2026-02-13- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Or quarterback number two. Thank you Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Here with the raucous crowd in Radcliffe, Kentucky at Don Franklin by with back up every qualifying part back by five year parts warranty. Here at Don Franklin, Radcliffe, Kentucky, home of we talked about North Harden. Also, this was very close to here where we jumped out of the airplane. Drew and I saw a couple of people who or who were there that day.

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Speaker 2: The mayor is the mayor still here of Radcliffe. He was here.

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Speaker 3: I guess he went off to do mayor work, but he jumped off the jumped out that day as well.

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Speaker 1: That was awesome to watch you guys do that. But that was the worst radio show in the history of radio, Shannon I had to do when you guys were gone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you and I remember that day for a different reasons.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you saw what happens if we just give Ride a microphone and give him no preparations.

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Speaker 2: The problem was and you couldn't get calls right.

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Speaker 4: And we couldn't go to break nothing would work. It was just riot and ies spitballing. Our internet service would work. We couldn't look up any like comments from people listening or anything.

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Speaker 2: So it's just two hours of you two talking, yeah like that.

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Speaker 4: Sure is a nice day, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: No look at our phone, no calls, no commercials, no stopping, and you talk about I can't remember what you look like, big bird in your yellow flight suit, get ready to jump out of the plane. That lasted about thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like thirty minutes of good content. By the way.

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Speaker 3: I put out last night a new Interrupted episode.

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Speaker 2: You can get it on your podcast.

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Speaker 3: We did a mail bag and had questions, talked about kind of what's been going on in the news, and Shannon I said something about Billy that.

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Speaker 2: Is also true about you. What's up?

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Speaker 3: I said that I decide when I'm trying to think of who should run for office from our side, the Democrats, by who could get Shannon and Billy's vote, Because my theory is if I could get your two votes, get anybody, well not anybody, not anybody, but enough people to win because you two kind of flip back and forth.

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Speaker 2: And so I was talking about that you think that's a fair indication.

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Speaker 4: Probably so, because I think I can see both sides on most things, not.

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Speaker 2: Every And then you. I know you've voted for both.

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Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, in the past, I've voted you know, democratic and Republican. So they call that independent.

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Speaker 2: Wedia, that's true.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's rights and independence.

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Speaker 2: People forget we were gonna have him run for the.

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Speaker 4: Legisl was a dem and now I'm independent.

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Speaker 5: So you lost one.

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Speaker 4: From your party. Now, but I go to the other side, just that a spite, I'll become Republican.

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Speaker 2: Now yeah, well whatever works.

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Speaker 3: But uh but yeah, so anyway, I gave you that compliment issue.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about a couple of things.

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Speaker 3: Uh, in the other world of sports, Nick Castellanos. When I say Nick Castellanos, rhyme, what do you think of a.

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Speaker 1: Guy that hits a lot of home runs, but it hits like two hundred for the season.

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Speaker 2: That's not what I think of. I bet Drew thinks of what I think of.

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Speaker 5: He does hit home runs at opportune moments.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: I think of when Tom made that inappropriate comment during the baseball game that I heard live and that I called Hubby the moment I heard it and said, Tom Brenneman's getting fired, and he made it, and he made it one more in him and then he got fired and he famously was like, so this may be the last time I'm in a broadcast booth. It's a long fly ball, the deep left field home run, Nick Castellanos. That's what I think. I think of him. And then they did the same thing. He was hitting once and it guy died. Somebody died, and he.

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Speaker 2: Hit a home run.

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Speaker 5: He might even have a third. I think, any big moment in a broadcast, he's hit a home run that interrupted.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, he played for the Reds. Then he's been with the Phillies.

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Speaker 3: Well last year you may remember he ended up getting benched. Well, yesterday he got cut and he said, why uh, there was a ball. There was a game in September last year Rhyme where he was playing. The manager took him out, replaced him, and he was mad, and he went into the locker room and got a beer and brought it into the dugout and began drinking beer during the game in the dugout. Some of the players got mad at him. He ended up taking it back and then he got cut yesterday, and he said that he thought Philly overreacted, but he understood why they didn't like him drinking beer during the game in the dugout.

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Speaker 2: What do you think of that.

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Speaker 1: That's why you have your clubhouse, That's why you do those things. Man, be a good teammate. Don't do it in front of them, the dugout, of your fans there watching.

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Speaker 2: You can't drink during the game, can you.

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Speaker 1: If he's out of the game, I get to get back and have a beer in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not going They can't put him back in.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what the harm of it is.

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Speaker 1: I think there's been pictures get taken out and go to the clubhouse and get.

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Speaker 4: A you know, back in the day, guys will sit there and smoke a cigarette in the dugout. Yes, oh yeah, in the dugout. Jim Leeland with the Pirates would just be chain smoking during the game.

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Speaker 3: But imagine in the NBA if we looked over to the side and Rhese Potter was drinking a beer in the middle of the game.

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Speaker 4: Story about these guys. One of these guys like doing it at halftime, drinking Beer's come out.

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Speaker 3: There's podcast Larry Bird apparently would drink sometimes at halftime.

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Speaker 4: ACTU wonder why they fought so much. Get drugging, half, talk out and fight.

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Speaker 2: Well, but Castletos gets cut.

