2026-04-08- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Well, Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, August to eighth. I am Matt Jones here at the Ksbar and Grill where it is Wingsday Wednesday. I'm excited. I'm actually gonna get some wings. I haven't had good Ksbar wings since I've been traveling in a couple weeks. And it's a dollar wings today. Even with all the with all the difficulties in price around America, you can still come here and get dollar wings on Wednesday and burgers from no Chelin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah got they got a small loan to fill your gas tank. But you can come here and getting dollar wings after we're afterwards.

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Speaker 2: That's right. It was four thirty nine in some goodness. The other day, Was it really Yeah, I'm trying to think where I was. It was in Kentucky, though maybe it was in I guess it was in Louisville. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: I saw pictures five nineteen somewhere around here today in Kentucky. Yeah, it wasn't Lexington. Somebody's gonna be a picture. Well, don't go there. Oh anyway.

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Speaker 2: Clark's Puppet Shop fuld line eight five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this distion sponsored by the T. J. Smith Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. Ryan Leman, I'm on a high right now for my Cincinnati Reds, who won a game they had no business winning last night. Look at that hat over there. I appreciate that. I will have plenty of time to break it down, but it's nice to, you know, after being frustrated at times this year during football and basketball season. It's it's it's fun to see now before they collapse, because they still have the second fewest runs in baseball, so we're we're gonna collapse. But until then, it's the summer of villa.

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Speaker 3: You did come in a little pep in your step. This morning.

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Speaker 2: I watched the whole game. What's the dude, the best pitching performance I've ever seen by the other guy. Yeah, he was awesome, and then we still somehow won.

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Speaker 3: Well, you showed me how I Ella scored the time run of a major League baseball player would not have been able to score.

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Speaker 2: But it's Ellie and he's wearing a hoodie. Now, that's why he's so good. Him down, No, because he said it keeps him cool. It's like having a parachute back there. That's what people say. But he said I heard him say. They asked him and he said, first of all, it keeps him cool, and second it's a vibe. And then that played last night. I was way ahead of it. I've been I've been keeping cool in the vibe for a long time. I've been challenging people to raceis and hoodies before. It's true. I'm not gonna do that today. I didn't take didn't take amy. We got Montgomery County here, Alexi, where you are from, Olive Hill, tom t Hall Country in the house, and what about you Bert Bourbon County, Lexington. So here you go good, good morning.

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Speaker 3: A man right here working on his driver's permit. Dad let him drive over here today from elizabethtown'll get.

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Speaker 2: The hours in drivers permit. So what's the rules on that? Now?

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Speaker 3: You get it at you got sixteen, but you got to drive one hundred and twenty hours. Yeah, fifteen and a half give it.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen and a half year old's driving? No wonder these roads? Or so when did that happen? I wouldn't let a fifteen and a half year old drive.

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Speaker 3: You gotta drive with your parent, and you got to drive one hundred and twenty hours to get your true permit?

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Speaker 2: Well, how do they know that?

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Speaker 3: You got that a log?

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Speaker 2: So you can just make something up.

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Speaker 3: Josia would drive from my house in Douglas.

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Speaker 2: That was two hours? Are you admitting the line on a government form?

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Speaker 3: I plead the fifth.

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Speaker 2: I think you'd for his son, not even him, to be quite frank with you, you can't plead the fifth because you just admitted it. That was eight That was a I A. Yeah, okay, that's interesting. I didn't It didn't seem like a drew. Uh. But people keep asking me have you had a baby? Oh not?

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Speaker 4: I keep checking my phone. Nothing yet, but we are we are in two Sunday. Sunday is the official due date, but we're at the point where, you know, any anything can happen.

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Speaker 3: So he's got a dilemma. Friday wearing some.

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Speaker 2: Asked the doctor.

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Speaker 4: The doctor said, check with Abbey in the morning, see how she's feeling, and then you should be.

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Speaker 2: Able to you. I mean, you could have a memory that the baby could come and you'd be at Don Don and.

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Speaker 4: I would have to name the baby Don in that moment, it's a girl, Dawn.

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Speaker 2: So we are at Don Franklin in Somerset on Friday, potentially on Baby Baby Watch.

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Speaker 4: I'd prefer Sunday. I'm really I really want masters Sunday, but we're at any moment.

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Speaker 2: That would be I mean, just if we're talking content, Yeah, let's think about the show, which is ultimately what I think is most important. You having to leave Don Franklin to rush and go have a baby would be great content.

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Speaker 4: Yeah for you all. How does that work? Am I allowed to speed? Can I throw some flashers on and maybe ben the rules a little bit?

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Speaker 2: Potentially? Maybe there could be a Pulaski County escort. Yes, in the hospital. Well, now we got to set this up. Yeah, well we're ready. So I was gonna ask if you want to go to the Reds game with me Sunday you're out, Probably no, I will watch it from the hospital. Okay, all right, I was I was going to offer there there. I want to go to the Masters. That's a different conversation.

