KSR - 2024-04-26- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 26, 2024

Live from Clark's Pump-N-Shop in Masterson Station -- the guys discuss UK basketball recruiting expectations, Hubert Davis spotted in Lexington, the NFL Draft, last night's trivia, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Matt Jones here live at Clark's Pumping Shop on the corner of Citation and Sandersville Road on a beautiful day, Friday, April the 26th. Big time day here on KSR because we have a big prize, but you can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. That number is 859.9. 280 2287. A Vision auto glass text machine is 772-744-5-254. This dish is sponsored by TJ Smith Law Office. You call T.J. I'll make them pay.

We're right here. Ryan just lives, what, right over there? Right over there. Right over there. On the corner of Sandersville and Citation. So here we're at Clark's Pumpin Shop. A couple things during today's show, wherever you are if you don't stop by, I don't know what's wrong with you. Number one, you get a free coffee for everybody here. Yep. So some of you all have your coffee. You just walk in there. You say, I'm here for KSR, you get a coffee, but this is the big one. Right there in that little box, you can put your name. And at the end of the show, I'm giving away two, $250 gas cards.

$250 gas cards. That's a pretty significant prize, I think. So do that people have to be here for it? So you're going to have to be here. So it's at the end of the show. So you should come by wherever you are in town, at least come to the end of the show, if nothing else. Put your name in there, $250 gas card. I'm going to give two of them.

We've done a lot of shows at gas stations, Ryan. I can't remember two, $250 gas price. Yeah, it's worth it. All the folks that live around it, this is the largest neighborhood in the state of Kentucky. Walk over like I did and put your name in. If you don't even live here, it's worth it for $250. You know, Joe Biden, that's so why wouldn't you want to come get the gas?

He raises it. So, like, now you can get the gas card for it. When you walk here, that's great gas mileage. Yeah. That's right. By the way, you have some, well, there's some quite some sunglasses there. Rachel gave me these. I had forgotten my shady rays at home, and she said, I've got some for you. You got some nice green neon? The Mountain Dew, I thought you would like that since you always make fun of me about a Bullet County and Mountain Dew.

I thought they handed those out at the hospital in Bullet County. When you're born, yeah. That you just get it right now. A lot to get to today. Now, some unfortunate news. As many of you know, we were supposed to have Mark Pope on the show. today. So I got a phone call this morning that there is an important recruiting visit that got scheduled last night that they're trying to go lock up a player and they asked if they could come on Monday. And so I said that, you know, of course, I understood that. So they will do the show on Monday. But, you know, hey, far be it from us to stay in the way of a recruiting that visit.

Then Alvin Brooks this morning, Drew, posts a picture on Instagram of all the coaches, all the three coaches, assistants and Pope on a plane on their way to the same place. I kind of like the suspense of this. Who is the big one? I mean, skip it. Like, last night it was on. This morning it's not. So something happened from last night to this morning.

It's like, we got to get on a plane and get this. Are you excited about whatever could be happening? I am excited. We're happy to postpone. We are a player's first program. and we need players, so we will talk to him on Monday. We are a player's first program. It must be somewhat important because, as you said, the whole staff was on that plane,

packing up. They're not bringing someone to Lexington, and they're going out and getting somebody and taking everyone. And they have people coming tonight. So, like, they had to do, this is a day trip, Brian. This is like, get there and come back quickly. So a lot going on. Yeah, aren't the reports to others like up to six guys coming to campus this weekend?

Yeah. So it's going to be a quick breakfast trip. Eat breakfast with a guy and come back, I guess. So I want to take a second and just go over a little bit. So I had a pretty good conversation last night and this morning about sort of the state of recruiting. And I think it's good for fans to know because, you know, I think a lot of people, Shannon, are wondering like, we're going to get any players, right? Right now we have three. Colin Chandler, we have Travis Perry, and then we have the kid for a Mario Williams.

So we only have three players. You need more than that to play basketball. You're going to have a hard time playing with just three guys. So I was talking a little bit about, and I think this is an adjustment for Mark Pope and his staff. But I also think it's going to have to be a little bit of an adjustment for us as fans, at least this year, because he's trying to build a roster. So let's go back to what we were talking about yesterday, about the market for players. And I was talking about how part of what's difficult is you don't know what everybody else is offering, right? And so it's kind of a free-for-all.

And I think guys are getting substantially more money than they've been getting in years before, in part because everybody's kind of rind all-in right now and trying to get players. And for us, we're trying to get an entire roster at a time this is happening. And I think that's hard. So Kentucky fans right now are desperate for information. Would you agree, Drew? Oh, absolutely. Every hour, someone's on the internet on our message board, on Twitter, asking something.

And that's not something you can control. That's just how it is. Everybody wants information. I get it. I want information. But for UK, right now the best chance to go get players is for there to be very little information. Okay? Because the moment there's information, you create a bidding more.

Other teams know what you're doing, et cetera. So you have this fan base that is. is desperate for information, but information actually hurts Kentucky against other schools. So because our fan base is so desperate for information, and I'm not blaming them, I'm the same way. A lot of our stuff is getting out, whereas a lot of other school stuff, Ryan, is not, because their fans are not as desperate for information. And I think what I've, I had a conversation today with somebody that would know that basically said,

look. The fan base, and I think Mark Pope, by the way, was going to say this on the show today. The fan base, like, don't assume because you don't know something, it's not happening. Because there's a lot, there are some guys that I think Kentucky wants that they don't, they just don't want the general public to know. And they're trying to get it done without the general public kind of all knowing. I think we lost one player. of some significance kind of because it got out. And then another school came in and basically said, all right, let's, we'll top it.

And there was a kid I think that I'd been told was going to come here that ended up not coming here. I'm not talking about the Richie Saunders kid. He ended up staying because he has a family and, you know, probably a mortgage at BYU and needed to stay there. But it is, I would say to our fan base, when a piece of information gets out, like for instance, Yesterday, it was posted Mark Pope with the kid from Oklahoma at Keenland.

My assumption, Drew, is when they posted that when they go out in public, they're cool with everybody knowing about that, right? Especially if you're going to Keenland. The BBN TMZ is everywhere right now. If you take a kid to Keenland, everybody's going to know about it. And I think that kid from Oklahoma, there's a pretty good chance he'll end up being member number four of the roster. I don't think it's done yet, but I think there's a very good chance of that. But there may be some guys.

I just want fans to understand, as it was explained to me, look, there are guys we want, but we just don't really want people to know about it. And I think that might be why, Ryan, we haven't heard a ton of stuff in the last few days. And I think maybe something getting out might be why I'm there on a plane right now. And so I think this is going to be a tension we have right now. Fans want info. Media wants to give info, but the coaches would rather that info not be out there, and that makes it difficult.

I see both sides. I see the fans. They're thirsty. We want to know the knowledge. I see this coach's side. They would like to keep it hush-hush. I already saw somebody tracking a plane from Lexington, a private jet this morning. Well, so take the track and the play.

I understand why everybody's doing it. And it's fun. And to be honest with you, if we didn't have this show, I'd probably be tracking it too. But I actually am not sure, Drew, that it helps. Yeah. Because I do think. I think Mark Pope is having to navigate something completely different than he was at BYU. Like, their fan base didn't do stuff like this.

Now, he's going to just have to get adjusted to it because this is the way we are. But for instance, there's like three names of people that I now think they're in on that I had never heard connected to Kentucky. And, you know, I want us to win. So I'm not going to say who they are. at least as it pertains to use a biblical term as to me and my house, I'm only going to put something out there, I think, if they're cool with knowing it. But I think that's going to be attention over the next couple weeks,

because these national guys, they don't care. They're just going to put anything out they want, and I get it, but I don't know necessarily Drew that it helps our cause. Yeah, I know what you're saying. It's not always other teams recruiting them. Sometimes it's the school doesn't know their guy is leaving, and you want them to announce it, then, you know, tell us his school an hour.

before, if it gets out that you are in with someone, they are, you know, their current team is recruiting them nonstop. The town they're in, everyone around them is trying to get them to stay, whereas you'd rather them just pop in and be like, hey, by the way, I'm going to UK. Didn't mention that yet. Putting it out there, it opens up for everyone, whether they're trying to get them to a new school or keeping them to stay where they're trying to leave. There's a school that I think there's a player that we would, if not, have gotten, had a really good shot on that another school didn't even know Kentucky was in on.

comes out that we've contacted him, Shannon, and the other school goes and locks it down. Yeah, that's the last thing you want to create, especially when you're up against the school like Arkansas who's already offering to pay double whatever your offer is. Yeah, this wasn't Arkansas, but that's a similar thing. But in theory, yeah, I mean, it's almost impossible when you're in that situation. So I can't speak for anybody else. But for me, if you're, I have a lot of you asking, well, who are they talking to, etc.

Here's what I'll say. If you see me say something, then at least for this year, I've kind of gotten a dream life because we need players this year. More than three. There may be years in the future where it's not, but we need players. And so I don't want to make anything bad. But I do think these last few days, they've had to readjust a little bit because once Kentucky's involved, these players and the agents go, uh-oh, now we can really make something

happen. And I think that might be a little bit of what, what you've heard. Also, there's a player who I believe was scheduled to come this weekend who I don't think it's going to work out at Kentucky, not because they lost them, but because of some, I don't want to get into the kids business. But there just may be a player whose name has been associated with us who will not end up being one here. I assume that will come out later today, but I just, I think we thought there'd be six. I think there's now probably only going to be five, maybe even only four, who are here this weekend. Busy, busy weekend for that coaching staff. We'll see them get on a private jet and fly house this morning knowing they got to come back.

It's exciting for our fan base, I think. But what's crazy is I'm just like all these other people. I want to know where they're going. Yeah. Right? I want to know where they're going. I've got to assume since Alvin Brooks put the plane picture out there that they're okay with everybody knowing they're somewhere. They're going somewhere.

And the thing is, Drew, you know, our fan base is going to figure out where they are. And then once they figure out where they are, they're probably going to figure out who they're going after. We're crazy. Kentucky basketball is our life, so we have nothing but time and energy to look up what's going on with the cats, 365. Especially right now with nothing else going on, Shannon. Normally this would not be something we focus on, but we're doing it right now. With a new coach building the roster from the ground up, there's a lot of excitement and a lot of

options for Pope. So anyway, I just wanted to give that little, you know, we're supposed to have him on today, but I also got a little bit of notion as they were. as they were talking to me sort of about him not coming on. I kind of have a better idea where we are. Here's all I would say. A lot of you asked me at the bar. I probably had 10 people ask me.

Are we going to be all right? If you ask me today, I think this roster still is going to be, I think this roster is going to be very good. Now, some stuff's got to fall into place in like the next three days. The next three or four days is big. But you have a situation like I know of two guys. there's two guys. They want to make sure they get one of them, right?

They have an order, but they don't necessarily want the order to get out. And so you have this situation where they prefer one over the other, but they got to make sure they get one of them. And so these next three or four days are going to be really, really crucial, I think, to build a roster. You asked me at the end of next week, might have a different reaction. But as of today, I still feel really good about what the team's going to be. I do, too, especially when you see the guys that they're bringing in.

They're going to have some success with some of these guys, and they're good. These are really good players we're talking to. Yeah, 859-280-2287. By the way, big shout out to my friend from Middlesbrough. You know, you all know him as well. 70th birthday to our guy Dick Tamer. Oh, Dick Tamer. That's right.

Happy birthday. They're actually in Middlesbrough. They're giving him a parade. Oh, wow. How about that? I would have worn my Dick Tamer T-shirt. Me too. You should have worn your dick.

So happy 70th birthday. to Mr. Tamer, love the guy. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at Clark's Puppet Shop. Just a reminder that we will be giving away two, $250 gas cards by the end of the show. So find your way out here to Citation and Sandersville Road.

I guess is this technically Masterson Station out here? Yeah, we're in the Masterson Station umbrella. You know what I like about that? You think they have enough houses that? Look at all this. The largest neighborhood in the state of Kentucky right there. You always say that. Is that true?

Oh, factual. You know, 100%. Where? Where do you find that? All our Elbar stats are, you know, we get numbers. So how do they decide what is a neighborhood? They have to define boundaries for neighborhoods. Who defined them?

You know, neighborhood associations and city planners. Shane and you look skeptical. Well, I mean, he is a realtor, so he would know more than me about it. But, yeah, I don't know what constitutes actually being in a neighborhood. Yeah, so is that the same as that? No. See, I live over there. That's a different neighborhood.

But we're under the Masters Station umbrella. The Masters Station gets all of this. They get all that over there. Sounds sketchy. What were you going to say? These places have a drive-thru. That's what I love about Clark Pubbyshop. This one and the one over there on Citation Lucille.

I mean, St. Leastown and Lucille, they both have drive-through. So that's cool. You can get breakfast, your coffee, everything. Well, that's cool. You don't see that a lot in gas stations. 859-2-2-287. I will say, Drew, if the coaching staff wants people to not figure out where they are, they shouldn't put the plain numbers on their Instagram.

stories. I just saw that. Somebody put this. So they're going to be able to track that plane pretty well. Maybe I would say to him, hey, you want to kind of move in silence. Don't put your plane number on your Instagram story. They're still getting used to fly in private. I noticed Coach Brooks. I followed him on Instagram last night. He is aggressive with the stories. We might know where he is at every moment. It's kind of interesting watching the move about.

I think Coach Brooks, he doesn't have a ton of Instagram followers yet, but he will soon. Oh, yeah. I'm going to say to Alvin Brooks, all right, man, maybe you have a friend's only story or something. You might need it because he does put a lot of where he is at any moment out there. He posted before he had the job flying from Baylor to Lexington. That kind of was tipped his hand at what he was going to do. Our fans eat that stuff up. I doubt they did much at Baylor, you know?

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure people at BYU, they were just like, they got other things to do. They got to play half-court basketball. They weren't worried about that kind of stuff. Now, the kid from BYU is not going to come here. I was told, basically said, look, having to move my wife across the country to play, and it's probably not what he wants to do. He's going to stay at BYU. It was a little bit of a surprise.

I think U.K. thought he would end up coming here. I think he would have been a good player. I think he would have been probably a perfect six-man or whatever for the team. So a little disappointing, but hopefully they'll find someone as good. I guess we know who wears the pants in that family. but don't act like you wouldn't have done the same thing. I mean, like, you... Yeah, you would have.

If you were married and your wife said, we're not moving from across the country, Drew, Ryan would have said, no, we're not moving, right? Yeah, absolutely. You know, I'd like to downplay it. I was pretty bummed. I was pretty bummed, too. I thought he was going to be good. I know.

People are having fun at UK's expense online saying we're going to spin it into nothing. But I was pretty bummed by that one. I like that he was familiar with Pope. I like how he plays. As a backup piece, I was bummed to see him go. Yeah, I mean, look, it is clear if you're online, there's a lot of glee being taken by other fan bases to what they consider, like, problems of Kentucky's recruiting. I don't buy it. Like, I don't, I'm going to be honest with you.

I don't think there's a problem yet. I think they would have liked to have had the guy yesterday, but he decided to stay at BYU. What are you going to do? He's a Mormon. BYU's a Mormon school. He's married. like if he doesn't want to leave, he doesn't want to leave. In terms of losing a guy,

I think there's really only one guy that they were going heavy on that they didn't get. Now, I think there's a lot of other guys that they are heavy on that it's not certain they're going to get, and that's why these next three or four days are really important.

But there's only one guy that I think the way, I think they have, matter of fact, I know they have. They have like five or six guys. that they are zeroed in on. And then they got another 10 to 15 that are kind of, all right, we'll take them, or if that doesn't work out. But those five to six are the focuses.

And I think of those people, they've only lost one so far, and obviously they got one in Amari Williams. Why was Hubert Davis walking around Lexington yesterday? He was with a do. So it looks like UNC, it looks like a do Thierro will probably, end up at North Carolina. I will say this. What's Hubert Davis? Apparently he wanted to keep that again, try to roll low-key. You can't be walking around the parking lot at Malones, Drew, and think no one's going to see you. I had four different people send me a picture of him. He was doing

a Matt Jones where he paces around the parking lot on the phone. He apparently was doing it for 15 minutes. Short of going to Keenland and standing in the paddock and waving and saying, I'm Hubert Davis, Going to Palomar Harry's on a Keenland day is probably second in where you're going to get noticed. That is one of the most popular spots you can go to on a Keenland day, and he's just walking around in Carolina and he's wondering why he's getting noticed. And he also did his meaning with a do at a table in the middle of the restaurant. See, I look at that as a flex. Like, I'm coming to your city.

I'm taking your players. I want you to get a picture of me walking around. You think you did that on purpose? Yeah, I think so. Like, I'm going to come and take your guys. Yeah. And he knew that we would, you know, obviously, do what we do and post it on social media. Yeah, I mean, good for ado if he ends up there, right?

I mean, I don't think he was going to stay here regardless, so I don't consider, you know, I'm surprised how many of our fans thought it was, my man needed ice. You got to have ice. You got to have ice. Like, the show's going on, you got to have ice. Got a bow tie and ice. I understand.

That's the way it goes. I lost my joint of feeling. Yeah. But I never thought we were going to keep any of Cal's players. So I'm always surprised when people act shocked. there's not one cow player that I thought had any chance of staying here, Ryan. Like they come here for Cal so when he leaves, they're going to leave. Especially when a do even entered the portal before Cal even left.

I mean, I think he was peace out of Lexington long before all this even shook, shook out. It's much more surprising to me the Cal players that don't go to Arkansas than the fact they don't stay here, Drew. I was certain they weren't going to stay. No, I didn't expect any of them. I would have liked to have a do back. I really like a do. and if it ends up being North Carolina, I'm still going to be in a due guy,

even though I hate the Tar Hills. I wish we had gotten a little more from him last year. I felt like he took a big jump from year one year two, even though year three wasn't realistic. I think he's got a bright future. It's interesting, Channing. You think Hubert Davis was flexing. Yeah, I think so.

I mean, he could have had that conversation in a car somewhere where no one would have seen him, but to do it in public. You think he'd fly to Lexington and then just go sit in an alley with a new Theero? Well, I mean, if you wanted to keep it private, you would, I would think. You wouldn't go to, he's right, you wouldn't go to the Palomar Harries on a Keenland Thursday

if you're trying to keep it quiet. I think Pope maybe needs to go to Fayetteville and maybe still some of Cal's players and just walk around in public, whatever dump they have in Fayetteville, and maybe, you know, do the same thing. Whatever dump they have. I mean, they don't have anything nice. Arkansas fans at Shannon the dude. People were wondering yesterday if Hubert ordered the coach Cowell's chicken.

It's still on the Palomar menu. Yeah, they got to take the coach's chicken off, right? You can't leave the coach cow's chicken on it. BHG wants to be hilarious. Leave it on the menu, but make it the kids nuggets instead of the entree. Just make it the dino nuggets. The John Calgary nuggets? I like that.

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Running up that. Yes, DJ Waller, that's the Michigan defensive back, is visiting Kentucky today. That is the guy I was going to talk about that Kentucky visited him yesterday. He's coming to Lexington today. He will start in the secondary for Kentucky. Almost certainly might have started for Michigan. Next year, if he stayed at Michigan, Drew, that would be a huge gift for the football team here in the portal season. Yeah, Kentucky almost got him out of high school, lost him to the Wolverines.

He's from a little town called Youngstown, Ohio, which I'm sure helps with the recruitment. So Vince went up, saw him yesterday, going to get a return trip. And reports are they're in very good standing. I think they're in very good standing. You know, they lost a kid, the Angling kid after the spring game. this would be the replacement. You'd be able to fix it one for one. I hear you're playing tonight at Louisville at Ten Roof.

Ten Roof in St. Matthews, 8 o'clock. It's a wild crowd. Are you ready for it? I am. You know, last time we were at a ten roof, Vince Meryl was up on stage with us, singing Simple Man, so I don't know that he'll be there tonight, but... Maybe you'll have Pat Kelsey tonight. No, we don't want him up there with us.

Jeff Brom? Just get one of those? No, I like the Brom guys, but... You know what? I might be a little... Maybe I'll come see you. Swing on by. Yeah, we'll be there.

Yeah, I didn't know that. That's a possibility. All right, who's up first? Jeremy. Jeremy. Hey, Matt. I'm excited to hear the folks' conversation whenever we get to hear it with you. But I have a question about the NFL draft.

I wanted to give you a chance to show you're working in the journalism skills. I was on until 2 o'clock in the morning on radio last night talking about the NFL draft. And if you want to hear somebody being full of it, you need to get the tape of that. But go ahead. So I tried to, I caught about 10 minutes, that was all I stayed up for. I wanted to see, I saw a lot of the good choices in the high teams. Wanted to see if you saw a good seeper there. Oh, listen, Jared Vance, or Jared Verse, excuse me.

Jared Verse, one of the most verse at tool players of the draft. Ah, I like that. Goes 19th to the Rams, and I think they got a steal right there. You know, the young man, he's got, he needs to work on his hips, right? Okay. But he's got a burst off the edge. He started, went to Albany as a walk-on tight end, and worked his way up to play defensive end at Florida State

and goes to the draft. Great American story. Now you put him on the outside with Byron Young right there in the middle, and you have quite a defensive line next year in the Rams. But what kind of hands does he have? He has violent hands. How do I know that? I listen to Bougar McFarlane talk about him, Chad.

And he literally came on and goes, he has violent hands and I thought that's a great term right there. You had me pulled. You sound exactly like you know like what you're talking about, like you've watched them all. You ever heard the phrase violent hands before?

No, I wouldn't know what to say about hands. So Jared versus violent hands. And so yes, sir, Jeremy, I was a big fan of that pick, probably my sleeper of the draft. Well, you got me excited for it. And I saw in the Jaguar's war room that looked like somebody had went to war there.

I was curious if you had Yeah, so I do have to talk about this. That's a great story. I appreciate the call. All right. So for people who don't know, Shannon knows this, Tony Kahn owns a wrestling company, AEW Wrestling, which is the WWE's main competitor.

On the television show on Wednesday night, he took a power bomb through a table. And so to sell the injury, he put on a neck brace on the show. They carried him out and he had a neck brace. This dude was in the Jaguars War Room last night, and he was wearing the neck brace, Shannon. I appreciate the commitment to the storyline. My man sold the neck brace in the Jaguars War Room.

I felt like you would appreciate it. There's very Andy Kaufman of him. You know what? Maybe, though, maybe he's not selling it. Maybe he actually did have a neck injury. And by the way, ever know. Our neck brace is still the same foam circle that it's been for like the 40 years. Has the technology, Drew, not improved at all in the neck brace industry?

I don't know, but it reminds me years ago. I was in a wreck the day before prom, and they told me I had to wear one to my senior prom. I ended up going without it, but they tried to wrap a bow tie around one for me back in the day. You were going to have to wear it to your senior prom? I'm not going to prom wearing that. I would have loved you wearing that little thing to the prom.

I did not feel good at prom, but didn't have to wear the neck brace. So, Ryan, I was on the draft coverage until 2 a.m. last night. Oh, my goodness. Luckily, we had phone calls the whole time, so I was good. But, you know, thankfully Michael Pennix, Jr. got picked and I was able to go, oh, that was terrible. Why would they do that? That gave us a little bit of conversation. But here's what I learned about the draft.

There were a lot of, like, Samoan guys whose names I couldn't pronounce, who I didn't really want to get into because it would show that my inability to pronounce their name meant I didn't know anything about them. So I skipped over those picks. Six quarterbacks in the top 12, I focused on them. Now, are you also running it back again tonight? Are you doing it again tonight? We do it again tonight. What time? It's 11.30 to 1.

So it's not as long, but it's the second and third round. And Shannon, I'm just going to surprise you, don't know a lot about the guys that are supposed to go in the second and third round. Well, maybe you'll get lucky there. Maybe one or two cats that are there, Drew Phillips possibly. Yeah, let's talk about that. Chance of potentially one, two, or three Kentucky players going tonight. Drew make a prediction. Drew Phillips, Trevin Wallace, Ray Davis.

How many of those guys go tonight? I think Phillips and Wallace go. Davis is on the Friends. I'll say he goes fourth round, but I hope it's three tonight. I'm going to say Phillips goes. I'm going to say Davis goes. I'm going to say Phillips and Davis go. What about you?

Yeah, Phillips is a guy that could sneak in late in the second round even, so he's definitely going to go tonight. I saw somebody post Ray Davis was the fifth best running back in the draft. But it's just not a very deep. deep running back pool this year. But I think Mel Kuiper maybe has him. And Mel Kuiper has Wallace as like the fifth best linebacker. But last night, they had 14 offensive guys start the draft. So it's definitely an offensive league now.

Your Bears had quite the night with the offense. They still need some line help, but you all are loaded up offensively. Very happy with my Bears' night getting a quarterback and a wide receiver. Who's up next? Ryan. Ryan, go ahead, Ryan. Hey, guys. First up, Lung Ben.

Who are? Okay, so I kind of agree with that when you said yesterday that you're not saying you're nervous, but you're not saying you're not nervous about getting guys. What would you say is a successful recruiting weekend, and at what point you say that you're getting nervous about that? Okay, so a successful recruiting weekend, that's a good question. To me is that we come by Tuesday, and we have at least six players on the roster,

whether the public knows about them or not. Okay? So I think that's, I think what I've learned is there's a big difference right now between when the staff knows and when the public knows, because the NIL portion of the stuff still has to get like worked out for a lot of these guys. So for instance, I think they have a player committed now and everybody just doesn't know about it yet. So in my mind, they have four players in my mind. I want to, so I need to, in my mind, feel like there are six players by, let's say, Tuesday.

The key to me, this is the key to me. I want Drew to make sure we have like two studs, okay? I'm pretty sure they're going to get one. I want to find another one, all right? Because I think Amari Williams, Colin Chandler, Travis Perry, maybe the kid that was here yesterday, I think those are great pieces, but you've got to have one or two studs. That's what I want. Colin Chandler could become a stud, but I don't know if you can expect him to be that right offhand.

So give me one or two of those. The roster, I'm not worried about filling out a roster. They can find players. I mean, it's just a matter of getting the dude you want. Yeah, and I'm really watching to get a stud point guard. I love Perry and Chandler. They're coming off the bench in my brain. Williams will likely start.

but you also have to deal with with these guys committing you're still trying to recruit a bench and most guys don't want to be recruited as the backup that's a this has to be a that's a huge problem right now that's a huge problem right now there are i think there's 10 people right now shannon that would commit to kentucky if they thought they were going to start yeah but kentucky is trying to get a starting lineup and then go get a bench but not have the bench affect the starters or the starters keep you from getting the bench. It's a tough juggle because you're having to create a roster from scratch. Right. And if you promise somebody playing time or, you know, your starting position, how do you sell that to somebody who is going to be a bench player?

I think that's tough to do. I don't know that you can promise somebody to be a starter because then what happens in practice? What if somebody else is playing better in practice and maybe becomes a guy who earns that starting position? I mean, if you look at it, go look at the teams that replaced a coach this year. They're all dealing with the same thing. I mean, Louisville had to create a roster from scratch, and they had two more weeks than us, and they now have, what, five players, I think, at this point. Arkansas had a week more than us.

They have three players, I think, right now. So USC, I think, started from scratch. They have three players. So I do think, Drew, we're all kind of dealing with this at the same time. And I would say, I mean, I don't know what went through Richie Saunders' head. I'm sure family was a big part of it. But at BYU, he's the guy, and they made that knowing you're the guy. He's looking at Pope with six visitors this weekend, four that play his position,

and probably more that we don't even know about. So it's so hard to get these guys to lock in when they really don't know where they'll fit in the rotation because you can't make these promises. But I would say to you, come to me Tuesday night, and I'll do a, if you'll remind me, I'll do a Twitter space, and I'll tell you if I feel good then. I think this is the biggest weekend. If Kentucky's going to have a team that has a chance to be really good, Maybe not, don't block the, maybe not great, then they need to have a good weekend right here.

Hey, it's warmer weather. That means grilling season. It is grilling season. And after a long cold winter, how about Noche Linda Farms? How about it? Describe beef to people, because you're more of a guy who likes beef. It is the best beef I've ever had, period. It is so good and tasty.

You don't even don't have to season it. It tastes so good. You don't have to season it at all? If you don't want to, you don't have to. It tastes that good. That's good. Dry steak, burgers, brisket, or ribs. Go to Noche Linda Farms or call Steve Grissom.

859-707-7-7-4. He'll even, Shannon, give you a tour of the farm. That would be great. I like that. Right there in Bourbon County. It's a Kentucky proud partner that you can get boxes. You can get a whole cow. They'll just throw a cow right on your door.

Go to NochaylindaFarms.com. 859707-7-7-004. We'll take a break. Be right back here. at Clark's Pubbens Shop. I'm back, Kentucky Sports Radio, here at Clark's Pubbets Shop. Beautiful Friday. What a gorgeous day.

Is this what the weather's supposed to be like this weekend? Do we know here on the courts? Yeah, it's supposed to be really nice. That's awesome. Sandersville and Citation. It is a gorgeous day. So last night we did 859-280-2287. We did trivia.

Ryan's team was Shannon awful. That's what I hear. Absolutely awful. So you had something you wanted to say about it, though. It was ridiculously way too hard. That was the hardest you've ever asked questions by far. Sounds like somebody swine and Drew. Definitely.

I thought during the break when he said, I have something to say about trivia. Why was it so hard? I asked you very easy questions. Oh, they were not easy. Like the seven most populated cities in South America. That's not that hard. The ones are like we had, what does Lion Mountain mean? No, I mean, these were very easy questions.

They were like the word origin of countries, right? Give them some of them. Well, I don't have... Word origin, Lion Mountain. Yeah, so I said what country is for the African word for Lion Mountain? Okay, so does any... Just think about it. So I've already narrowed it down.

You know it's an African country. Think about Lion Mountain. Could anybody figure out what would be... What? No. That's not a country. That's a mountain. What country, not Killimanjard?

What do you think? Lion Mountain. Nobody here knows it. Sierra Leone. Pat got it, right? Good job, Pat. Like you got it. Pat got it.

I said her on my team. So Pat. Yeah. But Leon, Lion, Sierra Mountain. It's too soon after Richie Saunders in his Sierra. Yes. Part of the reason I put it there is because I thought, well, people will think about the country because of Richie Saunders didn't happen. But here's my UK sports question.

Antonio Reeves, this year. had one of the 30 best individual point seasons in UK history for a senior, for a senior. Okay. Who are the other eight players since Mark Pope played college basketball in Kentucky, who were seniors who had the top, eight of the top 30 points per year as seniors? Ramelle Bradley. Ramele Bradley, who Ryan said during the break. It's been so long since we got a senior.

seniors so starting with with the popes teams what do you got keith bogans keith bogans is one um Gerald fitch Gerald fitch is actually just won away that's a good guess we guessed him too last night who else there is uh no Joe Crawford Joe Crawford is one that's nice you haven't gotten the one that's caught the most that should be pay Sean Prince is one you still haven't got who played with Pope uh Tony Delke Tony Delke is one that's gonna get to it I don't need the clues All right, what about there's one you should not have forgotten because it wasn't that long ago. We had seniors? Come on.

I don't remember the seniors. Who? Oscar. How does everybody forget Oscar? Like, no one got Oscar. Do you all know? It was two years ago. If we played a game named seniors in the last 15 years, I think I would struggle.

And then the other two were Scott Padgett and Jeff Shepard. Okay. Good picks. So how many did you get? We got five. We did not get Jeff Shepard. And we scratched out remill. Did you get Oscar?

We didn't not get Oscar. Hope's of the three minutes. Think about how quickly they forgot. I know. I mean, Oscar was not here. He was here two years ago, and everybody's already like out of their minds. I didn't forget Oscar. I just forget he was a senior.

Yes, well, he was a senior. So that was our trivia last night. Who's up next? Adam. Adam. Go ahead, Adam. Okay, Matt. I've been trying to, I wanted to say this.

The first week, Mark Pope got hired, but I couldn't get in, but I don't know if Pope's going to be better than Cal. We knew it to expect next year with Cal, and now it's like a breath of fresh air, and we don't know what to expect, and so it's just more exciting, and that's just, and I was just It is more exciting. I mean, like, there's a new caring about recruiting that hasn't existed for years. I mean, this fan base has not cared about recruiting like it does now, Drew, since the early Cal years. Would you agree? Yeah, that and Pope, he wants to be in front of people.

Like last summer, you know, Cal did the we're moving in silence thing and you just weren't getting national interviews or you didn't get much from behind the scenes. It's the exact opposite now because Pope's trying to build excitement, so he's everywhere and putting out a lot of positivity. Shannon, my question about Pope is not whether or not he's going to be better than Cal in the broad scale. That would be a very hard standard when you consider what Cal did the early years. The question to me is much more narrow. Is Pope going to be better than Cal would have been for these next few years? Would the next five years of Pope been better than what the next five or four years of Cal would have been?

That's the question. Yeah, that's an interesting question. The question is not whether he's a better coach. Cow's a Hall of Famer, Cal's a great coach, and it will be hard, if not impossible, for Pope to match what Cowell did his first 10 years. But the question is, would this program have been better? off in the next four years with four years of Cal the way he was the last four years or with Mark Pope and for me Ryan the answer to that question is Pope I feel if Cal had stayed we were going to

get a lot more of the same it just would have been the same thing high potential recruits kind of underachieve when it came to March at least with Pope I think we've got that renewed interest that hey man we're we're all in this together again we're going to build it back to where it used to be there's to me there's to me Pope is a lot more of an unknown, but I feel like I know what the next few years of Cal would have been like. We might have been four years made one good run, and we'd have had a lot of first and second round losses and disappointment. With Pope, maybe it's a lot better than that. Maybe it's worse, but it's unknown.

But I feel like, Shannon, I kind of know how the cow story was going to end. And I feel like there was a lot of toxic relationships within the program as well. and at least you get a clean slate. You get to start over with those relationships from the AD all the way down. So I think that right there is a big positive for this program. Yeah. So by the way, I said Louisville had five. Apparently they have eight guys.

I haven't followed it quite as close. So they actually are close to having their roster. You think they get the 16-year-old? Man, that guy just seems to be bag chasing. It seems like there's a lot of bag chasing. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two.

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