2026-01-07- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, January the seventh time. Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill where it is Wings Day and it is also Game day dollar Wings all day and night, but also a big game tonight as Kentucky plays Missouri. Got some folks here from Franklin County, Casey Canty and you can give sew on the Clark's Puppet shot phone nine A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven Avy's an autoglass text machine seven five four In this dish sponsored by the T. J.

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Speaker 6: Smith office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay.

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Speaker 5: Ryan.

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Speaker 6: Uh was nice.

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Speaker 5: You came in this morning. You have you got You brought me some sissy cakes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they brought They sent you two orange juice cakes and two chocolate chip cakes, and they wanted you to try them.

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Speaker 5: Because Okay, first of all, stop sh stop right there, Shannon, he's already lying. He I gave him a chance to tell the truth. Yeah, he's already lined.

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Speaker 2: I didn't like, there's two orangejuice cakes and there's two chocolate chip cakes.

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Speaker 5: So they gave us eight cakes to try, Shannon. Yeah, including they have the orange juice cake, which I just ate about four bites of and is excellent. It's unbelie liked when when people talk about, uh that this orange juice cake, cissy cakes.

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Speaker 6: This is will Stein's mom.

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Speaker 5: It is really like like orange juice like like it's it's the juiciest.

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Speaker 6: Cake I've ever had in my life.

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Speaker 5: So like.

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Speaker 6: Cissy cake. Will Stein's Mom's name is what again?

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Speaker 2: Deborah?

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Speaker 5: Deborah? First, Debbie, Debbie, Debbie. We do have Debbie's that's right. Stephen Wilson was wrong. Now she is over forty probably so, But anyway, great cake she said, you said they still have orders backed up.

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Speaker 2: They had boxes on the table of people who ordered after hearing her on the show and all the media exposure they got, and when will Stein was hired, they've not caught up yet with all the orders people sent in.

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Speaker 5: So very nice for Debbie Stein. And the cakes are good and I'm going to eat these now. Shannon Ryan is lying because she sent two boxes. Okay, one box was the famous orange juice cake. But they've created another box, Shannon, a new kind of cake, a big blueberry cake for the University of Kentucky, right, big blue bear. So they give one box of the big blueberry cakes. So that's really cool because then like he could bring them in. I could eat one orange juice, one blueberry. He could have one of each. Mario could have one of the yes, right, that's the idea. When he comes in here the orange juice cakes, there are four, which is how big the box is. But he brings in the blueberry cake, Shannon, and they've already eaten all the blueberry cakes. He and his family and his family ate all of them. But he did bring in the box to taunt me, to show me where there were blueberry cake, two pieces of Okay, I stopped. This is what he left. There are four cakes. He put his grubby, dirty paws and I ate three and a half of them while leaving. Shannon, I should send you this twooge bites of one cake and it's not even been cut. It genuinely looks like he just took his hands and stuck them in.

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Speaker 4: You know, Ryan didn't wash his hands either.

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Speaker 5: And he's also the way these cakes work like there's a there's topping. He gives me the bottom half. It's like the muffin without the top.

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Speaker 4: Well, are you surprised? First of all, I'm not.

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Speaker 5: You remember that Seinfeld episode where they only wanted to sell the tops of Yeah, he just is selling the bottom.

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Speaker 4: That's the worst part.

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Speaker 5: That's the worst part. So first of all, thank you to Debbie Stein and siss Blaky. I'm Blakie. Our hope is to maybe have these in the bar by the end of the month. People can come here and get when they eat.

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Speaker 4: Brian doesn't eat them all before they get That's the thing.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if Ryan will just bring his family and a size girlfriend and like seven goober friends and give them all the food.

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Speaker 6: How do you not save me one?

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Speaker 2: There were eight slices in that bait.

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Speaker 5: The right of them. Shannon and his family ate all of them, got two left. We saved you. Two slices are not They're little slices. It's not the half of it. I don't know where your hands have been.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's touched those slices. They're still good for you to eat. Let me tell you something you want to eat it it is? Do you think that orange juice cake is good?

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Speaker 6: I wanted to eat it when it's clean.

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Speaker 2: God, big blueberry bread is really good, really good.

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Speaker 6: Well, I did eat some of the orange juice.

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Speaker 5: It was very good. It's very good. All right.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll take your word for it, because don't either.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're not gonna know. We're not gonna know.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna eat them for sure.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's clear you've already eaten them. How's the weight loss go going this year? I've lost some weight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going good so far. IM gonna stay with it.

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Speaker 5: Start. Is it going well?

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Speaker 2: Going well? I may blow it today and some of the blue gold big blueberry bread.

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Speaker 5: All right, So the pregame show today, I'll start at four point thirty four. We're gonna do it here from the show for Kentucky Missouri. Come on by and see us on your way to the game. Should be a fun night. Ryan. A couple of things before we get to the basketball game tonight. I went ahead and I posted one of the two ESPN pictures.

