2026-04-07- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Well welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, April the seventh. I'm Matt Jones here on a nice day in Lexington, Kentucky, where we are debuting, or at least, I guess testing some new camera video equipment that could make this show look professional. One day, I'm hearing good things. I can't see it because I'm on the other side of it. You guys can see. I'm looking at the screens. Good. Oh, yes, We're like, is this four K or five K? All right? Well good? I wish someone had told me I would have shaved and were in contact today, but this stuff's not getting out today. But now, I mean, if it looks this good, I might have to not wear hoodies. This I don't know. It could change my entire wardrobe.

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Speaker 3: It's very high tech, and like when one of us starts talking, the camera automatically switches to that camera.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so apparently there's there's AI in this. I'm told by the way, the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line is eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. Avi's an autoglass text machine seven seven to two four five two five four In this diition sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office called Tj'll make Them Pay, I'm told that this like Mario when it's over can say give us the five you know, or like that when they were talking about Mark Pope put together a clip and it can give him something to start from. So it actually leads to where he can put out more clips every day if he wants. So he he's it's made it to where he's gonna have to do more work, which is.

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Speaker 4: Not the hard part for him though he doesn't have to edit who's talking. Like literally, when Ryan started talking, a camera moved and it went to him and showed you in a split screen. So actually, Marrow, you might be getting pushed out the door by this fancy equipment is.

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Speaker 1: You get to train yourself for your replacement.

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Speaker 3: So these are these lights, these little lights right here.

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Speaker 1: With the lights, and like everybody's we're gonna look better. I'm looking forward to it. But this is a big day to day. I mean, let's just the portal opens. According to our wonderful President, civilization may end at eight o'clock tonight. So there's a lot happening this morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been nice working with you guys. World coming to an end tonight.

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Speaker 1: I thought all we wanted was cheaper eggs.

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Speaker 3: And now we need we need cheaper Now we want cheaper gas.

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Speaker 1: Well let's just hope we get to that point. But we won't spend today. I don't want to make everybody enraged.

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Speaker 3: It's transfer portal day.

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Speaker 1: It is transfer a portal day. I want to we'll don't talk a lot about it. Let's let's start, though, for a second, with the game last night. Yeah, because I think not so much that. First of all, are we glad Michigan won?

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Speaker 4: Yes, avoided the worst case scenario winning would have been bad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Michigan. That's fine.

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Speaker 4: I mean, well they got two now, I mean it stinks a lot of those guys on the court last night, we're Kentucky targets and we finished second.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, whatever, Michigan kind of my takeaway in some ways is that that Michigan team was probably the vision of what Mark PopEd hope would happen here. Right, they had five so think about it, second year coach, Yes, right, yes, they had five transfers, a lot of size, and I actually think Mark tried to get a lot of size. We had five bigs on the roster. Even though guys got hurt and some people didn't, we had five bigs on the roster, a lot of size. Very efficient offensively we were not, but you're right we recruited a couple of those guys, I mean Yaxle. So the point guard we looked at at the Mullins was probably a together yeah, uh, Dimmrie Mullins both were people that we thought could end up here.

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Speaker 4: They called the big guy who had such a big game mar a few Musila. I don't know how close that guy, but he's another one we were watching last spring. There's only a moment I was looking at the court and I was like, I remember writing about most of these guys and.

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Speaker 1: Depending on who you asked. Kentucky either spent the most money on their roster or some people think the second to Michigan just depends on who you ask. So as I sat there and watched it, I thought, right, there's two ways you can look at this. You can look at this and go, oh no, like second year coach, we struggled all year and they got transfers and we got the wrong ones, And you can be like, well, we went into the wrong direction. Or you can say Mark Pope had the right game plan, just the wrong ex execution. Which one would you all be in that regard?

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Speaker 3: I think they didn't get he did to get the right players.

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Speaker 1: So you think right game play, wrong.

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Speaker 3: Right game plan, wrong execution. Is still the right coach, still the right coach. And I'm you know, I'm told not hope that this year he will get the right players. But I mean the Axel he was good coming out of you A B. They had no idea he's gonna be this good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah they did. He was the top transfer, him was one of the drafts. I mean, he he well, okay, did they think he was going to be a first team All American? I mean maybe not, But I mean I bet that was Michigan's hope. Yes, I mean he was. He was the number one.

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Speaker 3: Player in the portal and Mark took a step up.

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Speaker 1: Now he better.

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Speaker 4: I think that people thought he would be and Cadot took a big step North Carolina threw him away and then he ends up being most outstanding player in the final four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that wouldn't have been predicted.

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Speaker 4: I saw it as Pope saw the right people, because I mean he targeted a lot of these guys and it just didn't get over there.

