2024-11-12- KSR - Hour 2

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

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Speaker 4: Welcome back.

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Speaker 5: It is our number two Kentucky Sports Radio here at cas Bar and Grill. We just opened and you can come out and join us here. Hope you will for the second hour of the show, or get ready to come tonight pregame for the women's game, or come during the men's game.

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Speaker 4: It should be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: Our pregame show for the men's game starts at six point thirty tonight.

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Speaker 4: By the way, we're six thirty here at KS Bar. We will be doing it, and then the game is at nine to thirty.

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Speaker 5: By the way, Rick just wrote and said he and his friend Jay met for the first time in two thousand and seven. They were students looking to go to Atlanta to see the Cats in the SEC Tournament. They decided to ride together, even though they didn't know each other. They became best friends on the ride and they were in each other's wedding.

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Speaker 4: Wow, that's a little happened with Connor and Brady. I heard soaries like that.

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Speaker 6: Our friend Josh Hopkins was student Auburn and looked up and across the line in the cafeteria was a guy named Scooter wearing a Kentucky shirt. Now they're lifelong friends. They just saw each other wearing you can't get at a school and a weird in them. It's cool.

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Speaker 4: Cool.

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Speaker 5: So we're gonna give away our six ticket. All right, well give away two tickets one of these six. Okay, So let's go through the choices. Garrett and frankfurt Uh said that he has hope in Pope and he said that he had even more hope once he heard col making jokes and on his press conference he didn't he didn't particularly like it. One of them, Austin said he called Drew's postgame show. He was the first caller and that he was a big fan in Austin in Evansville.

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Speaker 4: That's nice. Uh.

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Speaker 5: Clark pushed his grandma down because they lost to Duke Glass time time, and he's using this as a redemption story. Isaiah says his brother and he have been to games that Kentucky has never lost when he and his brother are there. Samuel says his dad has done youth sports for forty years and he thinks this would be a nice reward from Williamsburg to take him to the game. And then Lincoln says he's a listener since Drew and I were doing podcasts in the basement that was now fifteen years ago. And then he took a fatthead of me and Katina Pale to the Louisville, Georgia Tech game in two thousand and eleven. Great choices through eliminate them one by one for me and why.

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Speaker 6: Okay, I had one very easy elimination. I just cannot reward elderly abuse. I know you're trying to redeem yourself, and I believe in forgiveness, but I can't in good faith pick someone that shoved their own grandmother over these other five great stories.

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Speaker 4: I understand you can't go knocking your herb down.

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Speaker 6: So I'm sorry that happened. I hope you learned a lesson, but you just cannot be rewarded.

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Speaker 4: Be doing that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Lincoln and Chattanooga mentioned getting me on Sports Center, which I remember well, but I have SportsCenter Trauma from Scott Van Pelt using my photo of the headphones that still follows me to this day. Mario put into TikTok just a month.

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Speaker 4: Again, it's a great photo.

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Speaker 6: So the Sports Center connection, you thought it was gonna go in your favor, it actually triggered some some memories in my brain and.

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Speaker 5: I still have definite memories of that day. When Scott Van Pelt called me and said, look, I just want to warn you. We're talking about you and Drew tonight. He explained what he was gonna say. He let me kind of give my side. I think that changed what he said a little bit. I think he was nicer to us. Drew and I spent all day nervous about it, Like all day. It was twelve thirty at night he starts talking about it. Drew calls me, I still remember where I was sitting, and I was like, man, that turned out a lot better than I thought.

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Speaker 4: And Drew was like, where did they get that picture of me?

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Speaker 5: He was so upset about the picture that they used.

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Speaker 6: There's a great video of me watching cause I knew we were coming up. We were like a feature story and I'm right in from the TV and I'm immediately like, what the hell is that? Still don't know where he got it.

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Speaker 5: I thought it was the best it could have gone for us and you. I just couldn't focus on the fact that you had that picture.

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Speaker 6: It's still hurting people because it eliminated Lincoln.

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Speaker 4: All right, what's next?

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Speaker 6: Who else you know, they get pretty tough. From there, we got the brothers that have never seen a loss. I considered them, but this is their first loss. I'm gonna have to eliminate them. I just had some stories that it hit me a little harder.

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Speaker 5: All right, So Isaiah, you and your brother still have an undefeated record, though, So that leaves the guy who called Drew's postgame show, the guy who sas Hope and Pope, and then the guy whose dad did forty years in youth sports.

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Speaker 6: I really struggled with these three. Ryan even saw me. I went to the bathroom for some prophecy. I was in there in silence, just trying to focus on who I needed to be picked.

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Speaker 4: Garrett, Austin Samuel, Garrett Austin, Samuel.

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Speaker 6: I hate to eliminate this one. Austin, that first post game show was so meaningful to me. I remember your call. But I just had two more pulling me in a direction of this contest.

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Speaker 5: All right, So Garrett, Garrett and Frankfurt and I want to add though they eliminade Austin hurt me.

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Speaker 6: I really did.

