2026-04-06- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Or water back.

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Speaker 3: I remember two tell you sports radio if I'm nine to twenty two eighty seven. We haven't gone to the phone, so may do it, but we haven't yet. Uh seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. Donnie Freeman. By the way, Drew was saying that Kayden Lewis can't shoot free throws. Not black one. Yeah, no, Black Lewis not so much. Yeah. One person writes, Matt, I glad to have you back. Tell me what the atmosphere was like in that Duke Yukon game. Well, I was on here Tuesday and talked about it, so I won't go into detail, but it was awesome best.

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Speaker 1: It was one of the best environments you've ever been in.

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Speaker 3: Without question, just because the crowd was half Duke half Yukon, going back and forth, and then the shot just came out of nowhere. You know.

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Speaker 2: It was like the way shot.

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Speaker 3: There's something about in college like college basketball. I think the fact that you can't call time out and move it to half court, yeah right, which that allows for more buzzer beaters, but you also don't get like the full court excitement, and it's kind of like always thing against Santa Clara. The fact that it happened so quickly and there's no stop and play almost makes it to where you don't have time to process. How crazy it? Right, same thing with old way, this was Drew tyas Edney or some of the favorite.

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Speaker 4: Memories came out of tom outs though, but this is not advancing the ball.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but this like getting the steel or coming off of make there's something about it, just kind of flowing like that that makes you go whoa, and that that was cool.

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Speaker 1: Your point of not being able to process it. It was perfect with the video of Grant Hill and Bill right, I thought.

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Speaker 2: Bill rafter he had died. They couldn't process it.

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Speaker 3: I thought he might have died, like literally, it looked like he'd died. And I loved it. There are such a good team, by the way, I think Hills very good too. But uh, what an amazing moment. But now we need them to lose. This has all been fun, but we need them to not win Titles seven tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it's bad as we wanted Duke to lose. Now you got to root against Connecticut.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, Yukon is a blue blood now like anytime we have the conversation, it has to be Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Kansas, and Yukon. And then you can debate whether you want to still put UCLA there, but you definitely have to put Yukon. There's no argument that they're not in there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just if you look at the title count, you can't just have them out.

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Speaker 3: You have to you can't kick them out. You can't say it's recency bias. Well, I mean four of our titles were in a ten year period in the forties and fifties, Like you have to in there. They're all in the sixties and seventies for the most part, So you gotta you gotta do that.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy this that you mentioned earlier though, when they go to the final, when they can get the NCAA tournament, like they either win it or they don't make it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and three different three different coaches is important.

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Speaker 2: It's important that they've won with three different coaches. Mean sort amount of time we have won with the most.

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Speaker 3: Coaches, We have won with five. I was looking at this, we've won with five, Carolina's won with three, and they've won with three and that's it. And one of them was Kevin Ollie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's it.

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Speaker 3: The amount of programs that have won with more than two coaches is three. Wow, Kentucky Carolina and you come. That's it. That matters. It does matter in terms of how you judge this stuff. Now, I do want to say, so I'm going to I need to take up for Big Blue Nation. And this is taking up for Big Blue Nation in part against other people, but it's also in part against some of our own parts of Big Blue Nation. And none of this is to criticize the point I'm about to make, but I also think it's completely unfair. So an account on.

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Speaker 2: Twitter called thrill Kitely, which is a really good.

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Speaker 3: Name for a account. By the way, I don't know who thrill Kitelee is, but that's a great name for account. Do you know who thrills?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I've seen him. But you've seen the account.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who it is, Okay, I thought you knew it. It says he's a class of twenty five at UK. So I was like, you hanging out with her?

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Speaker 1: No, I just know of the account.

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Speaker 3: Okay. So he puts out I'm hearing that both Mark Pope and John CALIPERI have privately vented that UK's fan base has negatively affected recruiting since twenty twenty. Other schools use the fan base and the negativity against UK and it has cost multiple elite recruits. And that kind of went via of fans being like, our fans stink. It's our own fans in general saying that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I responded Andrew, I thought you would be proud of this response. I said, yeah, it couldn't be that. Since that time, this team has missed the tournament, had two embarrassing first round losses, not started two top ten picks, and had a Ferrari season in mediocrity. No, it's got to be the fans fault.

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Speaker 4: It's definitely the mean tweets that people see. This couldn't be the results of the team.

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Speaker 3: So since twenty twenty is very important because since twenty twenty, we've lost to Oakland, we've lost to Saint Peter's, we've missed the tournament, we've put Read and Rob on the bench, and we have had a Ferrari season play out the way this one did. So I just want to take a second just to take up for a big blue nation. Now I'm not gonna act like there aren't fools online. Just go look at my responses. On any given day, people can be outrageously cruel online, outrageously and it's gotten worse. And I get it all the time. The players get it in some ways worse, and it's despicable that people do it, but it's also unfortunately human reality. Go look at what any human being of notoriety says and then read their responses.

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Speaker 2: It's awful.

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Speaker 3: It's worse on Twitter than anywhere else, but it's also bad on TikTok. It's really bad everywhere. Instagram. People seem the nicest, but that's because it's mostly women on Instagram, but it's bad. People are mean, and on Twitter they can use fake identities, which makes them even meaner. And I'm not trying to downplay that that happens, okay, And I'm not downplaying that thrill kightly, even though I don't know who that is is wrong that coaches privately blame the fans. I'll even go so far as to say he's right or she or whoever runs that account. They do cal did, and I've heard that that has been done by some folks at uk. I can't say it's Pope specifically, but folks at UK now, but I will just say this, they're full of it. They are using other people for their own failures. I want to remind you just what has happened in the last few weeks at other schools. Hunter Dickinson went on a podcast and said that the Kansas team was ready to finish their season early because they hated their fans so much. That was Kansas, who, by the way, seems to be doing fine in recruiting.

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Speaker 2: Duke. Go look at what Caden Boozer just had to go through.

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Speaker 3: Go look at his come go look just google Caden Boozer's name and see what people say about him since that play some of the worst I've ever seen him. It is maybe the worst I've ever seen. Go look at any football team when a kicker misses a kick. Yeah, all right, Go look at North Carolina after they lost to VCU and what their players and Hubert Davis took. Now do Kentucky fans are they like that? Yes? Go look at what.

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Speaker 2: Little fans did with Michael Brown when he wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: Play this year, right, yep? Do our fans do that? Without question? Some of them but so do everybody else's. So when you're losing players, it's not because of that. Have you heard John Shire say we can't get players because of what people said to Kayden Boozer. No, have you heard Kansas They're they Tyron Stokes. We're either gonna get him or they're gonna get him because of the mean tweets. Because he's gonna have to go to one school or the other that has mean tweets. It is an excuse to say that. Do Now do I think other coaches maybe use Kentucky fan tweets against the the program?

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Speaker 2: Possibly? But you know what we need to do.

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Speaker 3: Our fan base and our coaches in our administry need to take up for the fans. Why are we writing this stuff and blaming don't blame cat fan in your eye when that person says something bad, tell them to shut up. But when we perpetuate this narrative that we're awful, we're hurting ourselves more than the tweets. Right if John Caliperry and Mark Pope, And again, I don't know that those two guys personally do it, but if they do, that only hurts us, right, Yeah, Because what we should say is they've got people too. It's the it's the you know, nastiness of the internet. But how about we focus on the multimillions of Kentucky fans that are wonderful, right.

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Speaker 1: Most passionate fans in the country, all right here.

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Speaker 3: The most passionate and best fans are here. Now, if you live your life only online, it can seem like the world is falling apart, right, yeah, because online world the life world stinks. But go outside, right, smell the flowers. And I have to remind myself this. Now. I get too online sometimes and then I have to go to a remote and go see like the actual fan. Uh huh, right, I have to go to a game and like see the actual fans. Because if you only live in this circle of online, the hate, the hate is can be bad. Now. What I think happens with our players sometimes is they are perpetually online, some of them, and so that they do feel that.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 3: But you know what, We're never going to be able to do fix the niceness online because when you try to be nice to people or say something back, they just get meaner sometimes, especially the anonymous accounts. And it's mostly anonymous accounts and it's mostly anonymous accounts. How do we also even know these are Kentucky fans. So I would say that continuing to perpetuate this myth that Kentucky fans are worse than everybody else only hurts us. We should instead a focus on the good fans and b don't let people off the hook by blaming fans. We've joked about how when we lose games, they're fans go Matt Jones' fault, Okyosour's fault. Now we're to the point that if we don't get a recruit, it's random internet accounts fault. I just don't buy it. And that's my little brand.

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Speaker 1: That's a great rant. I think we all need to hear that. I think we see the small minority of fans that are a little vocal, and we think that's how it represents our entire fan base. And that's not even close to me in the truth.

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Speaker 3: But part of the reason people think it represents it is because we spend so much time yelling at each other and like ignore those people. And I do think it's the coach's responsibility and the administrator's responsibility to tit the players to ignore them, right, they do need to do that.

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Speaker 4: They should if a player comes up and I don't believe this has happened one time, by the way, I mean John cala Perry's last recruiting class had three of the top five players.

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Speaker 3: He had the number one center, the.

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Speaker 4: Number one small forward, number one combo guard, and then Rob and Reed. I mean, I don't think cal what more did he want from that class that ruined fans and with Pope. If people are truly coming up to you and sit down recruiting and they're saying, well, so and so at this S school SEC school showed me this one tweet, I'd be like, hey, let me show you how we sold out Rapperina for a press conference where people didn't.

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Speaker 3: Even really want me, Like and if you really think, if you really think Louisville coaches and I don't know if this is true, but if Louisville coaches are using Kentucky tweets, then just pull up Louisville fan tweets like if that's what if we're going, if that's what you're gonna have to do, then do it.

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Speaker 2: Because it's not just Kentucky. Here's what is fact.

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Speaker 3: And I will say this and drop it if you ask me more questions, I'm just gonna drop it. There is a player of some significance who who staffs have come out this player of some significance did not come here, and they have said that a player's family member said it was because of tweets. I don't even know if I believe that. But if you're losing a player in the annile age because of tweets, then they weren't coming here anyway.

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Speaker 4: In my opinion, if they produce those tweets, show them all the good. Show them that after a loss in Reperena, there's still a line of people waiting to get a picture and an autograph on their way out, even if they had a bad game. Now I like the good stuff, and be like, okay, sure you've showed me five tweets there on a print out. I'm sorry that happens, But look at all this, all the stuff. There is a player that these folks are using as an example. I would say to you that privately, the people around that player have blamed other forces, some of which we've talked about on this show, and maybe this is a way to deflect from the blame going to them and put it on random anonymous.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, the proof is in the pudding. You get the players or you don't. And by the way, once we start getting the players all the and we win, all these tweets will go away.

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Speaker 5: Of course, winning if you win, it's gonna be great. We all want Kentucky to win. I had this conversation a few weeks ago with one of the Kentucky somebody in the UK administration. I said, look, we all want us to win. Let's remember that. Let's stop pointing fingers and let's try to win. And to me, that's the should be the the ultimate goal. We'll take a break, be right back, Chazar, welcome back.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio text machine seven seven two four five two five four one person rights, Matt. They should get former players who've been on teams to talk about how good fans are after they leave. You see that all the time. Even somebody like Khalil Whitney, who had a tough time here, then leaves and talks about how great it was it fans still supporting them. That will happen with all these guys too. I mean, it's gonna it'll happen. I mean, remember clip Whitney. I'm not sure a career could have gone more negatively than his did, and yet people still embrace that kid when he comes back.

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Speaker 1: The Twins talked about it when they were hear this song Wins. Yes, yeah, Twins, they feel and I love coming back now as a former player.

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Speaker 4: Even in the documentary on Saturday, always says he sees all the tweets, but he's like, you just gotta shrug it off, you know, it's Twitter, and then go out in the world. The Internet's mean. We can't change the internet.

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Speaker 1: Us old people like me, they want to tell these young kids will just stay off social media. Man, they grew up with social media every day.

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Speaker 3: It's hard for him. I totally get that, all right. One person writes, Matt, what do you think about President Trump's executive order? Will you finally say he did something good? I mean, he had quite an Easter tweet yesterday. Is speaking of tweets, that was that was beautiful? What did you almost cuss?

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna say, shame on you.

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Speaker 3: Oh I thought you were about to cuss.

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Speaker 2: To not cuss our bosses.

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Speaker 3: Or calm down.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, all right, thank you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Well, look the executive order. I mean, people can agree or disagree with what's in it. My point is it's ultimately completely useless. He's not allowed to do that, so somebody will challenge it in court and when they do, he will lose.

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Speaker 2: So I do think where it is important is.

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Speaker 3: It tells you where like his staff is on this, which is they want to have five years for five So this could mean guys have five years of eligibility now, So that's something I don't think people are talking about a lot. If Trump were to get his way, and again, none of this matters. Congress has to be the one to do this. But you could get five years to play, so a guy forget about red charts. You could just play five years, which I think is interesting. And then second though, is only one transfer. That's the part I don't like.

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Speaker 1: One free transfer, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because what if you transfer and you just hate the place. Yeah, let's play it out like this, Ron. Let's take Jasper Johnson. Okay, okay, Jasper Johnson comes to UK. It doesn't work out. Do you agree it's best for Jasper and UK for him to move on.

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Speaker 1: That's a good part about the transfer of portal.

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Speaker 3: Here's the problem for if you only have one transfer. Let's say he goes to Alabama, that's where he's going. Uh, let's say he goes to Alabama. Now what if he gets down there and it doesn't work out? Or what if he gets down Now Alabama can just say, Jasper, after year one, we're only gonna pay you one hundred thousand dollars. You know why, because you can't do anything about it.

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Speaker 1: You can't transfer again.

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Speaker 3: You can't go anywhere. You've given all the level bridge to the schools. The schools can now because you're not allowed to sign a contract. So Jasper can't ensure that the school can't just block him for the rest of his career. Isn't that the exact thing we were trying to get away from before. So I understand guys going five schools in five years. But Jay Billis was right. Did you see the argument between Jay and cal and Seth Greenbrier? Yeah? I read about it, but you can't really good. Jay Billis made a good point. You want to fix this, let them sign contracts. Let them sign contracts, then that'll fix it. Yes, But the NCAA doesn't want to do that. They don't want to let them sign contracts. But do you want to fix it then let them do it? No. What's interesting to me is everybody says this system is unsustainable. Why the ratings are higher than they've ever been. Good point, the games are higher than they've ever been. The money is high, but you know what, it's gonna go down eventually because people won't pay it. But is anybody saying coaches should be paid less? H Is anybody saying a D should be paid less? Maybe a D shouldn't get to sign million dollars for life deals. I'll say that.

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Speaker 2: But the President's not getting involved with that, is he?

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Speaker 3: No? So so I don't really care so much about the executive order because it's not gonna stand up. But this legislation at some point is going to happen. And I think if they do the only one transfer, I understand why people think that sounds good, But in practice you use Jasper Johnson.

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Speaker 2: If he transfers wherever.

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Speaker 3: He goes, will now have control of that kid for the rest of his time and there's not a thing he can do about it.

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Speaker 1: So is the rule where if he transferred a second time, he'd have to sit out a year like it used to be yes.

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Speaker 3: You only have the five year window, but then you only have the five year windows, so you're basically forcing him to not play for a you uh huh, Yeah, I don't is that good?

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Speaker 4: And is it congres like I'll use North Carolina example, because he liked North Carolina. If he had transferred to North Carolina and then Hubert Davids gets fired, is he still stuck or do they go back to looking into that, there's your circumstances.

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Speaker 3: Then are you gonna get waivers? And we're back to the situation where everybody applies for waivers and.

00:21:25
Speaker 4: We know they weren't good at that in the first place.

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Speaker 3: And then what if you go there and the coach does something bad to you? What if you go there and the coach smacks you in the face. Are you saying he can't leave? Now? Four more years stuck?

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Speaker 2: So I just don't like.

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Speaker 3: I don't like the rule. I think they're you know John caliperry Man, every time he talks about it, the players get older. You know, he used to go, there's twenty four year olds playing basketball. Then he's like, there's twenty five year olds. And then when he was on there with Billis. He goes, there's twenty eight year old. Oh, he's twenty eight playing basketball.

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Speaker 1: He used the same joke with two kids in a mortgage.

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Speaker 4: I heard it got contentious with cal and Billisse.

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Speaker 3: Billis was basically calling col out for being in Greenberg. Greenberg was shockingly on cows side, and they were both like, there has to be rules. And Billis was like, why this is the highest rated tournament of all time. Everyone agrees the quality of play is better than it's ever been. Why do we What is the deal? If you don't want to pay money for these guys, just don't.

00:22:28
Speaker 2: You don't have to. Nobody's making you.

00:22:32
Speaker 1: Football ratings are up, Basketball ratings are up. The sport is at its highest level.

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Speaker 3: I saw a great tweet and it was a little political, but I don't care. It showed a picture of Zoron Mandami and it said college basketball coaches and ads. Whenever it comes to sports, they all become socialists. They do. They all are like, we gotta stop paying these people. We got to collective guys, We got to share the money. We gotta make sure players don't like they all become Zoron.

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Speaker 1: You want to share their own money?

00:23:08
Speaker 3: No, they are. No, they're capitalists for themselves, but they're socialists for the players. It's just it's interesting, all right, We'll take a break, have a little more fun when we come back. KISR, Welcome back. Take you Sports Radio BBN. Spring is sprung, and that means you might be getting outside more, whether you're staying active by biking or running. Increase physical activity when the weather gets warmer can lead to as pains and injuries. Go to Court Physical Therapy. They'll help you get what you need to heal and get back to the things you enjoy. It's Court Physical Therapy over seventy locations statewide. Court dot com. For the best in rehab, It's ko rt dot com. We got to talk about something drew me and you. So last night Neighbors, episode six, you jumped in You did it? Oh my goodness, it's incredible. I mean, I don't know how many people listening to this have have gone ahead and bit the bullet and watched the show. I highly recommend episodes one through five. Okay, highly recommend especially two. Who's my favorite? Which one was too?

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Speaker 4: The retired guys with the hot tub in the house.

00:24:18
Speaker 3: Like the guys with the hot tub in the house. Yeah, the guy that does karate and all that. Yeah, he's he's good. Have you watched them?

00:24:25
Speaker 5: All?

00:24:25
Speaker 1: Watched it all?

00:24:26
Speaker 3: Okay? So all right, so we can the three of us talk about one through five highly recommend crazy people. Really petty disputes.

00:24:35
Speaker 4: A Backstreet Boy appearance. Who saw that coming?

00:24:37
Speaker 3: By the way, there's an update on there's an update on the Backstreet Boy so love it?

00:24:44
Speaker 2: Episode six?

00:24:47
Speaker 3: Wow? Wow?

00:24:50
Speaker 2: Rick?

00:24:50
Speaker 3: Have you seen Neighbors? No? I haven't seen that. I have to change.

00:24:54
Speaker 2: I want you Rick.

00:24:55
Speaker 3: Do you have HBO?

00:24:57
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:24:58
Speaker 3: I want you tonight, Rick, don't read one thing about it. Just turn on Neighbors and watch episode six only, okay, I'll do that. Will you do that? Are you here tomorrow? I'm here all we okay, So just tonight just watch episode six and then come back. And I want your thoughts. Okay, why are you why are you all have your hands in your head? Poor Rick?

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Speaker 2: Don't you think Rick should see it?

00:25:22
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:25:23
Speaker 1: I widn't know if I want anybody to see that.

00:25:26
Speaker 3: Pardon now.

00:25:27
Speaker 1: I really want to see it.

00:25:28
Speaker 3: See okay, So without spoiling it for Rick, because I want to give Rick the chance to watch it and then we talk details tomorrow. Wow. Yeah, a lot going on there.

00:25:39
Speaker 1: Wow, there a good way to put it.

00:25:41
Speaker 3: In the end. Did you feel sorry for that guy? I was so happy when you found community. I thought he was gonna stick around. I was actually what about the woman?

00:25:52
Speaker 4: Though incredible the music video, I've not stopped singing shake that. You know, I won't say it here that that was a plot to us.

00:25:58
Speaker 3: I didn't see it coming.

00:25:59
Speaker 4: I thought we were folks based on him, and then she brought her own stuff to the her own thing going, and I did get very sad with the concetant text messaging though answering.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't watch the textually the text the texting, You know how sometimes you just like it's so cringy you can't even look at it. That was one of those what about the community again, speaking broadly here so we don't spoil it for Rick.

00:26:27
Speaker 1: I really didn't realize. I guess there were communities like that that existed where.

00:26:31
Speaker 3: I could see you living in one of those communities. All I could think about is there's a world where Ryan Lemon could live here. You have that thought?

00:26:42
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I could see him rocking that stage at karaoke night.

00:26:46
Speaker 1: I definite would rock karaoke night.

00:26:47
Speaker 3: I am not sure when this show ends, you will not end up at one of those places. I I will say, there are very few things at this stage of my life that make me go whoa. But when he got in that cart, yeah, golf cart and started driving through that place, huh, that was a whoa. Yeah, that was what I wasn't ready. I thought I was ready. I wasn't ready.

00:27:22
Speaker 4: I had been warned so many times to the point I'm like, I don't even know if I need to watch it. I know much so much about it, and I still had to pick my jaw off the floor.

00:27:29
Speaker 3: So Rick, you take your view tonight, okay, okay, and then we'll talk about it tomorrow sounds and we won't have to go into details. I want you to also know, Rick, all of us in the ks R world our prayers are with you, my man. Okay, and you you and I we don't have to go into it for but like everybody listening, I hope you know that, Rick, Yes, okay, I just want to make we love you all right.

00:27:59
Speaker 2: So now with that said, Spring of Elly.

00:28:04
Speaker 3: Got a big hit last night six and three yeah, swept the Rangers, swept the Rangers. A hu haano case Burns, Hada Burns had a big game.

00:28:16
Speaker 2: It's Summer of sal, Spring of Elly, Summer of sal.

00:28:20
Speaker 1: He's leading Canada to win Rookie of the Year right now.

00:28:23
Speaker 3: Hookie, he's gonna be Wookie of the Year. So somebody needs to make a meme of that. Sal Stewart Wookie of the Year, just like the Star War somebody.

00:28:35
Speaker 2: If somebody said that to me, I like South Stewart Wookie of the Year. Uh, little speeches. Do you got a big hit?

