2026-03-03- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones bark.

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Speaker 4: I'm back. It is our number two Tucky Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four. I do have one piece of information. I've gotten multiple texts from people I assume Drew that are listening who say that the South administer is a UK fan. Okay, good, good, good. There are people, there are people not following the rule and listening, and I don't want to call him a U of L fan if he's not. No, it's a horrible accusation. That's like the worst thing you can do that. You cannot call somebody a UFL fan. It's not that that's a UK fan. They're struggling, by the way U of L.

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Speaker 5: It just fell out of the top twenty five, the.

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Speaker 2: Top twenty five first time all year there.

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Speaker 4: M Kelsey only has one win in the two years he's been there, over a team that was in the top thirty in the net. Now, unfortunately that was US, So you can't talk too much trash about it. But they can't beat anybody good. They play Syracuse at home tonight, they'll crush them. Then they go to Miami Saturday, might lose another one. So, uh, you know, a lot of UFL fans work in this building very upset. Drew like they they in some ways seem almost more upset than Kentucky fans were at Pope because I don't think they have that connection with Kelsey where like they want him to succeed because he's one of them, like we do with Pope. That in Pope at least has several you know, top ap wins, where Kelsey that's one of the problems is he's not winning those games. Also a less last press conference, he didn't have his glasses on. I didn't really know who I was looking at. He looked all sad. It's just fallen so far from when he was popping the cafeteria getting all the fans when he first got there for a long time and now I don't know. So we'll see. The tournament can change a lot of stuff. Tyron Stokes has is according to is it Fraan for Shill? Is that who said that? Who was it m about taking another trip about Tyron Stokes coming to Kentucky. I think it came from his coach to someone of ESPN. Yeah, his coach told uh Fran for Scilla that Tyron Stokes has not only not made his decision, He's going to visit Kentucky one more time. What do we make of this news?

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Speaker 2: I mean encouraging, because it sounded like before he had kind of eliminated Kentucky at least the door still cracked a little bit, that he wants to come back for another visit and entertain the thought of maybe committee.

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Speaker 4: At one point he told Paul being Cardi, Stokes is planning another visit to UK after the season. Okay, so clearly we want him, right, clearly. You know Pope sees the value in high school recruiting, which I like. There are people who tried to make the argument when we don't get these guys, Oh, that's kind of because that's not what Pope does. Pope wants this guy. At this point. You still want this kid, right.

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Speaker 2: He's an number one player in the country. Absolutely. I don't, like I said earlier, if you're not, I don't care if you're a third choice, fourth choice, fifth choice. If he picks you, you want him.

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Speaker 4: Are you worried at all about this whole question of attitude? I mean that's been something we've heard for years with this kid, and then Kansas had to kind of deal with whatever they've been dealing with Darren Peterson. So there's some people saying, well, they don't want to they don't want to deal with that. Again, Drew, I think he's the teen. When you get the number one player in the country, I think you take the risk. It doesn't work, it doesn't work, but I think you have to take the risk. Right. Yeah, there's some stories about him with some locker room stuff. You know, you don't love that, But Kentucky's kind of in desperation mode. I mean I would take him regardless of ee if you had a class, But right now, you got to get bodies for next year, and if the number one recruit in America wants to be a part of that, you absolutely have to take him. Also, it seems Kansas pretty much had this locked up. It just keeps trickling and trickling and trickling. So now I could tell you he gets a visit. If Kansas doesn't close soon, maybe maybe you're back in the mix more than we thought we had it locked. This may just be a guy, you know. That's when they're in a relationship. At the end. Shannon and They're like, I just can't commit. Yeah, yeah, you wouldn't know anything about it.

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Speaker 3: Oh of course No, No, no, you wouldn't either.

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Speaker 4: No, So yeah, I mean that might be. That might be what it is. Do you agree with me, Shannon, and you take this kid no matter what?

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Speaker 3: You know he's the top rated guy, So I think you take them no matter what. Unfortunately, it could work out to where you have a situation with Peterson at Kansas and you've got a guy that has an attitude problem and it's hard to manage that.

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Speaker 4: But that we think we would be better. I guess my question Ryan is do you think we'd be better without him? Because if you don't, then you'd give it a shot unless you can convince me there's somebody out there we can get that would be better than getting him. I'm taking him, and yeah, it might not work out, but you know what, there are other guys people get that don't work out.

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Speaker 2: You know, Mark, Mark Pope needs this as nothing else for perception purposes, that I can go out and recruit the time and get them to come to Kentucky. He needs that more than anything.

