KSR - 2025-02-20- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK basketball, the athlete home burglars caught, and all the latest news.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Text machine is 772-7474-5254. By the way, Nate A-Mitt now says it's going to be a few weeks before he decides. So we'll see. Kentucky, Louisville, and Duke. I don't know. I would love for them to get him. I also think, though, we're going to need some older guys next year because I still think, you know, Rick Petino's quote, which was very interesting, which is, I'm not doing freshman anymore.

I'm only doing older guys. It's an interesting thought. I think what you're going to see is if you can go get Cooper flag, you go get him. If you can go get Knieppel, you go get him. But a lot of other freshmen, you need an older guy instead. I mean, they better be really good in this new era that we're in. Yeah, and they would fall in that category, but I get the philosophy. I mean, Rick listed his players that are leaving and said,

I cannot go to high school and replace these guys. It's not possible. So I have to go to the portal. At that point, it's just different. conversations than what we're traditionally recruiting. That's true. All right. One person writes, Matt, as you get older, you're not going to want to change diapers and do all the things that young dads do.

True, but that would have been true at 27 as well. So it's like I'd have more time now. You know what I mean? We can get help. Like there's people out there who I feel like they'll change a diaper. Like Ryan, for instance. Uncle Ryan can come change diapers. It feels like something you'd be really good at.

Plus, what else are you going to do? You got your million dollars. I'm retired. I'll give you like... Come change a diaper. Rich's man in Lexington over here. He's going to have one million dollars like you might as well come to change the diapers. Well, you want to, you know, be able to enjoy when they get older.

You know, you don't want to be in your 70s. Well, I can't reverse time. What do you want me to do now, Ryan? Like, I mean, like, I'm already the age I am. Well, you know, we're just making a discussion. You don't have to get all huffy. I think you're getting a little guilty press. I'm guilty about it.

All right, let's talk about a couple things that I do think are interesting. First, did you read, Shannon, the story about the Chilean gangs and the athletes? No, I must have you read this story? I must have missed this one. So they caught the Chilean gang that was robbing all of the athletes' houses. They caught them. Now, this is a crazy story. So follow me here.

These people, there were seven of them. They had robbed Joe Burrow. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Luca Donchick, a couple of hockey players in Dallas, a couple of Memphis Grizzlies, a Tennessee Titan. Good grief. Here's what's amazing. They were based in Cincinnati and Jeffersonville, Indiana. No way.

That's where they were based. Cincinnati and Jeffersonville, Indiana. So that's why all these places were kind of within a day's drive. What they would do is they would look at the schedules to see when guys were going to to be away from their house. They had like crazy amount of technology. They had like burner phones that they would ditch after each one. I think they said the FBI believes they did like 12 to 15 robberies.

They intentionally would try to alternate high profile, low profile. High profile, low profile. They were this Chilean group. And the FBI was like couldn't figure out who did. did it. And do you want to know how they got caught? How? They got caught because they started bragging. And they started taking selfies in like, I'm wearing Joe Burroughs jersey.

Look, here's Travis Kelsey's thing. And they started sending the pictures. And one of the pictures that they sent to somebody got forwarded to somebody else who then sent it to the FBI. And that's how they ended up cracking the game. They followed them for a little while and they caught them. But they would buy Shannon and ditch their cars in Cincinnati and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Wow. They think that half the people, half of them lived in Cincinnati, and the others may have lived in Jeffersonville, which is right across the river from Louisville.

Like this Chilean super robbery gang, and they only targeted athletes because they just wanted to. They thought it was more fun, apparently, to go after the athletes. in a couple people's houses, they think they said they took like a million dollars worth of stuff. Crazy, isn't it? Yeah, they got too cocky, first of all. And what is it about like when somebody has a secret like that, they can't keep it to themselves? They can't. That's exactly right.

And that's what ends up taking them down. If they just had not taken the selfies, but they took the bragging selfies and it was the selfie, and then they sent it to somebody who ratted them out. But Drew, it's crazy to think like, okay. Cincinnati, that's not crazy that that happened because they got Burrow. But Jeffersonville, Indiana, I mean, did they hang out at that Hooters, like over there? Like, what were they doing? You know?

