2026-03-05- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday, March the fifth. I'm Matt Jones here live at my house in Middlesborough, Kentucky. I don't know why my mom is listening on headphones when it's right here in front of you.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're not having any calls yet.

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Speaker 2: Seven seven four five two five four in this dish and sponsored by the t J.

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Speaker 4: Smith Loves he called Tj'll make them pay. We are in Middlesborough at my house. We got Ryan, we got Drew and uh Mario and guys. Good to see you and uh Middlesburrow. We welcomes you.

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Speaker 5: I have had the best day so far. Your mom made breakfast and it may be the best breakfast I have ever had.

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Speaker 4: Explain what the breakfast was, because because we get asked this a lot when we're down here. You love my it was great. You love my mom's breakfast. Explain what it is.

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Speaker 5: She basically had three entrees and a bowl of fruit and the entres her breakfast cast role is famous, not just Middlesborough, but in the state of Kentucky. Then she had cheesy potatoes. But the grand slam was this French toast casserole thing she had today that was like this melting in your mouth. She doesn't know this. I'm gonna ask if I can take some home with you.

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Speaker 2: Oh are you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well she might not let you get a little to go by. Oh look she got mad. Yes she she will let you you. It was very very good. Grow and you got up this morning. We were in Corbyn last night you were you got up this morning from Lexington?

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Speaker 2: Is it worth the drive? Oh?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely didn't even need to alarm. I woke right up to the smell of French toast, you know, two hours away.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 6: We've been able to do this a few times on trips and stuff. And we're not just saying it because we're in the living room. Karen and Larry, hey just very hospitable. But that breakfast is a legendary break.

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Speaker 4: The ladies of ks are already know on their Facebook page they're gonna want the recipe for the French toast?

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Speaker 2: Are you? Will you share it or is it? Is it a no share?

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Speaker 4: Okay, so she'll share it, So I'll have her. I'll have her give it to me and I will post it because uh.

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Speaker 5: Well maybe it was a family secret, no.

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Speaker 4: Secret, no secret. Yeah, So so it was. It was very good, very light breakfast to get us.

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Speaker 2: Ready for the day. And uh, and we're here.

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Speaker 4: And part of why we're here is Larry is up here as well, and we it's good to see him and and and be down here to to say hello.

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Speaker 2: Of course.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 6: They've popped in the bar occasionally throughout basketball all season, We get moments here and there, but it's good to be in Middlesborough at your old house and hanging out with your parents.

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Speaker 4: We do this a couple of times a year. Yes, this is from Mario's first trip to Middlesborough. As we were driving through town, he said, so this is where you grew up. And the only thing he pointed out in town was, Oh, there's a Kroger. So I mean that's I guess that's what I guess. That's what you need in order for Mario to feel like it's a it's a good place to grow up.

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Speaker 5: He may have to pine in the last summer when we did the show there, so we saw the flood gates and the chain rock. Well, we rolling too, Middlesborough. I'd a whole new experience. They call it crater City for a reason. What is the reason a crater fell from the sky? Lad on Earth?

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Speaker 4: Not a crater. Craters don't fall from the sky. A Medea or a media sky and created a crater.

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Speaker 5: And there Middlesborough was building this hole, this crater that the meeting. You see it like you could drive I don't. I don't see it.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean you don't say I don't see the hole?

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Speaker 4: Do you know when you're driving into town and how we're coming downhill and then when we leave we go back up hill.

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Speaker 2: When we were in Tennessee, we're in a crater.

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Speaker 5: Okay, pointed out to me. So I don't miss it this.

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Speaker 4: No, you're the whole city is there? The whole city is a crater. Do you remember as we're coming from Pineville where at the top of a hill where my sign is yes, And then we come down the hill and you're there, and then you've been to Tennessee. When we go up, we go up the mountain. That's because it's a crater.

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Speaker 5: So what happened to this meteor after it hit the earth and made this hus.

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Speaker 4: This wasn't like nineteen seventy four. I mean this was many many, yeah, thousands of years ago. I mean I guess it bounced.

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Speaker 2: Where did it go?

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Speaker 5: Like, why can't we find it?

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Speaker 2: And it broke up?

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Speaker 4: Okay, where are the little piece of it include mountains? It made the mountain. I didn't say that. I'm not a geologist. I'm just saying to you, like, this is not the only crater that ever was created.

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Speaker 5: This is the only crater city well, we claim that they didn't used to call it that.

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Speaker 4: Uh, but but we saw the sign that said home of Lee Majors and Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Mario did not know who Lee Majors. Was very an educational trip for Mario.

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Speaker 4: Yes, he learned about the sick million dollar man, the fall Guy married do for a wild affair of Fawcet, went to high school with.

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Speaker 6: Larry Why going on. Yeah, I like, uh, a lot of the billboards are still the baby face.

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Speaker 2: Yes, baby face.

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Speaker 4: Anybody who's been in the mountains they know. And I don't think it's just in eastern Kentucky. I think what's odd is I think that baby face billboard is used for other businesses. It's like you don't want your cabinets to have funny faces?

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Speaker 2: Is that? What is?

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Speaker 5: It's so creepy, ugly baby face is definitely prevalent down here in this part of Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: It's everywhere, and then you have the if you're in pain, call Shane there everywhere those down here.

