2026-04-30- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday, April the thirtieth, the one third.

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Speaker 5: Moment of twenty twenty six. We are a third of the way through twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: Six, which is crazy, but it is. It's a nice day here in Lexington. We're at the KOs Bar and Grill. Come on out and have lunch and say hello, it's just us today. You can come and you know, have chicken or burgers and clucks from Chop Full nine eight five nine twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this edition sponsored by the t J. Smith office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. We got a delivery here from you think can we say?

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Speaker 5: I think we can say who's from? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Brett Setzer, Yes, who of course wrote the letter about the uh the Barnhart thing he sent us he has had made with the Power K Knucklehead shirts and then if you're gonna take a picture Mario and then the.

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Speaker 5: Old school UK logo that's the guy.

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Speaker 4: Oh well whatever, They're both great and uh, I actually really like it.

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Speaker 5: Look at the look at these hat. Look at this hat and hoodie. I'm a big fan.

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Speaker 4: The Power K Knucklehead hat snap back is awesome, and then the old school logo on the hoodies is perfect. I don't know if if if Brett's gonna get a cease and desist on this Power K but nevertheless, uh, this is quite a gift.

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Speaker 5: So I like both those. I will probably wear both of those at some point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Christmas morning, when you came in here on Thirby, that's your gift for thirty two.

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Speaker 5: So today is Thirby about Thirby.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm not a but Shannon, I know it's really excited least creative, dumb.

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Speaker 3: Name of all time?

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Speaker 5: Why Thursday?

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Speaker 3: It's so dumb.

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Speaker 5: I actually don't drunk.

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Speaker 3: Were the people that came up with that name?

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Speaker 5: I don't mind thirty.

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Speaker 3: Hold on a minute, now, you used to hate thirty?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think I hate Thirby. I think I used to hate Thrby. My hate has now gone to five oh Tuesday. Yeah, because they just keep heading days. What did they call yesterday?

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Speaker 5: When Wednesday w I n Wednesday?

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Speaker 4: They I mean you got I will say, you gotta give Churchill downs created they found a way to take a week worth of people. Yes, and they just push the average Louisville person further and further way. They're gonna start having people from Louisville. They're gonna have to come in February because they you know, it used to be when I first moved to Louisville twenty years ago, Oaks Day was Louisville.

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Speaker 5: That was Louisvill's day at the Derby, and then Thursday Thirby.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then they pushed them back to Wednesday, and now it's five ohs all the way to Tuesday. Spread it out, make more money, get more people the track.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Very they're very uh, they're very money hungry there. But I'm going to Oaks tomorrow and uh, we're excited about that. The Oaks at night, Yeah, I don't know about that. That's gonna be crazy. I mean, the whole day doesn't even start till one o'clock. The first races race at one o'clock in the and the Oaks is at eight forty five. That's I mean, that's wild. I'm trying to think. I don't know if I've ever I don't know if I've ever been to the track at night. I guess the one year they did the they did the Breeders Cup in Lexington, the American Pharaoh year, I think that race kind of started at night, But.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how much I've ever been at night.

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Speaker 4: I guess is the theory is you went on prime time for the TV. I mean, it's gonna be on for the first time in its history. The Oaks is gonna be on regular NBC time prime time. They've never it's never been on network television. It's always been on like Peacock or in NBC Sports Network. It's gonna be on regular NBC. So I guess the Louisville restaurants and places of they're upset. They're upset about it.

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Speaker 5: They're upset as they should be. Yeah, because that's gonna hurt.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Oaks Night was probably their biggest, not sure much even bigger than the derby because people are tired after.

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Speaker 5: The dirty Derby. After that you go home and go to bed.

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Speaker 4: So now I think they're trying to make their money with lunch tomorrow. They're trying to make before you go to the track lunch. So I mean that's a lot too when you consider how late Oaks will go in for people to try to do both. You know, the parties, it's it's ruined a lot of the parties in Louisville.

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Speaker 5: A lot of parties are are have have have shut down. Friday Night Party, Barnes Brown, barn Stable Party and thing.

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Speaker 4: Like that, Barnstable Brown, Third Times a charm U, the Sports Illustrated Party decided to go later. So that's the one that's the big one this year. Some there's some DJ playing. Is there a DJ named T S Dow? Is that a person? Well, there's a DJ name something that starts with a T that's playing. I saw he's apparently a thing.

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Speaker 5: So so you're kind of a horse racing expert.

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Speaker 4: Haven't looked at it yet. Haven't looked at it yet. I'm gonna try to have U. T. Big Hair on here tomorrow. He's never gotten one ride, not one. Kentucky Joe does a better job than Kentucky Big Hair.

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Speaker 5: Ut big Hair.

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Speaker 4: Okay, he yeah, he's not done a good job. I seven the last nine Derbies hit the try, which has got to be a record nobody else.

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Speaker 5: In the country. Do you have your Derby picks already? I haven't looked.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna spend some time tonight kind of going through it and then my official ones I won't release till that afternoon.

