KSR - 2026-03-04- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

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It's KS Bar and Grill, open for lunch now. It is Wings Day, Dollar Wings. You excited about that? Yes. I'm excited about actually watching the women play today here. Yes, the women are starting right now, and they're shooting a three, and they're making a three, as they lead six to nothing to start the game against Arkansas. Arkansas 1 and 15 in conference, Drew, so hopefully we can get that victory.

You don't love being the first game of the tournament, but you can get an extra game playing a team. that you should be able to handle. Careful not to KSR curse here, but Arkansas had a rough year. All right, I have two things that I really got a little under the radar yesterday. I want to know. Let's start with Lee Todd, former UK president, was interviewed. I thought he had some interesting stuff to say. He was asked about the hiring of John Cal Perry back in the day.

And he said, and this is the first time I've ever heard someone say this, that Mitch Barnhart came to him after Tubby left. and said he wanted to hire John Cal Perry, and Lee Todd said, no, I don't want you to. We can't risk the scandal. And so they ended up with Billy, and then two years later, of course, that didn't work. He says Barnhart went to Lee Todd and said, please, why don't you at least come and talk to Cal? And in those few hours, Cal won Lee Todd over. That's really not what people have thought for a long time.

Do you think Lee Todd is, you think he's doing Mitch a solid, or do you think that's what happened? Never heard this story until Lee Todd said it. I think he's doing falling on the sword to kind of honor Mitch a little more on his retirement. I don't know why he waited 25 years to do it, but. I mean, I do think it is true. There's been this idea for a long time that Mitch didn't want to hire Cal and Mike Pratt made him and all that. always thought that was not true, because I know it's not true. I was communicating a lot with Mike Pratt during that hiring process,

and while Cal was his favorite choice, he said, he said at the time that they basically had to convince Lee Todd. What I'd never heard was that Mitch wanted to hire Cal the first time. I mean, Lee knows better than I do, and I think Lee's an honest man, but I had never heard that. neither and I'd heard the opposite a thousand times I kind of makes you wonder why

I believe you didn't get out in front of this as Mitch that was the narrative for I mean 20 years have let yeah I guess it's nice for him to say it if that's really how it went down on the day Mitch is being talked about and celebrating his retirement so let's talk about someone read to me cows

you know John Cala Perry maybe you don't want John Calgary to do your your your Uly in life with his with his congratulations tweet to to Mitch yesterday read for me Drew Calla Perry's farewell tweet to Mitch Barnhart do we need some soft music or no I think you're good yeah I just heard that Mitch Barnhart is retiring I wanted to say even though Mitch and I didn't always see eye to eye he did a good job and I wish he and Connie well in retirement

I mean, Shannon, that's not exactly the most glowing endorsement ever, is it? I was waiting for Drew to continue. That's it? That's all. Two sentences? Is that it? Or one sentence? The next tweet is about the new Tyson patch on their jerseys.

That's all. That's all you get. Even though Mitch and I didn't see I die. I liked that that was, he felt like he needed to say that immediately. The fact that it's so brief tells you all you need to know about the relationship. If that were somebody he likes, that would be three or four tweet long. I give John Calgary a lot of credit. That's an honest tweet.

It is. That sums up their relationship. It does. You know what? I don't really like him, but I hope he's happy. He did a good job. Hope him and Connie can be happy. I hope him and Connie find happiness.

I thought he could have gone like so many great memories, New Orleans 2012, the work we did, the great success we had. No, we didn't see it out. Good luck, man. Good luck with your initiative. Yeah, you know what? You were good. Hope things go well for you. So when Cal was here, we all knew there was somebody else kind of running his Twitter account. It's obvious. I think he wrote that one.

I think he wrote that one. Yep, I think you wrote that one. That was one that has his fingerprints all over. I don't think that was the Arkansas media director. I think he wrote that one. You know, when he was here, I would say all the time, Mitch and Cal don't like each other. And people used to write me and go, why do you say that? You don't know that, Matt Jones?

