2026-03-24- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 4: Welcome to two of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones welcome back.

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Speaker 5: Number two Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna go to.

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Speaker 5: The phones, and I want to use this like as a measure of the fan base. You know, everybody talks about where the fan base is or who thinks what. Let's just we'll do the thirty seconds and let people go eight five' nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The lines are open. Now, just a couple things before we do it. Number one, I have a TV show that if you all don't watch, I will not be your friend.

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Speaker 3: Let's call you what's it called?

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Speaker 5: Including those of you are listening. And if you don't have HBO Max, you don't have to watch it. But if you do, have to watch it because we have to discuss it in like a week after I get back from my week off.

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Speaker 6: Neighbors.

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Speaker 5: Neighbors Neighbors is what television is about. More people should know it. Everyone should watch it. It's a show that's very simply about in real life neighbors fighting over stupid stuff. I've watched two episodes. I've been enthralled. I will watch all of the rest of them tonight. One of them is about a fence. Two insane people in Montana, insane for very different reasons, but both insane fighting.

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Speaker 6: About a fence, and it's great. It's great.

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Speaker 5: Then about fighting about a little piece of land on a beach and insane fighting about cats. A old woman has too many cats. The neighbors like, get rid of all these cats. And then a couple, a gay couple fighting with their neighbor because the neighbor's turning a farm in their little urban neighborhood. Just trust me, you know everything you need to know. Just watch it and then just marvel. And by the way, I'm worried this will be me and someone when I get to my new house.

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Speaker 7: I can also put my damp of approval on it. I've seen it. It's very good. It's great.

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Speaker 6: HBO's hot right now. You got the Bowling Show.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you got Rooster Roosters, DTF. Saint Louis, the Game of Throne spin off was awesome. Just Ryan, I know you'll like. Okay, it's a really show.

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Speaker 5: It's not like it's not scripted, but it's just about neighbors fighting over dumb things.

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Speaker 3: I'm in it. I'm on it.

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Speaker 6: Great and they and.

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Speaker 5: The thing is after the first two episodes, they don't solve how all these things end.

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Speaker 6: I hope they're going to do that before it's over, but tie it all together. I need to know.

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Speaker 5: Like the guys with the fence, I mean, you talk about two crazy people and like they're trying to find common ground, but they're both insane. One of them thinks he's a dungeon and Dragons lord. The other one's like a QAnon guy. They have piercenes everywhere, and then they bring in this dude on a motorcycle to try to mediate and he looks as crazy as they are.

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Speaker 7: If I was in a fight with my neighbor and HBO wanted to document it, I'd be like, maybe we're out of line here, Maybe we should dial it back just a little bit.

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Speaker 6: If they want to feed dress.

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Speaker 5: HBO thinks y'all are a little much, maybe you should dial back.

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Speaker 6: Promise me you'll watch it once you.

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Speaker 8: Turn it on.

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Speaker 6: I know you. Okay, you're gonna love it. Okay, you might get your own episode too.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say, you're about to move into a new neighborhood.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna love it. I also, I got credentialed for the East regional. So I'm going to Uh, it's massive. I'm going to Duke Saint John's Michigan State.

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Speaker 6: U come.

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Speaker 5: I mean my thought is, when are you gonna have a When are you gonna have a regional that has I mean those are four. I mean if you consider Patino separate than Saint John's, I mean you got Duke Patino, Hurley and Izzo.

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Speaker 6: Come on, it's a wild line up.

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Speaker 2: It's a wild line You can go as a member of the media and just enjoy the game.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to be You get a better seat than I get in Repperina, no doubt.

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Speaker 7: You better act straight or the media will call you out where you're tie.

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Speaker 6: I'm not doing it.

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Speaker 5: I'm just gonna watch it and I'm gonna enjoy it because like those are gonna be.

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Speaker 6: Two great game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, go and enjoy the games.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I had to get up and leaving pace or anything I.

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Speaker 5: Might be pacing for Saint John's against Duke. Well, I got to be in the media, so I'm not supposed to wear a ya. But I'm I'm going and I'm looking forward to it. I couldn't believe they credentialed me in three minutes. I couldn't believe it was easier to get that than the SEC.

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Speaker 3: Tournament, shann and I can't get.

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Speaker 5: It just means more, all right. So let's see what the let's see what the people think. Here we go, Let's just go down here. Let's start with Rick.

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Speaker 2: Go.

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Speaker 9: Rick, it wouldn't have mattered if we had two point guards on the floor. They couldn't handle Iowa State's defense. And it was also like they didn't do no pre game preparation for that defense. And then when we did get through the defense, we couldn't make no shots.

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Speaker 6: So you don't think the left handed point guard matters?

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Speaker 10: No?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 6: All right, Glenna, thirty seconds for everybody, Glenna go.

