KSR - 2026-03-24- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk fake Facebook posts and rapid reaction from callers on Mark Pope and Kentucky Basketball.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're going to go to the phones, and I want to use this as a measure of the fan base. You know, everybody talks about where the fan base is or who thinks what. Let's just, we'll do the 30 seconds and let people go. 859-280-2287. The lines are open now. Just a couple things before we do it.

Number one, I have a TV show that if you all don't watch, I will not be your friend. What's it called? What's it called? Including those of you are listening. And if you don't have HBO Max, you don't have to watch it. But if you do, have to watch it because we have to discuss it in like a week. After I get back from my week off.

Neighbors. Neighbors. Neighbors is what television is about. More people should know it. Everyone should watch it. It's a show that's very simply about in real life, neighbors fighting over stupid stuff. I've watched two episodes.

I've been enthralled. I will watch all of the rest of them tonight. One of them is about a fence. Two insane people in Montana, insane for very different reasons, but both insane fighting about a fence. And it's great. It's great.

Then about fighting about a little piece of land on a beach and insane. Fighting about cats. A woman has too many cats. The neighbor is like, get rid of all these cats. And then a couple, a gay couple fighting with their neighbor because the neighbor's turning a farm in their little suburban neighborhood. just trust me you know everything you need to know just watch it and then just marvel

and by the way I'm worried this will be me and someone when I get to my new house I can also put my stamp of approval on it I've seen it it's very good it's great HBO's hot right now you got the bowling show you got rooster roosters DTF St. Louis the game of throne

spin off was awesome just Ryan I know you'll like It's a real show. It's not like it's not scripted, but it's just about neighbors fighting over dumb things. I'm in it. I'm on it. Great. And the thing is, after the first two episodes, they don't solve how all these things end. I hope they're going to do that before it's over.

Put it all together. I need to know, like, the guys with the fence. I mean, you talk about two crazy people. And like, they're trying to find common ground, but they're both insane. One of them thinks he's a dungeon and dragons lord. The other one's like a Q-Anonon. guy. They have piercings everywhere. And then they bring in this dude on a motorcycle to try to mediate. And he looks as crazy as they are. If I was in a fight with my neighbor and HBO wanted to document it,

I'd be like, maybe we're out of line here. Maybe we should dial it back just a little bit. If they want to feature us on HBO. If HBO thinks y'all are a little much, maybe you should dial it back. Promise me you'll watch it. Oh, yeah, I'll watch it. Once you turn it on, I know you. Okay. You're going to love it. Okay. You might get your own episode too. It's going to say, you're about to move into a new neighborhood. You're going to love it. I also got credentialed for the East Regional. So I'm going to...

It's massive. I'm going to Duke St. John's Michigan State, Yukon. I mean, my thought is when are you going to have a regional that has... I mean, those are four... I mean, if you consider Patino separate than St. John's, I mean, you got Duke, Patino, Hurley, and Izzo. Come on. It's a wild lineup.

It's a wild lineup. You can go as a member of the media and just enjoy the game. You don't have to be, you know, get an better seat than I get in Rupp Arena. No doubt. You better act straight or the media will call you out. Wear your tie. I'm not doing it. I'm just going to watch it and I'm going to enjoy it because, like, those are going to be two great games Friday.

Yeah, you can go and enjoy the games. Yeah. You have to get up and leave and pace or anything? I might be pacing for St. John's against Duke. You're going to wear a St. John's hoodie? Well, I got to be in the media, so I'm not supposed to wear it.

Yeah. But I'm going and I'm looking for. forward to it. I couldn't believe. They credentialed me in three minutes. I couldn't believe it. It was easier to get that than the SEC tournament. Shannon I can't get even in the end. It just means more. All right, so let's see what the, let's see what the people think. Here we go. Let's

just go down here. Let's start with Rick. Go Rick. It wouldn't have mattered if we had two point guards on the floor. They couldn't handle Iowa State's defense. And it was also that they didn't do no pregame preparation for that defense.

and then when we did get through the defense, we couldn't make no shots. So you don't think the left-handed point guard matters? No, not a bit. All right. All right, Glena, 30 seconds for everybody. Glena, go. I'm just really sad and kind of at a loss or words for how Kentucky basketball is right now. And another thing, the baby crying on the post-game show could not have been a more KRS Indy.

to the way our season has gone. It was really loud. Appreciate it, Glenn. It was very KRS. It was very KRS. That's exactly right. Crease, go. Yeah, I do not think Mark Pope is the answer.