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Speaker 4: So if I go to the Masters, and if there's a Master's ticket out there, I might have to take one.

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Speaker 2: Well, I hope you get to go to Don Franklin, but I also don't want you to be to be stressed at Don Filp. I'm planning to be there, but we'll see. We'll see how nature goes. Okay, well, they're very very exciting. This is uh yesterday, Well, yesterday's one of those days like where the phone kind of gets wetted into my hand, which I don't enjoy, which is because you want to make sure if something happens, you're ready to go. There are I think Jeff Goodman said four thousand players that played last year that are eligible to play college basketball next year, and at this moment, fourteen hundred of them are into port So that's a lot. You know, this is just how college basketball is now and you just have to accept it. Like I mean, I saw on I think a ks board thread something like this is not the college basketball. I know, well it's not, you know. I mean, I'm not gonna try to debate with you. It's just not. But it's also never going to be again. So you just need to kind of decide this new world of the sport do you enjoy it or not. I think here's where I think I am on it. I think it's awesome when the game start. I think what this has done is it has made it to where when the games start, the games are better, the teams are better, the players are older, they have incentive to stay. I don't think what Cal did these those first few years here at Kentucky where it was all for I don't think you could do that now. I really don't because the guys are so much older, which is why he's so always like twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight year olds, because I think he likes coaching freshmen and Drew. I just don't think you can do that anymore if that's all you have.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's that stat that's out there's been like one freshman starting the championship game in like coven years or whatever.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Duke. Duke had pretty elite freshmen and I had a couple older guys. But you know that you saw him kind of fallon the freshman kind of fell apart at the end of that game against Yukon. So I think the sport is actually better for it now. It can make these few weeks insanely hectic. And I would also understand Ryan why people might say, you know what, just tell me who's on the team, kind of like I can't follow this to every single guy, just just in the end, tell me who's on the team.

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Speaker 3: I could understand that I'm kind of one of those guys, because are you There's so much happening. I feel sorry for guys like Jack Pilgram and Jacob, you know, because they have to stay up with everybody entering the portal.

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Speaker 2: Jacob Jacob, I was talking to him last night. He gets up at like seven am and he's going till like eleven a pm. And he he he, I guess he took his He took someone to dinner last night again. Jack went to dinner. Oh I thought it was a woman. Okay, Well, I don't know what they did. You know what, Let's scratch that because I don't know what his relationships that is. I don't know what they were.

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Speaker 4: Let's just say what I thought they were there for work purposes, that there's something else that's that's between them.

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Speaker 2: His one like an HR involved his one man Jack. But I talked to him, and like even at dinner, he's having to sit there and take phone calls like this is his super Bowl. He loves calling people I don't know, and I could not do it.

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Speaker 4: He will just cold call. I think he called Todd Golden one day before Kentucky games, like I can interview them well, adacity.

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Speaker 2: How much I hate calling people. I called a woman yesterday just to inquire about house design, and I felt like I was bothering her and that's her job. And I was like, I don't my damn sorry to call you. Jack's calling people to annoy him and he has no problem doing.

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Speaker 3: You gotta have a special personality to be able to do that.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't do it. I'm I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: I don't eve. I don't want to bother people.

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Speaker 2: Feel like you could do it, you call it, you talk to anybody.

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Speaker 3: Well, I like to talk to him. But if you're taking your fifteenth phone call in an hour about are you're getting in the transfer portal or not? Gonna be a little to.

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Speaker 4: I had to DM a high school band out bio because he wasn't answering, and I still get anxiety about I did not want to send it, but I was already outside his high school waiting and couldn't get ahold of anyone.

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Speaker 2: And it still hunts me ten years later. Yeah, that's that's funny because I like that reaching out to We would send you to go see the new Kentucky players.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and just when you when they don't answer the first calls, like I don't want to bug this seventeen year old, but I'm here, but.

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Speaker 2: You have to bug you, all right. So but we do get when we get actual concrete news, that's important. So yesterday, the actual concrete news is that Cam Williams is coming back. He's now officially only the second guy back Moreno and him, although Moreno's I guess technically in the in the draft, but I think he'll be back. I assume College Chann was gonna be back, although he hasn't said it yet. Cam Williams I think when he came here, the assumption was always going to be he was a two year player. I don't think the first year went exactly as they wanted because he got hurt and was out for a period of time. I think this is a great guy to get back. My guess is he's kind of gonna be slotted in a six man roll next next year. I don't know that, but that's my guess. But he is long, he can guard. When he plays well, he can guard, and he can shoot threes. I Drew love having him on the team, so I was excited to see that news. Me too.

