2025-03-31- KSR - Hour 2

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

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Speaker 4: One person writes, Matt, uh, what about Kenny Brook's daughter is on the team. He didn't dismisce her. She's not on scholarship. I think that's a that's an important important difference.

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Speaker 2: I mean, would has to be on a scholarship next year.

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Speaker 4: I guess I have no I mean I don't. She wasn't on it this year.

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Speaker 7: What if he gives her that extra scholarship.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean that would make people mad. I understand that, Like, but I would be surprised that. But remember this is the last year you can have walkons. I think after this year all all players are on scholarship. They're giving there the days of the walk on I think are about to end. So that's why they're adding up to fifteen players. But they're getting rid of the walk on so you know, end of the day. I just I just want people to know. This happens all the time, all the time. I can understand though, like I have the same emotions of it's a kid from Kentucky. But you have to remember that like life, nothing in life is not a trade off. So just to give you another example, like I'm a pro union guy. I'm a big union guy, so I'm always on the union side. But if the union asks for too much, you can end up ruining the business. Right, there's a pull, there's a pus in a pool with all this stuff. Similarly, if you say she's from Kentucky, so she should have to stay. They may be coaches who will recruit less Kentucky kids now, so there's a push in a pool here that drew. You just always have to keep him und.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And adding to the fans frustrations, it's that she has one year left. I mean, if she a freshmen and he's like I, I, you know, I need this spot for the next three years. It's one thing, but it's like, couldn't just give her one more season? I think that adds to it a lot.

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Speaker 4: Also, people are mad at my cousin Ryan Morgan Wallen because he walked off stage at Saturday Night Live.

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Speaker 5: Did you see that?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 4: I didn't see it. Yeah, so he did Saturday Night Live, second time he's done it. Yeah. I didn't hear the performances, but I heard they were pretty good. But you know, at the end they all shake hands and like hug each other and like all that. He just as soon as they said bye, he just zipped off, didn't shake hi boy, his hand, didn't hug and just walked off.

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Speaker 5: And then he.

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Speaker 4: Posted a picture from his private jet like thirty minutes later that said headed back to God's country or thankful to go back to God's country or something like that. So people are interpreting it that he didn't get along. No one has said anything officially. I just think he has one of these personalities now where people will just criticize whatever he does.

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Speaker 5: You know, he's in that world. Unfortunately, it was interesting.

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Speaker 6: I wish the camera had follow him because didn't even like walk off towards the back. He just walked out through the crowd, just walked past the carn You didn't see that, you just go out the front door on the I'll see it.

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Speaker 2: Well, for anybody who doubted you guys are related, we now have proof. He's trying to beat the crowd, beat the traffic, get to the airport. He didn't get stuck in traffic.

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Speaker 4: You know what. I hadn't thought of that. Yeah, see we are blood ken. You're right.

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Speaker 3: When you're done, I want you to just walk out. Don't say by to Ryan.

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Speaker 7: Or Drew or Man.

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Speaker 5: Give me back to God's country.

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Speaker 4: Give me back to God's country. So anyway, yeah, but that's that's the latest country. I think it's a bud. I think it's nothing. I bet I bet you like he just had to go. I bet you nobody was angry about it. But everyone is getting angry, you know what I mean? I bet you the people on Saturday Night Live didn't care.

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Speaker 6: Keenan kind of pulled points and smiles like there he goes. You didn't look like you mightst frustrated. Other ones just kept shaking hands, and he really acknowledge it.

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Speaker 4: I don't. They didn't feel like a big deal to me.

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Speaker 5: Who's up?

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Speaker 4: First ship?

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Speaker 7: Tyler?

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Speaker 4: Tyler?

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Speaker 5: Go ahead? Tyler?

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Speaker 9: Uh so? Uh yeah? The the loss uh to Tennessee, uh like really broke my heart. But I swear with with with saying what Pope did with his first year, with all the obstacles he had in his way, with the injuries and just being the sec being so good. I mean, if he could he could put together a team like that with little to no talent, and you know, had I didn't. I mean, I'm I'm next season seems very promising. I just I can only imagine what he'll do when he's got a full.

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Speaker 4: Uh no talent. I mean, you know, I appreciate call that that. Yeah, they had a lot of time, they didn't have a lot of athleticism, but I think they had a lot of talent. But yes, how could you not be promising. I mean, if if o Way comes back like now, you have like returners, we had no returners. He's building through freshman. I think Chandler is gonna be really good next year. Got We've got some elite guys coming in now. Whether or not they're like Superstar Leader or not, we'll find out. But I don't know, Drew, I don't know how at the end of this first year you could be anything but positive. There's one dude who pops up on my TikTok account. Who is that guy?

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Speaker 5: Oh, the negative dude that first is the wor.

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Speaker 4: There's no way that dude's a UK fan, No chance, there's no way. He just comes up and he's like, Mark Pope stinks we as Kentucky fans. And it's clear to me he's not a Kentucky fan. That's just a guy who's trying to get mentions. And I guess I'm playing into it, but I'm not giving his name. But you know what I'm talking about. Oh, I've seen him a lot. He's been saying Mark Pope won't work out here since like December. They young He's like a younger African American guy. But I don't like him. He's he's terrible. He's not one to I don't even think does he even live here? But my point is, besides him, how could anyone not feel optimistic?