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Speaker 1: So what do you think about it?

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, I'm not you are the baseball culture guys. It does strike me. You shouldn't drink a beer during fills very.

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Speaker 2: Bush league, softball league or so what three hours at the most.

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Speaker 3: You can't like save your beer until after the game. But you know, but he ends up getting that cut. I think he got cut because he wasn't good and then they used the beer.

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Speaker 4: There you go, Now you nailed it. Like if this guy were the best player, they would have let it slid.

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Speaker 3: Some of you may remember we told the story last year about Cooper High School in northern Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Cooper High School had a coach.

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Speaker 3: The the athletic director wanted to fire him for some reason.

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Speaker 2: Culture. They didn't like his culture.

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Speaker 3: He didn't like his culture even though they won, and then he cultured them all the way to the Sweet sixteen. I think they made the quarterfinals of Sweet sixteen and then they lost went on a run.

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Speaker 2: For their coach, well Cooper's coach.

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Speaker 3: When he gets fired, he decides to go to a rival school, which I believe is called Saint Henry Okay, so he gets fired.

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Speaker 2: He goes to a neighboring school.

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Speaker 3: Last night, Ryan, they played Oh No, Cooper versus Saint Henry tie game, two point five seconds left to go. This play is online for you to see. This is think about this. This is the guy they had just been fired from this school, et cetera. Saint Henry with the new coach, throws the ball Colin Chandler to Moreno esque kid catches it, hits a three at the buzzers.

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Speaker 2: Nice wow, and they end up winning. He beats his former team on a last second full court pass shot. As the kind of end to that story from last year.

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Speaker 1: Basketball gods obviously on his side, you know, the good coach, maybe he got fired for the wrong reason, got the last second shot to win. I love you need to see the play.

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Speaker 3: They basically recreated the Colin Chandler Malchi Moreno play. It's just somehow this kid was wide open, no one was guarding him, but he he made.

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Speaker 2: A three at the Yeah, I saw it.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't normally condone this behavior, but I think the coach has to go over to his old school dad all of it. Come get this car, I got your culture right, here all that stuff. I would be in their face. Let him know they made a mistake.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you let it.

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Speaker 3: He ends up going to a rival school, shadding literally like right down the road.

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Speaker 4: Probably no more of a sweet way to win than the last second buzzer beater against your former team.

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Speaker 3: Need to see the video it is, it's online. It is a great shot. Who's up next?

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Speaker 2: Ramone? Is up next? Ramone? Go ahead? Ramone?

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Speaker 7: What's going on? I lla's say, y'all doing doing good?

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 6: Not much as a former wild Okay, I just want to say I love y'all?

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Speaker 7: Show man?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? Is this Ramone? Who?

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Speaker 7: Harris?

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute?

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Speaker 1: Whoa nice spot?

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Speaker 3: This is the Razor, my man, the Alaska Assassin? You you should get give us your number. We won't make you wait on hold. Ramone, It's nice.

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Speaker 2: To talk to you.

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Speaker 7: What's going on? Man?

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Speaker 6: I've been trying to get in touch with you off for two years.

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Speaker 2: Well it worked, it worked off. Do me a favor.

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Speaker 3: Hang on when we're off the call, and give your phone number to Rick. Okay, Rick, will you get that for me?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 6: Do I love the show?

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Speaker 7: Fellas?

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Speaker 2: What are you doing now? Ramone?

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Speaker 6: Man, I'm I'm still playing ball, but I'm actually living in Tampa now. So are you all going to the game.

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Speaker 2: To Morth We are not, and we are not. Are you going?

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Speaker 6: I'm still trying to find tickets?

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Speaker 3: Ramone, Harris? Did you just call this show asking for tickets?

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Speaker 7: Is that what you did?

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Speaker 2: Ramone? Harris?

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Speaker 6: I think I think you've figured me out.

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Speaker 5: Take Ramone to the game.

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Speaker 4: You're been trying get tickets from us for two years.

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Speaker 2: I have to ask you a question.

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Speaker 3: You were being recruited in the early early years of ks and we found the picture like you were mysterious, like we didn't know about you, and then all of a sudden you were there and there was like one picture of you.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember that time at all.

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Speaker 3: Because like you were one of like when I say early years of KSR, you were one of the early early years.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember that. The story is crazy, long story short. Tubby's son was coaching at Tennessee Tech, I believe, And you guys have already offered a scholarship to a guy that was playing on the court next to me.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know how au goes.

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Speaker 6: At that time, I got a rebound push the full court dunked it. I got another rebound push. The full court indunked it twice in the row. So at that time, my court gained a lot of attention. I didn't know that Tubby's son was there with another school. He called Tubby and said, hey, I got a guy I think you would like.

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Speaker 7: Fast forward to another week.

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Speaker 6: I'm playing in at Nationals and Tubby walks in. I didn't know it was Tubby Smith.

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Speaker 7: He walked in.

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Speaker 6: Nothing you came on. He looked like somebody's grandfather.

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Speaker 7: To be honest.

