KSR Postgame UK MBB at Vanderbilt 1/28/26

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. It is the local Tony Dealers KSR postgame show. A pretty brutally pitiful performance in Nashville tonight. Kentucky goes down eighty to fifty five, never is really in the game from the start all the way through, and after two games in Nashville this year against Gonzaga, Gonzaga and Vanderbilt, Kentucky loses by combine sixty points to those two teams in the city that is probably the most loyal to Kentucky fans and Kentucky outside of the state. You can give a shout eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Look, it's twelve fifteen at night and we just lost by twenty five points. So this is one of those where I say, if you're up right now and you're listening, then I consider you my friend unless you are really rude, but otherwise I don't think you will be, because why would you stay up this late. So A five nine eighty seven when you call this like this is your best chance ability to actually get to talk without me cutting you off, because we have to fill this hour with something. Big opportunity, big opportunity, big opportunity to get get your words in look, this is an awful performance. Kentucky is now what fourteen and seven. I will talk in a second about the season as a whole, but I think some perspective on what we continue to see in these games against good teams. Kentucky has played eight games this year on the road against on the road or on a neutral court. Eight games, and in those eight games, Kentucky's been behind by double digits in every single game, by double digits in every single game. Even more stark, they've been down seventeen points in seven of the eight games. So on the road this season, Kentucky has been an absolute dud. In the first half of these games on the road, Kentucky has been awful, not just I mean not bad, awful. Now, to their credit, they came back against Saint John's, came back against LSU, came back against Tennessee. So they're only three and five in eight games where they've been down double digits on the road. But it's still awful performances and they've been absolutely embarrassed four times. I think it is very rare for a good Kentucky team to get embarrassed once during the season. Sometimes it'll happen on the road. Usually in the sec you'll let one get by you. Kentucky's been embarrassed four times. Michigan State, Gonzaga, Alabama, and Vanderbilt have beaten Kentucky in games that they've never once been in the entire game at any point throughout the entire game, They've never been in it. That almost never happens twice a year. It's happened four times, and there's a decent chance with games at Arkansas and at Florida still to come, it could happen again. And even if you go back to last year when Kentucky had what I think was a relatively successful season, this happened throughout last year too. First halves under Mark Pope, especially on the road, they're just terrible, and they're consistently terrible. He cannot get his team to play, to come out ready to play on the road against good teams. He just can't really against any teams. Forget about good teams. Against any team. They do not play well in the first half on the road. They struggle sometimes at home too, but they always struggle on the road. That's just not a sign of a good preparation. It's just not, And you know, part of me sits back and says, when Mark got hired, I went back and looked at his time at BYU, and it feels like it feels like a lot of the stuff that we saw when he was at BYU is also true here. I guess I thought he would kind of grow out of some of it. But when he was at BYU, he would get wins that you never thought he could get. I remember he won once at Kansas in a really impressive game of year. Kansas was like number one or two in the country. He would get these wins that he had no business getting, but then he would lose by like thirty to Central Florida, and you would say, what, And we're seeing some of that here. When Mark gets beat, they don't just get beat, I mean they get pounded. And that's kind of what happened today this game tonight. You know, I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree with my Jimmy Dykes, who I think said in the second half something like, you know, Kentucky's down twenty, but they've played really hard. I just I don't believe that. I don't think they played hard. Didn't sound like Mark Pope did either. As a matter of fact, Mark was seemingly pretty critical of the way that they've played. Here's what he said, just to Tom Lee's just a few minutes ago. We need to engage our team in the game. That's been a space where we've been fighting a difficult battle all year long to get our guys to embrace this idea of being incredibly physical and forceful during a game. I mean, that's another way of saying our guys don't compete the whole game. And I think that's true. This is a team that has a pretty amazing ability to fight back sometimes, but they also have an ability to just have stretches of just not giving effort. And that's what happened tonight. Yes they shot poorly, Yes they took bad shots, but they also played no defense. You heard Jack Gibbons say that he really didn't think anybody except Diabaatee wanted to play defense. I think there's a lot of a lot of truth to that. They got crushed in transition, did never got back, and then offensively, the reality is if we don't get points in transition, and if we don't get ball movement, we're just not good. If you play a game in the half court, and you could keep Kentucky in the half court and you limit and you just stay on your man and guard one on one. We're not good. We had forty five points? What did o Way? And Aberdeen have thirty eight of the fifty five thirty five of the fifteen. I want to put it thirty five to fifty, you know, and those guys look always been good in SEC play. Aberdeen's been better, but like, I mean, they're not they they cannot score over you know, sixty sixty percent of your points, You're you're not gonna win sixty five seventy percent. I mean, you're not gonna you are not gonna win in that scenario. We got out physical by a team that's not very physical the way you beat Vandy's on the glass. They crushed us. Everything you need to do to win this game you just didn't do. Now, I can sit there and whine about it all day, but it's extremely annoying. And and the thing is, games like this are miserable to watch. I mean, most of you, a lot of you are probably listening to this podcast on your way to work tomorrow morning because you went and you might not have even made it through the end of the game. I Billy during the second half read a book with the game on in the background. Oh you did.

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Speaker 2: That's a normal second half.

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Speaker 1: Year well not not usually UK basketball. That's a Reds thing. But it was not interesting. I mean, I had it playing, but I didn't. You know, I gave as much effort in some ways as they did during that and I, you know, it's frustrating. I'm not This team is not good, all right, and I've not thought they were gonna be. Basically, I gave up on this team being good when Jaylen Low got hurt. And I kind of gave up on him being good before that, but I really gave up on him being good when he got hurt. I just said, well, they are what they are. Can we make the tournament? And I still think we can make the tournament, although I don't think it's assured. I do think we can make the tournament. But we're not good. But more disappointing to me than not being good is this roster, which fundamentally was flawed even at full capacity, even if everybody was playing. This was a flawed roster. But what is and that needs to be fixed in the offseason and we'll see if that happens. I'm worried about that too. But what is more of an issue to me is I genuinely think Mark up until this point, has done a poor job with this team. He's taken a flawed roster and I think he's coached it poorly. They don't play to their strengths. Every You could watch ten different halves of UK basketball this year, just randomly picked ten halves, and you would feel like you were watching six different teams. They never play the same style, They rarely play the same lineups. They have guys who don't play at all for three games and then start with Yellovich, or play two minutes and then play thirty four minutes, or are the central leader of your team like Diabate and then play eight minutes. It is impossible to have any sense of what Mark wants to do with this team, because I don't think he knows. It changes every game, and the only two consistent forces are away in Aberdeen because he doesn't have a choice but to play them back when he had a choice, they weren't even consistently playing regularly either. Every time he goes to the bench, it's almost like drawn out of a hat. Billy, who's gonna come off the bench.

