KSR - 2024-02-23- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 23, 2024

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Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here Friday, February 23rd. In Danville, Kentucky, we are at the Lee's famous recipe right here in Danville, and we are excited to be here at my, I'm going to go ahead and say it, one of my favorite fast food places anywhere, not just Lees, which I've always liked, but this one particularly in Danville. We've come here a couple times. Food is always very good.

Larry Vaught tries to talk louder than the show. It's always exciting to have him here in Danville. We appreciate everybody coming out. You've heard me say for years. If I lived anywhere in the area outside of Lexington, I would live in Danville. I just love this town down here. Oh, really? Is that right?

Yeah. You can give Shalick Clark's Pump Shop phone line 859-2802287. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-745-254 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith, Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. I will tell you a Larry Vaught story before we start. He told me before the show started that he has only blocked one person in the history of his time on social media, and it's Liam Cohen.

Well, he deserves it. That's the only person he's ever blocked was Liam Cohen. And I said, why did you block Liam Cohen? And he said, because he blocked me first. There you go. That's the right thing to do. When somebody blocked you, you've got to block him right back. Which I applaud that.

Larry Vaughn out here putting the block on Liam Cohen. How about that? I thought you were going to say Dan Dockich. Remember the famous Larry Vaught, Dan Dockich? Oh, did you all ever make up? No. Well, so Liam Cohen and Dan Dockich are on Larry Vaughn's list. We are here at Lees where USA Today voted Lee's best fried chicken.

Nice. Yeah. Yes. Wow. I agree with it. They've got chicken catfish. wedges, and it's been in business since 1972 here in Danville. Justin, a friend of mine owns it, and now glad to be here on a Friday.

And, you know, I also think they have great chicken livers, kind of a little secret, a little hidden secret. I think you say that every time we come. I think probably so. Yeah. Yes. Do you like chicken livers? Love them. Absolutely.

You know, we played, my band played here last year, and I had to have Lee's famous. Your band played here at Lee? Yes, no. At the Town Square in Dandville, and I say here in Danville in the vicinity. and I had to have some lees, so they catered it in. Love this place. I'm going to give you like a moderate thank you, so it's not like a full thank you. It's a moderate thank you to the Danville pickleball picklers who I don't really like that you all exist as a group.

But because you do, I thank you. They brought me a pickleball paddle. And they say, don't worry, you're going to play at some point. So they brought me a paddle. So if I ever play, I have a pickleball paddle. One more thing for him to throw in the back of this car for the next 10 years that will never come out, right? Would he trades the car in in five years? He'll find a good.

Oh, yeah, let's go play some pickleball. It's added value with the car. But I do like everybody, again, everyone is only making it to where I'm more adamant to not play because they want me to play so badly. But being nice to you. No, no, it's very nice. That was very nice by the Danville Picklers. Is there a pickleball court here in Danville? It is?

Where is it? I don't need direct directions. by the recreation department. So see if you play here in Danville where you've got a place to play. We've talked about the new indoor facility they're building in Lexington. A huge facility they're building over there on the west side. Yeah. So Danville and pickleball, you guys can be happy together.

I won't be a part of it. Kentucky plays Alabama tomorrow in what, in my opinion, will be, if you're just a casual college basketball fan, I'm not sure there'll be a more fun game than you're going to have tomorrow, right? I mean, the over-under, I can't wait to see what it comes out. Probably be the highest over-under in college basketball this year. Might be $300. $385?

I mean, $100, I don't know. I mean, $180? I have no idea. It's going to be high because these two teams score at a huge pace. And the way they both play, they're both going to let each other run up and down the floor. If you didn't care about winning, Ryan, tomorrow would be. be awesome, except we actually need to win. Yeah, put your track shoes on. It's going to be up and down.

Neither team plays great defense at all. I think in Kim Palm, they're both like 72 and 75 in defense. But offense, I mean, that would surprise me if both teams are pushing 100 tomorrow. I mean, it's going to be up and down a lot of points. Well, these are the two teams, the top 40 teams right now in America, these are the two teams with the worst defensive rating, and they're playing each other. So, like, you're going to, and they're two of the top. seven or eight in offense and they're playing each other.

