Bill Kennedy
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53 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Bill Kennedy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It has never performed the duty of a legitimate curtain.
Yeah, it's finally become the big time. It has grown up to an actual curtain. It's what it's always wanted to be.
Yeah, my name is Bill Kennedy. I'm an associate athletic director here at Arizona State University. I've been working full-time here for 37 years. I went to school here way back a long, long time ago. And anything else you'd like to know?
My all-time favorite characters, because they're one of the ones that we started with, are the unicorns. We have two unicorns that kind of make out. That's been an ongoing one for almost 12, 13 years, so that's kind of one of my all-time favorites just because of its longevity and its Hall of Fame nature.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, believe me, I have a ton of fun with this, Pablo.
Do you have a rough night? You have a rough night. And on those games, when you have really good games, you feel good at the end of it. So it's, you know, it's kind of like coaching, I guess.
In its history, we're at about a 67% success rate of free throws being made against it. This year, I will be completely honest, we're struggling a little bit this year. We're a little bit over 70%.
The funny thing is we've actually heard that some schools have actually practiced against the curtain. Effective or not, it's making them at least acknowledge it.
Yeah, so typically what we'll do is we'll get together the week of a game or set of games to kind of see what's going on. And we'll look at what is trending. And so we start just pitching those ideas. And then we always say, as much fun as we have and all the kidding we do, obviously we never want to be offensive to somebody. We never want to do anything offensive.
So there are definitely some skits that start to go down the wrong path that we have to bring back to the right direction or not use at all.
We have often joked about, you know, different things like, hey, if it came down, like, win an NCAA championship. It's the last thing we ever do. We know if we do this skit, we're done. We are out of here. I probably won't have a job at the end of the day. But we will take the bullet for the team so that we can win that championship.
Yeah, absolutely. You know, we had a series of skits kind of called Dogs Being Dogs. And so you can imagine maybe how dogs greet each other and things like that that would look really odd in the curtain and would not be appropriate in any way, shape, or form. But if we need that miss, might work.
That's absolutely an honor.
Okay, that would definitely be in the category if we needed a miss, but we were going to shut it down immediately afterwards.
Hey, tell Donald Glover he's got a ticket here. If he wants to be in the curtain, we're ready for him.
You know, I think we might have to stay away from the toilet part of it, but if we can think of something else, that is great.
Yeah, anything that doesn't involve a toilet problem.
So we do two conjoined unicorns. We can put the unicorn masks on them.
The Siamese triplet connected.
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