2026-02-13- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcome to the hilarious New York comedian Phil Hanley February fifth through the seventh. Then it's the return of EGT finalist and impressionist Greg Morton February twelfth through the fourteenth. And don't miss legendary comedian and podcaster Greg fifth Simmons February nineteenth through the twenty first four tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows called eight five, nine two seven one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com Comedy Off Bway.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, it is Kentucky Smarts Radio.

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Speaker 3: Great crowd here at Dodd Franklin Auto in Radcliffe, Kentucky and Hardin County. And awesome crowd this morning as we are on the precipice of Kentucky at Florida in Gainesville. You can give shallow Clark's Pumping Shop fold line A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven A vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four and this edition sponsored by the T. J.

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Speaker 2: Smithlaw Office. You called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude, and Matt Jones, and we have never done a show in Radcliffe, Kentucky and Harden County.

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Speaker 2: This is North Harden Territory and.

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Speaker 3: Uh Ryan, what a great crowd.

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Speaker 2: Here this morning.

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Speaker 4: Pull up.

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Speaker 2: You know, you never know what to expect when you go to a new place.

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Speaker 3: Very rare now that we do shows in sort of towns, we've never been do it here.

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Speaker 2: And what an awesome crowd.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we'd been down the road to Elizabethtown several times, but it's been a minute. We've even been under Lizabethtown, so our first time here Radcliffe. I look at this crowd, man, they're right early, Wow, ready to go.

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Speaker 3: You got military base. What do you say the game today? When I walked in, it's like a PEPPERRELLI yeah, I think if you I think if you would take out no offense to them, but for one game, move out the Rough regulars and bring in Harden County and Cliff in the upp arena, we might Drew have that home court advantage we like to talk.

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Speaker 6: I mean, we get great shows on our Friday remotes. But I was about halfway through the pre show on my way here, and I can hear him in the background, Like Radcliffe is bringing it today, So it's very exciting to be here.

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Speaker 7: We're not even serving alcohol or anything. They're just naturally that enthusiastic.

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Speaker 2: Definitely hollering. I've seen a lot of paraphernalia.

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Speaker 3: Somebody showed me a picture from nineteen in the from nineteen sixty six of eight off Rupp that had been.

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Speaker 5: Drawn and he signed, Yeah, charco drawing that was signed by eight off Rup. That's pretty valuable.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: And I saw a postcard from nineteen ten from my hometown of Middlesbrough, Kentucky, and almost everybody in here wearing blue.

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Speaker 2: So it's very exciting.

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Speaker 3: We are day before Valentine's Day, got the ninety eight title. Not day before Valentine's Day UK Florida tomorrow. Ryan Lemon has been furiously doing cameos for people for Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 2: Did I hear the orders went up? I was hoping they'd go down.

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Speaker 5: My checkbook. Thanks, thank you for mentioning that the show yesterday. I did about ten of them last night. I got another one this morning. Still people pulled up here, so.

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Speaker 2: That's a good way. That's a good way to reward.

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Speaker 5: Ride Lemon pays for the Valentine's dinner tomorrow night. Thanks your significant other.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because that's what women really want?

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Speaker 7: Is Ryan speaking at his creepy voice, taking his shirt off and cameos.

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Speaker 3: Some do I would have thought the answer was none, but apparently there's at least ten men who think there women want that.

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Speaker 6: I heard Billy ordered one through cameo. Go, why don't you just do it your Why did you give Cameo that money?

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Speaker 5: Billy?

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Speaker 8: Just send Billy the video directly working out.

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Speaker 4: Gotta see the one that he liked.

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Speaker 8: It is your customer.

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Speaker 7: Ryan rips his shirt off, He rips his shirt off of this cameo, Like, what is he doing.

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Speaker 5: That one special? Just for Marissa? I was afraid. Yeah, I was afraid to do it for the public or there they'd be knocking my door down, all the women house over the time.

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Speaker 2: You trust Marisso can trust Marissa?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: So she's engaged to Billy.

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Speaker 2: So why would you leave that?

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Speaker 5: Why would you leave that? That masculine man?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: This wow?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 4: All right, dude, that's my first gotta come.

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Speaker 2: We are here at don Franklin if you need options.

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Speaker 3: Don Franklin has twenty nine stores six thousand vehicles across the Bluegrass, and they're all over the Bluegrass. They are here, they go to towns throughout the state. And great selection here, Like I said, a great crowd. North Harden.

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Speaker 2: He's the high school here.

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Speaker 3: Tell me Ryan limit about all that this place has produced a ton of athletes. Andre Woodson comes to my mind. The first one of the great Kentucky quarterbacks came from here. But you you're the high school guy.

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Speaker 2: Who else?

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Speaker 5: We just had our starting safety for the last three years, Jordan love It. He's from North Harden High School. But the guy that probably has the most famed is a former Chicago Bear. Todd Perry played in the NFL after UK for like ten years.

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Speaker 3: Know, Todd Perry was from here. Yeah, he was on those good Bears team.

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Speaker 5: Yes right, yeah, offensive lineman for Bill Curry. Then went and play in the NFL forever. So I'm sure there are other, but those are probably the three main ones that come to my mind right now. Oh it's a baseball player, ad Cock. Yes, how about that one? Pulling out and out of my rear.

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Speaker 3: See it's crazy, it's crazy, like you don't know, like you don't know the vice president. But you do know baseball players from North Hard.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he played in the big leagues, can't Mary's first name. His last name was Adcock, Nathan Adcock. That's right, good for you.

