2025-02-20- KSR - Hour 2

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

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Speaker 4: Whereback it is.

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Speaker 5: Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text Machine is seven seven two seven seventy four five two five four.

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Speaker 4: By the way, we Nate A.

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Speaker 5: Mitt now says it's gonna be a few weeks before he decides, so we'll see Kentucky Louisveland Duke. I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I would love for them to get him.

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Speaker 5: I also think, though, we're gonna need some older guys next year, because I still think, you know Rick Patino's quote, which was very interesting, which is I'm not doing freshman anymore. I'm only doing older guys. It's an interesting thought. I think what you're gonna see is if you can go get Cooper Flag, you go get him. If you can go get Canipple, you go get him. But a lot of other freshmen you need an older guy instead. I mean, they better be really good, uh, in this new era that we're in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and they would fall in that category. But I get the philosophy. I mean written listed his players that are leaving and said, I cannot go to high school and replace these guys. It's not possible. So I have to go to the portal at that point, it's just different conversations than what we're traditionally recruiting.

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Speaker 5: That's true, all right, Well, one person writes, Matt, as you get older, you're not gonna want to change diapers and do all the things that young dads do. True, but that would have been true at twenty seven as well. So it's like i'd have more time now, you know what I mean, we can we can get help. Like there's people out there who I feel like they'll change a diaper, like Ryan, for instance, Uncle Ryan can come change diapers. That feels like something you'd be really good at. What plus, what else are you gonna do? You got your million dollars retired, you're tired, I'll give you like, come change a diapers? Rich he canna have one million dollars like you might as well?

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Speaker 6: Come don tres papers?

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Speaker 2: Well, you want to, you know, be able to enjoy when they get older. You know you don't want to be in your seventies.

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Speaker 6: Well, I can't reverse time. What do you want me to do now?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 5: Like I mean, like I'm I'm already the age I am.

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Speaker 2: We know we're just making a discussion. You have to get all hofey. I think you're getting guilty press.

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Speaker 5: All right, let's talk about a couple of things that I do think are interesting. First, uh, did you read h. Shannon the story about the Chilean gangs and the foot and the athletes. So they caught the Chilean Chilean gang that was robbing all of the athletes houses. They caught them now here. This is a crazy story. So follow me here. These people, there were seven of them. They had robbed Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Luka Doncik, a couple of hockey players in Dallas, a couple of Memphis Grizzlies, a Tennessee Titan. Here's what's amazing. They were based in Cincinnati and Jeffersonville, Indiana. No way, that's where they were based, Cincinnati and jefferson Villianiera.

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Speaker 6: So that's why all these places were kind of within.

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Speaker 4: A day's drive.

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Speaker 5: What they would do is they would look at the schedules to see when guys were gonna be away from their house. They had like crazy amount of technology. They had like burner phones that they would ditch after each one. I think they said the FBI believes they did like twelve to fifteen robberies. They intentionally would try to alternate high profile, low profile, high profile, low profile. They were this Chilean group, and the FBI was was they couldn't figure out who did it. And do you want to know how they got caught? How they got caught because they started bragging and they started taking selfies in like I'm wearing Joe Burrows jersey. Look, here's Travis Kelsey's thing. And they started sending the pictures and one of the pictures that they sent to somebody got forwarded into somebody else who then sai it to the FBI, and that's how they ended up cracking the gag. They followed them for a little while and they caught him. But they would buy Shannon and ditch their cars in Cincinnati and Jeffersonville, Indiana.

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Speaker 6: Wow, they think that.

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Speaker 5: Half the people half of them lived in Cincinnati and the others may have lived in Jeffersonville, which is right across the river to Looisville. Like this Chilean super robbery gang. And they only targeted athletes because they just wanted to. They thought it was more fun apparently, to go after the athletes in a couple of people's houses. They think they said they took like a million dollars worth of stuff.

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Speaker 4: Crazy, isn't it?

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Speaker 3: It is they got two cocky first of all. And what is it about when somebody has a secret like that, they can't keep it to themselves.

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Speaker 5: If they just had not taken the selfies. But they took the bragging selfies and it was the selfie and then they sent it to somebody who ridded them out.

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Speaker 6: But drew.

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Speaker 5: It's crazy to think, like, Okay, Cincinnati, that's not crazy that that happened because they got burrow. But Jeffersonville, Indiana, I mean, did they hang out at that Hooters?

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Speaker 6: Like over the air?

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Speaker 4: Like what were they do? You know, maybe hanging out the Hooters? I saw the bodycam footage where they got pulled over in Ohio and as they that's a great story. They when they're going through their stuff, they have like lsu T sirts. It's the most obvious you did it ever? It's like a number nine pennant on a necklace. That's a great story.

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Speaker 5: So they're driving from Cincinnati, I think, to Dayton and they get pulled over.

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Speaker 6: The cops follow them for like thirty miles.

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Speaker 5: They get pulled over and They asked the guy, all right, hey, man, where are you going? And he goes Orlando and they said, well, you're kind of going the wrong way. And then the guy in the backseat goes, no, No, New York City, and he was like, so it's in Orlando or New York and they both at the same time, one goes Orlando.

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Speaker 4: Truper definitely says, what is this direction. You're kind of.

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Speaker 6: Going the wrong way.

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Speaker 2: So it is crazy though that they targeted the athletes knowing that they were gonna be on the road. The schedules are posted, Okay, Joe Burrow is gonna be on the road. We're gonna hit his house this day. It's crazy, pretty amazing story.

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Speaker 5: So you gotta read. You gotta read about. ESPN has a long report of how they caught him. They said, but it all came ultimately back to taking self out, bragging.

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Speaker 4: About the gear that they were wearing. I maybe would have left the very obvious stuff alone, like the Burrow Player of the Year trophy. I would have tried to stay in a neutral area with whatever I was taking.

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Speaker 5: They took a picture of Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift together. They took a picture of it like off Somebody's nightstand?

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Speaker 2: What are you gonna do with somebody?

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Speaker 5: Believe it was Travis Kelsey's nice and if it was Lucas Knights that would be a little different.

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Speaker 6: But but anyway, so pretty amazing.

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Speaker 2: Good story.

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Speaker 4: Who's up next? Packston paxtonck? Go ahead, Paxton?

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Speaker 7: First time?

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Speaker 8: Long time?

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Speaker 5: Who are ef? I'm nine twenty two eighty seven? Couple open lines? Go ahead?

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Speaker 8: So I was the kid who got the free tickets, Uh cash kiss.

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Speaker 4: Bar, Yes, nice.

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Speaker 8: And I went to the game last night, and uh, it was getting hype in there.

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Speaker 5: It was getting hype you had on those overalls. I hope you've made a lot of noise.

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Speaker 8: And I just want to ask who's better in the paint, Andrew Carr or Amari Williams.

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Speaker 5: Uh, you know, that's a good question. I appreciate the call. I think I think back to the basket. Even though Amari made a number of shots yesterday, I like a car a little better. I think when you can get when you can get Amari with some momentum, I still don't love him dribbling from the top of the key, but if you can get him and he takes a quick stap or something.

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Speaker 4: He's so explosive.

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Speaker 6: But they both.

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Speaker 5: I mean, look what were they I think in that little stretch where they got the ball six straight times, they were like five of six and got a couple of and ones.

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Speaker 4: Drew. You can't help but love that. Yeah, i'd say cars a little more skilled, but a mari has learned that he's the biggest dude on the court. Vanderbilt the mcgloughton, I believe his name. He's kind of a guy, that is how he plays. He bullies guys around and Mario was not budgeting against him last night, So if you're just looking for some bruising, I'd take him Mario.

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Speaker 5: And I also love that he went right on one of his layups. One of my issues with him is he only goes left, only goes left, only goes left.

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Speaker 4: He went right.

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Speaker 5: It shocked everybody, and he got an hand one and Damian Fishback was like.

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Speaker 4: He went right, he went off his left shoulder. It was awesome.

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Speaker 2: I think that's just to me the second time I've seen that all year long, him go to the right, because usually you know, he gets down that left block and if he can get you on his right hip or his right shoulder. He's gonna put it in. He's so strong.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 5: Let me talk just second about some big football news that I don't I think has gotten underplayed that came out yesterday about SEC scheduling.

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Speaker 4: So the SEC is.

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Speaker 5: Apparently very close to reaching a scheduling agreement. Now this is I'm gonna give you this most simplistic view of something that's very complicated. They're talking about expanding the playoff from twelve to sixteen. If they do that, there will be four SEC teams and four Big ten teams guaranteed a spot every year, two ACC and two Big twelve teams, and then four at larges if that happens. The SEC has agreed with the Big Ten to do two things. One, move their conference to nine games, so there'd be nine SEC games, and your four top spots in the playoff would be conference games only, which means your non conference games wouldn't even count. The reason they want to do that is it would give them an incentive to schedule good teams because you won't get punished if you lose. Your conference games be the only ones that count. As part of that deal, the SEC and Big Ten would agree that their teams would play each other once a year. Every season, before the season starts, we would be assigned a game against a Big ten team. It would rotate every year, So now ten of your twelve games would be either SEC games or a Big Ten game. If that happens, might be saying bye bye to Louisville. I think there's a decent chance that that schedule went in. The SEC is even considering that for their four automatic bursts, teams first in first and second place would play for the championship.

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Speaker 6: Both of them would go to the playoff.

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Speaker 5: Then the team that's in third would play the team that's in sixth, and the team that's in fourth would play the team that's in fifth, and those winners would go What that means is if you were in the top six of the SEC, you would have a chance to make the playoff and have at least one game to play in. Now, Ryan, there's parts of this I really like. There's parts of it that don't. I don't mind the expanding of the playoff four SEC spots is good. I like playing a different Big ten team every year. I don't like losing Louisville. Although because only the conference games count, there's an argument that you should just play Louisville because it's not gonna hurt you if you lose. But the best part of this to me is if they do it to where teams three plays six, four plays five, Kentucky in that world could make a playoff. It is not crazy for Kentucky to come in the top six in the regular season in the SEC mark stoops if you go back and look, we've done it twice, so like there would be years that conceivably we could actually come in the top six.

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Speaker 2: As a college football fan, I'm with you. I love it. I love everything about it. As a Kentucky football fan, I'm like, eh, you know, it's tough. We're trying to get Boe eligible and Miami Ohio and Ohio versuy those usually wins we get.

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Speaker 5: Because this pe eligible matter anymore? Like really, Like, I mean it matters, but does it really matter?

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Speaker 4: Like I don't know. I'd rather have this with an opportunity to be in the playoff than worry about if I'm in the tax Slayer Bowl or whatever it is. I'm I'm looking through anything through blue lenses and a chance for Kentucky to play a man meaningful football game. And potentially have some upsets and get into far into the postseason. I think just the thought that that could happen is worth it for me.

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Speaker 5: I love the idea that on a giving I mean, think about the teams we could end up starting to play.

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Speaker 6: We could play u USC or U C l A, or a lot of Chigia State, Michigan.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: Now we probably end up playing like Minnesota and Purdue a lot, but we could conceivably play these teams. And then you've got a you got a fighting shot to get into I'm with you, Drew. We have a shot to get into a game the first week of December that really matters, and I don't know that there's any other way for that to happen except maybe.

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Speaker 2: This expanding to nine conference games. Is you know, we're having trouble with winning a game right now in the conference period.

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Speaker 5: We are, But don't you want wouldn't you like to see us play What good does it do for us to play accrid?

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Speaker 6: Don't you want to see us play more good games?

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Speaker 2: That's why I say, as a college football fan, I love it. I love everything about it. As a UK fan, I'm like, you.

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Speaker 5: Gotta dream bigger I hate that we would lose the Louisville game, because I do think in this scenario we would lose the Louisville game.

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Speaker 6: But beyond that, I.

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Speaker 4: Feel like it's a positive. I even just like having the Big Ten road trips you mentioned, just something new for the football experience. Go to Madison, Wisconsin. I'm sure Indiana will be on that a lot. That won't be fun, but there's a lot of Big Ten destinations that'd be fun to go through for the first time.

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Speaker 6: So it's just like this could all happen in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 5: Additional terms responsible gaming resources see DKNG dot co slash audio. We'll take a break right backs, KSR. Welcome back in this Kentucky sports radio. Hey to the callers, we just beat Vandy. I'd love to talk to you. Got open lines eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. That's a rarety is light in the show, so give us a shout. Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Shannon will tell me when we have someone. We do have some breaking news, Shannon, you want to hit the Kentucky's longest term office holder in history. Mitch McConnell will not seek reelection and we'll retire at the end of twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: That is really big news.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think people suspected that was the case, but it has now been announced officially.

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Speaker 4: So sore you go.

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Speaker 6: We'll have an open Senate race in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: You gotta run, no I'm not going to run, thank you.

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Speaker 4: That's that's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, what do you think about that?

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Speaker 4: I think everyone is in agreement. It was probably time. How old is he in these days? He's not up there eighties. Does it seem to be in the best health.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, health issues. It seems that, you know, really creeping up on him.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, nobody should be in office that long. Like we I want you to think about our most important politicians of the last fifteen years.

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Speaker 6: They've all been over eighty.

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Speaker 5: It's like, come on, you know, can we get a little if you feel a little younger?

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Speaker 4: All of them?

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Speaker 6: Biden, Trump, Pelosi, macconn they're all over eighty.

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Speaker 4: It's like, come on, I liked it's been a while. But they head Zuckerberg on the stand for something, and they're asking the most the dumbest questions. Imagine about Facebook, like how do people create these profiles? It's like, do you all live in the same world? We live in from a different world. So so there you go, the no more Mitch.

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Speaker 2: Mcconne, who will be the.

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Speaker 5: I would say, I don't I mean, I don't know that if the Democrats wanted to have a chance you have to run to sheer, but I can't imagine he would do that. There are already people who want me to, but I'm not gonna do it. I don't know who else we have that could win, Probably nobody the Republicans. It'll be like a three way primary between Daniel Cameron Andy Barr here in Lexington. I think there's a good chance he tries to run, and then there's some businessman who I don't know his name, but like some rich dude who like wants to buy it. So it'll be one Daniel Cameron Andy Barr will be That'd be a tough primary.

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Speaker 4: I don't know who would win. That is that Amy McGrath's music.

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Speaker 5: Amy McGrath needs to not run. I think Amy's already done enough.

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Speaker 4: Did you did you hear that? I thought I heard it that.

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Speaker 6: J I thought I heard it. Just she a mom and a fighter Pilot's what I hear?

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Speaker 4: Eighty seven? So we'll see.

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Speaker 5: Did you see that what Cutter Bowley was talking with was it Cutter Bowly?

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Speaker 4: I think so?

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Speaker 5: With with Mark with Mark Stoops And he said that Mark Stoop's best piece of They asked him, what is Mark Stoop's best piece of advice he's given to you, and he said there are only three things in life that are assured death taxes, UK parking.

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Speaker 4: Yep, did you like that quote?

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Speaker 2: It's kind of funny coming from Mark Stoops, who doesn't abide by local parking rules anywhere Starbucks UK. He just parked wherever he wants to, so I thought it was kind of odd coming from him.

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Speaker 4: He's not wrong though. Anyone that went to the UK or has lived in Lexington and tried to attend something anywhere near UK's campus, the UK parking they'll find you and they don't mess around.

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Speaker 6: Part of the.

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Speaker 5: Reason I couldn't run for Senate is how much I owe UK park because I have a lot of UK parking tickets and I don't plan on ever pay them because I don't go.

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Speaker 4: There, so like I can't hold your diploma.

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Speaker 6: What are they gonna do? You know, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 4: UK?

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Speaker 5: But they they are the quickest ticketing people on planet Earth.

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Speaker 6: Like, if you're gonna go to the women's game tonight.

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Speaker 2: Be careful.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you can park at q Doba and they'll and they will part they will, they'll ticket you.

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Speaker 4: You can park.

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Speaker 5: Anywhere and they will ticket you. They are the no one has more tickets than you can.

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Speaker 9: Are you?

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Speaker 2: Are you tipping your hand? Did you park it Kidoba and get a ticket?

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Speaker 4: It was just a figure.

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Speaker 2: I thought maybe you did park at Kidoba and they got you.

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Speaker 6: Stepping on jokes as always. So who's up next? Chris?

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Speaker 4: Chris? Go ahead, Chris.

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Speaker 10: Hey, good morning guys. Hey, since we just played, Since we just played Vandy, I wanted to ask this question to Shannon. I've never been able to figure out why he's a Vanderbilt fame because he didn't he didn't grow up there, he didn't go to school there. So I think a lot of other people want to know this answer too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he gives this a scription about once a year, So go ahead, I guess it's time for it again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So, I mean, basically, just as a kid went to Nashville a lot with the family, and on weekends, you know, when Vanderbilt was playing, I would go to the game. I ended up meeting their play by play guy. He would give us free tickets to go to the games. So that's, in a nutshell why I was a fan growing up as a kid.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's been he's been a Vandy guy since as long as we've known him.

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Speaker 6: But luckily, you know, they'd kind of.

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Speaker 4: Own Drew a little bit. Big time.

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Speaker 5: You're saying, you know, football's beating us two years in a row. Basketball cale took some bad losses to him. They beat us the first time this year. Was it was important to get them.

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Speaker 4: Lost two out of three in football until last night. It had been three out of five in basketball, including two years ago. They won on Senior Day, two weeks later won at the SEC Tournament, and then openly bragged about how Kentucky did not change its game plan at all and they just did the exact same thing and beat them twice in a matter of weeks.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to think about that, that's uh, but you're right, all that happened.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the football losses too were really bad.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think if Mark Stoops doesn't have a good year, like of all the games on the schedule, the game gets Vandy might be the most important one this year. We can't lose to Vandy again, like they can't. They cannot keep losing to Vanderbilt. If he wants to kind of keep we need to.

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Speaker 3: Wear our beat Vandy buttons maybe you know that's.

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Speaker 4: Bring it back out? Who's up that? Wu chi wu? How are you?

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Speaker 11: No?

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Speaker 12: Well, thanks for taking my call. So hopeful everybody in the eastern Kentucky's uh, you know, trying to recover and uh keeping their heads up. We're pry informed two up here in Chicago. I was wondering about how how is Mark Stuke's his knees and whatnot? I think he had surgery. But more importantly, yes, yesterday, all we're talking about the Kentucky basketball team and how the toughest you know, tournament is really the STC Tournament. And you know, I'm wondering, how do you you know if Kentucky is as healthy as it's gonna be. So we don't have uh kerve Creasa and but we do get Butler car and Jack's you know back. What's the chances of winning six straight, four straight, three straight in a tournament.

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Speaker 5: But if you get if you get Jackson and Butler back and we get the right bracket, we can make a final four.

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Speaker 6: I genuinely believe that if you.

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Speaker 5: Get Jackson and Butler so yes I did, why not they're good enough that Now that doesn't mean they will.

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't necessarily pick them as a favorite.

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Speaker 5: But you know, if I were to go look at the bracketology, you're telling me we can't beat Chattanooga, then Illinois, then what is it Saint John's to get to the final eight and play Florida and we can't win. Yeah, we can win that game, those games. I mean, I'm not saying we will, but we can.

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Speaker 12: Right Kentucky, Kentucky and Pope don't have that history. Chicago Bears season tickets went up tem percent. What's up with that? Y'all?

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Speaker 4: Take care of appreciate the call.

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Speaker 5: We can whether we would different question, but if we're healthy, we can meet anybody.

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Speaker 4: We'll be right back. TJ.

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Speaker 1: Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.

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Speaker 4: He'll make them pay.

00:23:38
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Speaker 5: The replay of the game is on right now here at the bar, and you just saw a great sequence by Colin Chandler there, back to back contested rebounds, drives down the court, kicks it into the corner for Andrew Carr for a three. I mean that was that's a level of comfort we saw from him. Last night that we really hadn't seen all year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he has maybe the most active hands on the team. I think he had two steals. You can go back to the Arkansas game and he didn't have offense yet still playing defense well on those rebounded last night. I'm as guilty as anyone of getting on Pope about playing those guys. But he had some long term vision and it's kind of looking like that's coming to fruition. If they make big plays in March, then that little lull they went through when we all thought they were playing too many minutes had paid off.

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00:25:12
Speaker 5: That's so tomorrow you can come watch the show at Poppies. I'm gonna give some tickets away and you can eat food while you're at the show. That doesn't happen a lot though. Well, you know, you can eat Mexican food at Poppies tomorrow.

00:25:23
Speaker 4: Maybe the Little Margarito on Friday.

00:25:25
Speaker 2: National Margerita Day Saturday something as well. Start early.

00:25:28
Speaker 4: I've been to Poppies many times. Great spot. Looking forward to getting there if.

00:25:30
Speaker 5: I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. There's a there's a documentary by the way that's on HBO Max that I think Kentucky fans will want to see. It's called We Beat the Dream Team, and it's about the college players in nineteen ninety two that beat the Dream Team in the practice and featured heavily on the documentary. As Jamal Mashburn because he was on the team that did it, was like Jamal Mashburn, Chris Weber, Jimmy Jackson, Bobby her and uh but Mashburn is is they talked to him a lot. I watched the first half of it last night, and it's a good Yeah.

00:26:08
Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, that's a good you know, this story's kind of taking on a new life of its own over the years. Did this team really beat the Dream Team?

00:26:16
Speaker 5: Apparently beat him like crushed them in the first game, and then they came back the next day and they crush got crushed. But the first day they beat him by like twenty and if you watch it, Bobby Hurley, Mashburn, and Weber were the.

00:26:31
Speaker 4: Guys that kind of took over the game. I'm excited to watch it because there's always, you know, rumors and legend that the Dream Team didn't want that tape getting out, of that story getting out, and I'm glad of filling it to see what it was like. I also that Court of Gold is supposed to be really good. I saw about the Olympics just this past summer. I saw a clip of Kevin Durant crying. I didn't know Kevin Durant could cry, but he's talking about how much he meant to represent America. Yeah.

00:26:53
Speaker 5: I want to watch that too. A lot of good good stuff on Who's up next?

00:26:56
Speaker 1: Brandon?

00:26:57
Speaker 4: Brandon? What's up? Brandon?

00:27:00
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call. I had the opportunity to take my father to kes Bar yesterday and see you guys. I had some wonderful wings. It's a great time. Everybody I was sitting around at the game was going crazy over Colin Chandler. We were all we felt like he was a little kid, you know, and we were all so proud of him. And my question for you all is, did you happen to see Missouri's head coach Dennis Gates called time out with one point?

00:27:27
Speaker 4: Yeah? What do you think about that? Yeah?

00:27:30
Speaker 5: So I appreciate the caffe Thank well, yeah, thanks, no, go ahead, I appreciate the call. I was so, you know, the fines have gotten so big for storming the court, like it is, when you storm the court, you get in trouble. So Missouri had already stormed the court once this year. So that was turned fifty thousand dollars, So this is gonna be a half million dollars fine. If they stormed the court. So Missouri's up twelve, one and a half seconds left, Gates calls time out, gets onto my microphone and goes, please don't storm the court. Please, it will cost us a half million dollars.

00:28:07
Speaker 4: Please.

00:28:09
Speaker 5: If you were if you were in an Alabama fan, would you understand that?

00:28:13
Speaker 6: Is that rubbing it in?

00:28:15
Speaker 4: Do you?

00:28:15
Speaker 6: It's like, it's a half million dollars? What would you do?

00:28:18
Speaker 2: I was putting myself in. If I'm a Missouri student and I'm just chopping at the bit ready to storm the court. Him saying that, I think I would probably try to get my rally the troops and do it anyway.

00:28:30
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you do it anyway? Yeah?

00:28:32
Speaker 5: Like no, Alabama saying it would make you want to do it more.

00:28:36
Speaker 6: I think.

00:28:37
Speaker 2: So if I was a Missouri student, but it's a half million dollars, they could not out of my pocket, but they could spend to get a basketball player next year.

00:28:44
Speaker 6: So you all continue this run.

00:28:46
Speaker 2: Well, we just meeting Alabama, one of the top teams in the country. I think I'm wanting to celebrate.

00:28:50
Speaker 5: Okay, if he got it, if they ended up not storming the court, and so do you think it was a good idea.

00:28:56
Speaker 4: I saw it live and I thought, whoa, this is weird. There's still time in the cal and I was thinking more from like the Alabama side, like if I'm Nate Oates and the other coach, I mean, yes, the game's over, but it is there's the game is still going on and you're getting on the microphone and talking to students. It felt a little weird, but also understand why you did it, Shannon.

00:29:15
Speaker 6: Would it discourage you or make you want to do it?

00:29:18
Speaker 3: I think I would rather have a really good recruit next year than put my feet on the floor.

00:29:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it to me.

00:29:24
Speaker 3: I think that's a good trade off, not storming in the court and saving a half million dollars.

00:29:28
Speaker 5: It does show you, though, how much how much these schools, especially next year, are all in a budget crisis. They're getting twenty two million dollars added to their expenses out of nowhere, and they don't get the next big bump in pay from the conferences till the next year. So all of these schools, Kentucky included, are like very very nervous.

00:29:52
Speaker 6: About making budget next year.

00:29:55
Speaker 5: And so I think that half million dollars that was probably the ad looking at Dennis games going, please tell everyone.

00:30:01
Speaker 3: It's like it's fifteen minutes partying on the floor with your buddies. It's worth the exchange of maybe missing out on a top recruit for next year.

00:30:08
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think so either.

00:30:12
Speaker 5: And then did you see the Notre Dame coach the Notre Dame basketball coach absolutely was hilarious. You know, they lost to Louisville by like twenty five points, and Louisville had many more fans.

00:30:26
Speaker 4: There than Notre Dame. Notre Dame.

00:30:29
Speaker 5: It was that Notre Dame, and the coach in the press conference goes, I can't believe that we don't have fans here. Louisville has more fans than us. Now, part of that's my fault. I would argue it's all his fault. But still we don't have fans. And then he said when we start winning, don't come back. Then oh, I thought, I was like, dude, are you cutting off your nose to spider your heads?

00:30:53
Speaker 4: What do you mean?

00:30:53
Speaker 6: Don't you want them to be here?

00:30:55
Speaker 9: Right?

00:30:56
Speaker 4: I think he would need to look around and recognize he's the problem and say I need to do better, to get people excited to be here, not why aren't you here?

00:31:04
Speaker 6: Don't come back?

00:31:06
Speaker 5: Is that what you want to say to your fan base when you're awful, don't come back?

00:31:09
Speaker 2: No, you're doing everything you can to get them to come back.

00:31:12
Speaker 5: I mean it should be an embarrassment that Louisville has more fans than you there, Like you should look in the mirror. Stop yelling at your fans. I mean, Notre Dame School where people will come like.

00:31:23
Speaker 4: Also Louisville where they don't get fans at home.

00:31:26
Speaker 5: Your surrendery I mean, don't come back is a crazy thing to say.

00:31:31
Speaker 6: Who's up next? Mike, Mike, go ahead, Mike, yell.

00:31:35
Speaker 11: We don't have fans.

00:31:38
Speaker 6: Turn me down?

00:31:39
Speaker 4: Turn me down? Yeah, go ahead. Oh hey, Matt, what's going on?

00:31:47
Speaker 9: I just want to say an folk can be my thanks coach for the rest of our life.

00:31:52
Speaker 4: Why do you say that?

00:31:56
Speaker 9: I thank you, Kentucky boy. And uh he came in with nothing, absolutely nothing, but he has turned it into a top ten team.

00:32:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, well he did. I mean he literally had no players. I mean, I guess Travis Perry was committed, but he literally had no players and he built a roster that and I appreciate the call that went healthy was as good as anybody. I mean, he really, whatever happens the rest of the year, he's really done an amazing job.

00:32:29
Speaker 4: Yeah. To to not have any time to build something, you mean, you're going to new school and you haven't even called most of these guys. You're starting the recruitment with several of them, and then halfway through the year most of the good ones are injured and you're still winning games Like this, I think, whatever happens in March, and hopefully they win several games, but even if they don't, I think he's done a great job in the first year. You don't really you don't want to lower the ball bar for Kentucky basketball, But you also have to be a realist when it comes to the situation he was in and how they're down to their fourth point garden. Yeah, what person rights?

00:32:58
Speaker 5: Is there any scenario you can think of where UK would storm the court?

00:33:05
Speaker 4: None?

00:33:05
Speaker 5: No, none that you should I mean, I.

00:33:10
Speaker 4: No, there's not. He's not a team. Name the team, you can't.

00:33:14
Speaker 5: I mean, if we were awful for a decade straight and then you beat Duke, but it's still then I would say, No. I thought it was embarrassing when Indiana stormed the court.

00:33:28
Speaker 4: I mean we were there for two of them, right, didn't they on one of our road trips? We were part of one also.

00:33:34
Speaker 5: Maybe I don't remember, but but no, there's no there are certain schools that should never storm the court. Duke should never storm the court. Kentucky should never storm the court. North Carolina should never storm the court, Kansas should never storm the court.

00:33:47
Speaker 4: Those fort what.

00:33:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, Ucla probably, but it's been a long time since UCLA was UCLA. But those four schools, I don't think there's ever any excuse ryan for them to storm the court.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: There's there's not an argument you can make. People tried to say, what if it was the last second shot and we just beat the number, Like, okay, Auburn coming in, we beat Auburn on a last second shot, and.

00:34:10
Speaker 6: It'd be awesome, but you still don't want to storm the court the court.

00:34:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, Now, for some reason, the national Championship was played in Lexington, and they let then that's a little different different, And that would be a little different if for some reason, you know, they decided to put the national Championship at home.

00:34:25
Speaker 6: Marinas Okay, I take it then, but that's it.

00:34:29
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.

00:34:30
Speaker 2: The closest thing I've seen when we were well, we were in Indianapolis and Aaron Harrison hit that last second shot. All of a sudden, I look up and there's a bunch of people on the court like parents and family all came on the.

00:34:39
Speaker 5: Court that not a rope I could see. Storm in the court in an NCAA tournament game. You can't do it at that arena with that logo right there.

00:34:47
Speaker 4: Now, if you're storming the court, you're acknowledging I'm David and I just knocked down Goliath. But you can't go around sticking your ceest out saying we're the best ever, and then you're giving Duke or Auburn or whoever you're storming against that moment, you're acknowledging that they're the better friend.

00:35:00
Speaker 5: It's a great way to put it. Yeah, you we are Goliath. We are not David. Uh No matter what, we'll take a break. The closest we've ever been to David versus live was nineteen ninety.

00:35:10
Speaker 4: Two against Duke. That's really it.

00:35:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know that we've ever really been a David except maybe in that game, we'll take a break back. It's KAOSR Walter back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. It's time to make our Draft Kings picks tonight. Let's just go quickly go to Draft Kings promo code ks R Kentucky.

00:35:31
Speaker 6: Do we beat Missouri on the road?

00:35:33
Speaker 2: The women, Yes, they need to be They need a good bounce back win like the men got last night. So I'm gonna go.

00:35:38
Speaker 4: Yes.

00:35:38
Speaker 6: Well, they won their last game, the women, they lost to Texas.

00:35:42
Speaker 4: We've played since then. Georgia de beat Georgia. Yeah. Oh they're six and a half point favorite tonight the women.

00:35:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna take Kentucky.

00:35:49
Speaker 4: Take Kentucky. It's really hard after Kentucky.

00:35:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was gocats.

00:35:53
Speaker 5: Canada and USA pick them at least on the money line. It's minus one ten to minus one ten. It's a toss up Canada and the USA. The one of the Canada players said, if we win, we want Donald Trump to apologize at the White House podium. I don't think that's gonna happen. If we win, uh, I don't know. We'll take their syrup. What do you think, Kentucky? Are you Kentucky and Canada, The United States and Canada? Who you got tonight?

00:36:21
Speaker 4: Come on? Definitely going with the Americans. And I'm gonna bet on one of these people to score a goal. Once I learned who's on which team. Who's Nathan McKinnon Canadian or American.

00:36:31
Speaker 6: McKinnon, I don't know. I'm not sure.

00:36:33
Speaker 4: Well one of these guys I'm betting to score a goal.

00:36:35
Speaker 5: The Canes have two guys on Canada, which made me feel a little torn because I really like them, but they cut one. They benched one of them for tonight, didn't put him on the active roster. So Canada, I'm taking the United States. What about you, Well, it's it's in Boston. Come on, man, it's on our own turf right now. We gotta win for crispus attackers and all the famous people in the Revolution.

00:36:59
Speaker 4: All.

00:37:00
Speaker 5: I guess we didn't fight Canada, but same thing, Uh Shandon, who you got?

00:37:03
Speaker 3: We're gonna boo their national anthem. We're gonna punch him in the face like you would, Billy if you were upside down on a plane, and then we're gonna beat them in hockey.

00:37:10
Speaker 4: So go Usa, Go Austin Matthews plus two hundred. I'm betting it right now. I have no clue who that is. But he's American.

00:37:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, Austin Matthews, American. He's scoring a young guy that everybody is gonna be so.

00:37:21
Speaker 4: Good right now?

00:37:22
Speaker 5: Good choice then, yeah, so Austin Matthews will take We'll take.

00:37:25
Speaker 4: Him getting the goal.

00:37:27
Speaker 2: What starts at eight o'clock?

00:37:28
Speaker 4: Starts at eight o'clock. All right, who's up next, Robert, Robert, go ahead, Robert.

00:37:36
Speaker 13: Hey, matt do you think in the past, we have talked about blue bloods such as Kentucky, Kansas, Carolina, Ucla, do you think within ile money, when this twenty two million is coming along, that those days are over, that these blue bloods will not be in the top ten.

00:37:53
Speaker 6: No, Because here's why I would say that.

00:37:55
Speaker 5: All right, so let's go back to the days when you weren't allowed to play.

00:37:59
Speaker 6: If you take away cheating, what ended up happening.

00:38:03
Speaker 5: The teams that had the best programs, the best secondary stuff, they ended up getting the players because basically the money was the same, which is everybody got zero. Now in the era of the twenty two million dollars, everybody's got the same money again. Now they might distribute it different ways, but pretty much everybody's got the same money, so I think it's gonna be the same thing. I think blue bloods will eventually take off again. Now it might be different blue bloods, like it might be the case that some of these teams are better at Nile than others, but I still think we'll see the same general teams.

00:38:40
Speaker 4: Basketball is a little different, though.

00:38:42
Speaker 5: Appreciate the call because in basketball, Drew you have a lot of different ways you could build a team. You could put a lot of money into one guy, you could spread it out. So I think you're gonna see years in basketball where random teams get good.

00:38:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, the playing field has certainly been leveled, but I think other things will come into play, like a fan base like Kentucky will still have huge advantage of having fans support and being on TV and having an atmosphere. I don't know how much they'll keep investing in facilities because they'll run out of money, but little things like that can can separate it. If it's all coming down to just dollar, I.

00:39:11
Speaker 5: Think what's gonna be interesting is take a school like Saint John's or Yukon that doesn't have a big football program, and in theory, could take all that money and spend it all on basketball. Right, So those schools that don't have Gonzaga, Yeah, those schools that don't have football programs might have an advantage in basketball because they can just I mean, Saint John's dude is apparently saying he's gonna spend like eight million dollars next year.

00:39:36
Speaker 2: So it definitely they're gonna put that money into their basketball program. That's gonna help them in facilities, recruiting, everything.

00:39:44
Speaker 5: In Kentucky, schools like Kentucky and Duke and Kansas and North Carolina, they're gonna have to make a choice, right, They're gonna have to make a choice.

00:39:52
Speaker 6: How important is basketball to you?

00:39:54
Speaker 5: Like, is it important enough to pull some of that money from football?

00:40:00
Speaker 4: I don't know. Everybody's gonna have to make the choice in the coming year.

00:40:02
Speaker 2: Especially Kentucky playing in the SEC, You're gonna try to be as competitive as possible. That's gonna go pull some money away from.

00:40:08
Speaker 5: It's gonna be fascinating. I think being an a d I'm gonna make you a prediction. The days of picking good old boys is your ad is gone. They're gonna be picking nerds business people. They're gonna be picking people like me. I'm not saying me, but people like me who are numbers people or who like you can't just go pick Bobby.

00:40:29
Speaker 4: Because he played there.

00:40:30
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to pick people who know how to distribute funds between lots of different sports.

00:40:35
Speaker 6: They're gonna have to pick business people.

00:40:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly right. That's who's gonna be a d's coming up, and it's said, but we're already seeing it. The schools that just have one really rich person like you mentioned Shane Saint John's. I forgot how that guy got his money, but he's a billionaire and he's openly saying I'll give whatever I need. It shouldn't be this way, but that's gonna be a huge advantage for schools too.

00:40:53
Speaker 5: But I think it's it doesn't bother me because it's gonna we're gonna get to see new teams, right, We're gonna get I think college back basketball has.

00:41:00
Speaker 4: Been awesome this year. I really do.

00:41:02
Speaker 5: I think it's been awesome. Partially it's because we're better, but I just think it's been a fun sport to watch. A lot of different teams are good, a lot of random results I think it makes it exciting this year for college basketball. I've probably paid attention to more non UK games than I have than I haven't a long Totally agree with that, Totally agree one more real quick Shannon, before Glenn's talks. The Volunteers of America Mid States part of Volunteers of America. They are the oldest nonprofit helping hand and they help the communities with people with substance use, recovery, and many more. There's a new place in Louisville, a new central location in downtown, the Community Care Campus. Learned more at VOAMID dot org. That's Volunteers of America Mid States VOAMID dot org for their new location in Kansas to help many in our community or in Kansas in Louisville to get their services. Who's Glenn? Go ahead? Glenn?

00:41:55
Speaker 11: Hey guys, Hey, Matt, you was talking earlier about North Carolina just opening the doors and letting the students in. Do you think there's ever a situation where Kentucky would put the students on the floor. No, for maybe one game of year.

00:42:10
Speaker 6: Well maybe that that could happen, could.

00:42:16
Speaker 5: Go ahead, sir, Yeah, but what would have to happen here's what needs to happen. For that happened, Our richest donors need to say one game, we're gonna give up our stuff and let.

00:42:32
Speaker 4: It be a student Huh. Will they do that? But that's what they have to do.

00:42:37
Speaker 2: It would have to be probably one of the early November games.

00:42:39
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:42:40
Speaker 5: Now, I think a better way to do it would be to have a game in Memorial. Yes, play one game in Memorial every year, student only game and let it be wild.

00:42:50
Speaker 4: That's what That's what I would do. But I don't know if they'll ever be able to do that or not. Little sweaters they like going to their game.

00:42:56
Speaker 6: Hey, thank you folks very much.

00:42:58
Speaker 5: We're at Poppies tomorrow Trivia tonight at seven, see you here at the bar.

00:43:03
Speaker 4: This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.