KSR - 2024-02-07- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: February 7, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK's win over Vandy, best UK basketball transfers of all-time, and a proposed law on cell phones in schools.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is our number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, here at KS Bar and Grill. It is Wings Day. We just opened seconds ago, and you can come get dollar wings all day and night. Best Wings in town. Anybody who tells you otherwise is a liar or paid off by Russia, and you can be, come in, we got them all day, and if you get a chance, try our new sliders, too. The Buffalo chicken one is selling like hotcakes.

Saw a lot of people here last night tried those that they were outstanding. Is there a selling like hotcakes? Why is that the phrase? Where'd that come from? We need to ask John Short. He knows things like that. I mean, I understand. I know what a hot cake is.

Yeah. But like, why were hotcakes, Shannon, selling better than anything else when they did that? Probably 100 years ago. That's what everybody ate. Hot cakes. and probably that's where it came from selling like hotcakes because everybody bought them because everybody bought them okay fair enough all right so uh we a couple things offensive coordinator the hot name on the streets on the streets okay this isn't this isn't

scoop i'm not even going to say scuttlebutt because i haven't heard it directly but definitely the on the streets name is buster faulkner the offensive coordinator at Georgia Tech. Okay. That's one we need to keep an eye on. I think that is his name, right? I've seen the name mentioned. Buster Faulkner.

Coached Brock van de Griffin in high school, I think, before he went to. So there's a connection there. Or coached him somewhere. Okay. Maybe coached him online. All right. But there was some. They've met.

There's some connection there. But what do you think? Apparently he won. He was a nominee for the Broils Award for Best play caller in the country last year. At Georgia Tech? Yes. Are he going to bring the wing T,

you, whatever it is? That's not how they play anymore. That's why I think everybody thought they completely, they completely changed their offense, and they played like a modern offense. And he was, like, credited as the guy who made that. I like that. Who made that transition.

I like that. I like his already connection with our quarterback, so far, I like everything I'm hearing. Like a guy named Buster? What you think about that? Like, that's a good name for a, a Kentucky coach. Yeah, I feel bad.

I didn't watch a lot of Georgia Tech football last year to really get in the weeds here. But his resume is at a lot of small schools, but everyone speaks highly. He was even at Val Dostas State. We don't we have a little connection glow back there? Yeah. So if it were to be him, it would be his, by far, his biggest job at this point. And, you know, you don't know how he can handle that call in those plays. But I just like what's written about him.

The numbers around him and the system he runs. Like Brian said, when I first heard Georgia Tech's offensive coordinator, I thought, why in the hell would we want that? But it has been a complete difference from what they were for some of years. I'm sorry, he was the offense. He worked with Bandergriff at Georgia. So he was at Georgia Tech for one year. He was the Georgia quarterback coach.

So he has been in big school. I was looking at his resume. He was the UGA quarterback whisperer. Stetson Bennett credits buster with his development. Looks like it was, yeah, they're from 2020 to 2022 before that little Southern Miss, a little Arkansas State, a little Murray State. Really? Has been around quite a bit.

So that seems like the name to watch, be watching on the streets. They're whispering about Buster Faulkner. Buster Faulkner. Buster Faulkner. Now, a couple things to watch for. Rick, the Dartmouth Employees case. I'm not going to sit here and get all nerdy on you, but the Dartmouth basketball team filed a claim asking to be employees of Dartmouth.

And the NLRB, that's the National Labor Relations Board, said that college athletes are employees. Now, they've said this before, and then the case settled, so it wasn't a surprise. But the Dartmouth basketball team is saying they're going all the way with it. So this could be the case, of all things, Dartmouth basketball that decides

whether or not college basketball players are employees. I can sit and do a two-hour podcast on this. I just don't think people would care enough to listen. But here's what this comes down to. Rick Patino came out with a tweet yesterday, says we need to put a salary cap on college basketball. I actually, what people don't understand is you're not allowed to do that legally unless you call them employees, right?

The courts will strike it down. The courts will say it's an antitrust violation. So at the end of the day, we are heading to a world where they're going to have to say college athletes are employees. They're going to have to say that if they want to unionize, they can, and they collectively bargain. There's no way that's going to work on a school-to-school basis. It will be utter chaos.