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Speaker 2: It could be anyone whoever's left.

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Speaker 1: There's a Trent Noah, let's throw him in. Okay, Garrison, what do you think? Well, let's put Garrison Diabate in. That hasn't worked all year, but let's keep doing that. And it just he doesn't know what to do with this group, and it makes it very frustrating. I give them credit. I think they've won some game, a couple games they probably had no business winning. But it's just not an enjoyable watch. This is, in my opinion, the least enjoyable Kentucky team to watch besides the COVID team probably ever in my lifetime. I hope that changes. There's still ten games left. There are a lot of potential wins you can get here that would be great wins if you win them. But you know, it is what it is. I know we won five straight. I give him a lot of credit for that. That season could have fallen apart in those five, but there have been too many games like this. Kentucky basketball does not have stats like I'm about to read you. They do not have seven of eight road and neutral site games where you get down seventeen. That is not a stat that Kentucky Basketball should ever have associated with it. Right, you should not have a stat that says Kentucky has led at halftime just two times in the fourteen games against power conference teams this year. Let me read that again. Kentucky's had fourteen games against teams from power conferences and we've led at halftime twice twice. That's a game plan. That's a coach that doesn't have his team ready to play. I don't know how you can say anything else. And then the one that's the biggest kicker to me, Kentucky has played forty games in under Mark Pope, forty against Power four teams and we've been down fifteen at halftime ten of those games. One out of every four times we play a Power four team, we're down fifteen at halftime. Come on, now, I think they do a pretty good job of adjustments. I think sometimes when they just let these guys play, it works. But a coach who allows his team to be down in twelve of the fourteen games at half in one season and down fifteen ten of the forty games in two seasons at halftime is a team that does not have his team ready to play, and we can all guess why it is. He outthinks himself. I mean, I don't know. I'm not in the room, so I can't answer. He's not a good motivator. I don't know, but I do know this. Kentucky basketball cannot have stats like that. And Mark always says that the first half is about gathering information. Well, the first halfs for me are about gathering information about the program. And the program is starting futridly and doesn't have the talent to make up for it in the end. Eight five, nine, two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. We'll take your calls. It's late at night with Matt and Billy. This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. Welcome back. It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. A lot of good text messages on the text machine. One person rights Matt. I live in Sydney, Australia. Well, good day, I'm finishing up my work day. During the Louisville game, my Australian coworkers laughed at how engaged in the game I was, and so I made them honorary Kentucky fans now I don't even care. I'm just laughing at this outcome. Well, clearly you care. You're in Sydney, Australia and you're listening to the show, so don't don't. I don't like when fans say they don't care. You care. You know you're you're not listening. If you're people who don't care not listening now, so you care. But yeah, it's tough, but at least you're Australian friends. Just keep them on because they'll they'll be a good time ahead. That's always the case. One person writes, I don't understand what the focus on Low is. He wasn't that great. How many top twenty five teams would he start at point guard?

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Speaker 3: For?

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Speaker 1: First of all, I only played five games, so I don't know, and I thought he played well at about four of those five. But it wasn't even that he was so great. There was a world where I could foresee a way we could be good with him, even though when we never totally hit it. I could see us being good with him. I have a hard time seeing this group right now being good. I don't know what the world is is that this team is really good? Does that make sense really, Like, I could see how you could produce a really good team with lowet port guard. I don't know how this group we have right now it gets really good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he had spurts where you saw you saw it.

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Speaker 1: It could be the second half of Saint John's. We'll always have that, right, No, we always could have that. Go watchid second half. Look how we played when all those guys were in. I guess we'll always have that as the uh uh as the one moment. One person says, Matt, why don't you ask Pope? You should ask him these questions? Ask him, bro, Well, I don't know when they don't have make him make him available to interviews to us. And he does one press conference a week and it's at noon on Monday, which I've always kind of thought was intentional because we can't go because we've got the show. So you know, they Kentucky has taken the view in the last five years that all coaches the time you will talk to them is this little ten minute window in a press conference and they'll do official stuff with the people for the official broadcasters, and that's it, and that sort of avoids a lot of questions. You can really only talk to the coaches during the off season, So, you know, it is what it is. I'm not sure bringing him on and grilling him on KSR would go over that.

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Speaker 2: Well anyway, Yeah, Matt, just ask Pope these things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, man, won't you go talk to Trump about it? Well, I mean he has to say yes, you know, So that's you know, it is what it is. That That wasn't how it was when I started. I mean, it used to be you could basically call and say, hey, can I get these guys on and they would almost always say yes. That has changed in the post COVID era, and it kind of is what it is, all right.

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Speaker 2: Who's up first, Tyler?

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Speaker 1: Tyler? Go ahead, Tyler.

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Speaker 4: Oh what a privilege. I am the first one on after a twenty five point beat down. So I'm I'm just I'm struggling what to think right now. I've been a Kentucky basketball fan my whole life. It has given me some of the most joyous nights of my life and some of the worst. And I think for me, I care so much and probably too much. But I'm sit there tonight, I'm like, you know, I'm watching this game and they're probably gonna get blown out. So if they play about I don't care. But then I'll watch they look unprepared, they look terrible, and I'm like, why am I doing this?

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Speaker 1: And I mean that, Oh you don't mean that. I mean, I don't. I don't you do not mean why are you doing it? You've probably been doing this your whole life watching these games. Right now you might say, why am I getting so upset? But like, you're doing it because this is what we do. Like why does a bee make honey? Because it's what a bee is for. You're a Kentucky fan. This is what you're supposed to do.

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Speaker 4: I'm supposed to make myself miserable by watching my team get blown up every night. You know that, man, I hope we come back from twenty points down.

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Speaker 1: But by doing that, it makes those moments where it's good even better, right like it It makes those moments when we have those nights and we we you know, even with Pope, we've had a couple of them when we beat Duke in the you know, in at Saint John's game and there you know, the Knights Oklahoma and the couple like part of what makes those good the LSU game last week is because you also watched these nights too.

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Speaker 4: Oh I the LSU game. I went nuts when that happened. But man, it sucks watching these kinds of games. And I know, like, so when I'll see these kinds of seasons go down, I think, man, you know, twenty fourteen we had that, but twenty fourteen is different. We had Julius Randall. We don't have a guy like that. Yeah, we don't have And so for me, I sit here and I'm like, I We're not gonna make anything happen in the postseason unless something crazy happens. And really, at this moment, I'm like, that would be the only thing I could lean on, is man, what if? And of course I'll watch, but there is there's just no, there's not a lot of hope for me.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yes, dude, I think this team is not, in my opinion, going to make anywhere close to twenty fourteen runs. The tournament's still great, though, And here's why the tournament's great. Can we win the national Championship?

