter talking NBA Draft and are also joined by Rick Pitino.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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in Fallujah. Really? Yes. So that's an interesting place for him to go. I thought he would be in Atlanta moderating the presidential debate cutting Trump's mic off tonight. I thought that was his job. No, I think he, I don't think he's going to make it back. He's doing Fallujah, then he's going to Ukraine. I think he brought a briefcase

of cash. Go big blue. Yeah, go big blue. And then he's going to work his way back to America. Yeah, America. That's what I was going to say. America. Welcome in for any new listeners today. We are part of my take. The number one sports podcast. We've been hosting a

day a year on Kentucky Sports Radio. I think this is our eighth year. Yeah. Every year since we started the podcast, our good friend Matt asked us to fill in. And I still remember the first show that we had because it was right after part of my take started. We sat down, we were in a studio, and we caught all kinds of hell from Kentucky fans.

All kinds of hell. You thought we were trolling. Right. I know what you're about to say. Let me just say this right now. Because every time we host, I will see, we get a lot of Kentucky sports radio fans that get very mad and they say I turn it off within three minutes. We're in the three minute window here.

So let us give a pitch to you to stick with us for two hours. I think it's going to be our best show we've ever done on Kentucky Sports Radio, PFT, what you're going to say? Well, first of all, we know ball. We know ball. And I think every caller should start out today by admitting that we know ball. Yeah. Maybe we turned you off in the past because we said that Coach Cal was on the hot seat in 2016. You thought we were joking about that.

Yep. I think we were just the first to say it. And now you're all saying it. You're listening to two guys that are basically the Steve Jobs of ball. We knew that the computer was going to be big, be big before the computer was big. So we know everything there is to know about Kentucky basketball. So we want to hear from you. Do you think that this is going to be Coach Cow's last season coaching Kentucky?

We called this. We did call it, yeah. We called this. We had him on the hot seat for the last eight years. And people said, no, no, no, he's going to be fine. And then you all came around to us. and you realized that we were right. You were wrong.

We're not going to take a victory lap. No, we're not going to pat ourselves on the back. But for all the people that say that, well, all they do is bits and everything, turns out the bit was we know ball. Yeah, we were the first to say it, first to think it, actually. And, yeah, so we would appreciate maybe if every caller would start out by just congratulating us, but we don't need to take a victory lap. But here's the thing.

We are on the side of Kentucky because we were proven right. So I think that we are officially members of Big Blue Nation. And being members of Big Blue Nation means that we are going to today take down Arkansas and we're going to lift up Kentucky. We're here to help. And I want to start with taking down Arkansas for the people. Okay. So here's where I'm going to start because this was the most pathetic thing I've seen in probably the last year on Twitter.

Last night, last night, obviously the NBA draft huge. It's bigger than the March Madness for Kentucky under Cal. You get the number three pick in Reed Shepard. You get the number eight pick. And Rob Dillingham, who then gets traded to Minnesota. So now it's the Minnesota timber cats. I like that. Because you got cat and Rob together.

So another banner night for Kentucky basketball, two top 10 picks. And it's crazy. Two starting players from Kentucky taken in the top 10. It's amazing. Great job. So here is where the pathetic tweet comes in. And here's where I hope Kentucky's, sports fans will continue on this journey with us for the next two hours.

Last night, Arkansas men's basketball tweeted a list of the last 15, 16 years, 17 years, sorry, and said, a player coached by coach cow has been selected in 17 straight NBA drafts with a picture of Cal in his Arkansas pull over. that is so pathetic to be to be basically you what you what you what you're seeing kentucky uh basketball fans is you're seeing what what you were and now what arkansas is going to be and that they're celebrating the NBA draft those guys didn't even play for arkansas their Kentucky rechepard is Kentucky through and through and they have basically picked up what cal has become in NBA draft is the most important

thing and they've just taken the mantle and they're running with it, that is so pathetic to basically crown yourself an achievement that has zero to do with Arkansas and be like, this is what we care about the NBA draft. Just lockstep. They just care about Arkansas basketball, all they care about is the NBA draft. Kentucky basketball, we care about winning. We care about March Madness. Winning basketball games. And it's funny because they are, I'm sure that they, if you're an Arkansas basketball fan, you enjoyed nothing more than Coach doing this exact same press tour for Kentucky. Yes.

