KSR - 2024-04-5- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 5, 2024

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Friday, April the 5th. I'm Matt Jones here at the KS. Bar and Grill, where we will be all afternoon, well, not all afternoon, until the show is done. Come get out of the cold. It's cold outside. It's going to be cold tonight. trying to go back and forth on whether or not I go to the Reds game with this. You know, it's going to be cold, but it's the Reds.

But you can give us a shout on Clark's Pump and Shop phone line 859-2-80-2287. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-774-5-254 in this edition, sponsor by the T.J. Smith Law Office, he'll make them pay. I've got Drew Franklin. Billy is here for our day two of Fade This comes to KSR. Nice to see you guys. We have people here from London, Kentucky. Williamsburg, Kentucky, and San Diego in the house.

I'm going to clap for San Diego. We don't get a lot of California. So we get 13th region, and I don't know what region San Diego's in, but I don't think it's one of the close ones, so it's nice to have them here, Drew. I like having a crowd here on a Friday. Weather's not great, but still exciting times in Lexington. Nedding in the weekend. Big weekend.

We'll talk about all the stuff that's going on. A lot of stuff going on. Yeah, we'll talk about all the stuff that's going on with Keenland. You got the Final Four. You got the baseball series. you got WrestleMania, you got all kinds of stuff going on. Billy, most of the first segment of yesterday was talking about how mysterious and confident you are. Did you like that?

I did. Unfortunately, I did not secure the Snoop Dog bobblehead that we were talking about. But if it ever gets to- Did you disagree with any of our characterizations? No, no, but I do want to say if it ever gets to arrogance to please let me know. Like, I don't not do it. We've been there. We've been there.

You know, I guess it's hard. there. But it's like... But we like it. I do like it. I think, you know, I'm trying to say, how do I say this tactfully true? If everything you thought about yourself was true, I think it would be less like, likable. Right. But I think the fact that like you believed you could get Jennifer Lawrence and you can't, Drew, is why I think it's likable. Does that make sense? Like you didn't pick a C-list or D.List. list actress you picked an A plus actually you went straight to the top for who you're going to So that's what I like about it like the fact that if you had looked at the man and said how much is this he said $1,200 and you just pulled out $1,200.

I would actually think that was kind of like smar me. But the fact that you thought you could get it for $100 is actually in my opinion what makes it like. Well, I'm just working within my budget there. That's all I had. I could give him $120 and it sounds like I found a wedding venue with all the ballpark talk yesterday as well. Yeah, well, we found out from Maggie that was just here that her wedding reception is at the football field. So, see, I've now learned maybe you've got to be careful what you say. You folks have a seat there. Nice to see you all. Billy seems very interested in the $10,000 Philly's wedding.

Like, I first thought I was joking, but, I mean, I think he's already signed a contract. I can't believe how cheap these ballparks are. I just found out the Reds. You said the base was $3,000. $3,000. I wouldn't rent you out KS Bar for $3,000 on a busy day. Like, how can you get the baseball stadium at $3,000? I don't understand that.

I mean, who knows? I mean, they're having to change all these rules for people to even watch the game. Maybe they're just looking for other revenue streams, and weddings and bases will do it. What rules are they changing? Well, they've sped up the game, the pitching clock. Yeah, but I think that's been a huge success. Yes, because the sport was dying. Nobody was watching.

It is a sport for, you know, people of a different generation. Are you, are you all right? I thought I was the baseball hater on the show. Why are you so angry, right? I'm not angry. I was just. It's Friday. First of all, look how you're sitting.

You're sitting with your arms like this. You feel like you're about to like, are you like? No, I'm good. No, we just had a great show with Maggie on the pre-show. It's been a fun week. I've heard you've had a great week. You had Jack and Jack Givens, right? Jack and Jeff Bacquiro yesterday.

You had, you had Cash Daniel. Cash Daniel. Tom Crean made another. I told them, for people who don't know, I told the pre-show people, listen, one of the strengths of the pre-show is you can have voices that we don't normally have because there was a time when you and Shannon would take breaks, you'd just bring on Drew and Ryan. And I was like, everybody hears them, bring on new people, and you took charge and you did that this week. So I'm proud of you. Thank you. Now, don't let that go to your head, but like I'm proud of you.

Well, I've reached out to the University of Kentucky. We might have a coach on the show next week. Not going to say what sport. Which one? Now you're taking away my tease here. Is it the bit? Is it the, what? What is it?

LaCross? No, not the lacrosse. One of the big coaches? One of the basketball coaches? I will say they've won a national championship in the last 10 years. How about that? So that means either, it's either basketball, volleyball, or rifle. I'm going to hope it's rifle.

Rightful. Because I feel like you would do well with the rifle. It's got to be a rifle or gymnast. It's still working out of scheduling. It's true. You just eliminated basketball. basketball with you. Flip a coin.

It's gymnastics. It's either volleyball or volleyball or rifle. I do like that you, that you're going out and getting it. Now, I have a question, because this has been on my mind for the last couple days and I keep forgetting. We have a solar eclipse coming Monday.

Okay? I remember the last solar eclipse. Some of you people may have been old enough to remember it. Some at that table were not. But it was, what, seven years ago? Correct. And I remember it being like the biggest thing in the world. You know, we shut down towns. We felt like we had to be there. Everybody was going crazy about the solar eclipse. Now I know there's one Monday. And I just feel it's gotten a lot less hype. I don't know if the PR people are not on top of it. But I just heard about it a few days ago. And I don't. And then I was talking to a friend of mine and she and her husband are going to Burlington, Vermont. to go watch the solar eclipse.

And I thought, man, that seems far to go watch. And they were like, well, we've had this book forever. So, first of all, is this the same thing that happened seven years ago in Hopkins? I believe so. Yes. It's the exact same kind of the clip. It might last a little longer shorter, but it's the same type of eclipse. The moon is going in front of the sun.

I thought when we did it a few years ago, it was like this is the only time this will happen in your lifetime. I think we were lied to because I was also under the impression we have to take advantage of this opportunity. I remember people in Hopkinsville being like this will be once every century, let's close the city, let's build buildings. That happened? How are we seven years later having another one? And am I going to have another one in seven years? I think the next one is in like 2044 or something like that. That's not that far away.

Where's that one? Is it in Hopkinsville? I don't know where it's at. But the whole thing is you've got to be in totality, right? What's that mean? Well, you've got to travel to where it's like it actually lines up the sun, the moon, and the earth. Exactly. So, like, you can be anywhere and see part of the eclipse, but if you're in totality, it is complete darkness.

Are you, listen to Bill Nye over here. I'm impressed. Okay, so do we have a place in Kentucky where I can go do that? I don't know. Looking at the line, it goes through far west Kentucky, just a wheedle bit. I don't know the exact town. Farther west than it was in Hopkinsville. So it's not in the line.

the same place. It's pretty close. It goes, it goes through my wife's hometown in Ohio, like straight through it. They're one of the main spots, and they have like 100,000 people come in, and they're building buildings and parades. So you're telling me it is as big as the other one. I don't think it's as big. I think it's the same thing, but last time we were more excited because I believe it hadn't happened like anyone's lifetime. No one had seen it before. Okay. I think. I think it had been like 70 years the last time or 100, whatever. But now it's been seven years, so the excitement's not the same. Yeah, it feels like it's very soon. After the last time they spent months telling us not to look up.

I feel like there was instructions. We all had glasses. People would just hand you glasses wherever you were going. So where are the glasses? Debbie KYT was giving them out the last couple days. So now can I see anything here? Yeah, I mean, you can see something. It would be partial eclipse.

But you won't see like the complete darkness. The other thing about this is traffic. I mean, the traffic with people going to the places where the hotel is. You weren't in the last one. I was. Oh, did you go in 27? I did. Yeah, I went and watched. And the traffic was so bad.

My dad and I had to stop at a motel. Okay, so I, as you know, escaped that traffic. Yeah. Still, maybe the thing that I'm most proud about in my life. But can I tell you that I thought it was overrated the whole thing? I mean, yeah. Am I wrong? Like, I felt like I felt like I was going to see something amazing and then it was just dark.

What did you think you were going to see? I don't know. I mean, that's what it was. I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be. I just thought it was going to be a. I just thought it was going to be a spectacle that I would never forget. And to be quite frank with you, I've already forgotten it.

The only thing I remember is getting out of that traffic and being really impressed with myself. I don't even remember the actual event very well. I think the marketing was a little much. We were on a farm, right? And we all were just parked. Lots of people parked. Everybody was just parked. And then we saw it.

And I said, this is going to be awful to getting out of here. And I left before it was even over. We did the TV show. We were live. Remember, we just went dark and we're trying to react to it. We didn't really know what to say other than, well, it's dark here. Well, that was the other thing. Like three minutes of me and you're going, well, it's dark.

I forgot that. Because it was during our show. We went live on the air, and I was like, man, it's dark. And it got really dark because then there was a point you go dark. There was a point you couldn't see me and Drew. The camera lighting goes in and out. And we were still on television. And then we drove home.

Sorry, so you're going? I'm not. My family is, though. They are camping out. They are going to where totality is so they can experience it. I've got business to attend to here. I thought you just said your dad went through the traffic. Yeah, he went last year.

He signed up for it again. But this time they're camping, so they have a place to stay afterwards. Okay. Well, I mean, maybe other people, are any of you all going to where it is? You are. Well, you're from San Diego, so clearly you're just trooping around. Where are you going to go? You're going to go, Owens, or you're going to go towards the west?

Apparently part of it's going to be in Paducaa. Right. Paduca is where... It looks like it cut through far west there. So if you're in Paduca, you can see it. Well, I just wish everybody the best. It just feels like, to me, the last one had a much better PR machine around it than this one has. Let's say you're sitting on your couch, hypothetically, read a magazine, and you see it's happening. Are you walking outside or are you so over it?

You're not even getting off your couch. I'll go outside. I'll go outside and say, now, does it need to be cloudy? They need to be clear. It needs to be clear. Yes. So if it's cloudy, you won't see anything. Correct, yeah, that is an issue.

That would be terrible if you booked to go camping and then it's just cloudy outside. It's a risk you've got to take for a phenomenon like this. Well, that's good. Clips with the heart. All right. So the other big piece of news is that the Justin Edwards era has eclipsed its time at Kentucky, and he is entering the draft. In his announcement, he gave no possibility of coming back.

I mean, I guess there's always a chance you could, but he didn't say, like, I'm exploring my options. He just said, I'm entering the draft. So we have to assume that he is probably gone. I think these announcements will trickle out over the next four to five days. We might even have another one or two today. What were your thoughts on that announcement?

Figured he was coming. I mean, I would like a sophomore Justin Edwards, but I don't really think we're going to see that. That's a guy who, it's been a one and done plan for him probably a long time. I mean, that guy was number one on one of the mock drafts because the season was beginning. So I would say even basketball aside, just his headspace, he probably never even considered another year of college.

Has there ever been a college back? I think he'll be like the Livingston Road. Someone will pick him and it'll work out. He'll get picked. Has there ever been a college basketball team in history that had more of its players projected number one in the draft at some point? That's true. I'm not even kidding.

All right, because Edwards was. Bradshaw was. Reed was. Yep. What's interesting Dillingham was in one of them too. Was he one? Recently.

It wasn't one of the main ones, but someone did it. I mean, there has to have never been a team that had more dudes projected number one at some point. And yet I don't know that any of them will go number one. But I'm with you. He'll get picked. I don't know if it'll be first round or if it'll be a second round Livingston situation. But he'll get picked. I'm glad by the end of the year he was playing a lot better.

Like I think a lot of fans, unfortunately, you remember your first impressions and your last impressions. And for him, the first impression was really struggling. And the last impression was missing that dunk against Oakland, I think, for a lot of people. But I actually think in between, he got a lot better during the season. Yeah, respect to him fighting through some demons. You know, Drew's talked about him hitting the side of the backboard with that three and him having to go through a lot as somebody that was a potential number one overall pick. but, you know, I was not surprised by this decision, and I think that's part of the problem. You know, the program.

We'll get you worked up here in just a second. I know you're. Let me cook, Matt. Okay. Chet Lemon says, I wish I could have had prop bets on KSR because I knew with 100% certainty Matt would mention his eclipse traffic skills today. You always leave out a very important detail on that. We're going to take a break to help carry the equipment with Daniel.

And it added nine hours. The text machine 770. 7274-5-254. I don't need all your details. We'll take a break. We are here at the KS Bar Grill. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio.

Got some folks here from Charleston, South Carolina. That's a great town. I bought a suit there because I forgot to take one to a wedding. Wait, what's that? The really sort of bougie, like, place in downtown. I brought a suit there. It was way too expensive. But what are you going to do?

I couldn't show up at the wedding and sweatshirt. So I ended up. I'm buying a suit. So that's my memory of the place. I like Charleston. Charleston's a good place. Chris Maxwell. Now, you guys can hang out with him.

Say hi. Had a bachelor party there. Yeah. Daniel, isn't that what he just said? I don't know. I did. Oh. You had a bachelor party.

Good. It's nice to have you filling Ryan's role of half listening to the show. Daniel is going to get my Kentucky branded tweet today. You go to Kentucky branded.com. He says this whole solar eclipse PR problem, wouldn't be as bad if it would just come on the show for an interview. That's actually really funny. Another person says, Matt, will you stop dividing the BBN on the solar eclipse?

We need to come together. Yeah, I like those. Both of those made me laugh. I tell you, you just, you never know what people are going to get bad about. Did you see the thing that they got mad about when I just posted the picture of Cal? I was going to bring that up. That was one of the most bizarre thing. I just posted a picture.

picture of Cal and Tyler Uis. And I said, John Calipari and Tyler Ullis are at the Suns game. And the next thing I knew, people were mad at me for not providing the context. What? They're at the game. That is the context. What is the context? And then they were like, you should have said he's in town to get the John Wooden

Legend of Coaching Award. First of all, I didn't even know that. That's next week, by the way. And secondly, I don't know that that would have helped. I don't know if I'd put that, that that would have been better for people. So we're now in the phase of, well, Matt said it, so let's just be angry. And, you know, that's the way it goes. I know what it's like to be a politician without having done it.

I made a note to bring that up to you. There was a woman, I don't even know her handle, but she was going off on you about how you put that picture up. And I went to her profile, and it was unhinged. Like, he doesn't even know why he's there. And it was like, I'm confused to what the fight is here. I think I have for 15 years put pictures of John Calgary at NBA games and go, John Calgary's at the Timberwolves game. He's actually in town to try a new restaurant name, but like, I mean, he's at the game.

What do you want me to say? That was my favorite. It's unbelievable that we've hit that level. 859-280-2287. One person writes, I like when Billy's on the show, but you should have let him cook. I'm worried about letting you cook because you, even right now, you look angry. What are you upset about? I'm just trying to think of what I'm going to say, honestly, and how I would cook it up.

I don't have, like, strong feelings. You hear me on the pre-show every day, or maybe once a month. Nice. Fis bump on that one. That was good. You know, I'm going to just say, I've had more Billy praise coming this week. Wouldn't you agree to? I have, too.

We've heard a long time. The Billy brand is strong. Like, Billy, the stock is raising for Billy in a big, Well, I'm very grateful to be a part of it. So thank you for let me jump on these two days. So go ahead. What were you going to say when I cut you off? I don't want to feel like you're cutting off your thing.

Well, I was just getting to the point that it was not surprising that Justin Edwards is going to the draft, and that's part of the problem. I mean, he came in with an expectation that he was going to be here for one year and go to the NBA. And the way that basketball has evolved and changed over these last few years, you know, Dan Hurley said it best. You've got to have transfer portal guys and older guys and freshmen. and supplement them. I feel like Cal is a little bit stuck in his ways right now

and is determined to make something work like a square peg going into a round hole. I think there I'm becoming, I was always of the belief that you can win with freshmen. I stayed that view for a long, long time, and I think it was true in the pre-Portle NIL era. Is it still true today? I'm much less firm in my belief that it is. But here's what has been true since 2000.

is still true now. If you're going to have freshmen, they better be superstars. They can't just be good. They got to be great. So we had the two best freshmen in the country by awards. Reed was first, Rob was second. And they didn't start, and we lost in the first round. I kind of think now, if you're going to win with freshmen, and this was true before,

but it might even be more true now. You better have dudes on your team that can be NBA All-Stars. And I'm not saying Reed and Rob can't be. Maybe they can. I don't know. But go think about the freshman we did win big with. John Wall, Brandon Knight, Anthony Davis, Julius Randall, Carl Townsend, and Devin Booker, Fox, Bam.

All those dudes, except Brandon Knight, are NBA All-Stars. And I just think now, like, I thought Justin Edwards improved a lot. But getting a guy who is not an NBA All-Star and leaves after a year is honestly, Drew, probably the way to lose. It's been going like this for a while, but I think Justin Edwards is an example of how the one in Duns a little bit broken and the culture's broken because guys almost seem like they feel like they've failed if they aren't the lottery pick that, you know, the blog said

they would. If they come and do one year at Kentucky and they're not a first round pick, it's almost like, wait a minute, I went through the system and I'm not top 15. What happened here? I'm still going to go or I'm going to transfer. It's almost like guys that see a second year as the UK is like bad. Like PJ Washington, I think even said that out loud. When he did it, it was they kind of broke that a little bit, but we haven't had much of it since. NIL is supposed to make dudes like Justin come back. And again, I support my view is once a kid goes, I want him to kill it. I hope he goes. I hope he becomes a star. It's better for Kentucky.

It's better for him. But at the same time, NIL is supposed to get dudes like that to come back, right? DJ Wagner might come back. And that would be good. But I think if we continue to recruit guys who, when they're here, average eight or nine points a game,

and then go to the draft, that's the way you lose, in my opinion. That's how you lose, is if you get those guys. And I just worry that the system we've done has created those guys. And I don't know if that works in current college basketball. Your stars are going to work no matter what. But I don't know if that works anymore.

Who's next, Rick? Matt is up next. Matt, go ahead, Matt. Hey, Matt, two quick things. One, my parents actually live right in the path in a small town in Indiana, right outside of Bloomington of the eclipse. They've actually had to bring in like hundreds and hundreds of, porta potties because they're worried that just your parents have had to bring in hundreds of

porter potties or the city well the city yeah the city had to bring in so many because they're worried that they're going to have too many people there and they're just afraid to even leave their house because it's going to be so crazy so um kind of wild there by the way that's a great small town thing there's so many people coming we can't even leave our house I think it's going to be all right I think you'll be able to leave your house real quick what's your second one I'm not to go to break yeah other thing the call you had yesterday on the lady that called in about the girl that went to class, and she was all upset saying, you know,

this generation is terrible and doesn't want to work. You know, that's just a classic, classic boomer call. I hate when people do that. They just assume that. Well, I want to talk about that. I'm going to talk about that. I'm going to have to go to break. I want to talk about, there were two calls yesterday

that had my text machine lighting up all night, and I want to go over those. Plus more, we are here at the KS Bar and Grill. I like spring break. All these kids here out of school from, places as far away as Charleston, San Diego, and Williamsburg. We'll be right back. This is Kansas.

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at the KS Bar and Grill in Lexington. Just got some folks who came up from Olive Hill. It's nice to see everybody here. Like I said, doing the show here this week with all the folks in from out of town and doing the trivia has been good for the soul to see all the good Kentucky fans out there. One person writes, Matt, I have a question for you. is for all you guys.

What is one thing that technology has made go away that you really miss? I have an easy answer to this question. I'll let you two think. My big one is magazines. I loved magazines. I still get like three magazines, but I think they're like the last three printed. And one day they're going to tell me it's going to be electronic only,

and I'm not going to like it. But there was a time I probably subscribed to 10 magazines at once. Every time I went to the mailbox, different magazine. Go to the airport magazines. I loved magazines, and now, you know, they just don't hang on very well. So I'm going to say magazines. What about you? Didn't even have to think about this answer because it was already in my brain.

It lives in my brain. I miss Friday night going to the movie store, whether it's Blockbuster, Videoville, movie warehouse, whatever you had. And the box had to be behind the display case. If it wasn't there, you'll try. Again the next day and you'd walk up and down the aisles. Okay, not a new one I'll look. I'll go to the old comedies and spend a night in the video store and then going home and watching it. That's great.

And, you know, that wasn't that long. I know, but I missed that. I remember the first time I heard about Netflix sending movies through the mail. And, like, there's people who don't even know that that happened. Netflix started as the mail company. I remember the first time I heard that, I was like, well, that's dumb. Who wants to do that? Why wouldn't you just go to the video store?

There's always good. I was like, maybe I should build a video store. No, it didn't take long. Once that stuff, remember, there was a time you could go to the grocery store and get them out of a machine. And you just hit a button and a movie would come out the vending machine. That's gone too now. And that's good. Do you know that there's still like 2 million people that subscribe to Netflix by mail?

Did you know that? Wow, that's a lot. I did it one time. I remember getting the DVDs in the mailbox. I saw somewhere. and they think a lot of them are people who just are still paying and like don't realize. That's where Netflix is getting all their money for stranger things. They're just people still subscribe.

Drew is a great answer with the Hollywood video and the blockbusters. I kind of miss like a house phone. Like just being in constant communication with everybody. I used to remember somebody's phone number. You had to like, you know, see if they were available. The problem with a house phone is when your parents would answer and it was for you. Yeah. Because you'd have to go, like, my mom would be like, hey, it's so-and-so, and she'd have that sound in her voice like, why does this person call her house so much?

And then there are a couple times if your mom or dad answered and your friend thought it was you, and then they say something they shouldn't. So you missed all of those things. Or if you're on the computer, you got to get off because mom's got a phone call, you know, things like that. When I was a kid, we didn't even have a computer. Like, you know, again, I'm not trying to be the old guy, but, like, one of things I missed is the first set of computers where we go, you know and you dial up and get the CD in the mail and put it in that does it well CD with the phones also you could be on the phone with your little middle school love interest and it's like wait a minute it's the little sister on the other

someone listening is mama did she pick up a phone in the kitchen and she's listening to and that's the other thing is if you were on the phone and your parents were expecting a phone call you had to get off right get off the phone we got to keep the line open in case something happens. My grandma was certain. If you were on the phone during a lightning storm, you would get killed. It came through the line, right? My grandma was certain that the lightning came through the line. And I don't know science, but I've never believed it. Rest in peace, Granny. But you were wrong on that one. The lightning would not come through the phone, but she was certain. Is it the same thing with the shower? Because I've heard the same thing. She was the same about the shower. She'd be like, can't be in the shower. If you get lightning, I was going to come through the water.

It's not going to come, but my grandmother thought that too. Okay. So, all right. That was fun. The Kentucky women's basketball team, Kenny Brooks is on a roll. Three commitments in three hours yesterday. Two of them are Australian. We're going to have to get Max to opine.

But most importantly, one is Georgia Amor, right? And Georgia Amor is an all-American. She's coming for her fifth year here to Kentucky. She says Kenny Brooks is like her dad. This is a huge get. Like her alone means we won't be terrible next year. And you get her and you bring back Maddie, sure. Now you got two centerpieces that can be really good.

I'm sure they'll get others. It was a big time get. And Kenny is on fire. Yeah, huge get for him. As you said, she was an All-American. She averaged like 19 points and seven assists. So she's fourth all-time in the ACC and assist. And fourth all time in the ACC and three-pointers.

I mean, I think if you don't have K. Caitlin Clark and all these big names this year. I mean, she's not far behind them on the tier. I think she's more of a national name, too. She already kind of is, but she had a great year of Virginia Tech and glad she followed Kenny Brooks. And then the other two, Kentucky lost a lot of size in the portal. I think three or four people were six two and taller are left,

and then these two can both play inside. So great additions. It's amazing all three of them once, too, kind of at least announced them at once. So he's like building a team quickly, and he's building the team the way Danny Hurley. said to do it. They're old. They're going to be old. They're going to be transfers and we'll see, I mean, we'll see how it works. But like so far, that looks like a slam dunk hire by Mitch, Billy, don't you think? Yeah. And great to have this positivity with this offseason upcoming. And, you know, this Georgia girl, she was a tournament player, ACC player of the tournament recently,

third team All-American like you guys are saying. Have you seen the Kenny Brooks fake Twitter account online? Yeah, I don't want to promote that because that guy's clearly, whoever's doing it is clearly like bad intentions, bad intentions and somebody's going to get confused. I was confused at first. I had friends. So just so you know, there is a Kenny Brooks Twitter account, but it's not the one that's posting all the time. Okay.

So there's one that's got like 9,000 followers and that's him. But that's, I think you got to be careful with that account because I think that's like kind of an account just reading between the lines that might be bad intended. Yeah. He still has the VT on his. He's Kenny Brooks Vee. Yeah. I don't think he's on social media.

We got to get that change. All right. Who's up next, Rick? Darren is up next. Darren, go ahead, Darren. Good morning, Matt. Can you hear me? I got you.

All right. How are you guys doing this morning? We are amazing. We are here at KS. Bar getting ready for a big weekend of sports. Right. Billy sounds a little sassy this morning. He is.

What's wrong with you today? Why are you so sassy? I don't know. I just try to hold my own here. Yeah, where you're good. You got a bubble vest? You got everything you need. Go ahead.

A couple of things. I was glad to see that Goki sucked last night in the three-point contest. Yeah, he did. He came in next to last. Golki did. I think, you know, but it's hard because if Gulke comes in last of the three-point contest and still made 10 against us, I'm not sure that makes me feel any better. Right, right.

I agree 100%. Yeah, I couldn't agree with you no more on that talking about dudes. like, you know, the freshmen that we had back in Cal's younger years, you know, I mean, Anthony Davis, and you forget people like Terrence Jones and play people like that. I mean, them guys defended very well, and they could just take a game over at any minute, you know. So, I mean, we've just not had that, I feel like, the last few years. Yeah, I think, again, and I appreciate the call. I think, okay, so, like, think about the NBA draft, okay, I want you to think about in the NBA draft.

How many dudes in the last 15 years have gone into the NBA draft and everyone knew this dude was going to be great? Like, there have been some guys who became great, but how many has there been where everybody was like, it is certain this guy's going to be great? All right. John Wall was probably in the one. We had him. Then the next year, I think Anthony Bennett went first in the draft. So that wasn't like that. That was a New Orleans year, 13.

13. Well, who was number one in 2011? Well, either way. Anthony Davis, he was one of those, and we had him, okay? You know, Jason. Kyrie was 2011 to butt in. Kyrie, but we didn't have him. Duke had him, right?

Zion was one of those. We had him. Carl Towns was one of those. Or, excuse me, they had him. We didn't have him. Duke had him. Carl Towns, we had him. So we had these guys that were slam dunk.

We know this dude's going to be successful. Well, if you think about it since 2017, how many dudes have gone in the draft that are American that people knew were going to be successful? Zion, we didn't have him. Then who? Maybe Anthony Edwards? And he went to Georgia. But most of the other can't miss guys have been somewhere else. They've been like Wimby from overseas or like Luca.

overseas. So part of it is I think there haven't been a lot of can't miss guys, and maybe that made us sort of misinterpret what you could do with freshmen. Yeah, you can do that when you get a once-in-a-generation guy, and we happen to get once-in-a-generation guys like four times in six years. I don't want to diminish 2012. I will never do that. But to win the title, we had the number one and the number two pick,

and then we started two very good sophomores. Ron was the best player in that game. That's another thing people forget about the 2012 team. We had two returning soft ones. Very good ones. Terrence Jones and Ron Lentz. And Darius Miller's is a senior. So, yes, it was one and done at the top, but we had two returning sophomores.

I mean, think about it for a second. How many returning sophomores have we had as good as Terrence Jones and Duron land? Terrence is probably the one that came back where you're like, well, he will. Well, just think about it. Just how many? How many? PJ quickly

quickly Nick Richards but they all made big jumps but not Nick Richard wasn't like those guys but quickly fresh I mean he ended up great but like that was that was kind of a miss note I mean you could make an argument that two of the four best

returners okay yes the Harrison twins all right so two of the six best returners ended up on the same team and remember with the Harrison twins them coming back is part of why the 2015 team was unstoppable. So you could make an argument that Cal's best success came when dudes surprised even came back for a second year, right? And so now if DJ Wagner comes back, maybe that's what that

is. But it may have been a misnomer in our heads, this idea that we won with freshmen. Because Terence Jones and Doran Lamb, we don't win that title without those guys. Duranlam, what was it, 22 points, I think? My goat was the star of that game, and he was not a freshman. Not taking anything away from that being a freshman-led team. You had the one-and-two pick, but the sophomores were a big part of that, too. And you know, Cal's recruiting philosophy is he's always going to take the talent over an experience or anything else. Well, we'll see if that still works.

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You won't drink the other ones again. We'll take a break and be right back. It's KSR. Welcome back. Techie Sports Radio. Text machine, 772, 7754. One person writes, Matt, I don't want Billy to get too big of a head. I actually was saying just yesterday that I enjoyed Billy on the shows this week,

but my wife said she didn't think he was very good. Oh, well, add her to the list. All the children in the Commonwealth as well. That should be your T-shirt. Billy, women and children don't like me. I think that would be good. Kentucky branded. Let's get on that.

The Kentucky branded Billy, women and children don't like me. You can pick up a two Mamosa Billy T-shirt at your local Kentucky branded as well. That's enough trying to sell. See again. This man drinks two Mamosas throws up and instead of being made fun of, turns it into a business. Turns it into a t-shirt. I like it. So I didn't get to get to a second ago.

By the way, there was an earthquake right outside of New York, apparently. 4.8 on the Richter scale. Have you ever been an earthquake? Yes, we were together. We were together. Drew and I were at the tennis tournament in California, and we were at an earthquake, and it was kind of freaky, yeah. I was in the middle of something, I was using the restroom when it happened.

I had to hold both sides of the thing there. It was a weird feeling. It felt like being on a roller coaster, but everything was moving. The whole room was moving. We called each other, and we were like, what's going on? And I expected to walk outside and see devastation, and nothing happened. It was like they were just used to it. But it is freaky because it's like you can't feel your, it's like you don't have stability.

It's kind of a weird thing. I didn't get to get to. I had a ton of people writing me about the two calls yesterday. The woman that called about the kids today and then the guy who called about the sanitation worker. And rarely if we had two calls that got more frustration from the caller base. People not, people didn't like the former teacher. I think her name was Mary saying that the kids today don't. have any critical thinking skills.

Got a pretty big response on that too. I think there are some shots fired at the youth there that they didn't appreciate that. Well, a little similar to when you say that none of the kids today can write? Well, they can't write, but that's different. But I'm very clear to say their writing skills aren't as good, but they are good at other things, they are better at other things than I am. So they just don't, I don't think kids today grow up writing as much long-form stuff. so they aren't as good at it.

But when it comes to producing technological things or understanding science or, like, technology, they're so much better than our generation. And honestly, they probably don't need to write long-form stuff very much, and they do need to do that stuff. Do kids even still write? Like, everything is time. Maybe it's my job because I'm on the computer so much. But, like, when I go to actually write something, I'm like, I think I forgot how to do this.

Because you're texting, you're typing. I don't do checks anymore. I'll go days without picking up a pen and write something down. I'm not saying this. I've taught at Georgetown for three years, and I've had a lot of smart students. I mean, I really have the quality of the brains of my students at Georgetown is actually higher than I probably thought it was going to be.

But in terms of just technical writing ability, I've only had a handful that could really write. I mean, they can express thoughts well, but in terms of being of just the skill of writing, well, look, when I started the blog, when we would get people to come in, everyone could write. Drew was a great writer. Tyler was a great writer. I'm choosing from all of these people that can write. Nowadays, if you find somebody that can write, sign them up immediately because it's just hard to find.

Well, it's more watching videos than reading newspapers or writing letters, and I'll take it a step far. The spelling has gotten a lot worse, too. I mean, all my sentences get finished for me when I'm texting or writing an email. Because you don't know how to spell? Well, yeah, exactly. And all these kids today don't know how to spell either because they're doing the same thing. But I do think, though, I do want to say they're better at other stuff than we are, so it's not like I think they're dumb or don't have critical thinking skills. I disagree with that.

It's a different skill set. Just a different skill set. Who's next? Dale is up next. Dale, go ahead, Dale. Yeah, hello. Greetings to everybody. I had a couple thoughts and a question.

Let's just do one thought. What do you got? Well, it is the thought that Drew kind of asked or suggested that Coach Coleman maybe he's not earning his salary. so I was thinking that maybe he does earn his salary kind of by keeping cows ego inflated. Well, you know, everybody keeps asking about Frank Franklin and when he's going to come out. So that was where it came out the other day. Do you want to expand on that? I mean, I can.

I mean, I'm not going to yell. If I just kept yelling about it, I think I would just be a jerk at that point. But, you know, I've made it very clear. I thought cows would make some changes. I think if we were me, I would start with whoever's in charge of the defensive game planning. I would also maybe consider the person that every game I turn and yell to sit down and shut up. I would probably consider that person. And that's my thought process in getting there.

Kentucky was outside the top 100 in defense. My understanding is he's part of the defensive game plan. And then just a lot of those things add up. Yeah, I mean, my view, and I appreciate the call, Dale, I'm sorry. We're headed to the bottom of the hour. But my view is you've got to make a change. I mean, if once you decide to bring cow back, you can't run it back. And it sounds like we're going to run it back.

You know, maybe one of these guys finds another job, but it is now clear to me they are not replacing anyone. So if they're not replacing anyone, that's just hard for me to see how you run it back. The players have changed every year. We have three, four really bad years of results. So it's, I don't think it's the talent. The talent's been there. It's who's getting these people ready. and if you're going to keep using that same formula,

I don't know how it's going to change that much. I also don't totally understand our fans that will say, don't you dare criticize Cal, it's the players, and then they blast the players. Like, I'm much more comfortable criticizing the guy making $10 million than the 19-year-old or 18-year-old kid. Yeah. That's just, but that's just me.

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