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Speaker 4: In earlier this year, we weren't exactly leading the country in positive attitudes on the team either. So I mean proud that you're started. I mean if Okay might have another locker room situation coming in and maybe to play chess, they can get along. You know, it feels like that's that's a big part is maybe they play chess and everybody will everybody will be happy. Now, Kentucky, the SEC Women's Tournament starts tomorrowmorrow morning, So let me just go over some stuff. Kentucky women play tomorrow morning at eleven.

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Speaker 2: Am Eastern time. Eleven eight Eastern.

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Speaker 4: Time, first game of the SEC Tournament. Kentucky plays at eleven am. Now, as you know, we're on the air then, so tomorrow morning, just as a heads up, we're gonna do the show as regular. It'll be on all the same things at ten am. Then at ten forty five we will have to we will lose the Lexington and Louisville affiliates. You all will go to the game, but we will keep doing the show. You'll need to turn on the Summerset affiliate if you're listening on streaming. If you're listening at home, you just listen on the station. Is that w SFC something like that. Mario is gonna make a graphic as to how you do it. All right, but just so you know when you're listening tomorrow, we'll still be on podcasts full and we'll still be doing the show, but at ten forty five they'll switch to the women. And I understand if you want to keep listening listening to women, I get that. At the bar tomorrow, we're gonna be doing the show at the bar. We will have Cash will be there, but we will also have the Women's Game on while we're doing the show, and it is WSFC. Actually, just yesterday Gus sent an updated affiliate list that I put on KSR every morning, so if you get lost, you can go find that too and find what's close to you WSFC, And so if you're in Lexing tomorrow you can come watch the show. We will also have the game and they'll both be going on, and so that's an exciting morning. Let's go to Chase. Go ahead, Chase.

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Speaker 6: Bard and gentlemen, Shannon, got quick thing?

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Speaker 5: Are you saying I'm not a gentleman?

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Speaker 4: A gentleman, ained shaneon. Go ahead.

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Speaker 6: I would never disparage the good name of Cannon to dude, but the prospect of certain announcements on the horizon. I'm wondering about our eighties departments approach to coaching and in game of environments. Do you think that a new ad, maybe by a sort of a little lower may have less concern with more superiority, more concerned with winning and a better home game advantage. And along those line, let's stopping us from coaching that was in charge of the in game environment at South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, any of these places that are just electric. Why can't we get any of those people?

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Speaker 4: Well, I I think I appreciate the call. If there were to be a transition at the top of UK athletics, I think, without question, the question is going to be what's next and what is the philosophy. I'm of the belo that college sports are so fundamentally different today than they were even four years ago, that you have to hire somebody who's eager to embrace that change. Whoever that is, Okay, whoever that is. You know, it's sort of like saying if you are I don't know, if you're a computer person and you don't like AI, then you probably shouldn't hire that person to run your AI department, right you should hire someone who understands and probably embraces the technology to run your AI department. Even if I don't so like, I wouldn't be who you should hire because I don't like AI. If you're somebody that doesn't like what's happening in college sports, then don't hire that person to be in charge of college sports. So I think it's gonna be very important for Kentucky whenever that job or to come open, to hire someone who embraces the future and who says, whatever the future is, we at Kentucky will be at the front. That's what I want to hear ryan from whoever ends up with that job whenever it comes open.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's it's ultimately a business. They're trying to make money, and you can't be afraid to spend money to make money. You know, everybody's anything competent for the entertainment dollar. You want to make your product good enough where they want to come and spend their money and watch your Internet.

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Speaker 4: What your problem? You can't have any hesitation about the sport. Correct. If you don't like college sports, that is totally fine. But my view has been for years. If you don't like college sports as it is that you're right, then you need to not be in it. It's that simple because just look around the country. Just look at college basketball. Look at the coaches that are succeeding all right, Dusty May, John Shire, Nate Oates, Todd Golden, Danny Hurley. You don't hear Drew those coaches on TV going. I don't like what's happening with college basketball. They just go win, right, they just go win, And that's what I want in the jobs at Kentucky. Will Stein did that. He came in. He was like, look, whatever the rules are, we'll make them work. That's what we need. Yeah, you just know that. That's what's so excited about will Stein. He even said exactly that as press conference, like, if you want to complain about how this job is now, you're gonna get left behind the rules and what's in front of us. It is what it is, So jump in and embrace it and love it, or you're not gonna be able to succeed. It's why I mean he showed up with two GMS. He's an example of a young guy that's ready for what's next in the future, and hopefully the rest of the athletic department kind of we see more of that youthful and the exciting movement coming in. And it's not criticism. If you don't want to do it, just don't do it. Give it to somebody who wants to Dan, go ahead, Dan.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, hey man, can I talk football?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Look, standing from Rocky Mount. I got a tour through the Joe Craft Athletic Center a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday. Let me tell you, me and my buddies, we had such a positive vibe, man. We were so excited when we left there. We got to meet a lot of the football players. Courtney Love is the one who took us through there. He won the War for award back in twenty seventeen something like that. But we got to walk they were practicing. A quarter of the team was practicing, you know, on the indoor facility. And I'll tell you every time we met these players then they were also cordial. I am so pumped up about UK football this year.