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Speaker 4: He kind of got a slower start than a lot of people expected, probably even him, but I mean, he had that eight three pointers against Bellerman, I think he had fifteen against Misissippi State something like that. That he gets hurt right as he started getting going and getting the minutes he deserved. So his injury came at a bad time, and I'm I'm glad they're bringing him back. And really, let's include Chandler if for being honest. The people we didn't mind waving goodbye to have left, and the ones were one to keep look like they're gonna keep so I'd say, so far, so good on what he's doing with the team.

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Speaker 2: From this past season.

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Speaker 3: You know, cam Ways was just settling into his role. You know, he would just start to play well, he was starting, he was fine, finally found he shot and knocking down threes, and then that injury happened. It happened at the worst time for that kid. So I'm glad he's gonna come back, maybe get a chance to shine for a holy season.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there was anybody on the team that when they shot, I was one hundred percent confident was going in. But the two I was most confident. We're Channeler and camp I kind of like, if they take the shot, I feel pretty good. I kind of was up the view if they're open shoot everybody else I was like, all right, well think about it before you do it. With those two guys, I was like, if you're open, shoot, So I'm glad to have him. And So I was thinking, as I was sitting having my McMuffin this morning, how do you, if you're an average fan, how do you process this portal? I mean, you keep reading names and you hear Mark Pope zooming with this guy. It's interesting sometimes he chooses to zoom, but sometimes he facetimes. How do you decide which one to do? Because he's facetiming with some guys and zooming with the other is not like an unofficial tell of who he's interested in the most.

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Speaker 4: Maybe on the other end, they don't pay for the premium and they're out of minutes, so he has to switch. He clearly has the professional subscription because he's living on zoom.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, well I think I would choose to FaceTime. It's just easier than choose to text me. Yeah, what Pope does? I will say, did you see the picture of him on FaceTime with one guy? He needs to back up the back of the He's got the Mario where he sticks the phone directly in his face. So I would just say the same way I asked Mario sometime to back the camera up. I'm gonna make a little suggestion to mark back the camera up. Your face should not take up three fourths of the camera. Do you agree with that? I don't agree that.

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Speaker 3: I saw that, you know, his first class, he did a lot of face timing, and that it worked, you know, had some success. Maybe feels like it's more personal connection with somebody when you FaceTime the guy.

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Speaker 2: But my view is gonna be So I was trying to think, what do I want this roster to look like? And so I thought about, all right, they've got let's assume they have Chandler with Chandler Moreno, I think you have two guys that the assumption is going to be they're gonna start. Everybody can go, oh, I'd love to have Chandler come off the bench. I'd love to have Moreno, those guys did not come back to have started this year and come off the bench next year. So I think you just need to assume those guys are gonna start. I would say cam Is like you're six or seventh man. That's what they brought him in here originally, that's what he played Drew. I figure that's what he'll do next year. Do you agree? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And I wouldn't think with the year he had coming off an injury, many opportunities to go take a big role somewhere else exactly that would be many better than anything here.

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Speaker 2: So what am I looking for? All right? I think if you look at the tournament, every team that succeeded had two or three guys who could ball. Right. These teams that were good, you know, you had Yukon had the big fella Reed or whatever his name, Silas, Dimrie, uh And and Caravan were consistent, and then Mullens played well at the end. You look at Michigan, they had probably four guys that were like that, probably seven or eight guys that would play. I'm gonna assume Chandler and Moreno are two of ours. If they end up not being good enough to be two of ours, then that's gonna be a problem. But they're gonna be paid like they're gonna be two of ours. So my view, Drew, we gotta go get two dudes, right, absolutely, And I don't know who they are. Probably one of them needs to be a point guard. I think your point guard has to be a dude. And I think one of them probably needs to be a big. But Moreno's the kind that it could be like a six nine big, or it could be a seven one seven. Yeah, let's seven seven one big. You could get two different kinds, and I think it would still work with Moreno. And then I think you need at least one other really solid guy, and then you fill the rest with role players. That's what I'm looking for in this class. So I'm kind of looking for two studs, one guy that, like on any given night, might lead the team in scoring, and then three or four kind of guys to fit a roll. Do you agree with that? I do? Are we giving up on Stokes? I mean I don't feel good Stokes would be one of the two. I mean, if you if you get Stokes, then he's he's filling in one of the two studs world he's there without And I'm not giving up on him yet, by the way, but that takes one of I'm considering him almost like a portal edition. Because this is so late in the year.

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Speaker 4: There's enough point guards out there right now that will be stars. I mean, heck, some of them were stars last year. You have to get one of those guys. You absolutely have to.

