2025-03-25- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, March the twenty fifth. I'm Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill where we haven't been a lot over the last couple of weeks, but we are here today and Thursday, getting you ready for the Sweet sixteen. You can give Shadick Clarks pump chop phone line eight five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four. In this Stition's sponsored by the TJ. Smith Lovas if he called TJ, he'll make them pay. Ryan, we were here at kas Bar. We opened at eleven, got some folks already here this morning watching the show. You brought in. This is Stans Donuts and Coffee, which is from Chicago. Yesterday when we were in Merrillville, Indiana, not as Ryan said, Maryville Marville, which was not how you pronounce it. As we were leaving, I got pulled in. He had driven from Chicago to say hello and to bring donuts, and he almost missed us. Like we were just about to pull out, he pulled in. He was actually a guy who when I did my show at the Chicago Bears game this year, he came so really nice guy. I believe his name is Jeff Yea, and he brought us these donuts, and you brought the leftovers today. But how nice was that yesterday?

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Speaker 4: He said he went the four different hotels trying to find us there in Maryville, and he found us as we were backing out of the parking lot. Perfect timing. Really appreciate him doing that.

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Speaker 3: That was very, very nice. I would have hated he had all these donuts if you had just like couldn't use them, but that was still. Yeah, we were moving.

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Speaker 5: I saw him on the other side of the parking lot, like that guy has a Uk had off there. We stop, Yeah, and good to see Jeff and I had about four of those for breakfast.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that was nice. And we got back last night around you know, six six thirty of after Well, it was really a great trip. I mean I think, you know, I didn't know what to expect there Milwaukee. I was thinking about this last night. I kind of thought they were gonna lose Sunday just I don't know, I just kind of thought that was gonna happen. And then to get the win. It was weird because it was a Kentucky trip with you know, some Kentucky fans, but not the amount that we're kind of used to. And yet then you get back to Lexington and I do feel like there's like definitely a sense of kind of joy and excitement. We haven't had this since twenty nineteen of being able to go into a week for the second week end of the tournament.

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Speaker 4: And I suspect you guys to probably agree that they'll flood Indianapolis this weekend.

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Speaker 3: You know that I would think.

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Speaker 4: So they flooded Nashville, there were as many there as we usually see it in Milwaukee. But they'll flood Indianapolis this week.

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of people going, including people who don't go often. I mean, I told you, like, my mom wants to go, and you know, we're going to start the process today of trying to figure out how we're going to get my mom tickets. Uh, you know, because it's the ticket market's weird right now because there's a ton of tickets, but they're like the price is people people are charging insane prices. Sure, now, I'm sure that's gonna come down, Drew, don't you think. Don't you know there's a little bit of people going. Ah, these idiot Kentucky and Purdue and Tennessee fans. You gotta think it's gonna come down a little bit.

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Speaker 5: By some people that bought it thinking their team could be there. Now they're trying to make a buck because they Illinois. Yeah yeah, I mean they're steep and then a lot of it. You throw the fees on top of it, and it's a it's a hard get in price right now.

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Speaker 3: But I do expect any I mean, I know at least won group of people that are going to Indianapolis not even to go to the game. They're like, I just want to be there for the environ pre and post game. I will say Indianapolis on Friday night, if we were to beat Tennessee, might be one of the great Kentucky celebrations of all time, because it was like that when we beat Louisville at night. If you remember that Friday Night in Louisville in Indianapolis was it was basically a Kentucky block party for blocks in Indianapolis. Maybe that would happen again.

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Speaker 4: I wondered if some fans would go up like they do in Nashville, just to be a part of it, just soak up the environment, watch the game at ken Rou or something Indy, and then just be a part of the celebration party.

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Speaker 3: After the war, we can still get hotels. I mean. The good thing about Indianapolis is because they host so many big events there, there's a lot of hotels. So while I think the tickets are going to be hard to get, I actually don't know that the hotels will be now. I do feel like the city is a buzz, you know, and I sort of measure that in two ways. One is the when you go out on the Monday night after the game, how many just people in Kentucky shirts do you see? Yes? And the answer was a lot. I mean just looking here, every almost everybody has something can on right now. Okay, I was about to say you were the one that didn't, and you have one on under it too. It's like, you know, there's an excitement just to wear Kentucky year. And then the second is it feels old school to me how much we're into this stupid cereal the sweet a Bigs thing. No, I mean I really do like Okay, so when you when I think of the early col years, everything like there were always fun things happening. Right, you had the the job Wall dance, Okay, you had the free Enis t shirts right. Then the next year you had unibrow stuff. Then the next year was the Neurlans Noel, the box cut. People would wear them on their head, right, And then it was the twins are coming, and so then people would do things as twins, and there was and then there was the platoon and everybody would wear the blue shirt and the white shirt, and there were all these things that happened that sort of we're uniquely Kentucky fans and how we reacted to something and made it a thing, you know what I mean? Oh, yes, and we're and now we haven't had that in a long time. We're doing this with this stupid dry cereal from England, so you can't get it in Lexington. Apparently there were more places that sold it than I realized, Like Public's the Irish place which I was told you butchered the pronunciation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, on the whim, I didn't know what it was.

