KSR - 2025-01-14- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

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Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Tuesday, January the 14th. I'm Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill, where tonight Kentucky and Texas A&M will be playing in another game. It's huge in SEC play. You can give a shout to Clark's Pump and Shop phone line 859-2802287.

A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-724 in this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J. He'll make them pay. Kentucky and A&M tonight. Cats are a six-point favorite, actually a pretty significant favorite tonight at home. Georgia Amor, the women's basketball star from Australia, will be in here at 10.30 this morning, be on the show. First time I was thinking about it. I'm not sure we've ever had a women's basketball player

or maybe even a men's basketball player who has been on the show live in person ever during the season. I don't, you know, that's a new thing that just started last year. I don't, you know, the women's team was not good last year. And the men's team, there was the whole cow thing. So I don't think we've ever had a basketball. basketball player come in. We've had them on the phone occasionally, but had them come in and see us in season ever until today. Yeah, they used to have the rule. No live interviews during the season. And that has all changed now.

That's changed. So, yeah, I'm trying to think. I think she may be the first. I don't remember even one of the guys in here. Yeah, she's Australian. She seems funny, like in the interviews I've heard with her before, and she's really good. Like, if you haven't seen them play, I think they're like, you know, a restaurant, you haven't. discovered yet. I mean, they're 14 and 1, and they just pound people. They've won their four and they're 4-0 in the SEC, and they've won every game by at least 16 points, true. Yeah, I didn't get to watch them much at all in the non-conference. It's like they kept playing at the same time as the men, but I've seen all of their SEC games, and they've been so fun to watch. They had the one a few weeks ago where they got really hot shooting. She was a big part

of that was fun, but even the Auburn game the other night got a little tight, but they end up winning by 16 at home? Yeah. I mean, she, she, like, gets the ball, and she scoot. She's like, beep, beep, and she just goes through. She crossed a girl over. Like, I mean, I wouldn't taunt. I would feel bad taunting a young woman.

But if it was a young dude, I would have taunted. I mean, she cried. Did you see the crossover? She crossed over a girl, and she went flying 50 feet in the wrong direction. I was just about to say, is best point guard on campus? Well, yeah. Why not? I mean, like, she's got a chance to be in all-American.

Heck, yeah, averaging like 19 points. So she's going to be on here. And then, of course, the game tonight, our pre-game show will start at 4.30. I know a lot of folks coming by tonight. This is a big game. You know, if you believe in my tier system. Yes. Tier 1, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee.

Haven't played any of those teams yet. But that tier 2, which is the one I think we're in, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, State, Old Miss, A&M, we're now 2 and O in that tier. You win this one, you could be 3 and O, and we only have one other game in that tier, right? I mean, we only have one other game. And maybe if we were to win all the games in that tier, maybe then I even jump us up to the other tier. So you've got a chance to be 3 and O in that tier if you win at home tonight. And this is the only game in that tier left that we have at home because we go to Old Miss.

And this is a good opportunity. Like you said, you got Texas A&M at home. Wade Taylor looks like he's not playing. Okay, so he's out. Yeah, he was been a cat killer. basically eliminated Cal from being our coach last year at the SEC tournament, I think with that win last year. He was so good. Oh, wow, you're saying.

Wade Taylor. You think Wade Taylor ended Cal Perry's career? It was not KSR or Matt Jones. It was Wade Taylor? I'm going to pin it on Wade Taylor instead of Matt Jones. Wade Taylor and Jack Golky? Yeah. The two of them you think did them in.

I think those are the two. I'm going to agree with him. I remember walking to halftime in Nashville. I saw you in the back. I remember that. I talked to some ESPN guys. And I said, this game is over. I don't care what anyone says because I watched Wade Taylor look at the crowd and tell everyone to sit down,

and every UK fan sat down in that moment. And I thought he has all of us in his hand right now, and he was destroying Kentucky. First of all, I think he's been in college since, like, 2010. He's been there a long time. So, I mean, I don't want to see anybody hurt, but if he's not going to play tonight, that's good, because we have a better chance. You know, they've had two games. They went on without him. They went on the road to Oklahoma and beat them.

Yes. And then they played Alabama on the road. And that was a close game. I mean, they lost, but that was a close game. They were in it the whole time. So they've still, Ryan, been good without him. And that's why I thought when they went and got that win at Oklahoma without him, I thought, okay, these guys are legit.

