KSR - 2024-12-30- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

Matt, Ryan and Drew talk UK basketball, UK football, John Calipari (of course) and they take your phone calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Help from a Hypocrite Wednesdays on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-745254. We are back at it here on Kentucky Sports Radio. radio. It is the 30th. Getting ready for New Year's Eve. Kentucky plays tomorrow against Brown. Brown is maybe the best team from the Ivy League. Played Kansas just a little bit earlier a few days ago. It was competitive for a little while, but then Kansas ended up winning him, I think, by 30 or something

like that. So I think Kentucky plays Florida. Saturday, huge first start to the SEC season. Before we get to, I have, I want you to choose, Drew, between three stories. But before we do, that. A couple updates on the UK football roster. Brock van der Gryff is retiring from football. I think I'd said a couple month and a half ago that I thought this would happen. You know, he didn't put out a statement by it, but I think beyond that he was moving on with his life. But from what I've heard, you know, maybe wasn't totally in love with continuing to play football but then also that injury in Tennessee kind of freaked him out. If you remember he got, he was basically dazed and had to walk off the field and I think, you know, kind of had a thought

of, is this worth it to feel like I feel right now and decided not to keep playing football? You don't see that a lot. You see it some in the NFL. You don't see it a lot in college, but were you at all surprised by the, by the news? I was a little surprised you got to go. I was a little surprised. You've got a It was a five-star quarterback. His dad was a very successful high school coach in Georgia. He's been around football his whole life. Still had a year to go. It just shows you how bad he's feeling.

And to make that decision as a college kid that still had a year left, I'm sure he could go out and make more money, find a spot somewhere, even though it didn't go well in Kentucky. I really feel a bad for him that had to end that way. And I hope it's nothing sour towards UK letting him down because that offensive line and that offense did let him down. Nothing was the way anyone wanted it to be a year ago. and I just hate that his career ended that way.

It was cool of him to come here for a year. I didn't really get to know him, but I hate that it goes out like that. Same. I was kind of surprised, but I hate that ended this way. He was beat up and banged up pretty much most of the entire season. Can't believe he was even able to play a couple of games after that Tennessee game because he was, that was a serious injury with all the CTE issues now going on with football.

I can see why maybe he wants to take a step back. I had somebody tell me that the concussion he got after the Tennessee game was a lot more serious than people realize that there was like a real freak out moment by him through it. And you know, I mean, I've never had a concussion like that. But when you have brain things, it can freak you out. Like it's not a, it's not an easy thing to describe. And, you know, people who have concussions say every one of them affects people differently and it may just not have been what he wanted to do. I would say this to fans. I mean, you know, I think it's easy to make jokes to sort of say, hey, you know, Kentucky football, that's what leads to blah, blah.

But this is like kind of a serious thing. And I think people would be well not to kid about at least this, because I think this was a, I think this was a tough thing for the kid. And, you know, when I started hearing it, I think there was a reason why he didn't want to make a big to do about it. Now, hardly Gilmore ends up transferring. He was a receiver that we all thought would have a lot of prominence next year. You know, I want to be careful throwing kids under the bus, but let's just say I think there may have been some trouble there

that it may have been a had-to-go more than, more than, well, I just think it may have been a had-to-go situation. Well, that at least maybe explained it because I was shocked when I saw that that he was going to, you know, the transfer portal this late in the game, and especially a guy that was kind of penciled in is going to be a starter. Yeah. So now you're saying that maybe it makes a little more sense. Yeah, I think maybe it was, yeah, that's the best way I can put it.

I had to go situation. Nothing like crazy, serious, but serious enough that needed to find another place. Still a tough loss with that offense. Whatever is going on internally, though. I mean, that's a piece. It was high on everyone's wish list to come back. he only had about six catches last year but people got to know it

kid was 17 years old he's supposed to be a senior in high school he had some huge years in South Florida and reclassified and a very talent rich area where he put up huge numbers he was going to be a big piece could have even been the number one option next year in the passing game and to lose him on the final day that's a big hit to the roster

well and I hate the fact that I lose my pun that I always would like to make you know he hardly whatever I got way too much joy I felt like there was a lot of areas for me to explore of that pun and now it's gone forever you hardly got to make it that's exactly right see that's the kind of stuff we could have done we could have made people roll their eyes for the next two years drew and now we don't get to do it that's the biggest loss in all of us really

i wonder if he even considered that when he went to the portal all right now which one of these three i'm going to let you all play pick the next story we talk about all right i'm going to give you three choices number one calperian oakland play tonight number two leonard hamilton is being sued by six of his former players, and number three, koala bears and chlamydia. Oh, okay. Wow.

Which one would you lie? We took a turn there. I didn't know we were taken. Well, in that case, I have a vote. I think we go and get number three out of the way. You want to know about the koalas and the chlamia? I can't give 100% to my caliperi discussion with that mystery in the back of my mind, because I don't know what that is.

Okay. What about you, Ryan? There's no doubt what I'm picking. I'm picking the koala bears. It wasn't even a consideration. Rick, I like when you get involved. Would you rather hear about U.K. or excuse me, Calpary in Oakland? Would you rather hear about FSU suing or would you rather hear about the koala bears and the chlamydia?

Well, I'm with Ryan and Drew. It's cool with the koala bears. You want the koala bears out. There we go. You need a decision. So I just learned this yesterday. See, a lot of you all follow American news sources. You're missing where the real news is, which is on the BBC.

The BBC gives you world news. and think about how big the world is. There's a lot more stuff going on than what's just going on in the United States. And here's what I didn't know. Do you like koala bears? Who doesn't? Everybody likes cute little koala bears.

Do you know what a koala? You like koala. You're a little girl. I don't want to say this story in front of you. Now I feel bad. Earmuffs. Your moffs, London. How old are you, London?

Eight. I really don't want to tell you about the chlamydia and the koala. Wow. So John Calgary plays Oakland. What time is I get you off today? You know what? The real world's going to hit you, London. And it's hitting koala bears right now.

So koala bears are in Australia. They're cute. They're cuddly, although I think they also can kill you. But they're like this nice thing. When you think of Australia, you think of koala bears, right? Absolutely you do. But they're an endangered species. You might have known that.

Yes. There aren't a lot of them. Well, scientists are worried that by next year, they might be gone, like extinct across the board because of an outbreak of chlamydia. Chlamydia has taken over the koala world. And again, I don't want to go. Don't give me that look, London. I'm sorry.

I didn't do it. Like, I didn't give them chlamydia. They just have it. And I'm sorry about that. It's a common cold. Exactly. It's like the flu just somewhere else. Australian flu.

And the Australian chlamydia is all, and unfortunately, it's not only killing them, it's also making them to where they can't have other koalas. And they are very concerned. They said if this continues that by 2030, there might not be any koalas. And they're trying to figure out what to do. They cannot stop the spread of chlamydia with koalas in Australia. Does that make you sad? It makes me very sad.

Yeah, because I'm sitting here thinking, how do you even going to try to treat that? You can't give them all a pill coming in the doctor's office and give them all a pill. Yeah, they're not going to come in the doctor's office probably. I don't think they would even know the concept of what a doctor is. They're not coming to the vet to get a check. Yeah, they don't. And plus their health insurance isn't good. It's now, you know, it's socialist care there.

They're not able to get the latest treatment. Do you see, this is the kind of story. I didn't need, it's not even in American news, right? Like it's on the front page of the BBC right now, front page. But have you heard one thing about it? Honestly, I'm thinking about our friend Max here. Yeah. When we were in one of those random cities, he and I got drinks at a Christmas bar,

and it came with two little stuff, koalas. I took mine home. It's sitting on my desk as a reminder of our trip. And now you're telling me that little thing could have some Australian flu on it, and it could be the end of qualas forever? Yes, it says, here's the headline. Chlamydia could make koalas extinct. Scientists race to make a vaccine to save a vaccine.

them in time. How are they going to deliver the vaccine? It's what I'm saying. You can't. I mean, well, they can put it their food? Put some food out. No, you just hit it. You just take the quala.

They're going to get it all the quallas. You could like use a dart to put them to sleep. We're going to use a dart. I mean, not a throat, like shoot a dart. But you act like this is crazy. It'll put them to sleep and then you inject them with the vaccine and then you get away. So we need like a robin hood going all over Australia. They do this.

This happens. They do it with bears. They do with bears and tigers and like they'll do it with koalas if they have to get the chlamydia out. Number one, we need them to calm down. Maybe separate, spend some time alone. Absolutely. Read a book.

Got to get out in front of it. That is crazy, though. Okay. Here's the key word. Chlamydia has shot up tremendously, exponentially in the koala community. Estimates vary, but as few as 50,000 of the animals are left and now they now think 45 to 48,000 may be infected. See, that's what I'm saying.

That's a lot. I mean, hey, you're going to get the vaccine to 45,000 koala bears. Carefully. Heard immunity, Ryan. Just got to get a couple of them. That's right. Wear a mask. 859-280-2287.

One person writes, Matt, who will be Kentucky's second half of the season, most improved player on the basketball team? So not best. Who's going to be most improved here in the same? second half of the season. I'll go first. I think it's Andrew Carr. I think he's had a couple good games, but really overall has not played the way.

I think we all thought he was going to, so I'm looking for a big SEC run from Andrew Carr. I like that pick. He's another one, even though he shot at poorly in New York. I would like to see him shoot more threes. Sometimes when he's open, he hesitates a little bit. He bricked a few. So that's your pick as well? No, I like Ron's pick, though.

It's hard to put him as most improved, but I'm, I think. there's another gear in Jackson Robinson, so I'll put him in this category. That's going to be my hand. Always been pretty solid and consistent. I don't know that he has a lot of improving to do. Butler's been great. I think Robinson might have another gear. Yeah, I think there is an extra gear, and I think there has to be an extra gear for Jackson

Robinson. Like, I think he's been good, right? But has he been, you know, what's interesting about this Kentucky team, do we have any guy that would be top three team, all S&E? yet? Probably not. Butler will earn some recognition. Maybe Butler. Oh, way, if he continues. But Jackson Robinson's got to be an all-SCC

contender. Maybe not first team, but if he's not an all-SCC second or third team contender, we're not going to be good enough to do anything. So that to me is what I'm wanting to see is that he has got to be a little bit. We saw it against Gonzaga, right he was really really good against gonzaga we got to see that jackson robinson ryan more consistently and i think we we said that after gonzagga game like he moved to point guard got the ball on his hands and like almost a light ball went off he started you just we just saw him be more aggressive offensively he has to do that he has to become more aggressive offensively and just statistically uh his three point percentage is way down than it was from a year ago

he can shoot the ball better than he has so far his points are down really across the board i think his stats compared to coming off the bench a year ago are down, whereas minutes are up in Kentucky and his role is bigger. Yeah. Club Blue is the official fundraising partner of UK, and guess what? They're going to give away two tickets for the Kentucky Florida game January 4th, not only two tickets, lower-level sideline tickets. That's going to be a big game.

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It's a hot ticket to get, I think, by the time we tip that game off, that's going to be a hard ticket to get. You think even with an 11 a.m. start? This because it's the first SEC game in Florida's, they're still, are they still undefeated? Yeah, they're going to be really good. They're going to be undefeated. Top 10. Yeah, the SEC's cooled off just a little bit. Old Miss lost by like 15 to Memphis, which was a little bit of a surprise.

I think Missouri's lost a game. Texas has lost a game. But still, I mean, they go in with one of the best, maybe the best record for a conference going into conference play ever. But maybe cooled off just a little bit in the last week or two of the season. season. Yeah, but just look at a Kentucky schedule. I mean, starting conference play, which would be the toughest it's probably ever been. You're starting that game at home on a Saturday against Florida, which is ranked sixth or seventh of the country. You got two top

10 teams to kick it off, and it's almost here in front of it. So the record might not be what we're used to see him, but I'm looking forward to it. Only time, by the way, these two teams play all year. Yeah, right. So you're going to play them in that first game. You will not play them again. And depending on what happens, that could be a tiebreaker later in the year coming down to this very, very first game. Can I give a tweet of the day before the break? Yeah. Since we lose our Harley Gilmore pun, I have to compliment a pun from the internet. Okay. It says koalas do have insurance, but it barely covers anything. I'll take it. I'll take it. I mean, I thought the Begster on Twitter.

Or X, whatever we call it. We'll make that the tweet of the day. 859-2-80-20-87. Rick, I had somebody tell me they've called four times and you haven't answered. Are you looking at the phone lines. Yes, I am. They're very quiet. What would you say back to this person? I answer everything comes through here. All right. So Rick says, eat it person on the phone. He would have answered. We'll take a break. Very back. This is KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending. Opinions are flying. And nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise. Breaking down the

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One person on the text machine writes, these koalas, they'll be able to get through it. and they can get through it together. That's right, Andy. I remember we used to say that. That was one of those things. That'll be something we'll tell our kids one day. Yeah, we used to all sit around at 5 o'clock and watch the governor talk.

People will say that that'll sound like something from like the 1920s. We all stopped what we were doing. Yeah, we all stopped what we were doing, and we got around the old radio and listened to Andy Beshear talk and tell us how many people had died. Like that will sound like something from the, you know, plague in the 1500s. Yeah, the entire state.

Stop what you were doing and listen to Andy. Talk about who just passed away. And every state had their own guy do it. Yeah. Like it was like 50 different states of such conversation. And in our state, the interpreter of Virginia was more, more famous than Angie. She was. She got very famous.

Can I ask you, can I ask you a question? What's your name? Quentin, where are you from? Lawrenceburg. And who's this with you, Quentin? This is Julie. You brought her here, right? Like she doesn't listen to the show, right?

I can, you know, I can tell. I can, I can, like, see these things so perfectly because Quentin, like, you're looking and you look happy and she's staring off into the distance. Like, my boyfriend owes me for this. We're going to go to, we're going to bed, bath, and beyond and to Lulu Lemon when this is over, and he's just going to have to do it. Like, I can see it. So just so you know, Quentin.

Well, thank you very much for coming. I appreciate it. But, you know, I can see that. It's one of those things you see a lot at this show. Having a cold beer during the show. That's right. having a little bit of fun. That's good. Leonard Hamilton is being sued by six of his players, including Cameron Fletcher, for offering them $250,000 to come and play in NIL,

and they never got the money. It's very ugly, too. I read the story. He kept assuring them it's coming from his business partners. They continued to play, but it got so bad that before they played Duke, they walked out on practice and threatened to not play the game. He talked him into showing up for the game, but that's how bad it got at Floor State. None of those guys are there, and now it's heading to court. All of them left. By the way, this happens a lot more than people know. This is happening all over the country.

I don't think it's happened to Kentucky, but I do think there have been times that, like, payments were due, and it was the last minute trying to find somebody to do it. You know, this is part of a world where you don't, you know, this is why we got to, to have Congress pass something because they got to have it to where there's written contracts. I mean, there was this year where now written contracts are legal, but the NCAA had a situation where written contracts were not even legal. You couldn't even have a written contract, which just led to the, and I think this happened in a ton of places, Ryan.

It's just this is now leading to a lawsuit. So do the players you think that they have a good, you know, it's just nothing in writing, just a word of mouth, we promise you? If they have proof that Leonard. Hamilton, and apparently they say there are text messages, if they have proof that Leonard Hamilton said, I will get you this money if you come, then yes, I think they would have, you know, as you know, if you take my contracts class at Georgetown Law School, you need offer, acceptance, you know, in consideration, they would have all those. I think they would get it.

Yeah, and it wasn't. It was really affecting the kids beyond basketball. I was reading, like they couldn't pay rent, you know, at the end of the season, you're coming up when their taxes were due, and they're telling Leonard Hamilton, like, we owe people money and you owe it to us to give it to them, and you're really hanging us out to dry here. And the story was really clear of the problem, because Leonard Hamilton promised this money before he raised it, and then the team started out not very good.

They were like five and five, and he went to these boosters and said, give me some money to pay these dudes that are five and five, and the boosters are like, I'm not paying this team stinks. We're five and five. So like it is one of those things that, you know, he wrote a check. What's the phrase? His something wrote a check. London's here.

Be careful. Yeah, I'm sorry. That his brain couldn't pay and that's what ended up happening. It makes me wonder, yeah, who his business partners were. They promised this money. Well, they don't have them. These coaches promise them without raising it and then just assume they'll raise it. That's what happens.

Yep. That happens at every single school. And it was $250,000 to six players. That's one point for you. You're going to go find $1.5 million on the fly for a team that's five and five. When you're five and five and five, that's going to be hard to do. Who's up next? David is up next.

David, go ahead, David. Hey, Matt. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you, David. Thank you. I just want to say, even though I'm a little bit concerned about the team, I'm still not worried about them. Does that make sense?

No, but that's okay. You're worried about the team, but you're not worried about them. That doesn't make sense, but I'll take it. Yeah, what I mean is I really do think that those shots will go in eventually. That's why I believe. Well, I hope you're right. I mean, they went in for the first half of the year, the threes. They didn't go in for the second half of the year.

You just got to hope our team is more like the first half than they were the second half. Yeah. And I've been looking back to, we had a lot of memorable New Year's game from George to Tubby's, to Tubby's on a jersey ceremony. Yeah, it looks like the Louisville games, and I appreciate the call, David. We played Louisville on New Year's Eve a few times. The Tubby game was on New Year's Eve, but it was on a Saturday. So that was kind of more normal.

It's just rare to see a Tuesday, 2 o'clock game. Should I dress up? Do I need to wear my tucks? My formal clothes. My $2.25 glasses. It'll be done by. It'll be done in time. I'm leaving after the game.

I'm going to see the hurricanes that night in Columbus, a little New Year's Eve hockey. So I have a better pun than the one you got. I don't know. That's pretty good. You're going to like this one. This is from Not That Guy, 1776. Chlamydia doesn't meet the qualifications for insurance coverage. Very good.

That's better. Co-tweet of the day. That one's better. I'm just sorry. It is. 859-2-80-22-87. We'll take a break. We're here at KS. Martin Grill.

This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. 859-2-80-2287. Text machine is 772-7-4-5-25-4. We got all the crew here getting ready for a big couple days of sports with the playoff and the Kentucky Brown game. Now, tomorrow, games at 2 o'clock. Here's the way it'll go.

This rest, we will be here at 10. You're welcome to come in and watch it. The restaurant will still open at 11 pregame, all that. You can come, you know, do your thing with the pregame. Then we will actually, our morning show becomes the pregame show, so we will actually go from 10 to 1230 tomorrow instead of 10 to 12, and then the game stuff will come on right after that. Looking forward to it.

I'm going to turn the page. on another year and hopefully get a good convincing win before the schedule gets very hard. Even though Brown's a good team before Kansas, they'd won six in a row. It's their best start in 20 years. I'm hoping we get one last good fun game. We don't have to sweat out and reprain him before it gets kind of difficult moving forward. Yeah, so come on out and see us. We will be here until, you know, from 10.

But remember, like, we won't actually physically open until 11, but you'll be welcome to come in here and hear us until we start if you get here early enough. Our draft kings, let's do our picks. Go to draft kings.com. I've had a pretty terrible few weeks for a few days here, so I need to turn it around. Go to draft kings. Use a promo code KSR, bet five, get 150. Let's do the playoff games. Are you ready? Let's do it. Penn State, Boise State is tomorrow night. Penn State's an 11-point favorite. This is technically the Fiesta Bowl. Let's have a party. What do you got? I'm going to go Penn State. I just think that even though their fan base wasn't as excited for their home game last week.

I still think Penn State's a better team. I'm going upset. I just really hate James Franklin and love when he loses these games. So I'll take Boise. Boise, by the way, is going to have a much bigger crowd. The tickets for this game are actually kind of expensive because they expect so many Boise fans to make the trip. I mean, if you're a Boise fan,

this is probably the biggest game you've had since the last time you played in the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma that one year. They're wearing the – I think they've – I think they have two or three big Fiesta Bowl wins. They're wearing the same jerseys they wore in all the other ones. Maybe the running back will propose like they did that one here. I'm going to say Ben State wins the game, but Boise covers the amount. Let's go to the next one.

Texas and Arizona State in the Peach Bowl, Texas is a 13-point favorite. That's a lot of points. I probably will take Texas, but Arizona may cover. Well, so pick one. I'm going to go Texas. Texas. Arizona State covers the spread but loses. That's what I'm going to say.

I like this one a lot. I like Arizona State covering Texas. Texas has struggled sometimes to score the points they need. I'm going to take Arizona State. They put up points against everybody. The Rose Bowl, this is a pretty good Rose Bowl, because it's traditional opponents in this. Ohio State and Oregon, as of right now, Ohio State's a two and a half point favorite.

Drew, I love Oregon in this, don't you? I'm going to Ohio State. Oh, wow. I just, I don't feel. think Oregon can completely run the table. They've got to slip up somewhere. These teams have already played. I'll take the Buckeyes.

I'm going to Buckeyes also. They showed me something in their first round game. I thought they might come out a little flat after losing to Michigan, but they came out with a little chip on their shoulders. Just shame how wrong you guys have to be on this one. Oregon, they're playing out on the West Coast. That's where all those people live. Oregon, last time I checked is right next to Los Angeles.

Last time you checked was just a few weeks ago. I know, and I was there. I believe it's still there unless something's happening. since then, so give me organ. I'm thinking about the karaoke bar in Pendleton, though. That woman with the oxygen, she was probably still in there drinking whiskey. I just don't know if they're going to be ready for it. All right.

Finally, at night, the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, the Catholics will go down there, try to stay as sober as possible to play against Georgia. Georgia is a one-and-a-half-point favorite. Notre Dame wins. Carson Beck's out. I think that's a difference maker. You don't like the – what's his other guy's name, Rocco? Rocco Mediate coming in at quarterback

What's his name? He's got some kind of crazy name It's like I've got I just watched him play I just went blank Gunner Gunner Stockton

Gunner Stockton Yeah, that's safe as Rocco basically I'm taking Georgia You still got you got Notre Dame Go on Notre Dame I haven't changed my mind I like Gunner and Rocco

I'm still going with Georgia Yeah even though the backup quarterback Gunner to the final Yes Gunner, Rocco you know, Aaron Fleeter, they're all going to go help. He's going to have rolling it too. Who's up next?

Roy is up next. Roy, go ahead, Roy. Hey, good morning, guys. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Still a good morning. Go ahead.

I just want to see if you all have the same observation. Yeah, thank you. I just will see if you have the same observation I do. During the Marks-Dutes era, you know, I'm a realist. You know, year after year, we're not going to compete for an SEC championship. but in the games that we've been competitive in, it seems like we have these undisciplined mistakes, like in the Florida game where we didn't cover the guy on the play.

And we always have like a rough-in-the-passer. It just seems like it's just undisciplined penalties and things like that that keeps us from getting over the top of the hill as a program. It just seems like we are just jinxed by that one penalty or silly play, four or five games a season. And that's just an observation I've had. Oh, I mean, it's certainly been true the last, it's certainly been true the last couple years.

I appreciate the call. Discipline has been a major problem with the program. Less off the field, but actually more on the field. They've just constantly had terrible penalties, false starts, holds in the worst time, and then the worst is the sort of, you know, dead ball, personal fouls. We've had a ton of them. I think there's no doubt that's been an issue for the last few years.

Yep. It seems to happen in these games against, you know, Vandy, South Carolina. Games you go in wanting to win and then early on you see something stupid. I don't think they track this stat, but Kentucky had to have led the league and smacking players in the back of the head this season. A lot of the time is in retaliation. The other team set them up. I think Texas with Harrison, some others. but how many times do we get flagged for punching back at someone?

You just got to know better in those spots. And, you know, I kept thinking over the years this will get cleaned up, straightened out. It just hasn't. It has been a – it is like the caller said, a continuing issue. It has been – there has been a cultural and discipline issue with the football program for two or three years. I think they have finally accepted it. Probably took them a half a year to a year too long to accept it, but they did.

You know, I think a lot of the major participants in it are gone, but at the same time, the people that allowed it to happen are still there, and so they're going to have to have a change of attitude in order for it to stop. And I think anybody that tries to deny that is just diluting themselves. That has been an issue for at least the last two years. That's why I think they have such a difficult offseason. When it comes to discipline, I mean, you don't just go hit a button on the wall where like, okay, I'm disciplined now.

That's something that's over time. You have situations come up and it's how you handle it. Then the next one comes up is how you handle it. You don't just flip a switch and say, okay, we have discipline now. That's something you have to create. And it's hard to sit there if like, if Drew is my coach or my boss or my whatever, and he has allowed me to have certain behavior for a long time, just to all of a sudden switch it and say now you can't do it.

Like, that's a hard thing to pull off. Because I'm just going to be like, you let me do this yesterday, and now I can't. I think that makes it very hard. Yeah, even if the players are in the wrong, if they've been doing it, it's normal with them. You tell them to stop, they're going to be thinking, wait a minute, what's going on? You know, it's going to just strain their relationship, I would think. Yeah, who's up next? Ohio boy is up next.

Ohio boy, how are you? Doing well, thanks. Just one question. It's been 265 days since John Caliperi left. When do you think will be the first KSR show that? that doesn't talk about him. I'll hang up and listen. First of all, hang on.

Stay on the phone just a second. What's your name again, sir? Okay, sure. Ohio boy. And who are you a fan of? I'm a Kentucky guy. I'm from Murray. No, I didn't ask you if you were a Kentucky guy.

I said, who are you a fan of? Kentucky. I just said that. Okay, so you're a Kentucky fan. So you're clearly this is a call you're trying to troll. Am I correct? No, I'm not. I'm just asking you are.

You are. I mean, it's not, you're not having, you're not, hang on, you're not having a serious. You're not having a serious question. I am. No, you're not. You're trolling. It has. And we've had many shows where his name hasn't come up.

Yes, we have. Yes, we have. That's the lie. Let me ask you a question. Do you listen to every show? Do you listen to every show? Yes. I'm usually a podcast listener.

So you've listened to every show. So you're telling me if I can find. multiple shows where we haven't said it you'll be wrong yes okay we'll be able to as far as the Brett bigger question though I am totally fine if we bring up Cal every show he is part of the story of this season and I appreciate the call he is part of the story of the season he's a part of the story of the program and a big reason people are so happy about pope is because of what came before it if it had not I think if if Cal had had left here on the biggest of highs, it would have been harder for Pope. Part of the reason people

have been so embracing Pope is because of what had happened with Cal. So I don't apologize for when we talk about Cal. The other reality is it's like candy. People know they shouldn't eat it, but they like it. All you have to do is look, when we talk about Cal, it gets more response because people have emotional reaction to it. That's what people care about. So it's not on us. Cal is like candy. People care whether they should or not.

And of all days to say, don't talk about Cal, I don't know if he knows what's on ESPN 2 at 8 o'clock tonight, but Cal plays Oakland, which is a headline story. We would mention that anyway. And by the way, it's 1140 and we hadn't talked about it again. But you know what? Thank you. You brought it up.

So let's talk about it. Caliopari plays Oakland tonight. That is highly ironic. Are we supposed to ignore that he's playing Oakland? I mean, that is highly ironic. They literally played tonight. That was the best manifesto of idiocy I've ever seen. Would they do play tonight?

Nationally televised. Nationally televised. How do you feel about it? Are you rooting for Oakland? Yes, I am rooting for Oakland. I think Cal's crazy to even schedule this game. Why do you think he did that? I don't know why he scheduled Oakland,

because knowing what just happened. But Cal, why would you do that? I think because he wants to, like, throw it in our face. Like, look. That's not throwing him. He wants to throw in our face that he lost to Oakland? That's not in my face. He's going to beat him and, you know, pound his chest.

If he's pounding his chest over beating Oakland, then he's more cooked than I thought he was. They're a 19-point favorite. Oakland's 4. I mean, seriously, if he brags about beating Oakland, then he needs to go ahead and give it up. That's what I, when this game was first announced, I thought, why would you even put yourself in that circumstance if you lose?

Now, that is hilarious. But if you win, you just have more people bringing up that you lost to them a year ago. What year did we lose to Robert Morris? Was that? 2013. No, that was, we lost the year before, Cal, right? Or no, no, you're right. We lost, I'm sorry.

You're thinking of Notre Dame and Billy was before Cal. We lost to Robert Morris. Would you have wanted to see us that next year play Robert Morris? Well, actually, didn't we? They did. They did. They did in the next year, though. They did a few years later.

I didn't mind it a few years later, actually. But would you have wanted to play Robert Morris the next year? Then beat them. But the difference that is you're giving your fans, all right, we're going to bring them in a row up and this isn't even the same school. Like he just, it's a him versus Oakland. And it's not. Yeah, I think I tell you looked at it.

But honestly, if you bring them in the next year and beat them, you're kind of like Indiana celebrating the buzzer-beater with Watford. You're celebrating the game that didn't matter. We lost in the game that mattered. So if Arkansas beats them by 30 tonight, they beat them. But Cal, you lost when it mattered. This game doesn't matter. And Oakland's roster is completely different.

These Oakland guys aren't going to know anything about Kentucky and Cal. All those guys are gone. They're not good. They're four and nine. It's not like he gets his moment against Skokie. What if they were to win? I think it's unnecessary pressure booking this game. We would probably talk about it tomorrow on KSR if they win.

I mean, we'll talk about it either way. I'm amazed he scheduled this game. I'm amazed we're talking about with the collar just the way it was. Like Drew said, I think that's just Cal. Cal just wants to prove to himself. I can beat these guys and I'm going to beat him. You think he has to prove to him? himself he can beat Oakland? I know what it is. Chin just logged back in and sees there's Oakland

on the schedule. He's just now getting to the tape. He's going to be ready for Goki tonight. I saw Galki by the way. He's averaging like 10 a game in the G League. Is he? Yeah. Gopi should go to that game tonight. He should. He probably should. We'll take a break. Be right back. This KSR. 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 happens. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise.

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So give them a call or go online, stockton.com, N-LS, 8259. housing is now a good time to buy though it's a great time to buy okay because i've never really clear when it's a good time to buy but to you it's like all the time i don't know if there's a bad time to buy we did play bobby mo robert morris the next year so he must have some kind of fetish he does like we didn't play st peter's did we the next year no no don't remember that one yeah it is it is odd to want to play that again maybe he's got some internal thing where he's Got to cleanse himself from the bad loss by beating them the following year. I mean, do you think in our minds, do you think there'll ever be a day that you'll hear the name Robert Morris, St. Peter's, or Oakland, and not think about losing to them?

To my grave. No, not if you're a Kentucky fan. Nope. I still feel the same thing about Gardner Webb. Yep. No, I was not bad. No, you're exactly. VMI.

BMI. Yeah. What about, you know, there's a generation older than me, maybe you. you, well, you're a little young for this too. Probably people 60 and over. They still feel that way about Middle Tennessee State. Yeah. Because they lost to them in the tournament one of those years in the 70s. Yeah. Lost to Marquette was it in the 80s? We've lost to Marquette a lot. But Marquette, I don't consider like this. Yeah. I mean, those schools, like to me, to me, St. Peters is not a college except for the fact that they beat us.

I had never heard of them until we drew him in the tournament. Right. I know there's St. Peter from the Bible. But, like, in terms of, like, Robert Morris, I know that someone from, like, the Revolutionary War, but I don't know what he does. Well, he died. Sure knew nothing about their basketball program.

I mean, I know he's not still here, but, like, what was his role in our founding fathers? Oh, well, where do you want me start? He had the hat. You know, the hat. It's kind of boxy. Yeah. Of course, I'm sure he had a horse.

But he's one of our founding fathers, but what did he do? Well, he was a big part of the foundation. Okay. I don't know what he did. To your point about the Word Association, though, I grew up most of my life going to Evansville, Indiana. When I hear Evansville now, I oddly think of the basketball loss of Rough Raina, not 20 years of memories of the actual city of Evansville.

To be fair, though, I'm like that about a lot of colleges. I mean, when I think of Weber State, I think of Harold. the show Arsino and beating North Carolina. When I think of Valparaiso as a place, I mean, everybody's going to think of Bryce Drew in that. When I think of like Cleveland State, I think of them beating Indiana in the tournament. I think there's some colleges that that's how you stay with them forever. I would say Mercer.

When I think of Mercer, they're big winning. When they beat Duke, that's right, in the tournament. So who's up next? Lehigh. Lehigh. Would they be Duke in the tournament as well? Go ahead. John is up next.

John, go ahead, John. Hey, guys. Thanks, Matt, Drew, Ryan. And all you all take on my call. I get all speakerphone. So I was kind of mesmerized by the last call talking about the whole previous coach and our new coach. I think that's just par for the course for you guys. I think he has to be talked about.

But my point for calling was this. Ryan was talking about how hard the tickets will be to get for the Florida game coming up. And I have a Christmas story real quick. Well, I have like 20 seconds because we're about to end the show. But go ahead. I got you. My wife knows I love watches. So instead of getting me a watch, she had a watch box with tickets to the Florida UK game for Saturday.

Well, that's awesome. That's a heck of a gift. I appreciate the call. It is going to be Saturday for the Florida game is going to. to be great and it needs to be because I actually think that, I was looking at the schedule a couple days ago. I think it is one of the two or three most

important games on the schedule and it happens to start us off right off the bat. Tomorrow we are here at 10. Ryan will go till 12.30. The game against Brown is at 2 almost ready for the new year. The Brown Bears coming in to Rupertrand tomorrow. Is that their name?

The Brown Bears. Brown Bears. I had no idea. Thank you all very much for being here. Thank you for being here. London, and thanks for dragging her as well. I know she didn't love it. We'll see you later. This has been KSR. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy,

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