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Speaker 8: I tell you everybody should be.

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Speaker 7: Will Stein has just changed the whole vibe.

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Speaker 9: Man.

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Speaker 8: It was just a fantastic tour.

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Speaker 4: Were good. I'm glad. I appreciate you letting me know. And nice to hear from you. Yep, appreciate the call. I we hope to have will Stein Ryan on the show on Monday, just for people to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's kind of making the round talking to some people getting ready for the spring football season to start. You could tell his his energetic level is going to be infectious on everybody else. They're excited to get out.

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Speaker 4: There, Shannon, his energetic level is going to be infectious.

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Speaker 2: It's true.

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Speaker 5: We know what Ryan means. We've been around so long.

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Speaker 3: Like you wouldn't want to read that from the transcript for the people at the church.

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Speaker 4: Infectious. Yeah, not a word righteous, infectious that too. His energetic levels were infectious.

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Speaker 5: Put that on a T shirt.

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Speaker 4: That's right, Jacob, Go ahead, Jacob.

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Speaker 10: Hey Man, just one of the talk two things. One the the new ad whoever, whenever that time comes. I think that respectfully, they need to kind of, like what you were saying, embrace you know, modern you know, the modern college sports. I think specifically we need to really be mindful of somebody who really understands college basketball, as you know, as the athletic director for the University of Kentucky, I think that you know, basketball is definitely our flagship program when it comes to sports, and they need to approach basketball with modern eyes. And I think that that means that it can't be a Mitch two point zero. All right, We can't. We can't have just a repeat of what we have had. I know that Mitch has done a lot of good things, and I'll appreciate that, but but we can't have him, you know.

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Speaker 4: Again, Well, that's gonna be I mean, that's gonna be the conversation. And I think I'm not saying that. I don't think the person who can be the next one can't have a connection to him. But in my opinion, they can't have his view that has pervaded the last five years about what college sports is because it's not that anymore. If Cats fans, if you haven't checked out the Kentucky Sports Factory, now's the time that it's a ninety two thousand square foot indoor sports factory in Madisonville. We were just there Friday, amazing six basketball courts, twelve volleyball courts, twenty two pickleball courts, sixty yard indoor turf field. They got a great restaurant which had awesome food sponsorship opportunities. You can go play a game there. You can rent it out for an event. It's great. It's in Madisonville. I think it's the best facility in the state. The Kentucky Sports Factory or Kentucky Sportsfactory dot Com really was an impressive place to be. We'll take a break, be right back. It's KSR. Welcome back, Welcome back. It is Turkey Sports Radio. If I'm nine two, twenty eighty seven. Conference tourney Madness Week really starts today. A ton of tournaments all over the place through I love the small tournaments tonight. A lot going on tonight in terms of you got Kentucky playing, and in all these smaller tournaments, I love watching them. ESPN plus has them all, and then you get the big games going into the you know, the championships. Are you a fan of I guess they call it madness Week?

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Speaker 11: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, Today, not as much because every SEC game except one is tonight. There's one Wednesday game in the restaurant. I'll loaded into tonight, so I'll be locked in our conference. But tomorrow I love like at noon you just sit down and watch a little a sun I'll admit mostly yeah, I'm mostly tuned in for the gambling, I won't lie, But of course you watch basketball in the middle of the day while you're working. Of course, I'm excited about all of them. Yeah, I wish I try to go to one of those most years, although I don't think it's gonna happen this year, but I I I do really enjoy the.

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Speaker 5: Sun Belt goes on for like a week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. What do you think of those tournaments where all right, you know, there's the regular way conferences can do a bracket the way the SEC does, but they have these tournaments where they're trying to protect their top seeds. So it's like nine plays twelve, ten plays eleven, and then the winners play eight and seven, and then the winners play six and five. Do you like it like that? Shannon? Or to give the to give the best teams a little bit of an advance.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of weight on the regular season because the bottom four have to win seven games and seven days to win the title, and it starts today and doesn't end until next Monday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I get it, though, don't you. I mean, I get you're trying to protect you're one.