00:20:28
Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: Can we make the Final four? Probably not no? But could you win a game or two? Could you like, could you be a you know, ten seed, win two and win two games and find your way in the sweet sixteen. You could you can also lose by twenty in the first round, or you could not make it. I mean, I this team could. Any of those results wouldn't shot me. So I would say to you, what are you gonna do that's better than this?

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Speaker 4: I I mean, honestly, there's the reason that I cheer for all my professional teams, but I care so much about Kentucky basketball. So I sit there and I'm like, I can't detach from it like I can with those other teams. And I think that's what I hate so much is I'm like I struggle to Like tonight, I turned the game off and then ten minutes later, I was like, Okay, have we come back yet? And I checked them was like, no, we haven't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. But that's again why it's great. I appreciate the call. I'm the same way, like, I basically only cheered for Kentucky and the Bears my entire life, and then I started in the last decade really picking up the Reds. I've always kind of cheered for the Hurricanes, but I didn't really watch them very much. And then I started realizing that I really liked watching the Reds and the Hurricanes because they could lose and I'd be like, hey, whatever, but there's no Reds, Hurricanes or Bears win that can do for me what a Kentucky win came. And so that's why that's why it's better. But it also makes tonights like tonight'sak who's next, Laurie, Laurie, go ahead, Laurie.

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Speaker 6: Oh that's me. Okay, so first time, long time. I guess what concerns me is the fact that we have this team and we know twenty two millions, but but it looked like oh way and and has been our go to player. So I mean, I just don't understand the roster construction. And I know we have like three people out injured and like lifetime, like I was strutting with Sudden and in my family too, and it's it's so frustrating, you know that we like, you've never heard I have a T shirt?

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Speaker 1: Young? H I was. I wasn't. I wasn't really I was very young. Men, so strutting with Sudden.

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Speaker 6: Okay, Matt, you're not that much younger than me.

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Speaker 1: So oh, I'm very I'm very very young. I would not remember that. But no, but this this roster construction is poor and even if everyone was healthy, it still would have been poor. They did not recruit enough people who can shoot the ball. They were they went to last year. They thought the difference between a title and that team last year was they weren't athletic enough, and they were correct. So they went and got a bunch of athletes. But here's what they forgot. Then they don't have anybody to make shots. They went too far in the other direction. And if Mark Pope is gonna have a team that's deficient in an area, he needs to have it be a deficient in athletes because he coaches shooters, and he's got a team right now it can't shoot. I don't think a lot of them have great basketball IQ and those are the two things that are most important for Marx teams. And my guess is I've not talked to him about this, but here's what I'm thinking. He thought, I cannot teach athleticism. I will teach them to shoot in the IQ. And I think he's found.

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Speaker 6: Out you'll be physical. We can't even be physical.

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Speaker 1: Well, they were physical against see. Part of this is why I blame effort they were physical against Tennessee, and they were physical against Old Miss and then they just let like then they just against the least physical team in the league. They're not. That's what doesn't make sense to me. Tennessee is the most physical team in the league and they played them well.

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Speaker 6: So I get it. And and like my siblings and I, this is like our thing, Like this is our father passed away, so this is like our thing. And we go to the SEC Tournament Nashville, like you know, for now until forever, and we spend like crazy amounts of money and it's good, and of course it's.

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Speaker 1: Disappointing, but that's okay though, Like I feel like I'm having to do group therapy for everybody, like it's supposed to be disappointing. It's supposed to be disappointing. That's the point, Like it matters because you care. If we didn't care, we'd all go to bed right like we like, it's like we care, So I appreciate I appreciate it. Yeah, but that's what but we should be because it matters. That's what makes us different than everybody else. I don't want to if we ever get to the point that we don't care. Then we're not Kentucky anymore. We're Indiana basketball. Although I'd like to be Indiana football, I would not want to be. Although they got a big win tonight, didn't they beat Purdue tonight?

00:25:43
Speaker 2: I didn't see. But I just found a threatening with Sutton hat on eBay, and I may need you to talk me out of buying it.

00:25:49
Speaker 1: I actually would buy it. You may ever get it quick. If you want it, you better buy it right now. Somebody's can get on there and steal it from you, because somebody listening right here will have it in five minutes if you don't buy it. How much is.

00:26:00
Speaker 2: Thirty five bucks?

00:26:01
Speaker 1: Is it? Truck her hat? It is?

00:26:03
Speaker 2: And it's got anything?

00:26:05
Speaker 1: Oh, you gotta get it. Get it. If you don't get buy it or if I'll buy it from it, it's got any Sutton's face on it? At me, buy it right now. This is like a minute delay. It's gonna be gone.

00:26:17
Speaker 2: I'm trying, all right, who's next, Luke?

00:26:21
Speaker 1: You better tell me if you get it, I'm Luke. Go ahead, just shut up and do it. Go Luke.

00:26:28
Speaker 7: I'm kill me. That's hilarious. Yeah, I'm here.

00:26:32
Speaker 4: I'm here, guys.

00:26:33
Speaker 8: I could talk about the fact that we got absolutely demolished, but frankly, I think we need to have bigger picture conversations. I know you should really wait till the end of the season. And Pope is not getting fired by any means. I'm not saying I want him fired, but I do have concerns that this guy has no business being the coach in Lexington over the long haul. I mean, it just seems like, for lack of a better term, Matt, that this guy's got no balls, Like I mean, your team's getting annihilated like that means that you were not preparing your teams well, which is pissed poor coaching. I don't know how you can't prepare a team to come out and play hard. A lot of the problems to night were simply effort. I mean, they didn't do a single thing right tonight. They didn't shoot the ball well, they didn't defend well, they didn't rebound, they didn't hustle, they didn't take care of the basketball, and they literally did nothing right. And it's been the same old song and stand by the way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Bandy made some shots, they didn't play great, and you know they were without their second leading scorer. Let me let let me go to your point about the big picture thing. Okay, let's let's take a couple of things that are I think everybody would grant, he's not gonna be fired at the end of the year. You agree with that, right, So that's not that's not gonna happen. Okay, it would. It would have to be pretty drafted. Yeah, we would have to completely collapse yet. Yeah, we would have to completely collapse in these last ten games, right and might yeah yeah, yeah, And it would have to be bad. They would have to be bad. So I don't think that that's gonna happen. Am I concern so granting that because there are people who are like Matt say that there needs to be changed. I don't even know if I believe that. But if I did believe, it wouldn't matter anyway, because it's not gonna happen. Do I have concerns though, Oh yes, I have multiple concerns. My biggest concern this is what worries me. My biggest concern is not even what we're seeing right now. My biggest concern is the way they're building the roster. I am concerned because I'm not certain next year is gonna be any better because I don't even know who's gonna be on the team, right, I mean, we have no recruits, and you just look at this part of the game plan of this roster this year, where you were gonna be able to have a lot of these guys for a few years. Who can you say, definitively on this roster will be on the team next year. I would assume would want well, I would want some of them, but I also think, like like Malachai Moreino, I think will almost certainly be on the team, but beyond him, I don't even know. And then yeah, there is a question of who you would want. I don't know. So then you throw that in. We've spent all this money in the portal. I will tell you from my conversations, I'm not confident that money's gonna be there next year because people are not happy with their rate of return on this year's investment.