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Speaker 5: Grind?

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Speaker 2: I think most ninety percent of the fans are acstatic the season went the way it did this year. Send me what we started with and to get to a sweet sixteen birth where we haven't been in six years. I think it meant a lot to people just to get bring that passion and joy back to Kentucky basketball. I'm hoping these guys did it.

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Speaker 4: One person rights, Matt, Have you given up on the Reds yet? Close? Yeah? Close? I mean I'm hanging in.

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Speaker 5: There there, one and two fan.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, y'all haven't won a game yet, have you to fork?

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Speaker 7: It's still spring training?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I went to the game yesterday, and are you know? I just have to hate some of our players. I don't like Ian Jebau because he blew that game and he's French, and then the Candelario his feet are made of lead, like he can't he can't get a ball. He missed a tag that was important, you know. Jacob Hoody Boosey, he ran into a double play left Elly on deck with the run, so that I was frustrating, but I do like going to the games. It was a nice day.

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Speaker 2: Well the first five innings. Both pitchers had perfect games. Going through first five inning. It was a three up, three down, three up, three down going by quick. Also at the sixth inning, then everybody starts scoring.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was unfortunate, but you know what, not giving up yet, but I'm kind of giving up.

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Speaker 5: And so I love last Thursday. It's open here we go here of the Reds. It is now Monday, and it's I'm done, lasted four games.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna give them out tickets away, probably for Tuesday and Wednesday's game on this show. So if you're if you're listening Tuesday Wednesday. Yeah, but if you write me and ask.

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Speaker 2: For him, you well they got The Rangers played Texas yeeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Kentucky Baseball won a big Texas series.

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Speaker 4: Tecky beat Texas A and M, so they needed to win a series. They lost their first two series against ranked opponents. They won this one, so got back on track a little bit.

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Speaker 6: Did you see the little bit of a controversy down there over the curfew They were fighting because Minjion went a little stallball pulled out a Calipari's trick. Did you see you get past the five thirty curfew where they can't play another inning?

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Speaker 4: So if you can't start an inning after five thirty, which is odd to me, that's an odd rule. But like basically Miniones started, you know, he argued with the ump a little bit. Yeah, guys were going slow. Yeah, he basically just stallballed Shanon so they wouldn't have to play the ninth inning.

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Speaker 7: So they want Hey, I'm totally fine with that.

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Speaker 3: I think that's smart. It's a stupid rule. If they don't like it, they need to change the rule, don't you.

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Speaker 4: Is it is? You think it's a bad rule. It is a bad rule.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a horrible rule, but it's gamemanship. He's trying to win an SEC game and do whatever you can to win an SEC game.

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Speaker 6: I get the rule if it's like ten pm, but it's four thirty local time at Texas A and M and they're like, we can't possibly play another inning.

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Speaker 7: Daylight savings time. Come on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't understand the rule. It doesn't make sense to me. We five thirty is the arbitrary time. You can't play another inning. That doesn't make sense. Who's next?

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Speaker 8: Mark?

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Speaker 4: Mark, go ahead and mark.

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Speaker 8: It.

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Speaker 5: What's up? Hey?

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Speaker 8: Not much? Hey, real quick?

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Speaker 10: I want to start first. I want to congratulate a great crossing on the Sweet sixteen win Malico Marino. But I also think it's time to swip the Lexington area into two regions because the toughest games will against blying Station and Douglas, and the other games weren't nearly as close.

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Speaker 4: It's okay, I don't care. After Lexington gets one region, we don't need. We don't need eight Lexington teams in the Sweet sixteen. The whole point of the Sweet sixteen is to you know, the SEC is harder than the Patriot League.

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Speaker 5: That's the way it goes.

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Speaker 4: But the whole point, the beauty of the Sweet sixteen is that people come from all over the state. If twelve of the sixteen teams are from Lexington in Louisville, it's not as fun.

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Speaker 10: No, I'm only asking, it's only probably be two of them to make it the Lexton area, okay, because you can bring in with game.

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Speaker 4: Always I put I put with you. In Lexington, there's only one team from the.

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Speaker 10: City period that I understand it. That's fine too. Hey, real quick, what was your grade on the season this year?

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Speaker 4: It's an A. I'm an A. Uh. You know I I switched from A minus to A after the Illinois game. You know, the fact that the Tennessee game was never really competitive had me considering wavering back. But I'm gonna stay with an A. I think the postgame press conference and the way these guys kind of brought back the sort of pride from the fans and stuff. I'm giving this an A. This is on and off the court. I think they did exactly what this fan base needed.

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Speaker 10: That's what I want to talk about. I'm gonna give them a B B plus. I'm gonna tell you why. I'll give him a be a B plus. I think it's a good It's a great start moving forward. But uh, I think we were pretty fortunate in our scheduling this year what we had. I looked at the other sixteen.

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Speaker 5: What do you mean fortunate?

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Speaker 4: We played one of the hardest We played one of the hardest schedules in the country.

