2026-04-27- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now Here's Matt Joke.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, April to twenty seventh, Derby week Here in Louisville, Kentucky, where I am with Shannon the Dude. Ryan Lemon is in Lexington. Drew is still on paternity leave and you can give us a show on the Clark's Puppy Shop full line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two four five two five four in this distion sponsored by the TJ smid Lovus. If you call TJ, He'll make them pay. Ryan it is. It was a good weekend of sort of relaxation, and I forget every year until I'm here. How the city of Louisville transforms Derby week. All of a sudden this morning there's construction everywhere. There's roses, like this city completely changes. And Shannon and I were just saying, we're the only two people in the building that are not required to do anything for the Derby. You did it for thirty years. Are you sad that you don't have to do it anymore?

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Speaker 5: I think I'd rather have my left arm cut off than have to go cover the Derby again.

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Speaker 4: You hate the Derby? Why do you hate the Derby some much?

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Speaker 5: It was just so many unbelievably long days. You know, you gotta get there at six in the morning, so you leave Lexington at four thirty in the morning.

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Speaker 3: You got throw get home till midnight. All that one time. I think that's all.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that ultimately is what's wrong. What's wrong? He doesn't like that he got thrown in that mud hulls came in. So there's this guy, some people may know him. His name is John Fanta, and he does college basketball in the NBA. You've seen that guy, right.

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Speaker 6: He's been on a show.

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Speaker 4: He's been on the show, he's hosted the show before. Yes, yeah, actually gonna host the show. I think maybe this summer. So John, he got to sign this year to the Derby for the first time. And his job is he is in the infield, Shannon, So that's where he got a sign by NBC, which I think is kind of interesting if you know John, Like, what a weird place to put him.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't seem like a party guy to me.

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Speaker 4: He's not a big party guy and he's always in suits and stuff. So I he asked me if I had any advice, and I just sent him the video of Ryan getting thrown into the mud, and I said, don't let this happen to you because you I think you've said, Ryan, you still have an injury from that right.

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Speaker 5: It messed my backup for many many years.

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Speaker 3: Should have called TJ.

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Speaker 4: And did you meet Did you meet one time the guy that threw you in the puddle?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 5: I think we talked about on one of the shows. Somebody thought they could have identify em or thought they knew who he was. But I've never met the guy.

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Speaker 4: And it's one of like the four people that Ryan hate Shannon is the guy that threw him in the mud puddle that years ago.

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Speaker 3: I don't blame him.

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Speaker 5: It's stunk so bad, it was nasty.

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Speaker 4: It's funny is if that had happened Shannon. In today's internet.

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Speaker 3: World, There'll be a million videos.

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Speaker 4: Ryan would be viral, Ryan would be me. Ran would be a meme. If somebody picked a reporter up and threw them in the mud nowadays. Yeah, can you imagine if somebody tries to do that to John Panta this weekend off? Probably not, but I mean that would be that would be wild, Like that would be a lawsuit.

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Speaker 3: Now, no problems show that video to John because he may try to get out of his duty.

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Speaker 4: No, I sent it. He has fonded yet, but I sent it to him, and I was like, just don't let this happen.

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Speaker 3: Oh God.

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Speaker 4: But anyway, you can find that on YouTube. It's good memories of the past eight five nine.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Shannon, this weekend was my neighborhood, was hopping in Louisville, the Cherokee Art Fair, all of them out. I mean, you're amongst them, but you're amongst them, among a different kind of amongst them. It's like granolum amongst them.

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Speaker 3: That's a place we could all go on this show and be completely anonymous.

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Speaker 4: Well that's you've read my mind. I couldn't have been more anonymous. There is not a place in the state of Kentucky where I'm more anonymous than at the Cherokee Art Fair. First of all, there is no one there in UK gear Shannon or U of L Gear, no sports gear, no, just a lot of tied die, a lot of tied die, a lot of everyone has a cause, right, a lot of sandals right. And then but it's it's it's a really nice thing. But there's art everywhere you can buy art, hence the name art Fair. There are also, I had no idea, Shannon, until I was there, the market for scented candles. Oh yeah, and not just scented candles, scented.

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Speaker 3: Soaps, yes, homemade soap.

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Speaker 4: Did know how many people are dealers in this state of scented soaps?

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Speaker 3: I don't know the number, but I know there's a large amount of those.

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Speaker 2: Like when you go to one of those fares, there's a good probably forty to fifty percent of the booths that are selling either candles or soap.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and I'm a big candle person, But I have to say there has been a huge influx in this state of scented soaps and they're homemade, and Shannon is right. I would say twenty five to thirty percent of the booths are soap booths. And I had no idea, and I'm wondering, are we in the wrong business ship should we be making On the side, ks are scented soaps. They were crowded too. I just wanted to go and smell some, and people are just buying them by the dozen.

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Speaker 3: Ks soap.

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Speaker 2: You're picking up that same bar of soap though, that hundreds of people have already picked up and put up to.

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Speaker 4: O their EU. So you're saying it might not be that clean.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just saying if you not after everybody's touched it.

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Speaker 4: It's just like you realize there's a part I am politically left, but I am sort of culturally right in the things that I like, you know, country music, wrestling, sports, but then like politically that's not I'm not really on that side. But so when I go there, I realize when I say the other how the other half lives. It's it's really my half, just not the half I hang out with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're a little extreme on on that end. I gotta tell you, though, I've moved away from bar soap a long time ago.

