KSR - 2026-01-22- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

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January the 22nd. I'm Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill. You can come join us for lunch on a, well, it's not. close to 48 hours till the beginning of the storm that will end us all here in Lexington, Kentucky. We got a big show today. Clark's Pubbit Shop phone lines 859-280-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-7-7-4-5-2-254. This is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office called T.J. I'll Make them Pay.

Here's what I'm thinking, Ryan. Make sure you're okay with it. All right, let's go. Hour one, we talk about the game. hour two we set up what america's going to be talking about for the next 48 hours the kentucky weatherman challenge i've come up with seven thousand dollars to give away to charity from commonwealth causes and me personally five from them two from me and i'm willing to add more if other sponsors want to get in that goes to the weatherman who most accurately predicts the snow And my thought is we get 10 weathermen either by their choice or public shaming, get them to make a prediction.

And whoever's the closest gets the glory, Drew. What do you think? I'm very excited about this. They all get to stay on their separate networks and just throw predictions out with no consequences. But today they're going head to head. No one remembers. No, I couldn't tell you a single forecast. And now they go ahead.

It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff. I mean, that's what needs to happen. And today we'll do it. They would have until, I mean, give you a little hit, this will be second hour. They'll have until Friday, end of show tomorrow to put it in so they can get their latest models. The ones that say, oh, I need more data until it starts snowing. Well, at that point, we're stuck anyway. You got to get, like, the whole point of weather is predicting.

If you're not predicting, what, you're just looking out the window. That's the whole point. Have you had anybody yet reach out to you? I've had some yeses before I've even asked. That's fresh really good. But I know there's going to be some people that are hard. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. We have friends of the show. Like, I think I'll be able. Well, I'm using up the time. This is an 11 o'clock topic. That's what we all want to talk about. 10 o'clock is the game. Okay.

Kentucky won 8580 against Texas. Big game for Kentucky to win, especially if you look at the fact that if our next 12 games, 10 of them are against quad one teams. We only have two more games, one of which is Saturday. It's not a quad one game. So we needed to win this game. And we won it kind of fighting tooth and nail. Went back and forth, back and forth.

It was a five-point lead down to a five-point deficit. It just kept – I mean, there were two very even teams. They're a bubble team. I kind of think we're a bubble team now with what the roster has. And we won at home, which is what you need to do. I said that we need to win eight games probably to make the tournament. Nine for sure to make the tournament. And now what?

You have five? Is that right? Was that right? You said the magic number was seven? Yeah. Do we have five or do we have four? I'm confused. We won four in a row, so we have four.

In the conference. Four, yeah. In the conference, we have four. So I think your four, maybe five wins away. Sounds like not many, but now go look at that schedule and tell me where they are. Because it's not necessarily easy. But you got the one you need. You know, it's good to see them play pretty much a full 40 minutes and it had to

struggle and claw to come back from a 17-18-point deficit. It's good to see, oh, and Aberdeen kind of learn how to play together. That's three straight games in a row where Aberdeen has looked really, really good since Lowe left the floor. Show some grit, showed some fight. You know, I find myself getting sucked back in liking this team again. Yeah, I mean, like, I now don't dread the games.

But I will say O.A. and Aberdeen have been great since conference play. Colin Chandler now stepping up and looking really good. You got more great minutes from Moreno. A lot of positives last night. Yeah, a lot of fun. It was pretty neat in Rupp Arena because even though it was tied in halftime, people felt like we had already won. Yeah. You know, Kentucky fans shouldn't be tied at halftime.

But last night, there was a celebration like, we're going to win this now because we did not go down in a big hole. Of course, they did go on and win it, even though I had a few moments scary there. But other than the halftime score, people were loving the second half surge from Chandler. I mean, hitting the threes, the steals. It felt like he stuck his tongue out every couple minutes in someone's face. He seems he lost his confidence the last month last night. last week for those road games he broke out broken found it back yes i mean we're on pace to allow the fewest points uh in the scc so far this season right now only tennessee has less than us uh allowed

that's great when you consider that needs to be our identity yeah with the team that we have we took i know we gave up 80 to texas but i think that's a win because they put up so many points we didn't allow them to shoot as many free throws we made 30 out of 35 free throws it's a huge number for this And three of them were the ones Aberdeen missed at the end, where I think it was more just focused than anything else. That was huge. Mo Diabate, to his credit, hit some huge free throws down the stretch. I think four or five, so all that stuff helped.

