KSR - 2024-07-22- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: July 22, 2024

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Now, here's Matt Jones. Myron McHap, Hour 2, that first hour went pretty fast, right? That's good, man. It's been fun to be here. It does fly by when you're here, yeah. Yeah, we were talking about, like, Drew and I, how lucky we are that we, We didn't have social media in college. You know, that wasn't, no one knows some of the stuff that happened in college.

And I think we got really lucky. I think we're kind of the last maybe generation that didn't have because I was telling him, I used to sell CDs. Like so my buddy, my roommate had a burner. So I would like buy a CD at Sam Goody. I don't remember Sam Goody back of the day. And then I just go spend the Saturday. Did you work at Sam Goody?

I worked at Sam Goody. Every Tuesday, right? It was when they used to read. release CDs on Tuesday. Okay. I don't know when it became Friday, but it used to be Tuesday, and I go by whatever the hottest CD was. I spent a Saturday morning.

I go to Walmart and get 60 CDRs, and I'd just be burning them all day. And then I go on campus, and I'd just be giving CDs seven bucks a pop. Are you the guy in the street corner selling the CDs? That was me. I didn't have like a jacket where I went around, you know what I mean? But I had like a, you know, I had like an album, you know, like those CD albums and like, yeah, if you wanted whatever the hottest CD was, you know. It took like three hours to burn a CD, I felt like, though.

You know, it took a long time. The worst is when one would just be too long to fit on your blank disc. You had to, like, leave off the last track or something. Yeah, yeah, I gave some incomplete album, definitely. And you got to have good handwriting. That really helps your business if your handwriting is good on that CD. Well, I had a buddy with a burner. Like, I mean, I'm up.

I didn't, he didn't actually, like, for a part of the profits. You know, I thought he'd want to cut. He didn't. He just let me use his burner. So I shout out to Dave. So I went to Peach Jam Saturday and I went to Peach Jam

because I was literally chasing Mark Pope so I was set to come here on Friday I was going to have a sit down with Mark Pope for a part of a story I'm doing for ESPN Monday, Deb in communications calls me and she's like, hey, I'm really sorry Mark has to be at Peach Jam, right? Like he was going to stay, I think, for the TBT

and do some other stuff. He's like he's got to go to Peach Jam. So sorry, it's not going to workout. So I'm like, I'm just going to chase him at Peach Dam. You know, like, what option do I have? So I change all my flights. I go down to Peach Dam and I'm just kind of like, you know, not stalking Mark Pope, but I'm just shadowing him a little bit. You know, like I saw him at first in the gym and I say, hey, hey, Mark, you know, I didn't want to be too, you know, weird about it. You know, he was doing his thing. And then I just kind of followed him to another gym and sat down with him for like 45 minutes,

I'd say it was cool. There was sort of this moment, right? where Mark Pope walks into this gym and Chen Coleman, the former staff is on the sidelines and they kind of cross paths, right? They don't say anything to each other. Not in like any animosity, just, you know, cross paths. And it made me think about sort of the changing of the guard that's happened because it was just unique to see Mark Pope Kentucky coach at Peach Jam versus seeing Mark Pope, BYU coach a year ago. It's a different thing. There were some extra fist bumps. You know what I mean?

There was some extra, you know, daps with him and people wanting to talk to him. But I'd say the thing I noticed the most, and a lot of people noticed with Mark Pope is at Peach Jam is basically a social event for coaches. Like, you ever been to these events? Coaches are like, wow, the season's over. I've been playing golf. I'm probably playing some more golf after this event. And they're just mingling and hanging out and talking to each other. That wasn't Mark.

Mark was sitting front and center in the very first seat you could sit in on the cord. It kind of making it clear like I'm here to work. Like it was interesting because not that he was friendly with everybody, but you could tell that he was sort of presenting the image of, I'm here to work. Yeah. Like I don't know why everybody else is here at Peach Dam, but I'm here to get players, you know?

And it was just sort of fascinating to see that image with him, that he wasn't really doing what some of the other coaches were doing and kind of the social thing, but that he made sure he was the first seat at every game, you know, the booze are twins, all the other top prospects. He's the first seat on the court. And then when he got to the other gym, he's sitting front and center,

but he's not like, you know, talking to people about their summer trips and vacations or anything like that. He's just there to work. And I thought that was a really, it made an impression for people that were there who noticed that Mark was there on business. that was not a vacation for him at all.

At other events leading up to Peach Jam, he had a big binder in his lap. Do you have his binder with him? Not only to have a binder, right? He was on the phone. I counted for like 20 minutes straight. Like he's literally just picking up the phone, hanging out. Picking up the phone.

He's just on the phone the whole time. So he's either watching guys on the phone, doing both, but there wasn't a lot of like, let me go mingle with, you know, you saw Cal and you know Scott Drew and all of the coaches who are sitting there on the sidelines kind of talking hanging out but but Mark wasn't wasn't doing that he was front and center for everybody to see I'm here yeah the head coach of Kentucky if you don't know now you know and I'm here on business and I thought you know I'm not saying he planned that but

it just felt like if he were trying to come into this job and everything that you that comes with that and to say, I'm here to outwork everybody around me. I think that's what he was showing in an event like that. That he wasn't doing what a lot of the other coaches were doing at that event. I thought it was a unique thing. Because you're right. You know, the coaches are famous for going to that Hooters down there. They go to the Peach Jam, but then they all go to Hooters and socialize.

It's a big socialized event for coaches. And Pope, you know, from what you just told me, he's down there for one thing. And that's to get his, get better, get his team better, better players. He was working. You know, and again, he was friendly to everybody. People came up to him, you know, wanted to shake his head and all that. He was friendly to everyone. But you could tell he was at this gym and then he was going to the next gym and then the next gym.

So what was it like when you sat down with him then? Oh, he was great. You know, I mean, I think the thing about him is he is so self-aware. Like, you think about what he experienced, right? You go from Cal leaving and all of the drama around that to a whole bunch of candidates who were not named Mark Pope. Yeah. that people want it. And then you don't get those guys.

And then you get to Mark Pope. And certainly there were some people who felt like you'd settled in some ways, right? You could have gotten someone else. So he's seeing all that and taking all of that in. And I think it was really amazing, like how he talked about that. Like he told me, like he was like, yeah, I was aware of some of the people who were doubters or critics. And he said he made it a purpose for him.

him to actually reach out to some of those people. Like, so he's been like calling some of these haters who were people in the beginning who didn't support him and being like, I can win that person over. And I think that's just his personality is I think he sees anyone who's like, I doubt this or I have questions about you. Instead of being like, I'm the head coach, take it or leave it, he's really trying to bring people together. And I told him directly.

I said what you did from the day cal left. to that bus was one of the most remarkable transitions I've ever seen because no one would have no one would have thought you would have had that moment his name didn't even come up you know and and the night before the night before cow leaves he's at the final four hanging out with cal and tubby yeah at the hotel bar takes a picture right and then his life changes the next day but I think his transition from what happened there to the bus it was just an amazing I think how we put everyone together, and he called it like a family reunion, that he sort of brought people together around the sport, around the history, around the legacy, and not around him.

He didn't want to do the bus initially because they were just going to bring him and his family off the bus. So initially it was going to be Mark Pope steps off the bus with his family. His girls were a little bit like, well, we want to see everything. We don't necessarily want to come off the bus. And Mark doesn't want to be the center of attention, right? So he asked some, like, Kentucky officials, Like how many former players and people are going to be there?

Like he was thinking a couple. You know, he's thinking like a handful of people and they're like, if a couple means a couple hundred or whatever, then maybe that's what a couple means. And he gets there and all of these people are there from all these different generations and he's like, I want everybody on. Yeah. And he told me his favorite moment wasn't actually walking off the bus.

It was everyone getting on. And he was saying just like seeing all the people. generations of players get onto the bus and kind of what that signified. But I just told him, I said, whatever you did from the decal left to that moment, people will remember that forever because you somehow pulled that off, and I still don't know how he did it. Because how many people showed up to Rupp? It was full.

Or 20,000. They had curtains up to not use the top. They were only going to use one side, and I was there. I mean, they were already filling the other side quickly. Yeah, I didn't realize the curtain thing. They were getting rid of the curtains in like real. time. I guess people are coming in.

They're taking the curtains away because all of a sudden there's going to be 24,000 people there. And then I was told, too, that there were so many people that I guess a bunch of people couldn't get in. So there was like a whole crew of people in the hotel lobbies around here who were just watching on TV. And I was like, you know, Mark kind of like brushed it off a little bit. Like, yeah, it's not about me.

It's about everybody else. That's his whole thing. Like he doesn't want you to give him credit. Like I said, Mark. I haven't seen you stop at all since you took the job. And he's like, well, everybody's doing it. Like, Mark, everybody ain't. Everybody.

One of one. Everybody's actually not doing this. I don't know if you've looked around the room. There's some folks been playing a lot of golf, which is okay. But he is really selfless and self-aware. And at least at this stage, I haven't seen many coaches take on a job of this magnitude and have that same sense of self-awareness. knowing what I'm up against, knowing everything that comes with this job.

Yeah. You know, he said it, listen, this is great, but we got to play the games. You know, like he doesn't shy away from the reality of we're going to tip off in a couple months. And, you know, I got to live up to the hype and do my job. So I thought that was fascinating. So when does your story come out? Sometimes before this season. I got it right at first, which, you know, get it all together.

You get me all excited. I want to read it now. Yeah. Well, I mean, it was, I'm glad I got them. Because like if you if you fly to South Carolina and you don't get them, now you got to make that call to ESPN and be like, uh, sorry I tried,

but I, like when me, if you send me to a place to get a story, like I would have followed him to his car. You know what I mean? Like not in a, not in a weird way, but like,

you know, I would go to the end until you actually had, would have to tell me like, get away from me. But he was great. No, I sat down with him at a game. We were just hanging out talking and,

and I just think a lot of people, at Peach Jam we're talking about he gets it that's what you heard from a lot of people at peach jam like what do you think about mark pope he gets it you know and i think that's something that will go a long way for him as he takes on a job that's unlike any job in college basketball i think there are only two or three jobs in college sports like this Alabama i think is football football you know Kentucky basketball and maybe duke basketball are the only close one yeah sorry to mention duke okay i'm not tweeting about it i'm not i'm not i'm not i'm just mentioned in the name.

They're going down on November 12th. I can't wait to be at that game in Atlanta. But I just thought it feels like Mark Pope checks a lot of boxes at this stage. But also he understands you get to December and you're not rolling. You know what? This fan base is going to let you know about that way. You know what I mean? So what have you all thought?

What's been your first impression so far of him? Winning and losing will decide how he's viewed. I mean, if they finished 10th in the SEC, we're going to forget that he was front row of peach jam real quick. But I keep saying if it works with Mark Pope, it will be better than it would have been with a Hurley or any name out there. If Pope wins at the level Kentucky wants to win, you cannot bottle up all the other stuff that he has with him. His energy, personality, the nostalgia, it's not just the bus. These former players have been coming to practices.

Tubby was in on a practice. That's just why if it works out with Pope, it will be the absolute best case scenario. Yeah. You know, the Thursday night that it leaked that he was the guy, the majority of the fan base was kind of disappointed. I called him chicken tenders. I said Mitch Barnhart went to the steakhouse and got chicken tenders. So the next day, we had a live show the next day,

and Mitch Barnhart came on that show. And by the end of that show at noon, I think everybody's perception completely flipped that quickly, and we're all on board because they realized, you know, he's one of us. He gets it, man. We got our team back. It was amazing how it went from Thursday night until, Friday afternoon.

Well, I mean, looking like what he did, I cover, you know, the BYU, Kansas game when they upset Kansas in Lawrence. That BYU team was picked and finished 13th in the Big 12. And they finished the top of a fifth. Yeah. Right. I mean, so if you look at like his resume, he's won. Oh, yeah. Consistent, which is not easy to do.

At BYU. Yeah, I don't think it's a matter like coaching, you know. It's obviously, this is a tough league. You can be really good and still not be good, you know, because there's so much competition in the SEC. see. And I think that to me is the thing he's up against because you're just so many teams in this league can win a championship. But he has all the right answers, man. And I was just impressed by like being able to go through what he went through in terms of people doubting him and not making that his thing. Because I mean, he could have. Like he could definitely be the coach who

could be like, yeah, all these people didn't think I could do it. And then I go out and get these recruits and look at me now. He doesn't have that attitude. And I think that's really helped him in terms of how he's been perceived. But at least at Peach Dam, I can tell you, Mark Pope, there was a set of seats. There was like a bleachers, right, where all these other coaches are, cows there, mingling with different people. And then there's this other section.

And he wasn't even in the section where he was talking to the other coaches. One seat, he's there, Jason Hart, is in the next seat, and they are making it clear to every recruit on that court. We're here. We're here to watch you. We're here to work. You know, all the other stuff is, secondary to why we're here.

So I just thought that was a really strong, strong message. One more thing from the weekend before we take this break. It's unrelated to Pope, but it's his players. Them showing up for both those games and cheering the way they did, did a lot for this transition we're going through. I mean, they're mingling with the current players. Of course they practice, but you know, that was already set up. They don't have to hang out after games like we're seeing.

Andrew Carr, Kerk, Risa. Lots of those guys were cheering louder than most of the UK fans in Rupp Arena. And that was just really cool to see them show up twice. I'm sure they'll be there tomorrow night. I've even heard Pope, you know, he had a peach jam now. He'll probably pop in there Tuesday. So I also think that's been big for the fan base to see that. For the ones that were worried that the Cal players might not get all the way in,

the TBT has helped bond that bridge, so to speak, as they come together. After the break, I want to talk about that because I talked to all of those players about that last night after the game. So we'll come back after this break. Last night, a blown call changed the 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.

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Bowsowsows a good song. Back here on KSR, we got a call. Yes, let's go to Stu. Stu, what's you got for us on this Merry Monday? Morning, guys. something that made you happen well yeah waking up this morning listen a weekend a weekend from the release of uh the college football in 25 I want to I want to update from Drew on how it's going on the game is he made a dynasty team is he good to go I'll hang up and listen appreciate you

had to do this I'm very disappointed I've played it but not nearly as much as I'd like yeah number one I spent a lot of the weekend at TBT and Rupp Arena yep and before that we a busy week. I've only played two full games of it just so, you know, get on and hit play now, have it jumped into Dynasty mode, but I I'm loving what I've seen of it, and I wish I'd had more time to do it. What about you, Meyer, you've been playing it? I play

one game, you know, and so I tried to like, I'm not a video game person. There's levels, right? There's like legend. Yeah. Heisman, All-American, varsity, junior, varsity. I'm playing on All-American, by the way. Okay, so I tried to go up to All-American and see, you know, if I still have a little bit of

skill. Yeah. First two plays. I realize I'm not in All-America. And I just keep going down and down until I got to admit, I'm playing on freshmen. That's the level where I'm comfortable. You got to work your way up. That's where I win. And I'm not sticking to any, I'm just scrambling right and left and running eye formation. Like that's it.

I play with Wisconsin, and that's all we do. You know, so I keep seeing these things on Twitter. That's all Wisconsin does. Yeah, well, exactly. Exactly. But I keep seeing these Twitter tutorials and people are like, hey, if you hit the left, stick and you go up and go left. I'm like, listen, I'm playing on freshman.

I just, how do I run the ball? How do I throw and catch? That's at the level I'm at. You know, some of this stuff is too sophisticated. In my early games, I can move the ball. Dane and Barryman Brown got a little BoJack and Techno bowling them. They are some go-to receivers and Chip Trainum's great

running back on there. But when I'm on defense, I am just getting carved up. Can't stop a noseblee. Tennessee's got a no hurry-up offense. I played Tennessee just to whip up on them and lost. That's not how it was supposed to go. So I got to figure out the defense and the RPO is a little advanced for me, but I need to get back on it. I miss it. You might want to try playing on freshmen. That's all I'm saying. Again, I started All-American. I was like, let me see

how hard it is. And then some linebacker from Ohio State just destroyed us. You know, like came through, hit my quarterback. It was like third and 49 or so. I just said, you know what, I'm not going to embarrass myself. Let me just go back to the basic level. Are you You like on the game with the heads? Oh, I don't do that. I know, no. I just jump on when I can. I'll start a dynasty soon, but it'll just be an offline playing by myself.

One thing I've worried, though, first time having real student athletes on there, I don't want to get mad at the actual people. That's true. Brock Vandergriff got sacked like nine times, and I'm livid when really I'm the one that's supposed to be getting rid of the ball. It has nothing to do with him, but I'm sitting there like, he's got to get this cleaned up in camp before the season gets real. He's got to get rid of the ball faster.

And then there's a few freshmen. that are just on there that who knows what they'll be. They haven't had a camp yet. But they've made a few big plays for me, and I already have unrealistic expectations for them that I don't think they'll live up to. So I'm going to see in the fall and be like, why aren't you blocking kicks like you were for my game? So it's weird turning off the real player thing.

Yeah, again, I'm playing Wisconsin. I play the game against Georgia. I've been trash talking Georgia a lot. Like, you just, you know, just because we're winning. You know, again, I'm on freshman. So it's not like real Georgia, but I find myself like developing like a yeah I don't like them even though it's just the game you know so I got to be able to separate the two I think but but it's it's fun I just don't want to get on the headset and end up playing some 17 year old you know I mean he's calling me peanut head and he's up 57 to seven and now I'm getting mad now my whole week is ruined because some 17 year old and I would call me peanut head and was throwing seam routes all day so like I think I should stay off the on the only online element of it and just stick to playing freshman,

playing like sort of the exhibition games and then being done. I think it's also already a bad look for me when it's like, yeah, I probably should mow or clean the kitchen. I'm going to get a game in. So I'm already doing that. My wife's probably like, why are you playing this? I certainly don't need to be in there yelling at a 12-year-old telling him he can't cover me anything. So I don't think I'll commit to the online either.

What do you think about these guys who are taking off work and we're doing like four-day marathons? Lucky. Right? Yeah. I want to do a 10-week vacation and play it. I mean, are you cool? Like, do you think people should be, absolutely?

Their partners and spouses should be cool with them going three to four days and playing the game and not doing anything else? I mean, don't completely put everything to the side and, you know, ruin your marriage. But, you know, if that makes you happy. Video games, because they keep your mind busy, if you are stressed, it does, it is a nice escape if you're doing it in moderation. Or if you want to do 24-7, I'm not your dad, but I got no problem with it. I'm cool starting it.

Like, the game just came out. You're playing. hours and hours. But if you're over the age of 30 and you've got like real life stuff, you shouldn't be playing on Tuesday at 2 o'clock. You know, that's like, that's a little much for me. Once you hit that age, you know, I'm seeing guys my age who are, you know, playing the game all day. They're tweeting about it. It's like, go to work. Yeah. Okay. Go to work, man. Get out of the house. And in Dynasty mode, you have to recruit and stuff. I don't want to be at the breakfast table and then I'm thinking about some fake Juko kid in the portal in the other room on

my TV that has no real impact on life whatsoever, but I don't want that stressing me out. No, no. And I don't, like I say, I don't want to argue with anybody, you know, through the screen, you know, because you can say whatever through the screen and then you get upset and then that's your whole week. Did I have you said with that minute? Was it a minute or do you say we got a break? Okay, we got 30.

We got 30. Brock Vandergriff does need to get the ball out of the stance faster. Yeah. Got to be quicker. How do you do the option, man? You got a tap? Yeah, a little lateral. The RPO is what's tricky.

I'm going to have to get some practice in that. You know what I realized? I don't even know all the buttons. I realized. It's an issue. There are buttons that they're telling me to push. I don't know what that button. R3.

What's R2? I don't know. We'll be back after this. 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.

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presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. You all have no idea how many times I've almost like stepped on that read and just started talking. Like, I get ready to talk, and I have to remember, like, wait a minute, no, there's a read here. I think Shannon sits here with his finger on the button and just kind of, he feels it. He knows when we get ready to talk, boom. Well, he knows I'll step on it.

Like, he knows at this point, like, I'll just talk. Well, you can talk. I got your mic off, so you'd be just, you know, talking to yourself. You got to really be instructive with me, you know? That's how I was in school. Like, it was like, you got to tell me all of the instructions, or I'm going to skip steps. I don't think you talked over it one time all summer, though. You've done a good job.

He's done a good job. I think the first couple shows I may have. This is our Whiskey Thief song today, Darius Rucker. Anytime he plays Darius Rucker, it's going to be our Whiskey Thief song. Hootie? Is that Hootie? Is that Hootie? Yeah, it is Hootie.

Don't call him Hootie. He's Darius. He's Darius. He's Darius. What's the – It's not a negative thing. Darius Rucker. He's not –

He's not Hootie. Well, he went by Hootie at one time voluntarily, right? Yeah. I was at the Super Bowl, and he played. And it was like everybody went crazy, you know, when he – Because he's awesome. Yeah. when he came out.

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I did try to tell him. I saw Darius Rucker at the Final Four sprinted towards him from a long way away to get a selfie to send Ryan. pull the phone up, we smile, we're both looking at it, and we watch my phone die together before I could get the pictures. So I tried, Ryan. I tried. That might be a Darius Rucker song, you know what I mean? His phone died?

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You're good at reading those reads. I always feel like when I read them, I sound like the sham wild guy selling like 2 a.m. on an infomercial, you know, 14 easy payments of $9.99. That's how I sound. Or like, now that's what I call music. You remember those CDs? Oh, yes. I mean, 88 CDs, right, for $10.

It's a bargain. It was amazing. And then you go sell them on the street corner of Minnesota State. Incredible, man. But I always, when I read those, I feel like I'm being like an infomercial guy, you know? I got a question for you. Question for me? Yes, this is from the A Vision Glass text machine.

This will be our Kentucky branded text of the day from Christina. She's sitting right there. Oh, Christina, right there. Ask Myron, what are we supposed to do with our pictures with Cal? Do we delete them like an ex-boyfriend off of all of our social media? That's a good question. We were talking about that. I mean, it starts with a relationship, right?

Like, I think if it was a very meaningful relationship and you had a lot of good times and things ended on a, you know, a good note, There's no such things as a mutual breakup, by the way. I hate when people announce, like, we mutually, somebody broke up with somebody, okay, at the end of the day. That's what happened. There's no mutual breakups. But I think if you had some good times and some really good moments

and things ended okay, I think you leave up the pictures, right? But, you know, things didn't end so well. Yeah. So, you know. Now you got a new boyfriend and Mark Post. That's the thing, you know. I think it's more about, like, how you talk about the X than it is, about stuff like that.

Because I think people understand you have a past, you know, and if someone's scrolling down my Instagram and they see whatever from 2017, okay, what are you going to do about that? That was something in the past. But you don't want to be posting new old photos.

You don't want to be like looking through the phone and you realize you got a phone with a picture with you and Cal and you posted on Saturday. That's not going to be a good luck. But I think you can just post your new photos as you get them and then people will realize that everybody's moved on. I'm keeping all mine.

I mean, everyone that listened to the show knows I was ready for something new, but you can't take those first years away from me. I mean, that's why this weekend was so fun, seeing the Harrisons, Willie. You mentioned Poitris. A lot of people didn't know this. He's not on the team, but walking to Ruperina, and there he is sitting in the crowd. E.J. Floreal, a lot of those guys from that era have been back this weekend, and it's really brought up some nostalgia for this fan of those golden years of Calipari era.

So I won't be deleting any photos of Calipari, even though I was ready for it to go the other way. Ryan, you deleting photos? I think you guys kind of hit it, man. That's just, you know, those are the glory days, man, when he was first here, you know. We have pictures up with Cal still here. Here's Matt and Cal and Anthony Davis, you know, right here. We're not going to take these down.

I was going to add, as a sports bar, we did move him a little further back because we have Patino photos back there, too, Joe B. So right here, there's a new Pope one at the front of the entrance. So we didn't take it down. We just redecorated it a little bit. Yeah, I mean, like, to me, I don't think it was a, a bad relationship. I think it was a good relationship that ended badly, right?

Is that a fair way to kind of characterize it? Yeah. How would you see it? Yeah. It was the right time for both teams, both sides to walk away. Yeah. You know, it was just the right time. So we can still remember the glory days, even though it kind of ended with the bad taste in our mouth.

And one day there will be a day. Maybe he probably won't come back to this show. But, you know, everyone in Big Blue Nation, there will be a day where Cal comes back and we can all have a John Wall shot together and talk about the good times. It just, we need a little something different here recently after the last few seasons. Yeah, listen, if I went to Mexico with somebody, I'm leaving up my Mexico photos. I ain't got nothing to do with you. I went to Mexico.

And you might have been there, but I'm not taking down photos or people will Photoshop stuff. You see these people? Oh, yeah, yeah. Have you seen this? People will Photoshop people out of real photos. Like, we saw you two together. We literally saw it, and then they will Photoshop them out of the photo. I'm not doing all that.

I'm not sitting there somebody to take the photo. No, I went to Mexico with you that we're going to put it up there. I'm going to leave it up. People can say what they want to say, and I'm going to move on. It should be that simple. We got a call here. Who's our caller? Let's go to Terry.

Terry, what's up on this Merry Monday? Hey, Myron, a few weeks back you were talking musically about Al Green and Teddy Pendergris. But I think there's one that was left off. Who is that? Ray Charles. I love this guy. Yeah. I love Ray.

He's just, I mean, he dipped in the country a little bit, and then he's got his rhythm and blues that he did. He's really good. I just wanted to get on and give Ray a thing. Also, Lou Rawls was also very good. I love Lou Rawls. No, those are legends. No, thank you for the call.

Those are legends. I mean, Ray Charles, if you've ever seen Ray the movie where Jamie Fox, it's incredible. Very good. Like how well he plays Ray Charles. Like, it's scary. And in the movie, if you see, you know, the makeup on Jamie Fox, he glues his eyes together. Like, that was what they did to make him, like, know what it's like to be blind.

Like, so he'd be on set with his eyes glued shut. And he'd have to make his way around. And to, like, test if he was doing a good Ray Charles. He would call Ray's family members. and like as Ray Charles and like they couldn't tell the difference it was that it was that good so no Ray Charles 100%

Lou Rawls is incredible I'm just partial to Al Green you know Al Green is just I used to fall asleep this is how much of an old soul I am right I used to fall asleep to the Al Green's greatest hit CD in fifth grade I'm not even kidding to you everybody knew MC Hammer

can't touch this I knew I'm so tired of being alone I just, that was just my thing, you know, with Al Green. So I appreciate that. That's why you're romantic at heart. I think we found out about it. Yeah, I mean, you know, like my fifth grade breakups were different. You know what I mean? I'm listening to Al Green and going like, wait a minute, baby, come back.

You know what I mean? I went through a Barry White phase when I was young. Oh, yeah, the voice. It was even like the record. You had to put the little needle on it, a little can't get enough of your love, baby. The voice. He had the voice. You know what I mean?

Like Isaac Hayes had the voice. had the voice, you know. So I wish I could sing like that. Like I would have just done it everywhere. Malls and churches and airports. Burning your own CDs is your songs? 100%. So you've got one more Monday, so we'll make it Ray Stevens Monday.

Okay. Your last Monday, that was my special request. We did all your other favorites. We'll do Ray Stevens. Ray Charles. Ray Charles. Okay, I'm like, hold on a second. I'm there another Ray.

Myron Ryan usually has one of those moments once a show, so we had to let him get it out. I was going, Ray Stevens. I'm like, I don't know a Ray Stevens, but I'm down to listen to him. There is the singer Ray Stevens. Yeah, he's the one. Is there a singer? You know, what does he sing?

He liked those parody songs. He's like a comedian. Oh, like an owl. Weird Al. Weird Al. Yeah. Yeah, he did the streak. Oh, yes, they call it the street.

Okay. Boogie dead, buggy dead. Ray Stevens. I don't know that song either, but I trust you. We'll do it a different day when you're not here. Yeah, I trust you. Ray Stevens, kind of like Ray Charles. Ray Charles.

Similar level. Yeah. Right. You know. Metal Arc Limon, Ryan Lemon, Ray Charles, Ray Charles, Ray Stevens. I get where you're coming from. Okay. I respect it.

No, this has been a ton of fun, man. I'm glad I've been able to do this. We talked about the bridge between the current players and the past players. I talked to Willie, the Harrison, Eric Bledso, all those guys. The one thing they said about Mark Pope was they said Mark has reached out and been like, whatever you guys need, let me know. Everybody says that, right?

That's just what you say as a person in Mark Pope's position. But, like, they all said, like, no, he's followed up and been like, let me know, you know what you need. And I think that's a big thing for the Cal guys to come back and to compete. There's been a lot of rumors about this practice between La Familia and the current team. We've heard everything. They won by 50, lost by 50. They tied. Yeah, I mean, from everyone I've talked to, it was a pretty competitive.

game. And then at the end, they did the Elam ending thing, which is just a weird way to finish a basketball game. It's just not orthodox to do it that way. And that's when the current team kind of took off, right? But I was told it was really competitive. I mean, you see Eric Bledsoe, like that dude can still play a lot of quality minutes for an NBA team right now. Right now. You know what I mean? The Harrisons are in incredible shape. So you still got to deal with what we call Stein and just sort of the natural athlete that he is. But it sounds like it was really competitive. Lamont Butler, I was told as a guy who really has been the leader, kind of in that locker room.

He's a big Eric Bletzo fan. You know about that? No. Yeah, so he had a picture that he took with Eric Bletzo, when Eric Bletzo played with the sons, and Lamont Butler was 10 years old. So before the practice, Lamont Butler's super nervous because that's not just Eric Bletzo. that's his childhood hero, right? So, like, he was nervous to go out there and compete.

Wow. It gets Erim Bledso, and then, like, he gets out there and he sees him and they take a picture. But, I mean, it's such a cool moment. But everything I've heard about Lamont is that he's been a really good leader and that they'll really turn to him to be kind of that veteran voice in the locker room as you're trying to bring everybody together. Jackson Robinson. Listen, his ceiling is he's a pro, right?

I mean, here's his opportunity to show that. Right. together and to do it in the SEC. Because if you do it here, then you are a pro, right? No one denies that in a league like this. So it's going to be fun to watch. I want to piggyback something you said about Pope and the players because when we had all the TBT guys on here, Drew asked one of them.

Remember who it was? And they said, Pope gave us all his cell phone number. Like he went to all the TBT guys and said, hey, man, here's my number. If you ever need anything, call me. You know, you don't have to go through the right channel. Just call me. I thought that was pretty cool. Yeah.

And a little different to that, but on Bledsoe, last night we even said this. TBT, we're all familiar. They were down at halftime. Bletso hit the We're professionals button. I think we're your words in that second half. That guy can still take over a game when he needs to. I'm not saying he's taking plays off. But when Bletso wants to get a bucket in this tournament, he's getting a bucket.

I mean, that's a dude who was a really good player for really good teams in the NBA just a couple years ago. Right. And you can see like, okay, TBT. and then you saw when he went to I'm Eric Bledso mode a little bit. And I mean, all of those guys, like I said, I think this is definitely the most talented team. I've seen Ohio State had a squad with like Greg Oden

and some other Ohio State guys. But, I mean, these dudes can still play. I mean, some of them, you know, not looking like the way they did a decade ago, but that's okay. Maybe not as quick. Maybe he can't jump as high, but still can play. Hey, man, hey, I understand going to that Waffle House

when you cross it. Okay, I'll get that. But it was just fun to watch, man. Those guys compete. And if they win Tuesday, which Marshall's a very good team. By the way, those guys been playing together. DeAndre Cain's incredible. It's like a career for them, the TBT.

I think they practice year-round for this. They have made some of those guys have won like three championships and like collectively like $6, 7 million dollars, you know, in the TVT. And the way they do it is everyone doesn't get the same amount of money. You know, depending on who you are, you might make more than the other guys. So they take it really seriously. But if they win, then they go play Lovell. Right?

I think they go play them. Louisville has to play tonight. They play a team called Sondline Cancer. To win, and they're good. Well, here's what Sondland Cancer did. They signed a new player. Jack Golky is playing against Louisville tonight. Really?

So I know that's a bad word around here, but we might have to get behind the kid from Oakland against the Louisville Cardinals because if he could spoil that fun in Louisville tonight, I'll forgive him a little bit for what he did in March, just a little bit. That's some drama. Yeah, they added him. He didn't even play in the first game for that team. They signed him because he was in Summer League.

He went to Summer League straight to TBT, so Louisville's got their own goal key issues tonight. His name is a cuss word around here now. She is. I feel bad just saying it. But now he's going against Louisville, I'll give him a little credit. I respect that. Did you say we've got to take a break? Is that what we're doing right now?

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We're back here, I don't know if that was a read or not. I wasn't sure if that was like a commercial. It sounded like a commercial jingle a little bit. This is Ray Stevens, the streak. Oh, this is, okay, okay. Not Ray Charles. Not Ray Charles. Little different than Ray Charles.

A little different. Both name Ray. Got a shout out. Corey and Kelly on their trivia win, right? Congrats on that. We got to add John, too. We didn't meet him last night, but John was a big part of that team. Coach John.

John also came through. They dominated. What kind of trivia was it? UK trivia. And we've had it twice this summer, and they won it both times. Nice. Yeah. Okay.

Congratulations. Corey Price is like the swab. He's like, oh, is he one of those dudes? Yeah. With the historic knowledge of everything. Good. Yeah. He's tough.

Yeah. Okay. Well, congrats on that. I'm glad to be here. This was fun. Give it up. I hope I don't know. I got to, uh, thank you.

I got to run. I'm doing another ESPN show right now. Had I been thinking, I would have been like I can't do it, but I obviously wasn't thinking that I got to try to make this Cincinnati flight, which I've heard 100% I'm going to make it. I've heard zero chance I'm going to make it. So I don't know. There's just two sides here of whether or not I'm going to be able to get to this Cincinnati flight and take off. So, you know, cross your fingers, say a prayer, whatever you've got to do for me. And then real quick before I go, I also want to thank my guy Matt Jones, who, you know,

know, him and I, for those that don't know, we host the NFL show, we host Sunday morning, we do the NFL pregame show, and this year they're actually taking us on the road. Yeah, he's excited about that. Yeah, different stadiums and doing some cool stuff. And we have so much fun on the show, man. And I think it's just a good example of opposites attracting. You know, a dude from Milwaukee and a guy from the mountains of Kentucky coming together. And, you know, I think it says a lot about what can happen when people are open-minded about

folks they meet and they give people a chance rather than judging them ahead of time. So I'm not trying to preach, but no, it's good. Thank you all. Thank you for having me. Get upstairs. You got three more hours of radio to do. I got more work to do, man. Thank you all.

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Good, but it got to be better. And if they can beat Louisville in ticket sales, they could still host if those two running each other. We're hoping Louisville gets knocked out tonight. But if they sell enough at Rupp, it could be more games at Rupp on in the tournament. And Alice Blue Gown Friday night here at KS Bar and Grill. So come for that. All right. We appreciate everybody coming out.

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