Because then they were saying, well, he hasn't won anything. And now they've converted themselves. Now they're doing it themselves. Amazing accomplishment. Come to Arkansas and get drafted. It's that simple. That's my favorite reply right there. And I'll give credit to Kentucky fans.

For the most part, Kentucky basketball fans never bought into that. Correct. They were like, it's nice that our players are getting paid. That's a good recruitment tool to bring good players here. But you guys cared about winning basketball games, and that's why Cal is no longer there. I do think that you'd need to step up one thing, though, if you're going to compete with Arkansas, the chicken situation. You can't get bought out by another bigger chicken guy.

Kentucky should be the biggest chicken state. Arkansas needs to sit down. You guys need to step up and crush them like the ants they are because you're the original chicken guys. But what if we're just a whiskey state instead of a chicken, what did coach Jim Harbaugh say? Chicken is a nervous bird. Nervous little animal, yeah. I wouldn't want to be associated with being a chicken school. However, he did change his tune on the chicken.

And he said after buying chickens, they're remarkably industrious birds and they produce eggs every day. Well, you guys laid enough eggs in the tournament. Now you're ready to move on. But I'm happy for Kentucky basketball fans today because you get the moment where, again, you get the accomplishment. Reed Shepard, one of the best homegrown basketball players in Kentucky history, going three in the draft. He's going to be great in the pros. But you get to watch Arkansas basically celebrate something they had zero. to do with and you get to see how ridiculous it is to celebrate and accomplish it like the NBA

draft when we're talking about college basketball and we can now as members of big blue nation the two of us are we can get back to basics and focus on winning in March yeah you're talking to listen there's two bc's talking to you right now there's big blue cat there's big blue commenter this is bbc radio right now and we are standing firm behind you guys I think you're head in the right direction. I think you have the tallest coach in Division I basketball now, right? Is he 610? Yeah. That's important for the intimidation prospect.

That is a very tall coach. Yeah, real tall coach. Yeah, your coach could beat up anyone else. Yeah, the Pope is infallible. The Pope is infallible. The Pope is a foul. Now, I should say, too, that Mark Pope did not have any players from BYU get drafted last night, but that's what I'm saying. We're back to basics. I think all Kentucky fans would take winning in March versus winning in June. Yeah, so Coach Cal had these stats. just ready to go off the top of his head last night.

He was ready to say 70% of the players that we've recruited in the last 15 years have been drafted. 73% of those 70% have gone to second contracts. 30% of the max contracts in the NBA are my guys and our kids have earned over $5 billion in contracts. He just walks around with those stats in the back. It's very nice to have that. And it's a good recruiting tool. But he wakes up in the morning. He's like, my friends are rich.

Yeah. And the most important stat that he forgot, They forgot to guard Jack Okee. Forgot it. That's the most important stat. That's what we care about. We're out with the old, in with the new. It's a new day for Big Blue Nation.

I'll say this, too. Coach Cow was looking a little old. He looks swung over in that picture. I think as Kentucky fans, we got the best years of Coach Cal. And again, we squeezed it dry. I don't want any smoke with the Cal family. I want to be clear, but I'm still terrified of the Cal family. I do love them too.

I love Brad. Brad's my guy. And they're aggressive. We're just trying to defend. our big blue nation and puff out our chest because today's a big day today is the dawning of a new era and you've got all the all the old guys coming home I think Petino said that he would contribute to the NIL fund too so you're getting you're getting some of the former guys pitching in everyone's pumped up it takes a village I

said it when it happened you know the end was was tumultuous it's been bad the last few years in terms of March Madness not winning the SEC but Kentucky basketball is bigger than a coach. And I think what happened at the end of the Cal era is Cal was trying to be bigger than the program. And you guys are going to be just, sorry, we are going to be just fine being Kentucky basketball. We don't need, it's not about one coach at Kentucky basketball. It's about tradition.

It's about being one of the best programs about being a blue blood. It has nothing to do with who's coaching. It has everything to do with the fans, ourselves, and Big Blue Nation. and I think this is going to be a great. We're going to look back and we're going to say this was the best thing that could have happened for Kentucky basketball. We're supposed to be Kentucky. Yeah.

Y'all supposed to be Kentucky. And now guess what? We are Kentucky. Yeah. We don't have to worry about all the marketing that goes around it. We don't have to worry about the flashes. Let's just get back to ball. Yeah.

