2025-12-18- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back, I number two Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four. Here at ks bar and grill. People coming in for lunch. You're ready to ready to go. Remember the the volleyball UH Watch Party game starts at nine o'clock, so it's a late one. You folks are gonna stay up back there. You gonna be able to stay awake tonight for the game. Sorry, why are you shaking your head? It's a sit You're a senior citizen, but you know sometimes even senior citizens gotta let their hair down and party. And tonight with UK Wisconsin would be one of Nick Rousse gave me a fact.

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Speaker 5: I want you to reach you Nick Rousse's fact. Fun fact Fun fact.

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Speaker 4: Craig Skinner, UK's volleyball coach and Wisconsin's coach Kelly Sheffield once coached the team together.

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Speaker 5: Would you like to know what the team was?

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Speaker 4: Yes, the undefeated Munseye, Indiana JV volleyball team in Night YEA. Two coaches coaching at the Final four coached a JV volleyball team together in nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 5: How about that for a crazy.

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Speaker 2: Fact, I love that JV volleyball doesn't get near enough exposure on our show. Now we're gonna talk.

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Speaker 5: About it's got no exposure over.

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Speaker 2: The year, that undefeated season back in nineteen ninety and monthsy Indiana.

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Speaker 6: Yes, that school's got to put something up to recognize this match tonight. You would think so, saying that they were on the same JV coaching staff and made it that far.

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Speaker 5: All right, let's do quickly a couple of little small topics. Doug Gottlieb.

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Speaker 4: Remember when he took the coaching job at Green Bay, he said, I'm gonna keep doing my afternoon radio show and I'm going to coach the team. He's done that for a year. Last year his team stunk. This year, his team stinks. And today he announced he was quitting the afternoon radio show. Shandon, You and I called this one a long time ago. There was no way he was gonna be able to do both, and he has not been able to do both, and now he's having to quit the He had.

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Speaker 7: Too much going on. You know what.

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Speaker 3: They were four and twenty eight last year, there's six and seven this year.

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Speaker 7: So there's a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Of ys and he shows up slightly sousd on the field of sixty eight sometimes on Saturday night.

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Speaker 5: So it works.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we knew this was coming.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 6: I thought maybe he might try to make it through this year because he thought he would have done in the offseason after last year. But yeah, it's clearly six and seven not going well. He needs time to have his fill of sixty eight appearances as well.

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Speaker 2: We knew this was ridiculous. Trying to do an afternoon radio show and coach your back. When do you go to practice in the afternoon? Probably, what are you doing?

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 2: I got a radio show to do. That's just ridiculous.

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Speaker 6: What for recruit calls? He's busy talking about the Tackers Bears.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, you call the radio shows. Let's say, hey, coach practice? Yes, all right?

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Speaker 5: Yet last night was historic night.

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Speaker 4: The tallest player to ever score a point in the history of college of basketball scored Oliver.

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Speaker 5: Roue, who plays for the Florida Gators.

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Speaker 4: He got a breakaway dunk last night and it's seven foot nine and becomes the hot tallest player to ever score a game in regulation, a point in regulation at Florida.

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Speaker 5: Do you like the seven foot nine players.

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Speaker 6: I do, And when they were here last year, I made a point to go just stand as closely as I could. I couldn't get all the way up him because's on the court, but I got close enough to know just it is insane how tall that man is. He doesn't even need to jump whatsoever to dunk. It's I guess they can't play much with those legs. He just can't get around. But I'm glad he got a bucket.

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Speaker 4: Are you surprised he doesn't play ever? Like you would think a guy seven to nine. First of all, Florida won the national championship, so they may not need him. But if I was him, there's got to be a college he can play at right there. There has to be somewhere that he could play basketball at seven foot nine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what if he went to a place like Eku?

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Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you, if he went to Eku, do you think he would start for Eku?

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he'd start, but he would definitely get more minutes. Like Drew said, it's hard for him to run. Wouldn't he start? He's seven foot nine? Oh?

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Speaker 3: I mean I'm watching him run down the floor. He looks like he's doing pretty good to me. Yeah, that's what I mean too. It's not like he's like it's not like he's like hindicapped in any way. Like he run, he runs up and down.

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Speaker 5: He's slow.

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Speaker 3: Is not the greatest college basketball player of air?

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Speaker 7: Let him catch it?

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Speaker 4: Well, that's another thing. Why don't you like Shannon's wants you just throw it high in the air.

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Speaker 7: Like he's gonna be the first to get it.

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Speaker 4: I understand why it doesn't work in the SEC because guys can jump. But if you went and played at Eastern, you're telling me he couldn't score at Eastern.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that conference. Their big guys are a little smaller than this.

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Speaker 5: Big guys are like six foot seven, so you could just run is.

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Speaker 3: Two foot from his head. And that's not even counting his arms in the air.

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Speaker 4: I mean his arms in the air, he can he can commit goaltending without jumping.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I don't know, Drew.

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Speaker 4: I feel like, I mean, he's at Florida, so I can understand why he doesn't play at Florida, but I'd like to see what happened and if he played at Eastern.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you just can't convince.