So you're going to get, they like to shoot threes, they like to get up and down the court. But now, Shannon, to me, this is a must win for Kentucky. I mean, I think if they had beaten LSU, you still had one you could probably drop somewhere. But now I think at home, after three straight marquee home games that we lost, I think you've got to win this one. You do. I don't know how much it will affect your seed line for the NCAA tournament. definitely has SEC tournament implications.

Alabama has scored 307 points in the last three games. Oh, my. I was just looking at it this morning. 37 points in the last three. So I don't know if Kentucky wants to get into a shootout with them. This may be the one team I would say that about. I think we still could outscore.

I still think our players are better than that. I think the only thing we got to do is we got to make sure if there was ever a game that you got to play that lineup I like, this is the one. you got to score. I mean, you got with, you need five scores on the floor. I mean, there's no, I can't think of a scenario we win this game and score less than 80, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, I don't, you think you're going to hold Alabama under 70 under 80? If you do, though, I feel better about that than trying to score 110 with them.

I don't think we're, I don't think, there is zero way. Now, maybe they'll run this back and I'll be wrong, but there is zero way we can hold Alabama under 80. They just score too much. I mean, I don't, I don't, I think you're going to have to out shoot them, right? And they play kind of small. They play a lot of guards. Which is what we, I'd like to see us do. Amen, yeah. So maybe that's the type of game.

They only have like one big guy that kind of can do anything, kind of like we have been lately. So it could be a good match. This is a game where, again, you'd really like to have Trey Mitchell because I think he'd be a good small ball five to play in this game. I sort of wonder, is there a moment where he runs three or four guards and Justin Edwards or three or four guards and a du Thierro and try it? because I do think a dude like a do who, you know, has had, or excuse me, Ugo who's had good games, I don't know who he can guard on Alabama. They're too little in some ways for him to be able to do much. If you don't have Trey, I feel like this could be a game that if we can get Bradshaw on track

offensively, I think this could be a good game for him. Because he's more offensive-minded than Ugo is right now, you know. And even Big Z, we see him be offensive. Yeah. I still don't know what to make. I mean, if you were going to find a game for Zeev, this might be one where he could get a little bit of run. Who knows? So I saw a message board thread that got me to looking into a little bit of history, which was basically who wins the NCAA tournament.

Okay? So I went and looked, because we don't know what we're going to be seated, but I went and looked every NCAA tournament back to 1990. So we're essentially talking 35 years of tournaments. And I found it absolutely fascinating. First of all, 35 years of tournaments. A one or a two-seed has won 29 of the 35. Okay, a one or a two-seat. That's pretty amazing, right?

Then a three-seed has won three of the six that hadn't been won. Florida, one of the Yukon teams, and Syracuse. Only three times in history in the last 35. years has a team one that wasn't a one, two, or three. And in every scenario, it was Yukon. Wow. Every scenario. Really? In every single time, it was, it was Yukon. So basically, you have to be almost certainly a one or two seed. You can be a three seed if you're Florida, Syracuse, or Arizona. That was the other one. Florida, Syracuse, or Arizona. Or you can be Yukon. That's what history says. So when you look at the tournament, a lot of people like to say, you know what,

seeding doesn't matter, it's random. It ain't that random. If 29 of the 35 winners are a one or two seed and three of the other six or three seats. And just so you know, in the three instances where they weren't top three, two of them were a four seed, and then one time Ucom won is a six seat. Never been a team since Villanova win a title that was a lower than a six seat. That's pretty amazing, really. And now for Kentucky, we would think they should be a top three seed,

but if they're going to be like maybe a six, you're saying the odds are going to tell us that. So, all right, so let's go to the teams real quick that were a four and a six. What were those teams? Well, basically they were teams where one guy took over, right? Shabazz Napier in 2014, Kimball Walker in 2011, and then really two guys in 97, Miles Bibby, or excuse me, Mike Bibby and Miles Simon. I lead all that to say, part of me wonders if our chance is