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Speaker 2: Because there are so many point guards that have entered. Because there are a lot, Does that make you less want to take the guy who might be injured at LSU?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if he if he showed up today on campus with his luggage and said I want to be a Wildcat, maybe you take him so you don't miss out on others. But right from b YU just went in Zoom Diallo from Washington yesterday. There's some some as you say, dude, some guys that you really want to go out and try to get.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's our that's my take on it. We'll talk about a couple of the guys as the show goes on and more. We are here at KOs Bar and grill. Good to see everybody. Olive Hill. You know, play a Tom t Haw song for these people. Okay, Rick, we'll do all right. We'll be right back to ks Wonder. Welcome back in his Kentucky sports radio. If I'm nine two eighty seven, this is uh uh? What is this? Faster horses? Is that right horse? Yeah, faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money. That's what he says. Are the uh uh the secrets to life?

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Speaker 3: Like that one song you play all the time, and he just says, and onions and all the things he liked, I love I love onions.

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Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with love an onion.

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Speaker 3: Nobody loves onions.

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Speaker 2: I do you see? Nobody eats a raw onion, but you put it in other things and like and nobody just sits and eat that. I would think a person's crazy it's like they just eat a raw.

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Speaker 4: I had to do that as part of like a church fear factor thing. I'm telling you it affected me for a month. I could not get rid of onion, eat it like an apple. Still haunts being a church fear fast. Like we were in a youth group and there's all these dares and mine was to eat an onion like an apple.

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Speaker 2: And I was church do you go to? This was? Uh? Well, I went to the first Presbyterian church.

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Speaker 4: But this might have happened at the first Well. I think I think the Methodist put me up to this cross town. I was with some friends. But I'm telling you how bad you think it is, it was worse. I couldn't I brushed my teeth ten times a day for a month and couldn't get it out.

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Speaker 2: I was just telling you during the break Ryan, this is it may be the thing that finally has me considered getting married is this house. Because I'm learning how little that I know about things, you know. I met with the landscape Yo State and they sent me and they're like, these are the things you need, and it was a long list. Yes, And I was like, I know how businesses are. I don't think I need all these things, but I have no idea what I need. So I asked my mom, and I asked Hubby's wife, Yes, which of these things do I need? And there were like eleven choices and they both picked the exact same ones exact, which means somehow they have a gene that they know, yes, that I don't have. And I wonder if that's true about other things.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I guarantee it's true about a lot of things. Women is, they're smarter than us.

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Speaker 2: Women is smarter than uh huh, they are another great shirt for you. Women is smarter than that they is.

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Speaker 4: You'll you'll learn there's a lot going on in the house that you didn't think you'd have to be ready for.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sing will break eightf I'm nine two eighty seven one person right rights? Or Matt, are you really willing to hit your wagon to Chandler? He needs to be fourth option, maybe third at best. Well, okay, but my what I just told you was I wanted three to four guys that were really good. I think Chandler is one of them. So there you know. If he's your third or fourth option, that's up to you. But yeah, he can be third or fourth option on a really good team. Yes, just like Braylen Mullins. You know, Braylen Mullins has probably got a bigger upside, but he didn't play well a lot of the a lot of the year. Chandler can be as good as that guy can.

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Speaker 4: I think of the jump he made from where he couldn't even play his freshman year before Christmas, got a little better in postseason, hit some big shots than a huge jump as a sophomore. I mean there is a world where guys get better every year. I mean, think if he takes another big jump and all the shots like.

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Speaker 2: He's like what Yeah, I mean he's he's got a chance to be I think really good. I got a four to one K. Do I think you could win with him as your best player? No? But can he be the third best player on a team that's really good. Yes, I do think that.

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Speaker 3: I feel like we all agree, no disrespect to Chandler and Moreno, but the two dudes they bringing to be better than both those guys. We need two guys better than both of Moreno and Chandler.

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Speaker 2: I definitely need one, and I probably need two, yesh, but I definitely need one. They gotta get one. They gotta have a dude, yes, right, they gotta have a dude. They gotta go. Look, Okay, I don't know that you'll get somebody better than no Way, but you gotta get somebody in his ballpark, yes, And then with Aberdeen, you gotta get somebody that was at least as good as Aberdeen at the end of the year, right, because now at the beginning of the year he wasn't very good. But in a perfect world, you'd get an o Way equal and an upgrade to Aberdeen and moreno and Chandler get better, and then you get better complimentary pieces than what you had last year, where it just felt like it was a mishmash of parts that didn't really work together.

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Speaker 4: And really, I know the season didn't go well, but getting better than Away and Aberdeen it's gonna be that easy.

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Speaker 2: It's not.

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Speaker 4: And those are the guys had a really great year, especially at the end. And I think at the four, however good they are, you need somebody that can space. They just lack shooting at that position this year. Go find even I'd prefer a starter, but even if it's an Ansley Almanor type that just sits in the corner. Pope needs that for his offense.

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Speaker 2: One of the guys with the role players got to make, got to make threes, got to like that. We know he comes in and makes them. I think that's probably what he envisioned. Trent Noah Bean and then he just wasn't right that you got you gotta have that I would have.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of Trance Steal, no word on him.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I wonder if they're privately trying to see what the market I wonder, or if they have one. All right, we're gonna go the phones. Bob and Jamestown is banned for one week. Okay, you got that, Rick, because I can't see the calls. Okay, Rick, I'll mark that down. All right. Who's up first? Joey is up for Joey, go ahead, Joey.

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Speaker 5: Hey, guys, y'all doing. I'm calling about this to Johnson. Dearrek Johnson put out the other day. Yes, I don't really like it. I think it's selective and I think I mean, I'm not saying Gaspring good. I'm sure he is maybe on down the road. But if you're good, the crane usually rises at the top and you'll be able to find minutes, and he had every chance in the world last season to find minutes and just I just couldn't see him doing it. What do you think about that?

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Speaker 2: I mean, Jasper, I appreciate the call, especially after Low got hurt, had every chance to play. Kentucky needed him, they needed him to play, and when they put in he was not helpful. I don't know what else there is to say. I really don't. I mean, you know now, is that because of something in practice or didn't connect? I don't know, I mean, but I just know that when he came in, the longer the season got, when he came in the worse. It was to the point that they weren't even playing him at the end, and that was and when they did in the biggest game of the year, it didn't go well.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, you couldn't take Aberdeen off the floor because he kind of took a step back. And Aberdeen was playing so well pretty much for the second half of the season.

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Speaker 2: Go back to the first five games of the year. I bet if you go back and look, Aberdeen was pretty bad. Yeah, he was, and Jasper was kind of not far away from him. Aberdeen grew Jasper didn't what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 4: You know, we all thought at the end of the year, play Aberdeen and o way till their legs fall off him. We were getting mad because Pope was mentioned them, because there was just a clear difference in that in that by the way, Aberdeen's.

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Speaker 2: Trying to get a fifth year saw that. I have to tell you, I don't know that he's conned. I'd love to have him back. I don't want him. I'd want him to be back like I wouldn't waven be the starting point guard. I'd want to be like a two guard. But if we if he could, I'd love that, wouldn't you. Yeah, I don't really get his argument. Uh, good luck on your race. Uh. I like that he has an argument if what I'm going to talk about right after the break happens, so we will talk about okay when we returned, I'm nine twenty two eighty seven, We'll be right back, Kiso, Welcome back. Techy Sports Radio eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. Text Machine seven seven two seven seventy four five two five four one person rights matt onions have healing qualities. If your feet hurt and you put onions in your socks. It will make it better. Don't believe that. Never heard that. Don't believe it. Never heard it, can't be true. Onions in your socks, onions in your socks? Anybody ever heard that? We got people here, so I hear in the back. You look like somebody would have heard it. He's on his phone, so he doesn't he he hasn't heard it. There's no there's no, there's no way that's true.

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Speaker 3: We need to ask Freddy. Freddie's the one who's got all the crazies.

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Speaker 2: Freddie would know. Freddie or Richie Farmer will text him. Yeah, Richie, if you I know you're rich listening, Ritchie? If onions in your socks? If you all did that at Clay County under Bobby Keith, you let me know. Uh. One person says Matt, I eat raw onions and drink whole white milk every day for lunch. It's part of my health regiment. It actually works.

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Speaker 6: Yuck.

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Speaker 3: That sounds awful.

00:23:53
Speaker 2: Those are literally the two things that I would say make you a psychopath. I've told you. When I see someone drink a whole white milk, I think they're a psychopath. And now if I saw some. Can you imagine if you went somewhere and saw someone eating a raw onion and drinking old white milk, you would that'd be you'd pull your kids next to you, and you wouldn't move to the other side of the room. You should send that number to the FBI. I ever do they sit down night, sir? And I just send that Andy go, Okay, we get it, We're on it. We understand, all right, So before we go back to the phones. Ross Dellinger and and you know, sometimes I like to give people ideas of who to follow, because social media can be such a cesspool. But if there are certain people you follow, like I have people that I think know about various parts of life that I'm interested, like that dude Phil Stewart that I had on my podcast. He's great to follow about anything war related because he never gives his opinion. He just says what's happening. And I think that's really good, Like I don't need your opinion, just tell me. Except the problem is he types in all caps, which I'm like, stop yelling at me, Phil. But he's really good, especially been good during this Iran thing. Similarly, Ross Dellinger is the guy to follow when it comes to what is happening with the NCAA Congress president in terms of the future of college sports. Okay, he's on it. He's the number one guy. I don't know if he I don't know who he's talking to, but he has everything. First. He said this morning that the NCAA is voting on a proposal next week. You remember Trump released his executive order. It had like thirty things in it, but they're one of the things that was in it and probably the one that is the least controversial amongst players and coaches, and admitted it's the one thing everybody seems to be okay with. Would be players would have five years of eligibility from the year they graduated high school. Five years and they can play all five years, but no exceptions, no red shirts, no waivers. The only exceptions would be for military or for a religious mission. So but other than that five years. If you get hurt, still lose one of your years, So five years to play five years, but you can, if you're healthy, play five years of college sports. I think Denzel Aberdeen maybe saw and seize this down the path. That's why he may be wanting to play another year, so this would go into effect next year, but they have yet to say whether guys that graduated this year would get to participate, so we don't know. That's still to be decided. But starting for guys who are graduating high school this year, men and women, they all could do it. Do you like it? Uh? Yeah, I think I would like that.