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Speaker 4: Me that that kid could not be effect I mean, Zach Edy is like seven four. Now, granted, Zach Edy's got good footwork, but he's like that. He scores with ease in the NBA. So you're telling me the seven nine guy can't score against.

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Speaker 6: More hen, I think you could. It would just be how much is he hurting you on the other end by the time he gets halfway back down the court on those knees getting up and down, He's not quick at all. People would just he would have to stand on just underneath the goal on both ends. But I think it could work for for a little while in doses.

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Speaker 2: If you were planning against somebody that you know made it a half court game, we've got time to kind of get down the court and just get in the lane and just clog up the lane on defense.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I'm watching this play. He dunks, he's back on defense.

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Speaker 5: I'm with you. I feel like Oliver Rude needs to I mean.

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Speaker 7: I don't give him enough credit.

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Speaker 4: He won a national first of all, he has a national title ring, right, so he's already got yep, he's already got.

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Speaker 5: A great thing.

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Speaker 4: I want to him enter the portal and go play somewhere where he plays, because.

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Speaker 5: I am just I feel like he has to be able to play a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Where did Tackle Fall play?

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Speaker 5: Taco Fall was good Central, I don't remember.

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Speaker 4: Taco Fall kind of dominated Duke in the tournament that year. They should have beat him the Zion team. Do you remember that Taco Fall was balling against Duke?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a good example, great example, dominated that kind of at that level, but he was able to succeed against bigger schools.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I want to see him.

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Speaker 4: I want to see him for him, all right, So now this story I like a lot Chris Paul, you know, one of the legendary point guards of all time. He got kind of cut by the Clippers. This was supposed to be his last year, and now like his ending tour is gone, they're hoping to find he's hoping to find another team. But a story came out as to why it ended with the Clippers. People were a little surprised, like Clippers aren't even good. Why can't he just finish the year. What turns out he threw a Halloween party and he invited his teammates and none of them came to his Halloween party.

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Speaker 7: Wow, sounds like my friends.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so no one came to Well, first of all, you don't invite us. I would come to your party, invite Probably not, but I would think about it. But no one came to his Halloween party, and apparently he made him mad, and that started the process.

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Speaker 5: Of him no longer being on the team.

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Speaker 4: Now, I'm not trying to disparage Chris Paul, but that man is forty years old, right. He's been the former president of the Players Association, so he has been a leader in the NBA. Don't you feel like it's a little bit of an overreaction to having a Christmas party and people not coming, or is it really rude for this legendary guy on your team to not come to his Christmas park's Halloween party.

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Speaker 6: I don't know. It seems Chris Paul isn't the most loved guy in the league. I saw somebody compared him to Chevy Chase recently that thought, how you know, he's successful, he considered one of the greats, but he's not really well liked by period. I thought that was a mean comparison. Yeah, I just saw that this week, so I think it just says a lot more of how he's liked when he's not playing basketball.

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Speaker 4: But if you're playing on a basketball team and your teammate throws a Halloween party, do you at least have an obligation to stop by.

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Speaker 6: I think you can just tell him though, like, dude, I see you. I was fifting weights to you at six am. We have a game tomorrow. I don't need to see you at Halloween party.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 2: I think the fact that not one teammate showed up is very telling what they think about him in that locker room. Not one, at least one guy. He's got a buddy in the locker He must not have your friends were respected by anybody, for anybody.

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Speaker 5: But don't you feel.

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Speaker 4: Bad for him? He's sitting there at home, like at his Halloween party. He's dresscul Yeah, he's dressed Straculin and he's sitting in his house and he's like, when are they comming?

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Speaker 5: Where is everybody? He's holding a bow full of candy.

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Speaker 4: He's that candy and like they're playing Monster Mash in the background, and then no one walks in.

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Speaker 6: He's got a table out with cupcakes you made. Okay, now I'm starting for bad.

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Speaker 4: For christ Fall, you know, I've always you mentioned Chevy Chase. I've always heard that story and it has always made me sad.

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Speaker 7: What's the story?

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Speaker 5: He's a jerk off camera? No, so Chevy Chase.

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Speaker 4: They were doing the roast of Chevy Chase for Comedy Central, and he agreed to do the roast because he was like, Oh, this will be awesome. All my friends that I was in the comedy world with they will come and because they don't tell you who's gonna be there, they will come and do the roast with me, and it'll be awesome and it'll be exciting. And then all of a sudden, he gets there and none of his friends came, and it's all strangers and they.

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Speaker 5: Just destroy him.

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Speaker 4: And apparently when it was over, the magazine article says he just goes home and cries because he expected, like Bill Murray and all these people to come, and no one came, and instead these young people were just like, you're a jerk. And the story it's really sad. It's like an Esquire story. He goes up to the hotel room when it's over and sits by himself and just cries all night. Now I know people say Chevy Chase is a jerk. But every time I think of Chevy Chase, I hear that story and it makes me sad.

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Speaker 5: He could be the worst jerk, but that's still sad.

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Speaker 6: The roaster are supposed to be your friends, just kind of getting their digs in on y all in good fun. But they just teed off on him and they were like complete strangers to it.

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Speaker 4: And they were strangers and so like he just had to sit there and watch all these strengths, Like when you all roasted me, it was my friends roasting me. This was a group of strangers because his friends would not come.