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Speaker 11: I'm just really sad and kind of at a loss for words for how Kentucky basketball is right now. And another thing, the baby crime on the postgame show could not have been a more KRS ending to the way our sasan has gone.

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Speaker 6: It was really loud. Appreciate it, Glenn.

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Speaker 5: Was it was? It was, It was very krs. That's exactly right, Chrise go.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I do not.

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Speaker 13: Think Mark Pope is the answer. He was not qualified for this position. He's done nothing to change my mind since and I don't see it getting better in the future. But I will say that I am going to be positive this summer. He is going to be the coach, so nothing to do but get behind him and support him. And DABS is a great show.

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Speaker 5: Thank you there you go. Appreciate it. A five nine twenty two eighty seven. Let's hear what you got to say. This is your chance, Mark Go Mark.

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Speaker 14: First time long time who intelligence was my intelligence and had a big blue knition. Wasn't assaulted when you go on a radio show and try to try to justify this season. Last year he went on a press conference after getting to the sweet sixteen, and it's easy to be a gracious winner, I suppose, but now he doesn't know how to act and defeat he used. The numbers he used are ridiculous. Pope overall sixty three point nine percent.

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Speaker 6: Months Nathaniel Go.

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Speaker 15: I wanted to say, I think the show yesterday, Mark Pope show gave me a little more optimism about next year. The main reason was his creator's comment finally seems like he needs elite talent, and I was a little skeptical after the postgame show where he made the comment of finding guys that want to be at Kentucky because of what Kentucky is. Kentucky is Kentucky because we've had elite players throughout the years, not because we've gotten guys that just wanted to be at Kentucky. So go get those guys to coach Pope and we will make them move up there.

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Speaker 6: You go like it, By the way, say what you said about the show.

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Speaker 7: Pair, Yeah, Paradise is my favorite show on TV, and last night thought I'll take a little break from basketball just watch the women win. It's a great point in the season. And towards the end, the President's given this big speech about falling dynasties and empires, and then he goes, don't get me started on Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 6: Can I just get a distraction? So he was acting like Kentucky was a falling in.

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Speaker 7: He's naming all these times in history that people thought they had it all and how quickly it can fall, and then he went, don't get me started with Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 5: We gotta talk to Josh Hopkins about that. Josh, That's why it was on Initially.

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Speaker 7: It's going way too far the other way now now it's even being negative.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we can't have these shows be negative on the shows we like. Let's go to ad him, go at him.

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Speaker 16: What's up?

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Speaker 17: Goes uh, It's hard. I was ready for a change at the end of the Caliperry area in a gotten stale But Mark's Pope's comments about Caliperry comparing the two Caliberry is a Hall of Fame coach that has a national championship six, final four, So I mean you're not comparing.

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Speaker 18: Apples to apples.

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Speaker 17: Mark Pope has not accomplished anything near what Caliperis has done.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate to call him Aaron, Go ahead, Aaron again.

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Speaker 5: The reason I'm doing this I think it's interesting to hear a cross section of the fan base there. I don't think there's any entity where you hear more different viewpoints, which is why I want to give people a chance to go go erin.

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Speaker 8: Hey, man, it's Aaron from Harriget. Look man, and I'm a Pope supporter. But something's changed between last year man this year. He's a different person. I really think he's feeling the pressure of the job of the stuff last night that he said of the one thing I never heard was guys. This is my fault. You know, I'm the one to blame, and I'm going to get this ride. I've still yet to hear that, and that does give me a lot of pause and a lot of work.

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Speaker 6: MA go ahead, MA.

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Speaker 4: Might be mad, that's my fault, Matt.

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Speaker 6: Matt or mo go ahead, Matt.

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Speaker 13: I think what's gonna burn Pope next season is he's going to bring back too many of these guys and we're just gonna have a bad foundation of non physic County none as they can football on the floor. I don't think Chandler and Marine or starters, the more bench players, and he's got to go out find five or six guys and he can put in this lineup.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate the call. It did sound like retention was a big thing for him. So you do wonder how many of these guys he wants to bring back.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know, we talked about Brandon Garrison. I think he really really loves Brandon Garrison is a guy you want to bring back.

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Speaker 5: One of the people I spoke to last night said, if it was up to Pope, this was their direct quote, If it was up to Pope, he thought he'd bring everyone back except one guy, and he didn't say who the guy was.

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Speaker 7: Well, he said after the game, I have a sophomore guard in the starting lineup, a young center, and a young power forward his first year of college basketball. So at least end first that would be Chandler Marino Yellovich.

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Speaker 5: Sinceially I didn't, I didn't hear him say that, Darnell, go ahead, Darnell, Darnell, Hello, go.

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Speaker 19: You know I still like Pope. You know, like this season he has a five and three record against the Sweet sixteen teams, and I will stayed there. A number one seeds. They blew up Perdue by twenty four points on their home court in the middle of the season, So go Pope.

