KSR - 2025-04-01- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk April Fools Day pranks, transfer portal, and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Law Office. You call T.J. Home Base. them pay. Ryan, Drew, Shannon, it is a beautiful day, but I have to tell you this is one of my least favorite days of the year. As a matter of fact, it might be my least favorite day of the year because I cannot stand Ryan April Fool's Day. I've hated it since I was a kid, and in the days of Twitter and news and tweets, I do not like April Fool's Day, and it is upon us right now. I love April Fool's Day. I think it's one of the greatest days of the year. Of course you do. I could see that.

Why do you like it so much? I just like pulling little sneaky little pranks on people. I've had some classic ones over the years. What do you have some classic ones? Like, at first of all, you can't call them classic. What is it that made them so classic? You know, at the TV station you work until midnight, so I snuck into the sales department and stole all the wheels off the bottom of their shoes.

So when they came in on the bottom of their chairs, so when they came in the next morning, they didn't have any wheels on their chairs. That's not an April Fool's joke. Oh, yeah. That's a great April Fool's joke. That's not an April. Do you not understand what an April Fool's joke is? April Fool's joke is not just doing things diabolical to people.

It's making them believe one thing and then the other is true. How was what you did in April Fool's joke? I think it falls under the April Fool's umbrella. You know, I think it's a prank. Drew, I don't think that's it. That's just a jerk thing to do. It's like deflating people's tires and then saying April Fool's, ha, ha. I'm glad you didn't ask me before Ryan.

Ryan, don't take offense to this. But I was going to say April Fool's Day is when people who aren't funny think they're funny. That's exactly right. You are 100% correct, Drew. I hate April Fool. Shadden, what about you? I don't believe what anybody says any other day of the year. So why would I believe them on April Fool?

So I never fall for these. It's hard to get me on these. Yeah. Well, the one I saw this morning, Drew, is Tiger Woods said, I've had like four weeks of treatment and now my Achilles is good I'm playing in the Masters and then it's just like

April Fool's Why was that April Fool's? Like I felt sorry for you that you hurt your... I actually think that was a terrible job Drew of April Fool's isn't it? Now did anyone laugh? I didn't laugh. There's not even a joke really. And in the sports world it's like

you know so-and-so signs with this school for $50 million Oh, okay, that's not funny and no one believes that. Like, it's gotten so predictable. I can get over yours ride. That's not a joke. That's just like hurting people. Just taking the wheels off their chairs. Like, did they fall?

They sit in their chair and they try to scoot up and it doesn't move. It's just nothing but hysterical laughter. April fools. And you did this to people that are working all night in the newsroom? Here's another one I did one time. I called one of the local radio stations here. When I was at Channel 18, called one of the local radio stations here in Lexington and told them that Wukosh Orbzut was going back to Poland,

leaving the team and going back to Poland. It was like after the season, they failed for it, completely fell for it. So you gave basically fake news to people? I did. Yeah. Well, I think that's at least what April News is supposed to be. But Drew, I don't think news. Do you think news people like Ryan should participate in it?

You had him back in Poland. Yeah. Leave the team go back in. Matter of fact, it was WLAP that it was this station that I called in. I love the excitement in his voice for April Fool's Day. Were they mad that you? had given them essentially false news to put on the air? Well, by the end of the conversation, I said, wait a minute, what is today?

And then they hung up on me. So, you know, I let it go on for about 15, 20, 30 seconds. You are. All right, I'm just going to let it go. A 59-280, 2287. Drew, I told Shannon this during the break. I had one of the more uncomfortable things that I've ever done. And I think this could happen to you.

Okay. So I'm staying in a part of town that I look across the street, Drew, and there's a comedy club across the street, all right? And so I thought, well, there's a comedy club across the street. I, why don't I just go tonight, right? Like they have a show. Let me just walk over there. And do you know who the comedian Mark Norman is?

I do, yeah. You know who he is, right? Yeah, I've interviewed. So he has a thing on, he has like something he does once a week called the Good Eggs show, which I guess is, and it's just people that he likes, he puts them all on a show together. Yeah. All right.

So, you know, they said sometimes he's there, sometimes he's not. So I thought, well, I'll just walk over there. And the first hint should have been when I got online, Drew, and the tickets were $12. Okay, because that's a pretty cheap amount of money. But I thought, you know, they do this two drink minimum, whatever. I walk over there, I get my ticket, I walk in, Shannon, there are. nine people there. Nine.

Big turnout. Nine people. And the first dude speaking is, Drew, we've talked about. Every time we go to New York, who do we always see on stage at the comedy places? I see David Hill a lot. Judah Friedlander is mine from 30. Of course, Judah, another one with the glasses and the hat. Yeah.

He's there. But Shannon, there's only nine people. Like, there's, we've never had a KSR remote with only nine. people. That's true. There's nine people. And let me tell you the epitome of awkward, sitting in a room with nine people when a comedian's trying to do a show. Like it couldn't be more awkward.

You feel like he's just talking to you. Like he's not doing a show. He's just talking to you. And because there's only nine people, I think he feels awkward, Drew. And so he feels like he has to like talk to you each individually. And I didn't want to talk to him. I was in a hoodie. I'd been outside.

I was raining. After four minutes, I just. got up and left. I couldn't stay there. It was so awkward. No, I'm serious. I waited until he was done. Like, he was the guy, I don't know what you call it, that will like, come on and then he'll introduce everybody else. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I waited until he had gone and he introduced the first person and I just walked out, Drew, and I decided it was too awkward for me. There were too few people. It was, it was an event where I thought, you need more than nine people to tell jokes or I can't stay in here any longer.

I've been in a small setting for a comedy show and you feel an obligation to laugh. You have to force it because there's uncomfortable eye contact. You know, you kind of got to carry the crowd for them. And if it's just not working well, it's terribly uncomfortable. But just think about how much power, how much power you had in that moment. When you left, 10% of the crowd left. 10% of the crowd was gone. Exactly.

Yeah. I couldn't stay for exactly like Drew said. I felt like I had to laugh at all the jokes because he was looking me right in the God. And there were two women. They also put me at a table with two strangers. This whole huge room, they made me sit right next to two strangers. And I didn't, I felt like I had an obligation to laugh and I couldn't do it. I could not sit there and fake laugh. I've seen Judah Friedlander five times at these comedy clubs. And then they brought out, they were about to bring on another person. And Shannon, I was like, I can't do this. This is too much work. This was supposed to be fun. And now I feel like I'm performing for him. I know I'm in the minority when I say this, but I love awkward situations. So I would have just deadpaned stared into his soul and not laugh at one time just to make it even more awkward.

I know. I could totally see you doing it. I could totally. You would like, you would take pride in not laughing. Exactly. Yeah. I couldn't do it. So I just came home and he got my, Mark Norman got my 15 bucks.

But I saw, Ryan, there were six comedians on the bill. And it was 15 bucks. And there were only nine people. So, I mean, that means what? Did they do the math? 15 bucks, nine people. It's $135. They took in split six ways.

I mean, those people were making 20 bucks to be there. It's made me awkward and uncomfortable as hearing you talk about it. I'll never, I can't ever go back. No. I mean, I guess it's Monday at 7 o'clock, Drew. I shouldn't have thought it was going to be packed. But I certainly thought there'd be more people than nine at the thing. Yeah, and, you know, I'm not someone that, even when I think something's funny, I'm not really expressing it.

I don't, not a big laugh out loud guy. I like to blend in the back of a quiet crowd. I would have been so uncomfortable in a tiny group knowing they're looking at me for a reaction. I probably would have left with you. Well, I was out and that was that. And I came home to, you know, lots of, lots of portal chatter, which I want to get to. But we did this conversation yesterday, Ryan, of a guy called in and said, what's your, your final grade? grade on the season and are you pleased or are you not? And, and, you know, I've said a couple times that I thought, for me, the grade was an A. This guy said a B, which led to all day kind of me getting messages on the text machine about grades on the year. And it seems like to me, most of our fans are happy about how the year went. but I have

there has been a little group of people going Matt, aren't we lowering our standards in saying that a team that I think in the end had what, 12 losses and a sweet 16 that that's an A. Now I think you have to look at the circumstances of all that's happened to come to that. But do you give any credibility to the argument

that the caller had and then people had after that, you know, you can't get to the point. I mean, Tubby basically was called 10-loss tubby and kind of run off for losing double-digit games. You agree or disagree with that point? I disagree, really, because I think you have to consider all the factors and the factors about no staff and no roster when he first got here, and the fact he took this rag-tagged bunch of guys and still were able to have these huge wins throughout the season.

I think the wins far exceed the couple of bad losses they had. Losing Arkansas at home was bad. They finished the season with the thud, losing the Tennessee in the NCAA tournament. It was kind of bad. the big wins far overshadow that. And, you know, we also, I think, have to consider, Drew, how hard the conference was, right? I mean, if we were in the ACC, let's just say we played Louisville's schedule. What's our record in conference?

We were 10 and 8 in conference. What are we if we're in the ACC this year? Are we 15 and 3, 14 and 4, 16 and 2? Like, I mean, some of it has to be we played in arguably the hardest conference ever in college basketball. Yeah, there's a big part of the fan base that just says, this is Kentucky. We're supposed to be the gold standard. We're supposed to win every year. But you have to look at the circumstances.

Even like the 2015 team that ran the table, if you go back and look at Ken Palm and the SEC teams that year, the league was terrible. Now that team was awesome in itself. But the competition has just changed so much from year to year to where now the SEC was, as we know, 14 teams in the tournament. Then you throw in the injuries that you've had to go through. at some point you can't just keep saying this is Kentucky. You have to look at what's happened in front of you. And if you have a depleted roster and you're in the best conference of all time, there's going to be a little bit of a dip.

Now, you can be upset about losing to Georgia and losing to Texas. I'm completely with you on that. But you can't just keep saying, this is Kentucky. We're number one every year because things change. You've got to look at the big picture. Do you, Shannon, you're the most cynical of the group. Do you have any sympathy to the argument of, well, it's a B just because we can't say the sweet 16 is enough. No, it's a dumb argument.

First of all, if Kentucky were in the ACC, they would have one loss. They went two and one against the top three teams in the ACC this season. So, I mean, I look at, okay, let's just compare to John Caliperi's first year. His first year here, he went to the elite eight. Mark Pope was one win away from doing that with a team full of far less talented guys than what Calipari had in his first year. Yeah, and Mark Pope had what? Did we have five first round draft picks on that team, I think, in his first year?

Yeah. He had five first round draft picks. this team will have no first round. So considering what Pope did with what he had, giving him a B is just, it's not even an argument to me. It's a solid A. I don't think there's any argument for that.

Yeah, I don't really either. But I do think there is a, and some of this is just the modern, like whatever position somebody has. There are people who want to take the opposite just to argue. But, you know, I guess he could have won a couple more games. But, I mean, you look at that roster,

especially after Jackson Robinson goes out, a Sweet 16 with that roster, to me, is not only performing to your seed, it might be overperforming, because I'm not sure we're a three seed if Jackson Robinson's out the whole year. So to be able to do that, I think he deserves a lot of credit, and I think most fans give it to him, but it is interesting to me that there's this little sort of, and part of it's the anxiety about the portal, which we'll talk about in a minute. 859-2-80-2-87. You're not going to pull an April Fool's joke, are you, Ryan, at some point during the show? I'm contemplating. I'm the only one with him, so I'm worried. I'm looking at my chair. I can't believe you literally thought that was a joke, just taking the wheels off people's chair.

Did you say April Fool's when they fell to the ground? They didn't fall to the ground. They just couldn't scoot through chair over the carpet. And so when they said what happened, did you just go, April Fool's? April Fool's. Ha, ha, funny, funny. Did you walk you with a bucket of wheels to put back on the chair? year I took a roll of tape and taped up their doorknops. I couldn't open the door to get in their

office. A lot of people laugh at that. None of this is an April Fool's joke. You're just torturing people. You're just being, those are not April Fool's jokes in any sense of the word. And this is third shift in a newsroom. Don't you think maybe they needed the wheels on their chairs and to get into their office? Ha ha ha, funny, funny. They got them back a couple of years. It seems hilarious. 859-28027. We will take a break. Be right back. This is KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in.

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Fools. This woman says she went on Facebook and she told everyone to text her husband and tell them they wanted to buy llamas from him, even though he doesn't own llamas. And he got 500 text messages from people about llamas. Now, does that sound like an April Fool's joke? It's a prank. I don't know that it's a joke, though. Yeah, it is a prank. I kind of agree.

I don't know if it's an April Fool's joke. I feel like April Fool's is, I tell you something, Drew, and act like it's true, but it's not. That's April Fool's. I think just pulling a prank is not in and of itself April Fool's. Yeah, I guess, yeah, you're not really fooling, you're fooling all the people that emailed the husband. No, they were in on it. They were just, they were part, like they were doing it as part of the joke. Yeah, the, he the victim there, it's more of just pranking him than April fooling him as I interpret the holiday.

Yes, one person writes, it sounds like to me Ryan uses April Fool's as a chance to just be a jerk. I think it's a free pass today. What you told me during the break Your April Fool's prank didn't go very well Oh the wheels off the chairs I got a call from the chief engineer in my house And like he said look you got like five seconds to fix this right now So I got into a little trouble

I can understand why Like it's not you can't do Like someone could have gotten hurt Uh no They just couldn't scoot him Ryan doesn't care as long as he got to laugh at it He doesn't care of him to get hurt He's just

Ryan thinks he can just walk behind somebody, smack him in the face and go April Fool's. Dennis the Menace over here. Yeah, no kidding. Also, by the way, Drew, six years ago today, John Caliperi announced he would stay at Kentucky with a lifetime contract. Wow. And that he, quote, didn't want to coach any other school ever. What do you think about that? That's an April Fool's Day joke.

Got us. That's how you do it, Ryan. That's exactly right. That was the John Calipari long play. That's exactly right. He's like, you know what? In five years, this will all pay off. Yeah, but it was April 1st, 2019, when he announced,

I will be going nowhere else, and I will finish my career at Kentucky. So that's that. Right. They got beat by Kansas State and UCLA was flirting with him. Is that when all that happened? I think that's when that happened. And in hindsight, we've talked about this. Honestly, Ryan, that's when he should have left.

Yes. I think if he left then, but I mean, Mitch could not have let him go. Mitch would have taken a lot of heat. So I understand why they did that lifetime deal. But it would have been best for all parties if he left then. Don't you think? Like, in hindsight, that was the moment that would have been the perfect time for him to exit. Mitch Barnhart had to keep him here.

You couldn't let him leave for UCLA. But if your cow, wouldn't that have been the right time for him? cow to go. I think people would have, you know, it's like George Costanza says, you want to leave them one more, Drew, and that was the moment that I think he could have done that. Yeah, looking back, I think I was even for the lifetime contract in the moment, because at that time, Cal was still Cal here and winning a bunch of games. I don't think anyone saw the way it would tank, but now that we know what we know, horrible, horrible decision. Or just a great April Fulls Day prank. He should have definitely, if he left, St. Peter's doesn't happen. Oakland doesn't

happen. COVID doesn't happen. We don't even have COVID. Exactly. Exactly. We play the tournament and see our families in 2020. Yes, it's exactly right. COVID goes away. Shannon, everyone wrote me after the show yesterday and said the last five minutes of the show became the price is right. Yeah. What happened there? Because I don't know what they're talking about. Look, I understand that everybody looked at me as suspect number one, but I wasn't even watching. I wasn't even watching. watching the prices right. It somehow happened in the Lexington studio where they had, I guess, the board on the TV because there was severe weather the night before. They were testing something and somebody forgot to turn that off during the break. And instead of hearing us, you heard the last, you heard the showcase showdown on the prices right. Apparently, they were giving away a really good vacation package, too. So they skipped the last segment and it just played the prices right over the radio? Yeah. Yep. We had a good segment too.

And so what about the podcast? Is it the price is right? No, no. It's what we're talking about. So it's only in Lexington, only in Lexington. So people listening to our show in the last 10 minutes just heard the prices right. Yep. Yep.

Wow. There's something kind of funny about it. Yeah. So they had just left it on the TV from the night before the emergency way. Right. Yeah, they were testing it during the break. And I, you know, I asked you and I couldn't figure out, I couldn't figure out how in the world would the Price is right be on the radio is it still true carry yeah when you heard it didn't

you immediately think Shannon was watching Price is right in the studio and somehow mixed a button up and came out of the year I mean I didn't know about it I just I was sitting at the airport and just take out message after message of why is the Price is right on and I thought I did assume it was Shannon that did but uh but I didn't know maybe I thought it was April fools who's who's up uh let's go to Sean Sean go ahead Sean how you guys doing I'm doing good. First time long time, I'm talking for Texas, Kentucky. I hate April fools because the first thing that worked this morning,

I'm flipping through, you know, Twitter. Seeing Otega O'Way was in the portal. And I was like, I know it's safe for a fool's day. Yeah. Do you believe? Yeah, I would have been suspect on it. Let me say this about Otega O'Way when it comes to the portal. There are schools that have, like, had their,

there people talk to his people. There are schools that are offering him insane amounts of money. Like in school, at least one school in conference trying to get him to come. I do not think he will leave. I think part of what, so when we look at the portal, one of the things we have to recognize is when you're looking at the money Kentucky spends, they're going to have to spend money to keep Otega away here. So when you see like a school sign a random person, and you see, again, I don't believe any of these numbers,

but let's say that it says they signed a guy and gave them $3 million. A lot of those schools don't have to do what Kentucky does, which is they're going to have to pay a big chunk of money to keep one of their own guys. You know, Louisville, for instance, I don't think they have to do that, but we do. So I don't expect Otega away to go anywhere, but I do think it's important for people to recognize that some of our NIO budget, is going to be used to just keep these guys here that we already have. Right. And I have an April 4th, so I'm pretty sure it was on April 4th. Me and my wife was expecting.

We've got a baby doctor's important. Well, the nurse that brought us back didn't ask anything at all about me. She just assumed I was dad, so she, like, does all this wide-opening grab me, and then she looks at me, and she's like, congratulations, dad. and I thought that's like, ma'am, I'm not the dad, I'm her brother. She turned 50 different shades of whites. Like, I'm so sorry. And I said, ma'am, I'm just kidding.

I'm too, it's a dumb. I'm done. Oh, you played the, okay, I didn't know where that was going. I thought that could go a lot of different ways. I got you. Okay, so then you acted like you earned this. All right, that's an April Fool's joke. Although, I thought that story was going to go in a different direction.

Thank you very much. I appreciate the call. We'll take a break. Be right back. Talk some portal. It's KSR. 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.

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$25 to play, like it's a pretty good deal when you consider some of the people that are going to be there. So, Ryan, I know you've always enjoy this. Are you looking forward to getting back to the lanes? It's actually a lot of fun. I mean, the group of, we've had a lot of regulars that have been there since the first Boeing league, and it's just kind of fun. It's kind of a neat thing to do on Wednesday night in the summer, man, go out and bowl for a little bit. I was out on Lexington Saturday night watching basketball, and a guy came up to me, and he'd already signed up and was excited to get to bowling. So there's a buzz around town about it. KSRBowling.com. The first was Wednesday, April 23rd.

I will be there. We'll even see if we can get Shannon to drive. That would be amazing if Shannon drives there because, you know, he doesn't like to get out of it. his house, but KSR bowling.com. Let's talk a little portal stuff. By the way, it's at the Collins Southland Lanes. Let's talk a little bit about the portal. First, Bryce Hopkins, Drew, gets in, and he's going to St. John's. So Bryce, who played for Cal, is now going to go play for Rick. I was trying to think, I don't think there's ever been anyone that played for Cal and Rick. Oh, the stories he will be able to tell. Are you pulling for Bryce at St. John?

I'm pulling for him to write a book when his career's over. But yeah, I'll root for him a little bit. I liked Bryce when he was here. I definitely wish you'd played more. I remember him having a big game, and Cal said, it's time to start playing Bryce, and then I'm not sure he played again. I don't think he played again.

He was injured the last two seasons, didn't play much. So I'm glad he's getting another chance at fresh start, because I've always liked him and rooted for him, except the one time he played Kentucky in the tournament. Got a lot of interactions with Kentucky. Obviously played here. Remember, then we played him Ryan in the NCAA tournament, and now he's going to play for Rick.

You got to wonder what does Cal think of a cow guy going to Rick? I think that would be literally, I would love to talk to him when that's over and see what he has to say comparing the guys. That would be kind of interesting to have him on and comparing. But I saw the picture of him in a when he transferred a man. He is a grown-ass man now. He's a big, strong-looking dude. I'd like to have him back here, actually. He was a big dude when he got into college.

But I think Rick will get his full potential out of him. You know, he hasn't, I think he's a lot better than what he has played and what we've seen. I agree. Well, he was good for profit. until he got hurt. Like he was playing pretty well for them that first year and then he got hurt. And now Big Z is back in the portal. That got a ton of news.

He's leaving Arkansas. Let's start with this. Leave aside whether, I think most Kentucky fans would say if Mark Pope were to want him, everybody would welcome him back. But let's just say you were the coach. I'll start with you, Drew, and then just go around. Would you want Big Z next year? Let's even say that were an option.

I kind of think it's not an option. Remember, he was probably the one yelling at our fans the most when they were here. Cal had to, like, pull him away from the court after it was over. When he left yesterday, put on Instagram, Woo Pig Suey. But let's just say he wanted to come. Would you want Z? I would have the conversation. He wouldn't be high on my list, especially this current situation.

I think they need to get tougher and a little better defensively inside. but I would, if he were really, really interested, just if I'm Mark Pope and the style Big Z plays, I think it would work. So I would, I would hear him out, but he wouldn't get my biggest bag. I would have other guys ahead of him, but I wouldn't rule him out, and I would certainly talk to him. Ryan? I'm kind of with Drew. I think just the fact because he fits Pope's system. And that's when he left the first time, I thought, man, it'd be good if he could stay.

He's kind of the guy that would maybe thrive and what Pope's trying to do offensively. So I think I definitely would have the conversation with him, but I wouldn't spend all my money on him for sure. Shannon? No, time to move on. We've already had him here. I think he struggled a lot of the season with Arkansas. And there's 1,600 players in the portal.

I think there's probably a lot more better talent, to be honest with you out there than Big Z. So I wouldn't move on. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, if Pope decided to take, he might be like, that's fine. But I'm kind of with Shannon in the sense of, I mean, he can't guard anybody. And we've, we've, we've got to have dudes who can play some. defense. And honestly, I thought, Drew, that Arkansas got better when they stopped playing him, right? When they went to A-Doo as they're big, I think that's kind of when they went

on their run. So for me, I think it'd be a no. I heard you on the pre-show, Shannon, talking about do we consider Z a cat? You know, I pretty much think anybody that plays here, I consider to be a cat. I think, Shannon, you were taking the position they needed to, or no, Billy was taking the position they needed to finish here, right? To be a cat. Well, I think it was a caller that was saying that I think if you were here for a year, then you're a cat. Once a cat, always a cat, is my opinion on that.

Yeah, that's kind of my opinion, too. But, I mean, I did find it interesting. He was Drew the most aggressive of the Wagner Thadou Z. He was the one most aggressive in Rupp that night against our fans, which I thought was kind of odd because he actually got the best reaction from our fan base, but he didn't seem to like it as much as the rest of him. There's a video of him on his way to the back. Now, he was provoked by fans, but it got pretty heated.

At the same time, if you're Z, I mean, Kentucky got you into the school in the middle of the semester, which I still don't know how they pulled that off. They were like, yeah, he's in class. They brought him across the pond and just threw him in a class. I mean, the fans put up a billboard for him to get him eligible. Of all people that should have had a little more gratitude towards Kentucky, but it'd be big Z of that group.

But he was being booed. and his teammates were being booed. So, yeah, if Pope would decide to do it, I'd be fine. But I kind of would be surprised. I think he would go maybe play with his brother at Illinois? Maybe. Maybe his brother? Yeah.

Brother played well against us. Would he hit four threes against us in that game? I mean, he kind of kept him in it. Who's next? He played well against us at Rob. He had probably his best game in the year that game. Edward. Edward.

Go ahead, Edward. Hey, Matt. Hey, guys. How you doing? Good. Yeah, so, just a comment and a question really quick. Bryce Hopkins, rooting for the guy now when he first left and he made those comments about the program, how Cal was making him play like a robot. I kind of despise the guy. My favorite moment

of that season where we lost in the round of 32 to Kansas State was Jacob Toppins swatting his dunk off the backboard and then Antonio Reeves going down and hitting that three that kind of put us up like eight or nine. And then he was crying in Cal's arms after. It was a pretty thick image. I loved it. And that might be awful of me to say, but yeah, go B-Hop now, but wasn't a fan when he left. My question, I love for y'all to weigh in on, is on behalf of my brother who can't call in because he's got a, quote, unquote, important job compared to me. Yeah. I'm in sale, so he thinks what I do isn't real, which is totally fine. But, so my question is, as far as rivalries, when I say that, for us, I mean, Tennessee, Duke, Q of L,

I feel like they've lost their edge a little bit, not pointing to the fans or anything in particular. But, you know, we like Pat Kelsey. We think Cooper Flag is generational. We still feel hatred for Tennessee, but I'd love to get your all thoughts on like. No, I think they have taken it. I think the coaches have made it a little different. I mean, I appreciate to call. Rick Barnes is not really hateable.

Pat Kelsey's not really hateable. I still hate Duke. I don't know why everybody acts like Cooper Flag is likable. I still am rooting for him to slip in the Final Four. I think maybe part of it, Ryan, is that Arkansas with Cal took a lot of the focus this year. The Louisville stuff will kick up. I feel like when Kelsey starts winning, he'll start talking trash. But probably all those rivalries have tamed a little bit, but maybe the Arkansas one is what amped up instead.

Yeah, that seemed to be the main rivalry this year, for sure, it was Arkansas. But you're right about Louisville. We kind of like Pat Kelsey right now, but sooner or later, something's going to happen where he'll say something or do something and we'll be able to poke at him again for sure. Yeah, I mean, he's going to put on his like youth XL pants and get upset at some point, Drew, you know, like he's going to say so. He's, I think he did an amazing job this year, winning that fan base over and all that. But I do think there's some trash talking arrogance in him that'll come out at some point,

don't you, Drew? Yeah, but even when it does, it'll be corny. When we hated Louisville at their peak of hatred, you know, they were actually bad guys. I mean, they're doing stuff in restaurants. You had baloney heads stealing money. Their players were unlikable. Now, even when Pat Kelsey gets into that, it's still going to be corny. Like yesterday, they have this new thing, I guess, when they get a commit where he sends out

the Pat Signal, and it's just him putting on his black red-room sunglasses. What's it called? The Pat Signal. Yeah, he tweeted yesterday. What is it, though? What is that? I didn't see that. What is that?

Well, I mean, there was no context. It's a video of him just pulling his glasses out of his pocket and putting him on, and the tweet said Pat Signal. I think it means they've gotten a commitment. Like the bat signal, but it's the bad signal. Yeah, like that in itself. It's a different level of villain now. They're just corny.

Or before there are actual terrible human beings involved. Villain. Dorkman. He's Dorkman. That's right. Duna, Dork man. No, like, I've liked him so far.

He seems like a good dude. But let's wait till they're really good. Or let's wait till they beat us once. Then I think it'll be different. Do you think Mark Pope is ever going to be the kind of guy who gets into it with any coach ever? Like, I don't know if that'll happen. No, everyone's too beautiful and super special and extraordinary for him to get work. He loves to say beautiful.

Did you hear last night? Yeah, we're going to talk a little bit later about what his comments were on the show. But he said at one point he was asked about the portal. And he goes, it's beautiful, special chaos. And I was like, that's one of the strangest explanations. beautiful special chaos we had five extraordinarys in the first segment last night he loves beautiful he loves extraordinary what else does he love incredible yeah super special yeah he's he always he likes super he uses super a lot he says super quite a bit he loves those adjectives that really

hit home how some how great something is eight five nine two eight oh 22 87 the women's basketball thing continues to sort of be a talking point. We'll get into it and some more right for this. KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending. Opinions are flying.

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Find more information at loveyourmindtay.org. That's loveyourmindtay.org. Brought to you by the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the Ad Council. Yeah, this is Pope, right? Yep, everything's beautiful. Everything's beautiful. I actually, there's a part of me, though, that envy's being able to live life like that shit, right? Oh, 100%.

Everything's beautiful. Yeah. You know, you don't, like, you are like a cynical, dark lord, you know, in terms of how you look at things. Thank you. Wouldn't you like to be able to just look around and go, it's beautiful. Yeah. The portal is beautiful. Everything is sunshine, rainbows, and puppy dogs.

Yes, we have to enjoy that. That's, what a bet, what's much better than to sit there and be like, oh, everything's miserable, right? No, yeah. I wish I had that out. outlook on life. It's great. It is. I'm not mad at it. Text machine is 717. Pope said before the Tennessee game, he used the word beautiful pressure.

We have beautiful pressure. That's right. Yeah, even when pressure is beautiful, that would be great. One person writes, Matt, I don't consider, this is the text machine, 772, 774, 5254. No one that leaves Kentucky is a cat they chose to leave. Yeah, I think you're going to have to change that view. I mean, is Kyle Wilcher a cat? like he won a national championship here. We're going to act like he's not?

He seems to still love this play. I don't think you can have, Ryan, that view in 2025. I mean, you can have it, but I think you're going to be disappointed a lot if you do. Well, I guess the test is what we just saw, Z, DJ, Adieu. They all went to Arkansas to play for cow. Are they cow guys at Arkansas, or do we consider them a cat? I think they're both. They're cow guys and a cat.

They played here, but they played here for cow. I don't think those things for me are mutually exclusive, although they might be for some people. Ryan, I do want to go back to you for this because the Cassie Row thing. I am amazed how many people are like genuinely upset about this. I think it's mostly, honestly, an eastern Kentucky thing, specifically a northeastern Kentucky thing, people who are from like 15th, 16th region,

maybe watched her play when she was growing up. But there's a lot of people upset. I think her dad went and Drew did an unfiltered interview yesterday. And in so doing kind of stirred the pot a little bit more on it. You know, I gave my opinion yesterday, which was basically, you know, we don't know everything. And I'm hesitant to be outraged when I don't know everything. And it's also the modern business of college basketball. But do you think this is going to stick?

or is this just like season's over, we don't have anything else to talk about? I mean, I hear the women's basketball team may get a big transfer commit today. So I wonder, you know, maybe after that happens, people look at things differently. But do you think this is going to stick with Kenny for a little while? Well, that's what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid, you know, he did such a good job of getting our fan base for women's basketball, super excited about what they did this year. The product on the court was so good that Memorial Coliseum was sold out.

fans love coming to the game. My fear is that this has caused a little fracture in the fan base that may be hard to get those people back. Just the ones that are on Cassidy's side. But I mean, do you really, like, once they, but haven't we seen over the years if you win, everybody gets over everything? Yeah.

Yeah, he goes to the final four. That's going to probably. I mean, I feel like if you lose, then people will bring this up as a thing to criticize. But if you win, Drew, doesn't everybody just get over everything at some point? I think so. As long as he goes out and gets a good portal class and carries that into next year, I think everyone will move on from this.

Now, if he goes and signs three people and there's just four empty chairs on the bench, it might linger a little bit. But I think he's got a plan or he wouldn't have done it, and he's going to add a lot of pieces that'll be helpful. And at the end of the day, that's his job to make sure he's putting the best roster. Yeah. I mean, I think, Shannon, you can have both of these views equally. View number one, it does stink for the kid.

If she wanted to play and wanted to have her senior year, it stinks for her. And I could see why she and her dad would be upset. I get that. I think you can also take the view of this is modern college basketball. And we are upset because she's from Kentucky. Because every coach has done this to players from other schools all the time. And we also don't know the specifics of the conversation. I think that's important.

Did he say you can't be on the team? Did he say, I suggest you transfer? I mean, I don't know, Shannon. Like, I don't know exactly what was said. And Kenny's probably going to not say anything, I wouldn't think, or at least he won't. So I don't know, Shannon. I have mixed emotions on it. But I am surprised how many people are very upset about it.

Yeah, and you're right. It's all in the details. we weren't in the office when they had those conversations. What makes it more confusing for me is, you know, in that first round of the NCAA tournament when they were playing Liberty, Kenny Brooks brought Cassidy Rowan to try to, you know, hold off Liberty. Like, she played a significant role on this team. The confusing part for me is how do you not find a roster spot for that person?

But at the end of the day, his job is to pet together the best roster and the best team that he can. And if he thinks that she shouldn't be a part of it, then that's his decision. Yeah. Well, I mean, this is back to, if you don't like, these kinds of things, that's why you need contracts where both sides can't, you know, I mean, both sides can't sort of stop the other one. Like you committed to each other. That's why I think Jay Bill's suggestion of employment contracts is really the best thing to do going forward. Who's up

next? Jacob. Jacob, go ahead, Jacob. Hi, Matt. I actually called in to talk about the whole Cassie-Roe situation. You know, for me it comes down to, is Kenny the right person for the job and I think it's 100% yes. I think that what he did for the team this year, he deserves an A plus. He brought them back from obscurity. I think the quickest way to get them back to obscurity would be to try to drive away. Kenny Brooks, I think that just have to trust that this is a decision that we might not understand, but it's the decision that he made that he thought was best and just got to trust his leadership.

That's kind of my take on it. I appreciate to call. For the most part, agree, right? I mean, I think it was Bill Belichick, maybe, that said if you're going to ask me to make the meal, I got to buy the groceries, right? I do wonder if there's a part of that with this. Like, if you're going to ask me to do it, then, you know, then you got to let me pick the players, right?

I think that might be part of it. Well, there's no doubt we understand his motive to try to get the best roster possible to try to win a championship and go to the final four. That makes perfect sense. But like we talked about, you got 15 scholarships starting next year, and this girl's going to be a senior year. So it seems like it bothers you. It does. You are of this show, I think, the most bothered by it. In 30 seconds, articulate why.

I think it's just because when she was the one that stuck around and kind of held everybody together when the coaching change. But do you know that she held everybody together? Like, I mean, you say that a lot, but isn't like, Georgia was the leader of that team. Cassidy was the one, though, that was the carryover from the only one to carryover from the old regime. And she was able to, like, bring, help bond that bridge, so to speak, with everybody else. There he goes. There he goes. I just want to throw in that I bought a lot of meals that I didn't cook and they were all good for the most part.

I just, I've never cooked a meal. So, you know. But I'm learning. We'll get there. I'm learning and I get it. Well, it's interesting. We'll see. I think this will still be a topic going forward.

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