2026-03-18- KSR - Hour 1

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

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I'm Matt Jones. Wednesday, March the eighteenth, the day before the two best days of sports of the year, the first round of the NCAA Tournament. We are all here in Louisville because when this show is over, we are taken off and headed to the SEC or not the SEC Tournament, the NCAA Tournament in se Lewis. You can give a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone nine eight five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. A Vision auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this distion sponsored by the t J Smith Lofice called TJ He'll make them pay. Everybody is here. Nice to see you, folks.

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Speaker 5: I haven't seen you since Nashville, so you've been up in New York doing your ESPN thing. He did a really good job though.

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Speaker 4: By the way, you got to see the bracket thing.

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Speaker 5: We gotta talk about that well.

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Speaker 4: I mean, first of all, good to see you too, Drew, and we saw Shannon earlier. Mario's here. It did come out, Matt Jones's bracket and uh, thanks to everybody who looked at it. If you haven't yet, go watch it. Good numbers. You know, I have a very I can't help it. I'm a little bit of a competitive person. Compare it to the other videos. The other videos got placement on the main ESPN page and ours didn't. But nevertheless, like I think the last time, I looked like eighteen thousand people watched on YouTube and then on all the social media, so that was good for us.

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Speaker 5: I had to put myself in the position of the producers, like, oh my goodness, I gotta put this guy on.

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Speaker 4: He's crazy. He does he's radio crazy. I'm not. I've worked with you for forever. We mean I'm crazy.

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Speaker 3: People would say you're crazy.

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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, I mean you, by far of this group are crazier.

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Speaker 5: Well, in the ESPN Radio world, you're probably mister crazy. And your first the first team out of the hat you call them the Evil Empire, and like the fourth team out of the hat, you talk about Bill Sell's hairpiece, and you got they gotta be back in the booth like, oh my goodness, what have we done?

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Speaker 4: Oh? I think they liked it. You know, if you think the way I look at it is, if you have to sit there and do that all day, you want something different, Drue, right, you want something interesting and fun. They were laughing. I judge when I do ESPN Radio, this is true. If I can make my producers laugh, I know we're rolling because they have to listen to this boring, monotonous sports talk all time. So if I can get a reaction out of them, I'm like, Okay, we're doing well.

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Speaker 6: First of all, the hands looked amazing. I mean, I don't know what you think about a kind of moisturize. Oh my goodness, state I actually have a glow I did. It was like the serum that you kind of rub on your hands.

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Speaker 4: Out and see. I'm glad to hear you say that, because someone in the comment section said, why did you wear white gloves? And I didn't think that was very nice.

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Speaker 3: Shit, Yeah, you should have got a manicure before you went in there.

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Speaker 4: I think it looked good. I see the picks. I was just looking at your hand look good. And then you know the they had suggested. They were like, you should put some makeup on your your cheeks under your eye so it doesn't glare. And I was like, I'm good now, I see next time I'll do that because my right cheek. You know, you you get a level of vanity when you see yourself on camera that you shouldn't.

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Speaker 6: But nevertheless, I was overall very pleased to your point about having fun with it. I speaking for me, I don't have any interest in just watching someone read me their bracket without having a little fun with it. Like, just post the picture and I'll read it myself. I don't need step by step. Well, I think they're going to remound and they're gonna win. No, you gotta have fun. You gotta have fun. What's the point of otherwise. Plus I don't know anything.

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Speaker 4: You knew the Sianna was a crayon. I said it was a good color. It was a good color. That's right. And I gave a shout out to everyone that's ever been nice to me. Yes, you did, like Jay Lucas, Nolan Smith, Hugo Go who Go. There's no other bracket preview where who Goo's got to mention, no doubt. I don't know what the what the term, but I was like, you know, give who go a shout out? Yeah and uh so, yeah, I was.

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Speaker 5: I still look good in your Madisonville had I was a little worried about that.

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Speaker 4: I saw it. Whit you're so worried about you sound like you sound like you're my dad. It's okay.

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Speaker 5: We all kind of feel like I'm your father. Like you're on the ESPN.

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Speaker 4: You would be the worst.

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Speaker 6: You know, he hosted the bracket show, right like if they look, I've done a brat show.

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Speaker 5: But now you're on TV and you're on the sports inter set.