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Speaker 6: So I see him staring at me, and I'm like, who is this guy staring at me? Long story short? We lost in the final in the lead a game of Nationals. So after the game, my mom's blowing my phone up. And when I lose, I don't want to talk. My mom calling me, she's blowing my phone up. I'm not answering the phone. She texted me says Ramon, answer my call now. So she calls me back. I answered the phone and she goes, Ramon, Kentucky was at the game. They want to offer you a scholarship. Wow did you see him? And I'm like, see who?

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Speaker 3: So wait a minute, ramote you got offered just by being on the court against the guy Kentucky had offered.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember who the guy was that we had offered?

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Speaker 7: I do not.

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Speaker 6: I do not think he played for the Derek Smith All Stars if I remember, But no, I did not remember the name.

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Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you a question, because you I think you tell me if I'm right about this. I think you and Perry Stevenson are the only two players who played for Tubby, Billy and cal am I right about that. You played for all three of.

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Speaker 7: Them, Mark Crabs.

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Speaker 2: Mark Crabs.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so tell me real quick, because I got like two minutes.

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Speaker 2: Tell me the difference between Tubby, uh, Billy and cal as a coach.

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Speaker 6: Okay, Tubby was more of a father figure type. He liked to he liked to like teach okay, and was more of a like Bilesbie was more of a doggie dog coach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah he had he had.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he loved it, fighting, pushing, shoving, founting hard.

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Speaker 7: There was we would have practice and there was no out of bounce.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean there was no what do you mean? There was no out of bounds?

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Speaker 6: So like if I block a shot and it goes out of bounce. First person gets.

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Speaker 7: It their ball.

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Speaker 2: It wow.

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Speaker 7: And then that was Billy and then Cal was more.

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Speaker 6: He ran practices like an NBA practice, So it was more NBA structured, NBA time, NBA skill set.

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Speaker 7: He ran like an NBA practice.

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Speaker 2: What was it like? I could talk to you all day, but I got to make it quick.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Cow didn't. Cow didn't keep a lot of guys. When did you know he was going.

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Speaker 2: To keep you.

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Speaker 6: It was after summer school, so you didn't know going into my scene year, I had an idea, but he called me and scared the mess out of me because there was like, Ramon, can you come to the office. I said, I'll shoot and he sat me down. He was like ramone going over summer evaluations. We would love to keep you here. We would love you you be a part of the team. And that's how that went for me.

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Speaker 2: And then last thing, when you saw John Wall for the first time, did you know, like, oh my.

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Speaker 6: So the crazy thing about that is John came on an unofficial visit when he was a Yeah, so at that time, at that time he would played with us. But he was a real skinny kid. You could tell he was fast and athletic. But he was real skinny, and he wasn't the John that I seen two years later. But he wasn't surprised of the John that I saw two years later. You could tell he had game. You could tell he loved the game of basketball. You could tell he had potential. He was is real young, real skinny. But also yeah, John, definitely and.

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Speaker 3: You were part of one of the great pictures in UK history, Drew after the celebration against Mississippi State in the SEC Tournament. It's you, DeMarcus and John Wall jumping on each other. That's one of the great, maybe the great celebration moments in UK history.

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Speaker 6: Hey man, listen, I was used to going before I came to Kochechy. I was used to being on the underdog team, so I was used to being on the other side of those type of situations. So to be on the good side of it, I was excited.

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Speaker 2: As you could tell, Ramon, great stuff.

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Speaker 3: Awesome to hear from you. Leave your number with Rick after the call and we'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: Ramon, thank you very much.

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Speaker 7: Sounds good appreciation, Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: That's great stuff.

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Speaker 7: Want a surprise.

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard from him in years. Great great stuff from him right there.

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Speaker 3: He like, I have the Matt Jones All Star team of dudes. I kind of like way more than I should.

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Speaker 2: And he's on it.

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Speaker 3: He was one of the original members, like mcglore and right woo, Ramone like that was my group.

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Speaker 2: What about Dragon?

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Speaker 5: Pul Brush said, you know what today would do a shot every time remote hair scores and he had sixteen points. It was a career high forgot that crawling out of that place and Frankfurt that backfired.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, true, goes out through a shut and he just kept scoring.

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Speaker 2: Oh no.

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Speaker 5: It was like a career day for Ramone early too, and I was like, this is a bad idea.

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Speaker 2: He was like the only he was the only guy hold over from Remember.

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Speaker 1: He plays, Yes, he did play, played a.

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Speaker 3: Lot that Calier. We'll take a break and be right back here at Don Franklin. This cans On Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live Don Franklin. Ono been an amazing crowd here today and Don Franklin's got all you want go the distance with powertrain protection, certified pre O makes and models. It is Don Franklin up to ten years or unlimited mile powertrain warranty at Don Franklin. I really enjoyed Ramone Harris there. I love that he stayed on and hold, I've got his phone number, Drew.

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Speaker 2: If anybody wants to get him two tickets to the game.

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Speaker 3: I will make sure that happens. If I had him, I would give him to him. I'd be cool if UK would. I feel like UK could find him.

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Speaker 2: If you're a.

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Speaker 4: Horrid player, that shouldn't they have some sort of system that would help them get those tickets.

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Speaker 2: But I think sometimes it's harder than you think.