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Speaker 10: We had a lot of whole teams. Man, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: The opisode we played, We played more Quad one teams than anyone in basketball met Yes, but we had to play them. We had to play those teams if we played. Dude, let me ask you a question. When Mark Pope was hired, did you think with zero people on the roster in four weeks to put a roster together, we'd be in the Sweet sixteen next year with our only commitments being Travis Perry.

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Speaker 10: And sixteen also with nobody on his team at Michigan.

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Speaker 4: He did a great job. And you know what, Dusty May's great. He deserves it. He deserves an A. If you don't think, if you think this is a B, then that means you had to have expected like an Elite eight or a Final four from this group.

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Speaker 10: I actually thought, I actually thought we were probably with Warriors the Sea. It actually I thought this season would be a CE. Honestly, with the portal, it makes it a lot.

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Speaker 4: He can't be Okay, I appreciate the call. It can't be a you can't. If you thought it was going to be a C before he even started, then this is better. Like I don't know, I honestly don't know what people thought. I said for fifteen years. The year after Cali Perry leaves we're.

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Speaker 5: Gonna stink, and we didn't stink.

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Speaker 4: We were good. And you're right, Dusty May did the same thing. Although Dusty May had people stay, we didn't. But you know what, he deserves an A too. Pat Kelsey deserves an A. I think Cal deserves an A for the postseason. I think his regular season stunk. But all these new coaches, the kid at the guy b why you deserves an A Like these new coaches did an amazing job.

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Speaker 6: If he wants to give him a BEE, sure, I don't understand saying the schedule. They won more games against ap top fifteen opponents than have ever been won in a single season at Kentucky. So that's a pretty difficult schedule. And they won those games by a record.

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Speaker 4: Our record have been if we played Louisville schedule, I mean much better. It had been much better. Now he might have gotten a worse seed because of it, because, like them, we didn't get a lot of chances to play good teams. Yeah, but are I just don't know. There were four SEC teams in the Elite eight, right, there were seven in the Sweet sixteen. There's two in the Final four. You know there's gonna be one in the championship, beat.

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Speaker 5: Two of the final four teams in the regular season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, if you want to give you an A plup minus, okay, I can even understand a B plus, but like a B.

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Speaker 2: What in the world did you expect? We had some really really good wins this season. I mean big time wins.

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Speaker 2: Didn't he have controversy the first time he went to start out live?

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Speaker 4: He got but clearly they must like him. They invited him back. They invited like everybody he's always like Saturday Night Live so liberal. I mean, they had Shane Gillis hosting a couple of weeks ago. They had this dude singing. I mean, like they you know, everybody's got to just chill out. Most people like each other. Y'all that fight online all the time. You don't represent the world. I think sometimes people forget, Like I think a lot of the people that I noticed when he was on there, there were a lot of liberals like, well, I invite Morgan Wallen on well because they want his fans to watch the show. It's pretty simple, Like it's not like everybody just goes like Biden or not. If you don't, you can't coome and vice versa. Like everybody just said, maybe he just wanted to go get ice cream like everybody's He walked out of there. It comes with there a liberal agenda. Maybe he just was meeting a woman.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like nobody has any idea and they just make these big judgments.

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Speaker 6: I think Ryan Nell that it's it's in both of your blood. You know, this is a big event. All these people are about to leave it once.

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Speaker 4: I think about me, Think about me, like, think about how weird my behavior is. Sometimes what if you were like, you mean, he didn't even stay in the arena during the game. Liberal, that's Indies, Indianapolish, red state.

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Speaker 2: No, it's because I got too nervous at the Deaf Leopard concert. You gave me five songs and said we're out. Is that because they were all conservatives?

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Speaker 4: I think they're British. I don't even know that that was uh, I don't know that was anything. I just it was time to time to go beat the traffic. That's right.

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Speaker 5: We've been there a while and we did beat the traffic.

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Speaker 4: Night seven, one person says, Matt, what if the casting Rose situation where to happen to Travis Perry, how would you and everybody feel? It might? It might? And you know what, I love Travis Perry, But like if the end of the day, this is a business, and if you don't want this to happen, then what the NCAAA needs to do is have contracts. J Billis said that the other day, and he's exactly right. Sign these players to two year contracts and it's and both sides have to deal with it. I'm for that, But that means the NCAA is gonna have to see these dudes as employees, which means I have to give them workers comp, which which means all this stuff which the NCAA doesn't want to do. But here's the thing. If the NCAA would just agree to treat these dudes as employees, all of these things can happen. Treat them as employees, let them collectively bargain. Then you can set limitations on pay. Then you can say they have to stay so many years. Just do it, like that's what you need to do. But they're so hesitant to do that because they don't want to pay workers comp And I get that, but you know what, get over it, right, You're making so much money, like, get over it.

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Speaker 2: It seems to be like that's the best answer I have. All the arguments I've heard, that's the best one.

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Speaker 4: That's the best. J Billis said it. Yesterday's exactly right. Sign two year deals if you want, Maybe you sign a kid to a three year deal. Right, okaybe you only sign him to a one year deal, but like, let the market decide. Right now, everybody's a free agent. Kevin Willard leaves Maryland, Like, hey, you gonna get mad at kids for transferring if Kevin Willard's gonna leave at the same time, if the player's gonna leave, how you gonna get mad at Kenny Brooks when he asked a player to leave, Like, this is just like, it's the business we're in.