How do you collectively bargain when most of the players just come for one year? Like you're not going to be able to do it. So the only way it's going to work is if the union is all college athletes, and they're not going to be able to do it like every college athlete in the country. So they're going to have to do it probably conference by conference. The SEC will negotiate with their conference. The Big Ten will negotiate with theirs. Players can decide, do I want to join the SEC Union?

Do I want to join the Big Ten Union, et cetera? That's how it's going to have to be. And the NCAA just needs to – they just got to do it. Like the longer they drag this out, they're going to lose. And until they make a decision, it's chaos. Like right now it's chaos. So, Ryan, I don't know why I'm telling you. telling you like you need to fix this.

Fix it, Ryan. But someone needs to tell the NCAA. They just got to do this because the courts are going to make them do it. So you might as well get ahead of it and just do it. Is this something this Dartmouth case that could be decided fairly soon? It'll take a year. If the NCAA fights it, it'll probably take two years to get to the Supreme Court. But it's going to happen.

And what I think the NCAA needs to understand is, y'all need to do it yourself before the court does it for you because you're not going to like what the court does. The court's going to be worse for you than if you did it for yourself. I mean, again, when the Supreme Court goes 9-0, you are in trouble. Okay? Yeah. When it's 9-0, you are in trouble. I mean, that court doesn't go 9-0 on much anything.

If they go 9-0 against you, you are on the wrong side of the law. So you might as well go and fix it. And this Dartmouth case is like the canary in the coal mine because it's probably going to be the one that ultimately decides it. I have a question. Okay. So should the SEC and the Big Ten or an Alkind leader should they go ahead? Yeah.

They're, you know, so you saw there was a meeting. The SEC and Big Ten Commissioner got together. And we're basically like, we may just do this ourselves. Yeah. And if they do, that's probably the way. This is going to have to be done on a conference by conference basis. and the SEC and the Big Ten will do theirs, and then the ACC will do theirs,

and the Big 12 will do theirs. That's the way it has to be done. But here's why the other schools don't want that. The SEC and the Big Ten, if they go together, their salary cap's going to be higher than the other schools. Of course it will. And so the kids are going to go to those schools because there's more money on them.

That's just. But they're the two power conferences now by far. But the courts are not going to allow. They will call it a, it will be called an antitrust. violation if all the conferences do it at once. They'll go, you can't do that. You're restricting trade.

So it's going to have to be a conference by conference thing. And that's, I'm telling you, we can, we'll fight about this for three or four years, but we will end up exactly where I just said whenever they get done with it. Well, the NCAA had about a decade to get in front of all this. They should have. They should have. And if they wait until the Supreme Court decides it, they will get a deal that will be terrible for them.

So they better do it beforehand. Because if they don't, when the court looks at you and says, no, you're doing it illegally. If you don't fix it, the next time you come before them, you're in trouble. You're in a lot of trouble. Who's up next yet? Ken.

Ken. What's up, Ken? Hey, man, I'm from Bell County, and I'm about to say something. I thought I'd never say the big news this morning. It's even on the trade talk radio. Uh, yeah, a wallaby got loose. Yeah, it's right.

I wrote a, a, uh, a wallaby got loose in Hared and it's headed to Meadlesboro. Oh, no. A wallaby. Okay, hang on just a second. Yeah. A wallaby? And that's like a kangaroo? Yeah, it got loose over in Haringen.

I reckon it tated down 25E to middle of burl. Now, wallaby is, first of all, are you, are you being serious? Or is, like, is this like a... Yeah, I swear to God, Google it. So you're saying there's a wallaby, which I look up as an Australian small kangaroo. Rockos Modern Life. Rock those modern life. Remember him, he was a wallaby.

So a wallaby got loose in Harrogate. Is it planning on coming through the tunnel to Middlesbrough? Like, how's it getting to Middlesbrough? Well, I mean, you know what? We ain't nothing in Harrogate. There's the joke. There's the joke. But you're saying there is.

No, I'm looking at a picture. It's on LMU's campus, 17 minutes ago. They spotted it on LMU's campus? Yep, round around. So why? Did it say why there was a wallaby in Haringet? I think they're trying to get to the bottom of this. Apparently some veterinarian was bringing it to LNU or something and escape.

So there's a wallaby on it. Now, are wallabies dangerous? I mean, I guess they can be. We don't know. Yeah, they'll fight you like a kangaroo probably. Wallabies and kangaroos will accept our presence if we show no aggression towards them. But if you get close, they may see you as a threat and attack you. So how are you going to catch this little wallaby?

