KSR - 2025-12-03- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

Ryan, Drew, and Shannon are joined by Steven Peake to talk Kentucky's loss to North Carolina at Rupp Arena and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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to his best friend Will Stein. We do want to go to your take on the basketball game. You were there last night at Rupp Arena. You've covered the catch now for several years. He slept less than us somehow. What you said? You got four hours sleep last night? I got about four hours, yeah.

I stayed up a little bit going through some film, you know. I don't know why. Why would you want to rehash that last night? Oh, because I was coming on here. I wanted to be able to see some parts of the game. But, yeah, it was not a good night, Ryan. I'm not feeling too good today. Not feeling too good about the rest of the season.

But, you know, am I crazy for thinking maybe they can win the next three non-conference games? I'm crazy, right? No, they can. That's the optimism we need. I was being too negative. You stick with that. All right. You're going to Nashville.

Yeah. We'll be down there together. They've done well when I go to Nashville, usually. How's that? You don't want to answer that. What was the question? Sorry. How do they do in Nashville when you're there?

I don't know, man. We haven't been to the weekend of the SEC tournament in five years, so it can't be doing that well. No, and they lost to Vanderbilt last time I was there. football and in basketball. Well, obviously, the big talking point today is the 10-minute drought where they could not get a field goal. They finished the game two of 16th in the field. What went wrong?

Well, I'll just say this. We are shooting 27% from three against teams of the polls. It was our fears going into the season, right? We didn't sign the shooters that we went after. Colin Chandler's your best three-point shooter right now. He's your best shooter. What how many threes he take last night? Two.

Two. Two threes. Yeah. O for two. That's, I mean, it's all of our fears coming to fruition. This team, to me, right now, it feels like 20, 22, 23 again. It feels like, you know, you got one of the stars back, the potential player of the year, and it'll take away, much like with Oscar.

And then, I don't know, man. I think the biggest non-conference when they got there was Michigan. and it feels like you're kind of, I'm reliving that one. I feel like I'm reliving a lot of UK seasons here lately. I mean, just injuries piling up. When will Kentucky be dominant again? Like that's what I'm waiting for. I'm not asking for it every single season, but I need it.

I need Kentucky to be one of the top four or five teams again. That's Kentucky basketball. And I'm feeling like right now the standard over the last 11 years is that we could be really good, but we're not really ever great. and I'm getting kind of tired of that. You're not wrong. You mentioned how they had an Oscar that year, and I'm not trying to say this is Oscar,

but one more bright spot is, thank God Malacomarino has turned into something his freshman year. I did not expect him to play that much. Honestly, I watched him at a high school game, and he looked good, but he was still very thin, and I just wondered how that would translate to college. But, my God, what would they look like if he wasn't playing the way he's been playing? Because he's been pretty steady,

especially since taking over in the starting five. He was the only one that wanted to rebound last night. And then, as we mentioned, the first hour, made those two big free throws. I was hoping would be a little more meaningful than they ended up being. But thank God he's playing well. I mean, they at least have a post presence in there, one of them, while waiting for acquaintance to get healthy. And we mentioned this.

You know, Pope ran with him. Those five guys most of the second half. Yelovich, Marino, Chandler, Otega, and Aberdeen. He ran with those guys. Trent, Cam, Brandon Garrison did not play. second half, we've played very little. We need more Yellovich. I know in practice he keeps messing up and Pope makes him run stairs.

Okay, that's fine. Whatever. Put him in the damn game. Like, we saw last night how he could guard Caleb Wilson. That was one of the highlights of the game. That's one of the toughest matchups we'll see you this year. I mean, that kid's legit. We saw that fancy turnaround he had late.

I mean, he can do some special things. And for the most part, Yelovich guarded him really well. He'll rebound. Still hitting the outside shot, but I think it's in him. Maybe if he gets out there and gets comfortable, it gets more minutes. So I know everybody wants Diabate back, and that's a weird situation itself. But I'm like, just put Yellovich in. More of him, please.

So another analogy I came up with, I felt like during that stretch, they started playing like they were behind. They actually had the lead, but they were playing like they were behind. Coming down, rushing shots, early in the shot clock, taking a bad shot. Do you agree with that or not? Yeah. I mean, this looks like, like I said, that 2022-23 team were it's just kind of like five guys playing pickup ball out there. I went back last night and watched that video, the video that kind of sold me on Mark Pope,

that YouTube video from Hoops Vision, where it shows that Kentucky, or shows BYU flying down the court, one, two, pass, and pulling from three. This is not the offense that I was sold. Like, the offense I've been seeing in some of these games is not, and I will grant you, like, it will look different when Jaylon Lowe's out there,

but I was told after the Michigan State game that you can't build this around one player. And it feels like we kind of did. You're right. And that's kind of, that's frustrating. And after last year, when you saw what happens when your guard gets hurt, you never should have just had one ball handler to begin with. We don't want the injury to happen.

But after you just saw it last year, the team should be built better to handle it, especially with the investment made and all the advantages Kentucky has to just be like, well, our guards hurt. I guess that's it. I mean, that shouldn't be how it goes. Shannon is it as simple as that? They built this team around Jalen Lowe. he was going to be your leader, your point guard, and now with him out,

they've just been in a spiral that it can't recover from? I think that's a lot of it, but at the same time, we also heard about how deep this team is, and we're not seeing it right now. You know, like the lineup last night that they put out there, I don't have any confidence that we have to stick with for the rest of the season. I do not have very much optimism at all moving forward, so they've got to get healthy. The other big stat last night, Stephen,

20 offensive rebounds for North Carolina, 22 second chance points. Yeah, and that's where Mo Diabate helps, right? I mean, that's where you'd like to have had him. But, you know, and JQ, obviously, but those two guys don't really fix for me what is my biggest concern because I thought, like, defensively, I mean, Kentucky played all right. They held him to 67 points. I think that if you hold them to 67, regardless of how many offensive rebounds.

Now, I mean, when you only get 13-3s off, I guess you could contribute some of that to, they stole 20 possessions from Kentucky or from getting the offensive boards. But I've been concerned about the shooting since the summer. And I don't know. I just felt like, I know you guys have talked about it, but it felt like maybe an overcorrection happened in the roster construction,

or you just missed on the guys, so it kind of just ended up being this way. But I felt like last year's team, do you take out the injuries? They're a top 5 to 18. Am I wrong? No, not at all. I'm thinking back at last year's team. I miss Amari.

just passing it to cutters and how much motion was in. Even when they were hurt, they would still move on offense and it looked like the way Pope wants to play. This team just gets stuck and the ball gets stuck and they just start looking at each other and that is not at all what Mark Pope is why he's here. That's supposed to be the advantage, not a disadvantage on offense. You're as big as football fan as any of us,

but we brought you here for one reason. William Stein is like your best friend. Your child is his best friend. They still sleep in bunk beds. No, we told the story in the pregame show. You and Will, William Stein, played on a baseball team. When you were 16 years old together, the Louisville Lumber's? Louisville Lumber, yeah.

And you wore the jersey last night to the game. Yes. Did you show it to Will Stein? Yeah, I was actually walking over to the student section and looked in front of me. I heard somebody say, hey, Steve. And so my dad's name is Steve Peek. So Will's going to call me Steve. But when I had to apply for jobs later on, it got real confusing, apparently.

I was trying to get money out of the bank or something like that so they had to put Stephen. So I'll go up by Stephen, but I was doing by Steve in high school. So I hear that, and he showed him the jersey, and I got that on video, put it on my Twitter. It was pretty cool. Did you ever think your childhood friend and teammate? No. It's already weird that he's, what is he, 36 years old?

Yes. Me, I've never felt older than being old the coach that I cheer for, of the team that I cheer for. But what's your brain, like you go to these press conferences. You've been going to stoops and cow and Pope and you name it for years. And now you're going to be set up the tripod waiting for your Louisville lumber shortstop to come out and do an interview. It's so weird. I've had so many people text me and ask me the same thing.

How strange is it? It's not even just somebody who's our age. It's somebody I grew up playing sports against him was on his team for a couple years. So, yeah, it's going to be really, really weird. But I'm so excited. I'm excited for today. I need to hear Will say some inspiring stuff to pick me up. So hopefully he's going to deliver it for.

You all obviously went your separate ways. He went and did all the football. You went to Murray out of high school. Probably hadn't stayed in touch a lot. But I mean, you know him and what he's like. What kind of guy are we getting with Will Stein? Dude, he's like such a good guy. Like he's a really good person, but he's a, he's a competitor and a winner.

Like wherever that dude goes, he wins. Like, you know, he was at Trenton. He played quarterback for his senior season, led him to a state championship, had one of the biggest drives in Trinity football history, a little play-action bootleg to tie the game since it's overtime, got the win there. So Kentucky's getting a really good guy, and somebody who I fully believe in that he's going to take Kentucky football to a good place. That emotion he showed last night when he was pumping him up.

Is that his personality or is that him just getting kind of caught up in Rupp Arena? Because that was the juice that he brought to Lexington. No, that's Will. That's Will. That's the kind of guy you're going to get. I am interested. You all have seen the YouTube videos, him by kind of breaking down film. That's the nerdy side of them. I love the side we saw it last night.

Yes, I think that's what I love. You're going to get both. You're going to get that excitement, and you're getting somebody very intelligent that's going to be able to break down stuff for us in post games. I think we're going to learn some stuff. Love it. You are your best friend as a head coach. Childhood best friend.

You guys shared a crib together, I think. Yeah. Louisville lumber. Little of lumber. All right, we're going to take our break. We'll go back to the phone line. If you have a call, we can talk basketball or football. Stephen Peek joins us from KSR, Drew Franklin, Shannon T-Dood.

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We were firing off text pre-late. Well, I do want to read a tweet from one of our coworkers, Mr. Jack Pilgrim. He did the pregame show with us yesterday. He's in tune with the UK basketball as anybody. His finger on the pulse of what's going on in the UK basketball. This was his tweet after the game last night. This is a season from hell for Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats. Just an inexcusable product, no matter the injury situation, bad basketball team.

We did our rapid reaction pretty late in Rup Arena. And, yeah, Jack was pre-down then, too? Was that tweet this morning or last night? That was last night. Okay, I didn't know if he had slept it off, but yeah. He had a new one this morning. Okay. What was this one this morning?

Here, the one this morning where he's got Feeding the Duds. Kentucky's got an identity crisis with no immediate answers in sight. Is it time to shift expectations? I don't. How do you answer that question? I mean, I feel the same way. all pretty down last night. Thought about kicking a Christmas tree at one point.

I'm excited for Nashville. I've been looking forward to this Nashville trip since it was announced. I bought tickets the moment you could buy tickets, taking vacation time. I'm not going to be yapping with you all. I'm not going to be writing. Not going to be rapid reacting. I'm going as a fan, and I'm so excited. But on the inside, I'm dead.

I'm like, please. I would love to be surprised. But I'm still excited to go and get down there, but I just thought we would be looking much better than we would. are right now heading into that matchup. So Shannon, is it time to alter our expectations? Maybe a little bit, because what do we all have? What were your expectations going into the season?

How many losses did you think we would have? Six. What did most of us pick? Yeah, five, six or seven? I think we're right in there. Because I think if that's the case, there's a good chance you got that going into the SEC. I got tricked a little bit. Stephen recorded my preseason predictions.

Video, the whole thing. YouTube, he had a light and a microphone. Oh, wow, professional. But he asked me after the Purdue exhibition. So I was in a great place. I don't even remember what I said, but it was pretty, I don't think I did 40-0. But I'm pretty sure it was one non-conference loss. With, absolute whiff on that prediction.

But that's what mine was. I had high expectations, just like everyone else. If you open my Draft King's account and go to Open Betts, there's Kentucky to win the national championship sitting right there. I got to look at it every day that I go to gamble. I know many people, people were saying Final Four or busts at one point about this team. Now I'm like, can we just, can we beat a team? And then we'll go from there.

We'll figure it out. Let's get one and then stack a couple and then set the expectations, which is just crazy to say in December with the opportunities they've already had. So, Stephen, how do you answer Jack's question? Is it time to alter our expectations? Yeah, yeah. I did that after the Michigan State game. I think when Mark Pockeamount did that press conference, to me,

as upset as he was, I think that for me that was kind of telling that he may see some of the writing on the wall with this team and the limitations that it might. have. Bartovic currently has us. He's pretty good at predicting stuff. He has, I mean, he's perfect, but Bartovic has Kentucky at 19 and 12 to finish the season. That's a six seed. That would be kind of a nightmare scenario considering what the expect, I mean, what are the expectations for Kentucky basketball always. I know we slightly moved the goalposts a little bit last year to give, you know, it's a kind of a grace period, but I don't want to keep saying this,

but I kind of miss last year's team a little bit. I miss a lot of the guys on the team. You brought up Amari. I kind of miss having a Jackson Robinson. Obviously at Kobe Brea. So yeah, my expectations have changed. I still think, you know, what if we can get to SEC play January 1st to get Jalen Lowe and JQ back? We just reset things. We're zero and zero.

Let's try to win the SEC. We haven't done that since the world shut down. Maybe we can do that again. We haven't won the SEC tournament since 2018. Can we just get to Saturday? That'd be great. We're doing baby steps. Yeah.

Let's try to get it. We got the Friday last year. We didn't even at least Saturday this year. Such a sad conversation. Yeah. But, you know, going into the season, we all thought looking at this was the perfect roster. We were too deep at every position. We were over.

We had loaded in the back court. What's happened? Well, we assume some guys crazy for us to think that they would improve. I mean, whoops. That's my bad for expecting a returning player to get a little bit better and not go the other way. Because that was Pope's mantra. Players take a big jump in the second year. That's not happened for a couple guys.

Yeah, Collis-Channler is the only one that I feel like has really taken that big step. Is there anybody else? I mean, I feel like Colin is really the only one. And thank goodness he did. What would this team be if Colin Chandler didn't take that massive step if he was still the guy averaging 2.7 points per game last year or whatever it was. And Stephen mentioned how Pope kind of talks like the writings on the wall. I do feel like he's our leader and sometimes I think he's more scared than I am.

It's like we're in Braveheart and he's in the back of the line. Like, wait, you're the coach. You get up here and lead us, please, and stick your chest out and have some confidence. Sometimes I'm looking at him like, oh, no, what do you know? Because you're not exactly making me feel any better in how you're explaining this either. I want to ask you guys, you were there last night. How was the crowd for his post-game crowd conferences? Worst that ever.

I mean, part of it, it's almost one in the morning on a weeknight, so I don't blame him. And you just lost. But losing did, no. That was the lowest. We'll probably ever see. Yeah. A lot of that was. It was very late at night.

I was surprised when we walked out from the player interviews, and there was nobody there. I mean, it was almost one in the morning, so I kind of get it. But I think all the people in the media were like, never seen it like this. If he were to win, I think maybe some people would tough it out just to show him some support. Like, all right, let's figure this out. But being a loss, no, everybody was quick to get on home. Shannon, on the A-Vision Glass Text Machine, overwhelming disdain for Kentucky Joe's new song. I know.

I've been reading the comments, too. Maybe we shouldn't have doubled down and let them do both. Amen. Yeah. All right, 859-280287. Who's our next caller? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike.

But anyway, I was just going to say, you know, sometimes I just don't understand Pope. Because last night I thought, you know, everything went wrong on offense. But they had an obvious advantage with yellow bitch down low. And you go 10 minutes without a bucket. Why not put him and Chandler on the same? side and just let them place two man and get him a bucket, man. I mean, all we need is a bucket or two

in that 10-minute stretch, and we win that game. And I know it was ugly, but it's better than a loss. Appreciate it, man. You know, and like Drew said earlier, a lot of those misses, we had good looks. They just couldn't knock him down. There was a 3.1 time Yelovitch shot from the wing. It was dead on,

but it came up short, I think, because his legs, he was tired. He'd been playing so many minutes. Yeah, can't be playing all those minutes now. No, that talk is actually kind of a... Most teams play seven or eight guys, right? And how many guys in North Carolina played last night, like, with a lot of minutes? Because I felt like they...

They have three guys that played 35 or more. So, okay, so why weren't their legs given out? I don't know. Can't have an answer. I don't know. You know, Cala Perry, we had a quote a couple years ago where he said that doing the platoon system made it to where he couldn't recruit for a couple of years.

Cal not known for hyperbole, obviously. But you look at some of the guys you missed, Donovan Dent. I don't know how good he actually is, but somebody Kentucky wanted, I guess. That was the first pick. Plays over 30 minutes. You had Lamar Wilkerson. How many minutes is he averaging, Drew? 30.

Over 30. Also don't look up his three-point shooting. He's shooting lights out. Yeah, so that's good. It's best for our mental state if we just don't look that up. And he's coming to Rup Marine in a week or so. Yeah, I mean, so you look at the guys you're missing out on, and those are the guys that are playing.

Wilson, I think, playing over 30 minutes a game. Now, Kentucky did have four guys that played over 30 minutes, but that's because you have three starters hurt. How is this happening? How am I still reliving Kentucky basketball seasons with all these injuries? I'll say it again, 13 injuries in 13 months of the Mark Popera. I'm losing my mind over here. Do you include Quayton's on that?

Because I don't give him quaintons. Quaintons was already hurt. No, I don't think we can throw that. Low and whatever going on with the people. No, we've experienced 13 injuries in 13 months. Okay, because, I mean, he built. the roster with a guy with the torn ACL. I'm still for it and I think it'll work out. I think it'll be good, but I don't

count that one as much as holding this team back because you knew when you first called the guy how that would play out. Let's get another call, Shannon. Who we got? Crease. Go ahead, Crease. Hey, guys. I really am just disgusted with the state of the program and I really just think Pope's in over his head with his job and I know we're probably stuck with him next year. The guy can't

recruit and we're quickly slipping into any Indiana territory, in my opinion, as a program and it's just disgusting. Appreciate it, Crease. I'm I mean, there's started some rumblings. They're seeing it on social media people, you know, questioning now. Is Pope the guy? The honeymoon, I think, is definitely over because some of the fans are already starting to sour a little bit.

How much credit do you give him and how much credit do you not give him at this point? I also keep thinking he came here. He's the one, like, I'm here to win championships. Criticize me. I know the standard. We're not moving the standard. And now it's like, ooh, we are way off course here if that's the game plan. It will help him if he's able to land one of the top recruits.

That's still a big knock on him yet. He hasn't checked that box. Can you get a top recruit that's not a Kentucky kid? And Stephen's right about reset in January, go win the SEC and all that. That can happen when they get healthy. But I'm worried about you're going to have so many losses in the non-conference. When we want to get to our real goal, what kind of seed and what kind of path are you going to have in front of you? Because you can't just keep taking losses this early in the season and expect to be in a good spot at the end of the year.

Well, thankfully, the SEC is not as strong as it was last year. Or maybe you can make up some ground in the SEC season this year. Take our break. We'll come back. Go back to the phone lines, 859-280-2287. Ryan, Drew, Shannon, and Stephen Peek. We'll be right back.

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It's going to Mitch. Mitch, go ahead, Mitch. How are we doing? Something I thought we haven't talked about yet is coaches' challenges. There was a clear play in the first half that the ball looked like it went off UNC. They called it UNC's ball. They immediately scored. Meanwhile, you know, you watched the Duke and sport a game last night.

Goldman Shire both used challenges fairly early in the first half. So, I mean, why are we holding on to those? I appreciate the phone call. I don't know. I mean, whatever analytics tells you, that's what they're going to go with. Collecting data. Well, they used one in the Michigan State game pretty early on a call that really might have actually wanted to hold on to it.

That's true. You're right about that. Was there a play last night? I need to do my rewatch. We sit up there on the moon, so a lot of time we don't get replays. So a lot of times those close calls, I mean, you'd have just as much luck going, asking someone sitting outside. So I don't know particular, like, close things like that until I go watch the bright.

What are you laughing at? I didn't mean that as like a complaint. I'm just saying there are things that happen in the game where, you know, I truly don't know what's going on. Steve, you said you've already watched it, especially the second half. Why would you want to go back and watch that disaster? Because I was coming on here. I wanted to, because when I don't know what we're talking about. No, well, yeah.

I mean, I just, when you're at the game, when I'm at the game, I'm roaming around. I'm also nervous and pacing, so I don't feel like when I'm at the games that I'm actually seeing the game. So usually when I go back and watch it, I actually try to figure out what happened. We're working here. Half the time my nose is in my computer and I look up and I'm like, well, I hope they show a replay. I missed whatever that was.

Why? Stephen is all over the place. I recommend everybody go and watch your rapid reaction. That's worth a watch. We appreciate the views, but it's not, it won't be the most joyous conversation you'll watch today. Watch that. Rather than rewatch the game, go watch the rapid reaction. And watch Stevens video.

You tweeted it. What's your, S.P.K. What is it? Stephen P.K. Because Will really does walk by. He's like, Steve! And he pulls up the lumber jersey. It is a cool video.

Yeah, we've got to watch that one. All right, who's next, Shannon? Randall. Randall, go ahead, Randall. See, you, fellas. I believe that Will Stein's tenure at Kentucky, we're really going to see some good quarterbacks come through his program or develop.

You know, that seems like a real positive. As far as his, you know, tenure as OC at Oregon. And another thing about the basketball, you know, Jack Givens was saying on the post game show that, you know, they need one of these guys to come into the huddle,

and I think it's going to take it all the way, like, hey, feed me the rock. You know, I mean, like, kind of be like that guy that, because he's supposed to be,

I believe, the preseason best player on the team, and I mean, you know, you need that strong leadership. You need that guy that just be like, hey, I'm the guy that you need to,

to try to get the ball to in this moment. I mean, and I mean, I'm not saying ball hog, but I mean, like, when you zero in on that one guy, and you opened up the floor for these other guys, like at the wing or something, you dish it out to like Conlon Chandler over there with open three hours. A lot of times I've seen Aberdeen go down, and Chandler's over there wide open,

but Aberdeen didn't dish it out. No. He just goes straight to the goal. I mean, you know, it's, it's, it's, It seems like something that Pope would definitely be expressing, and maybe that's what he means in his post-game conference where he's talking about guys. Played for each other.

Yeah. Okay. All right, man, appreciate it. Yeah. You know, Otega's a guy that we saw a sign to the old Otega, and I heard Jack say that one time. He's got to go and tell these guys, get me the ball. Stephen?

I saw you perk up on that. Yeah, he did. I think you might have even counted how many times that happened. The not kicking the ball out to your open teammates? Yeah. Yeah, it was like four times. Instead, we were just taking contested during that stretch of 10 minutes without scoring. Yeah, there's guys open.

And what we saw even in the Purdue game, guy drives baseline, he kicks it out to the corner, that guy doesn't shoot, he gives up a shot, a good shot for somebody who's got a better shot. Better shot. Yeah, and in the Purdue game, one time it was Jasper Johnson, who then got to catch, shoot, wide open, and he buried the three. That's Mark Pope's offense. That's the ball movement that I want to see. That's what we've seen, I mean, what we saw last night and what we've kind of seen

outside of the Louisville game against these big teams is the kind of offense we saw under John Calipari. Am I wrong? Without the creators. Without the lottery picks. We've brought up, Travis Ford has said a few times with our boy, Cutler, unfiltered, about the team chemistry. I think some people interpreted it as locker room, and that might exist.

But what Travis Ford was saying is not passing to your teammate. Like, they don't have on-court chemistry. Correct. Like, they're not making that extra pass for the easy shot. And I think that's really showing now. I've heard him say that a couple times. So does it go back to Jalen Lowe? They need that guy, that strong point guard leading the team out there.

I think it all goes back to when they lost him. They just went to a tailspin that they haven't recovered from. Yeah, I mean, that is definitely a big part of it getting him back. But, I mean, he wouldn't have helped with 20 offensive rebounds and effort and just the three times we've played a team that has any kind of physicality. The moment we turn the lights up and get excited about a game, it's like they just completely fold. Do they have at least in the three tries so far?

I tell you he would have helped with eight assists, nine turnovers last night. Definitely there. Yeah. Yeah, for sure, for sure. And, you know, I was looking at Otega Owe's numbers. He's got to get to the free throw line more. Last year he was getting to the free throw line. I think he had 5.3 attempts last season. He's 3.3 so far this year.

Some of that is just having guys be able to make shots to spread the floor so he can get downhill. I think Otega was listening to Drew, where Drew said he wanted to go back to the old Otega. Just get the ball and immediately go. Go. Because he did that last night. He did that last night better than he's done all season. Now, he does need the spacing and that, you know, got to hit the threes, all that. But he's still, it was better last night, but he hadn't had that aggression and that attitude that he had a year ago.

But maybe a light turned on last night, even though it didn't result in a win. Because he seemed to have taken a step forward even though it didn't help in the outcome. Who's next, Shannon? Let's go to Joe. Joe, go ahead, Joe. You're on with Stephen Peek, Drew Franklin, and Shannon the dude. Okay. This is Joe Team or

basketball game. Is she cutting out on a Shannon? Okay. I don't know. Can't tell. Go ahead. Okay. All right.

Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Basketball game. UK game. The basketball game? Yes.

Yeah, it didn't go very well. We appreciate the phone call. Yeah, I think we're all upset having a hard time. You get all you needed out of that run? Yeah, I think so. That's a quick. Appreciate the call. Well, I don't know where it was going.

So I apologize. Shannon's just doing his job over there. Good job, Shannon. You heard of the queue. Let's try another one, Shannon. Duane. Duane. Go ahead, Duane.

I'm sorry. Just close the door on it. I think it's going to have to come. I think a lot of this is going to have to come from the players themselves. Like, for instance, somebody like Otega O'A, you know, they used to, back in the day, 30 years ago, they would start the black watch, like early in the morning and go in and shoot, and they'd spend that extra time.

And, you know, Coach Petino would always encourage them, get in there, get your extra shooting in. If you're not shooting at least 40% from the field, you need to be shooting. And he'd say you look up and he'd see who was in there. and there was a direct correlation between the extra shooting and their shooting percentage. But some of these guys can't even, I mean, they were missing layups from right in,

you know, it wasn't just three-pointers. They were shooting it completely over the goal from two feet away. I mean, it was a step-back threes are awful, too. Okay, all right. I appreciate the call. I don't doubt that they're working and working hard and going in and getting extra shots up. I mean, I remember I was in, we learned this summer, we went through the Craft Center,

we were giving somebody a tour, and it's 10 o'clock at night, and Colin Chandler's in there shooting. You know, and this was in the summer. So I think those guys still get in there early on their own time and do get their shots up. We saw from looking in that Joe Craft Center, the NOAA ARC system, what's our ROI on that this year? But guys were putting in thousands of shots. So, I mean, I don't think that. You don't think that's the issue. No, no.

No, I don't either. I mean, sure, we don't. It's not branded as the breakfast club and some of the things we've had in the past where they've just openly bragged about, man, these guys are just always here. We're not hearing that that much, but I'm not going to criticize their work ethic. I'm not over there. I assume they're in the gym. I do think they're trying really hard.

I really do. Let's talk about something positive. The UK volleyball team hosting first round of the NCAA tournament tomorrow night over at historic Memorial Coliseum. It's the second game of the night. So it could start anywhere between 7, 7.30, somewhere in that ballpark? First one's at 4.30. So if you're not going, if you can't get tickets, come here. We'll have it on here at KS Bar and Grill, kind of like a volleyball watch party.

We had a great watch party the other night when they won the SEC tournament. That was a lot of fun. They started winning when Drew walked out of the building. Told you. Trust me, I won't be here for the next one. Drew, stay away. We want to win. So it's tomorrow night.

Now, tonight the UK women basketball team plays on ESPN. They play Miami, right down at Miami. Five o'clock game, a little earlier than we typically get. So maybe they'll cheer us up tonight. They're on ESPN 2. ESPN 2, okay. In Miami. But, you know, big night for women's basketball and volleyball tomorrow.

I saw Craig Skinner was on top of the fifth third building promoting it. He just keeps getting higher and higher. That's the tallest building in the world. So if they went tonight, I don't know what he's doing next. Maybe we'll get him on the moon. Maybe Jeff Bezos can shoot Craig Skinner into space to promote the second round. But I guess we have Will Stein now. But the volleyball team has been the only reason to smile the last few weeks.

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who had an unexpected heart surgery yesterday. He is doing a little better, which I care about more than the game last night, because people are getting some pushback, you know, why he's not here or why he wasn't on the show. Come on, man. Read the room. We're pretty committed to the grind, and we know this is busy times. But family comes first, especially Larry having a procedure, glad it went well,

and if Matt needs to take however long he needs. It takes him much longer. It's right. Family's more important. And it's Larry. Everybody loves Larry. Larry is one tough dude. If anybody can get knockoff heart surgery, it's Larry Blonde.

That's right. I think people just, you know, whenever there was tough losses before I was working at KSR, I wanted to hear what Matt had to say about it. It kind of made me feel a little bit better or validated how I was feeling. So I know we're missing Matt today. He'll be back. Yeah, things are going well so far. Maybe even tomorrow.

We'll hear his take on the game and stuff. So back off, people. 859-2802-287. Defensive, Ryan. You can come at me, but don't come at my boys. Don't come at Larry. Don't come at Larry. crying out loud. People have told me, Frank, it's getting a little stale over here, and then I'm being too

negative. Can we end with some positivity? Let's do it. I don't have any, but I hope you can do it. Okay, before we get out of here. People are complaining about me complaining. I don't want to be that guy. I don't want to be the complaint. Nobody likes that person. We'll take a couple calls, but before we hang up tonight today, E. Davis has to give us something positive. All right. I love that. I'm smiling now. Look, I'm getting ready. Shannon, who's next? Cole. Cole. Go ahead, Cole. Hey guys, first time, long time. Listen every day. Appreciate you calling, Cole.

I had two quick questions here. One football, one basketball. I'll start with the football. I think, for first, I think Will Stein is a phenomenal hire. Arguably could be potentially the best higher so far in college football, maybe second behind Lane Kiffin, if you count that. But I will say for a long time now, I've been saying, even before Stubis was fired, I said, we really need an offensive-minded coach. We need somebody like Stein or Heartline.

And I had always kind of given Brian Hartline the edge just because he's kind of known for his recruiting and sending these guys to NFL, not that Will Stein hasn't. I just don't know as much about his recruiting. I was going to say, do we know what happened with Hartline or if he was even interviewed? It just made me think of it because I saw that he's going to be hired at South Florida today. And then I had a basketball question.

Okay, what's your basketball question? What's your basketball question? We'll do both of them then. Okay, yeah, so I was going to say, not to be negative. I know you're just talking about positivity, but this question here, I hadn't even thought about this until this morning. I saw some people mentioning it on Twitter, just negative fans. But should we be slightly concerned that Quaintiffs may not ever end up playing for us?

I know we need him pretty bad, but, you know, with his injury and everything, I thought maybe if the season's kind of going downhill, I kind of feel like this has happened to us before. So what do you guys think? Okay. I appreciate the phone call. You take the Jaden Quayton's question first. I don't expect that at all.

I know I've heard people saying he could Shaden Sharpest. Those are completely different situations. Sharp actually had the benefit of being a mystery, having never played. Like he had amazing high school highlights. He set out and the NBA rolled the dice, top five pick, and it worked. Quayton kind of needs to show them that he didn't lose a step in his rehab. Because he had good tape at Arizona State. and he blows out his knee

and he, I mean, he would still be a high pick. Somebody would take that chance, but he also can make himself a lot of money if he plays and shows that he didn't lose a step with that injury. And his attitude's been right from the beginning. I would be surprised if he doesn't play. I think they're completely different scenarios.

Steven, since you're Will Stein's twin brother, you take the Will Stein heartline question. About whether they, which one? They reached out to heartland. I'll answer for Steven. Yeah, you might not have better. He was one of the first to put it out there about Stein and the job. But you all, you Trinity people, I don't know what's going on there.

Y'all just have these underground tunnels in Louisville. They do. It's so weird, man, talk to each other. Regardless, it seemed Stein was high on Kentucky's list early in the process. And Kentucky was high on Stein's list, nailed the interview. They might have had a few conversations with others. But it looks like they got their number one guy, and Stein was a quick yes because he wanted to be here.

I feel like they had to have made contact with Stein's people. weeks ago. That happens. Yeah, it should have you. That happens all the time. I think Hartline was a good fallback plan, but obviously he took the job today at South Florida, so it all worked out the way it was supposed to. We can all live in a fantasy land where people wait until the portal to make calls.

No, there are coaches talking to players and coaches talking to school all season long. We can act like that doesn't happen, but that happens. Yeah, absolutely. You know what I thought was weird is how they've talked about, you know, how young Will Stein is, and can he handle this being 36 years old in the SEC? I mean, I was looking up. Jim Beheim, I know this is basketball. He was hired a 31 years old.

This used to not be so crazy. How old was Rick Patino when he was at Kentucky, 37? Mike Chessacki, these are basketball guys. I know these are just the easy ones for me to look up. He was 33 when he took over at Duke. So it used to not be that weird, but it felt like hiring somebody who was in their 30s felt like, oh, we're just hiring somebody straight out of high school now. It's what it felt like.

So, you know, I'm excited. Is this the only millennial? coach in the athletic department? I guess so. Interesting. Had to think about that. It might be. But we need that. We needed the youth. I think it'll be good for them. As I saw last night, just that energy.

Stoops had a style. Was more go-to-work. Keep your head down. Looks like we're going to have a little more fire with Stahn. All right. Thirty-second rapid reaction. Positive. Before we get out of here, Drew. We're going to Nashville. Western Kentucky's going to show up. Good crowd. We'll be Gonzaga. We're beating Gonzagin.

Stephen. Yeah. We're going to win one of these next three games in the non-con. And then we're going to have a good SEC run, I think so. Shannon. They didn't score a point in 10 minutes and still on the last spot three. Defense was decent. Volleyball, going to win the title. There you go. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite.

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