KSR - 2024-05-23- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

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I don't know what to tell you about the technical stuff, but, you know, what more fitting way to have our last show here in Lexington than to have things not work. that'll ease your worries as you go off for two months. There's no doubt that if you wanted to make it to where I felt better about everything, this is exactly the way to do it. And I hate it because we've got a great, a lot, nice group of people here. We clearly wanted to come out for the final one here, and I hate that. But we'll do the best we can. We've certainly run enough commercials, I think, for most of the show, Drew, so we should be good.

Nowhere to go up after you leave today. I mean, what's Ryan's topics if we can't even talk about them through the equipment? I know. So there you go. The thing is we ran a brand new heartline. People don't care. 859-280-22-87. The text machine is 772-7-7-7-4-7-4-5-2-5-4.

A little bit of an update on the thing we've talked about for the last couple days on that college football basketball settlement. I know it's dry, but I want to go over it while I'm here because it's going to happen while I'm gone and I learned more about it yesterday. So the ACC and Big 12 have approved it were down to the SEC and Big 10. They were the ones that the ones that crafted the settlement so they're almost certain to approve it. So it's happening now. I talked to one of the people involved in the crafting of the settlement yesterday for a couple hours because I really was curious. And I'm just going to tell you, big picture, this is really good for college.

sports. Big picture, if you want to save college sports, this was really the only way to do it. So in that respect, I'm glad it's happening. Small picture, it's going to be a circus for the next two years. 2026, 27, college sports will be kind of in a place that I think we'll all be, if not happy, it'll be all right. But until then, it's going to be a circus. it's going to be a good time to be a college athlete. But let me just give you a couple of examples of how this is going to be complicated. A lot of people don't know this. This settlement doesn't have anything to do with football.

Start with that. You know, the NCAA doesn't get any money from football. I don't know if people realize that, but when we talk about the NCAA, football goes through the conferences. There is no NCAA tournament for football. football. So the NCAA makes all of its money, all of its money really from the NCAA men's basketball tournament. And now it's starting to make a little bit from the women's tournament. All the rest of this stuff loses money, all of it. But they make a ton of money from the NCAA men's basketball

tournament. So this settlement is actually about basketball. Football, the SEC, all the money teams get from football comes through the conference office, not from the NCAA office. And the college football playoff is not run by the NCAA. I don't know if people always realize that, but it's not. So this $2.8 billion settlement actually doesn't have anything to do with the football players. As a matter of fact, I expect you will see groups of football players now start to sue their conferences. I would say the SEC will ultimately be sued by SEC football players and et cetera.

So this is basically basketball and every sport. But these schools want to, as part of the future, fix football. So even though the settlement will be for basketball players and others, the future will include the football players. And so I asked more about the future because a lot of us don't care about the pain of the past. It's going to cost your school a lot of money, but it is what it is. In the future, the number is $22 million. So I want you to think about what this means. Every team in a power conference will be allotted basically $22 million to spend.

In the SEC and the Big Ten, that $22 million comes from really big TV contracts. but in the ACC and Big 12, they will have the ability to pay $22 million, but they're getting significantly less money from television. So actually, the person I was talking to was like, you know the schools that are in the most trouble with this? ACC and Big 12. Because if they want to compete with the SEC and Big Ten,

they're going to have to spend the $22 million, but they have less money to get for it. You see what I'm saying? Yep. So these ACC and Big 12 schools are left with a choice, spend half as much money as the SEC and Big Ten and be less competitive or spend it and have less money. Tough choice for it. It is a tough choice.

Then each school is going to get this $22 million, and here's what's key. It applies to every athlete at the school. So it is going to be up to the school to decide what they want to spend money on. Do you want to devote $15 million of your dollars to football? three to basketball. Fans, us as fans, we will know what our school is prioritizing by how much money they put into.

Mitch Barnhart will have to decide how much money is Mark Stoop's going to get for players? How much money is Mark Pope going to get? How much money is Kenny Brooks going to get? The schools do not believe that Title IX will require them to pay men and women the same amount of money. They will still have to give men and women the same amount of scholarships, but they will not have to pay them the same amount of money.

I won't go into the complicated reason. I think the schools are probably right about that. Why is you'd have to know the history of Title IX. Let's just assume they're right about it. But just think about what Mitch Barnhart or any athletic director is going to have to do when their basketball coach comes and says, I need $7 million. Their football coach comes and says, I need $12 million.

But here's another thing that I didn't think about. Because this money is going to be paid by a university, we will all know what every kid is paid. Because it will be public record now. So just like we know what every player makes, or coach makes, now we will know what every player makes. And I want you to think about what happens when a school pays 5% of its school-wide salary cap. to a player who's not performing, Drew. Criticism is going to change a little. What's that going to be like?

What's it going to be like? Remember when I said yesterday, schools are going to have to choose which sport they like? What's it going to be like if Kentucky says we're going to give a million dollars to volleyball and we lose a basketball player because that money went to the volleyball. What's our fan base going to say then? I don't know. Now, here's what can happen. and what will happen?

Private collectives will be able to spend more money than the $22 million if they want. But it can now be banned officially from being part of recruiting and can get you on probation for it. Now, will teams still do it? Of course they will. But they can't be as blatant about it. This will be back to the old days of rules. But if you sit and think about what that means, When we watch Kentucky play and player A is starting over player B,

when player B is better, but we know the money each of them are paid, it's going to be, I don't, it's going to be a massive, massive shift. And the other thing is, schools are considering whether to allow private equity involved. Also very complicated. But now there's a chance that an investor, Mario investments could say to UK, I'll give you $20 million this year, but you have to give me 5% of your profits. Is the public going to like that? Is the public going to see Mario as a positive?

Are they going to see him as a negative? Everyone will know Mario gave the money because that will have to be public record. There will be schools that will do that. it's it almost as I was talking to this person yesterday and they were going all over all of the ramifications I was thinking this is probably going to end up better but it's going to be a completely different thing like a completely different thing and schools will have to choose that whole conversation we had two years ago about basketball versus football schools here's a little secret schools are going to have to choose they're going to

have to choose. And they're going to have to choose, do you want to care about baseball? Do you want to care? And I, I think, I don't know what's going to happen, to be honest with you, Drew. But I, I'm a legal dork, so I probably care about this more than most, but it will affect all of us as fans in a way that I don't think we realize yet. We should all care about it, because the way we've consumed college sports has changed so much in the last couple of years. It will look completely different in a couple more years. I think what's going to be interesting is what you're saying about how you know a player's say salary and this used to be you know these are kids don't say that don't say this if he's taking a big chunk of your university's money

and not playing well the people won't be able to help themselves and criticism of players they're no longer the kids the student athletes anymore this this is a pro sport and by the way now when a school promises a player money they will have to do it like right now we've talked about how a lot of these kids do not get the money they're told. I'll go so far as to say, I think 80% of these kids don't get the money they're told. Well, that won't be true anymore because you're not going to, basically you're not going to be able to do that anymore

because it'll be a state contract. These collectives that exist will now basically merge into the school. The school will have a collective. And it's just going to be very, very different. And is it better? probably in the long run, but these are going to be a bumpy couple years. It's another reason to be glad we're in the SEC because it sounds like the conference as I was listening to this guy talks.

As I was listening to Scott talk, here's what I thought. Everybody focuses on what this will mean for Eastern and Moorhead. I think those schools will be able to adjust. They'll just work within their budgets. The schools that are going to be under a lot of pressure, if you're not in the SEC or Big Ten and you want to compete with them, those schools are going to have the hardest times. Louisville and schools like Louisville,

this probably affects them more than anyone. Because Louisville's going to have to play Kentucky every year making half as much money and trying to build a roster to do it. How do they do that? That's going to be hard. More than likely, I'm guessing, like a school like Kansas that wants to be ultra-competitive in basketball. Perfect example.

And then take a Duke in basketball. All right, so Duke might make this decision. You know what? Most of you schools are spending 50% on your money on football. How about we spend 50% of our money on basketball? Yeah. And just kind of go, eh, whatever, in football. It's Duke football.

And all of a sudden Duke basketball has three times as much money as anybody else does. Maybe Kansas chooses to do that, right? I don't know. Those are two schools that could do it. Not a lot of history in that sport. And then a school like Gonzaga or Villanova, who either doesn't have football or it's not major football, might just decide,

dump it all in basketball. I'll spend it all on basketball. There's going to be so many different ways to do it. And whichever, here's what I think is also going to, whichever school's the smartest is going to win. You better hire smart people. The days of hiring Joe Bob, who used to play football to be your athletic director,

that's over. You better hire some dude that went to Harvard that knows how to do analytics and statistics and money in order to make your basketball and football programs good. So who's next? Fake Ralph Hacker. Fake, I'll tell you what, make fake Ralph Hacker hold. We'll come back to you.

He's been holding through all the whole thing. Well, I mean, I'm going to make him hold another one, all right? Because that's not the exact response to this, I want. But go ahead. So first time, long time. I was calling in because I had an idea about our, what we could do instead of the painted rock that Tennessee does. back in the 40s, and Ryan can probably help with the names of everybody,

back in the 40s there was a buzzer beater that was shot from pretty far back, maybe about half court, and it was such a big game that the governor came in and and nailed, put a nail in nail in on the floor to mark the spot. So I thought maybe our thing to do signed into the history. He put in what? He put a nail in the floor. So he went and drove a nail into the floor of the court to mark where that shot happened because it was such a big deal.

or whatever. So if we kind of got our, if we kind of staged a photo op where we had a big recruits drive a nail, I think it was a nail like a railroad spike, something real big. And they could do that, talk about like an Instagram photo op or something like that. We could engrave their names on a big old railroad spike that they drive in. And I thought that'd be a good idea. So you think that that's our answer to the Tennessee Paint at Rock. We get a railroad spike and customize it. It's better than it does. I mean, I agree with you there. First of all, I'm baffled that a painted rock has that much persuasion on where a kid would go to school. I don't know if it actually does. I don't know if it's tongue and

cheek. You know, obviously Lanier thought it was cool enough to post on his Instagram story with the caption, whoa. So I guess maybe it had some impact. And maybe, you know, that's the one thing about Kentucky for a team in a school that has so much history in tradition. We don't have, We almost lack tradition in that sense, you know? Right. We don't have an object that players can go out in, you know, paint or, you know, customize to welcome and recruit. So I don't know.

Maybe you're on to something. I don't know. It's good of suggestion that I've heard from anybody else. So I think of really call. Yeah, we'll see. We appreciate it. Quickly, Ralph Hacker, go ahead. I've tried to put you on.

I'm going to give you your 30 seconds. Go ahead. Hello, Shannon. This is the former voice of the Wildcats. I was calling in to wish Matt a safe summer traveling through Europe. And I wanted to wish him just safe travels. And I hope that he has better weather than I did when I was in France back in the summer of 2019. And it was the hottest as Ralph Hacker has ever been.

But I hope that Matt has a safe summer vacation. Don't worry about things back here because I'm sure. We got it. We got it. We're going to be over up against it. I hope that his vacation. a lot better than this show today. We're going to take a break.

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at KS. Bar and Grill. Thank you to the patience of the folks who came here. It's very nice of you all to come here on the last day that we'd be in Lexington. But unfortunately, it hasn't been great. Kentucky just hit a home run, though. All right. So now three-nothing cats here in the SEC tournament.

Brian Nicholson, he's a kid from St. X. Just so you know, if we go off again, Shannon has a best of ready to run so that we don't play another three and a half minutes of Werewolves of London. Listen, you go to Europe and you don't worry about. about this show. It'll just go like a smooth oil train. I'm not going to act like this was the smoothest the smoothest entrance into into going, but that's okay. If this happens Tuesday and I take a baseball bat to it, what's the next step? Is you doing like an office space thing? Yeah, I mean,

do they have to buy one at that point? We just sit there and we just pound that thing until it until it works. I don't know. What are you going to do? 859-28027. Couple open lines. I'd love to talk to you. We'll talk about one fun thing. Did you see the videos, you saw the videos of all the snakes at the PGA term? Yes. Like there were twice snakes got on the tee or on the green, and two different people reached and picked them up and walked away from. Right.

Would you do that? I have a fear of snakes. I couldn't do it. I would probably try to get somebody else. If not, I'm looking for a shovel. I'm not picking it up with my hand. Would you pick up a snake and move it by yourself to while ESPN is watching, so you look like a hero to the country because you picked up a snake and you moved it.

No, I'm not really afraid of snakes. I've picked one up before, but I'm not going to go out of my way to get one to be on TV. What's the scenario where you've picked up snakes before? We had one in college. I haven't had the head of it all the way in my mouth, too. We'd mess around with them. It was a fun little snake. What?

Wait a minute. What? You did what? Yeah, I think his name was Murta. But why would you put the head of the snake? in your mouth. I had a few cocktails at that point in night. Probably was a dare. Might have been some money on a table. Just goofing off. Yeah. Just you and the boys still here. You and the boys just I don't think the snakes still here. But we're all still here. You and the boys just put snakes in

your mouth. I will say I have a current issue right now. I meant to bring this up. My next door neighbor posted on our Facebook, like neighborhood Facebook group, a gigantic snake that he found in his yard, which is next to my yard. I mean, it's a big guy. And he, I thought, you know, is it poisonous? It's not I'm not sure. No big deal. This thing's big, though, and I'm barefoot in my yard a lot. I am a little uneasy when I'm walking around these days. So even though I'm not afraid.

But we don't have. Do we have really poisonous snakes in Lexington? I know there are some, like, are they like, I don't. There's copperheads. Copperheads. Yeah. In Lexington, though. Yeah, they would be in the ditches in the little ponds and lakes and things.

You're telling me there's copperheads in the city of, I think, I know they're out in the, yes. Yeah. Go for a hike. This is what was found in the yard next to me. Would that intimidate you a little bit? Yes. Yeah, so that's running around my neighborhood. Well, you say yes.

We say go for a hike. There's nowhere to hike in Lexi. There's no parks? Well, I mean, there are parks, but are you telling me there's copperheads? You're telling me there's copperheads in parks in Lexington. Yeah, I would guarantee that. They're everywhere. They're native to Kentucky, for sure.

Well, for sure, like in the mountains and stuff, but you're saying even here. Oh, yeah. So if I'm walking down the street, I could see a copy. Well, they're going to be in an Uber. I mean, they're going to be right there on New Circle Road. For instance, it wasn't a copperhead, but I mean, snakes are everywhere. I went for a walk in a park a couple of weeks ago, and there was a huge snake as, like, wide as the road was right in front of me.

I didn't touch that thing. I just let it go on its own time. I completely stopped. Well, I was impressed at Valhalla that these dudes would just reach up and grab it. And it was like, it was not people that worked at Valhalla. It was like just regular. Some dude from Shelbyville was one of them. Regular dudes from Shelbyville doing it.

And I was, I'll be honest with you, quite impressed with that. Who's up next? DJ. BJ. Yeah, what's up, Matt? Craig, by the way, is Craig Greenberg is on the golf channel. Can we get that on the TV? I'd like to see that.

Go ahead. Yeah, what's up, man? I want to wish your safe trip and happy up next, but you have fun over there and hear it, man. Thank you, sir. Drew, I was I was the one that tweeted you yesterday about the LSU game I'm glad you won

I'm glad we got our win we needed to win more to do guys so I'm glad you got your overall and I'm glad we got to win so sorry I wanted both wins but congratulations yeah it's all good man

Matt I was about the kid suing the coach from Florida I did yeah the kid sued the coach for not giving him the amount of his NIL deal I think that will continue to happen, at least until this new system that we talked about, gets into place. Yeah, because I was wondering, like, is that going to be the norm now? I know that you said the SEC is going to be, if the big team, it'll be powerful.

But that might be the norm, you think? Yeah, I mean, I appreciate the call. I mean, the reality, okay, so here's a piece of law that people don't always realize. You can have a contract without it being written down. There are verbal contracts. So like if I were to say to you, sir, like I'll take the guy right here. If I were to say to you, I will give you $500 to mow my grass, right? And you say, okay, I will mow your grass.

We have a contract at that point, right? Now, it's going to be hard for you to prove it. That's why you always want to write something down because there's a difference between having a contract and proving you have a contract. So if this guy was promised X amount of money and he didn't get it, technically he had a contract and they owe it to it. But he's going to have to be able to prove that they had that agreement. And if I offer you $500 to mow my grass and we didn't write it down and the only two people were you and I, and you said I did and I say I didn't, you're going to not be able to prove it.

But if you had gone out and mowed my lawn, you'd actually. have some proof because the judge would go, why in the world would he mow his lawn? You see what I'm saying? Yeah. Well, so this dude came to Florida. And so he's going to have to prove somehow that that amount of money was offered to him. I don't know what proof he has. But the idea that a contract could have existed without it being written down, that can happen, Ryan. It's just you've got to prove it, and that's hard. I think this is the first incident where this is going to happen a lot. I think some kids were probably promised money, maybe didn't get all they were promised start suing the universities or coaches yeah i'm just interested to see if

is there any way maybe not with how things change so much if one of these nil lawsuits could they get into investigating the the football program in florida and that leads to other things like how do they even look into the nill stuff here without uncovering more they could possibly be doing so according to mayor uh greenberg in louisville there is a fixed camera video inside the police there's a fixed camera video from a pole outside of the, uh, on the street. And there is a dash cam on the, on the police car. But they do not believe that there is a camera that captures the initial interaction between Sheffler and the police department. So the $64,000 question of the interact, the first interaction that spawned this, it doesn't look like there will be a camera about

that. First I heard there's dashboard camera. I didn't know that was even out there. But a dashboard camera, though, in the police car after. It wouldn't be a dashboard camera in Scotty Sheffler's car. It would be in the police car. So that probably would not be very helpful to the case one way or the other. Not unless it was pointing it right at it.

You had to get really lucky that it was in the right spot. Yeah. So it looks like it'll just be kind of what we just talked about. It'll be one person's word over another. 859-2-80. 2287. One person writes, Matt, do you think Mark Pope, by the time you get back, will have commitments for next year's class? So the guys in the 2025 class. Drew, you follow that a little more closely than I do. Do you think that'll happen? By the time you're back,

I'll say no, but not too far away from one. What do you think? You know, he's putting pressure on Malachi Marino up at Great Crossing and Jasper Johnson here in town. That might be a good way to get that class started. By the way, both those guys. Two guys from Kentucky were named to the under 17 team USA team. Yeah. Which is, has that ever happened before? Do you think there's ever been two Kentucky players named to that? Not to the USA team, no. No, I think Scotty Hobson might have played for it. Scottie Hobson did play for it. I don't even know who else would be on that. That's just only someone recently I could think that even played for it. Yeah. So that's, uh, that's a great honor.

Do you think he gets those two guys? I had a high school assistant coach I know tell me he thinks he ends up with certainly Jasper Johnson and maybe Malachi as well. If I was betting, I'd say yes, the odds are probably in our favor to get both of them right now. Yeah. I hope so too. I love

the Perry Noah connection into just keeping the homegrown talent coming. That would be great to start Pope's career in a second season. Do I agree with this texture who goes, why are they not spending more time talking about Drew Franklin putting a snake in his mouth. I don't. Well, the best part is. You said that, though, like you said that like you did a keg stand.

Like that was normal. I probably did a keg stand right before I did it. That's not the same thing. Putting a snake in your mouth is a much more bizarre thing. I'm aware. I think there's photo evidence of it. You know, might have might have the next day been like, no, I didn't. And then, no, yeah, there's the video. Yeah, I guess we did do that. Do you know anybody else who's ever done that? What do you mean just goofing off? That's not a thing guys just do so the snake lived in the basement and occasionally I won't say his name but it

rhymes with the snake it rhymes with Corey would be like hey you can't find the snake and we'd all just have to keep our feet up on the couch because we weren't sure we'd be it was just one of the boys okay all of those things Mario just make sure I'm not going crazy like all of those things make sense to me they have a snake there are people that have snakes

their boys hanging out they were drinking I was around Drew in that era I can buy that we had a good time I might have just I might have gone in for a little good night smooch with the snake telling it good night, tucking it in, and then. And then what? And then what's the next step? I don't know.

I don't know. One thing led to another. I don't know. It happened. It's a big deal. So how much of the head did you put inside you? The whole head. You put the whole head in your mouth?

It lived with us. It was fine. It would, you know, we could leave it on our arm for an hour at a time. It would just rest. It was one of us. Everything was fine. Everything's, I wouldn't go out and do it with one in the wild. Oh, so it was like.

a snake you knew so it wasn't you weren't had promiscuous months we had six months of building this relationship and you think i mean i'm sure i fed it at one point i don't know if you walk snakes is that is that how you would feed it just mouth to know it wasn't my snake it was my roommate snake it just we all felt very comfortable with it you know i've known you a long time that's one of the strangest things it is it was a one-time thing i wouldn't even say it on the radio now i feel like it's going to be i have to live with this no no you are the guy that put a snake Have you seen Road Trip with Tom Green? I have.

It's kind of like that. You know, he's got a little pet snake. I feed it occasionally. Well, he put the mouse in his mouth, right? It wasn't the snake. I think Tom Green had the mouse. I didn't have a mouse. Wow.

That's absolutely bizarre. That was crazy. Let me tell you what else we did in college. Well, maybe you can do that while I'm gone. 859-280-2287. Couple open lines. Give us a shout. Kentucky leads 3-0 going into the bottom of the fifth.

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Kentucky Sports Radio here. Kentucky hit a home run during the break. Now up 4-0 in the bottom of the fifth against Arkansas and a chance to knock Arkansas out of the tournament. Here's why this would also be a big deal for Kentucky. Right now, if the NCAA tournament were to start today, they probably would be the number two seed in the tournament. I think if they lost today, the team most likely to pass them is Arkansas. so maybe by beating Arkansas,

you ensure they don't pass you in the overall seeds. And Drew, you might be able to lock in that number two overall seed in the tournament. Do you agree with that? I don't know where they're ranked and all the seating, but I know in the RPI, Kentucky's four, Arkansas's three. So we didn't think you could do a whole lot of resume building, but you beat Arkansas on the second day of the SEC tournament. That will help.

Yeah, D1 baseball, which has kind of been historically the most accurate, went into this tournament as Kentucky as the number one. one overall seed with Tennessee two Arkansas three but Tennessee and Arkansas both lost in the first round as well and then if you beat Arkansas who knows maybe you even have a shot at the number one overall seed if Tennessee were to lose tonight or something Tennessee's one loss from going home today it looks like if they win this one they play the loser of LSU and south Carolina tomorrow yeah we could play LSU again can play LSU again but they've already thrown they threw their really good guy yesterday. So like you wouldn't have to necessarily play

their really good pitch. First you need to win this one. One thing about Kentucky games we've seen over the years over this year, they're never over. Four nothing lead ain't safe. For either team, they are never over. We'll keep you up to date on it. 859-280 2287. One person writes, Matt, I see your frustration on Twitter and on the show yesterday about Antonio Reeves not being drafted. I'll make you

a prediction he's not playing in the league three years from now. I love him, but he can't play enough defense. I don't think he stays in the NBA. I'll take that bet. I think he, I mean, I'm all for projections, but let's be real. Who have we had at Kentucky in the last 25 years? Who could ball? I mean, really ball 18 points plus a game who's not made the NBA? Nobody. Do we know anybody? The only one might be Oscar. But first of all, Oscar's on a roster. But Oscar couldn't shoot.

And I feel like I wish Duran Lamb would last longer, but even he had a couple years in the league. I just don't see this. I don't see the scenario where you put that guy on a court and he's not going to make shots. He's I bring these numbers up a lot But like think about this stat

He scored double digits for us In every game but one You know many players in UK history Have done that Three There's only three players in UK history Have had an entire season Where they never scored less than 10 points in a game

Dan Isle Jamal Mashburn And I want to say Jody Meeks had a year Like that And that's it Wow. I feel like reason we were on those guys, and maybe people still don't believe in him. He'll go to the G League, average 20, 25 a game, and then a team will, like, give him a shot and he'll make it.

Do you think we will, like, in 10 years when you're ranking Caliperi players, will people even put him in the top 20? I think he'll be forgotten because his two postseason teams really didn't do much. But if you were ranking. That's a lot of the ways we associate the memories was what they did in the end. All right, let's do a ranking for a second. Would you rank him ahead of Robin Reed? Oh, for what they did on the court? Yes, yes.

Yes. For college, yes. No, for the NBA, no. But if you're ranking what they did in college, he's definitely ahead of them. Should have been a consensus all-American. He's not ahead of Oscar. Okay, but let's just keep going back years.

Is he ahead of anybody on the, is he ahead of everybody on the team? Did we score again? Yeah, scored one, scored two. Six-nothing Kentucky, all right. Okay, so is he ahead of everybody on the COVID team, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

All right, now go to the year before that. Maxie Higgins quickly. Is he head of those guys? Quickly was the SEC player of the year. That's a close one. I can hear both arguments there. Okay, just for sake of argument, let's put quickly. But I wouldn't even lean Reeves, though, I think.

I might lean Reeves too. He certainly had a Hagan's. Probably certainly ahead of Max. Go to the year before. Tyler Hero, P.J. Washington, Nick Richards, head of that group. For what they did? Yes.

My point is, I think if you're talking about who did more at Kentucky, you're going to have a hard time putting eight or ten guys ahead of it. Yeah. And yet, I just don't think he'll be remembered like that, unfortunately. I think as time goes on, we just, those other guys were more what you call a fan favorite. They came in with more excitement. their higher expectations, maybe a little more personality. I just think over time, and it's not fair to him because he's the leading score of the Calera.

I think he'll just slowly drop a little farther and farther down that list. I mean, if I'm ranking the best players at Kentucky this season, Antonio Reeves is number one. Reed Shepard is number two, and Rob is probably number three. But I think most fans that are not, like, their natural instinct would not be to put it like that. Absolutely. Flip it. But that's what it should be, right? Yeah, just so you could do it their production, their numbers on the court.

Antonio Reed's had one of the best seasons in the Cal era. That's exactly right. Hey, thank all of you very much for coming. You got to see an absolute, you got to see KSR and it's most raw, and you never know what's going to happen. We will tomorrow be in Somerset at Don Franklin Nissan. Hopefully the tech will work better. We edited a lot of the bad stuff out of the podcast,

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