They're for real. So this is going to be, even without him, it'll be a tough game. These guys can play. I love the fact it is at home because these two games this week, hold serve on both these games. You're sitting in a good position. Well, I mean, hold serve. be pretty impressive. I mean, you're playing the fourth-ranked team in America and the 11th-ranked

team in America. So, I mean, these are two back-to-back home games. I mean, there'd be entire conference seasons where we wouldn't play two games this good against teams at home, and now we've got two in the same week. Almost both top ten. A&M came in at 11 yesterday. Taylor being out, a big deal. He's one of the best guards in the conference. But this dude that stepped in for him, Phelps, scored 24 and 34 in the two games Taylor didn't play. So it's almost like they just put in another Taylor. I mean, Phelps has been incredible in the games without him. I feel like A&M just has these guys that just randomly come in and score.

That one dude scored like 63 points against us in Rupp that time. What was it? Elston Turner. Elston Turner. That was the only time I've ever remembered during the postgame show, the crowd at Rupp giving a standing ovation to a guy from another team. Elston Turner came out and our fans stood up and clapped, which, you know, you don't see that in a lot of schools.

I was there that game. They respected what he was doing, and they did. They gave him a standing ovation. That was a pretty good Cal team that lost at home. I can't remember which one it was, but like. It was, yeah, one of the early good teams. Yeah, and we lost at home to them. Looking it up right here.

He had 40. That was Willie, Nerlins. Nerlins was still healthy. So that was a New Orleans team. But, I mean, they were playing well. But before Nerlins got hurt. Yeah, so that would have been good teams. 14 of 19 from the field.

I feel like A&N. also has gotten some ones that frustrate me. There was that one. Last year in the tournament was a very frustrating game. I still am mad about the Isaac Humphrey's technical, because that was a great basketball game that they stole from us over a stupid technical that wasn't a technical. You may remember, I don't know how I remember this,

but the Julius Mays year, which was that 2013 team. We went there in a game, and beat them in a crazy game after they had beat us here. Like he had like 30 or something on the road. I can add to that. It went to overtime, and that was the first of five straight overtimes against A&A, or, excuse me, four out of five. We played them in overtime.

Maybe even the Humphreys game went to overtime. But there was a stretch where if A&M and Kentucky were playing, it was going extra. Even had two overtimes in one of the games. So anyway, always a good battle. Hopefully tonight, though, we get the win. Get to see Buzz and his three Pete's suit and his new hair and on the sideline.

What do you think of it? Do you like Buzz? You like Buzz? What's his name? Buzz Williams? Actually, I do like him. What was that story came out last year? We talked about he itemizes his entire day from start to finish.

Exactly what he's doing that day. So he writes Shannon. He writes out a journal every day of what he's going to do every hour of the day. Is that cool or neurotic and kind of weird? Neurotic and kind of weird. Yeah. Like outside of these hours that I'm here, I don't know what I'm going to do the next hour at any given day.

Do you? I'm with you. No, I'll write down, I'm having lunch with my mom. Then anything could happen. And then, oh, this could be wild. You know, it depends on what kind of mood layer he's in as to how wild it gets. But, but yeah, like, what do you think about writing down through every single thing you're going to do the whole thing? I've started doing this, actually.

I can't recommend it. Not exact times, but little things. Like, I had to bring Mario something. I have an app, not the notes that, but another one. I wrote down yesterday by. 10 o'clock grab Mario's bag and this was the one day I remembered it I forgot it over and over so like I have like write the pregame show post it's not hourly by hourly but I have a checklist where I hit him kind of chronologically I think a checklist though I mean I just that's just

an agenda that's what I have in my book that's not I think I think when you go like if I remember correctly he said like he'll go 1130 run 1230 eat lunch 1 30 you know that's a little too that's what that's what buzz is doing I think that's a little weird I even had like 2 o'clock read 30 pages of a book. Like, it was very specific. I think he had it down to the minute, like 206 to 224. That's right. I think he did have it to a minute.

Then he wears the three-piece suit. Yes. The vest. I'm a big believer that there's not a lot of people that can pull off the vest. But then if you can pull off the vest, it's a good look. Is Buzz Williams a guy who can put? Because he'll go jacket off vest only. He'll be vest out.

Do you like the vest out? I think of him, that's how I see him. Jack it off, vest only. He's one of maybe only a few people, I think, that can pull it off. You see a lot of, like, the talking heads, like Damien Fishback, I think, had one on. These guys are trying to maybe bring back the vest a little bit. Then he also had no hair at all, and then, like, got all hair, which you don't see a lot. You'll see people fill in.