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Speaker 3: Of your best team to represent your league in the turn in the NCAA tournament, you.

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Speaker 4: Have the best chance to get a seed where you could pull off an upset.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, But man, I kind of pull for those bottom board teams to run the gauntlet though.

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Speaker 5: That would be really cool to see.

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Speaker 4: Which one do you prefer if you were running a conference, Ryan, and you're doing a regular tournament, you're doing a gauntlet.

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Speaker 2: I think you gotta do this way. For like, Miami Ohio is a perfect example this year, and you.

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Speaker 4: Know, and they're a regular bracket, so they're like they're getting no advantage Miami of Ohio.

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Speaker 2: I think you want to you'd want to modify the bracket to kind of protect them a little bit to kind of get them in the tournament. But I'm a Shannon. I would pull for one of those underdog guys to kind of win four or five six games in a row and maybe make this Cinderella run and get into the tournament that way.

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Speaker 4: Speaking about Miami Oha, what do you think about Bruce Pearl versus Miami OHI. Bruce Pearl is starting like holding the ground of if they lose, they're out, they're not and and he went as far as to say that if they were in the Big East, they would come in last place.

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Speaker 5: Those are strong words.

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Speaker 4: By the way, I don't think he's wrong. Yeah, I don't think he's wrong. First of all, somebody gave I think Miami Ohio if they go undefeated, I think it would be cool to see him in the tournament. But I also think they would come in last in the sees. I do now.

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Speaker 3: I want to see them make the tournament and actually beat somebody.

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Speaker 4: But that's a one game scenario, and maybe they will. Maybe they'll lose by twenty five. But if they had to play home and away in the first of all, Miami OHIW would win no games on the road. Can we agree on that? In the SEC, I think that's fair oh and nine. Now, could they pull off one or two in their home arena, maybe, But Drew, I think they go. If they're in the SEC, I think they go two and sixteen. I think they'll lose every game in the SEC. I mean, they just played like the two hundred and ninety eighth team and needed a lay up at the buzzer to win it. Their conference, they barely have any teams in the top two hundred. I'm completely with Bruce Pearl for me, it's very simple. If they win their conference tournament, they went undefeated, so they're in. Anyway, if they don't win their conference tournament, they lost. Everyone shut up, they're not undefeated, they don't get in. Yeah, that's how I am. And by the way, did you see the Miami of Ohio coach Ryan Did you see him kick the speaker over.

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Speaker 2: Without what's the speaker do to him? Man?

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Speaker 4: Take it out of the saw this right, Drew Shannon? You saw?

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Speaker 11: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Right?

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Speaker 4: So he broke the speaker for Western Michigan. But here's what we just learned on ESPN. Learned the speaker was actually not Western Michigan's. It was their halftime entertainment, the most Incredible DJ Chuck. Okay, so it was DJ Chuck's speaker. And by the way, he doesn't just call himself DJ Chuck, he calls himself the most Incredible Djschuck Chuck.

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Speaker 5: The speaker's blown out.

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Speaker 4: Kids speaker caused DJ Chuck three thousand dollars worth of damage. Miami of Ohio has agreed to reimburse DJ Chuck.

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Speaker 2: As they should for his speaker. So did DJ Chuck not get to perform at halftime?

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Speaker 4: Then DJ Chuck was not able to perform it halftime?

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Speaker 5: What's an easy payday for him?

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Speaker 4: And he's incredible?

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Speaker 5: His speaker just got chucked.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, poor DJ Chuck, I didn't know that was part of the halftime entertainment speaker.

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Speaker 4: And first I now share. I want to go hear the most Can you think you could get him to open for you at Tien Maroon?

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Speaker 3: Most incredible DJ, Well, maybe we should open for him if he is that incredible.

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Speaker 4: I don't know you all are not the most incredible.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if somebody what's giving in chuck our equipment and pay us and give us new equipment, be all right, No, you have to play, don't get paid.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to John John, Jerry, are you all doing doing good?

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Speaker 8: You think we're gonna win or not?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean our picks are at the end of the show. What do you what do you think?

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Speaker 8: I think we do.

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Speaker 11: I think we go down there and win about fifteen. I think the way we've been playing, if we play like we did against Vanderbilt, I think I think we win.

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Speaker 4: Well. I hope you're right. I appreciate the call. We got a minute here is that right? Cherry? Go ahead?

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Speaker 6: Cherry Hi, this is just a funny.

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Speaker 12: You wanted somebody funny, So here you go. Why does Ryan woman take his clothes off all the time?