we got to look at whether it's Dillingham or Reeves and Dillingham or Shepard Reeves and Dillingham and go, dude, take us to the Promise Lab. Because if you look at it, the teams that have not been elite, they basically just get a guy, Ryan, who gets crazy hot and takes the team on their back to the title. Is that the way we have to go? and win it? Maybe. And you know, we saw Reeves the first half at LSU dominate,

then we saw Dillingham's the second half dominated. If those are two guys, man, maybe it's time for them, just let them go and just care is as far as they can. Would you do that? Like, it's clear Cal sort of does the thing that if you hustle, if you play defense, all these things that we hear coaches do that he's done this with this group. Is there an argument at this point? He should just find five dudes and go, here we go. That's what he's done in the past, right? But now I feel like he's got so much talent. His best teams. His best teams with the 2015 was weird because the platoon. But if you look at 2010, 2011, 2012, Fox Monk Bam, he basically narrowed it down to six or seven guys and said, let's go.

Reeves and Dillingham can be those two guys for you. But Dillingham's got to get more minutes. I mean, his consistency of minutes isn't there, right? 21 points the other night in 23 minutes. That's what I'm saying. Like, how do you, you need to play, he needs to be playing 35 minutes. 23. What's weird about his rotations now, usually this time of year, you know, he doesn't throw

Jordan Burks out there just for a couple minutes or Big Z just to get him a couple minutes. Those guys just don't, in the past, have just not played. At this point in the season, now he's throwing them out there. You should know who your guys are. Yeah, we're going into March. And here's another stat again that was just a UK fan put out there. But this is a pretty amazing thing. So we only have one lineup that has played like three.

hundred minutes together. To give you a comparison, Purdue has three lineups that have played that amount of time. Now, some of this is injuries. I will grant you. Four man lineups, okay, four guys playing together. Obviously, there are five, but they create these four-man lineups. We have played 32 different four-man lineups. Here's the number that'll drive you and say. The four-man lineup that we've played the most out of any four men actually, is the third worst out of our 32 in performance. So the team we're playing the most is the team that is the most inefficient. The team that we have that is the most efficient, which by the way is Reves, Shepard, Dillingham, and Mitchell,

is the group that we've played the fifth least amount of minutes. That's got to drive you crazy, doesn't it? Yeah. We've seen him. You know, he's trying to force things, and he keeps. trying to play the guy, trying to let them, I don't know, work out of it and find their groove. I don't know, with Edwards and Bradshaw and some of these guys that played this year. But what is the, what's the common denominator on that foursome I just mentioned?

Reeves, Dillingham, Shepard, Mitchell. What's the common today? They can all shoot. Yep. They can all shoot. Yep. They can all make threes. That's what the common denominator of those four guys is they can all shoot.

I feel like Shannon, if we're going to do something special, which I still think can happen. I don't think it's crazy. that's your guys to take you to the promise. Absolutely. You know, we've got to get Mitchell healthy. If he can be healthy and be ready for March, then I feel good about this team. But if you don't have Mitchell and that combination out there on the floor, like you said, I mean, the numbers show it. The numbers.

Yeah. Look, numbers don't lie, well, unless you make them. And for the most part, they show what they show. 859-2-8027. We are here in Danville at Lee's famous recipe chicken. What do you order? You're going to order the chicken liver? I may.

I mean, they're really good. Everything's good here, so we're ready to line it up, Justin. Fish is really good here. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at Lee's famous recipe in Danville. Ride, do what you do.

One of the best athletes from Danville ever. Oh, Jacob Tammy. Got to be number one, right? I'm asking you. Yeah, I'm thinking about other guys that have gone on a major. The left few brothers. help them who are the best athletes from Danville too many well he only got one so give us a few more Leonard Coker don't know that name okay uh the pocket rocket rocket back in the day that's just what

you have don't don't that wasn't athlete Jeremy Britt who was the mister why didn't hang on you say why did they call Jeremy Britt the pocket rocket because he was little yeah I hope that that's a better reason than anything else. Well, we'll let you talk to Larry and figure it out. Usually you have like tens. Well, I mean, there's a lot of football players here, right? Yeah. Taylor Begley, was the UK leader at Point.

