A Super Talked Talk Mississippi Media Production.

Kentucky is who's on base today for the SEC preview.

Joining me now on the Welcome Home Beef Hotline.

John Hale covers the Wildcats for the Louisville Courier Journal.

Great reporter, not a fan of the Champions of Europe, much to his dismay, I'm sure.

John, Kentucky has sort of turned a corner for me in terms of expectation.

And what I mean by that is two years ago, if you say,

okay, Kentucky's gonna go three and nine.

I'm not completely surprised by that.

Now, I would be really surprised if Kentucky is not a

bowl team and possibly a lot better than that. Is it the same way in

Kentucky have fans reached a level of expectation of winning? Yeah definitely

I mean it's obviously not in Alabama. It's not at

LSU and Auburn and Georgia anything like that, but they've certainly reached the

point in the program where Richbrooks had it what, 10 or 15 years ago, where they were expecting

to go to a ball game every season, the winner six or seven games, you get to a mid to low level

ball game and go from there.

The question becomes, can you take it to another level and Mark

Stoop so far has shown the signs that that might be possible to where you can have this

baseline of having a winning record every season and maybe every three or four years you have a

bunch of veterans you have some things go your way you could make a run at the east they

did that a few years ago with Josh Allen if any selling all those guys won 10 games for

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