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Speaker 5: Because you have to have some You gotta get the get the buzz.

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Speaker 4: So is the time coming at the Derby? Is also gonna move tonight on Saturdays.

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Speaker 5: Just my guess this is a test to get ready for that.

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Speaker 4: I guess is they're gonna see how this goes with the Oaks and then eventually I think, you know, it was interesting.

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Speaker 5: I saw.

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Speaker 4: A lot of TV executives talking about what were the best times if you just want to maximize audience, the best times to have events, and they said that they have determined would.

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Speaker 5: You like to know?

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Speaker 4: Nay, you two guess day of the week and time that gets the highest audience for a sporting event.

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Speaker 5: Wow, what do you all think? Day of the week? If you so?

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Speaker 4: New TV executives were like, if I could pick the day of the week and the time that I would want a sporting event to run, I would choose this. I would say Saturday at no I'm gonna say Sunday at eight o'clock.

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Speaker 5: Sunday at eight o'clock. What about you?

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Speaker 3: Shit, Saturday at seven thirty That would have been my thought.

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Speaker 4: Saturday Primetime Sunday five thirty, five o'clock, something like that. They say, more people are are watching a major sporting event, and if you think about it, think about all the stuff that plays there. Usually the biggest NCAA tournament game is during that time, you know, in the Elite eight or whatever. NFL games, of course, usually the big NFL game of the day is at that time. Golf tournaments end at that time, right, Yeah, so they say that that's when. Now, that's not gonna happen with the Derby. But people think everything needs to be at like eight nine. Really, they like that slot where it's not too late for the West Coast nights. Just starting in on a Sunday night, nobody's out doing stuff. They've gone home. Except yeah, families are home. Families have gone home. There, start to work.

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Speaker 5: We start exactly and that's that's the time.

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Speaker 4: That's why, that's why sixty minutes has always been rated so well because it comes on right there time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, for families to be at home watch TV around the TV. You know how we got off on that. But last night, by the way KSR Bowling League started, how that goes great? A lot of fun.

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Speaker 4: I mean teams, thirty teams. They're still you can still sign up for next week. So they have thirty six lanes, so there are six lanes that you could get. Uh so six teams that could win. But we had thirty. That's the most PAD since the first year. Wide range of skills. People that are good. People bring your own balls, shoes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm amazing. Many people have their own.

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Speaker 4: Balls shitted like like the people who like their bowling, they have their own balls.

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Speaker 3: I'm not good, but I've got my own ball.

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Speaker 5: You have your own ball.

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Speaker 3: I didn't buy it. It was like my grandfather's and I didn't want to throw it away. So I'm like, I'll just get this hanging out.

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Speaker 5: I used the regular ones. I really enjoy I like beating Billy. Billy is the most competitive person. Billy is more competitive than me, and Billy really wants to beat me.

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Speaker 4: I think he's really competitive with you. He wants to beat me. He also wants to beat Shannon, but he really wants to beat me.

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Speaker 5: Huh. And So I like to get up there half try throw a strike and then look at it. And that's what I enjoyed. That's my favorite pol. Last night I was talking, I was introducing my like saying hi to everybody. So I just would throw. I threw like six or seven different lanes or whatever, and I probably had four or five strikes out of it and it was dry. Every one of them would that's awesome. Though.

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Speaker 4: We got thirty teams because it is a fun event for the summer out there at South of Bowling Lane. I didn't know Midway has a bowling team. College from the Midway College bowling team. Your team, the Betty Boops.

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Speaker 5: Is in it.

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Speaker 4: They every year, They've been in it so long. They have a they have a spinoff team they do. Yeah, they have Betty Boop two. Uh, there were a bunch of like college age team. It's a lot of fun. So uh, anyway, you you still got KSR Bowling dot com if you want to join the because you get one week that you could miss. I think so you could have missed the first one to join in so AFM nine two twenty two eighty seven. So let's talk a little a little basketball here for a second. All right, So everybody's been including me yesterday. I'm not gonna act like I'm above it. We've all been kind of like with this recruiting cycle.

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Speaker 5: But we are, like, we are getting players and this is gonna be our team next year, right, so we need to we need to learn about these guys and you know, celebrate what we do have.

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Speaker 4: I still think we need a couple guys. I think it's actually very important we get a couple guys or we're gonna be not great. But the guys we have, you know, we need to learn. So we got so we didn't get to talk a lot about yesterday. We got Justin McBride right from James Maddison. That was the guy you eyeballed the googly eyes, six' eight can shoot a little bit from. Outside was a pretty good player For James. Madison probably will fight with The jay kid to. START i would, SAY i don't know which one of them will win that. Fight what do you think of that?

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Speaker 5: Guy? Yeah he was It Oklahoma STATE i know for a.

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Speaker 4: Year, yeah there was a game Where, Brandon garrison and McBride played Against oway in An Oklahoma Oklahoma STATE.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know that little. Connection isn't that.

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Speaker 4: Interesting but this, Guy, yeah he's shot forty one percent from threes last year as a six eight sixty nine. Guy kind of a big, butt bruiser type, guy kind Of muhammad di'a Bade.