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Speaker 3: And I also understand that, like there's a lot of players and probably you know, they gotta have some people want tickets to every game, but a road game at Florida if he lives in Tampa feels like something we could make happen.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned he'd be a great book because he was there for the end of Tubby, all the stuff that happened when Tubby got fired, the two years of Gillespie, and then that crazy first year for Califarnia.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get him. I'm gonna get him on a podcast sometimes because he really there are very few people who've probably seen more cool Kentucky stuff for interesting because again last year.

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Speaker 2: At Tubby falls apart.

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Speaker 3: How does Tubby decide to leave hiring of Billy Billy's insanity for two years and then this transition to cal and one of the most fun teams of all time. He's there for all that drew he's got like he probably has some of the biggest wow four years of all time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, someone here noted he had the good great drunk all one, just make up the title of the book good drunk great he had good great drunks.

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Speaker 4: Pactice see when no out of bounds as wild too that story. I mean, I don't know how that helps you in real games such as scenarios, but.

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Speaker 3: I mean they remember they've told that Billy would do things. They would have diving drills. Yeah, so they would take two players.

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Speaker 2: This is a insane thing to do.

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Speaker 3: They would take two players and put them like twenty feet apart with a ball in the center and a bowl whistle and whoever dove on the ground to get it first one. So they would have these like athletes that were like Kentucky basketball players diving like head first into each other.

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Speaker 4: That's a team that should have had some injuries, you know.

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Speaker 2: But they did. Yeah, you remember they were hurt.

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Speaker 4: All isn't that? Also when you said Mike Pratt walked and I said, this isn't gonna work here.

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Speaker 3: I told that before I was doing this was when I was like still practicing law and being a blogger, and I did some legal work for Mike Pratt and he came in to see me. He had gone to Billy's first two practices and he came in and I was like, so tell me about this new coach.

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Speaker 2: What's going on? And he goes, ain't gonna work.

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Speaker 3: He immediately, and I was like, what do you mean. He was like, it's not gonna work. He was like, I've been to practice. No way, it's not gonna work. And he started telling me some stories and I was like, you know, this was me thinking I knew everything.

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Speaker 2: I was like, my come on, you're just being negative. But he was like, all right, not gonna work. And he was right.

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Speaker 4: He was absolutely right.

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Speaker 5: I like the divin on the floor drill two sports did the XFL and Tucky basketball practice.

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Speaker 2: That's what it was.

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Speaker 5: Billy was drunk watching the XFL one night saw them do that. It was like tomorrow Patrick Patterson, Ramonte Harris Off.

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Speaker 3: Remember he also had like twelve walk ons. Yes, he would just add walk on.

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Speaker 2: After walk on and there would be all these players on the team. It was crazy.

00:20:02
Speaker 1: We were talking in the break. I was really surprised when Cali Perry decided to keep Ramone in Perry Stevenson. But yet Ramone ended up being a pretty vital player.

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Speaker 3: That carry didn't get to play at Ramone played is Ramone played.

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Speaker 2: Quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: He was kind of their defensive specialist on that team. Who's up next?

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Speaker 1: Got Crystal?

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Speaker 2: Up next? Crystal? Go ahead, Crystal.

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Speaker 8: The energy of that crowd is amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out rad Radcliffe is complete.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, well he checked there.

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Speaker 2: I had to do it nice, all right, go ahead.

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Speaker 8: We love you guys so much in the show. Your success is is well deserved, and congratulations for that. I just want to thank Ryan and my fleet husband Kevin to the greatest Valentine's Station.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, you got one of them? You can't, no, No, Well what first of all, did you know it was coming?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 6: I had no idea.

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Speaker 2: I bet it was a great surprise. And so what what did he do.

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Speaker 8: It?

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Speaker 2: Did you just say it was a little disturbing. Did you say it was a little disturbing?

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Speaker 8: Hilarious?

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Speaker 4: Wig, you wiggled your glasses and said for lovers.

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Speaker 2: Why did you wiggle your glasses?

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Speaker 2: Love it? What did the what's the glasses?

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Speaker 1: Kind of drives it home? But it's really four love it?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry, first of all, ma'am, I'm sorry that that was a gift that was given to you, but I'm glad you got joy out of it.

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Speaker 2: Uh. And I appreciate appreciate you sharing it.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 8: We're so excited to get.

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Speaker 7: Well.

00:22:07
Speaker 3: I appreciate call your phones breaking up a little bit, your phone. Appreciate call your phones breaking up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Do you do a unique one for every person?

00:22:16
Speaker 1: Well, I kind of use the same material, but I make an individual like I had a couple of standard lines.

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Speaker 3: Give me, give me well, no, no, no, I want people to give this joy out for free. You go to Cameo. Are you doing it all day and night?

00:22:31
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, there's still time, ladies for you to get.

00:22:35
Speaker 4: This twenty four hour delivery from Bryan.

00:22:37
Speaker 1: My guy gave Crystal his a day early. So I must you know, maybe he's looking for a little patricka pop out a little early tonight.

00:22:45
Speaker 4: I would hope that would be the main gift. That's like a lead up gift.

00:22:50
Speaker 3: I think it's a good thing. Well, yeah, you could go to Cameo and get that. I can't believe tell you I come get it.

00:22:58
Speaker 2: But you know what, people will. People will pay for it.