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Speaker 4: There we go.

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Speaker 2: There's I think he injected himself with some North Harden juice.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what that is, but he's got it, got it going on and ready to go. And I hope Kentucky has this level of enthusiasm because they go to Florida, UH tomorrow eleven and a half point underdog.

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Speaker 2: In Gainesville. We we were talking about when.

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Speaker 3: Kentucky has been a double digit underdog in recent years. They were double digit underdog I think a couple of years ago at Tennessee. I was there, Yeah, and we and we won, And we had talked about at that game that the amount of times Kentucky's been a double digit underdog is very rare. A couple times in the in the COVID year, and then I think before that they had not been a double digit underdog.

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Speaker 2: Since Billy, So this is a very rare thing.

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Speaker 3: We're probably talking since Billy Gillespie five times, maybe twice, maybe once or twice in the COVID year at Tennessee and maybe four times maybe maybe maybe this So this is a rare opportunity. I I'm not confident we win, but I am confident that it's gonna be a game. I think Kentucky's gonna go out there and play for Denzel Aberdeen Ryan. I think this is he's returning to his place. He's gonna get a bad reception, right, like like they were mad at Florida, and that's gonna be That's gonna be interesting to see how he handles it.

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Speaker 5: You know, he was projected to be maybe one of their starting guards. For him to leave a defending national championship team and did I think it hurt their feelings. But we all know Kentucky's gonna start slow. They're probably gonna be trayther at halftime.

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Speaker 2: They can't do that.

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Speaker 4: They can't do that here.

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Speaker 3: This is I think if they start slow here, you're looking at a Vandy situation like it can get away from you. I I you know, the way they've come back in these games, Drew, is that they've made teams shoot threes and they missed. Florida's gonna get paint points in the paint, so they're not gonna sit and settle for bad shots. You cannot fall behind here or you got a chance for it to get away from them.

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Speaker 4: No, not at all.

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Speaker 6: Florida the last four games has been so hot. Their marching victories like twenty eight, and they have just been jumping on teams early. They went up like ten oh on Georgia. The Alabama game that was on a Sunday a few weeks ago just absolutely killed them from the jump. So especially that environment will be big. You can't fall behind in this one. It's been fun coming back in Knoxville and LSU, but I don't think you could expect that in Gainesville.

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Speaker 2: If you fall behind a couple of leagues very important. They're shited. They are averaging in their last.

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Speaker 3: Four games twenty six point margin victory and in all of those games they've been up like seventeen and a half. Like they've been just coming out and blitzing. People have been getting blitzed.

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Speaker 2: Early in games.

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Speaker 3: You just can I think you get to halftime and if you're winning within a handful of points. I got to win, Shannon, and then you can see what you can do in the second.

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Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you one thing though, I'm outing this team because the LSU game I counted them out the Tennessee game. I didn't think they were gonna come back Arkansas. They've time after time proven they could come back from deficits. You're right, it's gonna be tough to do this if they get down at Florida. But I think you take that eleven and a half bet it now, because that is going to move as we get closer with the game. I guarantee you game time, it will not be eleven and a half tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it'd be interesting to see because, like, all right, so if you're to do the nerd basketball, like, look at numbers. The numbers most years, including last year for Kentucky, our numbers were sometimes better than our record in the cal years, even last year with Pope. The numbers are the numbers hate us, Like I guess our numbers are not good. We are we're lower in the h in all the sort of statistical rankings than we are in the polls. And Florida the numbers love because they blitz people. So it'll be interesting to see, you know, I would say a lot of betters would look at it and think Florida might even it should be favored more and you know.

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Speaker 5: They've done it before. They did it at Arkansas. They got out on Arkansas early, kind of took the crowd out of a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that the model for the game? Or we did in Arkansas? I mean, that's the model for the game, Like we Arkansas's crowd with the exception of when Doug Shalls decided to get all hoity toity, except with the exception of that, we.

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Speaker 2: Kept that crowd out.

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Speaker 5: And even when Arkansas made their run with those technicals, Kentucky punched back. You know, he showed me a lot of fighting, a lot of heart to that point. So that is that is the model for tomorrow. Get out in front early, keep the crowd out of it, try to maintain that league and hold off because Florida's gonna make a run. At some point. They will make a run. You just gotta hold it all.

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Speaker 3: I feel like this fan base really, I don't know, I'm oddly drew. I think it started with the win at Tennessee, but then the Vandy thing kind of brought it back. Then we wanted Arkansas, but I feel like when it's that win against Tennessee at home, as I feel like the fan base has embraced this team in a way that they really hadn't since the Champion's Classic in the Louisville game.

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Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And I've been calling it like a cautious optimism, like we're starting to get excited and we think we're good, but we're also in the back of our mind like at any moment they could get drilled and have another bad game.

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Speaker 8: They've been so consistent, so we're.

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Speaker 6: Starting to get the excitement going, but we're aware that there could still be more duds just because of how Vandy specifically week and a half ago.

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Speaker 7: Here's the thing though, two weeks ago, if you were to tell me that we're playing Florida for a game for first place in the SEC, I would tell you you're crazy. So the fact that they're even at this point, with the injuries and everything, I think has been well.

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Speaker 2: I mean, let's go back.

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Speaker 3: We were zero and two in the SEC playing Mississippi State at home, and if you remember, we fell down like thirteen in that game, and then we came back, and then even LSU were down seventeen, and you get that shot.

