KSR - 2025-07-25- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

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Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here Friday, July to 25th. There we go. I'm Matt Jones here in Nicholasville, Kentucky, at the Kentucky Customs and Upfitting off Howard Road. Is that right? Yes. Is that where we are?

Right off Nicholasville Road. It is a beautiful day. great crowd here this morning in Jessamine County. You can give a shout on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line 859-2-80-2287. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7-7-4-4 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J., he'll make them pay. It is a beautiful day, and we are here in the kind of place that I spend a lot of my free time in.

Oh, yeah. Like, I'm always customing and upfitting my truck and my Jeep, and this is exactly where you would do it. We are part of the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety KSR Safe Summer Driving Tour. And Ryan, Kentucky Customs at Upfitting an upfitter for jeeps and trucks. They do like bedlining of your truck, and they gave us these. So they have taken the material they use to line the trucks. You know, you don't get them scratched and all that on the inside on the bed. And they put them on the material on a football and on a helmet.

it and it is kind of awesome and I'm taking one of these home where I don't know if they're going to let me but I'm going to steal it if they don't because isn't that cool this is the same material you could get on the bed lining of your truck there is something kind of cool about it in it this spray al liner well they've got

they've even done a couple donuts back there so they got a lot of them don't try to eat that don't eat those donuts but they but they are very awesome and they do spray and bed liners with a lifetime warranty protective coating ceramic coating if you come in here between now and July 31st.

You can get 10% off. All you got to do is say KSR. So, Shannon, you've got to make sure you say KSR when you come in. Beautiful store here on Howard Road. And today I'm going to be giving away they've got these baskets with with bourbon, Weller, Blanton. That's pretty good bourbon. That's very good.

Somebody here is going to win that. We got tickets. This is like in terms of giveaways, this is a pretty good set of giveaways here, Drew. Blantons and Weller's bourbon, tickets to UK Purdue. $200 gift cards. A lot of good giveaways. We haven't been in Nicholasville in a while, so it's a great crowd. We got our Penn Station back there with free food.

So it's a great spot on a Friday as we're counting down to football camp starting next week. Yeah, so come on out. We got, there's a lot of people here, but we'll save you a couple seats. And you can come join us as we get ready for a big weekend in Lexington. You are wearing the Lexington SC jersey, the icicles, a snug fit. And you are getting ready for the Battle of the Commonwealth. I'm told there are less than 50 tickets left for that game tomorrow. So it's going to sell out.

I would say if you're going to go buy the ticket right now and you are wearing the jersey to get ready. We're in the kit, you know, as we welcome. Look at you. Wow. We welcome Louisville for a friendly on the pitch tomorrow. It's not a friendly. This is a real game. This is the Commonwealth Cup.

This is not a friendly. We're not being friendly. We have to win. Well, we will win. It doesn't matter for playing until he winks. Kentucky's got on Kentucky to lose. Well, Louisville's very good, Shannon. And Louisville's like, they've won the league, I think two of the last three years or something.

So Lexington's got to get a big crowd and go get the victory. I'm looking forward to it. I won't be there, but I'll be score watching to see what happens. And they've got a beautiful place out there. If you've never been out there before, you need to go check it out. Well, we'll talk more about that later in the show. It is Kentucky dash customs.com. You've got to put the dash in there, Kentucky dash customs.

com here in Nicholasville. A lot of cool stuff. And Drew, you know, we've gone over a lot of things. over the course of this week, a lot of cool stories. And we were about to start the show here this morning. And my man here in the front row gets on his phone. And I guess he's checking the news. And we're 30 seconds before the show starts,

and I hear Donald Trump's voice. And I was like, thanks a lot. Way to get my brain completely center. But actually, it's worth doing today because one of the big stories of the day actually involves Donald Trump, which is yesterday was maybe the biggest day in the last year or so of trying to get the framework for college sports done.

They had a hearing over the last two days in Congress. There's a bill now that might be passed. I will say to you, I never thought when we did college sports that my legal training would come in as much as it has with this NIL stuff. It's very complicated, but let me give you the most simple. I was trying to think sitting there. How's the most simple version I can give this? All right, so there is a bill that may pass the house, which basically the NCAA wrote, right?

So I'm going to try. If I feel like I can explain this to you, I can get it to. Most people can understand it. Okay. The NCAA wrote a bill that's very pro-college pro-N-CAA. It essentially says, hey, all these rules we're going to put into effect. You have to do them. There will be, you know, the $20.6 million is the cap.

