KSR - 2026-02-13- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

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Ah, great crowd here at Don Franklin Otto in Radcliffe, Kentucky, and Hardin County. an awesome crowd this morning as we are on the precipice of Kentucky at Florida in Gainesville. You can give shout on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line 859-2-80-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass Tax Machine is 772-744-2524, and this is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, he'll make them pay. Ryan Lim and Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude and Matt Jones. And we have never done a show in Radcliffe, Kentucky in Hardin County. This is North Hardin Territory.

And Ryan, what a great crowd here this morning. Pull up. You never know what to expect when you go to a new place. Very rare now that we do shows in sort of towns we've never been. Do it here. What an awesome crap. Yeah, we'd been down the road to Elizabethtown several times. But it's been a minute so we've even been to Elizabethtown.

So our first time here at Radcliffe. And look at this crowd, man. They arrived early, loud, ready to go. You got military base. What do you say? Do we have a game today? When I walked in, it's like a pep rally. Yeah, I think if you would take out, no offense to them, but for one game, move out the Rupp regulars and bring in Hardin County and Radcliffe in the Rupp Arena.

We might, Drew, have that home court advantage we like to talk about. I mean, we get great shows on our Friday remotes, but I was about halfway through the pre-show on my way here, and I could hear him in the background like Ratcliffe is bringing it today, so it's very exciting to be here. We're not even serving alcohol or anything. They're just naturally that enthusiastic. Definitely hollering. I've seen a lot of paraphernalia. Somebody showed me a picture from 1966 of Adolf Rupp that had been drawn and he signed. Yeah, a charcoal drawing that was signed by Adolf Rupp.

That's pretty valuable. That's exactly right. And I saw a postcard from 1910 from my hometown of Middlesbrough, Kentucky, and almost everybody in here wearing blue. So it's very exciting. We are day before Valentine's Day, got the 98 title. Day before Valentine's Day. UK, Florida tomorrow.

Ryan Lemon has been furiously doing cameos for people for Valentine's Day. Did I hear the orders went up? I was hoping they'd go down. No. My checkbook thanks you for mentioning that in the show yesterday, because I did about 10 of them last night. I got another one this morning soon as we pulled up here. That's a good way.

that's a good way to reward Ryan Lemon. Pays for the Valentine's dinner tomorrow night. And pre-pouch your significant other. Yeah, because that's what women really want is Ryan speaking in his creepy voice, taking his shirt off in cameos. Apparently, some do.

I would have thought the answer was none, but apparently there's at least 10 men who think their women want that. I heard Billy ordered one through Cameo. Oh, my God. Why don't you just do it your... Why did you give Cameo that money? Billy, just sent Billy the video directly working out.

You've got to see the one that he did for Billy. I like that he's your customer. Ryan rips his shirt off. He rips his shirt off. sure off of this cameo. Like, what is he doing? That one's special just for Marissa. I was afraid to do it.

Oh. Yeah, I was afraid to do it for the public or there. They'd be knocking my door down. All the women can't leave their man and come to my house. She's so over the top. Do you trust Marissa? Trust Marissa. Yes.

I understand. Yeah, so she's engaged to Billy, so. Yeah, why would you leave that? Why would you leave that masculine man? Yeah. For this. Why? All right.

All right. Dude. That's my personal space. You got a calm down. We are here at Don Franklin. If you need options, Don Franklin has 29 stores, 6,000 vehicles across the bluegrass, and they're all over the bluegrass. They are here. They go to towns throughout the state, and great selection here.

And like I said, a great crowd. North Hardin is the high school here. Tell me, Ryan Limit about all that. This place has produced a ton of athletes. Andre Woodson comes to my mind at first. One of the great Kentucky quarterbacks came from here. But you're the high school guy. Who else?

We just had our starting safety for the last three years. Jordan Lovett. He's from North Hardin High School. But the guy that probably has the most fame is a former Chicago bear, Todd Perry, played in the NFL after UK for like 10 years. I didn't know Todd Perry was from here. Yeah. Todd Perry was on those good bears team.

Yes, yeah. Offensive linemen for Bill Curry and went and played in the NFL forever. So I'm sure there are other, but those are probably the three main ones that come to my mind right now. Oh, it's a baseball player. Adcock? Yes. How about that one pulling out and out of my rear? See, it's crazy. It's crazy. Like, you don't know the vice president, but you do know baseball players from North Harder.