Somebody in the mountains is going to fight with this wallaby. There is a fist fight coming. Somebody from Bell County is going to wrestle it. You're going to sneak up behind it and wrestle it. I can guarantee it. I like how you said you never thought you'd call with this. Well, first of all, you're going to be my official wallaby correspondent. What was your name again?

Oh, my name's Ken. Ken, keep me updated on the text machine, 7-7-2-7-4-5-254 during the day, and let me know how the wallaby hunt is going. And if it gets through the, because it's hard to get to Middlesboro from Harrigan unless you go through the tunnel. So let me know if you hear that it's on the way. Okay, and everybody prayers for Bell County and the Wallaby. Thank you very much.

I appreciate it. That is so Bell County, a Wallaby, running around, hopping around. I do like the joke. You know he's going to come to Middlesbril because there ain't nothing to do in Harris. There's nothing in Harrogate. It's where all the football players come over from Harrogate to play for Middlesbril. You know, wow, how about a wallaby being exciting? Well, could it conceivably just go over the mountain or is that just...

Be very hard. Remember history? Daniel Boone. The only one... He thinks he's going to jump over the mountain. It's not a giant. It's a big wallaby. No, I mean, you remember.

in history, Daniel Boone had to go through the Cumberland Gap because those mountains were too treacherous to cross. So there was a gap in the mountains. He walked through the gap and that's how settlers got west of the, you know,

Appalach of the mountains there. That's the Cumberland Gap. That's why it was so historic. That's why it's at National Parks. Why there's a tunnel. I don't think this wallaby tells Daniel Boone, hold my beer. Watch this. I'm going right over the mountains. I don't think he's going to be able to go over the mountain. It's a very thick There's a thick mountains up there.

Well, he's running around campus at LMU. People will go go video of him and pictures of it. Oh, there's video? Yeah, we pulled it back up. I was trying to, I lost it. I'll get it. Yeah, he's just hopping around on campus. What a story.

What a story? I had no idea. Who's next? Jerry. Jerry, go ahead, Jerry. Hey, Matt. Back on the end of a lot of thing, did you see where Tennessee and the Tennessee Attorney General lost in the first round

in federal court yesterday. Yes, but they lost for the exact same. They lost, but they're going to win. That's a perfect example of how the headlines are misleading. I won't bore you, but they lost the injunction, but they're going to win the case, and the NCAA is going to lose on that one, too. Well, all I'll say is that Feinbaum had a leading Illinois attorney in the country on his show last week. He's a professor at Miami, and he didn't think Tennessee had much of a case because he said,

this case is different from the others because they're not denying the only of the D.I. He may have said that, but the judge, In his opinion said I think there's a very good chance Tennessee and Virginia will win their case. In his opinion. But what they got said is if they lost the first injunction, that they're likely to lose the case because he might be saying that. That's not true. And why didn't he get in their injunction?

Jerry, I'm just read the opinion. He said it in the opinion. He goes, it's not an emergency. So I don't feel like I need to issue an injunction. But I think they have a very high likelihood of success on the merits. Well, we'll see because, like I said, I've heard about two national NLI attorneys have said that Tennessee has a weak case. Jerry, I'm not going to. I appreciate the call.

It's in his opinion. He literally, in his opinion, says the likelihood is very successful in the merits. And since he is going to decide it, I feel like he kind of knows what he is likely to decide. I feel like kind of knows where he's leaning. I mean, he says, I don't, I mean, there may have been a guy on Fine Bomb who said something different. but the guy who's deciding said in the case, there's a very high likelihood that I'm ruling with these guys. So judges don't do that a lot. Who's next?

Read. Read. Go ahead and read. Hey, greetings from Indiana, guys. Thank you. Good readings to you. I just like to make the case. I realize I'm an old guy and a lot of people don't necessarily know Kyle Macy, but I

I don't you think that one of the issues of best transfer is who won the national title. I'll take the night. Yeah, but he also won the national title with three guys who played in the NBA. Oscar was the national player of the year. And as good as Kyle Macy is, and he's amazing. He was not, was he an All-American even? I don't think of what. Was he?

