All right? We're pleased now to be joined by Nick Rausch of Kentucky Sports Radio.

He covers Kentucky Football.

Kentucky Bass Boys on the radio and of course he's the host of the 11 personnel

podcast. I just listened to the latest one there breaking down spring football some really outstanding stuff and you come highly recommended Nick so once again I really appreciate you hopping on here.

Well, I appreciate you having me the feelings mutual. It's an exciting time of the year

where you get a little bit of a football basketball crossover. It's kind of like November,

except this time the shoes on the other foot instead of you know getting like a little

tease with like Champions Classic like Beast Week in the middle of football season it's

basketball kind of teasing us or

or football teasing us in the middle of the busiest time of the year for

basketball so I absolutely love it and I'm happy to hear to talk about it all with you.

Absolutely. Well, before we get into, you know, Spring Camp is already underway there in Lexington,

I did want to ask you this because I'm a Tennessee graduate and I tweet a lot about SEC football, Tennessee football,

but I, you know, I tweet about the entire conference and I'm just wondering if you get this,

I would imagine you probably don't, but because I have so many Tennessee followers

anytime I say something good about Kentucky I just get berated by damn

vaul Twitter and I'm just I'm wondering if you felt their wrath as well.

Oh, of course, of course, and that's because over time Tennessee has solely developed into public enemy number one for me.

Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky,

it was always, that was always the biggest rivalry,

but for a certain segment of our fan base,

especially in southeast Kentucky, where a lot of those kind of small towns in Appalachia,

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