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Speaker 5: And if you want to fix it, fix the business.

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Speaker 4: You said it.

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Speaker 2: Though, this one stinked just because who she is. She's from eastern Kentucky, she's a senior, she went through a lot of injuries. That's what I think people are so upset about all the entire story, not just the fact that he asked a player to leave. It's who he asked to leave.

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Speaker 5: I get it.

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Speaker 4: I totally get it. And I also if I was her family, I'd be upset. If I was, I'd be upset. I get it, But I also would say, we've only heard one side of the story, and and this happens all the time. We're just taking it personal now because it's a Kentucky person. Yeah, definitely. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And on the Perry comparison, I'm back to I think so much of it is that she had one year left.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so too.

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Speaker 5: Like it'd be.

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Speaker 6: Fair to be like, look, three years, you're not going to play here, you should seek something else out. But it's like there's not just any way that you can keep paying spot for one season.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's that's a fair question. Who's up next? J Jay?

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Speaker 10: Go ahead, Jay, Yes, Mata, this question for you, Drew and Ryan.

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Speaker 11: Do you think that Pope will put another Do you think Pope will put another team another player on the team from Kentucky?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 10: From the high school?

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Speaker 4: Okay, this is why they don't do it, though, you know, I appreciate the call, like, this is why this is a perfect illustration of why this is hard. First of all, we already have two kids from Kentucky. Yes, we now have more kids from Kentucky on this roster than we've had in years. We're gonna have two freshmen coming in and then we got two us We have four kids from Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: Don't forget my walk on from Madisonville five if you count the walk Ons.

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Speaker 4: And then, respectfully to the caller, are we gonna take another kid from Kentucky? You can't just make it, do you. We just have kids. We already have two from this class, and they're two of the best players that have ever come from this state. We should be happy about that, not go, will you take another one from Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: I think some people just want us to be the Kentucky All Stars. Don't step outside the state to recruit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I understand a get it. It used to bother me that Cow wouldn't recruit from Kentucky. Honestly, if you want to know, because I heard him say it, If you want to know why he didn't take just a kid from Kentucky, this is why he didn't want. His belief was I want the focus to be on the people playing, not people asking me who why that somebody else doesn't why? And Richie gonna play tonight? Andante Allen was a big one. You know. I think he got so stubborn about Dante Allen because he was tired of people about asking him about it. Dante Allen, and he took it out on the kid. Unfortunately, though Dante, he didn't want to take anyone's hard Awaiver. Dante should have played more. But like this is what this is the problem with this conversation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he took Dominique and Derek, but they didn't even play till they were juniors, and they heard we heard about that. When why are they playing or why don't they player? Will look who was ahead of him, man, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, Derek was a top recruit people, but Dominique talked in to take and he had to go watch him at the state tournament and then decide to ache man.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, it ended up working out well for both those kids, but.

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Speaker 4: Remember they didn't I mean dom Derek didn't really play to his junior year and Dominique would do spot duty here and there.

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Speaker 6: Derek was a recruiting win against Patino in Indiana. If I'm not mistaken, it was those three schools. You couldn't let a Kentucky kid go to one of those.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So, uh, do you expect mister Scoop to get a commitment in the next day or two?

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Speaker 2: I think we'll have two.

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Speaker 4: Don't don't be getting people's hopes up. Do you think we'll have two commitments in the next week, that's not the next day, or two two commitments by the end of the week.

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Speaker 6: Yes, anymore eyeball mojis or anything you got dialed up for for online?

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Speaker 4: Uh maybe later. Yeah, well, we'll see two commitments in the next week, says Uh, says Ryan limit. All right, you are gonna take the last thirty minutes. I'll be doing the show from up there on Tuesday and Wednesday, and.

00:22:53
Speaker 2: I'm I'm out and you're off to Amsterdam.

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Speaker 4: I'm off the bed. I will be there Tuesday Wednesdays. Have a good trip, brother, Well, I will do my best. If you all got this.

00:23:02
Speaker 5: Drew Week next week, Drew Week, next week, Drew Palooza. They're calling it Drew like that adds pressure to it.

00:23:07
Speaker 2: Calling Drew its We're all gone, even Mario, Shannon, Everyone's gone.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it everyone. I just keep showing up to work. Thank you all very much for uh for listening. They're gonna still be here for the last thirty minutes, and I will see you tomorrow. Uh, this is Tucky Sports Radio. I will be safe. I got Mario riding with me. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ.

00:23:29
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00:23:38
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00:23:40
Speaker 2: Oh, Tiffany or Debbie Gibson. You had to pick a side?

00:23:43
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00:23:44
Speaker 4: You a Debbie Gibson person.

00:23:45
Speaker 7: Or who Debbie Gibson is? So I'm the Tiffany guy. I guess who's Gibson? Who she?

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Speaker 2: She was a big teeny teenage bopper singer back in the same time. She had like all the the goodie two shoe love song looks and lyrics. Tiffany kind of the wild child. She went, She went to all these malls. Have you heard this?

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Speaker 5: Never heard the name Debbie Gibson?