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Speaker 7: Well, moral of the story, don't be a jerk, I.

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Speaker 4: Know, but I still felt sorry for it. That story has always bothered me. Well does it bother you at all?

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Speaker 2: I've seen that story. I read that story, So it makes me a little sad for him. But like Shannon said, man be careful on your way up because you're going to see him on your way back down.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess I just feel bad. Who's next? Will will go ahead? Will hey?

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Speaker 9: Good morning fellas?

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Speaker 5: Good morning?

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Speaker 10: Day off?

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Speaker 9: Like said Shannon suggested, So I had a few takes. I wanted to get off, but I was consistent I was wanting to call in and say, all on the Watchtower is the best cover of all time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good.

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Speaker 8: Ye.

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Speaker 9: I don't know if that was mentioned, but really was intrigued by your guys conversation about the NBA earlier in the game possibly coming to RUP. I had no idea about that, but I also wanted to get your guys' thoughts on expansion, and I'll kind of just, you know, leave it at that and think, if we get this game at Rapperena, a team might come to this area in Natti Louisville or so.

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Speaker 5: He was also asked by that about that. He was asked about expansion.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate the call, and he said they're going to decide it next year and it would basically he acknowledged, if they did it, it would be Las Vegas and Seattle, so it would not be Louisville. So Louisville kind of wants again getting turned down. I think I think the problem for Louisville is they're probably one or two major corporate sponsors short right, they have ups they have like Ford is there and a couple they need like one more. And as I understand that, they just they don't feel like they have that and so and then Memphis has been an example, like Memphis had a team pretty much just cause of fed X, and now it's not really doing well and they're kind of stuck there and they don't want to have a second situation like Memphis. So Drew, I just think we're probably not gonna end up getting one, which is a shame because I actually think Louisville could support an NBA team, But then again, their attendance at the u of L games doesn't help the cause either, because no one's going to the u of L game.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, it would work if the Louisville and Kentucky fan bases came together and supported the team, which I think they would selfishly, I would love for it to be there. I would be all in on whatever the team was. And just think if we looked into drafted a out of Kentucky or getting one that's already in the league to play for him, I mean, it would be awesome around here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't suspect it would happen, but I would love it. It would be awesome.

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Speaker 2: It was a time like before COVID or every time there was expansion and it was talked about. Louisville was like in the top two, top three every time.

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Speaker 5: I've been told that.

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Speaker 4: There was like eight or ten years ago the Grizzlies were very close to moving to Louisville, but then FedEx was like, we're not losing the team to ups and so they end up, you know, keeping it there and that was the rest is history. But I think it could work, but I think it's unlikely to happen. The Official UK Federal Credit Union, Ryn, you may not know this, tell me about it. They're the official Credit Union of Joy, really of Joy official.

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Speaker 2: Basketball?

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Speaker 5: We'll be right back KSR. Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine is seven seven two seven.

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Speaker 5: Seven four five two five four.

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Speaker 4: Will Wade, the coach of uh NC State, gave a quote yesterday. He was talking about his team's toughness and what they what's important to him, and he said, quote, we have a three point zero GPA. That's wonderful if we were running a daycare, but we run a competitive basketball program, and we've got a lot of casual personalities on the team. I don't totally understand what that means. Yes, does he not want them to get good grades? Does he want them to have a better than a three to zero? Like the quote is, we have a three point oh GPA. That's wonderbul if we run a daycare, but we're a competitive basketball program.

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Speaker 5: What do you what do you think that means?

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Speaker 6: It sounds like they're focusing too much on school.

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Speaker 2: Is he implying that if you have a GPA of three to zero or higher, you can't be competitive and you can't be tough. Is that what he's implying he's applying something like that.

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Speaker 6: That's kind of how I take it. Yeah, they're studying too much.

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Speaker 4: You two are too smart, binds me of the famous smart stoop squad. I know that's what you're thinking.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I don't know. Is it time to say that quote? I mean, he's not the coach anymore? Okay? Should we say that?

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Speaker 4: Drew? I mean right, no, no, no, no, you can't put it on me. You can't put it on me. You have to be part of it. Ryan has you know what? Let this skip one day? Yeah, not to I would vote no. Sorry, sorry listeners. Yeah, we'll give it a year because it's it's a great quote. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. One person writes Matt with Jayden Quaintance for the rest of the year. And let's say he plays well, what's our seed in the tournament? Say Jaydan Quaintans is good. And let's say Jalen low stays healthy. So let's let me put those two caveats, because I think those are two big caveats. Jalen Quaintance is good, Jalen Lowe stays healthy. What's our seed in the tournament? Understanding that we've already lost four games.

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Speaker 6: They say they don't factor in injuries. But if Quaintan's and low were to be at full strength and Kentucky look really good, I think they would consider that a little bit. I'll say a four seed right now there than nine at least if you believe the bracketologies. So I'll say four.

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Speaker 4: I think you're right about that. By the way, that if that happens and we're good, they'll factor in the fact that we didn't have those guys at the beginning.

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Speaker 6: They could be like two of your best players not playing out play us.

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Speaker 4: Say, you could get all the way up to a three if that happens. If you're snaring now, if he's just okay and Low's in and out, then I think you're looking at like a six seven. Oh he did it, so I couldn't help that.