What did you say, Nolan Rogers? All right, that's there you go. All right. Brian doesn't know these people. 859-280-2287. This has been here since 1972. You can learn more at LeesfamousRecipy.com. Somebody sent Larry Vaughed a message that said once I showed my athletic prowess at the UK soccer kicking exhibition.

I couldn't play pickleball. That's not very nice. That guy's in Major League Soccer now. Did you know? Oh, is it really? Wow. He got drafted. Did he?

So don't feel bad then, right? I feel like it's fun. One person writes, Matt, what time did your phone come on? Were you going crazy yesterday? It came on like right after the show. Came on at like 1210 or 1215. AT&T said they did a overnight backup, like where you switch. I don't know.

I know nothing about computers. But sometimes, you know, they'll do maintenance on computers overnight, and it didn't stick, and it made them have to revert and start over, and that's what caused the delay. There were like 10 cities where if your phone was based, it was the worst, and mine, my number is from Raleigh. And that was one of the city So that was in part probably why mine was down so

But Louisville was one of the secondary ones though So that's probably why a lot of people in Kentucky didn't have it working I'm glad it was just that nothing crazy No hackers or anything I didn't really buy it and then you gave me an explanation Before the show started and said that some of the other carriers Sort of piggyback off of 18 teams When I was at KSR we had some of you may remember

We had this happen one time We did this like huge change on the site And when we did it, it crashed the whole site, and it took us like two days to get it fixed. Now, and we're just one site. They were trying to fix a huge phone line, and so it felt like it made sense. Because, like, with Verizon and T-Mobile in some places, they piggyback on AT&T in some places. And so that may be why it didn't work. So when your website crashed, it crashed everywhere.

What do you mean? It crashed everywhere. Oh, like nobody could get on it. Yeah, for like 48 hours. So AT&T, though, it was just in... different cities. I think, and again, I know absolutely nothing about what I'm talking about, but I think when they do updates, they don't do the whole world at once. They do them in regions so that, and that this, whatever region this was, it hit. But of course, Ryan's phone, as much

crap as we give you over your phone, your phone's the one that actually was working. My little Android with T-Mobile hung in there like a little trooper yesterday. Green bubbles actually work. It was, I will say, if you had a chance yesterday, to Twitter search AT&T during it, people were saying some very mean things, and they were very, very funny. And if you were in AT&T customer service, that would be bad. I did read, though, something that was actually kind of scary. You know, 9-1-1, a lot of people were just calling it because their phone didn't work. And in a lot of places, you know, 911 only has so many lines.

They couldn't take emergency calls because so many people were just calling and going, my phone doesn't work. I don't think you're supposed to call 911 over. over a phone not working. I think, you know, that's very emergency type things. I wrote this as one of my trivia questions last night. I'll ask you, Shannon. Yeah. I was talking about the question was these famous, like, what do you call it? Acronyms?

Acronyms for organizations. Do you know what they stand for? Okay. So let's do a couple of them. How many of those did you get right, by the way, right? We got all but one. All but one. All but one. All right. What does GOP stand for? That's Republican Party.

What is GOP? Government operating performance. False. Grand old party. Grand old party? Yes. Okay. All right, what about NCAA?

National Collegiate Athletic Association. National Collegiate Athletic Association. This is not for you all. It's for Shannon. It's right. National Collegiate Athletic Association. All right. What about YMCA?

Youth Men's Club Athletics. No. Young. men's Christian Association. Oh, okay. All right. SOS. I feel like I should know this one, but I don't.

Stop! Okay, we're doing, I'm talking to him, not you. SOS. Ship out of, I don't know. You know, you were very close. Save our ships. Okay, yeah. I did not know that.

Somebody at our table knew it, but I did not know that. Save our ships. So that still comes on your thing. Yep. And then finally, what does ESPN stand for? Oh, man. I've never thought of it. Okay, something sports network.

Okay, you got two of them. What's the E and the P? You got sports and network. Excellence in sports, I don't know. Well, it's not excellence. It's entertainment and sports programming network. Okay. So.

CNN is cable news network. Which one did you not get? Which I was going to say, I worked in TV for 20 years, and we missed CBS. You know what CBS is? CBS, Broadcasting System. Okay. Columbia, broadcasting system. Nice.