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Speaker 4: So it's supposed to air. They're gonna air all of ours. I think at some point today the ESPN U but they said, we don't know what time. Yet I would have thought, Shannon, they have the times for shows picked out before the day of Yeah, But apparently on the ESPNU it's just like there's just a guy going, will let's er this now, that'd be fun.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like, k like we give him way to much credit to think they're organized.

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Speaker 4: Oh listen. One of the things you learn, like a good lesson for people is you know, there's this idea in news and sports that there's this organized group of people trying to control think and they're like, whoa ESPN. If you walk in, it's a bunch of people going, what we do now, there's no grand plan. I talked to literally the top people at ESPN. Why I was there. Great, people seem nice, but like they're just sitting around going yep, like nobody's there is no grand plan.

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Speaker 6: Everybody's just a human beating that goes about theory. Everyone in life is just trying their best.

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Speaker 4: They're all just like trying. They're a kid that grew up and got a job and they're just trying their Just think about your job and how much you procrastinate and try. That's exactly what they're doing too.

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Speaker 5: I loved it when I talk to you at halftime when you're doing that college football bowl game, and the first thing you said to me, this is the most chaotic thing I've ever been part of in my life.

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Speaker 4: Dude, that was that was It's all very nice to see. Like sometimes I say, on here, we're the only show that ever breaks down, and we do break down more shinnon than any other show.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, but everybody.

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Speaker 4: Has those moments, yes, and so anyway, thank you all for watching. It's good And the people that made the nice comments. The guy that said that about the hands with the gloves, a lot of people were like, those are the hands of a man who's never worked.

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Speaker 3: True, you don't have to say it's true. Well it is.

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Speaker 4: But maybe the white glove comment was I think a comment. I think they were saying, my hands.

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Speaker 5: You know, you put on white gloves at a you know, formal events.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's what they mean. I think they meant that I was I don't. I think they meant that I was pale. So we're leaving for Saint Louis after this is over. I've got like an insane amount of topics. So we're going to keep the phones closed at least for the first hour. Maybe in the second hour we'll we'll open them. That's just I woke up and ended up with fifteen topics. We already did one, which was the bracket. So I want to go through a few of those. One of things I'm going to ask for. We're going to Saint Louis. Yes, I'm trying to think. I've been to Saint Louis. We were there when we played Wichita's State. We were there for the SEC tournament. The one year when I was in college, we went to the arch and my friends. I climbed to the top and my friends spelled out a dirty word with their bodies on the ground. Oh wo See, you didn't realize we were wild boys college. We spelled out a dirty word and I took the picture from the top. Wow, wish I still had that. Yeah, I don't know. You don't incriminate yourself yet. We thought we were other kids. Went to spring break, we went to the arch and spelled out words with our body. I want to party with you guys. But because of that, I do think I realized I haven't done like the Saint Louis where to eat, for instance. So it's me you and Mario so on the text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five for if you have Saint Louis tips where to eat? We're gonna have some free time, so where to go visit? I've been to the Arch?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, overrated, it's it is over It's just a big.

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Speaker 4: But it's the gateway to the West. It's a pretty big deal.

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Speaker 3: But it's just stand in the east like there are there are.

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Speaker 4: A thousand buildings in New York tar than the arts. What's the point.

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Speaker 7: Because it's yeah, it's miraculous. It's just what it's miraculous about it? This arch is just like there, It's not just there. They built it. It's awesome. It's a beautiful thing. Makes my heart, But why is it? What's so great about it?

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Speaker 5: Because it's opening to the gateway to the west.

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Speaker 6: You don't know you're on your way to the west until you go through the arch, and you can't go around it.

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Speaker 4: You have to walk out through it under it. I'm with you, Shandon. It's kind of like, what was it Devil's Knob that we went to Devil's Tower?

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Speaker 3: Biggest bunch.

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Speaker 4: So if you have Saint Louis, uh, you know, recommendations let me know seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in the text machine. People have asked about a show. We are still contemplating. We may not do a live show, but we may do something where after the Kentucky Santa Clair game, if we win, we'll do the post game in some kind of bar and invite Kentucky fans that are there to come celebrate with us. But we still don't know yet. We got to find the place we're going to our house. When I tried to get the Airbnb last night, there were only two left, and one of them was only in pink perfect. It was like, yeah, that's it. There was a pink pony bachelorette house perfect. I didn't get that one. I decided I couldn't take that much pink, so I got the other one, and that's where we'll be.

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Speaker 5: The content would have been great in the pink house.

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Speaker 4: So are you are you excited? I see?

