2026-01-22- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes Eda May, the Queen of Southern SaaS January fifteenth through the seventeenth. Then from Hulu and social media catches Zarna Gard January twenty third and twenty fourth, and from TV the Office and anchor Man. Don't miss David Keckner January thirtieth and thirty first. For tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows, call eight five, nine, two seven to one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com.

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Speaker 2: Comedy Off Broway.

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 2: Now here's Matt Jones. Well, welcome everyone.

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Speaker 4: This is Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday, January twenty second. I'm Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill.

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Speaker 2: You can come join us for lunch on a well, it's not.

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Speaker 4: Close to forty eight hours till the beginning of the storm that will end us all here in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: We got a big show today.

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Speaker 2: We talk about the game.

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Speaker 4: Hour two, we set up what America is gonna be talking about for the next forty eight hours.

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Speaker 2: The Kentucky weather Man challenge I've comed again.

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Speaker 4: It is coming seven thousand dollars to give away to charity from Commonwealth Causes and me personally. Five from them, two from me, and I'm willing to add more if other sponsors want to get in. That goes to the weatherman who most accurately predicts the snow. And my thought is, we get ten weather men, either by their choice or public shaming, get them to make a prediction, and uh, whoever's the closest gets the glory Drew.

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Speaker 2: What do you think? I'm very excited about this.

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Speaker 3: They all get to stay on their separate networks and just throw predictions out with no consequences. Everybody, they're going ahead ahead. No one remembers, couldn't tell you a single forecast.

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Speaker 4: And now they go ahead. It's time to separate the week from chaff. I mean, that's what that's what needs to happen, and today we'll do it. They would have until I mean, give you a little hit. This will be second hour. They'll have until Friday, end of show tomorrow to put it in so they can get their latest models, the ones that say, oh, I need more data until it starts snowing.

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Speaker 2: Well, at that point we're stuck. Anyway.

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Speaker 4: You gotta get like, the whole point of weather is predicting. If you're not predicting, well, you're just looking out the window. That's the whole point.

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Speaker 5: Have you had anybody yet reach out to.

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Speaker 2: You what yes is before?

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Speaker 5: It's good?

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Speaker 2: I know there's gonna be some people that are hard.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, we have friends of the show, like I think I'll be able. Well, I'm using up the time. This is an eleven o'clock topics. What we all want to talking about ten o'clock is the game. Okay, Kentucky won eighty five eighty against Texas.

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Speaker 2: A big game for.

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Speaker 4: Kentucky to win, especially if you look at the fact that if our next twelve games, ten of them are against Quad one teams, we only have two more games, one of which is Saturday.

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Speaker 2: It's not a quad one game, so we needed to win this game.

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Speaker 4: And we want it, kind of fighting tooth and nail, went back and forth, back and forth. It was a five point lead down to a five point deficit. It just kept flowing. I mean there were two very even teams. They're a bubble team. I kind of think we're a bubble team now with what the roster has and we want at home, which is what you need to do. I said that we need to win eight games probably to make the tournament, nine for sure to make the tournament.

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Speaker 2: And now what you have? Five? Is that right? Was that right?

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Speaker 5: You said the magic number was seven?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have five or we have four? I'm confused. We won four in rooms, we have four in the congresce four.

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Speaker 4: In the conference, we have four, So I think you're four maybe five wins away. Sounds like not many, But now go look at that schedule and tell me where they are because it's not necessarily easy. But you got the one you needed.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's good to see him play pretty much in full forty minutes and they'd had to struggle and claw and come back from a seventeen eighteen point deficit. It's good to see Oway and Aberdeen kind of learn how to play together. You had just three straight games in a row where Aberdeen has looked really, really good since Low left the floor, showed some grit, showed some fight. You know, you find myself getting sucked back in liking this team again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like I now don't dread the games, but I will say Oway and Aberdeen had been great since conference. To play Colin Chandler now stepping up and looking really good. You got more great minutes from Moreno. A lot of positives last night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: It was pretty neat and rupparina because even though it was tied in halftime, people felt like we had already won. Yeah, you know, you Kentucky fans shouldn't be tired at halftime, But last night there was a celebration like we're gonna win this now because we did not go down in a big hole. Of course, they did go in and win in even though I had a few moments scary there. But other than the halftime score, people were loving the second half surge from Chandler. I mean, hitting the threes, the steels and fell. He stuck his tongue out every couple of minutes in someone's face. He seems he lost his confidence the last month. Last night, in the last week of those road games, he broke out, broke and found it back.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean we are on pace to allow the fewest points in the SEC so far this season. Right now, only Tennessee has less than us allowed. That's great when you consider that needs to be our identity with the team that we have. We took I know we gave up eighty to Texas, but I think that's a win because they put up so many points. We didn't allow him to shoot as many free throws. We made thirty out of thirty five free throws. It's a huge number for this team, and three of them were the ones Aberdeen missed at the end, where I think it was more just focus than anything else.

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Speaker 2: That was huge.

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Speaker 4: Modya Bote, to his credit, hit some huge free throws, did stretch went I think four or five.

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Speaker 2: So all that stuff helped.