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Speaker 5: Roy shoot the. Shoot he's like.

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Speaker 4: Diabate if he could, shoot that's. It but, yeah probably not as good a defender As, dea probably not. So so you, KNOW i like the addition of. Him and then they needed some some girth down there in the. Paint, yes uh so that's that's an. Addition then yesterday they Announced Jerome. Morton now he, played If i'm, correct At George Rogers clark In.

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Speaker 5: Winchester he goes To Drawn. Drawn moore played AT.

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Speaker 4: Grc he was the best player on their state championship. Team probably the best player in the state that. Year so so why DON'T i know more about this? Kid if he was the best player on a state championship.

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Speaker 5: Team what? Happened how did he end up At Washington morehead and Then Washington?

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Speaker 4: State, yeah committed To morehead out OF, grc played there for two, years didn't play a, lot but played there for two. Years went To Washington state and started like thirty games last year For Washington. State kind of really black eight points a. Game, yeah good, defender he can do some things for.

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Speaker 5: You do you think He's is he a point? Guard, no he's more of a shoot. Three, Yeah so he's gonna back up probably our two.

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Speaker 4: GOALS i think so He you, know he's election and. Kid he grew up, here went to middle, School Winburn Middle, school and then Then i'm going to high school in THE. RC i, mean he's he's got The kentucky. Roots SO i know he's probably.

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Speaker 5: Good enough in your, opinion you know you've seen him a long. Time is it good enough to? Help? Uh definitely help not not not gonna be a, starter but he definitely can help you coming off the.

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Speaker 4: Bench so you think he can be eighth ninth man absolutely and be a good eighth or ninth.

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Speaker 5: Man, okay all, right well you need.

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Speaker 4: That oh, yeah so SO i still feel like we're a starway, Then, pope we learned right after the show. Yesterday did we learn it before or after the? Show my mind, GOES i knew about it a COUPLE i knew about it in the. Morning but when Did jacob put it out there that he was at flying going To. ISRAEL i think we knew he was flying there, yesterday so we did. Miss, okay so he flew To. Israel that's a long. Fight what is it fourteen? HOURS i don't think it's that, long but it's a long. Flight and uh he goes and immediately goes to a. Game it was great Following pope In israel through The jewish basketball camps From. ISRAEL i did not know there was a website channing called Sports rabbi.

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Speaker 3: DOT i didn't either. Yesterday that's HOW i.

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Speaker 4: Was Following pope's visit is Sports rabbi dot, com AND i was following how things were. Going he went to See Marcio. Santos that's a guy From. Brazil that's. Right we did talk about that about him being From. Brazil, now people NEED i do whatever this kid ends, up whether it ends up coming here or being good or. NOT i do think people like people need to understand at least what they're talking, about because sometimes people are.

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Speaker 5: Like he's over there playing in a junior pro. League no he's. Not this kid is playing in the euro Super.

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Speaker 4: League and so people that know the euro Super league is the second best league in the world behind THE.

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Speaker 5: Nba the euro Super league is better than.

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Speaker 4: College, yes so the euro Super league is they take like the fourteen or sixteen best teams in all Of europe and they play against each. Other and this school he plays, at or this team he plays, For Maccabi Tel, aviv they're in that. League so Like barcelona and all those that's who they play. Against so this is not even a domestic. League the kid we got From, italy he's playing in a domestic. League, okay this guy's playing in the equivalent of your soccer, fan The Champions.

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Speaker 5: League so some of the best players In, europe the best players In europe are in that. League Huh.

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Speaker 4: Okay everybody you know that plays in that comes to THE nba that ends up. Good they played in this league all, Right luca and all those like they played in this, league so.

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Speaker 5: He is a.

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Speaker 4: Bit he's a reserve on that. League but that league is better than THE. Sec so just so people, know, sure some of these other leagues maybe. Aren't that league. Is so he Played pope flies over, there not the best game.

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Speaker 5: Shaven he scores zero, points flies all the way so he's probably a little bit. Nervous, right he flies all the way there and then he scores zero. Points can you.

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Speaker 4: Put yourself in pope shoes for a. MINUTE i just flew fourteen hours to watch this dude that didn't score a single.

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Speaker 5: Point play that's.

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Speaker 4: Okay game out the Drawer, fisher Drawer fisher Is he Follows israeli, basketball and he became A kentucky like icon.

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Speaker 5: Yesterday it's because we were reading his.

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Speaker 4: Reports this was translated From, hebrew so he wrote this In hebrew and it was then translated To. English, okay here's what he. Wrote i'll wrap up The avajah. Season that's the team he, plays the team the Team santos's team was playing was playing against this guy's. Team, okay he, Says i'll wrap up the season, soon but this is an event worth lingering on a. Bit santos will celebrate his twenty fourth birthday In, november and it's set to receive a particularly tempting offer from a very desperate.

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Speaker 5: University oh, man why is he throwing?

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Speaker 4: Shots if he can indeed play, there this will be the second player this season to make the transition From EuroLeague minutes to.