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Speaker 6: Right, they weren't a number one seed. There were two grant go ahead, Grant.

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Speaker 15: Hey, jentlemen, the first time, long time?

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Speaker 6: Who are hey?

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Speaker 8: You know?

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Speaker 18: I think we needed to stop pretending that Mark was anything but a personality higher for Mitch. I know he played here. We love the guy, but he had very minimal success as a head coach prior to coming to Kentucky. And I think all of our fears prior to the press conference that lit that nostalgic fire and it's all came true.

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Speaker 20: I don't think he's qualified.

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Speaker 18: I just don't think he's got the chops for this. Love the guy, he's a wonderful.

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Speaker 19: Love c W.

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Speaker 12: Go well, I'm discouraged. And what I'm discouraged about. We're stuck with Mark Pope. It's all I got, bitch, go.

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Speaker 21: All right, So the guys stole my personality piece, So I'm gonna give you an alternative.

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Speaker 8: There are two major sports.

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Speaker 21: Factions here in Kentucky. I'm gonna leave a littleville. But Churchill Downs a long time ago had a perception issue and they fixed it by getting young, getting lean, getting smart. Now they're a national, in fact international superpower. The UK needs to make a hire to help that at the AD.

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Speaker 6: Actually think it's a great analogy. Appreciate the call Churchill Downs was in.

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Speaker 5: The Kentucky Derby were in a crisis about ten to twelve years ago, and they've turned it down to where when I meet strangers of all ages, the first thing they say to me when I hear Kentucky is I'd love to go to the Derby.

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Speaker 6: Like in Churchill what they did, I don't really know.

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Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not up on exactly, but that's a I like that analogy quite a bit.

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Speaker 6: Connor, go Connor.

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Speaker 22: I just wanted to say that DeMarcus cousins who went after are Matt Jones. He's the same to Marcus. Cousins have said that UK would not be on TV anymore after Cal left. Also, he's not UK, he's cal University.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate the call. I don't want to.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you taking taking up for me, but I do love DeMarcus. DeMarcus wants Kentucky to be good. That you just reminded me what it was I forgot about that. I was trying to remember why DeMarcus got mad at me when Cal left, because he did and I couldn't reruin. And that's what it was. He said we'd never be on TV anymore, and I respond that that was ridiculous, and that was when he got mad.

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Speaker 6: That's it now.

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Speaker 5: I remember I last night, I was sitting there racking my brain, going he got mad at me, but I can't remember what it was.

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Speaker 6: That's what it was.

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Speaker 5: He went on TV and said they would not be on television again, and I was like, that's absurd, and then.

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Speaker 6: He got upset that was it? That was it? Cool man? Go ahead?

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Speaker 13: Cool Pope is like soaked, not on a rope and prison were screwed?

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Speaker 6: Mark go ahead, Mark.

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Speaker 14: Ppe sixty three point nine percent in two years, cal over the last three or four year sixty three point five percent. To focus on how selective these numbers are, CALS last year sixty nine point seven percent, CALS last two year sixty seven point two percent, CALS last three years seventy point three percent, CALS last five years sixty six point nine percent, last six sixty nine point six. Everything else is above seventy. This is such trying to use numbers to justify is ridiculous, and that is an insult. The Big Blue appreciate it.

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Speaker 6: That's actually interesting.

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Speaker 5: The only time frame in which Pope would have been better where those were four. He's just saying it wouldn't have been true at two, three, five, six, only with four. But to be fair, four is post COVID, and that's for a lot of people kind of a natural breaking point. But that's an interesting point. Uh, the rest of you, hang on, We'll keep going on this.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 6: I can't quit scroll them. I'm paying attention to you. All these are out of contraction. It's worse than I ever imagined.

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Speaker 5: I'd imagine if that's all Pope seas and he thinks that is the news reporting.

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Speaker 7: There's four reports of very prominent UK people dying this week. I'm not going to say their names because it's so outrageous, but it has like eight hundred comments.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll be right back. Who needs to bait a hook? I don't fish.

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Speaker 3: I love to fish.

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Speaker 5: I would like to have Shannon access to a boat this summer, but I don't want to drive it or take care of.

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Speaker 4: You need a friend with the boat.

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Speaker 5: I don't even really, but I want to be able to have the boat, use it myself, Invite who I want?

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Speaker 6: Somebody you can rent, but will someone drive it?

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Speaker 7: Well, your friends places like Conley Bottom, you get a house boat, they'll go park it for you and you just hang out on it and you probably get them to come back and put in the.

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Speaker 6: Dock, okay, because I don't want to deal with it because I'll break it.

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Speaker 15: I get it.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if boats break, but I will take a lot of work. Yeah, break yeah, I would break it. Well.