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Speaker 5: You know, you mentioned the free throws that led the country and most free throws attempted, most free throws made, and we shot more than them, kept them off the free throw line and our perimeter. Guys Aberdeen ol Way channel did a good job on their perimeter guys kind of kept them out from getting drive into the basket and drawing those fowls and getting the free throw.

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Speaker 4: The only thing we couldn't stop was the one dude was his name Swain Swain. He killed us, uh every time. When Brandon Garrison got in, I just started betting Swain points. I did not, but I should have because most of his points came on Garrison. But he was great. But he made their only two threes. Yeah, he was tough. Last night.

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Speaker 3: I found the player I hate more than any one else in the country.

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Speaker 2: I know they're big.

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Speaker 4: Dude, he held on every play I bet the white guy right, Yeah, I can't say his name.

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Speaker 3: Marino would tell the ref. Pope would tell the ref. Pope even yelled the BS word at the ref. It was every single play. But then if the ref acknowledged it, or if the UK player did it back, he would just whine the biggest crowd baby. So either he was holding and cheating or whining when he wasn't getting Where's he from? I don't know, but there's not a worst person in basketball. Wow, strong word, I got so tight. Pope in the first half was livid about it. Marino's throwing his hands in the air and the.

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Speaker 2: Just because he had long hair. Yeah, okay, I think that was it. That haircut. Yeah, he had a lot.

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Speaker 4: I was so tired of him though. He is one of those guys. Peter what I mean. Pope said Texas is the dirtiest team. And he didn't say it as a put down. He was just acknowledging, like they will bring you down to their level.

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Speaker 2: And they do because they just sit here and do this the whole night for you to get upset.

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Speaker 3: And then when Garrison would give him a little oh he you see, but then he'd go right back to Holden one.

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Speaker 5: Of the others about this guy not a fan?

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Speaker 2: What mean what I'm looking? It's just that your turn to talk.

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Speaker 5: I thought we did really good last night.

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Speaker 2: Sky, thank you for thank you for helping.

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Speaker 5: I will say this, we saw it coming with Colin Chandler, did we? I mean I didn't well, we know ball. You know ball, you saw it coming out.

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Speaker 4: Excuse me if you if you knew ball, so you're saying I don't know ball, well, you can see it in the last couple of games.

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Speaker 5: Kind of developing that confidence hitting the shot is getting extra minutes at the end of the game. I think that his help. We saw it coming.

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Speaker 4: Are we getting closer to where he gets the Kobe Braya thing where if he's open and shoots it, you're like, all right, that's in.

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Speaker 2: Are you there yet?

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Speaker 3: I think so, I mean, you're not there yet. He missed one at the end. He just pretty but he hit one in the big guy's face. He loved that because I don't know if I mentioned that that guy was awful last night, but right after he hit in his eye Chandler, that's the first time I saw him sticking out his tongue.

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Speaker 2: That's when he was really feeling it. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't know. Mormon's the tongue.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. If that's a lot of tongue. Last night, it was just a lot of tongue. But he was also sick, so it was like double MJ. Last was that his flu game flu game tongue? I had this happen just the night before. I felt like I had the flu. You know, he missed shoot Around, Yes he did.

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Speaker 4: I missed episode four, Season three, The Diplomats, all right, I couldn't.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 4: I slept really well, came out yesterday, felt like I gave a great performance. He skips shoot around, gets ready that twenty four hour flu. I think it hit Colin hit me Sometimes maybe it gives you a little bit of energy because he looked amazing.

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Speaker 2: Looks like I'm looking at Colin Chandler right now. It's exactly right.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what UK gave him, but I want what they gave him last night because he was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Corn Bread, hemp, sleep of gummies.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that works, it works, U huh.

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Speaker 4: And uh, you got to get the temperature situation in you're roll. That was what I recommended.

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Speaker 5: Well, pass it on to the rest of the guys on the team because if they played better the way he played last night, we all need it, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, So let's talk about We talked about the positives, a couple of troubling things. Still a huge drop off when they go to Garrison, Diabaatee and plus minus. I actually thought diabat just watching had some decent minutes. But like, if you have a team that has a dude like, uh, why am I forgetting his name?

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Speaker 2: Who scored all the points? Twayne Twain Swain, that's the kind of guy.

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Speaker 4: Diabate is here to guard and if he's still scoring, like or you don't even put him on, there is a point like what are you doing? I think Moreno and yellowch were like plus sixteen plus seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Diabate and Garrison were minus eight. That's a little worries.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the swain was really good at drawing Fowls. Got a bunch on ma Reno and he got a lot of his points at the line too. That dude was tough. He was hitting threes going to the stride. Kentucky didn't really have anything for him last night, but luckily he shut down. Mark didn't have a great game, and then the big dude put up some big numbers, but he wasn't very efficient as he normally is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's talk about now what you lose Cam Williams for the year to a foot injury. You know, I guess there's a chance he could come back. Somebody was telling me if it's a full break, he can't. If it's just a fracture, it could be four to six weeks. The coaches were kind of sounding like it's the fracture, but they also weren't.

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Speaker 2: Saying he was gonna come back.

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Speaker 4: I have to say I'm gonna go on record as I've hated how these last two staffs handled the injuries.

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Speaker 2: Just sitting here making fans speculate. It's not fair to the kids.

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Speaker 4: It's not fair to Jayan quaintans right now that every game people don't know if he's gonna if he's gonna come back. It's not fair that people speculate that he's not gonna come back, and if he's not gonna come back, while you getting the fans hopes up that he is gonna come back, they should just say things regardless they don't. I'm gonna assume Cam's not playing. I just think that's easier to do. It stinks because we can use him and when he's hitting threes, he's.

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Speaker 2: A hugely valuable resource.

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Speaker 4: A right, let's assume he's not gonna play. Do you consider another player, whether that is the red shirt on your team, who was like the thirty fifth rank recruit in America at one point and.

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Speaker 2: Plays Cam's position.

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Speaker 4: Is it roll Trent Noah out twenty minutes a game from zero to twenty, or is it look to the G League. There's a guy named Dink who's got the same haircut and general build as Cam Williams and was at one point a big time recruit.

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Speaker 2: What are you doing?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I heard your post game last night. Learned a lot about Dink last night on the post game to me that you know how I feel about that. It just doesn't smell right. But if the rules allow it, why not pursue it? If you're asking me which what I would do? I go give Noah the shot first, Hawthorne second, Dank third.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what about you?

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Speaker 3: I would entertain the Dank idea just because there's no rules. I mean, I don't like that there's no rules, but everybody else is doing it. I mean, what do you want him to go somewhere else and play? I mean, I mean if he could do it, but I do what if he just CoA some place in Tennessee?

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Speaker 2: I mean, what? What? What? What were you doing? Yeah? I do worry about chemistry, but he's but he's friends of Brandon Garrison, same agent.

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Speaker 4: And he's or excuse me, agent with Brandon gas really good friends with Jasper.

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Speaker 2: Jasper, so it's right.

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Speaker 3: I do think you have to consider Hawthorne whatever happens. I know he's then we saw him at the pro day. You can see him in warm up warm ups. He needs to put on a lot of weight. But he was the thirtieth ranc freshman in this class. I mean there's thirty thrank freshmen make plays every year, and he's you know, knows the system been in practice. I hate it that he would have to lose his red shirt, but whatever redshirts do exists now anyway, it feels like that guy's got to be capable of doing something. I don't know. I don't change anything, but at least let him see what he has.

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Speaker 4: I mean, so part of it is Pope has information I do not have, which is how good is he in practice?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: Like I've not seen him play ever, so it's I'm just completely guessing.

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Speaker 2: But if he is at all helpful in.

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Speaker 4: Practice, then playing he's right there and he's exactly what he's exactly now what we need? Ye does is it would you like to have played him earlier in the year, Sure, but you know what it is what it is, So I say playing if the only way I do not burn that red shirt, because if a kid is that good, he ain't gonna be in college five years anyway. If a kids, if he's not if he cannot play, if you genuinely don't think he can play, okay, then I say go get the dink because I could go into it, but I think it'd be boring radio. There are three cases. There's the Baylor kid case, there's the kid yesterday at Alabama, and there's Dick. The Baylor kid has the best argument. He didn't sign any deal with any NBA team he played, but he wasn't on an NBA contract, It was a Jelliae contract.

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Speaker 2: He has the easiest deal.

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Speaker 4: The NCAA has already proved him by the way he stinks, we all got worked up.

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Speaker 2: Over a guy who's not even good.

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Speaker 4: The Alabama kid has the worst argument because he signed a ten day contract, but he also signed a two way contract, which is an official you are part of an NBA team. The NCAA is going to fight his because they want that to be the distinction, so he has the worst argument. DENK's arguments in between. He did not sign a two way deal, but he also didn't sign nothing. He signed a ten day deal, which is you're with an NBA team for ten days, but he never went there, so he's kind of.

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Speaker 2: In the middle.

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Speaker 4: The NCAA probably would not like to have him either, but they see that differently than they do the Alabama ca So the NCAA is gonna spend the money on the Alabama fight. In the Alabama fight, if that kid gets in, then Deeke will definitely get in. So if I'm Pope, I'm like, why don't we bring him in? Let's have him here for a week. In a week, we're gonna know if the Alabama kid wins or not, and if he does, he's on the team. That's how I would do I don't know if that's how Pope would do it, but that's how I would do.

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Speaker 5: And then you could possibly retain him Eton for next year.

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Speaker 4: You gotta I think his plan is to play college basketball next year, So if you bring him in, you get a ten, You get a six week look to see if you want this kid on your team next year. Now, Jacob Polochik says he doesn't think it's that likely, so I'm not gonna spend a ton of time on it. But I would say, if you don't want to do it, don't do it for basketball reasons. But if it's somehow moral reasons, That's absurd to me because if they're gonna let these guys play, Drew, we need them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they got Alabama would much further, and he is expected to play on Saturday.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, the Alabama's guy, if he is allowed to play, then there's then the deep kids gonna play too because the Alabama's guys that got the worst argument, and he may get to play as well.

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Speaker 2: Dek's been intentionally not signing stuff hoping they can have this movie.

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Speaker 4: If I'm nine two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven, We'll take a break be back here at ks Bars, Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? What are back out number two?

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Speaker 4: Or no it's not OURTM two segment number two here on Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven, one person says Pope compared Hawthorne to Prince. If he's like Prince, then he can play his first year. Yeah, I mean, I genuinely do think like, if you're if you're somebody who can be a star, then you can get minutes as a freshman, whether or not you're gonna change the team.

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna need him.

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Speaker 4: We have four perimeter players for five for excuse me, five perimeter players for three spots, and one of them hadn't played most of the year, Trentall. So you get a guy in foul trouble like like then you you gotta make a switch. You know, Faberdeen gets two thousand the first four minutes of game, you just gonna sit.

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Speaker 2: There and say, well, we lose.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're gonna have to have another guy, So I'm I'm to me. And then at the three spot you're really hurting. It's either play Colin Chandler in undersized three, play Noah who's not really played all year, or bring in three bigs. And we don't look good with two bigs, so three is like a whole thing.

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Speaker 2: So I think you gotta you almost have to have somebody.

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Speaker 5: I think they really like Brandon Hawthorne. I think we got to see it protests, look and we got to see it practice that one day. I think they just feel like, we know we're going a red shirting and get some muscle on him, get some beef on him, and he'll be an integral part of our recruiting class next year. Like you know, this is a way to kind of get some headstart on next year. But right now, if you need his way to play, he knows the system. He's obviously practices with him every day. And they're not we're gonna have to learn anything. Go go for it.

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Speaker 4: One person rights Pope is not gonna get a g leaguer. Did you hear his comments after the game? I did hear his comments, and and and I thought they were wildly bad. Uh he said that, Uh, the NCAA should just not allow a team in the tournament that takes a guy like this. No, if I'm the NCAA's legal counsel, do not do that. Because if a court forces Alabama to plaim, then if the NCAA doesn't claim the court is interf the NCAA is interfering with a court order.

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Speaker 5: That's not good.

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Speaker 2: That's dumb.

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Speaker 4: Like no, no, Mark, talk to a lawyer before you suggest device like that. Now, the judge may overturn his order next week, so that's that's a different situation.

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Speaker 2: But no, shouldn't do that.

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Speaker 4: It is if you heard his comments, true, you would think, well, he's not gonna add a g leaguer. However, they did contact this guy yesterday, But I heard.

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Speaker 5: You say last night on the show.

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Speaker 4: So if they contacted the G leaguer yesterday, there's gotta be some inna. It makes his comments even weirder to me that night, or maybe they just contact and even thought, well, we don't want to do that, but but it is.

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Speaker 2: Interesting that reaches out and Pope, Yeah, why did you do that? We don't need him. Yeah, so you know who knows, But I did think that was odd. Yeah, we're talking about Pope.

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Speaker 3: I honestly don't see Mitch Barnhart being high on doing this because we know he's not high on how things have transformed from the old way, and to bring in a G league or mid season that doesn't seem like something he would.

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Speaker 2: Sign off on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't care what he thinks. I'm just saying I just don't think. I just think I no offense to Mitch Barnhart. But like your plan hasn't worked when it's come to a couple of years ago, going well, you know there's gonna be legislation, and that's what Like, no legislation has been passed. I think, you know, starting in June, everybody is trying to get reelected, so nothing's gonna pass after June, there feels like there's no momentum, and especially since it's very likely the House of Representative changes parties, that's gonna make things even less.

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Speaker 2: Likely to pass.

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Speaker 4: So they're just we just have to assume nothing's going to pass. So if you don't want the kids, you don't want him. But I hope it's not for moral reasons, because that seems dumb.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, if all the school's UK doesn't see one that's high on the list of places that go out seeking this.

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Speaker 2: But do you think that's smart?

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Speaker 5: If the rules allow you to do it, you gotta, I guess, pursue an opportunity like that.

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Speaker 4: I just don't understand, and now I'll shut up about this. I don't know why people act like this is so bad. We've been taking pros for fifteen years. It's just they were from Europe and we don't go there. But Yellovich, there is zero difference between Yellovich and Pate zero. They both sign the equivalent of the same contract with a protein. Why do we look at one differently because they're in a country we don't live in. Make America great at basketball again, don't make our players have more more barriers than their players. Why would you do that? Why would you say, if you grow up in a foreign country and you sign with a foreign basketball professional team, you're good. But if you grow up with America and you sign up with a minor league pro basketball team, you're out.

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Speaker 2: Why what is the rational argument for that? There's not.

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Speaker 3: Your boy cow brought that up in his big rant too. He was like, if you're an American, you're being punished for you are being.

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Speaker 2: Punished for being American.

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Speaker 4: Like, I'm not signing on to all the philosophy in the greater perspective, but in this part, I think we can all agree we shouldn't make it worse for Americans, right, they should at least be equal to the foreign players.

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Speaker 2: Why would we make it worse. I think you're right that it's just no one's keeping up.

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Speaker 3: I mean I watched Yellowch's run in the playoffs after we'd already signed him least year, but against forty year olds.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, when Enis Kanter was trying to play, I didn't hear any of our fan base going, you know, it's just not fair for him to play. We all wanted him to play, absolutely Okay, American Enis Canter is here and his.

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Speaker 2: Name is Dank d on the jersey.

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Speaker 4: Let's just say his name is Ernest Canter instead of Enus.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it.

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Speaker 5: I want him just till we can call him. Have a player by the name of Dank.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we were talking about I learned yet last night. Kentucky's had a player named Dank before. Our quarterback in nineteen seventy two was named Dinky McKay.

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Speaker 2: His stat line is amazing.

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Speaker 4: Eighty nine yards rushing he was a quarterback, eight hundred and seventy four yards passing. Sounds pretty good, right, Shannon. Let me give you the bad part of the stat line. One touchdown, fifteen interceptions. Oh oh, it is consistent of thrown to the other team.

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Speaker 2: So that's why we struggled that year. We'll be right back. TJ. Smith personal and attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay no.

00:23:03
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00:23:06
Speaker 2: Here's not Jones. Yeah, tell him, tell him, Shannon, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna forget the men who died. I want Dick Pate to get that right that was given to him. Stand up yes and play for Kentucky and make some threes.

00:23:24
Speaker 5: What was your order of Trent?

00:23:27
Speaker 2: I go Braiden Hawthorne.

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Speaker 4: If Brayden can play, he's my number one thing because he's already on the team, and I really don't understand the point of red shirting a guy with a lot of town, right, So I so for me, And and if the NCAA makes the rule which I think they're gonna make, which is you have five years to play five, then the red shirt isn't gonna count anyway, right, He's already started his five, so he's so all these reasons make Hawthorne the most obvious.

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Speaker 2: Then for me, second would be Dink. There's nothing east Trent Noah.

00:23:57
Speaker 4: But my view about Trent Noah and I love him and I want him to be a star, and I hope he kills it. But if Trent Noah was what part Mark Pope thought, he'd already be playing, right, So that's so that's why it's that's the third. Now, if Mark thinks he can play, and then he does, then he's second.

00:24:16
Speaker 2: But that's the way I look.

00:24:17
Speaker 5: I wonder what they saw on him when the season started, when he was starting and playing a lot a minute before he got hurt.

00:24:23
Speaker 4: I think Mark and I think he'll set this is my guess. I bet he says this at the end of the year, when we interview him. I bet he will say some version of he just read this team completely wrong and he had one vision of this team that probably included Trent Noah, and then he had to switch the visions of it. That's That's what I'm gonna guess, he says, do you agree?

00:24:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, And all summer he kept talking about how big the freshman a sophomore jump is, especially in a system, and how he coaches him. And maybe we're seeing a little of that a Chandler, but it's very obvious Noah did not make that jump that I think Mark Pope was counting on him to make, whether that's on Pope or whatever. But he can talking about how second your players are so much better under.

00:25:03
Speaker 2: Him, Garrison, and Noah did not. Uh.

00:25:06
Speaker 4: Oh way, I think is similar to what he was Uh. Chandler didn't at first, but seems to be making it now.

00:25:13
Speaker 2: Is that fair to say?

00:25:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he seemed to turn a corner here lately. Yeah, and playing like we thought he would have all year when the season started.

00:25:21
Speaker 4: Eight, I'm nine, twenty two eighty seven, one person rights Matt with twelve games left. Considering the schedule, Now, how many do you think they win out of these twelve? So they're four and two, tied for a second in the SEC with Texas A and M in Florida only one game ahead.

00:25:39
Speaker 2: How many games do we win in the last twelve?

00:25:42
Speaker 5: And when you look at the last twelve, you realize how hard this is going to be. That's a tough, tough go So I mean, honestly, if they if they split them six and six, I think I probably would be happy.

00:25:53
Speaker 4: I think you should scream to the hilltops with joy if they go six and six, Yeah, go ahead?

00:25:58
Speaker 2: What about you?

00:25:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's six and six would be good considering once ahead. That's what I was gonna say. But I'll admit, if I had to pick either five or seven, I'm probably picking five.

00:26:06
Speaker 2: I was gonna pick a tough road. I'm gonna pick five.

00:26:09
Speaker 4: And I actually think if Mark gets five, he still gets a D as general manager, but I think it would be a B as a coach if he can get five with this group. If you had told me that when we start SEC play, we will not have Jaden Quainton's or Jalen Lowe or Cam Williams. I would have said to you, we're winning three games. So if he could get to nine, which is what five would be, I actually think as a coaching job, that's pretty good. As a GM job, it's still pretty bad, But as a coaching job, I actually think it.

00:26:41
Speaker 5: Would be pretty good. That get him in the tournament.

00:26:44
Speaker 4: Five certainly gets him in the tournament. Four maybe gets him in the tournament. Three does not. That's the way I look at it. Nine and nine, you're in eight, and ten, you're probably in seven and what you're not.

00:27:01
Speaker 5: You gotta win Saturday Open.

00:27:02
Speaker 2: I gotta win Saturday. Gotta be Oklahoma at home.

00:27:05
Speaker 4: You know, however long we win that game, then they play at South Carolina. South Carolina is pretty bad, yes, and then you just hope you win one of the home games against the good teams Georgia Vandy, uh, Tennessee again.

00:27:19
Speaker 2: You gotta hold to win Florida. You gotta hope you win one of those at home. And you can.

00:27:22
Speaker 5: You can, you can, absolutely, you can.

00:27:25
Speaker 2: You can win though, just beat Tennessee and Knoxville. Why can't you, Why can't you? All? Right? Who's up Firstiah, Isaiah? Go ahead?

00:27:32
Speaker 6: Hey, just a couple of things to think about with Mark Pope. Everybody's kind of getting ready to, you know, say he's not ready for the job, not been man for the job. But so if one of these two things don't happen, we don't get Dan or Hawthorne doesn't remove his red shirt, I think a lot of people will be upset. And if you know, if we do one of those two things, I think it fills up some good will, especially for Mark Pope's if it goes well. Another thing to think about is if we do get this dank guy, I think if we don't start to kill it in the recruiting area, that is kind of like a safety net for Mark Hope. You know, if we can go get these G League guys, you know, say they're not all stars to go to the NBA, but they're at least decent college players, I think that could be very well.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: That's a great point, and I appreciate the call. Remember I don't think there will be G League guys in the future. I think this G League thing is like the next year or two because I think most of these dudes are going to go to college now because they can get paid. The guys went to the league because they couldn't get paid. Now they can get paid, So I think they're going to college. It's an interesting point, though, Drew. If you took him and you got him to stay till next year, it helps you with the fact that you've been striking out in recruiting, right.

00:28:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you can get him commit to being a full time player next season, I mean, that's like going out and getting a five star in this class. You know, that's a dude that's putting up eighteen a game in the G League. I would make that equivalent of a five star coming out of high school.

00:28:54
Speaker 5: But maybe I tell you recruiting, recruiting for a year and a half, we want you for a year and a half.

00:28:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, if I'm nine two, eight, twenty to eighty seven. It's interesting, Shannon, phone lines are are empty.

00:29:04
Speaker 2: We win, you know when we win? About it? When you when you when you lose, everybody wants the misery. Yeah, I mean.

00:29:13
Speaker 4: We I want us to win because you do get more listeners when you win, but you oddly get less calls, which I think is a weird it's a weird thing.

00:29:22
Speaker 5: They want to talk.

00:29:25
Speaker 2: It's a lot of people want me to.

00:29:26
Speaker 4: Just switch it to weather, but I'm this is a UK basketball show. This is not a weather show. I think a lot of people wish it was a weather show will be And I think I probably make my point about why we don't stick to sports by the feedback we've gotten on the weather thing. Like I got more comments about my segment talking about the weather people yesterday, including from people who don't know who any of these people are. So I do think we do weather well, probably better than we do sports.

00:29:58
Speaker 3: I have a lot of friends to listen to show and they don't text me, Hey, I can't wait for your Texas breakdown. But this morning, it's all we're so pumped for weather talk today, Like everybody's all in on the weather talk.

00:30:08
Speaker 2: Can I give you one hint on the weather?

00:30:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm hearing through the grapevine that there's already been one prominent weather person telling folks friends of theirs, that they will not participate. And I will say to you with love, because I'm coming with love. I'm not coming with hate. Sure weather affects us, all right, Whether you decide to be part of this or not. I think it's important for people to know are you going to be are you willing to put your prediction.

00:30:48
Speaker 2: Where your mouth? If you refuse to.

00:30:50
Speaker 4: Participate, I think you are saying to the American people, at least the ones in Kentucky, I don't stand by my weather, and if.

00:30:59
Speaker 2: You don't succeed, that's okay. We all make mistakes. But do we pick the scores of every game?

00:31:04
Speaker 5: Yes, and we're never see.

00:31:06
Speaker 3: Mario's yesterday he put that onographic and put it on the internet.

00:31:10
Speaker 4: Video still exists of me saying we can go nine to three and make the playoff in the foot in football, and people play in the video of me saying to Tyson Chicken, thank you, Tyson Chicken. You know how many Arkansas people send me that video? Mario, that's on you, but it stays with me. I feel like weather people should have that happen as well. And it's all for fun. And you might be literally looking at the charity of your choice, looking at in the eye and saying you don't deserve any money.

00:31:38
Speaker 2: That's what you're doing by not participt.

00:31:40
Speaker 5: That's why I think this the peer pressure now, of the other weather guys all stepping up and doing it for their charity, you want to be the one guy that's not gonna step up and do it for your charity.

00:31:49
Speaker 4: Mario, by the way, is creating a graphic today that as we get the predictions in, we will have check marks or x'es.

00:31:57
Speaker 5: Okay, so not the prediction, just what are they're participations?

00:32:01
Speaker 2: Because I don't want to give anybody the head star.

00:32:03
Speaker 4: So if like somebody call does nine and a half inches at first, you don't need other people to be able to plot theirs around. Yeah, so I'm not putting the predictions out until I get in all predictions. Is that what do they do? Well, we can talk about it. I'm thinking noon tomorrow. I think they gotta be done by noon tomorrow. Gives people a chance to get their final models in.

00:32:24
Speaker 2: The morning models are always good.

00:32:25
Speaker 4: The morning model, and they can send them in. But the kids today, I'm going to get commitments to predict. So the first thing Mario is going to be in the check is did you commit to predict?

00:32:37
Speaker 2: Well?

00:32:37
Speaker 3: Can you tell us? Are we already have a Notre dame here that's opting out? Are they lover election, and can you hear me.

00:32:42
Speaker 2: Not, I'm not.

00:32:43
Speaker 4: I haven't gotten any word from them. I don't want to put their pressure on. I can tell you who has already opted in. Okay, the first yes I got was by far the biggest star, Ryan Haul y'all.

00:32:58
Speaker 2: Yes, he scared.

00:33:00
Speaker 4: Ryan Hall y'all committed on Twitter. I've had one commit to me privately. But we have to decide whether or not they're in, and then we the public, You, the listener, have to help us get these people in. Right, it's going to be you that makes them do it the peer pressure. But first we have to decide who we invite. And that's a conversation for a limit.

00:33:20
Speaker 2: Okay, good tease.

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00:33:45
Speaker 2: Richmond p I E r A TTS dot com. It's p rats. Yeah. They apparently they have this thing like Best in Lexington. Do you know there's like a magazine? Yeah? Yeah. I was very excited.

00:33:56
Speaker 4: Somebody sent me something that said, Matt, you got nominated for Best Radio Hosts Lexington and I was like, oh, that's very nice. Let's go look at the contestants. There were fourteen other contestants. Are there fifteen radio shows in Lexington?

00:34:10
Speaker 2: I can't name any not local? Probably, well, there are at least fourteen other ones besides Wow, did they count Finebaum?

00:34:17
Speaker 4: It was like it was people I didn't know. It was like Alan Cutler's cousin. It was just it was just anybody. So it was It was nice to be nominated, but I feel like all you have to do is be on the radio. A lot of competition though, Ryan, you were not nominal.

00:34:32
Speaker 5: Well, I hope it be you and Shannon the dude. You're my two favorite lexingon radio personality.

00:34:37
Speaker 2: You get the news from him. We'll take a break of me right back the scazar.

00:34:41
Speaker 4: All right, So there were actually many more nominations than I realized. Shannon and Drew also nominated for Best Radio.

00:34:48
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, it's a honor.

00:34:50
Speaker 4: Mario nominated for Best Influencer in Lexington.

00:34:54
Speaker 2: He's so influential, Mario.

00:34:57
Speaker 4: Can I read you the other nominees for Best Influen Sir, this is this is your competition.

00:35:03
Speaker 2: Bradley Marlowe. I think I've seen him. I've seen him.

00:35:06
Speaker 4: He's like a culture guy. Erica Bivens, Gathered, Living Glitter.

00:35:13
Speaker 2: And Jingham gotta beat them. The Kentucky Taste Buds, I know them them.

00:35:19
Speaker 4: Land In Marsh don't know him, lex Eats, don't know him, Lexington Latest, don't know him, Lexington for Littles.

00:35:26
Speaker 2: Maria Montgomery, you're gonna have a hard time with her. You don't. I don't think you dressed saucy enough to compete with.

00:35:32
Speaker 4: Mariam Montgomery, Marie mclamb from Bluegrass Blog, Mario Maitland, Mitchell Christian Designs, Porky's picks.

00:35:40
Speaker 2: What's Porky's picks?

00:35:42
Speaker 5: I do not know?

00:35:42
Speaker 2: No, Sassin in the Bluegrass and Whitney Panell. There you go. Follow several of those, and then finally the number one category Best lex and Tony.

00:35:53
Speaker 4: I want to hear the nominees EIGHTA Lemon, don't know it's got your same net lab name.

00:36:01
Speaker 5: Definitely not my family.

00:36:03
Speaker 4: Amanda Matthews, she's a sculptor, chef, Owita Michelle.

00:36:08
Speaker 2: It's got a bunch of restaurants.

00:36:10
Speaker 4: Craig Skinner, Craig hey Hey, Fred Mills, the manager of the Kentucky Theater.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: Mark Pope, Pope heard of him.

00:36:19
Speaker 4: Matt Jones, Yeah, Steve Soon, Tanya point Dexter Walter Tunis, will Stein, he's already nominated. He just got here, one of our best lex tastes Na he's.

00:36:33
Speaker 2: Probably been here six days. Come on, already the best Lex he just got here. Does he even have a house yet?

00:36:41
Speaker 4: And Wiley Condell, he does the blue roses. I'm for all those shaded except will Stein. Come on, let me come on.

00:36:52
Speaker 2: You got's license? Got let him be here for a couple of weeks.

00:36:56
Speaker 3: I think you need to have a permanent Kentucky address, bare minimum to the best.

00:37:00
Speaker 2: He doesn't even have a license yet. He can't be doing that.

00:37:02
Speaker 5: They're living in an airbnb. But he is the biggest UK basketball fan. Some that does qualifying.

00:37:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll see about that.

00:37:09
Speaker 4: I'm eighty seven, who's up first, shit, deep, deep, go ahead, deep, what's up?

00:37:15
Speaker 2: Guys?

00:37:15
Speaker 6: I just want to ask, has anybody notice reinos lucky charm he's had last four games.

00:37:22
Speaker 2: I already know what you're gonna say, The same shirt, yep.

00:37:25
Speaker 4: Because he's has the same stain or Okay.

00:37:29
Speaker 2: That is very noticeable by you.

00:37:31
Speaker 4: One other person brought that up to me on the postgame show, Drew you said you noticed it too. He has the same stain on his shirt.

00:37:39
Speaker 3: It's it's a black spot, almost like remember when Jalen Brown got his hair on a It's like a big black thing on his sleeve and it's been there for four games.

00:37:47
Speaker 4: So you're saying, Mo, Reinos t shirt, it must be a lucky shirt because he's not washing the stain off.

00:37:52
Speaker 3: I hope it's for luck because last night I was telling people we are in Nike school. How do we have one undershirt per player? But if it is Lucky and he's been on a good that's different.

00:38:01
Speaker 2: He might be taking the view.

00:38:02
Speaker 4: Shannon a former ww wrestler Vader who would not wrestle his He would not clean his tipe.

00:38:08
Speaker 5: He was so stinky.

00:38:09
Speaker 4: Everybody, nobody will no one wanted to wrestle him because he smelt so bad, and he used that as his intimidation. Maybe Moreno's doing the same with the T shirt. Don't wash it. It'll help people not stay off of him.

00:38:21
Speaker 5: You would stay with it because he's playing great. He had another good game last night. We have six assists last night as a big man.

00:38:28
Speaker 4: So I think we have to see in the old Miss game. Does he come out with the same stain on his shirt?

00:38:32
Speaker 3: I appreciate the yeah, I'm glad the caller brought that up. Almost led with that over the big guy being the worst person I've ever seen play basketball. I want to say it's the I'm playing my mind. I think it's the right sleeve right underneath like kind of the arm.

00:38:43
Speaker 2: It's kind of like here. It's a big spot.

00:38:46
Speaker 3: And I noticed it right away last night, thinking how do we not have laundry at UK? But maybe he's just feeling well in that show.

00:38:53
Speaker 2: I like it. Maybe it's a lucky shirt. Who's next, Matt, Matt, go ahead and Matt A good morning.

00:39:01
Speaker 3: So is make America great at basketball?

00:39:04
Speaker 2: Again?

00:39:04
Speaker 6: Is that Magaba.

00:39:06
Speaker 2: Magab make America?

00:39:09
Speaker 5: Make?

00:39:10
Speaker 2: Don't make American basketball?

00:39:13
Speaker 4: Mag bat mabga make American basketball great again. It's hard for me to say because it goes against my entire core to say those letters.

00:39:22
Speaker 2: But mabiga.

00:39:25
Speaker 6: All right, So my real question is this, what does the annexation of Greenland do to the landscape of Uh.

00:39:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't have they don't have a lot of basketball players there. I don't think so. I appreciate the call. I don't think that will help a lot. I'm serious though about these. It shows you how much old heads about college basketball freak out about nothing. By the overreaction to that Baylor kid. Everybody lost their minds about that Baylor kid. And he is He's averaging like four points a game and is like the ninth man.

00:39:59
Speaker 2: Why did it matter so much to people?

00:40:02
Speaker 3: Because this is just so chaotic, and that just just the feel of now we're just letting pros come in. It already feels weird.

00:40:08
Speaker 2: But they're not good. Now.

00:40:09
Speaker 4: Maybe it's Salabama kit'll be good, But I don't think he's going to be good too.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: A JU League player come to college. I can see why people would think what the hell's going on?

00:40:17
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:40:17
Speaker 4: I use the example Ryan. You remember of the eighty eight basketball team. The eighty eight Olympic team. Well, we kept sending college guys to the Olympics, and then eventually when the other teams start sending their pros, we lost, and we had to start sending our pros to Like, isn't that just the way things happen?

00:40:33
Speaker 5: That that led to the Dream Team in ninety two because we got to be with him, we got like the bronze medal and.

00:40:38
Speaker 4: Mametter how much people went crazy yes about oh, we shouldn't do pros and then the Dream Team is now considered one of the coolest things that happened in sports.

00:40:46
Speaker 5: Like I said, it doesn't pass the smell test with me, but if the rules allow it, why wouldn't you pursue it? If you like, if they had another player goes down, he's gonna have to replace the ross.

00:40:55
Speaker 4: And there's a very good chance with twelve games to go that there's gonna be a guy get hurt. That they might only sit out a game or two, but we're gonna have people in twelve games, someone's gonna get hurt, so it's gonna be even more necessary we do this right.

00:41:09
Speaker 3: It is And I don't mean to be that guy, but let's say someone adds someone in two weeks again, like is school even?

00:41:16
Speaker 2: Like are we pretending anymore? Friday?

00:41:18
Speaker 3: Okay, just drop ads from someone that had great attendance myself, but you know, some point semester.

00:41:25
Speaker 4: It's always been interesting to me, miss mister I took English one on one three times.

00:41:29
Speaker 2: That you're the one that always brings up class.

00:41:31
Speaker 3: Oh I feiled dinosaurs, disasters, past fail Like I'm not one to talk about going to class. I'm just saying as far as putting people on a college team in February, at least there's a road.

00:41:42
Speaker 4: You felt dinosaurs and disasters is like the final how a dinosaurs doing now?

00:41:48
Speaker 2: And you're like, right, it wasn't the dinosaurs that got me. I was good on it that the disasters.

00:41:54
Speaker 5: Both.

00:41:54
Speaker 2: I should have split it up. Taking them both at once. With the disasters is too hard for you, I understand.

00:42:01
Speaker 4: All right, we'll talk about the weather challenge next here on KSR