00:28:42
Speaker 3: Ye? So, uh, you know, I'm not giving up yet. It's it's just we get this every year.

00:28:49
Speaker 4: We had the excitement, and then around May you'll be like, I'm never going again, and then they'll win a series in June and you'll be back.

00:28:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how it works. Now.

00:28:56
Speaker 2: Can I go ahead and tell you something I'm right mad about.

00:28:58
Speaker 1: What's that?

00:28:59
Speaker 3: This damn blister?

00:29:01
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, what is with it?

00:29:02
Speaker 3: We've we've talked about this. I don't understand this blister. Nickelodolos had the same blister for three years and he keeps being out and he they're like, they've the story. I read said, they've tried every single thing one can do to fix a blister. Have we found out that in the medical profession the only unfixable thing is a finger blister?

00:29:25
Speaker 2: He can't fix it, he said.

00:29:28
Speaker 3: They've tried rubbing sam paper on it to get a callous It just keeps popping.

00:29:34
Speaker 2: How's that possible?

00:29:35
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Like I said, I played baseball in my whole life. Not one time did a pitcher miss a play a start because he had a blister.

00:29:41
Speaker 2: Not ever.

00:29:41
Speaker 3: But this has been three years of the same blister, same guy.

00:29:46
Speaker 4: Three weeks. I could understand. It just won't go away, and every time you try something it gets worse. But three years is ridiculous.

00:29:51
Speaker 3: There have to explain to me.

00:29:54
Speaker 2: So a blister is just like irritation from rubbing.

00:29:57
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, over time or time and timing.

00:30:00
Speaker 3: But does your hand like my feet you have you can get a pass, Yeah they do. But I have parts of my feet that can't blister because they've calloused up. Your fingers not callous exactly.

00:30:13
Speaker 1: Then pitching the same hand for twenty years, you got soft, little baby hands. Maybe I don't know what's going on there.

00:30:20
Speaker 4: Do you know how you know, like I said, I can understand short term why it'd be a problem, but the fact this has spanned multiple seasons, like what's what's the next one? For everything you struggles? You just got to amputato?

00:30:30
Speaker 3: Can you put okay, somebody may be able to tell maybe there's a baseball. Can I not put a band aid on it?

00:30:38
Speaker 1: Probably not?

00:30:39
Speaker 3: Why nothing on your throwing hand? So you can't have have a band aid?

00:30:44
Speaker 1: I don't think so considered a foreign substance for an object on your throwing hand and your glove nothing like that.

00:30:50
Speaker 2: So you I didn't realize that, so you couldn't you? No band aid?

00:30:54
Speaker 3: Not?

00:30:54
Speaker 1: Is your pitcher not on your throwing hand?

00:30:57
Speaker 2: But what do they think a band aid is gonna do?

00:30:59
Speaker 1: Distract the hitter? They'll see that band aid dish.

00:31:01
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll make it flesh colored. Yeah.

00:31:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, he can't use like the blue snoopy winder.

00:31:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just has to. He has to use the same as his skin. I still can't do that.

00:31:10
Speaker 1: I don't get it, man, I've never heard a picture have this many problems with it. Every now and then maybe one come up and for the same guy to happen year after year after year. Something's not right. Maybe you got manicures of his whole life and you've got a little soft, little baby hands.

00:31:22
Speaker 2: It's infuriating because we could use him because he's good.

00:31:25
Speaker 3: He's good.

00:31:26
Speaker 2: He's six eleven.

00:31:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.

00:31:29
Speaker 3: They announced during the time I was away that UK has signed a deal with Fanatics. JMI signs a deal for twelve years that allows Fanatics merchandise and twenty five players during those twelve years will have their own branded Fanatics merchandise.

00:31:49
Speaker 2: That's part of Nile deals. What are your thoughts.

00:31:54
Speaker 4: I like the idea of players been able to, you know, add another layer to them go out and get money. I hope it does really well in NIL. I don't know while we keep signing these decade long deals in such a time of uncertainty where the sport changes on a dime any day. But overall, I'd say it's positive as long as the players are getting compensated enough to get here.

00:32:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my take. It seems positive to me. I don't see the negative in general. I think it seems creative, and we ask for them to do creative things. That's gonna be a creative thing. So I think with all of these deals. Ultimately, the proof is in do you get players? Right?

00:32:30
Speaker 4: So, yeah, the idea, because they already have Fanatics deals, you can go get the logo. I guess like a Colin Chandler could have his own line through Fanatics now using the UK and UK.

00:32:38
Speaker 3: Is the one that's so. I think the theory is UK goes up to Tyron Stokes and says we're going to create Tyron Stokes branded clothes through Fanatics and through that we will give you more money in that. I think that's the theory ran of what it is.

00:32:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't wonder how they go spread it out, like does UK football, UK Basketball's claris st I get one for UK women's basketball. How do they try to spread it out?

00:33:02
Speaker 3: I think they just figure out who they want, biggest names on campus at that time. Whatever. You just say, who were the people that.

00:33:08
Speaker 1: To get twenty five guys? If you're that twenty six?

00:33:10
Speaker 3: But I would bet if it's working, Fanatics probably guaranteed twenty five. But if it's working, then maybe they'll do fifth, you know, I mean, I don't. I'm with Drew. I think it actually sounds like a good idea. The question for me is only you know the proof do you get players or not? Like that's gonna be the whole thing and I and we'll have to wait and see. We don't really know.

00:33:31
Speaker 1: If you've got a popular guy like ecuse just Trent for example, who came in and everybody loved him in the thirteenth region, everybody would want to Trent.

00:33:37
Speaker 3: No I think if you did that with Trent Noah when he first got here, that would have been a great exactly a great idea. And I think the good here's the good thing about this, Like Kentucky Branded has done these deals with players, but now UK like in theory, a player could create Trent Noah branded merchandise that has the UK logo and that he could wear.

00:33:58
Speaker 2: In warm up.

00:34:00
Speaker 1: Huh yeah.

00:34:02
Speaker 3: A counter would be what if they have a company that they like and want to do deal with and fanatics is like, well, we don't deal with that company. That's there you go. But in the details, if you're tiring Stokes and you already have a deal with a company, will u K let you.

00:34:19
Speaker 2: Keep it? We don't really know the answer of that.

00:34:22
Speaker 3: UK has said yes, but privately you hear conversations that they make it so difficult that the players are like, I don't really think we can do this, So I don't know. But that is a very small group of players that way, of course, like a handful of the top basketball recruits. Which is why I genuinely do believe that the JAM ideal works for football. We just have to see about basketball. And I'm not ready to say yes or no yet, but I did think this was positive. There's a decent step.

00:34:54
Speaker 1: You're saying enough for basketb because there's more opportunities for the basketball players out there.

00:34:58
Speaker 3: I think the football guys we're recruiting, they don't come in here with deals. We're recruiting like the ninety sixth best like, but in basketball, we're recruiting the top four dudes in America and they might already have deals. Yeah, Like Tyron Stokes already has a deal with Nike. Kansas clearly is saying to him, will work around it. My question is, are UK and j am I when the kid has a deal with Adidas, are we willing to work around And we don't know the answer that We've had some hints that maybe they're not, but we don't really know. That's really the question. Yeah, tell me about Stocktor Morgage.

00:35:43
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00:36:10
Speaker 3: We close on my house on.

00:36:13
Speaker 1: Thursday, Thursday Thursday?

00:36:14
Speaker 3: Are you ready? Like I'm not gonna go and show up and like you will have moved me to a new house.

00:36:21
Speaker 1: We got your repair guy ready to go in as soon as you close, your pool guy, your fence guy, everybody's lined up ready to go as soon as you close.

00:36:28
Speaker 3: All right. And then the housewarming party. Yeah, we gotta have a housewarming party. Yeah. Yeah, First I gotta get furniture. We'll bring furniture. I'll bring you a stool THIRSD. I gotta get furniture. I was researching interior designers this week. Yeah, that's not a fun research.

00:36:47
Speaker 4: No, buckle up on furnishing that place. It's whatever you think it's gonna be, it's gonna be more.

00:36:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't know how to judge them. People in Lexington seem to have a lot of floral designs on their couches.

00:37:00
Speaker 2: Patterns coming back not necessarily the manly thing.

00:37:02
Speaker 3: I don't want those floral does that. So it's hard for me to find who does good designing that doesn't include like flowers, uh huh on couches.

00:37:10
Speaker 4: Well, Mario is gonna design your studio right in the kitchen again.

00:37:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mario doesn't get to do the new We'll take a break. Very back Schas, Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven seven seven two seven seven four five two five four on the text machine. Thank you to the Wookie of the Year pictures. Those were good. Yeah, I enjoyed that. It did not disappoint. You did a very very good job. This is still like what I was saying about the good fan base. This is the best fan base. This uh, this this thing and what I will say. When I had conversations with ESPN at various points, I got asked by one of the top people at ESPN, why do you think your audience is so good? And I said the people of Kentucky are the best and they were like, yeah, yeah, and I said no, but I'm serious, like they're the nicest people. And one of them goes, even though you're a dirty liberal, and I said, yeah, even more so, like the fact that the people will overlook those things because they just they're they're nice.

00:38:19
Speaker 1: We know most of our people listening are not on your side politically.

00:38:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, but we all can laugh at the dude at the Christy Nome's.

00:38:29
Speaker 2: Husband can't oh my, oh my be fair.

00:38:33
Speaker 3: Though I could see you doing that too.

00:38:35
Speaker 1: I would do it for Halloween dress up. I don't know. If I walk around and.

00:38:38
Speaker 3: I could see you being on the Neighbors show and I can see you doing that as well. Uh. Before we finished, Bill Raftery he's eighty two years old, but he did an interview where he said, I'm actually older than that, but I don't tell people how old.

00:38:55
Speaker 2: I really did you say that?

00:38:58
Speaker 3: No, he said I'm actually a few years older than that, but we I don't want to say what it is.

00:39:02
Speaker 2: Really, So he's like Forgium Bursar, I don't know.

00:39:07
Speaker 3: Is he like one of the Dominican baseball players who age is none known?

00:39:11
Speaker 4: He started to lie in the teens and he just couldn't change it all?

00:39:14
Speaker 3: Or could it have been? He changed his Facebook age for tender when he went to Dallas with Drew. He was traveling to.

00:39:20
Speaker 4: The Final four, and he's like, I got to lower my age.

00:39:23
Speaker 3: And then they won't let you change it back. That happens to people. I've heard.

00:39:27
Speaker 2: I wouldn't know anything about it, but I've heard that that happens in.

00:39:30
Speaker 4: The college basketball media landscape.

00:39:33
Speaker 3: And then fifteen years later you can't change it back and people think that your Facebook age is younger. That's got to be what it is to go with it. But how about so let me say, so he's eighty two, and I have said I think he's amazing at his job for eighty two, But what if he's actually older than eighty two and still that good at his job?

00:39:52
Speaker 2: Pretty impressive?

00:39:53
Speaker 1: Isn't it super impressive to him to be if he's mid eighties or higher. He's able to still do that. His call of that Raylan Mullen shot will go down in history, the way he handled it. You know, he's just one of the best.

00:40:04
Speaker 3: I think he's awesome. I mean, do you like him? Of course?

00:40:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, you win a game, start, you gotta hear them.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: Before part of part made that shot. You know, it looked like he died. And then he goes on like he even uses you know, bigger words astounding.

00:40:28
Speaker 1: I love the fact too, that iron Eagle shut up and let Raftery cook there for a minute.

00:40:32
Speaker 3: He did soda Grant Hill, Yeah, they both kind of backed off.

00:40:35
Speaker 2: Huh, let him cook. That's good stuff.

00:40:37
Speaker 3: Most of the lines.

00:40:38
Speaker 4: I think of in college basketball come from Raftery, the onions with.

00:40:42
Speaker 3: The kiss off, the all of them. Yeah, they're all him, the.

00:40:45
Speaker 2: Lungerie on the deck, They're great.

00:40:50
Speaker 5: Uh.

00:40:50
Speaker 3: He's probably the most second most iconic next to Vatal in history. Right, that town is gonna be number one. Yeah, he's probably number two, right.

00:40:58
Speaker 1: And then Charles Barkley is probably sneaking up.

00:40:59
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00:41:30
Speaker 1: They win, they cover, They're They're just on a roll right now. Not one of the best teams we've seen in forever, but one of the funnest to watch.

00:41:37
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have said it before the weekend that they would blow out in Yukon, but what they did to Arizona, I think they're.

00:41:42
Speaker 3: In for another big win tonight. Give me Yukon, not necessarily to win, but this they're not getting blown out. Was Yaxle playing, Yes, both guys are playing solo ball. Great name and y Axel both playing, but Yukon at least covers, and it would not shot me if they win. You know my stat about the five teams before the tournament, huh. The only time I've ever been wrong are Yukon teams, and now there might be another one. Michigan was one of my five. I didn't have Yukon. But so in the future it may just be these five teams and yukonk I.

00:42:17
Speaker 4: Mean, with the experience they have being there three out of the last four years, I mean that that will weigh in their favor. I mean, a lot of the guys are new, but they have some guys that played on those teams.

00:42:25
Speaker 3: All right, we will be back tomorrow Neighbors Episode six. Rick, you got that? Got it? And then we'll talk about the game and a lot more. Good to see you guys. Welcome back, and now we go to this meeting, big meeting today.

00:42:40
Speaker 2: I up, you did, Yeah, looks you look great. See you later.