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Speaker 4: This is Austin.

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Speaker 6: There's no joy in that.

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Speaker 4: This is Austin. Channon, he still that's what Evansville.

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Speaker 5: The singer Blake Shelton once said, don't worry h Garrett and Frankfort, Samuel and Williamsburgh.

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Speaker 6: Who you said, these are so close and it's a fifty one forty nine decision. I pulled Oryan the dad with the it's more about It's not even about the youth sports. That's why Ryan would have picked it. It's that Mark Pope is bringing generations together. Okay, his dad, I'm just guessing his age, probably was watching Jack Gibbons get forty one against Duke. He's probably a little younger. Remembers Cameron Mills and Scott Paget and this can be a trip for them to come together to watch Pope end all this damn losing we have going on to Duke. They're also by proximity, the easiest drive.

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Speaker 4: Against Garrett for Frankfort.

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Speaker 6: But I want to say, Garrett Frankfort had me fired up and it will continue to keep me fired up. His Caliperi impersonation was really good. But his excitement and having the Hope and Pope still sticks with me. And I might even listen to his call again before the game. I wish I could have sent him to.

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Speaker 5: But the father father.

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Speaker 6: I mean, we've seen it on the Sunday with Pope. These games they're just an excitement that is bringing so many people together, and he and his dad can go down there and watch another generation.

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Speaker 5: So now we know where to put Shannon Drew on the how you get him to win? He's he's more on the softie So if you're going the softy scale, Rhyne's the softest, then Drew, then Me, then Shannon, and Billy's.

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Speaker 4: Just a jerk. Like that's the scale.

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Speaker 5: At some point we'll try Mario as well, all right, So let's put our winner on that. Samuel and Williamsburg, Samuel, are you excited?

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Speaker 7: Oh, I'm in. I'm three guys through guys, little lifetime lifetime.

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Speaker 4: What's your dad? What's your dad's name, Samuel, George Davis? And does he live in Williamsburg as well?

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Speaker 8: He does?

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Speaker 5: He does thirteenth Region. Now you all got to get in the car, go down there.

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Speaker 4: This is all I ask. Are you on Twitter, Samuel.

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Speaker 9: No, I'm on Facebook, but on Twitter?

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Speaker 5: Okay, do this, Samuel, go to the bond that bridge, so to speak. Facebook page, that's our ks, our Facebook page, bond that bridge. If you're not signed up for it, do it and do me a favor. Post some pictures of you and your dad on your trip on that page.

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Speaker 4: If you would, okay.

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Speaker 7: On that bridge, I can definitely dog.

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Speaker 4: So to speak.

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Speaker 5: I know it's kind of a weird name, but that's that's the name of the Facebook page.

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Speaker 9: All right, all right, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: There you go. So that's very nice.

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Speaker 6: Let the lesson in this be don't shove your grandmother under any circumstances. We might differ on who should have won, but I think we all can agree that we shouldn't be shoving grandma.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's just an odd I don't know that I would have brought that up as my reason to go. Ryan, that might be one. You know, we all have things that were shame maybe we wish we hadn't done. I'm not sure that was how I.

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Speaker 10: Then he backed it up by saying, this is a redemption tour for my dad because he had to come home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had to come home because you pushed your grandma.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that you're wearing a shirt that I think is kind of exciting.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, today, the it's when father Jim shit goo gave the pope uh kow sitchko.

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Speaker 5: That's not how you pronounce his name. That's exactly the father Jim. That's actually the opposite of how you pronounce all right.

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Speaker 4: Go ahead.

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Speaker 10: So Uh, I thought I was saving it for today. I wanted to wear it for today. So I think this is the perfect time to break it. Bring his shirt out.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'm tonight for the game. I'm wearing my UH national championship shoes. The banners painted on those don't get broken out of all, they don't.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Special Night brings out special shoes.

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Speaker 4: Special Night eight five eighty seven. Give us a call. I want to know how excited you are about the game. Night. Let's talk for a second about football.

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Speaker 5: Mark Uh Mark Stoops says in the in his UH call. Well, first of all, he did he skipped his call in show. That's not a good It's never a good.

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Speaker 2: Sound, especially after he was so adamant about.

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Speaker 5: I understood he missed last week his mother mom's funeral. Totally get that, sent Vince, totally understand second week. I don't know there was there was a lit remember, Billy, there was a period of time he would send Jeff Shepherd and former players, and Tubby did that as well, and then cal started doing that.

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Speaker 4: Joker did it in the last few weeks.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, Drew, that's that's a even so early in the day he said, they asked what are the chances you step away and retire? And he said zero. I bought it, But then he skipped the post. Then he skipped the show, So there is a I don't know, just on.

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Speaker 6: The skipping the show part, and then we'll get into the zero percent. I was very critical of KLV doing that. I think that was a bad look by Stoops. He's getting a lot of criticism that I think he probably should have seen coming, especially coming after a bye week where they didn't even have a Monday press conference. They had shorter obligations a week ago, and he had just missed another one for as you said, you know obvious reason that he should have missed it, but I think you should have been more likely to do that one for that reason, and Evince, I think is just a bad look and he's deserving all the comments he's getting about that online.

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Speaker 10: At first I thought, well, maybe he had, you know, recruiting visit, a really important recruiting visit. Well, then widvents do the show if your defense.

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Speaker 4: Would be with me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I don't know about that. That's a that's a little red flight. But what about what he said? Okay, so there's the the person to take it face face value, you can sit down wherever, go ahead, take it face value, or the cynic the face value person would say he said zero percent chance zero. I mean, that's not like leaving it equivocal. He's being fairly defenditive. So there would be people who would say, why even talk about it? He answered the question. Then there would be people who said, he said there's a zero percent chance that he'd retire and walk away, the retire being the key word that there's a difference though, between retiring or stepping away and still being open to coaching somewhere else. Do you think using the word retire mattered or are we just reading too much into it.

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Speaker 6: I think it's just one of those scenarios where coaches say this because they have to, and it really has no impact on what's going on their head. I mean, we've seen coaches say they're staying and then leave twelve hours later. I think Stoops has three games left and he's if he says anything other than I'm all in, he has to go look at a locker room with three games they need to win and try to fire them up, and they're thinking, well, you you know, you could be leaning leaving. So I think he had to say it at this point in the year. I'm not saying I believe that that he's at zero percent. I think that's a decision you'll have to think on down the road. But in this moment, I don't know what else he can say. I guess he could have said, I'm only thinking about Murray State, but he just wanted to be definitive because they got recruits coming in, they're hitting the portal. I feel like that's the message he has to keep.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you have to say it in that situation. You know, you're your weekly news conference, you get asked about your future, you still got three games left. You have to say, I am I am not gonna retire. I'm going I'm going to be here. Whether his head is really in it, I don't know yet.

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Speaker 4: So my view is you're both kind of right. Like the moment.

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Speaker 5: John cal Perry went on television on a Tuesday set next to Miss Barnhart and said I'm coming back, looked them right in the eye and said I want to retire here, and then took a meeting with Arkansas on Friday. That's where you just gotta go. You can't really believe what these guys say about any of the right. Yeah, like you just can't. I mean, there's been very few more bold face lies than the cow one. I mean, those two were basically singing kumbah yah. They did everything but hold hands, and then they did everything but hold hands, and behind the scenes, cal was making moves to do things here in Lexington and then next thing you know, he's gone on Friday. So like there comes a point that I guess, like why do we even ask, cause like you're gonna you know.

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Speaker 6: My bigger takeaway was as John Wong was asking the question, Stoops was had a look we don't see any It's a look he gives the referees after a bad call because he's kind of waiting and he knew where was going, and he seemed upset that it was even brought up.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think the question's perfectly fine, but I guess you just I don't think you can really believe anything they say when it comes to that question because you're right. I mean, they have recruits here. So if he's like leaving open retiring, how do you get a recruit to come here? I think that's a fair point.

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Speaker 2: He has to give that answer in that moment.

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Speaker 4: Yes, so, And.

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Speaker 6: Even though he seemed definitive. I mean, if they were to just in this year really poorly, there's no way he'd be he'd at least think about it a little bit.

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Speaker 5: If they lose to Texas by forty and then Louisville beats him by twenty that I don't know how he comes back like so there is a sense of oddly. I still think there's a lot to be determined. Although Murray is awful. Yeah, spread come out yet don't.

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Speaker 4: They don't do spreads for those games. Won't even do that.

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Speaker 6: If they're one to nine and four different teams have scored exactly fifty nine points.

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Speaker 5: They lost to Butler, who hadn't won a game in three years.

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Speaker 6: Their generous and they're gonna get to see a win.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 6: This just feels different. There's an excitement we haven't felt in the well.

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Speaker 5: We'll take a break at right back sksr welk back if you want some reading today. Mark Pope is at this moment a feature story on ESPN dot com and in the New York Times. The New York Times has just tweeted out a headline at thirty seven with four kids and his wife's blessing. Mark Pope dropped out of med school and took an assistant coaching job at twenty four thousand for the year. Now he holds the keys to arguably the biggest job in college basketball.

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Speaker 4: Mark Pope in the New York Times.

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Speaker 5: So, see, this is the thing. And I don't say I don't say this to be rude to the former guy here, but Kentucky's the needle.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 5: That's the main New York Times account with like, see how many followers the main New York Times account fifty.

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Speaker 4: Five million followers. Wow.

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Speaker 5: And here are the last Just to give you an example, here are the last five stories tweeted out. Why did President President elect Donald Trump win Arizona? Breaking news, Donald Trump's case in Manhattan, so and so climate changed, sixty two people detained in soccer unrest in Amsterdam. And Mark Pope is the new coach at the University of Kentucky. I'm just saying that ain't happening everywhere else. That happens here, and good for him. That's because it is just a good human interest story. Drew that a guy would quit medical school to go do bat that's awesome.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we've all been witnessing it for the last several months. But his hot start at Kentucky, he deserves all that at Tension too, in addition to his story of how he got here, and that story is gonna get even better at about eleven thirty PM tonight.

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Speaker 5: Meyern Metcalf. By the way, I have not read the story. It just went up on ESPN. My Ern Metcalf spent a week with Mark Pope and his story, which he told me a little bit about all that happened. His story actually went goes up today as well, so they were gone.

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Speaker 6: Mine shared a lot of what he was working on with the listeners on Monday, so I know.

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Speaker 5: So the two big features profiles on Pope today, you know Cooper Flak we said he'd get all the attention. Maybe Mark Pope's gonna be the one that gets the attention.

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Speaker 10: Tonight, I've been anxiously wedding Myron's post on it on the story on Mark Pope, because yeah, he shared a little bit of tidbits, excited about what you know, Mark Pope told him, and it's just a great success story. But how if you're Leanne his wife, like you think you're gonna be a doctor's wife. Okay, you want to quit med school and be an assistant at.

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Speaker 4: Thirty seven too?

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Speaker 5: With thirty seven, I didn't I didn't really place that he was that old when he did it. I mean, that's not like, that's not a spring chicken to go change careers and he.

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Speaker 6: Wanted just at some random hospital. They had a great life in New York City, and he went to Georgia for an entry level basketball position that barely paid, and he's entertaining recruits in football games.

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Speaker 4: I mean I switched careers.

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Speaker 5: I mean I started the blog in five, but I actually fully stopped being a lawyer in twenty ten. And that was at thirty two, and that felt like a Okay, this better work. You know, thirty seven with kids, that's a heck of a gamble.

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Speaker 4: You gotta love that betting on himself, right.

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Speaker 10: There were a lot of those conversations like, honey, are you sure you.

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Speaker 4: Want to do this? Yeah, that's amazing. Who's up next?

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Speaker 3: Sheennon, Let's go to Tracy.

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Speaker 4: Tracy, go ahead, Tracy.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks taking my call.

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Speaker 8: Guy.

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Speaker 9: That's one's best shows I've heard in a while.

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Speaker 5: Long time.

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 5: Who are, and then like I had somebody right just second go and say this feels like the energy of your old shoes.

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Speaker 4: I agree with that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, listen, you can't fake being excited about a game or something.

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Speaker 4: And I it is that now the.

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Speaker 9: Top ten bit you did that. I hadn't laughed that much in a long time.

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Speaker 4: Well, good, thank you.

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Speaker 9: And h on laugh note in good sport. I am an over forty year fan of Duke, but that's still great.

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Speaker 4: So you're forty your fan of Duke. Do you live in Kentucky?

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Speaker 9: No, No, in Virginia, but I'm over in Kentucky a lot and I listen to you guys a lot.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Well, let me ask you if you're a fan of Duke. If you're a fan of Duke, what do you consider the game?

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Speaker 4: Like? Do you how do you look at it going into it?

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Speaker 9: I think both of these these are really good teams, and you're probably gonna see it's gonna be below Tim you know, being Ken, I'm gonna give them the edge.

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Speaker 5: But so what would you say we talked about we talked about where we think Kentucky has the edge.

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Speaker 4: Where do you think Duke has the edge?

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Speaker 9: I think Duke has a very deep veteran bench transfers that may make a difference.

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Speaker 5: Okay, good, interesting, So they're deep, well, I actually think both teams then if that's true, thank you for listening, sir. If that's true, I think you know, Drew. Both teams are deep. I mean I think we go ten deep, really solid. I'd say Almanor and Chandler have been better maybe, and then I thought they would be. I thought we'd go eight deep, and I think we're going ten deep, and so that's that's good.

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Speaker 6: Almanor has been a little better than you think.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I mean I didn't.

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Speaker 5: By the way, Mario is allowed to text me when Almonor scores. Y'all don't all need to text me on the text machine. Win all minor scores like, I don't need I don't need everybody to do it. I can, I can get them from Mario. I don't need everybody.

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Speaker 2: Get on the Almonor train.

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Speaker 6: They do have a lot of depth though. I mean we mentioned the center that played for the Olympic team with Winyon, but in their first two games he's split the time with his backup last name Brown. I mean they have multiple bodies. They'll throw in almost across the board outside of Cooper flag playing every minute they can give him.

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Speaker 5: To give you a sense of how old Mark Pope when he was when he started his career. Duke's coach, John Shire is thirty seven right now and coaching Duke, so I mean like he was starting from scratch.

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Speaker 6: Isn't it kind of unique? Those two meetings tonight, both former captains on a national championship team now head coach of those schools. That's such a and both trying to playing tonight, and both trying to replace a legend, which is historically in college basketball almost impossible to do.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if you go through history, the you know, the amount of college coaches that have replaced a legend immediately and been successful is.

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Speaker 4: A tiny, tiny group.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you could make a strong argument Tubby's the best one in terms of it just doesn't it just doesn't happen a lot. I mean, like usually, like Tubby and Joe be are the success story too, like a lot of the I mean think about Bobby Knight, was Mike Davis failed, right, Matt Doherty was, Dean Smith failed. It took a long time to get a Wooden coach that succeeded. You had to get to all the way to Jim Herrick to end up finding a coach that succeeded and he cheated.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's it's hard.

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Speaker 5: Bill self has done a good job with it, but it's normally a very difficult.

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Speaker 4: Thing to do.

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Speaker 10: It takes a very special person to replace a legend like that, and it takes somebody I think that understands what it means to the fans and I think Mark Popenenshire both get what Duke basketball means and what Kentucky basketball means to their fan base.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Kubert Davis, outside of one NCAA tournament run, I think has struggled.

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Speaker 4: He now, he had a heck of a run.

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Speaker 5: They went to the they went all the way to the championship game with that, but you take that three week run away, and they haven't had a whole lot of success during his time.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna take a break, be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back. To Kentucky Sports Radio. I saw a story Shannon made me think of you. What's okay? Do you remember Will Forta on Saturday Night Live? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Will Forte did a podcast interview and he said that he, uh, when he was a teenager, he had a dream where someone said he would be killed like he would be stabbed when he was seventy.

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Speaker 4: Three years old. That's wild, So he remembered it when he was a kid.

00:24:13
Speaker 5: Then since then, he claims he has had multiple dreams and various things of being killed at seventy three, including he went and saw at one point as a joke, he went and saw a fortune teller and they said you will be killed at seventy three, dude. And he said that now happened to him like four or five times. And so he said, there's a part of him he's fifty four, that believes he has nineteen years left. And he said, I know it's not rational, but it is hard for me not to continue to believe that I will die at seventy three. So, Shannon, if that had happened to you, and you'd had multiple dreams in your life at seventy three and then you went to a fortune teller and they told you seventy three, did you believe it?

00:25:01
Speaker 3: I probably would, like there's somebody trying to tell me something from a I don't know, another universe or something that's crazy though. I know, like when I turned seventy three, I would wrap myself in.

00:25:12
Speaker 5: Like that bubble, not go outside when you were Probably would you spend a year just in your house?

00:25:18
Speaker 4: Would you change what you did at seventy three?

00:25:21
Speaker 3: I don't know if I had multiple dreams and then I mean a fortune teller. I don't believe in fortune tellers, But if they told me seventy three after I believed it was seventy three, that's a little freaky, don't you think?

00:25:31
Speaker 4: I think? So what do you think?

00:25:32
Speaker 10: It seems a little more than just coincidence that it's happened throughout his lifetime, Like it happened when he's a kid, then it happens when he's adult. It's the same age. That does seem a little freaky.

00:25:42
Speaker 6: I'm definitely taking seventy three off the whole year. Close family can be allowed near me, even then they're at a safe distance because I don't know who's stabbing me.

00:25:50
Speaker 4: You never know.

00:25:50
Speaker 6: Seventy three, you're gonna have a hard time getting near.

00:25:53
Speaker 4: Me what you take on it.

00:25:55
Speaker 5: I don't buy any of it, but it would be weird, Like I mean I would it would you would feel feel weird about it. And he said, He's like, I don't believe in this stuff. But at the same time, there comes a point that you just keep thinking it's seventy three and you can't help but be in your head.

00:26:13
Speaker 2: Right, he's gonna be a little part of it. You believe it. I think because it's happened so many times.

00:26:19
Speaker 6: I lived this scenario with a friend. We went, well, let me back up. He went to a fortune teller and they told him he would die in NASCAR race and he's like, that's stupid. I don't even like Nascar. Two years later, our other friend had his bachelor party at Talladega and he considered not going.

00:26:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's dumb. I mean, that's just another I think I'm with Shannon.

00:26:37
Speaker 5: The fact that it's a fortune teller and you had a dream about it before.

00:26:42
Speaker 4: Like, if it's just some fortune teller tells you something like that's but.

00:26:45
Speaker 6: You wouldn't be a little uneasy if they them we told you a specific place you were gonna die.

00:26:49
Speaker 4: You thought you would never go to that place. Then someone pops up, No.

00:26:52
Speaker 5: Not a fortune teller, but the combination of having the dream multiple times in his life and then a fortune that's almost like two separate sources of nonsense coming together, makes it double nonsense.

00:27:07
Speaker 3: Why would you be the lucky one to be able to know when you die and the rest of us just have to find out.

00:27:12
Speaker 4: That's why I ultimately wouldn't believe it.

00:27:14
Speaker 5: But at the same time, I'm I it's like we saw always talking about with ghost It's not that I don't think I don't think ghosts exists, but I understand the feeling of uneasiness that can come in a certain situation.

00:27:28
Speaker 4: I do understand that.

00:27:29
Speaker 6: So if a fortune teller said a piano will fall on your head and you walk out and there's a piano hanging, are you walking under it? Or you can be like, oh, oh, there's a chance things.

00:27:36
Speaker 4: I mean, if I felt like the piano was.

00:27:37
Speaker 3: Safe, and if you dreamt about dying from a piano falling, I guess if.

00:27:41
Speaker 5: I dreamt about a piano falling off my head and I saw a piano, maybe I'll walk across the street, but also not going outside for a year. It's a little different than just missing a piano, Like a year is a long time.

00:27:54
Speaker 10: And it's not him having the dream either. It's his friend that had the dream, and it's no he had the dreams Fortune Teller was different had the dream.

00:28:02
Speaker 2: Oh I thought a.

00:28:03
Speaker 10: Friend of his said we was told him that.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, that was not not what it is. Who's next? Free Bird? Free Bird? How are you? Freebird?

00:28:12
Speaker 8: Hey Man? That monologue was one of the best ever, dude, when you were talking about all the big games Kentucky's played in over the years. That was spot on fantastic. And I think one more thing, Uh, this would be for Ryan Man. I'm working down at Monticello, and you know what that means, don't you.

00:28:30
Speaker 10: Ryn Monocello pullhull cheeseburgers.

00:28:33
Speaker 8: I had to yesterday, dude. They're fans.

00:28:36
Speaker 5: They are very very good. My wrestlers still talk about him. Our wrestlers talk about him every time they got they that we go to Monacello.

00:28:44
Speaker 7: Uh.

00:28:44
Speaker 5: I appreciate the call when you in terms of fans being excited about this. This is the first of five of these games in the non Conference. I mean, this is a great run of a schedule. I think the at you know, the next one is at Clemson. It won't have the build up, but it it's gonna be just as hard. Clemson's good. It's gonna be on their home court. They're gonna probably have an atmosphere. When when I was doing ESPN in Chicago, there was a girl there that's in charge of the social media for ESPN Radio social media account. And when I said she was from Kentucky, she said to me, one of my favorite nights in college was Kentucky came and played at Texas Tech.

00:29:24
Speaker 4: You remember that.

00:29:24
Speaker 5: That was the quickly year we were watching it in the bar, I think in Illinois. Quickly hit a shot and we beat them in overtime. But she said she was like at Texas Tech, Kentucky coming was a huge deal on campus.

00:29:40
Speaker 4: She was like, that was the biggest game that you could have. It's gonna be.

00:29:44
Speaker 5: Like that for Clemson to true, Like they're gonna have that view down there that like this is the biggest they have duke there and but like this is gonna be a big.

00:29:53
Speaker 4: Deal for them too.

00:29:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, they have the acc opponents to probably get a little used to seeing that, but they're coming off their best season ever. I believe with their tournament run a year ago, they have new basketball assignment that they've never seen. That place is gonna be rocking. I'm honestly worry about that one more than tonight's game, even though tonight's super duke and Cooper flags.

00:30:11
Speaker 5: And then we go to Gonzaga, like I mean, there's gonna be you know, there there are three of these games.

00:30:16
Speaker 4: If we assume we beat Louisville at home.

00:30:18
Speaker 5: You know, we've talked about I want to go three and two in these five, but you could make a strong argument that our heart is three or the first three that the other two Ohio State on a neutral court and can and then Louisville at home are easier than the three that we're kind of getting to start. If you could go two and one in these three games, that's huge. You would celebrate, Yeah, wouldn't you.

00:30:39
Speaker 6: I thought this, If we win tonight, and I say this with love and I'm including myself, we are gonna be so unbearable. Yeah, We're gonna be and I'm looking forward to it and I'm gonna participate. But we are gonna be so obnoxious up the toime.

00:30:51
Speaker 5: Yeah no, no, no, no, Like there's a level of obnoxiousness that we can hit that few people can.

00:30:59
Speaker 4: But it's on and we haven't gotten to do it for a while.

00:31:03
Speaker 6: When like the thirty eight no year and when things were really rolling, you just be in an airport staring at people wearing other stuff, yelling go cats at each other. You couldn't go out near a UK fan without them bringing up how good we are a basketball It's cooled off a little bit. If they win tonight, we will not shut about it.

00:31:18
Speaker 4: Get you back, You're you're exactly right. Who's next? George, George, go ahead, George.

00:31:24
Speaker 11: Hey brother, long time listener who they just wanted to just wanted to say, you guys do an awesome job. Love listening to you's been listening for a while now. But I'm in no way a fan of Duke. Let's get that out of the way. I'm an okay, been a Kentucky fan for many years. My pat Ball taught me and my brother who the bluest of blue truly is. And uh, I would probably have to go get a at least a third opinion on the death at seventy three, maybe go back to deathflog dot you've had a shot.

00:32:01
Speaker 5: Oh but see, I wouldn't want to know when I was going to be neither, would you know?

00:32:06
Speaker 3: Well, Oh, speaking of dying, I think the Connection just died.

00:32:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys just dropped out there.

00:32:17
Speaker 3: So Drew started talking.

00:32:19
Speaker 4: Okay, are we here now? Yeah? I got you. Now we're back. Go ahead, sir, No, you're good.

00:32:25
Speaker 11: I was just saying, you guys, go ahead, and rambline and I appreciate the time.

00:32:31
Speaker 3: As I talked about dying, the Connection died.

00:32:34
Speaker 6: What about the comfort and not knowing you won't be dying today? Like, well, I got till seventy three. I'm good until then.

00:32:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I feel like I would sit there if I if I knew the year, I would sit there going. I would be like, it's sort of like when you have to wake up. I don't know if you are like this. I don't sleep as well when I know a definitive time when I have to wake up, But if I can get up at any time, I just.

00:32:58
Speaker 4: Always sleep better. Like so if I.

00:33:01
Speaker 5: You know, like when we we were off Saturday and I knew there was no particular time, I had to get up.

00:33:08
Speaker 4: I just slept better through the night.

00:33:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, but even if you if you tell me I have to be up at seven, I'm just not gonna sleep as well.

00:33:14
Speaker 4: I just can't.

00:33:15
Speaker 5: I feel like if you knew there was a day you were dying, you couldn't help.

00:33:20
Speaker 4: But sort of look at that date and go, well, I mean, yeah, I guess do I want to take this job? I only got a few years.

00:33:28
Speaker 10: Let you know, I think if it always be in the back of your mind, whatever you decide to do, it would be there.

00:33:33
Speaker 6: I have your own going away party.

00:33:36
Speaker 4: That would be nice.

00:33:36
Speaker 5: All right, You go to DraftKings DraftKings dot com. We are gonna do our Draft Kings picks the Kentucky Duke game. Duke is a six and a half point favorite. Over under is one sixty point five, and then the over for Kentucky is seventy seven point five. Of those picks, the game, the total over under, and the Kentucky over under drew.

00:34:02
Speaker 4: What is your best bet tonight?

00:34:05
Speaker 6: I really like the over. Let me pull up make sure the team over still say I like both overs. Really, I think Kentucky's gonna have a hard time stopping Duke and I think Duke's have a hard time stop at Kentucky. I think this game could have it both teams in the nineties. It could be that crazy. So I really like the over, but I also love the Cats. I'll say the over for my answer, but I've already hammered the six and a half and the money line too. I'm very pro Kentucky tonight.

00:34:26
Speaker 5: I would say to you, if you like Kentucky to win the game, then the bet I would make is to parlay the win and the Kentucky over. Ye, they're winning if they win, we're scoring more than seventy seven points. I don't think we're winning at under seventy seven. So it's plus one ninety five for Kentucky to win, and then it's basically even money to take the over. I parlay those together, you're gonna get like four and a half to one. And that's what I would do tonight. That's what I am going to do tonight, and picking Kentucky Ryan and the over in like a part.

00:35:03
Speaker 2: I feel like this myself.

00:35:04
Speaker 10: I'm looking to pick the over every time Kentucky's on the floor.

00:35:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, they'll adjust at some point this year, but I don't think. I mean, like, if we don't score seventy seven, we're definitely losing. But there's also a world in which we score over seventy seven and win, or excuse me, score over seventy seven and lose. Like so I feel like seventy seven is a low amount for this.

00:35:24
Speaker 6: I have another bet. I forgot to mention Jackson Robinson is plus money, like plus one forty to hit three three pointers. So again, if you think we're gonna win in Kentucky bet and the Kentucky over well, yeah, I mean we're gonna win cool night and everyone else does it. But I for plus money I like that one too.

00:35:41
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:35:42
Speaker 5: They go to DraftKings promo code ksruh check out. We'll have a bet on there laterday. It'll probably be some version of what we just said. We'll take a break and be right back here at Chaos Bar and Grails Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:35:58
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00:36:37
Speaker 4: All right.

00:36:37
Speaker 5: I one thing that I that is going to be a story that continues to come out. I brought it up a week or so ago. I'm still waiting to get details. But there was a part of this on ESPN yesterday. As part of the whole settlement with the sharing of revenue and all that, College athletics is literally this year about to have like a change that probably ought to take five years is gonna happen overnight, like literally overnight. Mark Stoops said this kind of yesterday. Let's talk about how to affect people the most. There are certain sports that rosters by NCAA rule, they're gonna have to get less. So, for instance, baseball now has like forty one players on the team every NCAA baseball team is gonna have to go to thirty four next year. Now, the good news is there's thirty four people will be on full scholarship, whereas now that's not the case. But there's like seven people that you just won't be able to have. That's gonna be part of it. Football Right now, most football rosters average one hundred and twenty one with eighty five scholarship players. They are forcing football to go to one oh five. But they can all be scholarship. They don't have to all be scholarship, but they can't. But there are going to be. I don't know what Kentucky's roster is, but there will be a huge amount of walk ons it.

00:37:56
Speaker 4: They just won't have anymore.

00:37:59
Speaker 6: It's stated eighty five one more year, which messes them up bad right now because they're already way over for next year.

00:38:04
Speaker 4: All right.

00:38:05
Speaker 6: They thought it was gonna be immediate, but they're still kind of waiting on the course to figure it out that Actually, I think UK was planning on that happening immediately and now they're over, but that it is coming.

00:38:14
Speaker 5: But then basically the smaller sports are all seeing their rosters go down again. They'll the guys will be full scholarship, but you just won't have as many. So I'm just saying that to say to you, You're gonna hear stories coming out over the next few months of some really tough choices that all schools are gonna have to do.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: They're gonna have to.

00:38:34
Speaker 5: Look at kids who are there and say I'm sorry, and a lot of people are gonna hate that, and I get it. But one of the things I would say is if you were like me, and I was one of these people that was an advocate that players need to get what they deserve, which I believe that's that's America, then the people that don't bring in money, they're gonna be the ones that have the effect it.

00:38:57
Speaker 4: It's just a fact.

00:38:59
Speaker 5: So, oh, football is gonna get more scholarships, but actually have fewer people on the teams. Baseball is gonna get more scholarships, but fewer people on the teams. You know, I think I saw golf is gonna go from like twelve players to ten or something like. This is just what's gonna happen, and Ryan expect these stories. I think in women's sports, I think it's women's soccer their roster will go down. Most women's sports will say the same, but there's a couple that their rosters are gonna go down to.

00:39:26
Speaker 10: There's gonna be a couple of situations where these kids lose their scholarship and probably can't afford to go to school. They'll have to go somewhere else and hopefully get a scholarship at that school because they can't afford it.

00:39:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I don't think there'll be a ton of those though, because those people probably.

00:39:42
Speaker 4: Weren't on scholarship. I just think the amount of opportunities.

00:39:45
Speaker 5: For walk ons is about to take a dramatic hit, like the day, like, for instance, basketball, right now you can have what is it, fifteen scholarships and however many Now you're just gonna be only to have fifteen people. So if you get we have a kid a walk on, like you're taking a scholarship. So the days of like you can like Billy Gillaspie had twenty one kids on the bench, you can't do that anymore. You just have to have fifteen. And you can decide to have walk ons, but you just can't have like as many as you want anymore.

00:40:19
Speaker 6: So just something to watch you have been so used to doing it one way and having the same numbers. That's why Kentucky's inn. I think they expected it to happen right away. They're way over their limit right now before even going to the portal and doing things in football. So they might have to have some tough talks with scholarship players.

00:40:34
Speaker 5: The days of the coaches just being able to let their frit kids, friends, sons play, I don't know if they're gonna be able to do that anymore at most sports.

00:40:43
Speaker 4: Who's next? Shit, Cat Daddy, Cat daddy? How are you?

00:40:47
Speaker 7: Thank you? Gentlemen? I just wanted to throw some roses at the coach who followed the legend who did it better than anybody in history, and that was Joe B.

00:40:55
Speaker 12: Hall Oh he did. But remember people, at the end, we're ready to run him. It is hard to follow a legend. Joe B did a great job. You would, But Joe B was joby as people wanted him gone. That's just the way that job is.

00:41:12
Speaker 7: He wasn't popular eating at the beginning, and in seventy five at the Final four, between the championship game and the semi finals, he had the greatest quote every they asked him. They said, John Wooden is announced. Who's his retirement? You followed Adolph Rupp, who would you suggest to follow John Wooden? And he said, well, they all to hire me? Why ruin two lives?

00:41:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's all I'm saying is for and I appreciate the call for Pope and Shire tonight. They're both having to sort of create their legacy and a different in the shadow of a legend, and that's a very hard thing for both guys to do. All right, let's talk schedule our pregame show. First of all, the women start at six. It's on the computer. We'll have it on here at the bar. Pregame show starts at six point thirty. Game is it like nine fifteen? Love to have you come. Watch Come. I think it's gonna be a great atmosphere. Even if you don't get a table. I think it'd be fun to be here and hang out. My only request is if you come and stay a long time, you gotta buy stuff like we do.

00:42:14
Speaker 4: We are running a business here on on some level, but.

00:42:17
Speaker 5: I'd love to have you. I think it's gonna be awesome. Mario is gonna be here filming. I'm sure we'll put videos up. We're all watching it here. I'm gonna be right here. I watch very few games here because I get too nervous, But tonight I want to be around fans and enjoy it.

00:42:30
Speaker 6: I'm very excited about. We don't give the many opportunities to get together and watch games here, and I'm thinking this is gonna be a good one.

00:42:35
Speaker 4: This should be a lot of fun.

00:42:36
Speaker 5: Listen, when we hired Mark Pope, we were waiting for nights like tonight, right. We were waiting to have the excitement and the energy back.

00:42:43
Speaker 4: Win or lose.

00:42:44
Speaker 5: This game doesn't long term matter, but it is exciting. And if we get the win, we including me, are gonna be really obnoxious.

00:42:53
Speaker 4: I can just die.

00:42:54
Speaker 5: I can just tell you that thanks to all of you for coming out. We'll see you tonight six thirty.

00:42:58
Speaker 4: It's KSR.