2026-02-20- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Or Welcome to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio, present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back. I re number two Kentucky Sports Radio. If I've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven two seven seventy four five two five four A couple questions here. One person rights Matt. I actually think that performance bonuses would make it worse because guys would play me ball to get their points and get their bonus. It's kind of an interesting thought. Yeah, I hadn't really thought about that, and that actually never really occurred to me, But it makes sense if you were, like, you get a bonus if you score ten points a game, there might be a moment where you're like, I gotta get my ten points.

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Speaker 4: I could see that, And I just feel like in recruiting, if you're putting a lot of it in bonuses or some stipulations, I just feel like another school and the recruit would be like, you know what, we're not doing that, here's your money.

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Speaker 3: Like someone would just come over the top.

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Speaker 5: But the better miss front.

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Speaker 3: One person rights Matt. That caller talked about Auburn and their respect for the flag in the end anthem. Since cal Perry's team kneeled for the anthem, it seems like we haven't been good. Do you think that cursed us? No, because that was against Florida. If you remember, they won that game. They won that game, and Florida kneeled too, and they won the national championship last year. So if there was a curse there, you go. I don't think it would have just applied to half of the kneeling It would have applied to the entire kneeling generation, and Florida won the title. Let's keep the curse energy on. Annabel You gotta stop the Annabelle. I mean that's what it was. You think you think it was Annabelle.

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Speaker 2: I know you did apologize to the doll on the air, so I think you believe Annabelle had something to do.

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Speaker 3: I only did it to get you all to shut up.

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Speaker 5: Okay, they did win eight out of nine, and maybe after you apologize, maybe.

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Speaker 3: No, apologize again. I don't want to hear you. Yeah, okay, So a couple of things here before we go. The phones. The HBO documentary about litter Ball. It came out last night.

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Speaker 5: That's the thing in Louisville.

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Speaker 3: That's the thing in Louisville, the murder in Louisville. I had a friend who watched it called me, Here's what I didn't realize. I didn't realize that was the case. That is like, Romans is all over that case. So that documentary. First of all, Romans is like Forrest gump Man. He shows up in everything, Scottie Scheffler, there's Romance, right, He's everywhere. He's all over this documentary because he was the lawyer for one of the guys, one of the murderers alleged.

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Speaker 5: Okay, gotcha.

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Speaker 3: I now didn't know I know all about this case. This is like Roman's one of his signature works. We've had. Romans has talked about this case on my podcast before, like the old Matt Jones podcast. Romans did a whole thing on it. Yeah, so I didn't realize that was this case. Now, let me say, I don't know what's in the documentary, but I know the actual facts of the real case. This ain't a family thing. So if you watch the documentary on Netflix or whatever it's on, like, don't bring the kids around, Okay, because I remember this story and it's a lot. This is an adult story, but I do remember it. And apparently the documentary, according to my buddy, is great, and he said Romans is like the Star.

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Speaker 5: That alone kind of makes me want to see it.

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Speaker 3: How about Roman Shenning showing up again, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he would come in here and sometimes just do the KSR show with us.

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Speaker 3: No, yeah, he hosted KSR. He's hosted Hey Kentucky.

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Speaker 5: And Kentucky with you several times.

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Speaker 3: I mean me and him. He and I did tons of old Matt Jones podcast episodes about law where we would just talk about what was going on. So now I'm definitely watching that this weekend. It's a case.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew a lot of crazy cases, I mean crazy wwe one that happened here in law.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so just think about his cases for a minute. He has this one which I'm not going to give you the facts of. It's hard. I couldn't even tell you the facts. And it be a family show. He had some case in like Boyle County maybe where a guy went fishing with his wife and then the woman died and the guy got charged and he represented that guy. He was uh he one time there was a w W event in Louisville, and Triple H and The Rock went and wrestled in the crowd and a kid ended up breaking his arm because they ran into him. That's why they don't go out and fight in the crowd anymore. And Romans represented I think the kid and had to depose all of the WWE people. He deposed The Rock, Triple H, Rick Flair, Vince McMahon, my goodness. And then he had Scottie Scheffler.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what a crazy life with the involve and Brianna Taylor also he represented.

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Speaker 3: I think he represented maybe Brian No, it wasn't he the other there was something else that happened. Wasn't there a guy that got shot by the police who was like the boyfriend? No, no, he was. It was like working selling fish or something like. It was part of the anyway, one of those he did too. Maybe he did. I think it might have been the boyfriend and the boyfriend. Anyway, point being, he's had he's had a lot of it.