Let's just ball out and beat Oakland. Let's play some defense. Let's put the ball in the cup and let's win some games. It's that simple. It's that simple. Sometimes ball is that easy. And we are knowers of the ball. We know ball more than anybody else that's ever hosted this program before.

They've never had anybody that are experts in basketball hosts this, right? No one like us. Jay Billis, he's an expert in being disingenuous. Being disingenuous and legalese. Yes. We're here to actually, our legal advice is probably better than Jay Billis. So if you have any legal questions, don't wait for Jay. Call us up and we'll answer those questions for you.

By the way, I forgot to mention off the top. I did a bad job as a host. but Kentucky Sports Radio, we're sponsored by T.J. Smith Law Office. called T.J., he'll make them pay. Yes. We, T.J. is a close personal friend of ours. He called in last year. We'd love to talk to him again.

He's a wonderful sponsor, and we love T.J. If you need someone, T.J. is the guy to go to. Yeah, I actually have some questions for T.J. if he's around. I need to know if we can sue our producer, Hank. Yes. Just for being a big black rain cloud. Yeah, so let's see if T.J. can call in at some point. But speaking of Collins, so we do this every year.

We'd like to hear from Kentucky fans. I know we have a big fan base. We want to have our, we love our fans, but today is about Kentucky. So we want to hear from Kentucky listeners, regular listeners of this show. You can call in 859-280-2287. So we want to hear from you. And we usually do our best of on our podcast on Friday. And we want to hear from everyone there.

I also want to say, he should have said it from the start. This is our first time hosting since we've lost Harvey. Harvey was a good friend of ours. Harvey called in a bunch of years. I think Harvey is smiling right now down from heaven on where Kentucky basketball is going in the direction we're going. He might be. He might also hate the fact that we're hosting the show, but he is definitely happy about Kentucky.

No, I think he's shaking his fingers in. Those guys, they knew ball after all. Maybe he's saying that they were right. But yeah, you know what? This one's for Harvey. This one's for Harvey. This show is dedicated to the memory of Harvey because guys like Harvey are what makes sports great.

People that care that much about it and will defend their team to the end of the earth. This one's for Harvey. Yeah. So the call-in number, again, is 859-280-2287. That's the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line to call in. We're going to take callers probably in the second hour. We're going to take a break right now when we come back. We'll talk a little bit more about the NBA draft.

And we have a big, big guess coming up, hopefully at 10,000. that everyone's going to want to tune into. I'm telling you right now, for all the people that say they turned it off, you made a mistake, you can't hear me right now, but you made a mistake, tune back in,

text the person who says they hate us, and be like, you got to tune back in because this is going to be the best time we've ever done in terms of hosting this show. You can hear it right now or you can read about it later. Yeah, it's your call.

It's your choice. I think if I were you, I would want to listen live to this way. Yeah, you want to be an idiot later and be like, oh, I didn't even hear them. And if we have any callers out there that are currently engaged in a feud with a neighbor, I want to hear about some Kentucky feuds.

Those are generally good calls. Specifically a crick and a holler. A holler, if you're from a holler, you get priority. Yep, absolutely. Front of the line, any hollers. Okay, let's take a break. And when we come back, we will get ourselves ready for our guest. And we'll talk a little bit more about the NBA draft last night.

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Pardon my takeover. We have a big guest coming up in a minute. If you miss the start of the show, we want everyone to just remind us that we are ball-knowers if you call in because we were the first to put Coach Cal on the hot seat, and then everything that we said was going to happen turned out to be correct. Exactly right. Nosredamus.

If you had listened to us seven years ago, you would be much happier right now. You'd be in a better place. Right. Better place. So we do no ball. The number against 859-280-2287. Regular callers, please call in. Yes.

We want to talk to the real people of Kentucky. Do we want to take a call before we get to the interview? Yeah, let's take a call. And we'll see, yeah, if we think you're not a regular caller, we might hang up on you because we really want to keep it to Kentucky Sports Radio callers. All right. Shannon, who we got. Yeah, we got Charlene.

Charlene how you doing Hey guys good morning I agree with everything you've said You know Just to prove that coach Cal never really had a true Statetician He didn't even realize last night He called Reed Shepard

One of the best three-point shooters in the country When in fact Reed was the best percentage three-point shooter in the country That just shows how much You know like there's no statetician You know it's crazy Right. Secondly, secondly, what really did, I hope someday I won't be angry about it anymore,

but I'm still salty because you know what? Because he can't coach defense, because his game plan offensively is something akin to, if you make a play, if you got to play, go and make it. And because he just really can't coach a team to wins, we got cheated out of extra games with two very special players. Rob Dillingham and Reed Shepard. And I just, I don't know if I'll ever get over that too. Quiet on you.

Charlene, you actually sound a little emotional right now. Your voice was quivering a little there. It's okay. There's a safe place. Like that, I agree with you. Reed Shepard is he should have played into the second, third weekend of March Madness, and we got robbed of it. Yeah, we did.

Yeah. Yeah, we did. Well, I'm not only, I mean, I'm angry because I'm a lifelong Kentucky fan, and I just, I think that he just made a sham of our program, especially the last 10 years and just so hard-headed and wouldn't like make any adjustments or changes when it came to winning. And you know what? It isn't Calipari University.

It's the University of Kentucky. We were there before him. We were there during him and we'll still be there long after he's gone in the late great Al McGuire from Marquette said that. Yes, that's a fact. It is. And you make a good point because we should, There should be highlights that play for the rest of our lifetime of Reed Shepard making iconic plays in the NCAA tournament.

And those highlights will not exist, unfortunately. Right. I don't know if you turn Kentucky into a sham. Kentucky's been relevant, certainly, since Cal's tenure there. It's just that they've been relevant for some reasons that you would not, you know, ideally you'd like them to be relevant because they're making final fours. They're winning championships. They've just mostly been relevant because they have all these expectations and then they always fall flat. and then he celebrates things that don't really have anything to do with the program winning.

It's been kind of like the Dallas Cowboys for the last seven years. Yeah, it's good point, PFT. It's relevant, you're relevant, but also like a bit of a laughing stock. And the laughing stock thing comes in because you should have these expectations to be great. You should do great things, but unfortunately it just hasn't worked out. But I think we're on the right track right now. Yeah. And Fayetteville is not Lexington Big Blue Nation.

It's just not going to be the same. I mean, you're going to go Fayetteville, Arkansas for training? I mean, come on. Come on. Really? Fayetteville? Give me a break. Lexington is the best.

He doesn't look right wearing that color either. The Arkansas red or, I don't know what it is, but it looks like he's wearing pajamas. As a bigger man, wearing red is never a good move because you just end up looking like the Kool-Aid man. The Cal-Aid man, yeah. Again, no disrespect to the family of Coach Cal. You know, the only consolation I have is that that dude has to. listen for the next however many years to the chant from the stands of beat, glee!

Yeah. Yeah. Come on. Come on, Cal. That's a joke. That's a joke. And your point about his coaching, I think his coaching strategy was, let's roll the ball out there.

Yeah. Just roll it up. But you know what? There's only one ball. You're not wrong. You're absolutely right. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, Charleney not. He literally said it. He literally said it. If you have a play, go and make that play. Right. That's what he told him always right before. the game. That's it. And he also said that guy, Jack Golke,

he can't shoot. Don't worry about him. Not a good strategy. Not a good strategy. All right, well, Charlene, thank you so much for your call in. There are better days ahead. I can tell you that right now. Oh, I know it. I have never so excited. Love Mark Pope have my picture with him on my profile on X Curly Cat, Number 4, UK. Oh, I love that. Curly Cat. Number 4, UK. I love that.

Where'd you get your picture taken with them? At an exhibition game in Evansville, Indiana, of the Indiana Pacers and the Sacramento Kings. I love that. You're a real fan. Me, my daughter, my little daughter, and I raised her a Kentucky basketball fan. She's a 30-year-old doctor now,

and I'm just as big a fan as I am, which I thought could never happen. But, yeah, there's a picture of the three of us on my profile page on F. I can see it right now. I'm looking at you. Sports Lover and Vintage 90s NBA card seller. I love that. That's right.

Charlene, thank you so much for calling in. Better days ahead. We are Big Blue Nation. Thanks so much. Smart Pope is the bomb. Thank you. Bye-bye. The bomb.

We love Pope. Charlene, I could hear it in her voice. That it's been tough. Yeah, she's kind of wearing the years. Right. And I want people like Charlene. Next time we host a show, I want it to be a victory party. Yeah.

I want us to have champagne live on the air. I'll say it. And celebrate Kentucky being back. I'll say it right now. Kentucky basketball is going to win a title before Arkansas. I agree. I agree. Hey, is Kentucky back right now?

Oh, so back. I think we're back. So back. By the way, I don't know when, Shannon, when did you guys start charging people to comment on the site? Oh, the paywall. Yeah. I think that happened when Matt sold the site to someone else. Probably is funneling all that money to Ukraine.

Whatever happened to free speech. You ever hear something called the First Amendment? We can get you a log in. I just logged. I just paid. I would actually see. Oh, yeah. No.

We got to reimburse you now. Yeah. Our Bamblitz said, tell me this is the only episode I skip. We're also giving my exact examples from today's episodes. Oh, that guy's smart. That guy's smart. Yeah, that guy's smart. Someone asks is Mark Pope on the hot seat.

You know what? He might be. He might be. I think we should. Because at Kentucky, that, that, expectations are different from BYU. Yeah. You got to win now.

Yeah. You've got a lot of energy. You're saying all the right things right now. I need to see it on the court. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Shannon, did someone on this show call him coach poops? Say it again?

I was sorry, I was taking a call from our special guest. Someone said, I mean, our own guy have said coach poops. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Who said that? I think during a conversation of trying to match together, stoop's and Pope that came out of somebody's common mistake. That's a common mistake. I like that

because you have to have like a celebrity couple name from like Brandelina. Right. So it's coach Poops. Yeah, I like that. Okay, that's fair. I was just making sure that there was no slander because we are Mark Pope guys. A little producing on the air here. Our special guest called in. We're going to get a call back in about four minutes when we take so we're up against the hard break here. All right. So let's do a hard break. And then we have

have a very, very special guest who is going to call in. You do not want to turn off the radio. I can guarantee you that it is the first time he's ever called into this show. And we're back right after this. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending. Opinions are flying.

And nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise. Breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real.

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Others say it's unleashing human potential. Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. All right, we're back. Part of my takeover, Kentucky Sports Radio. We're waiting for our very, very special

guest to call back in. He shouldn't have any moment now. We're waiting. Do you want to take another call while we wait for him? Well, I'm hoping he calls in any moment. People are saying it might be Jack Golky, who is a personal friend of ours. He did work out with us. We love to have Jack Golky on. You guys wouldn't stoop to that level of trolling. Oh, we absolutely won. I mean, it's not like we had Sam Decker on the show. Yeah. Yeah. In 2016. No, we wouldn't do that to you guys. I do love Golky. I wonder if Kentucky fans, if there's a small part of them that were like, you know what, respect.

Respect to Golky. The guy just was, he was awesome. And Golky actually might be the man who's responsible for the uprising of Kentucky basketball. That's true. You can point at that moment and say, thank you, Golky, you save Kentucky. He's the Franz Ferdinand of Kentucky basketball? Yeah. Was that the, oh, Gavriolle Prince.

Yeah, he's the Gabrielle Prinsie. Yeah, he's the Gabrielle Prinsie. And then everything was great after that. Yes, everything worked out right after that happened. So you'll be good. In, what, 1914? Yeah. Some really good years after that.

I think we traced the rise of Tom Brady directly back to Gabriello Princep, assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Everything good that's happened in the world has been because of the start of World War I. A lot of bad stuff, too. But you can just, you know, God bless the broken road that brought us back to glory. Yes. Shannon, has he called back in? Do you want to try to call him? Oh, maybe Shannon's talking to him.

You might be talking to him. That sounds good. I feel like that's good. Okay, here we go. All right. So for the first time ever in Kentucky Sports Radio history, we want to welcome on a friend of ours who's been on part of my take. He's a legend in the state of Kentucky.

He's a horse racing aficionado. It is St. John's head basketball coach, Rick Petino. Coach, are you there? I am. Good to be with you guys. It's great to hear from you. We're very excited to have you on. So we've hosted this show eight years in a row whenever Matt is on vacation.

And we were the first to say that Cal was on the hot seat eight years ago. So today has been a victory lap for us. And we thought there's no better guy to have on to pump up Big Blue Nation, your relationship with Mark Pope than coach Rick Petino. So let's start there. I have some St. John's questions as well. But what are we getting out of Mark Pope as a basketball coach? Well, obviously I'm extremely biased because he was my captain of the national championship team and was a great captain, a tireless worker.