Yeah, he played in the big leagues. I can't remember his first name. His last name was Adcock. Nathan Adcock. That's right. Good for you. There we go. There's a new energy he has that's a level. We got to get up to. I think he injected himself with some North Hardin juice. I don't know what that is, but he's got it going on and ready to go. and I hope Kentucky has this level of enthusiasm because they go to Florida, tomorrow, 11.5 point underdog in Gainesville. We were talking about when Kentucky has been a double-digit underdog in recent years. They were a double-digit underdog, I think, a couple years ago at Tennessee.

I was there. Yeah, and we won. It was 11.5, too. And we had talked about at that game that the amount of times Kentucky's been a double-digit underdog is very rare. couple times in the COVID year. And then I think before that, they had not been a double-digit underdog since Billy. So this is a very rare thing. We're probably talking since Billy Gillespie five times, maybe twice, maybe once or twice in the COVID year, at Tennessee,

and maybe four times. Maybe, maybe this. So this is a rare opportunity. I'm not confident we win, but I, I am confident that it's going to be a game. I think Kentucky's going to go out there and play for Denzel Aberdeen, Ryan. I think he's returning to his place. He's going to get a bad reception.

They were mad at Florida. And that's going to be interesting to see how he handles it. You know, he was projected to be maybe one of their starting guards for him to leave a defending national championship team. It did. I think it hurt their feelings. But we all know Kentucky's going to start slow. They're probably going to be trailer at halftime. But they can't do that here.

They can't do that here. I think if they start slow here, you're looking at a Vandy situation. Like it can get away from you. You know, the way they've come back in these games, Drew, is that they've made teams shoot threes and they've missed. Florida's going to get points in the paint. So they're not going to sit and settle for bad shots. You cannot fall behind here or you've got a chance for it to get away from.

No, not at all. Florida, the last four games have been so hot. Their margin of victories like 28, and they have just been jumping on teams early. They went up like 10-0 on Georgia. The Alabama game that was on a Sunday a few weeks ago just absolutely killed them from the jump. So especially that environment will be big. You can't fall behind in this one.

It's been fun coming back in Knoxville and LSU, but I don't think you could expect that in Gainesville if you fall behind. A couple of eggs very important there, Shannon. They are averaging in their last four games, 26-point margin of victory. And in all of those games, they've been up like 17 to half. Like they've been just coming out and blitzing people. We have been getting blitzed early in games.

You just, I think you get to halftime, and if you're within a handful of points, I think that's a win, Shannon, and then you can see what you can do in the second time. Well, I'll tell you one thing, though, I'm outing this team because the LSU game, I counted them out, the Tennessee game, I didn't think they were going to come back.

Arkansas, time after time, proven they can come back from deficits. You're right, it's going to be tough to do this if they get down at Florida. But I think you take that 11-5, bet it now, because that is going to move as we get closer to the game. I guarantee you game time, it will not be 11 and a half tomorrow. I mean, it would be interesting to see because, like, all right, so if you're to do the nerd basketball, like look at numbers. The numbers, most years, including last year for Kentucky,

our numbers were sometimes better than our record. In the Cal years, even last year with Pope. The numbers are, the numbers hate us. Like, I guess our numbers are not good. We are lower in the, uh, in all the sort of stuff. statistical rankings than we are in the polls. And Florida, the numbers love because they blitz people. So it'll be interesting to see, you know, I would say a lot of betters would look at it and

think Florida inviting them should be favored more. And, you know, they've done it before. They did it at Arkansas. They got out on Arkansas early, kind of took the crowd out of a little bit. Isn't that the model for the game what we did in Arkansas? I mean, that's the model for the game. Like we, Arkansas's crowd, with the exception of when Doug Shows decided to get all hoity-to-y, with the exception of that, we kept that.

crowd out of the game. And even when Arkansas made their run with those technicals, Kentucky punched back. You know, they showed me a lot of fighting a lot of heart to that point. And that is, that is the model for tomorrow. Get out in front early, keep the crowd out of it, try to maintain that league and hold off because Florida's going to make a run. At some point, they will make a run. You just got to hold it off.

I feel like this fan base really, I don't know. Oddly, Drew, I think it started with the win at Tennessee, but then the Vandy thing kind of brought it back. then we won at Arkansas. But I feel like since that win against Tennessee at home, I feel like the fan base has embraced this team in a way that they really hadn't since the Champions Classic in the Louisville game. Do you agree with that?

Yeah, and I've been calling it like a cautious optimism. Like we're starting to get excited and we think we're good, but we're also in the back of our mind like at any moment they could get drilled and have another bad game because they've been so inconsistent. So we're starting to get the excitement going, but we're aware that there could still be more duds just because of how Vandy specifically week and a half ago. Here's the thing, though, two weeks ago,

if you were to tell me that we're playing Florida for a game for first place in the SEC, I would tell you you're crazy. So the fact that they're even at this point with the injuries and everything, I think has been a great job. We were 0 and 2 in the SEC playing Mississippi State at home, and if you remember, we fell down like 13 in that game.

And then we came back, and then even LSU, we're down 17, and you get that shot. It's a completely different situation. I also think this team has started Ryan to become likable. Yeah. Like I don't really think they were likable early in the year. They didn't seem to really enjoy each other.

They were always scowls on everybody's faces. They didn't look like. And now you start to see smiles. You start to see guys who seem to get along. And then people's personality traits, which can make you mad, become quirky and funny. Like, take Brandon Garrison. When we're playing bad,

most of Brandon Garrison's traits make me mad. But then when we win and we play well, and he runs out on the court and his arms start flailing, I go, oh, there's Brandon Garrison. You know, he's just doing Brandon Garrison things. I think that's kind of, I think our fan base is like happiness about the guys have changed. You know, I'm guilty of it too.

I said on this show, I don't really like this team. And now I'm, you know, just their heart and their fight, the way they come back. And Brandon Garrison is a great example because when things get going rough, when he gets up a little chesty, little mouthy, I like that now. I still don't want him to ever dribble, ever, not one time, please. What's the stat for every time he has a – are we undefeated when he gets a technical? 10 and 0 when he gets a technical.

Yeah. Why not get one every game, Brandon? Slow down. I don't really like him dribbling. I don't really like him passing. To be honest with you, I just want – and I definitely don't want him to shoot three. Just get a rebound. Just get it.

Rebound. You fight. If you'll go rebound and fight, you can have one fistfight a game. That's the way I look at it. Look at it at it their front court tomorrow. I would pour all the gasoline in the Brandon Garrison tank. Maybe put a little gunpowder in it and say, whatever you want to do, man, have at it. We're not stopping you.

Yeah. We are unleashing you today on Florida. Do whatever you got to do. I don't know how much you guys have watched Florida. But, Drew, this is as good a front line as you'll see in college basketball in 2026. I mean, they got three guys who can. play and they all do it differently. One of them is an outside shooter. One of them takes it to the basket and can score. And one of them's a big bulk that just rebounds and knocks people out

the way. You don't see in college basketball a team with three bigs as good as these three are. Yeah, one's a lottery pick. I mean, they go six nine, six eleven, six eleven, and they're starting five. And then Chenealo, the center. I wrote a post yesterday comparing him to Oscar. It's not like he's a good rebounder, so he's kind of like Oscar. Like their metrics are almost identical. the rebounding percentages per game, offensive, defensive. You know, Oscar had a big personality. We love them for other reasons. But simply from a rebounding standpoint, they have an Oscar, and we're on the wrong end of it.

We know how it was having him where you get a defensive stop and you're guaranteed the rebound or second chance on a bad shot. Florida is going to have that luxury tomorrow. We're going to have to witness it from the other side. But it's like they have an Oscar, but then they also have a bam. I have three that could be a lead. Yeah, I mean, they've got like all of them. So our bigs, our four bigs, Ryan, have to, first of all, they're all going to play.

Yes, they will. They're all going to play. Moreno, Yelovich, Garrison, and DeBate are all going to play. And they have to play well. This is a game where it would be nice to have Jaden Quains. We'll talk about him later, but he's not playing. Those four bigs have to show up because we're going to get in foul trouble like they're all going to have to play. And Florida's even got a fourth guy.

They bring off the bench who's a big guy, hang Glockton or something like that, H-A-N, there's a G in there. I'm not sure I'm not trying to pronounce it. It's a G in there somewhere. There's a G in that name. He's a big guy that comes in and push people around. So the question is, have you seen enough physicality from Marino and Yelovich and Brandon Garrison? Because I think Diabate can match him.

But those other three guys can they bring it? We'll see. And our guards have to make threes. This is odd. This is a game where I actually think we have the advantage in the back court. Yeah. And we need to use it. Kentucky's biggest playbook is Don Franklin.

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Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Right live here in Radcliffe. Text machine 772-774-5254. One person says, Matt, that's as loud of a crowd over the radio as I've ever heard at one of your shows. Well done, folks.