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Speaker 5: I didn't mean to do that. I see all laughing over there. What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those four losses are gonna factor ends. But you're right. It they play the way we think they're gonna play, and they stay healthy, they could get in that three four range for sure.

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Speaker 4: The North Carolina loss is gonna be the one that sticks it matters. The Michigan State Gonzaga margin matters, but the Michigan State Gonzaga in Louisville on the road, Like, those are losses you can take. But that North Carolina at home loss, that's gonna be one that sticks.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I mean, we were talking before the year how how good the home schedule is, and that you really don't need to give up more than one game at home maybe to Florida all year. And you go and lose your first big test at home, that one's gonna haunt them. And the way you've led the whole game to till the drought at the end. We have a basketball team here. They're from Birmingham, Alabama. They're here to play Frankfort tonight in basketball. They said they heard this was the spot. So they're a big, big team.

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Speaker 2: Over the pregame meal at cas Barger.

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Speaker 4: Like to root for out of state teams against Frankfort. But I haven't seen Frankfort here.

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Speaker 2: They're not here today.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to take them against Frankfort tonight. Who's next?

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Speaker 7: Mark?

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Speaker 5: Mark?

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Speaker 8: Go ahead and Mark, Hey, guys, how are you doing this morning?

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Speaker 5: Doing good?

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Speaker 8: By the way, I'm a fellow Middlesborough alumni. I've graduated in nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 5: We'll go Jackets, And.

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Speaker 8: I'm like everybody else, I'm concerned about the about the basketball program. You know, we're nationally being made fun of for the money that we spent in the transfer portal and then recruiting wise, we're being made fun of. And my question is at what point does Mark Pope or some more go to JMI and say, look, guys, we've got to change this. We can't get any players.

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Speaker 5: Well, we'll see.

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Speaker 4: I think it's going to depend on what happens with these recruits this year.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Drew, I think this is all going to be evaluated based on a couple things we talked about this. If they get Stokes and Collins, then none of this will matter, right. All this conversation, while interesting, will ultimately not have make a big difference even if they don't get them. If they clean up in the portal, like really get all their top targets, that might be okay, right, But if you don't get the high school guys, you don't clean up in the portal, then I don't think there's any doubt that changes will have to be made because fans will demand it, and by the way, we won't be good next year. Like ultimately this all comes down to we gotta be good next year because I think unless we go on a crazy run here, fans are going to demand success from Pope next year. I generally think coaches get three years unless it's a disaster, so he'll get a third year and it'll need to be good.

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Speaker 6: And I would love for them to shut everybody up and go get Stokes or Collins because it really stinks, knowing there's so many reports out there about how it was pretty much done and just got to the final closing table and couldn't finish there. I mean, if they end up with out of them, I think it's a direct reflection of how unorganized things are. Maybe the contract situation's too much, So please get one of them, because there's not any one left. There's not a backup plan. Kentucky will probably not have a top fifty recruit in this class, and that however Pope finishes the year, the recruiting concerns will just carry on to the spring, and that stuff snowballs because next year's kids are like, well, why did anybody want to go there exactly.

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Speaker 5: And then there's a couple issues.

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Speaker 4: One, Pope has not gotten in his entire career a top forty player not from the state. If you go another year without doing that, and then the other player thing is Pope has not had a first round draft pick, and so every year that goes on, the chances of you signing one of the top forty and then getting a guy who can be a first round draft pick is more.

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Speaker 5: Now Jaden Quainton's might be that first round draft pick.

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Speaker 4: That's why, in part we need him to really be good for this team, but also to show, hey, I'm Mark Pope. I can make a guy go to the NBA. That I think helps as well.

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Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about it. It's the perception of it as much as bringing that kid on campus. Is the perception you have the ability to land a top recruit.

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Speaker 4: Like that, and he's going to be the only guy Marks coached at Kentucky that we're gonna look on the floor and go, oh huh, okay, that's a different kind of athlete, that's a cal athlete, and this will be the only one of these guys we have not had that in these two years, We've had some great college players, but we haven't had that that kind of Okay, I know what that is, and.

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Speaker 6: If that's what he is, you better be playing a lot of minutes. Like I don't want to see he gets twenty seven and Garrison gets a Marino. Good but no, none of that. If he is truly a top ten player, you play him as much as he can. Absolutely take well.

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Speaker 4: One of the things those agents that were quoted in the story said is these top dudes don't want to play twenty minutes, right, they want to play thirty to thirty five minutes. Pope's got a show. He's willing to do that, right, And I think that is also that's a big part of this. If I'm nine two, eight oh, twenty two eighty seven, we'll take a break.

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Speaker 5: Be right back. It's KSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.

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Speaker 7: Here's Matt Jones, welcome back.

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Speaker 4: This would be you know, top twenty five songs for me. I think this would be in there, Shannon. I would that would be on my if I was doing a double disc.

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Speaker 3: Right, I know you love some petty Uh did you ever put out your where are you gonna do?

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Speaker 7: Like your top one hundred songs? Did you ever do that? I'm trying to remember. I don't think he's now.

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Speaker 4: I need to do it in because it would like we'd spend a lot of time talking about them.

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Speaker 5: But I'd like to do that.

00:24:04
Speaker 4: I'd like to rank my top one hundred and do the thing where you can only have one for each artist.

00:24:09
Speaker 2: Oh, that would make a tip o?

00:24:10
Speaker 5: Can I give you quickly? I won't, I won't do this long, but do you quickly? One more trivia from last all right? All right?

00:24:18
Speaker 4: So Spotify has existed since twenty twelve. I saw the list of top five hundred streamed artists on Spotify now. Not surprisingly, most of them are recent because people streamed new music.

00:24:32
Speaker 5: Right. So I looked at the top eighty, Ryan, I want to see if you follow.

00:24:36
Speaker 4: It, okay, And there were only twelve artists in the top eighty whose first album came out before two thousand and five.

00:24:44
Speaker 5: Do you understand why?

00:24:45
Speaker 4: Because people listen to modern artists, they don't listen to older artists. So of the top eighties streamed of artists of all time, only twelve their first album came out before two thousand and five. So like Taylor Swifts came out in two thousand six, Drake came out in two thousand and five.

00:25:02
Speaker 5: Rihanna Come came out in two thousand and five.

00:25:05
Speaker 4: So who are the twelve top artists that have been streamed on Spotify whose album first album came out before two thousand and five. So you gotta think about who are artists that are older but that are still listening to today by people.

00:25:20
Speaker 7: I got one guess, what's your guess? Beyonce?

00:25:23
Speaker 5: Beyonce is one of them, so beyond, So Shannon gets one.

00:25:26
Speaker 2: Britney Spears.

00:25:27
Speaker 5: Britney Spears was oddly not on it. I don't know.

00:25:30
Speaker 4: I don't think that's a bad guess, but not on it good.

00:25:34
Speaker 3: Uh.

00:25:34
Speaker 2: Every time you ask a streaming question, I always guess bad Bunny. But they probably he.

00:25:38
Speaker 4: Came out after two thousand and five, Like there's a ton of them that came after two thousand and five.

00:25:43
Speaker 6: I don't think Drake goes that far back when I.

00:25:45
Speaker 4: Said he was two thousand and five. Jay Z jay Z, there's two of them. Shannon and Ryan getting one. Anybody else you don't want to guess, feel free to jump in.

00:25:55
Speaker 2: Sir.

00:25:55
Speaker 4: You got the one a minute ago about the president Mariah Carey, good get she was like a hundred. But that's a good guest, sir.

00:26:02
Speaker 7: Yes, is Rihanna on there?

00:26:04
Speaker 4: Rihanna was two thousand and five, Like I said, who Journey, No Journey, not on there? Died job eminem. So that's three of the twelve. Is one Garth Brooks.

00:26:18
Speaker 6: Garth Brooks so oh he's not on Spotify and.

00:26:22
Speaker 4: Spotify that's exactly right. So that so he would be on there. Exup, he's not on Spotify. Anybody wanted me to one more guests before I give the answers. Number one is Kanye West, who came out in two thousand and two.

00:26:36
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:26:36
Speaker 4: Uh, then it was Emin M, Coldplay, Lil Wayne, Maroon five almost said them, why didn't you?

00:26:47
Speaker 2: I thought it was a ridiculous, guess it.

00:26:50
Speaker 7: Was not a ridiculous ridiculously.

00:26:53
Speaker 4: Beyonce, Shakira, justin Timberlake, Oh yeah, jay Z Kupac and then Too Old Bands Shin and I was shocked. One of them's the Beatles. That's not shocking, But how about Queen. Did you know that people still listen to.

00:27:12
Speaker 5: Queen like that?

00:27:13
Speaker 7: I try to not play Queen every afternoon.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: The you're making a big mistake.

00:27:18
Speaker 4: I just play you know that like kids listen to Queen? The answer right there? You know what, drude, that's the answer. That movie Bohemian Rhapsody.

00:27:30
Speaker 5: That's a good bought.

00:27:32
Speaker 6: And I think they've got some TikTok. They go viral on TikTok with a couple of songs too.

00:27:35
Speaker 4: When I saw Queen last night, I was like, why is Queen on? You're exactly what it? That's because of that movie.

00:27:40
Speaker 5: Good call. Who's next?

00:27:41
Speaker 7: Let's go to Chris, Chris.

00:27:43
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Chris.

00:27:46
Speaker 11: Hey, guys. Uh. Number one excited about coming to watch the bag ball team tonight at your place. Number two, Queen, we will rock you is consistent with high school sports teams. Man, they still rock back.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: That's true.

00:28:04
Speaker 4: They probably play them in games a lot. That's a good call. Yeah.

00:28:08
Speaker 11: And then number three as a girl, Dad, I got a nine year old girl, and I'm gonna throw in a counterpot on that they shouldn't be alone until fourteen years old. That's when I'm not leaving her alone. Bro once.

00:28:24
Speaker 5: That's true. Point, that's a good call. That's a good call.

00:28:28
Speaker 4: Appreciate it. I hope you bring your daughter tonight. I think it's always cool when we do have these UH women's sports events.

00:28:36
Speaker 5: There's always a lot of young girls here cheering it on. That's cool.

