KSR - 2024-05-08- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

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I am Matt Jones here on Wings Day at KS Bar, Dollar Wings all day. We are here at the Vahala Golf Course, where the PGA Championship will take place next week. And you can give us a shout on the Clark's Pubpit Shop phone line, 859-2-80-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-745254 in this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J., he'll make them pay. We are in the merchandise tent. And I would say by tent, I mean massive facility here at Fahala for the PHAL. PGA, where on Friday, beginning Friday morning at 9, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, you can come out here from 9 to 6 and shop for Valhalla PGA Championship merchandise before it goes on sale to the general public.

So you can come and get what you would like before the masses come out here for the tournament. You go to Highview Baptist Church, which is across the street, you park, they'll bring you over on a little bus, and you can come into this facility. And I'll just first start by saying, Ryan, can you believe this place? Like, this is like, as somebody said, this is like a Dick's sporting goods, but it's temporary for one week for a golf tournament. It's amazing because they brought us all through the back loading dock, and you come through the loading dock, and all of a sudden you come in this facility, you're like, no, it's massive.

This is like a massive golf store. Like you said, Dix is a good comparison. I mean, no, it's that big. It's as big as like a dick sporting goods. It's all like shirts and hats and all the various things golfers wear. I'm going to make a prediction that Drew spends $1,500 to $2,000 today. I'm in trouble. I like a good golf merchandise store.

I've never had early access to one. Usually I'm at the tournament, fighting crowds, carrying it around. But this early access, I don't know if they have shopping carts, but I'm going to need one when the show's over. Yeah, so we get to shop when it's over. We're going to be like the first people to shop here. Wow. So you get your select.

before they sell out of your sizes, and it's all here. But for those of you that are listening, if you come Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, you will actually beat the average fan here for all the stuff. And they have, like, Nike, what is it, Peter Milar? You've got Lulu Lemon over there? I don't even know that was an awesome. Lulu Ryan Lemon, Cutter and Buck, which isn't that the show that comes on after this? What's your go-to brand, Ryan?

You big shopper. You're Peter Milar guy? No, I'm a Lulu Lemon. I can support the family brand. Do you spend that kind of money on clothes? I mean, Lulu Lemon's expensive. It's very expensive. You know, I like spending it on, you know, a couple hundred dollars for a pair of shorts.

So the answer is no, you don't do that. I see you wore a polo shirt so you could fit in at the golf course. I felt like, you know, I needed to at least look the part of a lot of a golf. I did not wear a hoodie, and I kind of wish I did because it's cold. I thought that, too, on the ride over. I thought of all the times to. I was like, why can't wear a hoodie to the golf course? And now I wish that had.

It's a little cold out here. I bet they've got some here. You can probably buy. Yeah, no, they have hoodies here. I've already found the one I'm getting. Okay. Yeah. So anyway, we're out here.

Thank you to the PGA for having us. We'll be doing our show here at the PGA on Thursday and Friday of next week. And it's nice of them to host. It's also neat to see a major golf tournament at a course that I've played. And that, like, you can kind of go, oh, when I was on, on this hole, I hit it out of bounce. Yeah, I was telling our shuttle, just how it feels so real like the scoreboards are going up, the video boards.

The stands are one thing, but all the other stuff starts coming in. It's right here in front of us. Yeah, it's weird to see all that. You know, they got all the scoreboards and all that. And Shannon, they have all the volunteers out here. They're the people, you know, who walk around and hold the little things that say, you know, like Tiger, two under. And those people, they all do it for free.

Okay, so they all agree for free to stand there and hold the little sign that says, quiet, please. And I was thinking, I would do that. Yeah, that's what you're... I'm sure Drew would do that. Oh, yeah. Ryan, would you do that? I might do it one day.

I'm not going to do it for four days. You don't think it would be fun to do that? I think that might get a little... Shit, and I feel like there's no way you would do that, right? Not for free. Absolutely. Look, my time's worth money. You want me to hold that sign, you better pay me something.

I'm not doing it for free. Absolutely not. What if you got to shush people, though, all day? All day you get to tell people to shush. Yeah. No, I don't even want to deal with those people. So I would say you've got to pay me if I'm going to do that. Not doing it for free.

You get a free shirt though, Shannon? I don't care. I got a free shirt. A ton of free shirts. That's true. We get a free shirt all the time. So it's perfect for you because you would get a free shirt. If they give me a free shirt, a different one every day, I might volunteer for all four days.