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Speaker 1: So I believe he can get spot them. We got to get them, to agree with you on that, I mean he did with Yaxel, Dimmery Mullens. Clearly wanted these guys, all of whom had quite a bit of success, but he didn't get any of them. And so what do we make of that? Do we make of it? Can he get them in the future. We certainly spent the money, but we just didn't get him.

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Speaker 3: Yaxell said they offered him what seven to nine million.

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Speaker 1: Remember, I don't believe it. I don't believe that either. I mean, I'm on pope side on that. I don't believe Kentucky offered anybody seven to thee. First of all, it would be ludicrous for him to take We don't know what his life is going to be like. He said, he's projected a draft. He may not play in the d I mean, he probably will play in the NBA, but he might not. He would be insane to to not take this.

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Speaker 4: I don't believe that. I'm on Pops. I think that's right me too. And I said at the time, seven to nine million is not an offer. Seven to nine million is a nine million dollar offer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. It's a big range that he thrilled. You can't go. You know what, I'll take seven. I know you give me nine, but I'll take seven. Uh So, I'm glad Michigan won Yukon now six times. We still have a two title lead on Yukon. With Danny Hurley still relatively young, we might need it.

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Speaker 3: That's the thing. Yukon doesn't get their seventh, but more importantly, Danny Hurley doesn't get his third and four years he would have been unbearable man.

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Speaker 1: And Dusty May, you know, I mean, I want you to think about Dusty May for a second, because Dusty May Louisville Louisville insiders were posting that they were preparing the press conference for Dusty May at Louisville, like they had a time and we're ready. And Dusty May last night in the post game said Louisville Vandy and Michigan wanted me. He said, I initially was more interested in one. I'm gonna assume he means Louisville and he goes, and then I just decided I can win the National championship at Michigan. Implication. I don't know if I can win it at Louisville, that's you know. So we were close to having that dude down the road. Ouch, that would be it'd be a problem if you're a Louisville fan, you'd be kind of sick. But for us, we had no chance at him because Cal hadn't left yet, right, I mean, we had done the reconciliation interview, taking his dog down the street in a stroller for that, like we were still doing all that, so we had no chance. He was already hired at Michigan when the job came open. But it's interesting just as a sort of thought exercise, you know, after we lost to Oakland, or if they had moved immediately, we still would have owed that money, which means I don't think they could. But for Louisville, you'd be sick, right, and Pat Kelsey may still end up being good, but you'd be sick.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they had him, thought they had him. They probably didn't think there'd be a championship two years later, but a big loss for them. And watching that game last night, I kept thinking about and I posted a picture. We went and saw Michigan the year before Dusty May got hired. That Indiana game. It was pretty empty and the picture that's waited me and Ryan look to be the only people standing up, caring about what's going on. I think they won three conference games that year, and it just shows how immediate things can turn around with the right hire and the right portal editions, because what we saw was not a program on heading towards a tournament.

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Speaker 1: And it also shows something that I think fans need to remember. In a portal era, you're never like the program is never going to be in a place where it can't recover. You can recover overnight.

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Speaker 3: Sure you can now, I mean you gotta have the right hire, right, That's the beauty of the portal.

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Speaker 1: But you can recover overnight.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: You can go out there and in two years, I mean last year he made the Sweet sixteen. This year they win the national championship. You can do it. Yep. And I also think Yukon shows that the idea that blue Blood's are done is false. I do think we've learned, and we'll talk about Carolina later. Blue Bloods have a harder time just picking whatever coach they want now. But blue Blood's still have an advantage. Yeah, they still have an advantage, and we need to take advantage of our advantage. Gets what's gitch? Which gets me to portal stuff. So Malcolm Moreno, if you listen to the show, we told you exactly what was gonna happen coming back to Kentucky. But going through the draft process, I expect him to play at Kentucky absence something crazy good news. What was interesting is and Jack Pilgrim's report says took less than the highest offers to come back so that Kentucky could build a team around me. What do you make of that?

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Speaker 4: It is surprising that in this era someone would take a little bit of a pay cut.

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Speaker 1: To go, So we don't know, do we know how much. I don't know how much, but you know.

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Speaker 4: Malachi immediately posted on Instagram a picture of him a kid and UK gear said, I've always been a cat, you know, and we all know the stories from right down the road. It showed that, you know, some of that stuff still matters, certainly Malachi's case, but it's not all money. We like to think it's just signed on the dotted line, but he clearly wants to be at UK and luckily worked out in UK's favor that one.

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Speaker 1: Now, mister Allan Keck for governor's shirt, it's a throwback. I mean to be the only person in the world that is still wearing that shirt. His wife Alan kick, but he ran three years ago and came in third in the primary or fourth.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a very comfortable hoodie.

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Speaker 1: How long are you going to keep rocking that?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: Like I said, it's kind of soft and I'm gonna pulled it out of the closet. Oh, this feels good, so I think I'll keep it till you runs for president.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of what would be a more random shirt, Like what other fourth place primary governor shirts could you see out there? Surprise you. Maybe a Peppy Martin for Governor's shirt.