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Speaker 3: I'm a gel guy when it comes to soap.

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Speaker 4: Oh you don't like you cut the gel.

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Speaker 3: On the loof of like that. That's that's It.

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Speaker 4: Is weird when you see a bar of soap, especially if you're in a stranger's house.

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Speaker 3: And not touching your bar soap. If I come to your house and shower at your place, well I don't want it.

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Speaker 4: I will say the Cherokee Artfield. I always end up buying a couple of things, of course, Ryan, I don't ever hang them up. They just sit on my floor.

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Speaker 5: Or did you buy some candles?

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Speaker 7: Though?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, dude, he has.

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Speaker 4: So many candles. But I bought a couple of like just pictures. But I'll probably never you know, you just get in the moment.

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Speaker 3: You should have bought a hammer in nels.

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Speaker 4: I think I've bought like ten I think I've bought like ten pictures over the years of horses. Yeah, and I don't know why I don't hang up any of them. But anyway, I.

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Speaker 5: Have a horse room in your new house. Put all your horse pa.

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Speaker 4: But it is great because there are two places in the world I know no one Keenland Clubhouse, yep, but nothing like the Cherokee Art Fair.

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 4: I would venture to say, we don't have one listener, Shannon, that was at the Cherokee Art Fair.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not. We could throw that out there if anybody was.

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Speaker 4: If you are at the Cherokee Art Fair, just let me know seven seven two seven seven four five two five on the text machine, because you certainly didn't say anything to me yesterday. Now today, depending on who you talk to, today might be a major recruiting day. It also might be and I would say maybe likely will be nothing. Let's start with what happened on Friday. Kentucky gets a player. Now I've got to learn how to pronounce his name.

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Speaker 2: I got you, I got you. You have it, Shannon, I want to hear you're attempt first.

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Speaker 4: Well, his last name is in Ji, right, because there have been a lot of in Jaws in basketball. He his there was Mama do in Jai who had the great nickname Shannon. Nobody love him like his mama do in Job so his last name is in Jah. His first name Osmane.

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Speaker 3: No Ryan, you want to try osaman No. This came from Tom Leach, so I feel good about it.

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Speaker 4: Right, What is it?

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Speaker 3: Uzma?

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Speaker 4: The N E is silent Uzma in John, so no n e even though that's it's o U s m A n E. But the e is not pronounced.

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Speaker 3: So im pronounced that it Uzma enji. So that's what I'm going.

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Speaker 6: With in John Ama enji.

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Speaker 4: All right, good to know Uzma. All right, I'm gonna have to think of what a good playoffs w it is of Uzma. But Uzma in John. So here's what he is in case you all have him been online. He is from Senegal. He is six' eleven with a seven to three, wingspan which that's a long. Wingspan twenty two years, old so he's older than most guys that would come. Here he plays in The italian professional league SIRI, a which is ACTUALLY i think a Good european, league and he averaged eleven points a. Game that's important because this is not you, KNOW i think the best professional league over there Is. Spain but he's playing against really good. Competition this is not WE i don't think we've had anybody come here that was playing in the highest league of one of the Big european. Leagues have we we HAD i mean we had Big z And, yellovich but they were playing in A croatian. League have we had Someone ryan come from one of the big euro? Leagues?

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Speaker 6: Well where Did enis? Play did he play one of the Big turkey? THOUGH i don't know if we've had.

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Speaker 4: ONE i don't think we've had. One and guys from that league used to not come over, here but now because In il they. Do he averaged eleven a. GAME i watched highlights AND i looked as, much, UH i look for as much AS i could. Find he shoots a lot of. Threes he's actually more of an outside, shooter seems like than a post. Player you, know he Doesn't he's not in the ballpark Of. Wimby but the Way wimby plays IS i think how this dude. Plays he is a pro. Prospect And i've had people who know that league's text me over the weekend and, say tuking out a really good player. There that's a really good. Pickup this will be better than most of The europeans they've had come over even because he's Actually, african he's Not European. RYAN i know nothing about. Him So i'm not gonna sit here and say this is, great this is. TERRIBLE i will SAY i think you have to trust the SCOUTING i think you have to say this guy's been ON nba draft, boards AND i think you just SAY i hope it works, out because really there's no way to.

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Speaker 5: Know, right we have no idea who this dude. Is we also him for the first time In Friday, afternoon but the one spot we talked about last Week pope didn't have anybody was the, four and he likes He's fortunes four gonna be A big.

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Speaker 4: FOUR i think he does play the four because he's a. Shooter, yep we're gonna have with him And, moreno if they play together a lot of, length not a lot of. Bulk he seems pretty. Thin but, HONESTLY i mean you're just. Guessing, YEAH i, mean, really we're all just. GUESSING i tweeted Out shannon uh something to the effect OF i don't know who this, is BUT i hope he's. GOOD i saw, that and everybody's, like, awesome did you not know who he? Is your job, dude.

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Speaker 6: You going they didn't know who he.

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Speaker 4: Was nobody.

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Speaker 3: Knows google, search they think.

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Speaker 4: Exactly you read a couple of people On google that you. Don't no one. Knows, okay not one person in this fan base Before friday knew anything about him except he was Considering.