Yes, he was. He was all SEC. and I think you was third team all-American. Third-team all-American. Well, I mean, Oscar was national player of the year. So I'm going to, you know, again, if you want to take Kyle Macy, totally understand. I'm going to take the first-team all-American national player of the year over a third-team all-American. Just if you're asking who's just sheer.

It's not Oscar's fault. He wasn't playing with Jack Givens and Kevin Grevy. If he was, I bet they win the national championship, too. The real question I wanted to get to was, you got, you guys got your ears. to the thing there. So my biggest concern about the quarterback coming in was if he couldn't beat not one, Stetson Bennett, but two different people to be starters. What are you hearing about how good this kid really is?

And did we bring an offensive coordinator just because he's the guy? Appreciate the call. I will say this. Stetson Bennett won two national championships, plays in the NFL, and had one of the most successful careers in college of all time. If he wasn't quite as good as that guy, I still think he can play here. And the guy last year, the word was Brock Van der Grygiff.

What's his name, Georgia quarterback? Vandergriff. And what's the guy that just was the quarterback? Beck. They were like neck and neck and like Beck barely beat Van derriff out. So if he's that close to being Georgia starting quarterback, I think he's good enough to be our quarterback. You give me second string at Georgia, Alabama.

I'll take them every time. Yeah. I just, I will. I'll take them every single time and not ask another question. Hey, our friends at Commonwealth Causes are giving away lower level center court tickets for the Gonzaga game. They're good seats. Commonwealthcauses.org, lower level. So let me say right now, get on your phone, commonwealthcauses.

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call the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line at 859-2802-287 or 1-800-606. You can also text Matt on the A-Vision Glass text machine at 772-7-744. There you go. I almost yelled the part you shit can't say on radio there. Yes. It just felt natural. Cumberland Gap. Will the Wallaby get through?

Maybe the greatest song ever recorded. recorded in the history of music right here. It's not even his song. You mean the actual version? No, this version. Yeah, I can't get it. You in this song. I love Ryan's version.

I might sing this Friday night with Shannon at Banners. Come on out. Kyle Macy, I guess, did not play with Kevin Grevy. He didn't. So who was on the, Grievey was, what, 75. Yeah, right. So 78 is James Lee, James Lee, Rick Robey,

Mike Phillips. Gotcha. A lot of people on the text machine arguing for Kyle Macy. Totally understand that. Just national player of the year, I think. We've only had, we've only had what? Two consensus national players of the year in our history, Anthony Davis and Oscar?

Which is crazy, but I think that's right. I think those are the, I mean, John Wall, there's a couple people who won one. John Wall won one. Yeah, one. But consensus national player of the year, I only think Anthony Davis and Oscar have won that. it's pretty hard to do and all I don't think Kyle's the wrong

actually I mean both of them are all timers here I call them co-best transfer if you want but I mean they're both they're one A and one B above all the other transfers fun fact about Macy he got drafted

by the Phoenix Suns after his junior season this is before they could go pro so they already held his rights that's what Larry Bird and Magic it's right they both had already been drafted and came back and played the next year There was a little period of time where that happened

where you were, where you did both. They let that happen. 8.5.9, you know, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world now. If you could draft a guy and then he was in college instead of playing in the G league. You're in college. It's better. It's a lot better than playing in G league.

Except for the, if you were getting, I mean, I don't know why we don't consider doing that. Yeah. Because if you could play, if a team could draft Rob Dillingham. for instance. Wouldn't it be better for him to play another year at Kentucky than to go play for the mad ants? Yes, absolutely. I kind of wonder why we don't do that.

I think it's a good proposal to keep those kids and they probably would make more money, the NIL money at the school. They definitely would make more money at the school, right? I mean, it would be good for exposure of basketball, but those kids would say, I'm not going to school if I am a member of the Portland Trailblazers. They probably. And as a fan, there would be moments where, The NBA would say, I don't know if I want them playing tonight against so-and-so, and that would get old real.

I know that actually might be having already. I think we're already doing that. I think we just need to recognize that's probably already happening now as it is. Who's up next? Matt. Matt. What's up, Matt? Yeah, I just want to say congratulations on the number one spot.

And I know Vanderville is a terrible team, but I think this young team is going to be built on a lot of momentum. And I think this momentum will help us for the rest of the season. I hope you're right. I think this, I mean, momentum is big, you know. So the Gonzaga game is huge. Gonzaga game's huge. I mean, I appreciate the call. We should beat Gonzaga.

