KSR - 2024-11-12- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

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jay met for the first time in 2007 they were students looking to go to to Atlanta to see the cats in the SEC tournament. They decided to ride together even though they didn't know each other. They became best friends on the ride and they were in each other's wedding. Wow. So maybe that's what will happen with Connor and Brady. I heard stories like that. Our friend Josh Hopkins was student Auburn and looked up and across the line in the

cafeteria was a guy named Scooter wearing a Kentucky shirt. Now they're lifelong friends. They just saw each other wearing UK gear at a different school. It's a weird than that. It's cool. So we're going to give away our six tick. World giveaway two tickets one of these six okay so let's go through the choices Garrett and Frankfurt said that he has hope in Pope and he said that he had even

more hope once he heard Cal making jokes and on his press conference he didn't he particularly like it one of them Austin said he called Drew's post game show he was the first caller and that he was a big fan in Austin in Evansville that's nice Clark pushed his grandma down because they lost Duke last time, and he's using this as a redemption story. Isaiah says his brother and he have been to games Kentucky has never lost when he and his brother are there. Samuel says his dad has done youth sports for 40 years, and he thinks this would be a nice reward from Williamsburg to take him to the game. And then Lincoln says he's a listener since Drew and I were doing. doing podcasts in the basement. That was now 15 years ago, and then he took a fathead of me

and Katina Pout to the Louisville, Georgia Tech game in 2011. Great choices, Drew, eliminate them one by one for me and why? Okay. I had one very easy elimination. I just cannot reward elderly abuse. I know you're trying to redeem yourself, and I believe in forgiveness, but I can't in good faith, pick someone that shove their own grandmother over these other five great stories. You can't go knocking your grandma down. I'm sorry that happened. I hope you learned a lesson, but you just cannot be rewarded.

You can't be doing that. Yeah. Lincoln and Chattanooga mentioned getting me on SportsCenter, which I remember well, but I have sports center trauma from Scott Van Pelt using my photo of the headphones that still follows me to this day. Mario put into TikTok just a month ago. It's a great photo, though. So the sports center connection, you thought it was going to go in your favor.

it actually triggered some memories in my brain. I still have definite memories of that day when Scott Van Pelt called me and said, look, I just want to warn you, we're talking about you and Drew tonight. He explained what he was going to say. He let me kind of give my side. I think that changed what he said a little bit.

I think he was nicer to us. Drew and I spent all day nervous about it, like all day. It was 12.30 at night. He starts talking about it. Drew calls me. I still remember where I was sitting and I was like, man, that turned out a lot better than I thought. Drew was like, where did they get that picture of me?

He was so upset about the picture that they used. There's a great video of me watching because I knew we were coming up. We were like a feature story and I'm right in front of the TV and I'm immediately like, what the hell is that? Still don't know where he got it. I thought it was the best it could have gone for us and you just couldn't focus on the fact that you had that picture. And it's still hurting people because it eliminated Lincoln. All right. What's next?

Who else? You know, they get pretty tough from there. We got the brothers that have never seen a loss. I considered them, but this is their first loss. I'm going to have to eliminate them. I just had some stories that it hit me a little harder. All right. So, Isaiah, you and your brother, still have an undefeated record, though.

So that leaves the guy who called Drew's Postgame Show, the guy who says, hope and Pope, and then the guy whose dad did 40 years in youth sports. I really struggled with these three. Ryan even saw me. I went to the bathroom for some privacy. I was in there in silence, just trying to focus on who I needed to be picked. Garrett, Austin, Samuel. I hate to eliminate this one.

Austin, that first post-game show was so meaningful to me. I remember your call, but I just had two more pulling me in the direction of this contest. All right, so Garrett and Frankfurt. And I want to add, though, they'd eliminate Austin hurt me. They really did. This is Austin. There's no joy in that. This is Austin, Shannon.

He still loves you. That's what. He was from Evansville. As the singer Blake Shelton once said, don't worry. Garrett and Frankfurt, Samuel in Williamsburg, who you send it. These are so close, and it's a 51-49 decision. I pulled a Ryan. The dad with the 40-year-old.

The dad in Williamsburg. It's more about, it's not even about the youth sports. That's why Ryan would have picked it. It's that Mark Pope is bringing generations together. Okay. His dad, I'm just guessing his age, probably was watching Jack Givens get 41 against Duke. He's probably a little younger, remembers Cameron Mills and Scott Padgett, and this can be a trip for them to come together to watch Pope and all this damn losing we have going on to Duke.

They're also by proximity, the easiest drive against Garrett from Frankfurt. But I want to say Garrett Frankfurt had me fired up, and it will continue to keep me fired up. His Calipari impersonation was really good, but his excitement and having the hope and Pope still sticks with me, and I might even listen to his call again before the game. I wish I could have sent him to, but the... I'm sure that'll make him feel better, saying it almost not. The father-s-son thing. Yeah, what a consolation.

I mean, we've seen it on the Sunday with Pope. These games, they're just an excitement that is bringing so many people together, and he and his dad can go down there and watch another generation. So now we know where to put Shannon Drew on the how you get him to win. He's a soft. That's right. He's more on the softie. So if you're going the softy scale, Ryan's the softest, then Drew, then me,

then Shannon and Billy's just a jerk. Like, that's the scale. At some point, we'll try Mario as well. All right, so let's put our winner on that, Samuel and Williamsburg. Samuel, are you excited? Oh, I mean, I'm thrilled guys. Three of a guys lifetime thing for us. What's your dad?

What's your dad's name, Samuel? George Davis. And does he live in Williamsburg as well? He does. 13th region. Now, you all got to get in the car. Go down there. This is all I ask.

Are you on Twitter, Samuel? No, I'm on Facebook, but on Twitter. Okay. Here, do this, Samuel. Go to the bond that bridge, so to speak, Facebook page. That's our KSR Facebook page. Bond that bridge. If you're not signed up for it, do it.

And do me a favor. Post some pictures of you and your dad on your trip on that page if you would, okay? Bond that bridge. I can definitely do it for you go. Bond that bridge, so to speak. I know it's kind of a weird name, but that's the name of the Facebook page. All right? All right.

I appreciate it. There you go. So that's very nice. Let the lesson in this be, don't shove your grandmother under any circumstances. We might differ on who should have won, but I think we all can agree that we shouldn't be shoving grandma. Yeah, that was just an odd. I don't know that I would have brought that up as my reason to go, right? That might be one, you know, we all have things that were shame.

Maybe we wish we had done. I'm not sure that was how I would have brought it. Then he backed it up by saying, and this is a redemption tour for my dad because he had to come home. Yeah, he had to come home because you pushed your grandma. Yes. Now, you're wearing a shirt that I think is kind of exciting for today. It's when Father Jim Chitko gave the Pope. Sitchco.

Sitchco. That's not how you pronounce his name. That's exactly the opposite. That's actually the opposite of how you pronounce his name. All right, go ahead. So I thought I was saving it for today. I wanted to wear it for today. So I think this is a perfect time to break this shirt out.

Okay, I'm tonight for the game. I'm wearing my national championship shoes. Are you? The banners painted on. Those don't get broken out a lot. No, they don't. Yes. Special night.

It brings out special shoes. Special night. 859-28027. Give us a call. I want to know how excited you are about the game tonight. Let's talk for a second about football. Mark Stoop says in his call, well, first of all, he did. He skipped his call-in show.

That's not a good one. That's never a good sign. Especially after he was so adamant about. I understood he missed last week. His mom's funeral. totally get that sent vince totally understand second week i don't know you know i mean there was there was a lot remember billy there was a period of time he would send jeff shepherd and former players and tubby did that as well and then cow started doing that joker did it in the last few weeks i don't know drew

that that's that's a even so early in the day he said they asked what are the chances you step away and retire and he said zero i bought it but then he skipped the post then he skipped the show so there is uh i don't know just on the skipping the show part and then we'll get into the zero percent i was a very critical of cal of doing that i think that was a bad look by stoops he's getting a lot of criticism that i think he probably should have seen coming especially coming after a by a week where they didn't even have a monday press conference they had shorter obligations a week ago and he had just missed another one for, as you said, you know, obvious reason that he should have missed it. But I think he should have been more likely to do that one for that reason.

And sending Vince, I think, is just a bad look. And he's deserving all the comments he's getting about that online. At first I thought, well, maybe he had, you know, recruiting visit, a really important recruiting visit. Well, then why did Vince do the show if Vince would be with him? Yeah, they never gave a reason as far as I know. I listened. Yeah, so I don't know about that. That's a little red flight.

But what about what he said? Okay, so there's the person to take it face value. You can sit down and wherever. Go ahead. Take it face value or the cynic. The face value person would say he said zero percent chance I retire. Zero. I mean, that's not like leaving it equivocal.

He's being fairly definitive. So there would be people who would say, why even talk about it? He answered the question. Then there would be people who said he said there's a zero percent. chance that he'd retire and walk away. The retire being the key word that there's a difference though between retiring or stepping away and still being open to coaching somewhere else. Do you think using the word retire mattered or are we just reading too much into it? I think it's just one of those scenarios where coaches say this because they have to and it really

has no impact on what's going on their head. I mean, we've seen coaches say they're staying and then leave 12 hours later. I think Stoops has three games left, and if he says anything other than I'm all in, he has to go look at a locker room with three games they need to win and try to fire them up, and they're thinking, well, you could be lean and leaving. So I think he had to say it at this point in the year. I'm not saying I believe that, that he's at zero percent. I think that's a decision he'll have to think on down the road.

But in this moment, I don't know what else he can say. I guess he could have said I'm only thinking about murder. state, but he just wanted to be definitive because they got recruits coming in. They're hitting the portal. I feel like that's the message he has to keep. Yeah, you have to say it in that situation. You know, at your weekly news conference, you get asked about your future, you still got three games left. You say, you have to say, I am not going to retire. I'm going to be here. Whether his head is really in it, I don't know yet. So my view is you're both kind of right. like the moment John Cal Perry went on television on a Tuesday, set next to Mitch Barnhart

and said, I'm coming back, looked them right in the eye and said, I want to retire here, and then took a meeting with Arkansas on Friday. That's where you just got to go. You can't really believe what these guys say about any of it. Right. Yeah. Like, you just can't. I mean, there's been very few more bold-faced lies than the Cowan.

I mean, those two were basically singing kumbaya. They did everything but hold hands. They did everything but hold hands. And behind the scenes, Cal was making moves to do things here in Lexington, and then next thing you know, he's gone on Friday. So, like, there comes a point that, I guess, like, why do we even ask? Because, like, you're going to, you know. My bigger takeaway was as John Wong was asking the question,

Stoops had a look. We don't see me. It's a look. He gives the referees after a bad call because he's kind of waiting. He knew where it was going, and he seemed upset that it was even brought up. Well, I think the question's perfectly fine. but I guess you just, I don't think you can really believe anything they say when it comes to that question. Because you're right. I mean, they have recruits here. So if he's like leaving open retiring, how do you get a recruit to come here? I think that's a fair point. He has to give that answer in that moment. Yes. So. And even though he seemed definitive, I mean, if they were to just in this year really poorly, there's no way he'd be, he'd at least think about it a little bit.

No, I mean, if they lose to Texas by 40 and then Louisville beats him by 20, I don't know how he comes. back. Like, so there is a sense of, oddly, I still think there's a lot to be determined, although Murray is awful. Yeah. They're bad. Has the spread come out yet? They don't do spreads for those games.

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We found out that Drew is a softy inside. And it was all because of their generosity. And they're going to get to see a win. That's right. This just feels different. There's an excitement we haven't felt in a while. We'll take a break and be right back. KSR.

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Welcome back. If you want some reading today, Mark Pope is at this moment, A feature story on ESPN.com and in the New York Times. The New York Times has just tweeted out a headline. At 37 with four kids and his wife's blessing, Mark Pope dropped out of med school and took an assistant coaching job at 24,000 for the year. Now he holds the keys to arguably the biggest job in college basketball.

Mark Pope in the New York Times. So see, this is the thing, and I don't say this to be rude to the former guy here. but Kentucky's the needle. Yep. That's the main New York Times account with like, let's see how many followers of Maine New York Times account. 55 million followers. Wow.

And here are the last, just to give you an example, here are the last five stories tweeted out. Okay. Why did President-elect Donald Trump win Arizona? Breaking news, Donald Trump's case in Manhattan. So-and-so climate change. 62 people detained in soccer unrest in Amsterdam, and Mark Pope is the new coach at the University of Kentucky.

I'm just saying that ain't happening everywhere else. That happens here, and good for him. Because it is just a good human interest story, Drew, that a guy would quit medical school to go do bad. That's awesome. Yeah, we've all been witnessing it for the last several months, but his hot start at Kentucky deserves all that tension, too, in addition to his story of how he got here,

and that story is going to get even better at about 1130 p.m. Meyer Metcalf, by the way, I have not read the story. It just went up on ESPN. Myr-Met-Kaff spent a week with Mark Pope, and his story, which he told me a little bit about all that happened. His story actually goes up today as well. So while you were gone, Meyer had shared a lot of what he was working on with the listeners on Monday. So I know everybody was excited.

So two big feature profiles on Pope today. You know, Cooper Flagg, we said he'd get all the attention. Maybe Mark Pope's going to be the one that gets the attention tonight. I've been actually wedding Myron's post on it on the story on Mark Pope because, yeah, he shared a little bit of tidbits, excited about what, you know, Mark Pope told him. And it's just a great success story. But how, if you're Leanne, his wife, like, you think you're going to be a doctor's wife, okay, you want to quit med school and be an assistant. At 37, too. With four.

We have four kids. At 37, I didn't really place that he was that old when he did it. I mean, that's not like, that's not a spring chicken to go change. And he wasn't just at some random hospital. They had a great life in New York City, and he went to Georgia for an entry-level basketball position that barely paid, and he's entertaining recruits at football games. I mean, I switched careers. I mean, I started the blog in 2005, but I actually fully stopped being a lawyer in 2010, and that was at 32. And that felt like a, okay, this better work.

you know, 37 with kids. That's a heck of a gamble. You got to love that. Betting on himself, right? I wonder if there were a lot of those conversations like, honey, are you sure you want to do this? Yeah, that's amazing. Who's up next, Shannon?

Let's go to Tracy. Tracy, go ahead, Tracy. Yeah, thanks for taking my call, guys. One of the best shows I've heard in a while, long time listening. Thank you, who are. And, like, I had somebody right just a second ago and say, this feels like the energy of your old shows. I agree with that.

I mean, listen, you can't fake being excited about a game or something. And it is that now. The top 10 bit you did that. I hadn't laughed that much in a long time. Well, good. Thank you. And on the last note, in good sports, I am an over 40-year fan of Duke, but this is still great. So you're a 40-year fan of Duke.

Do you live in Kentucky? No, no, I live in Virginia, but I'm over in Kentucky a lot, and I listen to you guys a lot. Oh, well, thank you. Well, let me ask you, if you're a fan of Duke, if you're a fan of Duke, what do you consider the game? Like, how do you look at it going into it? I think both of these are really good teams, and you're probably going to see it's going to be below 10. You know, being a Duke fan, I'm going to give them the edge. So what would you say?

And we talked about where we think Kentucky has the edge. Where do you think Duke has the edge? I think Duke has a very deep veteran bench with transfers. That may make a difference. Okay. Interesting. So they're deep. I actually think both teams then, if that's true, thank you for listening, sir.

If that's true, I think, you know, Drew, both teams are deep. I mean, I think we go 10 deep really solid. I'd say Almanor and Chandler have been better, maybe than, I thought they would be. I thought we'd go eight deep, and I think we're going 10 deep, and so that's good. Al-Manora's been a little better than you thought? Yeah, I don't. I mean, I didn't.

By the way, Mario is allowed to text me when Al-Manor scores. Y'all don't all need to text me on the text machine when Al-Manore scores. Like, I don't need everybody to do it. I can get them for Mario. I don't need everybody to do it. Get on the Al-Manore train. They do have a lot of depth, though. I mean, we mentioned the center that played for the Olympic team with Winnion,

but in their first two games, he split the three. time with his backup last name brown i mean they they have multiple bodies they'll throw in almost across the board outside of cooper flag playing every minute they can give him to give you a sense of how old mark pope when he was when he started his career duke's coach john shire is 37 right now and coaching duke so i mean like he was starting from scratch isn't it kind of unique those two meeting tonight both former captains on a national championship team now head coach of those schools that's such a unique job even have and then they're playing tonight. And both trying to replace a legend, which is historically in college basketball almost impossible to do.

I mean, if you go through history, you know, the amount of college coaches that have replaced a legend immediately and been successful is a tiny, tiny group. I mean, you could make a strong argument. Tubby's the best one in terms of, it just doesn't, it just doesn't happen a lot. I mean, like usually, like, Tubby and Joe B are the success stories. Yeah, we have two of the ones.

Like a lot of the, I mean, think about, Bobby Knight was Mike Davis, failed, right? Matt Doherty was Dean Smith, failed. It took a long time to get a wooden coach that succeeded. You had to get all the way to Jim Herrick to end up finding a coach that succeeded, and he cheated. You know, it's hard.

Bill Self has done a good job with it, but it's normally a very difficult thing to do. It takes a very special person to replace a legend like that, and it takes somebody, I think, that understands what it means to the fans. And I think Mark Pope and Schire both get what Duke basketball means and what Kentucky basketball means to their fan base. I mean, Huber Davis, outside of one NCAA tournament run, I think, has struggled.

He now had a heck of a run. They went all the way to the championship game with that. but you take that three-week run away, and they haven't had a whole lot of success during his time. We're going to take a break. Be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio. 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 to Kentucky Sports Radio. I saw a story Shane and made me think of you. What's up? Do you remember Will Forte on Saturday Night Live? Yeah. Will Forte did a podcast interview.

you. And he said that he, uh, when he was a teenager, he had a dream where someone said he would be killed like he would be, uh, stabbed when he was 73 years old. That's wild. So he remembered it when he was a kid. Then since then, he claims he has had multiple, uh, dreams and various things of being killed at 73, including, uh, he's, He went and saw at one point as a joke, he went and saw a fortune teller, and they said, you will be killed at 73. Dude, that is freaking. And he said that's now happened to him like four or five times.

And so he said there's a part of him, he's 54, that believes he has 19 years left. And he said, I know it's not rational, but it is hard for me not to continue to believe that I will die at 73. So, Shannon, if that had happened to you and you'd had multiple dreams in your life at 73. And then you went to a fortune teller and they told you 73. Would you believe it? I probably would. Like there's somebody trying to tell me something from a, I don't know, another universe or something.

That's crazy, though. I know like when I turned 73, I would wrap myself in like a bubble wrap or something. Would you just not go outside when you were 70? Probably wouldn't. Would you spend a year just in your house? Would you change what you did at 70? I don't know. If I had multiple dreams and then a fortune teller, I don't believe in fortune tellers, but if they told me 73 after I believed it was 73, that's a little freaky, don't you think?

I think so. What do you think? It seems a little more than just coincidence if it's happened throughout his lifetime. Like it happened when he's a kid, then it happens when he's adult, and it's the same age. That does seem a little freaky. I'm definitely taking 73 off the whole year. Close family can be allowed near me. Even then they're at a safe distance because I don't know who's stabbing me. You never know.

For 73, you're going to have a hard time getting near me. What's your take on it? I don't buy any of it, but it would be weird. Like, I mean, you would feel weird about it. And he said, he's like, I don't believe in this stuff, but at the same time there comes a point that you just keep thinking it's 73 and you can't help but be in your head, right? There's got to be a little part of it.

You believe it, I think, because it's happened so many times. I lived this scenario. with a friend. We went, well, let me back up. He went to a fortune teller, and they told him he would die in NASCAR race. And he's like, that's stupid.

I don't even like NASCAR. Two years later, our other friend had his bachelor party at Talladega, and he considered not going. Yeah, but that's dumb. I mean, that's just another. I think I'm with Shannon, the fact that it's a fortune teller

and you had a dream about it before. Like, if just some fortune teller tells you something, like that's, but you wouldn't be a little uneasy if the one told you a specific place you were going to die. You thought you would never go to that place, then something pops up? No, not a fortune teller.

But the combination of having the dream multiple times in his life and then a fortune. It like reaffirms. That's almost like two separate sources of nonsense coming together makes it double nonsense. But why would you be the lucky one to be able to know when you die and the rest of us just have to find out? That's why I ultimately wouldn't believe it. But at the same time, it's like we always talk about with ghosts. It's not that I don't think, I don't think ghost exists, but I understand the feeling of uneasiness that can come in a certain situation. I do understand that.

So if a fortune teller said a piano will fall on your head and you walk out and there's a piano hanging, are you walking under it? Or you can be like, oh, there's a chance they could have been right. I mean, if I felt like the piano was safe. And if you dreamt about dying from a piano falling on your head. But yes, if I dripped about a piano falling on my head. Somebody's trying to tell you something. And then I saw a piano, maybe I'll walk across the street. But also not going outside for a year is a little different than just missing a piano.

Like a year is a long time. And it's not him having the dream either. It's his friend that had the dream. No, he had the dreams. The fortune teller was different. He had the dream. Oh, I thought a friend of his said he told him that. Yeah.

No, that was not what it is. Who's next? Freebird. Freebird. How are you, Freebird? Hey, Matt, that monologue was one of the best ever, dude, when you were talking about all the big games. Kentucky's played in over the years.

That was spot on fantastic. And I got one more thing. This will be for Ryan. Man, I'm working down in Monticello, and you know what that means, don't you, Ryan? Monticello Pool Hall cheeseburgers. I had two yesterday, dude. They're fantastic. They are very, very good.

My wrestlers still talk about them. Our wrestlers talk about them every time we go to Monticello. I appreciate the call. When you, in terms of fans being excited about this, this is the first of five of these games in the non-conference. I mean, this is a great run of a schedule. I think the, you know, the next one is at Clemson. It won't have the buildup, but it's going to be just as hard. Clemson's good.

It's going to be on their home court. They're going to probably have an atmosphere. When I was doing ESPN in Chicago, there was a girl there that's in charge of the social media for ESPN radio's social media account. And when I said she was from Kentucky, she said to me, one of my favorite nights in college was Kentucky came and played at Texas Tech. You all remember that? That was the quickly year. We were watching it in a bar, I think, in Illinois. Quickly hit a half-course shot.

Quickly hit a shot. We beat them in overtime. But she said she was like at Texas Tech, Kentucky coming was a huge deal on campus. She was like that was the biggest game that you could have. It's going to be like that for Clemson. Like they're going to have that view down there that like this is the biggest. They have Duke there, but like this is going to be a big deal for them too. Yeah, they have the ACC opponents that probably get a little used to seeing that.

But they're coming off their best season ever probably with their tournament run a year ago. They have new basketball excitement that they've never seen. That place is going to be rocking. I'm honestly worried about that one more than tonight's game, even though tonight's Super Duke and Cooper Flagg. And then we go to Gonzaggart. Like, I mean, there's going to be. you know, there are three of these games.

If we assume we beat Louisville at home, you know, what we've talked about, I want to go three and two in these five. But you could make a strong argument that our hardest three are the first three. That the other two, Ohio State on a neutral court and then Louisville at home are easier than the three that we're kind of getting to start. If you could go two and one in these three games, that's huge. You would celebrate that, wouldn't you? I've thought this, if we win tonight, and I say this with love and I'm including myself,

we are going to be so unbearable to everyone that's not our fan base. And I'm looking forward to it and I'm going to participate. But we are going to be so obnoxious. Of course. Yeah. No, no, no. Like there's a level of obnoxiousness that we can hit that few people can. But it's fun.

And we haven't gotten to do it for a while. When like the 38 and O year and when things were really rolling, you'd just be in an airport staring at people wearing other stuff, yelling go cats at each other. You couldn't go out near a UK fan without. them bringing up how good we are at basketball. That's cooled off a little bit. If they win tonight, we will not shut up about it.

It's back. You're exactly right. Who's next? George. George. George, go ahead, George. Hey, brother. Long-time listener.

Who are? I just wanted to say you guys do an awesome job. Love listening to. He's been listening for a while now, but I'm a no way a fan of Duke. Let's get that out of the way. Okay. I've been a Kentucky fan for many years. my papal taught me and my brother who the bluest of blue truly is.

And I would probably have to go get at least a third opinion on the death at 73. Maybe go back to death clock.com. Give that a shot. Oh, I see. But see, I wouldn't want to know when I was going to die. Me neither. Would you? No.

Well, there's all. Uh-oh. Speaking of dying, I think the connection just definitely. I'm still right here, brother. You guys just dropped out there as soon as Drew started talking. Okay, are we here now? Yeah, I got you now. Okay, we're back.

Go ahead, sir. No, you're good. I was just saying you guys go ahead and ramble on. I appreciate the time to talk to you guys. Well, thank you for a rave. As soon as you talked about dying, the connection died. What about the comfort and not knowing you won't be dying today? Like, well, I got until 73.

I'm good until then. Yeah, but I feel like I would sit there if I knew the year, I would sit there going, I would be like, it's sort of like when you have to wake up. I don't know if you are like this. I don't sleep as well when I know a definitive time when I have to wake up. But if I can get up at any time, I just always sleep better. Like so if I, you know, like when we were off Saturday and I knew there was no particular time I had to get up, I just slept better through the night.

Yeah. But even if you tell me I have to be up at seven, I'm just. just not going to sleep as well. I just can't. I feel like if you knew there was a day you were dying, you couldn't help but sort of look at that date and go, well, I mean, yeah, I guess. Do I want to take this job? I only got a few years. You know, I think it would always be in the back of your mind, whatever you decide to do. It would be there. I have your own going away party? That would be nice. You go to draft kings, draft kings.com. We are going to do our draft king's picks, the Kentucky Duke game. Duke is a six and a half point favorite. Over under is 160.5, and then the over for Kentucky

is 77.5. Of those picks, the game, the total over under, and the Kentucky over under, Drew, what is your best bet tonight? I really like the over. Let me, I'm pulling up, make sure the team over still. I like both overs, really. I think Kentucky's going to have a hard time stopping Duke, and I think Duke's an hour time to stop at Kentucky. I think this game could have both teams in the 90s. It could be that crazy. So I really like the over. But I also love the cats.

I'll say the over for my answer, but I've already hammered the six and a half and the money line too. I'm very pro-Kentucky tonight. I would say to you, if you like Kentucky to win the game, then the bet I would make is to parlay the win and the Kentucky over. Yeah, they're winning. If they win, we're scoring more than 77 points.

I don't think we're winning at under 77. So it's plus $1.95 for Kentucky to win, and then it's basically even money to take the over. I parlay those together. You're going to get like four and a half to one, and that's what I would do tonight. That's what I am going to do tonight in picking Kentucky, Ryan, and the over in like a parley.

I feel like just myself, I'm looking to pick the over every time Kentucky's on the floor. Yeah, I mean, they'll adjust at some point this year. but I don't think I mean like if we don't score 77 we're definitely losing but there's also a world in which we score over 77 and win or excuse me score over 77 and lose like so I feel like 77 is a low amount for this I have another bet I forgot to mention Jackson Robinson is plus money like plus 140 to hit three three pointers so again if you think we're going to win Kentucky bet and the Kentucky over well yeah I mean maybe it's a cool night and everyone else does it but for Plus money, I like that one too. Yeah. Go to Draft King's promo code, KSR.

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Now, the good news is there's 34 people will be on full scholarship, whereas now that's not the case. But there's like seven people that you just won't be able to have. That's going to be part of it. Football. right now most football rosters average 121 with 85 scholarship players they are forcing football to go to 105 but they can all be scholarship they don't have to all be scholarship but they can't but there are going to be i don't know what kentucky's roster is but there will be a huge amount of walk-ons that they just won't have anymore

like it's staying at 85 one more year which messes them up bad right now because they're already way over for next year They thought it was going to be immediate, but they weren't. They're still kind of waiting on the courts to figure it out. That actually, I think UK was planning on that happening immediately, and now they're over. But that is coming a year later. Then basically the smaller sports are all seeing their rosters go down. Again, the guys will be full scholarship, but you just won't have as many. So I'm just saying that to say to you, you're going to hear stories coming out over the next few months of some really tough choices that all schools are going to have to do.

They're going to have to look at kids who are there and say, I'm sorry. And a lot of people are going to hate that, and I get it. But one of the things I would say is if you were like me and I was one of these people that was an advocate that players need to get what they deserve, which I believe. That's America. Then the people that don't bring in money, they're going to be the ones that have the effect. It's just a fact. So football is going to get more scholarships, but actually have fewer people on the money. the teams. Baseball is going to get more scholarships, but fewer people on the teams. You know,

I think I saw golf is going to go from like 12 players to 10 or something. Like this is just what's going to happen. And Ryan, expect these stories. I think in women's sports, I think it's women's soccer. Their roster will go down. Most women's sports will say the same, but there's a couple that their rosters are going to go down too. There are going to be a couple situations where these kids lose their scholarship and probably can't afford to go to school. They'll have to go somewhere else and hopefully get a scholarship at that school because they can't afford it. Yeah, but I don't think there'll be a ton of those, though, because those people probably weren't on scholarship. I just think the amount of opportunities for walk-ons is about to take a dramatic hit.

Like for instance, basketball, right now you can have, what, is it, 15 scholarships, and however many, now you're just going to be only to have 15 people. So if you give a kid a walk-on, like, you're taking a scholarship. So the days of like you can like Billy Gillespie had 21 kids on the bench, you can't do that anymore. You just have to have 15. And you can decide to have walk-ons, but you just can't have like as many as you want anymore. So just something to watch. You have been so used to doing it one way and having the same numbers.

That's why Kentucky's in a, I think they expected it to happen right away. They are way over their limit right now before even going to the portal and doing things in football. So they might have to have some tough. talks with scholarship players. The days of the coaches just being able to let their kids, friends, sons play, I don't know if they're going to be able to do that anymore at most sports. Who's next, Shannon? Cat Daddy. Cat Daddy. How are you? Thank you, gentlemen. I just wanted to throw some roses at the coach who followed the legend who did it better than anybody in history, and that was Joe B. Hall. Oh, he did, but remember people at the end were ready to run him off, too.

It is hard to follow a legend. Joe B did a great job. He was. Joe B is, people wanted him gone. That's just the way that job is. He wasn't popular even at the beginning. And in 75 at the final four, between the championship game and the semifinals, he had the greatest quote ever.

Yeah. They asked him, they said, John Woodness announced his retirement. You followed Adolf Rup. Who would you suggest? to follow John Wooden. And he said, well, they ought to hire me. Why ruin two lives? Yeah, and that's all I'm saying is for, and I appreciate the call for Pope and Shire tonight,

they're both having to sort of create their legacy in a different, in the shadow of a legend. And that's a very hard thing for both guys to do. All right, let's talk schedule. Our pregame show, first of all, the women start at six. It's on the computer. We'll have it on here at the bar. Pregame show starts at 630. game is it like 915.

Love to have you come watch come. I think it's going to be a great atmosphere. Even if you don't get a table, I think it'd be fun to be here and hang out. My only request is if you come and stay a long time, you got to buy stuff. Like we do, we are running a business here on some level. But I'd love to have you. I think it's going to be awesome. Mario's going to be here filming.

I'm sure we'll put videos up. We're all watching it here. I'm going to be right here. I watch very few games here because I get too nervous. But tonight I want to be around fans. and enjoy it. I'm very excited about it. We don't give many opportunities to get together and watch games here,

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