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Speaker 5: I've been wondering the same thing for years.

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Speaker 4: Is this a joke or an actual question?

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Speaker 12: No, no, Matt, it's an actual question. Every time I come, y'all does something? He takes that shirt off?

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Speaker 5: Why the newdy?

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Speaker 4: That's right, that's a good question Ryan. And actually, don't ask Ryan. He'll try to be funny. Why does he do it?

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Speaker 8: He'll save a com for lovers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I think the reason, Sherry is he's kind of got like, he's kind of funny looking, and I think when he takes his clothes off, it's it's kind of like a comedy thing, right, Like it's like, oh, look, Ryan, there he is.

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Speaker 2: I just love him, and so I just wonder.

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Speaker 11: But you know, I love all y'all, but it's so funny.

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Speaker 12: He was just rubbing his chest on them women at that one place.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't encourage that. I thought that was I didn't think so, Yeah, I didn't encourage that. I appreciate you. You couldn't know that I would not do that. I appreciate it. Yeah, I will not be taking.

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Speaker 2: I think Sherry was thirsty.

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Speaker 4: Drew, I'm not there. This is supposed to be your responsibility. He's beyond controlling at this point. Remember he's the one that's almost sixty eight five nine, two eighty seven. We'll take a break. Very back TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 5: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. We have breaking news running.

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Speaker 10: No No.

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Speaker 4: I hinted at this earlier today and it has now also been reported by Pete thay Mool of ESPN. Mitch Barnhardt is expected to retire as soon as today, but likely this week. After twenty four years the athletic director, Mitch Barnhardt is expected to retire. So I've heard it's going to be today, but I don't. I think if it's not today, it will be this week. Conversations have been ongoing in the last four or five days over the weekend with folks that make decisions in the university, both boards, board of trustees, etc. And this is where they ended up. I think, Mitch, I'm gonna give you my quick take, and then we'll go around around. I think Mitch Is twenty four years has been a tremendous athletic director who you could make a pretty strong argument that virtually every sport was better after he was AD than it was before. A lot of really good hires in major sports. Some that come to mind, you know, Rich Brooks, Mark Stoop's see what happens with will Stein. Obviously, John cal Perry, We'll see what happens with Mark Pope. On the women's side, Matthew Mitchell, Kenny Brooks, Nick Minngione, volleyball, Craig Skinner, They've had a lot of success in softball, track, you name it. He I think sort of took UK Athletics from a school that was good at basketball and occasionally to be good at something else, to really a great athletic department across the board, and in the process helped make the University of Kentucky a much better place than when he got there. From an athletic standpoint, twenty four years, longest serving AD in the history of UK athletics, and now we'll retire. No word on what happens next or when. If you remember we talked in the fall his contract allowed him to be paid a certain amount of year if he got through Christmas. And I said back in the fall, I expected him to retire this spring, and he will now, and I think he leaves this legacy as a great athletic director for the University of Kentucky who is stepping away at a time that I think is correct for him to do, leading into the next generation. Ryan, what do you think it's.

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Speaker 2: A loss, man, You're right, you hit all the highlights. It's a it's a big chair of filth what he did here at the University of Kentucky. But if he's not the kind of guy that wants to adapt to the changing college athletic world, maybe it is the right time for him to step down and get a breath or fresh air in there. But just outstanding work he did at the University Kentucky. She will always like him or not. Of course, he made some decisions a lot of people weren't happy with. Overall, he was a great improvement for the University of Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, twenty four years, you're gonna make decisions that people don't like. And I was on a personal level, like I don't know that he ever particularly loved us. But I will say this almost without fail, always kind a couple of times in my life, did really really kind things at times that were important. I think he's a really good man who who you know, just on a personal level people should really appreciate. Was head of this school for so long. T Yeah, you listened to his accomplishments. I'll add internally some people in the building speak really highly of him and working for him, people I know well, including like during COVID when a lot of athletic departments were having to you know, cut bait with some people. He did a good job and making sure UK didn't have to do that and has kept UK in the green for a long time. So I know, you know, we know it was like his accomplishments in sports and all the secondary stuff you listed, but I know behind the scenes a lot of people liked working for him, very loyal person who produced a lot of over the years. You know a lot of people that worked at UK are running other athletic departartments around the country, and I think Drew's right like a person who really stuck by his people, And you know, I think there's a lot to say about that. I you know, if you were going to give the pros. I think he is very good at managing people. A con he was very difficult with dissent. Doesn't like to never particularly like to be told that people had different opinions than him. Had a oddly quit temper sometimes. But you know, when you talk about hiring coaches, hiring cow when he did that went against probably what he normally would have done, but he did it and obviously that had a ton of success. Stuck with rich Brooks when it wasn't popular and that ended up being successful. Took basically an unknown mark stoops and had success. Now you also had Billy Gillespie. You also had Joker Phillips. Y'all say, Kyra Lz, I mean like they he had mistakes, so but I think overall a hiring record Ryan, that's that's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: And usually for athletic directors that that's your legacy. Who did you hire, who did you set the program up with? And overall you know you mentioned three misses, the rest of them have been home runs, Grand slams, and you also mentioned his you're talking about a coaches tree, his ad three Scott Strickland, Greg Byrne Dwayne Peevey, John Cohen, Rob Mullins.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want you to think about where the people that started here are. The ad at Florida, Alabama, Oregon all came from here, Yeah, DePaul Uh.