You know, you mentioned the free throws that led the country and most free throws attempted, most free throws made, and we shot more than them, kept them off the free throw line. And our perimeter guys, Aberdeen Oway Chandler did a good job on their perimeter guys, kind of kept them out from getting, driving to the basket, and drawing those fouls and getting the free throw line. The only thing we couldn't stop was the one dude. what was his name? Swain. Swain. He killed us.

Every time he, when Brandon Garrison got in, I just started betting Swain points. I did not, but I should have, because most of his points came on Garrison, but he was great, but he made their only two threes. Yeah, he was tough. Last night, I found the player I hate more than anyone else in the country. I know who it is. They're big dude. He held on every play. Talking about the white guy, right? Yeah, I can't say his name. Marino would tell the ref Pope would tell the ref. Pope even yelled the BS word at the ref. It was every single play.

But then if the ref acknowledged it or if UK player did it back, he would just whine. The biggest crowd, baby. So either he was holding and cheating or whining when he wasn't getting away with it. Where's he from? I don't know, but there's not a worst person in basketball. Wow, strong words. I got so tired. Pope in the first half was livid about it.

Marino's throwing his hands in the air and the ref was caught. He just mad because he had long hair? Yeah. Okay. I think that was it. Bad haircut. Yeah. a lot. I was so tired of him, though.

He is one of those guys. Cheater. I mean, Pope said Texas is the dirtiest team, and he didn't say it as a put-down. He was just acknowledging, like, they will bring you down to their level. And they do, because they just sit here and do this, the whole way to wait for you to get upset. And then when Garrison would give him a little elbow, oh, did you see him the elbow? He went, but then he'd go right back to Holden. Drew's got one or the other.

Yeah, he does. Not a fan. What? What do you mean what? I'm looking right. It's just that's your turn to talk. I thought we did really good last night, sir. Okay, thank you for helping. I will say this.

We saw it coming with Colin Chandler. Did we? I mean, I didn't. Well, we know ball. If you know ball, you saw it coming. Excuse me. If you knew ball, so you're saying I don't know ball. Well, you can see it. The last couple games kind of developing that confidence, hitting a shot. He is getting confident.

Getting extra minutes at the end of the game. I think that is help. We saw it coming. Are we getting closer to where he? gets the Kobe Brea thing where if he's open and shoots it, you're like, all right, that's in? Are you there yet? I think so. You're not there yet?

He missed one at the end. He did. But he hit one in the big guy's face. I love that because I don't know if I mentioned it. That guy was awful last night. But right after he hit in his eye, Chandler, that's the first time I saw him sticking out his tongue. That's when he was really feeling it. Yeah.

I didn't know. Mormon's the tongue. Yeah. I don't know if that's a universal thing. There was just a lot of tongue. But he was also sick, so it was like double MJ last night? So was that his flu game? Flu game, tongue out.

But you know, I had this happen just the night before. I felt like I had the flu. You know, he missed shoot-around. Yes, he did. I missed episode four, season three, the diplomat. Same thing. I couldn't do it. I slept really well, came out yesterday, felt like I gave a great performance.

He skipped shoot-around, gets ready. That 24-hour flu, I think it hit Colin, hit me. Sometimes maybe it gives you a little bit of energy because he looked amazing. Looks like I'm looking at Colin Chandler right now. That's exactly right. I don't know what UK gave him, but I want what they gave him last night because he was awesome. Cornbread hemp sleep gummies. Yeah, that works.

That works. And you got to get the temperature situation in your room. That was what I recommended. Well, pass it on to the rest of the guys on the team. If they play better the way he played last now, we all need it. All right. about, we talk about the positives, a couple troubling things, still a huge drop off when they go to Garrison Diabate and plus minus. I actually thought Diabate just watching had some decent minutes,

but like if you have a team that has a dude like, why am I getting his name? Who scored all the points? Swain. Twain. Swain. That's the kind of guy Diabate is here to guard. And if he's still scoring, like, or you don't even put him on him, there is a point of like, what are you doing? I think Moreno and Yelovich were like plus 16 plus 17, Diabate and Garrison were minus 8. That's a little worries. Yeah, and Swain was really good at drawing fouls. Got a bunch on Marino. He got a lot of his points at the line, too.