So Mario is here. He's going to take a video of this, you know, this place. Yeah, Mario, we are on the air. That's correct. He's going to take a video and walk around so you'll be able to see what it looks like and all the various options. We had our first road trip with Mario today. It was a big deal. So I heard he got in your car and your back seat is full of dog hair?

Covered in dog hair. Yes. I picked up Yoga Girls dog yesterday from doggy daycare, had it in the backseat, forgot. So these guys get in this morning, there's dog hair everywhere. That's kind of gross, though, right? I agree. So why didn't you? Why didn't you clean it up?

I didn't think about it. I honestly did not think about it until we opened the door to get ready to get in. Like, oh, I got a lot of dogs here back here back here. This is the first time he's been on the road with you. It is. Did he enjoy it? You know, we did the standard road trip stuff, go through McDonald's drive-thru. Yeah.

But he didn't order anything. He's got to learn, man. He's healthy. He's a lot healthier than we are. Well, there's a lot of stuff to get to today. We will, we're out here if you happen. Well, I guess you can't come in here. I was going to say you could come say hello, but you can't.

But let's start with, I think, the big news from yesterday, continues to be roster news. Trent Noah of Harlan County has agreed or is entering the, well, I guess it's not the transfer portal. He got South Carolina to allow him out of his national letter of intent, and now he will consider going to other schools. This is something I kind of heard could happen last week that he was considering it. What was interesting is because he had signed, it's unlike the transfer portal. Because he had signed a national letter of intent, schools could not contact him. So he had to almost fly blind to decide whether or not to do this.

Now, I'm told that there will be three schools that are the primary recruiters for him, Kentucky, Louisville, and Tennessee. Basically all the three schools around there. I suspect Kentucky is the heavy favorite, but I will say, I think Tennessee and Louisville have much more of a chance than folks think. I still think he's going to go to Kentucky. Don't get me wrong. And I think if you're going to bet, you're going to bet on him being a cat. But Louisville and Tennessee have been, you know, they're really interested. But first of all, what about the news that he's out of the South Carolina thing?

The way they worded it to pursue interest closer to home. Those three are all closer to home. All three closer at home. So you knew it's probably going to be that. It was going to be the case. But it would just be a perfect adding to this storybook ending. He went, took Harlan to the championship game. Harlan County.

Harlan County. Yeah, you're right. Holland County. Massive state tournament where he just was lightened it up. One of the top scores in the history of high school basketball. You pair him up with the most prolific score in high school basketball in Kentucky for four years. It's just a storybook part of this. You know, I'm excited because we were.

went 30, you know, 35 years without ever having anyone from the 13th region on UK, and now we're going to get two in back-to-back seasons, which is crazy. So the first question everybody always has, Drew, when they talk about kids from the state, is can he play in Kentucky? I had never seen him in person until the state tournament, and I'd had people in Harlem and say to me. A lot of friends in Harlem go, Matt, this kid's good enough. And one of these days I'm going to learn, I was like, yeah, okay, gotcha. But when I was at the state tournament, he is.

Now, he's, you know, he's going to have to work. Like, this is not Reed Shepherd. And I think people need to understand that. Reed was athletically ready moment one to play at Kentucky. I'm not 100% sure that's true of this. kid, but as a score, he had, what, 48 in a game in the state tournament? The game I saw him, he had 37 or 38 and was awesome. That semi-final game against, was against Evangil that they beat.

Yes. Yes. He was unbelievable. He got a little tired in the championship game a little bit because, you know, they played two games in one day. But yes, I do think he can play at Kentucky. I don't think you bring him in thinking he's going to start right away, but he would be, I really want to see him in Lexington.

Me too. When this team had one player on it, Travis Perry, I kept saying there's a name I'm watching that no one is saying, and I still think there's a good chance for this. It's been Trent Noah since the moment Pope got the job. I was hoping he would give Noah this opportunity. I've watched this kid through a friend since he was a sophomore in high school hearing about it. I've never thought to Kentucky's level. Yeah.

At least known that when he signed with South Carolina, it might be a guy we're running into. And now I love the potential of having a little east versus west, or not verse, but east and west in your freshman class. Well, you have two of the five biggest scores in Kentucky history are in the class this year. It's crazy. And for them both to come. They played for the state championship. And then for the two of them to both end up at Kentucky would be an awesome story.