And I absolutely love him and what he did for our program. But that being said, when I was not working, I traveled out to see him coach a small school, Division I school, a Grand Valley or something like that. And I was blown away for how good a teacher he was. And then I watched every game I could at BYU and loved their offense. It was great ball movement, great player movement. And I just think Mark does a fabulous job at communicating with his players. He has a great way about it.

And he has a quality to very few of us have. He has incredible humility. And for somebody who, at a very young age, just as a tireless work and is accomplishing things, he's always maintained the same humility that he had back when he was a player. And Mark would, you know, obviously guys like Antoine and those guys, all guys from inner cities. And my language wasn't the greatest either. But every day, if he made a mistake, he would say frick. And constantly, frick, frick, frick, and.

Finally, after a week of this, I said, Mark, I can tell you, whatever God did you pray to, he knows what you mean. So why don't you just say it or drop it? That's great. It's just words. That's great. It doesn't matter if it's an R or if it's a you. I think the message is getting across. Coach, when they hired Mark Pope, you were saying that, you know what, it might be time for Rick Petino to cut a check to Kentucky's NIL program.

Is that something that you're actually considering doing? Well, I actually cut a check to the football program because I'm a casual friend of Mark and Eddie Gran and I cut a check to the football program. But I would definitely cut a check if Mark needs me for anything, no matter what, except for my first born, Michael, he can have it. Yeah, just the first one though. I absolutely love Mark and would do anything for his program. I'm very, I had, I always called University of Kentucky Camelot for me. I never had a bad year, never had a bad day. They treated me like a king.

They treated me with great respect. So I only had, obviously, I didn't get treated great when I was at Louisville, but sitting back on it and examining it today, I totally understand why. So I am very, very fond of the University of Kentucky, rooting for football. I sent the baseball coach a text wishing him good luck. So I'm very bullish on Mark and the football program and hope they do great.

I love it. And I think the thing that Kentucky basketball fans should be excited about, and maybe you can speak to this more, is Kentucky basketball in the last few years now. Obviously, Cal had success at the beginning of his run. But in the last few years, it feels like the actual coaching X's and O's maybe wasn't there all the time. Mark Pope, if you watched him at BYU,

the guy knows how to coach basketball. And maybe you could speak to this specific. but like being able to coach guys and put them in the best sets to be able to, you know, draw up winning plays at the end of games. I feel like Mark Pope is the perfect guy for that. He is. Look, Mark Pope is, he tried to become a doctor and it wasn't his niche. Mark Pope was a Rhodes Scholar candidate.

And he's just an extremely bright person. And combining his credentials about being bright, he's an excellent teacher of basketball. He also has, you know, he was also a terrific basketball player that got, the maximum of his abilities because he gave it all every single day. A great leader. He showed great leaders to everybody in the team just thought he was the best guy in the team in terms of never said a negative word about a teammate, never said a negative word about his coaching staff, loyal to the point that you couldn't quite believe it.

And his wife and children are the same way, just wonderful, wonderful people. And you know, look, Cal did a terrific job. But what happens with a lot of coaches, I mean, there are exceptions to the rule. I think Bill Self and I think Mike Shushchevsky, you know, you run out of familiarity breeds contempt. You're there a long time. You get a little stale. You need another journey. And so everybody, this is now Mark Pope's time.

Yeah. And Cal was great to the University of Kentucky. He brought them a lot of success. And we wish them certainly well at Arkansas. And now it's time to move on and have a whole different brand. Yeah, yep, you said it. Coach, do you have any message for the Kentucky fans that are listening right now? I don't know if you've had an opportunity to address them over the last few years here,

but we've got a lot of them listening right now that care about you, that care about the program. Look, I love the Kentucky fans to me very, very special. They were and treated me, my family with great reverence. I got nothing but great things to say about the Kentucky fan. And I totally get it today, why they were bitter at me at going to the University of Louisville. I was going back because the reason I was going back is I loved Kentucky so much from my UK days

and wanted to relive that love of the sport. But right now they have a fabulous program with all sports. And I think that it's going to be a special, special time for Mark Pope and the University of Kentucky Wildcats because I think he's, I think that, I think the fans are going to fall in love with Mark. Yeah. Because the thing about him, the Pope, Pope didn't matter.