You don't see them just go blank to full head of hair. I can't. Has he gone back to bald or is he? No, well, he did an interview of part of my take like four years ago, and I got to admit, I did a full turnaround on my thoughts on Buzz Williams. This part, I don't really believe, but he said he shaved his head when they first had kids and didn't have much money to save on haircuts. Stop it. Now he went on and got rich, and he was still bald. If that's true, that's pretty cool, but it's kind of hard to believe. So wait a minute, hang on. He said he shaved his head because he didn't have money for haircuts. He said it didn't want to waste money on haircuts. But then that sounds like an excuse. But how does he explain now having a full head of hair?

Is he meaning he always had a full hair? He's basically saying, now I got money, you know. Come on, man. Now he got money, what? He bought hair? No, I mean, he would just shave his head off instead of going and getting haircuts. So he was now going bald? Yeah, he would just buzz it because that was so easy to do and free.

Okay. This is what he said on part of my take. I find a hard time believing it, but that was his ex-old. I thought he just got like a great transplant. You're the expert on. Yeah, he obviously saw how handsome I became after my, hair transplant. He wanted to follow suit, so he probably went to Dr. DeGenis, got the same thing. Okay. But I mean, he got a full head. Like, Brian Lerlocker's the only other person I've seen

do that. Go from like no hair to full head of hair. I saw a picture of Shaka Smart the day. He's got hair now. He was always bald, but he's got hair. Yeah. Well, Buzz also said, he's kind of hard to believe that he would go to the Final Four when he was broke and didn't have a job and sleep on the lobby couches of the hotels just to meet coaches. Listen, man, you don't have to try that hard. Like, there's a level of, I love the sort of rags to Rich's story, but I don't think they're going to let you sleep in the hotel. We've been to the final four hotels. They're nice hotels.

They're not going to let Buzz Williams sleep in the lobby on the couch. And I believe he said after the final four, he would then write every coach a letter that he met asking for an opportunity. I think Buzz might have a little bit of a... I can believe that. I can guarantee you they did not let him sleep on the hotel. lobby at the final four. They did not let him do that. I'm on your side. I'm just telling you the message he's

betraying. I think that's another story. He hand writes thank you notes and stuff all the time. He sets it in his journal. Sit down for 30 minutes and write my notes and stuff. So you're pro or con? I'm pro. The thing I do like that he did was when he beat West Virginia at

Virginia Tech and all of those people were yelling at him. Right? And he went in front of the student section and did what? Like, the West Virginia waltz or something after he won. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he came out and he, by himself, just like waltzed in front of the student section. I do like that level of trash talk.

I do think that's funny. Yeah, Ron and I met somebody one time. We won't say his name to tell on him, but he kind of told us the buzz might be pretty full of it. Is the one thing with all these stories that I keep in the back of my mind? Well, tonight we need to get a victory. I think Texas A&M, according to Mark Pope, he believes Texas A&M is the best offensive rebounding team in the country. I feel like every team we play is, I mean, Mississippi State was really good at it,

although we held a pretty good job against them. Florida obviously killed us on the glass. Are you worried about the, according to Mark Pope, best offensive rebounding team in the country? I think the numbers maybe back that up. I think I heard Tom this morning say they're number one in the country or number one in the SEC in offensive rebounding. Like that's their forte right now.

Box out. Finger butt, elbow butt. If you finger butt, that's not what we want. That's a technical foul. And assault. That's going to get you kicked off the court. It's finger elbow butt. Not, not.

I think we're on like that one. Yeah, not finger butt. We're going to take a break. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-7754. This is KS. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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I got to give them all the wins. Like you said, 4 and O in the SEC already, man. You know, that's a tough, when you're playing in the SEC, and they're men or women this year, you're doing something. Yeah, that's exactly right. They still got some of the harder teams to come, but I think they'll do great. George Amor has actually walked in here,

so we'll have her on here in just a second. What person writes, Matt, what Buzz Williams does, is called time blocking or diagraming your day. It is supposedly correlated with being highly successful. I'm surprised none of you do it. Well, we don't. Not at all. And we're highly successful.

We don't do it. Yeah. So you don't have to do it to be highly successful. My thing with putting the exact times is if I got behind, I would stress myself out like I'm an hour. I was supposed to already do this. I think that makes sense. Now you're just adding stress to your life. One person writes, Matt, you're on the show.

That's good. Does that mean the contract is done? No, but we're making very good progress. I was there at the building yice night for four hours, and I tell you who I didn't see, Shannon, who was not there yesterday. Because Shannon now gets here at 6.30 in the morning, and I don't get to hang out all night long here at the radio station. Well, but it was good.