And I think when you're looking at filling out your roster, okay, because I think Pope, unlike Cal is going to try to use all or nearly all of his scholarships most years. When you're looking at filling out the roster, when you're looking at continuity over time. I think he makes a lot of sense as an addition. And clearly, I mean, if South Carolina had already gotten him and Louisville and Tennessee want him, I think the people are like, well, is he good enough to play at UK? Yes, we've been brainwashed into this mindset, and I was as guilty as anybody of it, of you have to be a top 50 recruiter you can't play here. Well, let's just take a dude like a deuterro.

A deuterreau was none of that. And I think we all agreed he was a good piece to have on the team. I think Trent Noah, he's not even play like a dude, but there's no reason he can't be like that, be that good. Yeah, he's not the guy that maybe fit the way Cal Perry. No, Cal didn't even talk to him. No. But for Mark Pope, the way Pope likes to play, he's a better fit. So that's why I think the things have changed a little bit.

So we're all going to be very, very excited if this does happen, and I hope it does. Athletically, he might have a ways to go, but he's a legit six-six with some ball. He's a bunch of golf. I mean, that's a big dude. He's much, it's going to be natural. Two kids from the 13th region, two white kids from the mountains, they're going to get compared to each other. Yes.

Reed is much more athletic. Yes, he is. Noah's bigger, though. Yes, he is. I mean, Noah is like, you know, you're not going to be able to push him around. I mean, he's from Harlem. You know, I mean, the difference between Reed and Noah is a little bit like the difference between London and Harlem.

That's fair. That's fair. Where? London's mountains, kind of. Kind of City, kind of Mountain. Reed's Mountains, kind of. Harland's Mountain. And I think Noah is going to be like that.

I think that's, I think it'll be, that's what you're going to say. Like Drew said, he's 6'6. He's over 200 pounds. He's got some good meat on that frame. He can get in there and bang with you a little bit if you need to. He can shoot. Yeah, he can. Like, he can really shoot.

I mean, that's the other thing. You know, he shot, what did he shoot? 41 or 42% from three. You know, he and, he and, one thing that's amazing about he and Travis Perry both is not only do they put up huge points, they put up huge points shooting a good percentage. They both shot over 40% from three when they were in high school. Yeah, and I don't know what he'll do in year one. Probably be a while for he is really a significant contributor.

But if you wanted Kentucky kids and players that stay more than a year, I mean, I don't know We can ask more for having a Travis Perry to Trent Noah in the same class. Yeah. Hope's first freshman. And you get one kid from Drew's region and one kid from my region. When are you going to step up? Yeah, where are you at, right? Yeah, we had Derek.

Derek Willis came from Shannon's region. When are you going to, when are you going to produce somebody? Well, I'm hoping next year we've got Jasper Johnson and Malachi Marino. No, I'm talking about those guys. You don't get every hometown. I want somebody from Ottwell, Indiana. You're going to be waiting a long time. On the team at some point.

You're waiting a long time on that one. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-774-5254. We are here at the PGA merchandise tent at Vaughala. They've very kind to put us here. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back.

It is Kentucky Sports Radio. How about this? To volunteer for the PGA Championship, not only do you not get paid, you actually have to pay $265. Why? Because they can. We have to buy your shirts.

They don't even give you your shirt. Okay. Oh, that's true. They invited us here. Stop yelling, all right? I know what it cost to buy a ticket to go watch. This is why you can't take him anywhere. I'm telling you.

No, I get it. First of all, it's going to cost to take the stuff. Plus, you know, you got to keep out, you know, you got to keep out the riffer. You got to get people who are serious about it. So you're going to get people like our friend Larry Woods who want to be out there to be around the golfers. So you ask why? it's because they can't. If you told me I got to sit on a T-box,

I would pay as much money as you wanted to be here to do that. If I'm getting to watch the golf. Yeah, if you get to think about it, you get to walk inside the ropes. Yes, you do. So how much is your ticket? Like normally your ticket, I don't know what your tickets are, but your tickets are probably about that. You essentially get four days full of tickets for free

and you get to be there. And all you got to do is carry that thing around, Shannon. When you look at it like that, it's a deal. Yeah, especially if you enjoy being out there, right? I mean, a lot of people would take it good. I didn't know it costs, but it actually makes sense to me. Maybe you shouldn't be so hasty. Waiting list for Augusta is like 50 years.