He was not qualified for this position. He's done nothing to change my mind since. And I don't see it getting better in the future. But I will say that I am going to be positive this summer. He is going to be the coach. So nothing to do but get behind him and support him. And Davers is a great show. Thank you.

There you go. Appreciate it. 859-280-2-87. Let's hear what you got to say. This is your chance. Mark, go Mark. First time, long time. Who are? My intelligence and out of Big Blue Nation was insulted when you go on a radio show and try to justify this season. Last year, he went on a press conference after getting the Sweet 16. And it's easy to be a gracious winner, I suppose. But now he doesn't know how to to, to, to, act and defeat. He used, the numbers he used are ridiculous. Pope overall, 63.9%.

Nathaniel, go. I wanted to say, I think the show yesterday, Mark Pope's show, gave me a little more optimism about next year. The main reason was his creator's comment. Finally, it seems like he needs elite talent. And I was a little skeptical after the post-game show where he made the comment of finding guys that want to be at Kentucky because of what Kentucky is.

Kentucky is Kentucky because we've had elite players throughout the years, not because we've gotten guys that just wanted to be at Kentucky. So go get those guys, Coach Pope, and we will make them... There you go. Like it. By the way, say what you said about the show Paradise. Yeah, Paradise is my favorite show on TV. And last night, I thought I'll take a little break from basketball,

just watch the women win. It's a great point in the season. And towards the end, the president's giving this big speech about fallen dynasties and empires. and then he goes, don't get me started on Kentucky basketball. I'm just like, can I just get a distraction? So he was acting like Kentucky was a falling in. Yeah, he's naming all these times in history that people thought they had it all and how quickly it can fall.

And then he went, don't get me started with Kentucky basketball. We've got to talk to Josh Hopkins about that. Oh, I texted immediately. That's why Josh was on. That's why it was on initially. Yeah, yeah. It's going way too far the other way now. Now it's even being negative.

Yeah, we can't have these shows be negative on the shows we like. Let's go to Adam. Go at him. What's up, guys? it's hard. I was ready for a change at the end of the Calipari area, and it gotten stale. But Mark's Pope's comments about Calipari comparing the two.

Calipari is a Hall of Fame coach that has a national championship in six final four. So, I mean, you're not comparing apples to apples. Mark Pope has not accomplished anything near what Calipari has done. Appreciate it to call him. Aaron, go ahead, Aaron. Again, the reason I'm doing this, I think it's interesting to hear cross-section of the fan base there. I don't think there's any entity where you hear more different viewpoints, which is why I want to give people a chance to go. Go, Aaron.

Hey, man, it's Aaron from Harrogate. Look, man, I'm a Pope supporter, but something's changed between last year, man, this year, he's a different person. I really think he's feeling the pressure of the job. The stuff last night that he said, the one thing I never heard was, guys, this is my fault, you know, I'm the one to blame and I'm going to get this right. I've still yet to hear that. And that does give me a lot of pause and a lot of worry. Ma, go ahead, Ma. Might be Matt, that's my fault there. Matt. Matt, or Ma. Go ahead, Matt. I think what's going to burn Pope next season is he's going to bring back too many of these guys. And we're just going to have a bad foundation of non-physicality, non-sick football on the floor.

I don't think Changelaar and Marines are starters, the more bench players, and he's got to go out and find five or six guys he can put in this lineup. Appreciate the call. It did sound like retention was a big thing for him. So you do wonder how many of these guys he wants to bring back. Yes. I mean, you know. We talked about Brandon Garrison.

I think he really, really loves Brandon Garrison. Is he a guy you want to bring back? One of the people I spoke to last night said if it was up to Pope, this was their direct quote, if it was up to Pope, he thought he'd bring him. everyone back except one guy. And he didn't say who the guy was. Well, he said after the game, I have a sophomore guard in the starting lineup, a young center, and a young power forward

his first year of college basketball. So he at least endorsed that would be Chandler, Marino, Yelovich. Essentially, I didn't hear him say that. Darnel, go ahead, Darnell. Hello? Go? No, I still like Pope, you know, like this season. He has a five and three record against the sweet 16 teams.