00:26:32
Speaker 4: I mean there's little things that are trivial, like throw out the record books before now because every record would get shattered, but that's not the end of the world.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would like that.

00:26:40
Speaker 4: I mean, you got guys now, are got Cameron Fletcher is about to play a seventh year.

00:26:44
Speaker 2: I think that's extremely end all that.

00:26:46
Speaker 4: So I'm saying, if you limit them at five, sorry, if something happens, your circumstances change, you have a five year window.

00:26:51
Speaker 2: I could give behind that. I like it. I mean we have to get used to but I mean, just think about what could be. I mean Oway could play again. Yeah, Aberdeen could play again. I don't think oh wait, I don't know, maybe you would want to if this happens. I kind of think they're gonna say, guys this year can't do it because it would be just too hectic to in the middle of portal season all of a sudden, a thousand new guys are eligible. But I do like it for the future, actually do you.

00:27:21
Speaker 3: I do for guys like football. Football Aberdeen's a great example because he's not gonna get drafted, but he can come back from a fifth year make more money than he would make playing professionally. So it does have its advantages for guys like that and football.

00:27:35
Speaker 2: I mean, there's very few guys that play all five years, so I mean it would allow football players to kind of or teams to recruit freshmen and let them. I think. Now I don't like the only one transfer thing because of reasons we've talked about this is that's not part of this. This is just five years. But it looks like it's gonna happen, so we're gonna have to all kind of retrain our minds to guys are now in college four or five years. Yeah, and it throws out waivers.

00:28:02
Speaker 4: I mean, it'll think if someone gets hurt a couple of times, but you know, when you graduate high school, you have a five year window and whatever happens happens. Like everybody's in agreement, you get five years like, if something, if you get hurt, sorry about it.

00:28:12
Speaker 2: You got a five year window. Don't have to worry about all the case by case. You may say, we why does the NCAA want to do this? The reason is this will help them in court. Part of what hurt them in court is they would go They argued in front of courts, hey, we have to we can't allow six year, seventh y or whatever guys, because we have a principle. And then the court the judges were like, yeah, but you gave an exception here, and you give an exception here, and you give it and then well you're giving an exception here, so you're telling us we have to do it, but you're letting this guy play, and you let this guy and you got this reason and this reason. I think that the courts were kind of like, if you're gonna tell us you have to do it, you have to do it. You can't just keep letting these exceptions. So I think the NCAA has decided if we just say five years, no exceptions, better chance of it holding up in court. Form my flimsy legal analysis, I think they're probably right about that. It would give them a better chance of that being upholding.

00:29:08
Speaker 3: You know, we uphell, we tend to think about basketball. He's like you mentioned football, women's basketball. Some of these sports where these players will stay an extra year, help them help those programs grow even more.

00:29:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, so just something to watch could happen next week and start affecting next year's players. Maybe these guys, but probably more likely next year. So who's next?

00:29:29
Speaker 3: Alex's next?

00:29:30
Speaker 2: Alex? Go ahead, Alex, you literally just talked about the topic.

00:29:36
Speaker 5: I was gonna call and ask you. I was gonna say, there's a world in which your Matt Jones can create the perfect offered the United States for nil and transfer a portal.

00:29:47
Speaker 7: What would it look like?

00:29:49
Speaker 2: I would say, if you tell me that there's gonna be a five year rule, Okay, tell me there's gonna be a five year rule. If I could, if I could snap my fingers and it became law, I would say, A, you can only transfer twice, because I think that would allow kids the chance to start at a small school, move up, and then if it doesn't work out, have one more. If you can't find your fit after three schools, then that probably is on you. After that, I think you would have something where you have the rev share like we have. You allow private deals, but cap the total of the private deals. I think the courts would allow that, if they said, you can have some private money, but we're going to cap it at a million dollars a player. I actually think courts would probably think that's okay for a variety of reasons. And I think if you did those things, I think from a court perspective, you'd probably be okay. Now, in a perfect world, I think you should make these kids employees, but that becomes very complicated, and I understand why the NCAA doesn't want to do this. But if you just did those things, rev share five years, two transfers, and they can make up to let's say a million dollars, you can pick the number in private endorsements. I actually think that would hold up in court, and that would I would be good with it.

00:31:13
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you're the you're the brains of the operations.

00:31:17
Speaker 2: So I guess we'll have to do but thank you very much.

00:31:20
Speaker 5: And also, uh, you're getting the house and stuff. Do you know how to change your add No, Drod.

00:31:27
Speaker 2: I don't even know what those words mean.

00:31:29
Speaker 3: I don't even know what he just said.

00:31:31
Speaker 2: My ad noise. Isn't that something you removed?

00:31:35
Speaker 7: Now it's in your hot water changer? Add no Rod supposed to change it about once every three to five years.

00:31:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably not gonna get changed. I appreciate the call.

00:31:43
Speaker 3: I've never bought.

00:31:44
Speaker 2: You got the good one that last. Have you ever heard of ad node Rod? I think he made that up? None of you. This guy. I look at this guy. This guy knows how to fix that. If he doesn't know what it is, they made that. He made that up to try to to catch you. He's trying to flex this guy right if if he if, if he is good with it, then I'm okay with.

00:32:04
Speaker 4: I fixed a toilet this past weekend. But I made a mistake. I didn't turn the water off. Its shot water face and knocked my hat off and it hit the ceiling and just soaked the bathroom. So if you need help on plumbing, I got so. If I haven't plumbing, like the mess, but I fixed it. By Richie Farmer Chompson, who's up next? Do you want Richie's message? What's Richie's message?

00:32:23
Speaker 2: No?

00:32:24
Speaker 4: On onions and socks. But they do absorb smells. They do what absorb absorbed?

00:32:29
Speaker 2: Smells Yes, Okay, go ahead, Richard is next, Richard, go ahead, Richard. Yes.

00:32:35
Speaker 7: I like to see it's UH more sellers. I'd like to see its teams and shipped the ball the three ball like UH did, like Elis did, and a couple more of the teams they I like. I like some of those totally offensive teams. They're reminded me of the team we had UH post first year, and I kind of liked that. I hope you gets some players that will match that. That's all a guy. You'll appreciate that.

00:33:11
Speaker 2: It was interesting Michigan. So we we We've talked. I've been one of the biggest proponents. You gotta score, score, score, It's all about offense. This final four kind of went in the other direction. It did Michigan. So listen to these two stats about Michigan. In the four last games Michigan won to win the title. So against Yukon, Illinois, I think, Tennessee, and Alabama, they held all four of their those teams to their lowest shooting percentage of the entire year.

00:33:38
Speaker 3: Wow, all four of them.

00:33:40
Speaker 2: The three teams that made the Final four, the two that that they play that they played, but then also who did Illinois beat or so you combat Illinois. Michigan held all three of their those teams in their games to their lowest field goal percentage of the year. Michigan kind of won the title by being big and playing defense. Nat Oates, who I think most Kentucky fans agree. We think Natoates is a smart coach. Natos said after the season, I'm kind of changing the way I'm recruiting a little bit. I still want guys that can shoot, but I kind of now believe you've got a defense and offensive Uh play defense and offensive rebounds. So he was like, I gotta start getting bigs again, but bigs who can play inside, not just bigs who can shoot threes. Those were two very prominent coaches, Dusty May and nat Oates kind of going against the view of shooting. Be interesting to see if Pope is following it or does he go back to the other.

00:34:37
Speaker 3: It does seem that's that's the trend. I mean, even Todd Golden, I think said that he want he wants some big, big guys, physical guys, and that team this show and he had that team and look what they did. They were won the SEC. So yeah, those Michigan guys. They they're just more more physical than Yukon guys. Push them around, and I think that's now gonna be a trend for the years ahead.

00:34:53
Speaker 4: But they blocked everything and they yeah, you could not score inside on them.

00:34:59
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00:35:52
Speaker 3: I've never heard that.

00:35:54
Speaker 2: Well, now there's a lot of people who've written it. I don't think they're making it up. Yeah, so that's important. One person writes, Matt, you did not answer the guy's question at the end of the show, and I assumed you would talk about it today. The guy that said that Pope couldn't relate to modern players because he was kind of a dork. Would you guys talk about it and do you agree? Well, he is kind of a dork, but that's okay. I don't think he's the only dork in college basketball. I think there are other dorks that are successful. I do, I do wonder. So let's go back to his first year team, Drew. He certainly connected to those guys, but it was a unique group, wouldn't you say. I mean, it was all seniors. Teams seemed to be relatively smart. Mari's British came from Direxel. You know, you had a kid from Kobe Brea. I mean, it was a very smart group of guys, and especially the starting group car started in Delaware. You wake Forest. You know, can he go relate to the kid that's a top twenty talent. I don't know. I'm not sure. Maybe that's why he has a hard time getting them, But we might find out that that's not who he should coach like, It's just not who he connects with. So I think it's legitimate to wonder if those if they can connect. But I think it's maybe still a little early to tail because he connected with his first group even if he didn't connect with this one.