00:23:01
Speaker 3: They'll pay for the glasses wiggle. Hopefully yoga girl gets that tonight as well.

00:23:06
Speaker 2: We'll take up. That's enough, we'll running back.

00:23:12
Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight fy nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text Machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. One person writes Matt, I've listened every show you all have done since you started. I would say the Radcliffe crowd is the loudest crowd that I've heard that maybe because of the.

00:23:34
Speaker 2: Wilding here. Gotta give them credit, man, they are they're bringing.

00:23:38
Speaker 4: It, Yeah, they are. Don Frankless like we're just trying to sell cars here. We got all kinds of crazy people.

00:23:43
Speaker 3: Sometimes you see the people that work here and they're like, look man, I'm I'm trying to work here, and uh, you guys are making a lot of racket.

00:23:52
Speaker 4: But that's okay, totally brought up here for it would be loud and enthusiastic. They've been great, that's right.

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00:24:33
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the announcers, but we might get dig Vitel right. He tends to do those games that are close to his house.

00:24:39
Speaker 1: It's true. It didn't think about that. He might be doing the game tomorrow.

00:24:41
Speaker 2: I don't know, but on ABC. Haven't played on ABC a lot. I don't know. If you saw the Duke.

00:24:46
Speaker 3: North Carolina game, got the highest rating for a Duke North Carolina game in four years.

00:24:51
Speaker 2: The Kentucky Tennessee.

00:24:53
Speaker 3: Game got a very excuse me, yeah, Kentucky Tennessee while on against Michigan State and Illinois both go massive ratings.

00:25:01
Speaker 2: This has been drew a great year for college basketball.

00:25:03
Speaker 3: I know I keep saying this, but Nil and all the transfer portal people act like the sports falling apart. The ratings for college basketball are higher than they've been in a decade.

00:25:14
Speaker 2: I think the games are good.

00:25:16
Speaker 3: I actually think the sport, even though it's got a lot of secondary stuff, is.

00:25:19
Speaker 2: In a really good place. Yeah.

00:25:21
Speaker 5: In most years, you know, there's like one or two elite teams that you're watching. This year, there's pretty good balance up top of like, there's a lot of them that could win it. We have a lot of stars, mostly freshmen, all over the country at different conferences. It's it's been a lot of fun to.

00:25:33
Speaker 2: Keep up with.

00:25:34
Speaker 5: Even the SEC is down a little bit from last year, it's still the toughest conference in the country this year, and that's what I've been watching the closest. Okay, so yeah, we have Jimmy Diykes tomorrow. By the way, he's like Dick Vattel, but a little different.

00:25:45
Speaker 2: We have Jimmy Dikes. Yeah. Well, Carl Ravitch is my man.

00:25:49
Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, after the gate the Tennessee game, I got a text message Shannon from Carl Ravage.

00:25:53
Speaker 4: Oh really, who?

00:25:55
Speaker 3: I don't know that I've ever spoken with. He sent me a text mess said I'd love to come on your postgame show. So we were gonna have him on. I was like, okay, And then you remember the they brought the ninety six guys out, and it kept going later and later and later, and finally Carl's like, I gotta go to bed, so he wasn't able to come on. But like the way I am with Tony Kornheiser is how Ryan is with Carl Ravag. He was gonna be hosting that show and he almost got to talk to his two paid hero And it would.

00:26:24
Speaker 2: Have been awesome for you, wouldn't it.

00:26:25
Speaker 1: I've never met even I love the guy. When you told me he was going to do the second segment with me, I started writing down a couple questions. I was gonna be.

00:26:31
Speaker 2: Prepared, wrote Carl Ravage.

00:26:32
Speaker 1: Question, Yes, I was ready to go.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: They Yeah, what were they? Well?

00:26:35
Speaker 1: He mentioned during the broadcast, you mentioned like two Kentucky fans that he's really close with. That's my lead off question. Who are the people you were talking about?

00:26:42
Speaker 2: I wanted to mention random people no one knows.

00:26:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, like what's his connection with Kentucky and maybe to some of his family and stuff like that. So then you know, he talked a lot during the broadcast about how loud rupp Aarena was, you know, how it was rocking, great car.

00:26:54
Speaker 3: That's why I wanted to come on. He wanted to say that he thought that was one of the better Kentucky atmospheres that he had ever been in.

00:27:00
Speaker 2: So that's I think.

00:27:01
Speaker 1: Would you have asked him about the two pay? I would not have asked him about the two pay, but is a good one. Him and Bill self have two good two pays.

00:27:09
Speaker 3: Bill sels is even better. Yeah, I would just I would call it a piece. Who's up next?

00:27:14
Speaker 2: Paul is up next? Paul? Go ahead, Paul, Paul? All right? No, Paul, who's next? Doing great? Is next? Doing great? Go ahead?

00:27:30
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm doing great.

00:27:31
Speaker 2: Well.

00:27:32
Speaker 9: I got a quick question for mister Franklin.

00:27:34
Speaker 7: If that's all right?

00:27:35
Speaker 2: All right? I got an answer? Maybe?

00:27:38
Speaker 7: All right?

00:27:39
Speaker 9: Over the over the summer, y'all had Kentucky director based on the schedule that had really could uh predicted that that final game rupped between Kentucky and Florida would decide, Yes.