Well, if you ever thought I was not telling the truth, just go back and look at that tweet. How many times do we have to hear you are causing drama that doesn't exist or trying to stir up trouble? No, that was their relationship. And I think when I hang up my boots, my radio boots, if I did it today, the two craziest memories to me, Number one will always be Billy Gillespie being chased by Alan Cutler and that day when they couldn't find him in Lexington and he was driving around New Circle Road trying to hide from getting fired. But number two, I think is the day of John Caliperi walking his dog out on the street

and that interview with Mitch, where they both sit there with the WWF belt behind them. awkwardly trying to act like their friends. Like their buddy, buddy, and we're going to run it back one more time. We're in it together. We're on board. We both agree with everything. We're ending. We're a team now.

What a weird ending for those years when basketball wasn't going well. Nobody watching at home was believing a single word they were saying. And if you don't want to know why the reason you shouldn't believe it is two days later, he was gone. They did that interview on a Tuesday, and by Thursday, he was on his way to Arkansas. I had a little bit of sympathy for Mitch on that one. I do, too. I think, honestly, Cal lied to Mitch there. Yeah.

That was, that was, Cal lied to Mitch, said it was good, and then was talking to Arkansas. That's, that was, that was poor form by Cal. It helped us, though, so I'm glad it happened. Yeah. All right. Next thing. Hardly Gilmore. He's the, I, the hardly Gilmore thing is one of the great, hilarious story.

So Harley Gilmore is coming back to Kentucky for the third time in 15 months. Pretty hard to do. This is an amazing timeline. I'm going to read you the Hardley Gilmore timeline. December 28, 2024, Harley Gilmore leaves Kentucky and enters the portal. Okay. So that means on December 27th he was here. January 1st, 2025, he commits to Nebraska.

April 16th, 2025, leaves Nebraska and enters the portal again. So he was at Nebraska for three months. On April 17th, he returns to Kentucky. Plays for Kentucky. On January 7th, he enters the transfer portal again, leaving Kentucky for a second time. Commits to Louisville on January 8th. On January 12th, leaves Louisville after four days. Four days.

Commits to Baylor on January 12th. of this year, and now on March 3rd, decommits from Baylor and is back to Kentucky again. He has, in 15 months, played for Kentucky, Nebraska, Kentucky, Louisville, Baylor, and now back to Kentucky. That's the craziest resume I've ever seen, and it's a short amount of time, a little over one year's time. I don't know how the kid, how you reigns any eligibility at all. You do this day and age you transfer back and forth and I win a win a way.

week. It shouldn't, it doesn't smell like. But, you know, they say, third time's a charm. This time I think he sticks. He's no longer going to be Harley Gilmore. He's going to be fully Gilmore with Kentucky, and he's going to have a good. I know that Will Stein wanted to keep him. He just, remember when we talked about what Will Stein thought about receivers?

He was like, I'm only paying a lot of money for a stud. And if you're not a stud, I think Harley Gilmore was one of those. He was like, I'd like to have you. But I'm going to pay you a certain amount of money. and if you can get something else somewhere else, then do it. Yeah, his poor guidance counselor and academic advisors have been in hell lately. He's with these transcripts. You think Mitch is going to be working with him in the sports.

That could be part of it. Could be part of it. I guess you can say, well, my man, he loves Lexington. Even though he likes to look around, he always comes back home. I'd use this in a recruiting pamphlet. Like, look, this dude went to Nebraska, enrolled and was in the locker room and ran back. I like that he was only around, ran back. I like that he was at Louisville for four days.

That's really funny to me That's when Vince he got like four or five of our guys Hardly stays for a couple days up I'm out Not what I thought But I actually think he'll play I do think he'll play this year I actually think he'll be helpful for us

And if you remember we've talked about Receivers the one position where we were a little thin So I actually think Kentucky's probably happy about this Well last year when Bowley got it going A little bit there towards the end of the year Won a few games Part of it was he started throwing it to Gilmore a lot

I think he had a couple games a five or six receptions there towards the end. Yeah, he definitely had some moments last year where you thought, okay, this guy could really be a big-time receiver at some point. So welcome back, Harley Gilmore. I know you'll probably be gone in a few months, but then we will welcome you back again when the season starts. If he lives again, just say, all right, see you, man.

Leave everything right where it is. Don't take his nameplate off the locker. Don't change any paperwork. Just let him have his moment. He'll come back. He'll be back. The boomering. Who's up next, Shannon?

Adam. Adam. Go ahead, Adam. Hey, what's up guys? Happy trails to Dave Baker. Matt, does this open up the door for you to go back on the pregame show? I think that's very unlikely that they'll put me on the pregame show. But, you know, I did it for a couple years. I enjoyed it.

You know, Dave preceded me in a lot of success. I proceeded Dave in being let go by the UK Broadcasting. Yeah, I'd listen to Dave for a long time. I hate to see him go. but also, so you've given us the candidates of replacement and who you think is most likely. And your opinion, who would you want to see? I know that's a loaded question. Yeah, I mean, well, Dwayne is my friend.

I was thinking on my drive here this morning because on a personal level I want Dwayne because he's my friend and you root for your friend. I also think objectively, Dwayne is the best at checking all the boxes this. job needs. Is Dwayne a perfect candidate? No, because of the football piece. Now, DePaul is starting to turn it around, but it took a couple years, but I kind of know what he was dealing with there. And so I actually think his early struggles, I understand. So Dwayne to me is number one, but I acknowledge that I have bias. So if I say Dwayne's one, for me he's one. Second would be what Drew said. You got to go ask Rob Mullins to say no.

And maybe even you do that first. And then I think you're looking at, you know, after that for me, it would probably be Strickland would be my top three. The thing is, Dwayne will say yes. So if you ask him, he'll

be the AD. But yeah, I would say for me, Dwayne, Rob Mullins, and Scott Strickland would be my top choices. And I like Martin Newton, too. I hadn't really thought of that as a he's a little older, though, yet he won't have the job as long as some of these other guys might. And Sanford's not

Oregon, Alabama, or Florida, but he has had a lot of success there, and we all know his history in this town. Yeah, I think, and I appreciate the call. I think it's very important. Kentucky Athletics is tied to a handful of donors in a way other programs aren't, and I just think it's very important you have somebody with a connection to those people. it doesn't mean they run the program it just means practically speaking you got to be able to to do that you know when dwayne left here to take the ad job at

depaugh i think we all thought at the time he's doing this just to groom himself getting himself groomed for the UK job when Mitch barnhart retired if the john calipari era had not ended the way it was and cow was still the coach here dwayne would be the next ad because dc and cow had a great relationship but the calipari in era ending led to a different situation. And, you know, part of that was Duane needed to go prove himself somewhere. And the hope was probably Cal still would be here

when this door opened. It just didn't work out that way on the calendar. 859-28027. Kentucky women lead 16 to 7 against Arkansas. We will take a break. Take a call. People have got their wings. That smells really good.

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Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. Kentucky, Mark Pope is in, at least according to this dude who covers Delaware basketball, which that is a niche. If your thing is, I'm going to cover Delaware basketball. Because Delaware is not a very big state. No. He covers Delaware basketball.

He says that Mark Pope is in Philadelphia today to watch Dink Pate of the G League, the Westchester Knicks play to potentially play college basketball next year. Dink Pate would be, I think, a good addition for us next year. Everything you read is the kid can score. and I'd be for it, would you? Heck yeah.

I mean, we'll see what goes into the portal. That still has to shape itself out, but they need something at this point. If you're not going to get a freshman, yeah, go to the G-League. I mean, I don't love the chaos that is recruiting right now, but go get the best player you can find. My guy won last night. Delmonico.

Talrico. We were joking about this, Swargo. Can I say what happened to me? About what? We were talking about his name. Oh, yeah. And on my phone, I have a text message show up from his campaign wanting donations today. The fact that our phones listen to us like that is crazy.

So you got a thing asking for a donation to him, and you don't even know who he is. Didn't even know who he was? I just happened to ask you. I said, hey, your guy went last night, Delmonico? You said, I was to tell a little Rico. Tala Rico. And then I'll get my phone, and I have a text message from his campaign wanting a one-day donation. Yeah.

Well, he won. Made me very happy. Here's what I would say. I posted about it. And, of course, the online trolls start yelling at me. If you're interested in, like, why I like this person, like, I think a lot of you are sincere. Go watch his interview with Joe Roke. It's like two and a half hours.

And if I were to articulate sort of my views, he probably does it better than I could articulate it myself. So James Tauroko, he won the primary yesterday. I was a little surprised because I didn't think guys like him could win a Democratic primary, but he did. So I may disappear to Texas and go volunteer. What's what you said? You're going to volunteer for his campaign. Why don't they text you for that information? I told him to text you that you had the money.

Take rod with you. You're going to donate? TSR, Texas Sports Radio. Who's up first, Shannon? Tate. Tate. Go ahead, Tate. Hey, guys.

Love you, but I had to call in and make one correction. obviously last night was not excusable. Pope had some issues, but he actually did call a timeout during that run, like the 419 mark. Yeah, after they had already taken the lead, after they had already taken the lead. So he called a time out. We were up 12, and they, I think, grabbed the lead by two, and then he called a time out. So, I mean, he did not stop the run until after.

Yeah, it's whenever they took the lead by one. Yeah. That's only a 13. 13-0 run. It's been said that he... But that's a 13-0 run. He didn't call a time-out the entire first half, which is just false. Well, we never said that.

Hang on. He needed to call a time-out. That stands. Nobody said he didn't call out time-out the whole half. I mean, are you trying to act like that was a re- No, absolutely. Does that last night on the post-game show. Okay, but that did...

Okay. Fine. If I said that, I don't remember saying that, then I was incorrect. But the point of he didn't call a town... I mean, the tweet even said that, like, he had one that he would lose. at half time. He did, and that's why I think you... No, he didn't. He had, when he didn't call a timeout, when he didn't call a timeout during the 13-0 run, he had a time-out that he would have lost. Now, you're saying he called it after the run,

fair enough. And if I said he didn't, then I was incorrect. But my point was, during the 13-0 run that changed the game, he did not call a time-out. And I was, I'm right about that. Yeah, I mean, he called it at the end of the 13-over-run. Which is too late. We're losing at that point. Like, 23-30-point. Yes, and we did not come out of the timeout, and we did not. That was my point. I appreciate the call. I was screaming at my TV call a time-out, so I know that happened. I wasn't going crazy.

I was yelling, get a timeout. Now, it is fair to say after that break, we didn't come out and play any better. I mean, that's completely correct. I mean, we gave a 36-6-6 run is just ridiculous. any coach in that situation looking to stop the bleeding, especially when you're on the road. Call a timeout so the crowd quiets down. They lose their momentum. It just didn't have it.

Can I pay a compliment to the staff in the first half? Yeah. We got the best challenge guy. Matt Santorina. I need to look up his name. I might have gotten that wrong. But our challenge guy that sits behind Pope, he did it again. He's unbelievable.

Give him the million Mitch's kids. So is he the one that says challenge? He sits there and he makes the call. I don't know his record this year, but I'm going to say he's 100%. But he did it again. night. It didn't matter, obviously, but that was a big move early in the game when he challenged, and just more credit to him, because that's his role back there. Part of what's so frustrating is they came out so well early.

Not only did they score, but they got ahead of the defense, got a bunch of dunks. They were so good early, and then it's just like it completely collapsed. They got that lead, and they almost put it in cruise control, and he played, you know, the bench and played the wrong combination of guys. And they also didn't hustle nearly as much. The effort in the first half those last eight minutes was poor. It was. And that's what we saw in that run.

That is their style. That is what you have to avoid. And that's why I wanted to time out because you could see it happening where they're creating the chaos. Kentucky's throwing it to nobody. And A&M is running and gunning. That's why I'm sure he called one after a 13-0 run. But you've got to cut that off immediately because that's where they thrive. You know, Mark Pope has said all year.

Obviously at the beginning of the year, he said I have a Ferrari and we're going to be successful. But even throughout struggles this year, he has kind of. come back and been like, we're going to do something special. You know, like, he is, that has kind of stopped because they're running out of time. But you get the sense that he really felt like this was going to work this year. And so it has felt like to me he's never quite connected with this group because I think he kept feeling like it's going to, it's going to happen. And they've won some games, but it just hasn't happened yet. He saw the performance like we got against Vanderbilt last weekend.

That's the Ferrari he thought he's going to get. Do you think we come out and play well against Florida? I do, by the way. Probably. I think we come out, I don't know if we can win, but I bet that game is very close. I agree. We played Florida actually pretty well down there. Their big didn't hurt us.

It was their backcourt guys that hurt us. Yeah. Who's next? Let's go to Joe. Joe. Go ahead, Joe. Hey, Matt. Does losing, is it just me or does losing to Bucky hurt worse than like losing to Jason, Tom, or Jerome?

You don't like losing the guys named Bucky? Yeah. Bucky's a odd name. You don't hear a lot of Buckees. That just ate me up all night. But I hadn't thought of it until just now. One of the biggest sports talk advertisers in the last like whatever 10 years is that Manscaper.

And the way Ryan said that Dwayne was grooming himself and his wild eggs work, I think this is a match made in heaven. Yeah, I think Ryan would be. good manscaper advertiser. They should look into you for that. It feels like that one's that one really is connected to you.

I'm willing to volunteer and do a live demonstration if we need to. So, you know, I had something to say. Bucky. Bucky. People don't name their kids Bucky, do they?

Is their name, like, what is the name? Not what they love them. What is the name that leads to Bucky being what they're called? Is it Bucke? He's a Henry. So how do Henry's turn into Buckees? Well, there was a Buck Henry, a Hall of Fame baseball player.

Maybe that, his name is Henry. Maybe they started calling him Buck Henry. But in general, where does the name Buck come from? How do you, like, you know, what Jack will come from John. But do people name their kids Bucky? I don't know a Bucky. I don't know where they come from, how it starts. I just, it's an odd name to start.

Look at your child come out and go, that's a bucky. Let me 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. Welcome back. Tucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Todd is very upset.

Todd? Todd writes, if you're going to have a radio show that allows folks to call it and talk, then don't keep people on hold while your crew rambles about it. multiple topics. Pick a topic for an hour. Give your take. Shut up and take calls. Wow.

Was that Todd from yesterday that changed his name from Michael? I don't know. Todd very upset, though. Michael would be a lot nicer than Todd. Todd is a lot of time. You must be new to this show because this show is basically

us rambling about multiple topics. I mean, that is the show. A long time of that. A lot of mornings of doing that. Post-game shows. show, it's me rambling and then letting you take your calls. What about the, what about having six guys on the court? I like the effort.

Got to try something. Nothing else was working. How did they not catch that? I don't know. He was upset. He was right. He was upset. He was right. He was right.

He showed the screen. There were six guys out there. They're getting ready to shoot a free throw. And that's what's all crazy. It was dead action, and they didn't see six guys out there. What if we had won because of that? It would be awesome. But I noticed in the Vandy game last night, Shannon, they went back

in time. Did you see that and called a flagrant on a play that had happened like two plays before? Yeah, yeah. I didn't know you could do that. Did you? No. I guess they're making it up as we go. I've never seen that called. It was a key point in the game. They went backwards a couple plays and were like, yeah, that was a flagrant a couple plays ago. Came down to the wire there. In our game with the six players, I get a little annoyed by the short bench complaints, but if we're going to play six guys at one time. I do think you're hurting your bench there and your fatigue if you're running out more guys than you need to. Yeah, it was, you know, you talked about Pope not liking the Saturday, Tuesday. What's he going to feel in the SEC tournament when we play Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?

I mean, that's going to be hard. We're playing Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday? All right, I'm back in now. You're talking me into some stuff now. Yeah, also the Wednesday to Saturday turnaround is the same thing. Like, there's seven days in a week. If two days or game days, it is impossible. to have three days off between every game. That is true. Wednesday, Saturday is the exact same thing. You're going to have a two-day gap between games, so you have to. It's just a really, really bad argument that he's trying to say fatigue is hurting his team.

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That's one word. I haven't gotten to it yet. I have no idea what that is. That's not one word. You found a word with 14 letters? Oh. No, that's not it. Shannon, do you know what it is?

Are you looking at it? I'm trying to find it here. Unforgettable. I got it one second. This is two days in a row. Drew, this is two days in a row. When did you become a row? Ryan with diarrhea at the mouth. I just pulled it up and it jumped right out. This is two days in a row

that you have just completely drops up. What are you doing? I got it at first sight. It doesn't matter. It's a game. I understand. Did you drop it, Shannon? No. Well, pick harder ones. No, just like, have mouth control. Also, somebody already got it. He dropped the Middlesbrough thing yesterday. It's on social media. You'll be fine. Pick harder words. All I did is look at it. Mouth control. He doesn't have mouth control. That's next. That's week scrambled word mouth control. Tom, there's your word drop at the SEC tournament. Mouth control. That was easy.

Drew doesn't have it. Can you? By the way, we are going tomorrow to Middlesboro. It was supposed to be a surprise. Drew dropped it during the show. I just get excited. And then Shannon left it on the podcast, so I blame both of you. You forgot to remind me.

I blame you. Here's the reason we're doing it. I wanted it to be a surprise for everybody else. I really, so. We'll talk about this more tomorrow. We got a fairly positive report about my dad, and I wanted to take the show and go spend the show with my – we're going to do a show in front of my parents tomorrow.

So Ryan, Drew, and Mary, and I are going to Middlesboro and doing the show there tomorrow. I didn't want to, like, say it because it's not a remote. We're just going to be at our house, but people have asked for a long time, and I appreciate everybody. he comes up and asks me about my dad he you know still has a long road ahead but it's a more positive situation than it was a couple months ago and so we wanted to go kind of celebrate with him and go down there so it's supposed to be a surprise that drew ruined but that's what that's what we're it's going to be unforgettable that's what we'll be that's what we're doing tomorrow well larry is

one of our favorite guys you know admire and respect that man what he's going through right now so yeah we just wanted to give him give him his flowers tomorrow by the way people got it right Shannon once Drew said it. They were able to actually get it correct. I didn't even have a chance to pull up the word. Didn't even see it scrambled. I took longer fond in TikTok than I did get in the word. Unbelievable.

Who's next? Craig. Craig, go ahead, Craig. Hey, bless your dad. That's good news. I just wanted to say, I think last night was probably the most disheartening loss that Popes had since she's been here just because it gave up 90 plus. March, the timeouts, same thing, substitution, same things.

And, you know, we could make excuses for it. He didn't really get worked by John Wooden out there. I mean, it was just rough to watch. But I wanted to get your thoughts. I think a lot of times your first reaction is your best reaction. And I know looking back from all the highest from I was a kid, I can remember the first one, Eddie Sutton. I wasn't that excited, but everybody tries to talk himself into it, turned out poorly.

I thought it was a home run on Patino It was Tubby's the only one I wasn't that excited It turned out to be a really good coach I thought Billy G Wasn't excited

Didn't understand how this guy You know Got the job Turned out poorly I was fired up for Cal And then I think most people As much as we tried to talk ourselves Into Pope

When he was hired It was lukewarm at best From everybody And I think I hate it But I don't Whether you keep it one more years I mean, we'll see.

I don't think it's going to work. Well, and you might be right. We'll see. But I also, I appreciate the call. I'm not ready to give up yet at all. I mean, I am discouraged. But as I said last night, I don't think it's, I don't think Pope doesn't know how to coach.

I don't think he doesn't know how to motivate. I don't think he, I'm worried about getting players, but I don't think he is somehow not good at his job. But I also get very frustrated. I think he is, I've decided. in my mind he is the computer engineer who believes whatever the computer says is correct even if the inputs are not correct and you're getting a weird answer. He reminds me of the people on Twitter that will just ask grok everything and whatever it says, it assumes what has to be correct, it said it. That's how I think Pope is with these analytics.

It's like it tells me to take out Aberdeen. to. Yeah, but you know, Mark, Aberdeen is the only guy that we have that can dribble it up the floor. Well, I'm taking him out. I love analytics and basketball. You need them. But your eyeballs should be the final say. And if a guy is just not out there giving his best or when he's missing shots, he's wide right, clinking it off the backboard, you need to put the analytics aside. Maybe he's not bringing what the analytics thought he would that night. Or maybe you have a guy who you didn't expect to play well is on fire, you just kind of got to ride that wave and trust what's happening right

in front of you. What do you think about Garrison throwing in that ball in the guy's face? I predicted that Garrison going to have a fight or a technical at some point during that game yesterday. And I thought that was going to be it. I thought he's going to hit that guy and they're going to get up and they're going to have a fight. I kind of like it. We need somebody like that.

Neither Jamal McGlor guy that's not afraid to push people around. He just needs to do it more often. I don't know if he needs to take two threes. No. Take that out of your repertoire. It's a good move, though. I like what he did. He kind of trolls him a little bit.

Although we might have had a little four on five if he could have thrown it out and got going. But still, I like a guy laying at your feet. Just giving the old Josh Harrelson and Jared Solinger's spike. How could he be 6-11 and miss a bunny layup right in front of him? And he does that quite a bit. He does that quite a bit. Kentucky was up 20 in this game against Arkansas. It has now been cut to nine.

The Kentucky women lead 42-33 here with just about 30 seconds. left in the first half. We'll take a break. 859-280-2287. Hopefully Drew will spoil more surprises. Oh, no, curveball. It's not the word. It's not the word?

No, it doesn't fit. That's not the word. That's what people tell me online. There's too many T's. Oh, wait a minute. Hang on. So, no, wait a minute. I gave a fake word.

No, apparently it is. You spelled it wrong, didn't you, Ryan? I didn't post it on the Lymphographic. There are too many T's, so my answer is incorrect. Hang on just a second. I was throwing people off. You spelled unforgettable wrong. I didn't put it on the graphic.

Unforgetable lust. I'm just glad the heats off me. You spelled unforgettable wrong. It wasn't me. Also, he just copied and paced what I sent him, he said. You copied and paced what he said. So there are three T's on here. Eliminates Unforgettable.

My name is out of this. But what did you intend? the word to be. Unforgetables. So, unforgettable, there's no S in your word. Look. Unforgetable?

I sent him a word. There's spell check. There's all kind of things you can put on there. Let me see what you send him. Right there. Unforgetables. That's exactly what I said. Yeah, that's on you, Mario.

You put three T's and no S. Wow. What a crew we got here. Look at this crew I deal with, Shavin. I mean, wow. I got Ryan, who the first time took two words. I got Drew just blurting out the answer. Not the answer.

And Mario misspelling everything. Can we count this person? They said ton forgettable. I think we should just count it. Next week, can we just make the word cat? Yeah. You know, the wild eggs Wednesday, like everything we do, a disaster. Perfect.

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Exactly. It's to try to get you to follow our TikTok. There's a method to this madness. I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday. Like we do it on the different social media accounts, so then you follow and we grow the social media accounts. It's marketing. Dun, dun, right?

That's what you're trying to do with this. I was spreading it out. I mean, our TikTok account, we didn't even have a TikTok account when we hired Mario. and now it has 42,800 people. And he built that from nothing. And it made a huge impact. College students in high school college, a little bit out of college,

they know us now from TikTok. I meet people all the time who are like, you're the guy from TikTok, which is weird to me. But the reason we hired Mario is I started to know. I noticed that, like, we weren't as big from, like, 20 to 27-year-olds as we used to be, and I'm getting older, so how are we going to do it, and that it has worked extremely well. So, like, that's the whole point. You do Facebook for the older people, Twitter for people my age, Instagram for, like,

8 to 10 years younger than me, and then TikTok for younger than that. And then there'll be something else, flib-flab or something, and we'll have to put it on there, too. We on Blue Sky next week? I can't do Blue Sky. I tried because I was like, this is where my political people are, and I can't. Those, they're awful. I wouldn't be on Twitter either, except we have to for sports. Instagram is my, I think that's the right place for me, maybe TikTok.

Twitter's too mean. Facebook is all people falling for AI images of like Jesus hugging Nate Oates. And I'm like, this is not real. You could do truth. Social. I don't think that true social is right for me. No, no. Probably.

I haven't been on it, but I'm just going to guess. Who's next? Let's go to Bob and Jamestown. Good. Bob and James Town. Go ahead. Well, Jim hosts with the most. He had some good words for Mitch.

Sounded good. Shame on JMF for what they did to Dave Baker. Hopefully the new AD will go in there and find good contract lawyer and cut that JMI lose. I got my fingers crossed for the sports store of the year, Miami-Razox going all the way. That's your alma mater. What do you think about Bruce Pearl Bob saying your alma mater should not be in the tournament if they lose in the conference tournament? Well, I mean, Bruce got an opinion, but we'll see what plays out.

Anyway. That's very magnanimous of him. Bruce has his opinion. Yeah. Yeah, well, I appreciate the call. It'll be fascinating. You know, they won again by two points. They have won, like, ten of their conference games have been two points, three points.

They really do have an unbelievable ability to win these close games. I like Jimmy Dyke's line last night. He said people keep saying they haven't beat anybody. They've beat everybody. It's a good line. I think it's a great line. They didn't just beat anybody. They beat everybody.

You think they, you know, they play Ohio Saturday, Friday night. play Ohio Friday night. If they win, undefeated for the season be the first time anybody's gone so far in the last 15 years, the only three teams have gone out, two a teams have gone undefeated. Gonzaga went undefeated one year, and then the 2015 Kentucky team in the regular season.

Miami would be third. I expect they'll do it with Ohio Friday. They'll be a pretty big favorite. And honestly, even though they had some tight games throughout conference play, I think with the tournament right in front of, front of them, they'll run the table in the conference tournament. But I side with Bruce if they lose your undefeated conversations out of the way.

So what are you showing me? We'll never, I think really as a fan base, appreciate what that 2015 team did. They'll never be a power conference team go undefeated. And even, I mean, Gazaga, not a power conference team. If Miami does it, not a power conference team. I mean, what's the last regular season undefeated in a power conference besides Kentucky? I guess UNLV was undefeated, but also not a power conference. What conference was Wichita Stadium when they?

Not a power conference. They were in the Missouri Valley at the time. Missouri Valley. So, I mean, is it Indiana? Is it Indiana? Yeah, it's Indiana because I love to bring that level. I mean, that deserved, like, I know we lost, but in the last 50 years, there's been one power conference team go undefeated in the regular.

season and it's us. I mean, that's pretty amazing if you think about it. And I just running through your conference, you know, they're not like Miami playing Scrubs. The hardest team on their schedule was Kansas and they won by 32. Would they smoke North Carolina that year? I'm sure Louisville was probably ranked when they beat them. In SEC, we had like two close games.

If you remember, we played Old Miss close at home. They almost beat us. And then at LSU when Carl Towns had to hit that shot at the end of the way. win. I think pretty much every game besides that, we had a little bit of a margin. Dominated most of that season. And it was so fun to watch. It's just a shame that title didn't end up here that year. I think A&M took them to O.T. too. I think they were three. You're right. A&M did take us to T. Who's next? Dave. Dave. Dave, go ahead, Dave. Hey, guys. I just had a random Kentucky basketball comment. I had a question for Ryan.

I've been reading this really great book called Adolf Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball. learning a lot, especially like, I never knew that Cliff Barker on that 1948 team was in World War II and was like a German POV prisoner of war in like the World War II and then come back and played for Kentucky basketball, which is fascinating. But it made me think about the show you guys did after Memorial Coliseum reopened. And Ryan had made a comment about that Adolf Rupp's office you couldn't get to or they won't let you get to or something like that. Ryan, is that the case? And I just didn't know why that was the case. Yeah, it's kind of sad, actually. It's tucked away back in a storage area.

They use these office for, like, storage. It's kind of sad when you walk back there and see where it is now, way back in the corner underneath everything. Adolf Rupp's office in Memorial? Yeah, yeah. What do you mean they won't let you, apparently, you got back there? Yeah, you have to get access to get back one of those big storage area, but that's where it is to get back to it.

And it's kind of sad. It's just kind of tucked away over there. Yeah, well, that is sad. All right, so tomorrow, so first of all, tonight we'll be at the 13th region, get to the sea of little Bell County, a little Pineville. Bell County's got maybe the best freshman in the state in Braxton, Ferguson. Get us watch him tonight. Yeah, that's a name.

By the way, I think you've said this before. Freshmen and sophomores, there was a sophomore they lost. Was it male that went for like 45 points last night? And Josh Lindsay at St. X as a sophomore. He's a superstar. Yeah, Ballard beat Mail in a crazy game last night. in the regional. And then tomorrow we will be in Middlesboro.

My mom is cooking for us for breakfast. Nice. Love, yes. Breakfast. So, hey, thank you guys very much. Great to see you all today. Appreciate you coming out. Friday, we are at Paul Miller.

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