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Speaker 5: Just a quick note because this was one of my childhood friend's mother I just saw passed away. Alison Cook and her brother Brian from Middlesbrough. Allison was one of my best friends growing up. Her mom, k Cook passed away and I know Brian listens to the show and Allison's married to a preacher down in London, Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: My prayers to them. I loved.

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Speaker 5: I had their mother in school. She was my middle school math teacher, I believe, and I just saw she passed away. While I was on Facebook looking at these things. I ran into that and made me sad. So God bless k Cook, my former teacher and always kind of me and Alison and Brian. Eightf I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. Uh, let's go back to the Nick, go for it.

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Speaker 20: Nick, Hey, Matt, So, I mean before I standing on that, I'm really sorry hear about your friend mom.

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Speaker 5: I'm I appreciate it, and now I assume all of you will be so thank you very much. Now we'll get your well, since you're kind, we'll start your thirty seconds.

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Speaker 6: Now go ahead, thanks man.

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Speaker 20: Hey, So, I'm cautiously optimistic. I didn't have any issues with the comments. I don't think Pope is deflecting. I don't think he did anything that struck me as egregious character wise, didn't shift blame he say, he said, it's not the standard. This isn't acceptable. It's going to get better. Cash optimistic, get it done. I want to see results. We'll see in two months. Might feel differently in two months we don't get it done, but I'll wait un see untill that.

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Speaker 5: All right, there you go. That's probably the most positive one so far. Let's go to Joe. Go ahead, Joe.

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Speaker 23: Mark is a beautiful game when you don't have twenty turnovers a game Mark go back to fundamentals. If you had to put blinders on colin chandlers so you don't look down at the floor when he's dribbling.

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Speaker 9: Please do it.

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Speaker 23: If that young man comes back and don't go to Mormon Land, he could be an all sec guard. Put blinders on the kids so you don't look down when he's dribbling. Thanks a lot, goodbye.

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Speaker 5: What an amazing I do want to say, First of all, he's right, he does look down when he dribbles, and he does turn it over. Then that's actually a really good call. With that said, that block, I went and watched it again. It'll be forgotten to history, it will be. But that block was insane that he got in the second half.

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Speaker 3: Don't know how he got to it.

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Speaker 6: How did he get that?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: Oh, that was incredible. It's one of those I said, you want to have the wins, you can reward that and that can be remembered for a long time.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he got so high up and he came from nowhere other side of the free throw lane and then go go gadget arms.

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Speaker 3: Somehow he got up to the ball.

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Speaker 5: That's the block that if you were like, I don't know if Colin Chandler has it. He's got that and there ain't many people that got that. Nope, So yeah, will go ahead, Will Will, all right? No Will, if I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, Steven.

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Speaker 15: Go.

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Speaker 24: Hey, guys, all right, regarding JMI, can you please explain how our new football coach can go out and sign one of the elite quarterbacks the portal that's gonna cost millions of dollars. Have us in the running for another super elite quarterback in the portal, but our basketball coach can't seem to get anybody who is elite.

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Speaker 5: All right, So this is I'll answer that question. It is a different process for football and basketball. Okay, football, we have like sixteen million in revshare or fifteen million in revshare to distribute amongst players, and the football market is such that only a handful of people really demand big money, so you're essentially competing with just a few schools just for a few guys. And it is clear to me at least that the jmideal allows the football team the resources they need. Basketball is different. Basketball is a handful of guys, the top of which demand huge amounts of money, and we're at the top of the food chain, whereas at UK football we're in the middle. It's a different process. Does jam I work for that, we'll see. I'm not ready to say no, but I'm also skeptical. But we'll see. We'll know a lot more in a couple months. But football and basketball are two completely different processes. I am ready to say with some confidence that I think Jmi's process for football is actually working pretty well. I am yet to believe that it is for basketball, although I'm open to be proven that it has. But we got to get some players first, and then I'll believe it.

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Speaker 6: Scott, go ahead, Scott, Hey, can you hear me? Go for it? Thirty seconds?

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Speaker 25: Hey, if I'm a coach of a D one school, I'm not recruiting a point guard that can't go left as well as he can go right.

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Speaker 5: I kind of agree with it, but I appreciate it, But go Cats appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, so ambidextrous these days, right left, it really doesn't matter.

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Speaker 5: I just that was an odd He's like, we designed the whole offense around a left handed point guard.

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Speaker 6: I just I didn't really realize basketball was like that.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes you'll hear in the NFL then say that a left handed quarterback you have to change things for. But that makes more sense to me because you're back, Like, if you're a lefty, your right tackle is your blind side, and so I get that.

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Speaker 6: I don't really get it with basketball.

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Speaker 7: I don't either, And it seems if that was your plan, a good defensive scout would be like, well, they go left a lot and they can't go right, so let's just stop that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, mine don't know thirty seconds.