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Speaker 2: Where Dohn Cohen was Atssissippi.

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Speaker 4: State, Mississippi State. I mean just think about Florida, Alabama.

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Speaker 2: And Orgon three pretty big time power power.

00:29:46
Speaker 4: Players programs and their ads came from here over the years. So I wish Mitch the best, Uh, I think it'll be the The big question is what's next? You know, we should take a second everybody to sell I break his tenure because I do think it was very positive. But what's next is the most important thing and will dominate the discussion. And will U K hire someone internal? Do they already have the person picked? Or will they do a nationwide search and kind of open it up and go outside the family. These are the questions. You know, you hear the names people here. I think you have two different ways to go. Eric Monday is a name you've heard a lot. Does he switch from working under the president to the athletic director. Does Mark Hill, who's second command to Mitch, does he take the job? Do you bring back Dwayne Peevee, who's at DePaul to take the job, or do you say we're not going in that direction at all. We're gonna get someone none of us know that to me will be the question that we figure out here over the next week or ten days, And it'll be interesting to see Eli Capuludo. I don't know how much longer he's going to be the president, so is he going to be making the decision. There's still a lot of questions to me that are up in the air that we'll find out here soon. Let's go to flower Power. Go ahead, how you doing doing good?

00:31:15
Speaker 8: Listen? That change over tomorrow is station twelve forty.

00:31:21
Speaker 4: Am, twelve forty all right.

00:31:24
Speaker 8: It's a Somerset station twelve forty am. And I have a statement I want you to reply off of it on Quainton's But we played Georgia and that surreal kid he tore us up. If we'd had quaintance in there, I don't think he had done that.

00:31:43
Speaker 4: No, I agree with you. That would have been a game. That would have been a game where he would have been very useful.

00:31:48
Speaker 8: You're right, yeah, But we're going to meet up on a big in the n C double a. Well, we're probably needing you know.

00:31:57
Speaker 4: That's true. No, that's I think that's a very valid point. There would be a game. Yeah, no, I agree with that. I appreciate the call that I think is a very valid point of a game where you could just even if it's just one game, where he could come in and make a difference. National Sleep Month is here and the better rest is on your mind. It might be cornbread before bed. Not the food, but the organic hemp gumpy gummies crafted with all natural botanicals like valerian root, camomile, and lavender. It's all there. Cornbread Hemp. I take them. I know these other guys do it helps you rest, helps you relax. It's cornbreadhimp dot com. Try it now, and I promise if you like it, you'll be using it forever. It's cornbread Hemp. We'll take a break. Be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Let's definitely be true about Mitch. Yeah, yes, he certainly never He certainly had that stubborn I'm doing it the way I'm doing it. You don't like it, including how I button my shirts all the way to the top.

00:32:58
Speaker 5: We have our next ad. Just have it like no buttons, like just have it all hanging out.