00:29:25
Speaker 8: Okay, no, Matt, you own a yeah, you own a business. Do you understand that if somebody's investing in a business and is not making money, is not working, they're not gonna you can't go back to the investors now for more money.

00:29:37
Speaker 1: So if you go and ask for it, let's just say you ask for that amount, I don't know if that's gonna be there. So then there's that issue. Then there's the recruiting issue. Are they gonna be able to get a top guy? Are they gonna have to spend a bajillion dollars to get Tying Stokes? And then you're beholden to the number one talent. But he's a unique character that could go in any direction. You could have a superstar, you could have a dude that takes you in another path. So yeah, I'm concerned. And then once you get the team on the floor, I thought he coached last year's team really well, but this has been a disaster this year in my opinion. So yeah, do I have concerns? Yeah? I do.

00:30:20
Speaker 9: Can I mention one concern?

00:30:22
Speaker 8: Of course I mentioned one concern that you didn't yet, So one concern I have Actually, and I'm not a genius when it comes to human psychology or anything, but I know that a sign of a very very high IQ person is that when they recognize a problem, they try to overcorrect the problem to fix it all off. Hope with the roster going from no athletes to nothing but athletes and no shooters. Right, yeah, Well the problem my problem with that is this is basketball. Like de Marcus Cousin said, this ain't no spelling, bis Son, this is basketball. You don't need to be a genius to.

00:30:55
Speaker 7: Be the coach.

00:30:56
Speaker 8: And I wonder if, ironically he's too smart to be a basketball people who said that problem, I don't know.

00:31:04
Speaker 1: I mean, I appreciate the call, I I don't I don't think people can be too smart if you also have, as they say in the Mountains, common sense. And I don't know him well enough to know that. I've only spoken to him a hand full of time, so I can't say. You know, there are very bright coaches doing really. I mean, like think about Brad Stevens. I mean there's a lot of Most of the NBA coaches are succeeding are really bright now. And I think, like John Shires really smart and he's doing well at Duke, so I think you can do it. I think Pope's personality is a lot, so I do wonder. I don't think he is connected with this team, but now I think he connected with last year's team, So I don't think it's that he can't connect with players. I think he connected with last year's but I think it's fair to say he has not connected with this group. I think that's fairly obvious. Did you get the hat? I got it. You bought it, bought it, dropped check for it. Yeah, well no, if you don't want it, I'll buy it from you. How much it cost?

00:32:06
Speaker 2: Forty five?

00:32:06
Speaker 1: All day? All right? Do you want it? I'll buy it for I'll give you fifty for it.

00:32:11
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta see it in person before I give this thing up. I mean he's winking right at me.

00:32:16
Speaker 1: Oh gosh. Well, if you don't want it, I'll take it. Uh you know, I'll actually give you a profit. I'll give you sixty four it, so you could have made fifteen dollars.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: I kind of need that fifteen.

00:32:33
Speaker 1: I mean we're going to the super Bowl. Think about that. That could buy you half a drink at Shack Diesel's party.

00:32:38
Speaker 2: Could it half a drink? You could buy me a corner of a drink man.

00:32:43
Speaker 1: Eight five eight twenty two eighty seven. We'll take a break me right back. It's a local toy of dealers KSR post game show, all right, So I just saw this strutting with Sutton shirt. By the way, there were two of them money Bay. The other one got sold to so you got one. Someone else listening got the other one. It's a it's a cool hat. How much do you want for what? Come?

00:33:06
Speaker 2: Well, the price has just gone up.

00:33:07
Speaker 1: Actually, that's what I's gonna ask you. What would you part with it for?

00:33:13
Speaker 2: Well, if there's not another one you can find on eBay, I mean it's a collector's item.

00:33:18
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00:33:37
Speaker 10: At you.

00:33:38
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00:33:51
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00:33:55
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00:34:16
Speaker 2: Okay, get back to me at the end of the segment. I've got some thinking to do.

00:34:19
Speaker 1: All right. Who's next? Ray?

00:34:21
Speaker 2: Is that?

00:34:21
Speaker 1: Ray? Go ahead? Ray?

00:34:23
Speaker 4: Hey man, how are you good?

00:34:26
Speaker 10: Yeah?

00:34:27
Speaker 3: You said you would give us some time tonight. I don't want to take up a lot of time, but I do have a couple of points on offense and defense. I think this could be somewhat constructive. But I also have something sort of in defense of the roster build. But yet the solution for it I don't think is good. So you know you want the defense.

00:34:45
Speaker 1: Of the do the roster do the Rosterek.

00:34:48
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I think we're forgetting we're you know, I listen to you all quite regularly, and I think roster build has come up a lot, but we've forgotten that we had a kne Lewis committed at point guard and he dropped us and went to Villanova at the last minute.

00:35:05
Speaker 1: But that's part of roster bill.

00:35:10
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. My point is Pope got stuck with his third and fourth guy on his list because him exactly, exactly exactly, but the bigger picture, I'm gonna cut to the chase. Let me, let me mention these names. I'll cut to the chase on this point. Keep in mind, as you hear me make these points, we have zero freshman coming in at this point. Okay, we're not able to convince these guys to come. The negative result of my point is this guy struggles to attract these guys. Michigan has a guy named what Yaxel. He's really good, he's just sixty seven. Ford Uh, Indiana has a good Indiana has a guard that we wanted, Wilkerson, and you n l v U n l v has a guard. We we up with the third or fourth guard.

00:36:02
Speaker 1: Well, our first choice actually has had a bad year too, which was Donovan din I mean that was our first choice and he ended up going to UCLA and he's not had a great year either.

00:36:11
Speaker 3: So we're seemed to be striking out with the high school kids too. It could be a personality flaw, it could be a reputation with all.