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Speaker 16: Hey man, all right. I last year Markole did what I think is just short of miraculous. He took a team with zero players returning, go to roster in a couple of weeks and went to Sweet sixteen, did a lot of top fifteen teams.

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Speaker 3: You don't do that.

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Speaker 16: I'm not a coach. This year, he sucked at roster management. He overreacted to what he what causing problems last year. It definitely causing problems, but once you're in the season, you can't change that, so you have to do a bad roster.

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Speaker 26: It was a bad year.

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Speaker 16: I'm definitely on board with a third season to see what he does. Star fans suck.

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Speaker 5: A fascinating So we've done four segments of this to Yesterday to today. Three were pretty negative. That one was a little more positive. That guy, that guy might be on Facebook. That's where Pope gets some of his positive info. We'll bear it back.

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Speaker 27: T J.

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Speaker 6: Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ. He'll make them.

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Speaker 6: We have lost Drew to Facebook. God like now you.

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Speaker 5: Drew has become Mark Pope and he is going to get all of his news the one you just showed me where Mark Pope stormed the set of the View and yelled at Whoopy Goldbert, did you know that happen?

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Speaker 4: I Mark thought I would have seen that somewhere else.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know. I didn't know that that happened. Leave that.

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Speaker 7: There's the amount of comments and share suggests. Yet Whoopy yelled unplug his microphone, and Pope said.

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Speaker 6: You can mute my mic, but you can't mute the truth. Oh take that? Whoo bay.

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Speaker 8: Wow?

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Speaker 4: Who has time to create these fake stories all day?

00:24:17
Speaker 6: Pay for a subscription?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Who has time? How?

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Speaker 5: Who is the person that sees that and goes yeah? Mark Pope was on the View and confronted whoopee. I mean I haven't seen it anywhere else but.

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Speaker 4: On National Inquirer of the Internet.

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Speaker 6: But it is on Pope's pup, so it must be true.

00:24:38
Speaker 7: Well, Joy tried to de escalate, and then Anna Oh Joy tried to Joy behar She tried to I don't know who that is, but she muttered unhinged. But Pope didn't flinch. She did not flinch.

00:24:50
Speaker 6: She muttered, unhinged. Yep, Wow, the view. I'm gonna do a collection of these for KSR later my favorites.

00:24:59
Speaker 3: So many people believe it.

00:25:01
Speaker 6: No, I'm going to make it very clear, Please don't do this.

00:25:04
Speaker 5: But they are like, it's gonna be like a lesson the one you showed me that showed Shannon. There's one that's like a I that's like Kentucky fans brawling with Florida fans, and it shows an old man in a Kentucky jersey beating up students in the Florida.

00:25:17
Speaker 4: Students see the viewing.

00:25:23
Speaker 5: So again there's the view. He looks unhinged. To be fair to Anna Navarro.

00:25:31
Speaker 6: Wow, why would they have Mark? But the thing is, though, like I can see why if Mark is only getting his news.

00:25:39
Speaker 5: There, He's like, this is what the news is, Yes, but I don't know what he's got to know though, like, that's not in the Courier Journal, right, Like he's got to know that's not It's.

00:25:49
Speaker 7: Funny the Courier Journal. Ryan black just replied to me, He's like, we have not been reporting on this.

00:25:54
Speaker 6: We've been missing this story.

00:25:57
Speaker 5: Wow, we've lost her to Facebook forever, right, real quick, before I go back to the fan thing. Brett Setzer, all right, let's quickly set this up. Brett Setzer one of the biggest donors to UK athletics. UK football, I think is his primary donation. I don't know how much he does for basketball, but he is a bit was maybe still is a big UK football donor, also donates to some of the secondary sports. He did an interview with Linda Blackford in The Herald and then Drew was able to obtain a letter that he sent to UK demanding to the President, the Board of Trustees and who's the other one, oh, and the athletic board that they reversed the Barnhart deal. He says many things in the letter, but I think this is the crucial one, and this is the most important and this is what is my problem with the deal. He is exactly right. There is no deal that the president of the university would do in any realm of the university where he could solo give someone two million.

00:27:00
Speaker 6: Dollars with no oversight.

00:27:03
Speaker 5: There's no scenario where you are allowed as a president to do that except he decided to do it right here. And Setzer's point is there cannot be a world in which a president can unilaterally give away two million dollars with no oversight. And essentially he's asking the board of trustees and the athletic to board show some oversight and overrules step up. That's what he say. Yep, I think it's completely reasonable, Brett. I think it's completely right about that. There's no other situation where a unit on the way out the door, like it's not even in exchange for services. Yeah, I know he's going to be, you know, instructor to the initiative to sports whatever. But he already had that job. You just unilaterally gave him two more years of a deal. And for what what are we getting back? That's the thing contracts are when you learn this in law school. There has to be concent and what is consideration? I give you this, but you give me something back?

