KSR - 2025-04-10- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

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But we've had fun so far this week. And today, I brought in my dear friend, Adam Luckett. You know him from KSR on 3. KSR Plus, 11 personnel, all the things you do covering UK football. Keep going, Drew. Just keep going. He's a proud of St. X High School. The team that might have collapsed in the state tournament, he's still getting over that

one. But everyone loves Adam Luckett, and we're excited to have him today. We're going to talk a little UK football. It's been basketball all week. But spring football has been going on. They have a big Saturday coming up, and no one knows it better than Adam Luckett. So Adam, we'll get to the football later. But thank you for making the trip from Louisville and joining me here.

Yeah, it's one of my first. favorite weekends of the year. Kentucky football, Masters double-dip, and now we throw in the trio, Adam Luckett, on KSR with Drew Franklin. I mean, what more could you want as a sports fan? I mean, how lucky are the listeners right now to get us by ourselves, just talk ball and some other shenanigans? Congratulations to all the listeners for having Adam Luckett today and for the Masters, and since you set me up, I'm just going to start with the Masters. We do have a few news pieces to go before we get to our football breakdown, but I did my annual tradition of waking up way too early to be in my seat an hour ahead of the 730 a.m. start time this morning to watch everything down

at Augusta National. On that, by the way, some people called me out yesterday. I didn't know I did it, but I went back in listing. I was saying, Augusta, I guess I turned on my redneck there for a little bit. So Augusta National, not all Augusta, as I was saying yesterday, but I woke up this morning to watch the honorary, what do you call them? Starters, Honorary Starters. That's correct. I was up early. My guy, Fred Ridley, he welcomed us all to the tournament, the best tournament in golf. Had my guy Gary Player, Jack Nichols, and Tom Watson start off. They always hit the three T's to get things started. Were you up early? Did you watch it, or were you preparing for our show today?

I was up early, but I didn't get eyes on the honorary start this year. Unfortunately, it's one of my favorite parts of this weekend is watching that typically. Well, I mean, just for three guys hitting a golf shot into the fairway and then walking a way. It shouldn't be that exciting. But this morning, I got to tell you, I was pretty impressed by Gary Player, 89 years old. You know, he hits a good drive. They all do. They still got it. But my man at 89 did a high kick where his foot was at eye level. I tweeted a photo of it. I'm not even half of his age, and I can't do anything like that. I mean, truly remarkable athleticism by the 89-year-old Gary Player, and then Jack followed him, and this broke my heart.

Jack could barely get the tea in the ground. And I was not. nervous thinking, like, is he going to fall over? I mean, it was bad. He even said, I don't know if I can do this. And there was like an awkward silence. It took him a minute. But that part of the morning actually hurt me a little bit. He did get it. He did get a teed up. But it was touch and go there for a second. That would have really killed the vibe to start the Masters of Jack Nicklaus, a legend, couldn't have even gotten the ball on the team. Right. And it, like, what's the Masters without Jack, right? Like, he's the iconic figure of the event. And so, yeah, I could definitely see why you, while you had that. But Gary player has got us

covered. He'll be here another 30 years. Gary's going to get Gary kicks until 2052. Gary player is going to outlast Jim Nance. Oh, of course. Jim's almost retired. Only 11 years to go. Jack hit it well. I don't want I'm not here to just you know Jack still got it but the act of bending over getting the tea in the ground next year maybe let's go ahead and have the ball teed up for all three of

them. Tom Watson also hit it good and then they were off. We're watching it here at KS Bar where we have Master's specials. Come get your your sampler that Monique works so hard on to copycat the Augusta Pimento cheese egg salad sandwich and the pork pork sandwich. We've got holes 4, 5, and 6 streaming on the broadcast, since it's not on TV, yet we're going through Masters.com onto the big TV.

Got that going on. I know not everyone loves golf, so we won't do two hours of talking about golf, but Adam and I are both excited. I got my Amen Corner T-shirt on, got a master's hat. As you said, it's just one of the best times of the year. And you were there last year, right?

I was there last year. Speaking of that, Billy is going to join us in the second hour. Billy has also been, We both have a few master's memories. Last year especially, it was kind of awkward for both of us as some UK basketball news hit while I was on the golf course without a phone. And Billy had to fill in. But we'll break that down later. For now, let's get to a little bit of the news.

We've started with basketball every show. It's been so newsy this week. So I'll stick with that. We're finally going to get a visit from Wilkerson, the Sam Houston transfer, dead period today. So we can't visit yet. But after today, it's looking like he will come and visit Lexington. Mark Pope is considering him to fill that shooter spot as we went over a couple times already this week. Average 20 and a half points, four rebounds, two assists on 47.7% from three.

That's pretty good. Excuse me, no, 44.5, I've got my numbers there, 47.7 from the field. 44.5 from three made nearly 93s at that clip. You know, we were kind of Yates. It was looking like it might work with him from USC. That's kind of gotten a little more in Washington's direction, but Wilkson's going to come to campus, And that's big. As Mark Pope's looking to fill that shooting role.

Yeah, he was a two-time All-USA performer, 17-20-plus-point games last year. Just can really fill it up. And he's got size, five, two-guard. I think you kind of look at what Kentucky's looking for, size, athleticism, plus the shooting. I think he checks a lot of boxes. There's a lot of Indiana buzz with him. Yeah. So there's a chance for Kentucky.

Pull one over on the Hoosiers with their new coach, Darren DeVries. And, of course, Indiana. They come to rep next year. They do. against this guy. Yeah. I got to lock him up. He's also looking at Auburn and Old Miss.

You know, Bruce Pearl just being desperate down there, trying to call everyone we're calling. We already took Jaden Quaitens out of Bruce's hands. He thought he could pull that one off. But good chance to add maybe not the final piece, but maybe the most important piece of shooting there with Wilkerson. You're known as the football guy, but you know, you know it all. I mentioned this yesterday.

KSR, you got to know everything. I just dabble. At any moment, you could get a text, hey, can you post this and you've got to be knowledgeable. We haven't had you on. What are your thoughts of how the portaling has gone so far for Kentucky and how the roster is shaping up? Yeah, I think it was obviously there was a slow start

and you felt like they missed on some guys. It felt like losing Donovan didn't. It felt like a big one. You know, so they pivot to Jalen Lowe. But ever since then, I think you have to really be a fan of the process and where they're at. I think obviously like the Quentin's development, I have some issues, or not issues,

but worries about just how healthy is he, going to be but if he's healthy he's one of the he could be an all-American I think next year I think Diabate kind of fits what they want to do or what they're looking for and I think Wilkerson really all three of these guys are kind of in on the two guard Wilkerson Wesley Yates which is kind of turning the other direction and then Geron dron Pierre Jr. I believe all of those guys they have sizes of two guard and they can all shoot it and so that's kind of what they need that they want more athleticism they want more size more length but they can't you got to have the shooting as well and I think it's really important to

get a knockdown shooter at the two, and I think they have some good options. Yeah, I'd love for it to be Wilkerson. Also, yesterday on three put a prediction in our guy, Pete, he said, calling my shot. The confidence level was listed as low, but he at least put a prediction in for Alverro Foguerres, I believe we're saying it. El Puo, I think I learned yesterday. Big Spain is what I'm calling him. The big Spaniard, the big tariff, that's what I'm calling him. We've got to get him from across the pond.

I still don't know if he's over there or has made it over here yet, but now is Kentucky He's adding the Wilkerson visit and the dead period ends today where they couldn't visit. Maybe he's going to speed that up. But heck, I wonder, is there a world where you add Wilkerson and Alvaro? I mean, I'm dreaming dreams if they're able to pull that off. Yeah, I think Alvaro is kind of the Andrew Carr replacement. Four, who can shoot a little bit, who can pass, give you some rebounding, shot blocking, but mainly going to, has offensive versatility, can post, can step out, hit threes,

and can place some five for you in a pinch if you need it. And so that, I think, it would be a big one. And I think, you know, what's going on with Brandon Garrison? That's something we're going to have to figure out. I think that's everyone kind of waiting on. That feels like the next domino figuring out what happens there. And then Alvaro is out there. And he's been linked to Kentucky really seems like since the beginning.

There is Brandon Garrison online speculation. This is not Drew Franklin and KSR reporting this. But the Internet went wild because, you know, we freak out on social media. I guess he changed his bio on Instagram and it doesn't say Kentucky. I don't. I mean, I guess that could be an indicator. I'm sure he is reconsidering his position with Kentucky after the added acquaintance. I mean, if I'm Garrison, I would also say, oh, hold on.

What's going on? Wait a minute. But last night, there was a lot of speculation about his social media profile changing. So I guess that is one thing we'll have to watch. As a man who dabbles in high school football retreating, I would not put too much stock into what's going on on some of these social accounts, whether IG, Facebook, TikTok. Maybe the man just wanted to change his profile. Yeah, who knows? But yeah, it feels like maybe some smoke with everything else when you kind of add all the pieces together, but we'll just have to wait and see.

And it would make sense if he wanted to reconsider. I hope he stays. You know, I wanted them to go shopping in the portal at that spot. I don't know if he can be the guy because if he doesn't take the next jump. I don't know if your championship level, if that you're starting five. But I would still like to have Brandon Garrison on the team. Nothing else just when we play Oklahoma. He's got to let him know again.

He's got waving somebody. Well, the law. I mean, he embraced the rivalry. That's right. He's over there with Pat Kelsey, mixing it up. So from that aspect, yes. And again, in the portal, like, there's not, like, if Brandon Garrison enters the portal, he'll be one of the top-ranked centers.

Of course. So I think that's something to keep in mind, too. Like, if you're going to lose a player, where would he end up? If he enters a portal, he's going to get probably a good offer to go play somewhere. Isn't he the one that was at Arkansas when he committed, like, on his visit last year? He was somewhere. I can't remember where it was. Arkansas.

Yeah, because they pivoted from Ossemoor, great Osseborg, ended up in Washington and followed his coach from Utah State, and it was kind of out of nowhere. And that's the thing with Pope, he really does keep things buttoned up. So, like, reacting in real time is kind of hard because you don't know really which direction they're leaning. I'd like that. All of these improvements it feels like.

Of course, Pope's been very good at keeping this quiet. I think last year when they were, I and Jeremy Roach and that leaked out, and then they end up losing them. I think he learned a lesson there. He's keeping those lipsilled. Speaking of Pope, he was in Washington, D.C. yesterday. We'll just pivot into that. With a random cast of characters, there was Mitch Barnhart,

and then your boy Josh Caddiss? I mean, did they just load up the U.K. athletics plane and head that way? Kenny Brooks was there? Kenny Brooks, yeah, Kenny Brooks. Not a Kentucky person, but there is an image of Pat Kelsey standing next to Mark Pope in Washington, D.C. We just need those two standing next to each other as much as possible. So I'm about Pat Kelsey at steps off.

Geez. Help a man. If I'm Pat, I refuse to go anywhere near Mark Pope. I don't even shake his hand before the rivalry game, but they were up in D.C., I guess is this tied to the House settlement a little bit, they up there campaigning for something? Yeah, it's interesting to Wilkerson recruitment, because what you're seeing in this basketball portal,

like it moves slower last year, but players are wanting to lock in deals before the settlements pass, because once the settlement is passed, which is looking like it will be next week. As of right now, it could change. You are not going to be, basically, the collectives are going to have to go through a clearinghouse, which Mitch Barnhart's going to be involved in, and you're going to have to fair market rate, so you're going to have to prove it's not pay for play.

Like you're doing a service kind of, so it's going to be harder to get NIL pay for play, essentially deals passed. So a lot of players are locking in deals right away to get paid right now. Now, what they were there in D.C. for is once this settlement gets passed, the NCAA still wants help and they want a bill pass that protects them from antitrust lawsuits for this clearinghouse that they're going to set up. So that's what that was about. They were hobnobbing essentially with members of Congress and be like, we really need your help and support on this. And so that's what that essentially was about. You and Roush on 11 personnel have been Josh Katas fan since he got on campus.

You call him the ass kicker. I'm sure they just needed a student representative there, but I did feel like that was a kind of a surprising personality in that group heading up there, that Josh Kattis joined the group. I assume maybe Stoops, you know, he's in the middle of spring ball. Maybe he couldn't take off so they had to send someone. Do we know how Josh Kattis ended up there? I loved it.

He was tweeting or posting pictures from the White House. Looks like he had a good time. That is a great question. Is Josh Kattis want to be a politician? Is he the next governor of Kentucky? Who knows? Could he have been hired by Doge? Who knows?

But a unique day yesterday with UK up in Washington, D.C., trying to get things done is this house thing. It gets to its, it seems like its final hour. The hearing was on Monday, and they say by next week we should know exactly what's going on. Yeah, basically they came for six hours. And basically what that hearing was for, they had 400,000, 400,000 people involved in this law, or the class action lawsuit that was going to get paid from the NCAA. Like there were 600 objectors, and some of the objectors came and kind of gave their reasons why they objected.

The judge was like, okay. and then she wants to see kind of roster limits how they set that up so they have to go back and kind of work on some things but it's expected she even said it's a good settlement like I want to pass this essentially without saying that but that's kind of what she said I read a story about her just as 75 year old woman has it all in her hands right and she was the one on the O'Bannon case which she kind of started all of this over a decade ago it's the same same judge in Oakland and so the expectation is that this is going to pass and they could happen as early as now next week. Yeah, that'll unfold soon. We'll break it down when that happens. But for now, we'll take a break here on KSR. We'll start with the spring football talk after this. And later in the show, we're going to be joined by Ty Bryant, taking a break from spring practice over there to chat with us. Be interested to see what he has to say about probably taking on a new leadership role, even though he's only a junior. He's already played a lot of football for that team that's full of new faces. So we look forward to hearing from him. It's Drew Franklin with Adam Luckett. Billy will be joining us soon to add to the master's conversation. We'll be right back. 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. I'm Timbo.

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It's good to see you. Thank you. Actually, someone asked, so I'll go ahead and address that. I've been getting questions in my Twitter DMs at Drew Franklin, KSR. That'll be my text machine. Hit me up if you have any questions for the show. but a couple people this morning wanted to know if I've opened my script, and I will just be very quick and let you know, no, I have not.

What are we doing? I'm watching the Masters. What are you doing? It's only a couple weeks away, isn't it? It is. We've got to know our lines. It's two weeks from Friday. Costume fittings tomorrow right after our show.

I got to rush out of there. You and I are hosting tomorrow. Got to go get my Count Paris outfit on. I don't know what that entails, but I'll be looking forward to it. Our guy Paul here is holding up to flyer has my name on it. Look at that. Look at that. Look how official I'll look on that program.

This is going to be the beginning of something special. or it's going to be an absolute disaster. There's no in between. I'm excited for you. And we need Mario to come back so we can get some video. No, we don't need video. Please, Mario. It's going to be like Augusta National.

No phones. We're going to leave your phones in your car. Just be there and enjoy the moment when I'm on stage, absolutely bombing or becoming the next you, Jackman. Let's talk a little football. I know everyone's excited about Kentucky football. They've been going for a couple weeks now this upcoming Saturday. What we call it?

Is it a spring showcase? Is that officially what I'm supposed to say it is? That is the official term. All right, well, 10 a.m. this Saturday, free and open to the public. You can go watch Kentucky football, and I'm going to say it's like an open practice. I don't know if that's what they're wanting to call it, but you will be able to see the team in person. Won't be televised or live stream. So if you want to see the new team that has like 30-something new pieces on it, get out there this Saturday.

Do we know a format? Do we know anything? We do not specifically, but the assumption we're kind of working with is that it's going to be the same as last year. which was essentially a practice, but they had an extended 11-on-11 scrimmage. So if you got in there late enough, it would just feel like a normal spring game, but the first kind of 30 minutes is stretching and individual drills kind of getting, like what they do in the pre-before game. And then the game starts.

It would be kind of similar to that. It's what kind of the working assumption, I think, is probably what we'll see. It wasn't tackled to the ground. It was more kind of what football terms they call thudding, which is just kind of like you go up and hit somebody. but you don't complete the tackle. And so that's what we're working, what we'll see. I'll be out there.

It starts at 10 a.m. It's at Krogerfield. I don't think I said that. There's going to be a few limitations as they're getting ready for the Tyler Childers concert. I guess certain areas won't be open, not that they need the whole place, but it'll just be open seating.

Like I said, doors open at 9. Get out there if you want to watch the cats. Weather should be good. You can go meet the new team, which brings me to my first question for Adam, look it. Adam, I pride myself. I've been a Kentucky football fan going way back.

I've even said I like it a little more than basketball. It's like 50.5% to 49.5%. I've just always loved UK football, even in their worst years. I used to know the three deep, the four deep, the five deep. I knew the walk-ons. I went to that media practice last week with you all. I was only able to stay about 30 minutes because I had to get to the show. I didn't know anyone that is out there.

It was just fresh faces across the board. So I kind of want to start with just who's on the team. But let's start with at least the position that everyone will be most focused on. I did get a look at Zach Kalsata. What are we hearing about him in camp? I know there's been conversations with him. Just brush us up to speed on what's going on with him, and then we'll just go through the whole roster and what's ahead for the team.

Yeah, first things first, I think there's going to be a lot of people that ask, like who's going to start a quarterback with Kutter Bowley. Again, the working assumption is that Kalsata will be the starter. So he will be your starting quarterback this year. This is a guy who will turn 25 years old in November. During the season, he will turn 25. We got our own Chad Baker-Mazara. We do.

This is an older guy who's played a lot of college football. He's played a lot of snaps. The kind of wrap on him, he's more athletic than you think he can do some things running the football. But I would say it's mostly going to be kind of as like Levis-type runs, QB Power, where he's getting downhill, gain yards that way. And then in the pocket, he's known for having a big arm, can stretch the field vertically. But no one went to like take some gas off the ball is kind of something he's going to have to work on. he, at Incarnate Word, he showed that he can create, kind of make some plays with being an athlete,

which is something I think Kentucky like when they scouted him and evaluated him. And so again, he's a guy who's played quarterback in the SEC. He's won games in the SEC. So he's a guy that, in theory, should bring a much higher floor than what they've had in the past, where there was kind of them big variant swings with some of their starters at quarterback. And so that's what they have in Calzada. And then I think they have a backup that they probably feel the best about that they've had probably, I would say a long time with Cutter.

You mentioned Calzada being 25. This is his seventh year of football? That is correct. So he-2019 high school graduate. Mercy. How does that even happen? Yeah. I know it, was it Auburn?

He missed part of the year or most of the year. He was able to get redshirt for that? He got a medical red shirt for a season at Auburn, yes. And, you know, they'll call it an open competition. You don't think Bowley can push him at all. I'm a big bully guy. I wanted him at Texas, even though it didn't go well. I thought he was putting a bad situation at Florida.

You mentioned it'll be a great backup, but is there any chance he can make a run at taking the job before fall gets here? I think the only situation where Bully becomes a starter this year is if Calcutta gets hurt or if things are not going well, and they just need to make a change. I think the plan all along with Cutter was to getting two years and then starting year three. Like that was the working blueprint. I think that's still the plan moving forward. How much would help Bush Hamden his second year? You know, coordinators don't come back very often around these parts.

last year he was putting a little bit of a bad spot. It was a very late addition when Liam Cohen disappeared in the night to go to Florida. Do you think we got some confidence in Hamden and it'll be help out with Calzada knowing that Bush at least has a year behind him and isn't behind the eight ball starting his time at UK this year? Right. Like it's hard to kind of have player continuity in this age, so many moving parts. Kentucky specifically leaned in to having a new team. But they're selling big the coach continuity.

It's not just Hamden. It's every coach is back except for the receiver coach. So they believe that that's going to help them get off to a faster start. And I think the big thing for Hamden is he wasn't familiar with last year's team. He got to handpick this roster, essentially the entire roster. Quarterback, offensive linemen receivers, tailback. These are his players. So you have to hope that that leads to better results.

If it doesn't, they're going to be in trouble. Yeah, Cohen built the plan last year, then left. You had Hamden, and he had really no control of the roster. I think he added Gavin Wimson. But it was what it was when he took over. So at least he's in a better spot. We're in a better spot now that Billy R Sports is here. your master's hat on? Oh, it's just one of the best days of the year, Drew. I know we're on the same

page and even Adam, too. So I've got nothing playing later today except sit on the couch and watch them. Well, we'll share some memories. We've both been, and we had a unique Monday last year. But for right now, we'll take a quick break. It's Drew, Adam Luckett, and Billy Rutledge at KS Bar watching the best tournament sports on TV. We'll be right back. Welcome back to KSR. We're here on a Thursday, April 10th. People have noted that I haven't been given the date or the weather like Matt does. I guess they want some continuity with the show while he's, gone. So, yeah, Thursday, April 10th, and it looks like blue skies. Yep, we good there, Billy? Is that how it works? Sunshining. I, you know, I do the pre-show before KSR, and I naturally have a

routine to start the show now, and I find myself giving weather reports, too. I don't know what it is, but Matt does such a good train. It's great in our brains. Sorry, I didn't do it the first three days. You mentioned how you're going home and just watching the Masters after this. My Master's Thursday has really been thrown off. What's going on? Last weekend, not only did my AC go out, my dishwasher broke I've got moles tearing up my yard and my ice maker

and my freezer broke I mean all at once so when I go home I'm just gonna have repair people everywhere I'm gonna be in the backyard with a shovel going at war with these moles

you know I want to sit on the couch put my feet up and listen to the fake birds and look at the azaleas on TV and I just have an absolute war zone at home sounds like a stressful weekend Adam doesn't it

they say bad things happen in threes I got for Drew Franklin does bad things Four, five, and six. Yeah. I think I mentioned this on Friday, maybe Monday about the mole problem. It's not going away.

Those little critters are hard to catch. Well, the advice was sound, at least what I heard, you've got to get one of those traps. I have a trap. That's the only thing that's going to work here, because my dad and I have fought the moles before, and it's an ordeal. There's no doubt. Someone wrote me and said they live in eastern Kentucky. I don't remember the exact part, and there's a 95-year-old woman in their neighborhood

that will just get a shotgun and take care of moles. So if the trap doesn't work and all of my repair people can't fix things, might have to call her up to come help. Bring your shotgun. I need the help, please. Rick, let's knock out some phone calls. Who's up first? Got Sean up first.

Sean, thanks for calling in. Hey, Bill. One of the following up all the good boys. I'm having a good day. Just wanted to call and say, if you have any doubt about what they're made have them coming up on the portal. And just want to give a shout-up. I'm obviously for two-de-six and the mayor of work,

slightly the way. Like that, just want to be part of Drew Poeza, and I'll just want to see how you guys were off-up and let you guys call. All right, thank you. I appreciate the call. I heard I wanted to be a part of Drew Palluza. I don't know if that was my headphones. Did you all get much of that?

I think Portal Scuttle Bud. He was wondering if you had any scuttle. to share with the good listeners, KSR this morning. Yeah, I'm sorry. I couldn't hear your call very well. I was trying to let you go there. Wasn't just me, I guess. We shared what we know.

We're just watching Wilkerson. His visit will be coming up soon. He's looking at Indiana, Ole Miss, and Auburn. You love to have him as the shooter. He got Alverro will eventually come over from Spain. I assume they will get him on campus. I don't think that's been reported, but on three has put in a not the official prediction,

but in a blog post wrote confidence level low, but calling my shot, Kentucky. So I'd say those two are the watch, and then whatever Brandon Garrison wants to do. If he wants to be a part of this Final Four run next year, there's a spot for him. But if he sees the riding on the wall and wants more minutes or can get more opportunities somewhere else, maybe he goes. But I think that's the current state of the roster. You guys talked about the Instagram thing already? We did.

Yeah. I don't know how much that matters. I mean, these kids today will change their social media profile for anything. But do you want Brandon Garrison back? I've learned for 30-somethings like me. It's not a good practice to try to play the mind games with social media. with teenagers. No.

But I will point out with Wilkerson. Joe Tipton has reported a visit as expected this weekend. Okay. The dead period just ends today. Tomorrow's Friday. So Kentucky's going to get one of those first visits. Typically these portal recruitments, they move fast. That's typically not a bad thing if you get one of the first visits.

For Kentucky, you would hope you get him on campus first, and maybe you can wrap that up and then. And they've been in contact since the beginning. I mean, the dead period, you can still talk. You just can't meet up and. person. Yeah, but you cannot take visits and Pope can't go to wherever Wilkerson's training or where he's staying and talk to him. And Pope doesn't sleep, so he's probably been up at like 2 a.m. Zooming this kid over in Spain. I don't know how time zones work, but Pope's been in talks with him. It's the report on the kid's always been that before he does anything, he wants to actually get to campuses.

So that, that'll be big this weekend. Well, what was he driving a stick in South America last year trying to get to recruit? So, I mean, he'll do what it takes, right? Exactly. Good, good call back there, Billy. Let's go back to. the phone line, Rick. Got Allen up next. Alan, thanks for calling in. Hey, Drew. How are you doing? I'm wonderful. Drew a Palooza. We're having a great time.

Well, good. I had a question. Have you, I don't know if you mentioned it earlier this week, but have you heard anything about Travis Perry? You haven't mentioned him as a contributor for next year, and I was just curious to see if you knew it, something that the fans didn't know. All right. I appreciate the call. I, you know, he and I are from the same dirt as Bloodsoe and Cousins used to say. We're region two guys. I know several Lyon County people, and when I've asked them, they don't, they haven't heard

a peek, really. They just think he's going to be right back on the team. You know, as far as being a contributor, I don't think he'll have the role he did this year when half the team got injured and he had to step in. I think, you know, with Lowe coming in and pieces they've added, he might slide down the bench a little bit. You could still use him for shooting when called upon. But as far as him actually leaving or hitting the portal, at least the Lion County Lions,

I know they haven't heard anything around town or expect that. So as far as I know, I expect Travis Perry to be on the team. I don't know if you guys have any expectations otherwise. Yeah, I think we got a week left until the portal closes. I believe it closes the 16th. I could be wrong on that. Maybe it's a week after. Maybe it's two weeks, so he's got a little bit of time.

I mean, I think the expectation would probably be he has a role similar to what he had this year. Yeah. Well, I don't think the expectation was for him to play. this much last year. I mean, you had Kirk Cresa get hurt, Lamont Butler hurt at times. I mean, he was really thrusted into a role that maybe some didn't expect for him to be. So I expect him to come back, and part of it is that he hasn't entered into the transfer portal yet. Right. And there's also going to be more just year-by-year player development that you're going to have with Pope that we just didn't have with Calipari. Not saying one is right or wrong,

that's just a different way to build your team. I mean, Rosser-constructed. And I think Travis Perry, the plan for him always similar to Cutter Bowley, I think. was developing for a couple years and then when he's a junior he can be a real piece of your team. He was just forced to be a real piece this year when they probably wasn't really red. It was probably maybe unfair to him to play him as much as they did, but they had

their handless force because of the injuries. Yeah, Pope's made it clear right away. He's going to be big on retaining guys. He'll get a couple freshmen that are highly ranked, a couple portal guys, and try to keep players he has, and I'd say Noah, Chandler and Perry are a big part of that. Let's get back to football real quickly.

look it since that's where your big brain operates. This Saturday at the spring showcase, let's say I'm a fan. I drove an hour from an hour away to be here. I'm excited. I'm looking forward to this new team, but I'm like Drew Franklin, and I don't know the roster. Who are some new pieces that people should be looking out for on either side of the ball? Just someone you think could be an impact contributor right away. Kendrick Law, Alabama receiver transfer, number one.

He's probably going to be Kentucky's leading receiver this year. So I definitely get eyes on him. He's going to be a guy. They want to feature, and his usage is going to be similar, I think, to how they tried to use Barry and Brown last year. Jet sweeps, quick game, screens, and then scheming up when to take vertical shots with him. He's going to be a big piece. So I would definitely watch him.

David Gusta, number 60, defensive tackle, is going to play some nose for them. He was a really big win out of the portal. Tennessee, some other SEC schools were involved. He was a high dollar player for them to get. was one of the best defensive tackles available in the portal. They're going to need him to be a playmaker, along with McQueen-Humphrey Grace, defensive end, number 50. So those are two guys I would really watch on defense.

Law, I think, is kind of the big one. And then just how they handle running back. I think it's going to be a committee approach. Everyone knows Jamariam Wilcox. They went and got Dante Daldel, got him to get in the portal from Nebraska and landed him. And then Jason Patterson, it sounds like he's having a really good spring practice,

a redshirt freshman tailback. kind of like just watching those. We all know Kentucky wants to run the football outside of the obvious, which I think is Calzada and just how does the offensive line look? Those are kind of the, a few players I would watch. And all of those three guys are named, they're going to need all of those guys to be really good players for them this year to max out, to reach their potential.

You mentioned Law could be the leading receiver, but, you know, it was exciting to get Macklin back. Kind of quiet first half of the year, turn it on late. What are the expectations of him? I know last year he's kind of moved to the slot when he's more of an outside vertical guy, is getting back to his natural position. Should we expect a big year out of him? Yeah, I think one thing you're going to see early in this showcase when 11-on-leven starts is we've heard about Calzada's arm strength,

and they brought Macklin back to be kind of their vertical thread. I have a feeling we're going to see a vertical shot to Macklin from Calzada early in this spring showcase if you're there at Kroger Field. But yeah, I think with Macklin, they played him in the slot last year, didn't really have a spot for him because they were – they had to play a lot of tight ends because they couldn't block. So tight ends were needed to help block, and then you had – Dan Ki and Barry and Brown, there wasn't a lot of snaps for him, and the slight kind of experiment didn't work. I think Liam Cohen kind of targeted him to play slight in his offense, and they kind of kept that plan.

It just didn't work. But Macklin played outside receiver at North Texas. He had his best year, was a 1,000-yard receiver, was one of the best deep ball receivers in college football. And we saw some of that later in the year against Louisville, against Tennessee and against Texas, him kind of making vertical plays down the field. And that's going to kind of be, I think, the plan for him this year. It's to play him outside and maybe not giving him a ton of target.

but when we're going to him, we're throwing it deep, and he's going to be kind of their big play target on the outside. That's still only two names. You know, reading reports. You and Roush have talked about it. They're a little thin in the receiver room. Any other names? I guess the DJ Miller turned heads in the practice we got to go see.

DJ Miller was a big recruiting win for them. Lane Kiff and Ole Miss really wanted him. He's only a true freshman now, but he's got long-term potential, I would say. He's going to be a guy, I think, that plays in a rotation role. Like, he's kind of this year's Harley Gilmore. I mean, you know, how they've kind of. of slowly put Gilmore in there. I think that's going to be the plan for Miller and then for him maybe to be a starter next year. I don't know how big of a role he's going to play. They got a

Troy Stalado from Clemson to play a role, but he sounds like he's been banged up a little bit. They got a JJ Hester from Oklahoma to kind of be the vertical threat. He missed that open practice through. We read. He's played a lot of football. He was at Oklahoma for like three years, Missouri for two. Yeah, I think it was two-two-two to Missouri, two at Oklahoma. And then true Edwards was really the big one. that they haven't gotten cleared yet because he's got the Diego Pavia extra year of eligibility junior college. He's similar to Calzada like he's going to be 24, 25 next year. He with Kendra Glaw, I think, would be their top two receivers if they can get him,

but he's not going to be out there for the spring game. But that's an important storyline to watch because he's going to be a guy, I think, potentially, can be one of their top receivers and can be kind of a go-to guy for Calzada or a bully, whoever is that quarterback. I was excited about True Edwards when he committed in December, January, or whatever it was looking at his highlight tape. That's a playmaker. And it was pretty bummed to see that he wasn't already on campus.

I guess he did the pro day down there in Louisiana, but they're still trying to get everything cleared, as you said, to get him another year and get him on campus. I think the expectation is he's going to get clear because he fits just the language that they've released to this point, the NCAA, about who would be eligible. Because you had to play Juko in a certain year, and it couldn't just be the COVID year. But he played, he spent 2020 and 21, I believe, or 2019 and 2020 in Juko. so he should qualify.

So I think the expectation they will get him, but it's one of those things where they have to get this house settlement through, and then that ruling will come in. But the expectation for all these teams is that these junior college guys are going to be able to get cleared, and Edwards fits the criteria for that. Bill, you're writing all this down, filling out your death chart over there? I'm quickly realizing how little I know about the team this year.

But I do want to ask you, I mean, discipline and culture were huge talking points after the season last year. Have you noticed any changes? Is there any difference that we could tell on the field on Saturday, should I look for Wilcox to have his shoes tied or what? Like, have you sensed a change? Well, there was a lot of talk or scuttle or talk about how maybe some players got away with not practicing. And just using this as example, they haven't maxed out the practices in the spring in the last couple years.

Like they were closing up shop at 11, 12, 13. They went the whole spring. They're going to take, they did all 15 practices. Yeah. So that, like, just using that, that's. a sample that they may be taking it more seriously. Over there, Mark Stoops has talked multiple times about how they changed the off-season training program.

And so to answer your question, it's too early to tell, like for where we sit, but they're saying the right things and they're doing things differently. Like the spring practice, just using that, that's clear, like, change of we're going to do things a little bit differently. And so we'll see how all that plays out, but they, again, they've got to really handpick this roster in a lot of ways. They got to go out and pick guys that they thought fit for them. And so we'll see if that's able to help them flip kind of that you're talking about,

just like the culture and the standard and how we operate day-to-day. And we'll see if once the game starts, we'll get our answers. But so far, it seems like they're doing things differently, and we'll see if it works. Well, we got Todd Bryant coming up at 11. I'm going to ask him about the discipline and the culture and how things have changed behind the scenes. He was one of the players that didn't shy away from mention it. It had slipped at the end of last year. So I'm sure we'll get him on record.

saying how it's actually going over there. Someone who's actually living it right now will have those answers. But for right now, we'll take a quick break. I see my guy, Stephen Yeager at 200. Just climbing that leaderboard. Love me some Stephen Yeager. Look out for him. And our guy, J.T. Poston, another friend of the program with KSR,

former KSR blogger, Aaron Fleener on the bag. Those are two guys we're watching at the Masters. What are they at right now? Poston, Bertie, number two, but I think he fell back to even. But those are two friends of the program we're watching. And we'll keep you updated with the Masters and more football talk. We'll be right back on KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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People do like to have a good time. Get a little maybe someone, what one would call underserved. Now at the Masters it's like a classy. It's like a classy Oh, yeah. You don't want to misspah. Nobody's overserved, and if they are, they're escorted out. So that does happen.

Oh, yeah. There is a decorum to it all, don't you think? Drew, I mean, there's a lot of cigar puffing going around, but there's no, like, teenagers getting rowdy or anything like that. Well, I'm someone that likes to party. I've been known to put away a few beers, and they're very cheap there, but when you're at the Masters, you're dialed in, you're focused. You're just appreciating everything around you. I might have a few. In fact, I went to a practice round two years with my dad.

It's one of my favorite moments ever. The players were done at Amen Corners. The last group went by, and they had a little beer shack there. My dad ran a golf course for many years, so we just watched the grounds crew, get A. Men Corner ready for the next day, and we just sat there drinking $2 beers. We were the only two people over there, and it was one of the coolest things ever. So sure, you partake, but it is nowhere near the players where everybody's getting blackout and routing. You see people passing out.

This is a classy environment. Look it. So you're telling me that if you woo, that's frowned upon. If security doesn't get to you, the person next to you will beat you up. So, like, let's say this. Like, if you screamed mashed potatoes after somebody hits a shot, they would come over and talk to you. The gallery will handle you first, I think. You will get the looks.

I mean, it's more like polite clapping after Drew is on Romeo and Juliet is what you should expect. We're just going to keep with the Romeo and Juliet dig. I mean, it's not a dig. I mean, I'm excited for the script reading tomorrow. I'll practice it. I might do, we were talking during the break. I might do a couple different voices, test them out on the KSR audience tomorrow. We'll decide which one I use for the play.

I mentioned Stephen Yeager. I will tell my story real quick. I, through a friend of a friend, ended up at a bachelor party with him, and there was this big beach house where we were all staying. Most of the guys were pro golfers, so I did not participate in many of the games. But he dropped a golf ball on the hardwood kitchen floor, took a rangefinder and pretended to look at a guy in the kayak out on the ocean. He opens the kitchen door, the back door to go outside.

There is just glass everywhere, and we're like, oh, I don't think we should be doing this. I don't think we should be doing this. And he takes a full swing off the kitchen floor and hits a golf ball out on the beach. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Golf Channel, I tweeted the video back then. Golf Channel even shared it. But remarkable golf shots, which you're watching him at Augusta today, just know he could also hit it off your kitchen floor if needed.

Was he challenged or did he just decide? Well, you know, it was just guys being dudes and getting a little bored. and when they're all pro golfers, they got to show off their skills. But pretty impressive. And he's a nice guy. So even though he's not an American, we still like him. He might be against us in the Ryder Cup, but we're rooting for Stephen right now. Stefan, if you want to call him.

And he's, I think, still a 200. Yeah, rooting for him. Routing for J.T. Posten, Justin Thomas, even Keegan Bradley, who had a hole in one yesterday. That was a cool moment. He is two under, Drew. One shot back of a Aaron Rye, Waukeen-Mittitt at the top, three under. But it's early in the day. It looks like only one group has made the turn at this point.

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