2026-02-26- KSR - Hour 1

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

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Speaker 2: Well, welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Thursday February the twenty sixth. I'm Matt Jones here on a rainy day in Lexington, Kentucky at the KS Bar and Grill or We will be here all day. Love to see you come out, have lunch tick O'Ryan, and get ready for a big weekend coming on Saturday. Three games left in the season. I've got ninety percent of my voice back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sounds a lot better.

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Speaker 2: I still don't have the uh Douf and Schmirts totally there, but hopefully I'll be there by tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: But your left vocal cord is it's strong.

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Speaker 2: Much much stronger. Now it's just a little congestion and we'll be we'll be good to go. Clark's Pumping Shop phone lines eight five nine twenty two eighty seven A Vision Autoglass text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. In this edition sponsored by the T J. Smith Office. You call TJ. I'll make them pay. Yeah, I mean there were people yesterday who were like disputing me on the science of the vocal cords, you know, I mean they may have their book learning, but like I could feel it, and I knew it was the left vocal cord, and and and so I worked it out and now we're doing we're doing better.

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't know your vocal cord. We all have different vocal everybody's vocal.

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Speaker 2: Cord is different. And you know I took the steroids. I could hit home runs right now. You should see how strong I am. Well, I don't know how steroids work. By the way, how does it know what part of you to fix? No idea, because I've had various things over the years where doctors have given me steroids. You know, if you're if you're under the weather, if your vocal cord or whatever. How does the steroid know what part of the body it's supposed to fix? Do you know the answer? No, I don't.

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Speaker 4: You just find the bad part in your body and goes attack it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this sounds stupid. I thought the same thing about tilanough whatever it is that you're is hurting, People say, take talanol. Well, how does tilanol know whether it's my head or my knee that's hurted. I've always wondered that that that. I don't think it does. It's big talanol magic, big steroid industry try but but it seems to be working.

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Speaker 5: So I'm not gonna argue that's good. Was it a do you know? Can you tell us where it was injected? It's just pill.

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Speaker 2: You take like six one day, five the next, four, the next, and it's it's like a six day thing.

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Speaker 5: If you like, met a guy behind playing fitness and now we stabbed you or how this yeah, how this worked?

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Speaker 2: Well? I mean I get most of my steroids at canes, okay, but that guy wasn't working today, so I ended up going to the to the pharmacy.

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Speaker 4: Well, you did educated yesterday. We didn't realize it's the left vocal cords for the high part of your voice. I guess that was, you know, breaking news.

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Speaker 2: You all you learned science on this show. We did so. Uh, So there's a lot that talked about. I have some really goofy stuff. I have some basketball stuff, and then I have some nerdy stuff, and so I mean, we're gonna hit all of it. I actually have very rare fourteen topics today.

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Speaker 5: Sounds like a fun ride.

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Speaker 2: Normally I have twelve. Yeah, but I have fourteen today, and I'm gonna lead off with one, and then after I lead off with it, I'm gonna do the thing Shannon, where I do the numbers right now, and uh you could pick the number and then be the.

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Speaker 4: Topic random choice, what's coming up next?

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna start with the one that I'm getting to asked the most about because I feel like that's what you start with, which is what are the implications right now for SEC tournament seeding. You actually asked me this when.

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Speaker 4: We walked in, so we sat down to ask you about it.

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Speaker 2: So I ran that yesterday I ran all the numbers. I did not use AI or chat GPT because I don't own it. I'm gonna hold out to the last I held out on cell phones.

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Speaker 5: You had hot mail for a long time too. You're the last person I know with in a hot mail email dress.

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Speaker 2: I still have that email dress. I don't check it very often, but I do have it. We were actually talking about, well, I better say this for I don't know if that's ready for public consumption yet, but nevertheless, SEC tournament. So here's what I would tell people trying to figure out when they want to go. I think it's almost It's not certain, but it's very likely. I would say seventy five percent chance that we're going to be playing at one o'clock. Not certain, Okay, we could. Our range of seeds is still like five through ten. Okay, but if you were to like run the number, scenario eight or nine is our most likely scenario, right, Okay, Okay, So basically comes down to this. First of all, you don't want to play on Wednesday. Oh you do not easiest way to not play on Wednesday? Beat Vandy Saturday, win Saturday. That's really the bottom line. Okay, If you look at all the scenarios. The problem is a lot of the teams we're tied against play easy schedules down the stretch, and we don't. So the easiest way is beat Vandy. By my calculations, if we beat Vandy, we pretty much can't play Wednesday unless a crazy set of scenarios happen. I mean it could, but like crazy stuff have to happen. If you beat Vandy on Wednesday, excuse me, on Saturday, you are almost certain to play Wednesday. So just start with that. Just beat Vana. Just beat Bandy at home. You owe me? Yeah, I try, it's at home. Can we do it?