Yes. I would say. Sounds like an SEC tournament crowd almost. That's what I was going to say. I mean, like if you leave aside when we have hundreds of people, like at the SEC tournament. Yeah, I mean, this is one, when I think back over the years, Ryan, what do you think? Like, I remember Paducah one time we had a crazy job.

Oh, yes. Because we were stabbing that basketball, the Ripitino one. But this one's got to be up there, don't you think? That's why I love it when we go to towns we've never been because people bring it, and they're excited. I mean, they're excited to stand up here and watch us make fools of ourselves. So what a great morning it is? One person writes, Matt, are you worried about Aberdeen trying to do too much against his old team?

Yes. But I will say, Drew, early in the year, I was worried about Aberdeen trying to do too much every game. And he's been a lot, a lot better about that. So I'm going to hope he plays like he has in the last 10 games. He is the underrated star of the last 10 games. O.A's obviously scored to most points. Chandler's made the big shots in the big place. But I think Aberdeen has been really, really good in the last eight or 10 games.

Yeah, his splits from the conference to the non-conference are night and day different. He's shooting it well, not to be. turning over, getting assists. You worry about him trying to do too much, but at the same time, I think the only way you can win is if the back court has a great game. That's true. I don't see you win in the front court battle,

even if Marino, Garrison, those guys play well. I think the way Kentucky wins is Aberdeen and Chandler need to... How many points do O.A., Aberdeen and Chandler need to combine for tomorrow for us to win? 60. 60 is what I was going to say. Wow. I think it might be 60. Yeah.

I mean, maybe 55. I mean, I think you got... I think we're going to have to score 80 to win, and maybe more, but let's just say 80. And if you score 80, the guards, maybe not 60, but maybe like 56, 55. I think it's going to have to be something like that. And the thing about Aberdeen, he's not taking those crazy bad shots anymore, and he's not turning the ball over. Like the other day, he had zero turnovers, and he played, like, over 30 minutes. I mean, the guy's doing a great job at point guard.

Maybe 60 if you throw in Jasper. I was going to say, if you could take the whole back court. Yeah. call it 60. Always been solid for 21, 22, just about every game here. It was interesting. I saw somebody had listed yesterday the single season scoring leader since 2000 in the SEC. So how many points a game in the SEC since 2000?

There are two Kentucky players on the list, by the way, for most points in a single season in the SEC since 2000. Ryan, let's do a little trivia. Can you guess what two UK players are on that list? We had number one and number 15. Do you know who either of those were? Malik Munk? No. Jamal Murray?

No. Antonio Reeves. Antonio Reeves was 15. 15. So again, he's going to be an underrated player in UK history. Get ready for another 10 years of me saying that because he's 15. But who's the number one score in the SEC for a season since 2000? Jody Meeks is number one.

Jody Meeks is number one. The reason I bring this up is Otega Owey, if you're not. you just did SEC play would be on that list. Would he really? He would. Now, if you consider the non-conference, he will not be on the race. But if you only consider Shannon conference play, he'd be on the last. I mean, he's been solid.

Even when he was averaging 12 and 13 earlier in the year, I feel like we were a little tough on him, but now we see, like, that he can, you know, average 20 points a game. What he's been doing in the conference has been crazy. One person writes, Matt, what if we had beat in North Carolina, Missouri? We'd only have five losses and be 19 and 5. Yeah. true but we've won some games

I mean we hit a malachi Morano shot we came from way behind against Tennessee I mean twice so like I kind of think Drew we are where we're supposed to be I mean yes we dropped a couple we should have but we probably won a couple we shouldn't have so I think we're about where we're supposed to be yeah if we play the what if what if game I think we're a little more

fortunate I don't know if we can what if Gonzaga Louisville those early wins but then LSU Tennessee so close to win but as of that a lot. It's not just luck. They've found a way to close games. Now you've got to stay in it at the end to have that opportunity, but they've done it so many different ways. With clutch threes, rebounding, the steel and slam, or still and score at Tennessee to take the lead. They just keep doing it over over. It's not like a little fluky. The Chandler to Morano pass felt like a little bit of luck there. Yeah, but I'm saying that that took some luck. The rest of the plays since then are them just making

the winning play and stopping the other team. Did you see the journey video yesterday? Do you know what? Do you know I'm talking about, not the musical group, but the UK. The UK, and they're on the road. The UK basketball. So they did one for the Tennessee game. And it's really good. I think they do a great job with those. I wish they would promote them more.

But it's like 11 minutes and it sort of shows behind the scenes of those games, etc. But here's the thing I thought was interesting. It was clear in watching the coaches talk to the players, players talk after the game, and listen to them to talk to each other. Ryan, they're taking this view. it's us against the world. Which teams do this all the time.

Yes. But they're taking this view of everybody dismissed us, the writers, even some of our fans, all we got to each other, us against the world. Do you like that as a strategy? I think a lot of teams have done it. I think this group is really doing it. And I don't think they're wrong that people didn't believe them.

I also think people had a reason to not believe in them. but do you like that as a strait? I do for this team, absolutely, because we were all counting them out. They're getting blown out by Gonzaga and they looked horrible. I think at that point of the season, we're all like counting them out. So it worked for Stoops. Mark Stoops kind of had that attitude during his best season. Well, they had it the last couple years and it didn't work.

No, but during his good years he did, you know, he was always better when he had a chip on his shoulder. I like the fact that maybe Pope and these guys have a little chip on their shoulder right now. Yeah, a lot of teams different identities, you know, you can have a smooth year, all that. This team just keeps taking lumps. I mean, whether it be injuries or just horrible performance, but they just keep getting up, and it's clear that they've embraced that. I forgot the quote he was using. He kept saying something about, I've had a lot of storms, and it rains.

Yeah, it was like, we've had a lot of storms, but I have an umbrella. Yeah, get in my umbrella. Yeah, it was something like that. They had a lot of rain. Michael McLean, who's one of the assistants, gives a really good speech, and he's like, storms are coming, but the sun is here, and I'm lower. How inspiration, everything's beautiful. He did it better.

He did it better than I did, Chairman. Yeah, well, I mean, I like the us against the world mentality. I don't think you want to direct that at your fans, although our fans were booing them if you go back to the Gonzaga game. So maybe there's a little bit of... Wasn't only the Gonzaga. I mean, we booed them. I can think of three times.

At home. Well, it was Mississippi State at home. I think they got off to a bad start. They got booed against Gonzaga. They got booed Mississippi State. Yeah. And maybe even got booed Missouri. Whatever it takes to inspire.

of them to play the way they're playing. I don't care what kind of mentality they have, I guess, you know? Yeah, I mean, look, these fans, everybody, we would love for them to come in here and give everybody a hug, but at the end of the game, the thing that's going to make everybody the most happy is if they win, Ryan, so if that's what it takes for them to do it, then that's what you do. And we were so disappointed because not only they were losing, it's how they were losing. Now we're excited because they're not just winning, it's how they're winning, fighting and coming back and showing a lot of hard.

I think we love that part of our cats. Let's just say we get demolished tomorrow. What does that take for your seat? I mean, we still can have a good year. Tomorrow's a throwaway for me. I think Florida is just really, really, really, really good. Tomorrow's a throwaway to me. When we play them at home, that might be different.

But for me, tomorrow is a throwaway. Hopefully we win, though. We'll take a break. Barry back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Rick is in studio.

Rick's looking something up for me. How you doing, Rick? A lot of people miss you. You haven't been on here in a bit. Well, because of all the snow and stuff Oh, did you not? Were you not able to get out of your house? Oh, yeah, plenty of snow over there.

It's gone now, though. Okay, well, good. That's good. By the, my back hill in Lexington, that ice is going to be there forever. I'm not going to be, I just, I'm now having to walk out the front part, like it's a, it's a, the sun doesn't shine there. It will be there in August.

So are you still spider manning over, like, from your neighbor's house? I just gave up yesterday. They parked in a different place. I can't Spider-Man anymore. I'm going to fall and hurt myself if I'm not going to. So I'm just, hopefully it'll be better by next week. We'll see. Because the sun doesn't shine there either, so it's harder for it to melt.

You know, I have to ask this. You've got stairs that go downstairs and you can go out your garage door. Yeah, but then there's the ice. Like when I go out the garage, it's all ice. But is it not on the, it better to go down the hill? I could figure it out. I mean, I'm not an idiot. It's all ice.

The whole thing, the grass is ice too, because the sun doesn't shine over there. It's all ice. Everything. Why are you looking at me like that? I live there. I know. I just wouldn't be trying to go down the hill. What would you do?

I'd take my chances on the driveway because the driveway is all ice. We need to hire somebody at this point to shovel it out for you. I'd say everything is ice. Well, mine has too, but I just walk really a little bitty steps. Yeah, you come try mine. You have a flat yard. You have a flat. You're flat.

Mine is. My driveway is sloped also. No. Yes, she is. Mario just pulled up on it. Drew, you've been to both places. Compared to Matt's, I don't think yours is half a step. But we're talking about mine.

It's good. You drive me nuts. I love you, but you drive me nuts. Here's a reality in Kentucky right now. If you can't find affordable child care or a place to live, then you can't get a job and you can't keep it. So thousands of child care spots are needed. And when parents can't find child care spots. They're forced to cut hours.

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All right. I mean, if you watched it, it was my cousin Vinnie again for the second straight time. They made the argument, Ole Miss. The case came down to was Trinidad Chamble was hurt in 2022? Because if he was hurt, he gets to play again. If he's not, he's not. So they have this long argument. Then the judge goes into the chambers, says I'll be back with a decision.

Okay. Comes back an hour later. and he says, I've written the decision. I'm going to read it. He read for an hour and 15 minutes. Now, let me just say, Shannon, you can't tell me he wrote that during that hour. No, absolutely not. He did it before the hearing even started.

Yes, he did. And if I out appeal, I'd go, there's no way that he listened to that. He already had it written. Nevertheless, he read the decision. It took him an hour and 15 minutes, and he read everywhere. You talk about a guy enjoying him. moment in the sun. So he finishes it.

He rules that Trinidad Chambles can play. Honestly, I don't carry it the way. We don't even play Old Miss next year, right? No, I don't think so. It doesn't matter. What I did think was interesting was, as part of the case, Joe Judge, who is one of Old Miss's, is he the defensive coordinator? I believe so.

I believe so. He gets up to testify. And I guess he's asked questions about being a coach and what he says to his players. And in the process, he starts to get involved in parenting issues. And I wanted to see what you all thought about this. Here was Joe Judge in court yesterday in this case in Mississippi. But we would have to educate. This is always a tough conversation that happens.

It's not a popular English and truth. We would have to educate significant others who may have been pregnant during the season or going to have a baby during the season. And you'd have to educate them on, you have this baby in the middle season, that father has to play good football. It's a day-by-day production business. He has to be ready to perform and go out there and play. And what I say that is, you need to let him sleep.

He needs to be in another room attached. You can explain to the mother like, hey, listen, he ain't waking up for him in that feedings. After the season, he's full metal jacket. He'll do whatever you want with him. And he can change every diaper. And in season, he's got to have a different priority. Now,

now. All right. So that, he basically says that he meets with his players, wives or baby mamas during the season and tells them if you have a baby, the player will not feed him or change his diapers during the season because he's locked in. As the father, only current father in the room, Ryan, how do you think that's going to go over with these mothers and wives that he says during the season? It's going to go over like a lead balloon.

I mean, the dude is telling these people to pick football over family. That's going to lose every single time. There's not one mother, sister, baby mama going to take his side on this. Nobody's going to think it's a good idea that he wants you to pick football over family. I would never let my kid play for that guy. Really? Never. No way. Family's more important than a football game.

I know people don't, you know, they get mad at me sometimes when I say something like that. But who disagrees with that? Nobody should disagree with that. I don't think anybody would say football is more important than your family. No, you got to be a dad first. I can't believe he said this. I can't believe he said it. First of all, how wildly inappropriate, Drew, is it if he's meeting with people's mothers?

Like, if he goes and meets, especially, let's say they're not married. Is he just going to these random, presumably college-age women and saying, hey, by the way, the father is not doing anything with the child, not, you know, feeding the baby, etc. I couldn't believe he said that under oath in court. That's why it's not even the mother part of it for me. He's literally telling these dads to ignore their infant babies for the first, you know, important stages of their life. Like, listen, let them handle it. You just don't get, you make sure you're asleep.

Any father-child time, we can't be having that right now. Yeah, it was like, the coach in Seattle who was like, I give my baby, I give my kid 20 minutes every day. 20 minutes, wow. How gracious of you? Dad at every Thursday. The head hour. The head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, this didn't get enough attention. He was like every Thursday I block off 30 minutes to be with my child.

I hate Shannon when these coaches. This is what drives me crazy. We've got a room. How many people in here are dads? Okay. I hate when coaches act like football somehow is different than these folks. Yeah. These people have to work.

Exactly. Right? They still see their kids. Are you telling me a college football player's job is more? important than people who are out working. No. That, like, somehow they can't see that. Like, the average father has to do this.

Why does a football player not have to do it? They act like they're in the military in World War II. It's football. You don't get a special set of circumstances. You're not practicing or looking at game film 24 hours a day. You've got plenty of time to spend with your kids. And I would think there would be a lot of baby mamas taking their baby dad into the transfer portal after hearing this.

Oh, wow. Look at Shannon. Good line. I just, if it's true that he goes and meets with the wives, that is so inappropriate. And I, but, you know, it's funny, they took this case and it ended up now people talking about this other thing. He's a former NFL coach, too, coach with the Giants. Who's up first, Rick?

God, Byrd up first. Bird. Go ahead, Byrd. What's going on, guys? So, as we all know, Hope has had some injury problems the last two years. Do you think he's considered playing on a grass field to prevent injuries moving forward? Yeah, I mean, that was, I know in your head you thought that would be a really good joke. But this is basketball.

Yeah, I mean, it's okay. That's Ryan. They can't all be winners. Most of them don't as a matter of fact. But that's okay. But I appreciate the call. There is, the injury thing is going to continue to play Pope in terms of. I still think, though, when you can see.

consider the injuries they've had, Ryan, it's mostly freak occurrences. So it's happened two years in a row. What if it does happen one more time next year they get decimated by injuries again? That's just, it's kind of crazy. It's happened the way it's happening right now, but what if it happens again? I guess it still matters to me, Drew, what the injury is? I mean, those separated shoulders for Lowe and Butler, what's he supposed to do about that? I mean, what's he supposed to do?

Quaintance was injured when he got here, right? I mean, maybe the Cam William, I mean, I don't know, but like in general, these seem like freak occurrence. I mean, you know, maybe you could prevent what Cam Williams did. I don't know. I didn't even pay attention in basic science. But he was just like backpedaling and like stepped wrong and broke his foot or whatever. They do seem to all be freak injuries.

And with trainers, it's more about, I would think, getting them more in shape and getting them ready to go in a hurry. But these have been all pretty significant injuries. Yeah. By the way, well, let's hold on to Quentin's because it's getting pretty close to he's not going to. He's not holding on to us. Well, I mean, if he doesn't play tomorrow, which he's not going to, well, we'll talk about it. Let's take a break.

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Valentine's Day is for 11. I got, what, an hour and 15 minutes left? Yep, to deal with this. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it. I really don't. I mean, there's so many, like, so many times I want to stop him, but I can't. All right. to Jaden Quaintens.

I said like three weeks ago that if he didn't play in the Florida game, I was going to presume he wasn't going to play the rest of year. Because he had a week off. It would be this. I mean, we're playing on ABC. I think we've only played on ABC like twice in 17 years. So it's like a, this is going to be

a highly watched game. And I just, and he's playing against Biggs who are NBA Bigs, right? So if you're Quaintance and you're trying to rise in the draft, this is a big game. He is not going to play. the conversation yesterday was that we're still dealing with, quote, a little swelling. I'm kind of not believing that.

I don't know how long you could have a little swelling. It's been like a month. So I'm just going to assume, well, let me ask you, is there any reason for me not just to assume he's not going to play? I think Ryan will play before Jade Quaintons for Kentucky the shooting. Okay. That tells you how I feel about it. And I was a big believer for most of the year,

but when he sat down for the swelling, and then it is a game and then another game and then another game. And they shut them down. That's all I need to see. Yeah. I mean, it's not even practicing right now.

Even if you were to bring a guy back that barely played four games off an ACL injury, I don't even know. Is that how many played four? I mean, some of those weren't even very minutes, but, you know, this game's played. I just don't even know what he would add. We'll always have the St. John's game, I guess.

Yeah. Well, how you go, let's just say he doesn't play, Shannon, for the rest of the year. How do we look at, I mean, reports say we paid $2 million. Now, you know, I don't know if that's true or not. Probably is, though, or at least in the ballpark, because that would have been probably what his market value would have been.

How do we look at that, him coming here, rehabbing his ACL, and let's say it's three games of play? Fans are going to feel like they got ripped off. I mean, it's not my money, but $2 million to come in here and play four games and sit on the bench and have. have knee swelling the entire year. I just think it's unacceptable. But I don't know what you do moving forward with players like that.

Do you just not take a chance on a guy who's injured? Or what do you do if you're Mark Pope? So I think Mark Pope's view, and I understood this at the time, was like, he was like gravy. He thought he had this, like, perfect meal of a roster. He thought he had really two of everything. And then Quaintance was like, okay, this is a bonus. Because remember, think about it. We have four big.

So I think he thought we'd have two of everything. So I don't think this costs you the team. But it is $2 million, for instance, that you could have used to get Lamar Wilkerson, a guy who could have shot three. So, you know, I don't want to disparage the kid. He seems like a really smart and good kid. Like when I've talked, he's the one that plays chess and all that. But I don't know.

Go join the chess team is all I can tell you. You play there. This was a gamble, Ryan, that I think we're going to end up having to say didn't work, right? I don't think they would have played him in December if he wasn't ready. If the doctors didn't clear him. So I can see, you know, they're waiting until the doctor's clearing. But, you know, you've seen it, man. Some guys get over ACL injuries in seven, eight, nine months.

Some guys, it takes over a year. That was a devastating knee injury head, not just tore the ACL. He broke some bones in there. But he did come back and play. So did he maybe tweak it and re-injure it? Is that what's causing this issue right now? I mean, we'll never know, Andrew. I mean, we don't, it's hard to know.

These guys. I think there's more to it than the injury. I think there is to. I mean, he genuinely, if this, everybody does that if he was your kid, he genuinely is locked into a lottery spot right now. And if he were to come back and sit behind Brandon Garrison and Moreno, he could lose that. I mean, we don't love that as fans, but when you're in his shoes, he has to realize what he could lose and probably not gain by coming back.

I don't know that he can climb any higher than he is if he comes back. All he can do is fall. Well, I mean, the reality is we're going to have one lottery pick in the Pope era, and he played three games. But, I mean, I'll be one positive spin. He helped us beat St. John. He did. And on Selection Sunday, that's going to be a win that actually is pretty positive for us. They got to find a way, because this happened with Brown a little bit at Louisville.

I don't know what's going on at Peterson. It's not just that it needs to be in a contract. The people that paid that $2 million are not going to do that year after year if things like this become. a little more recurring. There's got to be a way to... Yeah, there's not. But if that were $2 million, and you said, I would love to pay $2 million for Jaden Quaint's,

that's awesome. And then this happened, and next year they're like, all right, we need $2 million for this guy. You're going to be like, well, hang on now. Peterson and Brown, though, will be playing in March. Jane Quains will not. Who's next? Adam is up next.

Adam. Go ahead, Adam. Adam. All right, no, Adam. Who's next, Rick? Gary is next. Gary, go ahead, Gary. Gary in Orlando, guys.

Good morning. Good morning. The state of Kentucky and the Wildcats lost a great fan this week. She's right there in Vine Grove, 101 years old. Ernestine Amos, and her son is one of the key members of keeping our group together in Orlando. And when I was going through all my health issues back in October, she called me in the hospital. And God bless Ernestine. and makes you rest in peace.

God bless our to say. Everybody wants to name this team. Years back, Orlando had a team called Heart and Hustle. Maybe they don't want to consider that one. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Remember, no more naming of teams. It's not like heart and hustle?

Problem is I'm letting these sneak through, which leads to more. No more naming of teams. but God bless Ernestine. Heart and hustle. I can't name this team that, Ryan, because we've had had moments during the season when we haven't had it. But in these key games in the second half,

they have played with a lot of heart and hustle, and I think they have been in the last nine games better than the talent looks like it should be, to be honest with you. I still don't know how we're good in some ways. I think that's why we're falling in love with them a little bit, just that fight, you know? We didn't see it.

on the season. Now we're seeing that fight and that heart coming from behind these big deficits. You do can't help yourself, but kind of fall in love with these guys. Who do you think is the person, Drew, that kind of most, that they follow? Like, who's the person whose effort always has to be there? Like, it can't be away because he takes some things off sometimes. Who is, is it Aberdeen? Maybe Aberdeen. It's one of those two, because the other guys, they're just rotating too much.

I don't think Marino would be my third option. It's got to be Aberdeen or O-Way. I will say O-Way, though. Here lately he hasn't felt like early on we're questioned his attitude. It was very obvious there were times where he wasn't locked in. I can't even think of an instance here lately

since they've been on this run that he's done that. I will say this. Aberdeen did an interview yesterday where he talked about how Jalen Lowe and he are like best friends on the team. I do think early in the year that the Lowe and Aberdeen kind of as a group in O'way were just not on the same.

same page. Sometimes it felt like they wouldn't, they didn't pass the ball to each other. I feel like that's gone away. I do too. I feel like whatever that was, I think that's gone because I do think you watch Aberdeen in O'way. There's a closeness with the two of them that was not there at the beginning of the year. I don't

know how that changed, but I do think it's changed. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two here in Recruit at Radio. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite unhumored me with Robert Smygling and friends, me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.

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This morning, the internet lost its mind. and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where SportsSlice comes in. I'm Timbo, and every episode we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the biggest moments in sports and giving you the real story behind the headline. And we're going straight to the source, the athletes themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions in the moment,

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