KSR - 2024-05-15- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

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Every time I come to Hamburg, there's another five million things. I just looking over here, there's a hotel across the way. I didn't even know there was a hotel. It's called Avid, and it's right here next to Assured Partners in Hamburg. You can come out. A lot of stuff going on. They got food. The Lexington Sporting Club is here.

The new soccer team that will be based in Lexington and all the folks here. It's at Ryan, 859-280-2287 on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-724. This edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, you call T.J. I'll make them pay. Ryan, tell folks what assured partners is. Assure me what they are. Well, like, everybody needs auto, home, and life insurance. That's what they say. Assured partners will do the shopping for you.

They'll find you the best package, the best insurance plan, the best quote. They do all the work for you. It's like a good, like, it's like a person to take care of you having to do the research. I would call them a good partner. Okay, but that doesn't tell people what it is. You're trying to do an ad for them. And so you want to get insurance, they'll find you the best right, right, Drew? Of course.

That's why they're assured partners, not just any partners, and we're glad to be out here in the 09 in my neighborhood. I like that they throw... Is that the zip code? It is. I like when we have remotes in my backyard, so I'm a big fan of assured partners. You know, we don't do a ton of remotes out in Hamburg. We don't.

This is a part of town that we're not... I mean, there's a ton of stuff out here, but we're not out in this part a lot. Probably good for you, Shannon, right next to the interstate, for you to come from Louisville. Not bad at all. I know tomorrow's going to be a lot of fun, too. You guys get to come to Louisville finally for a remote. Go to the PGA championship for two days, looking to try to get into trouble at least one of those days. Hopefully we get through it.

Stay on the other side of the line. I saw what we're doing the show. There will be trouble to be had if we need it. We're in the media room. Nice. Like that area where everyone's interviewing Tiger. We're doing the show in there. I'm going to taught somebody.

Where's Scott Van Pelt? I'm going to taught him from afar. Yeah, we got our media guidelines, and it specifically says rule number one is you cannot go inside the ropes. Yep, right at the top. And it says, if you go inside the ropes, you will be kicked out, and your credential will be taken from you. So I feel like. Here's looking at you, Matt. I feel like that one may have been named at me when I saw it.

When you check in, you have to check these boxes. And I'm like, oh, there's three different things. We have to let them know all three are about staying on the other side of the ropes. That's how serious they are. So there was a time they would let you wear this vest and then you could get inside the room. I think those vests exist, but not for me. Not all media. Okay.

I think you definitely ruin the vest for everyone. Well, we will be out there tomorrow, but we are here in Lexington today. We're going to have a guest on the show, Nolan McCarthy, the UK baseball player. Nice. He is the guy who is the guy who. who started the row your boat. Okay, when they hit a double, they row the boat. He started that, and he also is one of the three people who will do the Spider-Man point.

That's my favorite. So when they hit the home run and they do the Spider-Man thing, he will do that. He's going to be on here with us to talk about this big baseball series coming up this weekend. Three games against Mandy. A lot of people don't realize it is Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So the first game is actually tomorrow night. They're unfortunately competing with my trivia, but otherwise they're doing Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Ryan, with a chance to outright win the SEC.

Yeah, I'm going to go Friday, and it's just a setup perfect where they can win the championship on their home field, have a great celebration to honor these guys for this great season they've had already. But Vandy's no slouch. I mean, Vandy, you know, they are kind of right. They need it for the tournament. So they, I mean, this is a big series for them as well. Vandy's no, I mean, it's interesting. It can go a lot of different ways for Kentucky.

They can come out of the weekend winning the SEC by themselves. There's also a world where based on the schedule, they could finish fourth if they were to lose all the games. So like this is a, they got to play this weekend. It's a huge weekend. But I like that every time we say Kentucky baseball has a huge weekend in front of them. They seem to do it. Outside of the VALs taking one in Lexington, I mean, they've stepped up in really every series. People wondered, can they beat Arkansas?

People wondered, can they win this one? Can they win at Florida? And they just keep winning games. So I'm hopeful and confident that it's a fun weekend for the cats. If you're like me, there's probably a lot of you that don't follow college baseball accounts online, Shannon. There's a guy, for those of you that, like, since we're going to be into Kentucky during this series, there's a guy named Kendall Rogers, and there's a website called D1 Baseball. That's where you can kind of get, that's the ESPN, I think, of college baseball.

And that guy has a podcast. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't listen to the podcast. But they put a clip up on Twitter, something like Mario does. Something every show in America did, we didn't until we hired Mario. We're a little behind. We're only like four years behind. But we finally did it, and they put a clip up.

And Kendall Rogers, the guy goes, you know, everybody keeps saying, well, just when does it fall apart? for Kentucky. And he goes, it's not going to. He was like, Ryan, if it was going to fall apart, it would have. This team's for real. And he said, this team can make it all the way. Yeah, they started the SEC season with a bunch of wins in a row. And like Drew said, but it was against the bad teams.

And I think people thought, well, they're not necessarily that good. Yeah, like Drew said, they kept thinking, you know, okay, they got this big series against Tennessee, big series against Arkansas, big series at Florida. They just keep winning the series. And that's what good teams do. They've only lost two series all year. Tennessee and Kennesaw State, I think, Drew, which is odd that those are the two teams. That's what flipped the switch when they got real hot after they're losing that one.

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to see you. Now, Ryan, yesterday we brought on Cody Figer to try to do the final push for the event, June 15th. Any of you all signed up for the event on June 15th, the Mark Pope and Meet the Players event? One guy. Well, you're going to be joined by a lot of other people. There's a fan. After they, Cody came on, they got over a million dollars. They did.

They're now at $1.1 million. for the Club Blue. Just so you know, I mean, remember, we made Shannon $40,000. Yes. With the law familiar. And I want people to understand that does not include the $4 million pledge before Pope hired, obviously.

It also doesn't include a number of major donations. This is just the people subscribing as the thing, 1.1 million. I think that will make us, if not the, biggest, the biggest or second biggest fan collective for basketball. And to give you just an example, in football, there's only like six that have more than that. So a tremendous accomplishment early on, drew from the UK fan base. That's amazing. Before the SEC tournament, they tried the NIL with a million dollar goal and didn't even get to 40 in the moment. So to just a couple months later,

have a million in addition to the big donors coming through. Now that the fans have answered the call, Although UK, that needs to be a recurring amount every year, but you have to give the fans a reason to want to say so sharp. Well, that's why I think the event's going to be so good. That event's going to be good, and to keep that going throughout the year will be big to make this sustainable. I was talking this morning, or excuse me, late last night with the people from Club Blue,

and they basically, they get that. I mean, I told, I was like, look, now whether or not you get those people to pledge that again is going to be based on how good this event is June 15th. And so they have an incentive, Shannon, to put on the best event they can. And I'm going to assume, If you're ever somebody out there that's listening that's like, do I ever get to meet players?

Do I ever get to meet the coach? This will be probably the best chance you'll ever have because they have a big incentive to put on a good one for people to do it. Here's your opportunity. I felt like we were behind in NIL for a while. Now that's back on track. You know, we were a little bit behind, kind of like our inability to have a streaming. No, we were behind. I don't think people realize.

I don't think. So first of all, let's go to football first. I think football's done a pretty good job of being, I mean, we're not at the top, but football is in a decent spot. The fan collective needs to have some more people, but they've had big donors. I think the football, if you're looking at where the programs are, our football collective is in a better spot than you would think based on where we are in football. Our basketball collectives, if people really want to be honest, which we might as well be honest now, was probably the worst of a big program in America.

The only one that might have been worse was Duke. But Duke's like they hadn't even really tried yet. We had not, I mean, Cal, I'm not going to say he didn't believe in it, but Cal's philosophy didn't require it in his mind. he could just sell the NBA. He just gave a speech at Arkansas that said that. Because of that, Ryan, when Pope got here, it had to basically be created from scratch. Yeah, Kentucky was so late to the party, getting started with the NIL.

And the last couple of years, we'd see other schools do something. We're like, why aren't we doing that? Why is it Kentucky doing that sort of thing? Well, now they finally are. They're trying to catch up a little bit. So I think you actually have to give them a lot of credit for creating from scratch, I mean, from scratch, something that now can be competitive and if not better than everybody else.

And to have a million this quickly, I mean, how many weeks ago was Pope and Rupp Arena? It feels like a year, but it's only been about a month. It's been four weeks, I think? Yeah, that's crazy. To have a million dollars from the fan base in addition to the big donors getting re-energized and put more than they had been in the last few years. It's crazy that the spot in UK's in. I think these events, too, will continue to grow after some fans see how other fans will be

a follow for people. Exactly. There's going to be a FOMO for people when the videos and stuff come out from that. Oh, man, I wish I was there. Wish I had done it, etc. Now, there's a lot of stuff I want to get to today, but I have to tell you selfishly, to me, the most interesting story is this. Doug Gottlieb. Okay.

I like everybody just laughs at his name. Doug Gottlieb, we've had a love-hate relationship with Doug Gottlieb over the years on this show. He's been on it a number of times. I've done podcast with him. I like him. I also find him unbelievably annoying, while also I do like him. But what he is doing,

to me, is one of the craziest things I've ever heard. He has been hired to be the coach at Green Bay, college basketball. But he is also, while he's going to be hired, going to host a daily national sports talk radio show on Fox Sports. radio. How? How's he going to do both of those? Not well. I can't, first of all, hiring Gottlieb is kind of insane. I mean, he's never coached, never at any level. He coached like he was an assistant coach on the Israeli junior national team like once. That's it.

That's all he's done. They give him a major program. Also, when he goes in, he says, Drew, but you got to let me host my radio show from two to five every afternoon. He's double-diffing. That's crazy. It was unbelievable. I guess I can kind of see Green Bay taking a chance for them. I think even his dad has coaching history there. He might be from the area.

But to let him keep an afternoon show, that seems impossible. There's going to be so much travel. I assume the team is going to practice at some point during the day. I mean, and, you know, doing a radio show, you've got a prep. It's not just the two hours you're on. It's what I'm saying. Okay, so during the NFL season, is he going to watch the games? Like, how in the world is he going to do all the stuff? And it also says to me, Shannon, if I'm Green Bay, like, he doesn't really, he's not all the way in.

Right. Like, he's trying to make sure that if it fails, he still has a gig when it's over, right? So let's say the team is traveling on game day, but then they've got to stop off in an Outback Steakhouse to do his radio show. Like we do, like, what do you have to do that? Does he have a remote? That he has to go do? What if Billy doesn't set up the equipment in time? This is going to be a nightmare.

Are they going to build a studio in Green Bay? I can't, but it is absolutely insane to me, right? The time constraints on coaches these days, college basketball, practice, recruiting, game preparation, and you're going to give up three hours of your afternoon and do a radio show. I just don't see how he got it live live live live live live live from the peach jam as he recruits players for Green Bay. Yeah. I mean, so, all right, does he last a year? No.

And which job ends? So Green Bay has had four coaches in the last six years. So, like, no, everybody has struggled there. Does he last a year? And if not, which job does he end? I would say his biggest paying job would probably be the radio show. That's why he's doing. I'm sure he makes more money from the radio than he will make it Greenback.

And I don't think Green Bay would find. fire him. They give him at least one season. So I would say he probably gets fired from the basketball job as the head coach before he gives up his radio show. Drew. I don't think he'll make it through the season doing both, but I can't see him leaving his team. Like, I love you guys. I really wanted us to succeed, but they really need me to talk about baseball on radio today. Someone brought up a scenario. Imagine the Packers are terrible, and he has to crush the Packers while being the head coach of Green Bay basketball.

That's true. With all the... And he also has to talk about the rest of college basketball while having a team in the competition. I agree. It's wild. What about you? But I'm going to lean that he sticks with basketball. I think he quickly realizes it is impossible

and he can't quit on the team. I look at it. He can always do radio next year, five years from now. This is his one chance to do coaching. So I think he'll give up the coaching and keep the radio because he knows he can do that the rest of his future. Wait, man, I don't understand. You said he gives backwards.

If he had to give up one of the other, I think he gives up basketball. he can continue to do. He said the opposite. Okay, so you gives up basketball so he has to do so he does. Well, I am fascinated by it. You know, when I was when I was contemplating the Senate run, I mean, I already knew on the off chance that I won, I was going to have to end this. I might have, I might have done like a podcast, but you, there's no way you could be a real senator. and also do a daily radio show. It just wouldn't work.

I don't know how he thinks that will work as a coach, especially three hours every day national. It's unbelievable to me he would try. 8.59-280-2287. We are here in Assured Partners in Lexington. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers while he got the ball, like, after you go through a training camp with that, IZAD, you figure it out real quick. Oh, yeah. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball.

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Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Rick's jamming. Is this a wrestling thing? I don't know. What is this, Rick? What is this, Rick? It sounds like wrestling entrance music.

Now, this is the official podcast bump. Oh, you're using. you don't have to do that. You don't have to do that, right? Yeah, you can just play regular music, Rick, and then it'll edit itself out, right? As long as you know how to run the board. You know what?

You do you, Rick. Just keep playing the part. Yeah, it's all right. So I get sued. Yeah, don't worry too much about it. It's all right. 859-280-2287. Assuredpartners.com

slash Lexington. You can get your quote. Or if you come out here today for the show, you can get it yourself. It'll be ready to, be ready to go. One person writes, Matt, I would love to listen to him after they lose. He'll complain about referees and get fined. Probably. I was just saying, you know, he's on afternoon drive, which is the, a lot of people don't realize for a national show, afternoon drive is

the worst thing you can be on sports radio because you get preempted in every city for their local show. Right. Right. But still, it's just amazing. Maybe, maybe, you know, there are some radio host that maybe it'll take two months off. Maybe he'll just take two months off during basketball season. Who's his, Ryan? Just a thought. You think he's got the Matt Jones vacation. Maybe. Maybe just...

Do you have something you would like to say? No. It was just a thought I am. Is there something you would like to say? No. No, I just thought maybe he's got the same deal other radio hosts have. They could just take two months off. All right, first of all. Are you coaching Little League Baseball?

this summer is that what you're doing there's some underlying fillings i think that you have here right should we step away and let them talk this show and i are going to leave turn our back you guys i want to get away from you too i are gone see first of all i just i i don't want to talk taking days off josiah has a camp in in st peter's this week very true um no i you look you're going to do an amazing job this is more like letting you flourish and letting the flower grow for you and Ryan or you and Drew and Shannon. Yeah, right. He's doing you a favor.

Right. He wants our garden. Let us run the show for two months when there's nothing going on in summer. I think Shannon, I think you get it. Yeah. It is a favor. Yes, thank you for taking two months off. You are.

Drew Bletsoe, Tom Brady. You are. That's right. Speaking of that, did you see, did you see that Tom, can we shut those doors just a second if they're going to hold it forward out there? This is a very busy place. Yes, it is. Tom Brady, you know, they had that roast.

And Tom Brady said, did you see this interview yesterday? So if you didn't watch the roast, it was really dirty. But it was also really mean, which is what rose are. But Tom Brady, when you're trying to figure out what do you make fun of with like the best football player ever and the best looking player ever, they made fun of the fact that his wife left it, right? I mean, that was basically a big part of it. And Tom Brady said yesterday that he wished he hadn't done the roast, that he regrets it because he didn't know they were going to make fun of things that could make his kids upset.

Basically, he didn't realize they'd make fun of he and his mom, he and the kid's mom separated. And, Shannon, I have the look you do. Yeah. Which is, what did you think it was going to be? Have you never seen a roast, Tom Brady? again, like, what did you think they were going to focus on? Of course they were going to focus on that.

Yeah. What else you, he's not weird looking. Yeah. He's really, he won everything. Oh, Tom, you won all those Super Bowels. We can't say that, you know. You got to get some zingers on them. Yeah, I mean, like, I actually, I thought, I remember thinking, well, I don't think I would do that. Like, the one we did, I knew you all would give me a hard time, but you wouldn't be me.

Right. I remember reading about. Chevy Chase many years ago. Everybody knows who Chevy Chases. They did a roast of him on Comedy Central. And he thought all of his friends were going to show up and give him a hard time. And all of his friends canceled. And so they brought those comics like Anthony Jezzelnick in and they just destroyed him. And there's this story in GQ, which is actually really sad about how when it was over, he just went to his room and cried because it hurt his feelings too much. So I remember thinking, well, it's kind of cool that Tom Brady did that. But now I'm like, dude, of course. You should have thought about your kids before you did it, right?

I don't believe him. I have a different theory. I had this theory the moment I got done watching that four-hour roast. I think he had the roast so people would talk about his wife for four hours to millions of people, things he can't say. And his wife? I think he was sitting there loving every minute his wife was mentioned. So you think when he says, I wish they hadn't done it because of my 14. He's covering his bases now.

So I watched the roast. He was loving everything happening. And I have the theory that, no, I have the theory that that's the most watched thing on Netflix in a long time. He just got free publicity of call my wife everything under the sun because she cheated on me. You have kids. Yes. Would you do that? I would not do it.

No. I do feel bad for him. If the kids got upset about some things, I do feel better of that. But he agreed to do it. Like we all said, he knew that was coming. If you were off of the money he got, you would do it. See, I just think it's like. Yeah.

Because he did it. Yep. If I'm those comics, I assume he's okay with it if you do it. Yeah. And then he comes out and says, well, I kind of wish they hadn't said that stuff because of my kids. He's deflecting the blame in some ways on the comics. It is his fault. That's right.

He, and if I'm his ex-wife, I'd be upset, too. She didn't get any money for it. And she had to sit there and take it. So I actually think, whereas I thought Tom was cool for doing it, I now actually think he's really lame if that's going to be his reaction. We'll take a break and be right back. We're here to Shire Partners, KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise. Breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines.

We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves. Their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down,

give you context and ask the questions everybody wants answered. Sports Slice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to Sports Slice on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slices Life 12 and the TikTok podcast network on TikTok.

What's up, fam, it's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast, Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows, without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs.

I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too.

Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He run running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball, like, after you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you going to get the ball. So listen to

Point game on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. It's Ryder Strong and Will Ferdell from PodMeets World. And now the PodMeets Twirled podcast. We're two men who were completely clueless to reality TV, who now have covered Dancing with the Stars, traitors, and we're gearing up for the season finale of Survivor. So yeah, now we're experts. I know we annoyed a lot of our listeners by our severe lack of survivor knowledge.

That is the point of the show. I'm just going to remind you. I have watched some Survivor. I obviously haven't watched enough. Did people not like it? Yeah. Just because we... Yeah.

We'll be recapping the big conclusion at the 50th season from the final attempts at gameplay to the desperate pleas of finalists to a bunch of ha, who. Ah, ha, ooh. Again, we are experts.

So make sure to tune to Pod Meets Twirled for all our Survivor 50 takes. Listen to Pod Meets Twirled on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Are we good, Rick? Are you going to, you want me to go?

Yeah, go right again. You got to hit the TJ bumper. There you go. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. You know, Rick, Rick, you know, you operate on your own time, though, right, Rick? I'm a little rusty on this, man. I understand. You'll get to it when he gets to it, Cheney.

Do you think that Gottlieb has these issues? She's on his radio show. I don't know. I'm not sure if he does or not. All right. Before we go, the phones, 859, 280, 2287. A couple open lines to give us a shout.

Let's start with this. Chas Lanier, I believe, landed last night at 11 o'clock at L.EX airport, at least according to a source on the KSR text machine, who said, I'm standing at baggage claim with Chaz Lanier. The kid from fairly difficult. Dickinson. What was his? Almanor. Almanor was here yesterday. Cody Figer said he thought we would add two more players and then wait. A lot of people think the Fairleigh Dickinson kid is very likely to come. If they

get Chas Lanier, do you think that means no Jackson Robinson? I mean, you know, there's been some scuttle butt that maybe Kansas has gotten involved. You know, I still feel like they need a star. Maybe Chas Lanier can be that. What's your take on? I felt like when Coach Figuero, was saying yesterday they're going to hold that one scholarship open i felt like i was just saying hey look jackson this is your scholarship we're going to hold it for you and just wait because we want you so you think the hold is for him that's that's how i took it that was just my opinion okay what do you think i kind of read it that way too i'm a little conflicted because lanier seems to be down to kentucky and tennessee and it's a pretty close fight 53 407 kentucky which is a very specific

precise. So I almost, I mean, I won him because he's good, but also if we get him, Tennessee doesn't get him, and I don't think they have a backup plan. So I wouldn't mind seeing that. I think Almanor, I think we end up with him as a bench role player, maybe even an eighth or ninth guy, even though he had a lot of production at Fairley Dickinson. But the Lanier-Robins thing's interesting, because I don't know how both work, but, you know, it seems like if Robinson doesn't stay in the NBA, I like UK's chances. Yeah, by the way, if they get Almanor, people should understand that's a backup like they're bringing him in as a backup sometimes when we get players people go well i don't know if he's good enough to start or kentucky i mean there's 13 guys they can't all start chanan there's going to be a lot of dudes that are on the bench i think he's a bench guy

but chas leneer is coming here to be a starter he will be a starter and i do kind of wonder if you get him does that what that means about jackson roe so how many spots do we have left if you get leneer does that leave one or two Two, because there's also. It depends on if you get the Almanor. There's also Wuga Poplar, who he visited as well. I don't know from Miami. We have three open spots right now. So you've got three open spots.

But I just thought it was interesting. Figures said they're holding one. I mean, when is the deadline to decide to come back to college? It's at the end of May. I don't know the exact date. So that's two weeks away. Remember, he said we're going to add two in the next couple of weeks and then hold one until the end.

That's why I don't really think he's talking. talking about Jackson Robinson because they're going to know about him in two weeks, it seems like, to me. I think if he wants to come, though, you've got to find a way to get that kid on the roster. Well, he be the best player on the team. Yeah, no doubt. Yep.

I actually think there's a decent argument that Chas Lanier, if he comes, will be the best player. Maybe the best, yep. So, you know, I think we're about, we're probably trying to figure out who we're going to sign that's going to be our leading score next year. At least that's probably what they're hoping. Lanier wants to go to the NBA now, but they're kind of like, you need to prove it at the next level. So he kind of wants to do one year of showing out and then going the NBA next season,

and you wouldn't think he'd commit to Kentucky without having a good idea of how many minutes he'd get. No, I mean, he won't come here unless he's starting because Tennessee wants him to start. So I think that's probably clue. Who's up next? Got Drew up next. Drew, go ahead, Drew. Hey, good morning, guys. And if you've already mentioned this in the past, I'm sorry.

but the Spurs have the fourth pick, of course. Did you guys know that Coach Robic went on there? Their staff, he's a scout for the Spurs. Who is? Who is a neat little Kentucky connection. Yep, yep. Coach Robic. Who?

Robic. Did you know that? He's done some scouting. I don't think he's like in the San Antonio buildings, but, you know, he's done some scouting for them. So he's not an official scout? Not to my knowledge, but he's popped up at games as representing the Spurs. But I don't know.

They might, you know, bring people in to do that occasionally when they're local. I have no idea, but I don't think he's in the Spurs building. I was listening to Bill Simmons and Rusillo talking about the draft, and they said it's widely known the Spurs are going to take a point guard, and the two point guards at the top of the draft are Shepard and Rob. So I think there's a good chance. You're going to get one of those two guys on San Antonio. I'm not sure which one it will be.

Probably depends, and I appreciate the call, whether or not the Rockets at number three want one of them, because the top two guys are probably going to be the two foreign guys. So that's exciting to me. I have to tell you, I mean, Wimby has a chance to be like, I mean, I'm not saying he'll be this, but like that bird, magic, Jordan, LeBron, that sort of thing, Wimby's got a chance to be the next one.

And seeing one of those guys get to ride that train, a. Scotty Pippen or James Worthy. or Kevin McHale. And like, you got a chance to be on that. That's pretty exciting. Yeah, you know, and Kelden Johnson's already there. He's kind of developed into a good starter for the Spurs. So, yeah, I think there'll be a lot of people up here will really enjoy watching that team in the years ahead.

Even though we lost, where do you think Reed and Rob are going to end up ranking on favorite UK players of Baltimore? Like, if we were to do a poll right now of the favorite UK players of the Cal Air, Who's coming in number one? I'd say the choices are Wall, Davis, Bounds, Ulyss, Oscar. I don't think Oscar would make that list. Are Reed and Rob in that group? Are they in a group below that? Where are they?

It's interesting. I think Wall would probably be number one. There's a lot of guys who don't, there's a lot of people who are now, 18 to 25 who barely remember him playing. You got to remember. But go ahead. I feel like Reed Shepard just began from Kentucky and being as great as he was. I feel like he is probably on the bottom of that first tier.

So let's do this. Yeah. I will take another call. I want you to think in your mind. I want you to guess because we'll never really know. But if the fan base were to look back at the Cal Air and rank 1 to 5, not your personal thoughts, but what do you think the fan base would do? one through five in ranking Cal-era players.

Think about that. Let's take a call, and then we'll take a break and see what you get. Who's up next? Kevin is up next. Kevin, go ahead, Kevin. Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call. So, you know, like in Midnight Madness, fast forward to the next Midnight Madness.

There's always that one guy that gets the loudest, you know, applause from the fans. But, you know, in previous years, it's always been a returning player like Reeves are the best freshmen coming in. So who do you think that guy is going to be this year since we don't really – That's a great question. Travis Perry. Yeah, minus Travis – or I'm sorry, minus the – I'm having a brain – a senior moment here.

Noah. The Travis – Travis Perry. Travis Perry. Yes, Travis Perry. Yeah. I appreciate the call. I think it'll be – first of all, most of our fans are not really going to know

any of these guys. I mean, like, those of you that listen to this show have heard all these names. But let me put it like this. If I were to poll the people in this audience and I were to say, tell me the 10 guys coming to Kentucky. I'm not sure how many of you all could name all 10. There's probably only a handful of you that could name all 10. Would you agree with that?

I'm sure there are some, but I bet you most people could not name all 10. I'm trying to name them in my head right now. Well, that's a good question. Let's do it with you. Okay. Give me the 10 players currently signed to come to conduct. Travis Perry. One.

Trent and Noah. Two. Lamont Barnes. Three. Hold on. Wait on. I got the name first. Name right.

His name not Lamont Barnes. Lamont Barnes was good, but he played at Hoptown in Tennessee. I hope he's not playing for us next year. Probably a little old. What's his name? Lamont Butler. So you got two and a half. Otegatron.

Otega, U-Way. O-Way. No. He's got three of four. I'm giving you credit for half of a name for each of him. 3.75. The other freshman, Colin Chandler. He was just here.

Just visited. Andrew Carr. Okay. Four more. Amari Williams. Three more. Hmm. I'm drawing a blank right now.

So this man literally hosts. the radio show. Yeah. I mean, and I'm actually not mocking you on this. Yeah, kind of. But I do think to answer his question, I don't think, Drew, people really know the roster. Yeah.

And so I think Travis Perry and Trit Noah will get the loudest because of that. Yeah, and I think it's all right if the casual fan doesn't know the roster. Just a couple weeks ago, they added six players in six days. A lot of them, we hadn't really heard their name much. So it's going to take a lot of learning this summer to get to know everyone, because it's almost like we just got dumped a bunch of players out of the portal at once and tried to process it all on the fly. Brea.

Yep. Kobe Brea. Yesterday the assistant coach talked about. Yeah, go ahead. I was just giving a little hint. Oh, I went listening to your hand. I was trying to think who did it. Were you listening to the assistant coach yesterday?

I'm missing a big guy. There's three big guys. Andrew Carr, Amari Williams. We're about the guy that talks all the trash. Oh, Kursk, Kursa. Chris Kersa. Not close. Kirkclisa.

Yeah. We have a lot of fractions of players. And then Brandon Garrison. branding. Yeah, I would have had to struggle with that. So, I mean, it will be interesting because we always during the Cal era had to learn new players, but this is a whole other thing. This is like, you've got to learn the whole roster. It's a clean slate learning the assistant coaches and all the players.

But, yeah, I mean, it's probably a good situation for Pope to come in and not inherit those guys and be able to start and build it from the ground up with the players that he thinks fits best in his program. Club Blue NIL made a million dollars. Now ready to go. You can still be part of it. Maybe if you subscribe today, maybe you can write them an email. and beg to get to come to the event. I don't know. I'm not sure, but I can't guarantee it, but I do know you get a chance to have me, they're going to have events quarterly throughout the year. You can help get players. You can help the UK basketball program.

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And you can guess 772-745254. Again, I don't want you to write what you think, but what do you think of fans will say? Here, I'm going to go first, and then I'll go Ryan and we'll finish with you, Shanna. I'm going to go Wall 1. I feel pretty confident about that. I'm going to say ULIS 2, and him being on the coaching staff is part of why he gets all the way to 2. I think he's been with us more. I'm going to say part of it would be recency bias, but Reed would be three, being from Kentucky and recency bias.

Then I think it gets really hard. You could put a lot of people, but I think if you're just talking about who fans love, Boogie Fans adore DeMarcus cousins And then Fifth

I'm going to say Anthony Davis because he won us a title I don't think I don't think like fans see him as lovable as some of these other guys But he won us a title

And it's probably the best player Along with Dan Estill to ever play here So you have to I think have to put him there So that's mine Although I would acknowledge Two through Five could go a lot of different ways.

What about you? I'm very similar to you. I think John Wall is number one. And again, I'm saying it on just the fan love of the player. Wall number one, and Ulyss is number two. I mean, he is my favorite player at the Calera, and people loved him when he was here. Three, I'm going to go Anthony Davis.

I mean, we had a poster of the guy. It's one of the most famous posters in the history of UK basketball. Four, I'm going to go Oscar. Even though Oscar, after year one, may have put him up the list a little bit more, but I think Oscar is still, Number four, and then five, I'm putting Reed Shepherd on that list, number five. So not putting to Marcus.

Nope. Okay, what about you? I have John Wall, number one, Tyler Ulyss, number two, Anthony Davis, and third. Because like Ryan said, that poster, remember there was a billboard, New Orleans. The poster's a great call. I forgot about the poster. That's a really good call. The fear of the brow thing, that was huge.

That was a phenomenon that year, in addition to winning the title. And then I go Shepard and then Cousin's. So I have Shepard fourth, Cousins fifth. So you have my exact same five. I had Davis higher than you, I think. Yeah, but we have the same five. Say five people. You have Oscar instead of boogie.

What about you? I'm going reverse order. So number five, I'm going Reed Shepard. Kentucky guy. Had a great season. Unfortunately, didn't end the way that we all hoped in March. Number four, I think you got to put Oscar Sheeboy on there. I think we forget how beloved he was when he was getting 30 rebounds in some games.

And everybody just loved his post-game interviews that he would do. UlyS. is number three for me. but we've got to remember Ulyss just joined Cal in Arkansas, so I wonder if fans will maybe change. Maybe so. Number two, I think, is Anthony Davis, and the number one, no question for me, is John Wall. So we all have the same six.

Yes. And Oscar probably would have been number six for me. Yeah. All right, so then, since that's, let's say that's the group of six. Okay. So then who's the other four? I had Kat and Carl.

I would say then you would go Carl. I had Carl, then Oscar. So I would say then in my other four, if I think we're to ask the average fan, Carl, Booker, even though a lot of it's what he did after, Rob. I don't think, I mean, we can't underestimate how much young fans love that guy. Love Rob Dillingham. And then. Tyler Hero? I would, can I throw a suggestion in about Willie?

He's a good one. Well, it's a good rank, too. I actually ranked a whole 10. I had Monk and MKG to round it out. MKG is a good one. I had him at 8. MKG is a really, really good one. MKG, he would be one in my top 10.

You mentioned during the break Brandon Knight, he probably doesn't get enough credit as he probably deserves. The two guys who will never be ranked as high on the list as they should are Brandon Knight, who took us to our first final four in 13 years, and the twins. Yeah. I mean, the twins, the twins went to a chance. championship game and were the lead guards on a 38 and one team. And normally that would lead you to icon.

And the shots Aaron hit. There won't be a better postseason run by one person. Never. They'll never be somebody to hit the shots Aaron Harrison did during that. And they kind of should be icons. And I think everybody likes them. But it's just not, it's a shame because I love those guys and I feel like they don't get enough credit. I think Randall gets forgotten when people play this game too.

No doubt. No doubt. Yes. I mean, he was with the twins. had the one year, but I mean, he had some insane stats, even when they were losing some of those games in the regular season. Who? Shea. Although I think a lot of that happened after. I'll tell you another one, that if you're just talking about how popular they were when they were here, nobody's mentioned jorts. Yeah. Yeah. I cut my own jeans off with me in Madison Square Garden before the game to be a part of the jorts. I mean, when he was here. Yes. It didn't last forever like it has with some of these guys. But when he was here.

here, Jorts was a phenomenon. If we're going to be honest and just do during UK career, he's on the list and Booker's not. She's not. No doubt. No doubt. While they're here, no doubt. If we changed it to how popular they were while they were here, Wall's still number one. But Jorts is higher.

Yes. Boogie's higher. Yes. Right. Oscars higher. Yep. I think that's because it was, you're right. When Jorts was here, it was crazy what that was like. And part of it was just, it was so unexpected. It was denim shorts.

I mean, when he was here with Billy, it was like, well, this guy ever play? It almost just kicked off the team. And then suddenly he's the starting big man beating Jared Soliger in the elite eight. It kind of came out of nowhere. That's what he made it so fun. When he threw that ball, the other thing you have to remember about Jorts is the Louisville game.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, we went in there and beat them at Louisville in a game that we didn't think we were going to win, and it was Ryan in large part because of how he played. That's kind of his coming out party, wasn't? He had this monster game hitting threes, making good plays for Kentucky. Another guy that I think was really beloved while he was here, and also while he was gone, probably not top 10, but right under is quickly.

Yeah. People loved quickly the way, you know, his personality, the way he played. His family was always around. Probably the most popular family we've ever had. They were a lot of fun. He was very open about his faith, and so he talked a lot about it and his bomb. So what? Fox, to me,

Fox oddly should have been more popular, but I think Monk was the people sort of stole the show there. He was the flashy one. He was kind of the flasher one until the NCAA tournament when Fox went. Yeah, became Lonzo's dad. Had a lot of great players. That's the thing you're going to miss the most about the- Brad Calabary. He's up there.

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