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Speaker 5: Yes, we can absolutely do it. I know it was a twenty five points in Nashville. They're not twenty five points better. UK just had an awful game and they took advantage of it. Now I think they're better, but I don't think. I don't think it's like impossible you can recover from that loss. I think you should be able to get them tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Just beat Vandy, so all the math start with beat Vandy. If you lose to Van. The second most easy scenario is Texas plays road games at Texas A and M and then in the last game of the year. I think they play Arkansas. Lose those games, all right. If Texas loses two more games, then we're almost certain to not play Wednesday. Okay, so your too easiest sing We needed Texas to lose last night, and they did it for a while they were winning. They were closed. But easiest scenario beat Vandy. That's good, or Texas lose too. Gotcha. Now, if neither one of those things happened, then it gets here. Then Kentucky gets into the scenario where they could be the nine or even the ten seed because the Georgia Bulldogs who beat us and thus own the tie breaker kind of have an easy schedule coming down to stretch and could jump up. And if they tie us, we then go down. You get above down. So if you beat Vandy, now, if you've lose to Vandy and then win at Texas A and M, you still are probably okay, but you're not certain because of a variety of reasons, including Vandy owning the tiebreaker there on you. But beating Vandy's easiest way. So that's that is the simple Matt Jones. You don't have to know math scenario absent crazy things happening, which can but are unlikely.

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Speaker 5: Last year's a couple of games later in the season didn't have to win at Missouri to not play on Wednesdays. So back to back years, you're kind of backing against the wall to avoid that game. They got it done a year ago, Please get it done this season. I say it so much. I love the SEC Tournament. The thought of playing on Wednesday makes me want to vomit at one o'clock. That even if you win, that just being in the matchup is embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday at one o'clock against the team from teen Wolf most likely and general admission, open seeding. I will say part of me would like that game just for the general admission part, watching the Kentucky fans having a you get whatever seat you get to. I mean, it would be a chance for some people to have the best seats they would ever have in their life because the tickets are like ten dollars, right, ten dollars and you could sit in the front row. There's a part of me that says, with Kentucky, that would be the coolest thing you've ever seen in your life. But I still would rather wait play Thursday at one o'clock. That would mean our pregame, our regular morning show is the pregame show, and Tin Roof would be the bar that everybody congregates before going to the game. Would be a lot of fun. Well, you said, and then we might have to play on Friday. If we to play, it'd be another one o'clock game. I guess, wasn't it. I mean, if we're the eight seed, the most likely scenario, basically, the most likely scenario is we're either gonna open the tournament on Wednesday against either like South Carolina or Oklahoma or one of those bad teams, or we'll play Thursday and likely play Texas. So Texas Texas is our most likely first round matchup. I would just say, just kind of get in your mind that we're very likely to play Texas on Thursday, but we might have to play South Carolina or whatever first on Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: Well, like you said, just just take care of the business. Beat Bandy on Saturday. Let the chips fall man. We owe Vandy. You know they punked us at Vanderbilt in Nashville.

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Speaker 2: We owe them.

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Speaker 4: They're in a home court coming.

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Speaker 2: Just win the games. We don't have to play on Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: And even though they're better than A and M. I think this is if you're gonna get one the three. I'm not saying this is easy by any means, but you it's Vanderbilt in Rupperina. Come on, what are we talking about. It's Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 2: So that's number one. Like it now, one and through thirteen. Ryan, I will let you pick to see what goes next. You know I always pick eleven. You do always pick eleven? Huh that's my number? All right? Eleven? Okay. I have written down that guy rocked. Okay, do you know what that means? That guy rocked? This has been on my list all week we haven't gotten Okay. So there's a Twitter account right now called that Guy Rocked and I like it. Here's what that Guy Rocked is. They just pick random college basketball players from the back of our minds and show them highlight packages up. Okay, sounds awesome. That guy rocked. Now the goal is not necessarily to pick stars, but to pick guys who were random. And when they're explaining the account, their theme for who that Guy Rocked is is Kevin Pittsnagle from West Virginia.

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Speaker 5: I did not know about it.

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Speaker 2: I swear.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, Kevin, it sounds like an account Kevin pittsnogle, And I was about to say that.

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Speaker 2: It is dedicated to Kevin pitts it should.

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Speaker 5: That was the first player that came in my brain.

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Speaker 2: Kevin pittsnaggle. For those who don't remember, big clunky white guy from West Virginia but could shoot threes. Do you remember Kevin Patty? He was taddy.

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Speaker 5: He's a teacher now.

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Speaker 2: He looked like he came from a trailer park in West Virginia.