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Speaker 4: In that voice. I was already excited to watch this new documentary. But that that Southern draw he has so aides to his storytelling.

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Speaker 3: Savannah Guthrie still haven't found How do they not? I still don't understand how they haven't found this guy. He's clearly like a two bit criminal and they still haven't found him.

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Speaker 5: How and can't find her? You know that last Max ninet four point five. Last night they were talking about her pacemaker, trying to trace it through her pacemaker, Yep, trying to find her that way. Now, Oh you can do that, I guess they're trying to.

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Speaker 2: Now they're looking into Mexico, saying the cartel may have had something to do with it. That's the latest that I've seen on this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's what they thought at first.

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Speaker 2: No, No, they're back to that. They're back to that now.

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Speaker 3: Well didn't they say again, I didn't listen to mixed ninety four points missing out, But didn't they say that? Like they think he was just trying to rob the house and then it went wrong.

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Speaker 5: Not sure.

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Speaker 2: I haven't heard that theory yet, but they can't.

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Speaker 3: Well, nobody knows. And that's what's crazy to me. We found bin Laden in a house in Pakistan and went in there and got him and brought him out, And this is just a dude.

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Speaker 2: Somehow, this is the perfect crime. A guy that can't even cover up a ring perfect to get flowers to cover up the camera.

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Speaker 3: He's doing a clough mask.

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Speaker 4: And he left a glove on the ship. He left a glove like OJ and they believe they have his DNA. There's just no match and there's the.

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Speaker 6: Glove.

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Speaker 2: I'm offender.

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Speaker 5: How did they how?

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Speaker 3: That's a good question, jan How is this a perfect crime?

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Speaker 2: The guy was just like a bumbling idiot. If you watch the video, yeah, he's like.

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Speaker 3: Maybe that's the key. If you get away, just be like just don't think at all. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes there's a new conspiracy theory out there about this.

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Speaker 3: Also, is this on mixed ninety four point time or was this when you changed to ninety at one book?

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Speaker 5: Maybe Savannah Guthrie was one of the people who help exposed the Epstein stuff and interviewed like of.

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Speaker 3: His victims people getting But there were a lot of people know if she was at the forefront of there was a lot of people way more into it.

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Speaker 5: That's just the conspiracy.

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Speaker 3: That's because everybody now ties everything.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there was a conspiracy theory that the sister blinked too much in the video so that she was guilty somehow yeah, the family.

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Speaker 3: The problem is when the story gets this big, every idiot has a theory.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it gets all moneyed up with tips. The people that call in with fake tips just to be a part of stand they're kind of a loser.

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Speaker 3: Do you have to beat in her?

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Speaker 2: And the messer Ransom notes, I mean there's been like five that's true.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that stinks all right. Have you seen what the what the KHSAA is talking about doing for high school football? For private schools, let's hear it. They're talking about having a private school multiplier. Basically, the theory is private schools, because of various advantages they have and being able to pick and choose, they get that it gives them an advantage. So they're going to times your school population by one point three five, which could put which will put you in a higher class. So whatever how many kids you have at your school, normally that might make you class two A, you have to uh times the population by one point three five, which might move you up to three A, four A, five A.

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Speaker 5: Well of them want to affect Saint X in Trinity, they're already six A. But like Louisville Christian.

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Speaker 3: Academy of Louisville, which has been two A forever and dominating. Now I think they would be four A.

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Speaker 2: They actually have to go play like the SEC or.

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Speaker 3: To play the OVC. But it will affect Lexington Christian, It will affect Louisville Christian Academy.

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Speaker 5: Like Catholic, Covington Catholic.

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Speaker 3: Coven Tech Catholic. Aren't they already six A?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Anyway, point is they'll take all their populations and multiply it by one point three to five, which could move them up. Do you like that?

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Speaker 5: It sounds like they're just going after the smaller private schools.

