2026-05-05- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio, present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back.

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Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I have number two a FIM nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. Here at Kosbar where we are open for the for lunch today you can come out. We will be here tomorrow as well, so if you are in the mood, love to have you come see us.

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Speaker 3: People have been riding in. This is nice.

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Speaker 4: This is our Galasano Children's Hospital at UK and Norton's General Children's Hospital. Nick, you text to give campaign for KSR. We've raised nearly five thousand dollars already, but we are basic. We still have a long way to go towards our goals, so let's keep it up. Adam wrote, UK did a lot for my daughter that was born at twenty seven weeks, weighing in at two pounds two ounces. Now she is twelve years old, straight a student. It's starting on the varsity softball team.

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Speaker 1: So it's very nice, very good, good story.

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Speaker 4: Brandon says, my firstborn spent a month in the nick you. Uh, she graduated from UK last year and is pursuing a career in neo natal care.

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Speaker 3: How nice is that? That's very cool?

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Speaker 4: So again, uh three four nine eight four. Get those phones out, ladies, KSR. I'm specifically challenging you, but also the men who listen as well, not just the ladies.

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Speaker 3: Three four nine eight four and text nick you.

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Speaker 4: And then, unlike Ryan, if you can navigate the little picture boxes, you will be able to donate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just a part of a car. That counts as the box. The cars in that box.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it says put all the ones with things, So he doesn't say full car.

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Speaker 1: Try to be part of a cart of a car.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a bumper, you got it. You got it on the fourth.

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Speaker 1: Time, Well I got I can see why people have trouble with that.

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Speaker 3: Well, well, good luck with it. All right.

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Speaker 4: Let's go over a couple of things here. First of all, Shannon Kurtloader. Yeah, Kurtloader is eighty one years old to.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, really, how is that even possible?

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Speaker 4: MTV news is Kurt Loader turns eighty one?

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Speaker 3: For people in my generation, he was our Walter cronkite Ur.

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Speaker 4: I don't even know who does the news now, who does the news on those stations?

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Speaker 3: Lester Whole, I don't think he does either. David Muir, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So he is our David Muir eighty one. He can you believe he's that old?

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Speaker 2: So no, in his fifties then in the nineties.

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Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, he was old then and we just didn't realize, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm picturing the fifty year old version of my head. I can't even imagine him being that old, but I guess it makes sense. Miss That's how I got all my news. I'm button in and let us know what's going on in the world.

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Speaker 4: They showed a clip this morning of him announcing that Kurt Cobain had died, which I think what people remember the most about him was when he made that.

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Speaker 1: That broke the news to America, kind.

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Speaker 4: Of broke the news, I think to the whole, like he was the first news agency I think that had.

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Speaker 3: It was MTV News, which doesn't even exist anymore.

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Speaker 5: No, you'd be watching a music video or whatever. He'd butt in with a little graphic they'd have and he'd come in, let me know what ye did he do anything after that? Or he just makes so much money off his MTV news.

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Speaker 4: It's a great question. And I don't think he came from news before. He just he was like, he just did MTV news.

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Speaker 1: I mean, did he do any He wasn't a newsman by he's background.

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Speaker 3: Think he worked at like CNN before.

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Speaker 1: I think he just was just walking around in the newsroom nowadays, Hey dude, why don't you jump on set and do this for us?

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Speaker 3: So anyway, eighty one years old.

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Speaker 4: Also, if you heard the end of the show, we ended up giving Grant the golf scramble. Did he call and give you his contact info?

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Speaker 3: Shannon?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I got it on like, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, like three different times.

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Speaker 3: So I got it.

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Speaker 4: So congrats to Grant Grant. I do give him credit for that. He definitely wanted it. He overwhelmingly won the vote. People continually said that they felt like he deserved it, and so we made sure he got it.

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Speaker 5: Feel good being at home as just a listener as one of your competitions wit crazy, you know, with Shannon having his show planned and you're just stealing the tickets. It sounded like and then and then even the game didn't.

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Speaker 3: Go very well. I did not steal the tickets. That did not happen.

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Speaker 4: But but but nevertheless, I'm glad he got to do it, and it'll be fun happening at the golf.

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Speaker 5: SKRT looking forward to that. It's what twenty something days away, Yeah, it's just twenty three days away week.

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Speaker 1: So he was overwhelmingly voted on. I thought people would, like, you know, if he was doing all kind of that somewhat harassment trying to make sure you say.

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Speaker 3: Harassments a little strong, I may have, but he just he very much wanted it.

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Speaker 1: He was tenacity, he was rewarded.

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Speaker 3: I had a question that I wanted to ask, because this is good, Matt.

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Speaker 4: Most this person writes on text machine, Matt, most of the TV shows I end up watching are things that you or Drew recommend.

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Speaker 3: Do you all have television shows to watch now?

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Speaker 4: You've been kind of busy, so you may have you haven't seen You've probably been watching like baby shows, right.

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Speaker 5: No baby shows yet. I've been I've been binging some TV lately. I checked a lot off my list, So.

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Speaker 3: What if you liked I have a couple, But do you have ones who.

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Speaker 5: Like I just watched dt F Saint Louis. I don't know that I would recommend that one. That's the one I just finished. Yeah, I don't know if we'd recommend that.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 5: I watched the Kentucky Hallmark movie last night.

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Speaker 3: Oh you did?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, check that off the list. It was awful. I mean, it is very awful, but it's exactly what I expected.

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Speaker 1: Did a female trainer win the derby in the movie.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to spoil anything, but I did watch Kentucky Roses last night.

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Speaker 1: Very geez, what's out there?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 3: Where is it?

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Speaker 1: It's out there?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well I hadn't heard it, so now I don't have to watch it. Great flick though. I'll give a couple that I think are pretty good. Uh, that are new on HBO Rooster. It's got Steve Carrell. It's kind of like, you know, feel good sort of show, kind of maybe like you don't have to think too hard that I like the cop in it. He's an idiot and I enjoy his character quite a bit. And then I really like your friends and neighbors. Yeah, John Hamm stealing all his neighbor's stuff.

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Speaker 5: Marsden jumps into this season.

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Speaker 4: James Marsden is in the is in this season as well, So those are two. And then I'm a big fan of the show and I can't now I can't remember the name of it. The guy from Shit shoots HiT's Creek. There you go, Dan Levy, Dan Levy, he has a new show on Netflix where he and his sister.

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Speaker 3: It's it's really I think it's really funny. What's it called.

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Speaker 4: It's called like blood something, No, blood Tears, It's something that doesn't sound right.

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Speaker 3: The right name.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 4: His son Dan, the guy that plays the sun on Ship's Creek.

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Speaker 5: He has his own show, Big Mistakes. I don't know why I said Blood. Big Mistakes is the show.

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Speaker 3: I think that one's.

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Speaker 4: Really funny if you want something funny and kind of offbeat, quirky.

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Speaker 3: So those are the ones I would say.

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Speaker 5: I learned when we were up in the hospital shout out the hospital, by the way. But like, just regular cable TV is what I had to watch. I don't know how people find anything to watch just on TV, like if you're not going to the apps. I did three days of just I don't even I don't even know what I watched. I might have seen Prices, right, maybe maybe days of Our Lives or something, but it regular TV is terrible.

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Speaker 4: You know, the big movie right now is Devil War's Prada two. Yes, Pat, did you go see Devilwaar's Proda two. I have to say I really liked Devilaware's Proud Of one. I feel embarrassed. I don't think I'm gonna go to the theater and watch the second one, but I did really enjoy the first one.

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Speaker 5: Confession. Two nights ago, watched the first one for the first time, and.

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Speaker 4: Did you like it? But I loved it. Actually, it's kind of good. I'm not gonna I do think it's good.

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Speaker 5: It's kind of because back to the apps, I don't care what app you pull up right now, they want you to watch Devilwaar's Product's why I ended up watching it. So maybe I'll have to see the second one. But I'm caught up on Miranda I.

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Speaker 3: Think it's her name, and Hathaway and then the.

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Speaker 5: Well Stanley Tucci, Yeah, I watched that two nights ago. You see what I've been doing while I've been away watching Kentucky Roses in Devilwar's Product exciting times.

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Speaker 3: I think it's actually good. Who's next? Shitnon Mitch Mitch, go ahead, Mitch.

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Speaker 7: Hey, guys, I just wanted to call to give you thanks to you all because my daughter was just recently born eight and a half weeks early. She's at the Norton nick You and uh, you know, our family personally, we we don't need the support, but I know that that's not the case for everyone. You know, just talking with parents and nurses. You know, not all these babies are born in Louisville, Lexington, so in some instances you have people separated from their child, driving hours at a time to go see their kid. And I also just want to give a shout out to the nick You team at Norton. They're they're unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: One of them, one of them is sitting here.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure she would like to hear that, and I'm sure she can hear it on podcasts.

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Speaker 3: But that's very nice.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, no one wants to kind of go into this situation, but the team is so straightforward and honest and reassuring of giving your your baby's circumstances that it helps a ton and uh you know, they're they're getting the best care they possibly can. So yeah, just thanks again for y'all doing this, but uh, I did have a question. Andy didn't just single out Mitch Barnhardy also mentioned Eli and kind of comparing it to Ramsey since with Louisville.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he did that again and by the way, just on that he Butsher has since done another interview where he specifically compared Eli Cappoluto to Boloney hands there at Louisville Ramsey in explicit terms. It didn't get as much attention, but like explicitly, I thought that was kind of an eye opening and it makes me think the Eli Cappoluto era does not have much left at UK.

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Speaker 7: But go ahead, Yeah, that's what I was just wondering because having living here in Louisville, the Ramsey situation was insane. If you just go back and research them on when we lost.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you broke up.

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Speaker 4: But I appreciate the call and I did think, uh, Ryan, when I saw that Basher did it again. I mean, I I believe this was gonna be the end. Here's what I think's gonna happen. I think Eli's gonna and this is just my opinion, this is not like, this is not scoop. I think Eli's gonna hire the new athletic director, and I want to talk about that because there's some news on that as well. And then I think he's gonna step aside. Uh probably this summer. That's just my gas, but that's kind of where I think. I think you're gonna see pretty much a universal change in leadership.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, Eric Muney's been kind of been positioning himself to become the next president for years.

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Speaker 4: Well, well, I don't know. I don't know if that's gonna happen. I mean, I think he's would be the favorite, but we'll see.

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Speaker 3: I don't, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, remember, the Board of Trustees does pick the president, and at this point the board is a majority of Basher appointees.

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Speaker 3: So when but Sheer speaks on this, you know, his boy, it's his board right now. So like, I don't, it'll be interesting to see what happens, uh Drew.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Eli thing that's got to be coming soon. I don't know that people are seeing Eli at the coffee machine every morning at eight am over in the break room.

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Speaker 3: Well, he's been in Alabama. He like, you know, I like it.

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Speaker 4: I like Eli Cappoluto, But I, for the life of me, will never understand how he didn't come to the Mitch Barnhard thing. I cannot believe that an athletic director that you hired and we're here twenty four years and you.

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Speaker 3: Didn't come to his goodbye Prescott. That's amazing to me.

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Speaker 5: And you're the one that signed the big deal. He was getting there too. I feel like you should be there to.

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Speaker 4: That was the start that, by the way, was the start of the whole thing falling apart.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think if he had been there, it probably survived.

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Speaker 1: Answered a couple questions the right way you move on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Now, the hair Leader today writes and this is the kind of article I've learned over the years how to parse articles, which is, the hair Leader doesn't write this.

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Speaker 3: Unless they think this is gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: Right, which means they probably have somebody telling me then it's gonna have a very.

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Speaker 1: Good source resources.

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Speaker 3: See.

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Speaker 4: But but the hair Leader doesn't write things like this unless they think it's gonna happen. The insinuation the article said that UK, instead of hiring one ad is potentially going to hire basically two, one in charge of managing athletics and one in charge of fundraising development. That kind of thing actually, and so it was like one will be a business person and one will be a person in athletics. I actually think that makes sense, Drew. I mean, I actually think that makes a lot of sense. I mean, if you could find somebody who could do both, that might be the best. But I actually think it does make sense because the skills that are now needed to go raise money and to balance the budget are not necessarily the skills that it's needed to hire a coach or to that kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: I actually think that would make some sense to me.

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Speaker 5: I agree to them, And the same thing we're saying about poping the coaches, like you need help get as many bodies in there that can help out as you can with the eighty thing. Part of me has my guard up a little bit like they're already setting us up to we're gonna have a Mitch Barnhardt, you know, one of his people, and to put someone with it.

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Speaker 4: Well, what if there were one of his people to run the department, but then a different person to run the business that's from outside, would you be okay with?

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Speaker 5: Still prefer a clean slate across the board, And I hope you know these people be two different things. But I still wonder, like the power dynamic where they'd collide there. Hope it's two people that can work together.

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Speaker 1: Well, it makes me scratch my head a little bit because if they got two people trying to lead this huge athletic department that brings in a means and means of dollars, what if there's a disagreement you know, who makes the final decision on someone.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think you have a definite separation of who gets the final decision on each one. I actually think it's a smart idea. I mean, I think the problem with the athletic director job in the Nile world is it is two completely different sets of skills. The skills in figuring out who should who should coach basketball and who should coach football and who understands this And that's different than the skills of how are we gonna make money in this department and how are we go Like those are two different. Now, maybe you find somebody who can do both, but that's actually probably pretty hard. So like so like take somebody like.

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Speaker 3: See them Newton. You know, whether you think CM Newton was a good or bad idea?

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Speaker 4: Ad he understood the sports side, but with seem Newton, the kind of guy who could balance the budget of one hundred million dollar corporation. I don't know, right, So having two different people might make some sense.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you want somebody that you know knows the books and go out and get big deals like Amazon does that. The person who's going to be at a tennis match on a Sunday night. So I get it. It's a it's a big undertaking for the job.

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Speaker 3: I think you got it. We'll take a break and be right back. KOSR. Welcome back, take you sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: Let's go quickly to go look at my Twitter right now, and I want you to look at Mario's first draft of this graphic for this uh nick you fundraiser for the what do.

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Speaker 3: We think of this.

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Speaker 5: Baby?

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Speaker 3: Look at the baby?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, Shannon, I feel like you needed to take a second stab at it. First of all, is that baby is the baby wearing Mickey Mouse ears?

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Speaker 3: What? What? What's the top of the Oh, that's the back of the phone. We'll say.

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Speaker 5: It does grab your attention like that though, got me too.

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Speaker 3: It does look like it's like yours on well, but there's the number.

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Speaker 4: Nick you, nick you so everyone please donate three text Nick you to three four nine eight four. It's for Norton's Children uh and Galasano Children's at UK hospital. We have actually had you guys uh from the hospital that are here.

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Speaker 3: We've had a ton of people.

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Speaker 4: Writing about the work you guys do, so you all should feel feel great about that.

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Speaker 1: That's been Yeah, people sending pictures of their children. That was execute.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's very nice.

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Speaker 4: So I hope all of you listening just take some time today make a quick donation a minute. We've had tons if you participate already, but we want to reach our goal and also just want to help. And it goes people are asking what the money goes to. It goes to life saving equipment for the babies that support the moms during their hospital stays, follow up care after the babies go home, some things that insurance does not pay for. You all are helping and all the money will stay in Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, if you donate here in the election area, it goes to ride the galling them and then you donating Louisville goes to the Norton Center, right, yeah, course, whichever one you live closest to.

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Speaker 3: Corrects Shannon. I think I'm done with the Reds. I think I give you you're done. I've not done, but I think I'm given up on them. Like yesterday was the day. It's all. Yesterday's the day that we're gonna look back and say it fell apart.

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Speaker 1: On May the four May. It's it's just one hundred and twenty games left.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but yes, every year, Yes, it was the day that they fell apart because they we had the lead at the Cubs.

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Speaker 3: We never beat the Cubs. We had the lead, and.

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Speaker 4: Then we put him Pegan Pagan throws the ball like forty one miles an hour and they hit a home run and we lose. We were up going in the ninth. I think that's I just feel like it's Pegan is my you know, every year I have my dude, Yep, pagonegot They're paying Pecan fifteen million dollars. He's the highest paid player on the team.

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Speaker 1: He say he's already blown four saves.

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Speaker 3: He's four saves.

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Speaker 4: He's still the closer then, because I don't know they because the Tito's loyal, but he's not.

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Speaker 3: He throws it, he throws it underhanded.

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Speaker 2: He's so slow it would help if your guys could throw some strikes. How many guys did they walk in that Pirates game where they score They talked like.

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Speaker 3: One hundred and twenty players. Yeah, four games. I mean they so so.

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Speaker 4: I mean I still love the team and I still like them, but like we that.

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Speaker 3: Was a huge game yesterday.

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Speaker 1: That four losses in a row.

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Speaker 3: Four losses in a row. They're owing four on this.

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Speaker 1: Road trip Cardinals.

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Speaker 4: That's fine. I'm not worried about the Cardinals. I'm worried about Emilio. On the other side, my Hurricanes are up to oh now, a very exciting game. I was pounding my bed watching it, hitting it going score and then Taylor Hall scored and I jumped up and nearly fell off the bed and almost hurt myself.

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Speaker 3: But I was very excited.

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Speaker 4: What I have noticed, though, that's just everybody pounds their bed for different reasons.

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Speaker 3: Mine is for Hurricanes victory.

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Speaker 4: What I've noticed though, is it's weird having a team where no one you know roots for them, but you because you get it, because you want to celebrate, and there's no one to call. I have one friend that's a huge Hurricanes fan. He's in the Army and I know he's out on a mission, but I'm considering contacting what and he can't even tell.

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Speaker 3: Me where he is. He's like, I'm not allowed to tell you where I am.

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Speaker 4: But I'm considering calling him just to have someone to celebrate.

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Speaker 5: With, because that's such a big part of being a fan is sharing it with other people.

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Speaker 4: Going for the Stanley Cup and I'm like, pound in your bed, yay, no one cares but me.

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Speaker 5: Sure there's like an online group maybe read groups there are you can make new friends.

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Speaker 3: But I need like one person in this. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I want any new friends, but I'd like to have one. I think I would like to have one to watch these games with.

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Speaker 2: Just one, be like a Carolina Hurricanes chat room or something you can jump.

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Speaker 4: Oh there is there are people online and I feel like I know him, like cat fan in your Face thirty six, but like I'd like to have one in real life that we could celebrate. I can't go to the war zone wherever. I mean, I'm not Mark Pope flying into war zones. I have to go.

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Speaker 3: I've got to figure out who to watch.

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Speaker 5: That's a big part of this, like not just reactions like morning of a big game, you're texting your buddy, like.

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Speaker 4: And I have no one to talk to about. So I may this weekend go to Philadelphia. They play game four Saturday. I'm contemplating going up there. There you go, But again, I'm just gonna be around Philadelphia fans.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that that does anything either.

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Speaker 5: We need like a tender for sports fans, like you swiped till you find a Hurricanes fan and then you are like, you want to meet up. We're going to hang out a game about the team.

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Speaker 4: That's an interesting idea tender, but for fandom, like what the Carolina Hurricanes if you live in Kentucky have to be one of the most random teams to root for.

00:22:37
Speaker 3: Like what would be a more random team to be a fan of?

00:22:41
Speaker 5: It's free random lease.

00:22:43
Speaker 4: So you tam Mammoth. But the thing is, there's Mormons here, so I can see that.

00:22:49
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just I noticed last night. I was so happy, and then I just realized, no.

00:22:54
Speaker 4: One cares, no one, No one cares.

00:22:58
Speaker 3: Who's next.

00:22:59
Speaker 2: Let's go to Brittany.

00:23:00
Speaker 3: Brittany, I got about a minute go ahead.

00:23:03
Speaker 6: Hey, first of all, my husband and I are big fans of you all and with QK so you know heank.

00:23:13
Speaker 4: Brittany Shannon tells me, I have even less time than I realized. Can I take a break and I'll take your call right on the other side?

00:23:19
Speaker 3: Is that?

00:23:19
Speaker 7: Okay, yep, no problem, Okay, let me do that.

00:23:22
Speaker 4: So I don't have to rush you. Well, we'll take a break. A fi've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Uh, this is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Chaspark.

00:23:31
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00:23:35
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00:23:38
Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones, Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four.

00:23:47
Speaker 3: They just told us that the.

00:23:50
Speaker 4: Nick unit at Kentucky has ninety kids and the one at Norton has two hundred and fifteen. So by your donations to three four nine eight four donating Nick, you you are helping three hundred kids in their families in the state of Conduct.

00:24:05
Speaker 1: They're saving lives. I mean a lot of there's any little babies, lives and helping mother with their prenatal care. And Drew just said, I gotta mention my somebody, what do is say, four hundred something days?

00:24:13
Speaker 5: They've been there four hundred and eighty three days.

00:24:16
Speaker 4: Sean Miller said, yes, okay, sorry, Brittany's on the phone. I'll get turned a second. Sean Miller said yesterday that to have a roster that that he was asked how many teams will have a roster that is twenty to twenty five million dollars of nil, and he said probably fifteen to twenty.

00:24:35
Speaker 1: Oh wow.

00:24:36
Speaker 4: So just for the record, I mean, people said we spent the most or second most last year at twenty two million, and now you're looking at maybe twenty million. What's a little nerve wracking to me about that? Is, you know, we were told, and who knows if they'll stick to this, that we would be spending less money this year than last year, and if that's true, we would be passed by twenty different teams. Hopefully that ends up not being true, although I would say with the roster we have right now, that probably has been true.

00:25:06
Speaker 3: What did you make of Sean Miller saying.

00:25:08
Speaker 5: That my first thought was Kentucky and that means that there's that many in front of us, and some of the stuff I don't believe. But even said like this is a very educated guess. I'm making that kind of trust, which.

00:25:20
Speaker 4: Means they've spent that, right, I mean that that Texas is gonna have one of the most expensive rosters in the country. So if he's saying that, then that means they're at least spending it.

00:25:32
Speaker 3: I think he's.

00:25:33
Speaker 4: Probably he might be a little exaggerated, but I don't think he's that exaggerated.

00:25:37
Speaker 3: Right.

00:25:38
Speaker 1: This is not a problem that just popped up for Kentucky. Remember Jack Gibbons said it on the postgame show if they lost to what Iowa State.

00:25:44
Speaker 4: But what would be negative, though, is if you have less money the year, Like we had the most money in last year and we didn't really take advantage, and now all these schools will have more.

00:25:54
Speaker 3: Than us this year. That's like the worst combination you could have.

00:25:57
Speaker 5: We really needed to make that work to make them.

00:26:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I mean we'll see again, everything's still to come.

00:26:05
Speaker 3: But you know, to give you a sense, like.

00:26:06
Speaker 4: We've all talked about how loaded Louisville's roster looks like John Rostein yesterday still doesn't have Louisville in his top ten.

00:26:15
Speaker 3: So think about how how loaded Louisville's roster seems to be.

00:26:19
Speaker 4: And Rostein still doesn't even have them in the top ten, which means he thinks they're still like multiple deems better than them. Tennessee, Tennessee has ninth, even after the number one player in the country commits.

00:26:33
Speaker 3: He has them ninth. I will also note for people, you know, I.

00:26:38
Speaker 4: Think the argument I'm seeing the most that I don't particularly agree with is this idea that the day of the blue bloods are gone and all this. Here are the top five teams in John Rostein's top twenty five.

00:26:52
Speaker 3: Number one is Duke good last year. Yes. Number two is Illinois good last year.

00:27:00
Speaker 1: They were good last year.

00:27:01
Speaker 3: Number three is Florida good last year.

00:27:06
Speaker 4: Number four is Yukon good last year, and number five is Mischig Wow. So it may be that this idea of historical blue blood Okay, maybe that's changed a little bit, but it seems like there's a group of programs that are collectively good, drew and trying to stay good.

00:27:27
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:27:27
Speaker 5: I think Patino said it best that blue blood still exists. But you can't go into a recruiting room and sit down at the table and just show your blue blood card that because that just doesn't work anymore. He can help you a little bit, helpe you get over the edge. But they're not controlling like they once were, but they're still able to get it done.

00:27:43
Speaker 4: So I guess the question becomes, do you think we're spending that amount of money? If he's saying there are fifteen to twenty programs spending twenty million dollars, is Kentucky one of those?

00:27:55
Speaker 5: To me, it seems we're trying and no one will take it. We got our checkbook out, let me write your check, and everyone's like, no, we're good.

00:28:02
Speaker 1: I feel like we took out that big boat. Little money they're gonna give to Stokes, he's just sitting there. They spend that. Maybe we'll be in that category.

00:28:07
Speaker 5: We should invest it for next year. Maybe I'm kidding on that, but I feel like we would be capable of spending in that like if people were ready to pay for Stokes, I mean, that would have been another six or seven million on our tab.

00:28:23
Speaker 4: The worst scenario would be if all of a sudden, all the rest of the teams in college basketball to decide to spend a lot of money and we don't that would be I don't know if that. I hope that's not the case, and I kind of would be surprised if it is. But when he said that number, I was kind of like, WHOA, that's a lot. All right, let's go back to Brittany.

00:28:44
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Brittany, Hey, thank you. I was first, I was saying, you know, we love KSR. We listen, my husband and I are both diehard Kentucky fans. Regardless of who the coach is. We both went to you, so definitely really important in our household. Speaking of household, we have four boys. We just had our fourth boy, so almost the full basketball team here. But you know, all jokes aside though about that. We did actually spend time in the nick you at UK, which is not something that you ever think is going to happen. I delivered my beautiful baby boy at Baptist and he was critically ill. He wasn't tiny, but he was ill. He was born with a condition called persistent pulmonary hypertension. And if it wasn't for doctor Ballard, doctor oh Mandy, Lizzy, all the amazing UK nurses and doctors who saved his life. You know, we obviously would be having a much different conversation. So, you know, I cannot speak about enough about just the amazingness that comes out of the UK Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the Nick you. They truly did save his life. You know, it's it's not something you ever expect. We are lucky in the sense that we live here, but there were so many babies, their parents were not able to be there every day, they're at work, they have bills piling up. You know, it's it's a really, really tough environment and not something you ever expect to have to go through. So I really think it's great that you're raising money and all of them come and I.

00:30:24
Speaker 4: Hope people that listen to that will donate. Three four nine to eight four, Nick, you texted and you can go through the process.

00:30:32
Speaker 3: Thank you, Brittany. I appreciate the call. Yeah, who's up next, Shannon.

00:30:37
Speaker 2: Let's go to Henry.

00:30:38
Speaker 3: Henry. Go ahead, Henry, so you'll.

00:30:42
Speaker 8: Know we're on the road.

00:30:43
Speaker 4: We're at Hartford, all right, take me off speaker, okay, because I can't hear you when you have me on bluetooth or speaker.

00:30:51
Speaker 3: Pardon you got me on bluetooth. We can't hear you.

00:30:57
Speaker 4: Oh okay, you guys, Thank.

00:31:02
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what we'll give him. Are you there? He's gone. Who's next? N Kevin? Go ahead, Kevin?

00:31:13
Speaker 8: Uh yeah? Man and the first Dire Shaman mentioned that there's nothing worse than being flash shamed at the dentists, and not that it's ever happened to me, but I imagine it's gotta be worse of beating flash shamed on a first date. Secondly, uh my man, Drew mentioned Kentucky Roses. I was actually a background extra in that movie. Let's see the one and only blur person in between the main actor and actress when he says at the very end, I think the horse is thinking of you. That is me, the blur that I'm sorry, Yeah I can't if I sign your autograph, I'm sorry. It's a non stop since I've been in this movie. But yeah, if you want any funny stories, I got plenty of.

00:31:53
Speaker 3: Them for you. Well, I appreciate it. I like that line. That actually made me laugh.

00:31:57
Speaker 1: That's good that.

00:31:59
Speaker 4: You would you recommend to the audience here. Do they watch Kentucky Rose?

00:32:02
Speaker 5: Absolutely not unless you go in knowing this is going to be a bad movie, which is kind of what I did. The acting's pretty terrible. I did keep looking for Shannon the dude. I almost texted Shannon last night, like, hey, are you in this one?

00:32:13
Speaker 2: Perhaps not that one? No, dead Man's Wire was the last one I was in.

00:32:17
Speaker 4: But so you would not recommend, even with all the Kentucky scenery and like all the kids, okay watching for the scenery, It's not good acting or a good movie.

00:32:27
Speaker 2: It's got a great IMDb score seven point four.

00:32:29
Speaker 3: But seven point four one.

00:32:32
Speaker 2: And ninety people voted, so it's probably the cast and crew.

00:32:35
Speaker 9: Yeah, but still that's a pretty good score. Yeah, that's a good score. I feel like I'm being a hater here. This is just one very realistic for me, Like when they're doing a scene at Churchill Downs at the Derby and it looks like there's twelve people there. It didn't feel that.

00:32:48
Speaker 1: I did get a positive review from one of our listeners, who's that Larry Vaught.

00:32:51
Speaker 2: Of course it was made for Larry.

00:32:53
Speaker 1: Larry loved it. It was very good.

00:32:55
Speaker 2: They had a picture of Larry like this is your demo right here of this guy.

00:32:58
Speaker 4: Larry Vaught, Stephen A Myth, and Skip Bayless are gonna reunite for an episode of First Take Friday.

00:33:04
Speaker 3: Are you gonna watch it?

00:33:06
Speaker 4: We're gonna be on the air, so you're probably not gonna watch it, But like, does that something that intrigues you? First time they've been on the air together in twelve years? Remember I was there on their last day, on Skip Bayless's last day.

00:33:19
Speaker 1: Man, I'd planned on picking the lin out of my belly button that day. I don't I don't think I'm gonna have time to watch it much.

00:33:25
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

00:33:28
Speaker 2: You're gonna be hanging out with Tommy. He doesn't have tom.

00:33:31
Speaker 3: Gross Did Tommy donate?

00:33:32
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to Tommy yet. We'll get to him.

00:33:37
Speaker 5: I will not be watching First Take. But is this a thing that people will be excited about?

00:33:41
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:33:42
Speaker 5: Do people miss those.

00:33:43
Speaker 3: Two Skip Bayless?

00:33:45
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen when Skip Bayless and his wife decide they need to make statements?

00:33:49
Speaker 1: Yes, I've seen thee to.

00:33:51
Speaker 4: Me some of the most ridiculous entertainments. Skip Bayless sits there with his wife and like something will happen in the world and they'll decide they need to and like they'll do it in a way like everybody can comment on whatever they want, but they do it like America is waiting to see what Skip Bayless and his wife say. So like when we bombed a rand, they sat down and they were like, we've been contemplating what we should say, and we've decided to make this statement. And You're like, no one, no one was sitting there saying what does Skip Bayless's.

00:34:26
Speaker 3: Wife think about this?

00:34:28
Speaker 5: I've been retweeting social media all day just waiting for their statement to come out.

00:34:32
Speaker 3: Yes, I like it.

00:34:33
Speaker 4: Whenever anything happens, just tell me what Skip Bayless and his wife think. The Commonwealth Causes Ultimate Bourbon Collection Raffle is your chance to win an incredible bourbon collection and support Kentucky charities.

00:34:44
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00:34:44
Speaker 4: If we sell five hundred and fifty tickets this month, seventy five hundred dollars will be donated to say Or Christian Village. May twenty eighth, the drawing takes place. Go to Commonwealth Causes dot org. Download the app Support Commonwealth Causes. It's Commonwealth Causes dot Org. The Bourbon Affle is coming soon. We'll take a break of be right Backskasar, Welcome back Tukey Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt. Which Kentucky player are you most excited about for next year? Alex Wilkins, probably mine, Alex Wilkins and Malakai. I'm looking forward to seeing second year Malakai, who hopefully improves and takes a big step up. And then I think Alex Wilkins will be a really good player that can.

00:35:33
Speaker 3: Score a lot.

00:35:34
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:35:34
Speaker 1: Like I said, I only time that one game and he was the best player for Firman. They almost upset Yukon and the dude can play man. He's he's a good playmaker.

00:35:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, they need Wilkins to be that guy. I will also join you in say in Malakai though, I'm excited to see what kind of jump he can make and they'll really need him, and just being one of the few guys from last season, I'm really rooting for him.

00:35:52
Speaker 4: You also, I mean you could hope that like in Jah takes a you know, I think the wild card the wild card for this Kentucky team, And when you're trying to decide, Okay, how good are we going to be? Brandon Hawthorne is the wildcard. We have no idea if that kid is good.

00:36:11
Speaker 3: But if he is good, then.

00:36:14
Speaker 4: That's somebody no one's really talking about that could be an advance. I mean he you know, if he was in the class last year, there are people who say he would have been ranked thirty fifth. Okay, if you take a guy who was ranked thirty fifth last year and then have him in what would be his second year, you would expect that guy to be a major contributor.

00:36:31
Speaker 3: So we don't have any idea what he is.

00:36:34
Speaker 4: But if he's good, then that is a big difference in I think everybody's perspective about this career.

00:36:41
Speaker 1: And a lot of guys who saw practice last year said he was one of the best players on the floor.

00:36:45
Speaker 4: But there's when we say a lot of guys, we're really only talking about Jack Gibbits, like, I don't know anybody else that saw Do you.

00:36:52
Speaker 1: Just a chip up? I think s him on Color Show chip up?

00:36:54
Speaker 3: All right, So that's two people.

00:36:57
Speaker 4: But there is a sense in which it's hard to know, oh, Drew, because we just we don't know, you know, Yeah.

00:37:03
Speaker 5: I mean, it's exciting to hear that. At the same time, it's a it's a Mark Pope practice and he's probably matched up with jaspers On the mean, he's gonna have to go out and do it in the SEC against some big bodies. But I'm excited about him. I just wish he had gotten any kind of run last year so we could have some kind of indication. Hell would be but he is a complete mystery outside of his recruit.

00:37:21
Speaker 4: The optimist in me would say, a kid can't be that highly ranked, look that athletic, be that good, and you keep his brother, you get his brother. He can't be all those things and not be really good. That would be the optimist in my The cynic would say, well, if he's so good, why did he play last year.

00:37:41
Speaker 3: Because we could have used it right, So you.

00:37:45
Speaker 4: Just have to decide is the optimist right, is the cynic right?

00:37:50
Speaker 3: I don't know, I really don't.

00:37:52
Speaker 4: But those are the two conflicting positions, and you can't really argue against either one.

00:37:56
Speaker 3: Of those positions.

00:37:57
Speaker 4: You can't really argue against the optimist, ain't really argue against the Senate because they both seem to have to me equal validity.

00:38:05
Speaker 5: That's why that spot, especially on the wing, where it's looking like could be him and Cam, and I'd love to add something.

00:38:10
Speaker 3: Who knows.

00:38:11
Speaker 5: It's just you're asking both those guys to go out and become something we haven't seen yet, and if neither of them pan out, then we got problems. We take a wide range of the wing.

00:38:20
Speaker 3: Are we getting this guy in Israel or not?

00:38:22
Speaker 5: See?

00:38:23
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like.

00:38:25
Speaker 4: I mean, we fly, We flew to Israel and then I haven't heard anything else about it.

00:38:29
Speaker 1: We had such a great game when Pope was out.

00:38:30
Speaker 5: There and we got called desperate. We gotta get him. You know, we can't be the desperate university that flew to Israel and still didn't get him.

00:38:39
Speaker 1: You know, you got to talk about Brandon Braidon Hawthorne and truth. But Cam Wims, we forget Cam Williams hit eight three pointers in a game last year before he got hurt.

00:38:46
Speaker 3: He did. Who's up next? Let's go to Austin, Austin, Go ahead, Austin.

00:38:51
Speaker 10: Hey guys, first time, long time?

00:38:53
Speaker 3: Who are what's up? Hey?

00:38:55
Speaker 8: Guys?

00:38:56
Speaker 10: I'm just wanting to know what your guys is like true, like Cake on next season, like what do you think we're gonna do? You know, I know it's too early to tail and he hasn't even constructed his roster yet, but you know, I've kind of, you know, I've kind of lost a little bit of faith in the guy. I can't lie, but you know, I'm just really excited to see what he's gonna do next season.

00:39:14
Speaker 3: I have no idea.

00:39:15
Speaker 4: I mean, I wish I could tell you. I don't think, you know, I don't know how he's gonna fit. So I appreciate the call. He has fifteen scholarships, we're using twelve of them right now. But I think, if we're being honest, there's only nine guys eight eight or nine guys that you expect to playing, right, So I appreciate the call. So really you're talking about there's two or three spots left of guys that I think they will expect to contribute. So I got to see who those are. If this was the roster right here, I'm gonna be I'm gonna root for the team, but I don't know that I'll be very optimistic. But I still think Drew there's still a guy or two they can get, hopefully that can make a big difference.

00:39:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, right now, I would not have a a lot of optimism about the season, but there's still time to add some pieces. But I don't love the overall. I like all the guys individually, Like even going out and getting Morton, you know, that's a backup that knows his role, that's not gonna come in and expecting too much. So they needed to fill those spots. But they also needed to fill the star spots, and that's where I still need a little more help in that caget one star.

00:40:21
Speaker 3: Would you feel better about it?

00:40:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like these guys are a good player, but I still thought we don't have a dude a guy to a star a dude. I don't think they want missing that.

00:40:33
Speaker 5: Like right now we're asking a lot of guys that are going to play some big minutes. If whereas it stands now that I thought wouldn't be on the end of the bench, Like I didn't think going in the next year that Brydon Hawthorne would have like, all right, we need you. I thought he would be a bonus and I'm not Trent Noah might be sitting at the end of the bench that might be needing him.

00:40:51
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00:41:25
Speaker 2: Still lost, Still lost.

00:41:27
Speaker 3: Though that happens.

00:41:28
Speaker 4: Lakers in the Thunder Thunder are a sixteen point favorite, one of the biggest spreads in the history of the playoffs. So they cover it. You think the Lakers cover it? No, Thunder Thunder cover All right, what about you?

00:41:39
Speaker 1: I don't like the lakerscu they beat the Houston Rockets and reach Sheepherds, So I'm going Thunder. I'm on the Thunder bandwagon right now.

00:41:43
Speaker 4: I think the Thunder destroy them throughout this throughout this series. So Who's if you're a Kentucky fan, who should you root for as a Kentucky fan?

00:41:52
Speaker 3: Is it the Thunder with.

00:41:53
Speaker 4: Two Kentucky guys, Maxy, Julius Randall with the Timberwolves, Nix with Keller John's car. By the way, Carl is in Devilwaar's Prada two.

00:42:04
Speaker 3: Is he yes?

00:42:05
Speaker 4: Apparently he does a cameo. Carl Towns is in Devilwaar's Prada two. We're worried about his focus. I think they filmed it last summer. He'll probably be okay. I want to thank the folks at Golisano's Children and Norton's Children Hospital for working with us. And I want to thank you fans for continuing to donate three four nine eight four text uh Nick you to three four nine eight four. If you're listening on podcasts throughout today, go ahead, get on your phone and do it. We all have the folks in this restaurant have and I hope people at home will show the power of KSR in donating for the kids of Kentucky.

00:42:43
Speaker 1: We're the best, are helping each other, so I know they'll come through for us.

00:42:50
Speaker 3: Answer that was inspiration. Thank you all very much.

00:42:54
Speaker 1: She liked it so eat it's to her heart.

00:42:56
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