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Speaker 3: What is it? I think we still we're efferting, but they're out of it. They're getting it Thursday. But then, most amazingly to me, last night, we to bigs was the number one selling cereal in the United States Amazon. What does that tell you in the United States, not in Lexington, in the United States, which means hundreds, if not thousands of people have gone online and bought this. I would love to know what the company thinks, Like, the company has to be going what is going on?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they had a staff meeting this morning. They're like, for some reason, our numbers are up in the United States, and they're really up in Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: And how have they not called him like house he already not doing a commercial for them this week. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Their last tweet was like six days ago. I would have been all over this. I would have been playing up to Kentucky. I would have tried to create weed to BIGX addictions around here. So it doesn't last longer than a week. Just keep selling those boxes.

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Speaker 3: So I thought we might have some here today.

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Speaker 4: I did too, actually, and there's not.

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Speaker 3: I know there are some people who have mailed it to the bar, so I assume we'll have it later in the week. I thought someone would have it. I was probably a little spoiled. I thought we were going to get here and someone was going to have it, and I was gonna try it because I'm all in on this. But the reason I'm all in on it, Ryan, is it feels like a throwback to those fun days where we in KSR was part of this, but it was the base as a whole, just took some little thing and obsessed on it to showcase our craziness. It feels like this is like that too.

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Speaker 4: Just because we feel like we got our team back the last four or five years, we kind of feel disconnected but I.

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Speaker 3: Just think it's there's a fun part. I mean, there's like a this when we lose, there are times you can sit there and go, why do we do this to ourselves? Like this is not this isn't and it's for fun and this is fun. I was with the exception of some moments with Reid, rob and Antonio, and then a little bit of how Oscar kind of had moments where he sort of captured the fan base. I just don't feel like we've had a lot of fun since COVID, and I was reminded of that with all this, how much fun it could be.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we're getting a little more of their personalities too. They're a little enclosed there late in the Calgariya. I think part of that he didn't love the media. But I'm thinking even back to the twenty fifteen team, do you remember they would stay up and play Nintendo sixty four in the hotel room and Super Brothers became a big I think we made like fifty KSR posts out of Super Smash Brothers people playing at home. It's like Kentucky fans latch on to whatever the players are doing or eating or wearing, and it makes them even more a part of it.

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Speaker 3: And now you get Tennessee this week, right, I mean this is not just a Sweet sixteen game. This is against arguably your second biggest rival, right, I mean this is I think if you're ranking rivalries, I think Tennessee is probably second to Louisville. We have never played them in the tournament.

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Speaker 4: I heard Tom Leed say that this morning, never play.

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Speaker 3: Never played them in the tournament, beating them twice in the year. I remember in twenty fourteen saying about that game against Louisville, this will be an all timer of a game, meaning the loser of this it will stick with their fan base for a long time. Because we had won in twenty twelve, they had won in twenty thirteen, it was kind of a tiebreaker. I think if I'm a Tennessee fan, if I were to lose with this team, with potentially Rick Barnes retire, yeah, and it'd be the third time I lost to him in a row this year, that would be an all timer drew for them. I'm not sure if it's an all timer for us. I kind of don't think it is, but I do think it is for them definitely.

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Speaker 5: I think Kentucky's even won five of the last six four in a row, several in a row at their place. This is the first time they're meeting in the tournament, and they want so bad to shut us up about you all never make a final four. When I went to Knoxville, I took a picture of their banners because it says like n it appearances. You know, they want to be able to shut us up on that and get to a final four. They call rick regular season Rick. And if that could fall apart with Kentucky beating them yet again for a fifth time in a row, I mean that would be hard to come back from.

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Speaker 3: In the route, I think if you're a Tennessee fan, this week is almost like it was for Kentucky when we played Louisville in New Orleans, Whereas I where I thought Louisville had nothing to lose in that final four game and we had everything to lose in that game where we were supposed to win the title. They didn't even think they'd be there. I think there's a little bit of that for Tennessee. Right If Rick Barnes leaves without a Final four, that era is over. Now, maybe you get a coach that does it again. But maybe you don't right, still don't have a final four lose to Kentucky. Now, if you were to win though, and beat Kentucky and then go to your first final four, you're talking about a legendary year for Tennessee. So I actually think there's a lot on the line for the balls this weekend.

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Speaker 4: I agree with you. I think all the pressures on them with then the Rick Barnes story definitely is a factor in it. I think the fact you know that their two best players, Lanier and Ziggler, have played so poorly against us in their first two games, I think they're gonna feel that pressure that they got to step up and do something.

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Speaker 5: This is also a beloved team with a lot of guys that have been there a long time and this is their last ride.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Ziggler is this year nine.