That dude was tough. He was hitting threes going to the stride. Kentucky didn't really have anything for him last night. But luckily he shut down Mark didn't have a great game. And then the big dude put up some big numbers, but he wasn't very efficient as he normally is. Yeah. So let's talk about now what? You lose Cam Williams for the year to a foot injury.

You know, I guess there's a chance he could come back. Somebody was telling me if it's a full break, he can't. If it's just a fracture, it could be four to six weeks. The coaches were kind of sounding like it's the fracture, but they also weren't saying he was going to come back. I have to say, I'm going to go on record as I've hated how these last two staffs handle the injuries, just sitting here making fans speculate. It's not fair to the kids.

It's not fair to Jane Quaint's right now that every game, people don't know if he's going to, If he's going to come back, it's not fair that people speculate that he's not going to come back. And if he's not going to come back, why are you getting the fans' hopes up that he is going to come back? They should just say things. Regardless, they don't. I'm going to assume Cam's not playing. I just think that's easier to do.

It stinks because we can use him. And when he's hitting threes, he's a hugely valuable resource. Let's assume he's not going to play. Do you consider another player? Whether that is the red shirt on your team, who was like the 35th rank recruit in America at one point, and plays Cam's position. Is it roll Trent Noah out 20 minutes a game from 0 to 20? Or is it, look to the G League.

There's a guy named Dink who's got the same haircut and general build as Cam Williams and was at one point a big-time recruit. What do you do it? Yeah, I heard your post game last night. Learn a lot about Dink last night on the post game. To me, you know how I feel about it. It just doesn't smell right. But if the rules allow it, why not pursue it?

If you're asking me to what I would do, I'd go give Noah the shot first, Hawthorne second, dink third. Okay, what about you? I would entertain the dink idea just because there's no rules. I mean, I don't like that there's no rules, but everybody else is doing it. I mean, what do you want to go somewhere else and play? You know, I mean, if he could do it. But I do. What if he just goes and plays Tennessee?

I mean, what were you doing? Yeah, I do worry about chemistry. But he's friends of Brandon Garrison. Same agent. And his, or excuse me, agent with Brandon Gansler. Really good friends with Jasper, John. That's right. I do think you have to consider Hawthorne, whatever happens.

I know he's thin. We saw him at the pro day. You can see him in warm up. He needs to put on a lot of weight. But he was the 30th ranked freshman in this class. I mean, there's 30th ranked freshman make plays every year. And he knows the system, been in practice. I hate it that he would have to lose his red shirt, but whatever.

Red shirts don't really exist now anyway. It feels like that guy's got to be capable of doing something. I don't know. I don't know he's going to change anything, but at least let him see what he has. I mean, so part of it is Pope has information I do not have, which is how good is he in practice, right? Like, I've not seen him play ever. So I'm just completely guessing. But if he is at all helpful in practice, then playing.

He's right there. He's right there. He knows the system. And he's exactly what we need. Yep. Does it, would you like to have played him earlier in the end? Sure, but you know what? It is what it is.

So I say playing. The only way I do not burn that red shirt, because if a kid is that good, he ain't going to be in college five years anyway. If the kids, if he's not, if he cannot play, if you genuinely don't think he can play, okay, then I say go get the dink. Because I could go into it,

but I think it would be boring radio. There are three cases. There's the Baylor Kid case. there's the kid yesterday at Alabama and there's Dick. The Baylor kid has the best argument. He didn't sign any deal with any NBA team. He played, but he wasn't on an NBA contract. It was a G-League contract.

He has the easiest deal. The NCAA's already approved him. By the way, he stinks. We all got worked up over a guy who's not even good. The Alabama kid has the worst argument because he signed a 10-day contract, but he also signed a two-way contract, was an official, you are part of an NBA team.

The NCAA is going to fight his because they want that to be the distinction. So he has the worst argument. Dink's arguments in between. He did not sign a two-way deal, but he also didn't sign nothing. He signed a 10-day deal, which is you're with the NBA team for 10 days, but he never went there. So he's kind of in the middle. The NCAA probably would not like to have him either, but they see. that differently than they do the Alabama

kids. So the NCAA is going to spend the money on the Alabama fight. And the Alabama fight, if that kid gets in, then Deek will definitely get in. So if I'm Pope, I'm like, why don't we bring him in? Let's have him here for a week.

In a week, we're going to know if the Alabama kid wins or not. And if he does, he's on the team. That's how I would do. I don't know if that's how Pope would do it, but that's how I would do. And then you could possibly retain him even for next year. I think his plan is to play college basketball next year. So if you bring him in, you get a six-week look to see if you want this kid on your team next year.

I can try out. Now, Jacob Polichick says he doesn't think it's that likely, so I'm not going to spend a ton of time on it. But I would say, if you don't want to do it, don't do it for basketball reasons. But if it's somehow moral reasons, that's absurd to me because if they're going to let these guys play, Drew, we need them. Yeah, they got Alabama would much farther, and he is expected to play on Saturday. Yeah, the Alabama's guy, if he is allowed to play, then the Dink kid's going to play. Because the Alabama's guys got the worst argument, and he may get to play as well. Dink's been intentionally not signing stuff, hoping he could have this move.

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We have four perimeter players for five, excuse me, five perimeter players for three spots, and one of them hadn't played most of the year, Trent note. So you get a guy in foul trouble. Like, then you got to make a switch, you know. What if Aberdeen gets two foul in the first four minutes of game? you just going to sit there and say, well, we lose? I mean, you're going to have to have another guy. So I'm, to me, and then at the three spot, you're really hurting.

It's either play Colin Chandler and undersized three, play Noah who's not really played all year, or bring in three bigs. And we don't look good with two bigs. So three is like a whole thing. So I think you got to, you almost have to have somebody. I think they really like Brandon Hawthorne. I think we got to seem a pro.

And we got to see him at practice that one day. I think they just feel like, we know we're going to redshirt him, get some muscle on him, get some beef on him, and he'll be an integral part of our recruiting class next year. Like, you know, this is a way to kind of get a head start on next year. But right now, if you need his way to play, he knows the system. He obviously practices with him every day. They're not going to have to learn anything.

Go for it. One person writes, Pope is not going to get a G-leager. Did you hear his comments after the game? I did hear his comments, and I thought they were. wildly bad. He said that the NCAA should just not allow a team in the tournament that takes a guy like this. No, if I'm the NCAA's legal counsel, do not do that. Because if a court forces Alabama to blame, then if the NCAA doesn't blame,

the court is interfering with a court order. That's not good. That's dumb. Like, no, no mark. Talk to a lawyer before you suggest advice like that. Now, the judge may overturn his order next week, so that's a different situation. But, no, shouldn't do that. It is, if you heard his comments, Drew, you would think, well, he's not going to add a G-leger.

However, they did contact this guy yesterday. That's what I heard you say last night on the show. So if they contacted the G-leger yesterday, there's got to be some interest. It makes his comments even weirder to me that night. Or maybe they just contact and even thought, well, we don't want to do that. But it is odd. And the assistant reaches out. And Pope, it's like, oh, why'd you do that?

We don't need him. Yeah. So, you know, who knows? But I did think that was odd. Yeah. We're talking about Pope. I honestly don't see Mitch Barnhart being high on doing this because we know he's not high on how things have transformed from the old way.

And to bring in a G-League or mid-season, that doesn't seem like something he would sign off on. Yeah, I don't care what he thinks. I'm just saying. I just don't see UK doing this. I just think, no offense to Mitch Barnhart, but like, your plan hasn't worked when it's come to a couple years ago going well. You know, there's going to be legislation, and that's what, like, no legislation's been passed. I think, you know, starting in June, everybody is trying to get reelected, so nothing's going to pass after June. There feels like there's no momentum, especially since it's very likely the House of Representative changes parties.

That's going to make things even less likely to pass. So they're just We just have to assume nothing's going to pass. So if you don't want the kids, you don't want him, but I hope it's not for moral reasons, because that seems dumb to me. I'm just saying if all the schools, UK doesn't seem one that's high on the list of places

that would go out seeking this. But do you think that's smart? If the rules allow you to do it, you've got to, I guess, pursue an opportunity like that. I just don't understand. And now I'll shut up about this. I don't know why people act like this is so bad.

We've been taking pros for 15 years. It's just they were from Europe, and we don't go there. But Yellovich, there is zero difference between Yellovich and Pate. Zero. They both signed the equivalent of the same contract with a protein. Why do we look at one differently because they're in a country we don't live in? Make America great at basketball again. don't make our players have more barriers than their players.

