KSR - 2024-05-07- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 7, 2024

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We're going to be at Vahala tomorrow. How about that, Ryan? I think they'll ask us to go out and play some. Should I bring my clubs? No. First of all, they don't let anybody play right now unless you're in it. because they don't want you to ruin the course, and that would go triple for you because you're awful. I played it one time, and they had a six, well, two over par limit.

If you were two over par, you had to pick your ball up, whether you hold out or not. So did you finish any hope? I think I finished one. I think I finished one. Yeah, I played there a bunch. My favorite time playing is I played with Terry Miners, Tom Leach, and Mike Brett. Oh, what a great foursome. That was a lot of fun.

That was early in my career. Yeah. And, you know, you walk out there. Yes, with a caddy. You walk with a caddy, and at the end, they were kind of carrying our group of 18. There was a lot of walking. That's a lot of walking for some old fellers. That's a lot of walking.

I love it, though. I love to walk out there. Like having the caddy. And, you know, when you don't have to carry your bag and you can walk, it's like you can see why people found golf pleasant back of the day because it's a beautiful walk. The one thing I remember is that if you don't hit it in the fairway, the grass was like eight inches high. It's not.

Not in the fairway. You know, for the PGA tournament, which is next week, Baha is a pretty easy course. Like, they'll score really well there. But they've made it harder than it was the last time. So it's a good tournament for the PGA because they'll make a lot of birdies. But for the average golfer, it's brute.

You're hitting a fairway. You're hitting it to feel like out of this major rough. But they're so long. Did they move the T-boxes back? because now they try to make it harder. Well, they always do that, yeah, but it's just, I mean, they've changed, you know, they've, they changed the, I don't know what the, what it's called, but Shannon, you know, they're different kinds of grass, you know, they, they had maybe blue grass and they changed it

to something else, but they changed it to where it was really hard for them to keep up. Okay. Because they had a grass, I think, that was not the kind of grass Kentucky's used to. Snoop dog grass. Stop, let me just, just tell Jeff Ross over here to calm down, Shannon. I mean, I'm just trying to make joke after joke. They just had like, point being, it's now easier for them to maintain, and it's kept the course in better shape.

But you still think the pros will still score really, really well. I mean, they'll crush it. Yeah. Because it's, but it was really good at the Ryder Cup because you could make a lot of birdies and take chances. So we'll see. It's going to be. Tiger's going to be there.

He'll be there tomorrow? No. Tiger's going to be in the golf tournament. Nice. which is exciting, and the PGA decided to invite the best live players. So you can make a strong argument that the PGA this year will have the best field of any golf tournament in the world. Because it'll be like the one tournament that takes all the best PGA guys and all the best live guys and puts them in the same tournament. Is this the third time the PGA has been there?

They were here. Yeah, I think you're right. They were here many years ago. Mark Brooks won. That was a long time. No, it's the fourth time. It's the fourth time. Mark Brooks won here.

Tiger won here. Yes. Rory won here. So this would be the fourth time. And then they had a rider cup. So they've had five really big events out there. So they've had five really big events out there. Which is awesome for our state, man, to have that. I should be a lot of fun. And I'm going to get huge crowds. And, you know, when I told Mario Tiger was here, it's like it's just different with him. Even though he has no chance to win, just knowing Tiger is here will make it so much cool. Well, you and I'm talking about after we do our show next week to walk around. I want to walk around with Tiger.

He's the one I want to see. Walk around, whether he's hitting birdies or not, I still want to see Tiger. The last time it was here, he didn't even play. He just came and did a practice round. Yeah. And we followed him around the practice round. And somehow you got inside the ropes to follow him around on that practice round. Now, Shannon, are you excited?

Have you ever been to a PGA golf tournament? No. No. So next week when we do the show out there, that's going to be like your first time out there with all the pro golfers. Are you looking forward to it? I'm not a golfer at all. I have nothing in common with anybody out there, but I am looking forward to it. Should be a lot of fun. First time, maybe I've been there one time before. It's a cool scene. Yeah. Like it's a cool scene. You got the media. One of things I like is the media is from all over the world.