00:33:02
Speaker 4: You gotta show chest hair the next day, that's right, Yeah, gotta show a little bit of it. If your dream home awaits you, at the Bluegrass home Center dot com, you can now choose the sighting, the shutters, the kitchen colors, and more, whether you're looking for your first home or upgrading to something better bigger. Bluegrass Home Center is a family owned business specializing and meeting the needs of home buyers with standard built, single section and multisection manufactured homes. It's in Rudy Bear Road in London, Kentucky six oh six two one five thirty three hundred. It is the Bluegrass Home Center. Come check it out today Bluegrass home Center dot com. One person rights Matt. I think Mitch did a good job, but if you're going to talk about his legacy, I think you can't skip over the contracts given to Calip Perry and to Mark Stoops that put us in a bond with both of them. He kind of lucked out on the cow one, but we ended up having to pay the Stoops when I don't think you can skip over that, Drew, do you agree? Uh? The cal Hires weird for me with the credit to Mitch, because I mean, he did hire him, but you know, it was always reported that he didn't really want to, and then when Cal was here, they didn't talk. So when I'm looking at Mitch's legacy the Caliperi era of basketball, I don't know how much credit to give him. But he did make that hire and ended up with a banner, so I guess he's good there. It was just weird that they never really had a connection when they worked together for so many years. You really give him credit for the hire because while I do think I think it's easy sometimes to go well, you know, when he gets a bad hire, it's on him, But when he gets a good hire, it was Mike Pratt or it was it was like Mike Prepp was part of it, but Mitch still made the decision. Mitch still had to be the one to do it, and his initial inclination was no. I think he initially wanted to hire Tom is ooh, but Cal won him over because of Cal's charm, and Mitch made the higher so Ryan I do still give him credit for that. Now, the fact that their relationship was bad I actually think is on both of them. You know, they both could be Stubb and I think they just didn't connect.

00:35:02
Speaker 2: I think Mitche was smart enough to include a guy like Mike Pratt in that search, and when he hired Mark Stoops, he was smart enough to include a guy like Tim Couch, you know, in that search and you get that research.

00:35:11
Speaker 4: Tim Stein included Jacob Tammy. I mean he always did that. He always felt like having that connection to a former player was part of it.

00:35:19
Speaker 2: And I feel like I can almost give him a slide for the cow lifetime contract because you could not let col go at that time to U C.

00:35:26
Speaker 10: L A.

00:35:26
Speaker 2: I mean, you had to lock him up somehow, And I don't I don't thought as much of that one as I do the Stoops. Now that the Stoops contract was a little different.

00:35:34
Speaker 4: It was a mistake, but you know what, at the time they didn't think it. But yes, I do think that that gets noted. Now this is Scott. Is this the minister at Southland? Is that what you said?

00:35:44
Speaker 13: Yeah, all right, I can I can buy a big called a lot of things, but a Louisville fan. I have to clear my name on that one.

00:35:54
Speaker 4: We did. We did clear it. We heard that that was incorrect information.

00:35:58
Speaker 8: So I agree with you.

00:36:00
Speaker 13: My phone's been blowing up, but.

00:36:02
Speaker 4: We cannot call you a Louisville fan. I appreciate you calling in. So I saw the thing you posted at the church about what to tune out? Did you mean CHSR?

00:36:14
Speaker 13: I did not. I think that's important to UH to point out there's nothing about sports on there. Now you can interpret some of those to where it might apply to you guys, but there's nothing about radio or sports. But you did say podcasts that were about Ducky sports radio.

00:36:28
Speaker 4: You did say podcasts that were not about Jesus. We're not about Jesus.

00:36:31
Speaker 13: It's true, but I wasn't thinking of you guys as a podcast only you're called Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:36:37
Speaker 4: Okay, A good deal.

00:36:39
Speaker 13: It's not a legalistic thing. So as it is obvious because my phone's been blown up today, we have a whole bunch of people who are still listening to also.

00:36:47
Speaker 4: Well, I mean we talked about it initially yesterday. Did you hear about it?

00:36:50
Speaker 13: Then I started hearing rumblings, and then today I don't know what set it off, but my phone just started going nuts. I don't think if I had confirmation.

00:36:59
Speaker 4: I don't think people would have to admit that they were listening, because that would be exactly So explain real quick. I've got like just a minute what your goal with the challenge was or is.

00:37:12
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I think you guys would probably agree with this. Like, we just have so many voices, so much of our algorithm is shaped around creating like an echo chamber. We were just trying to reshape people people's algorithms. So what if we just took a little time and just said, hey, let's just tune into one voice and see if that would maybe bring down the anxiety level that we all experience and many other things. So that was the goal.

00:37:32
Speaker 4: We we're good. Well, first of all, I appreciate you calling in way to be a good sport really and you listen, the couple people I heard from about it, we're doing it, so they were doing your challenge. They were just saying to me that they missed the show. So clearly I think people have been following.

00:37:50
Speaker 13: There you go, there you go, And if people think that's what they need to tune out for a little while, that's their deal. But we're not trying to be legalistic with it. And hey, in all seriousness, all good fun.

00:37:58
Speaker 4: Great to hear from you, guys, gat to hear from you. And give my guy James tall Rico another chance. Scott, you have you have a good day, a right?

00:38:06
Speaker 13: All right?

00:38:07
Speaker 4: Appreciate eight five nine twenty two eighty seven. Let's go to Stanley. Go ahead, Stanley.

