2024-11-19- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back number two Kentucky Sports Radio EIGHTF. I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. Uh we good texts coming in here, Matt, One person writes, Matt. Regardless of whether you like it or not, whether Stoops like it or not, whatever your opinion of Cal is, we must now face the fact that UK is a basketball school. No, we don't. I mean it is, it is a basketball school. But what about what do you say about Indiana right now? Indiana is in in the gonna be in the playoff? Are they a basketball school? Well maybe, but they're in the playoff? Like, that's not I don't think that's any longer. The uh, the excuse Mario, you're gonna have to move, you're blocking everyone. I don't think that's no long any longer. The excuse of just well, you know, basketball school. I understand why that upset Stoops. I'm still on Stoops's side about that. That was a mistake by Cal. In my At the same time, if football was if we were in the championship, if we were in the playoff in football, this city would be just as wild as it was after Duke.

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Speaker 5: We've just never had that level of success.

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Speaker 2: We've seen the town go crazy when we win eight games in a season. So can you imagine if we had a season we actually were snipping at the playoffs. This whole not just town, this whole state would go crazy.

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Speaker 4: This state loves huge success. Basketball just gives it to us more often. But if we had it in football, people would lose their minds, just like they do it Indiana.

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Speaker 6: Right now about football, Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't even what a lot of college football teams to achieve. But I'm looking over that Citrus Bowl picture right there, and how fun that was. Yeah, city, the state was on fire for that team that was just getting to a major bowl.

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Speaker 4: By the way, can I go ahead and say something about Indiana. It's a great story. Good for you, Indiana. I hope you all have the most fun in the world. You would be the eighth best team in the SEC. I don't think that's even controversial. There are seven teams I would pick over Indiana by least a touchdown, right yeah, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Texas A and m old Miss Tennessee.

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Speaker 5: I would pick LSU in South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: I would put all eight of them over Indiana, maybe not a touchdown, but at least a field goal all of them, some of them a touchdown or more.

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Speaker 2: I think they're about to get a route awakening this weekend against Ohio State.

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Speaker 4: But I actually think they would do better against Ohio State. They will than they would against the SEC schools because of style of play, Like Big ten plays a different style of play, and when they play the SEC, unless you're Ohio State or Michigan, where the talent is so good, you get absolutely run off the field. And that was exactly what would happen to Indiana. It's still a great story. They still should make the playoffs. They still should be very excited. But I don't even want to hear this notion that, like, like when they lose to Ohio State, they're gonna drop below oh two lost SEC teams, and they should because the two loss SEC teams drew are better.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're hard to figure out because they are killing everyone. They've covered every spread but one, but they haven't played a top twenty five team, even the Michigan team they beat. I don't think Michigan's very good at all. They're not very good at all. So this week we'll have a true test when they play Ohio State. But to this point that they don't anybody.

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Speaker 5: I don't have they beaten one team with a winning rec I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they have.

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Speaker 5: I don't think they've beaten one team with a winning record.

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Speaker 4: So if that's the case, like I can't, you know, it's nice, but you you somehow avoided Penn State, right, you avoided Uh, you're gonna play Ohio State.

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Speaker 5: Michigan isn't good this year.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they've gotten very fortunate in sort of how how it's all gone for you.

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Speaker 6: Try to guarantee Nebraska would beat them, and they killed Nebraska. Nebraska sucks.

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Speaker 2: Didn't have to play Oregon, you know all the time.

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Speaker 4: They didn't have to play Oregon too, So like they missed, and you know, so they'll lose to Ohio State and then they'll play in the Big Ten Championship game probably and get destroyed.

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Speaker 5: Actually, if they lose Ohio State, they don't make the.

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Speaker 7: Big Ten Championship game, which is.

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Speaker 4: Probably better for them because then they won't lose that game and it'll be it'll be all right, and they're gonna so they'll make the playoff, but you're not gonna convince me that they're they're good. The Shannon, I knew you would like this. The Bengals and the Cowboys. Yeah, that's a game schedule for Monday Night Football. Now they've done this thing in December where if a Monday Night football game is gonna stink, they'll switch it out and they'll put another game instead of Monday Night Football, which is like a way to make sure we don't have these Monday nights.

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Speaker 7: Where the teams are terrible.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so you look at Bengals and Cowboys and you go, well, that's a game that could be switched out, but we can't.

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Speaker 5: And why can't we switch it out? Why can't we.

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Speaker 4: Because that's the game that they're gonna do the Simpsons broadcast, where the players are gonna be Simpson's characters and all that. Well, it turns out they've already done a lot of the animation for it. They've already animated Joe Burrow and all these players, and they can't start over. They can't make it a different two teams. So we're gonna have to watch the Cowboys and Bengals no matter what because we also have to watch the Simpsons version.

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Speaker 3: If it's the Simpsons version, though, I think it would be funnier if both teams did suck right. The worst the football bet, the more funny the animation would be.

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Speaker 7: I agree.

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Speaker 5: To watch the football.

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Speaker 4: They don't get to see a good game grew because of the Simpsons.

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Speaker 6: I think you gotta call the Simpsons and say, look, call Homer. One o'clock on Fox is the best we can do NFL sunny ticket version of The Simpsons. That that's gonna be a terrible Monday night game.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be terrible. Those two teams are shocking, shockingly bad show.

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Speaker 4: But I actually think it makes me more likely to watch the Simpsons broadcast because I won't care about.

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Speaker 2: The regular game.

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Speaker 4: So now it's like I'm not missing anything by watching Homer play against Moe.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping that maybe at the Bengals watch party here we'll have a couple of the TVs on the Simpsons.

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Speaker 7: It's the main view viewing.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be the Simpsons game cast of the Simpsons.

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Speaker 2: That would be good.

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Speaker 5: I'd actually think would be good. Who's up next? House, House?

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Speaker 7: Go Ahead? House?

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Speaker 8: First time Long time.

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Speaker 5: Who are what's up?

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Speaker 8: I just was calling in to get my take on the Mark students. I kind of feel like everybody's just jumping the gun a little too fast. I mean, we went from having two win seasons to you know, ten win seasons, and I mean this year ain't been too great, but I mean we did still play Georgia good went in knocked off Old Miss, So I kind of wish people would just pump the brakes a little bit on it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So I totally understand that opinion, but let me see how far you would take it. Okay, So next year, we played all of these same teams again on the schedule, So basically, everybody we play this year we play them again next year. We're gonna probably finish this season either four and eight or five and seven, coming back next year with six seven starters lost on defense. What do you think our record will be next year playing all of these exact same teams.

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Speaker 8: I'm hoping he can get more of that and.

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Speaker 4: Ask you what you are hoping. I'm not asking you what your hope. What do you think our record will beat? We all hope they go twelve to zero.

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Speaker 8: We'll take eight wins.

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Speaker 7: Next year, so I know we take it. Do you think we will win eight games?

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Speaker 8: That's what my prediction is, eight wins next year.

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Speaker 4: Okay, eight wins. Now, if you believe that Kentucky, and I appreciate the call. If you believe that Kentucky's gonna win eight games next year, Drew, then I totally agree. Let's all get behind stoops. Let's worry less about this year. Let's go win eight. But let me just go over what it will take to win eight next year. Let's assume we beat the three stinky teams. Louisville next year is over there. It's on the road that's gonna be harder our roads. Our home schedule next year is Tennessee, Florida, Old miss and Texas. Which of those games do you feel confident.

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Speaker 7: We will win?

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Speaker 2: Florida is the only one?

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Speaker 4: Well, we got you're confident we're gonna beat Florida, But I mean, are I know we can?

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Speaker 2: Are you confident we're gonna be not confident? Okay, that would be the only one, though I'm not confident in any of the four.

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Speaker 4: Okay, then let's go to our four road games South Carolina, Auburn, Vandy, and.

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Speaker 5: Georgia, Georgia. Which of those are you confident we're gonna win?

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Speaker 2: Can't say Vandy anymore.

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Speaker 7: I'll say Vandy.

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Speaker 4: But I'm just saying to get to eight next year, the most realistic pathway to eight next year, it's probably win three.

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Speaker 5: Beat Florida at home that's four. Beat Louisville on the road is five, beat Van.

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Speaker 7: On the road is six.

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Speaker 4: Then either win at South Carolina at Auburn, or beat Tennessee, Texas or Old Miss at home.

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Speaker 2: That's tough. That's really tough.

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Speaker 4: So I'm just saying, like, what's a little hard if your Mark Stoops is to have the year next year where you win the fan base back. That's a really hard schedule. This was the schedule to take advantage of. This was the schedule where we played all the bad teams at home.

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Speaker 5: This was the schedule.

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Speaker 4: I remember what we said during the their preseason, you might not even be all that good and you could win seven, right because you could have beaten Louisville at home, Auburn, Vandy in South Carolina at home. Well, now you gotta play all those teams on the road, and I just I think the task ahead is pretty hard. And so like, Mark's gotta be all in because we have a big hill to climb.

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Speaker 5: Drew even next year.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, even this year. I don't think Auburn will ever be as low as they are this year. And you got him at home and when Arda was way down and you get killed there. Next year's schedule is so hard that he could absolutely win the offseason, go to the portal and find lineman that we were saying don't exist. I think there'll be some staff turnover regardless. He could make the perfect hires and do the get an absolute A plus in November, December, January, February, and the next fall still not have a very good record.

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Speaker 5: Because of what's in front of them.

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Speaker 4: We could be think about this. We could be a lot better next year and win five games. I mean we could, oh yes, we could be a lot better and win five games.

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Speaker 5: Because the schedule.

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Speaker 4: That schedule next year is the kind of schedule you want if you've got a great team, because you can maybe upset Texas at home, upset Tennessee at home, upset Old Miss at home. It's not the schedule you want if you're not sure what your team.

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Speaker 2: Is, especially you're you're gonna be missing a lot of players on this year's team, but we'll be back for next year. Yeah, a lot of holes to fill.

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Speaker 6: Even like you're what I call a swing game with South Carolina and decide your season. They got a lot of young players that are contributing on this team. That's very good for them that already kicked your button, your own stage.

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Speaker 7: We have to go there.

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Speaker 5: They got to go there next year and they're gonna be good. So it's it's it's not the rosiest path in the world. Who's up next.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Kevin.

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Speaker 5: Kevin, go ahead, Kevin eight five, nine, two eighty seven.

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Speaker 3: Kevin.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's Kevin.

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Speaker 7: Justin? Justin, go ahead, Justin?

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Speaker 9: Hello man, first time, long time.

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Speaker 7: Who are what's going on? You got a quick question for you?

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Speaker 5: Did you ever consider doing a show down there in papwol Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: I'll do a show wherever people go, but somebody has to bring us there. And we've done many shows in Pipeville. We've probably done what seven or eight over the years.

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Speaker 9: Yes, Okay, I was just curious.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know, but I would love to come to Pike.

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Speaker 4: Well, we used to do it at that Buffalo Wild Wings there and we've we did it on the stage in downtown a couple of times and three.

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Speaker 5: Five two three.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a long history pipe but Ryan used to get in trouble every time we went to Pikeville. His ex wife would be mad at every single time.

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Speaker 7: We went there.

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Speaker 5: Ladies Night at the pro eighties, not at the Prohibition.

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Speaker 7: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 5: Times those were, those were, Those were.

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Speaker 7: Fun trips over thee.

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Speaker 2: Every summer we'd hit the three piece Pikeville, Prestonsburg and Paintsville. Every year we hit all.

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Speaker 5: We did them in like a three days period.

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Speaker 2: We'd hit all, hit all the peace think.

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Speaker 6: Our last time there was we went to the football stadium were football Fridays facility.

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Speaker 4: One of times I went to pike Vul I almost dropped Paul Patton down those steps.

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Speaker 5: Steps up to the college.

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Speaker 7: I wasn't carrying him.

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Speaker 5: That's what I took away from.

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Speaker 5: I thought he was gonna tumble down the steps.

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Speaker 7: A lot of steps.

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Speaker 4: Oh you're here a bunch. I didn't realize you were here from Fort Myers. Well, thank you as well. I like that shirt right there. We'll take a break very back this KSR workme back at this Kentucky Sports Radio aff nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. Louisville, by the way, is has lost more one score games than any team in the country. This year in football, so they could use that and go, you know what, we could be ten and ozer because they're two and four and one score games. Well, last year when they were flexing so much, they won all their one score games. Actually do that even out? That stuff evens out over time. You can't just rely on one score games. It ends up catching up to you.

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Speaker 2: Well, when they were, you know, nineteenth going into this week, people thought they still had an outside chance to maybe make the playoffs. Kind of ruined that with that lost to Stanford over the weekend.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they well they they weren't gonna make it. They could have made the ACC Championship Game. They would have only made the playoff if they won.

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Speaker 7: The ACC if the ACC cham Chip game.

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Speaker 4: One person writes, Matt, I thought, uh, you cursing yesterday was the most shocking moment in media since that Jr.

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Speaker 7: Was killed on Dallas.

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Speaker 4: Wow, that was a long time. But he wasn't killed. He was shot, wasn't He wasn't killed.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah he came back.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know where that came from. I really don't.

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Speaker 7: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't cuss that much and I wasn't even all that worked up about milk. So I don't I don't know why that happened, and like people don't. I think people think it was a worse cuss word than it was. I just want to be clear. It's not the word that everyone thinks. It was a much tamer word. But it was a word that we can't say.

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Speaker 2: Him there, the poopy word. We can't say that.

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Speaker 4: I didn't need you to get I think people could have guessed. I don't think they needed that level of detail. But but yes, it was.

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Speaker 2: You don't talk that way. That's why we were growing out.

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Speaker 4: Were like, I don't know how it happened. I don't know why I got so worked up about it. Now, I have had a lot of people take pictures of themselves drinking milk, kind of like trying to show me that the milk is okay. You guys are only hurting yourself by that when you're not showing me anything, Drew, you're only hurting yourself by drinking milk.

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Speaker 6: I think Billy on the pre show confessed to be in a milk drink. Have to watch our backs. That's serial killer behavior, right.

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Speaker 4: Well, let's be honest. If you were to hear one of the six of us was a serial killer. Everyone would guess Billy, right.

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Speaker 2: I think I would.

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Speaker 4: I think it's I think if you were ranking chances of being a serial killer, Shannon Billy is certainly number one.

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Speaker 3: You know, you're throwing that little mustache to go along with it. It kind of gives you that vibe, you know, your little milk milk and the mustache.

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Speaker 4: I am surprised how many people did reach out to me and say they did it. I also let pick, but people reach out to me and show me pictures of movies where someone plays a psycho and they are drinking mickey in many movies. Did we mention hannibal lecture yesterday? Someone they want to make someone crazy? That's a it's a good prop and I think it's it is a hunundred percent dead on. Did you see Paul Skeens, the baseball player. Did you see him win the Rookie of the Year yesterday? I saw a clip of it, so, uh, you know, winning Rookie of the Year you think would be a very exciting thing. Absolutely, they had him on TV and they said you are the National League Rookie of the Year. And it didn't even look like he cared one bit. He didn't smile, he didn't look like he just went, oh yeah, I've never seen anyone less happy about an award in my life. That guy, he must have absolutely no emotion. I guess we're sitting about Livy.

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Speaker 6: Maybe some things aren't as important to you, but I would have if I was presenting, be like, are.

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Speaker 5: We bothering you here?

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Speaker 11: Like?

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Speaker 7: Do you need to leave?

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Speaker 4: It seems you're not president? It was way do you think it was weird? They had his girlfriend there, Like the other guy that won his girlfriend wasn't there his girlfriend than I understand, but like, does that mean he has to everything that ever happens to him? She has to be in the frame as well, know, yep, because they don't do that. By the way, they don't do that with her, No, like when she wins an award, they don't make him sit there too.

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Speaker 2: Well, he looked like like a dork.

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Speaker 5: Everything I saw. His National League Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 4: I mean, to be fair, she I guess is more attractive than him, but he is better at his sports than she is at hers. So well she I mean, he is he's She's a very good gymnast, but he is one of the five best pitchers in baseball right now.

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Speaker 5: So I mean it is he's.

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Speaker 2: A finalist for Most Valuable Player, not his Rookie of the Year award.

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Speaker 6: Everything I've seen of him winning the award has included her, even if it's just like a social media graphic congratulating him.

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Speaker 5: She's made the Would you be okay with that? Like if Drew? I mean, would you again?

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Speaker 4: This is Remember you're married, but I mean it's not let me, let me be a little devil's advocate. It's not his wife. So there might come a day where they don't date anymore, okay, I mean, this is a girl. You know, this is a girlfriend. This isn't a wife. Do you think maybe one day he'll want to look back at the picture where he wins Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 5: Would you want then.

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Speaker 3: We could crop her out?

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Speaker 5: You could crop deal.

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Speaker 2: We got technology for that.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 11: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I can't see a lot of people be in that way.

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Speaker 6: But looking at how that man looks when he received award, I don't think he cares what it'll be.

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Speaker 5: Years from now. I'm still not even sure he knows he won the award.

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Speaker 4: He's he is a he's a really good pitcher. What person writes, Matt, who do we think is going to be the leading scorer tonight? I feel like every game he had just drawn it out of a hat, aren't you. I mean, like Ryan, it could be anyone, any game. I'm gonna say, I think you get a bounce back night from Jackson Robinson tonight. I feel like I feel like Mark Pope is gonna try to make it where he has a back, you know, bounce back night.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was gonna say. I expect a big game from him. Can he and then the team needs a big game from him. They're gonna need him if they're gonna make a run. I was surprised Andrew Carr became the offensive threat that he did against Duke. You know, they went they were going to him, you know, late in the game forgetting to get buckets.

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Speaker 5: I think robinson'ssy answer.

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Speaker 6: Pope might even want to say force it to him, but really try to get him going. Yeah, because he did play well outside of scoring, it could be a way to reward him to night, to let him have a big night.

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Speaker 4: I think they I think they need to get him just kind of get him going because he he played well in the exhibition games, but we really haven't had a ton of Robinson moments since the season started. I think it would be nice to uh to get that. Along those lines. One person rights, Matt, do you think we need to get Noah, Noah Pari and Chandler more minutes to be ready for the season.

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Speaker 2: I mean he's playing ten dudes already.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is the answer to that question is honestly, no, it would be nice. I'd love to see those guys play more. I think they will play. I hope they do. But let's be real, how many people do you need right we have? It's one thing if cal Or if Pope was only playing six dudes, and you're like, we need to get our seventh, eighth, ninth man. Yeah, he's playing nine dudes. Chandler's ten like they're eleven and twelve Drew. They're only gonna be used if someone gets hurt. So I think you play, you get, you play the main guys right now.

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Speaker 6: I know they're fans out there that want a second coming of Reed Shepherd, it's not gonna happen. And honestly, I think if we get later in the year and those guys are playing a lot. It makes me wonder what happened because there's just so many pieces in front of them with experience, and there are so Evans even said on the show, TRENTAA is doing everything right. He is working so hard, but there are a lot of good basketball players in front of him that are much older, and that's just that's life for him.

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Speaker 7: This.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're also four years older than them. That's another thing. I mean, this is kind of how basketball used to be, where freshmen have to develop.

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Speaker 5: They're four years older than those guys.

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Speaker 4: Like, I mean, I don't I don't think you're gonna see a moment where all of a sudden, Travis Perry is taking Kerk Creese's minutes because Kerk Crisa is much older.

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Speaker 2: And more experience. Yeah, we saw when when Travis had to play point guard in the Blue White game because Kerr was out. You know, Kerr is just at more advanced and a better point guard at this point in the game. Now, maybe there'll be a Gamelinner in a year where Trevis has to come in because we can't knock down a shots against his own. Maybe maybe throw him in there and maybe just try to knock down a few shots.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, how many people look those guys.

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Speaker 4: I think are both gonna have good futures here, and I think there's gonna be a year in the future where they're playing in those moments. But how many people watch that Duke game and said, I think we need to get those guys minutes we were playing the guys who were ready for that game.

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Speaker 5: True, and I think that's gonna be the.

00:23:25
Speaker 4: Case for the rest of the year outside of games where we have a big lead, at least to me. If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, will take a break.

00:23:34
Speaker 7: Berry Backs KISR.

00:23:36
Speaker 5: TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

00:23:40
Speaker 3: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:45
Speaker 4: Welcome back Tukey Sports Radio AFIF nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We are here at KOs Bar and Grill. Remember the game today we will have four thirty PM. Will be the pregame show right here from ks Bar. Should be a lot of fun today. Our former coach Drew cal Perry is on a masterclass of callisms at Arkansas. He last night they played Pacific, who was oh to sixteen in their conference last year. They're three hundred and fifty eighth in the kN PALM and UH he did a postgame press conference where he brought out the greatest hits.

00:24:26
Speaker 5: I mean, he brought out the greatest hits. And it's only game four.

00:24:30
Speaker 4: And I can't tell if the if the Arkansas media like him or not. I think, I mean something like some of the fan guys on Twitter do, But can you tell if the real media do.

00:24:41
Speaker 6: Because he's talking to play I have a hard time feeling like anyone in that room would enjoy YEA being talked to like he's talking down to them now in game four and five, like he did to us after ten years. You know, we had a lot of good will built up over time.

00:24:58
Speaker 5: He's just meeting them. He's just meeting these people.

00:25:01
Speaker 3: Still a little too comfortable too early, don't.

00:25:02
Speaker 4: You think he's pretty comfortable for god that struggled with Pacific and UH and Lipscomb earlier in the year.

00:25:08
Speaker 7: Here's what he had to say.

00:25:10
Speaker 11: You know, we got a ways to go now. I'll just leave you with this. The one thing I was really happy with. What was I angry about last game. You don't even know does anybody listen to what I'm saying? Say it, so one of you listens. The rest of you either don't know basketball or you're not listening to me at all. And I'm okay with both.

00:25:30
Speaker 7: That's fine.

00:25:31
Speaker 11: My wife doesn't listen to me. If I call my dog, he runs the other way. So I'm fine, you don't have to listen to me.

00:25:38
Speaker 5: So, like.

00:25:41
Speaker 4: I mean, so's it's so like dismissive. And again, like there's a part of it that I think he thinks he's being playful, but he just looks at these people and he's.

00:25:52
Speaker 5: Like, y'all don't know anything, and you don't listen to me.

00:25:56
Speaker 6: Yeah, like you said, it was one thing when he was doing a little bit of that to us when like last year was my fifteenth year of going to his press conferences, I could do his press conferences before he sat down. He is just meeting the people at Arkansas. These are first impressions. Yeah, do you all even watch basketball? Are you listening?

00:26:12
Speaker 5: He actually he just hates all of them.

00:26:14
Speaker 4: And then I mean, now they apparently had a storm during the day yesterday, like a rainstorm, but their crowd last night was awful, which just I mean for like just awful. And he apparently I saw a clip on the postgame radio show he asked the fans to give their tickets away. He basically sounded like me talking about how you can give tickets to me, and he was like give.

00:26:38
Speaker 5: Them back to school. We'll give them to people. He was, you know, he.

00:26:44
Speaker 4: Their attendance is kind of shockingly small, you know what I mean.

00:26:48
Speaker 2: And I think they expected it to be sellouts the minute that man walked on the floor into that arena. You know, cows coming to Butterwalt Marina and it's gonna be pack where so excited cows here and then we see the result right now.

00:27:00
Speaker 5: I had to take you.

00:27:01
Speaker 6: I didn't watch the game, but I saw the clip we just played, and then I saw the clip where he's asking for tickets. I couldn't believe that. That was like it was like Pat Kelsey energy, like we play tomorrow, please get out here for it to be Arkansas and John Caliperio and he's saying, just give your tickets back to the school.

00:27:15
Speaker 5: I was pretty shocking. Yeah, I mean, you know they.

00:27:21
Speaker 4: I think everyone involved thought there would be a spark there. Yes, that has not happened yet. Now I'm not gonna you know, I'm not gonna dismiss even say it's never gonna happen. They're gonna have a moment this year. I mean, honestly, can I just predict for you their season? Go ahead, I'm just gonna go ahead. This is gonna be their season. I don't know who they play left in the non conference, but they they'll get one good win.

00:27:48
Speaker 5: I got Illinois on Thanksgiving, That's what.

00:27:49
Speaker 7: And then who else?

00:27:50
Speaker 5: Who else they have? I think they have Illinois, Miami.

00:27:54
Speaker 4: I only know the Illinois game, maybe somebody else. They'll win like one of those, they'll lose the other two. Then they'll get the conference play. They'll get a big win. Oh yeah, they'll either knock off Alabama in Fayetteville or they'll win a road game at Auburn hopefully it's not here. But then they're gonna end up finishing the conference eighteen games. They'll be, you know, eleven and seven, right, they'll get in the SEC Tournament, they'll losing the quarterfinals. They'll make the NCAA Tournament as like a six or seven seed. I'm gonna say he puts it together and he wins one game and then they'll losing the second.

00:28:34
Speaker 5: Were you doing the last four years of Kentucky basketball?

00:28:36
Speaker 7: That's it.

00:28:37
Speaker 2: I've read that story.

00:28:38
Speaker 4: But this is he is gonna have the year that we had two years ago where we lost to Kansas State. You remember that season where like we didn't really think at any point we were a contender, but we were just good enough that we're like, well, I guess we'll see and then they we squeaked out that win against Providence and then Kansas State beat us by twelve or whatever in the second round and we were never really in that game. That's gonna be the season he has this year.

00:29:07
Speaker 2: And I felt like that would be the season if he stayed here, we would see the identical run that you just said.

00:29:12
Speaker 7: See.

00:29:12
Speaker 5: I actually think it might have been worse worse than that. I think it might have been worse.

00:29:15
Speaker 4: I think if he stays here, we're relying on freshman big time. We probably our fans are like, they're still kind of like moderately excited about it, even if they're not showing up. Our fans would have been, you know, our fans would not have been interested at all and the negativity just I think, honestly, Drew, we would have had a worse version of that season here.

00:29:45
Speaker 6: We're heading for that. That's why a lot of people were ready for it to change. I mean, Jaden Quaintin's was going to be the star, and I mean he's fine at Arizona State right now.

00:29:53
Speaker 5: He's remember, Adu was gonna leave a due might be his best player this year, and the dude was not gonna play for him. Here Cal left to be fair.

00:30:03
Speaker 6: Boogie Flann looks awesome. Other than that, it would be Philly Richmond, Carter Knox, Jaden Quainton's.

00:30:08
Speaker 4: The other fresh There was no money to go to the portal exactly what we get. That's another thing. They at least brought in all this money for Nil. We didn't have any money for Innile. The donors were done on the Nile thing for basketball, So it would have been much worse if he was here.

00:30:25
Speaker 7: Who's next, Terry, Terry? What's up? Terry?

00:30:29
Speaker 9: Yes, I got a gambling nugget for you and a football take on the gambling. A lot of people say, well, it's hard to make money on Kentucky when they play these games like Buck mill and tonight. That's where you make the money. Because Pope believes in these games of blowing teams out. So like you say Kentucky's, let's say Kentucky's a total points is eighty two. You go to the ultimate and as much as you want to tolerate eighty seven ninety ninety two, you get a better rate if you take the more points. And that's how you make how you make your money.

00:31:05
Speaker 5: On your first point. Terry Pope for two reasons.

00:31:08
Speaker 4: One, he's like, this team hasn't played together a lot, so I want to keep playing the best guys. But number two is, and he has said this the way they do the NCAA tournament now because they consider offensive and defensive efficiency. Every possession matters. You know, you can't just have four possessions of turnovers. It will hurt your efficiency, which could hurt your seed in the tournament. And he believes Ry. I mean, that's that frustrates people. Why doesn't put Noah and Perry in until the end. But like his belief is, you've got to keep getting your efficiency up.

00:31:43
Speaker 2: That's the whole point.

00:31:44
Speaker 7: Man.

00:31:44
Speaker 2: You try to get it up so you can get a better ranking, a better seed in the tournament. That's what it's all about.

00:31:49
Speaker 5: And he understands that, and so I think that will continue to do.

00:31:52
Speaker 9: You're right, but go ahead, okay, on football, what an honorstand is now? This game head against Murray, I would say you had a handful of players that had they been playing somebody good, that they would have played. He set them out as precaution to get him rest.

00:32:12
Speaker 7: Walker.

00:32:12
Speaker 5: Those guys would have played if it had been a real game.

00:32:16
Speaker 7: Yes, So what I.

00:32:18
Speaker 9: Don't understand, he said, Brock did not get cleared till late Friday afternoon. Why take the chance he should have just played Bowie the whole game. There was no reason to play Brock in that game, and those two lane ducks that he threw might have been indication that he really wasn't ready. And my last thing is, Drew Tonight on your rapid reaction based on the theme of yesterday's show, you all can just take on all the blue cultures they come out of the buildings.

00:32:46
Speaker 7: You should, you should.

00:32:47
Speaker 4: I appreciate the call.

00:32:50
Speaker 6: He's right about the quarterback situation, and it I mean earlier in the year, it's Brock's the guy, but Gavin's gonna get a couple of series, say okay, well do this Gavin the guy that it looks like they wanted to get a Gavin. Then suddenly, Gavin, you go sit at the end of the bench. Cutter's gonna get a few looks. Brock can't plays hurt. Oh no, Brock's gonna play. We're gonna throw two deep balls. Now, Brock's the guy at Texas Stoops defended him, but in the show last night he's like, Cutter might still get it in there a little bit.

00:33:15
Speaker 5: So it's like, what do you do you quarterback? Are they not playing Gavin anymore? Exactly my point.

00:33:22
Speaker 6: You know, at one point when Brock was fine and healthy, they're still shoving Gavin in a few series here and there, which helped.

00:33:28
Speaker 5: Me with the game.

00:33:29
Speaker 6: But there's one he came in and didn't need to and throw off broxs rhythm a little bit. And now broxar guy at Texas. He Helpeds win an old miss, but Cutter will be ready in case he's needed. It's just like, do you all even have a plan for all these quarterbacks.

00:33:40
Speaker 4: That's a good point that both of you and Terry make about the Brock situation. I think ultimately, Ryan, it may be that he was burned a few years ago in that Austin p game. I mean, I think he that was embarrassing to them when they put in Luke right and we're down ten to nothing and it was actually a game going into halftime, and I think maybe he just wanted to avoid that.

00:33:58
Speaker 7: Again, I think.

00:33:58
Speaker 2: That's a lot of it. And I think they to sit Gavin out with these other guys Barryon and Dion and JJ, we were to kind of let him heal up a little bit. So when they got brought got cleared to play, like, Okay, let's get him, let's get three three touchdowns on the board, then we can hand everything over to Cutter.

00:34:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you know, it wasn't necessarily the easiest with uh, with Brock at the beginning.

00:34:17
Speaker 2: I mean, he sure you said it. I Mean, here we are, we got two games left, and we're still uncertain about the quarterback position, and we've not had really good quarterback play, you know, all the year we got to and we.

00:34:26
Speaker 5: Still don't know if he's gonna be the quarterback next year.

00:34:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I you know, that's a whole other thing that the next two games may be a big part of deciding that. Hey, you can join us Friday as we broadcast live from a State Renovations Design Center. So Friday we are down at the gray Line Station at one oh one West Louden Avenue at the East State Renovations Design Center. That's sweet two twenty. We're gonna be giving away UK basketball tickets, gift cards to Malone's ks bar, Hollyday Market tickets. The State Renovations Design Consultants will be on staff to talk to you about their kitchen, bath, basement renovations.

00:35:03
Speaker 7: It's all there. They have three D previews.

00:35:06
Speaker 4: Go check it out State Renovations at the gray Line Station. We will be there on Friday for our pregame show. We'll take a break and be right back. This's KSR. Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio, where it's time to make our picks for today from DraftKings. If you go to DraftKings download the app, you can bet on the games tonight. Remember if you come to the bar, you get one hundred percent profit boost. But you can do it at home where we will not have a KSR parlay tonight. But there's right now again. DraftKings promo code KSR bet five you get one hundred and fifty and bonus bets lipscom in Kentucky. Kentucky's a twenty one point favorite well pick for the pregame show. But let me give you some over under on points otega Oway fifteen over under.

00:35:52
Speaker 5: I'll go under. You've always been awesome.

00:35:55
Speaker 6: I feel like it'd be more of a balanced effort, a lot of guys scoring around ten.

00:35:59
Speaker 5: I'm going to go under as well. That's that was I thought. That was a little higher than I thought.

00:36:03
Speaker 7: What about you?

00:36:04
Speaker 2: It is higher than I thought that. He's my favorite player right now, So I'm going over.

00:36:07
Speaker 5: Andrew Carr thirteen.

00:36:09
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm waiting under again.

00:36:12
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be a big Robinson game.

00:36:14
Speaker 2: I go under, go over?

00:36:16
Speaker 4: Why not? And then Jackson Robinson. If you like Jackson Robinson, have a big game. Thirteen is the number over pick. Thirteen is the number.

00:36:24
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be mostly a balanced game, but he will lead him in scoring with about nineteen or so.

00:36:29
Speaker 5: You like the Jackson?

00:36:30
Speaker 4: Is that your Drew Franklin bring it on down to the twist and shout lock of the week.

00:36:35
Speaker 5: That's exactly what I was gonna call it. It's like you're reading my brain.

00:36:38
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna put Billy and Mario's salary on it, like you've done with some some plays. But I like Jackson having a big game, and I have Kentucky cover and I already put it.

00:36:46
Speaker 4: Okay, gotcha if you you can. Let's see what else they do the correct scores. You know, you get Jackson threes on there. Terry said, you remember Terry said about getting getting by a certain margin the winning victory.

00:37:01
Speaker 5: They they've I think since Terry said it, they've taken that off.

00:37:05
Speaker 2: They did, they were listening.

00:37:07
Speaker 4: They had it by like you could win by a certain amount, and then they just took it off because Terry has a crazy draft. Kings probably hates the way we do that.

00:37:16
Speaker 3: Who's up next, Let's go to Kevin.

00:37:18
Speaker 7: Kevin, go ahead, Kevin.

00:37:21
Speaker 10: It is good to hear from you again. I love John Roth's team calls John Keller Perry the last Corleone, and to me, he's a Fredo for sure. If he's the last Corleone, I wanted to drop the stat on you. Pacific had one may field goal in the last eleven minutes every seconds of that game. And that happened with one minute to go, and they arcosoff. Still didn't cover twenty one and a half points. They're firing on ull cylinders down there in fable.

00:37:49
Speaker 4: Wow, that's amazing. By the way, our I appreciate the call. Are over under is ninety point five?

00:37:54
Speaker 7: Saw that? Yeah?

00:37:55
Speaker 6: I mean it's I think it's been. That's been every game outside of Duke. It was low for dude, Duke.

00:38:03
Speaker 7: Five is.

00:38:04
Speaker 5: That's an unbelievable They scored one hundred against Buck.

00:38:06
Speaker 7: No.

00:38:07
Speaker 4: Speaking of unbelievable, they just released a stat for the first two weeks of the G League and they ranked the players by their pr That's basically, how good are you playing?

00:38:17
Speaker 3: Uh?

00:38:17
Speaker 7: In the G League?

00:38:18
Speaker 4: Out of three hundred and thirty six players, Bronnie was three hundred and thirty third.

00:38:25
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

00:38:26
Speaker 7: In the G League.

00:38:27
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

00:38:29
Speaker 7: Not in the NBA. In the G League.

00:38:32
Speaker 2: Wow.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to pick on the kid. I want the kid to be good. He is Mario's favorite player. I want the kid to be good. But they have done him no favors. Get picking him in the draft when you were three hundred and thirty third out of three hundred and thirty six is clearly for his dad. That doesn't help him. Putting him in the NBA when he's not ready, on the biggest stage with the most marketable team that does and help him, and then doing this thing where he won't play road games like they It's almost like, if you were to do a plan of how you would make that kid successful, they have done the wrong thing at every step of the way. Jeff Goodman said, and he took a lot of criticism for this, but I will take up for Jeff. I think he's right. He said, Bronni's a nice player. If he had come back and stayed, he could have been first or second team All Conference by his senior year. I think that's a completely reasonable statement. But it also shows how ridiculous it was Drew that they they went and got him picked.

00:39:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, and when you're Brownie picked fiftieth whatever in the second round, you're not supposed to be on the radar. If you get in a game, no one's really supposed to notice you're even in there. Guys are waiting for Lebron to check yeah or Briannie to check in because they want to shut him down.

00:39:50
Speaker 5: They want to put an elbow in his chest. They want to dunk on him.

00:39:53
Speaker 6: He's already having an uphill battle just based on where he's picked and gr That's what I mean. You have a target on him, where guys actually going out to try to.

00:40:01
Speaker 5: Put him away.

00:40:02
Speaker 2: It's probably happening more so in the G League than the guys in the NBA. Probably got a respect. Lebron won't want to hurt Brownie, but you're right. In the G League, they're probably going after him hard.

00:40:10
Speaker 4: They see it as their chance to say, wait a minute, that should have been me, should have been me that was drafted.

00:40:15
Speaker 5: I just I can't.

00:40:16
Speaker 4: When I saw that stat, I was just thinking, you couldn't have handled this.

00:40:20
Speaker 7: Worse for that kid.

00:40:21
Speaker 2: Makes me almost feel sorry for that.

00:40:23
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't, look, he's got a great life. I'm sure it's not like anybody's weeping for him. But if you if he cares about being an NBA player, I don't think they could have done this worse. Ye, he'd have been better off playing in Utah, right if you were gonna draft him, because nobody would have been putting him with the Lakers.

00:40:41
Speaker 5: It's like you couldn't have done that any worse. Who's next?

00:40:45
Speaker 3: Tanner?

00:40:45
Speaker 7: Tanner? Go ahead, Tanner?

00:40:48
Speaker 12: Hey, Matt, first time, long time?

00:40:50
Speaker 7: Who are Hey?

00:40:53
Speaker 12: I got a quick question for you because I know this was kind of contentious at the end of Cal's time. But what is the relationship like with Pope and some like the top donors at UK. And then my other question is with Mitch Barnhardt's I guess he's signed a new contract this summer. But who would be your all pick for the next athletic director after Mitch?

00:41:14
Speaker 7: Yeah.

00:41:15
Speaker 4: Well, first to your first question about Pope, everything I've heard is that Pope's relationship with the donors has been like his relationship with everybody.

00:41:23
Speaker 7: It's been great.

00:41:25
Speaker 4: I mean, I know, I know he has a good relationship with the crafts. There are people donating for basketball now who have not donated for basketball probably since Rick Patino. To be honest with you, I think he brought in a lot of the old Rick Patino guys are back. I think Rick has sent some of his guys who aren't even Kentucky guys. I mean, I think there's been you know, from what I understand, the Club Blue thing has gone really really well.

00:41:56
Speaker 7: So I think it's been.

00:41:58
Speaker 4: Like with everything with Pope so far, Ryan a slam dunk as far as I've heard in that regard.

00:42:03
Speaker 2: It's not a coincidence that the Crafts are been sitting there on courtside every single game, And it's not a coincidence. There's a guy that sits behind the bench that has not been there during the entire Caliperi era. He was there every game when Patino was here. He's back sitting behind who's the blue glasses Seth Hancock, claybron Farm.

00:42:21
Speaker 4: Oh okay, look at Scoopy and he knows all the richie's over here, I d and billionaires.

00:42:30
Speaker 5: He's like, oh yeah, that's okay.

00:42:32
Speaker 4: You know why because they're at that club that's right, his little secret secret swingers club, that's what that's.

00:42:41
Speaker 7: What it is.

00:42:42
Speaker 2: That young girl sitting right there.

00:42:43
Speaker 7: Oh well, I.

00:42:44
Speaker 5: Mean I'm talking about somebody else.

00:42:46
Speaker 2: I'll give away my secrets. Look, oh yeah, you look at it. He'll be there tonight, right behind the gates.

00:42:58
Speaker 4: Look at that guy. We'll see you tonight. Four thirties Chasma are