I mean, this year, Gonzaga would be the equivalent of probably Old Miss or Florida. Is that fair to say? This year. This year. Now, we lost to Florida. So it's time for, like, we're basically playing Florida again on Saturday. we need to beat them right we should have beaten them the other time we had them beat it was over and we lost so now go beat them drew like that's what saturday is absolutely especially

even more so now that you've lost a couple at home because that's not Kentucky's never lost three in a row rup arena let's just say that so get that out of the way it ain't happening and you're not coming in here Gonzaga's down there's no excuse for that they beat you about 18 last year I know this is a new team but I hope that's still fresh around the locker room that they owe them Gonzaga won. So I'm confident with what they did last night, scoring 109 points, and having two losses in Rupp Arena still fresh, that they come out and play well and get it done.

That is an amazing college basketball stat to talk about the history of this program. We have never lost three straight home games in a row ever. Even the bad COVID team. Even the COVID team, even the probation team, never have lost three straight home games in a row ever. So you've got to win Saturday. Who's next? The break's next.

Yeah, same thing. Jump around's next. 8.9, 280, 27. We'll take a break. Very back. It's KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J.

He'll make them pay. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Who is this? REO Speedwagon. All right. Yeah.

Yeah. The, uh, Shannon, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, trend of like isolate, you know, without on the podcast without having the music, me singing. I'm just going to have to stop doing it. It was really weird yesterday. Yeah, great song. Silence. Yeah, I'm going to have to stop the singing.

Listen to this part. Yeah. Listen this part. Silence. Well, you know, it is what it is. What are you going to do? But I still feel like we have to do the songs on the regular show because that's, you know. That's our core audience.

I hate it. I don't know when it's going to get fixed. I hope it does at some point. John Scott actually gives us rather than just opinions. How about numbers? Here are the points per game among transfers to Kentucky. Okay. First place, we didn't even mention.

I'll go from, let's see, I'll go from eighth place. Eighth place, Reed Travis, 11.2. Okay. Seventh place, Kell and Grady, 11.4. Sixth place, Dwight Anderson. The blur. The blur. 12.2.

Fifth place, Trey Mitchell, 12.3.3. Fourth place, Kyle Macy, 14.4. Fifth, or, excuse me, third. Antonio Reeve, 16.5. Second, Oscar Shebaway, 16.9. And first place, with 20.1 points per game, Bob Burrow. Bob Burrow was for? Bob Burrow.

Didn't even make the names. Bob Burrow shows up. Travis Ford, 9.2 points again. But he was still MVP of the SEC tournament two years in a row. He also, I think, played a year where he didn't play much, so that probably brings his points per game down. Yeah, that first year, 91. Yeah.

I think he was on the team, but maybe didn't play. I mean, if we're picking our top, I mean, no disregard to Killing Grady, but I'm picking Travis Ford over Killing Grady. What about Bob Burrow? Well, he was going to leave Bob Burrow? The Bobster, the Babbarama. Did we name Hashimu Evans? I know he's not in that category, but...

We mentioned him. Okay, and then a fan favorite of mine that wasn't mentioned, Antoine Barber. You know, he's not going to be on any Mount Rush Moors, but always likes him, another Juko guy. All right, it's time for the KSR legislature to vote on a bill that's going to be before the state legislature. Are you ready?

Court is in session. It has just been brought up, and it will get a vote this year. There's a bill right now in front of the state. state legislature to ban the use of cell phones in schools, ban the use of cell phones in school without teacher direction, basically saying cell phones put away by law. For it, against it. You want to go first? You have the child in school if you want to go first.

I'm going to sound like the old man in the club, but I would vote yes on that. Now, I know, like, I can speak just at Frederick Douglass. They have little things in place right now where when you come in, you have to put your phone in a bag and you can get it when the class is over, but yet you are allowed at times to go get your phone out if you're done with your work or whatever. So I would be in favor of that. Not allowed one classroom unless the teacher allows it. There's got to be some sort of system like that when you come in, you put it in a bag. When you go to a concert, you know, you put your phone in a bag or something like that until after class is over.

I don't even know they had bags. That sounds cool. I don't even know if kids get on their phones in the classroom, but I feel like they shouldn't. Because when I was in school, I had to use a TI-83 graphing calculator to play games, to cheat, to send messages to the person next to me. We had to get creative.