00:24:07
Speaker 4: Oh, look her up.

00:24:09
Speaker 7: But you know Tiffany, Tiffany.

00:24:11
Speaker 4: You know who Tiffany was?

00:24:13
Speaker 5: No? Was I born when these people were.

00:24:16
Speaker 4: This was in the eighties.

00:24:19
Speaker 5: So why do you have to pick a side between Tiffany and Debbie Gibson.

00:24:21
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:24:24
Speaker 5: They have beef.

00:24:25
Speaker 2: No, I don't think they had beef. I think it was just are you a Debbie Gibson fan or you a Tiffany fan. You had to pick a side one or the other. I went with the wild child Tiffany.

00:24:32
Speaker 5: We believe it.

00:24:34
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00:24:34
Speaker 2: I got a question for you, Drew. Is something blocking your path to home ownership?

00:24:39
Speaker 5: Uh? No? But if it were, what should I do?

00:24:42
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00:24:44
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00:24:44
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00:25:22
Speaker 6: It's gotta be Houston. It's the only one that doesn't really impact Kentucky or me. I don't know a Houston fan. Heck, I think I like Houston now that they have Matthew Mitchell.

00:25:33
Speaker 5: But you know true, obviously we don't want Duke.

00:25:35
Speaker 6: I would want the tournament to be canceled before I would want Duke to win. And then Kentucky's already been slipping in the SEC lately. I don't have like a lot of animosity towards Florida Auburn, but I'd rather them not just add to their resume and the conference Kentucky's supposed to own. They've both been the better team the last couple of years, even though Kentucky won the one meeting with Florida this year. But I don't like the thought of Florida getting another title. I guess between the two, you and I both like Bruce Pearl. Little part of me would be happy for Bruce, but I'd prefer the title to just stay in Texas, keep it playing in San Antonio, keep it far away from me because I won't have to hear about it or worry about what it means for Kentucky. I just think that it'd be completely separate. I suppose the other three have a little bit of impact on how we feel.

00:26:15
Speaker 4: Shannon, what about you?

00:26:17
Speaker 3: Well, in my brocket, I guess I only have one team left, and it was the team that I picked to win the championship, and it's Auburn. So I wouldn't mind Bruce Pearl getting a championship. I kind of like Bruce, and as long as it's not Duke, I'm fine with whatever happens.

00:26:31
Speaker 7: But I think Auburn wins.

00:26:32
Speaker 5: Auburn had a scare with Broom yesterday and that would have ended up coming.

00:26:36
Speaker 3: Back something with his wrist, and it kind of looked like he landed funny on his ankle too.

00:26:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, very heroic entrance. They like followed him in from the back. Then he comes in and busts the three with his bum arm. But first split second there it looked like Auburn's title shots could have gone out the way with injury, which you don't want to see that with anyone. You want him to play it out and having all the one seed you want them to be at their best just for the sport. But that was a scary moment for Auburn fans yesterday.

00:26:58
Speaker 2: I'm kind of a Shannon. I'm kind of pulled it for ab a little bit, you know, because I like Bruce Pearl. Always like Bruce Pearl from his days down back in Evansville.

00:27:04
Speaker 9: Uh.

00:27:05
Speaker 2: But you mentioned Matthew Mitchell Houston. He's posting pictures. It's kind of weird to see him in red. It is a little weird to see him with that red shirt on our red hat on. I gotta admit I was surprised.

00:27:13
Speaker 6: I thought he was happy in retirement, just being dad, being a family man, traveling. He you know, he's got his uh uh winning tools business going on. So I was surprised he got back into coaching. But you know, I'll be rooting for him. I'll be a Cougars fan from a distance, always like Matthew Mitchell.

00:27:27
Speaker 2: Now, we did get an invitation all of us to go play in the University of Tennessee Basketball Benefit golf scramble. It's a fourteen whole scramble.

00:27:38
Speaker 7: Good, Why would they invite us?

00:27:42
Speaker 5: It's his final, it's his joke.

00:27:43
Speaker 2: They don't play in the final, they don't play for the final.

00:27:45
Speaker 4: Fourth which is.

00:27:46
Speaker 7: A fourteen completely. I was so bad it went over.

00:27:48
Speaker 6: My head, joke so many times I saw it. At first, I did think we were invited to some kind of scramble.

00:27:54
Speaker 4: I was excited. Two eight oh two, two eighty seven. Who you got shanted? Rob? Rob?

00:27:59
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Rob, Hey, guys, good to talk to you on this coaching and controversy. I'm a Lexing kid. I've been here my whole life and probably about Ryan's age. Let these coaches coach. We hold them to a high standard and let them have their roster. And honestly, if we weren't at fifteen scholarships this coming season would almost make an argument to Travis Perry needs to go. I know that ain't popular, but we've got two great Kentucky kids coming in and you want to talk about a feel good story. We got Alvis Johnson's grandson and playing on this team next year. You know there's more Kentucky connections than just the Eastern Kentucky. What about Derrick Anderson. I mean, just it goes down the list.