People get approved when they're... They get approved right before they die? Yeah, you get a couple years. So is this customary? All these major golf courses, volunteers have to pay. I'm sure for the majors. I don't know about for the everyday tournaments. But I would say for the majors, because again, if I told you

you'd have a shot to walk right next to Tiger, and you wouldn't want to do it? I don't know if I'd do it for $275. So wait a minute, if I told you, give me $275 and you will get to walk 18 holes inside the ropes from me to you with Tiger Woods to watching play a golf tournament. You're keeping his score. You're keeping his score, and if you get it wrong, he loses.

You... Ooh, that's a lot of pressure. He's keeping it, too. There's multiple people. You wouldn't do it? In that scenario, I definitely would. Okay, so you do it for Tiger. Yes.

Would you do it for Roll? Rory? No, JT. Posting. You wouldn't do it for Rory? I would do it for JT. Posting just because of Fleener. Wait,

why wouldn't you do it for Rory? You know, he and I, we don't have a good chemistry. Tiger and I have got a good chemistry. Would you do it for Phil? That might be interesting. There's only one guy I would be willing to do it for. Who's that?

John Daly. He's my favorite. John Daly. It doesn't apply anymore. Actually, he does. He won this. That's right. He won this one.

So he does do this one. That's right. This is one that he does. All right. Let me go back to basketball. for a second because there's one other thing we need to talk about. Matt Norlander, who, again, I keep saying this when it comes to national guys talking about Kentucky basketball, at least now.

This may change over time, but right now, if it comes from Matt Norlander or Jeff Goodman, I'm going to listen because I think they have a relationship with the guys on this step. Matt Norlander said on his podcast that North Florida Guard Chaz Lanier, he thinks Kentucky leads for that kid. Now this is a kid that average 19 points a game, probably is one of the six or eight people left in the portal that's the best. Maybe more than that, maybe four to five the best. And Kentucky, if they get him, I think they still want to get Jackson Robinson, but it gives you a little breathing room, Drew, if you don't get him. Yeah, I was watching this kid he could start. I was watching his highlights. They're insane. And then I think it was an interview,

a parent, someone talking about how they want to go to a school with more exposure to get in the NBA. Hello, Kentucky. Seems like a pretty good spot. I know Jackson Robinson's the name we've been thinking about all along as he waits for his NBA decision. But if you got a Jazz Lanier ready to go, I think maybe you look at Jackson and say, which way are you leaning? Because we have one more ready to take. Well, they wanted two more impact pieces. I think they sort of, I think when I was kind of aware of what they were going to do, I don't think,

I think they thought Lanier was going to go to Tennessee. but if they're able to convince him to go to Kentucky. I mean, Tennessee was wanting to bring him in as a starter. I think he would come in, Ryan, and almost certainly start right away. They would definitely load up the back court with the four guys they've already gotten. He had him as a piece. That's a lot of – And he's a score, which is – I still think they're missing a score.

This is a score. Yeah, I love that he's a score, and I'm really just impressed with the pieces. I know you still want someone that's more of a premier name, but they have a lot of depth where these practices – These guys, some guys are going to separate themselves and really earn some spots going head to head. Yeah, I mean, you're going to get some good practices. Especially at that wing, there can be some, you know, we don't mention Oway much from Oklahoma, but that's going to be some good defense whoever comes in to fill that scoring role.

I think it's going to be a battle behind the scenes, too. So that's good news. We'll see how that plays out. Now, the other thing I wouldn't have mentioned is John Wong. You know John Wong? Dr. Wong? No, that's Michael. His brother's John.

But he's not a doctor. Yeah, he's a doctor. Oh, he's a doctor. Yeah. They're both doctors. That's not a real doctor. That's not a real doctor. That's not a real doctor.

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Orthodontist is a real doctor. I actually didn't know he was an orthodox. Yeah. Okay. So John Wall, okay. He's the one that comes to the games and he would like ask Cal all the questions.

Yes. Right. He tweeted this yesterday. Man, if DJ Wagner winds up at Arkansas. And for people who don't know what's looking like that may happen. Cala Pary's roster is going to be formidable. For the first time I'm feeling some buyer's remorse, please someone talk some sense into me. Now, I like John Woll.

Clearly, I don't know what his profession is, Shannon, but I do like John Wong. But here's what I would say to John Wong. Grow a pair. Wow. What do you mean, wow? I'm serious. We can't be saying stuff like that. You are a member of the Kentucky media, a fan media,

which is different than like Kyle Tucker media. You can't be going out and saying you have buyer's remorse. He's gone, and he left, and do not make us look weak with that nonsense. First of all, okay, he'll have DJ Wagner. I think DJ's going to be good. I hope he is good. I like the kid. But you know when Elsie had a good roster?

