KSR - 2025-03-03- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK's loss to Auburn, the ABC truck losing the feed to the game, and audio porn.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I guess I am in Louisville in the studio. Shannon is across the hall. I would assume Ryan and Drew are in Lexington in the studio. and you can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. That's 859-280-2287. I'll be able to see the callers to make sure my favorites get on, Shannon, to keep you from trying to fool me. The A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5-254. And this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office.

Call T.J. You'll make them pay. My little book says it is Eastern Orthodox Lent begins, which seems nice. And I hope you all are celebrating. Tough weekend for the UK basketball team as they get kind of a beat down at home. But the good thing is we didn't even get to see the last 12 minutes of the game. So it's almost like it didn't happen. I'm almost glad that that technical difficulty happened. So I don't have to watch the last 10 minutes because that was an ass whooppin.

I mean, they beat them down pretty good. Their dudes are just better than our dudes, you know, overall. Even though I think Carr and Amari both played pretty well, big guys played pretty well. They just got better dudes than we got. Yeah, that's what I heard. I don't know for sure if that happened. But, you know, look, I said on the postgame show, Drew, I think with our roster as it's currently constituted,

we have a starting five that can compete for, if not with everybody, almost everybody. But we just have such a huge drop off on the bench. We had five points come off the bench. That's it, five. You're just not, you know, you're not going to win like that against the team as good as Auburn on a night they're playing well. Now, Auburn had nearly 30 bench points.

And speaking of the number 30, it didn't help that their fourth or fifth best option gave you 30 points and hit nine three pointers. He doubled more than doubled UK and threes and had the two banked in back to back, which I think at that point, we all know the banked in curse. We knew it was going to be one of those days. So, I mean, banked in back to back. You don't do that, man. I mean, Shane, at that moment, game's over, right? Banked in back to back. Kentucky has got to lead the nation in allowing the most banked threes.

It has to. I mean, it seems like every game somebody's banking in a three. And then to do it back to back. I mean, I'd like to know in the history of basketball, right, and how many times a dude is banked in back to back threes? Maybe back in like the 1920s when they tried to do it. You know, it was like a set shot with a big shot. But no one tries to bank in a three.

Of course it wasn't threes back in. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't a three. So that couldn't happen. It was ridiculous. I mean, I think that made it like 21 to 8. And I got up and went, well, don't have to worry about this one anymore. It kind of is what it is. We do, for me, the most, two things are most important coming out.

Number one, why did the game go off the air? Because in the grand scheme of sports, Ryan, how many times have you ever watched an event that just went completely off the air for a long time? Yeah, we've seen events that maybe go away for 30 seconds, maybe a minute. Not when there's 10 minutes, 11 minutes still on the clock, that was kind of, I kept waiting for it to come back. And it never came back, did it? never came back. All right. So apparently there was a fire outside of the arena.

I will tell you what happened for me, Drew. The game goes off the air. You get the blue screen. I felt like, boy, these commercials are taking a long time. And then they came back and there were just two guys in the studio. And they start talking about a different game. And I was like, well, that doesn't make any sense. And then I get a call that says, Matt, the area outside the TV truck is on fire.

and has burned through the production. But don't say fire. But the game's probably not coming back on. And I was like, oh. So I think I tweeted out something like breaking news. Game may not come back on. There's an issue next to the production truck. Of course, then Shannon, Billy on the post game show just goes,

well, there was a fire outside. I guess later everybody else reported it. But did we ever know, Drew, what the fire was? and what kind of fire it was? I've got it. You've got it? Scoop? You know, I got a pretty good connection with... In the fire world?

In the video services world over there. Okay. They had caution tape around the generator and a load box, which got caught in some fans and started a fire in the load box. What's the load box? That's like kind of... Ironically, I think it's supposed to help keep everything from overheating. Keep everything from overheating.

Oh, wait a minute. So the box... that's in charge of not having fires caught on fire. Caught on fire. I'm blaming on some caution tape. Somebody's got to answer to this. It's not going to be a box. But a caution tape doesn't just randomly ignite.

Like something had to set it off. Yeah. If it was attached and wind blew it a loose and it gets in those fans. When causes fire? When caused the tape to break loose. And then what? Then it gets in those fan, that fan and just. So you think a fan?

So you're saying the official explanation is that a fan tape blew into a fan and it ignited a fire? That's what happened in my house. The refrigerator exhaust vent caught fire. But not because of tape. Well, no, but it was a paper. There was paper around it. It just dries out and somehow sparks. Wow.

Who do? Is that easy to start a fire? I can never start a fire like when I'm trying to. Yeah. But it's easy to start a fire. I have a lighter that gives fire and I can't get it. to light candles. And you're telling me that just paper into a fan can cause a fire. That's what happened. Well, I think we need a new load box, Drew, because clearly that one's

not keeping the fire load away. A rough start for the first ABC game and however long it was, all the excitement, billis in the house, and then most of the second half you don't even get to see. Ridicrous. Here's what I want to say. What do we think happened, Shannon, if that game was close. Like what if it was, again, number one team in Rupp, and it was a two-point game with like four minutes to go and we weren't able to see it? Do you think this, I mean, what happened? There'd be more fires. People's heads would be exploding. It would have been, it would have been a crazy scene. I think at one point, Drew, did Kentucky cut it to like nine or eight or some point after that? Did they cut it a little bit? I think to 10 or 11, I don't know if we got to single digits.

went on a little mini run. I think he had nine straight points by himself. They got a few stops. I don't know that it got Rupperey very confident, but at least kept people engaged a little bit in the second half. I did see it when it got that point. And Shannon and I was thinking, man, if they make a run here and then we're not watching, what happens at that point? Do people like try to storm into the gym? Like it could have been one of the mystery games of all time with none of us watching it. Yeah, everybody listening to Tom and Jack. That's the only way you could get it, right? So apparently normally networks will use like UK's feed for these games,

but ABC wanted to use their own. Oh. They wanted their own load box. That's what Tom was telling me. Okay. So apparently that's what happened with ABC. It didn't work. We had one job.

We have one job. Don't catch on fire. And then they did. There was a guy in the stands, Ryan, who just started filming it from the stands. I think at one point he had like 24, thousand people on his stream. Holy cow. Yeah, he had more people watching his cell phone than most television shows do in this area. Mario asked me if he could do it. And I said, like, we're going to get in trouble.

What's the point of like getting in trouble for a game? But if it had gotten close, Drew, I was going to tell Mario to start filming. Oh, my Twitter blew up with people begging me to go live. And I got to understand, JMI would have had a sniper on the roof, take me out. If I had just picked up my phone during those few minutes. So that was a big no-no. But we tried our best with the live blog. I even had someone text me from Jack Dempsey's in New York that said people are trying to put the live blog onto the TVs at the bar in New York because they couldn't see the game. That would have been right.

Though, if the game had been close, I would have told you all to do it. I would have said, Shannon, look, if JMI wants to get mad and us having the only film of a game that's not otherwise on, then they can get mad. Exactly. Yeah, at that point, I think it would be worth it. Yeah, I think it would have been worth it if the game was close, but it never got close. So Jackson Robinson, after the game was over, it's announced he's out for the year. If you listen to the pregame show, that was kind of what it sounded like was going to happen. He was going to go to another specialist this week, but apparently he's been to like three.

They were going to try one more. I guess the decision ended up being not to do that. He has to have surgery. You know, it's a big blow. I don't think it's like a, you know, a killer blow like you can't overcome it. But I do think it takes away, Ryan, the ceiling of the team. Like, the ceiling of the team is not as high as it was otherwise. I totally agree with you.

You know, we all said when he first got hired, we hope he makes it to the second weekend. Well, now I'm back to where I was then. Like, man, if they can just find a way just to get to the second weekend, the Sweet 16, I think I'd be happy. That's a big blow, man. He was a, he not only meant a lot on the court. He meant a lot off the court because he knew he'd already played for Pope for two years. He kind of knew how to handle and what was coming up and kind of helped, I think, the rest of the guys in the locker room. Why do you think, Drew, I have a lot of fans writing on the text machine and everybody keeps saying that second weekend, second weekend. Why do you think that is such a, is it a mental thing just because we haven't done it in a few years?

Like, why do you think people are, well, we've got to get to the second weekend? I mean, I'd love to see us get to the final weekend. But why do you think that second weekend is such a thing to people? Because I keep hearing that over and over. I think you said, it's just been so long since we've been there. And with all the excitement of beating so many top 25 teams this year, kind of feel like it's possible. I think it's the same way with people saying,

just win a game in Nashville. Yeah. No one's really setting that high of a bar. It's just that's how bad it's been lately. we just want to go a little bit farther and give Pope on the right track. Well, let's talk about the Nashville situation. So, Vandy, how did they win that game, Shannon? In overtime.

I know, but they shouldn't have. I mean, Missouri was up three and got fouled, I think, and had two free throws basically to put away, made one, then Vandy comes down, or was that, that was the Tennessee game? I think you're talking about the Tennessee game. Yeah, Tennessee game. Tennessee was down four and still ended up winning. Vanity won in overtime, but Missouri should have won that game. But Vandy winning, now there's a three-way tie for eighth place.

We hold the tiebreaker for a variety of reasons. But basically the way I sort of perceive it is, if we win both games, if we win LSU and Missouri, I think we have a chance to be higher than the eight. We could get up to a seven or the six seed. I think the six is actually where we would go if we end up winning both games. If we win one, the eighth seed is most likely, but we need Mississippi State to lose a game, and they have two very winnable games. And then if you lose both games, then we're playing on Wednesday.

That's kind of how I look at it. So, Ryan, it's almost like it's right in front of them. Beat LSU, and then you set up a game with Missouri where you could end up like the sixth seed, or if Mississippi State wins both games, you could end up playing on Wednesday. a lot would be on the line in Columbia. And I think you've got to take that attitude, right? Because like you said, Mississippi State's remaining two games are favorable for them. They play, what is it?

Texas and then at Arkansas. Is that what they do? So you've got to think they're going to be favored in both of those. The Arkansas game, they may not be favored. I'm not sure. But either way, the point being, like, they can win both those games. Yeah. So that's all you got for me?

well that's what I said I mean I think Mississippi State's going to win them both he just gave me a yeah Shannon gave me a yeah yeah if we end up in a three-way tie with Vanney Mississippi State we can end up the 10 even going one-on-one

because in a three-way the way they were round robbing it with those teams that we would be third are we because that's right now because that's unlikely but it's but I don't think that's right because all three of those teams

all three of those games teams, we're tied now and the SEC still has this projected 8th. So what would change? Well, if it's a three-way tie, then it goes the round-robin. To get there, they'll have beaten, when you combine all the teams in the round-robin, they will have beaten more. And then the tiebreaker

goes down to, I'll look this up earlier, but then it goes to like you. But that's what it is already. And they have us like, the three games between these teams are already done. And the SEC has us as the 8 right now. But then it goes to your record against

like the top team. It was this long process of how this works. I mean, it's a long shot, but it is possible. Then it goes, if it's all the same, then it goes to your order against one, two, three, four. Okay. Well, if it's a four-way tie, I think we're the eight. So we'd almost rather have a four-way tie than a three-way tie.

Well, either way, if we can, if we can, the key is to beat LSU and then see what happens with Missouri. Mississippi States, two games are they host Texas and go to Arkansas. So we might find ourselves, Shannon in the final week rooting for John Calaparian. Oh, no, we don't want to be in that situation, especially with them putting up,

what, 14 points and. Oh, my goodness. What a disaster. And Arkansas plays at Vandy Tuesday night as well. So you got that ahead. So Arkansas plays the two teams right now we're tied with Arkansas, Mississippi State and Vandes. We start chewing for our talk. But the problem is, if Arkansas, well, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. two and oh, Kentucky has a decent chance to get out of the eight scene and actually have a path where they could do something in Nashville. But you're going to have to go two and oh for that time. 859-28027. Text machine is 772-774-5254. A disappointing Saturday. Are you done or do you still think this team can make a run?

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They feel like a larger than life band. Louder than life? No, they're not. Okay. All right. So people, electricians are riding in. So that's a great thing about this show. There's somebody that does everything.

I can say any job and somebody that listen to this show does it. We've had multiple electricians right in. This one says, Matt, as with most things with Ryan, he's kind of correct, but not totally. It's likely the paper stalled the fan out. The current then increased as it continued to try to make the fan move, but it couldn't. The locked rotor then caused the fire. Is that what you meant, Ryan? Makes sense.

All started with some tape getting stuck in it. load box fan. I thought that's exactly word for word what Ryan said. Exactly. Is that what you heard? Yeah. Was that exactly word for word what you said? Yeah, yeah, exactly. I can't when you didn't do that. I didn't take that as a word for word. But, you know, if you say so, why wouldn't it? All right, I'm going to give my real quick take of why, Drew, I think UK is still still at it. Their ceiling is certainly down. And I do think it's going to be very hard for us to beat an Auburn or a Duke.

But beyond that, we have the offense still to score mid to high 80s. And I do think you get a game where guys get hot, we can be in it. Our problem against Auburn, we went down 21 to 8, basically because we went to our bench and our bench can't handle it. That was 13 point difference. We end up losing by 16. If you don't have that period, maybe it's competitive at the end. I still feel like against most teams with Butler, they have enough, if they roll with the starters,

they have enough to stay in these games and give them a shot. It may be hard against an Auburn, a Duke, or even a Florida, but I do think they can still beat anybody. I also think the amount of teams that can beat us now has grown to where every game is going to be tough. Definitely. We mentioned it before we knew Robinson was out for the year. We were just talking about if he didn't play against Auburn, but your bench has to step up. They absolutely did not step up on Saturday. Also, you know, I feel like we said every week, you got to take more threes. And it seemed like the game plan against Auburn was to drive.

I don't get it. And there was a stretch in the second half where it's like they forgot how to dribble. They started the second half with six turnovers and zero shot attempts. That's outrageous for a basketball game. Yeah, this is the first time all year. I didn't really understand what Pope's game plan was. My number one question to Pope when the year's over is going to go, Ryan, what happened of the 35 threes we were going to take.

Exactly. Because that just went away. And I know part of it is they extend their defense out, etc. But we only took 17. And that just, we're not going to win unless we take double that. And I think we've got a couple guys that can't create that space to get the three off. They've got to have a lot of help. And they're not getting it.

So I think they're having trouble just getting a shot off. Yes, period. We're having, I think that's, anytime Shannon, I see one of these dudes hesitating that can shoot threes. I'm like, what do you doing? You think we're going to get a better shot in 10 seconds? Fire it. Let it fly. Let it fly. We got guys that can knock it down, but

Ryan's right. I mean, you're I guess just relying on coming off a screen every time to get an open look. You've got to be able to create a long shot. You're not going to beat Auburn making four threes. So you got, look, let's say we took 30. We make eight and then maybe it's a competitive game. Drew, like you just

got to take more. We have to. And brand it up with four. but, I mean, Kentucky had one three for like 25 to 30 minutes of the game. It got to where the offense was so stagnant. He just pulled from deep on two of them, luckily he made them. But it's like the three-pointers didn't exist for most of that game until it was already over with. Judy and Mount Sterling. What's up, Judy?

Hey, well, I'll say I'm kind of happy I missed the game because we were on our way back from Mexico. Oh, wow. Humble brag. I don't want to be a number. number eight seed and then had to play Auburn, win the first game and had to play Auburn the second game. But

the other thing I just want to say, Matt, I just, I read the wager while I was down in Mexico. Okay. And it's more of a manned book. Yeah. But, you know, there's some gruesome stuff in it, but because it was a true story, it was absolutely amazing.

Well, good. If you want a woman book, would you like a woman book in return, Judy? Well, no, I like murder. Oh, you want men books. Okay. She wants murders. You want men books. You don't want me to give you a woman book.

I don't like romance books. Okay, but I'm not saying romance. It's just one about like. Well, so you said it was kind of a man book. You just want all man books. No, no, no, no, no, no. It was just a little gruesome at times reading that book. Yeah, it is a little gruesome.

Judy, I'm going to give you another one to read. I'm going to give you another one to read. I'm going to give you another one. read bell b-e-l-conto c-a-n-t-o it's a good mix of man and woman how about that b-a what's the first that b-el bell b-l-l-conto c-a-n-tto it's like a bad there's there's there's some there's some murdery stuff but then there's also some some women stuff you go you go with that right all right there sounds great i've got it written down appreciate it she doesn't want any romance shannon get that romance out of here with judy

Exactly. She doesn't need a man. She's like, forget that. I have to listen to the audio book around my house out loud of romance books, and it's really uncomfortable. Yeah. First of all, women are on this kick. I don't understand it. Have you seen Barnes & Noble is opening Drew 60 new stores? And when I was, I was like, well, that's a little surprising. Why? And it said it's all because of, like, fantasy smud. It's all because of, like, women reading fantasy novels where, like, vampires. They all have have sex with each other. It's audio porn. No, it is. And I get in her car and it's on and I'm going, what in the world are you listening to? I have these two female friends and that's all they do. And we'll go to dinner, the three of us.

And they just talk about these like books about fairies who are in love with werewolves. And the last one she had was the Loch Ness Monster. Yeah, and they love it. They love it. And apparently it's like rebirthing bookstore. because they like to come in there and like skim through and see. It's crazy. I actually read a story about this because, you know, Barnes & Noble is going the wrong direction and they credit their resurgence all to TikTok.

And they're going to put TikTok areas in their stores. They call it book talk. And that's where women are sharing these. But Barnes & Noble has admitted we were on our way down until TikTok saved us. But it's this smut. It's like fantasy smut with like craw dads, making out. out with sharks. Like, that's what it is. The other one was called like I banged the moth man.

Yeah, it's unbelievable. We'll take a break. Be right back. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Yeah, it's called Shannon Fantasy or Fairy Smut. Okay. Well, I'm hearing a lot of that around the house.

So your girlfriend just walks around and just plays it like over the Alexa. Oh, my goodness. Could you put some headphones on or something? Yeah, that's got to be weird. I don't need to hear that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm telling you, these two women I know, like, that's all they talk about.

And they read like three books a day. Or not a day, excuse me, like three books a week or something of it. It's crazy. Okay, I need your ruling on something. Yeah. If you listen to an audio book, does that count as reading? No, no. Okay.

That's a podcast. Thank you. No. I try to tell her. An audio book is not reading. She's like, I read 10 books. It's not reading. No, you didn't.

It's not reading. Now, it is, I'm not saying it's not valuable, but it's not reading. I agree. Reading is using your eyes and thinking, or braille or, whatever, you know what I mean? Like, it's not, audio is different because you can kind of tune in and out. That's right. To read, you got to read.

So, no, it's not reading. It's still valuable, but Ryan, it's not the same as reading. See, I tune out when I'm reading. My mind just breaks off. What do you mean you tune out when you're reading? How is that possible? How do you do that? My ADD just takes off and I'm like, what did I just read?

I just read two pages. I have no idea what I just read. But you didn't read it if you didn't process it. Yeah, there's no processing going on sometimes. I'll do both with the same book. It doesn't surprise me. Yeah. I'm sorry.

The hours you are reading or listening, it's fine, but it's like it's a podcast. It's not reading if you do it like that. That way out towards book it. Like if you said I'll listen. No. I mean, I did an audio book with Mitch, please. And I actually think it's very entertaining because Chris and I did different voices. And we got some people that were in the book to come and actually voice their own part.

But it's also like it's like an entertainment thing, Shannon. It's not reading. It's like a, it's an audio experience. Exactly. It's like listening to this show right now. That's exactly right. The same as reading a book. One person writes, Matt, I watch the games and I yell at the television, shoot it at least 10 times a game. I'm the same way, Drew.

And like, I know teams are arranging their defense to try to keep us from shooting threes. I get that. But we still pass up open ones and I'll never understand why. I yell shoot it at Carr, Brea, and Butler. I probably yelled it 10 times Saturday against all. And Brea, who should be the quickest trigger on the team, he's still hesitating a little bit. In the second half, there was a play where he was open for three, then he went to drive, then kind of backpedaled to take the three.

He's like, the moment you have a window, launch it. That play drove me crazy. Shoot. Instead he goes up two feet, comes back and shoot. Just shoot. It's the best we're going to get against a team like Auburn. Early in the second half, I genuinely thought they'd be better off pulling up from half court when they were dribbling off their feet and they were driving and throwing it off the backboard to nothing.

Yeah. That stretch was so sad. It was bad. That stretch at the start of the second half, we needed the TV to go out. Couldn't dribble it? Couldn't make a simple pass. It was brutal. Steve, go ahead, Steve.

Hey, guys. What's up? I would love to see our shooters plant coming around that screen and going straight up for the shot instead of taking one dribble, which sets a defense catch up. chances of either making a shot or getting fouled are a whole lot better than making that one dribble and looking for something else. Well, they take that dribble for space, but I'm with you. If you think about a lot of the times we've fouled on a three, it's because as soon as they hand off on that pick, they immediately go up and the guy fighting through the pick ends up, he almost can't help but landing on you. That was the foul.

That was the foul that either Bray or Oway. Oway when he fouled on the three, that was what it is. He was fighting through the screen. He didn't probably even see the guy jump to shoot, but because he was fighting through, he was there. He couldn't stop. He landed on him.

We should do that. That's actually seemingly a pretty good way to draw a foul. Wasn't that one of Monk's specialties? It was planting that left foot. Well, Monk was really good. Yeah, Monk was really good at that, and he also would kind of lean into it. Monk would have loved to play Ryan in the way they call three fouls now.

Because, like, guys, he loved to lean into guys on threes. Yeah, and he could jump so high He can get the foul and still get the shot off. You're exactly right. I appreciate the call. Ryan's right. He could jump so high it would give somebody in time to get under him

for him to land on him. Monk would really excel in the way they call that three-point foul now. Bluegrass, go ahead. All right, fellas. I think right here's where I'm at. I'm kind of a little bit torn. As much as we do love Jackson and how when you have a couple of shooters,

you know, it keeps you from having to slack off and they can help. But if I ask you all, what position could we probably go down and be the best? Wouldn't you probably say it? You would. You would. I think of the starting five, which Brea came off the bench, there is an argument that while I do think Robinson might be the best of that group, he's probably the one we could afford to lose the most because those other guys,

their replacements are such a huge step down. And in theory, your replacement for Robinson can be Brea. Exactly. And I'm not sure if we need to play, I don't know, we can't defend if we do this, but Carr is a five, but then we take Williams out of the game. Yeah, you don't want that. I don't know. Yeah, I think we're just going to have to, I guess we're turning into a high-low team now with O-A off the dribble. I guess that's our offense. Well, I think that's important. That's important. I appreciate the call. I mean, Drew, it's important to us. We got nothing from O-Way. I mean, O-A was in foul trouble. You know, he was kind of,

It never looked like he was totally in that game. And so then you don't have Robinson and you get nothing from Owey. If he has his normal game, it's probably more competitive. Yeah, at Auburn's so good. I mean, they had the stat that from Ken Palm, they're the best team since 2015 UK and the analytics. So if you're playing that team and Oway has four points and your team has four three-pointers, there's not really any scenario where you're going to win.

And you have 18 turnovers. Yeah, and 18 turnovers. And some of those turnovers that we mentioned the first in the first, part of the second half, they were unforced, there's like no pressure and they just threw it away. I mean, it was like, what in the heck are you doing? You just threw it out of bounds for no reason. There's a point during the radio broadcasts

where Jack Givens, the number one supporter and shooter of this team said, they look like they don't even know what they're doing. They did, though. They did look like they don't know what they're doing. Now, did you see what Fandul tweeted out, Shannon? I did. Yeah, yeah, I did see it. First of all, this is why

we're a draft king's show in state. Fan duel said something like, is Pope going to even get it done or something? Well, they said it wasn't a mistake to hire. Was it a mistake? Yeah. Good way to build up your core there, Fandle. But I have to tell you, I don't get, I do not understand how fans, and I don't think

there are many doing this, I think it's a very small number. But I don't know how there are fans that like just don't believe in Pope based on anything. I mean, he put together the team in a moment. month. They've got great wins. As Pope confirmed, they're four and three against the top five this year. That's amazing. That's pretty amazing. Now, have they been perfect? No. Can I say with 100% certainty, Pope's going to crush it here? No. But how could you, Ryan, say with 100% certainty, he won't work? Like, like he's done, I think, maybe not an A plus job, but an A, a to a minus job, wouldn't you think?

Yes, and I think, I would like to ask those guys, if we told them what was going to happen before the season, they probably would take it. Folks, first year, throwing together at the last minute, you beat Duke, Louisville, Tennessee, Zonzaga. You're going to take that. You're going to take the season that they're having right now because you're still going to get in the NCAA tournament.

You still got a chance to win a couple games in March, and I think most people would take that. And imagine Shannon if we had had with Cal, the game he had at South Carolina, said. Oh, my God. No. 20 points in 30 minutes. We would fire him at halftime.

I mean, can you imagine? There were 20 points with 11 and a half minutes to go. I saw that and I go, that can't be real. That can not be a real score. He had 14 points at halftime. That's insane. He's 0 and 3 against Lamont Paris. Boy, Lamont Paris.

I saw South Carolina is 6 and 5 in their last 11 games against Cal. And they've been really bad during those times as well. Robbie, go ahead, Robbie. There was a report this morning that Bruiser might be leaving, too, because somebody else jumping off the ship. Well, I mean, that's one they could lose. Robbie, go ahead. Good morning.

Yeah, good morning, guys. I had a couple things. Yeah, I mean, to your question, I think we can make a little run. I mean, we've got to get some production out of our fence. We've got to start getting some calls because these fandom calls that we're getting on threes. Well, I will note. They called more foul, like seven more fouls on Auburn than they did us. I mean, again, they were calls it frustrated me, but we have to stop acting like we're the most aggrieved.

I mean, they called a lot of fouls on Auburn. Most of our points in the first half came from pre-throbes. Right, right, I understand that. But one other thing before I and I hang up and listen was, is I know y'all probably seen it, and I think it's one of the most disrespectful things, the Auburn players with the belt out on rubber row of floor, acting like they're spanking this. Well, let's talk about that. I will save that for after the break, all right?

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Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I have to say, the two most popular topics on the text machine, Shannon, are we should shoot more threes and those fairy books. Oh, yeah. Judy called back, by the way. She wanted me to tell you that she is, she likes romance. She just doesn't like romance books.

She wanted to clarify that. All right. Well, Judy, I think you'll like Bell Conco. Yeah, I do. Oh, one person, a lot of you are saying, and I get this, that like, there are various, like, reasons somebody would listen to books instead of reading, including, like, physical or issues or something, and you're, that you're exactly right. That's a very fair point.

I'm not trying to say that one is better than the other. Maybe it is for me, but that may not be true for everybody else. So that's a very fair point. One person writes, Matt, I listen to your audiobook. I actually thought it was better than reading it because you and Tomlin, made funny voices. That's true. We did make funny.

Tom, I mean, Tom, when you got to hear his voice when he did all of his footnotes and stuff. I would rather somebody read me the book than me have to read it myself. Oh, you would? You think you have the patience, though, to sit there and listen to someone read it to you? Well, I mean, like if I'm doing other things. Like, that's the good thing about an audio book. Like, I can, you know, do stuff around the house.

The other thing is in the car, right? You can't read a book going down the highway. Yeah, I like to have physical copies, partially because I like having a library and all that. But I can see that, Ryan. You and I've listened to podcasts on our road trips that could be books. They're like eight hours long. It's just they call them a podcast. It's almost like, yeah, somebody's reading the book to us. That couple of those podcasts we've listened to. So I think that's the best scenario for me is to be able to do it in the car. I read a book at home and if I have a long drive, like say Nashville, I will then get some chapters on audio and kind of

do a little bit of both. Makes sense. One person writes, Drew, you're going to like this. Matt, my wife listens to all those books that you're talking about. Like Shannon, she keeps them turned on. It gets her all worked up. So she'll be hitting, she'll be reading or hearing about a werewolf going after a fairy. And then all that's left is me and I end up getting the benefits. It never helps the marriage. There you go.

I'm telling you, my two friends, like they'll sit there. The three of us will go to dinner and they just talk about it. And they'll be like, oh, did you read and blah, blah, blah. Oh, Darren. Oh, my good. And then they just get, Shannon, they get worked up right sitting there. Because they're talking about a book they read two weeks ago.

I got to go buy me a werewolf mask. You think that'll help? Yeah. Well, good. By the way, the Outrunners, I don't know what made you think of that, but the Outrunners team won the summit outright and they beat up a trash can again. Oh, did they? They beat up the trash can again.

That is awesome. I saw Shilow Thursday at OVW. I told him that you gave him a shout out. He appreciated it. Yeah, not just here on ESPN, too. All right, let's talk about the belt thing. Drew, so if you saw the video after the game, two Arkansas, or excuse me, Auburn players pull out belts

and they start smacking the ground to make it look like they were kind of beating the ass of the Kentucky players. You know, it was on our court. A lot of people got upset about that. What was your take on it? My take is, if anyone on this basketball team has an ounce of fight in them, they will come out and whoop LSU because they should see that and be furious. Not only that they got killed for 39 minutes in Rupp Arena,

it's a better team, that kind of happens. But to just get mocked like that on your own floor, they better be angry and motivated to come out and do something special tomorrow night. If not, I don't know if they got the dog in them, to be honest, because that should have set them off. Ryan? Yeah, you can do whatever you want in the locker room.

And they did. They were celebrating and rapping and all kinds of stuff in the locker. Fine, go ahead and do that. On the court, man, you do like that, you better be ready. Don't, you know, I hope our UK players like Drew said, don't forget that. That was completely disrespectful, and they need to remember that the rest of the season. You sound very offended by it. I mean, I think, you know, most athletes know you just don't do that.

Well, like, we had this argument, not argument, we had a discussion one time. Like, I don't like when football players try to plant their flag in the middle of an opposing team's field. I think there's just a little of respect you've got to have for your opponent. Take it back to the locker room and do whatever you want. Don't do it out there on our court. It's interesting. Shannon, they're both more upset than I was.

Yeah. I kind of took the view. I felt the same way about flag planning like, beat them. You already know my take. You already know what I'm going to say. Yeah, you're going to say the same thing, right? If you don't like it, stop him.

Yeah, I mean, I... You got 40 minutes to beat him. I just, I mean, we taught... We've never pulled out a belt, but we've done L's down and we've done yelling at the fans, the stands. We love those moments.

Right. What's different, Ryan, about L's down, walking up to the students in the Louisville game and taking out the belt? Because we lost. I have no problem with them. Okay, as long as you're consistent, fair enough. I have no problem with them doing it. Have that. I don't care. In fact, they earned it. I'm saying if I play for Kentucky and I just watch that, I'm coming out on fire Tuesday. Yeah, I agree with that. And if the players don't, then they're pretty weak-minded.

And what if we play Auburn in the SEC term? Exactly. You should throw the first, not a literal punch, but if you get Auburn again, you better come out like you're on fire after watching that. I have no problem with Albert actually. They earned it, but as a player, that should motivate you. They definitely should show that in the locker room.

And even, I don't think ABC did any favor shaned to Pope by showing Pope's pregame speech versus Pearls. No. Because even though they put popes, it just didn't look the same. Now, that could be editing, which was, unfair to Pope. Yeah. But Pearl's like, these dudes, did they show up every night?

No, we did. You know, it didn't look great. Brock, go ahead, Brock. I was talking about going to run. While there's technically no rule against it, they seem to try to make it to where, at least if you're on the top four seed lines, you're not going to play anybody in your conference until the elite eight. And since we're on the three-four line, that matches us up with Duke Houston, Iowa

State, and Michigan State. I'm good with those. In terms of going on a run, you know, beat the teams you're supposed to beat one of those four. Yeah, I'm actually not bad. I'm with you on that. They don't want to put teams against each other until the elite eight. I think I'd rather play Duke Houston, Iowa State, Michigan State over playing these SEC teams, Brock. Absolutely, yeah.

And that's just what it's going to end up being. And honestly, I think the last-buth scenario is, Or the three seed in Auburn or Alabama's region, and the two seed is Michigan State, Iowa State, and honestly hope the four seed beats Auburn. That'd be great. You're exactly right. Now, we've got to get to the three seed, and I appreciate the call. I now think to get to the three seed, Drew, we probably got a win at Missouri. Not certainly, but I think it would, I think if we were to finish two and O, here's what I do.

Finish two and O, I think we'll be a three seed, and I think we'll be paired up with either Michigan State or Iowa. State, and I'll take it. I think that's the best scenario. I think when they go to Columbia, you have to sit there and think, would you rather play Duke or Houston in the Sweet 16, or would you rather play Iowa State or Michigan State? All right, if you want to play Iowa State or Michigan State, you got to go win that Missouri. Yeah, and I think it's got to, if you're going, LSU, if you go win that one, I don't know that's going to help you too much, because right now they're the last four seed in Lunartis. That's not going to make you jump enough. So if you want to get a three, you got to go two and oh. I thought that they felt.

pretty far, even just losing to Auburn to the last number four seed, at least in Lannardi's eyes, but you got to get Missouri to get the three. It's a first four seat, right? They're the 13th. I thought Adam as the last. Oh, I'm sorry. Well, then I read it wrong. Regardless, just, just, I'm not moving LSU will not move you up a line. All right, there you go. 859, 280s. I just, I don't, I mean, look, Houston's really good. Duke's really good. But I'd rather play them than play Auburn. And I'd rather them play them than play Florida. And honestly, Ryan, rather play them than play Alabama, wouldn't you? I'm just going to say, yeah, give me those other non-SCC teams.

We've seen what SEC teams can do. Yeah, I mean, our problem's going to be scoring enough points, and I don't want to play these teams that are going to score 85 no matter what. We'll take a break. I have a really good clip to play, at least I think it's a really good play out. Right after this, KSR. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite.

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