00:28:53
Speaker 2: Appreciate the phone call, yeah, Mitch, Alvis Johnson and I appreciate me that that's a Jasper's grandpa legendary high school administrator out of Harrisburg High School. But if you are Travis Perry, you're looking Okay, they're gonna go get a top point guard in the portal Chandler Colin Channel kind of passed me in the rotation at point guard. Jashper Johnson could play point guard. I guess he could look at the roster of the way it is like, hey man, my minutes may be limited even more next year.

00:29:21
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:29:22
Speaker 6: I haven't heard of anything about Perry wanting to leave. I think he's happy here, even though he probably won't have a huge role next year. But if he did look around and take a step down a level, you could understand where a guy it's this record and points in high school and has been a score his whole life would want an opportunity to get more shots. But best I can tell is he's enjoyed it here, even knowing what's what's coming up. I mean, you know, he's limited a little defensively, but when they were so injured this year, he played some quality of minutes for him.

00:29:49
Speaker 2: Well, there was a time where they had to have him lamon. Butler's hurt, Kirk Crease is hurt, Thank goodness, they had Travis Perry on that team last year.

00:29:57
Speaker 6: I mean, you go to Alabama and yeah, they lost, But that's such a big ask for a freshman from Lyon County. Like, oh, here's Mark Sears, an All American who is impossible to guard, whether he's hot from three or flopping his way to the free throw line. And it didn't work out in the end, But for the circumstances he was thrown into, I thought he held his own pretty well.

00:30:14
Speaker 2: Eight five nine two two two eighty seven. Who's next, Shit, Mike, Mike, Go ahead, Mike.

00:30:20
Speaker 11: Hey, guys, I'm calling about the Cassidy road deal. Actually, Cassidy is my cousin, so I have a pretty good knowledge of what's going on. Brooks did, in fact tell Cassidy she was not on the team anymore. It wasn't her decision, it was his. And the thing that really upsets a lot of us is, if you guys watched the games early on, early part of the season, Cassidy was the first guard off the bench, so it wasn't like she was just sitting down on the end of the bench slaving the towel. Then Tyler kind of took some of her minutes and she moved to the second guard off the bench. She would come in play point and Georgia to the off guard. So it's not like she was a contributing at all. And if you saw the stuff that Brooks posted, you know he actually had her on one of the postgame interviews, caught her to the Princess of Kentucky, talked about how was she cried, her tears was blue. I know it's a business, but part of business is good. Pr Cassidy is a model. I mean she's just a role model. She's a Christian girl. She at the games. If you guys ever been to the games or anything, she stays until every fan that wants a picture with her get for one or an autograph. So I mean, going into her senior year doing this, I mean, I just don't think it's acceptable at all. And her dad, her dad, Dodo roll. I talked to him, actually I texted with him when I was on hol with you guys, and he said he would be more than happy to come on the show and talk with you guys more about.

00:31:58
Speaker 2: It and appreciates the phone call. And I think he's the reason why this is tough, because the kind of person she is and what she means to the people of eastern Kentucky. I think that's what makes this decision, even though, like he said, him tell if it's a business decision, makes it hard to swallow.

00:32:16
Speaker 6: I remember her taking a lot of charges this year. I know that just adds to people liking her even more. As we mentioned earlier on the bench, she seems to be the biggest cheerleader, the biggest coach on the bench. I think it's bad, like a like the relative said there, I think it's a bad pr move by Brooks that he might not have expected to be the way the reaction is so. I mean, if he has the greatest portal class ever and fills all those spots with younger, more talented players, then you can go, you know what, it was a numbers game and it just stinks. But it just right now, without knowing what he has lined up, it seems like a big mistake by him.

00:32:50
Speaker 2: The avision last text machine, I guess it is gonna be my cell phone for the last two segments here and somebody says, ask Shannon why he severely injured a refereader in an OVC match this weekend.

00:32:59
Speaker 3: Ov W yeah, We'll say, first of all, it's not the Ohio Valley Conference, it's Ohio Valley Wrestling.

00:33:04
Speaker 7: Dude. This was a complete freak accident.

00:33:06
Speaker 3: I was telling you guys about this during the break, but during the main event Saturday, at our big pay per view show, which was sold out in awesome, I threw one of the titles into the ring trying to break up the three count I turn around to look up and the referee is just gushing blood out of the side of his head. Apparently the national title when it was flying through the air, tilted in the air and caught the referee right on the side of the head and got about a I'd say about a two inch gap in his head, like a gash in his head. Dude was bleeding all over the place, bleeding all over the backstage. And sometimes those things happened. It's not ballet, so every now and then things happened like that.

00:33:47
Speaker 4: You threw it at his head, did you shan't it?

00:33:49
Speaker 3: I threw it in the ring. I was trying to Yeah, I was trying to hit on. I wasn't necessarily trying to murder the guy, but it looked like a murder scene. Backstage and he had to get stitched up. So who it happens?

00:34:01
Speaker 6: What made a bigger mess? You splitting the referees head over or Ryan Lemon at Lucas Oil Stadium.

00:34:09
Speaker 5: The pre show.

00:34:10
Speaker 6: But I wanted to participate in discussion since I saw the aftermath and.

00:34:14
Speaker 2: When I went to the back, haund for half had on this nice UK polo shirt. I was so proud of wearing blue, wearing my logo despite what Piper was saying.