Last year? Last year. Yeah. You know what was a roster he had that's better than the one he's going to have this year? Last year. Last year. And we lost, not only did we lose to Oakland, we lost 11 games. It wasn't like we got crazy upset.

We weren't good before then, really. Lost three in a row at Rupp. Lost three in a row at Rupp. Lost three in a row at Rupp. Lost the Texas A&M by about 45 in the SEC tournament. So stop John Wong making us look like that. Because, of course, Arkansas fans all retweet that and go, say, even the Kentucky media.

Stop it. Our fan base needs to toughen up. He's not coming back and stop whining over a girlfriend that's left. It annoys me. When I saw that, I wanted to call John Wong, and then I knew if I did, he just tried to talk to me about how great Trump is, and I didn't want to listen to that last night. But somebody needs to tell John Wong and all those folks,

calm down and realize we're going to be fine. Am I wrong? I'm confused because I thought we didn't want the roster that Cal has at Arkansas now. We didn't. I did not want it at all. Good. Good luck at Arkansas. I like what we have here.

I'm not in the camp of, oh, wow, cow got boogie Flynn. Good for Cal. I didn't want that here. He has only three of the five dudes he had coming here. Then he brings in the guys that were on the bench for us and Wagner. And he added Adu, who's a good ad, and John L. Davis, who's not as good as Antonio. Reeves, what makes you think he's going to be better? Like what, I mean, will they be competitive?

Sure. But what makes people think they're going to be better. See, you said what I was going to say. DJ and Adoo probably should have been coming off the bench all years. Yes. And so now if they're over there in Arkansas, will they be better? Sure.

Those guys. Yeah. But this freshman class is nowhere as good as our freshman class. Reeves is better than John L. Davis. And A-Dew might be a little better than Mitchell. but it's not crazy matter. Yeah. So, come on, John.

Toughen up. We'll take a break. Dr. John, good orthodontist. 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. All right.

To be fair to the good doctor, orthodontist. He later tweeted, after a temporary moment of weakness and doubt, I've regained my sanity. These replies were the best thing, best therapy money could buy, BBN is the best. I didn't see that.

So you did grow up here quickly. Yeah, but I guess he did. Yeah, he did. Well, he didn't at first. And I wanted to make, I guess he took the advice I gave him before I gave it, Drew, so that's better. Sometimes you just need to air something out on Twitter,

get roasted to hear all the other opinions, and realize you're just, you had a moment there. I'm not looking forward to when the season starts and they win. Yes. People on our fan base freak it out. Yes. And we can predict that is going to happen. It's going to happen.

But remember, he left. That's the thing I just have to keep saying. Stop acting like we, we didn't break up with him. Mitch Barnhart went on TV and affirmed his commitment to him. He broke up with us. Right. So now you can't cry about it. That's why I said.

I feel like that's why Kentucky has to win that first matchup. They have to win that first game. I mean, obviously I want to win. It would be the best win. It would be the exciting. It would be the great. But you really think they have to? I think for the people that are jumping off the canoe quickly.

We haven't even played a game. How can you jump off the canoe? Well, like just when Calgary signs a guy and he gets some stuff like, oh, my goodness. You know, he's going to kill us. But we've signed nine guys. I know. I just keep up with it. I just don't have that jealousy because whatever he does, he wasn't going to do here.

That's the key. No matter what he could win the championship next year at Arkansas. That doesn't mean there was going to be a less than it. We just surrendered it. No, it wasn't going to happen here. If he goes undefeated at Arkansas, I mean, it'll be hard to watch. But that doesn't mean if he had stayed, he was going to go undefeated at UK. He got a reset on everything just like Kentucky did.

Yeah, it's like my marriage analogy. The couple that had stopped being in love with each other, Shannon, the man got fat and lazy. If he, after the divorce, decides to hire a trainer and get in shape, that's nice but he was going to stay fat and lazy if we married if we stayed married now he's pushing and pulling he's got a nice now he's pushing and pulling that's exactly right he's like okay maybe some botox like oh good to get a little little Botox no i mean that's but but but you're exact but Drew that's the key point it wasn't going to happen here I think a lot of people just see what he's doing like that's what we would have had if he just stayed that's not the case he has

more n iL support there he himself I'm not around him but it seems even though he seems sad at times He's got some new energy just to stick it to Kentucky, I think. $750,000 so far in NIL, and we raised $40,000. It's amazing the amount of money that has been donated since that started. And do you think if he had stayed that 40 would have gone to $750? No. No. It wouldn't have.