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Speaker 4: And he killed us. Didn't he kill us that one game?

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Speaker 2: I don't think we played him? He played. He had a great tournament. He was a big march madness guy. So my question for you is for the whole fan base. I remember, it's not stars, so you can't pick John Wall and Anthony Davis. Who is your favorite? That guy rocked from Kentucky and from other teams, So who's your favorite random Kevin Pitt's noggles guy. And they can't be great. They have to be like like Kevin pittsknack, like just he entered. So for me, I would my answer is from Weber State, Harold the show, Arsenal Good because I liked him because he didn't really have a neck. It looked like his shoulders were at his ears when he played, and he he but he made everything, every shot and that game where he beat North Carolina is one of the great performances I've ever seen in the tournament. And he also had a great name, Harold the show Arsenal. What a great name. So that's mine. Now for Kentucky, My guys wukosh Okay Polish. Funny always played well against Louisville. Had the greatest quote of all time when he was talking about Kentucky playing Michigan State once in rup and they asked him after the game, what did you think about the crowd? And in his woof as he goes, it was so loud, I thought the roof was going to come off the arena, but luckily it did not. Great quote, which I also loved. And he had that story about how what was it? He was like, they would throw my dog in the river and then we would just You asked him what he did for fun in Poland, and he said, we would throw our dog in the river and then wait for it to fight its way out and come back to us. Like it was a frisbee seemed fun. Yeah, go over so I always I love that about WU. So what are yours for either other team or Kentucky Kentucky?

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Speaker 4: I have to I have to go with Anthony IPPs. I think I just loved him his toughness and what he brought, and he was kind of the unsung hero of the ninety sixteen. You know, they Patino tried to take the point guard spot away from him, give it Tony Duck. Anthony Ips always got it back and without him, wouldnt I don't think they would have won the championships. I'll pick Anthony EPs from my UK guy and then your other guy, Jason Harrison for Old Miss was like five foot four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that guy. He rocked.

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Speaker 6: I love that guy. So he was little little bitty guy. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. That's always been my favorite. Non UK, I would him. I like that. That's I like both those.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 5: Well, for Kentucky, I will go de wrong lamb Okay, I like that said a lot because he just did enough credit.

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Speaker 2: You had his mattress.

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Speaker 5: I mean you all can agree, Anthony Davis posters, we don't win the title without derong lamb. I mean Anthony Davis took the fifth most show.

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Speaker 2: I think you have in the mattress is part of what is.

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Speaker 5: Part part of it. We have that bond, that connection. We were never in it at the same time, but we did. We did share a mattress. Yeah, okay, uh for my March Madness, I'm not even gonnattempt his last name, but what was the Oli from north Northern Iowa that we saw earlier in the regular season and then he beat Kansas and took that for Oli for there you go, thank you. I wasn't going to produce that, but the three he took on a breakaway against no one should have taken that shot.

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Speaker 2: And you and I went and so, yeah, we had been there.

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Speaker 5: I was in that resection.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So he's one of my favorites. One more though that I can't think of a name from the team, but I think of March Madness Legends was the Florida Gulf Coast Dunk City team. It was like four of them, but I mean they were so fun to watch that year.

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Speaker 2: For Oakman, Ash is good good one. So I like these Kansas Harold the show, Jason Harrison Ali from I'm gonna get Shannon's when we get back from the break, and then if you have any you can write in your Kentucky one or your other team. Uh the that guy rocked twelve more topics. I should have guessed you always say eleven. I'm never I'm never asking you again to start. I'll start mixing it up then. Yeah, never catch you off guard. We'll take a break. Me right back. It's KASR. Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio eight five nine, eight twenty two eighty seven. Some great answers here on the text machine. But I don't want to steal uh shadon, So Shannon, I'll let you go for yours. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: For Kentucky, I'm gonna go Darius Miller, Darius Pitar, great six man.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that they went the title without him.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. What's your what's your ranting?

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Robbie of Vila, who you might remember.

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Speaker 2: A cream Abdul Jabbar from Indiana State pays for Saint Louis now and they're gonna make the tournament like they're they're they're they're good. He plays for Saint Louis Cream Abdul Jabbar does he's still rocking, then he is Larry nerd Uh.

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Speaker 5: He threw a guy unto the table last week in a little little fight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they got in a huge fight. Yeah, he's still uh, he's still big, Like feels like he's in a little better shape, but he's still big now, cream Abdul Jabbar can still be he can still be around for this march. He's he's still doing it and he'll be on these lists for yeah, he will, all right. So a lot of people are riding for Kentucky. A couple names they think other people would say Patrick Sparks. Yeah, I think fans of other teams will say Patrick Sparks. I remember Bomani saying to me once that he thought Patrick Sparks was the coolest white country dude ever in basketball. He was like he was like most white guys that play basketball try to be like urban, but he was like Patrick Sparks looked like he was from the country and was cool with it and would still beat you. And I always liked that description by MoManI because that's right.