00:34:24
Speaker 4: In Illinois, we walk.

00:34:26
Speaker 2: Over to the arena and Shannon and I get our chili cheese dog and chili cheese.

00:34:29
Speaker 7: Not Joseph All.

00:34:30
Speaker 5: We walked my l cheese.

00:34:32
Speaker 3: We walked a full lap around the arena trying to find the media that by the time we had walked all the way around that place, we were hungry. And you went and you got what a chili dog or was a chili cheese.

00:34:43
Speaker 2: Chili cheese talking cheli cheese, not jos And and sure, in true Gary Lemon fashion, my dad spilt it all down my shirt. I mean it was all over my shirt. It was so bad I had to take the shirt off and throw it away. I couldn't wear it around. It was stained.

00:34:58
Speaker 6: I didn't know that part to the to the back after halftime to watch on TV.

00:35:03
Speaker 5: That was fun.

00:35:04
Speaker 6: And I noticed in the press conference, I guess where you were sitting one of the chairs had chili dog stains.

00:35:09
Speaker 2: That it is that where you were sitting or salt pretzel littered the whole play.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: Came and sat by me and noticed the stain and he was like, that was Ryan. At that point, I hadn't known anything about this. I'm like, what do you mean that's Ryan.

00:35:21
Speaker 2: I had to walk around and had radio T shirt the rest of the night because I ruined my UK polo.

00:35:26
Speaker 7: I was convinced.

00:35:27
Speaker 3: I was convinced Drew we were gonna get kicked out because there was nachos all. This is, by the way, the same room where they do like the postgame press conferences. And yeah, yeah, I look down and there's salt everywhere, and there's nacho cheese and chips and chili all in the carpet. Like, somebody needs to bring us like a vacuum and a carpet machine cleaner otherwise we're gonna get kicked out of here.

00:35:50
Speaker 7: It was a mess.

00:35:51
Speaker 5: What made you go?

00:35:52
Speaker 6: Chili cheese dog and chili cheese nachos that alone without spilling it is a move in itself.

00:35:57
Speaker 2: Well, actually I got till Shannon I could share the nacho.

00:36:01
Speaker 7: We weren't sharing a hot dog, No, no, I.

00:36:03
Speaker 2: Hate the hot dog. Got tolly cheese not to as we could share, and then I spiled them all over the place.

00:36:07
Speaker 5: What is it with you and Indy?

00:36:08
Speaker 6: I've told this before, but I walked into tendroom one time before pacers going even know you're there, and you are just absolutely covered in.

00:36:14
Speaker 5: Ranch, a whole bowl of branch bowl. I mean you're entirely covered. I didn't even know you had.

00:36:20
Speaker 6: Did you ask for more ranch to pour on yourself? And then it was either Indy or Saint Louis. We go to the media room and you take a bite of food and you look at me and you lost a tooth at an n CUAA tournament game.

00:36:31
Speaker 2: That all right, Yeah, maybe it's just the whole the nc tournament thing. It does that to me.

00:36:35
Speaker 6: I had a poop tooth for like a week, or my tooth doll were we hadn't been in the building for twenty minutes.

00:36:41
Speaker 5: And get the whatever the media food was, and you look at me.

00:36:44
Speaker 2: It was the that got me there and saying it was probak a tooth. Well, it was like a brick, a little small charcoal brick. I think it was o'sasure. Got to get you a bib next time. Well, that's my dad that the apple didn't fall far from that tree. I will take our final break, come back, our final segment. You give us a called eight five nine two O two two eight seven Ryan, Drew and Shannon, we'll wrap it up.

00:37:05
Speaker 4: We come back.

00:37:06
Speaker 2: You don't get take a sports radio.

00:37:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're funny. You're really funny, Shannon.

00:37:10
Speaker 2: The whole For people who don't know the whole commercial break, Drew and Shannon just laughed at me and my chili cheese covered uk polo and ended up in the trash can. This was like even before like the second TV timeout.

00:37:22
Speaker 7: It was it was ten minutes after we walked through the door.

00:37:25
Speaker 3: I look over, yeah, and you're covered in half of what you were supposed to be eating.

00:37:30
Speaker 6: There was new info during the break too. He admitted that had it gotten on the unders shirt, he was just gonna wear it inside out around Lucas Oil.

00:37:37
Speaker 2: I thought about that when I take this off it my undershirt is stained also because the grease seeping through, I was gonna have to turn it inside out and wear I thought I wasn have to do that for my UK polo, wear it inside out.

00:37:47
Speaker 3: The visualization of you just walking around topless in the media area, that would have been the best.

00:37:56
Speaker 7: I got kicked out quick though.

00:37:57
Speaker 2: Eight five nine two two two eight seven. Let's get a couple punk calls, we'll get out of here. Who we got Joey?

00:38:03
Speaker 10: Go ahead, Joey, Hey, guys, how you doing good?

00:38:07
Speaker 4: Are you Joey?

00:38:08
Speaker 8: Can you hear me?

00:38:09
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, go ahead.

00:38:10
Speaker 11: I was calling about Pope.