Well done. How about that? I'm actually surprised you got that. That's where I would have thought, a lot of people said station. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. station. Who's up first? Got Richard up first. Richard, go ahead, Richard. Good morning. Good morning. You should go with the...

Okay, what else you got? They've got to outscore. It's going to have to be a shootout, but we've got no chance. Yeah, I agree with you. I appreciate the call. I mean, I know it's nice to say we need to play defense, but we can't guard teams. I mean, LSU is not a good scoring team, and they scored 48 points in the second. half. Like, I feel like with Alabama, you got to beat them like we beat Carolina earlier this

year, where we just outplayed them over the course of the 40 minutes. Yeah, because they're, Alabama plays the style we seem to play the best. So why not play the guys that's going to give you the better chance to score all game, just run with them? I also hope, Shannon, I want our home crowd to have a fun victory environment. Yeah. Right. Like our home crowd has come out out big time for these home games and we just keep losing them. It would be nice because the Vandy and Arkansas game at the end of the year, it's not going to be quite the same. It would be nice to get a big home win in front of a crowd that I do think will be raucous tomorrow.

This has the potential to be the most entertaining game of the season, two teams that can score a ton of points. And we could have a game, like you said, in the hundreds, both teams. And it's also a game, I think, for SEC player of the year between the Sears and Reeves. I mean, Reeves is, if Reeves wants to win SEC player of the year, he's got Sears and then he's got Connect coming up in the next two and a half weeks. If he were to outplay them in those games, might very well have a shot to be SEC player of the year. We'll take a break. We'll be right back.

This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio, here live at Lee's famous recipe where they now have chicken nuggets as well. Lee's famous chicken nuggets. Come try them out. If you are in the Danville area, sitting here looking at least. around first of all Boyle County football shirt they're pretty good yeah I think they do they do pretty well there's a student intern here from Center College you know I thanks to center college I had to get admonished by the Danville school Danville City Council one time

oh really that story yeah yes why and tall we got brought before the Danville City Council and yelled at we were at governor's scholar dork camp over here at center and we were walking down the street and a sign had fallen on the ground like a road sign and we thought well you can take that I'm sure I mean if it's on the ground like anything anything on the ground this before I went to law school I thought it was like a finders keepers thing if a sign's on the ground you can take it yeah so we carried the sign from we carried the sign a long way it was out there like where the is I don't know is there still movie theater here it's like where the movie theater where the movie theater

was we carried it all the way back to center down the road. Nobody stopped us. We put it in our dorm. And then somebody told on us, and we had to go in order to stay at Governor Scholar, we had to go in front of the Danville City Council and apologize to the citizens of Danville for stealing their signs. So now I'm curious, what did the sign say? Was it like a slippery when well? It was just like Nicholasville to the left.

You know, it was just a sign. Okay. Again, we were like, though, this would be cool to have a sign. Let's put this up in our dorm room. Yeah, and they didn't like that. So they yelled at you and you gave the sign back? I never understood, though, why part of the punishment was we had to apologize to the Danville City Council. But we did.

We had to walk down to City Hall wherever it was and stand in front of the meeting and be like, sorry we stole your son. Well, at least you didn't get fined or anything crazy, right? I mean, I would think if you go up stealing signs, you would probably get fine. So I think they let you off easy. Maybe they did. But so I've been admonished. by the good people of Danville here before. I didn't know you had a criminal record down here in Danville.

I think they dropped it with the apology. I think it was okay. And when I was at Trancy, Tall's girlfriend now wife, she went to center, so we would go to center party sometime. Nice. The frat scene was huge when I was here. I don't know if it still is or not. All right, let me give you a couple more questions from Trivia night since Ryan had to answer.

Okay. Are you ready for this? Go. All right. Besides Mexico. Yeah. Besides Mexico, in the United States, what countries have the most people born in that country now living in the United States? Mexico is by far number one, but what is next?

This is harder than you think. So what are the seven countries with the most people born there living here? Cuba. Good call. Oh, my goodness. That's a almost. Oh, I Googled that, everybody. See, I Googled that.

He hates when people accuse him of that. That's a really good call. Almost nobody got Cuba. And Cuba is one of them because they're people during the Cuban Revolution. Now, this next one may be really stupid because I think it's part of America, so I don't know if it would count, but Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico, I said over the thing didn't count because it was part of it. We won't count that because a lot of people asked Matt about that.

I asked and I answered that over the thing. Okay. I'm going to say you said it has to be, it could be all over the world, right? All over the world. Okay. What about? I'm thinking South America has got. born in that country.

Yeah. Columbia. No. No. Let's see. Give me three more guesses. But don't take too long because we're on radio. Yes, I know.

I mean, I would think somewhere in Canada, maybe. Canada is a country, and Canada is not one of them. I don't know. Anybody know? I don't know. What? Guatemala is no, although they're like the next one. China is one.

Philippines is one. Yeah. Good answer. Good answer. India is actually number one. We have more people besides Mexico from India. Here's it in order. India, China. Here's the one you might maybe should have got. Nobody got. The Dominican Republic. We have a ton of people

from the Dominican Republic. This is one for you. History buffs. Vietnam. A lot of people came during the Vietnam War and moved here. The Philippines, Cuba, and South Korea. The next two are Guatemala and El Salvador. So there you go. There's your, there's your answers. I think we just got two.

All right, real quick, let me do a UK basketball. I guess you on my own. UK basketball. I'll throw this to everybody because Shannon's not a UK basketball historian. Since 2008 players in Kentucky history have scored at least 28 points in an NCAA tournament game. Hopefully Antonio Reeves or Rob Dillingham does that this year. Eight players have done it since 2000. Who are they? Monk is not one Fox is against UCLA. He had like 30-some. Keith Bogans, no.

Rex played before 1990. Anybody else? Brandon Knight, yes. How about nobody's gotten the one that has the most. Tayshan had 41 against Tulsa. I'll read the rest of them. Tayshan was first, then DeAaron Fox. Joe Crawford against Marquette in the game we lost.

We just talked about that the other night. You mentioned Brandon Knight. Here's one. You probably don't remember because you blocked it out of your mind. 30 points were scored by Oscar against St. Peter's. That's right. We lost the game, but Oscar had 30 points. Eric Bledsoe had 29 against Wake Forest in the NCAA tournament.

Patrick Sparks had 29 against Michigan State when we lost when the ball bounced on the rim. And then finally, PJ Washington had 28. I said last night it was against Kansas State. It was the game before that. It was against Buffalo when we beat Nate Oates when he was the coach at Buffalo in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Man, we got some good basketball minds at our table. We only got four. And the thing that made me mad, we just talked about Joe Crawford, and then we didn't get him on the answer with.

And I'll give you a surprise. You know, Cory Price, who always puts the stats up that we talk about, he was there, got all eight. Got all eight out. Got all eight. Yeah. And I was watching him to see if he cheated because I knew. He got all eight of them. Who's up next?

Ryan up next. Ryan, go ahead, Ryan. Hey, Matt. Ryan in Chicago, first time, long time. Who are? What's up? Yeah, I've got a hypothetical, and it's really just assuming that March

doesn't go the way we want it. Obviously, Cal wants to stay at UK for the money. UK can't really make a move, even if they wanted to because of the money. My question is, what leverage does Barnhart have as Cal's boss to assert more control over the basketball program? And I guess really micromanage the heck out of Cal in the program in order to maybe bring him to the

answer to all of your questions is this none okay first of all I wouldn't say for certain that Cal like would never leave I don't think Cal's going to walk away without something but I don't know I mean I don't think he's very happy right now either but here is the problem

I don't know that Mitch Barnhart has any leverage over Cal what are you going to do I mean you've look you've allowed Cal for basically 14 years to kind of do whatever he wants. Most of the time you were fine with it because we were crushing it. Now the last few years, what are you going to do? I mean, he really doesn't have any leverage. And that is part of Shannon, the thing with your lifetime contract. When you give those kind of contracts, you give away your leverage in a lot of ways,

which is why I used the analogy this morning on SEC Radio, and I appreciate the call. I've said it here. It's like you're in a marriage I've never been into marriage But if you were in a marriage One day Yeah well

We're plenty of time We're holding out home It's a whole life ahead of you It's a marriage where you've been married You know 15 years The first 10 years were awesome Right you have great memories You have kids you love

And then all of a sudden you start spreading apart But yet you still have those great memories Yeah You still have a history together You've bonded with these kids it's hard just to break up, but not necessarily in either of you are in the best happiness. I don't know. Just like marriages, like those people don't know what to do then.

I'm not sure that UK and Cal know what to do now. You know, Mitch could say, well, Cal, you've got to start doing this. And Kyle could look at them and say, or what? Or what? What are you going to do about it? A rule is not a rule without a punishment. And I don't know that we have. What punishment can Mitch even inflict?

You can't. So there lies the leverage that Cal has. part of the difficulty is I don't really know that anything can be done. We said this one time. You know, is it just time for a big boy talk? Just you got to have that talk. Okay. And then he goes, or what?

Yeah. Like, what are you going to do if I don't? You're going to fire me? No. It's sort of like, it's sort of like, I know it annoys Larry and it annoys a lot of people in the media. And I've been like this, too, that when he doesn't do his press conferences or when he doesn't do his radio shows. in his contract he has to do those

but there comes a point where he can go or what you're not you're not going to pay me you're going to fire me over not doing the post game radio show and there comes a point that like or what you know and I think that's where we are in some ways with this because you know he's not hurting for money

he doesn't you know they say okay we're not going to pay you he's like okay fine you know I don't I don't need the money I give Cal credit for this because it was smart negotiating. But here's what he did when UCLA came calling for him. He basically said, to stay here, you have to give me this. And by the way, no buyout, no firing for calls like nothing. And you have to do this. Or I'm going to go to UCLA.

Now, I don't know if he would have gone to UCLA or not, But it's easy. You're waving and saying bye-bye, but let me remind you when this happened. This happened like, what was it, 2018, 29? This happened right after we were good. We had Tyler Hero and all those guys coming in. What if Mitch lets him walk to UCLA? I don't know that our fans would have like that.

They would have said, you're not going to pay to keep. So, like, I don't know what else he was supposed to do. in that moment, right? At that very moment. At that moment, I don't know what he had. What else he could have done? Now, if it happened in 2024, we'd all be saying, okay, goodbye. No, if he did it now, they'd say bye. But he didn't have, he had that leverage then and he doesn't have now, which changes the whole scenario.

It's like the scenario, Ryan, that happened with Joker Phillips, when Joker Phillips said, I'm being asked to be the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma. I don't know if that was true or not, but people certainly believed it. And Joker said, make me coach in waiting, and I won't leave. for Oklahoma. Well, what are you going to do? You're going to look at a guy who played here and let him walk to Oklahoma. That would make our football team look broke. So they make him coaching waiting. You've got to think about these circumstances when they were done. That's it. There is no way at that time. No way Mitch Barnhart could let John Caliperi go to UCLA.

He would have been crushed. He would have been crushed ever for the rest of his legacy. would have been that. And I think a lot of people who are now down on Cal would have been mad if they had let him walk to UCLA. Oh, yeah. They would. I would have been mad. I would have been upset if our coach, when we're still good, gets walks to one of the other historic powers. So, like, I don't blame Mitch for that.

I really don't. And there's no reason to think that what has happened in the last five years was going to happen in that moment, right? We thought another national title is coming in the next couple of years. Think about after 2018 when we lost to Kansas State in the Sweet 16 quickly announces he's coming back. I think PJ Washington announces he's coming back, right? We have Tyler Hero coming in. We have all these guys. Could you have ever thought that these years later we would have had the four-year run we've had?

No. Back at that time, we were still Kentucky. We were the elite of the elites. We were still bringing in great talent. all these games and are going to soon win a national title. Yeah. UK Federal Credit Union is the official credit union of the University of Kentucky. Award winning, best place to work winner, serving the University of Kentucky for over

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I was in their wedding just a few weeks ago, right down the street at the, was it the Episcopal Church? Piscopal Church. New newlyweds over there. Newlyweds, that's exactly right. New Bracketology's out. Let's see if you'd take this one. All right. Kentucky is a six seed playing in Omaha.

Hello, John Higgins. and they would open up against Grand Canyon against Bryce Drew. Well, there's an automatic win. Who would they play in the second round theoretically? Second round they would play Iowa State. That'd be a physical battle. I think we're better than them, but they beat you up, so that would be a tough game. I like the opening round.

I mean, you've got to play somebody, right? It's the NCAA tournament. Again, I want you to imagine what it would be like Sunday in Omaha, in the shadow of the referee that caused all this turmoil of the Cal career, was ref in the 2015 Wisconsin loss, was ref in the 2017 North Carolina loss. He lives right there playing Iowa State. If you win, you go to Sweet 16. If you lose, don't want to think about it.

Can you imagine what that atmosphere would be like there? We've seen Cal get tight. We ain't seen nothing like that would happen. He's going to be so tight in this situation coming up in the second round. The Sweet 16 you would play in Boston against the winner of North Carolina and South Carolina. I'd take that. I'd take that. I'd definitely take that.

Yeah, I don't love playing in North Carolina again. But just for a second, here's why the Alabama game I think is so important tomorrow. You realize if we win tomorrow, you can make a strong argument. It's our third best win of the year behind North Carolina and at Auburn. I mean, Alabama might be better than those teams, but you are playing them in rough. But that's, we don't have a great resume. This is the way for us to get a, Shannon, a good quality win. Yeah, you definitely need it to build up that resume come March.

But, you know, I like this bracketology a lot better than the one we were talking about last week when you would potentially play Duke in the second round. Not that I'm afraid of Duke, but I don't want to see them in the second round. Yeah. You know. Somebody asked me what I thought the best seed Kentucky could get is. I think if you were to win out, which is not crazy, by the way. I mean, I, Vandy and Arkansas, let's assume we win those games.

At Mississippi State, it's a tough game, but they can win it. At Tennessee is a tough game, but they could win it. If you won out and did well in the tournament, you can get up to a four, maybe a three. If you lose one more regular season game, which is, I think, the most likely scenario, you do decent in the tournament. You're probably a five. I think if we lose to Alabama and Tennessee or Tennessee and Mississippi State,

we're probably looking at a six. You lose a handful. You lose tomorrow, Mississippi State and Tennessee. Now, Ryan, you're getting into the 7-8-9 range. And you don't want that because then you're facing a number one seed in that second round game. So stay away from that situation. You lose those three.

You're now at 11 losses. And then if you don't win the SEC tournament, you're going into the NCAA tournament with 12 losses. That's right. The only good thing is if you look around the country, there's a ton of teams with eight losses. Like this year has been weird in the sense that there are very, nobody's great, and a lot of teams have seven to ten losses.

So that's the one thing that's probably good for us. You know, Arizona got beat last night at home. So it's a crazy year where some, I think some fluke thing is going to happen in the tournament. But for all the talk of flukes, a good team always wins. Like, you know, there are a lot of flukes get to the final four, but the team that wins usually is pretty good. Yep. Who's next?

Kyle is up next. Kyle, go ahead, Kyle. Hey, guys, first time, long time here. Who are? I'm down in Atlanta, a couple quick things. First off, I've attended two games this year, Carolina game and the Auburn game. So I'm wishing I could go to more because I feel like I'm the good luck charm in a way. We need you.

Hope you can come tomorrow. Yeah, you guys have been talking a lot about line. and I 100% agree with everything you're saying. But I think, I don't think how stupid. I think he knows, Dillingham and Reed are two of our three best players and they come off the bench. I think he knows Birx and Edwards together is a losing recipe. But it goes back to his whole player's first mentality. And I think his utmost goal, yes, he wants to win, but he wants these guys to make it to the NBA.

He wants to secure their future. It's almost as if you heard my intro or what I was going to do in the second hour. The ESPN Morning Radio Show, their national show, did a segment on this very topic this morning. And I'm going to play a little bit of it when we come back because I want you to hear it. The national media is starting to notice the situation we're in. And I'm going to play a little bit of what they said here in just a second. Thank you, folks, very much. We will take a break and come back.

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