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Speaker 6: I knew I was close because I saw blake bowlings like bowls. That's when I'm getting close to the Middlesborough the ballings.

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Speaker 4: So we were on the thirteenth Region Tournament last night.

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Speaker 2: Loved it. Ryan already has his free T shirt.

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Speaker 5: YEP Grace Hospital thirteenth Region tournament. Got all the schools. What's great about the schools. What's great about Ryan is when he goes to something like that. I've said this before.

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Speaker 4: No one is more famous than Ryan at a high school basketball turnament. Every every towns media member knows who he is, and chances are he's been on all their shows.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: So last night I look up Bell County is playing Clay County. All right, how many drew do you think broadcast teams would normally be calling a Bell County Clay County game? Team one free team, so you think two on broadcasts?

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Speaker 2: There were seven.

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Speaker 8: Radio broadcasts going on a big game, seven and I couldn't where were they all broadcasting or did every radio stage they maybe now maybe they don't have media rites so anyone, cause there were seven and Ryan went on every one of them.

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Speaker 2: I picture him doing the radio road tour. You get fifteen Ryan, then he goes to the next.

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Speaker 4: So Ryan was on all of them, and that's what he does. He's like mister and that's it's a great quality to have. But he is you want someone booked on your local radio station, Ryan Lemon.

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Speaker 6: As you got Well, we think of Ryan as you know, the co host on the show and the pep talks and getting out of control. But there was a time where if Ryan Lemon showed up your house with or your high school with a news camera, you knew you were a big game.

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Speaker 4: A guy came up to him and said, I watch you on TV, and Ryan was like, well, I haven't been on TV in fifteen years, but Ryan knows.

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Speaker 6: When you all would show up in a high school gym, even though you might only be there five minutes, to get one play and move on to the next one, that's that's a big moment.

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Speaker 2: That's probably how you know everyone.

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Speaker 5: But down here, that's what high school basketball is all about. These people love it down here.

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Speaker 4: Well, I went on. So they have an official video stream that I guess is being syndicated around. So they asked me to come on in between the two games, and I did. I got more text for that than when I've been on the ESPN. This whole this, this whole thirteen must be watching it.

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Speaker 5: They streamed it in every town of the thirteenth three.

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Speaker 4: It was I couldn't believe how many people were writing me saying now they saw you on the and there were people who like a guy wrote me out with high school with who's never written me about anything.

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Speaker 2: And I think it was at that moment he thought I made it.

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Speaker 4: He was like, you were on the thirteenth Region high school stream.

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Speaker 2: I thought you were a lawyer. So did you say?

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Speaker 5: You asked him in interview, Now, what's where, Marma?

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Speaker 2: I had no idea what station I was on.

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Speaker 4: And then they were like everywhere, wow, and so what so you know, I tell you if you want to be if you want to run for office, you need to find your way on the thirteenth Region stream. They're not gonna get more publicity than that center of sports media, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Seven different broadcasts live stream and even a student broadcast from Pineville. They had a couple of students streaming.

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Speaker 2: The broadcast and Bell County won. Was it close? Do you get a good game?

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Speaker 4: It was okay game Bell County, Clay County was down double digit's most of Bell County. We here has like the best freshman in the state.

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Speaker 5: What was his name, Braxton Ferguson.

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Speaker 4: Braxton Ferguson, I got Braxton Ferguson's dad, who, by the way, at sixty five years old, has any man ever looked better at sixty five years old?

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Speaker 5: He literally could pass. I'm not saying this for thirty five.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, easy, easy. He said, we're gonna win the state in three years. He called his shot three years in advance. So Shannon, I want you to write that down, all right, Bell County wins the state in three years.

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Speaker 2: In basketball twenty twenty nine, I got twenty twenty nine.

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Speaker 4: Place your bets now on DraftKings. Take Bell County to win the state. That keeps calling it three years in advance.

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Speaker 2: Also committing to Bell County for the next three years as well. We had the portal. You don't know what's gonna happen. You were Middlesbrough, like, you know, you move away. Did you still have.

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Speaker 4: The middlesbro Bell County Thing's not as bad as Kentucky Louisville.

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Speaker 2: I still I'll still root for the Bobcats. And yeah, it was good.

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Speaker 5: You were rooting for Bell County in the first game and Pineville in the same I did.

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Speaker 2: We introduced Mario to some people from Clay County.

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Speaker 4: That's a culture shock Mario and Clay County Buck Stivers, who's hosted this show, Shannon. People know Buck Stivers, Richie Farmer's friend. He comes over and uh, he starts talking to us, and then I get distracted. He's only talking to Mario. He's been talking to Mario for five straight minutes. He walks away. Mario goes, I didn't understand a word.

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Speaker 2: He said, he's in your head. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: He's like, we don't remember, but we don't have remember it. And Mario said, yeah, man, you got it.

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Speaker 5: So he was serious. He did not understand the word.

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Speaker 4: So it's very nice to be home, uh, and to see everybody. And and part of the reason UH came home was I wanted to to see my folks. But also you know, uh Larry got got a good report, and Larry has you know, he's sitting over there. We've had our whole listening audience been uh praying for you. I get messages about it all the time, about your health, and he says he appreciates it. And as a matter of fact, on that I wanted you to have a chance to say that. So here, I want to give you this, uh this micone for just a second. I don't think this has ever happened before on this show. Mom has been on the show, but I think in all of these years, I don't think Larry has been on the show. So we're gonna give him just a second. Here the microphone, getting him set up. There we go, Larry. Yes, look at you on the radio.