No. Who's up first? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Hi, yes, guys. First time caller here. How's going? Who are?

Good. I've got two things if that's okay. First off, I want to flip the script from basketball to football. You think Stoots has reached his peak? What do we need to do to keep him? And two, I would like to send out an invite to you guys to play in our golf scramble on June 29 for our softball team we got going on. Well, I will be in Europe, so I can't play.

I won't be able to make that commute. I knew you would. But if you want to send these. info to Drew and Ryan, you can. It'll probably be hard to do that. But as far as your first question, I appreciate the call. Has he peaked? Okay, well, what depends on what you mean by that question. Okay. Do I think it's likely that Kentucky has a better season than the two 10 and three seasons they've had? No, I don't. I think, though, they can do that again. And I think if Stoops has, quote unquote peaked, it's still the most success we've ever had here in my entire life.

And so I admit, Ryan, I get defensive at the Stoops critics. Like, should we have won more games last year? Yeah, probably. But the idea that it's that we've peaked, we are, it's like there's no perspective on what we've been throughout our history. We're just a couple of years removed from having two and ten seasons. Back to back. Back to back.

Think about that. And now, next year's team, I think, may be his most talented team he's had in five or six years. And Gavin Wimsick committed. That's awesome. That's the best the quarterback's room spent since win. I don't know if there's an answer because your backup. I mean, your fourth string is probably Cutter Bowley, who's going to be a great starter here one day. Your backup guy just started 19 games in the Big Ten.

Yeah. I mean, Drew. That's, you know, we've put. three straight running backs in the NFL, right? I don't know. You know, Vince is prone to hyperbole, but Vince thinks we're going to have nine guys drafted next year. Now, let's just do the Vince. Middle filter, cut it in half.

Still five or six, right? Like, I mean, come on. Yeah, with the quarterbacks, we still don't know what they'll be at Kentucky because they're all new except for Bowen Allen, haven't been here before. But outside of when you had like a Lorenzen Shane Boyd battles, just the depth of the room hasn't been what it is that I would know. I mean, honestly surprised a guy like Gavin Wimson. I'm a little surprised.

He started so many games will accept that role, and it sounds like he kind of knows. What do you think about Gavin Wimitt coming? I mean, like, you just brought in as a backup, a guy who, as you said, has started 19 big 10 games. People were saying, well, he was going to get beat out at Rutgers. Okay, he's beat out here. But he's sure a lot better option than most of the backups we've had over the years. Bush Hamden was on the Tom Leeds show this morning. Okay.

And he said something I thought was very interesting. He said, we're looking at ways. We're going to get both these guys on the field at the same time. And I'm like, whoa. What does that mean? I think he's talking about using. Not at the same play. Yes.

He said that. He was talking about in goal line situations. Yeah. Okay. He said in go line, maybe a few. Two quarterbacks, Shannon. I don't know if we're going to run a second time. We don't know.

They're both going to get under center, and you don't know which one gets the ball. He was saying he was going to take some of the hits off of Brock. Vandergriff by throwing him out there. Makes sense. Yeah. Okay. Fair now. It seems they hosted a visit.

They ended up not committing UCLA quarterback president, starts with P, but he was a runner. Then they bring in whimsy it when they weren't really looking at him. It seems the offense is going to have a lot of using the mobile quarterback use their legs. I think so. And you don't just want to be a scenario where Vandergriff has taken all that hits. You're getting an elite dual threat. But I also think people, you know, I had somebody asked me the other day, how good the football team are going to be.

I think it's going to be better than it was last year. But I don't know what the record is going to be, because I think the schedule is much harder. So much of college football is scheduled. Like, you know, if Kentucky played Louisville's schedule last year, they probably go 10 and 2 as well. But so much of college football, Ryan, is scheduled. Yeah, I think that's fair. I think this could be a better overall team, and the record may be the same, if not even worse, because of the schedule next year. when you're playing at Ole Miss, at Texas, at Tennessee.

I mean, we were seven and five. You think we'd go six and six? I don't think they would because they're there. Missouri's good. Missouri's preseason top ten. I know. But we don't play them, though, right? I actually think we don't play them next year.

Don't play Missouri next year? I don't think so. I think we replace them with like Old Miss or something. At Ole Miss for the second year in a row, back-to-back road trips to Ole Miss. Yeah, that's bogus. It's bogus. We have to play them back-to-back. Who's next?

Aaron. Aaron. Go ahead, Aaron. Aaron. All right, let's try Justin. Justin, go ahead, Justin. Yes, I have two things about the football. I think how good our season's going to be

mainly comes down to discipline because we were so undisciplined last year and also a couple of coaching things that need to be changed. But then my question is, are you going to have a segment with Freddie Magrard on? Because one of the things I look forward to is when he talks about the one player that everybody should look forward to.

And he also puts, he also puts my doubts to rest too. Yeah, we'll see. Everybody keep Freddie in your thoughts and prayers over this summer. I appreciate the call. What was his first question?

It said this one. Oh, sorry, I got distracted. I got a text message. Very funny one. I got a text message from Vince that is assuring me we have at least eight guys dressed. Okay.

All right. If you say, I believe you. I'm not going to counter. I mean, when you look out the players that are on this roster, there's a lot of NFL talent on this roster. If Vince tells me there's going to be eight drafted, then there's going to be eight drafted. Maybe 20.

Could be seven. Maybe just a side of a little. You want to look at Vince and say it's only seven? Nope. I sure don't. What about Dankees? You want to say? Dankee on that list, Ryan?

I think, you know, if we're, You're just spitballing. So I think they believe Barry and Brown, I mean, they don't have to believe it, looks like he's going to the top ten. Maxwell Harrison. Yes.

And Dionne Walker. I'm sorry. And then Barry and Brown, they believe those three guys have a chance to all be like top two rounds. Yeah. Then you throw in who else is on there. Probably Dane is one of them.

Who else? Do you throw Brock Bandergriff in the mix? I think. Well, is he going to be one or two years? I think they need to be pretty special. I mean, I think he's got a good shot. I did, too. Maxwell Harrison?

Yeah, I said him. Oh, you did too? Well. You got a couple of linemen, I think, maybe? If you're listening, Vince, you tell me which ones, because I'm not going to argue. Well, you know he's got at least three tight ends in the nine. So Caddus? Oh, Caddus.

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Three linemen, two safeties. And that's not crazy. No. It's not crazy at all. I'm going more than 10. Go double digits. 14. We'll take a break.

Be right back. KS.R. Welcome back. That's not a good on the podcast. It's going to sound great on podcast. Vince loves to Melton John. That's right. Derek Jackson?

Definitely. He's got to be in the mix. The kid that transferred from Georgia, the linebacker. His name is not Dumas Walker. It's Dumas Johnson. She trained him, the running back from Ohio State? Yeah. So maybe he's right.

Yeah. I'm taking him up on the eight. I, there'll be the greatest day in UK football history. No, don't say that. Explain to me, Drew, how Zach Eadie throws such a terrible first pitch. It's really amazing that most of our worst first pitches in history are star basketball players. It's got to be something. Were they so focused on basketball?

They never threw anything else. Somebody told me Zach Eadie pitched in high school. That can't be true. Oh, my goodness. I didn't know that. It can't be true. I just know the ball looked like a ping pong ball in our hands. I understand that.

But here's, I'm with Drew. Here's what I don't understand. How do these dudes, John Wall, Obama's a good athlete, Edy. How do these, I understand why Mariah Carey makes the pitch she makes. Okay, I get that. But how do these people who grew up being athletes not know how to throw a baseball? I'm not even asking for a strike. I'm asking not for something embarrassing.

Yeah, just get it. Get it there, not bouncing or throwing it way up. I don't get it either. And if you're telling me, Zach Edy used to be a pitcher in high school, that makes it even worse. Shannon, how can they not, I mean, like, if you put me out there, I'm not saying I'm going to throw it great. But I'm not going to do that. Like, how does that happen? Yeah, especially for somebody who used to pitch, that's hard to explain.

I mean, if he never played baseball, you know, you're used to dealing with a basketball, which is a lot bigger. I can see how it could be difficult. Even if you had never played. If you are an athlete, you know how to throw a ball. Right. Yeah. I don't care what sport it is. You throw it to your dog.

I mean, you know how to. I don't know. I guess. I understand he's 7-4. I get he's throwing a ping-pong ball to him. But if you ask me to throw a golf ball, all right, which maybe that's the equivalent. Yeah. I'm not going to do that.

No. That's why it's so crazy. Like, John Walls was horrible. I watched the video of Jack Golky throwing a football. It was just fresh after he had done what he did in Kentucky. I mean, it looked like he had never held a football in his life. It's like, how are you so good at shooting a basketball, but a football is so foreign to you? Which gets to the question. Did you hear about what Austin Rivers said?

I don't think I heard this. Austin Rivers said you could take 30 dudes from the NBA, and with a little training they could play in the NFL. But you could not take 30 dudes from the NFL. and they could play in the NBA. The NFL people lost their minds. Dan Orlovsky, like, wrote 100 people he said could play in the NBA. NFL people lost their minds. But I'm going to go ahead and say, and I think Austin Rivers is a goober.

But he's right. Football, while skill is a huge part of it, is something that the skill can be taught if you're very athletic. In basketball, if you can't shoot, or dribble, you can't shoot or dribble. So to me, it would be a lot easier to get the 30 best basketball players that the 30 guys that could play in the, you could find 30 guys in the NBA who could show up on a football field and they would do much better than 30 guys in the NFL

would do on a basketball court. See, that's where my mind went. You know, throwing the ball and catching the ball is one thing. But why, I put these talented athletic NBA guys on defense at cornerback. Or tight in. Tight-in. You don't think that's where it would work. Just put them at tight-in.

Antonio Gates. Think about how many dudes who've done that. Tony Gonzalez and Tonyo Gates. Put LeBron at tight-in, right? Put dudes like that at tight-in. Or get somebody really fast to be a receiver. I don't expect them to be able to understand, like, defensive schemes or offensive schemes. But to be able to play the positions that you just go and do it.

Whereas in basketball, none of these dudes are going to be able to shoot like those guys in the NBA. or ball handling. Yeah, I don't want to diminish a tight end to only running and catching the ball because there's a lot more to that. But for this exercise, you could take one of the best NBA players, say, stand here, here's the route you're going to run, and we're going to throw it high, they're going to be able to go catch that ball.

As opposed to you're giving a football player or basketball, saying take your man off the dribble. All these NFL dudes are offended, but they're wrong, aren't they? I think a lot of probably played basketball in high school and probably think they can still play at the NBA level. They can't. They can't. They can't.

I bet a lot of them are good basketball player, but not to play in the NBA. But not the NBA. NBA, that's a different world. I mean, also you're one of five on the court versus one of 11. You can blend in a little better, too, and just stick to the one thing you're supposed to do. Now, don't get me wrong, there are dudes in the NFL that are insanely athletic, like Justin Jefferson, or even a dude like Travis Kelsey that's a very, but the best athletes in the world are in the NBA. Yes. Right.

Like the things those dudes can do athletically. the NFL may have a handful of guys like that, but the NBA, the whole league's like that outside of a handful of people, right? There's a lot of NBA guys I would love to see play NFL and not so much back. Think of Anthony Edwards as a safety year,

really Anthony Edwards anywhere with his athleticism, and then, of course, the easy ones, they just have the tight ends. Let me give an example. DJ Burns at NC State. What did everybody say about him? He should go try out for the NFL. Yes.

Right? Did anybody go and say, hey, you know, Drake, May. You should go try out for the NBA. No. No. No. They, DJ Burns, they were like, you may have never played, but your body could make this work. I don't know if it could or not, but that's what people were saying. Nobody says that about a football player.

No. There were GMs calling about Chuck Hayes if he'd be interested in maybe trying football. You're right. Nobody called Rich Brooks in the football office, see if some guys wanted to try to play basketball. Who was the guy at Western that became like a lineman? I mean, there's a lot of guys become lineman. Noah Fant. George Fant. George Fant. There's a Jucco basketball player that played for my cousin that became an offensive lineman from basketball to become an offensive lineman.

Just recently, the guy that transferred from BYU or from whoever, Arizona, whatever, he transferred to Utah to play football. He was a basketball player, and he is switching sports in the middle of college to play football. That doesn't happen the other way. Zach Eadie was a high school pitcher. And he was that awful. Man, your muscle memory can't disappear that quick, can it, in four or five years? To be an actual pitcher and throw it like that, that's hard to explain. That's even worse.

Maybe he pregame too hard or something. I mean, he missed everything on that throw. I mean, Mariah Carey and the former mayor of Cincinnati. Those are the two worst ones of all time. Boba Bowie was a bad one. Baba Booie was bad. But Zach Edie's in the conversation. And the fact that he's in the conversation.

And the fact that he was a high school pitcher. Puts him on the list. That he might go to number one, right? How can it be that bad? Can you imagine getting up to pitch or hit in high school and there's a 7-foot-4 guy throwing a ball to you? No. That would be scary. We'll take a break.

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