00:28:39
Speaker 4: When we did the soccer team that one point, uh, the women's soccer team, and as well.

00:28:44
Speaker 5: I appreciate the call.

00:28:44
Speaker 4: I have an idea, by the way, have I said on here the idea I have for the World Cup this year?

00:28:50
Speaker 6: I don't think so.

00:28:51
Speaker 2: I don't think you said anything.

00:28:52
Speaker 4: We're talking about this, Hubby and I I want to know if you think this is a good idea.

00:28:56
Speaker 5: During the World Cup.

00:28:56
Speaker 4: You know, it's a very slow time at the bar during and in July, so we're trying to figure out how do you get some business?

00:29:02
Speaker 5: How do you do it?

00:29:04
Speaker 4: We thought that every day we would pick a team that's playing and invite a local person who cooks food from that country to be the guest chef at the bar that day.

00:29:19
Speaker 2: I love it.

00:29:20
Speaker 4: So if like Argentina played, we would have someone here who cooks food from Argentina and that day we would serve Argentina food here, invite people who have food trucks and stuff and like give a taste of various foods.

00:29:34
Speaker 2: Do you like that idea? Love that idea? Have some specials that day in particular to that country.

00:29:39
Speaker 4: I love particular to that, and pick a country every day of the World Cup that is playing that day.

00:29:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll just embrace all their culture the best we can here.

00:29:46
Speaker 5: I love it, and we'd p you know, bring somebody in.

00:29:48
Speaker 4: And it also gives a spotlight to somebody that has like a food truck or maybe a small restaurant in town or something like that.

00:29:55
Speaker 6: I like that a lot.

00:29:56
Speaker 5: Maybe we have that.

00:29:56
Speaker 4: There's a Haitian restaurant right next to here, so't talk about Haiti plays because they made it that they can cook some of their food here.

00:30:04
Speaker 2: Maybe fans of that team will come that day, or just if you want to try the food.

00:30:08
Speaker 5: I would.

00:30:08
Speaker 2: I would want to try the food.

00:30:09
Speaker 5: What do you think.

00:30:10
Speaker 2: I love it. That's a great idea.

00:30:11
Speaker 5: Proud of you. Well we haven't done it yet, No, you got to do it now.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: The people by the way, A couple other bands that were close but not on the list. Michael Jackson was very close he was like you would think he'd be higher, but he was like eighty five Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac was surprisingly very high.

00:30:29
Speaker 2: They're still to skateboarding.

00:30:32
Speaker 5: Maybe the tick I'm not you might be right?

00:30:35
Speaker 4: The TikTok guys skateboarding And what was that song he was playing?

00:30:39
Speaker 7: Uh, dreams, dreams?

00:30:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe you know.

00:30:45
Speaker 6: It's amazing how songs can you go viral on TikTok or in a movie and they come all the way back the whole generation.

00:30:51
Speaker 4: I will tell you what made me crazy was seen there were people ahead of the Beatles that I'd never heard of, Like one spot ahead of the Beatles with someone named Daddy Yankee.

00:31:06
Speaker 5: Who's that?

00:31:08
Speaker 4: Who's Daddy Yankee? And how is he head of the Beatles? I probably wouldn't put him out of the Beatles on my lists. He's got a big following.

00:31:16
Speaker 5: Who is he?

00:31:17
Speaker 6: He's like a rapper, He's been around a long time.

00:31:20
Speaker 5: Daddy.

00:31:20
Speaker 4: First of all, I ain't calling somebody Daddy Yankee.

00:31:25
Speaker 7: Who's nackt free bird?

00:31:27
Speaker 5: Free bird?

00:31:28
Speaker 12: Go ahead, hey guys, Glad everybody's back, and Merry Christmas.

00:31:34
Speaker 11: Man.

00:31:35
Speaker 12: I've called the pre show and got Shannon's take on this and Mariosh about I know we're having JMI stuff here. Do you think or do you know any knowledge if any of these other schools are having issues?

00:31:49
Speaker 4: Well, as I understand it, and again I don't fully understand it, and I'm trying to understand it a little more. But as I understand it, the contract that we're doing is just different than the other ones. And that's why this is happening, is the And again, I think it's an issue that really affects elite basketball players. I don't think it affects average players. I don't think it affects football players. I think is an issue for elite basketball players. Let's use the example of Christian Collins. He signs with Crocs. Okay, Crocs is not an official partner of UK Athletics because it's.

00:32:27
Speaker 5: A huge national company.

00:32:29
Speaker 4: Your average offensive lineman is not gonna have a chance to sign with Crocs, you know. So I think it actually affects just kind of elite college basketball player.

00:32:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's actually works out really well for Olympic sports like volleyball. I'm sure they're getting things they would normally get. I see the Clark's Pumping Shop commercials. But a guy like Stokes, who's gonna have a mega Nike deal. I mean he's He's got a lot more options than just about anybody else in his position.

00:32:56
Speaker 4: And it probably has an impact. I appreciate the call on like elite quarterbacks, like if we had Diego Pavia, it would make a difference. But we haven't had a Diego Pavia, so it hasn't made a difference yet.