Right. So like there are people here from, you know, all these countries. They're all in Kentucky. you know, they get big crowds. Hopefully the weather will be good and should be a lot of fun. And we've never, we did our show there one time, didn't we? We did our show there, but it was for a practice round. Practice round. Now we get to do our show during the actual tournament, which we've never done before. We did it in the practice round in that media tent, and John Feinstein came on the show with this.

John Feinstein was on. That was one of those. But it was cool after the show. Like you said, we got to walk around and see the follow. the golfers as they were kind of getting another course a little bit. Until they were about to kick me out. Yeah. Because I snuck under the ropes.

Wasn't there, one of the security guys recognized you and knew what you were doing, but let you. So we were falling Tiger. Yeah. And they have a rule that only like 40 media members get to Shannon wear this vest. Yeah. And they can get inside the ropes. Oh. Okay.

So you have your press credential, but you have to have a vest to be inside the ropes. So I went and you request a vest. And I requested and they were like, no. You can't have a vest. And I'm like, why not? And they go, I said, there are some vests sitting right there, Shannon. And they're like, no. So it was Tiger, and I thought, this might be the last time I ever get to see Tiger in person.

So I just walked inside the road. Yes, you did. Without a vest. Without a vest. But I had a media pass, so most people would just let me go without a vest. But then I started seeing people were eyeing me. Yeah. Right.

And finally we got to one of those holes, like 12, 13 or something, and a security guard called me over and goes, hey, man, I don't care, but they're talking about you on the walkie-talkie. Yeah. And they're about to come kick you out. And so I just said to ride, let's get out. My time to get out. So we left, and that was that.

But you got in two or three holes before they finally said that to you, right? Yeah, they got to stand like right now. I have a great picture from me to you to Tiger, is about to hit a shot. So anyway, it should be a lot of fun. and we will be out there tomorrow and it should be good. Cool. All right, so we have a couple things today.

We're going to obviously talk basketball. I've given everyone on this show today a project. They have to rank one through five the worst states in America. Yes. The worst state. We had homework last night. Mario is participating too. He's going to come on the radio.

We're going to rank one through five our worst states. Did you do your homework, Shannon? Yes, I got it right here in front of me. All right. So we will get to that in just a second. All right. But the first thing I want to talk about is the guest host. Yes.

All right. So I'm going to be gone from Memorial Day to the 1st of August. That's basically 10 weeks, all right? And we kind of now have a schedule. Mondays, Mondays with Myron Metcalf. Nice. So it'll be Monday. It'll be Myron and you guys.

Perfect. You're excited about that? Yes. We'll be able to do it. No problem. Talk to him yesterday. He's looking forward to. Awesome.

Uh, Wednesdays. Wednesdays are Tom Hart. Okay. All right. Yeah. So Wednesdays will be Tom Hart and you guys. Perfect. We can handle that.

Tuesdays and Thursdays are just going to be you all. Uh-huh. So on Thursdays, Billy will join you. Okay. And on some Tuesdays, Mario will join. Nice. All right. So that leaves Friday.

Yeah. And Friday is going to be the guest host day. Okay. So we're going to have 10 over the course of the time. So I put out a call, who does everybody want? Who are the 10? And I got a lot of people, Shannon, that nominated themselves. Yes, I saw that.

Of course, yeah. Everybody thinks they can do this. I really appreciate the thought. But you folks can't think I'm just going to put you on the radio. Right? Like, if you just write me and go, me and my buddy Frank will do it. I mean, respectfully, we're not so desperate that, I mean, I can get somebody to do it. We're looking for somebody, you know, who can do some stuff, right?

Correct. So here's who we have. Okay. One week of the 10, pardon my take, done. It's always one of my favorite shows of the summer. That one's done. Elisa Lang wrote me, said, I'll do it. She's never done it.

Got to have her. She's a new one, yeah. So that's two. Done. Now we have eight more. Okay. I have some thoughts. People are welcome 772, 774, 5254 to suggest.

them. I'm going to ask the basketball staff and the football staff if they want to do it. Sometimes they can. Sometimes they can't. We'll see. I don't know if they'll be able to or not. But the rest of it is kind of up for grabs. And we'll have Peter Burns do one. So that's seven. So we're down to seven left. Do you have thoughts of who you want? Well, you know, some of our favorites over the past years have always been good to do the show. We'll like the 11 personnel guys, Jack and Nick and some of those guys. Well, we're going to have the, probably going to get the basketball guys to do it this year. Okay.