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Speaker 5: COLLEGE i didn't Like shannon the very desperate. University i'm going to hope that was lost in. TRANSLATION i don't think it. WAS i think he threw a couple of shots right.

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Speaker 2: There how about you, know college basketball Powerhouse, Kentucky no desperate, university very, desperate trying to find anybody To how does he even know?

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Speaker 5: THAT i mean he Doesn't how does he? KNOW i, Mean i'm not saying he's.

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Speaker 2: Wrong maybe know that if you're willing to come this far to see this, guy you must be.

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Speaker 5: Desperate oh he's, thinking you flew all the way over here fourteen hours to watch this, guy you must be really all the way.

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Speaker 3: Over here for McDonald's really very very desperate.

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Speaker 5: UNIVERSITY i don't like that him thinking shots at. IT i don't think it was a. SHOT i think he was just, saying like there are other. Words that means the people.

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Speaker 4: There were, saying we're talking about it because because multiple people are tweeting About Mark pope being at this, Game i'm sure that was a big deal a head coach at a major.

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Speaker 5: University that's what.

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Speaker 3: He, said, desperate.

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Speaker 5: VERY i don't like. THAT i don't like that at. ALL i didn't love. IT i didn't love. It BUT i don't think he meant anything but. IT i think he did.

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Speaker 4: Well let me just, Say i've never seen this kid, play So i'm not gonna say he's good or. Not he averaged like seven points a game for this for this, team or eight points a.

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Speaker 3: Game he also looks to be about forty Years.

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Speaker 5: He looks he he looks like he's been through the ringer.

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Speaker 6: He.

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Speaker 5: Does he looks like he's been working down in In Clay county at the mint.

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Speaker 4: Like he looks like he's been through. It, yeah But i'll say, this a guy that averages that in the Euro league can play. Here he can't like people back like. That, now will he be? GREAT i don't. Know will he, START i don't, know but that kid can play. Here if you can score eight points in the Euro, league you can score eight points in college. BASKETBALL i mean they were talking about the.

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Speaker 5: Kids REMEMBER. Tj leaf that played at U c L. A, yeah that guy averaged sixteen points a game AT. Ucla he averages eight points a game with this guy on his team in the like they have the same. Adage, okay just so you get a sense of what you're talking, about this is not these are not.

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Speaker 4: Good the Euro, league the euro Super league is the best late league outside of THE. Nba SO i just want people to know that whether that kid ends up coming here or even whether or not he ends up being good is a different. Conversation but in terms of the league he plays, in that is a really good, league and he is getting minutes now he scores zero. POINTS i get, That But i'm just SAYING i felt like they were kind of recruiting him to be a. Backup it's, True, NO i would assume that's. True, still you think there's.

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Speaker 5: Probably a backup or he could be fighting for that last Starting, yeah BUT i don't want people like this is not a. Scrub, NOW i will, say if you fly To israel and then you don't get, him because he's also looking AT. Byu if we lose another kid to B yu if we fly To. Israel shit and if lose a kid to.

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Speaker 3: B yu to B, yu even go there very desperate. University, yeah they're just recruiting him via.

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Speaker 5: Zoom if we, lose then they recruit him via zoom and we flew there to break right, BACK i, guess welcome, back take you sports. Radio so this kid's, team by the, way played in THE Nba Summer.

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Speaker 4: League oh they did or Played maybe it's an exhibition. Game, yeah, anyway played and he played against The trailblazers and he had ten.

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Speaker 5: Points so Again i'm just using.

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Speaker 4: Example LIKE I i'm a little. Worried he scored no points. Yesterday but the kid can play if he plays at that school or. NOT i keep saying. School it plays at that for that.

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Speaker 5: Team and if he's twenty four years, OLD i, mean he's a grown ass. MAN i don't know how he's eligible BECAUSE i thought that rule went into. Effect from WHAT i, understand apparently they're trying to get him signed and process.

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Speaker 4: Before that rule goes into, effects so you'd be. Grandfathered there's, Rules, well there's going to be a rule that you can't be five years older than, nineteen WHICH i don't know why they know just say twenty.

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Speaker 5: Four it's five years older than. Ninth maybe he hasn't turned twenty four. Yet maybe he, hasn't BUT i think it's during the.

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Speaker 4: Season but if they get him processed before the rule is, passed he could be.

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Speaker 5: ELIGIBLE i think you. Can your grandfather did.

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Speaker 7: So.

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Speaker 5: Well he's a grown ass man playing against grown ass, men you. Know so he's, yes and He's. Brazilian he plays on the israel.

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Speaker 4: Team it's not that it's not the nash it's just An israeli pro basketball. Team just like there's the guy From. Senegal he's playing. Here he's Not, american he's just he's so He's brazilian and he plays. There one person Rights. MATT i want to get mad at the, guy but we are a very desperate. University that, maybe but we don't have.

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Speaker 5: To they don't have to say, it like you, know we don't what they can be nice to.