00:36:20
Speaker 1: These other well, it's a lot, all right, I appreciate it. Okay, I'm sorry man, you said you just I gave you a couple of minutes. It could be a lot of things. We've talked about, the whole Jmi situation. We've talked about Mark. I don't know for sure what it is. I have my thoughts, but I'm letting this recruiting class play out and we're going to see. But the reality is, I am very concerned for what our roster's gonna be next year. I mean, let me just go through them real quick. Jayl Lowe, he they brought him in to be a two year player. I'd be fine with him being the point guard next year, but I'm not you know, I don't know. I don't know if that I don't know how that vibe went. I like him, I'm not sure. I don't know if that's gonna end up being something that comes back or not. We'll see. Aberdeen. Is Aberdeen a junior senior? I always get him confused.

00:37:19
Speaker 2: I don't know.

00:37:20
Speaker 1: I think he's a senior, but I could be wrong about that. Chandler, I think he's probably coming. He could probably come back, but I don't know. Is how he in Pope. I don't know.

00:37:32
Speaker 2: Aberdeen I think is gone.

00:37:35
Speaker 1: Diabate has another year do you want that Garrison has another year? Do you want that? Right? Yellovich? What's his status gonna be? I feel like Moreno's back, Jasper. All you gotta do is look at the tweets online from family members. You know that who knows? Right? Williams he was they brought him in thinking two years, but who knows Quaintons has gone? Noah? I mean there's a world Billy where there's only like two or three guys back from this team.

00:38:14
Speaker 2: But would that be a bad thing?

00:38:17
Speaker 1: Well, who you're gonna get? You don't have any recruits, that's true.

00:38:20
Speaker 2: They don't have a single person.

00:38:21
Speaker 1: They don't have a single player. So you're gonna go get seven more new guys in the portals. I mean, some of these dudes have to come back, Like, you gotta have somebody. So like if you made me guess maybe like Moreno, Chandler and lo I Diabata, things have not gone great there, So I don't know. So I just like next year, who knows who's gonna be on the team, So like, if he has a bad end of this season, next year is it? And you don't even know who the roster is gonna be.

00:39:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's scary.

00:39:03
Speaker 1: It is scary.

00:39:03
Speaker 2: Who's next, Skyler?

00:39:05
Speaker 1: Skyler? Go ahead, Scytler.

00:39:08
Speaker 11: Yeah, good, uh good talking to you guys. I just have this visual of Billy trying to do his job but getting distracted searching Sutton hats on eBay and on looking for looking for.

00:39:22
Speaker 1: Kettlebells, although he should get more and like going to business with him because there are people. I think a lot of people would want one.

00:39:33
Speaker 11: Hey, I I I think Mark Pope has a difficult My take is Mark Pope has a really challenging time motivating some of these, like I don't want to call him high dollar, but like high end talent guys. I mean, if you think about last year, all of our guys were underrated, overlooked, not believed in. And and you know, Mark Pope was one of those guys in college overlooked, underrated, not believed in. And I just think it's a different mentality you have to take. I mean, I know he crushed Cal for not being an x's and o's.

00:40:07
Speaker 7: Guy, but he motivated guys.

00:40:09
Speaker 11: He motivated the like the dudes. And I don't think you can remember, but.

00:40:13
Speaker 1: You remember it, but you remember who Cal struggled with Cal struggled with guys like this, right, Cal struggled with dudes that weren't highly recruited. Remember he always the guy. So it's interesting. I think you make a really good point. Cal was all it was brilliant at the top talents, but when he had to coach the guy that was like fiftieth Like remember how much he fought to not play Antonio Reeves. Right, Antonio Reeves would kill it under Pope, kill it. Yeah. And then but then I look at a dude like Jaden Quaintin's and Mike, he might be better under Cal. So you know it's you're I think it's a good point. Though he does seem to struggle with some of these talented guys.

00:40:58
Speaker 11: I wonder if that's a Quainton's dad and everybody around Jaden is telling him. You know, it's like, hey, just you had a good showing against Saint John's, let's ride it to the draft. I do say, I do I do worry because I look at the rest of the schedule. Mark Pope said something to Tom Leech. He said, you know, we're just coming off of a five game winning streak, longest in the SEC. Yeah, but you're gonna You're you're beating the bottom feeders of the league in a decent a decent Tennessee team. And we didn't play very well in any game but Mississippy State in the second half, and.

00:41:31
Speaker 1: We played all the teams. We played, all the teams that we match up well with. See, that's what worries me, whether these teams are good or bad. A lot of college basketball, unless you're an elite team, is about matchups, and we match up well against the grinding teams. We really struggle against teams that can put up points. We got a lot of teams coming up that can put up points.

00:41:55
Speaker 11: Arkansas, Arkansas, Yeah, Ark'll be Vanderbilt ninety three to sixty eight.

00:42:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Darkansas almost lost at home to LSU. I mean, you can do that game all you want, but and I appreciate your call. I'm just saying, like, what I worry about is the matchups coming up, because the Pope has done a pretty good job of playing well against these mucket up teams. Well, we ain't got a lot of mucket ups left. We're about to play the teams that can put up points. And with the exception of beating Florida at home last year. We haven't done great against those teams, even the Pope era. Who's next, Heather, I'm gonna need an answer after the end of this call, Heather, Go ahead, Heather.

00:42:44
Speaker 5: Maunt. I'm just joining the therapy group.

00:42:49
Speaker 1: I Gray, that's right, therapy.

00:42:53
Speaker 5: And Billy, you better take that one hundred dollars Bill because that's a good deal with her.

00:43:00
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I found one I might like better, though. See his struggling. I know, but I'm just saying, just to throw it out there. His is strutting with sudden somebody sent me another hat that looks like it was well, it may be gone now. It's called the It says the Lord is my shepherd, Sutton is my coach.

00:43:22
Speaker 12: But was he winking He's waking?

00:43:24
Speaker 1: It's the same picture, Bill, Go ahead, Hither.

00:43:33
Speaker 12: Well, it's just such a a a difference like last year, his first season, it was so exciting and it was like we was all on this high, and then it feels like we've done a complete one eighty this year and we are just all confused. And I have I have it now, I will say, mo dia balte. He does seem to like give more effort and a little toughness.

00:44:09
Speaker 1: And he does, but he's also he's also the dude that gets that has the hardest time getting along with his teammates. Yes, and that's not but that's a problem. I mean, that's a problem like if you if you have a guy that like the teammates. You know, it's kind of like that Oscar year, except Oscar was a lot better than Diabate. But you know, if one guy is not getting I mean, I don't know that they're not grooving with him, but they sure that he sure yells at them a lot on the court, so you know, Yeah.

00:44:40
Speaker 5: But I am like, I'm tired of starting out every game in the hole.

00:44:47
Speaker 12: And this second half tonight I couldn't watch it either.

00:44:51
Speaker 5: I just scrolled on my phone and.