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Speaker 2: I saw that, and people are having a lot of fun with that picture, putting it people with AI.

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Speaker 6: Well, but people think it's Ai.

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Speaker 5: It's not Ai.

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Speaker 2: The originally you posted.

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Speaker 6: That's me.

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Speaker 2: That's the real photo.

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Speaker 5: The ESPN goes to show you that if you don't dress up every day when you do, people think you must be computer general. Yeah, if you know, if you set the.

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Speaker 4: Bar low, there's no way.

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Speaker 5: There's no way Matt has a sweater that doesn't have a logo. That couldn't happen.

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Speaker 2: No hoodie, but that that I can test. That's the original photo you showed us yesterday, the one you posted, yes, the one that we voted for. We liked that one the best.

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Speaker 5: Well, because you'd think the other one. Now. I showed the other one to people and they say it looks great. They're like they were mad at you for telling me you Probably some women I actually did show it to women.

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Speaker 2: They liked it. That's a good picture of you.

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Speaker 6: Okay, it's not the point. I'm not trying to win you.

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Speaker 2: You know, you're trying to win listeners to your radio show.

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Speaker 6: Okay, well that's that may be true. Yeah, I'm not.

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Speaker 5: I agree with you. Maybe that.

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure either of these are perfect for a sports.

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Speaker 2: Website, which is kind of the goal of the ESPN one.

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Speaker 5: I think they're gonna use the one with the with the hat and the sweat.

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Speaker 2: It's a good picture either.

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Speaker 5: And then I have to at some point I may have to do a shoot with myrons. So with the two of them, us are in it together, and.

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Speaker 2: We said we liked the one when we were standing. You know, the quote unquote action shots where you're standing, that's really action.

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Speaker 5: I didn't post that. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Did you like how people were taking their own liberties and putting stuff on?

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Speaker 5: That was funny? Did you see Shannon? A kid has already recreated the.

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Speaker 4: Bus, A middle school kid.

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Speaker 6: A middle school kid.

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Speaker 5: Apparently, according to his mother, the middle school kid looked at the picture and I guess thought it was funny again because he thinks I don't dress like that, and he recreated the picture and it's actually that's to be fair, really fun.

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Speaker 2: And he's dressed how you normally dress.

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Speaker 5: He's dressed like I would nor except he's wearing pajama bottoms. Maybe that's when he takes I wear too.

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Speaker 2: The Kentucky hat and everything.

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Speaker 5: So uh well, anyway, so that so, so we did that, and then yeah, I want to give you one because I like to give shouts out to places, Shanon, I want to give a shout out to a place in Louisville. Okay, I you know, I walked. I told you I walked to Elle, Nepal the other day. I walked downtown and I ated a Vietnamese restaurant last night, okay, called Shannon. I believe it's called moon Dog, and it doesn't seem like a Vietnamese term, but I think they call it moon Dog, and I'm sure there are people who already know about it. I didn't know about it. I literally was just walking and hit the thing that said, show me a restaurant close to here and there. It was maybe the best, certainly the best Vietnamese food I've had in Kentucky, but one of the better meals I've had. Really. They had these like noodles that they make themselves with the sauce, And I think I just discovered a gym. It's like about a two and a half mile walk from a house, so it's like a good walk there and back.

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Speaker 4: Butchertown, is that it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's in Butchertown. Yeah, it's called Moondog Small, Small, And there was a lot of people there, so it's not like I'm the only person that I mean, clearly people know that place exists. Huh.

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Speaker 6: But I would highly recommend it.

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Speaker 2: You'd like to find those little, small, mom and pop type restaurants.

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Speaker 5: This one looks like it's kind of it's kind of hipstery, but I would just say to you to just come upon a place. Huh. I was very impressed.

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Speaker 6: Hey cool, a little expensive, but like it's worth it if the food's good, If the food is good, all right, UK Missouri tonight game down here at Rupperina. I have a couple thoughts about it.

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Speaker 5: First of all, you know, somebody asked me yesterday, where would you rank this Kentucky team in terms of how good you think they are vis A VI.

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Speaker 6: Let's say every team since cal got here.

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Speaker 5: And my initial reaction is, well, we're better than the COVID team, and I think we're probably better than the Neurlans Noel team when Neurlans was hurt. Right when he wasn't hurt, I think that Neurlins team was better. But when Neurlans was hurt towards the end of that year, we're probably better than them. But then I was like, Okay, well, what are the next worst teams? And you know, you probab probably would take maybe I don't know what are the next worst teams because we had a lot of good ones for a long time, even though they were disappointing in the tournament. I guess the team that lost to Kansas State in the second round, you know, the second Oscar team. Yeah, I don't know. The year after COVID, right the year what were we talking about that? You know?

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Speaker 2: The next season was that Oscar's first year.