Maybe hanging out the Hooters. I saw the body cam footage where they got pulled over in Ohio. And as they... That's a great story. When they're going through their stuff, they have, like, LSU T-Serge. It's the most obvious you did it ever. It's like a number nine pennant on a necklace. That's a great story.

So they're driving from Cincinnati, I think, to Dayton. And they get pulled over. The cops follow him for like 30 miles. They get pulled over, and they ask the guy, all right, hey, man, where are you going? And he goes, Orlando. And they said, well, you're kind of going the wrong way. And then the guy in the back seat goes, no, no, New York City. And he was like, so is it Orlando or New York?

And they both at the same time, one goes Orlando. Trooper Guffley says, Florida's this direction. You're kind of going the wrong way. So it is crazy, though, that they targeted the athletes knowing that they were going to be on the road. Obviously, the schedules are posted, okay? Joe Burrow is going to be on the road. We're going to hit his house this day. It's crazy.

Pretty amazing story. So you got to read about it. ESPN has a long report of how they caught them. But it all came ultimately back to taking selfies, bragging about the gear that they were wearing. I maybe would have left the very obvious stuff alone, like the Burrow Player of the Year trophy. Yeah, they took a girl's player of the year trophy. I would have tried to stay in a neutral area with whatever I was taking. They took a picture of Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift together.

They took a picture of it like off somebody's nightstand. What are you going to do with it? Presumably it was Travis Kelsey's nightstand. If it was Lucas' nightstand, that would be kind of weird. But anyway, so pretty amazing story. Who's up next? Paxton. Paxton. Go ahead, Paxton.

First time, long time. Who are? 859-280-20287. A couple open lines. Go ahead. So I was the kid who got the free tickets at Cairns Bar. Yes. And I went to the game last night, and it was getting hype in there.

It was getting hype. You had on those overalls. I hope you made a lot of noise. And I just want to ask, who's better in the paint in your car, or Amari Williams? You know, that's a good question. I appreciate the call. I think back to the basket,

even though Amari made a number of shots yesterday, I like a car a little better. I think when you can get Amari with some momentum, I still don't love him dribbling from the top of the key, but if you can get him and he takes a quick step or something, he's so explosive. But they both, I mean, look, What were they?

I think in that little stretch where they got the ball six straight times, they were like five of six and got a couple and ones, Drew. You can't help but love that. Yeah, I'd say cars a little more skilled, but Amari has learned that he's the biggest dude on the court. Vanderbilt, the McLaughton, I believe his name. He's kind of a guy that is how he plays. He bullies guys around.

Amari was not budging against him last night. So if you're just looking for some bruising, I'd take Amari. I also love that he went right on one of his layups. One of my issues with him is he only goes left, only goes left, only goes left. He went right. It shocked everybody, and he got an and one. And Damien Fishback was like, he went right. He went off his left shoulder.

It was awesome. I think that's just, to me, the second time I've seen that all year long, him go to the right. Because usually, you know, he gets down that left block, and if he can get you on his right hip or his right shoulder, he's going to put it in. He's so strong. All right, let me talk just a second about some big football news that I think has gotten underplayed that came out yesterday about SEC scheduling. So the SEC is apparently very close to reaching a scheduling agreement. Now, I'm going to give you the most simplistic view of something that's very complicated. They're talking about expanding the playoff from 12 to 16. If they do that, there will be

four SEC teams and four Big 10 teams guaranteed a spot every year, two ACC and two big 12 teams, and then four at-larges. If that happens, the SEC has agreed with the Big Ten to do two things. One, move their conference to nine games. So there'd be nine SEC games. And your four top spots in the playoff would be conference games only, which means your non-conference games wouldn't even count. The reason they want to do that is it would give them an incentive

to schedule good teams because you won't get punished if you lose. your conference games will be the only ones that count. As part of that deal, the SEC and Big Ten would agree that their teams would play each other once a year. Every season before the season starts, we would be assigned a game against a Big Ten team. It would rotate every year. So now 10 of your 12 games would be either SEC games or a Big Ten game. If that happens, might be saying bye-bye to Louisville. I think there's a decent chance that that schedule went in.

the SEC is even considering that for their four automatic bursts, teams in first and second place would play for the championship, both of them would go to the playoff. Then the team that's in third would play the team that's in sixth, and the team that's in fourth would play the team that's in fifth, and those winners would go. What that means is, if you were in the top six of the SEC, you would have a chance to make the playoff

and have at least one game to play in. Now, Ryan, there's parts of this I really like. There's parts of it that don't. I don't mind the expanding of the playoff. Four SEC spots is good. I like playing a different Big Ten team every year. I don't like losing Louisville, although because only the conference games count,

there's an argument that you should just play Louisville because it's not going to hurt you if you lose. But the best part of this to me is if they do it to, where teams three, place six, four plays five. Kentucky in that world could make a playoff. It is not crazy for Kentucky to come in the top six in the regular season in the SEC. Mark Stoops, if you go back and look, we've done it twice. So like there would be years that conceivably we could actually come in the top six.

As a college football fan, I'm with you. I love it. I love everything about it. As a Kentucky football fan, I'm like, eh, you know, it's tough. We're trying to get bowl eligible. on Miami of Ohio and Ohio University, those are usually wins we get because we've been struck on the SEC. Does bowl eligible matter anymore?

Like, really? Like, I mean, it matters, but does it really matter? Like, I don't know. I'd rather have this with an opportunity to be in the playoff than worry about if I'm in the tax slayer bowl or whatever it is. I'm looking through anything through blue lenses and a chance for Kentucky to play a meaningful football game and potentially have some upsets and get into far into the postseason. Just the thought that that could happen is worth it for me.

I love the idea that on a giving, I mean, think about the teams we could end up starting to play. We could play USC or UCLA or Ohio State, Michigan. You know, now we probably end up playing like Minnesota and Purdue a lot, but we could conceivably play these teams. And then you've got a fighting shot to get into, I'm with you, Drew, we have a shot to get into a game. the first week of December that really matters. And I don't know that there's any other way for that to happen except maybe this.

Expanding to nine conference games is, you know, we're having trouble winning a game right now in the conference period. We are. But don't you want, wouldn't you like to see us play? What good does it do for us to play Akron? Don't you want to see us play more good games? That's what I think. As a college football fan, I love it. I love everything about it.

As a UK fan, I'm like, you got to dream bigger. I hate that we would lose the Louisville game, because I do think in this scenario we would lose the Louisville game. But beyond that, I feel like it's a positive. I even just like having the Big Ten road trips you mentioned, just something new for the football experience. Go to Madison, Wisconsin. I'm sure Indiana will be on that a lot.

That won't be fun. But there's a lot of Big Ten destinations that'd be fun to go to for the first time. So it's just like this could all happen in the next few weeks. So there's a long report on Sports Illustrated about all the intricacies of it. But I actually think it seems like it could be unique and different and kind of cool for Kentucky. If you want to score big in the NBA this season, go to Draft Kings, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Monster slams, dishing the rock. It's all there at Draft Kings.

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goes off course and what we can do about it. Listen to Inner Cosmos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Hey, to the callers. We just beat Vandy. I'd love to talk to you. Got open lines. 859-280-2-807. That's a rarity in the show.

So give us a shout. 859-2-80-2287. Shannon will tell me when we have someone. We do have some breaking news, Shannon. You want to hit the button. Kentucky's longest-term office holder in history. Mitch McConnell will not seek re-election and will retire. at the end of 2026.

That is really big news. I mean, I think people suspected that was the case, but it has now been announced officially. So there you go. We'll have an open Senate race in 2026. You're going to run? No. I'm not going to run.

Thank you. That's not going to happen. But yeah, what do you think about that? I think everyone is in agreement. It was probably time. How old is he in these days? He's on up there. He's in his 80s.

Doesn't seem to be in the best health. Yeah, the health issues, it seems like, you know, really creeping up on him. Yeah, I mean, nobody should be in office that long. Like, I want you, think about our most important politicians of the last 15 years. They've all been over 80. It's crazy. It's like, come on, you know, can we get a little younger? All of them, Biden, Trump, Pelosi, McCaw, they're all over 80.

It's like, come on. I liked it's been a while, but they had Zuckerberg on the stand for something, and they're asking the most, the dumbest questions imagine about Facebook. Like, now how do people create these profiles? It's like, do you all live in the same world we live in? You're from a different world. So there you go. No more Mitch McConnell.

Who will be the leading candidates? I would say, I don't, I mean, I don't know that. If the Democrats wanted to have a chance, you have to run Bashir, but I can't imagine he would do that. There are already people who want me to, but I'm not going to do it. I don't know who else we have that could win. Probably nobody. The Republicans, it'll be like a three-way primary between Daniel, Cameron, Andy Barr, here in Lexington.

I think there's a good chance he tries to run. And then there's some businessman who, I don't know his name, but like some rich dude who wants to buy it. So it'll be one. I think Daniel Cameron, Andy Barr will be a tough primary. I don't know who would win that. Is that Amy McGrath's music? Amy McGrath needs to not run. I think Amy's already done enough.

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So we'll see. Did you see that what, Cutter Bowley was talking with, was it Cutter Bowley? I think so, with Mark Stoops. And he said that Mark Stoops best piece of, they asked him, what is Mark Stoop's best piece of advice he's given to you? And he said there are only three things in life that are assured, death taxes and UK parking. Yep. Did you like that quote? It's kind of funny coming from Mark Stoops, who doesn't abide by local parking rules.

rules anywhere. Starbucks, UK, he just parked wherever he wants to. So I thought it was kind of odd coming from him. He's not wrong, though. Anyone that went to UK or has lived in Lexington and tried to attend something anywhere near UK's campus, the UK parking, they'll find you and they don't mess around. Part of the reason I couldn't run for Senate is how much I owe UK parking. Because I have a lot of UK parking tickets, and I don't plan on ever pay them because

I don't go there. So like, Can't hold your diploma. What are they going to do? You know, what are you going to do, UK? But they are the quickest ticketing people on planet Earth. Like if you're going to go to the women's game tonight. Be careful.

I mean, you can park at Kudoba and they will park. They'll ticket you. You can park anywhere and they will ticket you. No one has more tickets than UK park. Are you tipping your hand? Did you park at Kudoba and get a ticket? It was just a figure of speech. Oh, I thought.

you did park at kudobo and they got you stepping on jokes as always so who's up next chris chris go ahead chris hey good morning guys uh hey since we just played since we just played vandy i wanted to ask this question to shannon i've never been able to figure out why he's a vanderbilt thing because he didn't he didn't grow up there didn't go to school there so i think a lot of other people want to know this answer too yeah he gives this description about once a year so go ahead I guess it's time for it again. Yeah. So, I mean, basically, just as a kid, went to Nashville a lot with the family.

And on weekends, you know, when Vanderbilt was playing, I would go to the game. I ended up meeting their play-by-play guy. He would give us free tickets to go to the games. So that's in a nutshell why I was a fan growing up as a kid. Yeah, he's been a Vandy guy since as long as we've known him. But locally, you know, they kind of owned us, Drew, a little bit. Oh, big time. You know, football's beating us two years in a row.

basketball. Cal took some bad losses to them. They beat us the first time this year. It was important to get them. Lost two out of three in football. Until last night, it had been three out of five in basketball, including two years ago. They won on Senior Day. Two weeks later, one at the SEC tournament, and then openly bragged about how Kentucky did not change its game plan at all, and they just did the exact same thing and beat them twice in a matter of weeks. I don't want to think about that. But you're right. All that happened. I mean, the football losses, too, were really bad.

I mean, I think if Mark Stoops doesn't have a good year, like of all the games on the schedule, the game against Vandy might be the most important one this year. We can't lose to Vandy again. Like, they cannot keep losing to Vanderbilt if he wants to kind of keep the face. We need to wear our beat Vandy buttons, maybe, you know. I'll try to find that button and bring it back out. Who's up next?

Chi Wu. Chi Wu, how are you? Well, well, thanks for taking my call. So, hopeful everybody in Eastern Kentucky's, you know, trying to recover and keeping their heads up. We're praying for him too up here in Chicago. I was wondering about how is Mark Stoops, his knees and whatnot? I think he had surgery.

But more importantly, yesterday we're talking about the Kentucky basketball team and how the toughest tournament is really the SEC tournament. And, you know, I'm wondering how do you, you know, if Kentucky is as healthy as it's going to be so we don't have Kerr, Kreeza, but we do get Butler Carr and Jacks back. What's the chances of winning six straight, three straight in the NCAA tournament? I think six straights hard, Chi Wu, but if you get Jackson and Butler back and we get the right bracket, we can make a final four.

I genuinely believe that. If you get Jackson and Butler back, yes, I do. Why not? They're good enough. Now, that doesn't mean they will. I wouldn't necessarily pick them as a favorite. But, you know, if I were to go look at the brink. Bracketotology. You're telling me we can't beat Chattanooga, then Illinois, then what is it,

St. John's to get to the final eight and play Florida, and we can't win. Yeah, we can win those games. I mean, I'm not saying we will, but we can. Right. Kentucky, Kentucky and Pope don't have that history. Chicago Bears season tickets went up 10%. What's up with that? Y'all take care. Appreciate the call. We can, whether we would, a different question. But if we're healthy, we can beat anybody. We'll be right back. 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. The replay of the game is on right now here at the bar, and you just saw a great sequence by Colin Chandler there. Back-to-back contested rebounds, drives down the court, kicks it into the corner for Andrew Carr for a three. I mean, that's a level of comfort we saw from him last night that we just really hadn't seen all year. Yeah, and he has maybe the most active hands on the team.

I think he had two steals. You can go back to the Arkansas game, and he didn't have offense yet. Still playing defense well on those. Rebounded last night. I'm as guilty as anyone of getting on Pope about playing those guys, but he had some long-term vision, and it's kind of looking like that's coming to fruition. If they make big plays in March, then that little lull they went through

when we all thought they were playing too many minutes that paid off. 8-59-2-80-27. This segment, sponsored by Red State Barbecue. You can now get delivery from DoorDash. If you're on the south side of Lexington, you can get Red State appetizer sandwich, plates and sides. Red State Best Barbecue in Lexington, and it's not even close. Go to Red StateBBBQ.com, or you can get catering, catering at Red StateBBQ.com. Now that they have that door dash, I get that delivered all the time because not far from my house.

Where are we tomorrow? We're at Poppies at the Palomar Fountains location. They've got like three locations in town out there by Palomar across the Man of War from Palomar. called Palomar Fountains. It's a new Poppies restaurant. So we're out Herod'sburg. Yeah. Get to Man O'Wore, and it's crossed the street on the other side. Correct.

On your right, coming from down to the downtown. So tomorrow you can come watch the show at Poppies. I'm going to give some tickets away, and you can eat food while you're at the show. That doesn't happen a lot, though. You can eat Mexican food at Poppies tomorrow. Maybe a little margarita on Friday. National Margarita Day is Saturday. So might as well start early.

I've been to Poppies many times. Great spot. Looking forward to getting there. 859-9-28. No, 2287. There's a documentary, by the way, that's on HBO Max that I think Kentucky fans will want to see. It's called We Beat the Dream Team, and it's about the college players in 1992 that beat the dream team in the practice and featured heavily on the documentaries, Jamal Mashburn. Because he was on the team that did.

It was like Jamal Mashburn, Chris Weber, Jimmy Jackson, Bobby Hurley, and, you know, But Mashburn is, they talk to him a lot. I watched the first half of it last night. Is it good? Yeah. I love that. Yeah, that's a good. You know, this story's kind of taken on a new life of its own over the years.

Did this team really beat the dream team? Apparently beat them, like, crushed them in the first game. And then they came back the next day and they crushed. It got crushed. But in the first day, they beat them by like 20. And if you watch it, Bobby Hurley, Mashburn, and Weber were the guys, that kind of took over the game. Yeah, I'm excited to watch it because there's always, you know,

rumors and legend that the Dream Team didn't want that tape getting out or that story getting out, and I'm glad we're filing it to see what it was like. Also, that Court of Gold is supposed to be really good. I saw about the Olympics just this past summer. I saw a clip of Kevin Durant crying. I didn't know Kevin Durant could cry, but he's talking about how much it meant to represent America. Yeah, I want to watch that, too. A lot of good stuff on.

Who's up next? Brandon. Brandon. What's up, Brandon? Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. I had the opportunity to take my father to KS Bar yesterday and see you guys. I had some wonderful wings.

It's a great time. Everybody I was sitting around at the game was going crazy over Colin Chandler. We felt like he was our little kid, you know, and we were all so proud of him. My question for you all is, did you happen to see Missouri's head coach Dennis Gates call a timeout with 1.5 seconds? Yeah, what did you think about that? That was interesting. Yeah, so I appreciate the call. I think.

Well, I was, no, go ahead. I appreciate the call. I was, so, you know, the fines have gotten so big for storming the court. Like, it is, when you storm the court, you get in trouble. So Missouri had already stormed the court once this year. So that was $250,000. So this was going to be a half million dollar fine if they stormed the court. So Missouri's up 12, one and a half seconds left.

Gates calls time out. gets on the microphone and goes, please don't storm the court. Please. It will cost us a half million dollars. Please. If you were an Alabama fan, would you understand that? Is that rubbing it in? It's like it's a half million dollars.

What would you do? I always put myself in, if I'm a Missouri student and I'm just chomping at the bit ready to storm the court, him saying that, I think I would probably try to get my rally of the troops and do it anyway. Wait a minute, you'd do it anyway Yeah, it's like, no So you think he's saying it would make you want to do it more? I think so if I was a Missouri student But it's a half million dollars they could

Not out of my pocket But they could spend to get a basketball player next year So you all continue this run Well, we just beat Alabama One of the top teams in the country I think I'm wanting to celebrate Don't pee in my Cheerios If he got, they ended up not storming the court

So do you think it was a good idea? I saw it live and I thought, whoa, this is weird there's still time on the clock. And I was thinking more from like the Alabama side. Like if I'm Nate Oates and the other coach, I mean, yes, the game's over. But it is, the game is still going on and you're getting on the microphone and talking to the students. It felt a little weird, but also understand why he did it. Shannon, would it discourage you or make you want to do it?

I think I would rather have a really good recruit next year than put my feet on the floor. To me, I think that's a good tradeoff, not storming the court and saving a half a million dollars. It does show you, though, how much, how much, these schools, especially next year, are all in a budget crisis. They're getting $22 million added to their expenses out of nowhere, and they don't get the next big bump in pay from the conferences till the next year. So all of these schools, Kentucky included, are like very, very nervous about making budget next year. And so I think that half million dollars, that was probably the AD looking at. Dennis Gates going, please tell everyone not. Like is 15 minutes partying on the floor with your buddies

worth the exchange of maybe missing out on a top recruit for next year? I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think so either. And then did you see the Notre Dame coach? The Notre Dame basketball coach absolutely was hilarious. You know, they lost to Louisville by like 25 points. And Louisville had many more fans there than Notre Dame.

It was at Notre Dame. It was at Notre Dame. And the coach in the press conference goes, I can't believe that we don't have fans here. Louisville has more fans than us. Now, part of that's my fault. I would argue it's all his fault. But still, we don't have fans.

And then he said, when we start winning, don't come back then. Oh. I thought I was like, dude, are you cutting off your nose to spite of your face? What do you mean? Don't you want them to be here, right? I think he would need to look around and recognize. He's the problem and say, I need to do better to get people excited to be here. Not why aren't you here?

Don't come back. Is that what you want to say to your fan base when you're awful? Don't come back? No, you're doing everything you can to get them to come back. I mean, it should be an embarrassment that Louisville has more fans than you there. Like, you should look in the mirror. Stop yelling at your fans. I mean, Notre Dame school where people will come.

Also, Louisville, where they don't get fans at home? They have that crowd. I mean, don't come back is a crazy thing to say. Who's up next? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Still, we don't have fans. And then he said,

Hello. All right, turn me down. Turn me down. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, oh. Hey, Matt. What's going on? I just want to say,

Mark Pope can be my thanks about coach for the rest of my life. Why do you say that? I think he's a Kentucky boy, and, uh, he, He came in with nothing, absolutely nothing, but he has turned it into a top 10 team. Yeah.

Well, he did. I mean, he literally had no players. I mean, I guess Travis Perry was committed, but he literally had no players, and he built a roster that, and I appreciate the call, that went healthy was as good as anybody. I mean, he really, whatever happens the rest of the year, he's really done an amazing job. Yeah, to not have any time to build something, I mean, you're going to a new school, and you haven't even called most of these guys. You're starting the recruitment with several of them.

And then halfway through the year, most of the good ones are injured, and you're still winning games like this. I think whatever happens in March, and hopefully they win several games, but even if they don't, I think he's done a great job in the first year. You don't want to lower the bar for Kentucky basketball, but you also have to be a realist when it comes to the situation he was in and how they're down to their fourth point guard. Yeah. What person writes, is there any scenario you can think of where UK would storm the court? None.

No. None that you should. I mean, I... No. There's not a team. Name the team. You can't. I mean, if we were awful for a decade straight and then you beat Duke, but it's still then, I would say no.

I thought it was embarrassing when Indiana stormed the court. I mean, we were there for Two of them, right? Didn't they, on one of our road trips, we were part of one also? Maybe, I don't remember. But, no, there's no, there are certain schools that should never storm the court. Duke should never storm the court. Kentucky should never storm the court.

North Carolina should never storm the court. Kansas should never storm the court. Those four, what? Yeah, UCLA probably, but it's been a long time since UCLA was UCLA. But those four schools, I don't think there's ever an excuse, Ryan, for them to storm the court. There's not an argument you can make. People try to say, what if it was a last second shot? We just beat the number like, okay, Auburn coming in.

We beat Auburned coming in. It would be awesome. But you still don't storm the court. Still storm the court. Yeah. Now, if for some reason the national championship was played in Lexington, and that's a little different. That would be a little different if for some reason, you know,

they decided to put the national championship at home marinas. is okay, I'd take it then, but that's it. I'm sorry, the closest thing I've seen when we were in, well, we were in Indianapolis, and Aaron Harrison hit that last second shot. I'll soon I look up, and there's a bunch of people on the court, like parents and family all came on the court. But that's not a rough. That's not a rough.

I could see storming the court in an NCAA tournament game. You can't do it at that arena with that logo right there. No, if you're storming the court, you're acknowledging, I'm David and I just knocked down Goliath, but you can't go around sticking your cest out saying we're the best ever, and then you're given Duke or Auburn or whoever you're storm against that moment, you're acknowledging that they're the better program. That's a great way to put it.

Yeah, we are Goliath, we are not David, no matter what. We'll take a break. The closest we've ever been to David versus Goliath was 1992 against Duke. That's really it. Yeah. I don't know that we've ever really been a David except maybe in that game. We'll take a break. Be right back.

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a good bounceback win like the men got last night, so I'm going to go yes. Well, they won their last game. The women, they lost to Texas. We've played since then. Georgia. Destroyed Georgia. We beat Georgia. We beat Georgia, yeah. Oh, they're a six and a half-point favorite tonight, the women. Yeah, I'm going to take Kentucky. I'll take Kentucky. It gets really hard after the time.

Yeah, let's go cats. Canada and USA, pick them, at least on the money line. It's minus 110 to minus 110. It's a toss-up. Canada and the USA. One of the Canada players said if we win, we want Donald Trump to apologize at the White House podium. I don't think that's going to happen. If we win, I don't know.

We'll take their syrup. What do you think? Kentucky, are you Kentucky in Canada? The United States and Canada, who you got tonight? Come on. Definitely going with the Americans, and I'm going to bet on one of these people to score a goal once I learn who's on which team. Who's Nathan McKinnon?

Is he Canadian or American? McKinnon? I don't know. I'm not sure. One of these guys, I'm betting to score a goal. The Keynes have two guys on Canada, which made me feel a little torn because I really like them. But they cut one, they benched one of them for tonight. Didn't put him on the active roster.

So Canada, I'm taking the United States. What about you? Well, it's in Boston. Come on our own turf. We ain't going to lose. We got to win for Crispus Attackus and all the famous people in the revolution, although I guess we didn't fight Canada, but same thing. Shannon, who you got?

We're going to boo their national anthem. We're going to punch them in the face like you would, Billy, if you were upside down on a plane, and then we're going to beat them in hockey. So go USA. Go, USA. Austin Matthews, plus. 200. I'm betting it right now. I have no clue who that is, but he's American. Yeah, Austin Matthews's

American. He's the really young guy that everybody thinks is going to be so good. Good choice then. Yeah, so Austin Matthews, we'll take him getting a goal. It starts at 8 o'clock? Starts at 8 o'clock. All right, who's up next? Robert. Robert. Go ahead, Robert.

Hey, Matt. Do you think in the past we have talked about Blue Bloods, such as Kentucky, Kansas, Carolina, UCLA? Do you think with NIO money in this $22 million coming along that those days are over, that these blue bloods will not be in the top 10 parental? No, because here's why I would say that. All right, so let's go back to the days when you weren't allowed to play. If you take away cheating, what ended up happening?

The teams that had the best programs, the best secondary stuff, they ended up getting the players because basically the money was the same, which is everybody got zero. now in the era of the $22 million, everybody's got the same money again. Now, they might distribute it different ways, but pretty much everybody's got the same money. So I think it's going to be the same thing. I think Blue Bloods will eventually take off again. Now, it might be different Blue Bloods.

Like, it might be the case that some of these teams are better at NIL than others, but I still think we'll see the same general teams. Basketball is a little different, though. Appreciate the call, because in basketball, Drew, you have a lot of, of different ways you could build a team. You could put a lot of money into one guy. You could spread it out. So I think you're going to see years in basketball where random teams get good. Yeah, the playing field has certainly been leveled, but I think other things will come into play like a fan base. Like Kentucky will still have a huge advantage of having fan support and being on TV and having

atmosphere. I don't know how much they'll keep investing in facilities because they'll run out of money, but little things like that can separate it if it's all coming down to just dollar. I think what's going to be interesting is take a school like St. Johns or Yukon that doesn't have a big football program and in theory could take all that money and spend it all on basketball right so those schools that don't have Gonzaga yeah those schools that don't have football programs might have an advantage in basketball because they can just i mean st john's dude is apparently saying he's going to spend like eight million dollars next year so it definitely they're going to put that money in into their basketball programs that's just going to help them

in facilities recruiting everything and Kentucky you Schools like Kentucky and Duke and Kansas and North Carolina, they're going to have to make a choice, right? They're going to have to make a choice. How important is basketball to you? Like, is it important enough to pull some of that money from football? I don't know. Everybody's going to have to make the choice in the coming years.

Especially Kentucky playing in the SEC, you're going to try to be as competitive as possible. You're going to pull some money away from them? It's going to be fascinating. I think being an AD, I'm going to make a prediction. The days of picking good old. boys is your AD is gone. They're going to be picking nerds.

Business people. They're going to be picking people like me. I'm not saying me, but people like me who are numbers people or who, like, you can't just go pick Bobby because he played there. You're going to have to pick people who know how to distribute funds between lots of different sports. They're going to pick business people. You're exactly right. That's who's going to be AD's coming up.

And it's sad, but we're already seeing it. The schools that just have one really rich person, like you mentioned Shane, St. Johns, I forgot how that guy got his money, but he's a billionaire, and he's openly saying, I'll give whatever I need. It shouldn't be this way, but that's going to be a huge advantage for schools, too. But I think it's, it doesn't bother me, because it's going to, we're going to get to see new teams, right? We're going to get, I think college basketball has been awesome this year. I really do. I think it's been awesome. Partially it's because we're better, but I just think it's been a fun sport to watch. A lot of different teams are good, a lot of random results. I think it makes it

exciting. This year for college basketball, I probably paid attention to more non-UK games than I have in a long time. Totally agree with that. Totally agree. One more real quick, Shannon. Before Glenn's talks, the Volunteers of America, Mid-States, part of Volunteers of America, they are the

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That could happen. Could. Go ahead, sir. Yeah, but what would have to happen? Here's what needs to happen for that happen. Our richest donors need to say one game, we're going to give up our stuff and let it be a student. Uh-huh. Will they do that?

I don't know. But that's what they have to do. It would have to be probably one of the early November games. Yeah. Now, I think. think a better way to do it would be to have a game in Memorial. Yes. Play one game in Memorial every year, student-only game, and let it be wild.

Why not? That's what I would do. But I don't know if they'll ever be able to do that or not. Little sweaters, they like going to their game. Hey, thank you folks very much. We're at Poppies tomorrow. Trivia tonight at 7. See you here at the bar.

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