You will not be able to do stuff outside of it unless it's a lot. a real endorsement. It's not a bad bill, but it is very pro-NCA. The Republicans in the House, that's the one they're for. My guess is when they come back in September, they are going to pass it. All right. Do you understand that? Understand it. Most Democrats, not all, but most Democrats are against it because they don't, they feel like it's too anti-athlete. It's going to pass. But it's probably going to go nowhere in the Senate because in the Senate you got to have 60 votes to pass something like that which means you got to get some Democrats on board so that bill's probably going away so that got that's going to get

passed but it's probably not going to matter the Senate bill which remember we talked about Ted Cruz and Cory Booker etc that's going to probably have to be the bill Donald Trump yesterday issued an executive order and Shannon it is very classic Donald Trump I love because the title is Donald Trump saves college sports hey we don't need anything fancy see it gets right to what he does and what's happening. He's going to save college sports. Donald Trump saves college sports bill, which I mean, you can't roll your eyes more. At least I can't at the name of a bill than that.

But if I hand you that bill, you know exactly what's in it. He's going to save college sports. I know that Donald Trump is saving college sports. So it's an executive order, and the executive order basically would be exactly what the House bill is. It's kind of pro-N-CAA. It's kind of pro-college. etc. Here's the problem. It has no legal effect. It'll probably get shut down in the courts. And more importantly, it says if you don't do all this stuff, you're in trouble, but then it

doesn't say how it would be in trouble. There's no enforcement. You remember my old thing, a rule is not a rule without a punishment? There's no punishment. So without a punishment, and it says the Department of Education will enforce this, and if you've been following the news, it seems like he's about to get rid of the Department of Education. So I don't really know exactly what that's supposed to do. But my point of all this is to say, this is the one thing I think is positive about all this. The fact that the House did the hearing, the fact that he put out this executive order, which I think is probably meaningless, but nevertheless he put out,

says to me, Ryan, that I do think there is an urgency to try to get this done because I have told you if they don't get this done by the end of the year, by December, I think college sports becomes insanity starting next year. Because for a variety of reasons that are boring, I am at least encouraged, Ryan, even though I don't think the things that have gotten past are going to work, that it does seem we are going to start to get some guardrails. But what is interesting is it looks like these collectives are going to survive.

It looks like collectives are still going to be able to give out endorsements. And so it seems like you're still going to have a case where those who raise money are going to end up being able to do the best stuff. I'm not going to say the way you kind of explained it, at least this puts the wheel, even it doesn't pass, puts the wheels in motion for something to be put in place. I think everybody at all parties can agree on. Well, so far, no, but at least it has started in that motion.

I say all this to say because of this. There are some reports out there now that Kentucky may have spent more money on the basketball roster this year than any team in the country. That this year, there's no way to know for sure. but any team in the country. And as I was thinking about that, I wanted to ask you, Drew, let's put football to the side. If we get into a money racing football, we ain't going to win.

Honestly, if we don't get into a money racing football, I'm not sure we're going to win. But if you were a Kentucky fan and you were sitting there saying for basketball, what system do I want in place? Do we want a system as Kentucky fans just being selfish that basically gives everybody equal money, or do we want a system where it's the most money wins, and we're good with that because we'll probably have the most money?

Which would you prefer? Do you think Kentucky basketball is better off long term in a free market system or in everybody pays the same amount of money system? That's why I think of all of us, I gave basketball the lowest of the revenue share because I'm assuming that the collectives in NIL are going to take care of itself. Okay. Basketball has so many built-in advantages.

If you're recruiting and you're both putting the same amount of money, money down Kentucky's going to win most of those races. So I like having the free market there where maybe football can have a little more of rev share because basketball is still going to have plenty to take care of the seven, eight, nine guys that'll have to take care of. So here's what Nick Saban said, Shannon, about Alabama football. Nick Saban did an interview yesterday. I listened to, which I thought he's a very, he's a very smart guy. And it was actually interesting to listen to him. He said, I would prefer for Alabama than everybody has an equal amount of money. He said, because if everybody has an equal amount of money, their tradition and the fan base,

of Alabama will beat everybody else. He was like, Alabama is Alabama. So even if you have the same amount of money offered to you from Alabama and from Mississippi State, Alabama's going to win because we're Alabama. He said, what's hard is if Mississippi State has twice as much money as me, then what happens? Then Alabama may not matter as much. I was thinking about that because I was on Drew's side for a lot. I was kind of like, we're going to have more money than everybody else when it comes to basketball. But there are schools like Texas Tech that have one donor