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Speaker 2: It's a completely different situation. I also think.

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Speaker 3: This team has started ryan to become likable. Yeah, Like, I don't really think they were likable.

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Speaker 2: Early in the year. They didn't seem to really enjoy each other.

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Speaker 3: It didn't they were always scowls on everybody's faces. They didn't look like And now you start to see smiles, You start to see guys who seem to get along. And then people's personality traits which can make you mad, become quirky and funny.

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Speaker 2: Like take Brandon Garrison.

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Speaker 3: When we're playing bad, most of Brandon Garrison's traits make me mad. But then when we win and we play well and he runs out on the court and his arms start flaying, I go, there's Brandon Garrison.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's just doing Brandon Garrison things.

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Speaker 3: I think that's kind of it's I think our fan base is like happiness about the guys have changed.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: I'm guilty of it too. I said on this show, I don't really like this team, and now I'm you know that this the heart and their fight, the way they come back. And Brandon Garrison is a great example because when things get going rough, when he gets up a little chesty, little mouthy.

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Speaker 4: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Now I still don't. I still don't want him to ever dribble ever, not one time.

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Speaker 5: Please? What's the stat for every time he has it? Are we undefeated when he gets a technical?

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Speaker 4: Ten?

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Speaker 5: And oh when he gets a technical? Why not get one every game? Brandon, slow down.

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Speaker 3: I don't really like him dribbling. I don't really like him passing. To be honest with you, I just want I definitely don't want him shoot three rebounds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just get it. Rebound.

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Speaker 3: If you'll go rebound and fight, you can have one fistfight a game.

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Speaker 2: That's That's the way I look at it.

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Speaker 8: Look at their front court tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: I would pour all the gasoline and the Brandon Garrison tank, maybe put a little gunpowder in it, and say whatever you want to do, man, have at it.

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Speaker 2: We're not stopping you. Yeah, we are unleashing you.

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Speaker 8: Today on Florida. Do whatever you gotta do.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how much you guys have watched Florida, but Drew, this is this is as good a front line as you'll see in college basketball in twenty twenty six. I mean you, they got three guys who can play, and they all do it differently. One of them is an outside shooter, one of them takes it to the basket and can score, and one of them is a big bulk that just rebounds and knocks people out of the way. You don't see in college basketball a team with three bigs as good as these three are.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, one's a lottery pick. I mean they go six nine, six eleven, six eleven, and they're starting five. And then Chinelo the center. I wrote a post yesterday comparing him to Oscar. It's not like he's a good rebounder, so he's kind of like Oscar. Like their metrics are almost identical, the rebounding percentages per game, offensive, defensive. You know, Oscar had a big personality. We love him for other reasons, but simply from a rebounding standpoint, they have an Oscar and we're on the wrong end of it. We know how it was having him, where you get a defensive stop and you're guaranteed the rebound or a second chance on a bad shot.

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Speaker 8: Florida's gonna have that luxury tomorrow. We're gonna have to witness it from the other side.

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Speaker 2: But it's like they have an Oscar, but then they also have a Bam.

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Speaker 8: They have three that could be a lead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they've got like all of them. So our bigs, our four bigs right half. First of they're all gonna play, Yes, they will, are all gonna play Moreno.

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Speaker 2: Yellovich, Garrison and Debate are all gonna play.

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Speaker 3: And they have to play well. This is a game where it would be nice to have Jade and Quaen's we'll talk about him later, but he's not playing. Those four bigs have to show up because they're gonna get We're gonna get in foul trouble.

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Speaker 2: Like, They're all gonna have to play.

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Speaker 5: And Florida's even got a fourth guy they bring off the bench. He's a big guy hang Glockton or something like that. Ah N, you're the g in there. I'm after pronounces the G in that name. He's a big guy, comes in and push people around. So the question is have you seen enough physicality from Marino and yellowch and Brandon Garrison, because I think Diabote can match him, But those other three guys can they bring it?

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Speaker 2: We'll see and our guards have to make threes. This is odd.

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Speaker 3: This is a game where I actually think we have the advantage in the back court. Yeah, and we need to use it. Kentucky's biggest playbook is Don Franklin six thousand new and certified pre owned choices.

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Speaker 2: It's all right here at Don Franklin.

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Speaker 5: We are in.

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Speaker 2: Radcliffe, Kentucky. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky' sports Radio back. Welcome back.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentuck Sports Radio rot live here in Radcliffe. Uh text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. One person says, Matt, that's as loud of a crowd over the radio as I've ever heard at the at one of your shows.

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Speaker 2: Well done, folks.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I would say, sounds like an SEC tournament crowd.

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Speaker 3: Almost I was gonna say, I mean, like if you leave aside when we have hundreds of people like at the SEC tournament.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is one when I think back over the years, Ryan.

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Speaker 3: What do you think, Like, I remember Paduca one time we had a crazy oh yes, because we were stabbing that basketball to no one.

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Speaker 2: But this one's got to be up there, don't you think?

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Speaker 5: That's why I love it when we go to town we've never been, because people bring it. They're excited, I mean, they're excited to stand up here. And watch us make fools of ourselves. What a great morning it is.

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Speaker 3: One person writes matter, are you worried about Aberdeen trying to do too much against his old team? Yes, but I will say Drew early in the year, I was worried about Aberdeen trying to do too much.

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Speaker 2: Every game, and he's been a lot lot better about that.

