KSR - 2025-02-05- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK's loss to Ole Miss, proposals, and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287 here at the KS Bar Grill. I've been laughing during the entire break. You giggled through the whole commercial race. Well, I mean, some of them go away because you get so many texts, but, uh, uh, uh, You know, my mom's name is Karen Blondell. Yes. I like DJ Karen Blomshel. That would work.

I like that one. Ruth Bader Spinsberg. See, I really like that one. That's the best one. That's the best one. That's not bad either. That one's pretty good. Yeah.

Yes. I do like from the turkey hunter. You know, her initials are KGB. Okay. KG beats. See? And then in Bell County, you know, we talked. about RJ, DJ RJ all day.

That's really for Bell County people. I like that one. All these are making me laugh. I think you guys have done a good job on the nicknames coming in on the text machine. So can you set up DJ in here one night? I think it'd get a good crowd. I don't know. I don't know if my mom, I do think if my mom sang and Larry played bass, we would get a good

crowd. Oh, yeah. Oh, definitely. I don't know if she would be on the ones and twos. but I think they would be certainly would be very different than when Shannon's band played here. I think it would be a different kind of environment, Shannon,

but interesting, right? Yeah, a little different, but I think they could rock it out. They would definitely have a good crowd. I think that's right. You've got to agree to do that, though. I don't think you're going to get both of those. I don't know if I'd be able to do it.

All right, a couple things here. We'll come back to Kentucky, 859-2-8-2-807. A couple of things. It is 8-1 now on the betting market that Travis Kelsey proposes to Taylor Swift after the game. That, of course, would require him to win and then for them to do it.

I think that's a terrible bet. He's not going to do that. With that said, this gets us to something we talk about once every couple years, which is proposals, specifically at sporting events. Do you think, what is the percentage of women you think that want to be proposed to at a sporting event? It's something we see happen quite a bit.

Happens at UK games. Happens at college football games. Do you think that women enjoy being proposed to at a sporting event? I don't care. Let's just assume it's their favorite team. Let's assume all that. Do you think they enjoy it? I'm guessing the percentage is going to be very, very low, like very low.

I think most in their mind they want something romantic and sweet and not why you've got a beer in your hand. So when we see people like a Kentucky game or the SEC tournament or you think, you don't think most women enjoy that? I would say they would be happy, but they don't enjoy it. They would rather it be something intimate, romantic. What do you think? Ryan, I think it's a low number.

Now, if they're a diehard fan and maybe you feel that that's how they'd want it, sure. But I think most people want it to be its own event and you're kind of attaching it to another event. Do you think that it's like that's like buying your wife a bowling ball if you're Homer Simpson. Like for the male, it's more about themselves than it is the woman that it's happening for? I would assume that in several cases. Yeah. I mean, also just, what if you lose the game? We're like, especially if you do it a big game and you have that memory. Oh, yeah. So what if you do it with like 12 minutes? Like what if you did it at the Arkansas game?

Like I could see someone doing it at the Arkansas game and thinking this is the big game. game in forever, we're going to do this. And then when you lose, like, does that stick with you for your marriage? Well, I have a friend. I won't say his name because I don't think they've announced it publicly, but he did, he proposed the night before the Arkansas game. Big Cats fan was ready for a big weekend. And, you know, still very excited for him. Congratulations. But I wonder if 20 years from now, looking back on that moment, he'll have a little bit of DJ Wagner attached to it as well. I also think you should be very careful doing something that's contingent on something that has nothing else to do with it. Right? Like, so if

Travis Kelsey, let's say he was going to do it, you don't want it to be contingent on you winning. Because what if you lose? Yes, that's right. Because then you can't do it. Do you wait and do it the next day? People are like, well, Travis Kelsey didn't care about that game. Because he got engaged the next day.

So would you want to do it a contingent on something? Those two people are such big public figures. You would think they would, that'd be one thing they would do privately. I would think so, yeah, because they're such big public. Yes. Which of the people on this show? The four of us, Mario, and Billy, would be most likely in the abstract to get engaged at a game. Billy.

You think it's Billy? Probably. I mean, didn't he, where did he propose to his fiance? I think he got proposed at like Rockefeller Center or something. You mean JFK Airport? You think he got proposed to JFK Airport? That would be an interesting. I thought it was like where he got assassinated.