Which will be the sources say. Okay, when you said basketball guys and football guys, I thought you meant the football coaches, Vince and Mark and those guys. I did. I'm saying the basketball podcast, which is sources. Gotcha. Which is Jack and those guys. No, I'm going to ask the football coaching staff and the basketball coaching staff to do it. I don't know whether or not they'll be able to do it.

Laura Rutledge has always been really good. She did one from her car last year when you were gone. So you think we should ask Laura Rutley? I think she's always been really, really good. It's been a few years. Should we bring the Sclarz back? It has been a while. They were always really good.

Been a while. They haven't done it in a while. What do you think of it? Yeah, they were always really entertaining. I like that idea. Okay. So then we may ask them. Yeah.

Let me add, would you want the, like, Kyle Tucker, the cows? Yeah, they were good, actually. It was a good show last year they had. They had a lot of info in that show, I remember. Yeah, which is very different than what we normally have on the daily basis. Shannon, do you have somebody that you would like me to ask? People have suggested Al Snow coming on here and hosting with me. What do you think about that?

That's not a bad idea. Who suggested that? Several people. Did you actually read your replies? No, I mean, there were 750 replies, so I looked at a lot of them. There was Al Snow. I don't know if Al Snow could do two hours, though. Well, that would be my only concern.

Do you think you could carry him for two hours? I mean, I'm going to carry him in OVW every week. I don't know why I couldn't carry him here for two hours. That's why it would be a good show. That right there. Carrying his company on my back? But he can, I mean, does he know sports? Can we, can he talk you?

I mean, if somebody called, like, no. He probably, no. I don't think he, I don't know that he knows sports. I think it would be good for you all to have him on. Yeah. Yeah. At some point, I doubt it. I don't know.

Well, you know, we might have him on right before the country boy show this year. Well, that's perfect. Bring him on for that. So I guess I assume you didn't ask Seth Greenberg. Seth Greenberg's not getting a call. That's a perfect guest. Yeah, you know, that's for the memoir. Cali Perry, maybe he's free. Seth Greenberg, Shannon.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we can't. We can't. I read the text. Put Seth Greenberg aside. If there's someone else you think would be good, let me know. Because we're trying to make Fridays, I guess we could call them Fridays of Fun. Yeah.

Right? Fridays full of fun. I'm trying to think some of my past shows that I liked when you were gone. We can't do Alan Cutler, which always, I think, makes most of the listeners mad, but Shannon giggles. Because it's really easy for Shannon because he never stops talking the entire time. So we can't do him because he has his own show now. Richie and Buck Richie Farmer and Buck

I thought for Richie and Buck one of those Tuesdays that Mario's not on you bring them up to do it with you They would do it too, okay I think that's probably a good idea for them So anyway if you have suggestions 772-774525254 The thing is

We're completing the schedule before I leave So that when I'm gone everything is in Billy's hands Oh no I've told Billy If someone cancels It's up to you to fill it Okay. You can't call me in Germany and go,

hey, can you, you know, can you give me Seth Greenberg's number? No, you have to do it. So then it's in Billy's hands once I leave. I feel confident he'll be able to handle it. I do, too. 859-28027. Adu Thierro decides to go to Arkansas. We'll talk about if that surprises you and House Kentucky going to fill their roster right after this KSR.

Welcome back to TeguSports Radio. 89-8-2802287. folks writing in with suggestions. I like some of these. People are saying, like one person where I wrote, why don't you get Jared Stillman? That's a guy in Nashville. They're like, he would never do it, though.

I bet he would. I don't think I would get him because he's a Louisville guy, but he would probably talk about the cards, but he would do it. Almost everybody will do it. I don't think you folks appreciate what a big platform this is. If you're in sports,

I mean, pardon my takes the biggest sports podcast in America, and they come do it. Yep. We can get almost. anybody to do it if they're in college sports. Now, you know, they got to some people, a lot of the times people tell me no, because they're nervous, they don't know enough about Kentucky sports to do it. So that can be a problem.