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Speaker 5: So I actually spoke to my dad last night about the game and he mentioned, like, Rick Barnes feels like he raised half this team because somehow they didn't go portaling. I mean most of them started as freshmen and are now seniors and this is their last ride in Kentucky can put the end to it.

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Speaker 3: All the more reason we should beat them. I think it would be so glorious to look at their little sad faces when they walk out in their orange and to be able to basically say, Okay, it was nice of you to try to be a basketball school, but you're not, and that's okay. You're They're good at a lot of other sports they wont I think they won the baseball did last and then they went to the playoffs, so they're they're good, but you know what you're not. You're not Ryan Us in basketball. It would be nice to be able to say.

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Speaker 4: That, especially this is a year they were pounding their chest in basketball there for a while, number one team in the country. Everybody thought they were a Final Four bound, and then they kind of stumbled a little bit. So, yeah, they had football, baseball, and they thought basketball was going to join them this year.

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Speaker 3: I was on a Vegas gambling show last night and they were talking as if like the Vegas world is shocked at Kentucky's underdog. They're like, how can you beat this team twice and you be the underdog. I do feel like, Drew, we are still the underdog. I mean, there's a part of me that wonders, especially that game in Knoxville. How in the world did we win the UFL. I mean, like he been going back and looking at the box score. How did we win that game in Knoxville. It's hard for me to picture.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, remember that's the game they shot a million threes and just kept breaking them.

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Speaker 3: That's how we actually won.

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Speaker 5: But Kentucky won before that as an underdog in Nashville or Knoxville before that is an underdog in Knoxville. For the underdog spot has been good to Kentucky in this series.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm looking forward to it, but it's also nice to have this sort of fan base happiness back. Oh yeah, it's a lot of fun. And these guys, I mean they are in my opinion, they're already gonna be a beloved team, but they're like one win away from getting into like really beloved status. If you can knock Tennessee out of the Sweet sixteen with this, you know, group of vagabonds, as I've said, that would be you know, that would be one I think people remember and put put in in the books.

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Speaker 5: What would you have thought if when we were sitting there in rough last April, if someone said you're gonna beat Tennessee to go to the Lait eight. We wouldn't have even what if you tell me.

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Speaker 3: If you you're gonna have one player that everybody thinks is gonna be really good and then he's gonna get hurt and then you're gonna go to the Sweet sixteen, you just you wouldn't.

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Speaker 5: Making play tournament. It wasn't even had an offer at that point last last year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and if somebody had said me that, we would call somebody sweet Mountain Angel baby on the team. I don't think I haven't called him that, but other people have A five nine twenty two eighty seven text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. We will take a break. Come back here at ks Bars, Kentucky sports radio work. I'm back in his Kentucky sports radio Metallica. Is that right? That's right. I don't know the song, but I could just tell by the vote voice.

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Speaker 2: You called him vagabonds. He says, it's the only song I can think that had vagabond in it.

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Speaker 3: Uh no, there's one more. There's a very famous one that said that has vagabond. What is it? Well, I don't want to tell you I want to see if you can figure it out. You're good at this stuff. There's a famous one like It's it was uh that that's actually how I learned the word is from a song.

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Speaker 4: Let me talk about it.

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Speaker 3: You see if you can get it. I'd like to see if you get if. Somebody will probably tell him and cheap. But there's a famous song that has a vagabond in it. Chris says, Matt, you thought UK was gonna lose and you didn't stay in the arena for the game. Very weird behavior. Well, I think you have very weird behavior, Chris. I think it's perfectly normal to think you might lose a game. I always hate when people say, oh, you predicted can lose. What a what a stupid prediction. If you just predicted him to win every game, like why even listen? You'd just be like, well, I guess we're winning because we're playing. I mean, do you think we're gonna go fourteen and oh in football? We're gonna go forty and oh in basketball, which hasn't happened since nineteen seventy five. Yeah, Matt, how could you ever pick him to lose? By the way I picked him to win? On the show. I'm just in the back of my head thought we were gonna lose.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't love picking against him, but I'd say five or six times this season an SEC player, I had to put the graphic up with another team.

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Speaker 3: On there gonna lose sometimes, like like it's part of it, and people are like, oh, could you put it Kentucky? Like, I guess if you're like a wellness guru, you would only think positivity. But we try to like give our actual.

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Speaker 4: Thoughts were so we're supposed to act like we kind of know what we're talking about.

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Speaker 3: Once we don't.

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Speaker 6: But I mean we get lucky sometimes you still get You get feelings in your gut sometimes and I was pleasantly surprised about my gut this time. I don't, uh, you forgot what you're excited, but I just sentence right there, Shannon, did you hear that that little mumble of wards that was like the reference refere that smirch that's it.

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Speaker 3: I don't besmirt you.

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Speaker 4: I don't besmirch you for picking against Kentucky, but it is a little weird that you don't go to the games.

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Speaker 3: I'll admit that you've but you've done this with me now for yeah, for a for a decade.

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Speaker 4: I still think it's a little weird.

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Speaker 2: Is a little weird, that is fully weird.

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Speaker 3: And it's not weird. There are every one listening, well not everyone, but most people listening to this have at some point in their room, like they walk to the other room, right, you did that, you flip the channel for a minute out of frustrating. But see, I can't do any of that when I'm at the game. Whereas if when I'm in the lobby, if I want to walk, I can come back. I can't at the game. Your stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one thing though if you leave, like in the last five minutes because it's closed, you didn't even you weren't even there for the tip off.

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Speaker 3: You were gone at the beginning. It's interesting, though, I find the beginning of it worse than the end really because at the end like it's gonna go one way or the other, But in the beginning there's this like it's just this waiting. Okay, well we're down eight, are we gonna come back? Well they got it back to six, Well now it's back to eight. You know, Like where's at the end. There's gonna be a resolution one way or the other.

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Speaker 4: I get more tents in the end, by far, I mean even the game of the day gets a little one. And they made their run. You know, I felt myself tighten up a little bit. Part of it was Drew.

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Speaker 3: I really wanted it for really everybody, all the fans, but also for Art Pope. I think when Cow won, while to me, those are completely different things. And I said that Saturday night and predictably got the oh, well, now you say it. Cow beating Arkansas or beating Kansas doesn't have anything to do with Mark Pope, you know, Jeff Goodman, I actually thought said it really well. Cow had a miserable season for two thirds of the year, but then he turned it around and he deserves praise for that. But Pope's had a good year all year, and if we had lost and they won, the fact that I think Pope has done an amazing job for a handful of people would have gotten washed away. I actually don't think that happens this time. If we lose an Arkansas beats Texas Tech, as long as they don't make a Final four, I think are I think most people will just skip over that. But I think if we had lost in the second round, it probably would have mattered to people, and that was why I really wanted them to win. I agree with you, but I still didn't have the urge to go sit in a bank Loga. He was supposed to know. I will have your back the most. I'll have your back on one thing.

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Speaker 5: You've done this since I've known you, so it's not like a one off situation with Pope cow this team. I mean, you were doing this in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 3: So you want to know how much I'd given up on the last few years. I didn't walk out the last few years, like literally, I had gotten so resigned to losing Against Oakland. You sat next to your home, sit there the whole game, you watched Oakland be I the last game. I got nervous before the last game. I walked out before Troy was Saint Peter's three years ago, and I think Saint Peter's broke me, and I was like, we're just gonna lose. I really do. I think that that did it for me, and it felt we It was interesting. Troy was the first time that that feeling came back, that nervousness, which is a good thing.

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Speaker 4: In my opinion, I think you said you wanted it so bad for the fan base, for this bar, for Mark Pope. Everything you wanted it so bad.

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Speaker 3: Not even honestly. This time it wasn't for the bar. We have the Sweet sixteen coming this weekend, which is which is usually. It was really for these fans and for Mark Pope. I didn't want a summer of phone calls of John Caliperry made the second weekend and Mark Pope didn't, and so but it was nice to have the nervousness back. I'm really only thinking about this right now. I had not walked out of watching the game since Saint Peter's Wow, because I think I just thought we're gonna lose. So you're feeling alive again. I do feel alive. You're back. It matters to me again. I actually think to a lot of fans, this is like, oh yes, it's a lot of fans that I'm hearing from that are my age between like Drew's age to a little bit older than me, so let's say thirty five to fifty. I think for a lot of us, Ryan, we feel alive again about this team. I mean, we were alive about other things. In our life, but for this team it matters again in a way that I think had kind of been taken from us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we had that three or four years of gloom. We were so afraid, I think.

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Speaker 3: Or indifferent, which is worse. Right, being nervous is like being alive, but being indifferent and not caring is worse. And I think a portion of our fan base, especially the older ones Drew had become indifferent.

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Speaker 5: Well, I know plenty of people who thought, I'm not gonna get excited and spend money on this team just to have my heart broken again before Pope, just looking at the last couple of years, some even going all the way back to Wisconsin, just thought I can't keep doing this and having it in the way it has. And then Pope was the big, great reset on everything, whatever you felt, and it's brought a lot of excitement back, that.

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Speaker 3: Nervous feeling that I got Sunday right where you wake up in the morning, you're a little nervous, and you start reading every piece of information you can find. You kind of feel like you're playing like stretch. Yeah, and you stretch, you know, and you start you make sure you eat a good breakfast and all that, like Cherwita bis. Yeah, that's being like alive as a fan, and it had become dead to me. I remember when we were in Greensboro, when we were in Greensboro on the Saturday between games. I'm not gonna say what happened, but I wouldn't have been like that before. We were just like we almost joined the army. Yeah, we said on those recliners in door dash like, but I was like, we're gonna lose to Kansas State. We're certainly gonna lose. It was. It's just nice to feel that fan alive again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, going to the arena feeling optimistic like we're gonna win this game, not going to the arena dreading what could possibly happen.

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Speaker 3: What do you think? Do you think you think we got you think you know? Like that's that's and now we've got that again and we got a whole week of it, which should be fun. All r. We're gonna take your call. Say, if I'm nine to eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we're here at the Chaos Bar and Grill, I'm not weird for getting nervous about the game. True fans understand you sellouts to not We'll be right back. TJ. Smith. No injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay now.

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Speaker 2: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 1: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Great pick, Shannon, still not the song I was thinking of, okay, because it's New York, New York. But that's a great pick.

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Speaker 2: People have been sending me an Elton John song, but I thought of this.

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Speaker 3: An Elton John song, John song. There's one more. You're in the set, you're in the ballpark with Elton John. But there's one more. Okay, but this is a good one too. I I I forgot that he had this too. But there's another one.

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Speaker 2: They've got me stumped, stumped the.

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Speaker 3: Bo I'm will give you. If I'll give you, I'll give you fifteen more minutes. Somebody will get it. Somebody will help you. You'll you'll get it. There's one more, and it's it's a it's ah uh, it's famous. But this is a good one too.

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Speaker 4: What are vagabond chowes anyway?

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Speaker 3: So you know vagabond is a person who just like like trolls. Yeah, you travel. He's like, uh, you know, you can't be stuck in one place you're you're a vagabond. And also over the years, it's kind of meant to be kind of been seen as like a lower class a person, so a vagabond shoes would be these vagabond shoes are leaving today like he's wonder around, under around, but then but he's still New York, New York, at his at his heart.

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Speaker 4: I thought that was it when Shannon plant I said that's the one you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: Not quite. One person writes text machine is full of people agreeing with me. Okay, I'm thirty six and one hundred percent agree with you about feeling alive. One person rights, I got up in the morning and packed and unpacked clothes, which is my game day routine. It's an interesting thing. I hate packing. This person uses packing as their nervousness.

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Speaker 5: Where they just packed an unpacked like they're not going anywhere, going anywhere else, right, Hey, whatever works.

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Speaker 3: I'm not judging anyone how much. It's weird.

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Speaker 4: That's that's a little weird.

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Speaker 3: One person writes, Matt, I remember you and Max talking about how you got in your car and drove around during the Saint Peter's game. I challenged the fact that you were nervous. No, that's the point. The fact that I was driving around showed I was nervous. Providence, Kansas State, Oakland. I sent in the arena and watched the whole game because I was dead inside. Weren't we all when you could just watch it? Because whatever?

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Speaker 5: Who cares when they're a game? I guess it won a tournament game. But you just drove around New Circle.

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Speaker 3: I think you've told about Saint Peter's Saint Peter's droves. You didn't go, that's right. I just drove around New Circle, and I kept thinking, when we get a lead, I was gonna pull in the chs bar and celebrate with everybody. And then I pull in, and then they would hit a shot and be tied again, and I'd pull right back out.

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Speaker 5: Should I be worried that I have the exact same hotel as I did for the Saint Peter's trip.

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Speaker 3: When that's that's that's bad mojo.

00:25:38
Speaker 5: I think I'm gonna burn a Tati Washington and Doug Edter Jersey in the trash cannon.

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Speaker 3: All right? So if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, I want to talk the portal open. I want to talk about that. But let's go Uh who's up first?

00:25:48
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to Devon.

00:25:51
Speaker 3: Devin. Go ahead, Devin, Hey boys, go Cats, Go Cats.

00:25:58
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, just calling up here from the snowy Upper Peninsula and just wanted to say that, like, I don't know, I think that the divorce has gone pretty well.

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Speaker 8: What do you guys think?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's fairly Yes, I appreciate the call the divorce. Look, three schools have all gotten better because of the divorce. And now I question whether Arkansas you know, the tournament. I appreciate the call. The tournament can give you false hope and it can also false make you sad. Right, Arkansas and I have a good year, but they got better as the year went on. Whether or not that will work long term, we'll see, but it's worked in this tournament. B YU is certainly for the better because they got this dude that's given all the money, and I think we're for the better too. So it might be the rare three way divorce.

00:26:51
Speaker 4: And they kind of did it three different ways. You know, Cal lost his best player, then lost his second best player, and to do still found a way to do it. We lost half our twa Andrews this year and had zero points returning coming back this season, and then he was able to do it.

00:27:05
Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean their turnaround has been pretty amazing to watch. But also Arkansas in the tournament wasn't that bad. They went Elite eight, like Elite eight Sweet sixteen with Musselman, so that they didn't have the tournament draft that we had their years down a little bit.

00:27:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna have to completely rebuild that roster. Yeah, I mean, he'll probably bring back Billy Richmond maybe and Carter Knox, but that everybody else can be gone.

00:27:28
Speaker 5: It'll be interesting what DJ Wagner does because that's his that's his boy. But it's clearly not working out the way DJ thought it would work out with his NBA prospects.

00:27:36
Speaker 3: Give him a third try. He's got a really good recruiting class. But I kind of I wonder like next year is going to be like his Kentucky teams in the sense they're all gonna be freshman.

00:27:44
Speaker 5: He got the kid with the shovel and the construction vests from the UK visit. That's all the Khalik Thomas. Yeah, it turns out the shovel and the little birthday crown worked out.

00:27:53
Speaker 3: After all. That's interesting. Now it'll be uh all right, so well, let's do one more and then then we'll do talking about the court. Who's next, Let's go to Jay and Lennon, Jay and Lyndon.

00:28:02
Speaker 9: Go ahead, Hey, I get two quick things. I want to talk about the SEC. Matt, you're not talking about this. For the SEC's success in the tournament in the past was based on us having a different style. I used to say, it was more like having a football team on the basketball court. Yes, this weekend, Matt, we are the best players we do.

00:28:21
Speaker 3: I mean, this is without question. The reason the SEC has been so good in the tournament is we've always had the best athleticism. Ryan always, even the bad teams had crazy athletes. And I used to think it helped Kentucky in the tournament that we'd be very athletic and be playing these teams that didn't have athletes. But now they also have the most talent. And you saw it. The Arkansas Saint John's game was the perfect example. Saint John's had not seen athletes like Arkansas. They just had the big East is not as athletics, and they would attack the rim the same way they did in the Big East, and the Arkansas would players would just block it. I mean they just they were not used to that athleticism. And I think that's helped this same thing with Old Miss Iowa State. You could see it. Iowa State was like, whoa, these Old Miss guys are physical and athletic, and they just had not seen it.

00:29:09
Speaker 4: And I never really thought of our team being athletic and physically like that. But it definitely bothered Illinois.

00:29:14
Speaker 3: But well, Amari is But I think it's actually oddly the difference for us is we're not scared of athletes because we played against them all year. I still believe that Drew that we have the least athletic team in the SEC. I do. I think Omari's a great athlete, always a good athlete. But Brand's not a good athlete. Butler's a pretty good athlete, but he's heard. Carr's not a good athlete, Olmanor's not a good athlete. No One and Perry are not good athletes. Chandler's a pretty good athlete. But but we've learned to play against guys like this.

00:29:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, maybe a slight athletic edge against Illinois, but that team defense was something we had never seen before.

00:29:53
Speaker 3: There's that clip going around.

00:29:55
Speaker 5: Don't know if I'll watch that possession where they're defending the pick and roll and Kentucky is just shutting down every single they're switching. I mean, it is beautiful to watch. And that's not the overpowering athleticism. That was just Mark Pope having them prepared, the guys hustling.

00:30:07
Speaker 3: And they've gotten better. You know, I questioned at times this year whether or not the defense could get better. It has gotten better. It's certainly gotten better, and it's gotten to be, if not locked down, at least effective.

00:30:18
Speaker 4: It may be the first time all year we can say defense kind of won that game against Illinois.

00:30:22
Speaker 3: Now, I still don't know if we have enough defense for like a Florida in Alabama, but for for these teams we've played, sure we haven't. We have enough offense for Tennessee. We've seen it before, right.

00:30:32
Speaker 4: That's we said, you know, even though we're not the most athletic team in the world, it bothered Illinois because they're not used to playing against those athletic teams.

00:30:39
Speaker 3: I saw a TikTok that was talking about how Mark Pope has become one of and then he mentioned a couple other coaches really good at the UH at the at the Paysia like the Paysia cut. Do you know what that is?

00:30:53
Speaker 4: I have no idea what that is.

00:30:54
Speaker 3: I had seen it, you know what it is. I'd seen it, but I didn't really know what it was called. But basically, let's say you want to get Kobe bre A shot, right, you have LaMotte, Butler, somebody have the ball. Breya comes off to the side and comes and sets the pick okay, and then Butler tries to go around it. And if Brea's man does not help for a second, Butler goes to the basket. But if breys man even for one second moves over, bread cuts out to three point line and gets a shot. And they call it a Pagia cut. Basically because paigea Stoyakovic, it would it would would be the Screener ault. It's picking pop with a big but with but with with Paysia, it was like more just to get the shot, and the goal is have a penetrator that just makes Paige's man stop for a millisecond. And we did that like three times. UH Sunday if you go look with Butler and Kobe bro.

00:31:48
Speaker 4: I think Kobe brand is just a different player right now. He's doing things he was not and maybe he could not do earlier this season. Gootn'ty shot getting him create enough space like you just said, to get his shot off.

00:31:59
Speaker 3: Well, the one play he took the ball three point line, head faked, stepped in, head faked again, then shot a free throw that was a great That was like an NBA possession right there.

00:32:07
Speaker 5: That guy guarded him as still dizzy from trying to find him on that one. And I've noticed one of Colin Chandler's threes he used Kobe's pump fake sidestep move and even credited Kobe after the game for teaching him that. So it's rubbing off on all the other guys too. Did you see Kyle Wilcher's tweet this morning? I thought it was kind of awesome.

00:32:23
Speaker 3: So I saw. We were at lunch yesterday and we saw a picture of Kyle Wilcher. Think in your mind, what Kyle Wilcher looks like. He don't look like that any No, he does not. He's got a sleeve full of tats, he's got blonde hair, spiked up.

00:32:38
Speaker 4: Uh huh.

00:32:39
Speaker 3: I mean so I said, I tweet out he was going through his birdman face cause he looked like it. He retweeted it and said nah, And then it was a picture of Colin Chandler because he kind of looks like Colin Chandler. But he was basically like, I'm going through my Colin Chandler. That's cool. I think that's cool seeing former guys embracing the program like that new coach. I thought that was cool.

00:33:02
Speaker 5: Well, after Arkansas, we saw a few of them show how their colors are and it's most of the guys who didn't do anything in the tournament. So now that Kentucky, since Kentucky's made the Sweet sixteen, we've seen Michael Kidd, Gilchris Willie, a bunch of the players that had a lot of success with cal are showing uh that there's still big Blue, lots of tweeting about it. Rob's not from that era, but I don't know if I'll saw Dillingham wearing the full Kentucky one up on the plane. Yeah, So I know there's some people worried which which way their allegiance would go, but most of the beloved ones are still with the cats.

00:33:28
Speaker 3: It's it's kind of weird. The only one that has it all led to any questioning was Reid unfortunately, which if if all the ones you would have thought, that would have been the one that But but he'll he'll be He'll be fine.

00:33:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mince and Top and some of those guys fired up fired off a few tweets about it, but you know they're also part of the reason it ended the way it did.

00:33:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Mince was here. It was a tough couple of years.

00:33:50
Speaker 4: Mince was it was.

00:33:51
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00:34:27
Speaker 4: There it is there is That was.

00:34:29
Speaker 2: The one I was thinking, Yes, that was it forever young Rod Stewart.

00:34:33
Speaker 3: Yes, whether you're a prince or a vagabond, which why I said it sort of has the inference of kind of lower class because he compares a prince in a vagabon. I really like this song, and I don't know why I like it so much. Good. It is a really good song. It kind of gets you. Uh, I really like this one a lot. I like it too clean, sweep across the panel here. Yes, so that was three vagabond songs. Speaking of vagabonds, what do we think of Danny Hurley and the latest? All right? Tell you so, we didn't really get to talking about this. He walks off the court after Florida loses to or if you ukon't loses Florida, you kind of played a good game, had a chance. He apparently looks at the Baylor players who are about to run on the court to play Duke and says something to the effect of, I hope they don't blank you like they blanked us. Meaning the officials a TV station in Durham captures it on video. Video comes out, We're all like, what a jerk? Because Danny Earth is a jerk. I mean, like, he clearly is a jerk. And then apparently the station says that the director of media at Yukon called them up and threatened to ruin their careers if they didn't take the video down, which is just taking a bad situation and making it much worse. What do you make of that?

00:35:58
Speaker 4: Uh, that's you can't think they can everybody around they think I'm bully a TV station in Durham, North Carolina who was just doing their job. If we were there and we had something rolling, you don't think we would have posted. Of course we would have.

00:36:08
Speaker 3: I mean, but what are they gonna do to him? I mean, what's what's the Ukon media person gonna do to a TV station in Durham Like, I mean, there's nothing they're gonna be able to do to him.

00:36:19
Speaker 5: I would have loved to be in that TV station doom. Remember h NCAA told me to delete my Lynn Marshall video.

00:36:26
Speaker 3: No, No, let's go back to this story. The NCAA. If this goes further Drew took a picture of a video of Greg Marshall's wife losing her mind, a video that later got him on Inside Edition.

00:36:39
Speaker 5: I didn't really add context is the video told the story, and the NCAA not only threatened to not give Drew a credential again, they.

00:36:50
Speaker 3: Told me on the phone Drew couldn't leave the building without deleting it. And I was like, what are you talking about? Hostage? I'm like, he's under arrest. What do you mean he can't leave the building. And they I was like, you realize that, Like that's a tort, you know, you holding somebody false imprisonment is at lawsuit. And then they realized they were talking to a lawyer and they were like, oh, I mean, we'll leave the building.

00:37:16
Speaker 5: But I was on my computer in Indianapolis working on a KSR post and a guy still over my shoulder said pull up your Twitter. And at the point at the time I didn't know what he's talking about. It was I'll pull up on Twitter. He said delete that, and I'm like, no, I'm not deleting that.

00:37:30
Speaker 3: Delete that.

00:37:30
Speaker 5: I'm not deleting that. And then that's just where it kept spouting. I'm taking your credential. I'm still not deleting it.

00:37:35
Speaker 3: Game's over, tournament's over. What do you want from me?

00:37:37
Speaker 5: But I don't understand why people don't think that's just gonna make it worse. The video in the Hurley situation got twenty times the views because.

00:37:46
Speaker 3: Of how the SI traveled it.

00:37:47
Speaker 5: If he had just let it disappear, sure people would have seen it and talked about it, but he made it infinitely worse.

00:37:52
Speaker 3: Here's what I don't understand about Danny Hurley. He clearly wants to be this dude, right He clearly wants to be the jerk. He used wrestling terms. He wants to be the heel. He wants to be the bag guy. Okay, then I'm going to dislike you. That's clearly what you want. And then they complain about not getting a fair shake. You're an ass. You are doing that intentionally. It's not like you're accidentally doing this, so people are gonna hate you. Ryan And I don't hate him, but I think he's good for the sport, but he's clearly an ass.

00:38:26
Speaker 4: Right yeah, And I think it reflects that arrogant, egotistical attitude that some like the n c a A or you can't have that. They can bully smaller people no offense, that's okay.

00:38:36
Speaker 3: It's also not like a written story small.

00:38:39
Speaker 4: I didn't mean it that way. I meant the lesser.

00:38:41
Speaker 3: No, it's not magabonds sagabond. He's not just small, he's also now less.

00:38:48
Speaker 5: It's also not like a written report that could be false. It's a video where it's their actions being seen.

00:38:53
Speaker 4: That's true. It happened.

00:38:55
Speaker 3: He said it like he like he said it.

00:38:57
Speaker 4: Wait, deny it.

00:38:58
Speaker 3: What do you want to do?

00:38:59
Speaker 9: Do you?

00:39:00
Speaker 3: What do you think if Hurley had come here? Is it just like? I mean, our fans would take up for all this. I mean, the reality is I mean, let's be real, this is a fan culture. If he did all this, we would take up for it. But he's still a jerk. He would just be our jerk.

00:39:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, we would justify the behavior. Probably not the right thing to do, but it'd be one of us.

00:39:23
Speaker 3: Situation. Yeah, I mean, it's the same thing as politics, you know, like if the Democrats had a Trump, the Republicans would hate it, and vice versa. If the Democrats had a Trump, we would take up for a lot of his nonsense because it's a team thing, like, that's what this is. And I feel like that probably would have been true with Danny Hurley too.

00:39:44
Speaker 4: We all did it when they hired Billy. We kind of did all that. You know, he's married to basketball, you know, and the kind of we.

00:39:49
Speaker 3: Did say he was married to basketball.

00:39:51
Speaker 4: And kind of overlook some of the things that maybe we shouldn't have early on. But then it There's one difference.

00:39:56
Speaker 3: Between sports and politics. I say this all the time. Is what makes it dangerous that politics has become a team sport is Unlike in sports, at the end of the day, you haven't winning a loss, so there is something objective to grade you on. In politics, you can make anything a win or loss if you want to, So that makes it harder. But in sports, if Danny Hurley had come here and won, he could have done all this stuff, and if he lost, we would have hated. That would have been that would have been the sequence. So who's next. Let's go to Joe Bob, Joe Bob, how are you?

00:40:28
Speaker 9: I'm good?

00:40:29
Speaker 8: How are you today?

00:40:30
Speaker 3: Good?

00:40:31
Speaker 8: Just a quick note, I wasn't gonna I wasn't playing on saying this, but on Danny Hurley, he's terrible. I mean, I'm I'm Ryan's agent, and I never thought i'd reach a point that, you know, somebody was more dislikable than Bobby that was. But I think he's he's there, talk about what he's getting there. Yeah, being a fan, I've got a problem, and I don't know. I don't know how to fix it. I don't know if I need to fix it. But every time in my life I've ever filled out of bracket, it's always Kentucky. It doesn't know what seed they are or who they're playing. I think we're gonna win every game. And I don't know when that started. I mean I was twelve years old when they won in seventy eight when they beat Duke, and I was just hooked from that moment on.

00:41:22
Speaker 3: Well, I think most fans are like, yeah, I appreciate the car. I think most fans it's hard for us to fill out a bracket without picking Kentucky to win. I mean, I don't, but I think most fans do that. I saw, you know, I saw at one point before the tournament started, Kentucky was on the fifth most brackets to win. A lot of those are just Kentucky fans who cannot pick someone that's not because.

00:41:43
Speaker 4: We get to this weekend, We've got Kara.

00:41:45
Speaker 3: He's one of those Kentucky.

00:41:46
Speaker 4: Versus Tennessee in our bracket. We can't put Tennessee down on our bracket. We have to pick Kentucky.

00:41:52
Speaker 5: I usually pick against Kentucky early just for percentage in my gambling pool. I'm always in Kentucky group. So I try to be different just to try to win it. But it's never my feelings are involved in a bracket.

00:42:02
Speaker 3: It's just very hard, Like even if you objectively think Tennessee's gonna win, to write Tennessee's name out after Kentucky, you just can't do it. It physically hurts.

00:42:14
Speaker 5: My hand won't even make that motion. The brain disconnects from the hand right there.

00:42:18
Speaker 3: Trying to just like to lose motor skills on that. I understand. I'm be the same way. We'll talk about the portal and more when we return KR