00:44:53
Speaker 1: So I thought, by the way, that your sentence right there, just so you know, Heather, how much I love your voice. You said you were tired, except you say what tard tar? You said in the hole? You said, ho right, and scrolled you said scrolled, And I loved every single one of them.

00:45:21
Speaker 5: You might need made to record some of your audio, boots.

00:45:25
Speaker 1: Oh you do you do it? Maybe not the books, but I appreciate the call there might be an endorsement you could do, right, But way Billy has a new endorsement. He's endorsing for butt Lighter.

00:45:35
Speaker 2: Well, I did a spot. I don't know if I'm endorsed.

00:45:38
Speaker 1: You become so woke. It's woke, Billy.

00:45:43
Speaker 2: Somebody's got to step up and do the butt light spot.

00:45:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean somebody's got to be woke on the show. Okay, So are you taking one hundred dollars or not?

00:45:51
Speaker 2: Well, after review of the second hat that you found on the grassy knoll that Sudden is not winking in this hat. If you zoom in, there is no wink in this second hat. So I feel like I have a collector's item here.

00:46:05
Speaker 1: All right? Do you want one hundred dollars or not? I do not.

00:46:07
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold You're gonna hold it. I'm holding here.

00:46:11
Speaker 1: Wow A, you better wear that around. You turned out one hundred dollars. By the way, we get to San Francisco, don't be asking me for money.

00:46:19
Speaker 2: Oh, I might be strutting around San fran and my strutting with Sudden hat.

00:46:24
Speaker 1: By the way, we still don't have anywhere to stay.

00:46:27
Speaker 2: Oh, we'll find We'll find a place.

00:46:29
Speaker 1: If you look for the hotels.

00:46:31
Speaker 2: I'm busy this weekend of the year.

00:46:33
Speaker 1: I staying in some of those places that you can stay by yourself. There are parts of San Francisco I am not staying in Saturday night, I think. So see, between me and you, since this is not going on.

00:46:52
Speaker 2: You can say what you're gonna say anyway.

00:46:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can say this. There was a guy that I know who's got a lot of money, and he's a really nice guy, and he lives in San Franciscan. He's got like a he's got like a vineyard, Okay, And I was like, I'm gonna suggest we have nowhere to stay and maybe he'll invite us to the house. He doesn't know any he knows me if he doesn't know any y'all. And I did that today. I thought it would work. He's not gonna be he's gonna be in Dubai.

00:47:25
Speaker 2: Oh that's okay, we'll house sit for well.

00:47:26
Speaker 1: See, I was gonna say, I was gonna be like, you know, you need somebody to watch him play, but he did. He didn't suggest it, So I think I think we're not gonna be able to stay there all right? Ay? Five I was really trying because I know, like this dude's got a lot of money, and I was like, it'll be amazing and we can stop on the grapes and all that said, Well, he's not gonna let us. He's not gonna let us do that. Eight five nine, twenty eighty seven. We'll take a break. Final segments of Local Toy Dealers KSR post game Show. Welcome back. It is a local It's KSR postgame Show. I don't know how many of you are still up with me at one fifteen in aw order. If you are, go ahead and seven seven two seven seven four or five two five for it. Let me know where you're listening. I know a lot of you be listening on podcasts Mark, but if you're awake right now, go ahead and send it. I like this message. The definition of billy confidence is buying a strutting for sutt and hat for forty five dollars off eBay and then turning down one hundred bucks for it. That is billy confidence.

00:48:26
Speaker 2: That's right. Might flip it for even more.

00:48:29
Speaker 1: Oh, you think you think you're gonna get more for that?

00:48:31
Speaker 2: I got an offer for one fifty. No, you did from somebody online anonymous.

00:48:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that may not be. That's not real. You know. It's like when I would say to my grandfather, I'd be like, you see this baseball card right here, it'd be worth twenty dollars. It's worth twenty dollars, and I go, but the baseball card shop only will give me ten dollars for it, And he goes, well, then I guess it's worth ten dollars.

00:48:53
Speaker 2: Was the guy on the baseball card winking at you.

00:48:58
Speaker 1: I can't remember a baseball card. Thehead a guy about it. It is a good wake, but somebody tells it says in the picture it looks dirty. What do you do if it's dirty?

00:49:09
Speaker 2: Well, then I'm going to wish I saw it for one hundred dollars exactly.

00:49:12
Speaker 1: Alright, who's next.

00:49:14
Speaker 2: Eddie in California?

00:49:16
Speaker 1: Eddie? How are you? Eddie?

00:49:18
Speaker 11: Hey, Good evening, gentlemen. First of all, pros to all the people in Kentucky in the South for all the weather. My son lives out there in Lexington, so I'm constantly looking at the updates. So thank you for putting on that seven thousand dollars. The newscasters getting them involved in keeping everybody updated on that bill. You really, you really just piqued my interest. And when you mentioned Stretton for setting. I've been a forty year Kentucky Wildcat fan. I went to high school in California, read The California with Robert Lott, and some of my first heroes were Kenny Skywalker, Rex Chapman, Cedric Jenkins. And it's just it's just been, you know, forty years and they've been my team. I know they're your team, And I have a question. The last year's team really got me excited again. The maturity of those seniors, the professionalism. You never heard them talking about money. It was always about Kentucky, the name on the front. Yeah, I think this year's team has a lot of I don't want to say immature, but there's a lot of growing up to do. And having said that, how do you think the booing part, you know, how do you tellmen feel about that affecting the recruiting for the new kids?

00:50:50
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you know, it's maybe, but I think the thing about the money part is that those kind of things you're talking about become less important. Now. I mean that that they matter, but they don't. I mean, I don't think you can overcome that uh in because of that, But you know, I appreciate the call. I mean, listen, our fan base is are is our strongest characteristic, but it can also be our our weakest if we if it goes too too far. But I don't I don't think it has. I don't think babooing in a couple of games UH is gonna matter one person rights. Matt, what do you think about the video that was posted earlier with the players chanting money before they walked on the court. I saw that video. I think people are overreacting because I don't think you I'm not like what they did. They stan chant like tough money or something. Billy. What did they change?

00:51:48
Speaker 2: I didn't see the chanting I saw UK was like in the tunnel with the.

00:51:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, but they said something like tough money or what. The thing you have to remember is unless you speak, unless you speak college kids or like young basketball players like you don't even like you don't even really know what they're talking about. So I think you have to be very careful if you are middle aged white person trying to understand the slang of eighteen nineteen twenty year old basketball players. So don't you agree with that? But like be like, I don't. I don't read anything into that.

00:52:27
Speaker 2: I'm still hip and know the lingo.

