KSR - 2025-03-19- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk March Madness, the trip to Milwaukee and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Wings Day here at KS Bar and Grill, dollar wings all day. So all night. So come on by trivia tonight.

I'm hosting my trivia next Tuesday, by the way. Next Tuesday. So next Tuesday. So get your teams. next Tuesday I'm hosting. I got all, look at this will be one of the last three qualifiers, but next Tuesday I will be hosting trivia, so make sure to get your team ready.

The NCAA president Charlie Baker, by the way, just did an interview where he said the upcoming House settlement, which, by the way, a judge will either affirm or deny in a couple weeks, will be the biggest change in college sports in over 50 years. and I think he means the change that the last one was probably the integration of schools. For people, I know that we do the games and people are always confused about that, because it is confusing, but I'll give you the basics of it. This House settlement, which would essentially transfer NIL to where schools are paying it,

basically instead of these third parties. When that happens, the NCAA believes they can then regulate to make sure there's not shady payments to players. I have some doubts if they can or not. But either way, it'll be such a significant sum of money that I do think it will probably eliminate a lot of the shadiness. But in talking, in looking at it, here's what needs to happen. There's a judge. If the judge affirms the settlement, I think what's going to happen is Congress is going to pass that settlement into law. All right, so they're going to settle it. And then Congress is going to say, this is the law now, because the players agreed to it, because the schools agreed to it. And this 22-milmilts,

million dollars a year will just become the budgets of all the colleges. And I think that's the future of college athletics. I think it will actually be good. I'll say this. Look at college basketball. NIL has made it a better product, in my opinion, Ryan. I mean, the product is better. Players are older.

They stay longer. The guys who, in years past, would have gone and been the second round picks. They stay because they can get an NIL deal. Like, tell you a guy like Johnny Brew. Last year, that kid's in the NBA. Yeah. Mark Sears, Indiana. NBA. Now they have a reason to come back. I think that's good for the sport. So I actually

think people said it. I think college football, it's a little different because there's so many players. I think there's a lot of negatives. But for college basketball, I think it's actually been a huge positive. I think it's a great argument. It is the greatest innovation of college athletic since integration. I never thought I'd see the day that maybe the college athletes would get paid to go to school like this. But that's what that's what it should be. It should be. I mean, They make a ton of money for the schools. I mean, it's the right thing to do. You know, when Trump won, it's now changed to where the Title IX stuff may not be an issue when it comes to the money,

at least not the way it probably would have been the other way. People are going to have an opinion whether that's good or bad. It's just a fact. I think the question is just, I mean, Mark Stoops when he was in the other day, Drew said, just depends on if the judge will approve it. Even the coaches know this one judge, I think, is in California. who's managed this case for three years. That judge will decide kind of the future of college sports,

and I think it's going to happen the week after the final four. It's all coming together finally. I agree with you on how it's helped college basketball. There are so many guys that would have just stayed in obscurity at, you know, I'll use Dalton Connect even though it's a Tennessee example, or Walter Clayton at Florida is from Iona. Heck, we got Amari from Drexel. These guys never would have an opportunity to be on the big stage

and it's made the sport so much better. Amari Williams. I mean, just look at our team. All these guys have gotten a kid from LMU, right? Like, I mean, they all have a chance to kind of make this dream happen, and I think that's good. Now, speaking of dreams, Mario's here. All right, Mario.

What's up, guys? I have a job for you. What's the job? It's a job that I feel like you can do. Okay. All right. Unfortunately, because these games are in Lexington, Auburn, Tennessee, and Louisville fans are going to descend upon us.

Right, right. Whether it's good or bad, it doesn't matter. they're here. I'm giving you a job. What's the job? You don't seem excited about this job. Until I know what it is. Your job is to find a way to let Auburn, Louisville, and Tennessee fans know that they should come watch the games at KS Bar. But you have to be creative how you do it. You have to, like, reach out to them. You need to find the versions of me at those schools to reach out to. You've got to do something. You got this whole drive to Milwaukee.

To work on it. Okay. Do you think you can do that? I think I can. I'll reach out to a few media personalities. Who do you know? Who do I know? Yeah.

I'm going to have to look them up. Okay. Yeah. Do you think you can get people in the UK fan base? Yes. It's the phone number of the ESPN bosses. You can do. Do you think you can use the UK fans?

You think they'll help you. I don't think they'll help me out. Why wouldn't they help you? The UK fans? Yeah, they like. you. Yeah, they do, but... So I'm going to ask Monique standing over there. I'm going to ask her to let me know

how many of those people come so that you will see how well you did on this, because we know the Kentucky fans will be... They'll show up. Kentucky fans will show up. But what about the rest? That's on that's my job now. Okay. So I'm up for the challenge, so... So give me

some ideas of what you think you might do to reach Auburn, Tennessee, or Creighton. I don't think there's going to be you many Utah State or UCLA fans. I think there'll be a lot of Creighton fans. Creighton's probably going to be the easiest. Why is Creighton the easiest? What do you know about Creighton?

Because obviously they wear blue, and they're going against Louisville, our rivals. See, because they wear blue, they're more likely to come? Yeah, and they're going against Louisville, so, like, we have something to come. Do you know where Creighton is? Is that in Nebraska? There, very good. What do you not know about Creighton? Wow, nice.

What's their nickname? Blue J. Yes. So, see, you're taking an interesting, you're taking a very interesting strategy. You're looking at the Creighton angle. So you're going to try to get in touch with Creight? They're my first options, Craig. I need you to also do Alabama, Tennessee.

We're going to get the big ones too. Here's another one, Alabama State. They're not going to have a lot of people, but the people that come are going to want to have fun. Yes, that's true. I think they will come. Alabama State. So maybe you reach out to Alabama State. Sleeper pick.

That is a sleeper pick. That's right. Who else am I missing that's coming? Wofford. Wofford. Dwight Perry. We got to take care of Wofford. Dwight Perry.

There's a legendary high school football player from Lexington that played at Wofford. Heavy Jones. The ball. Maybe you find the Wofford or Alabama State people and say, do you all want to come and have a little party? Yeah, that's a good idea. I'm going to cook up some stuff. I'm going to cook up some stuff. What if like an opposing radio station, like even in Louisville, want to do their show here?

Well, we were going to have Nick coffee here, but he can. go I think a lot of people can't go because of the Bridgman, the Junior Bridgman thing. So anyway, but this is your job. I want you to do a good job. Can you think you can handle? I'm confident. So why don't you ask the UK fans out there to help you since Thursday and Friday and Saturday for here? Sunday will be fine because of Kentucky.

But Thursday and Friday and Saturday to kind of make a nice little tournament crowd, are they going to help you? They're definitely going to help me. All right. So ask them to help. UK fans, I'm going to need all. the help I can get. We're going to try to fill this place up, get Auburn and Louisville fans in Alabama State. I mean, everybody's going to be in here. It's going to be a good mix. It'll be a good mix. It'll be like a big party. Yes, it will. Okay. All right. That's your job. Can you handle it?

Yes, I can. All right. You don't seem too confident. I will see. First, you didn't get here in time. I did not. I apologize for that. And you're going to go pick up our car. Yes, I am. What are we driving? Nice little minivan. Oh, heck you. A minivan. A nice. They're really nice, though. They're really nice. Okay. All right. Automatic doors. Go get our minivane van. All right. Thank you, very. Thank you, very. very much. Do we need sections, like when you come in? Like you used to say smoking or non. Do we need to say like Auburn or Tennessee or Louisville to keep everyone separated? Divide them. Especially with Tennessee and Auburn coming in here.

Indiana hired a new coach. His name is like something. Devin DeVries. I think that's something like that. Comes from West Virginia. Greg Doyle this morning wrote, Indiana finally has their coach to turn the program around, which I feel like I've read that sentence for the last 25 years and it's never happened. You're an Indiana guy. that they hired the West Virginia coach?

A lot of my good friends, obviously, are still Indiana fans. They're just still butt hurt that they didn't get Dusty May who went to Michigan. That's the guy they should have gone out for. They weren't going to get him? Why would Dusty May leave? No, when it was he, Michigan hired him like, what, a year before they should have made that move when he was available? Oh, you think they should have got rid of Woods in our own? Okay, got you.

Yes, yeah. He grew up in Indiana. He was an assistant manager under Bob Knight. That's the one they missed out on, so they're still swinging for the fences. And I don't know if they got with this guy either. Yeah, this dude, people. will say is good, but like, who knows, didn't make the tournament this year. You know, Indiana, well, I mean, I guess you could also say, look, when Kentucky hired

Mark Pope, even though we love Mark Pope, that was a BYUu coach who hadn't won a tournament game. I mean, I don't know why Indiana thought, I mean, they thought they were, they kept saying they were going to get Brad Stevens or what, like, it's not going to happen. You have to try to swing for one of these. Yeah, I love, A, he's leaving in the middle of West Virginia's pity party and lawsuit. He's like, I'm not out of you all going to have. this but also there were just so many names they were shooting for maybe this guy pans out but if you're a fan you had to have wanted chris beard or bruce pearl or they shot they were shooting for the stars and got a lot of

nose or at least didn't want to wait on some of those guys the governor look more stupid now that both the coach left and north carolina won by 30 last night the governor who filed the lawsuit does he look does that make it look dumber i think it does a little bit especially when north kana just rolled last night. They looked like they deserved to be in the tournament they played so well. The guy from DeVry, whatever's name is, DeVry's. I don't think he's from the DeVry Institute that used to advertise on television. He pulled

to Liam Cohen. He had just gotten there and talked about how that's where he wanted to be and loves Morgantown and I'm here, rah, rogo, Mountaineers, and then he's got. But nobody wants to be a Morgantown. Bloomington, Morgan Town? I don't know. Bloomington, you can at least get to Chicago. It's just full of failure, though. If he doesn't work

out, how many bad coaches can they hire before? So how many coaches? Let's play a game. many coaches have they had. So they had Mike Davis. Was Tom Crean next? Kelvin Samson, I think. Oh, that's right. Kelvin Samson, then Tom Crean. Oh, you skipped over Dan Dockich. Yes. That's right. That's right. That's right. Was he before? Or did he step in for Samson? I think Samson got fired and Docch had to finish the season. They'll tell you about it. Okay. It's even more than I thought. So Mike Davis, Kelvin Sampson, Dan Dockich, then Archie Miller.

Was Tom Crean? Tom Crean, Crean, DeMiller. Archie Miller, who had Bruiser Flynn on staff. Mike Woodson, and now the DeVry Institute. So how many times do they miss before you just, you're dead? I already think they're dead. I don't think they missed with Kelvin Samson. He just got in trouble.

I mean, I think Kelvin Samson was a good hire. He just got in trouble. Stuff you can do today. That was also 20 years ago. Yeah, besides that, though, I think they've all been missing. I honestly thought Archie Miller was the guy. I thought he was a guy that was going to have a great success there. He just didn't happen.

Well, everybody, I knew Mike. I knew Mike Woodson wouldn't succeed. And everybody, they all, you know, they were the third biggest NIL team in the country this year and still didn't make the tournament. Their fans were fired up about Woodson. They can act like they weren't. But when they got him, they thought they'd figured it out. I thought they stood a chance if they got one of the bigger names.

Maybe this guy works, but that can't be a. exciting for the Hoosiers fans they can't who's up next year mason mason how are you mason hey man how are you doing today doing good um so i i have this uh running theory that um if otega oway returns next year that he will be a candidate for national player of the year do you think that's a little bit too over expecting or do you think that's i i think he will be one of the people they mentioned in the preseason uh candidate for national player the year. Do I think Otega O'A would be the national player of the year next year? Probably not, but do I think they'll mention him as a candidate? I do, because he's had a great year,

and if he comes back, he'll be someone that they mention, even though I wouldn't say, Ryan, I think he would win. Yeah, I think he's a guy that, you know, first team all SEC, preseason, things like that. And for what he did this year, a guy that when none of us had in the starting lineup ended up being our leading score. He scored double figures, what, every game, but two? I mean, who saw that coming? So I think he can. do even better next year. I think that's what they'll be selling them on as being kind of a face of college basketball.

I don't know if that'll lead to any awards, but if you look at the people ahead of him on all SEC, they're all 30 years old, so I think he'll be maybe the face of the SEC and bigger. Yeah, I mean, in college basketball, in terms of freshmen next year, the most high profile will probably be the boozer guys,

right? The Boozer brothers. Devons at BYU, $8 million. The BYU can't be, it's not going to be high. No one's going to see the game. So it's probably going to be the Boozer brothers. And I think Otego will be one of the sort of faces of college basketball next year. So I definitely think they'll sell him on that to try to get him to come back.

I expect he will come back. I would be shocked if he's not back. He doesn't have the shot to go pro yet at three-pointers. And then, I mean, where else you're going to go at your Kentucky? And they're going to take good care of you and make your priorities. So he might enter the draft to go through the waters or might even hear from people in the portal. but I'd be shocked if he's not back. And I think for Pope, he really needs him back.

Because that is a centerpiece that you can go then build around. We had no centerpiece this year. We didn't even really get our quote-unquote centerpiece until Jackson Robinson was the last guy. You can come in with that guy. I think that would be huge for Mark Pope. 859-280-2287. We're here at KS Bar & Grill.

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what do you, I mean, is there anything about Milwaukee that the average person knows except beer? I mean, when you say Milwaukee, it's like beer, right? Yeah, because even Happy Days, Arthur Fonsarly, the Shots Brewery and. Was Happy Days in Milwaukee? Yeah, Laverne and Shirley, that was all Milwaukee. I didn't realize. I knew him a Laverne and Shirley, but I guess that wasn't Laverne and Shurie. Was that a spin-off of Happy Days? It was. Okay. I think there's a statue of the Fonz that I want to go see him Milwaukee. Oh, you got to touch it. You got touch it.

Heck, yeah. Yeah, all right. Beer and cheese. Got some good cheese up there. Oh, I bet there will be good cheese. Yeah, beer cheese, right? You can combine them, although that's Winchester, Kentucky. Can't be given that to Milwaukee.

Scotty Sheffler won the Masters, so he gets to pick the Master's dinner, and he just released the menu. Okay. I'm going to read you the menu. Shannon, feel free to jump in. Is this a good menu for the Masters? Remember, everybody's wearing jackets, and the only people, you know, People that get to go are the people that have won and their spouses.

All right. Appetizers. Cheeseburger sliders serve Scotty style. What's Scotty style? In prison. Firecracker shrimp with sweet chai chili and serracha mayo. That sounds delicious. I love that.

Papa, Sheffler's Meatball and Ravioli Bites. First course, Texas-style chili. A lot of meat in this. Main course, a wood-fired cowboy ribby or blackened red fish with jalapino-creamed corn. Sounds like a great meal so far. Dessert, warm chocolate chip skillet cookie with ice cream. I'm going. I'm in.

Let's go. I am in. It seems like a pretty good menu to me. It's a great menu. I think that all sounds pretty heavy. I think he's going to feed all everyone playing into that, and he's just going to sit back and have a little soup and then be ready to go. It is pretty heavy. If you were to eat all that, if you were to eat all that, if you were to eat.

the ravioli, the cheeseburger sliders as an appetizer. Cheeseburger sliders is a heck of an appetizer. If you're going to have steak is your main course. With a bowl of chili. Is he from? Is he from Texas? Yeah. So there's so much Texas flavor in that.

So here's my question. You win the Masters. Probably not going to happen. But let's say you do and you get to pick the menu. Remember, you're picking a menu and there'll be fancy chefs cooking whatever you ask for them. So what is your main course? Ryan going to be at your master's dinner?

My main course, it's got to be some sort of steak, probably from Rodney's. You mean you're going to win the Masters and you're going to bring the steak from Rodney's? How about we, first of all, you can't do that because it's at the Masters. It's getting it from Noche Linda. Yeah, Noce Linda. Noce Linda steaks prepared like they do at Rodney's. My mom's mashed potatoes. My mom's deviled eggs.

Are you going to make your mom cook them? Yes My grandma's Apple pie recipe With ice cream She's not alive So that's gonna be harder to do Yeah

And you know how old ladies When they fix They don't have anything written down It's all you know a pinch here A scoop there It's in some mess of stuff But that's what I'm going with Steak

Mashed potatoes Deviled eggs Apple Pie So that's like the most American generic meal you could have I'm American These colors don't run baby

Patriot you are like you kind of epitomize america in some ways when hadeky uh won a few years ago his was all japanese food was it so what would you put on yours you you're usually a more creative yes um definitely lots of mexican food i feel like i have a high tolerance for that stuff and i could absolutely just destroy the competition by giving them the spicy stuff several taco options uh but i would go to Mexico. Absolutely. Shannon, I think I would throw everybody off.

Main course, skyline chills. There you go. Also destroying stomachs. I'll sign for that. I'll co-sign on that. Main course, Skyline chili. I would give appetizer, our KS Bar wings. Right?

KS bar cheese logs. It's got to put that on my menu. That's exactly right. I'd have, we'd have our folks come down there. But I do think it would throw people off if they had to eat Skyline Chili. As the main entree? As the main course, I don't, I think. Everybody is walking around with chili all over. over their face. Exactly. You want to talk about them. It hurting them on the round the next day.

If your stomach is not used to it, you get out there at hole seven and there's no port-a-potty, then there's other things. We're playing the long game here. What about you, Shan? What about some sushi for like an appetizer? Is that? Oh, you're going to go sushi? Shannon's sushi for-you- know, like those little dumplings that you can get that are kind of- good. Those little, I don't know what they're called. This place next door here does those dumplings very Yep, then I'm going kind of with Ryan on steak, baked potato, maybe some like asparagus for a side. Asparagus, okay. And then banana croquettes would be my dessert.

Oh, banana croquettes. Yeah, from Bullock County. So there you go. That's our master's dinners. What would be your dessert? I tell you, the skillet cookie is a good. That's a really good call. I love a good skillet cookie.

It makes you feel awful after it because it makes you feel like you're getting really fat. but it is a skillet cookie is really, really good. That's probably my favorite dessert. Yeah. Make those at home a lot. I kind of agree with you. Who's up next? Claude.

Claude. How are you, Claude? Doing great, Matt. Good morning, guys. Listen, I took a golf trip to Wisconsin last summer, spent about 24 hours in Milwaukee, and I've got a couple of things to recommend for you guys and the things traveling up. First, go to American Family Field, the home of the brewers.

They have restaurants that are open there, year-round, and it's very easy access. You can drive right up to this entrance to go in. They've got the team shop and everything, but they also have simulator golf in there. You can get appetizers to have a beer and play simulator golf overlooking, kind of at the club level of the field. And that field is awesome. And that stadium is awesome. It's a retractable.

You know, retractable. It's a gorgeous stadium. What's the other one? What's the other one? Okay, so Wisconsin has a cultural phenomenon called separate clubs. And before you get too far afield, what that could be, they're just restaurants, but sort of the hallmarks of Wisconsin supper clubs are, they're meeting you like they do fish fries on Friday, serve,

time red on Saturday. I'm not going to a fish fry. I mean, you got to remember this. I'm taking these goobers with me. I'm not going to a supper club. You understand? Like, I mean, I got to go somewhere that will let these people in. Well, that's what I was going to say is,

They're restaurants. You'll totally be at home there with your hoodie and your Air Jordans. But they have a broader menu than that. And the atmosphere is cool. They specialize in cocktails and unique atmosphere and appetizers. And this sort of bridges the gap because they won't go to a, you know, a museum. But this gets you a cultural experience that you're wanting to get things to have. I know, but I appreciate the suggestion.

I appreciate the call. But they're not. First of all, they're not going to go to a supper club, and I'm not taking them to a supper club. My goal is to not be embarrassed on this trip anymore than we'll always do. I got our house. By the way, our Airbnb is the former home of the Wisconsin governors. Is it really?

Yes, two different Wisconsin governors have lived in the house that we're staying in. Whoa. So how about that? We splurged a little and got something kind of nice. Everyone gets their own bedroom. Slow down. Slow down. I mean, we had trips and it didn't all get your own bed.

And now everyone gets their own bedroom. We're growing up. What an amazing move. 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.

Now, who is this? Shane, I have no idea who this is. George Jones. Oh, is this George Jones? Yeah, it's got to be early George Jones. Milwaukee from... Wow. That's a...

Oh, good old George Jones, Milwaukee song. There's more Milwaukee songs than I ever thought. I didn't think there were any. I didn't think they were any either. 859-280-2287, Wings Day here at KS Bar and Grill. Did you know the baseball season has started? The spring training games has started, yeah. No, there's been two real games.

Has there been two real games? The Dodgers and the Cubs have already played two games. The Cubs are already 0-2. Real games? Yes, real games. It's got to be the earliest start ever. They do this every year. It's just nobody pays attention.

They play in Japan. Otani, when he was on the Angels. The Angels played. Now he's on the Dodgers. They play. They get these massive crowds, like massive crowds. And the Dodgers are 2 and O and the Cubs are 0 and 2 already already. The season has already started.

So is, like, next week when you get your Reds opening day and all the games start over here? Is that even sooner? The opening day for the Reds is next Thursday. Okay. So the good thing is, by us getting to play at Indie, by us getting to play in Indianapolis, I'm going to get to go to opening day. whereas I didn't think I would if we made the Sweet 16. So that's good.

It's always kind of tricky for you because, yeah, you want Kentucky to still be alive in the tournament, yet you hate to miss opening day, which usually kind of conflicts with the tournament. We've got to talk about Cooper High School here for just a second. Wait a minute. Somebody say yes? Oh, I'm sorry.

Cooper High School last, you may remember, fired their head coach because they said he had a bad culture that made his players not want to play for him and that the whole thing was a bad place. but they were still really good, and they fired him with, like, four or five weeks left in the season. His wife went on Facebook. She complained.

People, it felt like the community, I don't know if it felt like the community was not happy about it, but then again, I don't live there, so maybe there were some people happy. I don't know. But there was certainly a controversy about them fired. They go to the regional. Last night was a regional championship. Cooper wins. They won.

So Cooper is now in the Sweet 16. They'll be coming here to Lexington. And the crowd, it was a full crowd, and they were chanting culture, culture, or something like that. The players and the coach were dancing around. So this is now like the story of the Sweet 16. As a coach who has already fired has taken his team to the Sweet 16 and has been fired for poor performance, even though they are going to the Sweet 16. What do you make of that, Drew?

If I'm not mistaken, was he the coach of the year in the region too before this? Maybe he wasn't. But regardless, if the fans and players are cheering, culture and they're moving on. It seems like a terrible hire, not knowing the specifics behind the scene or firing, but not knowing the specifics, how do you let go a guy that has such a great season? So do you flip it? So do you bring him back?

I mean, do you bring him back? Like, what does he have to do? Like, if he were to win the state championship, would they have to bring him back, right? I'm almost leaning now. You've got to bring him back now. You take that team to the Sweet 16. I mean, ADs and coaches, we even had it here for a couple years. They don't get along sometimes, but yet you still are for the common good to win games.

Well, the coach has done that. He's one game, he's gotten to sweet 16. I think you've got to bring him back now. Here's what you do. You bring him back and you fire the AD for firing them. Oh, you'd fire the AD. He would have to go. The dumbass in this situation.

Well, that's a good question. either. And chances are he'll get another job after this is over. Probably a good one. But I mean, I think one of the great things about Kentucky, and this is true probably everywhere, but I see it more Kentucky, there are a lot of controversies that don't make the news. For instance, how many of you knew that Berea High School like the students have walked out today? What's that about? I don't know. I just saw, I just got a message. The students are walking out in Berea. There was apparently some message, like 10 teachers lost their jobs and the superintendent who's retiring, took first class flights to whatever.

Like it's... But little things like that. They're a big deal in those communities, right? Like they may seem little to everyone else. But if you live there, that's a big deal, and that's kind of happening right now with Cooper. That's got to be the number one story for the whole region. The guy that AD tried to get rid of now leads them to the Sweet 16.

To me, that's a big story. It's a big story. Now, we have not talked about this yet, and that's on me. We should have. UK women have not only made the turn, They are hosting the tournament Friday. They play at noon against Liberty. Liberty, and they are at noon.

Now, I would say, our fan, like, go, okay? The first game obviously go, but then we would play probably Kansas State on Sunday. I really hope if the NCAA has any credibility, they can't put those games on at the same time. Like a Kentucky men's game and women's game should not be at the same time or even really close to each other. If we're going to host here, we need to be able to have our fans there. The women have suffered from the fact they've made them play at the same time as the men like three times this year. They cannot do it in the second round of the tournament if that happened. Do they consider that?

I don't know. I mean, the men's game will be scheduled just because of television. Yes. So like the men's television will be on. So it's going to be up to the NCAA with the women to, because Kentucky, Kansas State with the women will not be a huge TV draw. So they've got to make sure they schedule it around so that fans can go, Drew, to that game. Yeah, Friday works out enough.

You can watch them at noon and then get it geared up for the men's game. I hope they don't put them up against each other in the second round. You mentioned all these other fan bases taking over our bar. Anybody going to Memorial, we could have a fun pre-party here for that group too. Well, so if you come to, if you want to, we're going to show the women's game here Friday day. We'll have all the men's game as well, but we'll have the women's game with sound at noon from noon to two. And then all the men's games will be on, but the sound will be the women. And, you know, they haven't been in this spot in a long time, but I'm fired up for it.

You know, Kenny and Georgia have already been to a Final Four, so they've got some experience. She's still my favorite player on campus, including the men's team. I know we're going to Milwaukee to follow the men, but I'm just. is excited to track them too. Court physical therapy. If you need physical therapy, go to, I haven't done this one yet. No, I haven't done this one yet. Go to court.com.

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What does this say? We're going to walk all over you. Where do you get these shirts? These don't look official. This is like from 95, I think. This says Kentucky basketball, we just walked all over you. Yeah. That was their thing that one year.

So that shirt's from 1999. I think it's 95. So you've kept that shirt since 1995. I think somebody gave it to me. Well, it fits like it probably fit well in 1995. What's on the back? Oh, there's footprints. Okay, I get it.

I get it. We're walking all over you. Actually, there would be a lot of people that would like that shirt called retro. I'd wear that. Reminds me of the poem footprints in the sand. We'll take a break. What was it, Cal said? I was walking and saw footprints in the sand and it reminded me of the poem,

footprints in the sand. That was one of the best tweet ever. Galifery tweets of all time. We'll take a break. Be right back as KSR. We're walking. Welcome back. Final segment here, Kentucky Sports Radio.

off on our trip to Milwaukee on the way. If you have a, like, good restaurant recommendation, maybe an hour short of Chicago. That's probably when we'll be ready to eat dinner. All right. Yeah, or, like, because we're going to try to, we're not going into Chicago. So somewhere off the interstate on the way to Milwaukee.

If you got it, don't tell me that sports bar in Lafayette, Indiana, that y'all always suggests, because it was terrible. I mean, there were people still smoking from the 80s in there. I'm not doing that again. Every time I drive that way, somebody tells me to eat there. The food was good, but literally I felt like I got lung cancer just sitting in there for 30 minutes. You found us a good, was it an Indian or a Thai place in Seattle? We're going to do one of those again while we're in Milwaukee?

I think it was Drew that found that. It was good. Oh, you mean the Indian place? Yeah. No, Drew and I got the food. You let us handle that. We just need a place on the way. On the way there.

859-280-2287. I was saying to Drew, if I was in Lexington tomorrow night, I don't know if I would go to the Louisville and Tennessee game because I wouldn't want to deal with their fans, but I would definitely go to that 945 Utah State, UCLA game where it's going to be empty. I think it would be awesome to be in there. You probably could sit on the front row because, I mean, no one's going to be there for that game, Utah State and UCLA. But I would definitely go. I can't imagine two teams farther away but closer to each other that have to come across the country to play each other.

If we weren't going to Milwaukee and I didn't have to follow Kentucky, I'd probably just sit there for all the games. how often does the NCAA tournament come up to your backyard? I would have already gone on Amazon and got my Creighton T-shirt overnighted just in time to boo Louisville. I would have absolutely cheered on the teams playing our rivals. And if Louisville wins Saturday, if Louisville wins, and on Saturday, you could buy a ticket to boo Louisville and boo Tennessee in the same session. I mean, you could go cheer Auburn and cheer, say, UCLA, and literally boo Louisville and Tennessee with one payment. Ryan, of course I would want to do that.

That's a good afternoon. That's right. You come here first, pregame, go there, boo the two teams come back for the postgame, watch us the next day. Just boo-m. That's a great day. Boo-em out of the arena. I will say, if you get Auburn, Louisville, Tennessee, and UCLA in a session,

that's a pretty awesome set of teams to be able to pay and watch play one game, right? Heck, yeah, that's why I know a lot of people that had tickets before the draw came out, they just wanted to go to Rup to watch tournament basketball, and that ended up being one of the better pods you can get. All right, it's time for Draft Kings. If you go to Draft Kings, it's now bet $5, get $200 from Draft Kings. It's available. It is March time, and nothing's for sure upsets buzzer-beaters,

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And we're all American, right? That's exactly right. We are all Americans. We are all Americans, so I will pick American to beat Mount St. Mary's. What about you? I think I'm going to go with Mount St. Mary's because they have a player named Xavier Lipscomb, which are two tournament teams, and I just found that to be very interesting. So, I mean, just because that's the only thing I know about them, I'm cheering for Xavier Lipscomb.

That's interesting. Would it even, so his name's Xavier Lipscomb. Yes. What other names could a player have that are two tournament teams? Drake? Drake. What's another tournament team that could be a... Drake and Lamar.

Lamar didn't make the tournament, though. Robert Morris. That's true. That's just one name. Is there another school you could combine with Drake to make a name? Drake, Kentucky? Nothing's coming to mind. Troy, Troy Drake.

Troy Drake. Yeah. Is there Troy Drake out there? Who you got? Mount St. Mary's American. Just my loyalty to Mr. D. Wayne. I'm going with American. Xavier in Texas.

is a game where we might end up playing the winner, potentially in round two. Xavier is a three and a half point favorite against the SEC. Does the SEC come out strong and show that it deserved 14 bids? What do you got? I think so. I think Trey Johnson can be a difference maker. They finish slightly strong. I think they won three out of four or something in the year, so I'll go with Texas,

even though they're getting points. I mentioned this earlier. I've got Xavier, Davy Mnicknight, Kentucky Mr. Basketball. He's like their best player, so I'm going with Xavier to win this game tonight. I think these teams are pretty much even. If the teams are even, and you're giving me three and a half points, I'll take the three and a half points, and I'll take Texas. What about you, Shane?

Yeah, if we're going to put 14 teams in from the conference, you've got to have some wins. Can't make us look bad, Texas, so I'm going to go with Texas tonight. There's a lot of people now making the debate. Is Rick Patino the greatest coach of all time? I think the answer to that is no. I think the greatest two are in some order, Shashefsky, and Wood. But would you put Patino?

in what I call group two. Group two to me is like Dean Smith, Bobby Knight, Adolf Rupp, maybe Roy Williams, but definitely Dean Smith, Adolf Rup, and Bobby Knight. Would you put Rick Patino in group two right there?

Just to give you the numbers, he's going to take his sixth team to the NCAA tournament, first coach to ever do that. If they makes the Sweet 16, he'll be the fifth team. He's taking the Sweet 16. No coach has ever done that.

He's taking three teams the final four, no coach has ever done that. So would you put Rick Petino as one of the six best coaches of all time? I would. Even if St. John doesn't make it to the final four, I still think he deserves it. He's in that group. Yeah, without hesitation. I mean, he even took Iona to the tournament twice in two years. There's a graphic going around that shows the record at every school when he took over and then the record two years later, and it's pretty amazing. The turnaround, he's done it every single job. So, yeah, I put him in that group. That's what makes it so impressed of. I mean, Wooden and Shoshesky did it all at one school.

Patino's done it everywhere he's gone. And if he'd stayed at Kentucky, you know, telling how many championships he would have had. Look, I've been one of Rick's harshest critics, but just break down his career. All right. Goes to Providence. They were never good before, and they've never been good since. And he takes him to the final four. People forget that with the Knicks, he actually had success.

Like, they were good. He left comes to Kentucky. We were at the lowest moment in our program's history. scholarship restrictions, no players, two years no television. Think about that. Two years, no television. And he ends up three years later putting us in maybe the greatest college basketball game of all time, which we almost beat maybe one of the best college basketball teams of all time,

ends up winning a national title runner up the next year. Louisville, right? Louisville was, I mean, we loved Denny Crum was a legend, but he had, it had fallen apart. at the end, takes them from nothing, wins the national championships. Yeah, there were prostitutes and other things, but you know what? He still went and won the national championship. Dude, coaches in Greece. He goes all the way across the world, coaches in a country that he can't even speak the language,

and they win the title as well. And then he goes to Iona that hadn't been to the tournament in 25 years. First year he gets there, they lose in the championship. Next two years they go to the tournament. And now St. John's, which hadn't won the Big East in the third. 30 years. In his second year, he wins the regular season and the conference championship. That's amazing. The only place he failed was with the Celtics. Everywhere else he went, he was successful except the Celtics.

What he's done here with St. John's has made them relevant again. They haven't been good in, what, 25 years or so? He's got them now where they are, they've got to be a dark course to win it all. I mean, I think they're really, really good because they do the one thing you've got to do to win championships and they play great defense. But they don't shoot. So I don't think they're going to win the title. But hell, they hit like 13 in a row.

the championship game. Did they? Yeah. I just, he may not be, like, he may not be a great dude, but again, when you're talking about who's the best, like, that's really not, I mean, Barry Bond's the best hitter. I'm not saying he's a great dude,

but it doesn't make him not a great hitter. I don't know how you can't say it. And I think what he's done at St. John's, he's 71 years old. And the rules, the rules of basketball have completely changed. like Tony Bennett, Jay Wright, Mike Shosheshefsky, Jim Larianaga, all these dudes have bailed because they're like, I can't handle this change. And Rick Petino has not only handled it, he's excelled at it.

That's amazing. Yeah, there's several examples of coaches that couldn't adapt. I think there's some right now we're learning aren't able to adapt. Some big names I think are going to just keep fizzling out. We might have just had one recently. But Patino changed the rules on them, throwing a three-point line, throwing NIL, whatever. he's found a way to make it work everywhere he's been. He was the first coach to really embrace shooting the three at the college level,

and he did that here. Now everybody does it. He was the first coach to press, and for a while it worked amazingly. Now it's kind of fallen out of favor, but he was the first one to do it. And now he's not the first person to do NIL, but he's excelling at it. And he's also now the first coach to go, I ain't recruiting high school guys. What's the point? I'm just going to go get transfers.

I hate to admit it, but he's not number one or two. That's Shashefsky or Wood. But Shannon makes a good point, Ryan. He's had to do it at five different schools. And they're going to be probably better even next year. You know, now that he's got this success under his belt, he's doing it now. With these guys he just got, now they've got success, he can back it up, go out and be even better next year. And I was at that game.

I was at his first game. I've told this before, but I was his first game at St. John's. I just happened to be in New York City. I went out to Queens and went to the game. And when I walked in, the first five rows of my section were all dudes that looked like they could be extras in the Sopranos. They were all in suits and they had to slick back hair. And I said to myself, this dude's going to win here.

Like he has, he basically has the bottom boom in the first five rows of this arena. They're going to win. And he's going to win. And he's going to keep winning. That area is so full of. Yeah. So full of talent. but there hadn't been the teams to keep him home.

Now he can go to these kids. You want to play in a sold-out garden and regular season games, and they also have an endless budget up there. I think he's just going to keep making them even better. All right, so tomorrow we will be doing the show from Milwaukee. Watch on social media. We're going to be posting content throughout our trip. Our boss has said, we're going to use this to show our other shows,

how you do social media on a road trip. So you ready for that? Let's do it. Let's do it. Thank you all very much for coming this morning. Really appreciate it. Let's get ready. It's the best time of you.

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