Rob Dauster

Play hard as hell.

Get this team to play the way Kentucky fans want to see.

The way they played for a lot of second half of the year last year.

The first half was a calamity.

It was a disaster.

And then...

Be relevant, obviously, when it matters most, which is in March and potentially April.

But I think if you're a top 10-ish team all year this year and you get at least to the second weekend, I think then at least Kentucky fans are going to start to feel a lot better about Mark Pope and the direction of this program going forward.

Yeah, I get that.

That makes sense.

I really like what they've put together in this group on paper.

I know that you believe that Malachi Moreno is going to regress because you don't believe in freshmen getting better when they become sophomores.

I can't make that joke with people that don't know that it's a joke, huh?

Correct, because people are going to clip that.

They're going to clip that and think that I'm saying that Malachi Moreno is going to somehow get worse.

He's not going to get worse.

My whole point to Rob here was he thinks every freshman –

gets better from their freshman and sophomore year.

And I try to tell him that that is not the case.

Like Rob, as a host at Field to 68, was actually pretty good his first year.