00:28:06
Speaker 3: True?

00:28:06
Speaker 6: Right, makes sense?

00:28:08
Speaker 5: In this case, we're giving it to Mitch, and he's not giving anything back because he had already agreed to do this job for a different amount of money, and we made it longer. And ten tickets for life which I had, which I had someone tell me yesterday. Could if it because it includes his kids and grandkids, right, that could be worth millions.

00:28:30
Speaker 7: I think it ends with when he and his wife have passed. I don't know if that just keeps getting passed down after that.

00:28:36
Speaker 5: So it's just he and his way, I think regardless, it's just the price that's.

00:28:39
Speaker 3: Mart is he mid sixties late sixties?

00:28:42
Speaker 5: Okay, So the twenty twenty five years ten tickets, those values might be what twenty thousand dollars a ticket depending on where they are.

00:28:53
Speaker 3: Do the math adds up ten? Yep.

00:28:57
Speaker 5: Just for the record, I was told by somebody that would know Joeby Hall got tickets later in life after he finished, still.

00:29:06
Speaker 6: Have to pay for him him. That is crazy.

00:29:09
Speaker 2: His family got zero Joby Hall to get season tickets, had to pay for them, and Mitch Barnhart.

00:29:16
Speaker 6: Gets ten for life free. Ten's outrageous. That is crazy. How many family members you got? Shannon? Seriously, like, that's ridiculous.

00:29:26
Speaker 4: I mean that's ridiculous.

00:29:28
Speaker 5: And even if you think he believed deserves that it should be approved. I want the board of Trustees and the athletic boards signed their names to it. If it's if it's so approved, sign your names to it. You know, say it. What do you say it with your chest? To sign your name to it. So I think Brent Setzer's letter, from what I've seen, seems completely reasonable. And folks, this isn't going to go away. It's not just Matt Jones chirping. You now have Lynda Blackford at the Harald Leader, you have now donors, and believe me, there are faculty and all that like this is not going away for UK and they can go on every radio show that no one listens to and chirp about they better like this is not going away.

00:30:18
Speaker 7: And I can tell you you know, Brett took a big step forward by putting his name out there and letting this be public. But there's a lot of them that haven't written letters yet that are big time on Brett's side. There's a lot of boosters who I think this stinks, like a lot of the fans do. So him putting out there was you know, he put put his name and face to it. But he's there's a lot of people in his corner.

00:30:38
Speaker 2: He's going to take somebody with a big time player to step up and get the ball rolling in that like that and so Brett sets are stepping up. You know, he's, like you said, the major player in this.

00:30:47
Speaker 6: I have the letter.

00:30:49
Speaker 7: He said, these things should be communicated transparently. This is all ultimately made for the benefit of students. That's the reason the University of Kentucky exists. None of that happened. Shutting down legitimate questions and ordering to name calling falls well below the dignity of any university, especially Kentucky.

00:31:04
Speaker 5: And let me say again, I don't even really all that much blame Mitch, but this is the fine y'all didn't even show up to his press conference. I want you to think about that. Let's say I'm on Mitch's side. He worked there twenty four years, it's his retirement press conference, and the president doesn't even come. He doesn't even come what and then has yet to take a question from the public.

00:31:35
Speaker 6: Give me a break. That's chicken blank.

00:31:38
Speaker 7: Well, he put out a video tongu about but again, a video without question. No I mean, he's saying, we got to make cuts, like you just.

00:31:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, we gotta make cuts. Here's two million dollars to Mitch.

00:31:48
Speaker 5: And then and then Mitch didn't help himself by in defending the two million dollars, which I guess anyone would do. I want, I'd want two million dollars. He calls everybody knuckleheads. There's a good way of a good way to fix questions is to call people names.

00:32:03
Speaker 6: That always works.

00:32:04
Speaker 7: And minimize it to two or three people when I can promise you it's a lot more than that.

00:32:08
Speaker 5: So very clearly, you know, good for Brett. Let's go, let's go to Let's do a couple more of these and then we'll do do it.

00:32:16
Speaker 14: In the next segment, Mark go, Is there any hope that the next athletic diressor will put.

00:32:22
Speaker 28: More instas on UK basketball?

00:32:25
Speaker 14: Mitch Barnhardt was probably the most successful athletic director overall, but arguably the least for Kentucky basketball. He won half as many championships and see him and he had the same number of final fours and twice the time. Is there any hope for us moving forward?

00:32:42
Speaker 5: Appreciate the call? Well, I think I think there's fope. I mean, Mitchill gonna be here. So regardless of whether that was correct or not, what you said, like, he's gone, So it'll just depend on who's next.

00:32:51
Speaker 6: Mike go.