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Speaker 3: Well, the argument is these other school districts in theory have to get people from their district, and a private school can get people from anyway. Sure, and so the way you balance that is one point three five. And then there are schools that are all boys schools, right, who have who only have like a that but like if you take Middlesbrough High School, four hundred students, but two hundred of them are girls, So the football teams really choose from two hundred people, huh. Whereas in all a all boys school it's foreigner boys. In theory, that would be like a school with eight hundred people actually think it makes some sense. I think the KHSAA. Apparently some other states do this, so there's a model for it. Yes, this is not the first date a lot there are other states that do this to kind of even it out, but it will affect these powerhouse Louisville. A lot of people are thinking it's the Christian Academy of Louisville rule because they've just been dominating two A and it would put them in four A. And now they're playing like what Boyle County in schools like that, what's Comington Catholic?

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Speaker 5: I think they're like five a's, so that would probably put them in Yeah, you know Christian Camilhi. We're talking about them. There's like maybe ten Division one football players in the next class. They've got like six of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so now they would actually have to play the four A team.

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Speaker 5: Remember you, we talked about the rule too. If you win in like two state titles in a row, you get bumped up a class.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that said they were talking about that.

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Speaker 5: They were talking about it.

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Speaker 3: But so you like this rule, I do you know?

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Speaker 4: I don't know the math behind it. I assume the one point three or whatever makes it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't have to see that. You don't have to show your work. But I like it makes sense that they have a built in advantage. You're trying to level it. I mean we're both from small public schools. Madisonville is not exactly a powerhouse. We're not surrounded by private out west, but schools like that I think are at a disadvantage.

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Speaker 3: I'm a public school guy. Is it fair? I don't know, you know what life is? Life isn't fair? You could yes, what and I listen? I got friends Christian Academy at Louisville, my my ex girlfriend who I'm still good friends with her kids. Go, y'all are fine. Y'all could have a little hardship Christian Academy at Louisville.

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Speaker 5: It would almost welcome Plain in a tougher competition.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what you should do? Step up?

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Speaker 5: Step up?

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Speaker 3: Step up?

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Speaker 4: I mean I have their golf towel on my bag. I mean, Sayer Wanta State titled right away what were they want?

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Speaker 3: Maybe they bumped them up to Life's easy enough for you as it is. I don't hate it. Play play three a Sayer will go ahead.

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Speaker 7: Will Hey, guys, I appreciate you get me on the on the show.

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Speaker 8: I haven't called in a little bit.

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Speaker 7: It's been about a month. I actually saw Drew the other day. I wanted to ask what he thought of the THEO Vaughn Show also had a few comments.

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Speaker 9: I wanted to rattle off with a click.

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Speaker 3: You get one, go for your one real quick.

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Speaker 7: Oh man, that's a tough one. All right, Well, the thing I kind of want to know is this is it kind of is a long form question. The other day, all right, well this is It's a good question. I think it'll get you guys talking here. So I was listening on the radio the other day. This girl that place for U and C that used to play for Louisville basketball was saying that the U n C duke rivalry is ten times better than the uk U of L rivalry. I worked at NKU. When I went to the student there go norse at no rivalry.

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Speaker 3: You can't have that many clauses, all right, at the or the question is uk U of l un C duke. I've said this many times. UNC duke is probably a more passionate rivalry because they play each other twice a year. They live literally right next door to each other. Their students interact a lot, but UK Louisville has more hate. I'm one of the few people that's been part of both. All Right, you and C Duke probably better games generally speaking, it's there's a lot more like day to day interaction. But in terms of but they kind of like each other even though they are rivals. UKU of l is pure hate. So that's the difference. So it depends on what you consider more of a rivalry. Like Alabama Auburn is kind of like Duke Caroline, but Ohio State, Michigan they seem to hate each other, and that's kind of UK Little and.

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Speaker 4: Duke North Carolina right on top of each other. They blend and even though the rivals they're friendly, the students.

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Speaker 3: Hate each other. I have like three Louvil friends, like exactly all the Duke Like when you go to Duke, your social life is in Chapel Hill because all the bars are in Chapel Hill, So all the Duke students are hanging out in Chapel Hill. So it's like it's not it's not the same, you know, UK Louisville's got more to it, even though I would say historically etcetera, U and C Duke's probably a better rivalry on the court, But as far on the court, off the court, depends on what you think a rivalry is. But if you're talking about who hates each other more generally speaking, it's UK louisvill although I think UK Tennessee's up there too.

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Speaker 10: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Cuve cath is four A. This will move them to five A, although people are telling me five a's easier than four A. Yeah, five A.

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Speaker 5: I guess this past year was what Owensboro and Pulaski County.

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Speaker 3: And uh Lexington, Uh excuse me, Christian Cadmy Louisville is three A. This will move them to four.

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Speaker 5: Four of the six state titles were won by private schools this past season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pro big emphasis on why they're doing it. Yeah, well, it basically is gonna move them all up one and then Madisonville and Middlesborough. We're on our way. We're on our way. Our problems. Pipeville, can we move them up on? Can you get a they got something in the water and Pikeville multiply been the team over there? Only two Northeast Kentucky Multiplier or pike Bulle in Raceland. Pipeville's too good. They got like a they got a college stadium up there.

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Speaker 4: I remember that show ye their locker room is nicer than the Bengals locker room.

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Speaker 3: It felt like I don't feel like that. That's that's the you know, that's problem that one person rights. Matt Trump says he's gonna release the alien files. Anythink let's go. I mean, let him release them. There ain't anything in there, so but that's what's called boys and girls a distraction. But that's fine, release them if there's something in there. I'm glad to see you. I bet you. First of all, I bet we'll never see anything, and if we do, it's going to be on my side, which is there are not aliens.

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Speaker 2: Well, Barack Obama's not on your side.

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Speaker 5: Then he said there's aliens.

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Speaker 3: No, he did not. He clarified it with the worst follow up that journalist still should be required to become a plumber or something that is not in the ball of asking questions. He got the one quote, though he didn't do anything.

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Speaker 5: Obama threw that out him say then no follow up, but next time his list of questions.

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Speaker 3: Yes, there are aliens. Okay, sir, what would you like for lunch?

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Speaker 2: I'll take his word, though, I mean he's the president, was.

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Speaker 11: The I take his word, but he didn't mean what he's Oh he didn't, Yes, he said. Later he meant, Okay, you're just trying to get me going, and I'm not gonna let you that. It's Friday. I'm free again. I've got my motor running for the wild weekend. Him and this guy thirty second, Bob and Jamestown.

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Speaker 12: Go ahead, matter you decided to go up to see the RedHawks.

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Speaker 3: I actually am still deciding the problem. It's it's it doesn't matter. It's a timing thing, but maybe I might go tonight. I'm still trying to figure it out.

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Speaker 12: Well, I sell you a text yesterday at the end of the show, if you happen to go. Every time I go up there to see a concert or something. In the led hall, I think on the inside wall there was a display case and my brother was in the first graduating class there and he was at the Air Force ROTC Scholarship and he built this model of an F one to eleven fighter and I had that had been in there for years.

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Speaker 3: If I'll look for anything else.

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Speaker 12: Uh, you know, Oxford, you used to be a great music scene in the seventies. Remember that song Ram Jam Uh, Let's go, Black Betty.

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Speaker 3: Let's go. I do like that song, Actually, Black Betty, that is a great It is a great song. And the dudes that sing it do not look like you would think.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if they look like you've.

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Speaker 3: Never seen them. They look like tell me if you think that song comes out of that guy, those those people's face. That's a big thing on TikTok is they will have black people hear that song and then see who's singing it, Oh wow, and they'll.

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Speaker 5: Be like whoa, there's a bunch of white hippies.

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Speaker 3: I know, Dren. Go ahead, Darren, can you.

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Speaker 13: Hear me, mat? Yes, go ahead, Hey, good morning guys. It's hard to hear about your loss and your friend there, sir.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 13: Uh, two real quick things. Uh the quat instinct to me, Uh, that's a huge gamble. Could have took that money and uh spent it maybe on Caleb Wilson or Donovan Dent and got them and maybe we'd have a little bit better team. But uh, I still that's a that's.

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Speaker 3: A fair point, by the way, to say you could have used that money on something else. I think that's a reasonable argument for people to make. I don't think the staff ever really thought it was certain he would contribute, but it is a fair it is fair argument to go that money would have been better spent somewhere else.

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Speaker 13: But go ahead, Yes, I agree. I think maybe you know, of course Caleb Wilson's hurt and I broke his wrists, but I mean, you know, I want to say that would have happened at UK. I mean, you know, or you know Donovan could have used him also, although he hasn't had.

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Speaker 3: A great year. I mean he's been okay, but like it had not been what we thought. The guy that's been great is dude that we went to his house in Georgia Silas dimerrash, Like, we go to his house, have dinner, and apparently I'd like to know what happened at that dinner they walked away, Pope didn't like him, and the kid didn't like Pope and he ended up. I don't know what happened, but he ended up at Yukon and he's been great.

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Speaker 13: But go ahead, Well he just did in jail. I guess you know. I mean, people just don't don't work, That's right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all.

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Speaker 13: Got appreciate card.

00:22:27
Speaker 3: Let me give you. Let me give you a number that I found interesting. The thirty finalists for the Naismith Award were announced today. For those of you that think high school recruiting doesn't matter, I counted of the thirty finalist, twenty three of the thirty finalists are at the school where they started out of high school. Only seven came from the portal. So this idea and everybody's good that comes from the portal. Only seven of the top thirty players in the country did not start at their same school, and eleven of the top third are freshmen.

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Speaker 5: Amazing freshman class and.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't include mckel brown at Louisville or the Pote kid or whatever in Arizona. So two guys who will be top ten picks or not even on that list. So for those of you who are like, ah, we don't need to recruit high school guys, eleven of the top thirty players in America freshman twenty three of the top thirty started at the college where they are. So the portal may not be the solution to all of your problems. Every year. We'll be right back. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

00:23:33
Speaker 2: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's a great riff, Shennon, isn't it? Yeah? It is here. It is Marion Air.

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Speaker 2: Simple. It's good. It goes to show you don't have to do too much, right, Yeah, don't overthink it.

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Speaker 3: Do you ever sing this with Alice Boogam? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No, but maybe we should. Maybe I feel like this.

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Speaker 3: Is your kind of song.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, position actually singing this song?

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Speaker 3: You think you could do this one? We probably could if you want to practice on the chorus right here, Well, why don't you try it first? No, go ahead, you go ahead, turn up.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna gets nervous.

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Speaker 3: See, my man isn't performing, can perform in front of all these people, and he can't sing it on the radio, and.

00:24:14
Speaker 2: You gotta pay for that. That's extra gotcha?

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Speaker 8: All right?

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Speaker 5: I did hear you say they're gonna play down a Broadway Againe.

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Speaker 3: Sont play in the SEC tournament.

00:24:22
Speaker 2: We will be yep, Thursday.

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Speaker 3: You know what night?

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Speaker 2: I think Thursday.

00:24:25
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 2: It depends on where Kentucky play is. Obviously we don't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's what we gotta figure out if we're gonna do the show. I mean, originally I wanted to do it Friday, but now since they're gonna probably play on Thursday or our live show will probably be Thursday morning at Tin Roof, there's always a chance we play Wednesday, at which point I mean we for people who are trying to figure out when they're gonna play, there's a very good chance, if you look at how things play out, that we are one o'clock either Thursday or Friday, or excuse me, Wednesday, Thursday, Wednesday first game. We could be Wednesday first game, but I think the more likely thing is we're Thursday first game, Okay, which is not the worst, but then we'd have to play on Friday to get to the weekend. We'd have to be Florida being the first game.

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Speaker 4: You're probably playing South Carolina, probably playing South I think we'd win.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't worry about that, but that would just be so embarrassing. It would be embarrassing to kick off the SEC tournament. You all heard me during the break. All I want to do is go the weekend of the SEC. I don't care Georgia. If we had beaten Georgia, I would feel good about us getting to the weekend. But now, unless we pull off a couple of upsets, we are staring at a Friday game against Florida.

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Speaker 5: Because we just we're gonna play them too on March six, So we're gonna play in that a week play them a week later.

00:25:50
Speaker 3: Are we going to go a decade without the weekend of the SEC. It's creeping up. It's possible.

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Speaker 5: Sad you to call it the UK Invitational. Can't even get to the weekend.

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Speaker 3: I mean, and the league is better, sure, but well because we're down too, that's part of it. Like Florida is still running Florida's winning national championship, Alabama Auburn made final fours, I mean, like they're it's league's certainly better, but you're right, we've.

00:26:14
Speaker 4: Better, but teams are still having one and two lost seasons.

00:26:17
Speaker 3: It's just not us correct correct? Jay? Go ahead, Jay?

00:26:23
Speaker 14: Hey, guys, So since UK is having their woeful recruiting of high school freshmen and they're talking about the portal, has has there been any do you know of anything that we're where they're looking at certain players.

00:26:37
Speaker 15: I know that they're always looking, but you know, I and you really.

00:26:42
Speaker 3: Don't hear anything from any team because the games are still going on, and I think there's well happen what will happened after the you'll start hearing stuff after the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. The portal does not open until after the national championship, but you'll start hearing aims and visits after that first weekend of the NCAA.

00:27:04
Speaker 14: Well, I mean, top three three point shooters in the nation. Drew mentioned him several weeks back. That's at Liberty. He's an hour his hometown is an hour and a half away from Lexington.

00:27:17
Speaker 3: You know, I have no question about a question about the kid from Liberty because he's from Iceland, right, Yeah, no, no, No.

00:27:24
Speaker 15: That's that's no, that's Colin Porter. You got Brett. You got Brett Decker Junior, who is from Etown.

00:27:31
Speaker 3: Okay's from Etown? All right, So I never Okay, hang on, I've never seen Brett Decker play. So but here's my question. That's gonna be my question for everyone. We get Can they guard dudes in the SEC? So I can if he has to guard file On, can he stay in front of file On?

00:27:56
Speaker 15: He can stay in front of Silon as good as Chandler can.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: Well not Chandler is an athlete, though, I mean Chandler, I think there's a Chandler can dunk on people's faces. Ken Decker dunk on people's faces.

00:28:12
Speaker 15: I mean he can throw it down. He's six y three.

00:28:15
Speaker 14: He's forty eight percent from the from the line.

00:28:17
Speaker 3: This year, he's forty percent though shooting in that league? Can he shoot forty?

00:28:23
Speaker 15: Which is which? Which is? Which is c USA? And they're fifteen to oh in their league.

00:28:29
Speaker 3: Okay, the USA is better than and I will and if you.

00:28:34
Speaker 15: Can't play defense, you don't play for Richie mcion.

00:28:37
Speaker 3: Okay, I appreciate you. I'm not saying I don't know the kid at all, and I will if he's if he really is looking at here, I will learn up on him and I if I but you know, we you we went too far in the defensive direction this year. But there is a level Like take a Trent Noh. Trent no was a great shooter, but at the end of the day, the reason he doesn't play a lot is can he guard these guys? Right? Right? That's what I'm gonna be asking about these dudes now. He makes a good point. Conference USA is not what were they in before they were in like some random conference. They've moved up to that. So he is probably guarding more athletic guys there than he was than they would have been in the conference before. So that's all I want to know is it's you know, it's nice to have the but you know, you see some of these guys come from small conferences and then they take off they do like Antonio Reeves. Yeah, Marston connect from Northern Colorado but those were also at Dalton. Connect was what six 't ten? Antonio Reeves was ripped, Sears was athletic. I just need to say that's That's what I'm gonna ask, and if so, then let's do it. Especially if he's from Kentucky. Why not.

00:29:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's I don't know about how a matchup defensively, but he can certainly spread the floor. If he's not leading the country in three point shooting, he's like second, he had a game where he's eight for ten from three. He takes seven or eight a game in shooting fifty percent from three, they're fifteen to Oh. Yes, and he's close to twenty points per game. So yes, is there Let me let me put a different way. Is there a place for a guy on that on you case team?

00:30:17
Speaker 3: Yeah? Is he can he start? Is that who you want to be your starting guard? I don't know the answer to that. But is there a place for him on a roster of thirteen guys?

00:30:25
Speaker 2: Well?

00:30:26
Speaker 3: Heck, yeah, yeah, you need a shooter on this Yeah.

00:30:28
Speaker 4: And he went from like not playing last year at Liberty to now he's one of the leading scorers. Like I said, I believe he leads the entire country in shooting. So he's had a big year one to year two jump. Maybe there's a two to three. He's still ahead of him too.

00:30:39
Speaker 3: Do you remember him at a town? I don't. I don't really either. Were they good nothing?

00:30:43
Speaker 4: I had never even heard of him till this year because I think it was his first game of the season. He hit like eight or nine threes in a game, and I made the Kentucky connection.

00:30:50
Speaker 3: Steve, go ahead, Steve.

00:30:53
Speaker 8: Hey, Matt, sorry to hear about your friend. That's bad as devastating as it gets to hear anyway. So anyway, just kind of some speculation, you know, uh, Hope's going to be there next year, the following year, depending on how next year goes, and under the assumption that Mitch is gone. Let me get all for you guys to chime in on this. Bruce Pearl, next head coach of Kentucky, agree or disagree.

00:31:26
Speaker 3: Well more likely now than it would have been. I appreciate the call. Let's just say this year doesn't finish great, next year doesn't work, and it change is made. Then you're sitting there going all right, who's the next one. You're in a situation as a program where you can't fail on that higher right, So you have to pick somebody in here who would win for sure. You can't even take a chance, right, and Bruce Pearl would win. So in that scenario that you're talking about, I would I would advocate for Bruce Pearl. If you want to know how much I want to win basketball. Who's more what college basketball figure is more anti mypolitics than Bruce Pearl? I'd say, we need to win. You know, I'll just mute you on Twitter, but seriously, like I think he would be. But again, Mitch Barnhart ain't gonna hire you. So if Mitch Barnhart is here, then he will not be the coach. If Mitch Barnhart is not here, then it depends on who the other person is, and I don't know who that will be.

00:32:32
Speaker 5: So Drew and I were tooting the Bruce Pearl horn this time, so I would definitely tuote it again if it was this scenario you later.

00:32:39
Speaker 3: I think if Mitch Barnhardt and Eli Cappeluto were not the administration, it would have been Bruce Perl. I think they're both equally. I would actually say it's even more Eli Cappeluto than Mitch Bartle. I think Mitch Barnhart was willing to consider Bruce Pearl. Matter of fact, I know he was, but I think the folks above him said no. So I think that Mitch had gotten that he was going to consider it. I don't know if he would have pulled the trigger on it, but I think they were going to consider it, and then the folks above said no.

00:33:15
Speaker 4: Well, when Cal left, I actually wrote a top ten and Pearl was number one, and Pope slid in at tenth.

00:33:20
Speaker 3: To let you know where my feelings were the first time around him. How old is Bruce, by the way, so how many years that's another question? How many years would you have had him? That's what I'm saying, Like, how old is he is? He sixty? I'd say at sixty sixty three, sixty five, sixty sixty five, So if you're talking two years from now, he's like sixty seven. I mean, so even if you hire him, you're not gonna have it. You're not gonna be that long, right, And Bruce is liking the media gig quite a bit, Bruce, and Bruce wants to run for office one day, So I mean there's that part of it too, whether or not you want to do it. I don't know.

00:33:54
Speaker 2: We're a Republican state.

00:33:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh we are. Listen, I would, I'd bite my tone.

00:34:02
Speaker 5: Well, people thought he was gonna run this time. That's why he was leaving Auburn.

00:34:06
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00:35:21
Speaker 4: I'm worried because it needs to be happening soon. I think this cycle is going to be so bad that he'll have to. So I'll say yes, but not not that he's excited to do it.

00:35:32
Speaker 5: I would say I'm surprised he hasn't already. This is kind of the culture of college basketball, college sports. You gotta have a GM to manage the roster and manage the budget, and there's so much on top of the current trends. I'm shocked he's already got one.

00:35:44
Speaker 3: So do you think he does it? Yes, Shannon, Yeah, I think he will.

00:35:48
Speaker 2: He's talked about it thanenough.

00:35:50
Speaker 4: He will, But I don't know why it's taking so long. I mean, will Stein showed up with one and then higher than the.

00:35:55
Speaker 3: Six literally right, like, I mean the portal opens in thirty eight days or forty days? Like what are you waiting on and people can pretend conversations aren't happening. Conversations. I mean, it doesn't do you any good to have one in may you need it now now they did just post a thing for it. Did you see that it posted on the UK jobs.

00:36:17
Speaker 5: Board specifically for a general manager, which.

00:36:20
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00:36:51
Speaker 9: Not to bring you guys back on the topic of the khsay multiplier, but I'm an athletic director in the state of Ohio and we do it is and I'm at a small Christian school. Is it's called competitive balance, so it affects all sports and basically transfers from seventh grade and up count as three, and kids that have been in the school since seventh grade only count as one. So that even our conference that play, I mean, they're in Division six for some but Division seven for others.

00:37:23
Speaker 3: So it looks like we're just so it's just football and uh maybe one.

00:37:30
Speaker 9: Other and the basketball there's only one division, so it's fine. But yeah, it was an interesting, uh interesting thing to hear about, so I figured i'd give.

00:37:38
Speaker 3: Ohio no, I appreciate it. Well, listen, I mean that we you know, there was a time they didn't want to do this at all, So I'm I think you're right. Four of six titles is probably why Nick.

00:37:48
Speaker 5: Our buddy Nick texted in said that Indiana did this for Indiana Cathedral, like they went from a two A school and now they're like a four A school. They keep bumping them up because they keep just dominating A two A and three A. I think it's what they're doing now. Sometimes these schools would want to play the higher you think they'd want to.

00:38:03
Speaker 3: To challenge Themselve Yes, right, Dan, go ahead.

00:38:06
Speaker 6: Dan, Yeah, Hey, Matt. Look, I'm a diehard UK saying had been. I'm seventy two years old, and this year, you know, we Pope has had some bad luck, lost three of his best players. What I'm thinking now is that we're kind of going down a UCLA the slippery slope instead of getting you know, we're used to have due USLA Kansas, they were always the top team, and I feel like Kentucky's just fallen out.

00:38:37
Speaker 3: Of that well. I think we have. I appreciate the call. I think we've followed that, falling out of the elite five in the last five years. I still think if you were to say what are the power programs, I think it's still Duke Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, and now I would put ukun in there. But if you were to say who have been the best program in the last six years, then you would not put Kentucky in the top five, probably wouldn't put him in the top ten. Uh, they'd probably come in right after that. And it is a slippery slope. I don't think we're as far down the slope as some people act like we are, but we're getting more down than I want to be. So it's a fair, fair issue, Raven, go ahead, Raven.

00:39:24
Speaker 10: Hey, Hey, guys, uh, I just wanted to say, I know, Hinstot's twenty twenty, but if you look back and you would have got rid of Caliperry one year earlier, we may have had a real shot at getting Rick Patino back before he went to Saint John's, they.

00:39:42
Speaker 3: Wouldn't have hired him. I would have liked that, Mitch, wasn't. I mean they weren't. Would Yeah, I understand you, and I'm not saying it, but they wouldn't have hired him. I mean they wouldn't. They wouldn't look at Natoates, Bruce Pearl, Sean Miller, and Chris Beard. They would not have looked at Rick Patino.

00:40:03
Speaker 10: Okay, I'll still take though, even though we're having a tough time right now, I'll still take Mark Pope over John cal Perry. I may be in the minority on that, but I'd still take Mark Pope.

00:40:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate the call. I think we have to stop thinking about it like that. Those are two different questions. Was it time for John cal Perry to go? Yes? Was Mark Pope the right higher We'll see, but they're not mutually exclusive. It's not which one of those two is better, although I would remind you like their record are still essentially the same if they are crazy. But that's not the question. The question, it's two separate questions. I think the question not the answer. Question one is obvious it was time for him to go. The answer to question two was Pope the right guy. We're gonna have to wait and see.

00:40:55
Speaker 4: I said when Cal left, I don't care if he goes win a national championship. You can't say that championship would have be in Kentucky's because he's gonna go get re energized. He's gonna get the support and stuff he didn't have here. And that's exactly what happened. I'm not saying wing in NAT Championship, but Cal, as we all seen, kind of got some swagger back at Arkansas that he wasn't gonna get back in Lexington.

00:41:12
Speaker 3: Pregame show starts tomorrow at six. You can go watch the game at the bar. Should be a great atmosphere. We need to pull it out, but six o'clock is our pregame show. We'll pick the game then. So I'm gonna give you today at three ten in the semifinal Slovakia and the United States to go to the gold medal game in hockey. Yeah, baby, Shannon, who you got? Canada is losing to Finland right now. To my guy, Sebastian, what do you got?

00:41:38
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter who they're playing. I' always gonna go Usa, Murray, let's go.

00:41:41
Speaker 3: Anybody got Slovakia, I'll take Slovakia. Oh, what's the matter with you?

00:41:45
Speaker 4: Well, I'm losing a lot of money to my DraftKings lately, so I'm taking one for the team here being wrong again, Usa, Baby.

00:41:52
Speaker 3: I've been to Slovakia. Yeah, it was kind of drab okay and uh when I was there, as I was walking the streets, I said, you know, the people here are nice, but they're not gonna beat us hockey. I could just tell looking at people you knew back then. No I knew. I knew. I wanted the Slovakians to understand. I enjoyed their food. They have some beautiful art everywhere. But we're beating you in the in the in the Olympics, and then if we win, we'll be playing my favorite player in the sports, Sebastian Aho in the finals. Because Canada is going down the women. Cocky Aarty won the goal. What a great goal that was. She did a little in sudden death. Yeah she went. She was seeing tomorrow at six for ks R, this big k s R