The name on the back never mattered to Mark. He could care less about individual glory, could care less about it. If anybody mentioned that he played a great game, it's always about team. It's always about Kentucky. And Jeff Shepherds and Ron Mercer's and Mashburns and all those guys that I coach, it was always about Kentucky, Pelfrey, Fellhouse, Farmer, all about them. And I used to always kid those guys in the locker room.

They always give every time they put the jersey on, Pelfrey would tear up. And I'd say, something wrong with you, John? You're not feeling well? He said, no, every time I put that uniform mom, I just can't believe I'm putting it on. I said, well, get over, John. We got a big game, man.

That's great. Yeah. Playing for the name in the front of the jersey is important, especially in today's college basketball. So speaking of that, you have practiced in about 20 minutes. How is your team looking this year? Because it looks like you guys added some really talented players. You were right on the cusp last year.

It was your first year. How do you feel like this team is going to shape and be put together when you guys start playing ball in November? Well, we're much bigger with 7-1, 7'1, 7 foot, 610, 6, 9. Our back court, I never thought I'd coach another guard as fast as Peyton Civa, but I have a young man from Utah, Davian Smith, who is faster as fast, if not faster, than Peyton Siva. I have Gadari Richmond from Seton Hall

as a first team All-Big East basketball player. I have Simeon Wilshire, who's a sophomore now, who's also a terrific guard. So the back court is really strong. The wings are very strong. And the centers, although they don't have great experience, are very big, big and talented and athletic. So I'm really bullish on this basketball team.

we were supposed to play Kentucky but couldn't work it out. I'm hoping that we can come to Lexington next year for our 30th reunion and Kentucky can go back to Madison Square Garden the following year. I like that, yeah. Kentucky, quit duck and patino.

I love it. You step up to the play. Give the people what they want. Coach, are we planning on wearing more suits this year? That's very important for us. I wore all suits the whole season just about with the exception of a whiteout where I wore a white jacket and jeans. Outside of that, I, I wore suits the whole year.

I like that. It doesn't feel right when you look on the sidelines, and you see Coach Patino wearing a, like a polo shirt. We want to see the suits every game, Coach. I'm definitely going to be in them. And you know what? I believe in it. It's something I've done all my life, so why not continue?

Why change? There are certain things you have to change. You have to change the way you coach players today, the way you run your offenses, defenses, treat them and off the court as well. But certain things should not change. And that's one of those. Yeah.

Coach, in the spring and summer practices, what are you looking for this early on as you're putting a team together? What are you keen on in practice that's telling you, okay, we could have a good team this year? You know, I made a mistake last year. I did not have my team ready early in the year because I was just focused on player development, working on this skill development. And I didn't work on a lot of team things defensively. And we were not ready early. We were ready late.

And it probably stopped us because the NCAA, no longer cared about the last 10 games of the season. They were treating the first 10 equal to the last 10. So now I understand that. I don't think the net means a whole lot. I think it's really quad one wins, quad two wins, making sure you don't lose like we did to Michigan, a quad three. We never expected Michigan to be a quad three game, but it was.

So I'm going to have the team more ready defensively going into September. I love it. Coach, I have one last question. I missed you. I saw you were at Saratoga for the Belmont Stakes. I was there as well. Yep. How did you do?

I hope you did better than me. I lost about $20,000 that weekend. Not great. Not great. I thought I had figured it out. I did the one thing you can't do on a horse racing weekend is win the second race of the first day because then you think you got it figured out. And then I don't think I won a race for like 15 races in a row.

But how did you do? And what do you guys? Do you have some horses coming up? I do. I'm racing tomorrow. I have a horse called Agalos de Great, who's the name of my agent in Greece. And Agalos de Great is running at Aqueduct, getting ready to prep rates coming off a long vacation to get ready for a big steak at Finger Lakes. I was, I believe I was two for 22 and getting destroyed.

And I went back and tried to renegotiate my contract with St. John's. but I did I did get out on the last race when I was leaving and if you could win the last race you can cut your losses in half yeah that way was it the last last race or the second I won the second of last race on Saturday that was like a like a 14 to one shot and I was like oh man maybe I did figure this was yeah this was a it was a long yeah I think it was the same loss yeah it was he came out of nowhere yeah yeah yeah it was yes it was yes it was yes it was That's right. Yeah.

