KSR - 2024-04-1- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 1, 2024

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We should, but we are at the KS Bar and Grill. You can give a shout Clark's puppet shop phone line 859. 280 2287. A Vision auto glass text machine 772 775254 in this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith-L-Lauvis. If you call Tj, I'll make them pay. 11 o'clock UK's new women's basketball coach Kenny Brooks is going to join us. First time ever on the show. The now seventh highest paid coach in America makes his debut here on KSR. I'm a big fan. I can't wait to hear from him. I didn't get to go to his press conference, but I've seen all the videos of him arriving. Yeah, and he just seems so appreciative and excited to be here.

ready to get started. So I'm looking forward to it. I liked him because of how excited he seemed about his office. Oh, yeah. Anybody that's that excited about their new office where they're like, look how nice this is. That's going to be a dude that's going to be good to have around. Just like appreciative. You know what I mean?

He's like, oh, look at this court. Whose court is this? Yeah. He's like, do I get this phone charger too? Like, I get to use this one? He's ready to get to work. It's a speed phone charger. It does it quicker.

So I like that. I like getting to do a show with you for a week. Like I said, we used to do this all the time. Usually it was me picking you up at two keys, trying to see how sober you were for what time we needed to start. Now it's going to be normal mornings here at KS Bar. We will be here Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. We will be in Louisville on Wednesday.

So Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. So you should plan on coming out. I know a lot of you are on spring break this week. So a perfect time to take your kids and say, look, kids, we didn't get to go on vacation. But we do get to go to the bar and see Uncle Matt and Drew. I can't think. anything better on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday of spring break and sitting right here with us.

We've got a spring breaker with us today. Yeah, a lot of spring breaker. Nice to see you. He works at 10th region.com. So it's great for all your 10th region needs. I was telling you, we have a lot to talk about. I feel like I say that every day. But this is like the Fade This podcast.

If you haven't listened to Fade This, some of you are probably right, look, it's about gambling. No, it's not. It's not about that at all. It better not because I'm not good at it. Like my picks on there for this NCAA tournament are banned in a lot of states. They are so bad that the North Carolina Gaming Commission was like, you shouldn't be allowed to do it here. Well, in the title, we actually tell you to bet the opposite.

Fade our picks. Exactly. But we do tell stories. I've told some stories on there that I'm still surprised I've told, and it's perfect because they haven't gotten out yet. And so except for the people that listen. It's like our audience, they know they're in on the secret.

So we tell us some stuff. I opened up about childhood trauma and Ross Perrault recently. And it never made it to Twitter, never popped up on these airwaves. It's like our own little group. Yeah, you know, we have the KSR hate listeners. They don't hate listen to fade this. So it makes it good. So I was just telling you, yesterday I nearly ended up not doing it,

but I nearly gave up on the Reds. Already? I know. It's the first series. It's game three. it was the first game I had set in my seats because, you know, I, so, you know, opening day, I'm not dealing with that.

I mean, I go to the game, but I hang out with my friends. We sell those opening day seats. Saturday, I always try to miss because it's kids opening day. Kids opening day. I mean, listen, it's nice. I mean, take them.

I'll give you $100 to take them. I just see people with their kids and I go, you would want this. Like, you, I don't. Kids opening day. There's children everywhere. There's like cotton candy on everyone's faces. Like, I can't go on kids opening day.

So yesterday was kind of like my opening day. Matt Day. Matt Day is the part. Not very many people there. Okay. Little chilly. Took a New Yorker magazine. That's my opening day.

Do they leave those in the seats for everyone on Matt Day? Like when you get there is the magazine waiting. When you get there, there's a Bloomberg or a New Yorker waiting for you, depending on what seat you. So I get there. I just knew the whole game we were going to lose. I could just feel it. You know how you sometimes look at your team and you go, they just don't have it tonight.

Unfortunately, I do. I could just feel that. So the whole game I'm thinking, you know, we're going to lose. And then, you know, I always try to pick a player I hate. My player this year is Buck Farmer. It's a great name. You're going to hate some more. Remember last year on the opening day, I texted you and said,

we're going to stink because we have two guys named Buck on the team. It's too many. Too many. Buck Stiver is the only buck I'm allowed. So Buck Farmer comes in. I know it's a problem. He immediately allows a home run. So it's point being it's 5'3 going in the ninth, right?

First guy up, hits it hard, out. Second guy up, hits it hard out. What does Uncle Matt think? Time to beat the traffic. All right? It's a mad opening day. It's the first game. It's a mad opening day.

Need to beat the traffic. So I walk out. As I'm walking out, I look at the, television and Jonathan India is like battling, you know, foul ball, foul ball. I'm like, okay, let's see what happens. And then I watch, he gets a walk. And I was like, all right, well, Will Benson's up next. I love Will Benson, but you know what? Let's leave. Walk out the front, start walking down the road. I hear the fireworks. He had hit a home run that's out of the game. I'm like, oh. So I try to run back in. They're like, no. So then there's a little bar

right across there. By the time I walked to the bar, the other Christian and Carcione Strand had won the game. So I didn't exactly see that, but it felt like a good Matt opening day. Leave before the fun part. It ended up working out. But that's fitting. I assume they made an announcement. Everyone leave to beat traffic. It's Matt Day. This is part of the theme. Take your magazines and get out of here before we hit these home runs. So I think that's the most fitting ending for Matt Day. I think I I think what's weird is in my rush to leave, I think I forgot my magazine. So you at least get some candy? I got, you get like a, not a budget you have to spend all year, right?

A certain amount. No, well, I got that during COVID. Okay. Now you have to actually spend money. I didn't know if you're a head on your candy. So I got a Diet Coke. The worst part about sitting in the nice section, they don't have fountain drinks. So like you get bottle drinks and who wants a, we come to a game, you want a fountain, right?

You want a fountain drink. It's, you know, it's like take me out to the ball game. Nobody says buy me a bottle of something, so I don't like that. But otherwise, I was happy to be there. Red's finished two and one. I get comfort out of the fact that there's this couple. I think I talked about this last year. There's this man that has season tickets, one row in front of me, one section over.

And he's an older gentleman, and he's a nice fellow, let me just tell you. But he has a twin brother that looks exactly like him. So he's probably 65, 68. and then he has a 68-year-old twin. That'll freak you out. You know what? Like when you think of twins, they still pretty identical? Yes.

And they wear the same clothes. Like, like all the things you think of as twins when they're 68 years old or 70. I don't know how they are. It's weird to see people, like, when do you see twins that are that old that still look the same? Usually over time they start one of them being bad, you know. Yeah, like life takes one in a harder path than the other. It's really strange to see two men in their late 60s or 70s who still look identically the same. They've both lost their hair, so they don't have different hairstyles.

And that's who comes to the game. And here's the other thing that fascinates me about these two men. They don't speak to each other. They come to the game and they sit in silence. Probably tired of each other. I'm sure they are. After nine innings and 81 home games a year, I'm sure you're like, I can't talk. to this man anymore.

So those two men fascinate me. I've never really talked to him because I don't want to interrupt their silence. And to be honest with you, I don't want them to interrupt my. But yesterday it threw me off. His brother was not there. He was with a woman. Oh. Now, I'm going to assume that was his wife.

But it kind of threw off my whole mojo. I wanted to go up to him and go, where's your brother? Is he okay? Is there really? Well, I mean, I hope he is. But, like, you don't know, you know, at that age. Does he have a new, like, is he moving and shaking? Like, is this a new girlfriend?

Was there drama over this change? So it's interesting. I've sat there for so many years. They're the only two people that are always there. And it feels like I have a connection to them. But they don't know me. We've never spoken. But is it odd that I feel a connection to these two brothers who have been there for the last six years of my life?

should I want to like check on the brother? I don't know about actually going to check, but I understand filling a connection. I don't have season tickets, but many people listening do. And you might not know that neighbor four seats down, but they're on your team. You know them enough without even talking to them

because he's been there for six years. But we've never, I don't know that we've ever spoken. If we have, it's been like, hi. It's like a silent nod. The turkey hunter in high. Bobby and I just look at him and go, will they ever speak to each other at any point during the game? If I had a twin, I would not want to see them after 70 years of having a twin. Not often.

It's just like me. Like, what are I telling you? I mean, I would love the one to see them, but I would not want to look over at a baseball game and they're just me again. So I just want to say there's a couple things about those people that are interesting to me. Twins at 70. Find me another pair. Find me another pair of twins that still look exactly the same. It's harder than you think to think about.

And secondly, sitting in silence with someone for that long a period of time, they might have become my favorite part of the Reds games or those two old guys. So you think you might go watch a second series this season? Or are you completely out? Not if it's kids' day. You back two and one? I'll go to another one. They're on the road this week and so they better win if they want me to.

Baseball has kind of saved me. I'm getting into it. I mean, UK is playing well. I'm sure we'll talk about that later. Baseball has kind of hit the reset button. And Midgeeone is going to be on the show. This is going to be a huge week of guest. We have Kenny Brooks today.

We're at Mingee own tomorrow. And later in the week, Mitch Barna. Who doesn't play baseball? We're excited here. I'm very excited. Now, the Final Four is set. It is Yukon, Alabama, Purdue, and NC State. Yesterday was a joyous day.

Both Tennessee and Duke loss. Couldn't have been better. On Easter, could God have given us a better gift? No. and I realized, you know, since Kentucky's been out, I've even said, haven't watched a lot of the tournament. Part of it was those two still in it. I'm at peace now. I'm, like, happier than I've been in weeks now that Tennessee and Duke are not in the field.

They're out. Alabama, I don't love that, but I can live with it. But if Tennessee had gotten their first Final Four, I don't know that I'd be sitting here next to you today. I might have needed a time to process. I assume Duke and Tennessee were going to win. So getting them both to lose was really a blessing. Like, it was, it was nice. I love DJ Burns, you know.

I mean, I've rooted for NC State, not seriously. Like, I don't watch their games. But when they're on, I always want them to win because, again, when I was in at Duke, I couldn't root for Duke. I couldn't root for Carolina. So I just sort of adopted them. And their fan base is a very hateful group. But I'm glad for them that they won.

And then DJ Burns, is he the most fun player in college basketball in a long time? Yeah. And yesterday, I mean, they had it, but there was still a couple of minutes left, and he's just grinning. He kind of did that scoop layup that got blocked. I kind of want to tell my TV, like, DJ, this game meant over yet, but he was just having so much fun. He was smiling and dancing. I mean, that guy would have been a Cinderella story had they won two games, but now you're putting him in the final four. He's a legend. They've won nine straight games. I mean, folks, they had to bank. First of all, go watch the end of the Virginia game. Virginia's up three with four

seconds to go. And 85% free throw shooters at the line, and he misses it. And then they come down and bank in a three. If they lose that game, we don't need, Kevin Keats is probably fired. He was on the hot seat going into that. He's probably fired. And now he has a two-year extension and he's a hero. First time they made the final four since 1983. Like, how can you not? Was that Jimmy V? Yeah, it's the first time since Jimmy V. I mean, like, how can you not love the NCAA tournament? And this has been a, leave aside that we lost, which is, which stuck. This has been a perfect NCAA term. You had upsets. Again, we don't like that we were one of them, but you had Oakland, Yale, James Madison, all them.

And then you got power teams moving on, and you end up in the final four with probably the two best teams, Purdue and Yukon making it. Alabama's a fun team to watch, and then an underdog. Like, I don't know that you could ask for a better tournament if you're the NCAA. Yeah, aside from our own struggles, it's been a fun tournament to watch. I watched every minute of all four of these games this weekend, and I'm looking forward to the ones ahead. It's just been once we got past that first weekend with all the pain, I've enjoyed watching all of it. And hopefully DJ Burns can be the one.

Who do you want to do? That's what I'm saying. I'm pretty mad about Alabama being in it. I'm glad the others are gone, but I don't like that they're just add more to their resume. They've won the league twice since we have. They've won the SEC tournament twice since they have. Now he has a Final Four.

I'm getting pretty disgusted with them. I need either DJ Burns or Purdue to win. A Purdue will make Ryan mad. I don't care. Plus, they're, you know, they probably deserve it. They've been good the last few years. I don't want Alabama to win. And then UCon, we can't have them getting a sixth title.

I mean, they're catching us. Well, who do you want between Alabama? Alabama to put Alicon, Alabama to push Yukon out or? Yeah. Because I don't really want Yucon in it either. I'm going to pick Alabama to beat Yukon. Because I think either Tennessee or NC State could beat Alabama. I think you could, or, excuse me, Purdue or NC State.

I think Yukon is insanely good. That 30-0 runs. That's one of the most impressive things I've seen in college basketball in a long, a long time. 859-280-2287. We are here at KS Bar. If you have a 70-year-old twin, I'll tell you what, if you're an old twin, and you're in Lexington, I'll buy your lunch if you come out today, you and your twin. Yeah, you got to bring the twin. You got to show up and tell us there's one somewhere. No, no, no, you have to bring the twin here. But if you do, lunch on Uncle Matt, because I'd like to see, I can't think of another pair of 70-year-old twins

that look alike, like these dudes at the Reds. I'm glad to be proven incorrect. We'll take a Right, very back. Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Matt Jones-Drew Franklin here. Shannon and Ryan are not here. We'll talk about Shannon a little bit.

Ryan is in Florida. One person writes, Matt, I actually saw you at the game yesterday. And I was going to come say hi, but you were reading a magazine. I always thought you exaggerated that, but you did read a magazine during the sixth inning of the game. I know. I was reading New Yorker. What? It was a great article.

I tweet a little picture of it. It was about the history of tipping. Interesting. Did you know? Rick, did you know this? I'm going to give you a fact. Did you know where the word tip comes from? Do you know?

Is Rick here? Rick, are you on the show? I'll answer for Rick. I don't think he knows where it came from. Where's Rick? Are we on the show? Rick. Yes, I'm here.

Okay. Did you hear me at? asking you if you knew this? No, I was answering a phone call. Oh, you were answered so call. Okay, I was going to say, you've heard of the word tip, right? Where you tip people? Right.

Do you know where that word comes from? No, I don't. In Britain, there was a restaurant in like the 1830s that for the first time put a little thing up that said, to ensure promptitude. And you could put in a coin. And if you did, it ensured you got your food quicker. and then they shortened it to T-I-P. Oh, okay.

How about that, Rick? That's pretty cool. I wouldn't have learned that without the magazine at the New Yorker. And that was in what inning you learned this? It's like the sixth. You know, they also had this whole thing about like when they flip the screen at you, right? And so, you know, everywhere you go now. Everybody's flipping the screen for you to do that.

Here's what they found. Whatever denomination they put up there, people follow it. So the higher they put, the higher people tip. So, like, you would think that there'd come a point where people stop, but they don't. Up to 25 percent, whatever they put up there, most people just hit. And so that's why you see those numbers getting higher is because people just do it. I'm guilty of that. I'm guilty of that.

I remember going, ooh, that seems really high, but the button's right in front of me and I don't want to hit up. To do it yourself, you have to hit that. And then, like, so anyway. So, yes, I did read it. And that's the way it goes. When you get to, like, the metal detector at the stadium, are you just? just pulling out magazines? Like, how does this, do you take a little bag?

I usually set my phone and my keys in my magazine on the thing, and they give me a look, but I don't care. I'm not worried about them. The coaches in the final four. Matt Painter is 53. Nate Oates is 49. Kevin Keith, I think, is like 55, and then Danny Hurley is 50. Do you think there's like a changing of the guard in coaches here?

that sort of generation, which Cal is the youngest of, but the sort of isoh, Beheim, K, all that, that whole generation, are we giving way to now a new younger brand of coaches? I think so, and the coaches that are in it, I have some fire. And, you know, I'm not going to turn this into Cal Perry conversation. But when the microphone's put in their face, you can tell these dudes go home and all they do is watch basketball.

They're thinking about what's next for the game. You know, Nate Oates is way ahead analytically. You know, some people disagree with it. much they shoot. Did you see his shot? But you know he, yeah, but you know he's dialed into the numbers and like, so I think a lot of it is just these guys have so much energy and they're looking at the game differently is why they do have an insane amount of energy. I thought you, we were at roosters and I came back and they were talking about Danny Hurley and I was mad because they were like, when Danny Hurley gets home, he, he just watches European basketball because he wants to learn

what they're doing or he watches what they said. They said his wife goes to bed and when his wife goes to bed, he gets up and watches European basketball. I mean, that's like crazy. But That's the insanity. That's the insanity that brings success in some way. So I can see, you know, you can see why. It is interesting, though, that Alabama sort of does the modern basketball thing. Purdue does to some extent, but then they also have a 7-4 guy, right? And then Connecticut has a big guy.

And then DJ Burns is a big guy. And so, like, is it the return of the big guy a little bit? I mean, Zach Edie's a unique force. Did you see that stat? This is an amazing stat. He is averaging 30 and 15 for the tournament. He's only the fourth player in history to ever do that. The other three, Wilk Chamberlain, Jerry West, and Elvin Hayes.

That's pretty good company, isn't it? Oh, yeah. I will say, and this is something I called before the tournament started. They do not call three seconds on that guy. I told you all before the bracket even came out. It's going to happen again. Rick Barnes complained about it in the post game. He did it subtly, but he was like,

know it's hard to guard him when he doesn't leave the middle. There was an eight-second play where he was in there. I noticed Frank Martin, the coach who never tweets, was on Twitter yesterday, and he fired one off about how Yukon plays through their center, Alabama, taxal centers, Purdue's got a center. And he put like, you know, our center's back. So, I mean, it's. Centers are back if you got Zach Eady. Yeah, but even the other ones play through them a little bit, just different styles,

but they keep their centers very involved. I'll also note this. And this is the future, folks. Tristan Newton at Connecticut. He came from, I want to say, Richmond, a school like that. It was a mid-major. It was a mid-major. Dalton Connected, Tennessee, northern Colorado.

Mark Sears, where'd he come from? He might have been in Houston. Houston, something like that. DJ Burns, Winthrop. Like, Newt was East Carolina. East Carolina. So all these dudes are coming from these random schools, and like, that's the future. The future is you go to a mid-major, you get good, and then you go to a big school.

and like I think that's why when we hear about the transfer portal and you hear well this kid's coming from Milwaukee or this kid that's the way it is now and these kids can play Dalton connects become a pro Newton's become a pro Eaddy's become a pro sears was player of the year and it's Ohio not Houston to add your point he's become a pro you know I don't know if DJ Burns is a pro but like maybe these dudes have become pros and it's become going mid major to a school and I just think it has completely The way I look at building a roster has completely changed, and you've got to give credit to these coaches who saw it first. Alabama, that's a completely new roster. Completely new roster, and they go the Final Four. Yukon won last year, but it's almost a new roster this year. I mean, they only got one or two dudes that are the same. The way to build, you've got to get old.

Only one freshman is starting in the Final Four. Crazy. One. One freshman. and there's like 17 seniors or 16 seniors. Like, that's what it is now. And that is a massive change quickly in college basketball. We'll take a break.

We will take your calls right for this. KSR. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. We're going to go to the phones here. One person writes on the text machine, 772-7524, Matt. I was at a restaurant the other day,

tried to tip $2, accidentally hit the wrong button, tip 20. That stunk. I was at Skyline. I tried to tip $5, hit the wrong thing, and tip 5 cents. And the woman looked at me and goes,

did you mean to hit 5 cents? And then, of course, I was mortified. And I was like, no, because 5 cents would be the jerkyest thing to do. So I was like, I was like, no, no, no, no, can I do it again?

And they were like, yes. But she literally looked at me and goes, did you mean to tip 5 cents? At least she told you and you don't leave, not knowing, and she's just watching you walk away. There's the guy that tips 5, uh, five cents. That would not be.

be what you would want. One person writes, Matt, what about Rob Dillingham? He would have been on this NC State team. That's crazy to think. He was committed to NC State. Dillingham was almost on this team. I don't know if they would have been what they are right now with him on that team, but a Rob Dillingham, DJ Burns duo, I mean, that's an NBA jam video game team I would want. Like those are almost like two cartoon characters playing together. I know, man. You wonder what he thinks about that it's got to be weird i mean joel justice is on that side line going to the final four a lot of people blamed troubles around here on him justice is in the final four illinois illinois was close we took his whole staff we took chin in orlando and illinois almost went out about

that i mean we haven't done anything since robbing their assistants there's a lot of connections that i mean the fact that joel justice is in the final four is that's wild that is wow all right who's up first bobba up first bubba go ahead First time, long time. Who are? Hey, I got to, you all had a story up about Tyler Eulis getting his jersey back? Yes. Okay.

I'm the guy that gave it to him, and I'm going to tell you the kind of behind the scene story. Well, give us a real quick version of it. You had what jersey of his? It's McDonald's All-American jersey from the high school of All-American. And how did you get it? A buddy mine lived in Indianapolis. He had a friend that was involved with the game. he gave it to my buddy Phil.

Well, Phil developed emphysema, and before he passed, he said, I want you to have these jerseys because I had a Kentucky practice jersey, too. So I took the jersey, he gave him to me. He's a since passed away. But I always said, if I could ever bump back into Tyler Ullis, that I would give him. So you gave it to him, and then what did he say to you? Oh, he said, man, thank you. He said, I don't, you know, he said, he was just really happy.

to get it back and he was very appreciative. And, but, yeah, but it hadn't been for my buddy Philip. He wouldn't. Well, God bless you. God bless your friend. That's a really cool story that you did that, that you gave it to him. And I think that was at the SEC tournament, right? Because my son and I went down and my son seen online somewhere where he was going to have a signing.

So I said, well, there's my opportunity. So when we were down to 10 Ruth that morning, at your guy's show didn't have an opportunity to say hi. But then we went over there and, you know, to the show. You know, Jimmy, the guy with the card shop, I showed it to him. He said, man, he'd love to have it. I said, well, good. It's, you know, it's his.

Well, good. Well, that's awesome. Well, congrats. That's a cool story. And I'm glad you got to do that. And thanks for sharing it with us. All right. Y'all have a good day.

Kentucky fans are good. They're just good people. Give this guy's high school of McDonald's All-American Jersey. he was very touched by it that's a neat thing yeah a lot of people in that situation when he tried to make a buck but he just wanted to do the right thing and get Tyler his jersey back and I hope I hope Tyler stays don't you I don't know I mean the problem is that his the job he has he can't do again but they got to find a way to get him in need some PR moves right now and that'd be a good one that would be I think that would be a really good one who's up next

Brian is up Brian go ahead Brian good morning gentlemen um totally ready for some football season been following up on watching some of the 11 personnel and some of those podcasts. And so kind of got me jacked up a little bit for football. But I got a basketball question. I know we've talked about many times about randomness of the tournament and this, that, and the other thing. But I've always had in the back of my mind that I feel like there's a recipe for success. And has Yukon, if they, even if they don't win the national championship this year,

have they got it figured out? I think they've got it. I think they've got it, like, whether they win it or not. Remember what I've said over and over. And maybe, you know, if Purdue or Alabama wins, this will be incorrect, but I kind of don't think they will. I think it's going to be Yukon or, excuse me, if Alabama or NC State wins. If Purdue or Yukon wins, though, my theories still remain, and I appreciate the call, which is you don't, the best team doesn't always win, but one of the five best teams always wins.

And so your job as a program is to get yourself into the five. And, you know, at the last minute I put Tennessee in my five instead of Kentucky. But I think they were on the edge in my mind. Maybe in hindsight they weren't as good as I'd hoped. It's hard for me with Kentucky because I'm always biased. But I think you would have to go back to 2017 to say the last time definitively Kentucky was in the five. Right. Maybe you could make an argument about 2019.

maybe they're kind of right there on the edge but 17 they were one of the five Yukon is set up to be one of the five like they're doing the perfect thing Drew they're going and recruiting two or three people see we got another six coming in and that used to be the way to do part of me wonders now do you do like two or three they get a couple guys to come through their program they get a couple guys who are freshman and then they go get three to four transfers. I think that's probably the play in it now. Isn't it to balance?

Guys come through my program. Guys come from out. Guys are freshmen. And the freshman coming in, no minutes go to who's practicing and playing the best. Like nothing's promised. There's no, it's, we're playing the best guys. And they still have two guys projecting the top 10. So they're still doing it.

They're still getting their NBA lottery picks, but they're also in the final four. winning most of their games. A lot of success in life is about seeing the future and being the first one to predict it. Right? So Cal was without question the first one to predict how to take advantage of the one and done system. He just was. He was the first one and he had the success because of it. Kay and others came after him.

It's looking like Danny Hurley was the first one to predict and to master what to do in the portal in I. And so the question is, can we and other top programs do it? But I will note this since COVID. Let me give you the programs that have made the final four. Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Villanova, UCLA, Gonzaga, Yukon. You can make a strong argument that along with Kentucky, those are the power programs. Right there. They've all done it.

Duke almost just did it again. You know, I see people on the social media go, well, there's more parity. It's not as easy for the blue bloods. Well, the other blue bloods have found a way to go since COVID. Every other blue blood. Every other blue blood has been but us. So, I mean, we can't change history, but now you've got to adjust, man. You've got to.

You've got to adjust because these people are all following a formula that we are not following right now. Not at all. I saw another stat. There's almost like 40 something teams that have been to a sweet 16 since we have. I mean, it's just there are 53. I mean, this is a horrible. I hate to say this, but there are 53 programs that have won more games in March

since COVID than us. 53. What do you? That's crazy. Well, what do you? Because I agree with you about how they have this balance and I don't know what what do you do next year. Telling these guys where he has seniors and freshmen who are looking at and still coming together.

I think it's a, well, first of all, Cal's the master, cow's the best who ever did it, getting people to buy in once they get here. I give them credit. But I think part of it is what is Cal telling the guys to get here? If you tell a guy he's going to be gone in a year, then it's really hard to get him to stay a second year. Right. And if the other guys know the guys coming in to be here a year,

they know they're behind him no matter what. Exactly. And so like, maybe some of it is just what you sell in the recruiting process. I don't know. I mean, I don't know what Cal says when guys come, so I can't say for sure. But I, Hurley's done it. And we can sit there.

I kind of wonder if everything that happened pre-Portle NIL is like talking about what happened before how Mummy came to college football. Like talking about how you win football in the pre-air raid era, like, who cares? That's a different sport. it might be the case that the NIL portal thing has made it to where everything that happened is a different sport now. And so the question is, how do you adapt to that? And that'll be Cal's challenge. Is, you know, a perfect example is a dude like a do, a do, or Hugo, or Wagner, or pretty much anybody on the team that gave us minutes last year, Connecticut and those schools would get those dudes to come back.

We got to get them to come back. And then we got to go find the easiest part might be finding the transfers. But you got to commit yourself to, I'm going to go find three elite transfers. And you know what? Six freshmen, I think in the future, like he's already got these guys this year. I think in the future that's not how you do it. I don't think you go get six. I think you go get three.

I think that's why Kentucky did so poorly in the portal last spring because you had so many freshmen. They're asking like, I would come here, but I don't know that I'm going to play ahead of this group. special group with some special players. But we have six in this class, and he's reached out to a seventh freshman. When you go to the portal, they're going to say you have seven freshmen coming in. It's true. I'd be interested to see if the next year, they only get three because that might be the way you do it. Guess who's having a birthday, Drew?

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That's what happens here. So, hey, my trivia is Wednesday. Get your team ready. One of the last three chances to be a finalist for $5,000. Don't, don't miss out. If you miss out, you'll cry. Plus, I've written about a third of the questions. Did it this weekend.

So Head Start. Wrote a couple of the Reds game. Just thought about them. I was going to do, I had a question ready that I had to put away. Highest gross in Christmas movies. Can't do it because I ain't going to argue with people about what Christmas movie is. Oh, that'll set that up. They'll start arguing, and I'm like, I'm not in the mood.

So I just put it away. I was going to do it. But then I was like, I don't want people saying, arguing about whether die hard is a Christmas movie. So just I'll, I had to throw that one away. It's trial and error. I can't make it Wednesday, but I have already started scouting from my Taylor Swift trivia team. It's still just me, but I have planted some roots around town, and I'm trying to find some help. Well, let me ask you a question.

This came in on the text machine over the, weekend. Man, I really loved when Drew went nuts the other day. You should have let him cook some more. I like Frank Franklin. Here's what I'd like to have since it's just you two for the week. Could you do a day where we have people call in and have a Be Frank with Franklin segment? I like that. Okay. So what do you think about this? No, no, no. People ask you whatever they want and you have to be frank with your opinion. You were frank with your opinion about Chin Coleman. Then you will be frank with Franklin.

Would you do that where they can just call? And you can say, like, I can't be frank on that. I don't mind being frank, but it's the passion that I don't think I'll have every time. That's okay, but you. I feel like I'm always frank. I'm always saying what I feel. So you're against the segment? I know, but people specifically are asking you to be frank with Frank.

I'm in. I'm just saying that. The screaming I did last week, I don't know if that will come out every time. Maybe Thursday or so we will be Frank with Franklin. Here's another question. Then this one, I went back and forth on, so I'm putting this up to the polls. This is up for you, the listeners. One person writes, Matt, I can't decide if I love or hate Louisville's new coach.

He seems like a dork, but he also is giving him a lot of energy. I kind of would like to hear him on your show, and I kind of feel like he would come on. would you have on Pat Kelsey, Louisville's coach? I don't think a sitting Louisville coach has ever been on this show. We've had former and prior and like post-Lewville coaches, but never during. Do you think we should do it? First of all, leave aside whether he would say yes. Do you think we should do it?

Let's say he came up to me and said, Matt, I'll come on your show. I'd believe him the way that man talks. I think he would try to turn it into his press conference thing. But you also know I wouldn't let him do that. That's true. We would say no more Pearly Gates jokes. So yes or no? I'll say yes.

All right, so here's what I want to do. We don't have to like him. I'm not going to like it. I'm putting this up to the topic. I'm putting this up to the fans because I am not taking the heat. Because if I have him on, everybody's going to go, oh, you just have me on. Cause Cal won't come. You become a loop show.

Beep, beep, beep, beep. I'm not doing it. It's up to y'all. If you want me to ask, I'll ask. If you don't want me to ask, I won't. I bet he'll do it. I don't know that, but I kind of think he probably would. I kind of think he probably would, but would you like me to do that?

Yes or no, just on the text machine. 772-774-5254. Just write, yes, I want him on. No, I don't want him on. Your vote is yes. It's a soft yes. Rick, what's your vote? I'm going to say yes.

Oh, why do you like? You like a little, you like it being spicy, Rick? Just a little bit. All right. Two votes for yes. I'm letting the people decide. Yes or no, whatever you decide is what we'll do. Just for yes or no, 772-774-5-254.

Who's next, Rick? Ben is up next. Ben, go ahead. Hey, guys, real quick, my vote will be no. Okay. Any publicity he gets right now is going to be good, so why would we give him even more? Good point.

Real quick question. NIL, I'm having trouble weighing. it out. It may be just simplistic thinking. If so, you can tell me. How much do you think on a given year, I guess basketball, just fan-based NIL collectives raise? Well, okay, so what are we talking about big donors or average fans? Well, and I guess that's a good question because here's what I'm having trouble weighing out. You had said that if Calipari, if Mitch wanted to let Calipari go, the money would be there some way somehow, or you believed it would.

And I suspect that that's from maybe big donor slash. Yes, that's what it would have been, it would have been, you know, from probably 20 different donors. Okay, so here's my simplistic thinking that probably going to sound stupid, but I need somebody to talk me out of this cave here. I just have trouble weighing the fact that, you know, Mitch and all the coaches and everybody are coming out with all these commercials. We're getting emails all that.

And I'm a, I donate. I mean, not to the level that some of these people do, but I proudly give every month. The thing that bothers me is we can raise $33 million at the drop of a hat to get rid of a coach if we have to. So why do we need, you know, fans coming out? Okay. I think that's because we're not, the school is not allowed to pay them. I mean, now, I think that rule should change. In between me and you, I think it will change one day relatively soon.

But until then, the school is just not allowed to do it. So even if Mitch Barnhart wanted to directly pay the players, he is not allowed to. Yeah, okay, I understand. That's a pretty big, yeah. I mean, like, that's the, that's the main, yeah. Well, I'm not saying that it was coming. My thing is, if these don't, and I'm not, it sounds bad because I'm trying to put it all on these big donors. But if they can come up with $33 million, like it's, you know, at the drop of the hat, if Mitch asked them to, how much are they given in their collectives?

Well, okay. But again, first of all, it's their money. They don't have to give anything, right? So like anything they give is in some ways like, you know, a gesture. Here's what I would say. I think here's the problem the collectives have. It's the tragedy of the commons problem. When you give to the school, they give you something back. The problem for the collectives is they're asking you to give to a player, and it's not clear what you get back except the player's success, but you don't know if the player's going to be good or not yet. Right? And I, I think that makes it hard. I think eventually it'll work itself out. But I think for a lot of people, these people are wealthy. They're used to getting something for their money. And in the collective situation, it's not clear what you're getting in some ways. So that's my answer to that. We'll take a break.

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