We didn't have cell phones when I was in school, and I'm just going to be the curmudgeon that says for that reason alone, they got to get creative and find a graphing calculator and type the entire periodic table into it if they want to pass that test. Before I go to Shannon, I'll go. I'm way for it. I don't know why. Like, if a teacher needs to use it for a lesson, fine.

But otherwise, why? Why? Now, I mean, do I do think like you should have a phone accessible in the room in case there's an emergency, right? And I don't know how you make sure that happens. And maybe I'd put in an amendment to make sure there's a phone if there's, God forbid, like an active shooter or something like that. But in terms of day-to-day, I think there's nothing I hate more than my students,

when I teach her on the phone. So I'm for it. Like, people are kind of mocking the legislator. Unless somebody can give me a reason. I'm for it. What about you shit? When you say make a law out of it, does that mean like they're going to come arrest the kid if he comes in with his phone?

No, I think it's like, I think it's just is saying, I don't know. It's a good point. I don't know. I mean, they're not going to rent. They're not a little kid, but there would be, it's something to say you can't use it. No, I'm with you guys. I mean, why do you need it? That's just one more distraction.

I don't think that you need to have a phone in your hand while you're in class. But like Ryan says, I mean, yeah, you do need to have it. And like you said as well, Matt, in case there's some sort of emergency, you need to have a phone in the classroom, but not in your hand or your pocket. Yeah. So it sounds like we're unanimous. I like the, I didn't even know about the bag thing. I like an area where all their phones are.

If you need to go glance at it, you have permission, but you're not just sitting there scrolling. I didn't know this. When you walk in the school, they give you a bag, and then when you come to class, you put the bag somewhere. It's not every class, but some teachers are putting this in place where you come in, you put in a bag. Like when you go to a concert sometimes, you have to put your phones up. They do that, and you can't have access to it until that class is over.

I like that. It's like going to C Chappelle. Yep. Because then as soon as you get in the hallway, you can check your phone. Like, oh, dad needs me to call him, you know, or something. But does dad really need you to call it during the school? No. I can text you'll say, though, right now.

He probably would text me back because they're on their phone all the time. You know, obviously we didn't have phones. no way to do it but like hot take and uh i hope my parents don't take this personal but you know in high school maybe i don't want my parents to reach out to me like i like the excuse of all i didn't know you were looking for me who's next shannon let's go to birch burch how are you bertch got it right matt first time long time what's up um i don't know did you um list derrick anderson is one of the better uh we did yes we did um okay and second thing is um i cannot find any why Wagner's angles hurt.

Can you give me an update on that and I'll let you go? I don't know why it's hurt, but I do think it is hurt. He, you know, now, when do you think he plays? Cal had a line last night. He wasn't talking about anyone in particular, but he said, I think in a week or two, we'll have everyone.

So I just kind of lumped Mitchell and Wagner and Adoo's back. But you know. I know. It doesn't matter to me what he said. He said Wagner be back in a couple of days. And now we, I mean, like, that doesn't mean he's not telling the truth, but, like, you can't go with what he says on injuries. And I know that's going to be another thing that people get riled up,

but it's just the truth. Severe Wheeler was going to be back in a day or two for six weeks. Yeah. Like, it's not, he'll be back when he's back, and I just, I have no idea when it is. If we listen to guys that go to practice, like Jack and Cameron Mills and these guys that know some of the stuff, It seems like they both have hinted to Mitchell may be longer getting back than DJ.

Like DJ's kind of close to coming back, but Mitchell's back is like, that's an issue. A lot of injuries this year. Yeah. We haven't had a full roster yet. Not one game, but we had a full roster. And Cal said DJs is a high ankle sprain. Those can be tough. That's usually a little longer.

Yeah, those can be tough. I mean, I don't know the timeline, but I didn't like hearing that it's a high angle spring. Yeah. Who's next, yeah? Joseph. Joseph. Joseph. How are you, Joseph?

I'm good, Matt, a much-needed win on the board, but it's not going to change my mind on this team. I believe in the team, but they need a Final Four minimum, or Mitch needs to pull Cal by his hair and throw him out the door. Whoa. Aggressive?