Wasn't it where he got assassinated? He did not ask her to me where JFK got assassinated. I thought it was in that same location. There's no way. No, come on. In Dallas? It may have been in Dallas, but they didn't go to the grassy knoll and then do it, did he? I think there were just some romantic dinner.

Okay, I was about saying, if that's the case, how have we not been making fun of him from that? You cannot go to the place where someone was murdered and make that where you get engaged. I thought that's what we said. Maybe I'm making this up right now. Let me text him and find out. He did not get engaged in the grassy, no. If he did, then I'm going to have to make fun of him because that would be really bad. That's an all-timer if you're getting engaged in the grassy know.

I don't think that's true. I think you're right it was in Dallas. Yeah. So back to questions. So he thinks Billy. I think it's Ryan. I feel like Ryan is the one because Ryan would think the part. I think, Drew, you and I would know.

Having already done at no part of me even considering. You and I would know not to do it. Shannon's not into sports enough. Mario's too shy. I'm into sports, but I ain't going to do any sport. Mario's too shy to do that in public. I think Ryan is the one that would take his shirt off in the middle of the tractor pull at Rupp Arena and think that would be the time to do it.

By process of elimination, I almost have to agree with you out of all of us here. You know, at a middle school boys basketball game, what says love like, you know, middle school basketball. Yeah, and you're also spontaneous. I could see you carrying it around. Waiting for the right moment. Waiting for the right moment. But deciding the right moment was during, like, the trancy university of the Cumberland's game on a Tuesday night.

Like, I could see you doing that. Well, we are going to be in Georgetown tomorrow, right. I hope I'm going to be there. Yeah. I don't know if you're going to make it. Okay. You know, I like when things in the legislature, I bring them in front of the KSR legislature. Yep.

There's a bill up right now. Just got filed in the Kentucky House. How do you vote on it? Courts open. Courts open. This would make it a crime punishable by up to one year in jail. If you own a gun and you leave it out and your child were to commit a crime with your gun because you didn't secure it. Okay?

And by child, I think it's like 15 and under. So basically, if you leave it out and then an accident happens, it's on you what do you think I don't hate it I mean you think it would be up to one year in prison one year seems a little harsh

I guess it would kind of depend on what actually happened too but I mean let's say it was the worst yeah there somebody was murdered there are too many stories of kids getting their hands on guns so something to encourage people to further you know be more responsible with them

so you be a yes on a year well but it would be you be classified as a mist mean or A, you could get less than, I mean, it's a B up to the judge what they, what they did. Sure. Don't let your kids get your guns. Ryan? I can't believe it's not a law already.

I'm 100% behind this. People need to be a little more careful with their weapons and not leave them out because like Drew said, how many times we see those stories where a three-year-old picks up a gun that's laying on the coffee table and accidentally shoots his brother or something. Let me, let me play devil's advocate to give you the other side. Let's use your scenario. A kid picks up the gun, accidentally shoots his brother. The parent is already going to be more devastated than even the year in jail could do, right?

Because presumably losing their kid would be even worse than that. Do you think it would change anything to do it? That's why I was more decisive, because that situation is different than a kid picking up a gun and going out and doing something. You're exactly right. That's a different situation than if they were to go to a restaurant. But I think the bill, as I read it, would apply to both, potentially. I was thinking more of like a 14, 15-year-old getting it and doing something they shouldn't more than an accident. It's tough, though.

I hope it does consider both. I mean, it wouldn't have happened if you just locked up your firearm, man. So you're a yes. I am 100% of yes. What about you, Shannon? I'm also a yes. You have a gun that's not that hard, lock it up. I mean, that kid could take it.

And, you know, worst-case scenario, you have a scorn. you have a school shooting because somebody didn't lock their gun up. So I think that's a definite yes. And I have a follow up on Billy, by the way. All right. Well, hang on. Let's finish this topic. Okay.

Yeah. So it's unanimous. I mean, yes, too. You know, like, we are big in this country at like sort of we now are good with weapons pretty much everywhere. I disagree with that. But I'm in the minority on that. And I understand.

So, like, I've lost that battle. With that said, if we're going to have. guns everywhere, we have to make it to where people are responsible for. We have to make it to where if we're going to make it to where everybody can have a gun at all these times, then you got to at least be responsible for it. It can't just be out floating in the wilderness. So actually, I was surprised, to be quite frank with you, the punishment wasn't higher. I mean, if you leave a gun out and your kid gets it.

Now, I think it's required that you didn't lock it up. I think there's some things like if a kid breaks the law to get it, it wouldn't be on you. or something like that. Makes sense. But it has to be like your faultiness that did it. I feel like, you know, with great power, becomes great responsibility, right? And like you're going to have that in your house?

It's up to you to make sure it's secure, at least in my thought. Do most states already have this? I think most states do. Kentucky's one of like 10 that don't. But there's like 40 states that are how, I mean, there's some states it's hard to even get a gun. So it depends on where you are. But I think most states have some version of this.

We don't. All right. Go ahead. What's your update on Bill? Okay. Question was, Billy, did you get engaged at the location of the JFK assassination? His answer? Close to it. Had the ring in my pocket when we were at the grassy knoll, did it at the observation tower. So right next to it, though. Wait a minute. Hang on. That's too close. He did it at the observation tower?

Yes. The observation tower for the shooting? In Dallas. He just said the observation tower in Dallas. I don't know if this. But what does that mean? I mean, if there's an observation tower, tower for the Ovex City. So it was an observation tower of the shooting.

I don't know. I don't know if it's of the shooting, but I'm sure you could see that from the observation tower. Okay, but that's different to me. If he did it like in a tower where it's just to look at the city of Dallas, there is a big tower that's called the observation deck of Dallas. That's the big ball thing. So it's not just to look at the grassy knoll.

If it's this that I just pulled up on the internet. Got to be. Okay. Got to be. All right. That's not as bad. No. But he considered doing it at the grassy knoll.

He had the ring in his pocket at the grassy knoll. It could have happened there. How many people you think have gotten engaged at the grassy knoll? I'm going to go exactly zero. Almost Billy. Who's up next? Marty. Marty, good grief.

Marty. I learned something new about you people every day. Marty, go ahead. Hey guys, how you doing? First time, a long time. Who are? What's up? First thing, first thing on the,

the bill that's going about the gun and the parent. So when I became a, you talk about with great power comes great responsibility. Well, when I became a parent, that's when I became a great responsible person. It's a shame we have to have a law to tell somebody how to be a good responsible parent. But besides that. Yeah, it's a shame we have to have any laws, but we do. Because if we don't, people don't do it. Yeah, because when you're a parent, that should be going, you know, you put your gun up.

You shouldn't have to be told that if you're a parent, but whatever. Back to Kentucky. I think everything everybody has said is right. We have just no hustle on defense whatsoever. We're not connected. And your viewpoint about us not having athletes is correct also. I've seen teams. We've all seen teams that had five average individual defenders.

Yes. come together and play really good team defense. You are exactly right. And we should be able to do it. The reason teams do or do not do that is because of the love for one another and the chemistry in that locker room. I think that's our problem. Yeah, I don't think they don't. I appreciate the call.

I don't disagree with you on how that teams can do that, but I don't think this team doesn't like each other or doesn't have love for each other. I think they do. I just think they're not connected. Look, don't you, don't say, look, the athletes thing is not an excuse. Did Oakland or St. Peters have better athletes than us? No, they didn't. So it's not an excuse.

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And I'm really. trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Listen to soccer moms on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at the KS Bar and Grill on Wings Day, Dollar Wings, all day and night. You can get them at the restaurant. You can get them, well, at the restaurant.

I don't know where else I thought you could get them. Only a dollar today. I don't think, I think if you deliver them, they're not a dollar. I think you actually have to come in here and sit and enjoy the ambiance, you know, give Mario a hug. It's not required you give him a hug, but I think most people do. So you can do that. Mario said he came here last night and that a lot of people stuck around until the end. I'm impressed.

I don't know if even I could have done that if I was out watching in public by halftime. It was one of those games where, like Drew said, you had to force your yourself to watch the second half because the first half was so embarrassing and so bad you didn't want to watch it anymore. Rick Petino wins yesterday at Marquette, or excuse me, Marquette beat, he beat him in the garden. They are Rip Petino now 20 and 3 at St. John's. They are 11 in 1 in the Big East. I thought it was funny after the game.

He was asked about the game by the post-game interview. They said, St. John's won even though they missed like 14 free throws. So he was asked about it, and he said, every time they missed a free throw, I killed myself a little inside. I thought that was a little much, Rick. You know, there's a basketball game. But he did say, at the end of the game, the fans at St. John's, the garden was rocking. Sold out. First time it's sold out for St. John's game in like 20 years.

Sold out, rocking. At the end, the crowds were channing. We want Yukon. We want Yukon, because they play them here in a couple weeks. They asked Petino what he thought, and he said, they're drunk. Which I thought was a good answer. Rick's got a real chance to win the Big East this year. How about that?

He's got them rolling. I mean, they're definitely rolling. People excited about St. John's basketball again for the first time and forever. Let me tell you why I think is very impressive about Rick when it comes to this. Is that Rick has been able to do this and, like, adjust to a new. era when other coaches of his sort of legendary ilk have not. Yeah, that's true. Like a lot of coaches of his ilk are getting out of the game and saying,

this isn't what I signed up for, this isn't what I do, blah, blah, blah. That dude is adjusting to the new era and making it work, and I think you've got to give him a ton of credit for that, Drew. Absolutely. I mean, and the fact that he just keeps doing it at new jobs, I mean, he went to Iona and had some success, doing it with him. well at St. John's, when he's done, I mean, you can already said he's going to go down as one of of the best ever. Makes you wonder what would happen if he'd stayed here the whole time.

But, I mean, Rick is one of the best to do it and it's continued going on some job. Are you rooting for him? I was about saying, I found myself interested in St. John's more than I ever thought I would be because of the excitement around him. I'm going to be honest with you. I kind of do root for him in those games. When we were, when we started falling back, I was kind of cheering for him a little bit and saying, you know, I think I'm kind of for you. brand is pretty big too. I'm watching that TGL golf last night. And one of the

interviews, Keegan Bradley opens, like, how about St. John's basketball? It's like, man, Rick has just got everybody talking about it right now. I'm impressed that they're filling up the garden for these games. I mean, they are filling up, you know, this is New York City, right? There's a lot of things to do. And they are filling the garden up for these games. That's impressive to me. I was kind of answer your question. I was kind of fruit and formally when he was even at Iona. I think once he finally left Louisville, we could kind of let him back in our fold a little bit, and then, of course, the way he handled Mark Pope. But when's the last time to St. John's basketball has even been relevant?

I mean, it's been a long time. A long time. Yeah. I mean, a long time. So, congrats to Rick. I do wonder if we see them in the tournament. They're going to be in our bracket. Just count on it.

There's a decent chance. Who's up next? Craig. Craig. Go ahead, Craig. Hey, sorry. It's actually trade. I was in a bad spot.

A few things real quick. I think that. Mark Pope is the guy for the job. I think that our expectations in the summer are getting overlooked by our early success. And I think that Trent Noah comes in the game, puts in a lot of effort on the glass, even though it goes un-seeking. Yeah, I mean, listen, I love Trent Noah, and he's had some good games. Man, he played 14 minutes last night and didn't do one stat.

Didn't have one stab. So while I love him, we owe these guys the respect, these can. Kentucky kids of treating them like the real players and not treating them like as our nephews playing where they can not do anything and we still say, man, that was great. Does that make sense? If you go back and look, I know, I hate to cut you off. If you go back and look, you'll see Jackson Robertson and you'll see Andrew Carl just watch long rebounds just bounce in front of them while the other guys just going and grabbing them up.

I understand, but that doesn't mean that, but no, it didn't get any rebounds. that's true but he was in there if you go back and watch him he's in there trying to get him i mean i i appreciate the call i'm not saying he's not hustling but i think we risk sometimes with these dudes a backlash among some fans if we don't treat all of the players equally travis perry played well last night i thought in his minutes especially in the first half he got in there he shot he made a shot but he also i thought looked comfortable much more comfortable than he's looked in other games. Let's praise him, but let's not, I mean, he and Almanor had no stats with 10 plus minutes of play.

That's not good. And we shouldn't just act like it is just because he's from Kentucky. I don't think that's fair to him. I don't even think that kid would want that. Judge him like you would the other players too. Trent Noy, when you put you in a game, you're in there for just a couple reasons. Hustle, get rebounds, get steals, play good defense. Almanor, when you're in there, you're in there for one reason.

and shoot the damn basketball, man. He got no looks at all. 15 minutes, no shot. Dwight, I don't even remember him touching the basketball in 15 minutes. Did he ever even touch the basketball? I remember him dribbling it twice and it looked like he was going to fall down both times. So it was not, it wasn't the best effort with him either. To your point about Travis, I thought he was playing well, and I even wrote on KS.

Board, Travis Perry looks like our best player right now, which is a problem in itself. Nothing against Travis, but when he's the one that looks the best, you're not in a good spot. I actually thought he looked very comfortable. in the first half. Not just making the shot, but he, you know, he's looked hesitant some. I didn't think he did last night. Maybe because he almost went to school there. He had the only block in the game.

That is another crazy step. He got a couple of rebounds. If I told you we would only have one block and it would be Travis Perry is the one that would get the block. Yeah, he played well in his, whatever, 12, 13 minutes. Yeah, 859-280, 2287. We're going to take a break. We'll come back.

I still can't believe Amari got a triple double. And the guy called it. Yeah. We haven't even said that yet. He called it on the pregame show. That's unbelievable. We'll take a break. Very back's KSR.

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859-2-80-27. let's do our draft king's SEC picks. These are the games tonight. You go to draft kings, use my promo code KSR. They've got all kinds. They've got Super Bowl props now up. You can bet on the color of the gate rate. Two straight years of purple.

Are you going to do it again? Sure, why not? If it's a chiefs, it feels pretty good that it's purple. All the crazy stuff. I like to sign up for that. I didn't even know they'd already announce the color. Well, they didn't announce the color. Well, I mean, on draft kings, you bet,

You bet different colors? Have you never heard of this? I mean, Gerald Lorenzen used to talk about this. But how is it on Draft Kings? Because that's where you bet it. So it says purple, yes or no? Has he ever like, what's he talking about, Shannon? Help me out.

I think he realizes that we can bet on that, but he's wanting to know. Is the Gay or A going to be that they pour over the coach? And it's like purple, orange, and they each have odds. Okay, each color has odds. Yes. Okay, I got you now. I've not looked at it. It just says purple, yes or no.

No. I always bet the coin toss, I mean, which is stupid because you just give away shoes. They have a ton of stuff in there. They have the national anthem, which feels, you know, this is the first year I've seen them go all in on the props. Yeah. So that's all on there right now. Who's singing the national anthem? Who is singing the national anthem?

Ray. Farah Fossett? No, who is. Kendrick is the halftime? Is it Carrie Underwood or? or Brad Underwood? I really have no recollection. Blair Underwood.

John Batiste. Oh, John Batiste. I bet he'll do well. Okay, so here are the draft kings picks tonight. Missouri at Tennessee. Any chance, Missouri, six and two in the conference. They keep it going? That's a big spread, I think.

I think they cover but lose. It's eight and a half. That's too many points. Yeah, Tennessee will win, but Missouri may cover. Tennessee rolls. Yeah. I think Missouri, and I'm not downgraded, them. Give them a lot of credit, but I think they're not as good as their record show.

So I think Tennessee rolls. What about you, Shannon? Yeah, Tennessee wins tonight. I think a lot of people are, they have a lot of faith in Missouri, but I think on the road, Tennessee wins. LSU at Georgia, taking Georgia? When Georgia beat us, I thought they were going to be really good. They haven't played really well since then. All right, the big one tonight, Arkansas at Texas. Texas is a seven-half-point favorite?

Is it worth taking the Cal Money Line? You think he's got them going? You think Saturday was a blip on the radar or has he changed it? I think Arkansas snaps back to reality and they have trouble scoring 50 points. That will be more frustrating. If they score 50 and lose like 68, 52 at Texas. The Kentucky hangover game, we see teams do it all the time. Now that you lost to Arkansas, you kind of need them to win some games so it doesn't look as awful as the win. Well, it doesn't really matter because all these teams in the SEC, we play them all.

So a win or a loss pretty much affects us the same. That's a bad loss, though. Yeah. It could drop to a quad three if they were to stink, but I would happily take that quad three. Yeah. Yeah. Again, the NCAA favors wins.

I think it would be better for Texas to be decent, and then us beat them on the road. That's probably a better result for us if we could make that happen. If they're really going to turn a corner, tonight's the night they have to win, and then you can start going, okay, maybe they're on to something, but if they've dropped this one tonight, I think they just are what they are. By the way, the last night on the pregame show,

a guy called in and predicted Amari's triple double. This is one of the all-time, like, you want to talk about calling your shot. I can't remember a better prediction than this. He didn't predict we would win. He got that wrong. But listen to this call right here. Go ahead. Sir, BB, and it's time to rise up.

Let's not get down over that Saturday game. Come on, man. We got a good team here. They got lucky. We're going to beat Ole Miss, and I believe it. Amarie Williams might mess around and get a triple-double tonight. Wow. I mean, that's amazing, isn't it?

That's amazing. Like, that's got to be, I know he got the game wrong, but that's got to be one of the greatest all-time calls ever to call a triple-double. They've only happened three times in the history of the school, and to predict who would do it. and when they would do it, that's amazing, isn't it? Can we take that guy out of Vegas now? Can we get on the plane and go?

That's unbelievable. I hope he bought some lottery tickets. He's been around forever. There's been three of them, and he just decided last night he was going to call him predict the fourth and nailed it. I think it's crazy, too. The last one was at Ole Miss. Brisco's at Ole Miss, and then Amarie got his at Ole Miss last night.

He was the four. Unbelievable. All right, who's up next? Let's go to Nick. Nick, go ahead, Nick. Hey, guys, Matt. good news for you. It's way off topic, but Righteous Jimstones starts back early March last season,

fourth season and everything. Yes, we're looking forward to it. Shannon, I don't know if you can hear me or not. You all have a caller that calls him pretty regularly now named Ed, and I'm sure you all remember. I make myself laugh every time. Every time Matt says, who's next? And you say Ed, every single time I say Ed's a man.

He's a man. He's a man. I do what you're going to say. It is true. Yeah. That cracks me up. Can I give you one more Ryan quotes here from my list? Is that okay?

Of course. Awesome. So you all were arguing about something one time a few years ago or whatever. Ryan, you were dead set on what you were saying was right. And Matt said, are you sure? And you came back with the guy I heard it from is facts. And I say that regularly. A guy I heard it from his facts.

I like that. I can totally see Ryan saying that. That is your kind of thing. That is true. Yeah, well, he was facts. Thanks, guys. I love a show. Thank you.

Appreciate it. 859-28-0-22-87. Dwight, by the way, you follow this closer than me. Drew, do we have any chance at this Nate, Eamett, kid, or am I going to get my hopes up for nothing? The fact that he's going to visit, I mean, that's a good sign. I'd say there's a chance, but he's also, you know, there's four other schools in the mix.

So I'm not expecting it. But getting him on campus is a big deal. When is his visit here? For the Tennessee game. Tennessee game. He thinks he's fourth overall? Yeah, I mean, he's ranked one spot higher than Caleb Wilson. Yeah.

So, like, I do think there's still, you know, there's still a question for me of will we be able to go get an elite freshman? I mean, I know these guys we have are good, and Jasper Johnson and Malacomero are McDonald's All-Americans, but they are from Kentucky, right? And that doesn't, we don't get a lot of McDonald's All-Americans from Kentucky. You can't, like, sort of count on that every year. So I think if he were to get Nate Amit, that would be like, okay, we get these guys if we want them, right? Yeah, you know, he had to lock up Jasper and Malachi because they were from here. Went and got a Caden Lewis.

But it's not, who's good, but it's not top ten. Yeah, so now he still has to get that top ten guy. He will. I don't know who it's going to be. Maybe it'll be Nate a man. Well, this is the last one. If he doesn't get one this year, if he doesn't get Nate a minute, it will not be one this year.

I thought he had Caleb Wilson for months that, I mean, everyone just thought it was a done deal. He's constantly tweeting with the UK commits. We also have video after his commitment where his Dream 5 were all the Kentucky players for him to lose that one at the very end. Did you think of that was a little bit of a troll job? No.

I mean, they asked him, who are the Dream 5 guys you would want to play for, and they're all guys with Kentucky. That seems like, and he did it the day that he committed to North Carolina. I mean, didn't you think that was a little weird? I mean, watching it, it kind of looked like he was being honest. I almost wanted to be like, are you okay? Let us know, do you need out? Like, do you want to come to Kentucky?

Are you sure you want to go to North Carolina? Yeah. Blink twice. By the way, North Carolina is going to hire GM for their basketball program. I think that's, you're going to see that, that position is coming. I mean, we may have a dude that's kind of acting in that role now, but I think you're going to have an official position. at each school that is that.

They almost have to to handle everything else, the portal, the NIL and everything. You need a general manager. One person writes, Matt, do you think Chris Beard had extra motivation since he was a Kentucky contender that got taken off the list? Maybe. Maybe. I mean, Chris Beard's a good coach. You have to overlook what happened, which is really hard for some people.

I know he ended up – I don't know if he got cleared or she dropped it, but it obviously ended up going away. but you know I think one of the things people need to remember about the time that that was happening is what also was happening at the time which is we hired Pope and then that lawsuit came the next day right from on the swimming team yeah and I think I don't know this but that may be why some of that stuff got some of those coaches got taken off the list to be quite frank with you I think you can definitely make you think that because I mean we hired we hired Pope on a Friday morning, right, Thursday night.

Late Thursday night, yeah. Late Thursday night. And that lawsuit broke on Friday. Yes, it did. The later that day. And if you had hired someone with any kind of baggage, and then that lawsuit came out, I mean, that's, it was already bad. That would have made it much, you know.

So I've all, I don't know this, but I've often wondered if that was a, part of the thinking. Yeah, because that was a bad lawsuit. It's still ongoing, right? I don't think we've gotten any resolution out of that. So I can understand. But also, it just seems like Barnhart, even leave aside people's baggage.

It was Scott Drew then straight to Pope is what he wanted. Yeah, we'll take a break. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. 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.

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I mean, I don't promise, but I think it's very likely. They held my back. Maybe Andrew Car could go get worked out a little more. He looked a little better. He looked a little better. He looked a little better. He got 23 minutes. Yeah.

Ten points. Got some of those easy baskets we talked about that I think he's able to do that we need. So it was a little encouraging the way he played. It was, even getting him back in the last game, too, and it didn't work out. It was at a point where he couldn't sit down there for a while. Now he's starting to slowly get back to form. Okay, so before I do the evening here tonight with the pills and all that, any final advice. They told me I can drink water, coffee, apple juice, any clear liquid.

Just be prepared. I mean, it's not comfortable. It's a mess. and right when you think it's over, more happens. Very encouraging. Best advice I can give you. That sounds awful. It is awful.

That's worse than the treatment itself is the prep for it. At least it's the worst in the treatment, the way I'm going to do it, not the way the guy suggested yesterday. Yes. Because the guy suggested yesterday a different form. I was told by somebody who did that, don't do that. Really? Yeah, because somebody did that because someone had a guy like him convince him

that they wanted to watch it. They're like, you don't want to watch it. No. Wasn't that Bob that told you to watch? It was Bob, but there was another guy who said don't take the men. He said go on natural. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's not. I felt like that during the first half yesterday. That's what I felt like. But, you know, we need to mention this. It's proud of you for doing it because more men, well, everybody, men and women need to do this. You know, it's early prevention. So just to get the way out. You want to give a PSA for it?

I just did. Mine's around the corner, so I'm not far behind you. You said more men and women. They all need to do it. but just early detection is the best way to kind of fight it, fight it. Fight what? Coulin cancer. Okay, gotcha.

Yeah. Immediately when we leave here, we need to go get a cheeseburger. Now, you are going to have to tomorrow take me to go, I don't know if I want a cheeseburger, but you're going to have to take me to go get food when it's over. I will take you to go get a cheeseburger, wherever you want to go, whatever you're feeling. I'm running with you, Ron. You promise? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. You'll be ready to eat something. Okay. All right. What do you think you'll want? You got a meal in mind? Or just going to, like Ryan, I don't know that it's a good idea to immediately go to skyline. Probably not.

Probably not. I don't live the past 24 hours again. I think you want to like, you know, I don't eat a lot of cheeseburgers, but for some reason, it feels like that would be good. I know. I don't know why, but that was what I would crave. Like five guys. There you go. Without the greasy fries, yeah, just eat the burger.

What's wrong with the greasy fries? I don't know if you want that on your stomach. Well, I'm not going to go after 36 hours of not eating and go eat a salad, right? No. Just whatever you're hungry for, I think you can go for it. Maybe stay away from the Indian food, the spicy Indian food that you like so much? Yeah, I get my last meal, I gave myself spicy Indian food. I did not follow your advice.

Last night? Yeah, I did get, I got in. Late last night? No, early. Oh, okay. Early. Okay. I'm not a doctor.

That seems like a good idea. Kind of starting the process. give a little nudge. Now you're thinking about me, you're thinking like me. Who's next? Zach. Zach, go ahead, Zach. Thank you, Dan.

Good to see you. Well, just real quick, I had two quick things. Watching the game last night and I've been watching all year long, obviously, our guys, when they go to the basket, the only guy that we have that goes hard enough when they get a step is Butler. And he either scores or gets fouled. Like a lot of times when Robinson and Brea go to the basket, They don't go hard enough.

They get a step, but then they do a little head fake or something and fall away. I totally agree with you. And I don't know what it. I guess these guys just haven't played like that before. But in our league, like, you have to go through someone's chin sometimes to get fouled or score. Our guys don't like contact. They don't like contact. I think it has been a consistent theme all year.

I appreciate the call. Our guys don't like contact. They avoid it. These are finesse players for the most part. And the guy who I think is the most comfortable with contact is O way, but he struggles to finish sometimes. He just does. And they just don't like it.

I mean, you can't say it any clearer than that. They see contact and they try to get away from it. And I think in the SEC, that just doesn't work. Pope is talking about trying to get guys to go downhill. He's like right now, Otega is our only guy that can go downhill. We need somebody else to step up and do that. Who is that other person? But even though, I mean, it's one thing to go downhill,

but you have to be able to either out-jump or out-physical, the guy that meets you at the rim. And we're not able to do either one of those things. So we end up taking a contested shot over somebody, which doesn't usually go in. It is very frustrating, me that we don't get the backside rebound because usually when the guy comes over when the help comes to rotate you should be able to get the offside rebound but then we get out hustled

for the offside rebound uh drew which frustrates me yeah and always trying he's the one that's given an effort but he's jumping into a pile of trees he almost carries the ball like a football at some point he tries to find a space to get it up he was like one for five to start the game at the room yesterday he kind of reminds me of a little bit of when uh the 2013 didn't have an offense and Goodwin would just lower his head and run straight into everyone and hope it worked out. I'm seeing a little bit of that from him. Yeah, and then I'll never for the life of me understand the three out of four possessions where we gave it to Garrison for back to the basket hooks.

I mean, I think they wanted to do that with Amari. I don't know if you want to do that with Brandon. He hit back rim on all three of them. Like they all missed in the exact same way. I think Ron Nelda. Amari hit a couple of them. So Garrison went checked in. They tried to stick with it.

He just, he went one before. Not everybody's Kareem. No. Right? Not everybody has the sky hook in their repertoire. It's only Kareem and George Zedek. You remember George Zedek? I don't know if I know that name.

Shannon, do you know where George Zedick played? I remember that name, but I can't remember where he played. All right, let me give you a hint. National champion, George Zedek. I'm still drawing a ball. I don't even know an era. 1990s national champion. George Zedek.

Probably the second best player on that team. George Zedek. On a national championship team? Come on now. Come on. I'm running through the teams. Go through the 90s. I'd say second or third best player on his team, national champion, George Zedek.

You all claim to host a college basketball show. It rings a bell, but I'm. Does anyone know? You found my weak spot. Any of you all know? No. He would take the ball and he would throw a little hook. Yeah.

Who do you play for? UCLA. Really? With O'Bannon? Yeah. And Tyos Edney? And then he would get the ball. He was the center.

Go look it up. I believe you. Go look it up, kids. Mario, what's his name? George Zedek was, and he did the hook shot. How about Amari? A right-handed hook shot last night. That was nice.

I don't give him credit for that to be ambidextrous. That was nice. I have one more Amari compliment. I feel like in the last week, he won't. woke up and realized that he's the biggest, strongest guy. He still can be better. But a couple times, he realized, oh, I can just pound it in and score easily. Yeah.

I think that's right. And it doesn't need to be the option every time. I'm not, he got a triple double and was our best player. So not a big complaint, but he did give up three wide open. Huh. We will see you in studio tomorrow. Hopefully I can get through it. And we'll see you later.

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