00:38:13
Speaker 11: Hey, Matt, you coming to the thirteenth region at Corbin Arena tomorrow.

00:38:17
Speaker 4: We'll be that Ryan and Mario and I'll be there tomorrow. Night.

00:38:21
Speaker 11: Good, We'll see you there. And I just wanted to say that about this season has been I've been you know, I'm old, and uh, this has been one of the most exciting seasons that I can remember. I mean, just you know, everybody's got such high expectations.

00:38:35
Speaker 4: And and what what's made it so exciting for you? Is it just because you don't know what's gonna happen game to game.

00:38:41
Speaker 11: You never know, man, what you're gonna get. And it's just been you know, I've watched him all the way back to Isle and even Cotton Ash. I remember I remember him, you know, listening to him on the radio there in Barberville. And were you in a great year?

00:38:55
Speaker 8: Man?

00:38:55
Speaker 4: And you certainly don't know what you think you're going to happen. That's exactly right. No appreciate to calling you. Certainly don't know what you're gonna get I don't know what we're gonna get tonight, Marcia, go ahead, Marcia. Well hello there there.

00:39:08
Speaker 12: I just wanted to comment on you.

00:39:12
Speaker 9: Telling the guy that they might beat the players tonight, and I hope they do. But I want to tell you I went to South Carolina and they run us out of the gym.

00:39:23
Speaker 4: Did they really?

00:39:26
Speaker 9: Yes?

00:39:26
Speaker 6: They did.

00:39:27
Speaker 9: I was sied up.

00:39:29
Speaker 12: I was looking forward to seeing poping them and we were went over there and uh, I mean and all that there was nobody South Carolina people left. None of their players came out at it, but worse staying and none. If you do not have a blue band on, you must leave, and that only included.

00:39:52
Speaker 4: I wonder why that doesn't usually happen at these road games. Maybe South Carolina was just particularly frustrated.

00:40:01
Speaker 9: Yeah, they run us out, and Tommy happened to have a blue band on, so he snapped down there and he got to meet the Noah's and they were nice to him, and he said, only Noah and Malachi came out.

00:40:18
Speaker 11: And that was it they run us out there.

00:40:22
Speaker 4: Well, I'm sorry, and I went to.

00:40:24
Speaker 9: Oh it's okay, I'll have another time.

00:40:26
Speaker 4: Sometimes I hate to cut you out, but I gotta finish this. I appreciate it. Nice to hear from you. All right, Let's do a little DraftKings bet five. You can win up to two hundred dollars and bonus bets. Get yourself ready for March Madness. Big games coming this weekend and conference tournament week. Let's take our Let's take our pick tonight. I'll start with you, you, Drew, we are a two and a half point underdog at A and M. What are you thinking? I like the Cats tonight obviously got a lot of momentum going with how well they played against Vanderbilt. I know it's a road game, but they've played well on a lot of road games this year. One of the season. I think the Cats get it done and take advantage of A and M collapsing in on a late slide here. So no Bucky ball for Drew Shannon.

00:41:08
Speaker 3: I'll go Kentucky steals one on the road, seventy seven to seventy six.

00:41:12
Speaker 5: I think Colin Chandler is going to continue to be hot.

00:41:14
Speaker 4: You think we hit like a shot at the buzzer or something like that.

00:41:17
Speaker 5: No, I just think it's just a really really close game. So yeah, about like a one point game.

00:41:22
Speaker 4: All right, let's Ryan.

00:41:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, I with Shannon. I think it's gonna be really close game because it means that this game means a lot for Texas A and M for their NCAA tournament life. So I think Kentucky gets it those seventy nine seventy seven. I think it is. I think it's a rock fight for most of the game. I'll go, oh way, he's been this, you can't go against him anymore.

00:41:39
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take Kentucky eighty two eighty. I think it'll be a tough battle. I say, oh way, we need to have him with the game winning shot down the stretch. I think he gets an a N one light that gives Kentucky the win. Now do they announce the Mitch retirement officially by twelve thirty? Were they until this show ends? So yes, yes, yes, always happens any minute now.

00:42:07
Speaker 3: They didn't want that the leak out. Probably we announced it first. They didn't want the.

00:42:11
Speaker 4: Well that will be the bed of the day. Because I think I said when the show started twelve oh five, didn't I yes, If this comes out in the next thirty five minutes, that will really make me laugh. We'll see. Right now, it's just Pete thay Moore reporting it. But I do think it's gonna come out today. We'll see if it happens in the next thirty five minutes. We'll be back four thirty for the pregame show. You can watch the game at the bar tonight as well, but we will be at four thirty in studio for the pregame. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio