KSR - 2024-04-4- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

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I want to go back to the guy who called because, you know, again, hard breaks wait for no one. You've heard them cut me off. You heard them cut Cal off the other day. There's nothing we can do about it, but it did cut him off. He said, and I want to give his point a fair chance because it's a point other people have made, you know, that we've said, look, two out of three times Kentucky's lost in the first round.

of the tournament, and people make, and it is true, Mike Shashefsky lost in the first round of the tournament two out of three years. He lost to Lehigh in 2012. He lost to Mercer in 2014. So there are people who say, Matt, well, if that can happen to Mike Shoshchewski, and he's still the greatest of all time, why can't it happen to count? And I think that's a fair point. Except you need to consider the context.

All right. So let's look at the last five, four years for Kentucky versus those years for Mike Chishefsky. In 2021, we did not make the tournament at all. That's very important. In 2021, we didn't make the tournament. Then in 2022, we lost in the first round. 2023 we lost in the second round. 2024 we lost in the first round.

Let's look at Chishevsky's run there. In 2010, he wins the title. Okay? he wins the title. In 2011, he goes to the sweet 16. Then in 2012, he loses in the first round. In 2013, he goes to the sweet 16. In 2014, he loses in the first round. And then this is key. In 2015, he wins the title again. All right. So sandwiched around those two first round losses were a title two years before and a title after. Now, John Calipari comes out next year and wins a title. You ain't going to hear one word of complaint from me or almost anyone else in the Kentucky fan base.

He wins a title, all forgiven. Oakland and St. Peters will become laughs in our minds, right? The way that Robert Morris was a laugh after we went to the championship game the next year. But at the same time, remember, two years before Shoshchevsky lost in the first round, He won a championship. We haven't been to a final four since 2015. And then he won a title the year after he lost the second time. Respectfully, it's not the same.

It's just not. If the Oakland, let's just say that last year, instead of losing in the second round to Kansas State, we had gone to the final four, I think people would forgive the Oakland game. We would just say, well, happens but that's not what happens you know so his point about we're reverting to the mean okay let's say we're reverting to the mean here's where we are after 14 years the first 10

years of cow's career i would argue might be the most impressive 10 years of anyone's career you could make an argument for some erupts you could make an argument for some of ricks but it's certainly in the conversation. But now we have missed the tournament, first round loss, second round loss, first round loss in a four-year period. It's the worst four-year period in the history of our school in terms of tournaments. The only one worse is the probation era. Okay, so what is the mean?

And what is more likely that the cow of 20 to 10 to 2019 is the real cow? or the Cal of 2021 to 2024. The answer is probably somewhere in between, but here's the thing. Somewhere in between is not Kentucky standard. Somewhere in between, is not really blue blood, and that's what we got to fix.

Yeah, and the Duke losses were bad, and I don't know their records in history, but just kind of brief Googling here. They still had great years of those years. I mean, Kentucky has lost 10 games in three or four years. years. Just quick math, Chashefsky needed to go 30 years to have three, 10 lost seasons. I don't know what Duke did in those conference tournaments, but they go home right immediately before they lose to Lehigh. I don't know. With Kentucky, it's just not their tournament results.

It's been the overall body of work these last four years. So those Duke losses were bad. But, I mean, they finished the top 10 of the AP those years. A lot of you will remember, a lot of our younger fans act like this is the first time any of this has happened. A lot of our older fans will remember Tubby Smith. How divided was this fan base over Tubby Smith? It was divided in half. KSR barely existed, and I was pro Tubby, and there was still a division. Okay. But remember what Tubby's nickname was? Ten lost Tubby. That was probably the nickname that got him to where he was out. Ten lost Tubby. Well, we've had ten losses three straight years. Actually, three of four. Three of four. The year before. we had nine, right?

Or 26 and 8. 26 and 8. So we had 16, 16, 11, 8, and 11. That was Tubby. I mean, that was what Tubby was, and we had that reaction then. So I would say to a lot of people who act like what we're going through right now in fan base is unprecedented. Some of you guys are older than me. Joe B went through this, didn't he?

Tubby went through this. Before a lot of us were here, Rupp went through this at the very end. There were people trying to push Rupp out at the very end. So like, history repeats itself. This is not new. It may just be the first time you have ever dealt with it, but it has happened before. Who's next?

Dana is up next. Go ahead, Dana. Hi, guys. I just had a couple of quick things. One, do you have any idea of what Kyle seems to pick a couple of players every year and just has this crazy loyalty to them, no matter how poorly they're doing? He's a very loyal person. I mean, he's a very loyal person to the guys that he,

I think this is not a criticism of him. But when he recruits a guy and he feels like that family has entrusted him with the kid, He is very, very loyal. Now, you might say when he says, you know, what if this were my son or this, you might ask, well, what about the other kids on the team? What about Jordan Burke's parents? Or Joey Hartz? I think that's a fair criticism, but I don't really have an answer for that.

Okay. And do you think he really wanted to offer for Reed Shepard, or do you think somebody got in his ear? No, he did. He did. I think probably I appreciate the call. And I can't be harsh on Cal about this because I was like this. I think at first there was an assumption, Drew. I'm not sure is Reed Shepherd good enough for Kentucky.

But when you saw him play in AAU, you knew he was good enough. So I don't think Cal was forced. He offered Reed because he thought he was good enough and he was good enough. Yeah, when Reed stepped out and gotten that, I forgot where he went first. Maybe Indianapolis. It wasn't like McDonald's in the big games. But he really shined against national talent guys. he's in the rankings were ahead of him.

Even when he made the McDonald's game, he played like 15 minutes. That's not a sympathy offer when you're playing in those big games and playing well. Between his sophomore, I will admit, going into his summer after his sophomore year, I knew he was good, but I was skeptical if he was UK good, and then that AEU summer he played really well. Then the next year, his high school year was good, but then where he really became like, okay, no doubt this dude is legit as between. he's junior and senior high school in AAU. He lit it up.

And the better guys he played against, the better he did. And at that point, any skepticism you might have had because it's this kid, you just forget it. Like, he's good. And I think Cal was all in on Reed. So I don't, he, he, Cal deserves credit for Reed. And Cal deserves credit for developing Reed. I mean, Reed's good. Reed's really, really, really good.

He deserves credit for that. Who's next? Mary is up next. Mary, go ahead, Mary. Hi there. Hi. I have a couple points. How are you doing?

Good. Good. Okay. I have a couple points about the girl on campus. Okay. I taught at universities for 20-some years. One, I'd say kids today have no critical thinking and very poor self-preservation. And that girl should have been smart enough to get an ability.

But is it there? Okay. So I understand what you're saying, Mary. But then I also hear. Can I make two? because there's, okay, go ahead. Just make two points. Yeah, thank you.

Also, once she got in the building, she should have called for help to get her arm fixed. Second, the teacher should never have led her in the classroom without her calling the university to get help for her injury. So I feel like there's three major mistakes that were made, and now I'd love to hear what you say. Okay, so the only thing, the second two things I can't really, I mean, I can't really comment on the first thing.

You said that students today, like, they don't really have, you know, what was the word you use? Critical skills? They don't think. They don't critically think. But the other thing I sometimes hear older folks, now hang on, Mary, because you said I let you finish. Yeah, no, no. Sometimes I think the older generations look at young people and they criticize them for whatever they do. So on the one hand, they didn't have.

critical skills not to go outside. But on the other hand, I'll hear people criticize, well, young people that don't work as hard. They're not tough. They're all like, you know, they all want to have their feelings hurt, blah, blah, blah. This is a girl who went out. She saw a terrible storm, and she said, I'm going to go to class anyway. I would think people of the older generation would go, I admire that girl's toughness. That's a girl who doesn't let things stand in her way.

Isn't it married to where you're making it to no matter what she does? It's critical? No, I agree with that point that in that way I do believe she was, she had her mindset correct that education is important. She needs to be in class. And UK should have sent an alarm out. They should not have even allowed that to happen because those alarms can go out in an instant. They don't take any time at all.

And so that is a failure of UK. But the part I'm in about kids today, and I think we almost have to think about this a little bit when you all talk about basketball players, is that they've been tied so much to their phones that anything that doesn't come through a phone that they can't Google, they don't know how to find information very well at all. I've got graduate students. I don't even understand how to find literature. Well, I'm sorry, but I have so much more experience in this area than you do because I've taught over a lot of. enough. Well, I'm going to have to go to break, Mary. And it's pretty amazing. You'd be shocked about what you see. I appreciate the call. I will tell you, here's what I've found just in my very, very limited interaction with my students and people that work at this bar. There's some, well,

people that work at this bar don't write. But, you know, there are things that this generation does worse, in my opinion. I don't think they're necessarily as good a riders, et cetera. But here's what I found. When you find a way to engage with this generation, they're just as good as anybody else. It's just you, just like our grandparents and parents didn't know exactly how to deal with us, Drew. We don't necessarily know exactly how to deal with them. But I'll tell you this, when I teach my students and I get them zoned in on a topic, I'm amazed at how smart they are.

But when I try to get them to do the things that I did, maybe it's not as good because they just learn in a different way than I did. Yeah, when the older generation talks about younger people have been on their phones, their computers a lot. I mean, that's kind of the world. They're pretty good at it. I mean, how many times the older people need the younger people to be. Tell me how to do this. I mean, that's the world we live in.

You and I complain about this all the time. Kids today are not as good writing. They just aren't. At the same time, though, when it comes to the things that matter now on the phones, they're a hell of a lot better at it than I. Yeah. So, you know, my mom knows how to do PowerPoint presentations better than me. me because she had to learn to do it in her class. They got their own skills, which is not the same skills.

That's a good way to put it. They have their own skills. They're just different than our skills. The skills we all have, though, is loving college hoops. Yes. And draft kings can help you get ready. One of America's top-rated sportsbook apps, new customers bet up to $5, bet $5 to get up to $150 instantly in bonus bets.

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All right, Dore, I want to tell you about the controversy with the Reds last night. Let me hear it. All right. So I want to know somebody's line. The question is who. Okay. The Reds were playing the Phillies.

I don't know if you watched any of the games. It was terrible. It was rainy. It was cold. All three nights. When I watched it, I was surprised they got any of the games in. They ended up getting them all in. And it looked miserable.

Even I, and I will go sit through almost anything, even I would have been like, I am not sitting outside and watching these games. But on Tuesday night, the game was on TBS. and I watched the national broadcast. And they were saying, the Reds and Phillies want to get in the game tonight and definitely want to get in the game tomorrow. Because Cincinnati is not supposed to come back to Philadelphia this year. And the game Thursday, they're both off.

But then they said they can't play Thursday because someone has booked a wedding for the baseball stadium. No, I'm telling you, am I wrong? Is that not what they said? They said someone has booked a wedding for the baseball stadium. Well, I have to tell you, I found that to be the craziest thing in the world on multiple levels. First of all, who books a wedding in a baseball stadium? Who has the money to book the wedding in a baseball stadium? Secondly, who books a baseball stadium in April in Philadelphia, where it might be freezing cold?

Third, how does Philadelphia give up their stadium when it's possible they might have to have a makeup day for rain? So for 24 hours, I am baffled by this. If you were at trivia last night, I was going person to person and going, people are like, why are the Reds playing in this weather? And I was like, well, you know what? They booked the baseball stadium for a wedding the next day. Then last night, Philadelphia's Twitter account puts out a tweet that says, why is everybody saying we have a wedding in the baseball stadium?

There is no wedding in the baseball stadium. But they said it on the national broadcast. I heard it. So either TBS just made up this anecdote that they, there was a game in a wedding in the baseball stadium, or the Phillies just, like, decided to deny it, and drew neither of those make sense to me. Why would they say, why would the national broadcast say there was a wedding in a baseball stadium? Because that's so outlandish.

You wouldn't make, like, who wouldn't make that up? Here comes the weather. We've got to get it in for this wedding. It doesn't exist. What a bizarre thing to even say if it wasn't true. and then why would Philly lie about it? So they don't look like idiots that scheduled a wedding in April when it might rain? Actually, I'm learning all this for the first time.

The Atlanta Braves opening day at Philadelphia. Cancelled because rain. I mean, obviously it rains in Philadelphia and April. Why would you schedule anything during your first week of baseball when you have your first series at home? For women out there. Why would you want to get married in a baseball stadium? Where would you even be married? On the field?

Well, you talk about looking empty. Do you have 30,000 friends to attend that wedding? I mean, like... I've heard of weddings at stadiums, but they're in like a suite. Like, people get married at UK. They're on the field. Have you ever heard of a wedding in a baseball stadium? Yeah, and Bengals and UK.

But it's not on the field. It's like in there. Like, they have these big event spaces inside. Okay, but like you could still have the game. That's what I mean. But the TBS person said the game would have to be canceled because the stadium was already... booked for a wedding. That would be insane, wasn't it? Well, it would be insane of the Phillies

booking any weddings the moment the season starts, because you're going to have make-up dates, especially in the spring when it rains. They've already had two rainouts a week into the season. I'm going to believe the announcer. So do you believe TBS or do you believe the Phillies? Because why would you make that up? And I think the Phillies are, realize they're an idiot for scheduling it and trying to act like a movie. If TBS had just said, they can't play Thursday because the stadium's already booked, maybe there would have been a miscommunication. and the Phillies could have said, well, yes, it's, it was, or no, it wasn't booked. But to have the specificity of it is for a wedding, I just don't know why they would make that up.

And the Phillies Twitter account was like, why is everybody saying this? Because it was on the national broadcast of the game. TBS, maybe one of your only nationally televised broadcast this year said it, you said. So I'm still baffled by what happened with this so-called wet. Anyway, they got the game in. They played it in a torrential, like, awful weather because, I think, because they had a wedding scheduled for today. If there had been a wedding scheduled and you needed a make-up game,

you just have to tell those people, whoops, found another place. We have a baseball game. If I did sports radio in Philadelphia, you know where this show would be today at the stadium to see if there's a wedding. That's where it would be. Who's next? Bill is up next. Bill, go ahead, Bill.

The Oakland A is moving to Sacramento for, three years until they moved to Las Vegas. So Oakland, I thought you meant they scrapped the Vegas plans. We're like, no. It's been three years in Sacramento's AAA part. But go ahead. Hey, man, I couldn't get any desk today, but I got a question about Vince Morrow.

I know he does a terrific job recruiting out of Ohio, but why isn't he a successful recruiting in Kentucky? I think he's pretty successful. We've gotten pretty much, I don't know, six of the eight best players in the state. every single year? Well, I'm thinking of that Wilkes guy that's playing for the Browns now, that we're in Lafayette.

Well, I mean, you're talking about one kid. I mean, you're talking about one kid. I mean, they're a kid. First of all, it's very hard to recruit against Alabama. I don't care where you are. But, like, he has done. Oh, yeah, I agree with that. I mean, he has done an amazing job.

I mean, we have the number one quarterback in the state and one of the top quarterbacks in the country coming this year. I think if you look at Vince's time here, in the state of Kentucky, Kentucky's own the city of Louisville, over the city of over Louisville, which is kind of amazing. That may change now that Brahms there, but it wasn't true for a long time. And, you know, he doesn't get everybody from the state, but I think he gets most of them. Oh, I agree.

He does a good job. I was just thinking that maybe he doesn't do it as well in Kentucky. Well, he wasn't in charge of Kentucky. He wasn't in charge of Kentucky until. and I appreciate the call, what, five, six years ago. There was a year that we did not do well in Kentucky, and then Stoops moved Morrow to Kentucky. He was not, I think he used to do Ohio and Pennsylvania,

and maybe they moved him to Ohio and Kentucky. Am I right about that? Yeah, early on, Kentucky was still losing a little bit. There was a time when Trinity wouldn't even look towards Lexington in Louisville. I mean, their players did not consider UK, and Kentucky tapped into that and got some Trinity guys. Shlarman was the big Kentucky guy for a while, And then unfortunately, that's what it was.

When Charmin passed, there was a little bit of period of whoever did it, didn't do it very well, and then Vince took over. I think you're right. I think it was Schlurman passed it on to Vince. He kind of added the territory a little bit. We will take a break, 859-28027. Come on out and have lunch here at KS Bar. We'll be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio.

We're back, Techie Sports Radio. 859-280 2287. One person writes, Matt, I have a buddy who got a married in the Cincinnati Reds Ball. Park, he had the ceremony at home plate on the 4th of July. How much do you think it cost? How much do you think it cost to rent out a baseball stadium for a wedding? That's got to be like six figures, right? Well, I have lots of answers, including an update for you.

I'm good at Google, so I did some research. Just my own research, no help. Two years ago, someone won an auction to get married in the Philadelphia ballpark. Okay. The winning bid was $10,000. That's it? Yeah, hold on. There's a lot of work.

So I'm like, well, let's read the fine print. See if it says anything about dates. It says in fine print, date must be between April and September on a non-game day. And it's the 10th anniversary of this auction. This was two years ago. Maybe this is a thing. I'm now further believing that there was a wedding because it says you can do April on a non-game day. I could get married in a baseball stadium for $10,000.

Let me ask you a question. You looked at wedding venues. I would assume there are wedding venues in the Lexington area that cost more than $10,000. But if there's one that costs $10,000, I didn't find it. Those don't really exist. With all the things they're including here. This is a cheap wedding. I wish I'd know this existed.

It's more than $10,000. Yeah, because this includes all kinds of stuff. You get a private cocktail hour. That's certainly $10,000 by itself. This is a cheap wedding. Wow. So you're telling me the cheapest place to get married in Philadelphia is the ballpark? Let me read everything you get.

Every attendee gets a gift bag. The mascots there. You get a private reception in the Diamond Club. Private cocktail hour, exclusive areas of the ballpark for your wedding photos, including the field and the dugout. That's unbelievable. For $10,000. So you're telling me, I can get the cheapest wedding in Philadelphia I can get is at the Phillies baseball. Then why is it everyone getting married at the Phillies baseball thing?

If you can get married in Philly with all those things, gift bag, Cogtail hour for $10,000. I need to see the place. So now I'm completely flipping. I've gone from where who wouldn't get married or who would get married in the Philly Stadium to who wouldn't? If you can get all that. The mascots at your ceremony.

But the point of this, it says April on a non-game day, I now completely believe that it was happening. Yeah, so do I now. So why are the Phillies lying? I typed in Google Philly's wedding and it was the third result. This wasn't hard to find. Wow. They're lying.

What a tangled web we weave. Now, I like this question, though. Who gets married on a Thursday? $10,000. Well, that's true. The weekend's going to be booked. Says non-game day. I mean, you've got to think every weekend,

you probably have a series, unless they're away, I guess. I guess they were away. All right. The Phillies are lying. I remember one time when I was in college, I had a friend who was like, we're going to have a blowout party for my birthday.

And I was like, oh, okay, where? And he was like, blah, blah, blah. And I said, isn't that a Tuesday? And they were like, yes. And I remember thinking, that's a, who has a blowout party on a Tuesday? Well, who has a wedding on a Thursday? I guess if you want to get the Phillies ballpark, you have to do it. I just read another sentence in this fine print.

The Phillies reserved the right to modify the event based on weather conditions in the baseball stadium. So they called this poor woman the day before her wedding and said, I know you're excited. You probably have makeup in the morning. but we might have to cancel. You better hope the Rams get this game in the night. That's right. Who's next? Got Rinald Snake Rick up next.

Rick, how are you, Rick? How are you, Rick? How are we doing, guys? Turn your radio down, Rick. Go ahead. Oh, sorry. You there? Yeah, anytime you're ready.

Go ahead. All right, Rick, I can't do this forever. Do you? Go for it, okay? Thank you. No, no, I finally got you. I'm kind of bringing this back around to the start of the show. one, I respect Billy very much for his confidence because I always taught my kids that any question

you don't ask, the answer is always no. That's true. He's been brought up with the confidence to always ask. And I've lived my life that way, and I've got to do a whole lot of things that you wouldn't think you'd get to do just because I acted like I belong there, and I asked the question. So I'm expecting you're exactly right. That's how Billy is. I mean, Billy, he's got a fiancé that's out of his league, probably because of that.

He's at KSR, in part because I found his arrogance amusing on day one of filling in. So I appreciate the call. You're exactly right. Billy is making it work. When we decide to do the fade this podcast, Billy was like, I'll produce it. Now he's on that. So maybe that's the way to go. Another thing he does, I love the post game show on podcast.

Matt and Billy recap the game. At first that annoyed me. In case you don't see, like when we do the post game show, it says Matt and Billy recap the game. Every game. Sometimes he says Billy and Matt. Like sometimes he puts his name first. And at first that annoyed me. And then I was like, you know what?

I think it's actually kind of funny that he would have the gumption to say Matt and Billy recap the game. One day we're going to walk in this logo right here. We're not even going to be on it. It's just going to be Billy behind this table. Speaking of that, I want to also note. a big welcome to Mario. I don't know how to pronounce his last name. I actually have never talked to him about it last name.

I'm going to say Maitland, I think is probably right, who's joining KSR is our new director of digital and social media. We'll introduce him over the next few weeks, either on the air or in videos. But I tweeted out his handle. Do me a favor. Go follow him, welcome him. You guys added 1,000 followers to him already last night.

He's very excited. Young kid, he's going to do awesome. you'll be hearing more about him in the coming weeks, but Mario starts Monday, and he's got, this already shows you how much better than us he is. His welcome is a video he created. You think I could do that? No. You think I could create that video?

No. So that's why he's on me. He's a go-getter too. I don't even think I've told you this, but I was having dinner downtown by myself about a year and a half ago, and he walked up to me and introduced himself, gave me a business card, said I'm trying to get into media. I love it. But, I mean, that's what it takes going up meeting people and just getting your name out there.

A lot of people will ask me to come on their podcast or whatever. He said, can I come on your, can you come on the podcast? We'll film it at your house. And I was like, you know what? No one's ever asked me that. Okay. And so I just invited him to the house and he filmed it. And so that was the rest of it.

I've seen him at high school games around town. I mean, he's a go-getter. He's a perfect example of. And if you're in college or you're about to be in college, you have a kid in college who wants to do. Like, it's all about work ethic. Billy and Mario, and even Drew. They're perfect examples. The reason ultimately I picked those guys for things was that they didn't, they asked, but they also did.

They worked. Like anybody can ask for something. It's another thing to go and actually do the work to where you show people that you actually want it. And I think that's very cool. Who's next? Trash Man is up next. Trash Man. How are you, Trash Man?

Just peachy. How about yourself? Doing good. What's going? on well i wanted to shed a little bit of light on the situation you mentioned earlier about i think his name was rico riko yes for taking a tv uh first of all on your very first day of training one of the very first things that you're told emphatically that the term for what he did is called scavenging okay yeah if you scavenge you're fired that's all there is

to it and there's no exception as you as you know now now there's a way that he could have done that and gotten around the situation that he's in he could have said to the nice lady ma'am i cannot take this while i'm working on the gig but if you would be so kind as to set this behind your door i would love to come after hours and pick this up i could really use And if he had agreed to do that, that everything would have been above board and we wouldn't even be talking about this. That actually all makes sense to me. Let me ask you a question, though. All right.

So clearly he could have handled it better, and everything you said makes complete sense. Knowing though that, like, she, that he didn't ask and she wanted to give, maybe he handled it poorly, but do you think he should still keep his job and maybe be, like, you know, punished or something? Do you think, like, do you think they should bring him back? Well, he might reapply. I mean, you know, there's some ways that it could be dealt with, such as if you get caught scavenging, you got a six-month suspension. Nope.

There's, there's, and there's no discussion about it. So it doesn't sound like you have a lot of sympathy for it. Well, it's not, I work, I'm a retired engineer and a member of management from a prominent waste company. I'm going to explain a couple of things and let you understand why. this happens. Okay, just give me like a, I got to go quick. I do have to take a break, but go ahead. Well, okay.

Number one is safety. When people start looking for things in trash, they can get hurt easily. That's true. That makes sense. Collecting trash is a whole lot more dangerous than people realize. I can see that. Yeah. Yeah.

Number two is that 99 times out of 100, the things that get taken out of trash are sold. that's not right and that's the reason that's two of the reasons there are sold okay gotcha got there are a lot more let me let me tell you something that's going to surprise when there's companies that come to waste companies and landfills these are called mandatory to sprug that means there's companies such as Honda motorcycles all of their models go out of date they quit making parts for them. The company no longer support them. They bring those to a landfill

and brand spanking new semi trucks full of motorcycles get destroyed. And I mean they stay there until they're 100% sure that they have no, I understand. That makes sense. I'm going to, I hate to cut you

off because I'm actually interested in this, but I do have to go to break. But I appreciate it. You, I'm sorry. Okay, thank you very much, sir. I appreciate it. And, you know, it makes sense. The danger part and the selling. I guess I didn't think about the selling part.

That makes sense. I guess I'm just sympathetic to the guy. But, you know, good to hear the other side. Bluegrass Home Center is now open in London, Kentucky. Visit bluegrasshomecenter.com. It's a family-owned business that specializes in helping homebuyers with manufactured homes, two, three, four, and five bedrooms. You can visit their gallery at Bluegrass House.

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Here at the KS Bar and Grill. Tonight, you got the NIT thing. You got the Reeves Golky three-point shootout. We'll be showing that. Women's Final Four is tomorrow. Who you got in those games, by the way? You got what? Is it Yukon versus?

It's Caitlin Clark versus. the school that never called her. Yeah, so NC State, South Carolina, everybody's going to pick South Carolina. But what about Yukon, Iowa? I was reading up on Caitlin Clark and how she has the Yukon stuff in her bedroom growing up. And all she wanted was Gino to call her one time and he never did. That's tough. So I will be a big Iowa fan to pay Gino back.

It feels like Gino. It feels like nobody talks about Yukon anymore with the women, but he's still been to like three the last four final fours. Like nobody ever, like, people don't talk about them anymore. And their star player, Paige Beggers. Beckers is how you pronounce it? Yeah, I mean, if not for Caitlin Clark shooting from half court every time she plays. I'm taking Yukon in the upset.

You're going upset. You're going upset. You con in the upset. I think I have no basis for that besides I'm taking Yukon in the upset. I will say, and I'm sure a lot of people feel this way, having just seen the highly rated elite league game, there's never been a time on earth. I've known the exact time of one. women game starting. I know that I'll be on the

couch and I'm excited to watch everything. You're exactly right about that. Jeff writes on Twitter no one asked for my opinion on what's happening at Kentucky, but I'm going to give it. I've been listening to KSR since I started. I moved out of state in 2010 and KSR's been my link to my home state over the years.

And before anyone accused me of being a Matt Jones fanboy, I'll tell you he beat me in the Social Studies Regional Governors Cup competition in 1995 and I still haven't forgiven him. yet I still thank you for all you guys do and for making the show enjoyable.

That's right, Jeff. Sorry I had to do that. I came in second, though. I think the guy who's the professor at U of L, we've thought... You lost to a card? He wasn't then. He went to Bell County High School then. He came in first.

I came in second. I don't remember Jeff, sorry. I did well in that one, but I couldn't beat the guy. He's called the show before. Remember he's got the guy with the perm? He beat me in... The guy with the perm. He had a...

He is a firm, and he's like a professor at Yuval. I just the only hair I remember was baloney head back in the day. Yeah, this one was different. All right, who's next? Mark is up next. Mark, go ahead, Mark. Hey, what's going on, Matt? What's going on?

Hey, nothing much. Hey, real quick, you had a call earlier to talk about reverting back to the mean, and it had me thinking about that a little bit. And in a way, he has some good points. But I don't think the mean should ever be losing in the first round. but at the same time, I think basketball's changed a little bit. I mean, I looked at six of the eight, elite eight teams. Purdue and Yukon are the exceptions.

They average like almost 11 losses between those guys. They did. They did. But here's my response to basketball's changed a lot. If I were to say to you, who are the eight best schools in college basketball? You're probably going to say Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas, is Yukon, Villanova, UCLA, Gonzaga.

That's probably a good group of eight schools that are probably in the historically or even recently the eight best ones in recent times. What if I told you that since COVID, seven of those eight teams have made a final four and we're the one that has it?

That's a real great point. That's a great point because I think it's kind of the balance between how to build your roster and everything. But at the same time, I mean, Matt, over 120 years for only won eight championships. We've gone and run.

I understand that. It's not about winning the championship for me. Let me tell you something. If we had made the Elite 8, Final 4, or even Sweet 16, three of the last four years, I would be the lead person saying to you, because you heard me say this for years. The tournament is random.

You cannot judge it. But there's a difference between going to the Elite 8. Just take Tennessee with Rick Barnes. Rick Barnes has gone to the Elite 8 or Sweet 16, three of the last four years. They haven't made the final four. That's unfortunate, but it's a hell of a lot better than we've done, right? So, like, for me, the issue is not that we haven't won the title.

The issue is we have had disappointing regular seasons and disappointing post seasons. What am I supposed to be excited about? Yeah, I totally understand that point. I tell us, but, you know, you talk about those seven, those eight teams. And I have thinking about some of those 18s. They range anywhere between uptake of Yukon out. Again, Yukon right now is the standard bearer. But they ranged everywhere between 8 to 17 losses this year.

But we've been to one elite 8 since 2017. I mean, I appreciate the call. But we've been to one elite 8 since 2017. I don't pick any other great program in the country. They've all done better than us since 2017. team, Drew, they just have. I'm not being negative. I'm stating facts. We've been to one elite eight since 2017. It's not even Yukon for me. It's that Alabama has won the SEC tournament twice. Alabama has won the SEC regular season twice, and they're now in the final four since we've done any

of those things. Alabama is doing things like that. I'm throwing my hands in the air like, why is Kentucky at a low point where Alabama, the tide has turned in the SEC? And it's not because of the SEC's gotten better, it's Kentucky has gotten worse. I do think college basketball has had slightly more parity and is a little more random, but it does not have so much parity or should be so random that we lose every year before the second weekend. It's not that. It's not that random.

All I know is this, top 16 seeds, only two teams lost in the first round, us and Auburn. And three years ago, only two teams lost in the first round, and it was us and somebody else. That's a path. How many did it while losing their first game in their conference tournament the week before? Exactly. UK federal credit unions helping you save more in 2024. Five-month certificate where you can watch your money grow even faster. For a limited time, open a five-month certificate and our 4.75 annual percentage yield. It's time to save better. If you need more options, choose a nine-month certificate at 4.5% annual percentage yield. Those are great rates. Whatever you choose, UKFCU is here to help you reach your saving goals in 2024.

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