COACH CAL RETURNS TO RUPP ARENA | Sources Say

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here, John Calipari making his highly anticipated return to Lexington, walking into Rupp Arena for the very first time as an Arkansas Razorback. The Hogs aren’t very good, but this matchup is so much bigger than team personnel or strengths vs. weaknesses. It’s about emotions and nostalgia, living in the Twilight Zone as the guy who led the program for 15 years is now at an SEC rival. The Sources Say crew talks through those emotions and our take on the game before things get crazy on Saturday. Have the nerves hit yet? Will they ever? What are the keys to a win and potential players to keep an eye on? Who is this a must-win for, Kentucky or Cal? What will it be like seeing some familiar faces wearing the wrong jersey in the place they once called home? It’s time for the official Coach Cal Homecoming Preview with Sources Say.

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0:00.0	Welcome in to the Sources Say podcast, your go-to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR podcast network presented by Club Blue.
0:13.8	Club Blue is the official collective partner of the University of Kentucky.
0:17.5	I am your host, Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.
0:20.4	Very excited to be joined once again by the one and only Sean Smith.
0:25.7	Sean, it's here.
0:26.9	It's time.
0:28.7	The game that we have had circled on our calendars from the minute John
0:33.7	Caliperi took the job from the minute the schedules were announced and we knew that February 1st was the date.
0:40.3	It's here.
0:42.0	And it feels very weird.
0:43.7	I woke up this morning.
0:44.9	I'll be totally honest.
0:45.9	And it just like the nerves just came crashing over me for the first time.
0:49.0	I don't know if it was like, hey, we had one game at a time, one step at a time.
0:54.1	Like, hey, we got to focus on knoxville we got
0:55.6	to focus on starkville we got to focus on champions cloud like there was so much building up that
1:00.1	you could kind of put it you compartmentalize it a little bit but now that it's here Sean I feel
1:06.7	every emotion crashing over me I don't know how you woke up this morning, Sean,
1:11.0	but it was not a great feeling for me.
1:13.3	No, that was what I was talking about
1:14.8	on our last episode was the emotions
1:17.7	you can't really say I'm going to feel this way
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