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Speaker 5: But we were like a two seed that year even though we I mean, like we shouldn't have lost to Saint Peter's. We forget about the fact that we lost to Saint Peter's, you know. And then and then I was like, I don't know, maybe all the other teams, including last year's teams, are better than this one. But one of the things that defined a lot of those teams. They would lose games on the road, but you always went at home, right, You went at home. If you're going to be a team that goes to the tournament and has any chance of doing anything, you went home. Losing in Alabama. I told you a national championship team could lose in Alabama easy. Now, not the way we did, but you could lose that game. But you went at home, and specifically you went at home against a team like Missouri. Now a lot of people focused on Missouri beating Florida. That's very true, but let's go look at a couple of their other results. They went on the road Illinois, who on paper should be about like us, and they lost by forty five points. All right, Missouri lost by forty five points at Illinois. They haven't won a true road game all year. Right, So if you're gonna be anything, you gotta win this game. We are now a thirteen and a half point favorite. That strikes me as high.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot, really high. I'm surprised at that.

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Speaker 6: That strikes me as high.

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Speaker 5: But at least the people who build those big casinos in Vegas. We opened at twelve and a half, right, so the money's actually gone to us. We should win tonight. I don't really care if we win by thirteen and a half, but we should win. What do you think you know?

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Speaker 2: I did my show preper listening to Leech Report this morning and he had to play by play guy on from Missouri who said they were a lot like Kentucky. Whereas the Florida game, they got one of their starters back for the first time. Oh, they did for the first time against against Florida. I didn't know that, and a second starter just came back like three games ago.

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Speaker 5: So you're saying the team that lost Illinois by forty five. Not to say that's what he was saying.

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Speaker 2: He said, it's a totally different team. They're finally at full strength. I said, well, that kind of sounds familiar.

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Speaker 5: Well, that sounds like a reason to bet the get the thirteen and a half half I already have. Oh wait, you you're betting Missouri well with.

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Speaker 4: The thirteen and a half.

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Speaker 5: I'm not.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not betting them to win, but I'll take the thirteen and a half. Tracks you've done the same thing. You don't God, don't you probably already haven't that too.

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Speaker 5: I thought about it. I didn't, but I thought about it, you know, so so to me. You know, mody Abote had some quotes yesterday, and I think I'm gonna talk about this in the next segment. I'm not sure whether to interpret like they can be read one of two ways, and people are kind of reading them one of two ways. But whichever way you want to read it, he clearly said we did not do prepare for this game the way we should have. Depending on how you read it, you could read it as an indictment of the players or the coaches, depending on how you want to read it. True, I tend to think he was talking about the players, but there are people who read it like he was talking about the coaches. I think that's wrong, but I can see how they read it that way. But either way, he acknowledged we were not ready for this game. We better be ready for this one or not.

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Speaker 2: I took it as the players also, you know, I took it as the play I did too, you know, you had to at people online took it as the coaches. You had two weeks to get ready for a team, and you knew exactly what they do, then you know exactly how they play, and that's his old team. How could he not lead a group of guys get ready to play out only kind.

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Speaker 5: Of blame him.

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Speaker 2: He's a allegedly one of their leaders. You're going back to your old stopping grounds. How can you not get your team ready and prepare the way you're suposed to?

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe as teamates wouldn't listen to him. Maybe that comes down to the team chemistry.

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Speaker 5: He's the one that points it out. Why are you blaming him? I kind of point the finger at him.

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Speaker 2: That's that's the modia about that game.

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Speaker 5: And what's interesting? So you blame theabte I do. I kind of read it is blaming the rest of the team, and then there are people out there who read it as him blaming the coach. Yeah, so I don't know. But either way, this game tonight is I don't want to say make or break, but kind of make or break.

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Speaker 6: LSU was down.

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Speaker 5: At one point forty or something last night at home. I think we played them in a week play Mississippi State Saturday, who might be the worst team in the comp. Yeah, you better win these next three.

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Speaker 2: I don't care if they get down again by twenty in the first half. I don't care if they win by one point, as long as they win this game tonight.

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Speaker 5: I do care if they get down much one. We can't keep getting down by twenty, but we do need to win. This is a big win. I think this is a very, very big game tonight. And I thought this was a gimmey three weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Not anymore, and I do think it is a huge game.

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Speaker 5: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we'll take a break. We'll talk about the diabat te quotes. There's also been a lot of football commitments, and we will go over some of what has happened in that regard. That's next. Here our Kaza welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt, you say where elite teams don't lose at home. We've already lost at home to North Carolina, which was a bad loss. I think that's our worst loss of the season. North Carolina, however, though, is a tournament team, is good. You still shouldn't lose it. We didn't have all our players, uh Jayalen Low didn't play that game. I don't think we still shouldn't have lost. But that's that's a little different to me than if you lose this one, because this one, this is the middle of the pack SEC team. You can't lose to middle of the pack SEC teams at home. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: On the way this season is designed where a lot of your tough games are on the road, you need to win all your home games.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, So here's what Diabyte said. I feel like the game could have been a lot better if we'd made more of an emphasis on the scout The way they played, I was kind of expecting that in a way because I played for Oats at Alabama. I was expecting a lot of threes, a lot of flair screens going into the game. I feel like we could have emphasized that more, being on the catch, knowing they're an isolation team, being in the gaps early to build out. The most frustrating part was seeing that we could have done a better, could have done better at the scouting report. It feels like they were doing the same things over and over, just thinking we could have done a lot better on the defensive side with the attention to detail on the personnel. We should have taken it more seriously. Now, I think people have been hyping on that we could have done better on the scouting report. But then he ends it by saying we could have taken it more seriously, which I read is saying he didn't think the players took the scouting report seriously, not that the scouting report itself was bad.

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Speaker 6: That's how I read it.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly how I read it, the same way, but more on the players.

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Speaker 5: Some people think that the line I feel like we could have done better emphasized that a lot more in the scout maybe suggests he thinks the scouting report should have been so I can see how you do it the other way, But I tend to think he was talking about the player.

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Speaker 6: He did, however, though it's clear he wasn't.

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Speaker 5: It's clear he didn't mind critiquing his coaches, because he did say he thought Low and Quainton should start. Yeah, he did, which you don't usually see players do that.

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Speaker 6: He did say I kind of hope they start.

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Speaker 5: Low in quaintance.

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Speaker 2: He's a guy that's not afraid to speak his mind. You know, he's from New York. He's gonna tell you what he thinks. And I think he's a kind of a little bit of a leader. And if he's saying that, he's not the only one that feels that, I'm telling you in that locker room.

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Speaker 5: So so I don't think he was throwing the coaches in the bus. I do think though, by saying I think Low and Quainton should start, it's clear like it's clearly don't think we're doing at least one player doesn't think we're doing stuff the right way? Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 7: I do?

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Speaker 2: And like I said, don't you think there's other people in that locker room that feel the same way he does?

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Speaker 6: Well, that's how all.

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Speaker 5: The fans think. Yeah, I mean all of I mean I think all of the fans think that exact thing. So, you know, which gets me to the conversation we had yesterday day about sort of the Tony Robbins quotes. By the way, who is mel Robbins? That's a woman like she does that? Does she do the same kind of stuff? Is there something about being named Robins that they just start giving people advice? I guess so because Meil Robbins. I see everybody. She's on my TikTok all the.

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Speaker 2: Time doing what's her thing.

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Speaker 5: It's like atomic habits or to tell people give me good I tell yourself each morning things are going.

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Speaker 2: Well, Okay, you should do that. I should do that. I listened to Marty Robbins el Paso. Yeah, not Amy Robins.

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Speaker 5: Also, no Mel Mel.

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Speaker 4: Who's Amy?

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Speaker 2: I don't know it's Mel.

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Speaker 5: Amy Robbins is the one he gave my cakes to.

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Speaker 6: All right, so I do think the common name. A couple of people said to.

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Speaker 5: Me yesterday when I was walking around Louisville and I would talk to Kentucky fans, A couple of people said to me, Matt, if you guys who are middle aged guys? And I didn't like by the way he gets certain that they called me middle aged guys. I don't think that's that may be, that may be objectively true, but you don't need to be saying that to people. But he said, if you, as middle aged guys, don't understand what Mark Pope is talking about, what do you think the eighteen to twenty two year old kids think.

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Speaker 2: Yoga girl said the same thing last night. If he's talking to them the way he's talking on the radio and to Tom Leach. That's not related. You cannot relate to these eighteen twenty twenty one year old guys giving these Tony Robbins quotes.

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Speaker 5: It is a good point, though, it is like if we don't get it, Shannon, how in the world would they get I mean, they have to just like be like, come on.

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Speaker 3: Man, I can't imagine being that age and playing for a coach that's talking in like Shakespeare quotes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what I mean. Like I was watching last night Texas A and M in Auburn. We'll talk about that game in a minute. But Texas A and M's coach is named Bucky. Is that right?

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Speaker 2: I don't know who they dowa.

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Speaker 5: I think his name is Bucky, Bucky McMillan or something. And I was listening to him and he was being interviewed and then he put a video out on the plane and I just remember thinking, this dude sounds so plain spoken, but like you could just tell the players were eating it up listening to Bucky. And on a personal level, it's just a personal level. I hate self help, No, I really do, Like I really hate self help gurus and self help like I just I find it cringey, so cringey, and I love Mark Poe and I don't want to find Mark Pope to be cringey. But it's a little cringe that stuff. Do you do you know what I mean? Yes? Do you think it's a I mean, it's a little cringey, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: If we take him in his word he was talking this way, whether breaking down game film. You're supposed to be talking about basketball X and O, and you're giving these self help tips during your film breakdown.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if we're all being honest, because this is we're trying to be honest. We're not just trying to be fake and say we love everything because it's it's our guy Shinnon, let's be real. I bet you hate cringey as much as anything, right, Yes?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Do you feel that some of those words in that show were cringey?

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Speaker 4: Definitely? And all the beautiful stuff. I mean that that brought me the wrong way too. Everything's beautiful, everything's delightful. That's not the real world.

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Speaker 5: Man's remember when we we've talked talked about how I think part of the way that you communicate nowaday is being real. That just doesn't seem real to me. It seems like, well maybe best way I can say it is cringey.

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Speaker 2: And look at your audience. These are some alpha males sitting there in your locker room. I don't know if they can relate.

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Speaker 5: Oh, we're all alpha males. You think the guy, uh jayden Quaints who plays chess is an alpha male.

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Speaker 2: I think he's an alpha male.

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Speaker 5: Okay, no, but you're right. I mean it's a very masculine sport. I don't know. I don't know either, man, I don't know. Now. Of course we could win tonight, yes, win three or four. I mean the good thing is this schedule is set up. We can go on a little run here, that's right.

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Speaker 6: But we have to win.

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Speaker 5: I have to win the home games, and I hope the crowd like this is a big one. All right, We'll take your calls, talk a little football A five nine twenty two eighty SEVENSR.

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Speaker 6: TJ.

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Speaker 5: Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay. Now.

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Speaker 3: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stock to Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back, Teke you Sports Radio. Mel Robbins is the let them theory? I don't know something about let them huh.

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Speaker 2: Fascinating.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean, I'm sure it's good. I just I don't know what it is. I see the book in the bookstore. It's always like when I'm in a bookstore and they'll go top ten books, it's always in the top ten. It's called I think it's just called let them. It's always in the top ten.

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Speaker 2: So you know, if if you're someone on the outside looking in, are there any other coaches that has this approach in the college basketball locker room that you know of?

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Speaker 5: That's a good question. Have there been really successful college coaches that sound like gurus? Well, Cal had a little bit of that, but I still think he did it in sort of a plane spoken way. But there was a little bit of that, like be your brother's keeper in that stuff. Not as much as Pope, though, I can't. I mean, maybe I don't know. Was John Wooden like that? Was he kind of like yeah, I mean it's before my time.

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Speaker 2: He was pretty successful.

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Speaker 5: No, he's very successful, But I don't know if if he like gave.

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Speaker 2: In today's age. I can't come up with one that.

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Speaker 5: Maybe I can't either, But that doesn't mean they're not out there. Maybe somebody can think of one who's kind of a you know, motivational quote guy. I used to work with a guy on the DC circuit who every morning, who once a month, would cut out thirty inspirational quotes from a book and he would then tape them one to his mirror every morning. And I like this guy, but I thought that was the cheesiest thing I'd ever heard. So he'd come in and I'd like giving him a hard time. I'd be like, so, what is it today? And he was like Vince Lombardi says, look in the mirror and you see your your you know, your best weapon. And I'm like, all right, man, well we just got to write this opinion today, So.

00:24:56
Speaker 2: Let's Mike Leach took an interest in approach to football sometime, but I don't think it was like inspiration. He was more funny, more funny.

00:25:04
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, well who's up first? Shit, Babo, go ahead, babo.

00:25:09
Speaker 7: Big Good morning fellows. He I want to thank, especially Ryan and Shannon. I don't believe Matt that you hit on the issue too much. But for Christmas, the Christmas suggestions, I went out and got Mimi a pair of their Mama Pavia boots and I think you order threw a sign a sign fold quote out there, YadA, YadA, YadA tomorrow. I'm having a heart procedure. That's all I've.

00:25:35
Speaker 2: Got, alrighty then there you go by the phone call.

00:25:38
Speaker 5: Didn't see that one, didn't see that one coming. Yeah, they they talked a lot more about Diego Pavi's mom than I did. Uh that you guys. You guys, I think covered that territory pretty well. Well.

00:25:50
Speaker 4: We're in her fan club.

00:25:51
Speaker 2: There's no yah.

00:25:53
Speaker 5: I'll tell you somebody successful that's a little bit like that though.

00:25:57
Speaker 6: Is the kill quarterback in Indiana?

00:25:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's.

00:26:00
Speaker 5: Kind of he's got a little bit of the pope A great call. He talks a lot like that.

00:26:06
Speaker 2: A lot of the interviews he's getting out because he just won the Heisman there.

00:26:08
Speaker 5: And right into the camera when he talks. He I kind of like, hey, man, stop looking at me like that. Like he stares when I've never seen a guy. Have you ever seen a guy do an interview stare directly into the camera.

00:26:20
Speaker 2: More than somebody has told him that's the way to relate to everybody.

00:26:23
Speaker 6: He doesn't look at the person talk.

00:26:24
Speaker 2: Doesn't he looked?

00:26:25
Speaker 5: But when they when you're on television, they teach you to look at the person talk. I don't want you to look at it. Correct, But he looks in the camera. Who's next? And ed? Go ahead? And hey, good morning guys. What's up? Hey, get off your bluetooth. Remember that's rule one of calling.

00:26:47
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm correct now, thank you.

00:26:51
Speaker 7: Uh.

00:26:51
Speaker 8: You brought up an interesting point, but that wasn't the point I was gonna make. So let me try to make two quick points because I was thinking the exact same I'm saying, because I've been following youk since eight off or up? And no, there ain't no, there ain't no mister nice got coaches? When when when when the battle, when it comes down to life and death, which is what it comes down to on these basketball games, ain't no mister nice.

00:27:16
Speaker 7: Guys winning stuff?

00:27:21
Speaker 8: Remember when My second point is a more interest to me is not that we did a terrible job defending the three. It's what Nato said after the game when they stayed at Kentucky. He said, look there, they're assists are fools goals? When when when Kentucky plays good teams, we hardly have any assists because.

00:27:41
Speaker 5: We don't know. Yeah, I appreciate the call, that's a big deal. But here's what I would say. This team's not good enough shooting that if we give up ninety, we're not gonna beat anybody. No, last year's team, you could give up ninety and you actually could still win because because we could score so much. If we give up nine, this team is not gonna win ninety four to ninety three against somebody good. No. So, while I do think nay Oates was right, we don't pass enough, we don't have enough assists. If we give up ninety, none of that's gonna matter. No, because we can't score ninety. I don't think this group at least regularly can score ninety.

00:28:19
Speaker 2: That may be the most shocking thing of this team so far as how poor we are defensively. And we talked about the preseason and how we thought it was gonna be maybe an elite defensive team. And they look good, you know, in the second half against Saint John's when Huayon's came back. But there are so many issues on defense that I don't know. I don't know how they're gonna fix.

00:28:34
Speaker 5: Them all Right, So Kentucky football real quick has signed or has gotten a lot of guys.

00:28:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, bunch.

00:28:41
Speaker 5: They have. Well, actually they just got another one. So how about some breaking news. Running none a Florida starter Jordan Castell is committed to Kentucky. He is a three year starter for Florida in the secondary. He was an ESPN Freshman All American SEC All Freshman All American, and he is the second former Florida defensive back to transfer to Kentucky.

00:29:11
Speaker 2: Man, you know, they're getting these guys from Florida, from Alabama, from Tennessee. Other guys that have played have played defense, the LSU defensive tackle, these guys played in the SEC. The transfer two.

00:29:21
Speaker 5: Florida defensive backs, an offensive lineman from Alabama, a defensive tackle from LSU. Uh, they got a running back from Oklahoma. We're basically just stop piling SEC players.

00:29:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what?

00:29:35
Speaker 5: Uh the they now I think have so they have three offensive linemen. Uh in the offensive linean from Tennessee, Max Anderson. They they right now have the number six class in the portal. Now, it won't finish like that because some of these do teams like in the playoff and stuff. Still haven't gotten their teams yet, so we're I mean, we're probably projected just looking at it to finished twelfth to fifteenth in the portal. That's still really good for a team that went five and seven last year and four and eighth the year before. One of the things I want to say to fans is sometimes we'll get a commitment like the kid from Tennessee. He was ranked excuse me, it's like that number nineteen or something interior offensive lineman, and I saw fans going nineteen. What I want to say is, yeah, when was the last time we've been the nineteenth best team?

00:30:32
Speaker 2: I'll take you.

00:30:34
Speaker 5: I mean, we were like one of the worst Power five teams in the country last year.

00:30:39
Speaker 6: What are you talking about?

00:30:40
Speaker 5: Nineteen? We should be dancing for number nineteen, absolutely right. I mean that's we have the number six class in the portal. We have the number one interior offensive lineman in America committed here the number ten quarterback in America. Again, I would ask you, when is the last time besides Will Levist, we've had one of the top ten quarterbacks in the country, Jared maybe, So if you let's just say now, granted, I know there's people that return, and he might not be talking about of the quarterbacks available to will Stein. If you assume the rankings are right, he got the tenth best one. Yeah. And by the way, Levitt is now going to Tennessee as well, which means he wasn't gonna decide this week.

00:31:30
Speaker 2: Couldn't wait that long, which means we couldn't wait.

00:31:32
Speaker 5: No.

00:31:32
Speaker 6: I totally get that, don't you.

00:31:34
Speaker 2: I totally get it. I like the fact that these guys are have SEC experience. These aren't guys from New Mexico State, Illinois State. These guys have played in the SEC. I don't want to make to one more guy. Yeah, nose tackle Chops from Frederick Douglas High School, Jamarion Heartless transferring from Purdue. He's a starter for two years at noseguard for Purdue. So he's coming in.

00:31:53
Speaker 5: So he's from Lexing, he went to Frederick Douglas. Is he good?

00:31:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chops. Vince Merril tried to get him heavy when he was in high school.

00:31:59
Speaker 5: Are you call him chops? That's his nickname.

00:32:01
Speaker 2: Everybody calls him chops.

00:32:02
Speaker 5: I haven't heard anybody climb chops.

00:32:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Chops, So that's what I should call it, I should definitely claim chops, all right, So chop chops.

00:32:10
Speaker 5: Also, you may have read when I wrote on Caseboard, and I talked a little bit about this yesterday about will Stein's philosophy when it comes to the portal, how they will pay for studs and then with everybody else, they're kind of not gonna get bled for money. They're gonna like, if you don't want to go, I'll get a guy that's ninety five percent good as you that cost me three hundred thousand dollars less. Yeah. Right, there's a cam Miller just entered the port I saw that. So cam Miller was our wide receiver that at times last year gave some good things he did. I think when you I think they I think they wanted cam Miller to come back, but he's an example. Well I think the other Miller is coming huh JT is that right? DJ DJ no no, what ell is it? I think I was a JD jd okay Miller. But with cam Miller, that's an example of I think they wanted him, but I think he his folks thought needed more, deserve more money than they could give him. And that's how that separates and that's gonna happen. That they take the philosophy of we are Kentucky, we got to balance this budget. Whereas I think Mark Stoops's philosophy was, if I've got a guy in the program, I really need to keep him, and if that means I overpay him, I'm gonna keep him because he's in the program.

00:33:26
Speaker 6: I just don't think Will Stein's gonna do.

00:33:27
Speaker 5: It that way. And we'll see how it. I mean, we'll see if it, if it works or not. But that's how I think their view is.

00:33:32
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly what's happened with Miller and Cutter Bowley. They were gonna have to overpay in their mind and their budget to keep those guys here.

00:33:38
Speaker 5: They with every player, and this is, by the way, I mean, some people may think this is like not what college sports should be, but you know what, this is what college sports is. Yep. They are essentially looking at every player and assigning a value. This is what we think this player is worth in today's world. And if they don't want to sign for close to this value, then we can't do it. They just move on, and they just have to move on. Whereas I think Stup's philosophy was I like, this player, what do we got to do to keep it? Huh?

00:34:09
Speaker 2: And then they overpaid it on.

00:34:11
Speaker 5: And they overpay by paying one point eight million dollars for an offensive lineman. The uh, this philosophy is you are a two hundred thousand dollars player. Okay, maybe I'll get to twenty five, but I ain't faying your three hundred uh huh. And that's just kind of how it is, and I think that's the way they're gonna do it. So court physical therapy, don't let akes and pains follow you into the new year. Start twenty twenty six strong. Court physical therapy can help you get back to what you love. Whether you want to get back in the gym, pick up a new sport, or just be able to get around. Court physical therapy can help you do. So, there's a court near you over seventy locations. Book online today, Court dot com. That's kort dot com. It's Wingsday here at Ksbar. We open in fifteen minutes and we will take a break and very back. Its Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:34:58
Speaker 6: So it's DJ Miller.

00:35:00
Speaker 2: So what you said or I said it? The Miller Boys.

00:35:05
Speaker 5: All right, Well, he's the one state.

00:35:07
Speaker 2: I think they, like you said, I think they wanted to keep both of them. They both as freshmen ended up kind of impressing some people.

00:35:12
Speaker 5: And there's a couple of guys on the team that they had had already been agreed to for a second like so in November, Mark Stoop's staff got some guys to agree to not enter the portal and promised them a certain amount of money in UK, I think decided the new staff that they couldn't honor those commitments. They felt like it was too much. So Dante Dowdell was one of those. Uh maybe was promised an overpay of money in their mind, so he ends up entering the portal. I think this cam Miller kid might be one of those as well, so because they had actually reached deals with some of those kids. But again, all these deals are continued on like signing, and they hadn't signed yet.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: So I think I wonder how they're approaching Willia Rodriguez a guy after whether they want to.

00:36:07
Speaker 5: I would assume they mean he hasn't entered the portal.

00:36:09
Speaker 2: Yet, right, so you know other schools are coming after him.

00:36:11
Speaker 6: Apparently.

00:36:12
Speaker 5: Andy Staples was on TV today or excuse me on pardon my take, and said, the two teams that he has stuck out to him and is doing the best in the portal so far by far, are Indiana and Kentucky. It's pretty good considering Indiana as the best team in the country right now, right.

00:36:27
Speaker 2: And like we said, you know, if Indiana can do it, why can't Kentucky?

00:36:29
Speaker 5: Why not?

00:36:30
Speaker 2: Why not?

00:36:30
Speaker 6: That's right? Why not us? Nick Minjion is someone who.

00:36:35
Speaker 5: Definitely has the guru like no doubt, and that's worked. So maybe we look at Nick Minjion. But I will say this about Nick Minjion, Nick Minjion, and talk to people around the baseball program. They'll say this, he had a couple of years where he had guys on the team that just didn't buy into that, and basically they cleaned house afterwards. You know what I'm talking about That he needs a certain kind of guy that buys into that. And I think he would tell you that he had a year there where they were really bad. And the people around the program will tell you the kids just didn't buy into what Minchion did, so.

00:37:14
Speaker 2: They went and got kids in the transfer portal that he.

00:37:15
Speaker 5: Found kids that were personality that were sort of and then that has obviously worked very well.

00:37:20
Speaker 2: I miss his motivational mondays when he would come on this, So he is.

00:37:23
Speaker 5: An example somebody that's worked. Did you see the Auburn Texas A and M get I did see that. We just have to talk about the sequence at the end. Okay, an unbelievable sequence. Auburn A and M is up six? Right or no? Five?

00:37:43
Speaker 2: I can't remember what it was.

00:37:44
Speaker 5: No, it was six. They're up six Auburn. It's a three cuts its three. A and M gets fouled, right, they come down. I think they hit two, so it's five. Okay. Auburn hits another three, cuts it to two.

00:38:03
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:38:05
Speaker 5: So now A and M they inbound it. Two point six seconds they have. If they make both free throws, they win.

00:38:12
Speaker 2: It's over.

00:38:13
Speaker 6: Guy misses the.

00:38:14
Speaker 5: First free throw, so now there's two point six set two point four seconds. But Auburn doesn't have a time out, right, So A and M's philosophy there is missing on purpose, yep. And then they'll just have to throw it down the court.

00:38:30
Speaker 2: Long or rebound throw it down the court.

00:38:31
Speaker 5: The guy bangs it against the backboard.

00:38:37
Speaker 6: I think he hit the rim.

00:38:39
Speaker 5: But it's not clear.

00:38:40
Speaker 2: They do not get it at all.

00:38:42
Speaker 5: I think he did, but it's not clear he hits it. The clock starts, and then the Auburn people are going crazy saying it didn't hit the rim. So for some reason, the clock operator just stops the clock at point six second, which is some home cooking if I've ever seen. It's right, the ref did not call that it didn't hit the rim. The clock operator just on his own stops the clock. Huh right. So then all of a sudden, the clock has stopped and the referees and I still don't understand why they made this decision, said inadvertent clock air Auburn, you get the ball with point six six seconds to go?

00:39:24
Speaker 2: Is that based on a possession arrow? How do they determine Auburn's ball?

00:39:28
Speaker 5: I don't know. And they got it at mid court? Yeah, so that was a better situation for them than anything. Uh huh right. Auburn gets it and bounds it to their center, who throws a one handed heave at the buzzer and it goes in. It goes in, and Auburn on looks like they've won by one. Then they Auburn celebrates yes, The refs go to the monitor, the Auburn bench gets the video. Did you see this? They get an iPad and they look and they determined that it went in before the buzzer, and they celebrate for a second time, and everyone is celebrating, but the refs are still looking at the monitor.

00:40:09
Speaker 6: And the refs come back and go, didn't get it off?

00:40:13
Speaker 2: Off?

00:40:14
Speaker 5: It was very close.

00:40:16
Speaker 6: I don't know if he got it off or not.

00:40:17
Speaker 5: Do you.

00:40:18
Speaker 2: I thought he got it off.

00:40:19
Speaker 6: It looked at me like I kind of thought he didn't.

00:40:21
Speaker 5: You didn't. I think it's the camera angle wasn't very good. Yeah, see, he couldn't really tell for sure. Here's my theory. The refs know that inadvertent clock stoppage was a mistake. Sure, they know the game should have ended. I think they aired towards saying it didn't get off because they didn't think he should have gotten a chance to do that shot anymore.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: So they were covering their rear end from an earlier mistake.

00:40:46
Speaker 5: Because it was the Auburn clock operator that gave Auburn a chance. You know. Now, The best part, Shennon was the postgame interview. They tried to interview Bucky on the court. I don't know why they stood him in front of the student section, but the student section is yelling at him so loud Bucky can't even hear the interview. They are screaming you. They're screaming expletives. Yes, they are extremely loudly, and Bucky just has to go.

00:41:15
Speaker 6: Yeah, I gotta go.

00:41:16
Speaker 2: Guys, you gotta read the room. You can't do that interview right there in front of the student section, one.

00:41:20
Speaker 5: Of the student section. The referees get run out of there. Yeah, I've never seen anything quite right.

00:41:28
Speaker 2: I thought he got it off.

00:41:30
Speaker 3: There's one good like shot that's floating around on Twitter where he didn't get it off.

00:41:34
Speaker 4: You can see he did zero.

00:41:36
Speaker 6: It looks like here's what I think happened.

00:41:39
Speaker 5: You gotta remember that the light on the glass is correct, and sometimes the clock you see on the screen is a little bit off. And I think the clock on the screen said point one, but the glass had already lit up. Bucky gets on the plane afterwards. Did you see what he does? He looks in the camera and he stands up and he goes, all right, we play Oklahoma Saturday. Two thirty students get there. We know if you show up a millisecond too late, it's too late kind of trash talking video.

00:42:14
Speaker 2: That's a good move.

00:42:15
Speaker 6: That's a boss movie.

00:42:16
Speaker 5: Right back