2026-04-13- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio, present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones welcome back.

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Speaker 4: I renumber two Kentucky Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. All right, so we're gonna take calls a bunch here in the second hour, but I also want to talk about a couple of things, Shannon. I went to Zach Bryan and h Kings of Leon on Saturday. I heard, yeah, you know, that's not normally my thing. A lot of parts of it aren't my thing. Don't know either of those two. I mean, I know who they are, but between in the three and a half hours that they played, I knew three songs. I knew, uh Sack home Fire and then what's the other one?

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Speaker 3: I know from Keys use Somebody, Oh h hum.

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Speaker 4: I knew those two. So during those songs I was yeah. And then on Zach Bryan, I know he's very famous, but I only think the only song I knew was something in the Horn Sure whatever.

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Speaker 1: Right, I'm not sure what that one is?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like Max, Max and Miles kept saying to me, you know this one. I'm like, no, I didn't know any of which is crazy because in listening to him, I don't know why I've had such an aversion to him for so long. I've almost like intentionally not listened to him. But I don't really know why. He's He's fine. Here's my Zach Bryan review. I thought he played his first concert in Pineval, he said, in Pineville. In Pinevale, he said he was in the military, and he met a guy in the military. He was like, you need to sing for a living. And the first place he got booked was Pinevale. Really, he said, like he has this great affinity for Pinevale. And then I remember Tyler Childers has a song about Pineval. How did Bell County?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Right, But Zack Bryan was like, Pineville, Kentucky, this is my first this was my which was crazy to me, and I'm the only one that screamed. There was clearly no one there from Bineville.

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Speaker 1: Now he's huge.

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Speaker 4: Now he's huge. He's actually I mean when he played his fast song, Shannon, I really liked right. So he his first half of his concert was were like fast songs, and when he played I thought they were good. I thought his band was good. He was good. He had a stage where he would look at all four sides, so he would rotate around, which I thought was nice as a as a singer, his slow songs, they all sound the same to me. It felt like Shannon he played the same song for an hour straight.

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Speaker 3: Well that's for the females, right.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that was my other tingle. I couldn't believe how many women. First of all, is his core fan base like fifteen to eighteen year old girls?

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Speaker 1: Definitely young women, but.

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Speaker 4: I mean like they like, I was amazed how many parents were there with their kids.

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Speaker 3: Is it the male version of Taylor Swift?

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Speaker 4: Maybe because it felt like it was all people my age and people in high schoolers really and no one in between. Huh, That's what it felt like to me. Now I didn't see everything. But and then there were some people like old guys there for only Kings of Leon, you know what I mean, who are like what do I do during Zach Bryan. So Max and Mike and Miles were kind of like that. They were just there for King. So because of all that shit, and this is my point, Zach Brian was fine. I might actually listen to him more than I have. It was maybe one of my best efforts of getting out of a concert.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I heard about this. I'm supposed to give you a crap about you leaving early.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 4: I looked at him and I said, look, I'm here for you guys, right, Max's you've been here in Australia. I haven't seen you in forever. Love Miles like, I'll do what y'all want, but I would suggest now to watch the last two songs next to the gate and then get the heck out. So I guess he finishes with the song called Revival, and when he starts that, I'm like.

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Speaker 3: We should already be in the car, make our break.

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Speaker 4: So we go, we leave, Thank God. Did you see the stories about what happened after No. People were stuck down there until two and the three in the morning.

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Speaker 6: Oh no, can see U of L's not used to those crowds at the football stadium.

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Speaker 4: They don't usually get.

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Speaker 5: That many people for the game, Shannon, So he was at the football stadium, Yeah, and there were more people than are at the games because there were people on the field, So the field was full, and all the stands and the infrastructure around that campus just cannot handle that.

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Speaker 4: And I could tell like Ubers apparently Ubers they just like Uber just was like no more, We're done with you.

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Speaker 3: Uber tapped out.

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Speaker 4: Uber tapped out. So we got one. We walked to the Dennies and got one there. But I had friends who said they were down there till two am, couldn't get out.

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Speaker 7: But you were foresaw what was coming, and you know, I have a sixth sense about this stuff, Shannon, I mean, WrestleMania will always be my best Oh yeah, we left during WrestleMania. I mean, WrestleMania was such a traffic disaster that the governor lost his re election for.

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Speaker 3: People were there. People were there until the next day, right. But the report that I got from maxas Matt literally just talked about exit strategy from the moment we entered.

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Speaker 4: That's a little of an exaggeration, but probably halfway through the Zach Brian stat I started talking exit strategy.

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Speaker 1: You did that when we were at the Hershey Park. You said, okay, Rynie, you listened to five Death Leopards songs and that's it. Five You get it first five and then we're leaving.

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Speaker 4: There is one of those what's the commercials you turn into your parents? Oh yeah, oh yeah, there's one about leaving about leaving early to beat.

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Speaker 3: The traff planting the strategy as soon as you enter into the stadium.

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Speaker 4: I do that, but people think, yeah, when Max, when Max and Miles were at the bar wanting to meet ladies, who were they thinking.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it depends on how it wouldn't have been at the bar. The last two songs really mean.

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Speaker 4: Cares Revival he played, Go buy the CD, look.

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Speaker 3: It up on YouTube. Watching in the parking.

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Speaker 4: Lot, Jeff, go ahead, Jeff, Jeff, all right, No, Jeff, go to Will.

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Speaker 8: Hey there, I'm not trying to tell anybody what to do, but Kentucky basketball is currently forty to one to win the national championship, and if they get all these dudes, that thing is going to go to ten or twelve to one.

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Speaker 4: And actually you can.

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Speaker 8: You can either cash out and take the profit, or if they don't get any of them, you can cash out for ninety percent of your original bet and you're really not out anything. So you know, I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

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Speaker 4: I actually don't I appreciate the call. I mean, I don't hate that. If it's really forty one. I mean, you will never get Kentucky forty to one before a season ever. Now you know, we're still a long way. We have no commit that's yet. But yeah, if you felt confident that you were going to get these two guys and you wanted to have some fun, why not.

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Speaker 1: He's right, they get those two guys, it's going to drop way down to ten to one, twelve to one or something. So you got a chance to maybe make a little cash right now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I'll take it. Hey, if I'm nine seven, couple open lines, let's go to Chris. Go ahead, Chris, Hey.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Hey, fella's how's it going good? Uh So my question really is kind of okay. So we're talking a lot about the recruits, big news on campus today. We have the best fans in the world. We also are passionate, and that tends to come out in bad ways. Do we think that if we managed to land Stokes and Rob right, that we quell some of the pope pace?

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Speaker 4: Of course? I think. I think, I mean, some of it will still exist because it's the Internet, and there's not any human being on earth that won't get some criticism on the Internet. But but yes, I do think, Well, okay, let's just use the people on this show. You have levels of skeptics on this show. I'm oddly not the least skeptical, even though I get probably the most grief about it. I would say Drew, who's not here, is the most skeptical. I mean, I'm not the most sectical. Sorry. And I think he'll be all in for next year. Yes, I think you'll be all in for next year. Shanon, Will you be all in for next year? So I will be too. Now you know, I'm probably not gonna be hanging the banner like I did in my mind last year, but I am going to be like, all right, here you go, Mark, you got your squad, go do it. That's gonna be my view, and I would say that's probably going to be the view of most of the fans. Yeah, you appreciate it. Call. I think people are gonna I mean, I don't think people are going to be guaranteeing success, but I do think people are going to have some some confidence now that like it can happen.

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Speaker 1: Just me, I already feel it. These guys haven't even committed, but I just feel like they're on the fact that they're on campus has got me thinking that, Okay, they're moving in the right direction, doing things they need to be doing to try to rebuild that roster.

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Speaker 4: Do you think my first frustration Shannon with that first caller made everybody scared?

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Speaker 3: Maybe so because somebody just called in and I said, okay, sorry, what's your name? And they hung up and they ran scream.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I was a little harsh, but also he was trying to.

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Speaker 3: Kill my vibe, the trait buzzkill.

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Speaker 4: He's trying to Hyeah.

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Speaker 3: You'll find it, don't force it.

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Speaker 4: It rained on my parade.

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Speaker 3: But that's like, yeah, either way, if you're one of these recruits, though, can you look at the Benner boys and go, Nope, I'm not going there After they went through all the trouble of getting bed sheets and Lennen well.

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Speaker 4: Clearly the coaches like if they brought them by, facetimed the guy.

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Speaker 3: You can't say no to those guys, can't you your stokes or.

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Speaker 4: They see and they seemed like nice guys on the phone. Sigma Ky in the house.

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Speaker 6: Now, Donnigma Kay chant, I don't know I was gonna give us Sigma.

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Speaker 3: Kay should ask them while Makay chick.

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Speaker 4: And thigh something like that. They got I guarantee it's that dumb. All the fraternity's ones are that dumb.

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Speaker 1: But if Donnie Freeman comes to campus this week, you know they're gonna drive him by and show him his.

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Speaker 4: Do you think they're driving Stokes? And they would. That's why we should have a reporter on the scene. See if I was the if I was the colonel, that's what I would use. I would send someone out there, uh huh and just sit on the sidewalk and.

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Speaker 1: Wait wait for him to drive by.

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Speaker 4: Or at the TV stations, what do they got to cover.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're probably out there today doing it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go to uh, Trevor, go ahead, Trevor.

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Speaker 10: Hey, guys, that first color had a little bit of a sound of a negativity in his voice, and I think today there is no room for negativity. Today is a huge day for Kentucky basketball. And so my question and more maybe even of a request. Hypothetically, let's say Rob Right and Tyron Stokes are driving around in the car and the radio is playing, or they're somewhere on camp and.

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Speaker 4: They're listening to a radio.

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Speaker 10: Yes, okay, that's right, and where somebody could send them this could we get maybe a sixty second good old fashioned, Ryan Lemon, just pump up.

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Speaker 4: No, I want him to come here. I want him to come here. This would be this would be one for like a Chester, Yes, like this would be a good Chester message to Tyron Stokes and Rob right about the sort of feeling Shannon of Kentucky basketball, all right, and why they should come here.

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Speaker 3: Ryan gets a little aggressive sometimes I get a little.

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Speaker 4: Aggressive, and I don't trust him not to talk about that would freak them out. You need to know Ryan, right, yeah, yeah, that your intro to Ryan cannot be a motivationals.

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Speaker 3: You have to know that deep down exactly.

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Speaker 4: Don't know that. So what what are the best ways outside of Nile money? You probably would like, I mean, they're young guys, so sorority houses, like if they nice for Sigma Kai would be nice. If the sorority houses, that would be good if they put.

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Speaker 1: Them up right there.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what the sororities. I bet they have tried delt right, what else? Is there something with a.

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Speaker 1: Pie capa delta?

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Speaker 4: All right? I guess that maybe, But my point is that would be one then I would want I think, like somewhere where they eat, where they were taking them to lunch or something, then have it like I know the football recruse used to love when Vince would walk them into Ks Bar and everybody because Vince used to he would call me in advance and he would say, I got six guys coming. I appreciate the call, by the way, and I would get on the microphone and I would say, all right, here's who's coming. When they walk in, Vince would walk in first, and if you've been there during the game, they everyone would cheer. He bring them in for a pregame basketball car.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh right, yep.

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Speaker 4: I wish we could have a moment like that. Although these guys, you know, would they like it or not. But like Rob right at b YU, he'd have to. Like Gus, he doesn't get that correct. Stokes may get have gotten it in his life, but Rob Wright's probably never gotten there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what are you wearing.

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Speaker 1: Saint Louis Cardinal baseball shirt? Looks good that you're you're red to my Cardinals.

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Speaker 4: That doesn't look like one they would have given you.

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Speaker 1: I think my mom bought it for me.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we'll take a break and be right back. Scancer. Yeah, the whole crowd did sing this, Like I'm kind of a sucker Shannon for when huge crowds, especially stadium crowds. Yeah, sing a song with the artists, right, Yeah, I think it's kind of beautiful if the song is good. So even though I didn't, I mean, I've heard this song, but I didn't really know it. When everybody was singing this, it actually was you know, you get kind of chill shitted and when you do that, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, even if you don't necessarily like the song. Hearing everybody sing that and I hate to admit it, like when it comes to sports, but Kansas with the rock chalk j Yes, that's fair.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's right, that's chanting. Like Tom Petty Learning to Fly has become my favorite song of his because I heard the version where he was singing it in Gainesville at Florida Stadium and the crowd then takes over and sings for him, and he almost sings accompanying the crowd, and it's It's become my favorite song of his. And I always liked it, but like that version just sends chills up my spine, shitting you know.

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Speaker 3: So know you're a Zach Bryan fan, you're going go out?

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Speaker 4: I mean I don't. I will if I knew the names of the songs I heard, I will listen to the fast ones, but the slow ones. I honestly, at one point I looked at Max and I'm like, Hey, how long is this song? And He's like, these are like three songs? Yeah, because they all just kind of sounded the same to me after a while. But but that's fine. I mean, people loved it. People were loving it, and I also have to give a shout out to Cardinal Stadium had the best pretzel I've ever had. Well, you know me, I hate lines. Yeah, I ain't standing in any lines. The lines were atrocious for everything. The only line that had no no things were Ben's Pretzels because all they had was pretzels. I think it was Ben's Pretzels. Shout out to whoever Ben is, and they were doing a good job with those pretzels.

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Speaker 1: Surprised there wasn't a line then people didn't know there were.

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Speaker 4: That dinner that night was pretzel, but it was. It was very good.

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Speaker 1: I can see why you like Zach Bryan. He's got that voice kind of that.

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Speaker 4: I just spent twenty minutes saying I don't like. I've never heard any of his music.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm surrised you don't like.

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Speaker 4: I'm surprised you don't. Yeah, just never. I think it was because everybody would always when he came up, they were like, this guy's just like Tyler. And then I heard a song and I was like, he's not really like Tyler, and so then I just decided I didn't like it because but maybe it's not fair to it. Although apparently people keep writing me and saying he's not a good dude. But I'm not making judgment. I don't know the person herby Go ahead, Kirby.

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Speaker 11: Hey, good morning man, first time came. Hey been going back and listen to those shows. So all this stuff going on? Who do we depend on on Facebook? KSR, Kentucky Insider, cats coverage? Who do we follow there?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't know what the what the last one you said is? I mean, obviously, I'm gonna say kas coverage? Yeah, I don't know what that is. Ks R would obviously, I mean, we're would be the one. Here's what you have to be careful with. There are people out there, and I'm not saying that about any of these people because I don't know who you're talking about, but there are people out there who will see other information, not confirm, put it out, and then people take that as a confirmation, and then sometimes you have to go, well, where did the original piece of information even come out? I will tell you this. I only know the standard for me, Jack Jacob. I can't speak for Ryan because I was in Europe or when I was in Amsterdam. He took a different strategy, but I'm not putting it out with confirmation unless I know it's happening. And that's why I often won't put stuff out everybody else does, because if I don't hear it, I'm not gonna do it.

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Speaker 11: And one more, one more thing. I've been going back in your information on that blueprint thing. I was going to ask that question a few weeks ago, but that was great, and I've been looking on Kentucky Web so I think it's something awesome and everything.

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Speaker 4: It looks good. This college like that, I didn't know. Well, just saying before you go there, I didn't know that on your Twitter, Ryan, there's a place where people who don't know you can write messages. Did you know that?

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Speaker 3: No, like a request?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I didn't know that was there. So I just looked at those the other day and it's got a lot of people I wouldn't want it. But then there's like a lot of people I might have wanted to talk to that have written me there and I didn't know, and one of them was the CEO of that blueprint wanting to explain what it was. So maybe it will get him on at some point to do that. But go ahead, what's your next thing?

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Speaker 11: The one more thing was on Jeff Goodman on x other week he listed these prices for top twenty five porter players, big men, point guards, wings. Big man was four to five million, point guards, three to four, wings, two to points, five to three. And I mean, I'm old school, but yet you've been saying, you know, people can lose jobs and people fired and the people move on. I've been agreeing with all that stuff. But the one thing with some of these contracts, say, like an older Kirk Cousins, he's going to the Raiders.

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Speaker 12: With an incentive package.

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Speaker 13: These kids have.

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Speaker 11: Never made this money before. Yeah, you start bringing in college player, I know, but do you bring in these college players based on incentives?

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Speaker 4: But you can't do worse things until you were look, I am for all things that they do in the NBA, NFL baseball that has been refined over ninety years, and those contracts make a lot of sense. So you're right, Kirk's cousins gets all these incentives. But here's the problem, and it's a good question, why can't they do that in college basketball because we still will not accept that these kids are employees. The schools do not want these kids to be employees for a variety of reasons. Because of that.

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Speaker 11: No, I think they need to be.

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Speaker 4: Then once they do that, then you can have a collective bargaining agreement and you can do the things like you're talking about, sir, have multi year contracts, have and have incentives. All of those things are possible, but you have to treat them as employees. If you do not treat them as employees under current law, it's the wild West of capitalism. Right. So I will use this argument not to get political, but I do think it's important. A lot of times people say I want the government to stay out of the economy, right, A lot of people say that, sure, and I understand why they say it. You want to know what the economy would look like if there was no government. Go look at nil and college sports, because there are no runs exactly. There's no protections for the athletes, there's no protections for the colleges, there's no protections for anybody. It is literally free market capitalism at its most pure. And so I would say, I want there to be rules, but until you call them employees, I think it's going to be impossible to have rules that will withstand courts for the most part.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I agree with that because I mean it's like Jayden. Nothing against Jayden last year, but if he didn't play, he shouldn't have made that much money. But like you said, he's non employee, so it's not incentive based, So I get it. I'm just trying to figure out, you know, how do you base a big man at four to five million?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. And I also would say Jeff would know more about those amounts. I appreciate the call than I would. I do you would think Ryan, I always will think the numbers are somewhat exaggerated because, as we've talked about both sides, the school and the player and the agent, they all have incentives to exaggerate.

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Speaker 1: They want to inflate that number because I help them when they do go to the negotiating table.

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Speaker 4: But do I think guys there are guys who will get four or five million dollars? Yes? Yeah, and there might even be one or two on campus right now. So we'll take a break. Be back to kosawk. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the crowds went nut for the nuts for this one too. Yeah, shouldn't these guys just look like regular dudes? Like, they did not look like rock singers to me. They just look like guys you'd see on the show. Like it looked like I could be up there, you know, because a lot of times you see musical acts, you're like, well, that dude's a lot cooler than that. Years like, oh he's like oh okay, yeah, I couldn't do that. But like I looked up there and I was like, if I knew how to do any of these things, I could be up there with those guys there.

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Speaker 3: You go, well, may half of us though looking the park.

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Speaker 4: But they don't look apart. They just look like guys.

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Speaker 3: Well because they.

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Speaker 4: Looked like a bunch of forty something year old guys yea, which is what I guess they are.

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Speaker 3: People love him. I was just surprised they were opening up for Zach Bryan. It's sort of a.

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Speaker 4: Well, Zach Bryan I think has a song with him. He came out and sang with him on a song.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why that's the connection. That sounds like an odd Combo King's only on opening for Zach Brian.

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Speaker 4: One person said, let's be honest with our sales. Matt, you didn't like Zach Brian because people were telling you is like Tyler music or Tyler Childers, and you feel like you found his music and that made you you're Yes, that's a good call. Text of the day if we used to do that. I didn't find Tyler, but I feel like I did because a song right before he broke out. Yeah, lots of people in Kentucky's sawing for I did, though.

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Speaker 1: But this guy I think has that kind of that Tyler sound a little bit exactly, but it's a little in the ballpark. In the ballpark.

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Speaker 4: I had Rich Eyes in on ESPN yesterday. Yeah, that was very cool. If you get a chance the Matt and Myron Hour three, you could Downloa. We interviewed him and it was great. He talked about what it was like to work at Sports Center, it's heyday, talked about radio a lot. I geeked out a little bit. He acted like he knew who he were, and I enjoyed that as somebody who grew up, you know.

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Speaker 3: Was he one of the originals or he wasn't one of the originals.

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Speaker 4: He said, came on in ninety six or ninety something ninety five with he was kind of the Stuart Scott partner.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so like that second one, he's kind.

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Speaker 4: Of Wave two. You got Wave two one is like Dan Patrick, Keith Well, you got like Chris Berman and those guys. Then I think Wave two is like, uh, you know, Keith Oberman, Dan Patrick. Then I think there's another wave that Stuart Scott, rich Eisen, Scott Van Pelt, Kenny Maine, Kenny Mayne, I think is more than the first one, along with like Craig Kilbourne, Curricula. I think Eisen's in the kind of Stuart Scott, Scott, Scott Van Pelt, Charlie Steiner was in the original.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I've never met Richardson and everybody says he's a great guy. Did he come across that way?

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Speaker 4: Couldn't have been nicer to us. I mean again, it was on the radio and he was like, look forward to seeing you guys soon, and I was.

00:26:20
Speaker 3: Like, you haven't seen me the first time.

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Speaker 4: We've never met.

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Speaker 1: Are they bring him back to sports?

00:26:27
Speaker 4: So how about seeing me the first time? Well, he hosted it last night, they did, and they used the old graphics. Did the old intros. You know how they used to make intros with like puns and stuff. He did one of those. You should hear. It was funny. He like voiceover and yeah, it was cool. I didn't watch all of it, but I wat.

00:26:49
Speaker 1: I thought I saw something. He's going back to the sports in her desk. I didn't know what it was about.

00:26:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was it was from Iron and I both we were kind of you know, it's kind of nice.

00:26:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw you retweeted something where somebody called you and Minn the best show on the radio.

00:27:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, yeah, shon that you should retweet.

00:27:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, right, will retweet.

00:27:09
Speaker 4: I mean it's one that people say about Kentucky. That's very nice. But well a lot of people say it, but most people don't even know I'm on on.

00:27:17
Speaker 1: A national level. That's why they don't know.

00:27:19
Speaker 4: So if somebody says that that's the easiest way, that's like, okay. Another thing they do in concerts, they all mentioned the city Marvel, You're the best crowd we've ever had. That's the cheapest pop in the world. Right, Yeah, So if you tweet me and say this is the best show.

00:27:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, although he tweeted that, didn't he tweet it was one of the best shows or best talents he's ever played. Was Louisville.

00:27:43
Speaker 4: He said during the concert, this is the best crowd I've ever had, and I was like whatever, and then he tweeted it.

00:27:51
Speaker 3: So if you say it, yeah, he probably says that every town he goes to. But to tweet it though, now you can't tweet.

00:27:56
Speaker 4: It about every single people will go.

00:27:58
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, little insincere.

00:28:01
Speaker 4: So I could see it. I mean that people were into it.

00:28:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's big started was at the Mountain Laurel Festival concert or something.

00:28:09
Speaker 4: Probably he was playing in a bar in I didn't even know Pinevill had bar.

00:28:13
Speaker 1: I didn't either.

00:28:14
Speaker 4: I just thought they had the flow co in the subway, and I guess they also have a bar. Jeff, go ahead, Jeff, all right.

00:28:21
Speaker 12: Let's try again. Second guy's a good golfer here with the mulligan. Uh. I just think we make our own luck in this world, and I see Pope changing his luck bringing in Keegan with the roster very intentional shoot pass, dribble guys that have been on our list the new Fanatics deal. Hopefully we can leverage that for Stokes, and then you've got the energy in the swag of Mo and I think we clean up this week.

00:28:49
Speaker 4: I think those are really good points. I mean, we'll see about Keegan Brown. I don't know anything about him. Moe Williams brings a swagger and a coolness that this staff didn't haveppreciate the call I'll use I use this example uh with UH with somebody yesterday I was talking to about this. Moe Williams is just staff's Mario, and I'm serious about that. We needed to be a little cooler. Mario makes us a little cooler. Mark Polpe needs to be a little cooler. I think it's fair to say Shannon not the coolest dude in the world, Mark Fox not the coolest dude in no Cody Figer not the coolest. I'm not criticizing him. I'm not the coolest dude in the world. You bring in Mario adds some young cool factor. Moe's not as young, but he's just if you remember him from he just has a swagger to him. I mean, he's just got a thing that's probably helpful that may have been a weakness this staff needed.

00:29:50
Speaker 1: And that connection he's got with Stokes, I'm sure added to his ability to bring him down in campus for a visit this week without question.

00:29:56
Speaker 4: Joella, go ahead, Joelle. Hello, yes, ma'am.

00:30:04
Speaker 14: Hey, I was just gonna say I rode in this morning on a flight with Tyler Stokes and he was just a very kind young man. Tyran Stokes, Tyron Stokes.

00:30:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't call him Tyler. But so you were on the flight, Okay, See this is what I love, Shannon. This is me being as it's mess. They're on the flight. Where was the flight from?

00:30:29
Speaker 14: Well, no, I'm assuming he was on my phone. I got a picture with him here at Bluegrass Airport. But we flew in from Atlanta. We flew in from Alana.

00:30:38
Speaker 4: Joela, can you send us the picture? Oh sure, okay, I'll tell you what you're going to hang on at the end of this call. Give Shannon your number or Shannon will give you a number to text it to.

00:30:51
Speaker 14: Okay, okay, I'll be glad to But yes, I'm really excited I got to meet him.

00:30:56
Speaker 4: All right. Well good, and so he was what did you say to him?

00:31:01
Speaker 14: I just he was taking a picture with another lady and I didn't even ask for a picture, but he came over and took one with me.

00:31:08
Speaker 4: You didn't even ask for a picture. He just walked up to you and gave a picture.

00:31:12
Speaker 9: He walked up.

00:31:14
Speaker 14: To me because I had offered to give a picture to the lady.

00:31:17
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, she actually she sat beside.

00:31:22
Speaker 10: Him the whole way home.

00:31:24
Speaker 14: Gotcha, And so I said, I'll take your all picture, and then he just came over and took one with me. He did a selfie with me.

00:31:31
Speaker 4: You could have just taken a picture Joela with a future NBA number one pick. Imagine if you had a picture with little bron as he got off the plane in high school, or Anthony Davis.

00:31:48
Speaker 14: We left from Hawaii yesterday. So I'm a little bit gent. Let me tell you something I told him. I said, go uk, we gotta sign.

00:31:55
Speaker 11: We got a sign, hang on.

00:31:58
Speaker 4: And then you can send Shannon the picture and we'll go from there. Okay, all right, I appreciate.

00:32:04
Speaker 1: How about that humble brag. We just flew in from a whole lot away.

00:32:08
Speaker 4: My picture you're focused on. That was the kindest lady, and she was excited and she's sending a picture and you're gonna call her a humble bragger. Why would you do that? What is that? What is with you today? I don't know? Yellowitch.

00:32:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was not good.

00:32:24
Speaker 4: Joella, that was not good. What is that with you? Who pete in your cheeriot?

00:32:29
Speaker 12: Oh?

00:32:29
Speaker 1: I can't say that.

00:32:30
Speaker 4: I get to say it. You don't.

00:32:32
Speaker 1: I'm on probation.

00:32:33
Speaker 4: Who did that? Why? Why are you in such a.

00:32:36
Speaker 1: It's Monday, It's great day.

00:32:39
Speaker 4: All right, Channing. When you get the picture, let me know, we'll verify if it's if it's him. Bluegrass, go ahead, Bluegrass.

00:32:48
Speaker 15: Oh, fellas, you might have caught me at the wrong time.

00:32:50
Speaker 16: I'm taking a shower.

00:32:52
Speaker 4: All right, Let's go to Dave. Dave, go ahead. I'm not taking calls from naked men in shower. Go ahead, Dave.

00:33:02
Speaker 13: Great call on your part. Matt Litt to hear me out real quick, Okay. I kind of feel like when you were talking about your folks calling out the fan base, and you were kind of calling me out because I make some comments. But just hear me out real quick. The frustration that you had with the first caller today is the same thing that I get every time I open a post. And I'm not saying it's the entire fan base. We have a wonderful fan base, but we have the largest number of knuckleheads that have something negative to say about anything of any fan base in the country. That's why I get so frustrated.

00:33:38
Speaker 4: I agree to some extent, I agree with you. I can't read the comments to my posts, like like when I wrote that Trent Noah was coming back the comments to my post on Twitter. Honestly, we're shameful. But you also have to remember it's like twenty people, most of them are anonymous. And remember the piece of advice I've said many times that I have to remind myself all the time. If you are a happy human being, would you go on Twitter and reply to a person and be a jerk, Because if you were happy, you wouldn't. No, So that means that person isn't happy, and so let's just hope things get better for them. With that said, though, I understand what you're saying, like but you just just don't read the comments. Find the UK fans that bring you joy or the media and follow those people and just try to ignore the others because I get it. But if but I get why that would be frustrating.

00:34:39
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think and I think what really frustrates me is, you know, there was a point in time when I would have fucked. There's no way that what people say on social media would actually have a detrimental effect on whether or not kids would want to come here. But you know what those kids and their families, especially if this day and age, everything matters. Everything is now everybody he read everything.

00:35:00
Speaker 1: I get that, you're right.

00:35:04
Speaker 4: I appreciate the call. I think the thing is, though, I just don't want to appreciate the call. I don't want the message to be we do it and other people don't, because the other people do it too. But it can be depressing. Like yesterday, so much good news. I just didn't read my comments for ten hours. I was like, I'm gonna be in a positive move. That's better be like on cast board, where there are some negative people, but there's more people having real conversation. Uh, there's a group chat somebody put me in that's got a lot of fans that are really excited and they're not They're kind of fun, right, So I'm not gonna be like once I see the sense of gloom and doom. And that's probably why I jumped on that caller earlier is why be doomy today. If we don't get either of these guys, then be doomy right now. We got the number two quarterback in America and we got the two best players we've had visit here in the Pope era are both here.

00:35:58
Speaker 1: We need to be celebrating having a party today. But the guy said, like there's just a couple knuckleheads. Just ignore the knuckleheads, all right.

00:36:04
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00:36:40
Speaker 1: There we go. That's definitely him.

00:36:42
Speaker 4: He's got braces right. Does he have braces? Are you sure, Mario? Because I want to put this out.

00:36:50
Speaker 1: That's him.

00:36:51
Speaker 3: I don't want to put this out and then not be him on the other pictures. He doesn't have braces.

00:36:55
Speaker 4: Are you sure he has braces?

00:36:57
Speaker 3: He just got it?

00:36:59
Speaker 4: That him?

00:37:00
Speaker 1: That's him?

00:37:01
Speaker 4: You promise.

00:37:04
Speaker 3: Maybe he just got braces.

00:37:05
Speaker 4: Text Joe Joel real quick and ask her if she's okay if I put that up? Will you do that?

00:37:10
Speaker 13: Yeah?

00:37:11
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, we'll take a break, be right back. Yeah you know, yeah, that was it.

00:37:19
Speaker 3: That's Mark Pope right now to Tyrone Stokes somebody like him.

00:37:24
Speaker 4: Yes, well we definitely could. So I posted the picture this is that's of Joella and Tyron Stokes and Joella's Hawaii T shirt. What a nice woman.

00:37:33
Speaker 3: That seems like new braces and everything.

00:37:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, see we we have some breaking new ship.

00:37:40
Speaker 3: Oh hang on running.

00:37:42
Speaker 4: No, Jalen Lowe has committed to Georgetown in d C. Do you think it was because he saw him beat us in that game? He was like, I try.

00:37:56
Speaker 1: He didn't get to play in that game. He just watched it, didn't he.

00:37:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, he didn't. He did not play plant that game because that was we were like, well, I mean, we lost to them, but we didn't have jail in love, So I.

00:38:04
Speaker 1: Hope they'd design their offense and went perfect.

00:38:06
Speaker 4: For I actually think that's perfect for him. I mean, like, that's a perfect school for him because he can he can chewt a lot, and he can run the I actually think that's that's a really like a smart choice for him.

00:38:20
Speaker 1: He's definitely a ball dominant point guard.

00:38:22
Speaker 4: Yes, so he needs to go to a school that's cool with him doing that. Yeah, I think if I if I'm him, that's that's a really good choice. So I wish him the best. By the way, before I go these calls, the weather's warming up days are getting longer. Golden hours calling corn bread and few seltzers. I have a ton of them in my house because they send them to me, and Max and Miles clearly enjoyed them. Four winning firs flavors, thirty calories or less per can open a corn bread and let the golden hour feeling wash over you. It's cornbread Himp. First time customers can head to Cornbreadhimp dot com. U's a co KSR twenty percent off their order. Corn at him dot com. Cod code ks are twenty percent off your order. It's cornbread hemp grown for the good life. We will just so you know, on my on ksr KS board Twitter, I also put up a thread's account yesterday you got up on threads ky sports radio. I mean I had it, but I actually posted a couple of times. Okay, So we'll put news out on all those things today. Just keep hitting refreshed today. I think this is a refreshed day.

00:39:29
Speaker 1: Seems like it has been a watch. So we've had one of these days where you're just constantly refreshing to see it is something hit.

00:39:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, let's go to Tim. Go ahead, Tim, Matt.

00:39:37
Speaker 15: My girlfriend describes me to people that she doesn't know as he's the type of guy that likes to call talk radio shows. And I don't think that's and I don't think that's a compliment. You know, people family, it's bad.

00:39:49
Speaker 4: Man. Maybe she doesn't mean it much, but you know, she means it like that, but she listens right, you know.

00:39:57
Speaker 15: And when I tell her too. You know, when we started dating, she didn't know that off between basketball and a football and she didn't understand why every football player didn't want to be the quarterback that's being said, Matt, So let me let me flying him in commercial is an awful look where I'll assure you that he flew to Lawrence, Kansas private, because there is no airport for three hundred miles.

00:40:18
Speaker 4: I don't think guys in private, are you?

00:40:21
Speaker 6: And he had to pay on this one, right, yeah, soss though, but.

00:40:26
Speaker 4: They couldn't do it. He had already taken an official visit. And that's actually one of the only rules the NCAA and forces is one official guy school.

00:40:36
Speaker 15: Let me ask you this, under cow, we had the auto collectives with Bluegrass Motorsports, and I'm thinking we don't have that anymore because let's these kids. Let's not fool ourselves. So they are seven months mercenaries. And right now it is about the money.

00:40:51
Speaker 4: So I don't think in cash.

00:40:53
Speaker 15: Don't think you have to kid five million in cash. And so here's what we offer, here's three million, here's what Kansas is offering. That's the difference.

00:41:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate the call. They don't they the car thing? Yes, they used to get to drive cars back when they couldn't get money. But now the car companies just give him the car directly. As you saw with Jasper Johnson's truck. So I don't think the car part is an issue. Clint, go ahead, Clint.

00:41:22
Speaker 16: Oh first on caller, who why.

00:41:26
Speaker 13: Who?

00:41:27
Speaker 16: I got a buddy? I would I would tell him a cow guy. That's what he refers to. So Marcus Pope is what I call him. How many studs does Mark Pope have to land this week to have make him have a little hope in Pope?

00:41:44
Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate the call. I think he's got to have at least one, and I think if he has two, your buddy should have hope. And remember, for all the talk about col versus Pope, Cow's been a thirty some year co Pope's been a handful of year. Coach Cow's made it one farther round in two years than Pope. First year, they made it to the same place. This year he made the Sweet sixteen. We made it to the round of thirty two. Pope beat him once, Col beat him once. Their overall record is very similar.

00:42:21
Speaker 1: Very similar.

00:42:22
Speaker 4: The one difference is that they won the SEC tournament title. That's really the biggest difference. So you know, I'm not gonna act like Pope's done everything we hoped, but it's not like comparing the cals kind of silly. All right, be watching the news tomorrow. Maybe we know, maybe we don't. It's an exciting day to day, exciting twenty four hours. We'll see you later. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.