And it's Iowa State. They're a number one seed. They blew out Purdue by 24 points on their home court in the middle of the season. So go, Pope. All right. They weren't a number one seed. They were two. Grant, go ahead, Grant.

Hey, gentlemen, first time, long time. Who was? Hey, you know, I think we need to just stop pretending that Mark was anything, but a personality hire for Mitch. I know he played here. We love the guy, but he had very minimal success as a head coach prior to coming to Kentucky. And I think all of our fears prior to the press conference

that lit that nostalgic fire in us all came true. I don't think he's qualified. I just don't think he's got the chops for this. Love the guy. He's a wonderful. CW. Go. Well, I'm discouraged, and what I'm discouraged about we're stuck with Mark Pope.

That's all I got. Mitch, go. All right, so the guy stole my personality piece, but I'm going to give you an alternative. There are two major sports factions here in Kentucky. I'm going to leave a little bit. Churchill Downs, a long time ago, had a perception issue, and they fixed it by getting young, getting lean, getting smart. Now they're a national, in fact, international superpower.

UK needs to make a hire to help that at the AD. I actually think that's a great analogy. Appreciate the call. Churchill Downs was in the Kentucky Derby were in a crisis about 10 to 12 years ago. And they've turned it down to where when I meet strangers of all ages, the first thing they say to me when I hear Kentucky

is I'd love to go to the Derby. Like in Churchill, what they did, I don't really know. I'm not up on exactly, but I like that analogy quite a bit. Connor, go Connor. Just wanted to say, that DeMarcus Cousins, who went after R. Matt Jones,

he's the same DeMarcus cousins that said that UK would not be on TV anymore after Cal left. Also, he's not UK. He's Cal University. Appreciate the call. I don't want to, I appreciate you taking up for me, but I do love DeMarcus. DeMarcus wants Kentucky to be good. That, you just reminded me what it was. I forgot about that. I was trying to remember why DeMarcus got mad at me when Cal Cal left because he did and I couldn't remember and that's what it was. He said

we'd never be on TV anymore. And I responded that that was ridiculous and that was when he got mad. That's it. Now I remember. Last night I was sitting there racking my brain going he got mad at me but I can't remember what it was. That's what it was. He went on TV and said they would not be

on television again and I was like that's absurd. And then he got upset. That was it. That was it. Cool man. Go ahead. Cool. Rope is like soap not on a rope in prison. We're screwed. Mark, go ahead, Mark.

Hope, 63.9% in two years. Cal over the last three or four years, 63.5%. To focus on how selective these numbers are, Cal's last year, 69.7%. Cow's last two years, 67.2%. Cow's last three years, 70.3%. Cow's last five years, 66.9%. Last six, 69.5%.

everything else is above 70. This is such trying to use numbers to justify is ridiculous. And that is an insult to Big Blue Nation. Appreciate it. That's actually interesting. The only time frame in which Pope would have been better were those were four. He's just saying it wouldn't have been true at two, three, five, six, only with four. But to be fair, four is post-COVID.

And that's for a lot of people kind of a natural breaking point. but that's an interesting point. The rest of you, hang on. We'll keep going on this. If you're paying a premium for roadside assistant, getting gouged for phone insurance, doctor visit co-pays feeling more expensive, unlock every advantage with blue vantage checking from UK credit union.

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control. It's worse than I ever imagined. But imagine if that's all Pope sees. And he thinks that is the news reporting. There's four reports of very prominent UK people dying this way. I'm not going to say their names because it's so outrageous, but it has like 800 comments. Yeah, we'll be right back. Last night, a blown call changed a 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 Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise.

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I don't know if boats break, but I will. Take a lot of work. Yeah, I would break. Yeah, I would break it. Well, just a quick note because this was one of my childhood friends' mother. I just saw passed away. Allison Cook and her brother, Brian, from Middlesboro. Allison was one of my best friends growing up.

Her mom, Kay Cook, passed away. And I know Brian listens to the show, and Allison's married to a preacher down in London, Kentucky. My prayers to them. I loved, I had their mother in school. She was my middle school math teacher. sure, I believe. And I just saw she passed away while I was on Facebook looking at these things. I ran into that and made me sad. So God bless Kay Cook, my former teacher, and always kind to me and Allison and Brian. 859-280-2287. Let's go back to these. Nick, go for it, Nick.

Hey, Matt. Before I standing on that, I'm really sorry to hear about your friend's mom. I appreciate it. And I assume all of you will be. So thank you very much. Now, we'll get your, since you're kind, we'll start your 30 seconds now. Go ahead. Thanks, man. Hey, so I'm cautiously optimistic. I didn't have any issues with the comments. I don't think Pope was deflecting.

I don't think he did anything that struck me as egregious character-wise. Didn't shift blame. He said it's not the standard. This is unacceptable. It's going to get better. Cautiously optimistic, get it done. I want to see results. We'll see in two months.

Might feel differently in two months. We don't get it done, but I'll wait and see until that. All right. There you go. That's probably the most positive one so far. Let's go to Joe. Go ahead, Joe. Mark, it's a beautiful game when you don't have 20 turnovers a game.

Mark, go back to fundamentals. If you have to put blinders on Colin Chandler so they don't look down at the floor when he's dribbling, please do it. If that young man comes back and don't go to Mormon land, he could be an all-Sec guard. Put blighters on the kids so he don't look down when he's dribbling. Thanks a lot. Goodbye. What an amazing.

I do want to say, first of all, he's a lot. right. He does look down when he dribbles and he does turn it over then. That's actually a really good call. With that said, that block, I went and watched it again. It'll be forgotten to history. It will be. But that block was insane

that he got in the second half. I don't know how he got to it. How did he get that? I don't know. That was incredible. It's one of those I said you wanted to have the wins so you can reward that and that can be remembered for a long time. I mean, he got so high up and he came from nowhere. other side of the free throw lane and then go-go-gadgett arm somehow he got up to the ball.

That's the block that if you were like, I don't know if Colin Chandler has it. He's got that, and there ain't many people that got that. Nope. So, yeah, Will. Go ahead, Will. Will. All right, no, Will. 859-280-2287. Steven, go.

Hey, guys. All right, regarding JMI, can you please explain how our new football coach can go out and sign one of the elite quarterbacks in the portal that's going to cost millions of dollars have us in the running for another super elite quarterback in the portal but our basketball coach

can't seem to get anybody who is elite. All right. So I'll answer that question. It is a different process for football and basketball. Okay? Football, we have like 16 million in rev share or 15 million in rev share

to distribute amongst players. And the football market is such that only a handful of people really demand big money. So you're essentially competing with just a few schools, just for a few guys. And it is clear, to me at least, that the JMI deal allows the football team the resources they need. Basketball is different. Basketball is a handful of guys, the top of which demand huge amounts of money. and we're at the top of the food chain, whereas at UK football, we're in the middle.

It's a different process. Does JMI work for that? We'll see. I'm not ready to say no, but I'm also skeptical. But we'll see. We'll know a lot more in a couple months. But football and basketball are two completely different processes. I am ready to say with some confidence

that I think JMI's process for football is actually working pretty well. I am yet to believe that it is for basketball, although I'm open to be proven that it has, but we got to get some players first. And then I'll believe it. Scott, go ahead, Scott. Hey, can you hear me? Go for it, 30 seconds. Hey, if I'm a coach of a D1 school, I'm not recruiting a point guard that can't go left as well as he can go right.

I kind of agree with me. I kind of agree with it. But I appreciate it. But go catch. Appreciate it. I mean, they're so ambit. dexterous these days, right left, there's really doesn't matter.

That was an odd. He was like, we designed the whole offense around a left-handed point guard. I just, I didn't really realize basketball was like that. Sometimes you'll hear in the NFL them say that a left-handed quarterback you have to change things for. But that makes more sense to me because you're back, like if you're a lefty, your right tackle is your blind side.

So I get that. I don't really get it with basketball. I don't either. And it seems if that was your plan, a good defensive scout would be like, well, they go left a lot and they can't go right. So let's just stop that. Mike, I don't know. 30 seconds.

Hey, man. All right. Last year, Markolt did what I think is just short of miraculous. He took a team with zero players returning, built a roster in a couple weeks and went to Sweet 16, beat a lot of top 15 teams. You don't do that if you're not a coach. This year, he sucked at roster management. He overreacted to what causing problems last year. It definitely caused him problems.

but once you're in the season, you can't change that. So you have to deal with the bad roster. With a bad year, I'm definitely on board with a third season to see what he does. Our fans suck. Fascinating. So we've done four segments of this, two yesterday, two today. Three were pretty negative. That one was a little more positive.

That guy might be on Facebook. That's where Pope gets some of his positive info. We'll be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. We have lost Drew to Facebook for all time.

It's incredible. Like, now you, Drew has become Mark Pope, and he is going to get all of his news. The one you just showed me where Mark Pope stormed the set of the view. I just tweeted it. And yelled at Whoopi Goldberg. Got in due with Whoopi. It's got to be true. No, really? I had no idea.

could view, but I thought I would have seen that somewhere else. I didn't know, I didn't know that that happened. Well, whoopi yelled. Are there people that believe that? The amount of comments and shares suggest yet. Whoopi yelled, unplug his microphone and Pope said, you can mute my mic, but you can't mute the truth. Oh, take that, Whoopee?

Wow. Who has time to create these fake stories all day? I don't know. I'd pay for a subscription. Yeah. Who has time for this? How, who is the person that sees that and goes? Yeah

Mark Pope was on the view And confront Whoopi I mean I haven't seen it anywhere else Yeah it's basically It's on National Enquirer of the internet But it is on Pope's pup So it must be true Well Joy tried to de-escalate

And then Anna Oh Joy tried to DeVeyhar She tried to de-escalate Anna Navar I don't know who that is But she muttered unhinged But Pope didn't flinch She did not flinch She muttered unhinged

Yeah Wow The View I'm going to do a collection of these for KSR later, my favorites. So many people believe it, man. No, I'm going to make it very clear. Please.

Don't do this, but they are kind of funny. It's going to be like a lesson. The one you showed me that showed, Shannon, there's one that's like AI that's like Kentucky fans brawling with Florida fans and it shows an old man in a Kentucky jersey beating up students in the Florida students. I see the Mark Pope on the viewing. So again, there's Mark Pope on the front. view. He looks unhinged, to be fair, to Anna Navarro.

Wow. Why would they have Mark Pope on the video? But the thing is, though, like, I can see why if Mark is only getting his news there, he's like, this is what the news is. Yes, people are purses. But I don't know. He's got to know, though, like, that's not in the Courier Journal, right? Like, he's got to know that's not. It's funny. The Courier Journal, Ryan Black just replied to me, he's like, we have not been reporting on this.

You have been missing this. story. Wow. We've lost through to Facebook forever. All right, real quick before I go back to the fan thing. Brett Setser. All right, let's quickly set this up. Brett Setser, one of the biggest donors to UK athletics, UK football, I think is his primary donation. I don't know how much he does for basketball, but he is a big, was, maybe still is, a big UK football donor also donates to some of the secondary sports. He did an interview with Linda Blackford and the Herald, and then Drew was able to obtain a letter that he sent to UK demanding to the president, the board of trustees, and who is the other one?

Oh, and the athletic board that they reversed the Barnhart deal. He says many things in the letter, but I think this is the crucial one and this is the most important and this is what is my problem with the deal. He is exactly right. There is no deal that the president of the university would do in any rank. of the university, where he could solo give someone $2 million with no oversight. There's no scenario where you are allowed as a president to do that, except he decided to do it right here.

And Setzer's point is there cannot be a world in which a president can unilaterally give away $2 million with no oversight. And essentially, he's asking the board of trustees and the athletic board, show some oversight and overruled. Step up. That's what he said. I think it's completely reasonable. Brett, I think is completely right about that.

There's no other situation where a unit, on the way out the door, like it's not even in exchange for services. Yeah, I know he's going to be, you know, instructor to the initiative, to sports, whatever. But he already had that job. You just unilaterally gave him two more years of a deal. And for what?

What are we getting back? That's the thing. Contracts are, when you learn this in law school, there has to be consideration. And what is consideration? I give you this, but you give me something back. True. Right? Makes sense.

In this case, we're giving it to Mitch, and he's not giving anything back because he had already agreed to do this job for a different amount of money. And we made it longer and 10 tickets for life, which I had someone tell me yesterday could, because it includes his kids and grandkids, right? That could be worth millions. I think it ends with when he and his wife have passed. I don't know if it just keeps getting passed down after that. Oh, so it's just he and his wife?

I think. Regardless. It's just the price of tickets. Is he mid-60s, late 60s? Okay, so 20, 25 years, 10 tickets, those values might be what? $20,000 a ticket, depending on where they are. Do the math. Adds up.

Ten. Yep. Just for the record, I was told by somebody that would know. Joby Hall got tickets later in life after he finished. Still had to pay for him. That is crazy. His family got zero. Jobie Hall to get season tickets had to pay for them.

And Mitch Barnhart gets 10 for life, free? 10's outrageous. That is crazy. How many family members you got? Shannon. Seriously. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I mean, I can see him getting him, but not 10.

And even if you think he deserves that, it should be approved. I want the board of trustees and the athletic board sign their names to it. If it's so approved, sign your names to it. You know, say it, what do you? Say it with your chest. Sign your name to it. So I think Brett Setser's letter from what I've seen seems completely reasonable. And folks, this isn't going to go away.

It's not just Matt Jones chirping. You now have Linda Blackford at the Herald Leader. You have now donors. And believe me, there are faculty and all that. Like, this is not going away for UK. And they can go on every radio show that no one listens to and chirp about. They better, like, this is not going away. And I can tell you, you know, Brett took a big step forward by putting his name out there and letting this be public.

But there's a lot of them. that haven't written letters yet that are big time on Brett's side. There's a lot of boosters who I think this stinks like a lot of the fans do. So him putting out there was, you know, he put his name and face to it, but he's, there's a lot of people in his corner. He's going to take somebody with a big time player to step up and get the ball rolling in that, like that, so Brett sets are stepping up. You know, he's, like he said, is he a major player in in this. I have the letter right in front of me. At the end, he said, he said, these things should be communicated transparently. This is all ultimately made for the Ben,

of students. That's the reason the University of Kentucky exists. None of that happened. Shutting down legitimate questions and resorting to name-calling falls well below the dignity of any university, especially Kentucky. And let me say again, I don't even really all that much blame Mitch, but this is the, y'all didn't even show up to his press conference. I want you to think about that. Let's say I'm on Mitch's side. He worked there 24 years. It's his retirement press conference, and the president doesn't even come? He doesn't even come? What?

And then has yet to take a question from the public? Give me a break. That's chicken blank. Well, he put out a video talking about being more efficient. But again, a video without questions. No, I mean, he's saying we got to make cuts. Like, you just... Yeah, we got to make cuts.

Here's $2 million to Mitch. And then Mitch, didn't help himself by in defending the $2 million, which I guess anyone would do. I'd want $2 million. He calls everybody knuckleheads. There's a good way to fix questions is to call people names. That always works. And minimize it to two or three people when I can promise you it's a lot more than that.

Very clearly. You know, good for Brett. Let's go to a couple more of these and then we'll do it in the next segment. Mark, go. Is there any hope that the next athletic director will put more emphasis on UK basketball? Mitch Barnhart was probably the most successful athletic director overall, but arguably the least for Kentucky basketball. He won half as many championships in CEM,

and he had the same number of final fours and twice a time. Is there any hope for us moving forward? Appreciate the call. Well, I think there's hope. I mean, Mitch is going to be here. So regardless of whether that was correct or not what you, you said, like, he's gone, so it'll just depend on who's next. Mike, go. Hey, guys, I just want to say, we've had some of the greatest coaches in college basketball

at my time, you know, on this earth as a Kentucky fan. But I'm really worried right now because I think, you know, anybody gets through a news from. I wonder where that leading in crap come from. He's getting his niece from Facebook. Well, somebody tells me something about you take basketball. My first question, did you get that from Facebook? Leave it along.

You know, I mean, come on, dude. like, can he even find his way to reparator? Does he have to have help? I don't think that's fair. But I don't think that the argument isn't that he believes Facebook. The argument is, though, that he's taking that as the representation

of what's out there. What's been reported? He's taking, I don't think he thinks, I mean, he knows these things aren't true. But the problem is he's taking that as when he says this is what fans think, he's taking this. No, fans are laughing at this. Fans should be laughing at it. Now, if Aunt

is not laughing at it. You need to tell Aunt Bertha, come on. There are a lot of Aunt Bertha's up there. Let's go. These are just because it's a picture. Doesn't mean it's true. Although, to be fair, Pope did put Whoopi in her place. Yeah, he did. He did. I hate the view, too. Is Who even still on that show? Who watches it? I didn't know. First of all, I didn't know it still. I know. I always heard Trump yell about it. But I kind of wonder if Trump and Pope are like the same, because Trump's always angry about things on Facebook, too.

you think maybe Pope is on truth social I don't know I there's this one person that writes me on the text machine they're always like when are you going to start putting your posts on blue sky and I'm like never I have no more that's the democratic true social I'm not no more apps I tried to thread I couldn't even thread

I threaded one time I want to thread but here's what I don't like about threads it's not in chronological order why would you have a timeline that's not in chronological order? Because then I look at it and I'm like, oh, and then it's like four days ago. Facebook does that. I know it's on Facebook. I'm not on Facebook.

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Let's go through here. Rob, go Rob. I want to say that I think that Mark Pope was a panic hire by Barnhart. He failed on Hurley. Scott Drew didn't even make the NCAA tournament this year. If Pope keeps too much of his current team were in trouble going forward, Barnhart has six national championships, four in rifle, one in volleyball, and one in basketball, and a major problem.

I think now is Eric Mundy, who's going to be your next president, and he's calling all the shots. Appreciate the call. Well, I hear that name a lot from people. I don't know him. We learned his name on this show a few months ago, and I keep hearing him as a fingerprint on a lot of this. We'll find out. By the way, it was interesting when they announced that Barnhart retired. They said he had six national titles.

Rifle was pulling a lot of weight. Yeah, it was. Well, when I walked into that ceremony, they had them all out on the table, and my brain was like, Mitch has six. What? And then it hit me. Rifles doing strong work. Rifles doing a lot. Chris, go Chris.

Hey, man, first time, long time. First, I like off my condolence for Drew falling in of the Facebook of this. It's a shame. It seemed like a nice guy. I hate to lose him. If you're going to collect for flowers, let me know I'll kick in. Now, my comment is, I think it is laughable that people are criticizing this coaching staff.

They had injuries. They missed on a kid. that they thought might be able to play backup point guard. That was probably the plan. But I will tell you, I wanted to hear him. But Shannon is, Shannon follows the rules, don't you? 30 seconds is 30 seconds.

30 seconds when we do this. Johnny, go Johnny. Get to it. I say that Mark Pope is not at fault for the current state of affairs of Kentucky basketball. Mitch Barnhart is at fault. Mark didn't hire himself when he didn't have the resume to do it. Mitch did, and Mitch is the one that needs to wear the egg on his face for the program is. Appreciate the call.

Ed, Ed. I'm glad you mentioned Coach Joe B. Hall. Coach Joe B. Hall's first year, following up Adolf Rupp, he made the NCAA tournament, made it to the lead eight. His second year, he went a big fat 13 and 13. And you think BBN is unhappy now? You should have seen us back in with Coach Hall. So yeah, I'm all about giving Mark Pope an opportunity. Are you mean to tell me, hang on just a second for you, hang up with this guy.

You mean to tell me that fans got mad at the coach before Matt Jones and KSR existed? No. I thought we were the ones. Yeah, baby. I thought we were the ones that caused everyone to get mad and we were the problem. You tell me that happened before I was born? You better believe it. See, you know what?

I appreciate the call. Yeah. If I read online, I would have thought I appreciate the call that I am the reason fans complain on. I thought we made up the concept of being disappointed when our favorite team loses. I didn't know that. Rats. Unhinged on the view. BK.

Go BK. They unplugged his mic. Hey, Matt, first time long time. Who are? Yes, sir. So I'm a 6-7 left-handed basketball. basketball player once removed 20 years ago in high school. But I just realized last night after the Mark Pope interview that it wasn't my fault

that I'm not in the league today, sir. It is because Mark Pope was not running. The coach was not running left-handed place for me in high school. Like Mark Hope had that idea. Good point. It's a good point. Great point. You lost your chance.

It is. I appreciate the call. You could have been a contender. You're not. Mark, go Mark. Coach Hall was still. fourth place in the SEC in his second year. Who is the real Mark Pope?

Last year he overachieved and he says he failed the assignment. This year he underachieves and makes excuses. So which one is it? Thank you. It is true. Last year they did say they failed. It'll be interesting to go back after a year or two and look back at the comments last night from Mark

and say, was he right? That like they were progressing and then you see another jump or was that an example of sort of the standard and what he said he was going to do him switching the standard? It would be interesting to see. I don't know. I hope what he said is correct, and this becomes a building block.

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