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Speaker 3: KENTUCKY i did hear frand For, schila who does know?

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Speaker 4: These he usually?

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Speaker 2: Does, yeah and he said that he's going to be not only a valuable, player but he thinks there's a good chance that he could start for this.

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Speaker 3: TEAM i don't.

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Speaker 4: KNOW i think they brought him into. Start his nil deal from WHAT i, hear is starter. Money SO i ain't bringing this guy into set, WELL i don't.

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Speaker 5: Want to say that's the. Spot they needed somebody, too SO i thought he was coming in to.

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Speaker 2: START i wonder is that a reflection of how talented he, is or is that a reflection of the roster situation right now that he would start.

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Speaker 4: HERE i, mean it's just a, guess right who? KNOWS i, MEAN i don't know like this. KID i don't know anything about. HIM i know that they like, him AND i know that we need somebody at that. Position AND i Think, ryan at this, point you just have to hope he's. Good Now i've, heard like you, know there are visa issues to get these guys, here and it'll probably be the summer before he gets. Them SO i don't know how that affects the summer tour or maybe do we go somewhere run where he can. PLAY i don't, Know LIKE i don't know any of. THAT i just know that here in this scenario Where kentucky has to have a good, year they're putting a lot of faith in this, dude and we just have to hope he's.

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Speaker 6: Good that's WHAT i.

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Speaker 5: Said you we have to just trust the scout and report. That the coaches got that they believe this guy can be the, four the person they need to play that.

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Speaker 4: Position do you think there's anyone that's, Listening, chap anyone who would know usma In jay's, Game like you think the there's one person who's been To Italian Pro, games but this is a big. Audience maybe maybe some. Kid what city was he in In? ITALY i saw, It, yeah, YEAH i saw, it BUT i remember.

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Speaker 3: MAYBE i just get.

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Speaker 1: It.

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Speaker 2: OKAY i got a little bit of a correction here from Tom oo's.

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Speaker 3: MAN i was saying Ozma usman.

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Speaker 4: The inn is is. Pronounced who is monzmaneh in?

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Speaker 3: Jih there you, Go oo's Man.

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Speaker 4: Usman that seems that makes more sense uzman In. Ji all, Right so there you go uzman In, ji and we hope he's good if you know anything about him beyond you just saw the same video we all saw. Online let me know If i'm nine two eighty. Seven, Also Tyron, stokes there are people who are acting like today is gonna matter with. Him, yes color me. Skeptical by the, way we just u uh, Well mika muran in The finnish guy just Committed. ARKANSAS i think we had contacted. Him but that's, Okay, San we got Uzman. Inji that's, Right. Ji, yeah he's, better much, better much. Better trust. Me we'll take a break very. Back can't sorr glad to See ousman get the? Song of course he. Deserves the oose is. LOOSE i like. IT i don't. KNOW i like it. Too i'm trying to.

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Speaker 3: Think but the goose is, loose wasn't?

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Speaker 4: That it was the juice is? Lose it was oj, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 3: GIVES i don't think they said.

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Speaker 4: THAT i think they the first PERSON i remember them saying about that was. Oj so we're going to try to take it over and make it, Positive, yeah as opposed to what it. Was one person rights, Mad i've never seen him, play BUT i like the. HIGHLIGHTS i think he'd be a perfect fit For Mark pope's. Offense true if the, highlights right are the only, thing, like presumably those are his best, plays, Right.

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Speaker 5: Sure that's why you may call it a, highlight real true where you've played your. Best, yes this, GUY i like.

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Speaker 4: It he's twenty.

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Speaker 5: Two i've getting ready to say that this guy's got him a lot of maturity to him, already he's being twenty two years.

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Speaker 4: Old one person, Writes i'm, negative but if this new kid was so, good he wouldn't be a twenty two year old starting. College yes he. Would he was making money playing professionally In. Europe they make good money In. Europe maybe not as much money now as the top players in college, basketball but they made more money than you did in college basketball pre the portal and. Nil, SO i, Mean yakxel was twenty three last. Year he's pretty, good wasn't. HE i think he's really, Good SO i think twenty two is a POSITIVE i don't see it as a negative at. All we have to get out of the mentality that college basketball is the premier basketball in the world outside of THE. Nba it is becoming that this is going to be the change in this. Sport is college basketball is now starting to compete with the Euro. League ryan as to where you want to be if you're good and, young but it wasn't that until. Now so when that kid was, eighteen it was probably better to be in the Euro league than it was to be in. College SO i think it's fine that he's twenty.

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Speaker 6: Two, YEAH i, know he's.

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Speaker 5: Eighteenth playing against dudes that are thirty for the last four, years it's probably, gonna you, know make him develop into a better player by paying that.

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Speaker 4: Way my guess is he will come. IN i don't know if he will come in stronger than everyone, else but he will come in having Played ryan against better players than most of these dudes that will be.

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Speaker 6: Here.

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Speaker 5: RIGHT i don't think there's any doubt he probably did, bigger, older or, stronger help push him around a little, bit make him little.

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Speaker 4: Tougher he was in a real. League sometimes these guys come from overseas and they were playing in the. Second he was in a real, league not the best league In, europe but a good league In. Europe so he was playing against real. Dudes one person, Rights, matt have we ever had a player From senegal? Before is that Where kamara was?