00:52:31
Speaker 1: Just that phrase right there says I do not trust I do not trust you. I mean, I just I've learned that like when I don't think something, when it doesn't make sense, it's probably some song I don't know or some tic like I just so i'd be very careful to judge. I think it's it's nothing, all right? Four more? Who's next?

00:52:53
Speaker 2: Double D?

00:52:54
Speaker 1: Double D? By the way, See, every time I ask listen, I mean, let me just read you real quick. Danville and Jose, Palm Bay, Florida, Franklin, Ohio, Muhlenberg Company County, West end of Louisville, Colorado, Ballard County, just lit crittin In County. Just lick at all this all, heays makes me happy to see where people are listening.

00:53:12
Speaker 2: Go ahead, sir, Australia, double D.

00:53:15
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, Hey, good night, and thank y'all for taking my call tonight, of course, Billy congrass on the hat, Matt. I just want to say that the you know, got a couple of callers go. The guy was saying that cow uh he liked to coach the popular guys. But being with being with uh, pope.

00:53:45
Speaker 2: I got it, I got it all right.

00:53:48
Speaker 1: Sorry, double D. You can't just he's gone. What's that gonna sound like for people at home? Are they gonna know why you dropped that?

00:53:57
Speaker 2: No, they'll hear his well, they hear his call, they'll hear the first few seconds of it.

00:54:05
Speaker 1: Okay, No, I think he lost his trade on just dropped the cuss word in the middle of the night. Well, isn't it after? What is it after one? Can't you say anything?

00:54:16
Speaker 2: I don't know that rule well enough to let that slide, honestly, So.

00:54:19
Speaker 1: I think there's a rule that like after it it might be two, it's either one, it's either twelve one or two. But at one of those points you can just say whatever. That's why Doctor Drew and Adam Carolla could start.

00:54:33
Speaker 2: Talking for CC's safe harbor hours or from ten pm to six am.

00:54:38
Speaker 1: So well, you could have left it, but there's kids listening, and I understand, so I do for the kids. Sorry, Double D, you just can't. You can't just be dropping that in the middle of the night.

00:54:50
Speaker 2: Who's next doing great?

00:54:53
Speaker 1: Go ahead, sir.

00:54:56
Speaker 7: Matt. I hope you're doing well.

00:54:58
Speaker 1: Thanks.

00:54:58
Speaker 7: I want to give a shot because.

00:55:01
Speaker 1: Touch money, touch money is what it says. That's what they said, touch money. But I'm sure that's a slogan, right, go ahead, doing great?

00:55:10
Speaker 7: All right, Sorry about that. I want to give a shout out to Billy because Billy always lets me in. I listen to y'all show every day. Today, for example, listening to Shannon for forty seven minutes on hold and didn't let me in, So thank you, Billy.

00:55:24
Speaker 1: Well, it's not really Shannon's fault, Like I mean, I don't call for as many calls during the day, so when you called during the day, it's all about where we are in the pace of the show. So it's not always Shannon's fault. Sometimes it might be mine.

00:55:36
Speaker 7: To go ahead, okay, okay, fair enough. Well, I'm looking at my notes here. This is very serious. Uh okay, okay, So here's my question. Here's my question. Here's my question. Hear me out. So obviously tonight was very frustrating, and I don't know if humored from last week, but last week I tried to pump him sunshine after the old miss when affluent, you know, five wins in a row. So let's say let's say the rest of the season, we go what ten and eight and the sec nine to nine, I don't know, whatever it takes to get a nine seed or eight seed and end of the tournament. Why are we immediately immediately refuting the idea of you know, making some sort of run because I've I've heard throughout the show that you know, we're not gonna be a national championship winner, which you probably won't, but like you know, tonight was frustrating. But why are we immediately refruiting Well.

00:56:31
Speaker 1: I'm I mean, we're not gonna win a TI. I mean we're not, But I'm not refuting making a run. I think we are just when you are not, when you're not a one seat or a two seed, what you are doing is putting your mercy, putting your fate at the mercy of the what the bracket? Right? So like, so so for us, let's say we're a ten seed or a none seat, it's all gonna be about who we happen to draw, right, and if we draw a ten that we match up with, well with who knows you might have a chance of pulling upset. But if you draw a team that can put ninety five up, even if they're a seven seed, we might get blown out in the first round. So you don't control your own fate, is what I'm saying. I remember when twenty fourteen, when the bracket came out, one of our callers, Heink, called in and said, I remember him saying when he called in, this is a great draw for us because we match up well with every team in the bracket. And he turned out to be correct. We actually did match up well with all those teams. But then there what could be a world We get somebody that we have no chance of beating because of matchup, So that's the only thing. Could you make a run? Yeah, but you're at the mercy of the bracket show as to who you get.

00:57:47
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, that's totally fair. I just wanted to make that point that you know, we made that We had a tough year that one year, and then we still made a run. So I understand it's unlikely this year, but let's you know, yeah.

00:58:02
Speaker 1: Let's hope. I appreciate, uh, appreciate the call. I just got the call today that I'm hosting the Bracket Show again. Billy Oh up to Bristol up at ESPN, and it's an hour longer this year, so hours three hours of hosting from six to nine at night on some I love it. It's great, they bring all That's an exciting night to be at ESPN because all these people are in studio, right, they all go there, so everybody's in the building and it's exciting. Seth Greenberg and ignores me in the hallways.

00:58:38
Speaker 2: Tells you to get up.

00:58:39
Speaker 1: No, it's how I know who these people are. Like, That's how I meet all these people. Is that's the one night a year I'm up there. So you know, oh, there's uh, there's Tom Crean, you know, there's Ron Sligh. It's always kind of fun because that's the one time I get to meet everybody.

00:58:55
Speaker 2: All Right, two people, who's next, Matt, It's time for our Johnny Rocker personal injury Attorney, money maker of the game injured get small town compassion with big city results when you call the Rocker at two seven zero three two one four four two nine. And while there were only two Kentucky players that scored more than one field goal in the game, we're giving the Johnny Rocker role Player of the Game. To all the fans who went down to Nashville, and all the fans that have been in Nashville that have witnessed UK blown out by Alabama and the SEC tournament last year, all the fans that were at the Gonzaga game where Kentucky lost by thirty five, all the fans that were at this game and watched the domination tonight, you are deserving of our Johnny Rocker role Player of the game.

00:59:35
Speaker 1: How much did we lose to Alabama bout last year in the tournament on the SEC at tournament, No, I mean, what's the score? Because I because that would mean our last three games in Nashville have been by what scores? Because we lost by thirty five to Gonzaga, we lost by twenty five to UH tonight to Vane.

00:59:53
Speaker 2: It was ninety nine to seventy by.