00:27:54
Speaker 7: That.

00:27:56
Speaker 2: We have we had to win tomorrow for that.

00:27:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we'll need that tomorrow. We haven't had that scenario in like decades. You'd think at some point you'd have like a play in for the championship, But we have it. I'd love to have it, but I just I worry. Florida is a notch above everyone else and they already have the lead already, and.

00:28:12
Speaker 2: They have an easy schedule.

00:28:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you look at our schedule versus theirs coming down to stretch like they play, I think after US they play South Carolina and Old Miss and then I think they play Oklahoma a little later. So they're they're gonna win the SEC APPS. If we sweep them, we have a chance, But otherwise, Ryan, I think they're winning the SEC This four.

00:28:36
Speaker 5: Game win streak throw on. Three of them were on the road. We kind of needed them to slip up, and they with to A and M that was in first place. That wasn't even close. I just worry they've peaked at the right time, and their peak as much higher than everyone else's.

00:28:46
Speaker 3: Let's say something positive, because we were a little negative to start to about our chances tomorrow. Let's say, Ryan, if we win tomorrow, even as an eleven and a half point underdog, I want you to think about this. If we win tomorrow, we're in first place in the SEC. We'd be tied with Florida. Arkansas's got I don't know who they play tomorrow, but they would have but we would have a tie breaker over both of them. We would be in first place in the SEC. When you consider that we were zero and two and down thirteen to Mississippi State in the third game, and now fast forward and if we won tomorrow, we'd be in first place in the SEC.

00:29:20
Speaker 2: That's kind of remarkable.

00:29:22
Speaker 1: I think even the most diehard Kentucky fan didn't see that coming. Winning eight of the next nine and now put yourself in a position to be in first place in the SEC or the other teams crazy crazinesses has happened.

00:29:32
Speaker 5: Whatever you think of the team, and I think they still have some flaws. If a team wins nine out of ten in the SEC, including at Tennessee, at Florida and at Arkansas.

00:29:39
Speaker 2: You're a good team.

00:29:40
Speaker 5: I don't care what people say about you winning nine out of ten. That doesn't happen with some of our best teams in the SEC, even in down years.

00:29:45
Speaker 4: Even if they could stay in the top four and just get that double by in the SEC tournament, I think that would be huge.

00:29:50
Speaker 3: Right now, we're projected by the numbers to still finish seventh in the SEC. But it's only because our schedule are are you know, if you look at the SEC State if you look at the bottom six teams, we've already played five of the six. South Carolina is the only one we haven't played, So we're a little fortunate in the fact that we have played that. You know, we got the easy the easier teams early.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: If you went at Florida, though, I mean, I'm starting to think there's not too many teams that you're afraid to play because have.

00:30:20
Speaker 3: You already The four best teams in the country are Arizona, Duke, Michigan, Florida.

00:30:26
Speaker 2: If you beat one of those teams on the road, then you can anything can happen, That's right, Who's next? God stand up next? Stan go ahead, Stan.

00:30:37
Speaker 10: Hey Man threw Ryan on the Kill sixty eight YouTube.

00:30:46
Speaker 4: What about chopped Liver?

00:30:48
Speaker 2: What he just he just mad? You forgot him. You didn't say you didn't say his name, Shan.

00:30:57
Speaker 10: Yeah, well I was gonna sober it up. I agreed with most of the stuff you said.

00:31:03
Speaker 6: Yes, I thought a bit about.

00:31:05
Speaker 10: Guys being able to play through mistakes. The Elevans, Chandler Garrison as examples of people that weren't afraid to get and pulled out.

00:31:12
Speaker 6: That's made a lot of sense.

00:31:14
Speaker 10: You started talking about the structure of the team and how Pope screwed that up, and the example that you gave for not putting it together he didn't get enough three point shooters was dia body and diabody. To me, is the reason this team is playing so much better. I mean, his defensive presence inside where guys don't have to get off and help. He can play low post defense against anybody in the SEC, and we didn't. We haven't had a player like that in a really long time. I mean, Oscar could get rebounds. This is a guy that he keep plays alive even when he's not making a rebound. He's just such a solid presence in there. To say that he's an example of where Pope screwed up the construction of the lineup. I mean, I just think that's wrong.

00:31:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I understand what you're saying.

00:32:01
Speaker 3: And Diabaatee does give them something that no one else does, which is exactly what you're saying. He can play good interior defense and he can rebound. The problem with Diabate is it's very difficult for them to score with him in the game. Like, if you look at the shifts, you're right they he is perfect for there's a minute left, it's their ball.

00:32:24
Speaker 2: We need a defensive stop. Put Diabate in. He's perfect for that.

00:32:28
Speaker 3: But when you play him on offense, the offense struggles because he cannot shoot at the four, and so I just think for Pope's offense, he's gotta have a guy at the four who can shoot, and when he doesn't have that, I think that really hurts him. But I'm not trying to downplay him. I appreciate the call. As a person or a player, I think he's good. But I think if you ask Mark Pope, I mean, there's Diabate could be on the team next year, but I'd be surprised if he is, because it's just not a fit for the system that Mark runs.

00:32:58
Speaker 2: That's why he went to the bench.

00:33:00
Speaker 5: Well, I was gonna say I agree with the caller, but there's one detail he left out. Diabate has been awesome since going to the bench and getting the role he had at Alabama last year. I think Pope saw what he did at Alabama and thought I can add more to that and make him a starter. But it looks like he's Diabat's just a guy that's never gonna be much offensively, but he's gonna do exactly what he's been doing in this wind Street. Go get rebounds, play defense. That's what he did at Alabama. That's just his role and may probably don't want to be a six man, but that's where he's thriving and where he needs to be.

00:33:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think if we're gonna be fair, we started playing a lot better when we substituted to be Diabate out the starting lineup, and we's brought Yeovich and moreno in.

00:33:38
Speaker 2: That switch is kind of Ryan when the team turned around.

00:33:41
Speaker 1: I think tomorrow might be a game though we were really gonna need agree with that.

00:33:44
Speaker 2: I agree with that.

00:33:45
Speaker 1: There's some games maybe you can don't need him as much, but tomorrow's a game you desperately need him and need him to play well. And he's in there.

00:33:50
Speaker 5: Oh, it's had him figured out last year. He's not shooting much, but when an Oway comes to town, go shut that guy down. And as we saw on the other end, that's what diabate is. Just defense and rebound. And please don't try to dribble or take three points.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely don't shoot three. He shoots him like I level.

00:34:05
Speaker 3: He like shoots him from down here and almost spins it off his hands. We'll take a break and be right back for the final segment here Dog Franklin Ratclife.

00:34:12
Speaker 2: It's fans off, Welcome back.

00:34:15
Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Dog Franklin and Ratcliffe. It has to be one of the best crowds we've had here on a remote show. Remember tomorrow game starts three o'clock. Pregame show is at excuse me at twelve thirty. I'll be on both the pre and the post as we get ready for action. You can go watch the game at KS Bars. Should be a great crowd there for a road environment and had some pretty good success with those games this year.

00:34:45
Speaker 1: With this team on the road. Yeah, you don't ever count them, Like Johns Shannon said, when we gonna finally learn our lesson, you can't count him out. And then eleven points spread, that's a big points break going in that game tomorrow.

00:34:52
Speaker 3: Two football things, actually three football things. First of all UK football. Yesterday, will Stein hosted a meet and greet for former Kentucky players. He brought one hundred and twenty five former players. I think they're gonna do three or four of these during the course of the year so they can get all of them.

00:35:10
Speaker 2: I don't know how they decided.

00:35:11
Speaker 3: I think it was the oldest ones that were there yesterday, but got to meet that. I like to continuing to connect to former players.

00:35:19
Speaker 2: It's hard. It's hard in basketball, really hard Drew in football because there's so many guys over the years.

00:35:26
Speaker 5: But glad to see him do it. Yeah football, you guys. It might have been there for a year and never saw the field. They're still part of a team and you're including all of them. You know, we won't really know what will Stein's era is gonna look like till they play a game next fall. But from the moment he was hired till right now, he's done a lot of cool things that has gotten the excitement going behind him.

00:35:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that. I think that is cool.

00:35:45
Speaker 3: Then UK announced on their season tickets not really raising prices on season tickets. A lot of people thought that might happen, except for the very expensive ones. But two things. One, your K Fund donation is now part of the ticket. The FTC, you may have seemed, has changed the rules where they can't sort of hide fees, and so the K Fund donation is now part of the ticket, but from what I'm told, still paying essentially the same amount of money. The big difference, though, Ryan, is that many people utilized early renewal discounts. They would get a discount if they renewed. Like now you were one of those, ma'am. Those have gone away. So does that upset you? Didn't bother you. Yeah, it didn't go up, but they lost the early renewal discounts. So that's probably the only thing that was that was a little different.

00:36:39
Speaker 1: I like that, you know, more and more people are not going to the game, so why not have a little you register early, get a little discount When I do things like that to motivate people to go ahead and buy those tickets.

00:36:47
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm told by the way K Club did the thing, and will Stein was was there, so that's the That was the former player event, and that's good to see.

00:36:57
Speaker 2: Very cool.

00:36:58
Speaker 5: And I guess for anyone that wants to be a new season ticket holder, which hopefully there's a bunch of those that opens in March right now is renewals, but everybody should jump off the season tickets will be up this year with the new coach, I would.

00:37:09
Speaker 3: Assume, Yeah, yeah, like you got great another great schedule.

00:37:12
Speaker 7: Yeah.

00:37:13
Speaker 4: I feel like it's going to rejuvenate the fan base a little bit, kind of like when Pope took over as the coach for the basketball.

00:37:17
Speaker 3: You know, who's our home games this year? We get Texas or no, we had Texas. Who is it's alabamaa LSU? I think Louisville. We get a repeat of last year Florida.

00:37:31
Speaker 2: Florida, Alabama, LSU Florida, Louisville. And then who's the other SEC game? Vandy? Maybe Vandy? Yeah, because we were down there last year.

00:37:39
Speaker 4: That's a good I mean group of games right there.

00:37:41
Speaker 2: For if you're a home season ticketder. You gotta like that. Who's next? Matt is up next? Matt, Go ahead, Matt, Thy god.