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna I'm gonna hope he plays like he has in the last ten game. He is the underrated star of the last ten games. Always obviously scored the most points. Chandler's made the big shots in the big plays. But I think Aberdeen has been really, really good in the last eight or ten games.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, his splits from the conference of the non conference or day different, shooting it well, not turn it over and getting assists. You worry about him trying to do too much. But at the same time, I think the only way you can win is if the back court has a great game.

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Speaker 4: I just true.

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Speaker 6: I don't see you win in the front core battle, even if Marino Garrison those guys play well. I think the way Kentucky wins is Aberdeen Chandler need to how many points do.

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Speaker 3: Oway, Aberdeen and Chandler need to combine for tomorrow for us to win.

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Speaker 8: Sixty sixty is what I was gonna say.

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Speaker 5: Wow, I think it might be sixty.

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Speaker 2: I mean maybe maybe fifty five.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think you got I think we're gonna have to score eighty to win, and maybe more. But let's just say, and if you score eighty the guards, maybe not sixty, but maybe sixteen fifty six, fifty five.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna have to be something like that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, think about Aberdeen. He's not taking those crazy bad shots anymore, and he's not turning the ball over like I had another day. He had zero turnovers and he played like over thirty minutes. I mean, the guy's doing a great job at point guard.

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Speaker 2: Maybe sixty.

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Speaker 8: If you throw in Jasper, I'll just say, if you could take the whole back court, call it sixty.

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Speaker 4: We've always been solid for twenty one, twenty two, just about every game here.

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Speaker 2: So it was interesting.

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Speaker 3: I saw somebody had listed yesterday the single season scoring leaders since two thousand in the SEC. So how many points a game in the SEC? Uh for the since two thousand. There are two Kentucky players on the list. By the way, for most points in a single season in the SEC since two thousand. Ryan, Let's do a little trivia. Can you guess what two two UK players are on that list? We had number one and number fifteen. Do you know who either of those were?

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Speaker 5: Malik Monk no, Jamal Murray.

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Speaker 8: No, Antonio Reeves.

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Speaker 3: Antonio Reeves was fifteenth fifteenth. So again, he's gonna be an underrated player in UK history. Get ready for another ten years of me saying that because he's fifteen. But who's Who's the number one score in the SEC for a season since two thousand?

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Speaker 2: Jody Meeks is number one. Jody Meeks is number one.

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Speaker 3: The reason I bring this up is otega Oway, if you just did a SEC play, would be on that list.

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Speaker 5: What he really he would?

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Speaker 3: Now if you consider the non conference he will not be on there. Yeah, but if you only considered Shannon conference play.

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Speaker 5: He'd be on one.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he's been solid, even when he was averaging twelve and thirteen earlier in the year. I feel like we were a little tough on him, but now we see like that he can, you know, average twenty points a game.

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Speaker 4: What he's been doing in the conference has been crazy.

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Speaker 3: What Merchant rights, Matt, what if we had beaten North Carolina Missouri, we'd only have five losses and be nineteen and five.

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Speaker 2: Yep, true, But we won some games.

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Speaker 3: I mean we hit him Malchimarino shot. We came from way behind against Tennessee, I mean twice. So like I kind of think.

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Speaker 2: Drew, we are where we're supposed to be.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yes, we dropped the couple we should have, but we probably won a couple we shouldn't have.

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Speaker 6: So I think we're about where we're supposed to be. If we play the what if game, I think we're a little more fortunate. I don't know if we can what if Gonzaga Louisville those early wins, but then l s U Tennessee so close to win. But as I've said a lot, it's not just luck. They're literally they've found a way to close games. Now, you got to stay in it at the end to have that opportunity. But they've done it so many different ways with clutch threes, rebounding, the stealing slim and they're still in score at Tennessee to take the lead.

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Speaker 8: They just keep doing it over over. It's not like a little fluky the the Chandler.

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Speaker 6: To moreno pass felt like, yeah, but I'm saying that that took some luck the rest of the play since then, or them just making the winning play and stopping the other team.

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Speaker 2: Uh, did you see the Journey video yesterday? Do you know what?

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Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm talking about? Not the musical group, but the uk UK and on the road the UK bass idiot. So they did one for the for the Tennessee game, and it's really good. I think they do a great job with those. I wish they would promote them more. It's but it's like eleven minutes and it sort of sort of shows behind the scenes of those games, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing I thought was interesting.

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Speaker 3: It was clear in watching the coaches talk to the players, players talk after the game, and listen to them talk to each other, Ryan, they're taking this view it's us against the world.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of which teams do this all the time.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but they're taking this view of everybody dismissed us, the writers, even some of our fans. All we got to each other, Us against the world. Do you like that as a strategy. I think a lot of teams have done it. I think this group is really doing it, and I don't think they're wrong that people didn't believe them.

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Speaker 2: I also think people had a reason to not believe in them. But do you like that as a stretch?

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Speaker 5: I do for this team absolutely, because we were all counting them out. You know, they're getting blown out by Gonzagon and they looked horrible. I think at that point of the season, we're all like kind of them out. So yeah, it worked for Stoops. Mark Steps kind of had that atitude during his best season.

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Speaker 2: They had it the last couple of years and it did work.

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Speaker 5: But during his good years, he did you know, he was he was always better. We had a chip on his shoulder. I like the fact that maybe Polping these guys have a little chip on their shoulder right now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of teams different than you know, you can have a smooth year all that. This team just keeps taking lumps. I mean, whether it be injuries or just horrible performance, but they just keep getting up and it's clear that they've embraced that. Forgot the quote he was using. He kept saying something about had a lot of storms and rains.