Why would you do that? Why would you say if you grow up in a foreign country and you sign with a foreign basketball professional team, you're good? But if you grow up with America and you sign up with a minor league pro basketball team, you're out. Why? What is the rational argument for that? There's not. There's not. Your boy Cal brought that up in his big rant, too.

He was like, if you're an American, you're being punished for being punished for being American. Like, I'm not signing on to all the philosophy and the greater perspective, but in this, I think we can all agree we shouldn't make it worse for Americans, right? They should at least be equal to the foreign players. Why would we make it worse? I think you're right that there's just no one's keeping up. I mean, I watched Yellovich's run in the playoffs after we'd already signed them last year. Yeah. playing against 40-year-olds.

Yeah. I mean, when Enis Cantor was trying to play, I didn't hear any of our fan base going, you know, it's just not fair for him to play. We all wanted him to play. Absolutely. Okay. American Enis Cantor is here,

and his name is Dink. Dink, Pey. He goes to have put on the jersey. Let's just say his name is Ernest Cantor instead of Enis. Let's do it. I want him just until we can call, have a player by the name of, Dink. Yes, we were talking about, I learned yet last night, Kentucky's had a player named Dink before. Our quarterback in 1972 was named Dinky McKay. His stat line is amazing.

89 yards rushing, he was the quarterback, 874 yards passing. Sounds pretty good, right. Shannon, let me give you the bad part of the stat line. One touchdown, 15 interceptions. Oh, my. At least he's consistent at throwing to the other team. So that's why we struggled that year. We'll be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay.

Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Yeah, tell them. Tell them, Shannon. That's right. That's right. I'm not going to forget the men who died. I want Dick Pate to get that right that was given to him. Gladly stand up. Yes, and play for Kentucky and make some third.

What was your order of Trent Hawthorne? I go Braden Hawthorne. If Braden can play, he's my number one thing because he's already on the team. And I really don't understand the point of redshirting a guy with a lot of town. Right. So for me, and if the NCAA makes the rule, which I think they're going to make, which is you have five years to play five, then the red shirt isn't going to count anyway. Right?

He's already started his five. So all these reasons make Hawthorne the most. obvious. Then for me second would be dink. It's nothing against Trent Noah, but my view about Trent Noah, and I love him, and I want him to be a star, and I hope he kills it. But if Trent Noah was what Mark Pope thought, he'd already be playing. Right? So that's why it's the third. Now, if Mark thinks he can play and then he does, then he's second. But that's the way I look. I wonder what they saw on him when the season started when he was starting and playing a lot of minutes before he got hurt. I think Mark, and I think he'll set, this is my guess. I bet he says this

at the end of the year when we interview him. I bet he will say some version of he just read this team completely wrong. And he had one vision of this team that probably included Trent Noah, and then he had to switch the visions of it. That's what I'm going to guess he says. Do you agree? Yeah, and all summer he kept talking about how big the freshman to sophomore jump is, especially in his system and how he coaches him. And maybe we're seeing a little of that at Chandler, but it's very obvious. Noah did not make that jump that I think Mark Pope was counting on him to make, whether that's on Pope or whatever.

But he kept talking about how second-year players are so much better under him. Garrison and Noah did not. O.A, I think, is similar to what he was. Chandler didn't at first, but seems to be making it now. Is that fair to say? Yeah. He's seemed to a turn to corner here lately. Yeah.

And playing like we thought he would have all year when the season started. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, with 12 games left, considering the schedule, now how many do you think they win out of these 12? So they're 4-2, tied for a second in the SEC with Texas A&M in Florida, only one game ahead. How many games do we win in the last 12? When you look at the last 12, you realize how hard this is going to be.

That's a tough, tough go. So, I mean, honestly, if they split them, six and six, I think I probably would be happy. I think you should scream to the hilltops with joy if they go six and six. But go ahead. What about you? Yeah, six and six would be good considering what's ahead. That's what I was going to say, but I'll admit if I had to pick either five or seven, I'm probably picking five. I was going to pick five.

I'm going to pick five. And I actually think if Mark gets five, he still gets a D as general manager. But I think it would be a B as a coach. If he can get five with this group, if you had told me that when we start SEC play, we will not have Jayden Quaintons or Jalen Lowe or Cam Williams, I would have said to you we're winning three games. So if he could get to nine, which is what five would be, I actually think as a coaching job, that's pretty good.

As a GM job, it's still pretty bad. But as a coaching job, I actually think it would be pretty good. And that get him in the tournament? Five certainly gets him in the tournament. four maybe gets him in the tournament three does not that's the way I look at it nine and nine you're in

eight and ten you're probably in seven and what 11 you're not you gotta win Saturday gotta win Saturday gotta be Oklahoma at home however long we win that game then they play at South Carolina South Carolina is pretty bad

and then you just hope you win one of the home games against the good teams Georgia, Vandy, Tennessee again. You got to hope you win. Florida, you got to hope you win one of those at home. And you can. You can, absolutely. You can't, you win, though.

Just beat Tennessee and Knoxville. Why can't you beat them? Why can't you? All right, who's up first? Isaiah. Isaiah, go ahead. Hey, just a couple things to think about. With Mark Pope, everybody who's kind of getting ready to, you know,

say he's not ready for the job, not the man for the job. But so if one of these two things don't happen, we don't get dense, or Hawthor doesn't remove his red shirt, I think a lot of people will be upset, and if we do one of those two things, I think it builds up some goodwill, especially for Mark Pope, if it goes well.

Another thing to think about is if we do get this dink guy, I think if we don't start to kill it in the recruiting area, that is kind of like a safety net for Mark Pope, you know, if we can go get these G-League guys. You know, say they're not all-stars to go to the NBA, but they're at least decent college players. I think that could be very... Well, that's a great point, and I appreciate the call.

Remember, I don't think there will be G-League guys in the future. I think this G-League thing is, like, the next year or two. Because I think most of these dudes are going to go to college now because they can get paid. The guys went to the G-League because they couldn't get paid. Now they can get paid. So I think they're going to college. It's an interesting point, though, Drew, if you took him and you got him to stay until next year, it helps you with the fact that you've been striking out in recruiting, right?

Yeah, if you can get him commit to being a full-time player next season, I mean, that's like going out and getting a five-star in this class. You know, that's a dude that's putting up 18 a game in the G-League. I would make that equivalent of a five-star coming out of high school. Maybe that's how you recruit him. Recruiting for a year and a half. We want you for a year and a half. Yeah.

8-9-28027. It's interesting, Shannon. Phone lines are empty. Well, when we win, nobody was talking about it. When you win, when you lose, everybody wants the misery. Yeah, I mean, I, I mean. I want us to win because you do get more listeners when you win, but you oddly get less calls, which I think is a weird, it's a weird thing.

They want to talk weather. They want to talk weather. A lot of people want me to just switch it to weather. But I'm, this is a UK basketball show. This is not a weather show. I think a lot of people wish it was a weather show. Well, next hour it will be. And I think I probably make my point about why we don't stick to sports by the feedback we've gotten on the weather.

thing. Like I got more comments about my segment talking about the weather people yesterday, including from people who don't know who any of these people are. So I do think we do weather well, probably better than we do sports. I have a lot of friends to listen to the show, and they don't text me, hey, I can't wait for your Texas breakdown. But this morning, it's all, we are so pumped for weather talk today. Like, everybody's all in on the weather talk. Can I give you one hint on the weather? Yeah. I'm hearing through the great, Vine that there's already been one prominent weather person telling folks friends of theirs that they will not participate and I will say to you with love because I'm I'm

coming with love I'm not coming with hate sure love in your heart whether whether affects us all does right whether you decide to be part of this or not I think it's important for for people to know, are you going to be, are you willing to put your prediction where your mouth if you refuse to participate, I think you are saying to the American people, at least the ones in Kentucky, I don't stand by my weather. And if you don't succeed, that's okay. We all make mistakes, but do we pick the scores of every game? Yes. And we're never right. Did you see Mario's yesterday? He put that on a graphic and put it on the internet. That video still exists of me saying and we can go nine and three and make the playoff in the football and football and people play in the

video of me saying to tyson chicken thank you tyson chicken you know how many arkansas people send me that video mario that's on you but it stays with me i feel like whether people should have that happen as well and it's all for fun and you might be literally looking at the charity of your choice looking it in the eye and saying you don't deserve any money that's what you're doing by not participate. That's what I think this, the, the peer pressure now of the other weather guys all stepping up and doing it for their charity. You want to be the one guy that's not going to step up and do it for your charity? Mario, by the way, is creating a graphic today that as we get the predictions in, we will have check marks or X's. Okay.

So not the predictions, just whether they're participating in. No, because I don't want to give anybody the head start. Uh-huh. So if, like, somebody does nine and a half inches at first, you don't need other people to be able to plug. lot there's around. Yeah. So I'm not putting the predictions out until I get in all predictions. What do they do?

Well, we can talk about it. I'm thinking noon tomorrow. I'm thinking they've got to be done by noon tomorrow. It gives people a chance to get their final models in. The morning models are always good. The morning model can come out and they can send them in. But the key is today I'm going to get commitments to predict. So the first thing Mario is going to be doing the check is, did you commit to predict?

Well, can you tell us, we already have a Notre Dame here that's, opting out. Are they Louisville or Lexington? Can you hint? I'm not, I haven't gotten the word from them. I don't want to put their pressure on. I can tell you who has already opted in. The first yes I got was by far the biggest star, Ryan Hall, y'all.

Oh, wow. Ryan Hall, y'all was the first yes. He ain't scared. Ryan Hall, y'all committed on Twitter. I've had one commit to me privately, but we have to decide whether or not they're in. And then we, the public, public, you, the listener, have to help us get these people in, right?

It's going to be you that makes them do it. The peer pressure. But first we have to decide who we invite, and that's a conversation for a living. Okay. Good tease. Peerats is locally owned and operated. Appliances, furniture, mattress, or has served the area for over 75 years. But even after 75 years, Pirates keeps getting better.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was very excited. Somebody sent me something that said, Matt, you got nominated for Best Radio Host in Lexington. I was like, oh, that's very nice. Let's go look at the contestants. There were 14 other contestants. Are there 15 radio shows in Lexington?

I can't name any. Not local, probably. Well, there are at least 14 other ones besides this one. Wow. Did they count Fondbaum? It was like, it was people I didn't know. It was like Alan Cutler's cousin. It was just anybody.

So it was nice to be nominated, but I feel like all you have to do is be on the radio. A lot of competition, though. Ryan, you were not nominated. Well, I hope it would be you and Shannon the dude. You're my two favorite Lexington Radio personality. You get the news from him. We'll take a break. We're right back.

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Thank you. It's an honor. Mario nominated for Best Influencer in Lexington. He's so influential. Mario, can I read you the other nominees for Best Influencer? This is your competition. Bradley Marlowe. I think I've seen him.

I've seen him. He's like a culture guy. Erica Bivens. Gathered Living Glitter and Jingham Gotta beat them I know them Kentucky Taste Buds

I know them Landon Marsh don't know him Lex Eats Don't know him Lexington latest Don't know him Lexington Fort Littles Maria Montgomery

You're gonna have a hard time with her You don't I don't think you dress saucy enough to compete with Maria Montgomery Marie McLean from Bluegrass Blog Mario Maitland Mitchell Christian Designs Porky's Pitchie's

What's Porky's picks? I do not know. Sassin in the Bluegrass and Whitney Pinell. There you go. I follow several of those. And then finally, the number one category, Best Lex and Tony. I want to hear the nominees. Ada Lemon.

Don't know. It's got your saying that last name. Definitely not my family. Amanda Matthews, she's a sculptor. Chef Ouita Michelle. Nope. It's got a bunch of restaurants. Craig Skinner.

Craig Skinner. Hey. Fred Mills, the manager of the Kentucky Theater. Mark Pope. Mark Pope. Heard of him. Matt Jones. Yeah.

Steve Zon. Tonya Poindexter, Walter Tunis, Will Stein. He's already nominated. He just got here. He's living in an air beat. He's already one of our best Lexington. He's probably been here six days. Yeah, really.

Come on. How's he already the best Lexington? He just got here. Does he even have a house yet? And Wiley Caudill. He does the blue roses. I'm for all those shatiddick. Will Stein.

I mean, come on. I mean, come on. You got to let him. Driver's license. Got to let him be here for a couple weeks. Yeah, I think you need to have a permanent Kentucky address, bare minimum, to be the best license to me. He doesn't even have a license yet.

He can't be doing that. They're living in an Airbnb, but he is the biggest UK basketball fan. So maybe that does qualify him. Yeah. Well, we'll see about that. 859-2-80-22-87 who's up first shanette deke deke go ahead deke what's up guys i just want to ask has anybody noticed uh marino's lucky charm he's had last four games i already know what you're going to say the same shirt yep because he's has the same stain or

okay that is very noticeable by you one other person brought that up to me on the post game show Drew, you said you noticed it too. He has the same stain on his shirt. It's a black spot, almost like remember when Jalen Brown got his hair on a, it's like a big black thing on his sleeve, and it's been there for four games. So you're saying Moreno's T-shirt, it must be a lucky shirt because he's not washing the stain off. I hope it's for luck, because last night I was telling people, we are in Nike school. How do we have one under shirt per player?

But if it is lucky and he's been on a good run, that's different. He might be taking the view, Shannon, a former WW, wrestler Vader who would not wrestle he would not clean his tight he was so stinky everybody nobody and no one wanted to wrestling because he smelled so bad and he used that as his intimidation maybe moreno's doing the same with the t-shirt don't wash it it'll help people not

stay off of you know I would say stay with it because he's playing great he had another good game last night we have six assists last night is a big man so I think we have to see in the old miss game does he come out with the same stain on his shirt I appreciate the call yeah I'm glad the caller brought that up I almost led with that over the big guy being the worst person I've ever seen play basketball. I want to say it's the, I'm playing my mind. I think it's the right sleeve. Right underneath like kind of the armpit over there.

It's kind of like the side here. It's a big spot. And I noticed it right away last night thinking, how do we not have laundry at UK? But maybe he's just feeling well in that show. I like it. Maybe it's a lucky shirt. Who's next? Matt.

Matt. Matt, go ahead, Matt. Hey, good morning. So is Make America great at basketball again? Is that Magaba? Magab. Make America. Make American basketball. Magga.

Make American basketball great again. It's hard for me to say because it goes against my entire core to say those letters. But MABGA. All right. So my real question is this. What does the annexation of Greenland do to the landscape of Greenland basketball? Yeah, they don't have a lot of basketball players there, I don't think. so I appreciate the call.

I don't think that'll help a lot. I'm serious, though, about these. It shows you how much old heads about college basketball freak out about nothing by the overreaction to that Baylor kid. Everybody lost their minds about that Baylor kid, and he's averaging like four points a game and it's like the ninth man. Why did it matter so much to people? Because this is just so chaotic,

and just the feel of now we're just letting pros come in. Man, it already feels weird. But they're not good. But they're not good. Now, maybe this Alabama kid will be good, but I don't think he's going to be good, too. A G league player come to college. I can see why people would think what the hell's going on. Yeah.

I used the example, Ryan, you're a member of the 88 basketball team, the 88 Olympic team. Well, we kept sending college guys to the Olympics, and then eventually, when the other team starts sending their pros, we lost, and we had to start sending our pros, too. Like, isn't that just the way things happened? That led to the dream team in 92, because we got to be with them. We got like the bronze medal in a year. But you remember how much people went crazy about, oh, we shouldn't do pros. And then the dream team is now considered one of the coolest things that happened in sports. Like I said, it doesn't pass the smell test with me.

But if the rules allow it, why wouldn't you pursue it if another player goes down? Kentucky's going to have to replenish the roster somehow. Well, and there's a very good chance with 12 games to go that there's going to be a guy get hurt. Now, they might only sit out a game or two, but we're going to have people in 12 games. Someone's going to get hurt. So it's going to be even more necessary we do this, right? It is. And I don't mean to be that guy, but let's say someone adds someone in two weeks.

Again, like, is school even like, are we pretending anymore? Drop ads Friday. Okay. Just drop ads front. I'm not someone that had great attendance myself. But, you know, at some point there's semesters. It's always been interesting to me, Ms. Mr. I took English 101 three times that you're the one that always brings up class.

Oh, I felt dinosaurs, dinosaurs, past, fail. Like, I'm not one to talk about. about going to class. I'm just saying as far as putting people on a college team in February, at least there's a charade. Do you feel dinosaurs and disasters is like the final, how are dinosaurs doing now? And you were like, great. It wasn't the dinosaurs that got me.

I was good on it. The disasters are what they're wrong. I should have split it up. Taking them both at once was just too much more. The disasters is too hard for you. I understand. All right. We'll talk about the weather challenge next here on KSR.

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