But the summer shows are perfect time to bring in a guest. But it's also daunting to host a show. Yes. If you've never done it. Like a lot of, I mean, we're going to find this out here in a couple weeks, Shannon, because we're going to have the guy who won the pick-em, you know, the, the NCAA. contest he's coming in here to host 30 minutes brilliant move to bring him on when nothing's going on too yeah he's going to have 30 minutes but like most of people who volunteer themselves no offense

you can't you can't do it i don't say that to be rude but you wouldn't get through 20 minutes you just you couldn't because it's hard now i don't say again that doesn't mean you're not smart you certainly know sports more than i do but like you wouldn't be able to do it Even TV hosts that are on TV all the time. Different skills. Use me a medical. They've admitted it is hard to do. This is much harder than television.

Much harder. Like, there's a skill to television, but you can pick it up. This is harder. Yeah. In my opinion. I think this is the hardest form of media outside of, like, writing, you know, essays or something, which is also very hard. Which drives me.

I always wondered how these people do three-hour shows, four-hour shows, That one night you did a five-hour show. No, it wasn't good. How do you do that? I think you can only do a great show for like two hours. After two hours, I've said this to ESPN before. After two hours, in some ways you're kind of filling time. You know?

Yeah. But that's the way they have to do it at ESPN. And by the way, I resigned with ESPN. Congratulations. So I'll be doing my seventh year. That's crazy. Seventh year. Can you believe Myron and I have the longest running show on that?

You know, you know, when you say that, you're right. You're the longest running show. Marty McGee have gone longer, but they've changed time slots. We're the longest running one in the exact same time slots. Well, congratulations to you admire both. All right. So Adieu Thiero decides to go to Arkansas. He becomes, I think, Cal's, I don't know, seventh or eighth player or something like that.

Were you surprised at the news yesterday? I was really surprised. You thought there was no way he would go there. Because, you know, Adieu left Kentucky before. the cow to Arkansas stuff even came out. He was leaving Kentucky. He was leaving Cal. And for now to him to rejoin him in Arkansas,

I got to admit, it really surprised me. Really surprised me, too. I would be fascinated to see how that went about. Because he was not thrilled with how he was used towards the end of the year. Yes. Now, before that, I think it was fine, but I think maybe towards the end of the year,

I'm not sure exactly what it was, but he was not thrilled. So the fact that he decided to come, and initially he didn't even mention Arkansas as a candidate. It was North Carolina and Pitt. For him to end up there, it's an interesting decision to me. Now, granted, his dad had a long relationship with Cal

and maybe whatever it was, it must have worked itself out, but I was very surprised. You know, there was a report came out that he was, like, leaning heavily to North Carolina. I kept waiting for that announcement to happen. Hubert Davis came here. Yeah. You know, Hubert Davis out there, Malone's pacing around the parking lot on his phone here in Lexington.

You know, I like Adoo, and I think Addo is a good player. But a do is like a complimentary piece. He is. He is. He is a complimentary piece. And, you know, it would have been nice to have him, but they're going to succeed or not down there. I think in some ways they have the exact same issue we do, which is do you have a star. John L. Davis is probably going to be really good for them, but I still think they need one more

dude. Yeah. And I kind of think that's how we are too. We need one more dude. And without being mean, a do is not a dude. A do is not the dude. No. The dude. You're also going to have a do and a do. Have you noticed that? Yeah. They're going to have. have a do and a do at the same time. And still looking for a dude. And they are still looking for a dude. Now, for us, I think we got to find a guy. Like, I think that's where we are.

We got to find a guy. Whether it's Jackson Robinson or someone else, we need one more. We need a big time score. And not just a big time shooter. We need a guy who can get to the basket and score. and, you know, I think we have maybe two choices out there, and we need one of them to hit. Jackson Robinson and then the Chas Lanier guy from North Florida.

Okay, everybody asks me all the time. Who's the second guy? If Robinson decides to stay in the graft, who's the other guy Matt keeps talking about? Well, I mean, they're definitely interested in the Chaz Lanier. I think they also, you know, they've talked to the Wuga Poplar guy from Miami, but they got a lot banking on Jackson Robinson. I mean, if he decides to stay in the draft, that'll hurt us.

I mean, I think they built this entire team around the viewpoint that Jackson Robinson would be the centerpiece. And they have one or two other guys I think they could add that they want to see whether they get him or not. Because Pope looks at this different than any other coach I've talked to. Now, I'm sure there are other coaches that do it. But I think he has a player, for instance, that he says, if I have Jackson Robinson, that guy's a perfect piece. If I don't get Jackson Robinson, he doesn't really fit it. Right? Yeah.