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Speaker 5: I love Saint Louis. When I was a kid, that's where our family would go to watch it. Go to Bush, go to watch a Cardinal game every summer, go to the arch Bush Gardens Cardinal game.

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Speaker 4: Sing Little ballpark, Village that's a cool place.

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Speaker 5: That's a really cool place. Now, we were there when we went twenty fourteen, went to Ballpark Village.

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Speaker 4: If you all have suggestions, especially places the eight seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. All Right, I have something I want to say to get us ready for these games.

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Speaker 5: All right, getting glasses off must be important.

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Speaker 4: I'm very adamant about this. Okay, it is time, at least for the next four days for us to get ready and to believe in this Kentucky basketball team. Okay, because we have nothing to lose. What is there to lose? Nothing, meaning if it doesn't work out, we got a whole offseason to complain about it. For four or five days. We need to be all in because here's why, these are four crucial days for Mark Pope and for this iteration of Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 3: Crucial.

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Speaker 4: How we see what will be his most important year will be determined by these next four days. Right. Let me there will be their three possible scenarios. Let's go over. Let's say we lose to Santa Claa. It's gonna be a bad offseason. There are gonna be people who are gonna say this isn't gonna work. There's a good chance that some of the teams that we compare ourselves to are about to have a really good March and it'll be awful, and there will be so much pressure to get this roster right, and even if it is right, people will not believe it until it starts. A loss to Santa Clara puts Mark Pope in a do or die situation next year. Next year, if you beat Santa Clara and you lose to Iowa State, in my opinion, you're kind of right where you are right now. There will be a lot of people who still kind of believe in him. There'll be people skeptical, and then there'll be people think he's gonna fail, and we're kind of its status quo. So the way the fan base feels right now, that's how they feel. But what if we win, What if we beat Iis Day, What if we get to the Sweet sixteen for the second straight year. What if we take this team that for a lot of the years felt disjointed, et cetera, and all of a sudden we move to a regional and whoever we play in the next game, be it Virginia Tennessee, whoever there's no reason we can't beat that team. Right, already beat Tennessee twice and Virginia's Virginia. You all of a sudden have a chance to start believing. The game is in Chicago, that ain't that far. There's a lot of Kentucky fans there. It would kind of feel you would get that adrenaline in your in your blood. Again, does adrenaline go in your blood? Let's just say it does. Okay, I don't know anatomy, but it will be extremely exciting and Mark will get some moment going into a recruiting season. And I do think this fan base will look at the team and the program completely differently than they look right now, because you will have beaten one of the seven teams according to Kim Palm, that has a chance to win the national title. So these four days in Saint Louis have a chance to set the program even farther back than it is right now, or kick off some momentum that can lead next year to feel exciting like we did this year. If that's the case, why not for the next ninety six hours, get on board and be excited. You nailed it.

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Speaker 5: That's exactly right, and we as Kentucky fans should do that. Then we go back to what Mark story roade and he said, this is Mark post legacy could be decided within the next month.

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Speaker 4: This is it. It is time right now to see what HAPs This is part one of it. I thinks making the team for next year is part two, but this is a part one. Andrew, you have a chance in this part one to make part two easier depending on what happened.

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Speaker 6: And that's why March is the best because whatever you've thought up to this point, if you're very negative, they can shut you up. And by going on a run and going to a stage in the tournament you didn't think they could reach, they can answer a lot of questions people have right now, or at least get some confidence back by Pope by going on a run. That's what makes the tournament special. And the ideas you have of these teams going into it, you could be completely wrong and they could surprise you and rewrite their whole season.

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Speaker 4: Just in a couple of weeks twenty fourteen, the momentum of a program turned around with that victory over Wichita State in Saint Louis. In Saint Louis, they got on a run. They ended up in the championship game. Next thing you know, Willie and the Twins want to return, and you get one of the great Kentucky teams in the history of the sport. The next year, yep, had they lost to Wichita State, Maybe the Twins don't retire. Hu, Maybe will negativity occurs all year and twenty fifteen never happened. Huh. So this is a massive weekend. This is a nervous weekend. This is a Matt's gonna leave the arena weekend. Oh you go to the arena. Oh, I'm gonna go and then leave. But it also is a chance to really get Kentucky basketball feeling like Kentucky basketball again, and so we might as well get excited and try to make it happen. We'll take a break. Be right back, Kiazar. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. What are the what are the Saint Louis songs? I'm sure there's one with Nelly sat on me and San Louie.

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Speaker 3: Uh, there's one called meet me in Saint Louis. All right, Judy girl.

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Speaker 4: Saint Louis doesn't really like roll off the tongue for a song.

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Speaker 3: No, A lot of Saint Louis. They say, though Saint Louis. Hee song Saint Louis.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, that's all right. We'll see if you got some Saint Louis. Probably need to play some Nelly. See what other artists are from Saint Louis. I don't know, uh if I'm nine too eight oh twenty two eighty seven one person rights Matt. He said, brother, brother, I can't allow myself to have hope for this season. It's not worth the near inevitable fall it will bring. That is not the way to live life. It is not the way to live life to have no hope, because you might get hurt. If you live like that, you're gonna sit in your house and just be scared all the time. Think about Ryan, Okay, he knows that when he gets married there's a chance it'll fail, but he keeps getting married, right, because you gotta have the hope. Gotta have the hope. The ho is what the hope is, what life is about. If you sit and worry, you always can be sad. Like I once stated a woman, she said, I'm worried that you'll break my heart. Maybe I didn't say that, but like, but that but that if if that's your thing, if that's your thing, then you can't ever date anyone. Heartbreak kid mad Jones, Like, if you're worried about losing the evening, I won't get excited about any game. We can always have our heart broken. You still get up off the Matt Drew and you keep believing because why not in ninety six hours it'll be decided anyway. And this is March last I checked. We get one of these a year.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's our favorite time of the years. Sure, we're a little disappointed in how the regular season went, but March Madness is here and it's like Christmas for Kentucky fans. Maybe our toys aren't as shiny in we're not Griswold in our house this year with all the lights, and it's not as exciting as it would be as a one seed, but it's still March and it's right in front of us.

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Speaker 4: One person rites, Matt, can do you really believe a fourteen laws Sweet sixteen season would be a success at Kentucky? No, not not totally. But that's success is in everybody's eyes. Like some people think success is you have to win a title. There's not many people that think that, but they'll say final four. Whatever. Success is in the eye of the beholder. What I will say is, do I think overall it would be successful? No? Probably not. But do I think considering Ryan where we are at this minute, then yes, I do. Yeah, because the way we've played all year, etc.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, big picture, overall it is not a success, but where we are today, with what the injuries, the way the season's gone, to get that far would be a success for this team.

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Speaker 4: I always think about Golfers Drew because I've wondered if I was a professional golfer and I was in forty seventh place going into the final round and I knew I couldn't win, And let's say I'm Tiger Woods and I have a ton of money. Am I still driven to play the best I can to come in thirty first? I think the true greats are right, You're still driven to put the best performance you can out. I don't think any of us think we're gonna win the national championship, but why not still be driven to see us do the best that we can based on where we are right now?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and think about these players. They're going in with the right attitude. This this is otago, always last tournament, whatever happens. Same for Aberdeen, same.

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Speaker 4: For a lot of them.

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Speaker 6: This group won't be together again. They're going in with the mindset of let's win six games. Was the fan base. Whatever you think of them to this point, at least believe with them and we'll see what happens. And if it ends Friday or a bad loss, that's that's a big problem we' worry about when we get to it.

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Speaker 4: And maybe you get a moment shit in that we remember forever. Yeah right, maybe you get one and then and then that's that's nice. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if you could beat Santa Clara and Iowa State, that would definitely be something to remember.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Bable States a very good team.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you get a moment where James Young forgets to play and they come out of the time out huddle and he hits the game winning three pointer. You never know what might happen.

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Speaker 4: Also, we're focusing on the path. How many times do we see the path is completely open up? You know, probably when Murray State played San Francisco, they were sitting there going, well, we have no chance against Kentucky and then we lost to Saint Peter's time after time. It happens almost every year. The first said that time after time, if you look, that's exactly right. Mark's story. You mentioned him also, you know, listen, we've been hard on Pope. Myself included. I think Mark's story made a really good point as to where Pope should get some credit. Okay, Mark's story said, Hey, Arkansas won the SEC, and everybody's comparing. He said, though, and Drew and I have made some version of this point a lot of the year. The comparison for Mark Pope, if you want to compare, is not what John cal Perry's doing at Arkansas. If you want to compare Mark Pope, you can. If you want to compare him to when Cal first got here, Cal was clearly better. But maybe the relevant comparison is what cal did the last four years before he left. And in that comparison, Mark Pope's crushing. John cal Perry in his last four years won one tournament game. He won one SEC tournament game. He had more losses or a worse regular season percentage. Mark Pope's already won two NCAA games. He's already won two SEC games in half as many years, and so you know, we can debate till the cows come home. Would calv have done what he done did at Arkansas here? I think the answer is no. Maybe some people think the answer is yes. But this idea that somehow Mark Pope has done worse than cal did post COVID is ridiculous. True, he's done better.

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Speaker 6: That's why on Sunday I was not listening to anyone trying to dunk on Kentucky because they were rewriting how it ended here. Did people forget losing to the non sen Texas A and M and Nashville and then turning around and losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament, as you said, in.

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Speaker 4: Four years one tournament win? Like, why are they trying to dunk on anquec tournament win?

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Speaker 6: I mean, why are we good for him at Arkansas? We all know he got rejuvenate all that that. People are trying to rewrite how it ended here. It was not good here. Kentucky was not winning in the postseason over a long period of time. I mean, there was Billy Gillespie type numbers there at the end, and.

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Speaker 4: There's this group of goobers who all usually have the same pictures of the people who call me a stinker liberal, who say you know you ran the coach off. We did not run the coach off. We're not that powerful. And if we were, then he's too whimpy to be here anyway, if he's worried about a radio host. But even if we did, if you don't like what Mark Pope's done, do you remember what Cal was doing at the end? Now, granted Cal had an amazing first ten years, but you don't pay people on what happened in the past. You pay him on what's going to have happened in the future. We'll take a break right back, KOSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make him pay now.

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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: You can't help but dance to Nelly, right. I mean, he's got We've talked about this as far. He's got so many hits. You got this one, you got Air Force one, you got the one I used to I did my law school exam too, with the I can't remember the name, got a little EI little number one, Yeah, yeah, the one with Tim McGraw over and over again, over and over again. But this is the one. This is the this is this is the major. You know. I love Nelly. I love so much totally. Finding played the Trump inauguration. Get it, Nelly.

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Speaker 5: You saw him at the Legends Ballpark two right?

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Speaker 4: I did? What a what a blank show? That was him? Juvenile? That was ridiculous. I've I didn't have fun at it. I did. He has a hard time getting there on time. First of all, he plays anywhere. He'll play, like in Barberville, like he really will. I think he played the Corbin Arena. Did he play the Corbin Area? I'm sure he did. He plays everywhere. Nellie must still need money because he never stops playing. But good for Nelly. Amen uh good night of sports TV last night? Did you watch a little USA Venezuela?

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Speaker 5: I saw the highlights and I saw your boy hit the He didn't watch the game, No, I was watching the basketball.

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, that was one of the most exciting baseball games I've ever seen. I would have thought you would have been right on top of it.

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Speaker 5: I was so engrossed with Howard and UNBC I couldn't turn on.

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Speaker 4: Did you watch the game?

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Speaker 3: I watched the first game.

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Speaker 4: You're telling me your base you baseball heads, didn't watch that game. I've never seen a baseball game with more emotion. I mean, you know, World Series games I know are huge, but I'm not sure that stadium when did Miami move to Caracas was rocking. It was Venezuela took over. It was wild. It was I mean the excitement of Bryce Harper hits the two run home run to tie it, and then you go to the ninth and eh, who heck me, oh just gets the game winning hit. He looked like he was about to spontaneously combust when he got the hit. Then they won, and the celebration that it was like, I was, I'm for America, but I couldn't help but smile at how happy they were.

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Speaker 6: I said out loud, am I a bad person that I'm enjoying Venezuela's.

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Speaker 4: Amazing to watch them happy, like sworez As the guy from the Reds. You have Akunya. I think I knew more of their players. First of all, how did I If you had asked me, Matt, how many Venezuelans do you know? I'd be like, well, we got that the one guy, the president. I didn't realize how many I knew there was a There was Salvador Perez, who look they said he was thirty five, Shannon, he's it's checked the birth certificate. Yeah he looks sixty to me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, at least forty.

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Speaker 4: But he was still playing. Yep, he cat caught during the game. Good for him. He was like, is that Miguel Cabrera. Their coaches are famous like Miguel Cabrera. They Miguel Cabrera looks like he did not hit the weight room when he was done with baseball. But it was I thought it was neat. And then they sang the national anthem. I loved watching them sing their national anthem because none of them were on the same pace. I don't know everybody knew the words, but they were not in that. I kind of like that. They're all just singing at their own tempo. They're all a hurry to get to a like you could tell how much they care with the fact they had more people in our stadium than than America did. Well, it was packed, right, was sold. That was awesome, And it was like it was unlike a baseball atmosphere, like people were treating it like it was like basketball or whatever, like they were just losing it the entire game.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's been a huge success. That's why they do this, that's why they did.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was great. I really enjoyed it. And then texasn't it. So then the both first four games were good, Yeah they were. And the Texas game. Have you seen the video of the assistant coach running on the floor. All right, so you need to look this up. Let's so, so Texas hits with one so, so with one second to go, Texas hits a shot to take the lead, and all of a sudden, I guess one of the Texas assistant coaches loses his mind and he runs on the floor. He's at the free throw line. He literally runs on the floor. The game is going on. I didn't notice that blows the whistle. You gotta see Sean Sean Miller, Shannon, he almost commits murder on the side.

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Speaker 3: They're trying to get the guy out because he.

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Speaker 4: Thinks they're gonna call a technical. The refs come together and they clearly consider whether to give him a technical, and they decide not to.

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Speaker 2: Imagine you're the assistant though, and you cause the technical at that moment, you're out of a job.

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Speaker 4: At that point, you're I think he might be out of a job anyway. What Sean Miller, Yes, John Miller literally is about I don't know that guy's name, but he is lucky to be alive today.

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Speaker 5: Sean Miller is so mad he turns his back to the action on the floor and it's just to yell at.

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Speaker 4: His his assistant coaches are holding him back from that pass. Wow. So now here's my question watching that video. Wow, should the refs have called a technical? It is technically a technical it is now n C state called time out.

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Speaker 8: Huh.

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Speaker 4: But it is unclear whether they decided to call time out in that moment or whether they did it after the ref stopped the game. So I don't know the answer to that question. But do you think you go by the letter of the long called the technical or do you go, okay, let's not have the game disrupted by this. What do you do?

00:28:49
Speaker 5: The rest had to decide. We blew the whistle, called the time out before we saw him on the floor. They had to have they would have called a technical. I believe at that point they had What.

00:28:56
Speaker 4: Would you do, Let's say, let's say nc was going to call a timeout, but they just hadn't yet. But you didn't know that, would you? Let me give you the chain of events. You see the guy run on the floor first, then in C State calls timeout. You know what happened? Are you calling it knowing you're gonna give in C State two free throws a chance to tie the game and maybe to win if they didn't score on the next play.

00:29:24
Speaker 5: You have to a coach is running and the like to get to the free throw line on the court. If that happens before they call the timeout, you have to call it.

00:29:32
Speaker 6: What do you think I'm teeing them up? And I probably shouldn't look at it this way. I have more grace if it's a player, they're young, they're in the moment. A coach has to nobody.

00:29:41
Speaker 4: You're going to get him fired.

00:29:43
Speaker 6: You have this man's job in your hands. Well, don't be bad at your job and then you won't get fired. You cannot run.

00:29:50
Speaker 4: For some reason. A player, I give a little more, you know young moment. A coach has to know better, shin and I know your tea in them up.

00:29:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think NC State saved his job calling a time out. Right there.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: If they don't call a time out, you know, he's gonna get teed up. Yeah, and he is losing his job after that, especially if you lose the game after that.

00:30:08
Speaker 4: I'm probably gonna let him go, yeah, because I'm you.

00:30:12
Speaker 3: Know, liberal, that's right.

00:30:16
Speaker 5: He was obviously just caught up in the moment. Act like you've been there before.

00:30:21
Speaker 4: Doesn't believe in law and order. But you can't just have coach our referee law enforcement.

00:30:28
Speaker 3: You can't just you can.

00:30:30
Speaker 4: I mean, it is an unbelievably stupid move by that guy. Yeah, and he would go into the annals like Chris Webber, move over. We got a new guy. And right now I don't know his name, but if they had called that technical, I'd know his name. Everywhere. The whole world would know his name.

00:30:44
Speaker 6: I mean, what if they had quickly inbounded the ball and dude just runs into the coach at the free throw line.

00:30:49
Speaker 4: Exactly, that's true.

00:30:51
Speaker 5: They quickly inbounded before they called the time out, and somebody runs into him on the course.

00:30:55
Speaker 4: He's taking a dive. I'm running up to him and following. What was he thinking? You got to know about it. And there was a buzzer had not gone off.

00:31:02
Speaker 5: Yeah, still's time left.

00:31:04
Speaker 4: But it's not like he heard a horn and thought the game's over. He just ran out there.

00:31:08
Speaker 3: H Unbelievab's excitable boy.

00:31:11
Speaker 4: He is an excitable boy.

00:31:14
Speaker 5: After watching that video, though, I fear for his safety. If of Sean Miller coming out and.

00:31:17
Speaker 4: Sean Miller, you're ready, just was like, I'm not even gonna watch the end of the game. I'm going to kill this. He did. He turned the action because I thought they were going to call it technical. When the refs huddled, I think Sean Miller thought, oh my goodness, I got a prediction. I wonder if he'll be on the bench in a few days. You think, so, you think he's that like, get out of here? Maybe uh by Town. Barkley did the game, and by did the game, Shannon, I mean they did not mention the game.

00:31:45
Speaker 3: It was a love affair.

00:31:47
Speaker 4: But so the Playboy play guy lost his voice. Yeah, so he was like, which means you got more Barkley. They had to feel in my towel. They had to field the time, and I think they just talked about anything, and at one point Vitel realized they were so off script. That even he goes, I think we got to talk about the game. So we got a game going on. This is an NCAA tournament game. Remember during Kentucky Indiana they did that, but you know it's a December game and whatever. They got a little off script.

00:32:18
Speaker 3: At one point it started a hotel started kissing.

00:32:21
Speaker 4: Uh, they were kissing each other each other. He did rivalry a little smooch. See. I loved it. I love hearing those guys talk in the game. I know. But if you were a Texas or NC State fan and it was an NCAA tournament game, would you have enjoyed it? I don't know.

00:32:38
Speaker 5: Our Kentucky fans didn't.

00:32:39
Speaker 4: Enjoy I did too. I enjoyed. But but to be fair, I have a huge soft spart spot in my heart for both those guys. I love them both. And I think you know, Vital had never done an NCAA tournament game, right, So I thought that was cool. Cool. And then Barkley, but I think Barkley adds to everything. But I think the guy not having his voice and thus they just were left. It was like you were having a five year old like a fifth grade band, but with no conductor. M everybody was just hitting the symbols and like it was just kind of going insane. I enjoyed it, but Drew, if I was a Texas or NC State fan, I probably wouldn't have hated it.

00:33:22
Speaker 6: And one thing that's fun about Barkley this time of year is it's pretty obvious he's not very detailed in college.

00:33:28
Speaker 4: Doesn't know, but that's fun.

00:33:29
Speaker 5: I like it.

00:33:30
Speaker 6: Normally he has someone to lean on with him. So when when the Playboy play Guy left him, I Barkley is just he was railing on the n C DOUBLEA at one point he was giving all kinds of opinions.

00:33:40
Speaker 4: I specifically enjoy that he doesn't know anything about it. Part of that is self preservation because I have to go on ESPN Shannon and talk about things I don't know either. But I do enjoy that he's just like the big dude over there the ball.

00:33:55
Speaker 3: It's like when they brought in Snoop Dogg to call.

00:33:57
Speaker 4: Him, you know. But if I was Texas are in C State fan.

00:34:02
Speaker 5: Probably more people watching that game last night. We're not Texas or so I kind of they enjoyed it.

00:34:07
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00:36:48
Speaker 5: My one of my great memories from the SEC tournament in Saint Louis, though, involves paring.

00:36:52
Speaker 4: Because he tried to fight people. That's why I want him there. He's a good bodyguard. Guard. He's a good bodyguard, and he's fun. But he's not coming. Like that's what happens. And my other friend's gonna have four more kids this year and he's not gonna come. And there's this is apparently in Faye County there's a trial every thirty seconds. And but we did get the core. The core eleven are always there and they and they came in.

00:37:16
Speaker 5: Although one of your cores forgot to bring another one of the core.

00:37:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about that. You just left. Which how do you leave? People leave hubby, Yeah, you leave the guy who ordered the house. I forget my two get in without him.

00:37:30
Speaker 3: It's more important to the group, would seem.

00:37:34
Speaker 4: I'm upset at pair. I don't know how you just year after year, don't show up.

00:37:39
Speaker 5: Does he get bumped out of the group and somebody subs in?

00:37:43
Speaker 4: But I want him to come because he's fun. Uh huh. But I'm never gonna believe in him again. He owes me because I bet and it didn't happen. You know, one of my favorite things to do, it's tournament time, Shannon. That means let's check in with Mike frances Oh yeah, Mike Francesses still doing Mike and the Mad Dog Mike a couple of years. He is our favorite radio host that we never have listened to. All Right, So he fell asleep that one time, snored on the air, which is amazing. He talked about Maryland a few years ago in the tournament. He was like, they've won some games, they've lost some games.

00:38:16
Speaker 5: They've been up, they've been up.

00:38:17
Speaker 4: They've been down. He clearly never seen them, but he may have tapped himself better than any was this time making these picks. So all these dudes in New York, the way they talk about college basketball is they just talked about Saint John's because they don't know how to say, huh, it's Rick Patino and it's in their city. So if you watch first take, it's just Steven A. Smith and Chris Russo yelling about Saint John's because they're the only teams they know. Mike Princessa claims to have watched every Saint John's game this year. Okay, knowing him a little bit already, don't believe that that's what he claims. But he had one of them more outrageous statements of all time. He's talking about one of the Saint John's players. I just want you to listen to this and see what you think he might have gotten wrong.

00:39:05
Speaker 8: They score on the break, they score off the turn, on the and they score off the offensive rebound, and then Zubie sometimes will get a little thing going. Zubi can look really bad offensively and he can look really sweet offense. But he's gonna be interesting to see what happens, especially against Kansas. Remember he left Kansas, but that's a long time ago, and he left Kansas because of Embiid and Mbiad's a different player in Zubie. I mean, emb when he's healthy, is a guy score fifty points in the NBA is a big time talent. That's no big deal that they you know that Embiid was over him. I mean that happens, and he came and he found a home.

00:39:42
Speaker 4: So he says, Zubie came to Saint John's because he couldn't get in because of Embiid. Joel and bi graduating from her left Kansas in twenty fourteen.

00:39:52
Speaker 5: Thirty mb has been in college a long time.

00:39:55
Speaker 4: Zuby was Symbey was nine years old. Wh Joel Embiid left hands shit and he was nine years old. He couldn't get in though, and he said Zubie couldn't get in. I wonder he's just nine because of Joel Embiid.

00:40:12
Speaker 6: I think his age would be the bigger roadblock than Embid being on the team.

00:40:16
Speaker 4: Now, he did a yesterday. He addressed on the show his mistake after people made fun of him. He goes, I was thinking of Hunter Dickinson.

00:40:24
Speaker 5: Oh really similar players there.

00:40:25
Speaker 4: Hunter Dickens has not gone for fifty in the NBA. No, you were thinking of Joel Embiid And you don't know what you're talking about Hunter Dickinson and Embid. I don't. I'm not falling for that one either. As stupid as that was, just play the beginning again. This is his explanation of Saint John.

00:40:45
Speaker 8: Huh, they score on the break, they score off the turn, on the and they score off the offensive. And then Zoobie sometimes will get a little thing going.

00:40:58
Speaker 4: He'll sometimes get a little thing.

00:41:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's played good, he's played bad.

00:41:01
Speaker 4: He's play good, he's play bad.

00:41:03
Speaker 8: But the problem is in being really he's gonna be interesting to see what happens.

00:41:07
Speaker 4: Uh, he low, He's got to be interesting to see what happens. I want to see the little thing he does. But that didn't see that on the scouting report. Zoombie gets a little thing go.

00:41:19
Speaker 3: He looks sweet.

00:41:19
Speaker 4: What do you think he means by it? Gets a little thing go, but does a little dance, maybe a little tap dance. I love Mike Francis broadcast. He needs to join he needs to join Barkley and just let the two of them do.

00:41:34
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, it's amazing he has a job. I guess because it is entertaining to hear that. I follow that funhouse account that just constantly clips account.

00:41:41
Speaker 4: That all they do is make fun of him. It feels like this happens daily stuff like that's all the old whole account is just playing clips where he does things like that, and they're frequent. Yet he still has a show. Everything was nine when Joe Ellen bed played he meant Hunter Dickinson.

00:41:56
Speaker 3: This is his podcast. Is he still on the air like radio?

00:41:59
Speaker 4: No, the podcast runs on the air. By the way, his team, those some chompers that he's got, the what do you call those veneers? Veneers? Those are some veneers you go too big? Yeah, I think that's fair to say, we'll take a break come back. I remember two k shr