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Speaker 2: But I have an umbrella. Yeah, get in my umbrella. Yeah, yeah, something like that, a lot of rain.

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Speaker 3: Michael McClain, who's one of the assistants, gives a really good speech and he's like, storms are coming, but the sun is here and I'm.

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Speaker 4: Lower everything's beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Worked better than I did.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean I liked the US against the world of mentality. I don't think you want to, you know, direct that at your fans, although our fans have hurt booing them. If you go back to the Zaga games, So maybe there's a.

00:22:01
Speaker 4: Little bit.

00:22:04
Speaker 8: I can think of three times at home.

00:22:06
Speaker 4: Mississippi State at home, I think they got off to a bad start.

00:22:09
Speaker 3: They got booted against Kenzaga, they got booed Mississippi State, maybe even got booed Missouri.

00:22:15
Speaker 7: Whatever it takes to inspire them to play the way they're playing, I don't care what kind of mentality they have.

00:22:19
Speaker 3: I guess, you know, yeah, I mean, look, these fans, everybody, we would love for them to come in here and give everybody a hug. But at the end of the game, the thing that's gonna make everybody the most happy is if they win Ryan. So if that's what it takes for them to do it, then that's what that's.

00:22:34
Speaker 2: What you do.

00:22:34
Speaker 5: And we were so disappointed because not only they were losing, it's how they were losing. Now we're exciting because they're not just winning, it's how they're winning, fighting and coming back and showing a lot of heart. I think we love that part of our cats.

00:22:43
Speaker 3: Let's just say we get demolished tomorrow. What does that take for your seat? I mean we still can have a good years. A throwaway for me to Florida is just really really really really good. To Mars A throwaway to me when we play at home, that might be different for what tomorrow.

00:23:00
Speaker 4: Is a throwaway.

00:23:01
Speaker 2: Hopefully we win, though, we'll take a break. Very back. Let's see, it's Kentucky Sports Radios. Water back, it is Kentucky Sports Radio. Rick is in studio. Rick's looking something up for me. How you doing, Rick? A lot of people miss you. You haven't been on here in a bit.

00:23:19
Speaker 5: Well because of all the snow and stuff?

00:23:21
Speaker 2: Oh did you not were you not able to get out of your house? Oh?

00:23:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, plenty of snow over there.

00:23:26
Speaker 2: It's gone now.

00:23:27
Speaker 4: Though, Okay, Well that's good. By the way, I'm gone.

00:23:30
Speaker 3: They hit my back hill in Lexington it's that ice is gonna be there forever. I'm not gonna be. I just I'm now having to walk out the front part like it's a.

00:23:39
Speaker 5: It's a.

00:23:40
Speaker 2: The sun doesn't shine there. It will be there in August.

00:23:44
Speaker 4: So are you still spider manning over like from your neighbor's house.

00:23:47
Speaker 3: I gave up yesterday, parked at a different place. I can't spider Man anymore. I'm I will I'm gonna fall and hurt myself if I'm not kidding. I'm just hope, hopefully it'll be better by next week. We'll see because the sun doesn't shine there either, so it's harder for it to melt.

00:24:03
Speaker 4: You know, I have to ask this.

00:24:05
Speaker 5: You've got stairs that go downstairs, and you can go at your garage door.

00:24:09
Speaker 2: But then there's the ice. Like when I go out the garage, it's all ice? But is it not? On the on the I could figure it out.

00:24:17
Speaker 3: There's it's it's I mean, I'm not an idiot.

00:24:22
Speaker 2: It's all ice. The whole thing.

00:24:24
Speaker 3: The grass is ice too, because the sun doesn't shine over there.

00:24:27
Speaker 2: It's all ice everything. Why are you looking at me like that? I live there.

00:24:32
Speaker 5: I know, I just wouldn't be trying to go down the hill.

00:24:34
Speaker 4: I what you do?

00:24:36
Speaker 5: I take my chances on the driveway because the driveway is all ice.

00:24:40
Speaker 4: We need to hire somebody at this point say everything is ice.

00:24:44
Speaker 5: Well, mine is too, but I just walk really little bitty steps.

00:24:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, you come try mine.

00:24:48
Speaker 8: You have a flat yard, you have a.

00:24:49
Speaker 2: Fight, you're flat?

00:24:50
Speaker 9: Mine is My driveway is sloped. Also, they don't just pull it up on it. Compared to mats. I don't think you're not compared to mats. That's but we're talking about.

00:25:04
Speaker 3: You drive me nuts. Here's I love you, but you drive me does. Here's reality Kentucky right now. If you can't find affordable childcare a place to live, then you can't get a job and you can't keep it. So thousands of childcare spots are needed. And when parents can't find childcare, they're forced to cut hours. Help us use the legislators in Frankfurt this session to help childcare and housing go to Opportunities starts here dot com. Opportunity starts here dot com. From the Kentucky Chamber. All right, old miss went to court yesterday in front of a good judge in Mississippi, and he got up and he had to decide whether or not the old Miss Rebels could play Trinidad Trembleiss and the NCAA came down there with their New York City lawyers.

00:25:47
Speaker 2: They had no chance, all right.

00:25:49
Speaker 3: I mean, if you watched it, it was my cousin Vinnie again for the second straight time. They made the argument old Miss. It was like the came down to, was Trinidad Chambliss hurt in twenty twenty two because if he was hurt, he gets to play again. If he's not, he's not. So they have this long argument. Then the judge goes into the chambers, says I'll be back with a decision. Comes back an hour later and he says, I've written the decision.

00:26:18
Speaker 5: I'm gonna read it.

00:26:20
Speaker 3: He read for an hour and fifteen minutes. Now, let me just say, Shannon, you can't tell me he wrote that during that hour.

00:26:27
Speaker 4: No, absolutely not.

00:26:29
Speaker 2: He did it before the hearing even started.

00:26:31
Speaker 4: Ye, yes he did.

00:26:32
Speaker 3: And if I on appeal, I'd go there's no way that he listened to that. He already had it written. Nevertheless, he read the decision. It took him an hour and fifteen minutes, and he read everywhere you talk about a guy enjoying his moment in the subject. So he finishes it. He rules that Trinidad Chamblas can play. Honestly, I don't care the way. We don't even play on this next year, right, No, it don't think so it doesn't matter. Well, I did think was interesting was as part of the case Joe Judge, who is one of old missus.

00:27:04
Speaker 2: Is he the defensive coordinator? I believe so, I believe.

00:27:06
Speaker 3: So he gets up to testify, and I guess he's asked questions about being a coach and what he says to his players, and in the process he starts to get involved in parenting issues. And I wanted to see what you all thought about this. Here was Joe Judge in court yesterday in this case in Mississippi. But we would have to educate This is always a tough conversation to have and it's having to populate English and truth.

00:27:35
Speaker 4: We would have to educate significant others who may have been pregnant in the season.

00:27:39
Speaker 5: We're going to have a baby in the season, and.

00:27:42
Speaker 3: You'd have to educate them on you have this baby in these season that father has to play good football.

00:27:49
Speaker 2: Right, it's a day by day production business.

00:27:51
Speaker 3: He has to be ready to perform and go out there and play.

00:27:53
Speaker 4: And what I say that is you need to let him sleep.

00:27:55
Speaker 2: He needs to be another room attached.

00:27:57
Speaker 4: You explained to the mother, like, hey, listen, he ain't wait.

00:28:01
Speaker 5: Every season he's full metal jack.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: And the doever he wants them, he changes the season. He's got to have a different art now, all right.

00:28:11
Speaker 3: So that he's basically says that he meets with his players wives or baby mamas during the season and tells them, if you have a baby, the player will not feed him or change his diapers during the season because he's locked in as the father, only current father in the room. Ryan, how do you think that's gonna go over with these mothers and wives that he says during the season.

00:28:43
Speaker 5: It's gonna go over like a lead balloon. I mean, the dude is telling these people to pick football over family. That's gonna lose every single time. There's not one mother, sister, baby mama gonna take his side on this. Nobody's gonna think it's a good idea that he wants you to pick football over fans. I would never let my kid play for that guy, No way. Family's more important. Than a football game. I know people, don't you know, they get mad at me sometimes when I say something like that.

00:29:10
Speaker 2: But but who disagrees with nobody? Should anybody would say football is more important than your face?

00:29:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you gotta be a dad first.

00:29:17
Speaker 2: I can't believe he said this.

00:29:19
Speaker 5: I can't believe this.

00:29:19
Speaker 3: I can't believe he said it. First of all, how wildly inappropriate drew is it. It's if he's meeting with people's mothers, like like, if he goes and meets.

00:29:29
Speaker 2: Especially let's say they're not married.

00:29:31
Speaker 3: Is he just going to these random, presumably college age women and saying, hey, by the way, the father is.

00:29:39
Speaker 2: Not doing anything with the chart, not you know, feeding the baby, et cetera. I couldn't believe he said that under oath in court. That's why it's not even the mother part of it for me.

00:29:49
Speaker 6: It's he's literally telling these dads to ignore their infant babies for the first, you know, important stages of their life, like listen, let them hand it. You just don't get you make sure you're asleep any other child time. We can't be having that right now.

00:30:02
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:30:02
Speaker 3: What the coach in Seattle who was like, I give my baby. I give my kid twenty minutes every day. Wow, the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, this didn't get enough attention. He was like, every Thursday, I block off thirty minutes to be with my child. I hate Shannon. When these coaches this is what drives me crazy.

00:30:25
Speaker 2: We've got a room. How many people in here? A dads? Okay?

00:30:30
Speaker 3: I when coaches act like football somehow is different than these folks. These people have to work exactly right, they still see their kids. Are you telling me a college football player's job is more important than people who are out working that like somehow they can't see their Like the average father has to do this.

00:30:50
Speaker 2: Why does a football player not have to do it?

00:30:52
Speaker 3: They act like they literally act like they're in the military World War two.

00:30:57
Speaker 2: It's football. You you don't get a special set of circumscis.

00:31:01
Speaker 7: You're not practicing or looking at game film twenty four hours a day. You got plenty of time to spend with your kids. And I would think there'd be a lot of baby mama's taking their baby dad into the transfer portal after hearing this.

00:31:14
Speaker 5: Oh wow, look at that good line.

00:31:17
Speaker 3: I just if it's true that he goes and meets with the wives. That is so inappropriate and I but you know, it's funny they took this case and it ended up now people talking about this other thing.

00:31:28
Speaker 2: He's a f NFL coach. To put coach with the giants? Who's up first? Rick?

00:31:33
Speaker 5: God?