I think he looks at it like that. I think he does too. And so let's say he gets Chas Lanier. Then I think he goes, that guy I was going to get with Jackson Robinson, he's probably not who I want. I want this guy at this point. So when you heard him say on the show, they're waiting to see who stays in the draft, and then they'll go from there. I think that's exactly what he's doing.

So this is just my opinion. I think in their minds, they have, and again, this is not like official, but this is just the sense I get. Jackson Robinson is who they want. If that doesn't happen, they'd love to get either Chas Lanier or Wuga Poplar, and depending on which of those three they get,

there's one or two other guys they'll add, but they want to wait and see which of those three they get. fill out the roster after they had to find out which one of those three guys are going to get. Because I think they have their core eight with one hole, which is the last point. Yeah. I think they believe Butler, that's right, the kid from San Diego State, right? Lamont Butler. They believe he's a lot better than people act like.

Like they believe he's a, they believe that the kid from Drexel is really good. I mean, I'm told they believe Garrison will be a first round pick one day, and he's coming off the bench. I've seen people who are Andrew Carr, he'll be drafted. The one I keep hearing is, by the end of the year, Colin Chandler will be real. Yeah, that's exciting. By the end of the year, they think that, but they, I think the staff genuinely believes people are sleeping on Lamont Butler and Colin Chandler,

that those are two guys that they think are a lot better than maybe the general public in our fan base things. So 8-59-2-80-22-87. We'll take your call. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay.

Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Tuggy Sports Radio. You've got a guy here who's from Flatlit, Kentucky, which is in Knox County, which led to us talking about little tiny towns in Bell County. You got some great names, right? You got Kettle Island, you got RJ, right? You got the right fork of straight creek.

That's the name of a community. Yep. The right fork of straight creek. And I just mentioned that to my parents the other day. I said, that's a really weird name of something. Because if it's a straight creek, you wouldn't think it had a fork. But it does. And there is no left fork of straight creek.

But there's a right fork. There's Lone Jack. Lone Jack? Yep. you were telling me about RJ. Don't want to go to RJ. I'm telling you, all of you in Kentucky, if anyone ever suggests you go to RJ,

take an escort with you. I ain't going, period, after what you just said. You don't want to go? I mean, don't go unless you know somebody. So how big is it? A few hundred people, maybe, maybe not even that many. And it's that scary of a town?

It's not a town. It's like a holler. But I'm just saying. Everything odd. You tell me there's an odd story out of Bell County, 75% chance. It's RJ. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, I have a buddy who won't get off talking about Calgary.

He keeps saying we were wrong to get rid of him. What do you say? What should I say to it? If you're still talking about how we should have kept Calgary, you're not a UK fan. He left. He left. We didn't tell him to leave. He left.

He tried to play a card, and the card ended up not working. He thought he was smarter than UK at the end, and he tried to pull something to try to get the practice facility bought and try to get stuff done, and you know what? UK called his bluff. And he decided to leave. That's on him, so I have no... But, like, you can't cry over spilled milk.

You know, let's say you and your girlfriend break up. after two months, man, if you're still crying about her, that's on you. You got to keep moving. And so when I see Kentucky fans who still talk about it, and I see them on social media, they're losers if you're still talking about him. He ain't coming back. This is not like he's not coming back, so you just need to move forward or not. I've had to save conversation with people, and I tell him, look,

have you been happy with the way things have gone the last couple years because we were going to get a lot of the same if he had stayed. But whether we, let's say he goes and wins a national championship, which he's not going to. But let's say he does. Okay. It wasn't happening here? No, it's going to be a lot of the same. It wasn't going to happen here.

So like the people, there are, there's not a lot. I give our fan base credit. I'd say collectively we've moved on really, really well. I agree. But for the ones that haven't, you're being a loser. If you're still talking about the woman that left you, and imagine you were married to somebody. And they decided to leave you for another person.

And as at their wedding, they get up and go, I should have divorced that other person five years ago. And you're still crying about them. When they said they should have divorced you five years ago, then you are a loser at that point. That's the most telling thing of the whole thing, when he said he should have taken that UCLA job in 2019. He should have.