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Speaker 3: I tried to find my Kelly Kraft for Governor T shirt to wear underneath this.

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Speaker 1: You're the only person who endorsed every candid. Yeah, and you also endorsedd Andy Basher.

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Speaker 3: I did, Yeah, hyeahdorse. And you like Ryan quarrels my Ryan Krals T shirt a lot, so you have a T shirt for him too? Yes? Yeah, so you and Mike Carmon.

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon didn't run for governor titty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that one year he was up there on the on the podium on the debate. It was the same year, the same year. So wasn't something the data be the data? Steal the data data.

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Speaker 1: I think that would be a weird primary campaign, steal the data. I believe there were five Republican candidates. You endorsed four of the five I did. You didn't endorse Daniel camer correct because he didn't show up, he didn't want to come to the debate.

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Speaker 3: And he didn't give me any clothes. You give me a shirt on wearing it. I wear that Ryan Krals T shirt a lot.

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Speaker 1: And then you also endorsed Dandy Sheer, the Democrat I did so the five of the six, but.

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Speaker 3: I got the winner. I supported the winner.

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Speaker 1: True. All right, you hinted all year like, just be respectful to Malco, that was your thing. Did you kind of know that he would be willing to go under market value you as long as it was respectful.

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Speaker 3: I think he just wanted to feel wanted and feel respected and feel like you want me a part of this because he wanted, like Drew said, he wanted to be a part of this. I think he just wanted to feel the same from the other side. And I think there was some hurt feelings there for a little while that he wasn't feeling that love, that respect, that need.

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Speaker 1: But I guess it came.

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Speaker 3: It came respect come for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, as do your shirts.

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Speaker 4: I like to think he goes to his closet and it's just a bunch of politician shirts.

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Speaker 1: You know how like they send Super Bowl loser shirts to Africa, they send political loser shirts to ride.

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Speaker 4: Is one like formal ones you know today radio. Maybe you work out in your Kelly Craft shirt, you wear your Coral.

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Speaker 1: Shirt out different versions of Amy McGrath's shirts for all the directions she runs for.

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Speaker 3: I really put my threw my hat in totally for Alan Kick because he gave me the hoodie. The other guy just gave me a T shirt. Alan Keck brought me a hoodie to waffle house at one night.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get loaded up with more gear from whoever's running, because I Morris is knocking on the door right now. I was thinking about this. You know, this congressional spot in Lexington is now open, right like any bar woke, Andy Barr or whatever they call each other on those ads. He's running for Senate, so it's open. So there's like five Republicans and five Democrats running, and I just realized I don't know who they are, and if I don't know who they are, there's no way the general public knows. Right, So Ryan's closet could decide the winner. Okay, you could literally end up with your spring Warris.

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Speaker 3: I'm open for debate.

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Speaker 1: He loves an election year. It's when he gets in a new wardrobe. We'll take a break more on Kentucky players coming and going, and then some portal targets. There are already one thousand players in the portal.

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Speaker 3: My goodness, we'll take a break.

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Speaker 1: Great bagkis welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eighth twenty two A cent. We are gonna take calls, so go ahead and get into phones.

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Speaker 5: Eight.

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Speaker 1: I'm nine two eight oho twenty two A one person, writes Matt watching the game last night, I was just sitting there thinking, there's no way we could have played with either of these teams. I think we could have played with Yukon in a one game scenario. I mean we could have there's a world we could have played with him. I don't think there was a world that we would we would have more than like a miracle game beaten Michigan.

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Speaker 4: I agree, and I think I even text a few people that looks like a fun sport they're playing out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was also very physical.

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Speaker 4: Kentucky in a game that physical wouldn't have stood a chance, did a good job of roughing it up early.

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Speaker 1: That that was very physical. And the ref had the high knees. Yeah, the high knee guy he was. I like that he did him go down, Yeah, yeah, right back. It's all that training, it's all the training high. I love that the high knees guy got his time in the sun.

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Speaker 3: Do you notice one of the other referees was the one you got frustrated with at the Iowa State Kentucky game. Bald the bald one.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the bald guy. He was on there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was in the final four where.

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Speaker 1: His pants mockworthy again. Little all right Diabate in the portal, I said yesterday they were basically haggling over price. I guess the haggling didn't work.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I loved what Diabate did. He was fun.

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Speaker 4: There's not many dudes that can bring that physicality and toughness. But you know, with Pope's offense, he needs a shooter in that spacing. So seeing him go what I've liked him back, sure as a sixth man, but I'm hopeful Pope can go find something better that fits the puzzle a little more than Diabate did. I think that was part of the problem last year, is Pope overcreate, over corrected with defense and didn't have enough shooters.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, after his first year in the conference, he said, I need to go out and get somebody like Mo Diabate on my team. When he went out and got Diabate, he was the only one who brought the toughness most of the season.

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Speaker 1: I think diabate could have been someone you brought back, but you couldn't bring him back at two million dollars a year. Right. See, here's one of the things I think you're gonna see interesting in the port They are going to be guys who teams would like to have. The other teams are willing to pay top dollar for that. You want to pay third or fourth dollar. So there was somebody I just saw that got in the portal. Who was it? Jacob just did a story and it was like Kentucky and Duke won him, but Baylor and LSU are willing to make him their top guy, and you're going to see that. So sure, you're gonna see guys who probably would rather play for Kentucky or Duke, but Kentucky and Duke can only offer half the money because Baylor and LSU are going to build the team around this, and.

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Speaker 4: A lot of these guys, like Diabat, it is their last year to make big money. I mean the NBA it probably Yeah, they'll end up overseas making decent money. This is your last shot to make a couple of millions. That's what Diabaatee is.

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Speaker 1: Diabat may be like, all right, I can go to a team and be the second highest paid, I'd be the fifth or sixth highest paid on Kentucky. So I can't do that. And I get that especially for somebody you're right like him, who's probably not going to play. All right. So the portal is now open, all right, and so the question is who's Kentucky going after? Now let me let I'm gonna do. I want to give like a little context for everybody that's listening at home, and you know seeing this when you see it online. This staff has taken a unique approach, in my opinion, to how information gets out about players. I will tell you what most staffs do, and then I'll tell you what it seems like Pope's staff is doing. Most staffs believe that the best way to get good information on the portal is to sort of use reporters, both national and local, kind of as sounding boards. What do the national and local reporters want, Well, they want information right for their people. What do the coaches want? They want information on what other schools are doing and who's paying for one. And these reporters in this new portal world are kind of playing important roles they talk to the agent, they talked to the coaches, they talked to the players, and they kind of give each other information. So, for instance, you know, take Modiabate, Mark Pope or someone on his staff would go to a reporter, all right, how much his agent saying he wants He said he wants to anybody offering him to, Well, I'm here, and Baylor will offer him to Okay, well we're not going to go past one. And they're almost like middlemen. Would you agree with this? Yeah? And the national guys especially I think, play a huge role in this, and some local guys, but the national guys really do. You're Joe Tipton's et cetera, Kentucky's staff, and they did. They did not do this the first year. The first year they kind of used those people. Last year they really didn't. I would argue that's why they sometimes ended up paying too much and too little. And this year it's looking like they're not going to again. So my point is to say to you when we we talk about players on the Kentucky side, at least I can tell you it's hard to know what Mark Pope wants because Mark Pope's people, as of this point really aren't saying much. You're now hearing it from the agent. So when you see stories, it's mostly coming from the agents. When you see a story Mark Pope's going to talk to this player, for the most part, it's coming from the player because for the second straight year, UK's kind of taking the view we're doing our own thing. Now, maybe it'll work. I think last year it caused them to not understand the market. Hopefully, with the addition of the guy, the new whatever, do more of what all's going on. And I hope that's true. So I just think that's important to know until you kind of hear me otherwise say, I don't think we still have a whole lot of idea of what UK wants. With one exception, I think it's fairly clear that this kid from LSU is one of Pope's two top target. It's for a point guard. Thomas Thomas. Dedon Thomas played at l s U. Uh left handed right. Remember we had.

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Speaker 4: All those plays, got a couple left handed targets on the portal board. Maybe we're running back the left handed.

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Speaker 1: He must like the lefties. Was really good last year when he played led the SEC and assists when he played, was probably the second best point guard in the league when he played, but then he was out because he hurt his foot and was out the last half of the year. Did he play against US No, I don't think he did. Yeah, because he was hurt and then didn't.

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Speaker 4: I think the injury might have before our game.

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Speaker 1: I my view, Drew is if the kid is healthy, he's exactly He's kind of what I would want at point guard. I wish he shot a little bit better, but his assist his assist to turnover ratio was great, but he that wasn't healthy. So do you run it back for a third straight year and cross your fingers on a healthy point guard?

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Speaker 4: I really like him, and Kentucky recruited him before Low last year, and they did the stories of his you know, they did the zoom and he loves Pope and he loves Kentucky, and then he went to LSU and then Kentucky ens up a Low, so we know there's already a connection there. And recruitment, I don't love going after an injured gal of what you've been through. Regardless of his game, I think he's really good. I don't think you can just go get another injured person and then next year if it goes wrong, like well, we got injured again.

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Speaker 1: I promised you he was healthy, would you Yeah? I like him if he's okay, he was great at UNLVS. Just how much risk? Like, how much are you willing to risk an injury? How much are you willing to risk?

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Speaker 2: Ry?

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Speaker 3: Like I said after the Jade and Quainton's experience, I had a little gun shy.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he hurt his foot, foot's heel. I think, I mean Kentucky is talking to him. I believe actually as we speak. So just something to watch, but we might have another. Please don't get injured, gamble, We'll see, we'll take a break. Take your calls right for this, KSI welcome back, Tuckie sports rady a right. Stuff's gonna continue to happen throughout the show and throughout the next couple of days. Devin vanderpolt Pool from Florida Atlantic Kentucky is meeting with today via zoom. He's a guard from Florida Atlantic. Normally I would not know anyone from Florida Atlantic or schools like that. But Tom Crean was on ESPN with me one Sunday and he asked me. He was like, will you watch Florida Atlantic versus South Florida. I'm calling the game today? And I was because he asked, what are you doing today? I'm like nothing. He goes watch this game, so I felt like I owed it to it. Sure, and I watched a half. So I've watched this kid for one half. But in that half he was the best player on the floor. There we go, and I was like, all right, that kid's good. And I could tell Crean loved him. So he's a guard and he's probably the second person I know for a fat Kentucky's talking to today. There are others, I'm sure, but those are the ones that I know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd be lying if I thought I watched any Florida Atlantic basketball this year.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 4: Probably, but it's just box score watching. He's had some huge games, scored a lot of points, keeps his turnovers down, good rebounder. I mean he's got the numbers. Yeah, he's a great score. He could be like.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a dude, but he's close to a dude like he I definitely would love to have that guy. All right, So let's go to the phones. I want to ask people, the injury stuff, et cetera. Plus Rick, just as kind of a tease, you did watch Neighbors episode six? I hear, Yes, I did. I can't wait to hear it, wait for his opinion. I'm not surprised did his homework. That's Rick, Rick's big show, I know, but like, well, I don't. I don't want to hear anything. I just want to get his natural. It's a natural episode. I want to get his natural.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about as natural as you can get.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Jordan Ray Jordan.

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Speaker 6: Go ahead, Hey, Matt, so you know, kind of touching on what you were speaking on with you know, Dayton Thomas from LSU. He is a good player when he plays, and he's actually guard that I would I would have liked for us to have. I am a little leary about the injury thing, but for me, I think Hammer Vannerpool was actually good options. But the guy that I really really want I would do anything for us to land is Donnie Freeman from Syracuse. I want that guy to be our four so bad. Anything to get well.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know Kentucky has I appreciate call at least made contact with him. I don't know how interested he is. I mean, there's gonna be a million guys come in. There's probably guys coming in. We don't even know yet. But uh, you know, he he's very good. So I wanna go back the injury for a second. Do you consider being injured so he was just a foot injury, right? Do you consider that like a trait that continues to happen or do you just say, well, that was a random currence. Ligaments and knees are different to me, But what about just a random foot injury on Thomas and you know, being healthy next year? Yeah, I would just I hate the idea of next December we get well, we're injured again when you went out and got it coming off with it, he could but like if you know, a guy just said sir, and I would like Thomas. I mean, if he shows up, I will be happy. But in the back of my mind, I'm like, we can't keep saying the injury thing and then going out and getting guys coming off surgery. So if you're Mark Pope and you have to you gotta be good next year, have to make or break year. I think for him, would you would you risk it with a guy like that.

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm not turning him down, but I'm also making other calls to filling out everybody.

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Speaker 1: But let's say he said on the phone today, I'll come, but but today's the day. By tomorrow I'll be somewhere else. If you don't want me, sure are you? Are you? Are you get him in for a physical check him out? Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Are you trying to probably take it at his best, he'll he'll be one of the best guards available, like at helps right now, just so people know, rank the third best point guard in the portal. So it's not like he's some chump. He's the third best point guard, eleventh best player in the portal. That those the It'll go down as new guys enter, but he will finish as a top eight to ten point guard in the portal without question, maybe top five to six. I take him and add lots of depth. I don't I don't rely on him the whole. You don't rely on him. And then just this guy, you cannot if he were to if you tell me he were to get hurt, nobody wants to hear, oh we got hurt again, because you knew the like would would.

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Speaker 1: You roll the dice.

00:27:38
Speaker 3: See like you said, to make a break here for coach Pope, and it begins and ends with the point guard. He's got to have a good point guard. I think there's his legacy may depend on this point guard for this season.

00:27:50
Speaker 1: So are you risking it? No? So you're gonna look at the kid and go no, and then you're gonna hope something else better comes. Yeah, all right, we gotta split decision. Part of me saying take.

00:28:02
Speaker 4: Him is I don't know if Pope can I don't know where Pope is with the other guards.

00:28:06
Speaker 1: No, last year he didn't get his first second Thursdays and probably first four opts. Well, no, Jayalen was one of his first, but he probably had four options and he struck out with three. He still liked low.

00:28:19
Speaker 4: So I don't know how picky Pope can be because I don't know his other conversation.

00:28:22
Speaker 1: I would know if he has like the money saved for you know, someone with somebody on with Tom Leach today and said we're leading now with Tyron Stokes. Did I read that?

00:28:31
Speaker 3: I didn't hear it.

00:28:32
Speaker 1: Anybody listen to Tom Leach today? Message that someone was on with Tom Leach and said that. But I don't know who the someone was, and I also don't know if that actually happened. So this is if anyone listened to I'm sure some of it. One of you listened to Tom Leach right on the text machine and let me know who was on.

00:28:53
Speaker 4: I'm trying to play it back of my head. You know I'm a big listen Tom in the Shower, Mike Friday. Okay, yeah, I honestly couldn't tell you.

00:29:02
Speaker 1: If somebody knows, I would like to know, because I did hear. I got a random text message from somebody going, did you hear some somebody was on Tom Leach and said Tyron Stokes is Kentucky?

00:29:12
Speaker 4: But I know I know he had had Jenna from the Colonel. I heard that part. I don't think she mentioned Stokes. There might have been another segment lifts from the Colonel, so they wasn't her. I'm saying no, I could have missed it. I'm in and out.

00:29:24
Speaker 1: You know, I'm getting ready for our show, and Toms, you need to know you should be up scouting the Tom Leech Show. Joey, go ahead, Joey, Yes, is.

00:29:35
Speaker 5: That are you talking to me?

00:29:37
Speaker 1: Is your name Joey.

00:29:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I don't. I don't remember giving you out my name.

00:29:42
Speaker 1: But anyway, well, no, it wops up sometimes, so even if you didn't like, if you like, it comes up and you're Joey, I know your phone number. I mean, I'm not gonna call you, but I could.

00:29:53
Speaker 5: Well when you accepted my call, Hello, Hello, Hello, and then I just was just hanging Oh good, okay, now I know, but what can happen?

00:30:03
Speaker 1: I got?

00:30:03
Speaker 5: I cheered, Yeah, I cheered back in nineteen seventy eight when we won the NCAA championship in Saint Louis. I'm calling because you had a brief conversation about the candidates to replace McConnell's.

00:30:17
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about I don't want to do that. Are we talking about the congressional candidates?

00:30:22
Speaker 6: No?

00:30:22
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no no.

00:30:23
Speaker 5: I cheered. Nate Morris's dad was a cheerleader with me at U K.

00:30:29
Speaker 1: Well, that's okay, we're good. I'm glad.

00:30:31
Speaker 5: I just thought, I yeah, back in nineteen seventy eight, and that's all I'm gonna say.

00:30:37
Speaker 1: You know, he's woke, He's woke. Nate Morris and fake Nate Morris according to commercials that run every six seconds on the television screen.

00:30:46
Speaker 5: I know, and he probably might have to do with all that money.

00:30:50
Speaker 1: Ye, I appreciation that's putty. I was just making a joke. I appreciate. I was just making a joke, not making it. He may be the nicest guy. I've just this joke because they run those ads all the time. Did Daniel Cameron ever run an ad?

00:31:02
Speaker 3: I've not seen one.

00:31:03
Speaker 1: That's the way to go. I think it's a great I'm the guy. If I see your ad too much, think about you. He's like, there's three of us, but you forget I'm here. I think it's a good strategy.

00:31:13
Speaker 4: Tom Leech had Travis Brandham, I didn't hear that. I didn't hear that. I'm just know who his guests were, so maybe Travis said could have I heard most of Larry. I heard Larry and Jenn. Larry has tyrants, and I feel like if Travis said it, that'd be big news. But I'm just letting you know. There we go, Tom the source.

00:31:34
Speaker 1: Tom Leach said, Travis Brandham was on the show, and he thinks Stokes is going to Kansas. Okay, So I got the exact opposite.

00:31:45
Speaker 4: Sorry I missed the first segment, Tom, Tom. The rest was great, Thank you very much, So just ignore. This is why you gotta be careful about random text miss But see, we got to the source. I can't get a better source than.

00:31:55
Speaker 3: Top It's his show for crying out his names and the title did Larry, Oh great things, Joe, go ahead, Joe.

00:32:04
Speaker 7: Thank you gentlemen. Matt, I'm I'm really interested in everything Mark Pope is doing in his third year, but I also look at the other side of the coin. I know Coach Brooks of our ladies program is going into his third year also. And my question to you, Matt, and now I really don't expect an answer because I don't think you probably know Eider you think Coach Brooks has enough money if a number of Top Out Girl and the Girl Transfer portal was available and he would have enough money to go get it.

00:32:33
Speaker 1: My number one worry about Coach Brooks is there there's scuttle butt out there that Virginia is trying to hire him. Can't have that. So my number one recruit is let's not have that happen because that that chatter is out there. Now, I don't know if there's anything to it, but that chatter is out there on the Virginia sides. I'm going to let's I'm not scare.

00:32:58
Speaker 7: I'm not scared of you, coach Virginia. I just I just asked your question, he has enough money?

00:33:03
Speaker 1: Don't some time question if you if you think he has enough money, you'd be wouldn't you be upset if we lost our coach?

00:33:12
Speaker 7: There's plenty more coaches out there. What are you worried about?

00:33:18
Speaker 1: Kenny Brooks is pretty good. I'm not in on that. I appreciate Coy. I'm all in on uh Kitty Brooks. So does do they have money? It's a great question. Actually, I do think UK's women's program has money to get players. I'm not sure they have money to get like the number one recruit in the portal, but I do think they have money because there is a dedicated stream of money of donors of UK women who give for UK women. Okay, I don't know if it's enough to get like who South Carolina, Texas and Yukon can get. But I think they're in there to compete at the next tier.

00:33:59
Speaker 4: I mean, right now, three McDonald's all Americans and Clara Strack coming back. That's a great roster.

00:34:04
Speaker 1: That might be like they just that's what they need. They're like, we're good except one or two supporting piece.

00:34:10
Speaker 4: Virginia women's basketball Apparently the founder of Reddit loves them and just gives them a lot of money, and I can only assume he's very rich.

00:34:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm actually more concerned about that because I have no idea if he's interested. But like, he's a Virginia guy, you know, So I just think you get to the SEC memorials awesome. But then that can make the other case, which is you go to the ACC and you could dominate the conference, and if you're at a place unlike Virginia Tech where he was, that actually has a lot of money.

00:34:43
Speaker 4: So he got Virginia Tech to the final four? What can you do with Virginia and the guy from Reddit.

00:34:47
Speaker 1: Exactly, Well, we don't have a guy from Reddit, but we have like, who do we have the guy from fark? Drew Curtis's Do you like women's basketball?

00:34:57
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:34:58
Speaker 1: I think I saw that there was a thing that story about the richest people in Kentucky. I think we've talked about this once, but I forget you know, we always mentioned the crafts and they have to be I'm sure they're in the top two or three. But the thing that said that the richest person in Kentucky was like a woman with storage units or something.

00:35:16
Speaker 4: I can't think of the exact company, but she's like the heir to a big uh storage stores?

00:35:20
Speaker 1: Big storage units? Could can you like? It's like the only multi billionaire in the state is a storage unit person.

00:35:29
Speaker 4: You don't what I think about it, but go for a drive around Lexington. You can't go a mile without seeing a storage unit.

00:35:34
Speaker 1: So they all owned by this woman just walking around store and things.

00:35:39
Speaker 4: I don't know all of them, but what a way to strike rich? Does she like women's basketball? Well, she likes to store things. How about we store some championship. Let's store some and I own You know who this person is with?

00:35:52
Speaker 1: See her on the list? And doesn't she live in like.

00:35:56
Speaker 3: Like a small town she lives in.

00:35:57
Speaker 4: Like Stanford or something. Doesn't she something like that? I'll pull it up, but yeah, she's the richest person in Kentucky.

00:36:03
Speaker 1: Last time, person, they always have the richest person in Kentucky as being this woman with her storage Huh.

00:36:09
Speaker 3: Like Drew said, there everywhere, every street corner in town.

00:36:12
Speaker 4: Tamara Gustavson Worth Gustafs Gustafson worth nine point one billion. Her father was b Wayne Hughes and started all this.

00:36:21
Speaker 1: So she just like her money is in storage.

00:36:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, the public Storage is the name of the company. Very direct with their name too.

00:36:29
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:36:29
Speaker 8: Well they take exactly what they are. Yeah, no, no question of what they got going on there. What are they doing over there at public storage? It fixed bicycles. No, that's a lot of money. She should take an interest in new cathletics. Yeah, we'll take a break. Very back case. Welcome back, Tukey Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight, twenty two eighty seven, a couple of one line.

00:36:53
Speaker 1: Sorry. So this woman Gustafson owns, her dad owns spend Thrift spend Thrift Farms, which now she owns. She is one of the richest women in the world. Congratulations, and we gotta get her involved. Ks are presented by public Storage has a nice ring to it. I had no idea there was so much money in storage like that. Seems like that'd be a pretty easy gig, Like you just build it and then like all right, put your stuff in there. We'll make sure there's some ac if you pay for it. Yeah, we'll lock the chain, will lock the gate, like, put up a few cameras, Like it feels like that's why are we not? Why am I? Why are we not doing that? I've had to use the storage unit before. I'll rent out a room for her to make stuff in there.

00:37:50
Speaker 3: Have that much money off that many storage units.

00:37:52
Speaker 1: Then somebody says they're big us C donors that her dad was connected to. Oj B just keeps going, Yeah, she went to USC. Oh, so they donate to USC. Well, it feels like they donate to USC. That's so far away. She should have one team that's close. Yes, that's one team far, one team close.

00:38:17
Speaker 4: The people in LA aren't storing their furniture in Lexington?

00:38:21
Speaker 1: What about the people here? We go we have things to store? Are junk is in your facilities? Yeah? She could pick a sport here. I think it'd be perfect, women's basketball. She can root for USC football, UK women's basketball.

00:38:36
Speaker 5: Good.

00:38:37
Speaker 1: I don't understand the guy who like acts like it wouldn't be a big deal of Kenny Brooks. It'd be a huge ste That was weird. He just took us to the Sweet sixteen for the first time in ten years. Yeah, I mean we've been good. We were awful when he got here.

00:38:50
Speaker 3: And if he leaves, he's taking Clara Streck Andal Americans.

00:38:54
Speaker 1: He's that guy.

00:38:55
Speaker 4: We're gonna get this public storage money into Kenny's hands by by sundown.

00:39:01
Speaker 1: By sundown, you know what I mean, because you don't want to have happened. Have you been reading What's happened to Tennessee women's team? They have like no players, none, like So we had this woman on what's the woman with the big Southern accent that does women's game? She does a lot of Kentucky games. I like her. She's really good. We had her on my ESPN show Sunday to preview the National Championship game. I cannot remember that. I think it's Carolyn maybe, but she'll be.

00:39:27
Speaker 3: Like Carolyn Peck. Yes, how did you know that she was a assistant coach here?

00:39:33
Speaker 1: Oh?

00:39:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was one of the things you know, Yeah, key.

00:39:39
Speaker 1: Like you were able to pull Carolyn Peck.

00:39:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's an assistant coach of.

00:39:44
Speaker 1: The UK Allen Keck shirt. U huh.

00:39:47
Speaker 3: Maybe under Bernadette she may have been want of Bernadette' assistance, You're unbelievable.

00:39:51
Speaker 1: And then she was the head coach Atandy.

00:39:53
Speaker 3: And she was at Purdue at one time.

00:39:55
Speaker 1: He knows her whole resume.

00:39:58
Speaker 3: Carolyn Peck t like kay On Moore. She was the first coach of the Connecticut Son. When the WMA opens the.

00:40:05
Speaker 1: Connecticut Son, look it up. I think that might be a whiff. I think you went too far pushed your luck.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: It was Bernadette was with the Connecticut Son.

00:40:15
Speaker 1: How about the Orlando miracle? Close enough, close enough, unbelievable. Anyway, Ryan's favorite, Carolyn Peck was on my show and she was ranting about how Tennessee's athletic department has just allowed you Tennessee women's basketball to fall apart. They won't spend any Nile money on it because they're only spending it on football, basketball and baseball, and the whole school has transferred. And was like, this is one of the saddest things. Tennessee women's basketball, the most historic program is being allowed to just collapse. And she was talking about it, and then I saw someone yesterday was talking about the same thing that basically Tennessee's just decided we don't care about the lady balls anymore.

00:40:56
Speaker 3: It's crazy because the court is named Pat Summit Court.

00:41:01
Speaker 1: Basketball. You think of Tennessee and Yukon. Absolutely, that's who you think of Tennessee and Yukon, and that they're just letting it. So, I mean, we can't. My point of all that to say, we can't let that happen. We've got a potential guy here in Kenny Brooks and we can't lose it to u v A.

00:41:18
Speaker 4: No, and you got an open door with Tennessee having nothing. I mean, the league is still tough, but Tennessee's not.

00:41:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, South Carolina's probably kind of replaced Tennessee in the issue is good, but now it's you in Texas.

00:41:29
Speaker 3: But we talked about blue budgs for the guy at Tennessee's a blue blood.

00:41:34
Speaker 1: I cannot believe how much you knew about Carolin. Yeah, you also called BS because somebody wrote in and said that the woman owned ten Derby winter horses, and you were very angry about that.

00:41:46
Speaker 3: In the break after the BS flag, there's no way Spendthrift Farm has.

00:41:51
Speaker 4: Started cussing on the internet. Doesn't say they like trained them, but you know, horses have to go somewhere. After they win the derby. Maybe they're all chilling.

00:41:57
Speaker 1: It's been is that where the the retired people got the retired horses go to chill?

00:42:02
Speaker 3: Well, they have old friends farm out there, but that's not.

00:42:05
Speaker 1: On spin thrip. No, we're big fans of old friends. Yeah, we do their thing. Who knew again Ryan's brain? Just Carolyn Peck's resume. That's the thing. All right, we'll do more portal and then we got to talk about another Facebook post. That's next here on ks R