00:31:33
Speaker 2: Bird up first?

00:31:35
Speaker 4: Bird?

00:31:35
Speaker 2: Go ahead Bird?

00:31:38
Speaker 5: What's going on? Guys?

00:31:39
Speaker 10: So, as we all know, Hope has had some injury problems the last two years.

00:31:44
Speaker 3: Do you think he's considered playing on a grass fields prevent injuries moving forward?

00:31:50
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean that was I know in your head you thought that would be a really good joke, but this is bad.

00:31:56
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:31:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's okay, like I can, that's right, and they can't all be winners.

00:32:01
Speaker 4: Most of them don't as a matter of fact.

00:32:04
Speaker 2: But that's okay. But I appreciate the call there is the injury thing.

00:32:08
Speaker 3: Is gonna continue to play pope in terms of I still think though, when you consider the energy injuries they've had Ryan, it's mostly freak occurrences.

00:32:17
Speaker 5: So it's happened two years in a row. What if it does happen one more time when next year they get decimated by injuries Again, that's just it's kind of crazy. It's happened in the way it's happened right now, But what if it happens again?

00:32:28
Speaker 3: I guess it still matters to me, Drew, what the injury is? I mean, those separated shoulders for Lowe and Butler. What's he supposed to do about that? I mean, what's he supposed to do? Acquaintance was injured when he got here, right, I mean maybe the Cam Williams, I mean may I don't.

00:32:42
Speaker 2: Know, but like in general, these seem like freak occurrence.

00:32:45
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, maybe you could prevent what Cam Williams did.

00:32:48
Speaker 5: I don't know.

00:32:48
Speaker 6: I didn't pay attention in basic science, but he was just like backpedaling and like stepped wrong and broke his foot or whatever. They do seem to all be freak injuries. And with trainers it's more about I would think getting a more and ape and getting ready to go and hurry. But these have been all pretty significant injuries.

00:33:03
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:33:04
Speaker 3: By the way, well, let's hold on to Acquaintance because uh, it's getting pretty close to he's not gonna play like he's holding us well. I mean, if he if he doesn't play tomorrow, which he's not going to, well, we'll talk about it. Let's take a break.

00:33:20
Speaker 2: We'll be right back. We are hitting Ratcliffe at Don Franklin.

00:33:23
Speaker 5: Atto.

00:33:23
Speaker 2: This is past quarterback.

00:33:27
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00:33:41
Speaker 2: And they also got everybody. What is that little Caesar's uh.

00:33:44
Speaker 5: Pizza pizza, pizza pizza here.

00:33:50
Speaker 4: He's wound up today.

00:33:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this cause you're going to a fancy restaurant tomorrow night for Valentine's Day.

00:34:02
Speaker 5: YEA Valentine's Day is for loven.

00:34:07
Speaker 2: I got what an hour and fifteenth?

00:34:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, to deal with this, I don't know.

00:34:11
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do it. I really don't.

00:34:14
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many like so many times I want to stop him, but I can't. Uh, all right, Drew Jaden Quaintance. I said like three weeks ago that if he didn't play in the Florida game, I was gonna presume he wasn't gonna play rest here because he had a week off, it would be this night. I mean, we're playing on ABC. I think we've only played on ABC like twice in seventeen years. So it's like a this is gonna be a highly watched game. And I just there and he's playing against Biggs, who are NBA Biggs, Right, So if you're Quaintance and you're trying to rise in the draft, this this is a big game.

00:34:49
Speaker 2: He is not gonna play.

00:34:51
Speaker 3: The conversation you to say was that we're still dealing with quote, a little swelling. I'm kind of believing, not believing that. I don't know how long you could have a little swelling. It's been like a month. So I'm just gonna assume. Well, let me ask you, is there any reason for me not just to assume he's not gonna play.

00:35:08
Speaker 6: I think Ryan will play before Jade Quaintons Kentucky. Okay, that tells you how I feel about it. And I was a big believer for most of the year. But when he's set down for the swelling and then it is a game and then another game and then another game.

00:35:24
Speaker 8: That's all I need to see.

00:35:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, he's not even practicing, right, Now, even if you were to bring a guy back that barely played four games off an ACL injury, I don't even know how many played for.

00:35:33
Speaker 8: I mean some of those weren't even very minutes. But you know, this game's played.

00:35:36
Speaker 3: I just don't even know what he would add, We'll always have the Saint John's game. I guess, well, how you go, Let's just say he doesn't.

00:35:43
Speaker 2: Play Shannon for the rest of the year.

00:35:47
Speaker 3: How do we look at I mean, we reports say we paid two million dollars. Now you know, I don't know if that's true or not. Probably is, though, or at least in the ballpark, because that would have been probably what his market.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: Value would have been.

00:36:05
Speaker 3: How do we look at that, him coming here rehabbing his ACL, and let's say it's three games of play.

00:36:11
Speaker 7: Fans are gonna fiel it they got ripped off. I mean, it's not my money, but two million dollars to come in here and play four games and sit on the bench and have knee swelling the entire year. I just think it's unacceptable. But I don't know what you do moving forward with players like that. Do you just not take a chance on a guy who's injured or what do you do if you're Mark Pope.

00:36:28
Speaker 3: So I think Mark Pope's view, and I understood this at the time, was like he was like gravy. He thought he had this like perfect meal of a roster. He thought he had really two of everything, And an acquaintance was the was like, okay, this is a bonus because remember think about we have four big So I think he thought we'd have two of everything. So I don't think this costs you the team, but it is two million dollars, for instance, that you could have used to get Lamar Wilkerson, a.