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Speaker 4: US i want to believe he was talking about B. Yu they're the. Desperate they can't get. Us Like, HOUSEWISE i will say, This mark you. GOT i don't even know IF i want the, kid but we gotta get. Him you can't get on a plane and go To israel and not get it.

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Speaker 5: Right you get IT.

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Speaker 4: Byu and he goes to Will wade after we flew out, there because you, Know Will wade a't flying.

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Speaker 5: There he's got things to. Do SO i hope it works.

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Speaker 4: Out there's a part of me that, says no matter what you whether you Think Mark pope's gonna work or, not we need him to get some. Wins we, are we need to get some wins just for our public. Image you, Know duke took another kid.

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Speaker 5: Today duke has got like fourteen great players on their roster next. YEAR i saw their roster for next.

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Speaker 4: Year it's insane for people like When louisville fans Are we're gonna be number, One no you're.

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Speaker 5: Not it's gonna Be duke Or, Florida. Florida but we just need.

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Speaker 4: To get some of these so that we feel, better so that we're no longer saying things like very desperate. University The stokes hangover is. REAL i, mean there's no Doubt stokes hangovers is. Real so we got we do need some recruiting wins to kind of get over, that and we also to some, extent need to stop recruiting. Losses, yes you, know we need to stop like flying To israel and not getting the. Kid so my assumption is The, channon if he gets back on the plane and comes back and doesn't have, him that means we're probably not gonna get.

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Speaker 5: It, yeah, Right LIKE i assume you go there to finish the. Job, yes, yeh that's been his problem finishing the job on these.

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Speaker 4: Recruitments, WELL i will say if there's any any If i'm taking any, CONSOLATION i kind of do like the Randomness shannon of when our roster just comes, across like it's almost like a mad lib. Is pope flies to insert country, here he gets player from insert country.

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Speaker 5: HERE i did hear the guy drew a couple of fouls, Yesterday so you got that going for.

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Speaker 2: Him at least it wasn't complete zeros on the. Statue, yeah not complete.

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Speaker 5: Zeros well that's, good that's. Good that's. Good we'll be right. Back we'll take your. CALL.

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00:24:26
Speaker 5: That he's got my long, hair can't cover up my? Redneck long haired?

00:24:31
Speaker 3: Redneck oh, no that, song that title is.

00:24:33
Speaker 5: Awesome, well that's how he sings. It he. Has he also, has in my, opinion the best version of a song a lot of people, know which Is Tennessee. WHISKEY i think his, Version George jones's version is very. Good stapleton's, version like, everybody it's a great. Song BUT i actually think the best version Is David Allen. Coles why do you think? That BECAUSE i like?

00:24:56
Speaker 4: It, yeah because the way he sings. It he SINGS i like people that have you nique, voices and all those guys. Do George jones, does and So Doris. Stapleton But i've always liked. That now with, that and he also has the ride Which tim, McGraw i Think Redd shannon AM i, right which was which was big when McGraw. Did, now with all that, said he's also very. Problematic he had a period where he put out a couple albums.

00:25:20
Speaker 5: That are not good the lyrics And i'll just leave it at.

00:25:25
Speaker 4: That oh, okay because because WHEN i was in high, school a bunch of my classmates discovered those and and like they would play, him AND i.

00:25:32
Speaker 5: DIDN'T i. DIDN'T i wasn't a fan of that part of. Them so But i'm gonna put that to the.

00:25:36
Speaker 4: Side when people, die you try to remember the best parts of um and AND i Think shannon like a very underrated amount of music for a big time country singer, produced.

00:25:47
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah LIKE i, said several. HITS i think people mainly know the one we just played, there but.

00:25:53
Speaker 5: But he's got other ones we'll. Put people.

00:25:54
Speaker 3: Know he's type of guyto you know the, name you know that one, song but you may not know all of us stuff.

00:26:00
Speaker 5: Off people should. Know people should know the.

00:26:03
Speaker 4: Ride, yeah and then if that ain't, country you can come. On So, SHANDON i want you to play as we go through uh and the things if that ain't, country and then.

00:26:17
Speaker 5: His version Of Tennessee Uh, YEAH i want to hear that BECAUSE i BECAUSE i. DO i do like.

00:26:22
Speaker 4: Those If i'm nine to twenty two eighty. Seven before we get the, Phones, john we're gonna, talk by the, way in the second hour About vince. Merriw Vince merrill's my, boy he's my. Friend, yes we gotta take his phone away from. SOMETIME a man's on his phone too, much all, right because he went On twitter yesterday AND i texted him and.

00:26:41
Speaker 5: SAID i GOTTA i gotta talk about you, today.

00:26:43
Speaker 4: And he's already preemptively defending. Him BUT i still gonna have to talk about so we'll do that to. Manutef John wall got. Hired John wall's hired as the uh director of Basketball operations At Howard university in uh IN. Dc when you think about, That i'm very happy for. Him he's obviously was wanting to get into some role in the college basketball.

00:27:05
Speaker 5: World.

00:27:06
Speaker 4: Here you know what's crazy IS i THINK i knew the last director of basketball operations At howard AND I i THINK i.

00:27:15
Speaker 5: Do, ACTUALLY i think he's been to this bar.

00:27:18
Speaker 4: Before, oddly, REALLY i think he actually one time set had to sit next To bob And jamestown here at this.

00:27:24
Speaker 5: Bar what a random what a random.

00:27:26
Speaker 4: World but but but but beyond all, that a lot of fans were, like, well why didn't we Hire John? WALL, YEP i WOULD i LOVE i would love to Have John wall as part Of kentucky's staff in some.

00:27:36
Speaker 5: ROLE i think he would be. GREAT i would not want him to be the director of basketball.

00:27:40
Speaker 4: Operations WHAT i would love him to, be, though is in some symbolic form of the staff to where he's doing SOMETHING i WOULDN'T i don't WANT i wouldn't want him to be THE gm LIKE i.

00:27:49
Speaker 5: Don't i'm. NOT i don't think that's his skill set to go in negotia, tracks but to go do something where you Are and a lot of schools have this some sort of player outreach role they think would be really. GOOD i think it's a great gift For howard and uh good For. JOHN i THINK i Think.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: John i'm really been impressed With john's post basketball career and what he's been able to. DO i think he'll be perfect like that outreach type. Role Like Derek anderson, said he does it kind of for THE. NBA i Think john could do.

00:28:17
Speaker 5: THAT i Think john be.

00:28:17
Speaker 4: GREAT i think would do because the, players guys in THE nba and even guys in, college they really Respect John. Wall AND i think what you're gonna get there's gonna be a generation of kids coming up, who even if they don't Know John.

00:28:28
Speaker 5: Wall their parents, Will there's no.

00:28:30
Speaker 4: Doubt, Yeah so Like John wall is gonna. Have John wall is a cultural college basketball. Icon his cultural impact is as big as what his basketball. Was and there are a few of those guys over the. Years so like in my, lifetime if you're Saying, okay who are guys that in college basketball mattered even more or whatever than? Talent The fab, Five, yes is an example of. That The fab five still pays dividends To michigan to this.

00:28:57
Speaker 5: Day you know WHAT i?

00:28:58
Speaker 4: Mean, Yeah latner is that for a certain segment of, population, Right john Wall, is That zion will be.

00:29:06
Speaker 5: That one that you're gonna Say zion for the younger.

00:29:08
Speaker 4: Generation there are just these guys that sort of have that thing AND i And john wall is one of. Them AND i hope he does well At, Howard BUT i also hope the connection To kentucky stays because he's gonna have that for a long. Time my hope is maybe he goes To, howard has some, success and then the spot opens up here that maybe he might be interested. In you, know he had to find he SAIDs doing the director of basketball operations, role learn the college, game learn the recruiting, game and then maybe come over here and. Help CAN i tell, you by the, way before we go, through the worst thing that's happened to me, today what's that they didn't have large. CUPS i, say you got a little baby. CUP i was, like, look she was, LIKE i got you a medium. CUP i, Said i'll pay for a. Large she, said we're out of large. Cups i'm out of, soda and this is Very it's gonna be hard to get through this.

00:29:53
Speaker 5: Show. YEAH i only got a little baby, cup a little lot of ice in, there and orders Some why don't even have? Mediums who orders the?

00:29:58
Speaker 4: MEDIUMS i don't get it because it's the same PROBLEM i had a large McDonald's. Cup you're drinking something that's not good for. You you're drinking a milk clogged field Sugar french vanilla ice.

00:30:09
Speaker 3: Cuffee you think diet coke is good for you better than? THAT i, mean it does have the word diet in.

00:30:14
Speaker 2: IT i know it can also take a corrosion off of a battery on a Hears, Josh, josh go, Ahead.

00:30:23
Speaker 7: Josh, hey, GUYS i know we're in a terrible spot right, now BUT i hope we all know that this is Not Mark puff's. Fault this is one hundred Percent Mitch bernhard's. Fault let's look back at some of his. Highlights Hiring Joker, phillips Hiring Billy, gillesie the cow. Contract thank god For arkansas for taking that off our. Hands the thirty six million Dollars stoops buy. Out, Okay i'm putting.

00:30:49
Speaker 5: His own morals OVER i get all. THAT i get all, that but at some POINT.

00:30:55
Speaker 1: I.

00:30:55
Speaker 4: Don't if you want to Blame Mitch barnhardt for a lot of that, Stuff i'm. Fine But Mark pope winning or losing this year or last year or recruit that's Not Mitch barnhart's fault Like Mitch. Mark that's a different point. Though wait a, minute that's a different. Point if you don't Think Mark pope should be the, coach that's your. Call maybe you'll be, right maybe you'll be. Wrong but now that he is the, coach when you say it's Not Mark pope's, fault he's not, succeeding well yeah it.

00:31:26
Speaker 7: Is, yeah but he just never should have been Because pope had no business being this. Coach he should have went out and hired a quotes that was.

00:31:36
Speaker 5: Qualified all, Right so who would you have?