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Speaker 6: FROM i think it's Where jewels was. From, Yeah i'm.

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Speaker 4: Pretty sure he. Was that's. Correct, YEAH i think he was FROM i Think Jewels kamara. Was so he grew up In, america, right or he came here when he was like thirteen.

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Speaker 6: Or, Something, yeah the.

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Speaker 5: TEENAGER i believe he's when he moved To america each and he was From. SENEGAU i.

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Speaker 4: BELIEVE i think you're right about. That five, nine two, eight twenty two eighty. Seven. Uh not one person says they. Know Oh Kyle wilcher plays In.

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Speaker 6: Italy there you, go oh there we go on the.

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Speaker 4: Phone, yeah he might. KNOW i don't have his, number, THOUGH i don't think all, Right Tyron, stokes maybe someone can tell. Me why does everybody believe he might decide? Today where's that coming?

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Speaker 5: FROM i tried to say something about it this, weekend didn't He?

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Speaker 4: OKAY i try to follow. Online but Now, shannon the people that are breaking news on recruits are like just.

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Speaker 2: Dudes, yeah, yeah and everybody's got a check mark, now so you can't trust.

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Speaker 4: That there's this guy Named quincy who for somehow gets every player to interview with.

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Speaker 3: Him maybe he knows good for that.

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Speaker 4: Kid, YEAH i don't know who he, is but like he Had Tyron stokes on HIS i can't even, say on his podcast and just on his. TikTok, yeah and then he Had Braden. Hawthorne you remember, that thea like he gets how does he get all THESE i guess because he knows.

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Speaker 2: Them, yeah he probably knows one or two players and then they know somebody.

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Speaker 3: And then they can you.

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Speaker 4: Know but it makes it hard for me to follow what's really. Happening But, ryan there are people who think he might decide. Today AM i correct about? That?

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Speaker 5: Yeah WHEN i trusted that When Jeff.

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Speaker 4: Goodman, said what Did Jeff goodman?

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Speaker 5: Say i'd have to look it, up BUT i think he said he was he was hearing it was going to happen. TODAY i can find it real quick, Probably.

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Speaker 3: But now that it's leaked, out is he gonna move the?

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Speaker 8: Day?

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Speaker 4: Well this is WHAT i don't understand about that. Kid it feels like his number one Priority shannon is just to not do what people.

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Speaker 3: Think, yeah he's a. CONTRARIAN i kind of respect, it, THOUGH i kind of like. It here's What goodman said.

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Speaker 5: Yesterday, OKAY i was told by one source close to the situation That Tyron stokes and number one player in the, country could announce the decision On. Monday i'll believe it WHEN i see.

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Speaker 4: It, Okay so he didn't say it was definitely gonna. HAPPEN i guess he could announce it any.

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Speaker 2: Day wouldn't you, think, though you would want people to know when you're going to announce.

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Speaker 4: It it is. Odd it seems like anytime something happens where people suggest he's going to do, something it seems adamant that he doesn't want people to think he's doing.

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Speaker 2: That, yeah he's trying to be one step ahead of. Everybody but if you want everybody to be listening when you make your, announcement they need to know when you're going to make your, announcement not just out of the.

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Speaker 3: Blue.

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Speaker 4: Yeah SO i don't. Know let me say this as of, yesterday And i'm not saying they're. Right kentucky still thinks they can get. It kentucky has been and for two, weeks more confident about where they stand than the media. Is, now that doesn't mean they're. RIGHT i think they've been confident about some other dudes right and not gotten. Them but they still think they have a. Shot so let me ask you, this what happens If Tyron stokes Picks? Kentucky are the fans just like all In pope is like All pope criticisms are gone till the season starts.

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Speaker 5: Overnight we're excited and having a parade down? Mainstream that would change Their does that change every?

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Speaker 6: Day?

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Speaker 2: Yeah remember how this fan base was when we Beat perdue in the exhibition.

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Speaker 4: Game you think it's like? That? Yeah, Okay now let's say he goes To. Kansas then what?

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Speaker 3: Happens doom and gloom for the next six, months.

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Speaker 4: No matter What pope missed, again that'll be the, narrative no matter, what no matter who he gets for the rest of the.

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Speaker 3: Time is there another name out there that we get you nearly as?

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Speaker 4: Excited what if for five thing happens and they somehow TALK O tager About.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well maybe that's. It then maybe that's your your. Consolation if you, DON'T i.

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Speaker 5: Would save you wouldn't. It, hey is is It Jamal crawford? Talk because that's.

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Speaker 4: Still That's Jamal. Crawford So kentucky went After Jamal. Crawford Tyron stokes confirmed that they did offer. Him now they're going back after. Him crawford did On, friday he put out Our, saturday he put out a Tweet shannon that, said, hey anybody have any, questions and he got two hundred questions of are you coming To? Kentucky there you? Go she, went, well wait a, MINUTE i meant like basketball. Questions but he didn't. Answer he didn't say he wasn't. Coming, yeah he's the. One you Get Jamal.

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Speaker 6: Crawford you might Get.

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Speaker 4: STOKED i think you Get Tyron. Stone you don't Get Jamal, crawford THEN i don't. Know you might probably. Don't but they still Want Jamal. Crawford So, ryan if they Got crawford And, stokes is this fan base back to crazy.

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Speaker 5: Again i'm buying my tickets to The final. Four here we, go, baby let's light it, up do.

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Speaker 4: It we'll see lot riding on the. Line, Yep we'll take a, break take some, calls be right. Back. CHAOZAR. Tj Smith personal injury attorney CALLED. Tj he'll make them.

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Speaker 4: Usman when person, Writes Matt, Usman i'm not sure about this team next. Year that doesn't. Work that doesn't. Work, yeah that doesn't. Work now listen right. Now if the roster stays like it, is we probably ryan aren't preseason top twenty.

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Speaker 6: FIVE i would say that's probably. Fair if it stays.

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Speaker 4: We had somebody or we're not preseason top twenty. FIVE i don't know if people realize that this might be the First kentucky team, ever well not, ever but any many years to not be preci when's last time we had a non preseason top twenty?

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Speaker 6: Five?

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Speaker 5: Teen Goodness patino's first. Year, yeah you're always in the. Preseason so Even.

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Speaker 4: Billy gillespie's teams were preseason Top, yes, YEAH i think this would be the first time Since patino's first year we would not be. Preseason but the roster's not finished, yet so let's wait and see what. Happens before we go to the, phones we got to talk About. Shannon what's happening At Paris High?

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Speaker 3: School what is happening At Paris High?

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Speaker 4: School, well do you know why do you have Strong Paris High? School? Now do you know what's happening At Paris High?

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Speaker 5: SCHOOL i, don't BUT i Love Paris High.

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Speaker 4: School so what's happened In Paris High? School they're hiring a new basketball. Coach, okay they had a bunch of. Candidates they've narrowed it down to. Two so they're trying to figure out which of the these two people are we going to. Hire how would most people do? It most people would have the superintendent or a hiring. Committee they'd make the.

00:25:11
Speaker 5: Choice, right there's like a little kind of search.

00:25:14
Speaker 6: Committee that's what most people.

00:25:16
Speaker 4: Would, do, Right that's not what they're doing At Paris High. School tomorrow, night the two leading candidates are coming into a gym and fans can ask them. Questions and now the candidates a town hall. Meeting the two candidates sitting there together and can debate for who should get the? Job do you love it or do you love?

00:25:44
Speaker 3: IT i THINK i love. IT i THINK i love it. More if they made the two play one on one and whoever won the, game like first to.

00:25:50
Speaker 4: Twenty four by four against THE i mean they're bringing both candidates into a room at the same time and letting the fans in a town hall ask them question will.

00:26:01
Speaker 3: They get to vote? Afterwards but they.

00:26:04
Speaker 4: Didn't get to the candidates will leave the. Room then the fans can tell the can the whoever's making the decision their. OPINIONS i love.

00:26:14
Speaker 3: It what would your first question?

00:26:16
Speaker 7: Be?

00:26:16
Speaker 3: Like what kind of zone you're gonna? Run? Coach are you gonna Play Manda? Man or what are we doing? Here first of, all do you like the?

00:26:20
Speaker 4: Idea do you like the idea of essentially like what If Mitch barnhardt had Brought Mark pope And Shaka smart into a? ROOM i love it and ALLOWED uk fans to ask them.

00:26:35
Speaker 5: Questions from a from a media and fan, STANDPOINT i love.

00:26:40
Speaker 9: IT i would love to be there. Tonight it's probably a terrible idea, though, Right BUT i mean it's gonna be a, Terror LIKE i kind of want's. TOMORROW i kind of want to.

00:26:52
Speaker 6: Go, yeah me.

00:26:53
Speaker 4: Too can you imagine what that will?

00:26:55
Speaker 6: Be?

00:26:55
Speaker 3: Like What's mario up? To can we send?

00:26:58
Speaker 4: Him? Mario you going To? Paris have you ever heard of this? Before?

00:27:03
Speaker 5: No not for a.

00:27:04
Speaker 4: Coach here's the argument they do this for superintendent, sometimes.

00:27:09
Speaker 2: That this is gonna be like a presidential, debate but it's two basketball coaches.

00:27:12
Speaker 3: Instead, YES.

00:27:16
Speaker 7: I love.

00:27:17
Speaker 4: It would you do that if you were one of the? Coaches would you want to go sit there with another coach and say hire, me not?

00:27:24
Speaker 2: Them oh, yeah sit there and talk trash to the other, guy like if you hire this, guy your team's gonna suck next.

00:27:30
Speaker 3: Year but somebody you have.

00:27:32
Speaker 4: To say why you're better than, them don't?

00:27:34
Speaker 7: You?

00:27:35
Speaker 6: Yes? Yes do?

00:27:36
Speaker 4: So who are the two? Candidates do we? KNOW i don't, Know, ryan see if you can as we go to the, phones can find out who the two? Kids, OKAY i love this. Idea i've never heard of. It it's got to Be shannon a.

00:27:49
Speaker 3: Disaster oh, yeah but that's why you love, it, right and if it?

00:27:52
Speaker 4: Runs but when else would we be talking About Paris high school basketball?

00:27:57
Speaker 3: Coach, yes it's great for the NEVER i didn't even know they.

00:27:59
Speaker 4: EXISTED i do now now you. Do so first go To. Dylan, dylan go, Ahead, Dylan.

00:28:06
Speaker 10: Hey guys just want to get your question on something. Strategically is there ever a time where you might want to cut ties with a star player Like Tyrone stokes and maybe go pick up two or three.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: MORE i think you've gone this. Far you've gone this far with, him, Right you've been recruiting this guy really since you arrived on. Campus you've been recruiting this guy basically for two. Years he's down to his last week or. Two if you weren't gonna quit, BEFORE i gotta, say, MAN i think you don't quit, now because what if you quit and he was gonna pick? You you, KNOW i think you got to keep, going even though it is very risky and very for and Either kentucky Or kansas or maybe both if he goes To, oregon but two of the best schools in the history of college. Basketball One i'm is gonna get left holding in the question and, like because if you, quit you're just given him the. Camp SO i think you got it at this. POINT i think you gotta. Stay. Yeah.

00:29:06
Speaker 10: YEAH i went with that kind of in, mind like would it be strategically better to be, like, Well kansas isn't going to be very good next year and let him have him essentially and maybe pick, up LIKE i, said a couple other guys that Might BUT.

00:29:19
Speaker 4: I don't know who there is to pick up at this. POINT i think if you were going to do, THAT i think you would have needed to do, it like three or four weeks.

00:29:25
Speaker 10: Ago you, KNOW i, Agree, yeah for. SURE i MEAN i appreciate.

00:29:30
Speaker 4: It, CALL i MEAN i could understand that, argument BUT i think you would have needed to do It, ryan three or four weeks, ago Cut. TIES i think now that you've gone this, far you got to see it to the.

00:29:40
Speaker 5: END i think you definite have to see it to the. END i think the repercussions could be greater if you.

00:29:45
Speaker 3: Don't that'd be a bad look to just quit.

00:29:47
Speaker 2: Too and, like if he thinks That kansas isn't going to be good With stokes next, year then what does that say about us if we Get? Stokes you think we're gonna be good With stokes if you don't Think kansas would be good with?

00:29:57
Speaker 3: Them, yeah don't understand that.

00:29:58
Speaker 4: Logic yeah that's. True do you know the finalist?

00:30:01
Speaker 6: Yet, Ryan i've got him all?

00:30:04
Speaker 4: Right who are?

00:30:04
Speaker 5: THEY a fellow by the name Of Brandon snodgrass and a fellow by the name Of Wan.

00:30:11
Speaker 4: Buyers now who are these?

00:30:13
Speaker 6: PEOPLE i do not.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: Know Brandon snodgrass.

00:30:17
Speaker 5: And One buyers and One, Buyers AND i got a message from an unidentified Texture and what do they say as a Former paris coach and a resident Of.

00:30:26
Speaker 4: Paris, well first of, all he is hang, on just, second he is narrowed the idea texter down quite a. Lot, again Former paris. Coach how many people could that, Be?

00:30:39
Speaker 5: Shannon they had like five in the last five years over.

00:30:42
Speaker 4: There, okay well we know it's one of those five Are. Paris, yes, okay so now so it's a, coach someone who stayed.

00:30:53
Speaker 5: There do you have the person's last name, Too, no he, SAYS i can tell you firsthand that is a dumpster fire there right.

00:31:01
Speaker 4: Now, hmm, Well i'm not gonna say you do the best job at protecting your enough as a Former paris coach and A paris resident who lives On Maple.

00:31:15
Speaker 3: Street just tell us who it is at this.

00:31:19
Speaker 4: Point, yeah, Right AND i think you need to be more discreet when people send you the. Text Brandon snodgrass and One Pierre.

00:31:27
Speaker 5: Buyers, Buyers buyers One. BUYERS i got more text coming.

00:31:32
Speaker 4: In, Adam, adam go, Ahead, adam what's? Up?

00:31:39
Speaker 8: Goes that's not WHY i called but forget about like hope against, shock of smart and of. Debate can you imagine if in you, know, eight we Had John calipari And Billy gillespie going head to?

00:31:50
Speaker 3: Head what if that would not be?

00:31:53
Speaker 4: Fair if they Brought Callig blessie both into the. Room oh my, God but we wouldn't have Hired Billy? GILLESPIE i. COULD i think that's fair to. Say but what if it had been cal Isz o And donovan in twenty? Ten that would have Been that would have been the best Of. Shannon wouldn't that be the best event of all? Time cal And donovan debating who should get the?

00:32:16
Speaker 2: JOB i feel like you would be in a no lose situation because you win with any of those three.

00:32:20
Speaker 4: Guys that would have been. Great go, ahead, sir, yeah hear me.

00:32:24
Speaker 8: Out how do We my question is how do we finish out this? Roster and you, know apparently with With mji And, reno we we seem to be good on starters in the front. Court we have What diallo And wilkins in the back. Court we need that. WING i don't think It's Cam williams needs to be a starter or we're not going to be a top twenty five. Team he needs to be your.

00:32:46
Speaker 4: Six, WELL i, Mean, cat that's what they would, Say Tyrone stokes is, RIGHT i mean that's what they Would that's what they would.

00:32:52
Speaker 8: Say my, question my, question would you rather Have stokes for THE pr and he's going to be a top draft, pick or if they passed this five or, five would you Trade. Stokes that's a great.

00:33:03
Speaker 4: QUESTION i would take. AWAY i would take away if you told ME i could have Oh way instead Of, STOKES i would take. AWAY i don't think that team's great, shooters but either with O way Or, stokes you're gonna have a great athletic. Team they should be able to play great defense with that. Group so, Yeah i'm gonna take. Away BUT i think there's an. ARGUMENT i, MEAN i THINK i could see somebody making the argument For. Stokes IF i don't Get stokes AND i can't get, away Then i'm going and finding a. SHOOTER i think you gotta get a. Shoot you gotta get shooter either, way and then you gotta go get another big that's probably. Bulky even if they're not, great you gotta get what's odd is this would be so great to have diabaatee with this.

00:33:49
Speaker 3: Group see What, stokes you're pretty sure you know what you're getting? With oh, way you absolutely you.

00:33:54
Speaker 4: Know exactly what that's. True, well they'd be athletic if they had, well either of those, guys they'd be crazy. Athletics spring is in full, bloom and our friends At cornbread are celebrating the season with buy, two get one free something for every wellness. Routine it's a great time to find if you Need seltzer's Gummy gummies oils full. Spectrum it's all. There Corn Bread hemp makes expert, crafted second third party lab. Tested it is all there At Cornbread. Hemp buy, one get one free through the thirtieth cornbreadhimp dot com code. Bloom that's for The spring by, one get one Free cornbreadhimp dot com code. Bloom It's Cornbread. Hemp this is the good. Life what's your other? Update, RY.

00:34:37
Speaker 6: I don't know IF i should say.

00:34:38
Speaker 5: It, well that is it's been five boys coaches in the last eight.

00:34:43
Speaker 6: YEARS i wasn't far.

00:34:44
Speaker 4: Off you don't want to say, that or there's something else you don't want.

00:34:47
Speaker 6: To know something.

00:34:48
Speaker 3: Else, yeah we should discuss it during The why don't we during the.

00:34:51
Speaker 4: Bread, now don't discuss. IT i want to Do ryan's judgment on whether or not we.

00:34:54
Speaker 3: Should, oh you're leaving.

00:34:55
Speaker 4: It you know What Paris High school? Basketball what DO i? Care right judgment as to whether or not he should share. This you might want to text him during the, Break, shannon and just give your theory on whether or not he should no.

00:35:07
Speaker 3: Share i'll give him my, thoughts but if he's his own, man he can make his own.

00:35:10
Speaker 4: Decision he'll be right. Back welcome, back TAKE E Sports. Radio so you, Said, shannon in two thousand and, eight we weren't preseason.

00:35:19
Speaker 3: Ranked according To. Google, no that could be, wrong but that's what it.

00:35:23
Speaker 4: Says that Was Crawford bradley And Jody meeks.

00:35:28
Speaker 3: Yep and then before that and we had just Gotten Patrick.

00:35:30
Speaker 4: Patterson, yeah and they didn't rank.

00:35:32
Speaker 3: Us that's what it.

00:35:34
Speaker 2: Says so then before that was ninety ninety one, season they weren't top twenty five.

00:35:38
Speaker 4: Preseas so this would be only the third time since probation that we would not be ranked in the top TWENTY.

00:35:44
Speaker 5: Yep and that's what we're looking at right.

00:35:45
Speaker 4: Now right if it was, TODAY i think that's, right all, Right Corey price found Give Corey price a lot of. Credit he's so good at this.

00:35:52
Speaker 6: Time he's awesome at.

00:35:53
Speaker 4: It Corey price found a game this past year Where Kyle wilcher's team Played usmann In jaws team, okay good And Kyle wiltser had three points in thirty minutes And jai had fourteen in twenty seven. Minutes there we, go how about that? Baller fourteen? Points it looks like one. Rebound my guy doesn't crash the.

00:36:21
Speaker 3: Boards he's a. Shooter he's a.

00:36:23
Speaker 4: Shooter, yeah but, wow that's pretty. Good fourteen points he was looks like he was the second leading scorer on his team for that.

00:36:34
Speaker 3: Game sample size of.

00:36:36
Speaker 6: One that's.

00:36:36
Speaker 4: It but we know how Good Kyle wilcher.

00:36:39
Speaker 6: Is, yeah, Right but one game.

00:36:41
Speaker 4: Scenario Kyle wilcher has on his Team Denzel. VALENTINE i think he played At Michigan. State is that?

00:36:47
Speaker 6: RIGHT i believe that's exactly, Right.

00:36:49
Speaker 4: USMAN i don't see the name of a college PLAYER i recognize on his, team BUT i may just not recognize. You so and he has played Against Nate, cestina so Maybe Nate cistina. Knows all, right what is your other did you decide to give away the Other paris. Note, YEAH i can read.

00:37:08
Speaker 5: It WHEN i read it the first time it came across my, Phone, SHANON i. LAUGHED i THOUGHT i said something, else.

00:37:13
Speaker 3: Something that rhymes with what he's about to.

00:37:15
Speaker 5: Say, okay, yeah the Last coach Of paris has a golf podcast YouTube channel Called Chasing. SCRATCH i thought it said chasing something.

00:37:25
Speaker 4: ELSE i figured out you don't have to go into.

00:37:27
Speaker 3: Detail i'd like to hear that, podcast, though.

00:37:32
Speaker 4: So the Last so what does that have to do with this?

00:37:35
Speaker 5: High just tell me who the last coach was played At Gardener Webb Eli. STREET i do know One. Buyers when they finally people started reckonized tell me who he. Was he played With Alvin simms When paris was really. Good so he played At, paris he played At. Pressing he's got two, daughters one of them playing At michigan right now playing AT.

00:37:52
Speaker 4: Prc so it's so One buyer's hometown. Candidate, yes Who's? SNODGRASS i don't. Know do some research on we need to bring prepay for this. Meete what that.

00:38:02
Speaker 2: Tells me about that guy's podcast is that he is more interested in golf than. Basketball AND i would think he would be eliminated From.

00:38:08
Speaker 4: Uch, well he was the old, coach not the new. Coach, no, yeah that's why he's PROBABLY.

00:38:12
Speaker 3: I THOUGHT i had a case.

00:38:13
Speaker 4: There he was chasing too much for. Me i'm, Sorry who's, Next?

00:38:17
Speaker 3: Neil?

00:38:17
Speaker 4: Neil go, Ahead, Neil.

00:38:20
Speaker 11: Hey, guy it's got to go With snodgrass for the name. Alone, Right it's a great, NAME i, mean great. Name but, HEY i was. CALLING i was, thinking you all are saying that we were not going to be preseason top twenty? Five are we really thinking That stokes is that good that it would it would get us competitive and get us that excited when you ARE i.

00:38:42
Speaker 4: Think it would get us into the top twenty. FIVE i think it would get us into the top twenty. Five now would it make us a? Contender probably, Not BUT i think right, NOW i mean right, now we In John. Rosston now this is before In, joy before In. Joe John rosstein had us his thirty eighth best, team which is like on the. BUBBLE i think Within ji probably would move us up a few. Spots BUT i MEAN i, think, YES i think you take the number one player In. AMERICA i, mean think about The arkansas team last year if they Had darius A cuff versus what if they hadn't had? Him then what is that? Team, yeah SO i do think THAT i do think it would make a. Difference does it make us a? Contender, no probably.

00:39:24
Speaker 11: NOT i agree it would make us a. DIFFERENCE i, mean obviously number one. PLAYER i think the concern for, Me Big Blue nation is just not going to be happy with what we've. Seen and when you've got players on the bench that are pulling out, hey go back on defense during games or doing different, things it just is indicative of where we are as a program right. Now so that's what Concerned.

00:39:50
Speaker 4: Well BUT i, mean like it's gonna be what it's gonna. BE i appreciate the. CALL i, mean next, season the proof is in the. Putting pope had all year to create this. Roster he had a lot of, money and in the end it's gonna be his, creation whatever it, is and he will be judged on. It i'm just saying to, YOU i mean this, year we were what preseason top, ten and we didn't finish. Ranked so maybe next, Year, ryan we're preseason not ranked and we finished some. TEN i, mean who knows.

00:40:22
Speaker 5: Overachieved like he did that first. Year those, guys you, know kind of surprised everybody and played better than thought they were gonna.

00:40:27
Speaker 4: BE i think even more important is going to, be, like we've got to be competitive next. Year we cannot have a year where we're getting b by.

00:40:33
Speaker 6: Forty, no we'ent off the.

00:40:35
Speaker 4: Court, yeah we just. Can't who's? Next? Mark? Mark go ahead And?

00:40:39
Speaker 7: Mark, hey what's going on?

00:40:41
Speaker 4: That what's? Up?

00:40:43
Speaker 7: Hey two or three? Things real? Quick? HEY i know how tough it's. Been you, know as A uk, fan we're looking at this last, season can you really kind of look at just how bad this really could have? Been you, know we had a couple of miraculous comeback true and we could have been like a seventeen loss really easy could have.

00:41:01
Speaker 4: BEEN i, mean we had some big wins and we we didn't have a ton of close. Losses that's one of the things people don't think, about like how many games did we lose that we should have? Won? RIGHT i Mean North? Carolina can you can you all think of games that like something happened in the end and we lost It North? Carolina maybe That missouri game early in the.

00:41:26
Speaker 3: Year it all crosses.

00:41:31
Speaker 4: OUT i think it probably does, cancel go, Ahead, Mark.

00:41:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, NO i got a guy approach me who's not A uk basketball, fan and he's kind of talking about the program in, itself and you, know he pointed down something to be IN i just don't. KNOW i didn't really know how to take. It he was saying SINCE, covid you, know he said he thinks college basketball changed big. Time and he, said we're talking about The Jamal crawford, thing you, know just By Jamal. Crawford and he was saying that he takes perception OF uk basketball has changed because people aren't zealous like you know they used to be BEFORE.

00:42:04
Speaker 4: Covid that's. False people have Other, yeah that's. False, REALLY i mean people are still more zealous than any Other what other fan base cares as much as us even? Now pick? One WHAT.

00:42:17
Speaker 7: I don't. THINK i don't think that's. True that's what.

00:42:19
Speaker 4: One pick. ONE i don't know there is it your buddy's? WRONG i don't THINK i mean your butt. Now is it POSSIBLE uk fans aren't as zealous as they were in twenty, Fifteen, sure but we're still more zealous than any other fan base in the. Country AND i don't even think it's close we'll take a break number TWO ksr