00:59:56
Speaker 1: Twenty nine, So we have lost by eighty nine points in our last three games in Nashville. That's crazy. We've lost bout eighty nine points in our last three games.

01:00:09
Speaker 2: Real, that's hard to even.

01:00:11
Speaker 1: That's terrible. All right, two more and we'll go to bed. Who's that big Z?

01:00:15
Speaker 13: Big Z go ahead, Hey, Matt, Hey, Billy. I appreciate you guys taking my call a couple of things. So when people say, you know, hey, it really doesn't matter. I don't care anymore. I'm telling you. It's one thirty in the morning. I'm I'm talking as low as I can so my wife doesn't wake up and uninvite me to last Vegas on Friday, and I'm recovering from a total knee replacement and I'm sitting here in our bathroom, not in the actual commode, but in the bathroom, so my wife doesn't kill me. Matt, this matters. I'm gonna tell you what it means for me. The two and a half hours before the game and the game in the after the game, that is time with my best friend and my son Ethan, that I look forward to every single game. And my fear is I don't think the opposite of love is hate. I think it's indifference, and I'm afraid of that. So tonight Ethan says, hey, Dad, will you please, Matt's got to write a second book to Mitch please and say Mitch please retire and let's you know, replace Barnhardt. So I see that a little tongue in cheek, Matt. But you know, I don't know Pope. I do know one other Mormon guy.

01:01:22
Speaker 1: I know.

01:01:22
Speaker 13: He's the best guy I've met in my wife, and I think Pope is too. And I coached soccer through high school in the KHS. You got to motivate these kids. And he's so smart, like you're a genius. And when you explain stuff, I'm like, oh, it makes perfect sense. I don't know that he can articulate and connect with these kids, and I think that might kind of be the problem. And I just you know, do you think that hey, whatever happens this season is next year, do or die for him? And listen Matt one more time.

01:01:48
Speaker 1: Before you go go ahead saying there you go.

01:01:51
Speaker 13: Ahead, Well, no, I just wanted to say. And there's one other thing. I love how much you love your mother, and I love how much love Larry. That makes me so happy. And you know, for whatever people say about you're a great man, I appreciate you, we love you, we love Billy. But I do want to give a shout out to Ethan, my son and my best friend that we get all this time together and it matters and doesn't.

01:02:16
Speaker 1: Thank you for those words, and let me let me, let me, let me make a couple points. Don't go yet, because I want to let me make a couple points to what you said. Yes, sir, First of all, yes, the opposite of sort of love is indifference, and I don't ever want to see indifference with this fan base. And I don't. I literally have hundreds of messages when I ask people to say where they're from, and these are people listening right now, and tomorrow at three o'clock, I'll look on the charts and this will be a top fifteen podcast, so people care. Secondly, your point about smart and connecting is a very good one. I went to law school. There were two hundred people in my class at Duke, and probably one hundred and ninety five of them were very smart. We did have a few idiots, but for the most part, everybody was very smart. But the amount of those people that I thought could go into a small town in Kentucky and not be just completely mocked or ignored was like fifteen percent, right, And to me, that was what, like true intelligence is both is being able to be both. I think Mark connects with people really well in the abstract right, like on press conferences, like he seems like a great dude, But when you're with somebody every day, like all the slogans go away and it's just do I jibe with this person? You know? And I think it remains to be seen. I think some of the players he does. But does he do it with the elite talents? I don't know. I'm not there, so I can't say. I think he did do it with the guys last year. It just hasn't seemed to work as well this year. And your last point is next year, do or die? Yeah? I think so. I think every coach minus something crazy deserves three years. You know. Billy the something crazy was all the off the court stuff. But if Billy Gillespie hadn't had the off the court stuff, sir, he'd have gotten a third year. You know. He just had all the off the court stuff.

01:04:23
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's the.

01:04:24
Speaker 13: Last thing I want to say. I want to beg you. Heather is my kind of people. If you can get her on the ESPN show to say now coming for King of the Heel, I think we we got we got to bring it to the mountains, the mountains of the best, and that one last game I always hope and I pray that my son loves his mother like you love your mother. Have great night, guys, and.

01:04:43
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you appreciate it well I do. And uh, you know, I'm not going to go into detail. But also got some some positive news this week with Larry too, so that's good. So thank you all for all the nice comments people been saying, last call, Who's next?

01:05:01
Speaker 2: Love to hear that. And also the best idea that you had that we never worked out was the callers doing the draft Kings disclaimers that we couldn't do. So Heather John Short.

01:05:11
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good week. Why don't you just do that? You should get Heather to DoD raft and she goes rock heel Casine now in Kansas. I love that eighteen plus and day say wow men, all right one most Tim, Tim go ahead, Tim.

01:05:32
Speaker 9: Hey man, I'm glad to be the Johnny Rocker role player. That's fantastic. I was later than not. Let me tell you I've been to Nationale twice this year. Oh no, I was. Yeah, I'll send you a picture of the five guys at the restaurant.

01:05:51
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:05:55
Speaker 9: We enjoyed that part next part not so much. I don't know how coach can sit there and talk to his assistance when you're down twenty points and you give up four or five layups, a couple of threes in the corner, and you're not in there chewing somebody. I don't, I don't get it. I know he's nice, I know he's not, But I mean it was awful. I mean, I mean, I expect to lose sometimes because you can't.

01:06:20
Speaker 7: Win them all.

01:06:21
Speaker 9: There's no way, you know, you just lose that when you don't put the effort that a Kentucky basketball player should put. I mean, it's just awful. And I believe Blue. I'm sixty one years old, but a fan for you know, as long as I've been born, I've seen it all. But this here, this is getting bad. I mean, Nashville twice, two hour drive and get beat by sixty sixty, get sixty points in two games sixty And I was there at this SEC tournament that A and m when Ree Shepherd, So how about that?

01:06:52
Speaker 1: That was a bad one too.

01:06:54
Speaker 9: The first time I ever went to the SEC tournament for the whole tournament. I had been there for a game or two. I went for the whole tournament and got beat. Now I went and got some cookies and milk and went to bed.

01:07:06
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Are you deserved, You're discerned even go to bed. Appreciate the call. You deserve. The Johnny Rocker Cup Fan of the day, I'm gonna even give it to that guy specific Yeah, I like that. Guy sent us a picture pregame with his five buddies. I like that. Thank you all very much for staying up. Congrats to Billy on his strutting with Sutton hat and uh hey, this ended up being more fun than I thought. I'm gonna go to bed because in eight hours I'll be up again. Do you do this one and again in the morning, cats lose? Yeah, hopefully it'll be better. I don't know. I don't know much better. It's gonna be Saturday, but let's hope we'll see you later. It's been the local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show