00:32:55
Speaker 27: I I just want to say, we've had some of the greatest coaches in college goodby my time, you know, on this earth as a fan. But I'm really worried right now because I think, you know, anybody gets your but I want to wear that and crap come from He's getting his name from Facebook?

00:33:10
Speaker 29: Well, somebody telling me something about you take basketball?

00:33:12
Speaker 27: My first question, did you get that from Facebook?

00:33:16
Speaker 2: You know?

00:33:17
Speaker 27: I mean, come on, dude, Like, can he even find his way?

00:33:24
Speaker 5: I don't think that's fair. But uh, I don't think that. The argument isn't that he believes Facebook. The argument is, though, that he's taking that as the representation of what's.

00:33:34
Speaker 6: Out there, what's been reported.

00:33:35
Speaker 5: He's taking I don't think he thinks. I mean, he knows these things aren't true. But the problem is he's taking that as when he says this is what fans think. He's taking this.

00:33:45
Speaker 6: No, fans are laughing at this, laughing at it.

00:33:48
Speaker 5: Now. If Aunt Bertha is not laughing at it, you need to tell Aunt Bertha, come on.

00:33:54
Speaker 6: Let's go.

00:33:55
Speaker 5: These are just because it's a picture doesn't mean it's true. The so to be fair, Pope did put whipp Whoope in her place?

00:34:03
Speaker 4: Shit, yeah he did.

00:34:05
Speaker 6: He did Swoopy even still on that show who watches it?

00:34:10
Speaker 5: I didn't. First of I didn't know it was still. I know I always hear Trump yell about it. But I kind of wonder if Trump and Pope are like the same, because Trump's always angry about things on Facebook too.

00:34:19
Speaker 22: Hmm.

00:34:20
Speaker 4: You think maybe Pope is on truth social.

00:34:23
Speaker 6: I don't know.

00:34:26
Speaker 5: There's this one person that writes me on the text machine. They're always like, when are you gonna start putting your posts on Blue Sky? And I'm like never. I that's the democratic, true social I'm not no more apps. I tried to thread. I couldn't even thread. I threaded time I want to. Here's what I don't like about threads. It's not in chronological order. Why would you have a timeline that's not in chronological order? Because then I look at it and I'm like, oh, and then it's like four days ago.

00:34:55
Speaker 4: Facebook does that?

00:34:57
Speaker 6: I know it's out on Facebook. I'm not on Facebook. Book Adam go.

00:35:03
Speaker 26: First time, long time?

00:35:04
Speaker 6: Who are.

00:35:06
Speaker 26: Hey real quick here? First off, I think it's interesting for me that we have our name calling petulant child of an athletic director. I'm not gonna call Mark Popenny names today, but I do think it's interesting. Mark just needs to get some dudes. I mean, that's the big thing he needs to get. And then, second off, Drew, you need to make sure that you're making those Workforce Initiative AI posts to go right along with us to see what all the cool stuff we're gonna get.

00:35:33
Speaker 6: Well, I can't to use AI.

00:35:34
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00:35:51
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00:36:17
Speaker 3: I always do the Queen of Hearts?

00:36:18
Speaker 6: You ever won?

00:36:19
Speaker 3: No, but I'm going to someday.

00:36:21
Speaker 6: I can't wait. It's gonna be great. When it happens, we'll be right back.

00:36:24
Speaker 5: In the last seven days, the gas prices, if it isn't higher in Kentucky than any other state.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: They skyrocketed. I didn't know we were the top state, but man, top state.

00:36:35
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:36:35
Speaker 6: Why do you think it would be the top state here? I don't know.

00:36:39
Speaker 4: The top state, I know, but why.

00:36:41
Speaker 5: Us like it didn't? I don't know what would be the reasoning we would be the most? Well, either way, it's expensive and it's gonna get worse probably, So that's not fun.

00:36:53
Speaker 6: No, it's not.

00:36:54
Speaker 5: But yeah, what make you? Is there anything that would make you drive? Lest though? How much would have had to be for you to travel this?

00:37:03
Speaker 6: Well?

00:37:04
Speaker 3: They get up like five dollars a gallon.

00:37:05
Speaker 6: I'm gonna lend this coming pretty soon.

00:37:08
Speaker 2: I'll probably limit my travel as much as possible in your neighborhood. Yeah, why not, you'd like to do that anyway though, almost pull.

00:37:16
Speaker 6: Time, he's just gonna swim in the pool by yourself.

00:37:19
Speaker 3: Why not?

00:37:20
Speaker 6: Fair enough, let's go through here, Rob, go Rob.