00:33:08
Speaker 2: I'll ask you a question that guy asked me, So let's just use that example. Collins and Crocs. He comes here to Kentucky and the Croc want to do a national ad campaign with him. He can't wear anything Kentucky. Crocs demands he wears red and black in the commercial.

00:33:21
Speaker 4: I don't think it's the demand. You're wearing red and black again. I want to make sure this is true. I'm trying to. I want to talk to them to make sure. As I understand it, if you sign the deal with JMI, which guarantees you the money, which is what these players all want, like a guaranteed amount of money. If Crocs wants to do an ad with Collins, they will have to, as I understand it, go through JMI. Now, if Collins wants to come to UK and not sign with JMI. He's free to go do whatever he wants, but then he's not guaranteed the money. So the issue is, can we come to a system where he signs with JAMI to be guaranteed the money, but he can also separate from them sign with CROCS and.

00:34:14
Speaker 5: As I don't as I as I understand it, he's free to sign with Crocs and come to the UK, but then he won't get.

00:34:22
Speaker 4: The guaranteed money, and that I think is the rub as I understand, but I want to if that's wrong. I want to know that because I want to make sure because when you hear Mitch say it, he says correctly that you can do your own thing, but he's yet to say that you could do your own thing and still also sign with JMI.

00:34:47
Speaker 5: And so I don't know the answer to that question.

00:34:50
Speaker 6: Do you see the cryptic message Collins put out with this and says, if you see me with a deal, you know I made that decision. Is that like.

00:34:56
Speaker 4: A own that comn Yeah, I don't know that.

00:35:01
Speaker 6: That was a shot at jymine.

00:35:03
Speaker 5: Case to be worrying about it, but we don't.

00:35:05
Speaker 4: But again it's hard to know, Like I don't really know, because I don't know that it's been at least to me yet. Clear Don Franklin outto your year and in savings of Don Franklin's family of dealerships, you can choose from over six thousand new and certified and pre owned vehicles. Go the distance with powertrain protection on certified pre owned vehicles by with a backup every qualifying part back by five year parts. Warnedy, It's Don Franklin, and don't forget about the Franklin Truck League. Don Franklin Auto dot Com. Check it out at Don Franklin. We'll take a break right back's KSR. So you added one to the.

00:35:40
Speaker 7: Stream there, that's right, Yeah, I'm contributing.

00:35:44
Speaker 4: Welcome back Tech you sports radio uh text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt. Do you think Mark Pope can continue coaching this team effectively with his voice strain in him not being able to yell? It's gotta be hard, though, I mean, I'm sure he can do it, but it's gotta be hard.

00:36:03
Speaker 5: You guys better do what I say. But like they say, he said a month, didn't he.

00:36:10
Speaker 6: He's gotta get that figured out, you're head coach Kentucky. You're gonna do some yelling and it's not going away anytime soon.

00:36:15
Speaker 5: I mean, that must be really strained vocal cords.

00:36:17
Speaker 4: I mean, I've lost my voice before and it's like two, three, four days.

00:36:22
Speaker 5: And it's back. But he's been like that for a while.

00:36:26
Speaker 4: Apparently it all stemmed from, like the Michigan State game up in New York.

00:36:31
Speaker 2: The one thing it helps that is rest and he does a zero time to rest that voice right now coaching a basketball team.

00:36:36
Speaker 4: But how could you scream so much in one game that you lose your voice for two months?

00:36:42
Speaker 6: Yes, and we were watching him in that game. I don't remember a lot of screaming. That was one of the staring off in the Space games. It must have been bad. Yeah, must have done it a halftime or after the game.

00:36:52
Speaker 5: You know.

00:36:53
Speaker 2: He got a lot of pushback from the Gonzaga game. People say, were just standing over there with these arms crossed.

00:36:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what I mean. There are some coaches like cal couldn't do it. No, no, cow would have physically exploded. Rick would have been the same way. By the way, I was on a Saint John's I was on a Saint John's podcast last night. I tweeted it out you can watch it, and we previewed the game. Learned a lot of stuff about the Saint John's team we're playing. They have a lot of the same issues we do. They don't have a point guard and they can't shoot, and that's been their problem this year.

00:37:31
Speaker 5: So we're gonna be kind of looking in the mirror.

00:37:34
Speaker 4: Although we may now have a point guards, but they don't have a point guard and they have not been able to shoot. And like petitely Rick Tinos, last year's team could shoot, and they say Bryce Hopkins is against the good teams.

00:37:45
Speaker 5: Been very disappointed.

00:37:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's called him out publicly. There's even been some benching. He's with a fire under him. I know that breaks Shannon's heart because that's his boy, but he's he's still one. I'm worried about having a breakout game when he sees that logo across the.

00:37:58
Speaker 4: Beating Bryce Hopkins once are we supposed to beat Bryce? Is this Bryce Hopkins? Is this his fourth school in Kentucky, Providence, Georgetown, Saint John's.

00:38:10
Speaker 6: No, I don't think he ever made it to Georgetown. It was rumored he was gonna go there and ended up in Saint John's. I think it's just three and five years.

00:38:17
Speaker 7: Saw Aaron Bradshaw last night playing for Memphis.

00:38:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah.

00:38:20
Speaker 4: This guy right here was just telling me is Penny Hardaway says.