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Speaker 9: Oh, this is a.

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Speaker 2: First, This is a first. Now you are eighty eight, almost eighty nine.

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Speaker 4: Almost eighty Wow. I grew up in Middlesbrough right back you are. Now you You've been dealing with some hell stuff. How are you feeling?

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Speaker 9: I feel great?

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Speaker 2: You do? Yes? And what about these guys coming all the way down here?

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Speaker 10: Well, appreciate that very much. And I appreciate all of the good thoughts, and especially all of the prayers that I've heard have been asked and offered. I appreciate that very very much. I got a good report here well this last week from a CT scan that I had taken. So I'm just doing great and I appreciate it. And I think everybody for their good thoughts.

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Speaker 2: How does it feel to know all these people you don't.

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Speaker 9: Even know, I don't even know who.

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Speaker 4: Pray for you? Had a lot of people send you cards. Yes, how did that feel?

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Speaker 9: Well, it feels great. Felt it felt great.

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Speaker 10: I've never had well, I've never had this problem before, but never had that kind of response. And I'm so grateful.

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Speaker 4: Now you watched the UK games. You were for Trent Noah.

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Speaker 9: Right, Yes he's from Harlan, Yes he is.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't been making a lot of shots, right, but then he did in alast game made two.

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Speaker 9: I think he did.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Why you like him so much?

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Speaker 9: Well, he's one of us.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. He's from Harlem.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Well, I just wanted to come to say to you on the air. Mom's been on before, but you had not. I love you and it's great to It's been great to spend time with you. And I'm proud of you, and I hope you know how much the listeners and all of us have been praying for you and rooting for your good health.

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Speaker 10: Well, thank you, thank all of you very very much. I am truly thankful, I'm truly grateful, and thank you for this opportunity to say so to everybody.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. So there you go. Larry Blondelle, Ladies and Joe.

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Speaker 4: Good cask him tell a story, all right, go for my.

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Speaker 5: Favorite, Larry Blondell's story.

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Speaker 2: Can you tell the story and tell it quickly?

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Speaker 5: When Matt always wears hoodies and hood the strings on the hoodies, how did you try to get him to quit from biting on the strings on the hoodies?

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Speaker 10: I just I don't remember how I got him too, but I told him about it several times.

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Speaker 4: You walked into my high school with your hoodie in your mouth to embarrass me. That's exactly right, And you were like, this is how you.

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Speaker 9: Look that so long ago I forgot.

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Speaker 4: I love that story. Well, we are gonna take a break. It's great having now both my parents have been on the show. We will take a break and be right back from Middlesborough. Talk a little UK. This is Ksunner, Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here in Middlesbrough. Remember at ten forty one we will be going to WSFC again as the as Kentucky women play Georgia today. They won the first game in the SEC tournament, so they will play the second that will start at eleven am. So we will switch to WSFC and we will remind you as you get close. People saying really nice stuff one person rates, I believe Larry was my teacher at Butler High School in Louisville, and he's shaking his head. Yes, he taught at Butler High School in Louisville. How about that. You have one of your students listening. They said he was a hard teacher, so you made good teachers.

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Speaker 5: Great teach he teached at Butler before he came back.

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Speaker 2: He teached. Yes, he did teach tat or talk yeah.

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Speaker 5: At Butler, and then he came back. Here was he a guidance counselor?

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Speaker 4: Here he's a guidance counselor? Yes, And he asked him when he was on he was just taught a meut.

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Speaker 5: We didn't have the headphones on.

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Speaker 4: Now A five nine two aight, oh, twenty two eighty seven. So let's talk a little bit about the basketball and situation. We've spent a lot of time with Mitch Barner. Let's talk basketball. Kentucky can be anywhere. Drew from the fourth seed in the SEC Tournament to the tenth seed depending on what happens on the last day. If they beat Florida and a couple of things happened, they could get to four. If they lose ten is the most likely scenario. It's not certain, but it's very very likely Kentucky could be a ten seed in.

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Speaker 2: The SEC Tournament.

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Speaker 4: And as far as I know is this will be the first time they've ever played on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Do you ever remember them playing on Wednesday? Never?

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Speaker 5: No, this will be the first time.

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Speaker 2: I think this would be the first.

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Speaker 6: We were talking about it last year, how we were heading four the first time they got snuck out of it by beating Missouri at Missouri. I know, the injuries and stuff. Just the sentence that Kentucky could be the ten seed in the SEC tournament honestly makes me want to throw up. That's sad. I know the conference is better, but the ten seed for Kentucky basketball in the conference.

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Speaker 4: If they lose to Florida, then they'll either be the eight, nine, or ten. So I mean, the way to think of it is, if they win, they'll either be the four, five, six, or seven.

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Speaker 2: If they lose, they'll be the eight, nine, or ten.

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Speaker 4: And if you look at who plays who and whatever, the ten is probably the most likely scenario.

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Speaker 2: If they lose.

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Speaker 4: To get the eight, you would need both Texas and Vandy to lose in order excuse me, Texas, Vandy or Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Two of those to lose. Do they play.

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Speaker 4: Any plays Tennessee. The problem is Georgia. Georgia has the tiebreaker on us. Yes, And the problem is Georgia is very likely to win. I think they play like old ministers.

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Speaker 2: Mississippi State, Mississippi State.

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Speaker 4: If Georgia beats Mississippi State, we're playing on Wednesday. That's the best way to watch it. If we lose to Florida and Georgia beats Mississippi State, we're playing on Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: It is incredibly embarrassing and even had to talk about this scenario. Plus playing in the opening round on Wednesday, that we used to make fun of the teams and the fan base is on Wednesday night. Now we're right smack down in the middle of it.

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Speaker 6: For years, I've said Wednesday is my favorite day because we don't have work obligations, there's bad basketball, hang out with my friends. It's just a day of fun. And then we lock in and go try to win the tournament on Friday.

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Speaker 4: And the game that will cost us is the Georgia game at home, a game that we should have won. Yeah, that that game will be the one that cost us, and I said that when it happened, I was like, this is a game that will hurt us. I didn't think it would hurt us on the SEC tournament, but then they beat Alabama on Tuesday night, upset out Alabama, so now it will have It will have an impact.

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Speaker 6: You don't want to ever write off your team like they can't go and win something. But to start on Wednesday, to ask them to run that gauntlet when they can five games in five and they can barely even put together back to back games in the season, it's just such an ass It's hard to believe.

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Speaker 4: The most likely scenario, if it plays out the way we're talking about, would be Kentucky as a ten opening with LSU.

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Speaker 5: What game of the day is that.

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Speaker 4: Seven o'clock on Wednesday nine open with LSU. Then you would probably play Texas or Vandy in round two, and then you would play Alabama on Friday.

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Speaker 2: Do you like that road you basically would need to beat LSU.

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Speaker 4: Let's just say LSU Van Dy Alabama, Arkansas, Florida.

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Speaker 5: Oh well, I don't like the hell it ended. I like how it begins.

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Speaker 2: What LSU?

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Speaker 5: LSU? Would they like us against second time, Texas or Vandy. I'm not ain't scared of those two.

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Speaker 2: How about Alabama?

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Speaker 5: I scared Alabama a little bit.

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Speaker 2: How about Arkansas.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to play Arkansas. I want to stay far away, far far away from Arkansas.

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Speaker 4: See and if we'd won against A and M, we would either be the four or the five and would actually have a decent shot to the semifinals.

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Speaker 2: But that's not what we ended up doing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, of course you want to avoid Florida, but I'm looking at Alabama, where you've already played back to back days. Alabama has had our number lately.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if we play Alabama, we would have to play back to yeah, back to back days, and.

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Speaker 6: We've lost four straight to and last year that they could have won by one hundred in Nashville, I don't remember the final score, but it felt like one hundred. So I feel like we'd be even if you do win the first two, we still got to do that. I think we'd be walking right into getting our teeth kicked in On Friday.

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Speaker 4: So Mark Pope yesterday spoke and it was the first time Ryan where I felt like he was very honest about.

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Speaker 2: The team's deficiencies.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I always think he's honest, but I think he was like, you know, he can't. He seemed to say all year it's coming, like it's coming. And this was the first time where he kind of said, you know, we're just inconsistent.

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Speaker 2: We just are.

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Speaker 4: And he was almost saying what we've said for a few weeks. It was almost like he was accepting it and going okay. And he said Jasper and Noah needed.

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Speaker 2: To play more, which you know.

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Speaker 6: At least they're hitting shots. I'll give him that. I don't know how many more minutes they need. But the last week we saw both of them, Yeah, they got some points.

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Speaker 5: How disappointing is it to hear your coach in the first week of March talk about they still haven't got it figured out.

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Speaker 4: Well, he didn't say he didn't have it figured out. He just said they were inconsistent with effort.

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Speaker 6: But this is the time of the year we stick out our chest and say bring it. Yes, what's fun in being a Kentucky fan like this is not the experience any of us grew up on.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not, and it hasn't been for a few years. That's what stinks.

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Speaker 5: So you and I. We had this discussion last night. Is there an argument for Coach Pope that he's had to adjust here in the middle of the SEC season and try to change things to try to figure it out. Is that a credit to him?

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Speaker 4: Okay, So one of the things that is said a lot, and I think it's fair, is, look, they have injuries. But somebody made a point that I thought was pretty good, which was, I mean, we've said all on the biggest injury was to Jalen low But somebody said to me, Matt, let's just say Jalen Lowe is as good as you, meaning me, think he is.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Aberdeen's been pretty good, Yeah he has.

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Speaker 4: So the drop off between what Jalen Lowe was supposed to be and Aberdeen. His point was it can't be that big a drop. I mean, ultimately we just aren't good. I would push back to say, if Aberdeen was at the two and Chandler was the sixth man, you'd have more depth. But I do think it's a fair point to say, honestly, our problem hasn't even really been the point guard.

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Speaker 2: It was early in the year.

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Speaker 4: But I don't think it's been an SEC play because I actually think Aberdeen's played pretty.

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Speaker 5: Well, and I think Aberdeen's actually a better defender than Jalen Lowe.

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Speaker 4: I think the problem is you just didn't create a team that could consistently score and consistently defend.

