{"id":54828,"date":"2024-06-06T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=54828"},"modified":"2024-06-06T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T07:30:00","slug":"let-the-kids-stay-up-nick-mingione-encourages-no-bedtimes-for-ncaa-super-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/let-the-kids-stay-up-nick-mingione-encourages-no-bedtimes-for-ncaa-super-regionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the kids stay up! Nick Mingione encourages no bedtimes for NCAA Super Regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Mingione guest starred on Kentucky Sports Radio\u2019s Wednesday morning radio program, joining guest host Tom Hart and the rest of the crew by phone from Kentucky Proud Park as the Wildcats prepare for the upcoming series against Oregon State. Late in that 18-minute conversation, Mingione was asked about Kentucky<\/a> drawing the 9 p.m. time slot for Game 2 on Sunday night. \u201cThe start times did not do you any favors,\u201d Hart told him.<\/p>\n

Unbothered, Mingione shrugged off the late start in the Supers, citing sold-out weeknight crowds in Rupp Arena and more than 50K fans at football games next door as examples of UK fans rallying around the Wildcats. It\u2019s why #WeAreUK is his favorite hashtag, he said, because the University of Kentucky is one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been here for eight years, and I\u2019ve sat in Rupp Arena and, Tom, you\u2019ve been in there at nine o\u2019clock at night on a Tuesday, and there\u2019s 24,000 people there,\u201d Mingione said of UK\u2019s fan base. \u201cTwenty-four! You\u2019ve been there. You\u2019ve been there. You\u2019ve seen it. You\u2019ve been in our football stadium; we\u2019ve had over 50,000 people. So, look, a nine o\u2019clock start, I\u2019m really not concerned one bit, because I\u2019ve seen what our fan base has done<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n

He then recalled Kentucky winning its first-ever regional championship in 2017 in his first season as head coach, beating NC State at the old Cliff Hagan Stadium in the middle of the night. \u201cThat game did not finish till after one o\u2019clock in the morning. The game did not start till after nine o\u2019clock after a lightning storm on a Monday night, and the fans were there,\u201d he reminded KSR and its audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I actually am not concerned, and I know they\u2019ll come because that\u2019s what they do. They support our programs as well as anybody, I mean, and it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a midweek or a Sunday night; there\u2019s no school, so I know the kids and where they\u2019re going to want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Photo by Aaron Perkins for KSR)<\/p>\n

A message to BBN: Let the kids stay up<\/h2>\n

Nick Mingione left KSR listeners with some parenting advice for any fans who may be questioning whether they should allow their children to stay up for Kentucky\u2019s late games in the NCAA Super Regional, the first-ever Super Regional in Lexington.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, I know the kids got to go to bed. \u201cI\u2019ve got a nine-year-old. But we\u2019re interested in not giving Reeves, our son, things. We\u2019re more concerned about giving experiences. And a kid at 11 or 12 o\u2019clock at night will remember that baseball game more than they would staring at the back of their eyeballs in a bed on a random Sunday, June night. So Big Blue Nation, let\u2019s give our guys and our kids an experience that they will never forget. And they will not forget that<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This message from @Coach_Mingione<\/a> had me ready to run down Nicholasville Road to the stadium pic.twitter.com\/lK07xQ5paS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Drew Franklin (@DrewFranklinKSR) June 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Hear Nick Mingione on KSR with Tom Hart, Ryan, and Drew<\/h2>\n

Listen to KSR\u2019s conversation with Mingione halfway through the second hour of today\u2019s podcast. You can listen to the entire show here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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