KSR - 2024-05-22- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: May 22, 2024

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80s, early, low 90s from now on, right? Yeah, but just the rain like the next four days. Is it? Yeah. Bummer. You really follow the weather reports, don't you? Are you, there's an age where people look at the weather every single day. Yeah. I'm not at that age yet. Are you? I'm there when I'd like to be outside, you know, hang out by the pool. Last night I sat out and watch the Pacers and then, and the... So do you just go out home and just sit out by the pools by yourself? I did last night. Yeah.

Are we talking like shirt off? No, I had a shirt on. Okay. Yeah. It was just me sitting out there watching the Pacers and the something. Is your yard fenced in? Yes. So you could just go out there however you wanted, right?

Like, it's your world. And I have. I will say you can still see into his area from some place. Yes. but you know if it's dark. There you go. Well, it's good. I'm glad to hear that.

859-280-2287. I want to talk just a second about it. We talked yesterday and then we went, by the way, congrats to the Darren and his friends yesterday. I thought they did a good job. They did. And winning the contest, I thought they did an excellent job. Much better than I would have thought.

No offense to them, just because it's just a hard gig. I thought they did well. I thought you guys, I thought it went really well. I'm with you. went a lot better than I thought it was going to, and it gives me confidence. Now if we do it again, we still have some success. The next person will probably be terrible. But we do.

Don't press your luck with it. Let's don't press our luck. Those guys were smart. When he told me he was graduating from pharmacy school, I knew he had to be smart. Yes. Right? So like smart helps a lot. So I, but so that was good.

But we had been talking and so we had to stop about this settlement on this case. And I understand that it's not the most. exciting, fun radio in the world to talk about the settlement of a lawsuit. But I read a lot about it yesterday because two of the four, so all the small schools have agreed to the settlement. Now the ACC and the Big 12 have as well. So the only two left are the SEC and the Big Ten, which, by the way, are the two that have to do it.

Like, they're the ones that ultimately like the other 29 conferences or 30 can be cool with it, but if the SEC and the Big Ten are not cool with it, it ain't happening. So the big part's still to come. But I was reading more about the ramifications, and if anything, I have to say, I may have even undersold it in the sense of, so the way this is going, is there going to be two point, I said two billion, now the number is $2.8 billion. $2.8 billion for former athletes. So former athletes. Now, I don't know what sports it is. I don't know if it's just football and basketball, if it includes baseball. I'm sure it'll include women's basketball because I don't know how they could do it otherwise, but does it include like tennis and swimming? I don't know. But it is going

to certainly include football, and I would assume certainly include women's basketball. 2.8 billion to be distributed. So think about that logistical nightmare. How in the world do you pay that out, but somebody's going to have to figure it out. Yes. Right? But then $20 to $22 million a year set aside by each school. And what is that money for? Well, part of that money will be to pay to the NCAA to pay back that $2.8 billion in whatever.

And then part of it is for athletes. And basically, they're probably going to set a cap, of, let's say, $30 million, but teams will have to pay, let's say, 12, and schools can decide what they want to pay in between that based on their decisions. Now, a lot of that's in the weeds, but here's where I think you're going to see it the most. I think you're going to see sports, a couple of sports are going to be cut. It's just going to happen. I don't, I mean, I don't think there's going to be any way around it.

also these coaches salaries are going down like they just are there isn't going to be no way that these schools will be able to pay what they are paying for football and basketball coaches in perpetuate and even if they don't go down they ain't going to keep rising like you know how we said this was the year to be in the portal this was probably the year to go get hired as a head coach or to get your contract extended yeah right but i think the other thing is all of a sudden a skill that is a very important skill in pro sports, but has really not mattered a lot in college, is going to now be hugely important, which is the GM of the school, which is essentially the athletic director. But now budgets, it used to be that these schools, kind of whatever they

needed to pay they had, or at least they had access to, I just don't think that's going to be true anymore. And so now these schools are going to have to make choices that are going to decide the competitiveness of their programs or not. As I had one person involved in athletics for a smaller school tell me,

I don't care if you're Ohio state, Texas, or whatever, you ain't going to be able to be good at everything anymore. So you're just going to have to decide what you want to be good at. Because you ain't going to be good at everything anymore. The days that like Texas, and Texas is the main example, but Ohio State, Mitch,

pick the school. We're going to be good at every sport. You just ain't going to be able to do that anymore. So the schools are going to have to decide what sports are important to us. And they're probably all going to choose football. And they'll probably most of them choose basketball. But after that, you probably got to look at one of the secondary in sports and go, all right, well, we're going to be tennis. We're going to be volleyball. And like, you can, you because you're not going to be able to be good, Drew, and everything from now on. And with what they're talking about, maybe $20 million a year for some of these schools, I worry how much will trickle down to fans, too.

Will we see ticket increases? Will they be trying to get more money from fans to make up for all this? But there's not that much more money I think you can get. I mean, we see this here at UK basketball. Until this year, those, like, there were big chunks of empty sections at UK basketball. Imagine what it's like at these other schools. You can't, I mean, Alabama had some football games that weren't full. That's true.

Right? Alabama had football games that were not full. You can't, I mean, you can't keep going forever. Do you see a situation where, like, some schools I'm just going to use Eastern this as an example, where, you know, it costs so much to run a football program, getting rid of even something like football? Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying Eastern, but there will be schools that will do that. In, what is this, 20, 24 end of May, in 2026 end of May, this will be a completely different college sports universe.

Now, here's the good news. A lot of it sounds like gloom and do. The last few months have felt like the Wild West of college sports, right? Like Tyson Chicken's going to give four million Jerry with Jones and all this stuff and like it seems out of control. What this settlement will do is it's going to allow rules to be put in place. And so while I think these next two years are going to be bumpy, college sports from 2026 on, I think has a chance to be stable. But it's going to look completely different than it looks now. And I don't think people really are ready for what's about to happen. Wow.

And I think some of the hardest choices are coming this summer, where some of these big schools are going to have to this summer. make decisions as to what they're going to do with programs. So you said like the SEC and the Big Ten, they will decide as a conference or is it up to each individual school? They decide as a conference. Okay. And then real quick, we're talking about what athletes do. Okay, so let's say you're a high school athlete.

A lot of people listening will have kids who will be high school or who have a chance to be a college athlete. A college athlete will come to a school and they are as part of the lawsuit automatically part of this class, right? So if Drew decides to play basketball at Kentucky, if he does nothing, he is part of this class and he will get an amount of money. What that amount of money is will be set by UK. UK will decide out of the $20 million that are going to athletes, how much is going to basketball players and how much is going to football players? And guess what?

Schools are going to show their priorities by what they choose there, right? Yeah. That's going to be interesting. There are going to be some basketball coaches who think the football team's getting too much, and there are going to be some football coaches who think the basketball team is going to be much, and there's going to be aceball coaches going, we ain't getting anything. But when you sign up for a school, you're going to be part of that class, unless an athlete will have the ability to opt out and negotiate their own thing.

And my assumption is a lot of great ones will do that, right? A lot of great ones will do that, which adds a whole other piece to it. But college sports has always been a business, but the business side of it is about to be a lot more prominent than it used to be. And I just don't know that people, Ryan, are realizing that. And we're two conferences away from agreeing to this. The SEC and the Big Ten are the last two. And the reports are the SEC is deciding today and the Big Ten is deciding tomorrow. And you think they'll both agree to it?

I think they don't have a choice. Yeah. They don't have a choice. There's no other system. unless they want to spend the next decade getting hauled to court and losing, because I get a lot of people that write me, like we put this up yesterday, and a lot of people write me and go, Matt, why don't they throw out and burr-b-ber-bur-but, like, when the Supreme Court rules 9-0, folks, it's over.

There ain't nobody else to go to when Justice Alito, who's flying an upside-down flag, and when Sotomayor, who is marching in the Black Lives Matter protests, when the two of them agree, you're done. Like, you're done. So you just now have to accept the new world. What is Mark Emmert doing after he had 15 years of sitting on a golden toilet up there in Indianapolis and just rolling in money? He got to sneak out of this right as he got messy. Where is he doing this?

Every college basketball fan will owe if we come through this successful. Everybody will owe Charlie Baker, the new president, a lot of sport. just to give you an example of him. When they hired him to be the new president of the NCAA, I thought, man, that's got to be a great move. He was a Republican governor of Massachusetts who had 85% approval in the most democratic state in America. That said to me, that dude must be pretty good at what he does, right?

For a state that wants to disagree with him, for everyone to agree with him, the NCAA hired him, and from what I can tell, he seems to be doing a very good job, Ryan, of now. navigating so far. That's tough situation we put in, but yeah, I guess we put a lot of trust in his leadership. Well, they don't really have a choice. And I actually think Mitch Barnhart, by the way, because Mitch Barnhart is the longest tenured AD in the SEC,

I think a lot of the, you know, let's be real. The SEC and the Big Ten were huge in crafting this settlement. I actually think Mitch Barnhart had a lot to do with it. Probably so. Because he is the dean kind of the SEC ADs. Who's next? Jeff. Jeff, go ahead, Jeff.

Hey, man. Hey, guys. How are you guys doing? Doing good. Not to change the subject on you, but since you brought up your disregard and dislike of dogs, I thought I would bring up that puppy mill thing in Lexington again. They're voting on that. The council is voting on that next month.

Okay. And it's really not designed to keep people from selling dogs, like from neighbor to neighbor. It's really just to keep those pet stores from selling these puppy mill dogs. But it also will have the. of saying you can't sell it from neighbor to neighbor, right? I think it was worried a little bit. That may not be what it's designed for, but it may have that effect. It could maybe to a small effect, yeah.

I think it kind of people report that. But if those pet stores would just kind of partner with the humane societies, the rescues, and so those dogs, there really wouldn't be any problem. Gotcha. All right. Well, thank you. I appreciate the goal. It's clear that's going to be quite a council meeting.

Maybe we'll send Mario to go to go. to the dog council meeting, because that's going to be quite a thing, I think. I just saw a sign today. The Humane Society is at full capacity. They need some help. If you're looking about adopting a dog, go out there. They need some help right now. Perfect.

Good stuff. We'll take a break. Be right back. 859-2-80-22-87. Kentucky's losing 2-0 and not gone well so far them early. We'll take a break. Be right back. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Sliced Life 12 and the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. What's up, guys? This is Clivert Taylor the 4th. And on my podcast, The Cliverts Show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee.

We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker walks up to me, he goes, A ref, ref, my mom wants you. to wave at her. What? Time out. Quarterback on office blue with 42. Hey, Wreck, my mama

want you to wave at her. What? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clippers show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. 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. and 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 to fly. He 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're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You're exactly right, Drew. This is totally the dogs in that commercial. Yep.

you know i want to donate right now reach it in my pocket you see their sad little faces yeah yeah it's like all right you want to have a dime are there still places shannon speaking of domes where i can turn coins into money uh yeah i think there's like machines that you can dump but they still exist they still have meant like croaker because i win stars you know now i don't have any coins but i still have a huge jar of them that i thought i was going to save to one day to take a vacation on. But now they're just in the way. And so I think I'm going to go turn them in.

You have to pay like a crazy rate, though, to do it at the thing, don't you? You may end up with a lot of money. It'll be your spending money to go on your trip. Some banks will still do that for you and not charge. But you have to roll it most banks, don't you? They make you bring it. I think they make you bring it in. They don't?

My bank doesn't. You can just take it in like a big sack. You have to separate the coins. You don't even have to do that? So if I just walk in with my big pot of quarters, they'll let me all right yeah they got a separator there hey uh to my bank out there sorry they told me to do it so when i walk in there in the next couple days it's not my fault $26 coming your way what is this jar you have i'm curious now what it looks like it's like a big old pickle jar i don't

know about you like i don't use cash anymore yeah i mean i i i rarely use cash and so everything's a card so i don't ever have coins but i used to have a big like so you're going to make fun of me about this like i don't you know i don't i don't cook that's shocking so i have like a big pot that you would use for cooking but it's just filled with coin some use out of that utensil i i mean no i mean there's coins that have been there for probably probably 15 years so i'm not going to ever use that pot because i feel like stuff might have i don't know there's probably probably not good but i have a like

Yeah, like that you could put like a turkey in. Yeah. Full of coin. Full of coins. You're going to haul that to the bank. It's probably heavy. I guarantee it's heavy. They're probably going to call the police immediately when they see somebody walking in with a pot full of coins.

Do you think they'll think it's weird if I walk in with a pot full of coins? I mean, put them in at least. So what would you put them in? Anything. A baggie or any, yeah. Listen, you've got to take, you're going to take Mario that. He's got to go with you and record you. Mario, will you go with me to the bank with my pot full of course?

coins. Okay. Because after you drop the coins and they're separating them, then you're just the guy standing at the bank with an empty pot. And I think that's, that's. I'll give them the pot. They can have the pot. Thank you for their troubles.

They can have the pot. I find the pot. Yeah. All right. 859-280, 2027. Sheffler. He, uh, the, the video went everywhere yesterday. So the whole nation was commenting on our, our district or county attorney, excuse me, in

Louisville and then Romans. You get on TikTok? I don't know how many of you are on the TikTok, but you get on TikTok, Romance is everywhere. And, like, people in the comments section stand in him. Like the accent. Yeah, they're all like, I want him to be my lawyer. Can he, like, for Romance, this is the best thing that's ever happened for him, isn't it?

Yeah, I mean, he was in the middle of Brianna Taylor, but this may be giving more exposure. Certainly getting more TikTok exposure. Yes. Yes. Yeah. It's kind of fascinating when you watch that video to hear their argument back and forth, you know, in a formal setting like that. Well, the argument,

the district attorney made was terrible. Almost said it. It was terrible because he acknowledged the argument he was making is not the legal standard. Romance pointed it out. He said, I agree with him, and then just kept arguing it. Yeah. And the judge, the judge genuinely seemed perplexed.

Like, why are you arguing this? That's not the standard, you know? Yeah, judge sided with Romance pretty quickly, but he's viral for that southern draw. A lot of people that haven't heard a voice like that's at Metcalf County. Metcalfe County coming out and going, well, Judge. Especially, I mean, this is Scotty Schaeffler. This is a huge thing.

So June 3rd is the new date. June 3rd is the new date. I'm going to be gone. They're not going to make him come walk into that court, are they? It'd be a circus. Of course. Does that what the district attorney wants? Well, nobody knows.

I mean, that's, I think, why would you, why would you fight changing the arraignment date unless you want the video of him walking in? Yeah. Right? So, I think they got two weeks or while I'm gone on June 3rd, we're going to have an, like, they can't do that. I mean, we do not the city, the city and state do not need that. And you know, and you know, the video's coming out. I'll be down here. Yeah, and the video's coming out tomorrow, so I don't know what it's going to show,

but there's a video now tomorrow that will come out. Who knows? Maybe that changes everything. Maybe it ends up looking different after that, but I just feel like we didn't need. The story was already ridiculous, and now yesterday or Monday did not help. Because after that incident, I think everybody was just raving of Valhalla and the golf tournament and the ratings are high. Everything was a huge success, but this is going to continue to be.

the black cloud that covers everything. And you can't. Can you imagine if the sports center is live outside the Jefferson County Courthouse as they're walking him? I mean, yeah, I hope they, I hope they. He's got to be in Ohio at the Memorial just after that. It's not too long of a drive. He could pull off both.

Yeah. Who's up next? Steve. Steve, go ahead, Steve. Hey, guys. Love the show. I just wanted, I think I have the winning entry for the song commercial thing. Okay.

It's obviously more current than the others. and I'd like to give you guys a clue because I think the clue either Shannon or Drew would probably get this. Well, what is it? The clue is it's another truck commercial. Okay, that's not a clue.

Rainy Wilson, heart like a truck. Okay, what, like what truck company? I think she did it for RAM, not Chevy. Okay, yeah, I don't know about that. But that's how I discovered her. Do you all know that? That one? I appreciate the call. I know they know Lainey Wilson. Yeah, we know who she is. I mean, I know who Lainey, well, like how they acts like, I know who Lainey Wilson is too. I mean, actually, that's the kind of music I actually listen to as opposed to. What's the song he's talking about, though?

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I appreciate the call. Who's up next? Sean. Sean, go ahead, Sean. Hey, Matt. I usually just text the A Vision Glass Text Machine, but I had to call in today. me and my very beautiful and really, really smart wife got into an argument last night, and she told me that I was stupid. And I'm like, why would you say that to me? He said, when you force me to listen to KSR,

Matt Jones says it all the time, so it's got to be okay for me. Wow. I didn't realize that I didn't realize I used the word stupid that much. Did you? You're impacting other people's vocabulary. Wait a minute, this woman says I do. That's three.

That's three. All of us stupid. I do not call you stupid. I think I think I say, well, all right, so I'm going to try to take it out. I'll tell you what. I'll punish myself a dollar for every stupid. No, put a coin in the coin pot. Yes.

I'll punish myself a dollar for every student. I don't want to set a bad example to the young people. You know, we're on the show with you. I've never realized this, but this is now three people in an hour that are saying it. So I'm wondering how many others out there have this. I had absolutely no idea. One person writes, Matt, have you given up on the Reds yet? They won last night.

So there's one. They got the Dodgers this weekend, so that's going to be. That's going to be difficult. Quick thing, I'm going to probably give away my tickets tonight via social media, so just be watching for that at some point. I say this with love and respect to all of you. Stop asking me for my tickets while I'm on the break. Okay. Like, I love all of you all, but just it's okay.

All right. You're not ticket master? Don't ask me to ask Maddie. Yeah, I'm not. Stupid question. Unless I, unless you. 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 athletes 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 beaders 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 Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slic Life 12 in the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. What's up, guys? This is Clifford Taylor the 4th.

And on my podcast, The Clivert Show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker, this linebacker walks up to me. He goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What? Time out. Quarterback on office blue 42.

A rep, my mama want you to wave at her. What? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clippers show on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. 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 Reed. 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 Nasree. 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 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're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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, Kentucky Sports Radio. If you're missing the SEC tournament, listening to us, thank you. Kentucky is down 2-0 to LSU after three. Kentucky still doesn't have a hit yet, which is... I don't have a base runner. I think they're old for nine. Yeah, they had a guy just get out, which I've never seen for...

Did you see that? He got hit by the pitch, but they said he leaned into it, and so they called him out. I didn't know that the punishment for that was to be out. I didn't realize it either. I see how far he leaned. I wasn't watching. I do, I mean, 2-0, I think if you've been paying attention, we'll take 2-0 all day. I believe they've left 5 on base.

this could be much uglier than it is right now. So if they win, we play tomorrow at 4.30, and Ryan and I've talked about we may organize a mini quick watch party if they win tomorrow for the 430 game. If they lose, it's during the show again tomorrow. So we'll have the same issue with being on WSFC and we'll have it on during the show while we're here at the bar. So either way, if they play tomorrow, you can watch the game here,

but we might do like a little bit of watch party slash, send Matt down the road here tomorrow if we win today, which right now we are, we're not doing. One person writes, Matt, don't fall for these people who tell you to not have cash. An all electronic money society is the sign of the end of times. That seems a little crazy. That's a lot, isn't it? Like to hear more about their thoughts? People always say it's the end of times, by the way.

You know, people are always say, like they always say it's the end of times. And the thing is, people have been saying that since humans were created. If you read history, there's been in every generation someone has said the world is about to end. And at some point, someone's going to be right. But we skip over all the people that were wrong, right? Like, seriously, when I was a kid, remember we got out of school one day because the world was going to go. That's right. A lot of people don't realize that.

We did. One time we got out of school because they said the world was going to end because of an earthquake. Yep. And did it happen? Nope. No. And then it never happens. And then nobody gets punished for being wrong.

Right. And so every day everybody's like, well, you know, that's the sign of the end of times. Electronic money. It's finally going to be the one that does it. Credit card is going to take us down. There are people that thought cars were going to do that. The internet. The, you know, fire, the wheel.

birds it just feels like it feels like that's something I just I don't buy any of that do you when we went from 1999 to the year 2000 the whole wood was supposed to shut down because you know all the computers couldn't handle the zero zero part of it that got through

yeah got through that as well folks the I wanted to tell you we still have a handful of the railroad parking tickets so if you want one you need to get it soon well I'll put that parking pass up again today but we're going to have this lot full,

so you need to do it relatively soon. Who's next? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Hey, how are you guys doing? Doing good. Hey, I got a little off topic, but my wife works at the hospital.

Okay. And she thinks that there is a prostate drug that has amazing side effects that makes your hair grow bad. I mean, are you, is this like a joke? Like, are you going to have a punchline? The reason I was called in, the guy yesterday was a pharmacist. And I'm wondering if you don't have prostate issues, would it hurt you to take a prostate drug to make your hair grow back?

Well, first of all, I don't think that we're the people to ask that question to. I would ask a medical professional, but you're saying there's a, well, all right, I appreciate the call. Do you believe that? Maybe. I mean, who knows? How have they not made a drug for people's hair to grow back? That's the crazy thing. We have drugs to do everything.

How have they not fixed that? I don't have an answer for you. Are you going to be able to host this for two months? I'm ready. I've gone to you twice in the last 30 seconds, and you've said three words. Well, I have no answer about the disaster of the world over a credit card. That's ridiculous. This about a drug that, probing your hair grow back, I'm with you.

I don't understand how we do not have that and everything else. It feels like there would be money for that if that was to end up happening. You're the ones that's done the problem. procedure when you were going through all this. Was there any point? Are you ever going to do more of that? No. No, I think I'm happy with my bald spot back here.

I like my little hair up in the front. Do you wouldn't want to fill in the bald spot? I don't care. I can't see it. I respect that. Every time I get my haircut, that's how I want the back. I'm like, I don't know. I can't see it.

I can't see it. Yeah. But you're glad you got on the front. Yeah, I like that right there. I would be completely bald right now, probably. It does make you look younger. Don't you? The old pictures.

Pictures of you before you got there. Yeah. Got it. You look older than you look now. And that was like, literally like six years ago. Oh, it was longer than that, wasn't it? I don't know? Yeah.

But you, don't you think he looks? Oh, yeah. You would be rocking a solid horseshoe right now. Oh, yeah. You look a lot younger as it is. I actually think it worked well for you. Well, thank you, sir. So do you wish it had been a pill instead of the, I mean, you, your process went well, but that's

it didn't it hurt. It hurt. It hurt. It's uncomfortable for three days. I still have the picture of your scabbed up head. Oh. awful you had a remote you came to you were a trooper he came to a remote the day after his hair surgery and where they put it in each hair was a scab yeah and it was you look it was really odd looking

but you were also in a lot of pain you had to wear like a chef's hat yes and you said don't take it off it would do it on the show live on the show so i hadn't seen it either i have a piece somewhere in this phone there's a picture of your scabby head and it was it was awful it was it didn't look good i'll grant that Who's next? Kevin. Kevin. Go ahead, Kevin. Yes. How, like the way the team that's coming in, what would be your starting five? Okay. Are we saying with or without Jackson Robinson?

The makeup right now, without him. Without him. All right, without him. They're going to start Lamont Butler at Point Guard. They're going to start Amari Williams at Center. They're going to start Andrew Carr at Powerful. and then Brayu will he be the shooting guard

Who Abreu the dude from Dayton You mean Braya Brea? Brea? Maybe, but it also could be that kid from Oklahoma Yeah

He might have to be a wing in this scenario if you don't get Robb He might have to do Oway At a might have to play him both You probably would play Brea and O'Ward That three for Robinson But of the scenario

Otherwise I think you would start If let's say Robinson comes Then I think your starting lineup is Butler, Brea, Robinson Carr Williams. With O.A is your sixth and maybe Chandler's your seventh, and then you see who develops amongst everybody else.

Is that how you see it? Don't forget our boy, Caracresa, in the back court. I don't think he'd start, but he'd be one of the first off the bench. Now, he'll definitely be like an annoying dude off the bench coming in and doing stuff. That's perfect for him, but we know of him. You know, the guy that comes in and immediately a little juice. Let's say you don't get Jackson

Robinson, because I do think it is important to think about the worst possible option. Let's say you don't, get him. I assume they'll find someone, but let's say the team as it's constituted now is the best form of the team we'll have. How good are they? I mean, I think they're good enough to get to the weekend of the SEC tournament and maybe the second weekend in the NCAA tournament. I think they're good enough to do that. So they're sweet 16 good. Probably. You think they're that good? I agree. I won't be thinking thoughts about, you know, planning trips. So we're going to be at this stop in the

NCAA tournament. I won't be getting ahead of myself with each round. but I think they would be in the postseason and would be, you know, I think Alabama's going to be really strong in the SEC, but not far behind them in a third, fourth, fifth. So you would put them third, fourth, in the SEC? Yeah, they wouldn't win it, but they would be in the top half in the mix. Well, you haven't won it in quite some time. That's what I mean.

I'm not saying it's going to be worse off. Also, I think if they don't get Jackson Robinson, a lot has been made about Pope's binder that he's been seen with at the Peach Jam. That dude's got a backup plan that we just don't know. He has to. He's way too prepared and on top of this to be. be all in on one guy at this point. Whether it be a reclass, international, and other guys not being

said, I don't believe Pope will strike out on Robinson and Lanier not have something else. I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens. The Cal era allowed fans to do this. It allowed everyone during the offseason dream of success. So if you think about it, in the Cal era, we were always a national championship contender in May, June, July, August, September, October. So we had six months in our head of being a national championship contender. Then sometimes it remained and sometimes it didn't. But you had six months that we walked around going, we can win the national championship.

What's going to be interesting this year is the final result could be better, likely will be better than it was last year. Yeah. But we will not have those six months before of thinking we're a national championship contender. And we shouldn't let that change our psyche about the season. Does that make sense? I think that can be a good thing, too. It can be a good thing, but it will, one of the things that is exciting about being a Kentucky fan during the Calera is this idea of the always the possibility, right? The possibility was always exciting, exciting, exciting, exciting, exciting, exciting. And then when it doesn't happen, it was major disappointment, but then you would just go, well. But next year,

that's right. This is going to be like more real. realistic based, and I just think it's going to take our fan base a little while to adjust to that, Ryan. You know what I mean? Yeah, and like Drew said, I think that could be a good thing for our fan base to kind of have a reset and get our expectations and kind of in check a little bit that, you know, this year may not be a national championship year, but let give him time to get to that point. Yeah, 859-28027. These people right here live in Austria. Yeah, I heard him say that. In Austria, in Vienna.

I spent a week in Vienna. You did? Yeah. My brother lived there. He was there working there from the military. What do you remember of your Vienna? Because I may go. I've never been to Vienna. I may go. What do you remember? We ate a lot of vener spitzel. Yeah, a lot of beer. But did you think like it was a beautiful city? It was awesome. We went to all the tourist stuff around Vienna. Like what? Give me some of them.

We went to some underground submarine place where they used to make submarines underground. They look very surprised. Shannon, I don't think that that's true. You don't believe Ryan. They made the submarines underground. Yeah, and they shot some movie down there that they were making like during the world during the war. You're not talking about Universal Studios in Hollywood? The Epcot Center, Austria stop is not actually going on.

You go down and get in a boat like you are at a walk-div-world. Okay, I can believe that there's a submarine museum, but are you telling me they make the submarines underground? They did during the war to kind of hide their work. Oh, okay. Okay, all right, I can buy that. I can buy that. So this was, but Austria, they were on Germany's side, weren't they? Yeah.

So you were like visiting the other side? Yeah, it's a tourist attraction now. Yeah? Okay. We went to some outdoor plaza where they had pizza outside, and to this day it's the best pizza I've ever had in my life. I remember that. In Austria.

In Austria. It does look like the U-1-class submarine. was started in Austria. There we go. But you know, I mean, that's like saying the best sushi you had

was in like Spain. Like that's not like, you know, I mean, I mean, pizza is an Italian thing, not in Austria. They put some magic

in that pizza, though, and it was awesome. Okay, I got it. It's a barro they have there. Best fish and chips in my life. They were actually in Guatemala. We'll take a break and be right back.

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You know, I mean, I haven't watched a ton of it over the years. And watch it a lot of Kentucky. They make, like, they make teams make so many errors against them. Makes you appreciate you go watch the Reds that make it look easy. You know, that's why they're big leaders. The major leaguers, like if they make an error, it's crazy. Uh-huh. But in college it happens all the time.

One person writes, Matt, if UK is one of the premier baseball, or excuse me, premier basketball programs in America, why are we tempering our expectations? We should hold every coach to the same standard winning national championships. I love Pope, but it's just the way it should be. Well, okay. But what? every rule or every standard has to have a punishment.

So let's say we don't have a chance to win the national championship this year. What are you going to do? When you say hold them to a standard, what are you going to do? Like you got to get, the guy had four weeks to build his roster. Give him a break. Now, if in year two or year three, we're not pushing for that, different situation. But in year one, how many teams have legitimately had a. chance to win a national championship in a year one coach that wasn't just inheriting a lineup.

This doesn't happen. John Caliperi gave us a shot. But who else has? That was pretty special coaching. And he had Wall and DeMarcus cousins, and I think this is important. He had already been recruiting those guys for another school. Yes. We hired a coach who wasn't recruiting the kind of players we recruit here.

He was recruiting to BYU. So he had not gone after the top guys like Cal had before he came here from Memphis. Well, and cousins had both said they were going wherever Cal was. That wasn't a Kentucky thing. I mean, it worked out. They loved Kentucky now, but in their recruitment, they were just following Cal to wherever he was going. The only thing Kentucky got Cal with those dudes is Kentucky got Cal Eric Bledsoe. But he had recruited Eric Bledsoe at Memphis as well, right?

I think Bledsoe had visited even when Billy was here, even had been on Kentucky's campus before. Yeah, and, and I, you know, I said this over the last 13 years of Cal. The day Cal left, that next year was always going to be hard because Cal recruits, I'm not criticizing this, he does it and it worked for him, but he recruits Cal, right? He doesn't recruit Kentucky, he recruits Cal. He said that at Arkansas. Yeah, he's had recruits say, we're just changing the address. Uh-huh.

That worked when he was here, but that means when you leave, you got to restart, Ryan, which is what we're having to do. I think it'll be fair to hold Mark Pope to those standards in a year or two. Right now, he took the job with one guy on the roster and most of the top 20 kids already committed someplace else. I'll go farther to say I think it is fully reasonable to expect in year two to him have a top 10 to 15 roster. That is reasonable. In the Transfer Portal era with a year of recruiting, with our NIL base, we should expect him to have a top 10 to 15 roster next year. But this year, you kind of have to do the best you can,

and I actually think they've done a pretty good job, even though I think they need one more guy. And they only have to win one game in March to be better than last year. One, in Nashville or the other tournament. One. We'll take it. When you watch Shepard and Dillard. Hillingham in the NBA.

Is that all he's going to be on your mind? I already think about it. Yeah, me too. I still listen to Reed and Rob. I'm probably going to get that to Notas Pizza again before the draft. I'm just with those two, I'm still not over the last season. Those are two of my favorite. When I see PJ Washington with Dallas, I don't sit there and think we lost to Kansas State.

But I kind of feel like with Reed and Rob, I'm going to think that. I just kind of feel like I don't. I'll think that in my deathbed when I'm old. Because we know how good that team was and how even better they could have been if you played the right lineup the way you were supposed to. I'll never forget Nate Oates saying after that Alabama game, hey, Cal, we just found your lineup. Like even he knew at that moment, that's the lineup is going to win you a lot of games. I know we've said this a thousand times, but I want you to think Sam Vicini just put that stat out the other day. When Reed, Rob, and Reeves were in the game together, every hundred possessions, we outscored the other team.

team by 30 points. Every other lineup we put on the court in 100 possessions, we only outscored them by six. That's crazy. Six to 30. And in the Oakland game, they played two possessions together in the first half and only played multiple minutes together in the last few minutes of the game as we were desperately trying to come back. I was going to say you're losing. Unbelievable.

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