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Speaker 6: That's why I rarely mention injuries. I mean Quinton's I don't we knew that when you signed him. So Low and Cam Williams are what I'm basing it on, and I just don't know that the record would be that different with as well as Aberdeen's play, And even though Cam Williams was turning a corner just got in the starting lineup. It's not like he was just some world beater. You lost with these crazy stats. Maybe you won another game, maybe you win a two games.

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Speaker 4: I think if you had Low, you wouldn't lose these games like we do where we get blown out.

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Speaker 2: But would your record be that different? That's why maybe not.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think we would just quit like we've done in some games, but our record might not really be all that different. Ef I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. We will take your calls and be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: TJ.

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00:23:29
Speaker 2: That's opportunity starts here dot com. One person writes, Matt, I love when you get to go home. It was neat hearing Larry. Do you think he should get his own regular segment? Oh?

00:23:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, life with Larry.

00:23:45
Speaker 4: Life with Larry, it would be gets up, hangs out, doesn't worry about anything, doesn't get on his phone. Have you ever sent a text message?

00:23:56
Speaker 2: Larry?

00:23:57
Speaker 10: No?

00:23:59
Speaker 2: Have you ever been on the computer once you sold your car? On there?

00:24:08
Speaker 4: He had a job, that's right, He did have a job where he where he did that.

00:24:12
Speaker 2: But see he's still going.

00:24:13
Speaker 5: He's got some of the strongest hands of any man I've ever shaken hands with. And think you said he used to play the bass guitar.

00:24:20
Speaker 4: The strong hands bass fiddle, base fiddle, back base, violin right there, huge strong hands.

00:24:25
Speaker 2: Yes, uh what read the text you got there? I thought this was funny.

00:24:28
Speaker 7: Yeah.

00:24:29
Speaker 2: It was a submission from Chin Coleman's glasses. That's a good account.

00:24:33
Speaker 6: First I thought it was a complaint, he said. Guys, I listened yesterday and I'm really trying to give it all today to listen again, but I'm so fatigued.

00:24:40
Speaker 4: Listening back to back days is a quick turnaround laughing about the Saturday and Tuesday. Yes, yeah, well we better get used to that. That's gonna happen in the n c A tournament. Did you see Shay Gilles Alexander's coat last night?

00:24:55
Speaker 2: I checked it out online just now. That is a coat. That is day coat.

00:25:00
Speaker 5: It looks like an Eskimo coat.

00:25:03
Speaker 2: You think we can pull that off?

00:25:04
Speaker 4: No, I like shakey oldess Alexander will wear anything, but that coat. That's a heck of a coat for me. I haven't seen it. It does look like an Eskimo. It's fur, it's all the way up to his chin.

00:25:18
Speaker 2: It's got like a scarf slash hoodie. I don't even know. It looks like have you seen the coat, Shannon?

00:25:23
Speaker 3: You know, it looks like he's wearing like almost like a bear costume, like a mascot costume, look like a carved out here.

00:25:30
Speaker 2: Is a bear mascot, but without the head. Yeah, I would.

00:25:33
Speaker 6: Wear it, But that looks like something I couldn't even afford to even get near.

00:25:37
Speaker 4: That looks very expensive. You think about that in Oklahoma City?

00:25:41
Speaker 2: I think.

00:25:42
Speaker 3: So it's got to be warm though, I mean, look how warm that thing looks it does?

00:25:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it would be nice. All right, who's up for sh Let's go to Rob. Rob. Go ahead, Rob.

00:25:53
Speaker 11: Hey Man, thanks for taking my call. And I'm happy that Larry you got to go scan report.

00:25:58
Speaker 7: I just want to make.

00:25:59
Speaker 11: Some comments on Pope and I think Drew really has has the best summary. And I listen to you guys daily. If you go back and take notes on what you say. We go back to Pope at BYU. He was very inconsistent, beat Kansas, came home and got beat by by nobody. That's kind of what he does here. Very inconsistent. Yeah, you talk about how he does not his substitution pattern is crazy. We don't do we have the same inbounce play as Cali Perry did.

00:26:31
Speaker 2: When we get.

00:26:32
Speaker 11: Pressed, we don't bring we don't bring five people to get the ball. So it seems like there's lots of mistakes in coaching. I have no reason to believe that's going to change when you look at this year, Yet Low, we probably should have taken the kid that went to Villanova. Low is liability on defense. I'm not sure he can shoot the three. Cam Williams was coming on whether that would have made a difference. Clayton's was probably the best he could do. And then when you look at next year, we have no recruit. He won't get a GM. I have no reason to believe that next year is going to be any better than this year. And you know that we did go to the second game of the in the tournament last year. First, that's not Kentucky.

00:27:14
Speaker 5: And this year we went to Sweet sixteen.

00:27:16
Speaker 4: Last year we went to Sweet sixteen. Last year, I mean we did, we made the second weekend, and you know, I'm not saying that that's ultimate success, but Sweet sixteen is not a bad year. Now they did you know they did not have the best regular season. I think this year is a perfect complaint. I don't really know if you can complain about last year when you consider that the five years previous we had not gone to the Sweet sixteen.

00:27:41
Speaker 2: I actually think last year was successful. This year.

00:27:45
Speaker 4: I'm with everything you said, but I don't think that's fair to say last year was not successful.

00:27:51
Speaker 11: No, no, I'm not saying it wasn't successful.

00:27:52
Speaker 2: It was better.

00:27:53
Speaker 11: I just think we thought that this year we would move on and maybe be better, and we had the Ferrari, but we don't have it for our we We've got, you know, an old toyota of some sort. But in any case, I don't have any next year. We have no recruits.

00:28:10
Speaker 2: I understanding. I appreciate the call.

00:28:11
Speaker 4: You mentioned all that. I mean you're right, I mean, you're right. These are all legitimate to concerns. But we're also going into March and we'll have a different we'll have a stronger view here in a few weeks, probably one way.

00:28:24
Speaker 2: Or the other.

00:28:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, in this support, we grade the year on what you did in March. So here, in a few weeks we're gonna know exactly how this year went, that's true.

00:28:32
Speaker 2: And what if they go on a run to the second weekend? What if that happens?

00:28:36
Speaker 5: It could I would be, as a fan be very happy that they ended up doing something like that.

00:28:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would. I would be happy. I would still say though the year as a whole was yeah, a little a little disappointed. If I'm nine to twenty two eighty seven. Now we're gonna be switching to w SFC. So get on your phones, go to w SFC. Uh if you want to continue to hear the game. We're gonna talk about the revelations on the Mitch Barnheart thing have gone even more odd and we need to discuss that. But first from DraftKings before we go, Michigan at Iowa. That five get two hundred dollars from DraftKings, Michigan. This is the only big game tonight, Michigan's at Iowa. Though I was good, Michigan's at eight and a half point favorite.

00:29:19
Speaker 5: On the road, that's a lot of points. I'm I still take Michigan Michigan in cover.

00:29:24
Speaker 2: You're not an Iowa guy.

00:29:25
Speaker 5: Do not like Iowa guy. Although it gives a nice tour.

00:29:27
Speaker 2: We were up there, we've been in that gym. Yeah, you've been in that gym.

00:29:30
Speaker 5: On the Caitlin Clark spot where she hit that that long shot.

00:29:33
Speaker 2: Still not picking Michigan, all right.

00:29:35
Speaker 6: I'm trying to talk myself in Iowa, but I can't. I'm going with Michigan too. I was doing the whole We've been there, saw the locker room, that nice manager that showed us around.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Michigan is just a juggernaut. The problem is game's on Peacock. See I'm a Peacock guy.

00:29:50
Speaker 3: Does it change the spread for you because it's on Peak?

00:29:52
Speaker 2: It does?

00:29:52
Speaker 4: I'm taking Iowa to cover because it's on on the Peacock.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: I don't go to cable, I go to the apps.

00:29:59
Speaker 4: I do too, but I I feel like when a game is only on Peacock, it doesn't feel real.

00:30:03
Speaker 2: See, I wouldn't even know if it's on Candler or not because I go straight to the ESPN Apple Peacock is no.

00:30:09
Speaker 4: But I'm still gonna take eye with a covered because it's on Peacock. All right, we will take a break. When we come back, we're gonna talk about the Barhart situation, WSFC on streaming.

00:30:18
Speaker 2: The rest of you.

00:30:18
Speaker 4: Will be right back Chazar quarterback, Tekey Sports Radio eightf I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text Machine sem seven two four five two five four one Erson right short of a national title? What could Kentucky do in the NCAA Tournament to make you completely forget about the regular season? Well, I mean you make the final four. Think about twenty fourteen. We never talk about that regular season. Who even remembers that regular season?

00:30:43
Speaker 2: What are the.

00:30:44
Speaker 4: Biggest memories of the twenty fourteen regular season? The put back by Julius Randall against LSU, the Harrison twin, Aaron saying it'll be a great story after the South Carolina game, But can you remember anything else about that regular season? No, not really, I really can't. It all gets blocked out to me, and for me, the memories of that team just start with the Wichita State game and then and then go on.

00:31:12
Speaker 6: Well that goes to the boards of March. I can say the same about like Oakland and Saint Peter's. Those teams are associated with that one game, and it's not fair to them. But I probably couldn't even run through what they did.

00:31:22
Speaker 4: So yeah, so if you went on a run, I don't think anybody would go, well, you lost to Missouri at home. But the problem is, I thought about this the other night with Cal. You remember, back in the day, Cal used to always say it's all about March. When we would struggle during the regular season, what would say, it's all about March, and we all, myself included, kind of bought into it. And then when he lost to Saint Peter's in Oakland, he goes, well, we can't look.

00:31:47
Speaker 2: Past the fact we had a great regular season.

00:31:50
Speaker 4: And I remember saying, will you tell me that the regular season doesn't matter? And now you're telling me March doesn't matter. Something has to matter.

00:31:58
Speaker 2: I just don't watch. So I mean, I think they both matter.

00:32:02
Speaker 4: I think March obviously matters more, but I think they both mattered.

00:32:06
Speaker 6: Always look at it as, did you win the regular season?

00:32:11
Speaker 2: Not even close this year?

00:32:12
Speaker 6: Did you win the securament? Did you win the essay? I can't speak for them yet, but it's looking like that's gonna be a no. And then as much as I'd like to say Final four, I say Elite eight as the third.

00:32:21
Speaker 2: If you do one of those three, I'm gonna think fondly.

00:32:24
Speaker 4: The way we've talked about that one of those three, then it's a great year.

00:32:28
Speaker 2: If you win three, it's an elite and we've done none of them in a long time. That's that's not that's one of the three.

00:32:35
Speaker 4: Well person writes Matt, I saw you all at the Thirteenth Region tournament yesterday. I was I was nervous to come say, hello, who are your and Ryan's best thirteenth Region players in history? Great question, good question, Richie Farmer, yes, Wuwai Jones Jones?

00:32:53
Speaker 2: Who else?

00:32:53
Speaker 5: Charles Thomas?

00:32:55
Speaker 2: For me, Charles Thomas? Would you put him that high?

00:32:57
Speaker 5: Reed Sheppard Tree Ella, Uh.

00:33:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, because Harlan County Central goes to the championship game, right, Tony Petrowski, Nick Sanford, Yeah, I'm sure there's like ones in like the sixties, seventies, eighties. I can't I can't remember, do you.

00:33:15
Speaker 12: Uh.

00:33:15
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think as well, maybe who's the best player.

00:33:18
Speaker 4: Well, the best player from Middlesborough's probably the guy played at Kentucky, right, the.

00:33:22
Speaker 5: Purse full the basketball player.

00:33:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was from Middlesbrough. I think.

00:33:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a pretty good group. I would say, so you would say, would you say wah wah? Richie and Reed that's hard to top those three guys for sure. And then who just started five? Trent and Charles Thomas. Yeah, I mean Charles Thomas played in the Final four for Minnesota. People skip over that he was the sixth man on a final four team, wasn't he mister basketball?

00:33:51
Speaker 2: I think he was? Yeah?

00:33:52
Speaker 5: What teams from the thirty three? Did have won the state tournament? South Laurel did one year? South Laurel boys didn't. Yeah, they won. They won it one year with a tye prophet?

00:34:02
Speaker 2: Did they really? Huh? Well, Clay County won and that Clay one, Yes, that might be it. I don't know. Maybe back in the day when those like towns won.

00:34:13
Speaker 5: Like Trent got to the final game, but they did still Line.

00:34:16
Speaker 2: Count Yeah, Bell County in three years from now will Bell County three years? We already have it back in twenty twenty nine. We couldn't count that one, all right?

00:34:23
Speaker 4: Five nine two, twenty two eighty seven. The women's team, they're gonna tip off at eleven against Georgia. They handled Arkansas rather easily yesterday. They will play They play Georgia and if they win tomorrow they get Don Staley again.

00:34:35
Speaker 5: Tougher battle today, they'd be Darkansas by thirty most of the game, but Georgia beat them about a month ago at at Memorial costeas.

00:34:42
Speaker 4: Good for Kentucky to get a win. They still are kind of in play for hosting. They're probably sitting at a five seed right now. If they could win today, they'd have a shot. If they could win today and somehow beat South Carolina, I think they would get a hosting site. But uh probably need to win to day to have a chance.

00:34:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:35:00
Speaker 6: I don't have an expectation of beating South Carolina, but I hope they can get to that game because playing them so close, even having I thought honi Key had a great look to tie it late in the game last weekend. I'd love to just get one more swing at him, even though it's still unlikely.

00:35:12
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:35:13
Speaker 4: Remember we are at Paul Miller Ford tomorrow tomorrow, and if they win today, then we'll be doing that thing again. Although the game tomorrow is at noon, so we'll only lose the last fifteen minutes tomorrow, so the game is eleven, it'll be it's noon tomorrow.

00:35:25
Speaker 6: Paul Miller's setting up for an event to Jasper City cakes a shuttle.

00:35:31
Speaker 2: There's like a maple. There's a shuttle. Yeah. Nice, all right, so be ready tomorrow. Who's next, Grandma Sarah, Grandma Sarah? How are you?

00:35:40
Speaker 13: I'm fine? Fine, well fine, thank you. This is not a basketball thing. I read, okay. I just read in my Kentucky Monthly March magazine the article Matt Jones and Kentucky Sports Radio, which was very good. If anyone hasn't read it, I think they would enjoy it.

00:36:00
Speaker 2: They did. They did a feature on me.

00:36:02
Speaker 4: They interviewed you guys, you already it was out yet, Kentucky Monthly Magazine.

00:36:06
Speaker 2: Nice. I didn't make the cover, but I have like a little headshot, little box, a little box cover. Well, thank you very much.

00:36:15
Speaker 13: And I don't know if I'm sure. Karen and Larry probably get the magazine, but if they don't, they would enjoy reading it each.

00:36:22
Speaker 4: I will tell my mom to get a copy Kentucky Monthly Magazine.

00:36:25
Speaker 13: Your son is not only should you get a copy, they should subscribe. It's very cheap and it's very good.

00:36:32
Speaker 5: You need to subscribe.

00:36:33
Speaker 2: Enjoy all right. I will make her subscribe. Thank you very much, Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I a prear you all had nice comments to say. I appreciated this.

00:36:42
Speaker 5: Is your little photo on the front, you and the cowboy hat.

00:36:44
Speaker 4: No, it's me in that ESPN picture where I'm looking serious and oh yeah, yeah it's that one.

00:36:52
Speaker 6: We've done those before. This isn't a criticism author, but I like, we'll do a forty five minute interview and it's like one.

00:36:56
Speaker 2: If they did use like one sentence of yours, and it's like, well, you know, maybe maybe I didn't have good things to say, but you think of all these great.

00:37:05
Speaker 5: I told you. After the interview, they've asked me a lot of questions about you living here in this house, what your room was like, you know, what the house looked like.

00:37:16
Speaker 2: I thought I was just throwing fastballs at him, and then that's okay, story it was. I appreciate it. I was on.

00:37:22
Speaker 4: They interviewed me for like two hours, and there's one quote in there from me. My mom is very upset that she I didn't tell her about it, but Sarah told you about it. Who's next, Todd Todd?

00:37:32
Speaker 12: Go ahead, Todd, hey Man, tell your mom did hello and thank you that Larry got a good report. Thank you, I think, thank you all for you always calling it fair and seeing it like a fan sees it. But I got two comments or questions for you, Matt. I tried a couple of years ago to try to get when we were looking for a coach. How come when we ran out of the major names, how come that we didn't look at Todd go.

00:38:02
Speaker 2: Well? I mean, he wasn't a major name at that moment.

00:38:04
Speaker 4: I think he had just gotten to Florida, right, He'd only been at Florida at that point one year.

00:38:09
Speaker 2: He had a good start in Florida, because I did a list, and I think I had him second. Yeah, he was, he had done all right, But I think he'd only been at Florida for a year. And you know, I don't know. I mean, I don't know at that point the sort of little controversy about that he hadn't happened yet. So I don't know.

00:38:26
Speaker 4: You know, I'm not sure the answer to that question. But he the Todd Golden we know today was not what Todd Golden was when they hired Mark Pope.

00:38:36
Speaker 12: Hey, another comment. I know we have our good times and bad times this year, but I think most times sometimes Pope is his worst enemy, and I think like the other day, Uh, Chandler hit three three, he took him out. We we were beating Texas A and M by going inside and Garrison. I'm not a big fan of Garrison, but he was playing decent and then we started jacking up those threes. Instead of being up by twelve, we were down by twelve at halftime.

00:39:06
Speaker 4: We did go going inside. I mean they were were we were having. I appreciate the call toalk. We were having our our way inside early. Now I also think they changed their defense.

00:39:17
Speaker 2: They kind of.

00:39:20
Speaker 4: They were not pressuring the ball as much once we crossed half court. They were like trying to keep us from getting shots early. And then they started and we were going over the top and then they stopped doing that. Also when they take away in Aberdeen out, which he did. We don't have guys who can get off the dribble, I mean we don't. We don't have guys who can beat their man off the dribble, except those two.

00:39:39
Speaker 5: Took in Aberdeen out and were locking up Chandler, somebody got when the printer's got to do something. Then Tran or Jasper, somebody got to step up and do something.

00:39:47
Speaker 2: And it didn't lean on momentum so much.

00:39:48
Speaker 6: Once they get you a little bit and that chaos in that pace where you're uncomfortable, they just latch on and it turns into those big runs.

00:39:54
Speaker 4: I've seen people online sort of trying to have this counternare that the substitutions didn't matter.

00:40:02
Speaker 2: It was an eight oh run. It was now.

00:40:05
Speaker 4: It had gone from twelve to seven before that. Fair enough, they hit a three and then I think they hit a layup, but it was an eight oh run in seventy seconds, and when they had cut it from twelve to seven. I'm not sure how the coaching staff would think, Okay, how do we stop this? Take all the starters out. I just don't know how you and for me, when I say starters, it's not even the bigs. It's really Oway, Aberdeen and Chandler because the big sometimes yellowitch and moreno and good and sometimes do you about Tan Garrison, I.

00:40:37
Speaker 2: Mean Youbot has been playing starter minutes. It's really the guards and it's really you.

00:40:43
Speaker 4: Mark Pope should be put in time out and made to sit in the locker room if he ever does not have two of those three guys on the floor.

00:40:50
Speaker 5: They didn't want to get fatigued for later in the game.

00:40:52
Speaker 4: But you cannot. I mean, we had at one point Jasper, Noah, Garrison, and Yellovich and you cannot do that. Those are you're those are your four worst defenders. They can't all be out there at the same time.

00:41:04
Speaker 5: And he had them all four out there, and the two of those three guys we talked about needs to do on the floor all the time. You can't take two of the rear out of the game.

00:41:10
Speaker 2: You just can't.

00:41:11
Speaker 9: He just can't.

00:41:12
Speaker 2: Who's next. Let's go to Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike.

00:41:17
Speaker 7: A fella that I got it. If it's okay, I got to take on Barhart and the basketball.

00:41:22
Speaker 2: Okay, I just got like a minute, so yes, just go.

00:41:24
Speaker 7: Quick, okay, well Bornhart. You know, everybody says he's the best we've had, And yeah, I just think people that say that aren't looking at the big picture. And I think it's funny that that he gets a million dollar deal just a few months after Jami gets a fifteen year contract, you know. And the basketball take, I don't get. I would play ol Way at Chandler and Aberdeen the whole game unless they're in Paul trouble. And call time after wrest them, they'll be all right. I mean, come on, the problem. But the biggest problem with this team all year has been the bigs. They're inconsistent as far as you know. Like last year we talked about Brandon Garrison and that's why we need a GM. Nobody's seen I agree with you.

00:42:07
Speaker 4: I gotta cut you off right there. Bell County played their guards the whole game. They did if they could do it. Didn't seem to be the teague. We need to talk about Barnhart nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars and UK change where the money's coming from.

00:42:19
Speaker 2: That's next