00:37:25
Speaker 13: I want to say that I think that Mark Pope was a panic hired by Barnhart. He failed on hurley. Scott Drew didn't even make the NCAA tournament this year. If Pope keeps his current too much of his current team, we're in trouble going forward, Barnhead. Barnhard has six national championships, four in rifle, one in volleyball, and one in basketball. And a major problem I think now is Eric Mundy, who's going to be your next president, and he's calling all the shots.

00:37:54
Speaker 5: Appreciate the call. Well, I hear that name a lot from people I don't know him. We learned his name on this show a few months ago, and I keep hearing him as a fingerprints on a lot of this. We'll we'll find out. By the way, it was interesting when they announced that Barnhardt retired they said he had six national titles.

00:38:09
Speaker 7: Rifle was pulling a lot a weight. Tell you I was well when I walked into that ceremony. They had them out on the table and my brain was like, Mitch has six times what?

00:38:17
Speaker 5: And then it hit me, Rifle's doing strong work. Rifles doing a lot.

00:38:22
Speaker 6: Chris go, Chris, hey Man, first time, long time?

00:38:26
Speaker 25: First I off my condolence or Drew falling into the Facebook or Byss it's a shame. It seemed like a nice guy hate losing me. If you're gonna play for Flowers, let me know. I'll kick in now. My comment is, I think it is laughable that people are criticizing this coaching staff. They had injuries, they missed on a kid that they thought might be able to play backup point guard. That was probably the plan. But I will tell.

00:38:52
Speaker 6: You, man, I wanted to hear him. But Shannon is Shannon falls rules, don't you?

00:38:59
Speaker 4: Thirty seconds was thirty seconds?

00:39:01
Speaker 5: Thirty seconds is thirty seconds when we do this, Johnny go, Johnny, get to it.

00:39:07
Speaker 28: Hey Hey, that Mark Pope is not at fault for the current state of affairs of Kentucky basketball. Mitch Barnhart is at fault. Mark didn't hire himself when he didn't have the resume to do it. Mitch did. And Mitch is the one that needs to where the egg going to say?

00:39:25
Speaker 10: So where the program is.

00:39:27
Speaker 9: Appreciate the call, and Ed, I'm glad you mentioned coach Joe B.

00:39:34
Speaker 25: Hall.

00:39:35
Speaker 29: Coach Joby Hall's first year following up Adolph Rup, he made the NCAA tournament, made it to the lead eight. His second year, he went a big fat thirteen and thirteen. And you think BBN is unhappy now, you should have seen us back in with coach Hall. So yeah, I'm all about giving Mark Pope an opportunity.

00:39:57
Speaker 5: Are you mean to tell me hang on to say before you hang up with this guy? You mean to tell me that fans got mad at the coach before Matt Jones and KSR existed.

00:40:07
Speaker 6: No, I thought we were the ones.

00:40:10
Speaker 5: I thought we were the ones that caused everyone to get mad and we were the problem. You tell me that happened before I was born.

00:40:20
Speaker 29: Uh, you better believe it.

00:40:23
Speaker 6: See, you know what. I appreciate the call.

00:40:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I read online, I would have thought I appreciate that I am the reason fans complained on.

00:40:33
Speaker 7: I thought we made up the concept of being disappointed when our favorite team loses. I didn't know that rats unhinged on the view.

00:40:44
Speaker 6: They unplugged it.

00:40:45
Speaker 10: Met Yes, sir, So, I'm a six seven left handed basketball player once removed twenty years ago in high school. But I just realized last night, after the Mark Pope interview that it wasn't my fault that I'm not in league today, sir. It is because Mark Pope was not running. The coach was not running left handed place for me in high school, like Mark Hope had.

00:41:07
Speaker 3: That idea A good point.

00:41:09
Speaker 6: It's a good point.

00:41:11
Speaker 5: Lost your chance, it is. I appreciate the call. You could have could have been a contender. You're not Mark, go Mark.

00:41:20
Speaker 14: Coach Hall was still fourth place in the SEC in his second year. Who is the real Mark Pope? Last year he overachieved and he says he failed the assignment. This year he underachieved and makes excuses. So which one is it?

00:41:34
Speaker 6: Thank you? This is a true. Last year they did say they failed. It's interesting.

00:41:39
Speaker 5: It'll be interesting to go back after a year or two and look back at the comments last night from Mark and.

00:41:45
Speaker 6: Say was he right that? Like they were progressing?

00:41:50
Speaker 5: And then you see another jump or was that an example of sort of the standard and what he said he was going to do him switching the stand and be interesting to see.

00:42:00
Speaker 6: I don't know.

00:42:00
Speaker 5: I hope it's I hope what he said is correct and this becomes a building block. Shannon, get ready to read the disclaimer because we're gonna do draft kings real quick. Which a toss state and Tulsa tonight? Who you got in the n I t Tulsa.

00:42:12
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00:42:15
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00:42:28
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00:42:34
Speaker 6: It is not gonna be. It's gonna be. Shut up