KSR - 2025-12-03- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Kentucky Basketball's loss to North Carolina and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

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Starting point is 00:03:19 The A-Vis and Glass Text Machine. I forgot the A-Vision Glass Tech Machine. We're so prepared. Listen, it's been a long night. Drew and I were up doing the post-game show until 2 in the morning. Drew had to do blogging until 4 in the morning. And to start the show, I'm going to steal a line from a great philosopher. Who's that?
Starting point is 00:03:37 The Grinch. Okay. Stink. Stunk. That's why I thought about last night's game. For those who weren't up for the postgame show last night, Kentucky loses. 67-64 to North Carolina. So for those who threw the remote control at the TV and went to bed after the game,
Starting point is 00:03:57 we'll rehash what we said last night. Drew, your thoughts about what you saw last night at Rupp Arena. I'm just so disappointed. I mean, I don't even know where to begin. It's so disappointing. Everything was disappointing. I can start by saying it was a great atmosphere, and they wasted that. Yes.
Starting point is 00:04:13 Really great environment, Ruppery. At 9.30 at 9.30? You kidding me, B'n? You're on fire. There was a moment. It was tied or maybe a one-point game with just a little bit left, and I just kind of looked around, and they were going crazy, and I looked down at my watch, and it's midnight. And I was like, this is special. We've got to finish it. But he had the Will Stein Pop, Rondo, Tast.
Starting point is 00:04:32 Sean, volleyball, Scooby, the little dog, everything was perfect to just finish the job. But that scoring drought in the second half, I mean, I saw it was like the longest scoring drought, like eight years. They went 10 minutes. For Pope, an offensive coach that, you know, we're supposed to be getting 90 points a game and taking 33s a game, that was just so disappointing watching them sit around and look at each other on offense, not able to score. That was the killer.
Starting point is 00:04:58 Ten minutes without a field goal. 10 minutes without a bucket And they finished the second half Two of their last 16 Oh of 13 I think during that stretch Awful I can't believe they didn't get blown out They were getting out rebounded like crazy
Starting point is 00:05:15 I'm shocked it's a three point loss I am too when you look at the numbers How do they keep it to a three point game Defense Defense kept them in the game That was it You hold the team standing you're right to 67 points And especially in this day and age
Starting point is 00:05:27 You think you're going to win the game Yeah you would think so. But this team seems like they have some sort of identity crisis. They only take 13-3s last night. Game before that, they're taking 30. And I know you've got three guys that are projected to be your starters or
Starting point is 00:05:41 are your starters and are out. And that's a big part of this too. But last night, you can't go 10 minutes without scoring a field goal. You're not going to be anybody that way. And it's concerning. It is because now you got Gonzaga coming up this Friday night, and that's not going to be pretty either if you play
Starting point is 00:05:57 it that way. So the big question is, you know, What happened? What's going on? And I'll just say what I had said last night in the postgame show. I felt like they got to a point where they had the lead, but yet they were playing like they were behind. They were coming down, jacking up shots early in the shot clock, jacking up bad shots when they had the lead.
Starting point is 00:06:18 Like the basketball smarts left their body or something because they were playing like they were trailing the whole time. The basketball smarts. They did leave, though. It's just effort, too. I mean, 20 offensive rebounds is outrageous. That's ridiculous. And they converted most of those into second-chance points.
Starting point is 00:06:36 22 to 5, second-chance points. Well, there's a huge, I think that's going to win you again when you do something like that. And sure, they're tall. I mean, they got the big seven-footer who was pretty unstoppable. Caleb Wilson can rebound. But UK wasn't even trying. I mean, they were sitting around and just watching them grab their own misses. There was a stretch there at the end where Yelovich made a good defensive stand.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Yes. And they get two straight offensive rebounds. and hit a go-ahead three. If you just get that ball, maybe you hang on and win the game. I think they're up one at that point. But it was just offensive rebound after offensive rebound after offensive rebound. That's the series, I think, was the difference. Malachi had just hit two free throws and given us a one-point lead.
Starting point is 00:07:15 Those were big, by the way. I'll be honest. When he stepped up, he was a little nervous. I'm not going to say I didn't believe in him, but wink-wink, I might not have thought he had two in him. So that was huge that he knocked those down. The kid from Georgetown knocks them both down against North Carolina at Rufferperina. Swished him. And then Yelovich makes us.
Starting point is 00:07:30 stop on Caleb Wilson. You get that rebound, maybe game over, and they couldn't get it twice. Sometimes I think they don't know that they're allowed to jump. I mean, it's like their feet are glued to the floor and they just watch the ball go. I mean, Yovitch, actually, if we can pay some
Starting point is 00:07:45 compliments, played great defense. Especially there. Wilson was like 5 of 18 or five for 19. He didn't really kill you. You got a double-double, but it wasn't like some huge performance. Yelovitch defended well, but Kentucky just couldn't score. This is a Mark Pope team. Once 33 is a game, spacing, let it fly, and they went one for 13, and your one was probably
Starting point is 00:08:06 the worst shot of the 13. Yeah, Shannon, what is it? You're old for your first eight in the first half from three point land, and the guy who hits the first one in the second half, Brandon Garrison. Would have been one of the last guys on the floor I would even want taking that shot to begin with. Good point. But again, though, that's who you are. If you are the team that's going to take 33s, even when they're not going down, I think you still have to try it. I'd rather have a missed three than them is two. At least you're trying to get a three. So, I mean, if that's what you are and that's what you do, you can't have a game where you're only attempting 13 threes.
Starting point is 00:08:37 They're getting open looks, too. Yeah, right. There's been some games where the offense just dies and they take turns shooting over the top of somebody. This one, they were actually getting decent looks, and they just couldn't shoot. I don't mean to call them out, but I've never seen someone airball threes as much as Denzel Aberdeen his airballed this year. It is truly remarkable how many threes he's airballed.
Starting point is 00:08:55 And he's supposed to be, you know, one of your leaders with Jaylon Lowe out. And he just took some bad shots at some bad times and missed them badly. Yeah, and O-A kind of had it going. He did. He did. Another compliment, that's the first time he's played with the energy you want to see out of him, had some tough finishes at the rim. One of them late in the second half, he turned and flexed.
Starting point is 00:09:15 I kind of thought he should have gotten fouled. I think you should have two. But, you know, that was the O-way we've kind of been wanting to see break out, but it was just completely wasted when the offense, you know, had that scoring drought and couldn't make a three-pointer or get an offensive rebound or play with energy. or really show up when the lights turn on. Shannon, Drew's right.
Starting point is 00:09:31 We saw some shades of the old Otega Oway last night, don't you think? Yeah, and I think that that's probably what we're going to see, or at least I hope we are going to see moving forward. Otherwise, we're going to have a lot of problems. But, yeah, it felt like he was just pressing too much, you know, trying to do things again that wasn't really the strength of his game, shooting too many threes. You know, his game is dribble drive.
Starting point is 00:09:52 So hopefully we'll get to see more of what we saw from last year from Oway, because especially with these injuries, they're going to have to have him have a big game every night. So the big stats, we've already talked about, one of 13 from three. North Carolina had 20 offensive rebounds. The other stat, I think, is very telling for Kentucky, eight assists, nine turnovers. Again, it goes back to not having your point guard out there. The offense just looks out of sync.
Starting point is 00:10:16 You're turning the ball over. Is Jalen Lowe returned the only way to save what's going on right now? I mean, he would definitely help, but I can't. I'm not blaming injuries. I know it's fluky, but we've made a big deal. of this roster and how it's built. You should have enough depth to be playing better than you are right now. So not get killed by Louisville and Michigan State and then just let one slip away in Lexington.
Starting point is 00:10:36 I hope he comes back and he will definitely help. But the other guys still are far beneath what they should be even without him right now. Yeah, Shannon. Maybe Quentin shows up and he's the – Anthony Davis reincarnated and changes everything. But right now what's been out there has not given me much faith in anything. And Jack Given said last night he still think Quatant is probably three weeks out. And even then he's slow coming back
Starting point is 00:10:58 I mean he's not just going to show up and automatically be at full speed and 100% even when he is ready to go. So that was the big question on the postgame show last night, Shannon. How do you fix it? How do you try to get the train back on the tracks a little bit? Yeah, get healthy. And that's just a waiting game at this point. I think that's it.
Starting point is 00:11:14 I mean, because if you trot this same lineup out there, Friday against Gonzaga, I think they're going to get murdered. I think it's going to be ugly. So I don't know that there's a fix to it. I mean, maybe shoot more threes, but do you have any guys that can knock down threes? What happened to all these guys that we heard before the season started? We're knocking down 90 out of 100, three-pointers in practice.
Starting point is 00:11:34 They're great at knocking down shots, I guess, when they're in practice, but in a game situation, they're not. You're right. All summer long, we heard how Trent Noah hit a hundred in a row. Cam Williams hit a hundred in a row. These two guys cannot miss. They're knocked-down shooters. And yet, out of the 13-3-pointers you shot last night,
Starting point is 00:11:51 your best three-point shooter on the floor, Colin Chanter, only took two. he's got to take more shots. Yeah, that finish at the end. I thought he had it. It was a good look. It was a good move. It's a tough shot. It's a little bit of a reverse, but it was right there, and I thought it was going down.
Starting point is 00:12:06 I mean, that was bad. I thought he had it. Not that it mattered, but with two seconds left, I mean, they just threw in the towel where they had him inbound the ball and he just threw it to the other free throw it to the other throw. I mean, sure, they probably weren't going to get a three with two seconds left down three. But maybe try to get something. Maybe throw it to one of our guys and not their guys. He threw it right to a North Carolina player. That's how they, I mean, you know, you can't end that game like that.
Starting point is 00:12:27 If I threw it to all five of them just standing there in a huddle. The guy called in last night, he said, well, why was he even taking the ball out to begin with? It should have been somebody else to get the ball to him, so he can shoot the last three-point of the game. Yeah, there wasn't like enough time to get you a Bryce Drew situation there. I didn't know why he was inbounding it and just no chance. It was unlikely anyway, but they just melded in on that last try, too. So Kentucky now falls to five and three. their first three big non-conference games.
Starting point is 00:12:56 They're an offer. You got waxed by Michigan State. You got waxed by Louisville, and you played awful last night against North Carolina at home at Rupp Arena. Dick Fytal was there for crying out loud. Tashom Prince, Rondo. They were all there, and you stunk it up last night, Drew.
Starting point is 00:13:13 That was one of the better Rup crowds I've seen. I rarely miss a home game. I've been to about every one of them for 16 years, and that was some of Rep's best stuff there throughout the game. I mean, they'd get disappointed at times. Really disappointing the referees. I don't know if the Refu Suck chants made it to TV, but that was some of their best Refu Sucks chanting in a while, too.
Starting point is 00:13:31 But just completely blown opportunity. Kentucky led for most of the game, led for close to 30 minutes, but they just went completely cold and gave it away. Will Stey, your new football coach, had a big pop at the first TV timeout. Still didn't help. He had, how can you play like that when your new football coach is
Starting point is 00:13:50 sitting at court side, mid-court, watching the game, and you stink it up like you did. And your offense, of all things. And your offense. Feed the studs. Feed the studs. That was really cool when they introduced him. I was a loud pop. And then kind of like when Dirk Minifield went even higher on his dunk, when he started pumping his arms and yelling, let's go.
Starting point is 00:14:10 Rupp went even louder. I mean, it truly blew the roof off the place when he came in early in the game. I almost wish they'd just bring him out over and over. Like, hey, can you do that again here? in the second half. But that was a disappointing night, but that was a cool moment in him coming out. And the crowd clearly supports the football.
Starting point is 00:14:26 Amen. Shannon, I want to ask you to, did you happen to catch? Did Dick Vital cover any of Jason Williams games when Jakeson Williams was at Duke? Once or twice on there. Yeah, yeah. I think I saw some of that.
Starting point is 00:14:38 I kept thinking they might want to talk about that during the course of our game last night, but they didn't seem to come up. No, no, no, they did. They definitely did. Oh, I guess I missed it. I didn't know how you missed that. Yeah, there was plenty of that last night. So today's going to be a good day for calls.
Starting point is 00:14:51 I know a lot of people are frustrated. We had some great calls last night on the postgame show. We had Big Don, Big Dan that called in and he was gotten tears on his ride home on I-604P. He's already. He's on hold on already. He kind of became a star last night. I'm glad he's back on the line. I'm hoping he's feeling better because he was in a rough condition last night.
Starting point is 00:15:11 So as we go to a break, 859-2-802-287, we do want to mention why Matt is not here. His dad, Larry, had a couple of procedures. this week. So Matt doing the right thing. Went there to be with his dad with his mom. Kind of just be with them during this time. Larry's fine. He's recovering. A chance of Matt said he may even get to come home today. So
Starting point is 00:15:31 all good news on that front, but that's obviously why he's not here today. Yeah, it popped up on him yesterday. He went straight down there to be with them and glad it's gone well so far. We'll be thinking about Larry as he recovers. Larry is one tough old dude, man. I mean, that old guy is as tough and as young as they come. That's right.
Starting point is 00:15:48 He would have wanted more from Trent Noah last night though. We got to talk about that. There's some issues with this team and there's some issues going on with some of our guys. But there's not enough hours on this show to talk about the issues with this basketball team. So we'll take our break, 859-280-2287. Ryan Drew and Shannon, we're right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Starting point is 00:20:16 We'll try to get to the many collars as we can. But before we go to the phone lines, one more thing I want to touch on. You know, the second half, he pretty much went with those five guys, Aberdeen, Otega, Chandler, Yelovich, and Marino. They pretty much played the entire second half. No Brandon Garrison, no Trent Noah, no Cam Williams, the second half. And then after the game, he was talking about how we got fatigued. Well, he substitutes a lot.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Why do you think he decided just to run with those guys at that point in the game? I guess it had just got so bad. A lot of those guys off the bench did not look good last night. I mean, you knew the moment they were in. All right, go sit back down. Yeah. I was pretty frustrated, though, early in the game when the first unit was working, and he did his big early sub.
Starting point is 00:20:57 Yep, always does. Tucky had a big lead. Now, he did short the bench in the second half. I think five guys played more than 30 minutes. I don't know if Pope's teams have ever done that. Did that happen one time last year? I don't think so. Yeah, I just...
Starting point is 00:21:09 I know I'm down on all things here, but I hate hearing the fatigue. I mean, played 30 minutes. minutes. Come on. Weren't you a Petino guy? You're 21 years old. Did Petino even know the word fatigue back of the day? We all know the stories.
Starting point is 00:21:22 Like, I can't get behind. Oh, no, they played 30 minutes. What are we going to do? I mean, there are guys that do that nightly across the country. And, Shannon, he made that quote something about, you know, we have to learn to play for each other. Yeah. What do you think that was directed at?
Starting point is 00:21:35 Well, it sounds like there's some selfish ball being played out there. But, I mean, with them, I think at some point, you've got to stick with your five guys, your best five that you feel like is going to give you the best chance at winning. I mean, they did play well defensively if you're looking for a silver lining. But if you're just going out and just going deep into your bench and throwing random guys out there random lineups, I feel like we've already gone through that. So at some point you've got to hone in on your top five guys, your best available. They're going to give you a chance to win, and that's what he did.
Starting point is 00:22:02 It just didn't work out last night. Bigger picture, I don't think this, everybody's going to get to play a little bit as helping in recruiting. He keeps missing on these big players. No five-star wants to come play 24. minutes when they could go play 35 and take all the shots somewhere. That's going to catch up to him if he keeps doing this. I know that's what he likes, but this is Kentucky and we like to get stars and stars like the ball in minutes.
Starting point is 00:22:23 859-2-2-287. Phone lines are lit up, so let's get to them, Shannon. Who we got? All right. Let's go back to him. We got Big Don. Big Don. The call of the night last night in the post-game show.
Starting point is 00:22:34 Are you feeling any better, Big Don? To be honest, I thought I would be feeling better after a night's sleep, but I'm not. I do want to say I'm praying for Matt and his family. Hope everything goes well. Thank you. To top it off last night, listen to this. I get off a phone, I'm 64. I get a dagon on ticket.
Starting point is 00:22:52 Another $200. Oh, Big Don. What a night you're having. Yeah, poor. I got home about 4 a.m. I'd get back up at 6 a.m. I'd go to work. And I'm still aggravated over what I went and watched.
Starting point is 00:23:09 Like I said, I spent my money. I went and watched that crap. It's just, it's aggravated. That's as bad as the Billy G. Yeah, right there. I'm not kidding. 60 points. Mark Pope, supposed to be this offense of mine.
Starting point is 00:23:23 You can't score more than 70? 70 points. I don't know. I just, I don't know where he goes. I mean, I want to say we've got answers on the bench, but I don't know. I mean, can those guys shoot? No. I mean, low, treat, but heck, he ain't that good of a shooter.
Starting point is 00:23:42 Mo Diabate, that looks like my grandma's shooting. It's just, it's aggravating, and I don't know what to do. I mean, I want to go to more games, supporting, but I'm sick of Mr. Nice guy, and the analytic stuff, that's way too much. I mean, I get it. It's how he coaches, but it's way too much. I mean, it's analytic this, analytic that. Sometimes you've got to roll the basketball out there to play your best guys and quit with the minute.
Starting point is 00:24:08 I mean, they're what, 20, 22 years old, playing 30, five minutes a night. I appreciate you guys, sorry to get work back up, but God, what a two days. Appreciate it, Big Don. Call any time.
Starting point is 00:24:21 Yeah. Just call me if we're not on the air. We'll just talk. I'm glad he made it home. I'll do so. I'm going to start calling him more. I'm glad he made it home. Glad he,
Starting point is 00:24:29 well, I'm not glad he got a ticket. Slow down out there. Yeah. Buckle up, put your phone down. It's like we're going back at time. He's like, we just need to roll the ball out there. Next one will be like, we need somebody to just yell, go.
Starting point is 00:24:41 Yeah. But, you know, we need Calipari. Hey, that looked like a Cal team without NBA players on it last night. Playing defense, missing threes, and... So out of sync. I mean, we've said it three or four times, and I think it goes back to not having Jalen Lowe out there. They just need somebody to be a strong point guard because Aberdeen's not that guy.
Starting point is 00:25:01 He's not a point guy. He plays better off the ball a little bit. And he hurt you last night. There's no doubt. He did. I mean, Lowe's hurt. Not much you can do about it. Gonzaga's coming up.
Starting point is 00:25:11 You got a deep roster, you know, the injury stink. I'm sorry it happened, but that can't be an excuse for being 0-3 in these games. What do the analytics say about making the tournament if they go 0-and-4 after Friday? I mean, that's a legit concern. Because Gonzaga is tough. That's probably the hard, maybe not as tough at Louisville True Road atmosphere. But, I mean, you were just an eight-and-half-point favorite home and lost Carolina, and you're going to be an underdog to Gonzaga here in a few days.
Starting point is 00:25:36 I don't know if anything I saw last night is getting fixed in just a couple of practices before they go to Nashville. See, that's the big question. How do you fix this? How do you turn it around when I think the answers are the guys sitting on the bench hurt? If they're not ready, how do you fix it for Gonzaga on Friday? There's enough guys that are healthy to be better than this. I'm just terrified how this is going to look after this coming weekend.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Our pregame show listeners know that me and Jack, even you, Mario, over here, we weren't the most excited about the game to begin with because we're kind of terrified of what this team might actually look like a couple weeks from now. Well, it's been a rough stretch where if you go back to the Louisville basketball game, the Vanderbilt football game, the Michigan State basketball game, the Louisville football game, now North Carolina here. All of our high-profile games in the last couple weeks have been disasters. Just a rollercoaster of emotions lately.
Starting point is 00:26:25 We got so excited for Will Stein for 24 hours, watching the flights, the message board. It was like old-school KSR tracking everything. Everyone was so happy for a day, and then you just go lose to North Carolina. at home with a great atmosphere. Everything was in place for you to get a win, and you just couldn't score. That's a great point, Shannon. At this time yesterday, there's fire alarms are going off.
Starting point is 00:26:49 We're laughing. We've got a new coach. Can't wait for him to get here, tracking his flight, calling his mom and cissy cakes. Now, today we're like gloom and doom and throwing stuff. I kind of felt like, though, we saw this coming, right? I mean, did. Well, I did. I thought they would.
Starting point is 00:27:05 I'd be close, but I ultimately thought being at home, North Carolina's got a lot of new transfers. They hadn't played an environment like that. The environment showed up. I thought that would put Kentucky over the top, and we'll figure out the rest later. Let's get another phone call. We got, you know, big, real clear.
Starting point is 00:27:20 I mean, big picture, though. You know, again, talking about the schedule. You still got number 22, Indiana coming in. You still got St. Johns. You still got Gonzaga coming up on Friday. You got to get at least one of those, right? Got to build your resume somewhere. You can't go into the SEC with six losses.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Agreed. Because then you are talking about the possibility of not making the tournament. And there's one team tucked into there, and I hate how we're playing all these top 300 teams. But NC Central is ranked outside of the top 350. Oh, and you're going to get no credit. They're not even in the top 350. That's not going to do anything. Bellarmine's not probably any better.
Starting point is 00:28:00 They're 282. Okay, so you're beating up on teams that are ranked around 300 nationally. You're not getting any credit with this. committee when it comes to March. You've got to get one of these big high profile games. Yeah, let's go to Braden. Brayden, go ahead, Braden. $22 million, and this is what we get.
Starting point is 00:28:21 This is what we get? I tell you what, boys, I do a little bit of research. The teams that we already played and will be playing, they spend about $8 and $15 million. Eight and $15 million. They're doing great. We're playing terrible. But I got to say something to Mark Pope.
Starting point is 00:28:40 You have about 30 seconds. Mark Pope. What are you doing? He spent about $22 million. I think he spent $22 million. Braden, we appreciate it. Thank you very much. We've still got 19 seconds left.
Starting point is 00:28:59 We've got to play the sad, sappy song to get us out of here. It's not supposed to be like this, Ryan. This is Kentucky basketball. We're supposed to be happy today. We just hired a new coach. Will Stein was there. Got the crowd pumped up. We got volleyball.
Starting point is 00:29:10 T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Perfect song, Shannon, because they could use somebody. They could use Jalen Lowe. I think the answer is the dude sitting over there in street clothes. They need a good leader. They need a good point guard. He's the answer. If we're looking for an answer, he's the guy. Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon, the dude back on Kentucky Sports Radio. I know we got people on hold. We've already talked a lot of basketball. We do need to hit on football because today at 4 o'clock, our new football coach
Starting point is 00:29:43 will be officially introduced Will Stein at a press conference. Drew, you're going. He introduced him last night at Rupp Arena. Place exploded. Obviously, as unexcited as we are about basketball, we're overly excited, I think, about football. Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting over there, seeing that. You know, as I mentioned, the pop was great last night. I think the fans loved the hire.
Starting point is 00:30:03 That was clear by the reception online and in person last night. And I'm just excited to hear from him this first press conference. He, you know, for years we had stoops, and he had one way of doing it. It was a little more quiet, a little more keep your head down, pick up your lunch pill, go to work. With the way Stein was pumping his fist and all that, we haven't really seen fire like that in a long time. I'm not like outside of a game. Now, we see angry stoop's in the game. As far as, like, in a media and in that kind of setting, we haven't seen someone with that kind of juice to them.
Starting point is 00:30:30 So I'm looking forward to hearing from him today, and what else he has next as they get settled in here. And then on our basketball pre-show, you broke a little news about his staff yesterday. Yeah, I was just telling everybody to watch out for a name. and then the name happened to arrive on a plane. And was that name at Ruff Arena? It's the Oregon director of recruiting, Pat Beondo. We'll see. He's still building his staff.
Starting point is 00:30:49 You know, he's got a lot going on over there, but I was just telling you all to watch that one. And then, you know, a plane door opens, and he happened to step off of it. And he's on the plane. So what a coincidence. He's going to be on the staff. Then it came out last night that Justin Burke, former Lexington Catholic quarterback, former Louisville quarterback, is expected to join Will Stein's staff here at Kentucky also. We're getting a lot of Louisville influence over there.
Starting point is 00:31:10 How about two former Louisville quarterbacks leading our football team next year? That's fine. Ryan, as I said yesterday, we don't look backwards, we look forwards, and they're going to be wearing blue. He's a big up-and-comer with a long history with Stein, but Stein's going to be calling the plays, I would suspect when this gets here. But, you know, we'll trust whatever staff he wants to come in and help him. For him, I want to see what he does in recruiting.
Starting point is 00:31:32 That's why the name I mentioned, I'm keeping an eye on, because we know he wants to feed the studs, but let's go get some studs. Justin Burr? It's signing day, by the way. It is signing day, by the way. That is signing day. Ponatosky signed. He has already signed?
Starting point is 00:31:43 He signed. So that was, uh, didn't have to wait long for him to, uh, make his decision to stick around in the class. Before he, uh, Will Stein was hired, Ponatosky had already said, I'm not going to sign. So he's going to wait till the spring. I'm going to wait until the spring. You know, he's a baseball guy. A lot of people think he may get drafted so high in the baseball draft.
Starting point is 00:31:59 He may never even be on campus here because he may go baseball. But at least he is signed. I think that's a, for perception purposes, now they can go sell him when they get with these other recruits. Hey, come play with this guy. You know, come be a part of what we're rebuilding here. Definitely. The portal is so big now that this high school recruiting doesn't matter as much,
Starting point is 00:32:16 but it is very important to have him as your centerpiece for everything else. Yeah, sure, the MLB could still take him away. But the fact that he just needed, you know, 48 hours to lock in after they went through everything and made the right hire, and then now Stein can go out and sell everything around him. That was huge to lock that in. You know, Justin Burke was quarterback at Lexington Catholic. He was our L-EX-18 High School Sports Zone Player of the Year,
Starting point is 00:32:39 his senior year. I thought you're going to say he was like an intern and you know him or something. I do know him and his dad, Greg. But there was a little back and forth with him and KSR when he was at Louisville. There's some more things we need to scrub off the internet before he gets here? I do know. And this, I don't think it was just KSR. I don't want to call the guy.
Starting point is 00:32:55 I don't think in high school he was the biggest fan of the local team here in Lexington. I think some of I've heard from some of his teammates. But whatever, like I said, the windshield is bigger than the, wait is it? The windshield's bigger than the rear. Yeah, there we go. So whatever he thought back then, he'll be wearing the emblem and working for us now. So hopefully it all goes going forward. But it's a little weird with the Louisville influence, I'll admit.
Starting point is 00:33:17 So how did the basketball team play so bad right in front of our new football coach who had front court mid-court seats? I don't know. It was just so disappointing. So disappointing. So I forgot the caller or one of you talking about leadership. And Lowe would probably be that guy if you were happy. But there are other people with voices that can speak up. Maybe an SEC preseason player of the year, even Colin Chandler, who's back.
Starting point is 00:33:38 and starting. Aberdeen has a ring on his finger. It doesn't just have to be Jaylon Lowe. Someone needs to step up. I mean, all good teams, we can name all the good point guards from Kentucky, where you knew if someone going wrong, they were going to get up in somebody. You know, you could see their leadership. I just don't know if Kentucky has anyone
Starting point is 00:33:54 right now that's doing that. We were just told that Brian Hartline took the job at South Florida, who was probably second choice for this job. I do need to mention Neil Brown, Boyle County Native, UK alumnus, was just hired as the North Texas head coach,
Starting point is 00:34:10 and they're ranked in the top 25 right now. Yeah, I'm glad he's getting a good start. That'll be a nice spot for him in a group of five team. He had done a little time. I think he was with Sark at Texas in one of those roles for a little bit since leaving West Virginia. Good to see he gets a reset. Hopefully he has a quick climb.
Starting point is 00:34:26 I mean, that's a good spot itself, but I can climb the ranks to get back to a big time program. All right, Shannon. Let's go back to the phone lines. Who we got next? Let's go to Isaiah. Isaiah. Go ahead, Isaiah.
Starting point is 00:34:35 Hey, guys. I'm going to go on a little bit of a positive rank. here. I know the UK fans might be rolling my eyes and everything, and I totally get it. I'm just as frustrated as everybody else, don't get me wrong. And I think with the $22 million, everybody expected to win now, you know. But as you all said, this is a team of six men, people who have come off the bench and haven't really been asked to play that role to start and everything.
Starting point is 00:35:01 So just I think with our defense, you know, we held them to 67 points. That's disappointing we lost. don't get me wrong. But our defense is coming together. Okay, we prove we can shoot, right? I mean, we went 50% against nobody. I get that. But the pieces are potentially there.
Starting point is 00:35:19 So I'm just asking the UK fans just to be optimistic with this team. Eight games in, it's only December 3rd, guys. Like I said, I'm frustrated. I am frustrated, but Mark is a smart guy. And all the changes he made last year, middle of the game, half time, everything like that, he's smart. He will figure it out. I truly believe that.
Starting point is 00:35:43 I think just rosters, we expected 33's, and maybe this team isn't quite what we expected as far as that goes. But I think this team is more of a project than a final piece that we kind of expected. Okay, appreciate it. Appreciate the fun call. Drew, what do you think about that? I don't disagree, but you do have to win some games. If you keep pushing it down the road, your resume can get so bad that, I mean, you got to remember we have national championship expectations.
Starting point is 00:36:11 We did. We did. In our big games. So, yeah, sure. I mean, when Lowe comes back, that'll help. Quighton's hopefully too far away. But, I mean, if we get to the beginning of January and you won some of these games, that's going to be a huge problem even if you are healthy. Shannon, what do you think?
Starting point is 00:36:26 Guy says we need to preach patience right now. It is just December the 3rd. That is true. But as I was saying on the pre-show, every time you lose one of these games, it puts even more pressure on winning the next. game. So when you lost the first game to Louisville, there was a little bit of added pressure to beat Michigan State. Then you lose that game. Now there's more added pressure to beat, you know, so it just keeps adding on. And at some point, you've got to get the monkey off your back and win against the team that matters. So top 25 team, you've got some opportunities to do it. But every time
Starting point is 00:36:51 you lose, it just adds more pressure to the next game. I heard you and Billy, you blamed Annabelle. He said it's still Annabelle's fault. No, no, no, no, that wasn't me. That was a caller for somebody. But, yeah, things haven't been right since Annabelle came to town. There's no doubt. And Matt made fun of it. I think everything kind of turned south in. Who's our next caller? It's her fault. Kentucky Joe.
Starting point is 00:37:09 Kentucky Joe. How are you, Kentucky Joe? Oh, pretty good. I'm very excited about actually around 4 o'clock today. Now, you know, you've been requested to make a new Willie Stein song, Willie Steinman. Can you redo your old classic hit and redo it? I might do that. Excuse me.
Starting point is 00:37:31 I'm thinking about doing something right now. Oh. Oh, yeah. Let's hear it. Roll tape, Shannon. I didn't know we were about to get a new top ten hit here. Wait, wait, wait, wait. He's got to get a beat.
Starting point is 00:37:43 Wait, wait, I'm going to turn me up a little bit here. Oh, turn me up. Find it, Shelby. Okay, yeah, I'm about ready to go here. Okay. It's called Roar, Roar, Mr. Walker, Roarer. Okay. Roar did you go?
Starting point is 00:38:13 Walker. Things are come to the Lexington, you know. Oh, oh, Mr. Watson. Oh, like the angels on Mount Sinai. Oh, yeah. Baby. There we go. Kentucky Joe.
Starting point is 00:38:48 Maybe we're stuck with Willie Colleystein, man. Joe, do you even remember Willie Colleystine, man? Oh, yeah. You want me to do it now? Yeah. That's kind of I think what we were going for the first time. Okay. Hey, Willie, I'd do it for you again.
Starting point is 00:39:09 All right, do it. All right. Oh, I'm a Willie Collis time, man. Oh, I'm a Willie Colest I'm a man. I've got to love. I've got to see you. Got to love. Oh, I'm so, so real.
Starting point is 00:39:23 Oh, I'm a Willie Collis time. Man. I heard that song at 10 years. There we go. Brought a tear to my. Classic. I like that. Those are the classic hits that Shannon plays on his double Q show in the afternoon.
Starting point is 00:39:51 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. Kentucky Joe, hey. All right, thank you, buddy. Have a good holiday. Have a good holiday. Kentucky Joe.
Starting point is 00:40:04 Playing and relive in one of our classic hits over the years. I'm worried Will Stod might be on a flight back to Eugene if you were listening. Roar, Kentucky fan, roar. I do love a good Kentucky Joe phone call. I love, you know, I don't know that the songs, as he's singing him, he was ready. I don't know if that was pre-written or if that was off the fly. I think they're all off to fly. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:25 I do enjoy it, though, but I don't know if that was the one. Maybe we'll try again tomorrow if Matt's back. Matt always likes to hear from him, so we'll get back in the lab. That's true. We need him to replay that when Matt comes back tomorrow. He'd love that. All right, well, take our break, come back, go back to the phone lines. 859-2-80-2-8-7.
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Starting point is 00:45:50 Isn't it Shannon? Is that who sponsors our tweet of the day? Yes. We got this from Jay and Lyndon, our new Cub beat reporter. What a day he had. They had a big day yesterday going to Sissy's cake. Jay and Lyndon. Last night was the first time in UK history that we had more wise in a game than threes made in a game.
Starting point is 00:46:05 Oh, what fun fact. Two WIs, one three. And of all people, it was Brandon Garrison who hit the three. I can't remember a double Y. You've been doing this a long time. Never. We had two. I mean, we've had two people be the Y, but this was a first half Y and a second half Y.
Starting point is 00:46:23 I don't remember it ever happening before. I'm sure they already had Tashon scheduled and lined up to do the Y at its regular spot in the first TV timeout. Well, you've got to introduce Stein early in the game. First, the Y is the first TV timeout at the second timeout. half so you bring out why the first TV timeout of the first half just that's the way it worked out got the big pop well they were tied at halftime there was no problem with with with the first half is that second half they're leading late in the game uh yeah that's a horrible stat that there are more wise than three-pointers made especially for a mark pope team i got to we almost i don't
Starting point is 00:46:56 remember what the record was but we went like 74 years without missing a three and then it broke in the tournament a few years ago i thought we're about to have another game without a three we don't Close. Thanks to sharpshooter Brandon Garrison and knock down that three. The no, no, no, no, yes shot. Here's another stat from Cody Couch we read last night. In their last eight ranked matchups, Kentucky is 1 in 7. O'N3 this year and 1 in 4 of their last 5 SEC games last year. That's ugly.
Starting point is 00:47:25 One in seven against ranked opponents. There's another stat that I think is even worse that Corey Price put out that you shared on the post game. And what, the power four games? They're now 14 and 15. A losing record against power four teams since he's been here. Unacceptable. It really is. It's got to be turned around, but I don't know what the answer is until you get everybody healthy.
Starting point is 00:47:43 All right, 859-2-2-287. Who's next, Shannon? Let's go to DG. DG. Go ahead, DG. What's up, guys? Two quick points. Respectfully disagree with the previous caller about optimism.
Starting point is 00:47:58 You know, moving forward, I don't see how you're optimistic about this team for many reasons. When you look at this team, good. teams find different ways to win. And whenever we've played good teams this year, we have showed we cannot shoot, we cannot out-physical a team, we don't have the heart to out-heart a team. So I don't even know where we begin to find a way to win. And then my second point is, what has happened to home court advantage at Rup Arena? How many blue bloods do you seek in Kansas, Duke, and Gonzaga, Houston, like, they don't
Starting point is 00:48:34 lose these games at home. And we played against an mediocre team in North Carolina. The fans done their part. They showed up and showed out for a 9-30 time. I mean, we've done our part. We've got to win these games because our quad-one wins for the rest of the season. They're not going to be there. They're bare minimum.
Starting point is 00:48:52 So we've got to change something. All right, appreciate it. We do need to point out Kansas lost at home last night to, of course, their Yukon, a good Yukon team. They did lose at home. North Carolina, not any just off the bottom of the floor type of team. They're still a really good team.
Starting point is 00:49:10 But yes, the caller's right. You should win your non-conference games at Rupp Arena. That's a W. That's what was so bad when we lost in Evansville and North Carolina, Wilmington, at Rupp Arena. You just don't lose at Rupp Arena. It's really a bad night overall for the SEC. It was.
Starting point is 00:49:26 Duke B. Florida. Syracuse beat Tennessee. That surprised me. That one really surprised me. Can't explain about that. Go. Orange? How do we say that? Go Syracuse. I love that. South Carolina lost. I think, let's see. Did Oklahoma A&M? We had a couple wins, but it was an ugly,
Starting point is 00:49:41 ugly first day of the SEC-ACC challenge. Not that we care about the rest of the conference, but it might show you what the competition level will be like when we get to that part of the schedule. Shannon, who's next? Let's go to Daniel. Daniel, go ahead, Daniel. No. Yeah, hi, guys. I just wanted two comments. First, I got to agree with the caller Don. I don't know how quick I'm going to be to spend my money to keep supporting this program right now. You know, every year I spend a lot of money to go see a game in Madison Square Garden. And I just, I'm not sure I'm going to do it next year. Anyway, I don't doubt the coach that the guys can shoot three-pointers well in practice.
Starting point is 00:50:19 Heck, anyone, any Division I want basketball player can shoot the ball well in practice. I think that's squarely on the coach that he can't get these players to trans-trans. to move from practice to game time to still be able to shoot the ball well. I think that is 100% responsibility of the coaches, and the coaches aren't getting the job done right now. Thank you very much, guys. Have a good day. Appreciate it, Don.
Starting point is 00:50:46 You know, that's what we were hearing on the football front, that fans were not going to renew their season tickets, not donate the NIL, and that can get a coach fired faster than anything. We're hearing that's a second call. Like, man, I'm not going to spend my money to come into town and buy a hotel room and go to dinner and go to that game to see this kind of performance on the floor. Yeah, and I wonder the big spenders who really helped Pope starting off in NIL,
Starting point is 00:51:06 it's no secret what we spent and how it's the most in the country. If, you know, this team doesn't have a good year and it's not fun, I mean, are the big donors going to be like, yeah, let me just keep piling money into this. I mean, that's why this needs to work. This was a very big investment that we're watching. I know I always play up, not my money, I don't care, but I do want Kentucky to continue to have support moving forward. And if you're, you know, you're trotting out a team that plays like that,
Starting point is 00:51:30 fans, boosters, everybody's going to wonder how much they want to give. You know, I'll give Mario credit. Matt kind of gave him a hard time yesterday, but he said weeks ago there's something wrong with this team. They're just out of something's not right. I still, I don't know. I don't have the answer. I'm just a fan wondering like everyone else, but something's off with the chemistry. I hate to bring up, you know, the thing from weeks ago.
Starting point is 00:51:52 I'm not trying to do that, but something's going on. I don't know what it is, but something's going on still. Not just the basketball. Yeah, there's issues. There has to be. I don't know what it is, but there are issues. I don't know what's going on with Diabate. Yeah, what's his injury?
Starting point is 00:52:02 I mean, I thought he just kind of rolled his ankle. He walked off the court that game. They're saying he hadn't even practiced. Yeah. How long's he going to be out? So the doors are open now here at KS. Bar and Grill. Come on in. It's Wings Day, Dollar Wings, all day.
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