00:36:59
Speaker 2: Guy who could have shot three. So I you know, I don't want to disparate as a kid.

00:37:05
Speaker 3: He seems like a really smart and good kid, like when I've talked he's the one that plays chess and and all that.

00:37:12
Speaker 4: But I don't know the joint the chess team is all I can tell you. Now, do you play there?

00:37:17
Speaker 3: This was a gamble Ryan that I think we're gonna end up having to say didn't work right.

00:37:21
Speaker 5: I don't think they would have played him in December if he wasn't ready, if the doctors didn't clear him. So I can see, you know, they waiting till the doctor's clear him. But you know you've seen it, man. Some guys get over ACL injuries in seven, eight, nine months. Some guys it takes over a year. That was a devastating knee injury head not just toward the ACL. He broke some bones in there, but he did come back and play. So did he maybe tweak it and re injure it? Is that what's causing this issue right now?

00:37:47
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll never know Drew like I mean, we don't. It's it's hard to know these guys.

00:37:51
Speaker 6: I think there's more to it than these I think he genuinely if this everybody does to finish your kid, he genuinely is locked into a lottery spot right now. And if he were to come back and sit behind Brandon Garrison and Mo Reno, he could lose that. I mean he we don't love that as fans, but when you're in his shoes, he has to realize what he could lose and probably not gain by coming back. I don't know if he can climb any higher than he is if he comes back. All he can do is fall.

00:38:16
Speaker 2: Well.

00:38:17
Speaker 3: I mean, the reality is we're gonna have one lottery pick in the in the Pope era, and he played three games, but I mean, I'll be one positive spin. He he helped us beat Saint John. He did, and on selection Sunday, that's gonna be a win. That actually is pretty positive for us.

00:38:34
Speaker 6: They gotta find a way, because this happened with Brown a little bit at Louisville. I don't know what's going on in Peterson. It's not just that you need to be in a contract. The people that paid that two million are not gonna do that year after year. If things like this become a little more recurring, there's.

00:38:47
Speaker 4: Gotta be a way to ye, there's not.

00:38:49
Speaker 6: But if that were two million, and you said I would love to pay two million for Jaden Queens, that's awesome. And then this happened and next year they're like, all right, we need two million for this guy. You're gonna be like, well Peterson, Brown though, will.

00:38:59
Speaker 2: Be Jayan Quayens will not. Who's next? Adam is up next? Adam? Go ahead? Adam? Adam? All right? No, Adam? Who's next? Rick?

00:39:14
Speaker 4: Gary is next?

00:39:16
Speaker 2: Gary?

00:39:16
Speaker 5: Go ahead?

00:39:17
Speaker 2: Gary?

00:39:19
Speaker 10: Good Gary in Orlando, guys, good morning, Good morning. The State of Kentucky, the State of Kentucky and the Wildcats lost a great fan this week. She's right there in Vingrove, one hundred and one years old. Ernestine Amos and her son is one of the key members of keeping our group together in Orlando. And when I was going through all my health issuears back in October, she called me in the hospital and God bless Ernestine and may she rest in peace. Uh get check it out out. Name this team. Years back, Orlando had a team called Heart and Hustle. Maybe they want to consider that one.

00:40:05
Speaker 3: Thank you guys, appreciate it. Remember no more naming of thieves, heart and hustle. Problem is I'm letting these sneak through, which leads to more no more naming of teams.

00:40:19
Speaker 2: But God bless Ernest team Heart and Hustle.

00:40:21
Speaker 3: I can't name this team that, Ryan, because we've had had moments during the season when we haven't had it.

00:40:27
Speaker 2: But in these key in these key games in the second half, they have played with a lot of heart and hustle.

00:40:33
Speaker 3: And I think they have been in the last nine games better than the talent looks like it should be.

00:40:41
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, like, I still don't know how we're good.

00:40:43
Speaker 5: In some ways, I think that's why we're falling in love with them a little bit, just that fight. You know, we didn't see it early on the season. Now we're seeing that fight in that heart, coming from behind these big deficits. You do, can't help yourself, but kind of fall in love with these guys.

00:40:55
Speaker 3: Who do you think is the person drew that kind of most that they follow, Like, who's the person whose effort always has to be there, Like he can't be Oway because he takes he takes some things off sometimes. Who is is it Aberdeen?

00:41:12
Speaker 6: Maybe Aberdeen? It's one of those two because the other guys they're just rotating too much. And I don't think Marino would be my third option. It's gotta be Aberdeen or ol Way. I will say oh Way. Though here lately he hasn't felt like you know early on where questioned his attitude, it was very obvious there were times where he wasn't locked in. I can't even think of an instance here lately since they've been on this run that he's done that.

00:41:32
Speaker 2: I will say this.

00:41:34
Speaker 3: Aberdeen did an interview yesterday where he talked about how jaylen Lowe and he are like best friends on the team. I do think early in the year that the Low and Aberdeen kind of as a group in oh way, we're just not on the same page. Sometimes it felt like they wouldn't they didn't pass the ball to each other. I feel like that's gone away. I feel like whatever that was, I think that's gone because I do think you watch Aberdeen and Oway there's a closeness with the two of them that was not there at the beginning of the year. I don't know how that changed, but I do think it's changed. We'll take a break and come back our number two here in rack Home. I'll take you sports right here.