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Speaker 5: And what I like about Patrick Sparks is I imagine in the locker room it went like this, Bill Kiteley said, look, Patrick, I have a white T shirt for you. It's large, and he's like, do you have a five X I could wear instead? I want the sleeves of this T shirt to go down to my wrists.

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Speaker 2: He did.

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Speaker 5: He did rock a very huge white T shirt. I think that added to his legend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then another person says, Matt, I think other Teams fans would say Georges. Yes, I think that's probably true. Yes, georts is. I mean his name is George like that that would be why one of these days that account may actually do George. And now we learned that he used to date Erica Kirk, so that's even another the fact about him that that would make him be on it.

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Speaker 4: I can see other fan bases be very endearing to George just because of the the like we did, like Kevin Pittsnogle, just that big doofy guy that can go out there and still doofy.

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Speaker 2: Doofeye is not a word. You always say doofy and and just to reminder, doofye is not a word. DJ Burns, that's a good one.

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Speaker 5: There's a couple right now that will be on this list for years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. DJ Burns, I think is definitely uh one person, says Matt. I thought Kenneth Farid, that's a good one. That's a good one for more. Yeah, because he remember he beat Louisville. Now he played in the NBA though, so I don't know how if you can be random and be in the NBA.

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Speaker 5: He does have one of those highlight packages though, that are pretty fun to watch with how he played.

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Speaker 4: Now, if you're gonna let us pick like players who were kind of stars on opposing teams, Marshall Henderson was the first one that came to my mind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's kind of a star. But yes, I mean old miss maybe Old Mistress grows those guys. Maybe Marshall Henderson though I kind of liked. I know a lot of people's and all time villain, but I mean there's that famous picture of him yelling at the old men and with sweaters in Auburn, you know what I mean. That's one of my favorite pictures ever. He's just sitting there yelling at these old men that are trying to fight him.

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Speaker 5: I was, I guess the SEC tournament. I was somewhere in a hotel lobby and I watched like a little kid and his grandpa go up and talk to him, and I'm trying to think what he said, but it was not polite, and I was like, man, this guy is villain twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 2: I kind of like that though. All Right, so now we're at one through twelve, Shannon, I'll let you go number three. Number three, Okay, Well, I wish we could have done this one later in the show, but it is what it is. It's what he picked, so it's what he picked. I have to go by the note. I got a question. Let me read you the question. Okay, Matt, you guys have been on the air for three or four days and you have not talked about the controversy you liberals created with the US hockey team. You three created it. I didn't create it. Ryan and Drew created it.

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Speaker 5: I still didn't really know what's going on.

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Speaker 2: What is the deal? You liberals don't love America? And this is a perfect example. See that was so well articulated. I felt like we had to deal with it right, so that I guess you know, they win. Yes, by the way, one of the highest rated UH one of the highest rated Olympic broadcasts of all time, the second highest rate hockey game ever in America. The only one that was more was a miracle on ice. Kind of amazing, isn't it. See it being so early in the morning so that it's over. And then they're in the locker room and they're celebrating. Uh. Cash Patel comes in. He seems like a winner. Uh. He comes in and he starts celebrating with him really looks like a complete dork, but he starts jumping up and down drinking beer. Then Trump calls him on the phone and he makes a joke like, I guess now I'll have to invite the women's team too, and they laugh, and so a lot of people got mad. Here's my take on it. I have a three part take Okay, ready, take one, Take one. Cash Betail's a door all right, I mean, fine, go if you want, although I think that's lame, but like being in the locker room, dude, you don't play okay, like and you know when you go in there, you're gonna create a controversy. So he's a door. Trump calling, I'm fine with. He's the president. President's calling an olympian. I'm totally fine with that. Matter of fact, him them go in the white House. I'm fine with even them going to the State of the Union. I'm fine with that. Like, he's a president. I don't like him, but he represents America. They won for America. I'm good with that. Presidents call people who win things all the time. His joke classic Trump rude. But this is where we liberals screw up. We get mad at these hockey guys for laughing. If you want to be mad at Trump for the joke, I get it, it was an inappropriate joke. But these dudes are on the phone with the president. Are they supposed to go, mister President, that was an inappropriate joke, Like they can they just wanted to go medal, Like you can't hold them to a standard that you would like if you let me mad at him for the joke, I get it, but you can't. I mean, the hockey players have just won, and I mean you want to go excuse me, sorry, we've just wanted to go medal, But you need to not tell that joke. Like so we we we're being a little bit of a hall monitor getting mad at the hockey players. Whereas if you want to be mad at the president, I'm fine with that, but that's my take on it. Sometimes liberals bother me because when I was growing up, conservatives were the hall monitors. They were the ones always trying to stop the fun, and sometimes now we try to stop the fuck. I don't like that, and that's my take on.

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Speaker 5: I think whatever the president's politic, what side they're on. I think it's cool that they call the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: They they do that all the time, they call whoever wins the title. I'm fine with the phone call now Cash Betail jumping up now like a dork, like, just would you go find the Guthries Mom, be right back. TJ. Smith personal injury attorney.

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Speaker 5: Call TJ.

00:23:10
Speaker 2: He'll make them pay.

00:23:12
Speaker 3: No more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 2: Here's not Jones. I had somebody ask me recently, is there anything any of the guys could do that would get you to replace them on the show? And I was like, I mean, if they committed like a big crime or something, maybe, but in general, like, this is the group now, Shannon, if you keep playing this song though, this is the kind of thing that could get you replaced.

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Speaker 3: Oh, in that case that I'm gonna play at the next six breaks and see what happens.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't all right some more, this guy rocks big Country, Big co had his jersey, did you really? He was a high draft pick. But still though I feel like, you know, he wasn't good in the NBA.

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Speaker 5: So I still feel like he count Yeah, yeah, he's thick. Had that like military buzz cut.

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Speaker 2: Taco fall. Oh that's a good one.

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Speaker 5: Didn't you just play in the celebrity NBA game?

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Speaker 2: He was just Taco fall is a great one. Yeah, because Taco fall. Like they almost beat Duke that year. That was the Zion team. They should have beat him. Central Florida was up like ten with like three or four minutes to go and blew the game. Remember we were we were sitting there in UH in a hotel lobby wherever we were pulling for Central Florida. I remember watching it and the uh Dante Calabria, see, you know, I remember Donte Calabria. Anybody even know who he played for? No, I can't pull it up. Nobody knows Dante Calabria. And here I thought I was with a bunch of ball knowers who he played for North Carolina. He was the hairiest man in the history of basketball.

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Speaker 4: That's what he's famous for.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he had the longest arm hair. He would he could braid his arm head into various design go look up. He was like he was a Harry's dude that's ever played basketball? You never, you don't remember, don take it. Very handsome guy, but very hair. Remember the name.

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Speaker 4: Don't remember any details, and I shouldn't remember his Harry arms Man. I went to the I went to the Twitter account, and I'm now addicted to it. I followed it now I'm gonna be scrolling through it.

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Speaker 2: See all he's put up there already. Yeah. Uh Suoniyada Gains. It's a good one.

00:25:20
Speaker 5: Is that Georgia, Georgia?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:25:22
Speaker 5: I saw him a lot?

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Speaker 2: All right? Ryan, do not pick eleven one through eleven? Uh, let's go seven, Okay? Are you k one? So Pope last night on his on his uh Pope on his radio show said he was asked about are you gonna hire a GM and he said, we have conversations weekly about it, and that's that's all he said. We're trying to figure it out where you have conversations weekly. I wish I hadn't read it. I wish he like it drives me crazy. What's the conversation? I mean, how many conversations can you have? Yes or no? Like, what do you do it?

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Speaker 5: My only hope is the conversations are interviews. But I don't It didn't come off as that's what he was saying.

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Speaker 2: Just say, we're gonna hire a GM we're trying to figure out who. Yeah.

00:26:23
Speaker 5: I think that's what he would have said.

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Speaker 2: If the conversations we were getting, what is the what? What could the conversation be? All the best teams in the country have one, now all of them. There's like one that doesn't. I think maybe Kansas Kansas doesn't. But you know what they seem to be doing fine. They seem to be getting the top player. So if Kansas doesn't want to do it, then fine. They've been cheating for years so they already know what to do. I don't understand. I do not understand the counter argument. Usually when people disagree with me on something, I at least understand the other side. Even if I disagree with them, I understand where they're coming from. I try to think about what's the most rational view they have and then try to oppose it. I don't understand the rational view here. What is the downside besides money, Besides the fact you have to pay someone's salary, What is the downside?

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Speaker 4: Do you think he doesn't need it because he can hand he can do that job himself.

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Speaker 2: But he clearly can, Like he clearly can. If he could, we wouldn't be in this situation. There's no object. Listen. I love Mark Pope, and I think there are good cases for him to be. Like if you were to say to me Mark Pope's not a good coach, there, I don't agree with that. There are arguments that he's a very good coach. I don't think there are arguments that he's a very good player evaluator. What is the argument we got We've got no high school recruits and at best this team was poorly constructed, and the top three guys they wanted last year they didn't get any of them in the portal. So what is the argument that he's good at that? That's why I say, an you think in his mind he thinks he can handle it. Well, I mean I can give him some analytics that show he's not. I have a theory.

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Speaker 5: Would you like to put on a tenfoil hat with me?

00:28:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, take a little trip Yeah, let's go.

00:28:21
Speaker 5: Let's go for a little ride. I think that Mark Pope leans on Rick Patino too much. I haven't liked it since his first Big Blue Madness. Okay, Rick Pettino fired his GM in January. Interesting, So Rick Patino is the one example of where a GM hasn't worked, and I hope that Pope didn't see that. And he's talked to Dad, and Dad.

00:28:41
Speaker 2: Fires GM because the GM got him the wrong players.

00:28:45
Speaker 5: It's something about money management. I guess it's still under investigator. I'm not sure one that long ago, so I don't know any of that. I mean, I know that happened. I don't know if Pope has talked him about it. But my brain's thinking, what if Rick having just had a bad GYM experience, so he has made That's the only thing I can think of, because otherwise just go get one.

00:29:03
Speaker 2: I mean that that may be an interest that may be correct in terms of the thought process.

00:29:08
Speaker 5: Saint John's is the one place where they had a.

00:29:11
Speaker 2: GM and got rid of it. I like that. That's I mean, that's that that is probably what he's thinking. I still would say Rick has a history of thirty five years of picking great players, and you don't, right. You know, that's the only.

00:29:26
Speaker 5: Reason I could think that he would be hesitant to get one. You know, my mom wouldn't want to. I don't consider my mom to be a mentor. But my mom can sing. That doesn't mean I can sing, right, so that, like, you know, that doesn't mean I should follow in her singing path.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: I can't do it. Rick may be able to do that. Maybe he won't. I don't know, but you don't. Mark doesn't have that history of being able to do it.

00:29:53
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm probably totally wrong. When Corey Fieger followed him from BYU, I thought that was the rule. He was going to play like. He was gonna not be necessarily assist code would be like the gentleman.

00:30:03
Speaker 2: Here's here's what the Jeff Goodman's of the world are saying. Okay, and they're more connected in this than I am. They're saying that Mark Polpe put together a great staff, like a top notch staff for what recruiting was like five years ago, that basically he picked a group of guys that when you went and recruited high school guys and got people in the portal the old school way, fifth year seniors. This was the group of guys when you were talking to coaches and parents. But his point is, now you're talking to agents and these dudes have no experience in that, and it's like it's like a Spanish speaking person talking to an Arabic speaking person and they don't even talk the same language. That's his argument, And I think the facts seem to suggest Goodman's argument is kind of correct, doesn't.

00:30:58
Speaker 4: It Probably some truth in there. You'd think, whoever they hire, it's gotta be more. You think it's gonna be more of a business guy than a sports guy.

00:31:05
Speaker 2: Even I think you have in a perfect world, you have someone who can do both Rightick, you pick someone who knows basketball but also went and got their NBA right yeah, and also has some experience on the streets talking to these agents, and those people exist. Like a perfect example is Evan Daniels. All Right, A lot of people know Evan Daniel's name. He used to do recruiting for the various websites. Evan Daniels couldn't beat anyone on this show in basketball, but he's been around it his whole life. He's been talking to agents since he was nineteen years old. Right, he knows recruiting and he's seen enough basketball to know who's good and who's not. You want someone like that, right, Yeah, it's.

00:32:00
Speaker 5: The people that are up late in the hotel lobbies at the Final four and going to the restaurants. It takes a lot of socializing and networking. You need someone that does that.

00:32:08
Speaker 2: It's like the woman at Duke. I mean, the woman at Duke just worked for Nike. She's never played I don't know if she played women's college basketball, but she certainly hadn't played men's college basketball. But she is apparently killing it because she has this role where she knows what the job is. I don't think you have to have necessarily even been good at the sport. You just have to know it.

00:32:30
Speaker 5: I have a fear that to shut everyone up, they're just gonna slide someone over and call the GM like everyone GM Mark Fox.

00:32:37
Speaker 2: But that'll be a mistake if they do that. I mean just saying, Okay, this wasn't working, but if we give this person a different title, it will work. That's a that's what cal would do. Cow would have made Bruiser flant his GM.

00:32:51
Speaker 4: No, he was assistant, so predict one month from now, do we have a GM.

00:32:56
Speaker 2: I think I think it's gonna be what he says. They're gonna pick somebody that they already have and move or someone close to the program. Yea, exactly to be No, it'll be like some guy. I would be very surprised if they do what I want them to do. Go outside your sphere and bring in somebody to give you a new set of voices. Be like Scalia and hire a liberal in your court, right, That's what I would do, And do.

00:33:26
Speaker 4: It before the portal opens first of April.

00:33:29
Speaker 2: You know, be like you know I have told this many times. Scalia would hire a liberal, Ginsburg would hire a conservative, so they always had someone in there giving them the other point of view. He needs to do that in sports mark the way you do things. Hire somebody who, in theory would do the opposite, and now have, as Abraham Lincoln would say, a team of rivals.

00:33:51
Speaker 4: It makes total sense. But I don't know what's gonna happen.

00:33:54
Speaker 5: If I was struggling at my job and someone was like, hey, we can make a position where they're good at it and would help you, and we'll pay them, it's really nothing for you. Just honestly less work. I mean I'd be like, heck yeah, get them in here.

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Speaker 2: S c R V p r O dot com. It is serf pro or serf pro dot com. Let them be your cleanup source. If you have difficulty, We'll take a break and be right back. We are in Madisonville tomorrow. Ten thousand dollars. We talk about that as well. It's a life. We never given away that kind of money. Maybe the second best prize ever on KI. Take a break, be right back to take you sports radio. Okay, you gotta start stop stop well play stop right now. Yeah. No, it's a people say it's working out. We're having audio issues with the network. If you hear it going in and out or whatever, they're working on it. It's not us for once, it's some well, it's not our machine. It's something else. So they're they're they're trying to fix it. If if you can't hear all this, you'll be able to get it on podcasts. I wish it wasn't during that segment because that was I think good conversation. But but it'll be there on podcasts. Uh. One person rides Matt Tyrone. Stokes did an interview yesterday where he said where, which led to Joe Tipton saying that he thought Stokes wanted to go to Kansas, but Kentucky was his backup plan if things didn't work out. Do you want a kid who sees us as a backup plan? Yes, because we've lost kids that other schools were the backup playing and then they went like a Katon Lewis, he wanted to come here, Villa Novah was his backup playing. He went to Villanova. That worked out. So you know, if you end up marrying somebody and they kind of wanted somebody else, but it works out with you, you just go, well, luckily they didn't marry them. That's what That's what I'm gonna say, you know, because I have a different view by about marriage. Yes, there's a lot of people you could be married to Okay, No, you know, people say there's like one person. I don't believe that. What do you Why is everybody laughing at me? I mean, I think there's a lot of people you could be happily married to. You.

00:36:31
Speaker 5: See what you're saying, Like if you moved at childhood and had to a different life path and grew up somewhere else, you still.

00:36:37
Speaker 2: Believe you're gonna end up with the same person you happen to end up with. You Like if I if you grow up in Middlesborough and you marry your high school sweetheart, are you telling me if your parents had moved to Nevada, you would have still ended up with that woman in Middlesborough.

00:36:50
Speaker 4: God has a plan.

00:36:51
Speaker 5: God's playing that.

00:36:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, here's my question for you.

00:36:55
Speaker 2: We're talking about this. I'm just saying, like, there's a lot of people you could be happy with. I'm not saying that like you know.

00:37:02
Speaker 5: You're saying there's other fish in the sea.

00:37:04
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not saying you don't marry people because there's always someone better. I'm just saying you could be happy with a lot of people. Life circumstances put people in your life. I'm clearly hearing.

00:37:18
Speaker 4: Well, out of all the million people you've met in your life, thousands and thousands and thousands of people, how many do you think you actually have met that you could spend the rest of your life with as as a wife, as a spouse, as a partner.

00:37:31
Speaker 2: Three.

00:37:33
Speaker 5: I think he means so if your life was just so different you ended up on the other side of the country, you would find.

00:37:38
Speaker 2: What if you ended up like what if your parents were in the military and you ended up in a different country? Like are you just gonna spend your life and be like, well, I didn't meet the person from Middlesborough, so it's not gonna work. Maybe you will later in life.

00:37:50
Speaker 5: Now I found my soulmate. You know, it would have happened anything.

00:37:52
Speaker 2: You wouldn't have had anyone else. And Billy's about it. But I will at least I hear the point you're.

00:37:58
Speaker 5: Trying to make. You don't have to look at us like you're villain here. I know what you're trying to say. It definitely not my circumstances.

00:38:03
Speaker 2: People who are married can't say that, and I understand, but I'm still sticking sticking by it. My point is, if Tyron Stokes doesn't work out with Kansas. I'm cool being his rebound because.

00:38:13
Speaker 4: You know that was the early indication was that he wanted to come to Kentucky. I think his parents were kind of leaning towards Kentucky. He's from Louisville. Yeah, and then the money got in the way, and for whatever reason, it fell apart with Kentucky.

00:38:23
Speaker 2: All right one through ten Shannon four four. Tomorrow we're giving away ten thousand dollars. Yeah, maybe you gotta do something if you hit a half the opportunity to if you get a half court shot in Madisonville, I love it. First of all, What did Madisonville do to deserve it?

00:38:42
Speaker 5: Listen, Matt, We're the best talent on earth. There's literally our name. There's a sign that says it when you get there. So these are just I have a T shirt. It's even abbreviated, abbreviated tbt OE and you just you just know that stands for the best talent on Earth.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: See, there are t shirts say TV TWN, I.

00:38:59
Speaker 5: Want at home one were it often.

00:39:00
Speaker 2: We gotta get one. So these are just things on Madisonville. Is it TV?

00:39:05
Speaker 5: I don't know everything they have planned, but I would expect a very hospitable group tomorrow and very excited to have KSR because Madisonville is t.

00:39:12
Speaker 2: BTE you know. Tonight is so my soulmate could be there. Town on Earth, I could get out here.

00:39:19
Speaker 5: I don't know what app is popular these days, but if you're on the apps, maybe see what's around the region when you get there.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: God gotcha.

00:39:26
Speaker 4: Okay, Tonight is the evening with Drew Franklin in Madisonville.

00:39:30
Speaker 2: So let's talk about this tonight Madisonville, an Evening with Drew Franklin. He will be reading from his poetry. Huh.

00:39:37
Speaker 5: I'm gonna sit by a fire with a pipe.

00:39:40
Speaker 2: That's great. Congratulations, thank you. You have your speech ready? No, no, no, we need to work on that. Yeah, and in a couple of hours and then we're gonna all hang out tonight Madisonville. Where's the party in Madisonville tonight? I'm getting there at like seven thirty.

00:39:53
Speaker 5: Oh, you'll be get there just in time. I get done at seven, so you'll probably get to hit every stop with me. I would expect three to four Mexicans restaurants throughout the evening. We're definitely gonna end at Farrell's after hours. Haven't been there a long time. That's a that's a that's a great Madisonville memory for me.

00:40:08
Speaker 2: Farrels has after hours.

00:40:09
Speaker 5: Oh they don't close. I've been in there, been thrown out of there after hours.

00:40:13
Speaker 2: So where's the bar? We don't have a lot of those.

00:40:16
Speaker 5: We'll find them. There's a few spots, might tell you the oasis excited though.

00:40:20
Speaker 2: We don't all get to hang out in these Shanon, are you coming? I have O v W. Otherwise I will be there, so the rest of us will be there except yeah, okay.

00:40:28
Speaker 5: We're gonna play all the hits. I mean we're gonna we're hitting them all.

00:40:31
Speaker 2: Where's the show tomorrow?

00:40:32
Speaker 5: It's at the Kentucky Sports Factory, Big Athletic.

00:40:36
Speaker 4: Con Big Athletics.

00:40:37
Speaker 2: We will draw a name, one name or two names.

00:40:40
Speaker 4: I think just one person shooting.

00:40:42
Speaker 2: Tell Madisonville if it's the greatest talent there, if they could do too.

00:40:47
Speaker 5: Else.

00:40:47
Speaker 2: I don't think everybody can shoot. Somebody will make it there. But two. We'll say two, but it might just be one half court shot ten thousand dollars. Can you imagine the ex They only give you like five when you hit it it rup I think, tell you Mad's They give you three three shots, shoot all day? How many how how much money? Though you get five or ten? So it's the same amount of money here as at Reparina, which may not one we can't get recruits. We're offering the same amount of money they do with the Madisonville Sports Complex on you.

00:41:23
Speaker 5: That's how excited they are.

00:41:24
Speaker 2: Everyone should be there. We're gonna have a great time. I'm very excited to take you all off for donuts. Mahy, are you gonna try? I feel like you could make it. Do you know if it's like someone wins, can they hire someone to take the shot? Yeah? If you draw out a name and it's and like it's like a little old lady who can't throw it that far, could she get someone to do it for?

00:41:45
Speaker 4: Well? Well, maybe we'll make the rules right now.

00:41:46
Speaker 2: Yes, Well, I mean it's not my money. I don't get to make the rules. Whoever's pain it probably gets to make the rules. But nevertheless, it's just something to think about. I'm excited because I think it'll be a great moment. Uh. I don't think we've ever I was thinking about the best prize we've ever given away. Once we gave away a trip to the Bahamas, Yes, to see Kentucky play basketball. Uh, and the guy won, and uh it was you know, he got to go to the Bahamas with a guest for the Kentucky basketball We gave that away on KSR once. That's probably the second best.

00:42:18
Speaker 5: It's coming full circle. Mapsmill guy won that because we're.

00:42:22
Speaker 2: The best town on earth in front of the all right, fair enough, we will take break our number two when we come back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio