KSR - 2025-06-27- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

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Very highfalut. And then second, they have free coffee over there. Third, they've got a lot of the insurance companies they work for here. And then fourth, I'm throwing in a bonus. I'm going out of town this weekend, Ryan. So I am going to, to people here give away my Friday and Sunday Reds tickets to somebody here. I'm going to go ahead and sell the Saturday because it'll go, Shannon, for a little. little bit of money. But Friday and Sunday, we'll give away to somebody at the end of the show.

So if you're here by the end of the show, you have a chance to win those days. Make some of that money back on Saturday, but a great prize for somebody to win Friday and Sunday. They play the Padres who they're going against for the wild card. This is a big series. They need to win the series. So hopefully on Friday and Sunday, Drew, you can help us get a win. And if my calendar is not mistaken, it's still the summer of Ellie for a little bit longer. We're right at the halfway point. You look forward to that. Be very generous of you to get to a win. I mean, this is, so we'll do that at the end of the show.

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So you don't have to shop around. from cheaper insurance. They do it for you and find you your best policy for you. Well, look at that. They do it for you, Shannon. That's the toughest part about it, is sorting through like, okay, which one do I go with? They're doing all the hard work for you, basically. Yeah. I've used the same person for 17 years, so maybe I should. See, maybe you should keep your same insurance company. What? They always recommend keep your same insurance. For 17 straight years. See, they love you because you're like, you know, just renew it. You don't even go and shop around. Yeah, I don't even know what I'm paying. You know what?

Maybe I should call my guy Hayst Featherston over there. and say hi. No, I don't want to get my guy mad at him. But for people who actually want to save money and be thoughtful, assured partners, thank you very much for having us out. It is a big Friday. Yesterday was the second round of the draft. A couple things happened I thought were important. First of all, Kobe Bray and Amari Williams got picked. I think that's great news for the former Cats. Kobe Bray it goes to Phoenix. Amari Williams, Drew goes to the Celtics. If you leave on the stupidity of they make them wear hats of teams that did not pick them because they haven't announced the trade yet. It is kind of cool to watch.

Kobe Brea was there. Both of them, what I think is important is both of them got picked by teams that I think they can make. I think Kobe Brea can make the regular season roster next year. Amari signed a two-way, so he may play some game. He can't play more than 50 games in the NBA unless they change the two-way to a regular contract, which is what they did with Justin Edwards last year. But both of those teams, I think they will make those teams. I don't think there's a chance those guys get cut,

and I think that's great for both of them. Yeah, I was so happy for both of them. Amari was my favorite player from the moment he got on campus. Went all year, not thinking he'd get drafted. Then right before he gets to the draft, starts getting some buzz, and there he goes in the 50s to a championship contender, even though they'll be down a little bit next year. And then I'm just glad Kobe Brea got picked.

He gets to play with Booker, but he was a big part of yesterday. To anyone that watched in the green room, had his whole family there. His little brother was a star. So even though it was day two, it's cool that they get the second round a little bit of the green room.

Yeah, I think that was neat. I don't remember that in years past where the second round kind of got green room treatment. From what I understand, they actually explained the second round yesterday better than I'd ever heard it explained before. They basically said the first 10 or 15 picks of the second round, a lot of those guys have already worked out

their deals before it starts. And then in the second half, you're quickly calling the players' agents and saying, can we sign you to a two-way deal? If they say no, they just don't pick them. And then it goes like that. And so, like Jackson Robinson's not on a team yet, and part of me wonders if he's waiting for a two-way deal

that's guaranteed rather than just getting picked up on a you-could-get-cut deal. We'll see. Lamont Butler signed with Atlanta. and who was the other one. Andrew Carr's down with Portland, but that's for Summer League, so we'll see if they end up making the team. But I do think, Ryan, Kobe Brea and Amari Williams will be part of those rosters.

I kind of felt bad for Amari a little bit because he got picked during a commercial break. He didn't get that moment of the guy walking out and saying it. So did Yokic. Yolkich got picked during a commercial break once too. I think they said that 50 times on the broadcast yesterday, too. Yeah, the two people that got picked during a commercial break were Chas Lanier of Tennessee and Amari Williams. It seems like you would want those two schools to be in the thing. Like, who cares if a dude from Greece gets picked?

You should Tennessee and Kentucky fans might be watching. You would think you might want to have that on the broadcast. I will say being a Boston Celtics fan, I was very happy that they picked Amari. You know, they just traded away Porzingis. I think that there is a good chance that Amari can make that roster. I think he will. I think they both will. Kobe Braille, if you were to sit and say, who had the purest shots, three-point shots in UK history,

we've had this conversation about who you'd want to make it. you say Duran Lamb, you'd say whoever you would say. But if you're just talking about who when it left their hands, did it look more pure? I don't know that you could get to more than Devin Booker and Kobe Bray and now they're going to be in the same team.

I agree, especially on Kobe Bray, and that's why I was so annoying. To anyone that watched it yesterday, I know you heard this, Jay Billis kept saying Chas Lanier is the best shooter left in this draft with Kobe Bray on the board, and I would get madder and matter every time he said that because that's not even a conversation. But I agree that the Butler comparison, and if they're able to play together, that'll be fun.

And Sam Vassini, the athletics person, said he thought Booker was the best shooter in the draft period. I mean, not just second round, but in the entire draft period. So I think that's also a very good sign for him. I thought the coverage was actually better to watch. I loved it. You didn't have Kendrick or Stephen A. Actually some knowledge in there. And you mentioned Summer League.

Summer League's going to be must-watch TV for Kentucky fans because you might have Reed and Rob back in it. So let's talk about Summerlee. Five guys from this team that could be in it. I think I heard Reid and Rob are playing. Okay. Reed especially, I think. I think Antonio Reeves is going to be playing. I think Justin Edwards may have played his way to where he doesn't have to play it,

which is, who would have ever thought, by the way, Justin Edwards of all. You know, when we talk about reading Rob and not succeeding and losing to Oakland that year, Shannon, we never mentioned Justin Edwards who by the time he got in the lineup was averaging double. digits in the NBA. We had two of the top eight picks and a double-digit rookie, and we lost to Oakland, I'm just saying. That doesn't even make sense. You even saying that out loud. Justin Edwards, though, is a guy. I've never felt more like bad for a guy ever. You were, you did feel bad for him. I mean, because, you know, Cal kept putting him out there, and he just, he just was in his head, and you knew he had the talent. But you see it in Philadelphia.

You see it now, yeah. So, but don't forget Antonio Rees was on that team, too. Yeah, I mean, Pelicans, Antonio Reef. Also a first team all-American, Antonio Reef. So then, but so in the summer league, Reed, Rob, Antonio will all play. You're going to have all five of those guys. I'm sure Jackson Robinson will end up a team.

We will have five guys on the team. So Ryan, we'll have seven dudes in the summer league. I think those games will be fun to watch. How about the fact, though, that after all the year, after everything that happened, Mark Pope gets more people drafted than John Calpair. Yeah, Shannon mentioned all the year. Pat, you can clap for that.

on your birthday that's good news and pat kelsey so caliper and kelsey combined he all had more guys and that's you know the knuckle there was no NBA guys on this team and he couldn't recruit NBA talent I think he's already going to kind of prove that all wrong well I didn't think he had any NBA guys on the team I mean I once I listen to them explain the second round it makes a little more sense to me but I still I mean drew I didn't think we had NBA guys and to me John caliperie had some guys he could point to as this is an example why you should go here. Shea Gilgis, Alexander, Tyler Hero,

guys who were not projected to be draft picks, who came here and became top 15 picks, Devin Booker. Mark Pope is going to have a story to tell people in the portal. I mean, sit there and go, hey, Kobe Brea was at Dayton, and I got him picked. Amari Williams was at Drexel, and we got him picked. I mean, that is a story, Drew, that I think when he goes into these portal classes,

especially these kids that go to mid-majors that he'll really be able to sell. And those two guys, depending on which rankings you look at, and the portal rankings for that class, we're outside the top 60. I know when we're in portal season, everyone focuses on getting the top ranked guys, but neither one of those dudes were big portal additions when you landed them and you turned them into second round picks.

I would also note, we got to remember this next year during portal season. Drew's point is very good. The high school rankings, I think, are pretty good in basketball. I think they do a pretty good job because they see all the kids play against each other. But when we get to the portal, Shannon, the kids from Iona don't play the kids from Alabama. So we don't really know. If you go look at the kids from the portal that got drafted, they are not the kids that were ranked in the top 10 or 15 of the portal rankings.

Like all those dudes that went to Kansas State, no of those dudes got drafted. Drew is right. A lot of these guys were ranked 30th, 50th, 70th. So we got to remember that next year. The rankings when it comes to the portal are not very scientific. One of the knocks against Caliperi was he was he doesn't. develop players and I feel like that is one of Mark Pope's strengths. Without question.

It's taking those type of guys who are mid-major players and making them into NBA players. I found myself happy for Adieu last night. I'm glad Pope had more than Cal. Yeah, I had a pretty big smile, especially the Lakers. I think that's a good fit. I didn't want Cal to have more picks than Pope or anything like that. Let's not get crazy. But I was happy for Adieu when they called his name.

Were you cheering for Adieu? I kind of was, yeah. I was happy to see him get selected like that. You know, he's a guy that really kind of, if it was a freshman and sophomore, was not a star, but boy, he really blossomed last year at Arkansas, doubled his point. I still don't think anybody knows how to pronounce his last name. I've heard it.

Fierro, Thero, Thero, Thero, at some point, I like, I think he should just change the way he pronounces it every year. Every year it is a different pronunciation of his last name. I've never actually heard him say his own name. I mean, I feel like that would be a definitive answer on how you say it. I found on the Arkansas official website, they'll put parentheses in the pronunciation.

Yeah. On their site, it has it two different ways on the same way. website, so they don't even know. I don't think any of them know. Now, that gets us to this year, and I want to talk a little bit about, I had a conversation on Wednesday, and then I had a conversation last night about sort of the early workouts. They've been working out with the team for two weeks. Who's been playing good? Maybe one player, a little bit behind the rest of the group, but that's going to take me a few minutes. So let's take an early break. I'll do it right when we come back. We are here at Assured Partners on Ali Sheba Way out in Hamburg. This is,

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Hayes Featherston, the moment you have a name like that, you know you're going to, like, wear exactly what you're wearing. The khaki pants and the shirts. I feel like Hayes Featherton should have like that. That is a Hayes Featherston outfit. I knew Hayes in college, and I think that's what he had on. Yeah. It's perfect. No, you can't come out dressed like a warrior dressing like that.

You got to be dressed. You got to dress like Hayes Featherston. So I appreciate you. Exactly right. We've got Drake's out here. We will have for folks for lunch. And then, of course, I'm going to give away those Reds tickets. Let's talk just a second about the basketball, what we've seen so far in practice, et cetera.

So I've talked to two different people. They both gave me essentially the same report. Number one report, and this is good news for me, Ryan, is that if you watch the games on the court, two people stick out. One is the best player and one is the guy that's going to be the leader of the team. Best player, Jalen Lowe. Apparently, absolute, hardest worker on the team comes in the earliest, stays the longest, has been playing great in practice, already running the team. Jalen Lowe has looked, from what I'm told, excellent, like, the words used for me by one of the people was, better than we thought he would be.

Second one, Mohamed Diabate, that he's basically become the leader, that he essentially organizes everything, and that he is, quote, a man playing with young guys, and he's kind of making them stronger, et cetera. Both of those pieces of news make me very happy. What about you, right? Yeah, it kind of goes with Mark Pope, told you an interview. He said Diabate is the leader. There's no doubt about it.

They kind of look towards him, gravitate towards him in the locker room. And Coach Pope said, too, for us to be great, low has to be great. And I think we're going to see that. I've heard him say that just even in like drills, just the shot selection for Lowe has been significantly better. It has been a universal positive with him. I mean, to me, I keep saying this, you win a national championship or you go to a final four

based in part on how good Jalen Lowe is. Yeah, to be special, he's going to have to be really good. Kentucky would be good no matter what. But if he can be like an even all-conference kind of player, you can be talking about a really spectacular year. And with Diabate, that's pretty much all I've been hearing is how awesome he is. I was excited when Kentucky got him because of his toughness and defense, and I feel like there's a little more than he showed at Alabama.

But my excitement has gone through the roof since the team's gotten together. Because from parents going to these camps and some people that have been behind the closed doors at practices, it is just all positive around him and how he's the leader. By the way, if anybody ever wants to, if you ever want to think like you're really somebody because people come out and watch your shows and all that. Just look what happens when they bring out the food. Oh, yeah. You're secondary to the food.

Like, I'm sitting here telling you about your basketball team next year that could win the national championship. As soon as the food gets out, everybody's like, Matt, we'll be talking to you later. I will go and get to food. You certainly see your place when the food. Oh, man, they brought out the sliders. I'm going to leave, too.

Yeah, we'll talk to you later. Look at her. She even got up. She has listened intently to every word I said, And now she heard the food's up and she's up too. All right, fair enough. Also, Colin Chandler just joined it because he had all the wedding stuff,

but he just joined it in the last few days. Colin Chandler looking excellent as well, Drew. And they said the confidence up. As one person said, if you take last year at this time to this year at this time, it looks like two completely different players. I don't know how it's going to look at how I'll fit in with Aberdeen and however Jasper Johnson turns out backing up low. but I still think we're headed towards a huge sophomore year for Colin Chandler.

Athletically, he's got a lot more than a lot of other guys, and he had his big breakthrough March. I wish we could just play it a little bit longer to see how far he could take that. My favorite stat is he scored more points in March than he did, November, December, January, and February combined. I mean, he absolutely turned it on. He plays well defensively, too, so I'm expecting big things from him. Jasper Johnson's only been there a couple times because he's playing on the under-19 team. By the way, for people who don't realize this, next starting season,

Saturday, Jasper Johnson will be playing for Team USA next week all week on the under 19th. So they will have maybe five games next week where Jasper Johnson will be playing, probably get to play a lot. If you go to the Team USA website, you can see the schedule. But if you want to see Ryan one of our star players, he will be part of the rotation for Team USA in the under 19 World Championships. A guy that I think is just going to get better and better, once he gets in there, gets a little stronger, get some muscle put on it, because he's just a baller, man.

He's a score. He can go get you a bucket any way, anytime, anyhow. The first game is tomorrow, and I think it's, I want to say it's at 215 or something like that. They're in Switzerland, so whatever that time changes. But it's all free. It's all on the Team USA website. What time is it? Six hours difference, yeah, but I think the game's 215 Eastern and 815 over there.

I could be wrong. You want to check. But they will be playing multiple games, and you can see. see jasper johnson the only here's the only negative piece of info i got i asked both people the same thing well what about yellowidge like are we worried about him coming are we you know with all this going what i was told and both of them is essentially no comment oh that's never good so that worries me a little bit not here's how i read the no comment i'm not saying that's what this is what they meant I read it as we have a president and an administration that's a little touchy,

and we think it's more likely to be able to get this done if there's no public outcry. I think it was kind of like a hint of, please don't do free Enos, and please don't do what we did with Billboards. Yeah, just let us work on it behind the scenes, because the one thing that could ruin it is if we make it a thing. because people don't like to make it. Our leadership right now doesn't like when things are a thing. That's how I read it.

So I'm going to, because I want that kid to play here, I'm going to take that advice. But I do think there wasn't a yes, Yellovich. So just something to keep in mind. But I would say to you, no billboards, no movements, no anything, just let it hopefully happen. Does that make sense?

It does. I know this is different than Big Z. Big Z was just his school admissions. And it was just the NCAA. This is a little bigger. It's a little bigger thing. If Kentucky got Big Z in after fall midterms. But this isn't getting him in to the school.

This is getting him into the country. But there's ways. There's something we can do. We can pull this off. No, I'm sure we can. But I think we have to just, I think UK's position is we're just kind of waiting. And then we hopefully it will all work out. What I would do, I would get find Tubby's old fax machine and put it in the office

and let it just keep waiting for that magical facts to come in i don't know what the crafts just go get them and we'll figure it out later i think i think again let's take the hint and this is just my thing to that this is this is a lot different than trying to get a dude chanineligible for the nca tournament this is a little bit of a different thing fans aren't going to make a big deal about it in june but if it's november and he's still not there my advice is don't make a big deal about it at all just cross your fingers That's my mind. Didn't you have somebody tell you that if he's eligible, he could be a starter?

He's that good. I think he's huge. I mean, honestly, I think if we have him, we have depth at every position but point guard. If we don't have him, I do worry a little bit about the bigs because you're asking Malachi Moreno to be really good. And it may take him a year or so, in my opinion, to be ready to play. I see him as a four, and if he doesn't come, that's just more Mo Diabate for us. I don't think anyone will play over 30 minutes. next year because they're so deep. But if Yellovich weren't to make it over here, I'd say just give Diabate all

the power forwardy ones. And there's a part of me that wonders if they brought in the Potter kid as a Yellovich insurance. Yeah, I mean, they're pretty different styles, but maybe for just another body. Yeah. So 859-280-2287. So that's my Shannon basketball player update. I like that. I did see Pope use the word jaw dropping when talking about Moreno. So that's good. I like a good jaw drop. Not beautiful. I like a good jaw drop. One person writes,

one person writes, did Ryan watch the second round of the draft? I'm scared to ask this question. My mom got mad at me yesterday. My mom got mad at me yesterday when I said, Ryan, you should have watched the draft. Did you watch the second round of the draft? I watched it all with like the last two picks.

Look at that. All right. I'll take it. That's good. You gave up on Jackson Robinson, the two picks left? I had to go, so I had to go. Where did you have to go at 11 o'clock? I was at yoga girls' house. I had to drive home, so I listened to the last two picks on the radio.

It's like curfew in high school. You got to get home. You stay over there. Don't be. Don't be. I still got a kid at home. I got to get home. I can't leave you by himself. He's got to send him to self. He's got a sudden example. This is bomb served for the last four hours, but it can't be bomb-s over another 10 minutes. Yeah, he's only going to college in a month and a half. Hopefully. I watched the whole set. That's the movement we need to do. No kidding. Have Joe'side to college. I can tell you this, he's on the waiting list for housing. He may be stuck at my house for another year. Congrats. But you know you would love that.

859-280-20287. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. All right, so Shannon, I got to ask a question last night on the text machine that I thought was interesting. They said, Matt, what is the song that you like the best that least, like, identifies you?

like meaning what is the song that the lyrics and everything you like but it has nothing to do with who you are as a person yeah and i was thinking about it and i decided this song a country boy can survive because nothing he does in this song is something i can do you're the country boy that can't survive yeah i couldn't survive if there was a problem i could not survive i can't skin a buck i can't run a trout line i would not spit beach nut in anyone's eye yeah i would not uh be called hillbilly by a friend and I don't live off the land. So, I mean, there's a lot of things here that I do not do. With that said, I do love it. You know, when he says there ain't too many things these boys can't do, I can do none of those things. That's right.

You're not one of the boys. Not one of the things that, like without a Chipotle, I'm in trouble. But it is an awesome song. And when he says, I'd like to spit some beech nut nut, nut dude. I'm like, yeah, I would. It's kind of badass. I don't even know where you get Beech Nut. But I would spit it in their eyes.

Well, he would be doing it. You'd be the guy behind him cheering him on. Yes, that's exactly right. I'd be the one talking trash, but where I couldn't get hit. So I wanted you all to think, I will say grace and ma'am. I will do that. But I wanted you to think about here what are the songs that you like the most that you don't relate to at all? You think about them and then send them to John and he will play them in the second hour leading into things.

I like that. Okay, so you send it. This is mine. the Matt Jones' favorite that is just not me at all. Do I need to tell John? Shannon has to him. I'll whisper to Shannon during the break. With the Kentucky Office Highway Safety,

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I always love a good weather. Bef local guys? Oh, yeah. It was a great weather fight yesterday because you had, there was a big storm. You know, I wasn't here early, but apparently a big storm hit out of nowhere yesterday. Oh, yeah. Stuff all over the ground. Like a bomb went off in my neighborhood. And that led to a nerd weather fight based on Doppler warnings, which I think are the best things to fight about, Shannon, right? Oh, yeah. Anytime those nerds start arguing about what's on the Doppler radar, I am listening. I am too. So Chris Bailey was the one who did. did it. So Chris Bailey produces

something, some picture and says you know, hey, National Weather Service, this storm blew somebody's roof off and it wasn't even important enough for you to say anything about it. And then Bryce Jones, do we know who Bryce Jones?

He works for WDRB in Louisville. He retweets it and is like, hey dude, stop crushing the National Weather Service. Oh. So Chris Bailey comes back and says, now here's where the beef gets strong. Chris Bailey says, you realize this storm has produced wind damage and flash flooding. I'll be real. You do you. Are we good?

Oh. I feel like he was probably snapping when he was. But Bryce Jones comes back. Says, I'm not disagree with what you said in particular, but this constant National Weather Service bashing is getting old. We don't have to agree with what the National Weather Service says, but making it your personality trait is exhausting. That's all.

Wow. So Chris Bailey ain't going to let that finish. No, he can't. You can't take that Smackdown and not respond. No, oh, girl. Chris Bailey says two snaps and a twist. You don't even follow me to know what I do or don't do. I'll take up for the people I cover all day every day and don't care if I have to step on your toes to do it.

Wow. Drop the mic. Drop the mic. one. Chris Bailey. Chris Bailey was sassier. I don't think there's any doubt about that. Bryce Jones was like, hey, give everybody a break, and he said, you do you, girl. Why does Bryce love the National Weather Service so much? Like, you know, if it's wrong, why would you not, you know, crush it?

He's a company man. Yeah, I guess so. I love weatherman beef. I mean, we already knew Chris Bailey and Bill Meck don't like each other. And then we found out that Mark Weinberg doesn't seem to like anything. And now Bryce Jones, A new guy coming out of nowhere. He's smacking people around. It's all the same station, too. DRB. That's right.

You know, DRB. Bill Mecks, Elliot. Well, I'm talking about for Louisville, though. Do any of the weather people get along? Like, you've been here a while. Was T.G. Thunderstruck just dropping elbows everywhere? T.G. and Bill Meck had their moments when T.G. was at Channel 27. Why are they fight so much?

What about when you were in Evansville? Did Ron Rhodes ever fight, whoever the other people are? Marsi Yaki was the queen. Nobody ever want to fight Marsi Yaki. It's such a dorky thing to argue over. too. Well, the weatherfront's coming through here. They get so angry at each other.

There's clearly a lot of jealousy, because Chris Bailey has like 135,000 followers. He is the social media king of it. And it's clear that Martin Weinbergs and the Bryce Jones and the Bill Mex are trying to come with the king. Your barometric pressure's off. You've got it all wrong.

What's a dork. Good God. Well, Ryan Hall, y'all's looking down on all of them with his million viewers. Bryce Jones' father, a KSR listener if I'm not speaking. No, I mean that, listen, go Bryce Jones. Just adding that to the dialogue. I just want Bryce Jones and Chris Bailey just keep fighting each other.

I'm enjoying it. Like the guys on Wave 3 never seemed to argue with anybody. Kevin Harnett, Brian Good, I watched them. They never argue with anybody. But these guys from DRB are fiery. They would all lose to me pulling out my phone and looking at the weather app. That's the real villain here. That's not nice of all.

Who's up next? Tyler. Tyler. Go ahead, Tyler. Hey, guys, I got a hot take on why Vince left and why Mark Stoops and the football team hasn't been very verbal this year about the football. Go for it. Do you think Mitch has already put something in their year that we're basically given the majority of the budget to basketball in the upcoming years? Well, I can say, listen, I think he would say if you hooked Mark Stubbott.

stoop's up to an honesty, um, an honesty jacket, which that doesn't sound right. Make those here. Put your honesty jacket off. Put on your honesty jacket, Mark. He finds it very frustrating that it's that, you know, well, I mean, he would tell you, he would sit here and say, we had five million dollars for NIL and a lot of teams were playing against that $20 million. And I have said to him, I will listen to that excuse once you. you beat Vandy and Missouri and those teams consistently. But that's not an excuse to get pounded by Louisville and pounded by South Carolina. At least it's just not an excuse.

But do I think when Mark Stoops is gone, whenever that is, we are going to have a harder time finding the coach, probably, because we will not be investing in football as much as a lot of the other SEC schools are. Would you think that's a fair statement? Yeah, and I'm sure that's very frustrating for. who's knowing the teams he's competing against or getting a lot more money than he's getting trying to compete against them on the football field. And I get it, but Shane and I also get, like, Kentucky basketball's got to get its money.

That's right. Like, I mean, Alabama, they'd like to have a good basketball program, but they ain't going to cry if they don't. We've got to have a good basketball program. You do? Is there any argument, though, that football makes more money for the school, so maybe they are, they deserve that amount of money that the basketball team is getting?

Well, but remember, when I did that poll. Oh, yeah. In Somerset? I'm the one that said I would give it to basketball. Yeah, I'm just doing what the fans want. I don't, I think the fans, you got to catch 22. If you're Mitch Barnhart, you got two scenarios.

You can put a football program out that you pay the most money to of any schools, but it won't be as much as the teams you're playing, or you can put a basketball program out where our traditional rivals all out spend us. Which one are you going to do? I mean, do you think Kentucky fans are going to? to be cool if Duke, Carolina, Louisville, Connecticut, and all these schools that do not play in the SEC and do not play in the Big Ten decide to put all this money into basketball, and we don't, Drew, they're not going to like Kansas.

It's going to be, just think about all the best consistent programs in basketball. None of them are in our conference, and very few of them are in the Big Ten, so these other schools kind of have an advantage. Kentucky is one of the toughest spots. I think probably every SEC school but Kentucky. he would happily load up on football and let basketball be what it would be. But you just can't do that here. But we're the one school that can't do that.

And then that automatically puts you towards the very bottom, if not last, in the SEC, if all the other teams don't mind put it all towards football. That's why they were the vocal leader at not having a cap, right? So they could, you know, potentially spend more money. From what I understand it was Kentucky basketball. All the SEC schools agreed to produce the same number of scholarships for each sport. So, for instance, when I said the other day that swimming was having scholarships cut, what I have since learned is every school in the SEC is having the exact same number of scholarships and swimming.

Every school in the SEC is doing the same in baseball. They've agreed to make it fair. We all do the same. Then it got to revenue, and Kentucky basketball was like, no, no, no, don't do that. We'll be with you on the scholarships, but we ain't going to be with you on the revenue. And that in and of itself, Ryan, ended that discussion. It has to be that way here. I mean, there's no other way to put it.

So I can see why Coach Stoops is frustrated about it. it, but there's just no other answer. It has to be that way for Kentucky basketball. How about win some games in the conference at home? Then we could talk about how much money you should be. Yeah, about beating Vandy at home one. But there is a sort of catch-22 on that. If you take the argument of, we got to win some football games for us to put money into it, the fact that you don't put money into it makes it harder to go win those football games.

There is a case. That's a argument, yeah. There is a chicken and egg thing there. Yeah, because you want results for him to give him more, but he's like, I need just a little bit to get some results and get the ball started. what happens when we give them more and you still lose to Vandy at home. Yeah, you just sometimes have to say, are we going to bite the bullet and spend it or not? A UK Federal Credit Union, we understand that home is where the heart is, but it's also where the equity is with our market leading equity, home equity line of credit.

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Sports Radio. All right. So, Shannon, you, so this is your song. This is the one you say you like, but doesn't apply to you. Absolutely. Man, I feel like a woman. I don't feel at all like a woman, but I still like this song.

So when this comes on, if you're like hearing it, do you go, man, I feel like a woman? Do you get sassy about it like Chris Bailey? I go, man, I feel like a man. No, I bet he pops his hip out. I bet he does too. Snap, snap, snap. It's okay. You can.

It's a good song. I mean, it is. It's Shania Twain. I like that. Do you all sing it? Alice Bluegown should do it. Maybe we should. Yeah.

One person says, Matt, you said trout line, and it's trot line, which tells me you really don't know anything about it. All right. First of all, I always thought it was trot line, like, my entire life. And then I was listening the other day, and I thought it said trout. And I was like, well, maybe they mean, like, a line for trout. And then I'd scream? Yeah. I mean, I don't, again, I don't, I'm not a, I can't.

survive. I don't think any of us would. But I always thought it was trot, and then I talked myself out of it if I should have gone with my natural instinct. How long would you survive as a country boy? Oh, I've already a day or two. When I hear people talk about like doomsday preppers and having all that stuff, I know if the apocalypse comes. I'm dying first. Like I've respected that it's fine. I'm good with it.

I don't, why do people want to be alive forever? Especially I don't understand people who are religious and Christian. you believe there's an afterlife, why are you trying to live, like, as a machine for 250 years? Like, just, you know, if it's my time, it's my time. There's no reason to sit there and sit in a room under my house eating pinto beans hoping to survive. I know a doomsday prepper. The same guy was talking about, my neighbor that has the Kentucky hat in the Louisville Jersey. You go to his basement, he's got, like, bottles of water everywhere.

But who wants to live like that? How do you want to live eating pinto beans and water for the rest of your life and not seeing it? Better than eating dirt, I guess. I don't know. Well, is it? We don't know. I'm just saying. What about you, Ryan?

Are you a doomsday prepper? I am absolutely not a doomsday prepper. And if it's my time to go, peace out. Take me, dude. I'm good. I'm not going to starve and eat dirt and rocks and poop in public. I'm going to be in the pooping. So basically you turn it to a horse.

Yeah. You become more child. One things I've learned about when you run out of things to say, it just gets more childish. The words that get. It is. It's constipation of the brain. That's exactly right. We are here to Shored Partners on Allie Sheba Way.

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Listen to my two new episodes of Interrupted by Matt Jones. They're very different. I interviewed my friend Aaron Fleener about what it's like to be a caddy on the PGA tool. He caddies for J.T. Posting. He tells some really good stories. If you've ever wondered what that life is like, I think you really enjoy it, plus he's entertaining. And then I interviewed a guy about Iran and Israel, Iran and Israel. And I think if you know very little about it, you'll find it very interesting because he sort of summarized it for, to use of another term,

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They're both on podcast. It aired last night. So you go to Interrupted by Matt Jones and you can see them. I think we've done really good stuff. The news with Billy and Drew has been really good. Interviews of Bomani, Ryan McGee. I'm trying to get as many different topics as possible. And I have a big, I have a pretty big name scheduled to come on at the end of July.

Like a name that when I announce that people can go, how in the world did you get them to come on? I'm very excited. Somebody who's been very prominent this week has agreed to at the end of July come and talk to me. Wow, I'm impressed you got Donald Trump on the show. That's amazing. I would interview Donald Trump. I would not interview Donald Jr. I don't think, but I would interview Donald Sr. I don't think that's a lot in common. You'd be like looking in the mirror. What you shut up?

Who's next? Jerry. Jerry, go ahead, Jerry. Hey, Matt. On your point about the house money. Yes. That's one of my points why Mitch Barnhart is going to have a hard time because a lot of football fans like me are done paying out for crap football. Okay, but that's, but Jerry, let me use you as an example. You call, hang on, you call here a lot and complain about investment in football, et cetera. So when you say you're done paying for crap football, you realize that decisions like that will only make it worse.

That when people stop spending money on football, it will only make it worse. The argument, if you want to make it better, should be I'll call Mitch Barnhart and help them invest in football. But I understand why you're making that argument. I would say the same thing if I were you. But you realize you put Mitch Barnhart and leaders in a difficult spot when you say, if you don't win, I'm not spending money. And that's why my bigger point is that without caps nationwide, not just conference, caps almost are spending these sports.

It's going to be bad for football because think about this. It can't do it. It doesn't matter if it's bad. It's illegal. So because it's illegal until, I'm going to say this until I'm blue in my face because every sports show has somebody that calls and says, we need to put a cap on how much money these guys make. Well, it is illegal until the NCAA agrees to treat the players and employees

and they collectively bargain. Until they do that, or until Congress makes a law that allows them to do it, until one of those two things happen, it is illegal. So you can hope it happens until the end of the world, but it is illegal. That was my point I was getting to Is that that's going to Should create more pressure on Congress But here's why I think the SEC wanted caps

Is not looking at football They're looking at basketball The SEC has fought the years To get basketball relevant like football They finally have done it And now, if the exception of Kentucky All these SEC schools are going to make their basketball teams Uncompetitive

Because all the money is going to go to football Well we'll see So far that's not been what they've done I appreciate the call. So far, they're still invested in basketball. You know, listen, I hope Congress passes something. I think they can, but let's be real. They can't pass a budget right now.

I mean, they've been trying to pass a budget for two months. The same parties in power, and they still can't pass it. The idea that they can pass, Drew, bipartisan college sports reform, it's hard to feel confident about it, you know? This is a big change they're making, too, having to decide on. Still what stands out more to me is that Jerry has turned on UK football. but it sounds like in our last few calls these last few weeks. Yeah.

If you don't have Jerry, you don't have anyone. But until they either treat players as employees or Congress passes a bill, there will be no cap. It doesn't matter how much people want it. It's illegal unless that happens. We'll take a break and be right back to see us Kentucky Sports Radio. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman helped make you.

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