Tom Hart

I despise announcers that can't have fun, that can't entertain, that don't seem like they want to be to themselves.

What are you doing it for?

I have an amazing job, but there's a lot of sacrifice that goes along with it.

If I didn't love what I was doing, I wouldn't be on 6 a.m.

flights four times a week to go do it, right?

So...

And the Kentucky fan base is the largest in this regard, but there's nothing wrong with being ingrained with the largest college basketball fan base when I'm a college basketball fan myself.

Yeah.

Well, I keep trying to make it happen, right?

And I think our college football crew, we've been doing it long enough together.

Listen, I think those guys are amazing analysts and so good at what they do.

And I think we make a good team, but I think it's that familiarity that people kind of know what they're getting, that they're comfortable with that.

And I think that you rise to –

You rise in stature not because your talent gets any better or because you execute better.

It's because people get more familiar and more comfortable with it.

I just want to follow up one thing you said earlier, how it meant so much to you to hear your name when everything you were going through and you're sitting in an apartment in New York.

It's one of the most powerful things we can do during a broadcast.

And it's mentioning somebody by name who's going through

something significant.

It could be the birth of the child, right?