You need to, when you have a bad weekend at the tracks, you need to just turn to our good friend, Mike Rapoli, and be like, come on, let's go. I told my wife, I'm never going to the track again. And she said, I've heard that now 1100 times. Yeah, right, right. I'm retired from horse racing for the rest of the week. That's what I do.

And then I wait for the weekend. So he said, Aglos the Grey. He's racing at Aqueduct tomorrow. What race is he in? Because I'm going to, I might sprinkle a few nickels on him. You know, I don't know. I don't know. I think it's the fifth race. I'm actually traveling to Tampa

for, unfortunately, for a funeral, and I won't see it, but I know it's, I think it's the fifth race. My other friend, Chris Mara, who owns, his family owns the Giants. He has a horse in the race, and we're betting dinner to see which horse finishes out of who. I like that. I like that. High stakes.

Yeah. Coach, I'm actually, I'm taking a trip to Greece next week, and I was hoping that you could maybe teach me something to say, a good phrase to say, or any tips about when are you going to be when will you be there i'm going to be there saturday through i believe saturday full week i'm going uh july the six to see them try and qualify for the olympics i try to help the federation a little bit there and um you're going to athens i'm going to be traveling around a bit yeah athens then checking out some of the beaches too great so obviously you say you have to understand the greetings they always say cali matter

for good morning, Kelly Spada for afternoon. Calanita, this is good night. And you always just, by just saying, yesas, that's hello, goodbye. Pala, hello. You're welcome.

Hello. Posse, you get about seven, eight expressions. And of course, the firm expression that you have to use if somebody cuts you off, Malacca. Okay, okay. Malacca, guy. I love it.

Coach, I know you got practice coming up. I want to thank you so much for calling in. We're excited about Mark Pope. I'm excited about St. John's this year. Thanks so much and have a great practice. All right, guys. Tell Mark I love them. Okay, we will.

Thanks so much. That was Coach Rick Patino calling in to Kentucky Sports Radio. History has been made. Full endorsement. Hatchet buried. Hatchet buried. Well, no, I wouldn't say so. You don't think so?

For us, on this day, Rick Petino is always welcome on this day. Yes. But thank you to Coach Petino. I told everyone they got to stay tuned in for all the people who usually say they turn it off after two minutes. I think we deliver. You can tell this guy loves Kentucky. Yes.

He really cares about the state of Kentucky. And it sounds like he kind of feels bad about going to Louisville. Yeah. He's like, I get it. Well, maybe he doesn't feel bad, but he understands the hate that he got from Louisville. Yeah. And so, you know, it's good to see that, you know, everything is being mended. And he's clearly rooting for Mark Popes.

Are we? All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll finish up hour one. We also want to hear from you, Kentucky sports fans, 859-280-2287. That's a Clark Pump and Shop phone number. We're going to take a break. Quick break.

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I'm looking at Twitter right now, and it looks like that might have made some news there. People across Kentucky are talking about it. Shout out to the guy that's listening to us right now with his cell phone on his clip on his belt like your new quarterback has, right? That's the new style. He's stocking shelves in a grocery store. So if you're listening to us right now, we certainly appreciate it.

Yeah, someone tweeted as a video guy just in the grocery store, no headphones on, just listen to this show. That guy rocks. But yeah, that was very cool. I don't think that we ever thought that Rick Petino would call into Kentucky Sports Radio. All it took was Matt Jones going to North Korea. That's it. That's it. And then, you know, magic can happen. He loves you guys. Yeah. That much is very clear. Have you seen, by the way, the picture of

Brock Vandigriff, the quarterback for Kentucky? No, let me see. So this is the pick right here. That's the quarterback. That dude, he might be a hoss. He is a certified hoss. This is a big hoss, and he's got the cell phone clip on his belt. That's quite a move for a high school kid. He meet, yeah, he, he is a 50-year-old high school kid. I love it. Yeah, I wouldn't, he looks, he looks like if you went and tried to date his daughter, there'd be, there'd be some hard questions. Oh, he's got some shirts that he's, he takes some prom pictures of him holding like a, uh, an over-under shotgun, and he's just, he's intimidating the hell out of his daughter's date. Yeah, yeah, so you're in good hands with Kentucky football, which got an NIL check from Rick Petino we found out.

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