A little physical. I'm not sure that he's going to be able to do that. I feel like that's... Only Anthony Davis can touch that here. Essentially, that's against the law. But, yeah, I mean, I appreciate the call. We've talked... was my message last night.

It's not that I'm not going to get frustrated. I know I will in a game, but like ultimately, it's almost like nothing matters until March at this point. The regular season to me is about a few things. Win the SEC, get a top seed or just like be Kentucky dominant. Well, we've not been Kentucky dominant. We're probably not going to win the SEC unless something crazy happens, and we're not going to get a top seat.

So at this point, it's just go to the tournament. and let's we got to go get it done that's kind of how i look at it ryan is that crazy no i think that the way the way this year is gone and it is crazy that going into the season we thought our big high profile home game resume builders would be miami and gonzaga well now Miami may not even make the tournament in gonzaga struggling so you have to win those florida at home Tennessee at home and you didn't do it so your chances to build your resume it's got now harder and harder and harder going into March. The other thing is avoiding playing on Thursday in the SEC tournament is going to be really hard.

Yeah, it is. I mean, Alabama's 8 and 1, South Carolina's 8 and 2, Auburn 7 and 2, Tennessee 6 and 2, and we have four losses. Like, there's a really good chance, folks. We are playing on Thursday in the SEC tournament. Like that is a way above 50% chance at this point. Yeah, South Carolina won another one last night. That makes Kentucky's law.

I mean, it's still stunk losing by as means they did. But South Carolina is a very good team this year. I don't know that they're going to slip up and help give Kentucky a room to climb the SEC standings to get to Friday. Tennessee plays at home tonight, play LSU. I think they're looking good there. Tonight's Alabama versus Auburn, so one of them will suffer loss. But there's still Alabama's three games ahead, and Auburn's two games ahead. So you need help even if you are winning these games.

I think you should go ahead and plan if you're going the SEC tournament. I think there's a very good chance. we're playing Thursday at 3.30 in the afternoon. I think if you look at this, unless we collapse or someone else collapses, we are headed for the five seed in the SEC tournament. That's just my redone. That's Thursday at 3.30. Yes.

So we'd be playing like Thursday 3.30, Friday 3.30, Saturday early game. At least it's not late at night for all that. That's true. I cannot believe that Thursday is even in the conversation. I can't either. We never even thought of that going into this season. there's a chance that it might play on Thursday night in the SEC tournament.

I think we've only played on Thursday once? I think so. COVID years ago. I think COVID year is the only time that I can, I'm sure that's not true, but I think that's the only time I ever remember us playing on Thursday. Well, no, we would have played on Thursday the Nerlands year. Probably.

Because we would have made the tournament if we didn't play on it. That's true. So I think the only two years we've played on Thursday, on Thursday. Oh, great company. We're years where we didn't make the tournament. Court.com. If your New Year's resolution is to stay active and healthy,

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Gonzaga. Win. Win. Win. Win. Ole Miss at home. Shannon. Win.

Win. Win. At Auburn, Shannon. Loss. Loss. Loss. Loss. At LSU, Shannon.

I think it's going to be a tough one. I'm going to say win, though. I'm going to say win. Win. I'm going to say win, but that's going to be a hard game. Home Alabama. Win. Win.

What do you got, Chan. Loss. Win. Loss. Do we take a Rup lost to Alabama? Yeah, they're the top team in the SEC. Okay, all right. Ken Palm picks a loss too.

I don't like that. I take the cats, and the total on that game will be 250. All right. Mississippi State Road. Win. I'm going to say loss. I was going to do it, too. Thank you for saying it first.

I'll go win. Arkansas, we all got win. Vandy, we all got win at Tennessee. Loss. Loss. I'm going to say, a win. I think in the last game of the year, we sneak and get one in Knoxville. I'm thinking back to last year as a 12-point underdog. No one thought Kentucky had a chance

end up being a special day. I'll join you, even though Tennessee looks so much more physical just a few days ago, I think cats get them back. So Drew and I have two losses, Auburn, Mississippi State. Ryan has two losses, Auburn, Tennessee. Shannon has four losses. Auburn, Tennessee. No, you have Mississippi State win. You have three. Auburn, Tennessee, and Alabama home. But if they don't win the SEC tournament, they're going in with what? 10 losses into the tournament.

Nine. For you. For me, yes. For us eight. The Kid Pop projections have four losses. He has a 10-and-eight record. Was one other loss at LSU? Auburn.

No, he is losing home to Alabama. At home to Alabama. Mississippi State, Tennessee. We're beating Alabama. They play like we do. We're beating Alabama at home. That's going to be a fun game to watch. It will be a fun game to watch.

If you like the NBA All-Star game. Who's next? Matthew. Matthew. How are you, Matthew? Hello? Yes, sir. Go ahead.

Yes. I've been dying to tell you all. Thank you all so much. I'm from Knox County. And during that flood, me and my mom and my wife, we were trapped, basically in our holler. We couldn't get out for several days. and your all show was the one thing that we looked forward to listening to each day. And I just want to say thank you all.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And we're glad to do it. And you got a new fan. My mom's 90 years old. She bleeds blue, but now she's in love with the Matt Jones show and all you got. Well, thank you. Tell your mom, thank you very much.

I appreciate it. But she wanted me to tell you. One more thing real quick. My papio in Knox County was in politics for several years. His name was Ruby Watts. He was Judge, Sheriff, had different positions. He got invited to the White House

when JFK was president. Oh, wow. And, yeah. And so he goes there, and he's in the room and JFK comes in. And everybody else there, you know, has been to Yale, Harvard, all these huge universities,

and he comes to my papaya, and he asks him, you know, what's your name, and where'd you go to school? And he says, my name is Ruby Watson. And he only had a fourth grade education. And he said, I graduated from Car Creek University. So I love that story. I like it.

Well, first of all, I like that he was proud of himself. No reason to be intimidated by those highfalutin universities. So I appreciate that. That's a great story. Thank you, sir. Yeah, and I think we'll be all right. I'm a little worried about the tournament run. I mean, this lineup, I mean, he's got to get a lineup.

Well, I don't know if that's going to happen. I think he's going to, and I appreciate the call. That'll be my whiskey thief call today. Remember we're at Whiskey Thief on Friday. You can use your whiskey thief to get the bourbon out of the barrel, and don't put in your eye. I was very, people were very clear. Yes, don't put it in the eye.

But Whiskey Thief tomorrow, or excuse me, Friday. I think this lineup, he's not going to have a set line. He's just not, right? It's too many pieces. Like we mentioned, you know, the Florida game last week, Hugo, you couldn't take him off the floor. You had to play him. Well, last night, you know, it was Big Z and Bradshaw's turn.

I mean, I think he's just going to have to go with the big guy that's playing well that night. I think it's going to be just fine which one's going to bring it. But even at the other positions, I think it's going to be, you know, for a long time it looked like Trey Mitchell would be the one guy that never left the floor. I'm not sure if that's true anymore. I mean, I think it's going to be, I think the one dude that I feel like will play

absent him being ice cold as Reeves. And then besides that, I think it's flexible, Drew, dependent on the moment. I completely agree. I mean, we all know the importance of DJ Wagner and we want to get him back and get the ball back in his hands. But if Rob Dillingham is going to go four for four the moment he steps on the court,

I mean, you're going to have to let that hot. hand go too, which is going to take someone off the court. So I really go by matchups, especially on the inside with the bigs, what works there, or just ride whoever looks like they brought it that night and who might have a hot hand. Because with this team and the way they can shoot, it can be any of those guards on any given night. By the way, look online. I've had people ask me about our catering for the Super Bowl because we do, we give you wings for your house parties. You sign up now online.

I'll post about it today so that you can do it. It's actually a much easier process than it used to be when you had to call. go to Michael Michael, go ahead Michael Hey Matt So I think it's important That we have a really quick start on offense And I think the way to do that is

DJ Reed Dillingham Then play Trey or You know Edwards at the 4 And then you know play Ugo or you know Bradshaw the 5 You're going to put you Who do you want on the bench?

Shepherd or Reeves Well okay yeah I'm sorry, Reeves. So I guess DJ Reeves, Dillingham or Shepard, you know, whichever one's doing good. I think right now it needs to be Dillingham because I feel like we need to get a quick start. No, we do. And yeah, I'm with you, but he's going to start how he starts. Hey, tonight, Alabama and Auburn.

Yes. Who you got? Auburn and home. I'm taking Auburn at home. Auburn. Auburn at home. Thank you, folks, very much. We will see you tomorrow here.

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