00:31:38
Speaker 7: Hired we could have gone down the list Of Bruce. Pearl he wasn't allowed to.

00:31:45
Speaker 5: Hire he Wasn't he wasn't allowed to. Hire he wasn't. Allowed that was the.

00:31:49
Speaker 7: President he should have fought for.

00:31:50
Speaker 5: Them he should he.

00:31:51
Speaker 4: DID i can tell you, stop just, stop just Lit you don't know what you're talking, about, RESPECTFULLY I i. Don't i'm not somebody who rides For Mitch. BARNHART i was the knucklehead who was pushing for that contract to go. Away But mitch was told by The president's office he couldn't Hire Bruce.

00:32:12
Speaker 5: Pearl there was nothing he could do about. It Todd, golden he was told he could not Hire Todd.

00:32:18
Speaker 7: Golden, okay what About michigan's.

00:32:22
Speaker 5: Coach michigan's coach had just been hired By michigan two weeks. Before go give him more. Money but you can't do. That he's not going to leave a. Job egare well Who i'm asking you.

00:32:39
Speaker 7: And, Anybody.

00:32:42
Speaker 5: But i'm just saying in that mod revisionist history is, easy it's easy to. Go he should have done, this all, Right but.

00:32:52
Speaker 7: But you gotta knew it was a bad hire the night that they did.

00:32:55
Speaker 5: It, okay but whe're not going to listen to. Logic you're just you're just going to. TALK i agree with you that there were better, options but the better options the one that would certainly have been. Better he was not allowed to. Hire he was not allowed to Hire Bruce.

00:33:14
Speaker 4: Pearl he was not allowed to Hire Chris, beard he was not allowed to Hire Nat, oates and he was not allowed to Hire Sean. Miller Dusty may had just been, hired so you're not going to be able to get. Him Todd golden hadn't want anything, Yet like nobody when this, happened nobody.

00:33:30
Speaker 5: Wanted nobody was saying Get Todd. Golden. No right at the, moment.

00:33:36
Speaker 4: His choices Were Mark pope And Shaka smart or hire someone no one. KNEW i guess he could have done, That but do you think this fan base would have preferred a person they had never heard of Over Mark?

00:33:49
Speaker 5: Pope? No probably. Not So i'm just, saying Like i'm not saying it was a good. Hire it may not be a good. Hire we'll. See but you can't look back in time and go he was terrible for doing. This my question to you, is what would you have done if your president tells, You, REMEMBER i Thought Bruce pearl was gonna be, there and he was hired on A, Thursday hope at like nine thirty or ten, o'clock about one in the. AFTERNOON i was preparing for what does A Bruce pearl era look, like and then he was told he couldn't do. It AND i have reasons in my mind. WHY i think he was told that that's for the retirement. Book but THAT'S i, MEAN i don't to some, EXTENT i don't know what you wanted him to.

00:34:37
Speaker 4: Do so instead of pointing the finger At mitch like the caller was, doing it should be pointed at the person who Told mitch not to hire these.

00:34:45
Speaker 5: People if you believe, that, yes BUT i also.

00:34:48
Speaker 8: UNDERSTAND i, mean let's be, real, folks if we're just gonna be, real if we're just gonna you do not remember we we Hired Mark pope on the?

00:34:59
Speaker 5: Third, yep what happened On. Friday we celebrated it after. It but what else happened On? Friday? Video what else? Happened swimming scandal broke On? Friday uh huh okay that some people don't. REMEMBER i forgot about. It the swimming scandal broke On. Friday let's imagine you hire a controversial coach the same day the swimming scandal. Brokers, now HAVE i ever been told that's why they didn't hire those? People, NO i can't say for, certain but the timing from a pr. Standpoint from a.

00:35:39
Speaker 4: Pr, standpoint if you hire a coach that has any, whatever, yes the same day that swimming scandal, breaks makes.

00:35:49
Speaker 5: SENSE i think they. Were this is just my. TAKE i don't. Know this just my. TAKE i think they were under. Instructions you're gonna hire somebody with nothing that is his old dark cloud over his. Head that's HOW i look at. It they were under a time crunch because they had to get in the portal and get, players and they knew this women's scandal was breaking the next. Day that's always been my read on the. Situation why else would they just blanketly say you can't. Guys that's that's always been my. Take AND i think there's something to. It we'll take a break and be right. Back it's kas. Other what do you Think tennessee? Whiskey oh NOW i hear. It here you go like this version the BEST.

00:36:38
Speaker 4: I, do because it sounds like what that song should sound. Like it's not supposed to be, beautiful it's supposed to be like. Country you're he's, Saying i'm as you're as warm as a glass of. Brandy so he's clearly like sad and but. Drinking so his voice shouldn't sound. Beautiful it should sound like what where he is in the. Space that's Why George jones's version sounds very much like a guy who in that moment would be drinking because he's sad about his.

00:37:06
Speaker 5: WOMAN i respect your, opinion BUT i do like The Chris stapleton version.

00:37:10
Speaker 2: Better Keith whitley nils what you're talking about, too in a lot of his.