who goes, here's $25 million. I'm going to build a roster and you might want to go to Kentucky but, you know, that money is a lot at Texas Tech. So would you like to have a system like Sabin where you go, the money's equal and then Kentucky will be Kentucky and we will be

able to win, which do you prefer? I like Sabin's idea, whereas just everybody has the same amount of money. That kind of goes back to the way it was before NIL when nobody was. getting money in theory. Unless people were cheating. Right. But I mean, by the rules, we were all on the same playing field,

I would like for it to go to that point to where we're all getting the same amount of money. It's interesting because my sympathies, Ryan, tend to be with the players. I think it should be a free market player should make what they want. At the same time, I probably even more than that want Kentucky to win. Selfishly. I want Kentucky to win. And I know we have a couple of donors. You know who they are.

we've said their names, who give a lot of money. But those people might not be around forever, right? And they might, at some point, just decide we don't want to give money anymore. And so I do think that having, I do think Kentucky basketball can win in a world where everybody has the same amount of money because we care more and we have history. Yeah, and those donors may love the coach for a while, then they have a falling out with the coach. Maybe they might, you know, so I think you've got to look at the long term on. So which would you prefer? If you're just talking about how do we make Kentucky basketball the best,

what system do you think ensures we hang the most banners? I think that we get as much money as we can, not the equal among everybody else. So you think we would always have more money for basketball than the other schools? Yes. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's interesting. I do think Mitch had a comment the other day,

or the last time I heard him talk about this, where he said Drew, something to the effect of you create the system, Kentucky basketball is still going to win. Do you believe that's true? That no matter what the system is, Kentucky is Kentucky and we will win? I lean that way. I mean, Kentucky, I think, will always have the built-in advantage with the passion and tradition, and that will carry over the NIL attendance and things you'll need to put you over the top of other teams.

Because the fan base isn't going anywhere. And sure, our donors are going to die off, but maybe one of you are in the process. We'll maybe one of these right now. Well, maybe Kentucky Customs and Uplifting will sell enough of these bedliners that the next thing you know, they can be the primary spot. There's a donor in the works right now that grew up Loving UK. Hopefully they're next in line. Yesterday as I was walking, all this stuff was breaking. I was sitting there reading it and I was thinking, I'm an attorney and this is unbelievably complicated to me.

Shannon, I don't know how the average fan is supposed to follow this. I really don't. I mean, there were four different pieces of news that pushed it four different ways. And I was thinking, I just don't understand how the NCAA and I don't know how they think fans are going to be able to follow what's going on. I was trying to read about it this morning. My head was spinning. That's why we didn't talk about it on the pre-show. I said, Matt, we'll explain it to me on KSR.

But even for me, the news goes in five different directions. You have what Trump does. You have what Congress does. And then you have what the courts do. and I'm sure it is for these college administrators, like a lot of these, how in the world can they even figure out what they're supposed to be doing? And obviously it's an Epstein distraction yesterday.

That was my first thing. That's exactly what I thought you two would say. 859-280-2287. It is a beautiful day here in Lexington. A great week, I drove by that Long Johns. There were already cars away. When does it even open? It can't be open right now, is it?

It was real shiny, too. It was like there was a light on it. I was like, how? It just can't be open. right now. There were already cars in the parking lot. They had like what, fish and biscuits, a fish omelet? Like, what are they doing? I don't know. We say this. I don't know much about Nicholsville.

I know they love their long John Silvers here. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio live at Kentucky Customs and Upfitting. 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

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the coating they put on trucks, and we'll see if he's strong enough. I think they don't think he's going to be able to do it. He's failed at the last challenge. I don't think he's able to do this one either. Ryan's redemption tour. I don't think he can break this. This is hard.

If I were to throw this and hit him, it would knock you out. Well, Mario already dropped it when I tried to throw it at him earlier. Are you going to be able to break it, or you're going to lose an arm here? Not a chance. They're trying to be funny. You got a couple donuts back there in their bedline. I want me to crack a couple donuts. I know I can't do it.

That's amazingly tough. They have the best bed covers, bed lighting's in the state, and one of the largest selections. They also do Jeep upfitting and overlanding setups. I was looking at all the things they sell out here, and I was trying to think of if I knew what these things were. What does it mean when you say overlanding setup? Overlane? It says landing. I don't know.

I don't know. You're racks. Yeah, you're racks. I was about to say that. Yeah, you're right. Why didn't you say it? You're the cheap owner. Yeah, you were, I have a 10-year-old Highlander.

That's stuff my car. I wanted to ask you shit. You know, it broke during the story of the show yesterday, but Hulk Hogan, stuff came out all day. I ended up finding myself watching the big moments, you know, watching body slamming Andre the Giant, watching when he and the Rock wrestled and they flipped from good guy, the bad guy in the exact, in one match. him and the warrior, him and Sergeant Slaughter. Yeah. You know, I went on a couple of shows last night.

People asked me just to talk about his impact. And I said this, wrestling beat went from a regional thing to a worldwide phenomenon. Yeah. Really on the back of Holcoe. I mean, he was the person that kind of took. Wrestling used to be, you know, 20 different regional organizations of which one was Louisville, Kentucky, with OVW, and basically Vince McMahon through kind of cheating out his father. You ought to watch the documentary.

Vince McMahon basically cheated his father out of a wrestling organization. But in the process made it national, which made it worldwide. And really, it was Hulk Hogan that was the star he built that on. Absolutely. And, you know, the WWF would not be the same today without Hulk Hogan. He built the entire profession in the 80s. He's like Tiger Woods. I mean, in the sense of, like, golf is different.

now because of him. I think it's the same way with Hope. Absolutely. I said on the pre-show, I think in the 80s there was a time to where he was the most famous person on the planet in the 80s. I really do. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You think people in India knew who Hulk Hogan was? Absolutely. Everybody knew who old. You think more people knew Hulk Hogan than the Pope? Probably so. Stop.

Do you know who the Pope was in the 80s? Yeah, Pope John Paul. Well, I didn't know that. Okay, well, there you go. But I knew Hulk Hogan. See, that's the thing. I'm not going to go with you now. You know I'm a big wrestler. I'll go far with you. I'm not going to go the most far.

I mean, Muhammad Ali, the president of the United States. Muhammad Ali was with Hogan at WrestleMania, though. He was. I don't think everybody in Mubai saw that. But nevertheless. They could have. They had pay-per-view. I doubt they did.

Close-circuit TV. But, Ryan, you know, you're not even a wrestling fan. Obviously, you know who he was. Yeah, like you said, you get sucked in looking at all those videos. That's probably what with my first introduction to wrestling was because I knew who he was. So a lot of these video clips I saw yesterday say, yeah, I've seen that in the past because he went mainstream. He took wrestling, you know, mainstream with the public. And, you know, I mean, if you've read anything about him, especially in the last 10 years, did some not good stuff,

right? But I also think, I've watched people try to figure out how to handle that. And I'm still a big believer, Drew, 48 hours, man. Give him his flowers. Give him a flowers. Like, I mean, he has a very troubled, to say the least, legacy and did some all. awful stuff. But for 48 hours, you should note some of the, of what he did, what he did. And I would say this, I think politics today, if you want to understand it, look at wrestling. Because a lot of people that run it have a background in wrestling. And I think, you know, Hogan was a big part of that, as crazy as that sounds. Yeah, I mean, I don't think anyone's trying to give him a humanitarian award for his overall body of work, but there's no denying what he did for entertainment and joy.

he brought people in what he did for a lot of joy and let me also say let me say one thing positive for sure did a ton of work with kids on like make a wish and stuff like that one of the things from from hogan to john sina if you look at the work these wrestlers do with make a wish kids i think it's some of the best coolest stuff they do they basically give these kids who are in the worst you know a lot of which will not survive they give them these moments and hogan i think was the first one to start doing that and he does deserve a lot of praise for that Who's up first? Roy is up first.

Roy, go ahead, Roy. Roy. All right, no, Roy. Who's next? Okay, we'll go to Trevor next. Trevor. How are you, Trevor? I'm doing well, Matt.

It's hard to follow up on Roy there, but I got a little bit of a lot. Yeah, Roy had a lot to say. Yeah. I had a lot to say. My first question is, I assume that a lot of these decisions on a player level are being made by the NCAA and maybe even the conferences and the athletic directors. do you see or is there anything in these bills that gives the players any kind of collective bargaining or any kind of say in what happens behind the scenes?

Well, I mean, that's a really great question. The lawsuit that was settled was the first time the players got a voice. And that's why I think it had a lot of impact, but no, for the most part, the players don't. And that's a big part of the problem. I appreciate the call. Let me move real quick to something different. North Carolina reports are considering joining the ACC, or are going to, or excuse me, trying to join the SEC, that inside Carolina,

which is basically the closest equivalent to KSR Drew of any website in the country. They are massive at Carolina. They're reporting the Carolina is making moves to prepare to try to move to the SEC. I have said for years that I think North Carolina is the most likely team to join the SEC. Would you like North Carolina as the 17th member of the SEC? Yeah, I mean, since they've done realignment, We've all had teams in mind. They're probably number one on my list.

In that report, it says they're like exit fee to leave the ACC goes down and three years maybe so it opens the door to really make it happen. I would love to have North Carolina. I think North Carolina gives the SEC everything they want. It's a different state so you don't have to step on toes like Clemson Wood with South Carolina. It's got a great history in a lot of sports. And it's a football team that we could beat, right, which I actually like that. Yeah, add you a little power to the SEC.

see in basketball helps us in football i would rather see them than like Missouri or Oklahoma so yeah i'm being that's the thing that you guys are trying to put teams in I'm trying to kick them out like I want Missouri out who would be you take Missouri out who would be the second you got to be careful you don't want to get to where they kick us out no it would probably be if you were going to kick two out they'd probably kick out Missouri and Mississippi State be all right with that because Vandy has that thing where they're private which means we don't have to release our our numbers to the to the so we got to keep Vandy and we're an original you can't kick out the original

Missouri and Mississippi State, to me, would be the two you'd probably kick out. Bring in Carolina and then maybe Florida State or Clemson. We'll take a break. We're right back. We are here at Kentucky Customs and Upfitting. It's KSR. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287 here at Kentucky Customs and Upfitting. They got, obviously, undercoding.

They've got Gooseneck and Five-N-W-Hitch installs. What's a goose neck? You know, it's that hook that comes out. It was like a goose neck. It's right to it. Yeah. But when you all just keep moving your hand, where is it? On the back.

On the back, you know, the goose neck. Like where you put a trailer hitch? You got a trailer. And that's called a goose neck. Into the trailer's got this little contraption that sticks up and then hooks to your truck. That's called the goose neck. That's your goose neck. Look at you.

You know everything. You got one on your car? I do have some goose necks. I got multiple in case I need. Find 280-2287. Did we like what Arkansas did yesterday? The tweet? So Arkansas, their official men's basketball account tweets out that there was a ranking of the best teams of the 2000s.

And Kentucky's 2012 team was second. Kentucky's 2015 team was fourth and Memphis's 2009 team was 20th. And Arkansas tweets it out and says, coach of the greatest teams, John Caliperi. Of course, one little problem. None of those were Arkansas. Exactly. They were both Kentucky. They were Kentucky and Memphis.

I found that unbelievably embarrassing. If you were Arkansas, I analogized it to somebody going, hey, you know, my wife's ex-husbands really are pretty awesome, aren't they? Look at how good they treated her. Do you, if you were an Arkansas fan, would you find that embarrassing? Yeah, but I go to the comments and they're proud. It's like they're not self-aware. They've been doing this for a while.

like some NBA player signed a contract book or something and they're retweeting Cal with more billions in the NBA. It's like, what are you doing? Also, Kentucky's arrival. At one point Memphis was a rival. You were on their schedule that year that you're celebrating and got beat. I think it's. Did we do that when he was here? Like, I can't remember.

Did we celebrate the Memphis stuff? And I think you get like two months when you first make the hire to at least put out some credentials. But you've had a full season now. Why are you celebrating in with Kentucky? feel like I might have said something at some point that was like Derek Rose was good, but besides that, Ryan, I don't think I did. I cannot imagine if you're Arkansas basketball, a program that's won a national title, that you would put out graphics celebrating your coach's success at another place and not your place.

You've got to wonder what is going on with that marketing department in Arkansas. At one time, Kentucky was Arkansas's biggest rival. Those games in the 90s were awesome. You're like, molding what your rival used to do, right? It doesn't make any sense. Is there any chance he's standing over someone in the graphic department telling them to. No, without question, listen, when Cal, this happened at UK so people know. When Cal comes into a place, he makes all the marketing.

He basically, it becomes marketing Cal. Yeah. Like that's, I mean, you remember, I think Cal's good to former players. Like, don't get me wrong. I don't think he shuns the past. But I just want you to think about what the practice facility looked like at UK when he was the coach. He took all references to everyone that had played before, and they were gone. The references were to his players.

So he would put all the UK players in the NBA, but at first Rondo wasn't even on it. Rondo was in the NBA, and they would have all the players in the NBA, but they wouldn't have Rondo on there. And then eventually I think they changed that, but there were years where there was no mention of Rondo, and Rondo went and won a championship at Boston, and there was no reference to him. Now if you go, so like when Mark Pope got here, if you had just gone into the practice facility, you would have thought that Cal was the only coach we ever had here. Now all that stuff is gone. Now they show all eras.

There are even pictures of Cal in there. I think the same thing Shannon happens at Arkansas. It's like, oh, where's Scotty Thurman, Corlis Williamson? I don't know. But you know what? He had Devin Booker at UK. I think that's just kind of how it is. If you remember when Calipari left Kentucky to go to Arkansas, he made the comment, something

to the effect of Cal University. Still here, we're just packing up and going to a new city, you know? Yes, he said that. You're exactly right. And Arkansas, by the way, it's not the first time they've done that on social media, trying to claim things for Calipari that he did at other schools. I guess they're proud of him. He also did an interview I thought was really funny.

He goes, look at the SEC last year. He said, look at the top seven teams. He said, all seven of them had 90, I think he said, all seven of them had 95% of their starters returning from the year before. And then he goes, well, one of them may not have. Well, the one of them was Kentucky, by the way. Yeah, exactly. The one of them was Kentucky where we had no starters returning from the year before. I did think that was kind of funny.

Like they all, first of all, I'm sure the other teams didn't have 95% either. I think he probably made that number up. But Kentucky had zero players returning. That's true. And if we go down this, he also said many times we're a new team. And I wanted to be like, DJ, Addu, Big Z. Yes, it's a new uniform. But I think they've played for you once before and together.

His point was, now I've got my team returning. And so we're going to basically win the SEC was what he was saying. All right. So we'll see if that happens. Who's up next? Andy is up next. Andy, go ahead, Andy. Hey, Matt, I just had a question for you.

I went and listened to your podcast, Tommy T.Borne. I really enjoyed it, which led me to listen to the interview that Joe Rogan, or Jane Turkle, I think I'm saying his name. Yeah, I mean, I appreciate that. I don't really want it. We're in a remote. I don't want to talk that, that. But go ahead. Finish what you were saying.

No, I'm not going to talk about it. that specifically. I was just going to ask you, do you, I share a lot of similar voice with that guy and related to that. And do you know of any thing that I can listen to on YouTube? You know, I live down there in Somerset, and there's not a lot of progressive Christian churches. I just wasn't wanting some advice on that to someone who's like to, you know, start listening to. Yeah, I don't know. I'll tell you what. Somebody will write me, Andy, about that, somebody that lives in Somerset, and I'll reach out to you, okay? All right, I appreciate it, man.

Thank you very much. 859-280-2287. What place are we finishing in the SEC this year? Florida is going to be really good. I think the SEC is going to be much easier than it was a year ago, but Florida is a contender. I'll say second, but we're one and two. That's what I have.

We're fighting for first. It's going to be close. I think we finished. I think the SEC is going to be significantly worse this year in basketball, which is a good thing for us. I don't think there's going to be like 10 teams challenging this year. I'm going to say second as well. What do you think? Yeah, second or third.

They'll get second if they just don't lose some of those games like on a Tuesday night at Ole Miss. They can prevent those kind of tough losses. They should definitely be second. Fight for the title. I lean third, but how good is Tennessee going to be this year? Are they going to be terrible? I think they're down. They're down.

A little dip. I think they have a dip. I think Alabama. I'm still trying to come back as he's still in court. I think you got. I think Alabama dips. I think Auburn dips. I think Tennessee dips.

Florida's going to still be really good. I think Arkansas will be a little better. We're going to be better. A&M has a new coach. Yeah. I mean, I think the league is oddly right. I think the league takes a significant down. I mean, last year the league might have been better than it's ever been.

Yeah. I think this year. it takes a significant dip down. I mean, Alabama, and Alabama especially took a huge. They did not do well in the portal, and they lost a lot of guys. I think that's going to be a big difference. I think this is one of those years where, like, a team like LSU. Now they have, you know, kind of figured it out by the end of the season last year.

Maybe one of those teams kind of puts on a good run. Mississippi State will be better. I don't know. Is Vandy good? I have no idea. I haven't really been following them at all in the offseason. Yeah, I don't either. Hey, stop overpaying for sunglasses.

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I don't know how secret. Invite only. I'm not sure how secret it is. If we were to play a secret scrimmage that invited the public, who would you like to play? Duke. Yeah. I'd want it to matter, though, but anything to get Duke, go to Duke, come to Rob, anything. You like a secret scrimmage against Duke?

What would you like? If the team we don't normally play. But it's not like a real game, so it's a secret scrimmage, but you invite the public, so I don't know how. And they also had the date and the time. So I'm not sure exactly what part of it is secret. Yeah, I'm not sure what part of it is secret, but what would you do? I think Connecticut's got to be in the conversation. You know, we have them and play them for a change.

You know, we play Gonzagin. And now we play Duke once in a while, North Carolina once in a while. I like Connecticut. I think that would be a good one. What would you? I mean, I don't think we could do it because they're already being secret, but who would you do? And it's got to be, I guess, a team that we're not already playing on the schedule. I would think so.

You'd want to play somebody. By the way, prayers out to Bill Self. I don't know if you saw. He had an emergency medical situation. yesterday. Apparently something with his heart. He is okay, but apparently it was a very like touch and go situation for a while, but he's okay. He had a stints put in, but prayers to Bill Self. Absolutely. I don't know, like maybe a UCLA just because of the blue blood name. I know they're not probably going to be that great this year, but Michigan's really good this year. That

would be a good team to test yourself against. I think Villanova at some point maybe being in the conversation, try to place. Are we going to take this Purdue game? game seriously? Oh, yeah. I mean, I know Pope will, but Purdue is the number one team in the country, but the game doesn't count. I don't know that we've ever played a game like that before, at least not in my lifetime. I think some of the folks who've been around longer, we'd play like the Soviet Union back

in the 80s. Crushed Yugoslavia one year. But we played the Soviet Union when the Soviet Union was like really good at basketball. Were you around during those games? No, the stories of that game are legendary, though. how Joe Hall kind of got it put together. But, I mean, did fans take it? I mean, I'm sure they did take it.

I'm trying to figure out when we play Purdue, are we going to be cheering like that's a real game? Yes. Yes, absolutely. We want to win it. Probably more so than the real games that aren't marquee opponents a week later. Are people going to be, like, am I going to be pacing? Yes. Is there going to be a post-game show for that?

There should be. I was pacing for the TBT game. Of course I'm going to pace for the Kentucky version. I was pacing. I really was. I found myself at one moment I was like, Matt, what are you doing?

Yeah, right. We did a pre-show and a post-game show for that. Especially Purdue's number one. Yeah. So, I mean, it's going to be a 5-9-280-22. We will take break up here in Nicholsville.

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I'm worried about throwing my shoulder out of whack. There's no way I'm going to be able to pop that watermelon. And well, not with an attitude like that. Yeah, exactly. Come on. I like my text of the day. One person writes, Matt, the Purdue game is important if we win. If we lose, it's not important at all. That's the perfect mentality to have in one of these games. I love that mentality. That's the best game on the schedule.

It's absolutely house money. We will form our narrative. To the final score. By the way, I know there's on the stream right now, I know it's not the greatest. They're working on it. So if we sound like Transformers, hopefully it will sound a little better. One person writes, man, I was at the game against the Soviet Union.

It was one of the loudest arenas we've had at Rupp. It was during the Cold War, and James Lee got a dunk that made the roof explode. It's kind of, I don't, the game also wasn't on TV, so unless you were there, you wouldn't even know about it. I kind of like that. You know, you hear those stories like that for people that claim to be there or say they were there, but apparently it was a big deal when it happened to it. Pat may remember.

She's here. She may remember that game. Were you there, Pat? Probably was. Doesn't remember, though. All those Russia games run together. Yeah. Yes.

Every time we played the Russians. The Lithuanian team, they used to play in the 90s a lot. And you'd have to wait until, like, the tape delay at 11 o'clock to watch that game. Ryan's right. We played Yugoslavia when Yugoslavia was good. Well, it's not even a country now. So when it was. It existed.

Yeah, when it existed. Yeah, we did play China. I wish we should do. Take on all the countries. Let's bring them on. Okay. So they announced yesterday. The NCAA tournament will almost certainly not expand this year due to logistics.

They were going to continue to look at it for the future, but it will not expand this year. You know, we've talked a lot about whether or not we think you should. Most of us agree that it should not. If it does it, if it does only go to a few more, it's going to expand at some point, but I guess I'm glad, Ryan, it's not doing it this year. It's going to happen. I mean, it's coming. I mean, they make too much money off that event.

I'm with you, though. They expand it just a little bit, maybe just four. more team. Don't expand the old up to 90, whatever. Just go like maybe four more, play them on Dayton, making an event the week leading into the NCAA tournament. You could do, you could do, as we talked about, Drew, you could do four games a day in Dayton on Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm okay with that, but you get beyond that.

He said yesterday, the president, Charlie Baker, the part of the logistics is they are going to add a second play in sight. So that's part of the reason why they're not ready yet. Oh, they are. But it sounds like the next tournament after this year, 2027 is when it's most likely to start. And he didn't have an exact number, but he said he likes between 72 and 76. Between 72 and 76.

They didn't have a number, but somewhere in there, 72 to 76. Then it would go to like 73 or 75. We get one more year, at least where it's like it is. I hope it stays like that. What I don't want to see is get it where it's like in the 90s, Shannon, and then basically everybody makes it at that point. If you do that, if you're in a power conference, you're in just when you start. When talk of the expansion first came up, several.

years ago, 96 was mentioned. I'm going, that's just way too much. But as Ryan would say, the expansion train is coming. He also said it's not about money. By the way, on my podcast interrupted, Matt Norlander, the college basketball reporters going to be on to basically talk about. Remember, he was the one that said Kentucky was spending

$9 million on basketball and $9 million on football. He kind of still believes that's the case. So that's why I'm bringing him on to talk about it and see, you know, I've heard that's not the case, but he could end up being right. I don't know. We'll see. You know, he's well respected.

He wouldn't say that if somebody didn't tell him that. I know he's hearing that. Yes. We're going to talk about that. That'll be out later this afternoon. Who's up next? Jerry is up next. Hey, man.

Jerry, I'm putting you off a break, Jerry. Yeah. I'm going to go today. Next week, we're going to worry. We're not calling every day, Jerry. So I'm going to let you do it today, but we're going to take next week off. Okay? Well, I was going to say is that I think that what is going on with Congress is good for UK football.

And I think that it's going to, I think eventually something's going to pass. You're going to see caps on all these sports. I'm what you can say. Yeah, I mean, caps, I don't know. But I was talking to a person here. The only way that the NCAA is going to have something that will stand up in court and will remain law is, Congress has to do. That's the only way. Anything I can just take it to a

down. That's the one thing they can do, and I think we all hope that they end up doing that, but it'll have to be bipartisan if they do that, which means they'll probably have to be some stuff for athletes in there. Well, and I think that when it gets to the Senate,

there's also going to be some protections in their foreign sports and some other things. It's going to be good for college sports. That was one good thing. Now, I think there's pressure. Now, all the way around. for it to happen. That was one good thing, and I appreciate the call that was in the Trump thing.

He did say, and I was glad to see this because this means this will be the position of the Republicans. They did say protections on every school that gives money to a coach of at least $250,000. So if you pay any coach $250,000, which pretty much is every big school, you have to have 16 sports at your college. And presumably that means you'll have to have eight women sports. So basically, I did like that because I did wonder if we were going to get to a point, Ryan, where everything went away except basketball, football, and baseball. This bill does say you would have to have at least 16 sports at your school.

I think that's actually really good for a lot of the smaller sports who were worried about whether or not they were going to go away. I think my biggest takeaway, of everything you've said about this topic, is that Donald Trump is saving college sports. That's true. That's right. I think that's my biggest takeaway. Are you trying to, you just. No, I just, you know, fighting for the little people.

I bet Donald Trump could save the NCAA basketball tournament. That's good to hear. That jersey, you look like you could go play. I think I could play. On the pitch, Tanopi, on the pitch tomorrow? You'd be a good goalie. I would be a good goalie. All right, do you think you're going to be able to break this water, man?

Not a chance. All right, I'm looking forward to you. You're going to do it, my old film it right here during the break. You just want to go out here out front? Wherever they want me to go. We do me a favor. Just don't hurt yourself. Yeah.

Get the amylage ready. I'm sure my shoulder. I'll probably pull a groin trying to bust that watermelon. There's no reason for your groin to be involved. We will take a break. Be right. Back hour number two. This is Kentucky Sports.

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