00:38:11
Speaker 12: I always wanting to give him an a on the season. But one of my questions is is he going to be able to get a big time talent. We've lost out on Wilson, Dent, Eagle Staff. It's looking like a Mint is probably gonna go to a little more or Duke or do we need talent like that in his system? Do you think that's why maybe we don't.

00:38:31
Speaker 8: Ness the sun.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: Losing? Yeah, I appreciate the phone call.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: That's the one big knock I think right now, Drew, can Pope go get the elite of the lead? McDonald's all American one and done type guys.

00:38:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, it'd been nice to get Caleb Wilson, you lose him to you even see you got Nate, You're in the mix, but probably unlikely you get him. Pope will eventually have to make a big splash with someone. But even if he doesn't like you, look at what he did this year, Like, did anyone have.

00:39:02
Speaker 5: Otega Oway doing what he did this year?

00:39:04
Speaker 4: Right?

00:39:04
Speaker 6: He went and got Oklahoma six man that most of us, if we being honest, had never heard or heard of. He wasn't one of the big talked about transfer portal guys last season. Wasn't a lot of teams fighting over him, and he's second team All SEC and it's probably gonna be the face of your team next year. So yes, Pope needs to go out and get a big splash to prove he can do it. But at the same time, the way Pope operated, at least in that first year, is he went out and found exactly what he needed. Mario William Drexel. He got him pretty quickly, so wasn't a lot of attention on a Mari in the portal, but he knew he needed a passing, big defense That worked out prettyten triple double, fourth in history. Had a great season from start to finish. Wasn't perfect, but I mean to go out and Amari wasn't a big splash. Nothing we really celebrated, and I think everyone loved Amorri season. He should have been all sec So you got to put a little faith in Pope after year one that he knows exactly what he wants to fit a system and can find the right guys, even if it may not be ranked as high as Dent, who's number one on a lot of lists. You lose him to UCLA. Pope knows what he wants more than a lot of coaches who would just say I want the most talented and I'll figure it out. He's looking for very specific roles to bring together.

00:40:07
Speaker 2: And nobody mentions a Kayden Lewis. But then I've got other people say he may be the best of all the incoming players.

00:40:12
Speaker 4: Is a Kayden Lewis.

00:40:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he and Jasper Melicha. Okay, they're not top ten, but those are still pretty big blue chip they he came and got to him from Kentucky.

00:40:20
Speaker 5: That helps.

00:40:21
Speaker 6: It was a good start for his first recruiting cycle. Moving forward, he will need to eventually get some that aren't from Kentucky are that are big additions. But he also have to trust Pope and that he knows what he's looking for.

00:40:32
Speaker 2: We had time for one more, Shannon, squeeze one more for John go ahead real quick.

00:40:39
Speaker 11: Yeah, does anybody have any info on Reed Bailey from Davidson.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: Appreciate John Matt's little synopsis he gave earlier that they're very much in the mix for him. There's a couple of guys that I think they're like really on strong and feel good about. But now they'll have to determine which ones they want over the other guy. But I think that Davidson kids in the mix for sure.

00:41:00
Speaker 6: Yeah, Kentucky's been in contact right now. I mean they cast such a wide net at this stage. It'll move quickly. But you know, there's zooms set up today, zooms tomorrow. No one outside of a couple that you feel like we're good about, like you saying Magoon's in a good position. Really, a lot of this can change on the fly, and sure they will in the next couple of days. We thought we were in a good spot with dent could even Trilly and people that aren't even have Kentucky ties are saying, oh, my goodness, Kentucky threw quite a bag at him. Didn't expect you see all in a match. You see in matches, and he wants to stay home. So it's it's hard to know where they are exactly with Red Bailey, but they've been in talks with.

00:41:33
Speaker 2: Him, you know, a great ossil bar last year. They they thought they really had him, and then you know, at the last second, somebody comes in and outbids him that I thought was a done deal. I think it was a done deal for several for several.

00:41:46
Speaker 6: Days, and he just decided, or his agent decided, let's shop around and see if we can get more money. And then it got to a price that Kentucky said, never mind, we're not.

00:41:53
Speaker 5: Going that high.

00:41:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So Drew and Shannon and I will be UH studio tomorrow. Matt will be on localation somewhere as he gets ready to head out of the country and go to Amsterdam UH for a couple of days, and then Drew Palooza starts next week because I'm off, Shannon's off, Matt's off, Mario's off.

00:42:11
Speaker 6: What happened to the rule of three of us have to be on the show at the same time. Is that out the window for Drew will be fine?

00:42:17
Speaker 7: Is that ready to be broken? I think junements.

00:42:22
Speaker 6: I'll need some help for some voices. I'll need some calls. I'm gonna spend this week kind of getting a game plan together, but it's gonna be lonely here.

00:42:29
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, if you get really desperate, or you can call Ryan and I like, we'll chime in from a vacation if you really need it.

00:42:35
Speaker 2: We'll be on the beach with the Bargerina and so it'll be screening on each other's back and doing god knows what in Panama City.

00:42:41
Speaker 5: I'll let you have your vacation for.

00:42:43
Speaker 4: Drew, for Shannon and Ryan.

00:42:44
Speaker 2: Matt'll be back tomorrow here I can take his sports radio.

00:42:46
Speaker 4: Goodbye.