00:37:51
Speaker 11: I just want to say, put out some positive energy, good vibes, and say the meaning of live is not simply to.

00:38:00
Speaker 2: Exist to survive, but to move ahead, to go up.

00:38:05
Speaker 11: To achieve, and to conquer.

00:38:06
Speaker 10: And that's what we're going to do against the Geiters tomorrow.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: Let's go cat.

00:38:13
Speaker 5: I just wondering where he's going with that, Like a Mario Instagram caption.

00:38:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does look like a Mario, except Mario would be posing, like looking off into the sign what he did Marios. By the way, if you don't follow Mario on Instagram, like he's been on a kick of Like I didn't realize how many pose pictures he took in San Francisco. He posed in front of everything you could possibly pose in front of him.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: Well, so he's got a archived where he could just roll him out for weeks to come.

00:38:38
Speaker 2: Right, That's right, they are, They are there. There are a lot of them on Instagram. Who's next? Cam is up next? Cam?

00:38:45
Speaker 11: Go ahead, cams and shout out to y'all finally getting the rats. I cannot believe y'all's first time there. I'm a native. I moved up in northern Kentucky about ten years ago. That's a great city, man, a great stand through there. You already mentioned Andre Woods to shout out to my boy Lurai King play receiver at u K.

00:39:10
Speaker 2: That's a good one. That's right. We forgot the Roc King that was Yes, that's that's right, the mobile man.

00:39:17
Speaker 11: Maybe next time I'll come through in the ston. I know he loved that. He's a he's a character that.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: Anything else.

00:39:26
Speaker 11: But yeah, man, I'm anxious for the game tomorrow. I don't I'm not super confident just because of how we start our games. I think as we get behind against Wader, Uh, they played very delivery with their style and don't great shacks for us to go back.

00:39:46
Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate to call it.

00:39:47
Speaker 2: You can't have me on speakerphone. I can't. We can't hear you if you when you do that, all right, let's do a little Draft Kings.

00:39:54
Speaker 3: You go to Draft Kings bet five, get two hundred dollars uh in bonus bets.

00:39:58
Speaker 2: Draft Kings is your.

00:40:00
Speaker 3: Place for the easiest picks, and we will have probably a KSR parlay on there tomorrow, let's do some game picks. We'll finish with Kentucky, but let's start some big games. Kansas at Iowa State Top ten matchup.

00:40:14
Speaker 4: Who you got Iowa State. I don't even know what the spread is beginning the Iowa State.

00:40:17
Speaker 2: I was State by five and a half hour.

00:40:18
Speaker 5: SA Peterson is out for Kansas Iowa State, and I don't like all the bracketologies have us meeting them. That's a scary team no one talks about.

00:40:24
Speaker 7: Man.

00:40:25
Speaker 1: I don't know what's up with Peterson. Dude's come on, man, you didn't even play against Arizona on the home floor the other night. I'm going with Iowa State.

00:40:30
Speaker 3: Texas Tech is at Arizona, another top fifteen matchup.

00:40:33
Speaker 4: I think that'll be a good game. I think Texas Tech will make it close, but I think Arizona wins Arizona.

00:40:38
Speaker 1: Arizona's really good, even though they got beat to Kansas. I go to Arizona.

00:40:41
Speaker 3: I'll take Arizona. Auburn, who's been hot at twelve. If they play really good against good teams and bad against bad teams, They're at Arkansas. Any chance they pull off the upsets.

00:40:51
Speaker 4: Now, I'm gonna take Arkansas at home tomorrow.

00:40:53
Speaker 5: Cal's not letting Steven Pearl get them at home.

00:40:55
Speaker 1: Good, that's true, Calvers's Pearl. I'm going Cal Arkansas.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: Pick Auburn in an upset?

00:41:01
Speaker 3: Are you will they win these games? You don't think they're gonna win? And then they lose to bad teams. And then we'll go Kentucky and Florida. Florida now eleven and a half point favorite, Shannon, what are our chances?

00:41:11
Speaker 4: I think Kentucky covers, but unfortunately, I don't think they win this one. So I'll go like, seventy two sixty six Florida.

00:41:19
Speaker 5: I know Florida's blowing everybody out. I don't think Kentucky's in blowout territory. They won't win, They'll keep it tight. I'll say, uh, eighty two seventy six.

00:41:27
Speaker 3: I think we play well, but I think they they're just good.

00:41:32
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say eighty four seventy seven.

00:41:35
Speaker 3: Uh, And they win a game that is competitive throughout, Ryan Lemon, finish it off and don't make this crowd leave upset.

00:41:41
Speaker 1: And they'll say one of us has to pick Kentucky, right, I mean, none of us are believing in Kentucky's here always.

00:41:46
Speaker 2: You gotta pick the Cats.

00:41:48
Speaker 1: Cats win at the buzzer seventy four, seventy three, Otega oh Way hits the game winner and kills the Gators.

00:41:54
Speaker 2: Oh damn, that's happy about.

00:42:00
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you all very much for listening today. We will be back on the pregame show tomorrow twelve and through big thanks of folks here and Dodd, Franklin and Ratcliffe.

00:42:11
Speaker 2: You guys killed it well. Thank you all very much. We'll see you later. List is been in Kentucky Sports Radio