00:37:15
Speaker 4: Exactly Keith whitley is a perfect example Of Keith whitley's actually got a beautiful. Voice i'm not saying this guy's voice is. GREAT i just think it's good for this. Song But Keith shan's, Right Keith whitley gets.

00:37:26
Speaker 3: The sad the emotion of the.

00:37:28
Speaker 5: Song emotion may be better than any. Singer oh that one song you played Of Keith whitley's. Perfect that's a perfect example of. That you could hear it in his. Voice he's crying and his voice.

00:37:39
Speaker 4: Singing one person, Goes, matt what about all these other? Coaches what About Tommy? Lloyd Tommy lloyd hadn't won anything, yet that's. Right what About Todd Golden he hadn't won anything? Yet what about t J otselberger really hadn't won.

00:37:52
Speaker 5: Anything yet all these guys are easy to say in, hindsight they hadn't won anything right, Now dusty may probably a, bit but remember that's Where cow screwed.

00:38:02
Speaker 4: Us cow waited And may had already taken The michigan. Job If col resigns right after the, Season kentucky probably.

00:38:10
Speaker 5: Goes and tries to get. Dust they would, have but he had up just taking that job because we remember had to, wait because we had to wait For cal And mitch to make that video together and then for him to walk his, dog and like all of those things to. Happen so you, know are there better? Coaches of course there are better, Coaches but did you know That Todd golden was gonna be a better coach at that? Point.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: NO i think he had had one season AND i think it had been pretty disappointing to. Start he had success At San, francisco but not In florida.

00:38:41
Speaker 5: Yet but if, so somebody, goes, well what About Jay, Lucas he Hadn't he wasn't even a head coach. Yet that's. Truth, yes you would have been hiring a guy who had never coached the, game and That's kentucky's not a first time head coach. Position so it's not That i'm saying like it's gonna end up being a great. Choice we're gonna find that. Out BUT i also think it's revisionist history to, go, hey you know this guy that no one was mentioning at the, TIME i would have hired. Him, yeah well maybe you would. Have but if they had introduced if they had brought in Tj, otzelberger you, know and it was known he was picked Over Mark, POPE i don't know how excited people would have. Been may have been a. Revolt maybe it wouldn't have had twenty three thousand people now for the. Thing so you, know, look there are a lot of things you can Criticize mitch.

00:39:33
Speaker 4: ABOUT i do think he was put in a tough, spot, yes BECAUSE i think what happened with the swimming, thing there's no WELL i won't say no doubt BECAUSE i don't, know but there it seems very likely to me that that factored into.

00:39:48
Speaker 5: THIS i JUST i don't know how it couldn't. Have so that director came From President capaluto and well nothing but the. Swimming i'm just saying that they were not allowed to get The Bruce pearl would have been the hot coach. Here, now that would have come with its own set of.

00:40:03
Speaker 4: Complications go look At Bruce Pearl's twitter account and figure out how that would have worked. HERE a little vocals, Right so that would have brought a whole other set of Complicated, yes BUT i thought that was what was gonna.

00:40:17
Speaker 5: Happen who's up next?

00:40:18
Speaker 3: Year let's go To, Madison, madison go, ahead how.

00:40:22
Speaker 6: You, doing, Man i've been called for a.

00:40:24
Speaker 5: While it's good to hear from.

00:40:28
Speaker 6: Good thank. YOU i have good questions for. You, One first of, all WHAT i know you all talked about football and how good de recruiting class is for twenty twenty, Seven but what do you think our record will be this? Year and, YEAH i don't.

00:40:47
Speaker 5: KNOW i look at the. Games it's probably it's gonna be, tough BUT i think they're gonna be. Competitive and THEN i haven't looked at it.

00:40:55
Speaker 6: Yet and then, two would you Think Mark pope would consider a series with his former school by you OR i hope.

00:41:06
Speaker 5: NOT i appreciate it. ALL i don't want nothing for. Us something could if they be, like, NO i DON'T i don't want to do. That watch Color Chandler Colin chandler will play for him and, yeah that that that that is of zero interest to.

00:41:20
Speaker 4: Me somebody, Writes, matt who are some other singers whose emotion comes out in their voice like you're talking About cobain And cobaine and that that's a great. One that's a great example of you can almost feel the pain coming through the person's. Voice there's Some tyler songs you can See Tyler, No tyler's it's these are actually people ALL i kind of.

00:41:45
Speaker 5: Lie tyler's a great.

00:41:46
Speaker 4: Call you can You there are some songs that that With tyler where you can hear it trying to think who, Else, well somebody will that seven seven seven seven four five two five four Text Machine Keith whitley's a Great Kurt cobain in The unplugged album might be the top choice when he's singing that last, Song you're like, this everybody feels.

00:42:09
Speaker 5: It and then especially because he dies not long after. That, yeah, yeah all, right.

00:42:13
Speaker 4: We'll take a, break talk a little football and some more news from around the world of.

00:42:17
Speaker 5: Sports it's ks, right