The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here.

This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Hour 3 podcast.

This might be college football, head.

Welcome back, second hour.

Second half the show is what I was trying to say.

It's a busy afternoon.

One basketball game in in, National one at halftime.

John Clay joining us from the Lexington Herald Leader,

one of seven writers elected to the United States Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame.

John, thank you for joining us. Congratulations.

Thanks, Paul. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. I'm real honored to be going in.

That is some really great company, and we appreciate, I'm so glad we had you on right after that.

So much going on. I want to ask you about Calipari.

Obviously, he's one game into the tournament. But it was five years ago today when so many of us were

sitting around, most of us in Nashville, when it felt like the world literally came to an end.

Your recollection of that moment in time.

I was just about, I was on my way out of Lexington when I got a call from my sports editor in telling me that it had been canceled.

There was kind of a period of time where we didn't know it was kind of touch and go.

Were they going to continue, were they going to try and continue and play the tournament?

Or were they not going to play the tournament, play the rest of the tournament?

And then, yeah, that's what I remember is getting a call.

I mean, it all pretty much stopped right then. And a couple of days later, I think, on that March 14th on that Saturday, you know,

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