I got to eat all the free snacks. That was nice during the while. Yeah, you know, I mean, if we're going to be doing all this, I've got to have a trail mix and all that, so it was good. I'm happy for you to have your trail mix, but how are you looking for a show tomorrow? tomorrow and the rest of the week. No, no, we're good. We got a little bit of time here. We've moved to a phase where now probably be another week or two. So, you know, you at least got me, let's see, my mom's birthday is next Tuesday. So you got me at least through then. Oh, got one more week. Well, no, I think we're moving in a positive. So it went well for four hours. Wow. Yeah, well, you know, like any conversation with me in a situation like that, it's not great. It's part of it

It's exactly right Em's and flows Their bumps go up You go down But you end up in a pretty good positive place, right? It's a bit of a bumpy ride Yeah You get to the same destination

One person writes Matt I loved Willie yesterday I thought it was one of the best interviews You all have done He said some things though That I don't think anybody focused on Like saying we had to do NIL differently When I was there

You know, Mario could have put that one up on social media, and he didn't. That was an interesting conversation. That was an interesting part of the thing. I think if you watch the full video that Mario put on YouTube when Willie says that, my eyeballs get about as big as they've ever been. I looked like a South Park character because I didn't know we said that out loud. Yeah, I mean, you know, Mario, like we got some criticism for putting the cow clip online with Willie. they were like, oh, you just want hits.

If we wanted hits, there were two Mario clips he could have put up that would have had a lot more hits. What was that one? And then it was when he called Cal soft. Yeah. Mario saved him, not putting that one up. Complacent and soft. Complacent and soft.

So, like, I thought that was kind of interesting. He was being, you know, honest and telling us things that we, behind the scenes about Cal, I was hanging on every word when he was talking about that. But what he said has been said a lot. Yeah. That he is not exactly the same. in terms of how he goes at it. Everybody also seemed to really like his interaction with the young woman here.

And, you know, we whispered and talked about it just a little bit. But that was one of the sweeter things, Drew, that I've seen. And Willie, let me tell you, when the show ended, there were probably, I don't know, 15, 18 tables worth of people here. Willie stood and took a picture with every single person in here. He was here longer than I was. He stayed here, and every single person that was. here. He took a picture with him. He took a picture with our staff that was here. Like, if he sounds like a really good guy, it's because he is. Like, that's not fake. He is a really,

really good dude who is different than other basketball players. And that's not to criticize other basketball players. They can be really good dudes in their own way. But he is a different kind of guy. And I really appreciate that about it. My favorite part of that. I had to stay here and work late, Ryan, you saw me. You all left. I was here another 20, close to 30 minutes. Willie was still here sitting with her. And my favorite part is when other people would come up and ask for a picture, he would pat her on the back say, I'll be right back. Like, I'm not leaving this. I'm coming back to this conversation. Got to take a quick photo. Like, he made her feel like she was the only person here. And I think it was awesome. You had just talked about how Mark Pope pulled the chair

to sit by the guy in the wheelchair at Georgia. Willie pulled a chair out and sat there and talked to her for like Drew said 30 minutes after the show. Yeah. It was an awesome special moment to see that girl's face light up when Olivia, when her – Mario, you did a great job of capturing the whole thing, too. It was actually very nice. I have one question, what the heck you got a wife now.

That was the highlight. That was funny. I mean, we all got a little tearyat when she walked in. What the heck? You got a wife now? That was the highlight. Who's up first, Shannon? Let's start with David.

David. David, go ahead, David. Hey, you guys think Mark Polk can grow hair? I don't know. I mean, he had a great buzz cut when he was in college. He did, and when he first got here, he had a mop-a-haired yellow hair up there. I think he does. I think he just likes to, you know, he works hard.

He doesn't have time to mess with the hair. Okay. Hey, I got a quick comment and a question. So the story about him pulled the chair out is awesome. I mean, I'm not comparing the guy to Jesus, but it does remind me of the story of the paralytic, where they brought, you know, the paralytic and they lowered him down. Like, he just comes to people's level, and I think people really appreciate that about the man. Totally agree with you.

You know, I mean, let's, and I appreciate the call, let's look at the two basketball hires that Mitch made. I mean, we've talked about Mark Pope. Kenny Brooks. I mean, first of all, I don't know, will I get George's take when she gets on here? It seems like the smoothest dude in the world. Like, he seems like, am I right about that? Like, the clothes, the, you know, the goatee is, is trimmed perfectly every time when he talks. Like, he's not like me.

His voice doesn't go, ah, he's very, like, bam the whole time. I just feel like, and then, you know, the young women on the team, they're, like, doing dances on TikTok. They all seem smooth. Like it feels like there's, like, kind of a class with him. And you throw those two coaches in, and I feel like Mitch just knocked it out of the part. I was a little worried about Kenny Brooks at Big Blue Madness, not as coaching, but you're following Matthew Mitchell. I guess Cairo had a few years there, but, you know, madness was Matthew Mitchell's thing. Yeah, he'd come out and dance and I kind of wonder, you know, Kenny, this is a tough spot.

That slow walkout was about the coolest thing I've ever seen someone do. First of all, he walked really slow. Like, he took his time. Like, he walked like, I'm going to, I'm going, he had on the OVO tight fitting jacket, fit him just right. It's like, you know, when the rock walks in and the W.W. He takes his time. He doesn't feel the need to hurry. He took his time and he walked out. And I thought that was one of the highlights of the whole event. It was. It was smooth, confident. Like, yeah, here I come. Get ready. Kenny Brooks area about to get underway. It's a quiet swag.

And even though he seems like a classy dude, he also feels like to me he subtly talks trash sometimes. Like it's kind of, it's kind of, it's kind of low-key. I feel like, I don't know this, but there's going to be a coach, either this year or next, that he's going to get into it with. And they'll get upset, but he'll stay calm the whole time. I'm just predicting that. I can see that. I want you to put that on the red.

There's going to be some coach this year where it's kind of a little spicy going back before. I could see him walking back to the Kentucky bench kind of in slow motion with all the chaos behind him as he just walks that off. Yeah, you know how the South Carolina coach, Dawn said. You know how she and Cal or she and Matthew Mitchell had their little thing. So you think Kitty's going to have some. I don't think it would be with her. But there's going to be, I could see Kim Malking. I could see that being the one that maybe he's a little bit like, all right, come on now.

That's going to be my prediction. Georgia Amor from the UK women's team will join us right for this, KSR. 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. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. happy to be joined by, I believe, the first time we've ever had a player here during the season

live. I can't, I don't think, because the rules didn't use to allow it. And now that's you. Georgia, Amor, Georgia, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. It's an honor. I don't know if it's an honor, but it's an honor for us because you are, you guys are killing it. 14, 15 to 1, 15 and 1 to start the season, destroying the SEC. What's it been like so far here in your year in Lexington? Yeah, I mean, it's been so much fun. Obviously, it's always fun when you obliterate teams the way we have been. But I think it's been, you know, kind of a perfect setup season-wise.

You know, we have a little feeler for the SEC with the teams who've played. And they have been challenging teams. Like you look at even last night, Vanderbilt, who we ended up beating pretty big, played LSU very close. So it goes to show the SEC is just very, very strong. And, you know, our latter part of our schedule is going to be very difficult. but the way that, you know, a rebuild team, I put that in. I'm not calling you all a rebuild team.

I mean, you guys are ranked 12th in the country, beat Louisville at home. Talia Goodman wrote that she thought the Kentucky Louisville atmosphere was one of the two or three best atmospheres she had been to in college basketball this year. What was it like for you? Yeah, it was unreal. And, you know, they talk about rivalries. And I had never seen quite one like that before. You know, being a new team granted, you don't know what you're going to expect.

and we've played non-conference schedules, and it's always hard to get people out to those games. But randomly we play LSU, I mean, Louisville in the middle of our non-conference schedule. Wait a minute, we've got to work on this with you. Louisville. I'm Australian. I've been taught.

I can't change it. No. Because I don't choke Louisville. I don't choke. That was it. That was it. But you just did it. I'm not saying like an idiot every time I'm saying it.

All right, fair enough. But go ahead. But like that atmosphere. Everyone in their brother, sister, auntie turned up and it was loud and it was hot. I was having hot flashes, but it was a really fun environment to be a part of. Auntie, I like that. So you're from Australia, Melbourne? Is that right?

Yeah, yeah. So you spit your first three years in Blacksburg? Four years. Four years? Well, actually, four and a half because I came early because I'm international student. Okay. So I did like a half a semester of not playing, but I studied, which was great, but it was miserable. Well, so let me start with.

Drew and I've been to Blacksburg. We spent a weekend there once, quite a weekend, actually. Had to be a culture shock, right? Australia to Blacksburg. It's a very small school, and obviously, like, it is a college town. I mean, Kentucky has that feel. I mean, like the University of Kentucky has that feel, but there's a lot more to do. And it's a bit, like, wider, and there's a variety of different people here.

But Blacksberg was very much the people who have graduated and want to reminisce on the years and students. Well, there's some Australians here because of the horse industry. And my family, I grew up on the horse industry, so I knew exactly what all this was about. And my mom actually came here before I came here to, like, look at Keenland and everything, tour like a lot of the horse farms. So when they come back, they're going to sure do that. But this, to me, feels very reminiscent of the town that I'm from. Okay, gotcha.

So have you enjoyed your time here? Yeah, I mean, it's gone so quick. I can't believe it's even halfway through the season, but I came in here in July, and I was like, okay, yeah, one more year. And I've just blinked and it's so quick. But it's been a lot of fun. So you get all these girls, all from different schools. You know, I think only one was left from the last, two from the last group.

So really, you're all meeting each other together. Has it been, I mean, has it been a good bonding experience? Yeah, I think, you know, everyone's come here and maybe at their previous school they didn't play as much, or maybe they just wanted a bigger competition. And everyone has come really determined, and it shows because we are 12th in the nation right now. And I think that every single game we play, we're trying to prove a point, which is why we have great outings. You know, we never take a game for granted.

And, you know, theoretically, like, you probably should never take a game for granted, but being new and knowing that this is for me, like my last year, like it's changed the perspective of every single game you play, you know. You come here, like you, I mean, I guess it's all trust in Kenny, right? I mean, he was your coach in college. When you heard he was coming to Lexington, where you're like, well, I'm definitely doing that? Yeah, I mean, it was a great opportunity, and I knew I had one more year of eligibility, and I had draft aspirations last year.

And then I was like, I can develop so much more under him in a new place, a new conference, show that we can get a team together and be successful. You know what? I mean, he's put so much effort and dedication to me. It's kind of fitting that for the last year I go with him and we try and turn this program around and we have so far, which has been brilliant. Now, you've been on a Final Four team. So you know what that's like. Does this team have the ability?

I think so. I mean, the ceiling, like there's no ceiling to this team. And you look at the variety of us, you know, you have six, five, six, four, six three girls who don't play like they should be in the block you know that probably want to run the lanes and shoot three so but does it know you they're so tall because you're the shortest one on the team are you like all you girls all are so tall it annoys me that i probably bring down the average high definitely like kentucky's average is five 10 yeah well we're it's because of me it is because of you but you are i'm just you know i watched a lot in the matthew mitchell years because they were good

and I loved watching Ryan Howard, but in the last year or two, didn't watch as much, if I'm being honest. I've watched two-thirds of your all's games. I love them. Spent Sunday afternoons, turn them on, and you are one of the most fun players I've ever seen because you just and you are so, you never stop moving. Is that like your style? Yeah, I mean, it's always been that I play with a lot of energy, but as you said, I am on the shorter side, so it kind of is if teams are going to try and take away one thing that I'm going

to try and make their life miserable in another aspect. So if you want to pick me up full court, that's fine. I have the speed. If you want to trap me, that's fine. No one wants to get as low as I get when I turn a corner. So it's just finding different ways to, you know. You talk trash too. And I mean, you do.

Like, you know, we know Max. He's Australian. He likes to talk trash. I think it's probably a little bit of an Australian thing. I see you out there yapping. Yes, it's hard not to you when you have a team like this, you know. Yeah. But do you feel like you need to have that role of,

like you're going to be the confident one? I mean, I mean, you were talking about Coach Brooks before and how he just exudes like the confidence and the swag walk and obviously that follows through top down. So if I have the almost confidence, people are going to have trust and it's kind of a calming presence. You know, his confidence and his, you want to call it swag is calming for me. So if I'm calming like that on the court for the girls, it's anything can happen. What makes Kenny such a good recruiter? I mean, first of all, one of your best players was hurt preseason.

You all could have another player. And then you guys got a ton of great recruits coming in. I know you're not going to be here, but I know you know they're coming. What makes him get so many young women to want to come play? I mean, he's just easy to – none of it feels fake. Like you can talk to someone like, okay, they're trying to sell a dream and trying to sell this. But when you talk to him, it's just very real, very natural. And, you know, I think a lot of it, and he says it too.

He has three daughters, and he's coached women's basketball for a long time. And he's been in the men's portion as well. but I think that the way that he just understands different people for who they are, you know, maybe the personalities they have. He does a very good job at, you know, kind of molding himself to connect with you. Like, he doesn't have, I don't think he has any issues or any troubles really trying to connect with different personalities. Like, you could be the loudest on the team, the quietest on the team.

Like, he's going to find a way to get to you and to reach you. It feels like there are a lot of personalities on your team. Oh, yeah. I mean, like, it's a big personality team, isn't it? Do you guys ever, like, ever any conflict at all? No. None at all. I mean, if you want to talk conflict, like, we can have really good banter.

Like, Dacia Lawrence will say things in a joking way that is like, you mean that from the bottom of your heart, but the way you said that is so funny that we're just going to laugh and ignore the fact that you might be taking a stab. See, I love taking a stab. There's a great. Now, do you all, do you, coming from Australia, we have, well, I guess Virginia Tech, the people there had country accents, too. But you ever just listen to us and go, what are you all saying?

No, but I listen to Cassidy Row, and I'm like, what are you saying? Well, she's from deep in the mouth, right? She's from Virgie. She's so southern that it almost sounds like Australian. Like the way that she slurs everything together, I'm like, what? She is. Now, I have to ask you, what did you think of the woman that did the break dancing? Reagan?

Legend. I'm kidding. I'm with you. I've heard so many conspiracy theories and that she just wanted a free. trip to Paris or her husband was like the chair of the the break dead i have no idea but look any attention is good attention isn't it so so were people in australia mad at her like they like some people thought it made her made them look back i thought it was kind of awesome i thought it was a like it explains australia perfectly sometimes you just got to go out there and just do it

and i don't know a better word to use than a piss take like i don't know what that means but i'll You can Google it later, but it's just, I mean, she had fun and she made news and put Australia on the map. Yeah. All right. So next for you, when this is over, I mean, you're going to get drafted. Are you excited to get to the next level? Are you going to, is Caitlin Clark got to look out? Caitlin Clark is one of one.

She's incredible. But, like, the W is as exciting to be in conversations, but it's also daunting because as for women, it's very different to men in terms of, like, the draft process. And obviously, how so? Explain the money, obviously. How else is it different? I mean, first of all, women, you just can't do, like, one and duns. Like, I think that every single year, like, the draft is not, the men's is, like, you can kind of tell, like, one through whatever. Who's going to go where because it's best available?

Women's, it's mock draft after mock draft. Everyone's tossed up around, and it's just, until it happens, you never really know, for sure. And I don't think people realize there are. Unless you are, like, the Caitlin Clarks or the page beckers. There are a lot fewer teams. So it's actually a very difficult league to get in. There's only like 12, 14 teams, something like that. Yeah, but it's going to be a little bit.

So there's actually not a ton of jobs, right? Maybe it's 16, but it's not nearly as many as I think people think. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely low capacity. And, you know, at any time you can be dropped or you can be picked up by another team. I had a girl that I played against and she ended up getting drafted to Indiana and then popped over to Connecticut, it was in Phoenix, like in one season, was just on 10-day contracts, just bouncing around. So it's very different to men's, yeah.

All right, so you guys have five games coming up against top 25 teams, including your hosting LSU, you're hosting Tennessee. It's been the largest season ticket sales of games Kentucky's had, you know, I don't know if it's ever, but certainly in a long, long time. I keep feeling like that energy in there is getting better and better. Are you excited for this next month coming ahead? Yeah, it's going to be a whole lot of fun. And as you said, like the people are coming around as getting more and more energetic every game we play.

You know, Mississippi State the first game of our SEC conference that was electric in there. And then we go away, we play some away games, and then we have a contingency of top teams coming in to historic Memorial Coliseum. So it's going to be fun to bring a whole lot of people around. Historic Memorial Colise. She's got it. I've been trained. You've been trained. We do that.

I am a part owner of a wrestling company. And I call our arena, historic Davis Arena. It just seems to add something to it. It does. It makes it grand. You step in there and you're like, I'm in heel. You're not just in Memorial College. You're an historic Memorial College. It's just an oar about it.

Well, Georgia, I say this all the time. This team is fun to watch across the board. One of the more fun teams to watch I can remember. You, however, are as fun to watch as anyone. I mean, the way you play, the way you get your team involved, I'm trying to think men's player at Kentucky, remind. Maybe like a quicker Travis Ford, maybe. That's pretty good comparison.

Because you're faster than he is. Tallulis. They can shoot like crazy. Yeah, I like that. She's probably, yeah, Taua Lewis, I like that. But it's a lot of fun to watch you. I hope you'll come back maybe right before March, and good luck with everything. I appreciate it, guys.

And you have a class you have to get to. Slang linguistics. Linguistics. I'm on my way. Yeah, save me a seat. I'm on the way. She's going to linguistics. Don't you worry about it.

She would never miss. Front row, right? You know what? I actually am a pretty good student. I graduated with 3.5. Nice. Thank you. Yes, you heard that right.

I've graduated. I do have a degree. Nice. Well, do not skip linguistics. We're going to take a break. George Amor. Thank you very much. We'll be right back.

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She was fantastic She's got like that Magnetic personality You're just drawn to her At the same time She's got some swagger She got a little swag Everybody on the text machine

It was like you gotta have her back So we will We'll wait till one of the big games And we'll bring her back here Assuming they would let her I thank Camie at UK For helping make that happen She

You know I suggested that to her And she was totally in So Georgia could do this I could see her you know, I could see her doing the media thing. I mean, she's going to be a player for a while first, but I could see it. I actually feel bad sitting here because I assume our listeners would want to hear more of her than me. She was so good.

She had a great personality. I kind of forgot I was on the show. She had to go to class. She kept going. But, you know, with Willie and her back to back, that's been really good. I was thinking about Willie. You know, on the SEC Network, if you've been watching, I think they actually now have a really good set of former players doing commentary.

Like, I think Ron Slay's really good. I think Damien Fishback's really good. I think Dame Bradshaw's good. Pat Bradley, Patrick Young. I actually think all those guys are good, but there's one thing missing. There's no Kentucky person. Like, we're the biggest basketball people on a conference in there, no Kentucky people. But I'm not really sure who the Kentucky person would be, to be honest with you.

I mean, Jack does the official game. right. Rex was really good, but, like, Rex makes people bad because of the political stuff. But I actually think Rex is pretty good, but we don't really have anybody, and I'm sitting there thinking with Willie, like, you know, Willie might be a guy one day who could do that.

You know, I've had this exact same conversation before. You know, they tried Antoine Walker for a while. That didn't really work. They tried even Tony Delk for a brief minute. Tony just doesn't get into it enough, although I think he says good stuff. He just doesn't get into it as much. So we were trying to spitball.

It looks like Travis Ford is trying to tiptoe into that business. I think Travis was good doing the games. I'm not sure if he's a studio guy. Studio guy, you've got to have personality. That personality. You got to have a big personality. And I was, and I just was yesterday with Willie, I was like, if he got in the groove, Drew, I could see him. Because we need a Kentucky guy.

I mean, Ron Slay, Ron Slay is going to be a star at it. And I know people remember when he played, he was very annoying. You didn't like Ron Slay? He is of all, but he's, there's a big personality there, and that's a big part of it. But we need a Kentucky guy. I don't know who it's going to be, but we need to find one. We do, and you're right, Slay's been good, but every time I see him, I just think about that stupid headband that he would even pull all the way down on his forehead. And all those teams that had like six Smiths on the team, they were all so good when he was around.

But you know, here's a little secret. He, I know what, but he was one of those dudes. If he had been on our team, we would have loved it. Of course. Like he's Kerr, but he was really good. Like, people forget how good he was, and he would wear it. I always say he'd take the headband and then put it around his neck. You remember that?

He would pull it and he'd have it around his neck. Chisholm did that too. Both those would just wear the headband wherever. Those Tennessee guys would all wear those headbands. I think with the Kentucky guys, a lot of our favorites went to the NBA and got rich and don't need to do it. Totally agree with you. That's part of the problem is that a lot of them have so, like, have so much money. They don't need to be on television.

They're popular enough. They don't have to reach out to SEC and try to get a job. You're exactly right. Who's next? Brian and Franklin. Brian, go ahead, Brian. How good would Boogie be in that position? I got a couple other questions.

I think Boogie would be really good if he could control himself. There's a line that you can't cross, and Boogie would just have to make sure he didn't cross it. So I don't know if he could do that. I think he'd be good. But go ahead. Who so? A couple questions with the success of baseball men and women's basketball.

And the fans love for all those coaches, do you think Coach Stoops fills any additional pressure for a successful season? Maybe. How beneficial would it be in the eyes of BBM for him to come back on the show and show is an approachable? He will. He is recovering from an ankle surgery. I expect him to be on next week. We're going to try to do it this week, but it just hasn't worked out. I would expect next week.

You know, next week, Kentucky doesn't have a game during the week, so we'll probably bring him on then. I appreciate the call. There's no doubt that when the other programs are doing well, it puts pressure on. Sure does. Right. I mean, when Cal was struggling and Stoops won 10 games, there's no doubt that was part of the tension between them, is that.

I think you go back in the day when Cal got here and then Joker's struggling. I mean, there's no doubt when one of the programs or two of them are doing well, it puts pressure on the other one. I agree with you. I don't think there's any doubt at all, especially if you're one of the coaches in your high profile programs, you want the spotlight as much as the other guy.

So yeah, I think Coach Stoops probably sees what's going on with the other program. Like, man, I want to get back to that. We've got to do something. Let's get back to it. And there's some jealousy that happens when one of them gets a lot of NIL donation money and the other one doesn't.

But you know what? People are going to give to what they think's working. Yeah, and I think that's human nature. I think most people in that spot would look across campus and if the other program, including baseball, women's, men's basketball. I think if they're killing it and fans are just building them up and so excited, you couldn't help but fill it a little bit.

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