00:37:31
Speaker 4: Well, that's why I like the Mo Williams hire so much. I even wrote Moe Williams is cooler than the entire UK staff combined.

00:37:38
Speaker 2: He is. That's a fact.

00:37:40
Speaker 4: I said that Mo Williams can walk in the peach jam and execute a proper depth and I don't know if we have anyone on the staff they can do.

00:37:45
Speaker 2: I don't mean that to slight them.

00:37:46
Speaker 4: We knew that when we traded Cal for Pope, we were trading kind of cool for a little more brains and analytics, and I think Mo Williams will be a big help in that department. That's why I like the hire interesting. I'm not trying to you know, it's a good thing to be nice thing, a little bit.

00:37:58
Speaker 2: Of cord thin guard. Guys adapt correctly. I think Mo Williams is probably the best dapper we now have on staff, that's true.

00:38:05
Speaker 4: But Mo Williams is a level of cool that they needed, I think. And that's why I like that hires so much less.

00:38:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean everything a staff can be Ryan like a show like we hired Mario. He's cooler than us. As a matter of fact, he doesn't know this. We were in with all of our bosses on Monday and we have a new boss. We have and uh, they were explained. I was explaining the cast members to the new boss and I was like, so Ryan is this, and Drew is this, and Shannon is this? And then I got to Mario and I'm explaining and then Christy, who's one of our bosses, just interrupted and goes, he's cool. Thanks Mario. But that's good. You do need someone like that, and Mo Williams can be that for us. Well.

00:38:47
Speaker 3: On to back up Drew's point, You're gone, you're gonna adapt. Mark Pope and Mark Fox maybe not gonna work. But Williams he can got you.

00:38:54
Speaker 2: What is this have we heard about? What's the story with Mark Fox. I'm worried about our staff to be on.

00:39:00
Speaker 4: We are in a pivotal off season and we're down at least one and some uncertainty with others.

00:39:05
Speaker 2: So who is on the staff still? Cody fer is on this. Do we assume he's coming back? Yes? He and McLean we're in that photo with so they're coming back. We have Moe Williams. Yes. Do we know if Mark Fox is back?

00:39:20
Speaker 4: I did not expect him to be back. But now April eighth and the portal season is.

00:39:26
Speaker 2: Broken, Fox were going to not come back? Does that mean there's two staff members open? It is weird. We're in portal season and it's almost like no one's even acknowledged this.

00:39:35
Speaker 4: I'd be like, yeah, I brought it up on the show. I think yesterday. I'm like, is this a concern that we don't even have a full staff and Pope's you know, this is a critical time for Pope's Heck's job really going into next season and this is moving so fast.

00:39:48
Speaker 3: The Robinson guy that set right right by the course table, I think I've not seen anything about him leaving yet he's still around.

00:39:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Again, but they just they have a culture of some they're not gonna say anything until they have to. Mark Pope, I remember when he came here. He said, we're gonna be open at this, this is this program, is your program. We're gonna be out, we're gonna be talking, we're gonna meet, And they have done the exact opposite. And generally speaking, my view has always been when you go quiet, it's a bad sign. I'm hoping that's not true here, but I think it's a different conversation. I think they've completely screwed up PR for last year. I hope it improves. Who's up next? Dave is up next? Dave? Go ahead, Dave? Dave, all right, No, Dave, who's next? Okay?

00:40:39
Speaker 3: Next is Mark?

00:40:40
Speaker 2: Mark? Go ahead? Mark? And what's up? Hey?

00:40:47
Speaker 6: Real quick? Hey, I got a question for you.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: Give me.

00:40:49
Speaker 6: Basketball has changed over the last five six years. I know we always talk about modern offense, this, that and the other thing, but man, I think right now basketballs changed the fact that you just go with your high and power on people. I mean, I look at Yukon when they had their run two or three back to back championships. They had Klingon and the other big guy for lou cond and those guys Michigan started seven, three, six, ten and sixty nine. Nothing modern about that. I mean, it's just, oh, you're right.

00:41:20
Speaker 2: I mean, but they also were scoring ninety a game for a lot of the tournament.

00:41:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you know, but a lot of those close to the basket too.

00:41:27
Speaker 2: That's true, a whole lot of three. You're exactly right. I appreciate the call. You may remember Ryan that right before the season, I told you I was listening to an NBA preview podcast. It was Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe or whatever. They were doing the preview and they said, in the NBA things have now dramatically changed. He was like, size is back and offensive rebounding is back. The whole league now believes offensive rebounding is your key to winning. I think I said that at the end of the year, and I go, I wonder if that's gonna come to college basketball. I think it came this year. I believe it definitely came this I think it came this year. I think all of a sudden, the idea that you got to hit the glass. I think the assumption is, look, these dudes don't shoot very well, hit the glass, you know, and we'll see what we end up getting in the portal to resemble that, we'll take a break. KS Bar is now open. We'll be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio.