KSR - 2026-03-11- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

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He'll make them pay normally. You would be hearing Billy and Shannon, but we're starting a little early. Drew is on his way to the game. I've got Ryan here and Shannon and Billy, as we incorporate the pre-show crew. We're going to go until 11 o'clock, and then at 11 o'clock it will go to the official pregame show,

and then the game starts at 1230. Weird day, but a big day for the cats as 5 in 5 is what they're saying in the UK at the UK locker room, 5 and 5, ready to go today. Everything could change starting today, you know, change the narrative of the season. You go out and start a little bit of a run, but you got to win this one today. So usually I'm naked in the shower right now,

listening to Billy and Shannon. Getting your news. He has to tell us that every time, too, mad. I don't know why. I don't need to know that detail. I'll be honest with you. He doesn't know this. He was going, he's getting a conversation today.

Oh, really? At the minute. No, he is. He's getting a conversation. I'm being serious about there's just too much nudity. And there's too much, like there's just too much of all that. And he's getting the conversation today that he needs to, and I can't believe I'm having.

to do this with a 59-year-old that he needs to act his age. They're not the explicit. Well, I mean, he doesn't get the text machine messages. And the messages are, it's creeping people out. And so there is a, he was getting a conversation today, and now he's getting it on the air, because we couldn't even get two minutes into the show before that started. And moderation's the key. Moderation's the key.

And he doesn't understand that. And he puts it in every day, and he doesn't understand. I will work on this. You will work on it. Absolutely will work on it. Because we're going to start instituting fines. Once a month or something or even once a week. That's a slippery slope, though.

We give Matt the power to give fines to everybody. We could be fine for a lot of things. I'm giving myself the power. Because I'm speaking, just like when we're talking about Mitch Barnhart, I feel like to some extent we're trying to echo the fans of the show and the UK fan base, I'm echoing the fans. ends of the show, specifically of the female persuasion. You're like, Penny Hardaway, trying to find the players NIL money. I mean, that's basically what you're doing with Ryan. And it's working out for Penny.

Look, he's been a huge success at Memphis. Not really. Billy, it's nice to be on here with you here today. Yeah, thanks for letting me join. You've got a stressful day. You got a lot going on. I do. It's a big day for the UK sports world.

I want to ask you, how many days did you pack for for this tournament? Well, I mean, my packing was very difficult here because we're going to the SEC tournament. I'm staying through Sunday regardless. Then I'm flying to ESPN. And then depending on where Kentucky gets sent might be flying directly there. So I had to pack for like two weeks. Ah, okay. Even though there's a world where I guess, I mean, I still have to go to ESPN.

So I'd be back Tuesday. But there's a world where they'll be like, no, like I didn't pack. If you're asking me a question, I didn't pack a lot of UK shirts. I felt like two UK shirts would be sufficient. Yeah. Ryan said he only packed to Friday. Is that what you said before the show started? I'm good through Friday.

We get to Saturday. I might have to double up on some underwear and some socks. Okay, again, right there. Turn a minute's out. Right there. You don't need to talk about any piece of you or clothing that is not double covered. That's your standard. There needs no piece of you or clothing that needs to be brought up.

That is not. That's the rule. Does that mean no pep talk in Nashville then? Because the sure has to come off. But if I ask for it. Oh, if you ask for nudity, it's okay. That's different. Okay.

But it needs to no longer, it's his go-to, and it's become a crutch, and I don't want, you are better than that. I'll work on it. Yeah. So, well, you didn't get far. You got a minute. They just tell you, dry. That's where we're going to get. if you don't stop.

So, so yeah, so I don't know. Because if they go to like Buffalo or Philly in the tournament, I'm going to be in Connecticut. So I'm just going to go straight there. I'm not going to come home and then go back. If they go to St. Louis or Oklahoma City,

then I'll come here and get in a car with them and go. But yeah, if they go to Buff, because the choices include Buffalo, Philly, Tampa. I'll probably just fly at all those places. Yeah.

And then St. Louis and Oklahoma City. and then there's somewhere else. Portland. If it's Portland and San Diego, I don't think we're going to be able to go. Yeah. So it just depends. I mean, if you look,

as long as we win today, I think the most likely scenario is Philly. Because we'll be a seven seed. And if you kind of look at it, Philly and Buffalo look like the most... I think it's very unlikely, unless we lose today that we end up in San Diego or Portland.

But we'll just have to wait and see. Kind of crazy if you guys, you were just in Buffalo a couple months ago. We ended up going back there for the NCAA tournament. I know. But I liked it. We like the wings. We now know where to go. Love Buffalo.

Blue cheese is there. Yeah, we know where to go. And it would be. But for Kentucky, today is a big day. Get your Buffalo head on, I just noticed. Today is you kind of, today's a half to win. I would even argue tomorrow is close to a half. have to win. But today's after win. You lose today. You're going to drop to the eight, nine

seed probably. You're going to get paired with the one seed. And I think the one seeds are unbeatable. But for us, because we would end up with a Duke, Arizona, Michigan second round. And listen, I know I'm saying second round, we can easily lose in the first round. But you're going to end up with the Duke, Arizona, Michigan second round matchup. And I don't think you can win those games. But if you can win today and win tomorrow and end up in that six seed where you could play in the second round Nebraska or what do they have who they have is paired with right now Miami Ohio is what I saw on one of that's the first round but in this but if you could get Miami of Ohio Nebraska you'd take that you couldn't ask for a better situation but if you lose you have a chance to

get me i'm going to have to look and see who the eight-nines are but you could lose in the first round or then play duke or something and ryan you don't you're not going to win that you know the team's got nobody to blame with themselves too you take care of business you know you win some these games at annie me the other night georgia missouri at home it's entirely different conversation they they have nobody to blame with themselves for the situation they've been put in the no they are they it's it's completely their fault yep so the latest update is kent lucy playing st louis in st louis with illinois as the two seed and that's not Well, first, that's not ideal, but I'll take it.

Yeah. That's not ideal. I mean, playing St. Louis and St. Louis, yeah, but we'll have a lot of people there, too. Yeah. And we're playing Cream Abdul-Jabbar, which means I get to meet him, which would be exciting. Read me who the two seeds are. Let's see. You get Illinois, Yukon.

You don't really want that. Houston. Don't really want that. Michigan State. Don't really want that. All three of those. You don't really want to play. any of those teams. But you'd have a puncher chance. Now go read me the three seats.

Gonzaga. Okay. Iowa State. I'm all right. Nebraska. Definitely all right. Alabama. You won't play them. They won't put us. So if you're asking me, I think if you win two games in the SEC tournament, you're going to get one of those Gonzaga, Iowa State, Nebraska. Now, obviously, Gonzaga, have pounded us, but that also makes it less likely they'd put us there. So you're looking at Iowa State and Nebraska. And I think if you're Kentucky, Billy, that's as good as you can ask for. Yeah, take that every day of the week. You're right. Those one seeds are just on a different level, a different tier this year and you want to avoid them at all cost. But today, I mean, LSU was a team you were down 18 to at one point in that game. You had to have a Malachi

Moreno shot at the buzzer. This is important. No, and they can beat us. You lose this one. It's, you know, the fan base. All right, so read me. I don't mean you'd make you just read me the bracket. But read me the 11 seat. So this would be who we would, if we win the first two games, who we'd play in the first round. All right.

The 11 seed, SMU, VCU, you play in. Beatable. Yeah. Missouri. They wouldn't put us there. Central Florida or Indiana playing game. Beatable.

And I think I skipped over the other one. Did I say Missouri. No, Missouri. Yeah. So now give me the eight nines. All right. So let's say we're at eight. Read me the eight nines.

Okay. So Utah State, Iowa. Okay, you don't want to play Iowa. Miami or TCU. Jay Lucas and TCU. Ohio State Clemson. Okay. And UCLA, Texas, A&M.

So you can see it's a lot harder if you're in an 8-9, even in the first round. You're not getting VCU and you're not getting you see. You're getting teams that have some. So I just think this is huge. The other thing is our fan base. We'll lose it if we're the first team out of the end. SEC tournament. Absolutely.

The city of Nashville will lose it too. The tourism board. Economy. Yeah. UK has not been kind to the tourism board of Nashville the last six or seven years. They need a big blue wave to come down the street. It would be bad.

It would also just be bad for morale. Yeah. It's amazing you read those names. It's a totally different game where a six-seater or a seven-seat. It totally flips. And it's a huge difference between six-and-seven. It's a massive difference between that and eight and nine. Yes, it is.

And you lose today, you're at eight and nine. If you lose tomorrow, you might be two, but you definitely are. Now, if you win them both, I think you can get to six because you got to remember all these other teams are going to lose two. Every team in a conference tournament, Billy is going to lose to somebody. Right. Except four teams in the major conference. I mean, we're negative thinking if they were to lose, it's also a huge opportunity for this team. If they were to make the weekend, how we dictate success, this would be a big part of it.

You beat Florida. You could go all the way up to like a five seat. Things are really changing. If you beat Florida. So this is, I think this is completely wide open. You know, the standings in the SEC were bunched.

Yeah. And the standings in that five, six, seven, eight are bunched. Now, let's talk about just the actual team. Cam Williams,

it looks like, uh, is going to play. He's listed as probable on the, injury sheet. That's good. It looks like he's definitely going to try to give it a go. You know, I don't know, probably not a lot of minutes, but just to have him out there.

He probably takes Trent Noah's minutes. I mean, isn't that essentially what we're talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Helps with fatigue that this team just has so many issues with. I was thinking about fatigue. We'll talk about it in the next. I was thinking about fatigue while I was watching BAM last night. Yeah.

You know? You know. How many points you think he would have had if he hadn't been fatigued? Got to the line 50 times last night. night. I don't want to hear you complaining yet about this because I want to talk about it during the next segment. Because I think the complaints about Bam or horse bleep. It's not even a complaint. I'm just telling you the steps. No, I mean, but he went to line 41 times because he got fouled 41 times. He should have gone more. You just let him go and shoot free throws

the entire game. Why not? First of all, he made 36 of 43. It's good. It's pretty good. It's really good. Miami was fouling, though, like two minutes left in the game. I don't want to hear it because people need to have some sense of history. Go back and look what they did in the Kobe game. See, nobody has any sense of history.

They just live in the moment and then they get outraged and go, oh, it's a disgrace. Go look what they did with Kobe in that 81 point game. They checked him back in. Yeah. They had him shoot every time in the last five minutes. He was up 20. It was the worst team in the league they were playing. So I don't want to hear it.

Well, nobody remembers 30 years from now how many free throws he shot. It's just going to be the number. The number's going to say, Wilk Chamberlain won, Bam out of bio two, Kobe Bryant three. Come on. He had not scored more than 40 points one time in two years, and he scores 83. I could have guessed 100 NBA players.

I mean, that is. 80. Okay, I thought we were going to wait until the next segment. So 859-28027. We'll do more preview of this game. We'll talk about BAM some more. And then I made a huge mistake. I went into Costco. And I, that was. Oh, wow. How'd you get in there? Get a card? That's a whole other thing. You'd think you were going into Augusta National to try to get in. Last night, a blown call changed the game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where SportsSlice comes in. I'm Timbo.

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Yep. Get into your algorithm. And I had like a week of people just listening to Black Betty getting down. It's like, I've never heard this song. Let's watch it. And then they're like, oh, here we go. And then I enjoy it. And then I watch it.

watch another one. So yesterday I got in the gorillas. Do you remember guerrillas? Oh yeah. Yeah. They did Saturday Night Live Saturday. I don't know why because I feel like they haven't had a song in 20 years. But that led to that Clint Eastwood song. And I ended up watching, I don't know, 75 different versions of it yesterday. And now it's completely in my head. Guerrillas is a good throwback though. Feel good? It was good. And I watched he would like play it

places and then other people would come and rap on it. So like Snoop, Dre, M&M. Aren't they one of those bands that didn't, like you couldn't see them live because they never showed their face? Well, they did sometimes. Here's what I didn't know. Maybe you knew this, Shannon. I didn't know that the guerrillas guy was the lead singer of Blur.

I don't think I knew that either. No. I didn't know that. Did you know that was the same guy? No. What was Blur's song? Hey, man, nice shot. No, that's filter.

Well, what's Blur? The one that just went, woo-hoo. Woo-hoo. Oh, you're disrespecting me. Okay. That's it. Well, that's the same guy. I had no idea.

I didn't either. There's your fun fact of the day. Who knew? Some people were taking up for Ryan. Sorry, you're outvoted. This is a Mitch Barnhart regime. Dictorship rules. It's garbage.

About the nudity? They want more nudity? Well, they're wrong. I'm speaking for the silent majority here. Save it for the pool party at Matt's house. 859-2-80-228. Let's talk about BAM here for a second. 83 points for BAM.

83 points. Are you kidding me? Sensational. It is unbelievable. He had 43 at halftime. And I thought, okay, maybe he gets to 60. And he just kept scoring. And he kept scoring.

I mean, this is a guy who had scored over 30 this year in only three games. Wow. And he scores 83. He must have heard our conversation yesterday where I said, how, like, isn't it surprising? She's the best player of all time at Kentucky. And Bam goes, wait a minute, hello. Hold my beer.

83. His career high was 48. He scored 35 points more than his career high. In one game, that's, is, that may be the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard in sports. People will bring up the Tony Delk 50 point game. Yeah. Like NBA heads will bring it up and go. That was one of the weirdest things that ever happened in the NBA.

What about this? It's unbelievable. 83, Ryan? All these great NBA players and the name between Kobe and Wilts Chamberlain is bam out of bio. Now, you don't like the 43 free throws. No, no, I'm fine with it. I was just pointing out that he got to the line a lot. I mean, but for a guy who is like more of a defensive specialist,

that's pretty amazing. And just kept him threes. All right. Now, are you good with the fact that? at the end. They were kind of fouling to get him the points. They only offensive, they only intentionally foul one time, the heat.

Yeah. Are you okay with it? Yeah, I mean, I don't think they were doing it like the entire quarter intentionally. So I went back and looked at the game where Kobe had 81. In the last five minutes the game, he took every shot to the leg. Yeah, every time.

Every single shot. And he missed a bunch too. Took every single shot, including, like he checked out up 20. 27 with 40 seconds to go. So he was doing this too. Then they put him back in? Well, he was out because they were up like 30.

And then with like four or five minutes to go, they'd put him back in and he took every shot to end the game. Everybody knows what's going on at that time, right? How many points he has, the chase in trying to beat Kobe or trying to get to a hundred. Well, look like the wizards initially were fouling the other people. So he wouldn't get to go to the line, which I thought, Shannon, that would have been really. That would have been great. I would have done that.

I mean, if you're the team that you're playing it is, you don't want to be the team that he got 83. That's true. Yeah, put anybody on the line but him. I think it is one of the most amazing random things in sports. Like what else is up there for, are you kidding me? That guy? I mean, because Bam's really good, but not 83 points good.

The electrician in the World Baseball Classic. The electrician's up there. Yeah, it is. One just a few years ago. Golky. Are you kidding me? That guy? Golky.

That guy beat Kentucky. But in college basketball, that'll happen sometimes. But Golky, the thing people forget about Golk, he wasn't even a starter for Oakland. He was a bench player. And he came in and did it. In baseball, sometimes you see it with like some random dude, like hits. Who was the guy for the Cardinals or the Reds that hit four home runs in a game? Mark Whitten hit four home runs.

But there was somebody even more random than that. It was like Scooter McGee or something. I don't know that one. There was. There was somebody really random that did it. There was a Willie McGee. Yeah, I know. It was somebody even more random than him.

It might have been for the reds. Anyway, you might get it sometimes with a perfect game. Yeah. You'll have some no-name guy. No-name guy that'll come out and do it. The Braves, yeah, Kent Merker threw a perfect game, I think. Kent Merker. Okay, Kent Merker's a perfect because there's only been, what, like 30 perfect games ever,

and Kent Merker has won. Yeah. Yeah, the bigger guy for the Yankees, the pitcher, what was his name? David Wells, but he was really, really good. You're talking about the big fat guy, yeah. I mean, Bam's good, too. I'm not trying to act like Bam some. I mean, Bam's great.

He's a all-star and he's been an Olympian, so, I mean, he's great. But if we ask you before the game to pick a former Caliperi U.K. player, he'd be like the seventh or eighth name you come up with. Yeah, if you were to have said, but if I were to have said yesterday, a Kentucky player's going to score 83. Give me who it'll be. you would probably have said Shea first. Then you probably would have said Booker. Yeah. Then you might have said Maxie or Murray.

Yes, both those guys. You would have put both of those guys ahead of them. And maybe you go ban. I think you might have even said Carl. Yeah. Carl. More of a three point shooter. Bam was killing those three point shots yesterday.

He was heat checking in the first quarter. That was what it was. And now you go back and you think about that 27. team. And you think about who was on that team. That team was so much fun to watch. They got cheated. They got cheated out of a title.

That team, we lost in the elite eight, but they were the second best team in the country. Yes, they were. And I do think North Carolina was better, but we were the second best team in the country. And they were fun to watch. They were fun. That's the last year Kentucky was dominant. Yes. We have had, in my opinion,

in really four dominant teams in the modern era. 2010 was dominant, 2012 was dominant, 2015 was dominant, and 27 teams. Those were the four teams of the Cal era that were like, I'd like to see the four of them play against each other. Right?

In a seven-game series, put all those teams together. I think it'd be fun to watch. And Fox Monk and Bam, they only just won. would embarrass people. They would run people off the court. I mean, that game against UCLA, where it was Lonzo Ball.

Yeah. And Deer and Fox just toys with it. Awesome game. And they still pick Lonzo ahead of it, which ended up being a mistake. Yeah, it's that locker room scene from what I remember. Yeah, and then the locker room scene where they're crying. I mean, that's a great. I thought it was awesome to see his mom was there.

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I don't remember anything else he did in his entire career, but that night. And a couple people, we'll say that about Isaiah Briscoe having a triple double. Because you'll have Chris Mills, what is it, Deer and Fox, and Isaiah Briscoe as the triple doubles. And Scooter, not his legal name, his nickname, Matt, in case you were wondering. I wasn't. Do you know a scooter? I do. I do.

I got a cousin named Scooter. Scooter Quillen. Live next to me. Live next to my grandmother in Middlesbrough. Scooter Braun. Wouldn't that a name? Scooter. Yeah, Scooter.

Scooter McCray. There are a lot of scooters. I feel like there's not enough scooter. Scooter's a good name for a kid. Right? Now, when you get older, it might be weird to be a scooter. Yeah. But when you're a kid, I think scooter sounds like a great name.

Speaking to real quick of baseball, the U.S. baseball team lost to Italy. Saw that. Solomio. Got to be a pretty big upset. I mean, yeah. They were down eight to nothing. And they fought back, caught.

it to eight to six. Now, if Mexico wins tonight, I think the USA's out before they even get a chance to play the big game. Wow, that would be disappointing. The manager for USA made a big mistake, though. Did you see that? No, what do you do? So they were down eight to nothing. And everybody was like, well, they've got to score some runs here because I guess tiebreaker is margin or something like that. And so the USA scored a bunch of runs, made it eight to six. And when it was over, they interviewed the manager and he's like, yeah, I wish we'd won. But thank goodness we scored those runs at the end. Now we're through.

And they're not through. Oh. And the announcer, Shannon, didn't know to correct him. So the team was like, well, we're through. We're good. And then they got to the press conference and they were like, you're not through. That's awkward. So now, be a huge shame, by the way, for the networks.

Yes. If the USA, if all the game is like Mexico versus Korea, They're going to be like, wait a minute. We put this on prime time. This was supposed to be USA Dominican Republic. And then that becomes a meme of the manager saying they're through. And then they don't make it. We're good. We're through.

And no one corrected him. So later they were like, you're not through. Nobody did the math. Yeah. They're a pretty big error if the baseball team doesn't. I mean, we literally invented the sport. The huge upset that I'll make it to the final rounds. Seems like the other.

countries care more, though. Well, Italy, though, I want to say Italy, it's a little like these people aren't in Italy. It's just people who have any Italian heritage get to play for them. I don't think anyone on the team lives in Italy. Well, I just see the Dominican Republic games. It looks like a party. Well, no, the Dominican Republic and Japan and America, now those teams are really good. Venezuela, I think's really good.

But, like, the Italian team is just a bunch of people named Piazza. Shouldn't have lost that. No, they don't live in Italy, most of them, maybe all of them. Maybe the United States were dealing with some fatigue, and that's why they got down 8 to nothing. Could be. Could be. Isaac, go ahead, Isaac. Hey, guys.

So I sent this text to you last time, Matt. I don't know if you saw it, but I think it's pretty fitting that BAM scored 83 because 8 minus 3 is 5. So I'm feeling like the 5 and 5 is a sign. A little bit of a stretch. A little bit of a stretch. 8 minus 3 is 5. but okay all right I'll take it

no I just I feel I feel good you know I wish I could go down to the game tonight or today but I think it'll be a good crowd I think so I'll have some energy and hopefully we can win at least too but you know why not five why not what are the secondary prices now for the tickets um I mean Joe it was yesterday 59 for the

yesterday it was 59 I'm gonna get I'll be interesting because I I'm fascinated about what the crowd's gonna be yeah Ryan and I are gonna need some tickets to get in because we didn't get credentialed. Oh, dude, you got rejected. Shannon and Ryan got credentialed. Oh, I knew Ryan did.

I mean, Mario almost got rejected. Yeah. And I don't think Mario and I are allowed on the floor. What? Just back in the media area. The SECs, like they've, well, first of all, they've taken a lot of the media seats and sold them. Oh, really?

So that's part of it. And then part of it is, you know, last year I got mad at them and, and, you know, we'll just, I got mad at him for how they treated Mario, and I think we're getting caught up. Well, by the way, the cheapest ticket right now and stuff up is $8. Wow, there you go. There you go. Yeah, let's get it.

$8 for general admission, $14, $15. So a lot of, so yeah, so seats can be had. We won't be able to get a lower arena for $35. Which is great. So honestly, if you're in Western Kentucky, why wouldn't you just get in your car right now. You can sit lower arena for $35. And see an SEC tournament game in Kentucky's playing. You can sit court, not courts, but you can sit in row 10 behind the LSU bench for $117.

That you could never. No, like how often can you get those prices? Never. Yeah, I mean, these are, these are a lot of, I mean, look, this is a suite. You can get in a suite for $52. Well, we want to get our golden flakes chips and Dr. Pepper. tickets are available. But, yeah, so there's going to be a lot of empty seats. Yeah.

I would assume, though, to the extent there is a crowd that will all be Kentucky fans. There's not going to be any LSU fans there, right? Well, I heard Maggie Davis on the Leach Report this morning. She said they were there last night, Tuesday night, walk around, and they only saw like just a couple of Kentucky fans on Tuesday night. So maybe they're all driving down this morning. Yeah, the other game today is Auburn, Mississippi. State. That's a second game. Auburn might have some people because that's not very far.

Right. Mississippi State will have no one. So. Well, let's hope Kentucky shows up and gets some shots up before the game starts. You can buy an all session pass. How about this? So this is for every game. Uh-huh.

Let's guess what it is on the market. What do you think the cheapest ticket, Shannon, for every single game is right now? Oh, God. Every game, all five days, I'm going to say, 150. Oh, well, it's pretty cheap for every game. I mean, if you're like the worst. $348.

But that's still insanely cheap. They're usually $1,000 or something. If you tried to buy tickets to this all sessions in like 2017, it would have been $1,200,000. Yes, easy. And I mean, if Kentucky makes a run, you could resell those tickets. $348 is. You're telling me the get in price with $8.00. I thought, you know.

But that's just for today. $348. That's, I will tell you, that is the cheapest I've ever seen an all session passed at the SEC tournament. And if you're just a basketball junkie, why wouldn't you do that? I mean, yeah, that's 15 games. Yeah. Pretty cheap.

That's basically what? That's $25, is that $25 a game? To watch SEC basketball tournament? That's kind of amazing. It is amazing. David, go ahead, David. Yeah, we're, we're. rolling into Nashville, boys.

All right. That's what I like to hear. Yeah. I got hope and hope. I think we got to give the man another year, give him a chance to get him a GM in there. I definitely think it's a good idea. This is not 1980 anymore.

We can be running coaches off just because they don't have a 25 wins season. You know what I'm saying? I mean, we're better in South Carolina, right? Yeah. Is that the standard, though? We're now better than South Carolina. We are better than South Carolina. That's true.

Well, I mean, we don't want to put ourselves into UCLA. You know, we're all age enough to remember when UCLA was considered a dynasty. But we just have beaten the heck out of coaches around here, man. And it's a, I think we need to rally behind them. We haven't beaten our heck out of coach. We've gotten rid of one coach. And we haven't even gotten rid of. He left.

If he had wanted to come back, he would have come back. And I appreciate the call. I do, I will say, yes, a lot of fans, myself included, thought a separation from cow should happen. But somehow it's gotten lost in history. He left. He did. He chose to leave. He left.

Boy, he did his bio. He chose to leave. So, you know. Even Tubby chose to leave. That's true. The only person we've ever fired is we fired Eddie Sutton and we fired Billy Gillesman. That's it. So we don't, I mean, you could say we run off coach.

I think my man chose voluntarily to go hang out with the chickens. And that's his call. Yeah. And we'll see, we'll see, I mean, we'll see what happens with that. 859-280-20-2-87. I can't believe how cheap those tickets are. I really can't. For the SEC tournament in Nashville.

The SEC tournament, $350. Like I'm saying, like, go buy those tickets. Kentucky makes a run. You can resell that. Well, even if Kentucky doesn't make a run, Vandy's good. Yeah. You said like you said, a lot of Arkansas fans.

Arkansas fans will come. Tennessee, if they win a couple games, you know, I mean, even Vandy, Shannon, if they were to get to the semifinals,

yeah, if you were to have a semifinals that included Vandy, Tennessee, and Arkansas, that'll be a massive ticket whether we're there or not. Absolutely.

You know. Yeah, Vandy would have to beat Tennessee to get to the, they play Friday. Well, Vandy, Tennessee on Friday. That could, I mean, if you get a massive game.

at Kentucky, Florida and Van D Tennessee in the same session Friday? That's big. That's going to be a massive ticket. That town needs, yeah. That Friday day ticket will be wild if you get all those teams together. 859-280-2287. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR. Last night, a blown

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like i was like man he can pull that off and it's look like he's in 50s he was on i don't know why they had him on saturday at live like usually there's have they put anything out have they shan in 20 years maybe it's like a 20 year anniversary reissue or something like that they're doing i don't know. I don't either. But this song was, and I thought these people were actually cartoons. Yeah, I did too. I didn't think they were really real people. Yeah, I never seen them live. Because you read that video was just cartoons, right? Yep. All their videos are. How were they live? Were they good? I mean, they were good on saying that live. Sounded good. And so now I've been listening to this song for get ready, Mario, we're listening to it on the drive.

859-28027. We were just watching on here. They were showing highlights of the teams that made the tournament yesterday. I watched a lot of Hofstra Monmouth. And, you know, I'm a human interest story guy. That's what's great about these tournaments. People complain, oh, you're in a one-bid league. The best team doesn't get to go. That's okay because you still get cool stories. That's right.

Hofstra, think about this for a minute. Hofstra has won their league three times in 35 years. Year one was 2000. Jay Wright was the coach, and the star player was a guy, named Speedy Claxton. 2020, they win, but COVID hits. An assistant coach on the team was Speedy Claxton. Really?

But they don't get to go to the tournament. And then last night they win, and the head coach is a guy named Speedy Claxton. And they get to go. So the last time they've played was when Speedy Claxton played, and now he got to take him as a coach. Very cool. How cool is that? How cool is that?

Very cool. His interview last night, he was crying. He was like, and he said something I thought it was kind of funny. He looks at his team and he goes, I want a championship in high school, college, and the pros. And he goes, I don't talk to one person from my high school team or one person from my pro team. But I talk to almost everyone from my college team. Wow. Which I thought was neat, except why, why doesn't he talk to his people from his high school team?

I thought, I don't know, do you talk to anybody from high school? Bob, DJ, Trevor. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I got like four or five guys I still talk to from high school. I feel like everybody talks to someone from high school, don't they? Use the guys that sit at your lunch table.

Those are the guys you still talk to the other. And then the pros, what professional team was he on that won the title? I don't know. I remember the name. I don't know what team he was on. Look that up, Mario. And why aren't they all friends? They must.

They hated each other. Do you talk to people from high school, Shannon? Maybe like two or three. All right. So I talked to three. Do you talk to people from high school? Like five or six, yeah. But most of the people we talk to are from our college years.

What about you? Three or four. Well, without question, the closest friends you make in life are in college. Yes. Because you go through this experience of being by yourself together. Grow up, growing up. So I do think college is, if you go to college, when you make the closest friends. Yeah.

Spurs. Tim Duncan. He ain't talking to Tim Duncan. David, David Robinson hangs up on him. Tony Parker's like, Pallé, vo, who? You ma'am peal speedy? Mike. Go ahead. Mike. Mike.

All right, no, Mike. Michael. Michael, okay. Yeah, Michael's here. Go for it. So you guys have been talking about Stephen A. Smith a lot lately. I don't know if you realize or not. last week's night on John Oliver. The dude's also brick on General Hospital and is a henchman for a mafioso.

I did know he did some... I did know he did a little General Hospital, Stephen A. Yeah, he's on there occasionally. He's been a recurring character for a long time, right? Stephen A is one of those people that, like, I'm like, hey, man, you should get a hobby. Because he's on everything. You know, he has a two-hour radio show every day. He has a podcast.

He does the television. He's on the game. He's on General Hospital. I think his hobby is making money. I think his hobby is talking. It's also his job. You know, I mean, he's also, he's older than you think. Oh, yes.

I was on the trivia and one out of the night. He's like Ryan's age. Mario got a picture with him. He didn't smile in that picture, though. I thought that picture, Mario was so excited to get a picture, Stephen A. Stephen A doesn't even crack a smile. He's too cool. He's just like, yeah.

Mean mugging. It's like, dude, take yourself. little less seriously, just a little. Farley, go ahead, Farley. Hey, I want to comment on what you're doing to poor Ryan. Half of those people that are calling and complaining to you watched Magic Mike and 50s gray. I understand, but right, you have to understand Ryan is not. He's not Channing Tatum. I mean, it's a, it's, it's It's different. Listen, listen, if you're going to make the rules, you have to look at both sides.

And I'm telling you those people are... You like thinking of Ryan naked, sir? I do. You do? Okay. All right. Well, at least you're honest about it. All right.

Fair enough. So you're one vote for more sexual Rhine content. I don't know about more, but I don't think you... But you're good with the amount you're getting now. That's what you're saying. I think that's an appropriate amount. Okay. I like that you're comparing Ryan to Magic Mike.

No, no, no, not comparing Magic Mike. Ryan to Magic Mike. I'm saying the people that are complaining about that are watching Magic. They think Channing Tatum and then what was the woman, Dakota Johnson, they think of them probably in a slightly different way than they think of Ryan. Well, so they're being a prude about Ryan. Okay. But they're being so viscous about Channing Tatum.

I find that. You find that hypocritical. All right, fair enough. I appreciate the call. Was it always like this? In my three or four people I have a crush on, I said Parker. Is her name Dakota? Yeah, I think so.

I think you said Dakota. You said Dakota. I said to go. She's in my three or four people. I think it's the bangs. Bangs do it for you? And she was on. Amy Poller's podcast and I just

I found her delightful. Now who's Parker? She thought you said Parker. Oh, because that guy's name was Parker. That's why I said it. Okay. Jared, I got about 30 seconds. Go ahead.

Sounds good, guys. I'm just coming down to Nashville. We actually got here about 30 minutes ago and we're lying about outside right now. Oh, so are there people? Are there UK fans? Yes. All right. So you're getting there for the general admission, right?

Yes. Well, me and my dad actually got a book. but I haven't got to see court-side seats as I was in college a couple years ago so I wanted to get some close-side seats as best as I could. Well, good. Well, enjoy yourself. We'll be right back, hour two.

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