And so in that respect, I agree with him. But you can't sit there and cry for a person that says I should have left you five years ago. Yep. Yep. I wonder how we would have viewed him different if he had left at the end of the 2019 season. We probably would. He would have been a hero. Yeah.

I think people would have been mad at Mitch for letting him go. That's why I have sympathy for Mitch giving him that deal. Mitch could not have let him walk to UCLA. No. But if he did. He would come back a concrete. He wouldn't be like Rick, right? Like Rick left, and until he went to Louisville, everybody still loved him.

Yeah. I think so. I think his legacy would have been viewed a lot differently if he left at that time. Who's up next, yeah? Let's go to Tio. T.O. How are you, T.O. Doing good, Matt Joy, Matt Jones. God bless you, boys.

God bless you. Matt T.O. has always got you back. Them boys can't handle a few minutes of politics. They're a bunch of cry babies. That's exactly right. Tell him about it, Tio. Coming from a boy who spent a few weekends in jail, if Donald Trump is sent to jail,

he ain't going to need no secret service at all. He's got that dog in him, and within one week, he'll be the shop caller for the entire facility. Really? It might take a prison right or two, but Donald Trump is going to make jail great again. I'm going to be the first one to put money down on his commissary so he can have all the ramen noodles he needs Tio that'll be my call today that was good

Trio's becoming a good caller Shadden, don't you think? Like right? Like he's starting to he's finding a rhythm in terms of a new really good caller. I like that. He brings the fire. He brings the fire right off the bed. By the way, speaking of legal problems, Did you see that 14 people were arrested in Casey County for cockfighting on a Sunday night?

On a Sunday night. They should have been at church. And on a Sunday night, they had a cockfight in Casey County and 14 people were arrested. I can't believe how common this is. And on a Sunday night, maybe on a Saturday night. Okay, you probably shouldn't do it any night. But I mean, like on a Sunday night. I know, Sunday nights for the Lord.

I mean, Casey, I remember reading one time Casey County, this is, I think, think true has a higher percentage of people that go to church than any county in Kentucky. I remember when I was doing my book that there were like four or five stats that kind of stick in my head. And Casey County, I believe, has a greater percentage of people who go to church regularly than any county in Kentucky. And yet, 14 people on a Sunday night are out cockfighting. Casey County, the Apple Festival. I mean, it is good people. That's the place where we did a show at a funeral home.

We did, down the parking lot. You're exactly right. But again, another county. The cockfighting is... So here's the thing. I don't consider myself sheltered growing up, but I was sheltered from cockfighting. You know, in Bell County, they handled snakes,

but they didn't cockfight, at least that I know of. So I have still become surprised how prevalent the cockfighting is. Me too. And it seems like, to me, Shannon, the police are targeting it. You know what I mean? Like, we feels like we're getting more. more and more cockfighting arrests every week. Yeah, again, like, I can't believe how common this is.

I thought that, you know, it's just like folklore or something. It's not actually happening, but it is. 14. Yeah, 14 people. At least it's not a stadium, though. Did you read the article? No, I just like, the article said 14 people. It was at a barn, and they had, they were also, they listed the charges, and, you know,

most of them were about cockfighting. One of them said illegally selling concessions. Well, that's what's crazy. what we're worried about. Concession stands and these cockfighting events. They'll probably dismiss the concession part. But that means that's enough people that they felt like they needed to sell concession. That's true, yes.

So we'll just wait a couple more months and we'll see another county get busted. The map of cockfighting in Kentucky is unbelievable. Who's next? Trash man. Trash man. How are you? Just peachy, buddy. How are you?

Doing good. You know, on cockfighting, if you were going to rob a bank in Lexington, you're going to do it during a UK ball. guy. Oh, that's a good point. That's a really good point. So you're saying have it on Sunday night because everybody's in church. Exactly. Makes sense. The sheriff might be in church.

That's a really smart idea, actually. I do have a suggestion for a guest host for you. I don't know his affiliation with Louisville the University of Louisville, but I was thinking Justin Thomas might be a good one. He would be great if we could, if we

could get him. That might be a little bit out of our ability, but Justin Thomas, you know, he was in Louisville. They just put up his banner in Louisville. They did. Louisville's own. Thomas is Louisville, yeah. And he has, I believe he has a charity there in Louisville, and so, you know, it might

he might get a lot of. We'll see what we can do. Our KSR golf scramble is always at his dad's course. Yeah. So maybe we can, maybe we can make that, I appreciate the call. He did he play at Alabama? He played golf at Alabama. Okay, I was thinking that's where he went. He played at Alabama.

He actually gave, did you see that speech he gave when they, I guess it was, maybe it was yesterday. Did you see the speech he gave when they were talking about the banner and all that stuff? It was actually really sweet. He started crying and he said there's a reason why every time I'm introduced, I don't say University of Alabama or where I live now, I will always say Louisville, Kentucky because, and he got choked up and I thought that was actually really nice. That is nice. Seems like a good guy. I've never met him.

He seems like a really good guy. good on the Netflix golf documentary. I thought that made him look really good. Shannon, all right, so did you send me the ad? I did. All right, so let's do this here. Let's do one. You know, I should have it up, but, you know, sometimes you get a little,

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slash basketball terms. We will take a break, and be right back. KSR. Welcome back. Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280, 2287. On the text machine, one person writes, Matt, my dad is the most negative UK fan I know. I'm completely bought in on Mark Pope. I'm excited to see a new era of basketball, but my dad

complains constantly. What should I tell him to get him to buy in on the Mark Pope era. Good question. So if your dad's just like one of these negative dudes, it's always going to be negative. There might not be much you can do. But let's say that there's a way to win him. You, Ryan Lemon, are selling this dude's dad. How do you sell him on the Mark Pop era? I'd say, Dad, take a knee. And the one thing you got to understand is that if Calipari stayed here, we're going to get a lot of the same, a lot of these great recruits, and we're going to be selling

ourselves, we're going to win it all and end up with a disappointment in March again, again and again. It was time for a breath of fresh air. It was time for something change. Pope's the guy that Brown, he gave us all our program back. He wants to win as much as we do. He wants to sweat as much as we want the sweat. He wants to sweat. Yeah. Shannon, what does that mean? He wants to sweat. Sweat equity. That's good, Shannon.

He just wants to sweat. Work so hard in recruiting. He's sweating. I mean, he was at Frederick Douglas and Lexington Catholic High Schools yesterday. He's working his butt off, and that's what we want. Somebody that wants to be here and wants to succeed as much as we wanted to succeed. Do you think that worked, Shannon? I mean, do you think the dad's going to be like, well, he's sweating a lot? Yeah. That's going to be good. Works for me, Ryan. I'm on board with you, bro. Here's the thing. I'm with you. Here's the case for Pope. The case is, you know you have a dude

who can do the X's and O's. Yes. Right? You know you have the dude. Just watch his teams play. You know you have the dude who can do the X's O's. He's smart. In my opinion, success is you don't Have to be smart to be successful, but being smart gives you a lot better chance at being successful, and he is very smart. The one question was recruiting, and he went and hired two of the best recruiters in the country. If you assume that works, then you got what you need, right? This year, it's a hodgepodge of a roster, but let's see how he recruits. I have a feeling these dudes, Alvin Brooks and Jason Hart are going to get great guys.

Mark Fox was a good X and O coach. Had a hard time getting players, but he was a good. X and O coach at Nevada. Remember he took Nevada to like the Sweet 16 or something. Then he ended up at Georgia. They didn't do great at Georgia, but he didn't get players. But if you believe in X and O's coaching, Pope has it, and then he's got these other dudes and the Kentucky brand to go get players.

We all agree. Cal was maybe one of the best recruiters in the history of the game. No, he's the best recruiter. It's like him and John Wooden are the best recruiters ever. But when it came to in-game X-N-O coaching, maybe wasn't Cal's strength. That won't be the case anymore. That's going to be a major strength for this coaching staff. So that's the thing for me.

Did you see, Shannon, Tyler Gaffleone, the jockey for Sierra Leone, got called to the principal's office. He's being called in to explain why he pulled on the horse next to him down the stretch. Did you see that video? Oh, yeah. He can't be tugging on the main. So he was, oh, look at you tugging on the main. Look at you knowing all the words. But he reached over.

Now, Gaff Leone said he did it for. balance. He said the horse Sierra Leone was leaning in and he reached over to balance himself, which is amazing to think about going that fast and be like, I'm going to balance myself on the horse name. He says he was not trying to push the horse. He was trying to balance it. Shannon, do you think he was trying to like hold the horse back? It looked like a push off to me. You know, like in basketball, you have a push off down low. I think that's what was going on. Should have caught a foul. He should probably be disqualified. What do you think? See, I'm a shan. I'm a shan,

in a way. I think it was a push-off. I think they were about to start to collide and get together. He didn't want to get disqualified. So we were trying to push him away for a little bit. You think he was trying to push him away to create some space. No, you can't even do that. Well, but it might be better than hitting him. Yeah, I think so. So

in the lead-up to the race, I watched more coverage than I've ever watched. I watched Oaks Day. I watched Derby Day. And they kept, I watched them play the same video seven times of Randy Moss talking about how Sierra Leone drifts towards the rail. He was like, watch this race.

He drifted. Watch this race. And I was like, good grief. Shut up about the drifting. But then it ended up happening. He did end up drifting. So we'll see if he gets in trouble. Myron called that. Myron texted me right after and goes, are you allowed to push off? And I'm like, come on, he didn't push

off. And then the video showed he pushed off. Yeah, he pushed off. He's not going to, I think, limit the other horses with Forever Young to impede its performance in any way. But I think he was just trying just to get it away. He's not strong enough when they're going that fast to push the horse away. As you pull the hair so much, he's going to rear up, I don't know.

If he'd grabbed a hold of the mane and yanked a big hair of a hunk of it. I feel like you would have been able to. You think he pulled the tail. No, I'm saying that's maybe the only way you were going to impede him if he'd grabbed a big hunk of the main and really gave a chunk. I'd like to ride on a horse riding around on a race horse. This is the expert horse journalism. that Ryan was known for. You've covered the derby for 20 years.

Hey, I know nothing about it. My news director said, no, just enough to fake it. And you can't even do that. And that's what I did. I knew just enough to fake it. All right, who's next, Shadish? Jonathan. Jonathan.

Jonathan. Hey, guys. Long-time follower, short-time listener. I really just started listening every day after Oakland loss because I was interested to see what the future was with Cal. All right. One thing I've noticed, one thing I've noticed since, following every day is

I guess Cal and his staff would not speak to you guys over the last few years. What happened and when did it happen? Well, I mean, that's a pretty loaded question. Well, okay, so, I mean, if you want the truth, I mean, everybody says it's everybody says the wrong thing on this.

Here's the truth. Beginning in the COVID year, So I used to talk to Cal probably every three or four days, two or three days, three or four days for 10 years. Usually with Dway as part of it. PV left and went to DePaul, and then it was the COVID year. And then in the COVID year, because Dwayne wasn't here, it was just natural we didn't talk like we used to. We talked very rarely. But then when they started stinking in the COVID year, we became critical.

of the team. I don't think he liked that. We had one conversation that wasn't a bad conversation but where he sort of confronted me about it and I'm like, look, man, I have to do my job. I have to talk about like we stink. I mean, I didn't say we stink,

but I'm like, we have to talk about it. He didn't love that. Then from what I'm told, I never talked to him again after that. Then from what I'm told, the day after we lost in the SEC tournament, we set at that table right over there and said all the things we felt like he needed to do, I think somebody played that for him, and I think it really made him mad. And then ever since then, he felt like we were like an enemy of the team, which is ridiculous, but was the case.

And then I think there were people around him that would only tell him when we were critical. They wouldn't tell him the many times we were positive. So he would, if you don't listen to show and you just keep hearing that we're critical, it becomes negative reinforcement with no positive reinforcement the other way. and so I think it just built frustration in him and then it got bad in the last couple years where he was frustrated all the time. There are people out there, they'll say, oh, they were mad, you did a special during COVID,

where if we lost, you got your money back. Like, none of that was, that was not it. It was literally the clip of us talking after the SEC tournament. And then I think there were people around him that sort of to gain favor with him would just go, do you hear what they say about you today? And that made it worse, because there wasn't anybody going,

did you hear something positive they said about you today? And it just got worse. And I hated it because I had a good relationship with him for over a decade. But that is the truth of how it ended up playing out, unfortunately. When we come back, we have all ranked our five worst states in the country. We will let you know what they are right after this. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite.

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