00:38:24
Speaker 7: He is taking his inile money.

00:38:26
Speaker 4: He is finding Aaron Bradshaw in ile money every time he doesn't do something.

00:38:31
Speaker 5: I don't think that's legal.

00:38:33
Speaker 6: I don't think it is either.

00:38:34
Speaker 7: Apparently he's having a hard time showing up on time.

00:38:37
Speaker 6: He charged him three thousand dollars for being laid, Ye find him three thousand for something else.

00:38:42
Speaker 4: I've never heard of college coaches doing that. I don't know if you're allowed to do it, but I guess you're. A rule is not a rule without a punishment. So unless somebody does something, I guess he can do it. What do you think about finding players for not showing up.

00:38:55
Speaker 2: The oh those days of just you know, running the stairs and sitting at half of basketball. I guess those days maybe over now. Ain't gonna take some of your money, hurt you a little more.

00:39:03
Speaker 4: I feel like Aaron Bradshaw played here in like the forties, like Bryce Hopkins too.

00:39:09
Speaker 5: I mean Bryce Hopkins what team was he on?

00:39:12
Speaker 6: He was on five years ago?

00:39:15
Speaker 5: I mean, which one was he on? I get confused with all these teams.

00:39:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, see if the COVID team was like BJ Boston, Terrence Clark, and who was the next year's team? Who were the best players on the team that ended in twenty two? Was that Oscar's first year?

00:39:32
Speaker 6: Yeah? I think that was a Bryce year too, So.

00:39:35
Speaker 5: That was Oscar? That was Bryce Severe, Damian co Toppin.

00:39:43
Speaker 6: We should know this, but I've blacked the last few years of Kentucky basketball in my brain.

00:39:47
Speaker 5: What.

00:39:49
Speaker 4: No, that was the COVID year team. Jacob Toppen I think was on that team. Then the next year was Oscar. I think topping was gone?

00:40:00
Speaker 2: Was ty ty? Ty was in the first Oscar year, right?

00:40:04
Speaker 4: And then the second year, the second one was Casey Right.

00:40:08
Speaker 6: That was the year we lost to uh so the case Wallace Livingston. That group beat Bryce Hopkins.

00:40:16
Speaker 4: Lost to Saint Peter's Yes, right, yes, and then Caseon and Oscar beat lost to Kansas State.

00:40:23
Speaker 6: Yeah, they beat Bryce hoff.

00:40:25
Speaker 4: And then the next year's read Rob and all those guys, And am I right about that?

00:40:30
Speaker 5: Those years they get muddled to me?

00:40:32
Speaker 4: Your head and I can't. I can't keep them all together. Who's next, Steve, Steve, what's up Steve?

00:40:38
Speaker 6: Hey?

00:40:38
Speaker 10: Guys, you remember back when when Mitch Higher Mark Poe uh, the one question was can't he recruit at a high level?

00:40:47
Speaker 5: Yes, everybody?

00:40:48
Speaker 10: I see for myself, I was a little nervous about the Higher and then he had all this success last year. I really am just at a loss to understand why UK would get jm I so much power. I'm recruiting is hard enough when you don't have your hands tide behind your back. Offense matters, results matter, the coach matters. This should have already been addressed. I don't understand why we're still talking about this is if something that you think, because I gotta say I disagree with your point that we can afford to miss out on these two top ten recruits that were literally waiting to sign with UK because I think we needed those guys and a strong portal class.

00:41:25
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not saying we can afford to. Don't get me wrong.

00:41:28
Speaker 4: We need to get we need to get them both, but we definitely need to get one.

00:41:32
Speaker 5: We can't, in my opinion, we can't strike out on both of them.

00:41:35
Speaker 4: So on that you and I agree, we've got to get one of these guys. And if I said the opposite, I didn't. I was misspoke. We've got to get one of those guys.

00:41:43
Speaker 5: Have to.

00:41:45
Speaker 10: Ucky force JA to reverse this or take these provisions out because I don't.

00:41:51
Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna be about Thank you guys. I don't think it's gonna be about but we're seeing them. I think everybody's just gonna have to do it because for the good of But we'll see again. I appreciate the call. I don't mean to put that off, but I actually think a lot's happening over the next week or so, and I want.

00:42:06
Speaker 5: To wait and see how it plays out. Let's do DraftKings real quick.

00:42:09
Speaker 4: Big Thursday night game tonight eleven and three Rams, eleven and three Seahawks, one of the biggest Thursday night games of the year.

00:42:16
Speaker 5: Who you got Rams.

00:42:18
Speaker 6: Rolling Seattle gets it done at home?

00:42:21
Speaker 5: To take take the Rams to win on the road. What do you got shot?

00:42:25
Speaker 7: I'm taking Seattle at home.

00:42:26
Speaker 4: Big game, maybe one of the best Thursday night games of the year. We will have it at the bar, but on a secondary TV Women's volleyball tonight you win, right, absolutely win beat Wisconsin.

00:42:38
Speaker 6: We always constant in the o'clock.

00:42:40
Speaker 4: Get in here and watch on the on our watch party. Go to DraftKings if you want to place a wager. Thank you all, great crowd here today. Appreciate you coming. We'll see you later. This is being Kentucky Sports Radio.