Welcome in to the Sources Say podcast, your go-to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR podcast network, presented by our friends at LG&E and KU.

I am your host, Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.

Very excited to be joined once again by Spencer Smith.

Sean is out tonight.

He's full, full season basketball mode with Frederick Douglas.

So we're bringing it, bringing in the, got your arm loose, got a relief pitcher in with Spencer Smith coming in.

So Spencer, how are you doing on this fine, whatever, days are all

running together with Wednesday, Wednesday evening? How are you doing? It's a Wednesday night. It's not a

fine Wednesday, though. Today's been tough. A bit of a somber day for me, but I'm getting through,

Jack. How are you? Horrible. Absolutely. Actually, that's a lie, because we're going to, we're going to

feed, we got some football stuff to talk about and optimism

is so high right now in Lexington on the football side of things.

I was actually in Lexington hanging out with Will Stein for his introductory press conference

today.

That was actually a lot of fun.

The juice is very much where it needs to be on the football side of things with

National Signing Day and, you know, portal coming up here in a couple weeks. So at least have

something to kind of distract us in a time of need for the BBN on the basketball side of things

because that's not very much fun. So very loosely, you have any thoughts on Will Stein and the transition from Stoops? I love it. Only because it seems like it's a totally new, fresh take on the program, right? Like we were going from Stoops, who was a defensive guy, known as one of the better defensive coordinators at the time when we hired him in Florida State, kind of a little bit of an older guy, right? Kind of a little bit more of an old school type of coach. And Will Stein is kind of the opposite of all that. He's an offensive mind. He's really young. He's fresh. He kind of came up in this whole NIL era a little bit, right? So I think he's got slightly different takes on that whole part of it. Kind of reminds me a little bit of like when I was at Oklahoma,

we hired Lincoln Riley as our offensive coordinator,

and he eventually became the head coach,

but kind of a similar path,

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