KSR - 2026-04-06- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: April 6, 2026

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May do it, but we haven't yet. 772-754. Donnie Freeman. By the way, Drew was saying a Caden Lewis can't shoot. free throws, not Blackwell. Yeah. No, no, Blackwell can definitely shoot free throws. Caden Lewis, not so much. Yeah. One person writes, Matt,

glad to have you back. Tell me what the atmosphere was like in that Duke Yukon game. Well, I was on here Tuesday and talked about it, so I won't go into detail, but it was awesome. Best. It was one of the best environments you've ever been in. Without question. Just because the crowd was half Duke, half Yukon,

going back and forth. And then the shot just came out of nowhere. You know, it was like the O-way shot. There's something about in college, like college basketball, I think the fact that you can't call time out and move it to half court. Yeah. Right.

Which that allows for more buzzer beaters, but you also don't get like the full court excitement. And it's kind of like with O-Ways thing against Santa Clara, the fact that it happened so quickly and there's no stop in play almost makes it to where you don't have time to process how crazy it. Right. Same thing with Oway. Oway. Bryce Drew, Tyos, Edney, some of the favorite memories.

Most came out of timeouts, though. But the end, not advancing the ball. Yeah, but this, like, getting the steel or coming off a make, there's something about it just kind of flowing like that that makes you go, whoa. And that that was cool. Your point of not being able to process it was perfect with a video of Grant Hill and Bill Rafter. I thought Bill Rafter he had died. It couldn't process it.

I thought he might have died. Like, literally, it was. look like he died and I loved it. They are such a good team, by the way. They are good. And I think Grand Hills very good too. But what an amazing moment. But now we need them to lose.

This has all been fun, but we need them to not win title seven tonight. Yeah. You know, as bad as we wanted Duke to lose, now you got to root against Connecticut. And by the way, Yukon is a blue blood now. Like, anytime we have the conversation, it has to be Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Kansas, and Yukon and then you can debate whether you want to still put UCLA there. But you definitely have to put Yukon. There's no argument that they're not in there. Right. Just if you look at the title count, you can't kick them out. You can't kick them out. You can't say it's recency bias. Well, I mean,

four of our titles were in a 10-year period in the 40s and 50s. Like you have to, if you're put UCLA in there, they're all in the 60s and 70s for the most part. So you got to do that. It's crazy the stat you mentioned earlier though. When they go to the final, when they get the NCAA tournament, they either win it or they don't make it. Yeah. And three different, Three different coaches is important. It's important that they've won with three different coaches. And that's a short amount of time. We have won with the most coaches.

We have won with five. I was looking at this. We've won with five. Carolina's won with three. And they've won with three. And that's it. And one of them was Kevin Hawley. Yeah.

But that's it. The amount of programs that have won with more than two coaches is three. Wow. Kentucky, Carolina. And you can't. That's it. That matters. It does matter. In terms of how you judge this stuff. Now, I do want to say, so I'm going to, I need to take up for Big Blue Nation. And this is taking up for Big Blue Nation in part against other people, but it's also in part against some of our own parts of Big Blue Nation. And none of this is to criticize the point I'm about to make, but I also think it's completely unfair.

So an account on Twitter called Thrill Kightly, which is a really good name for an account, by the way. I don't know who Thrill Kightly is, but that's a great name for account. Do you know who Thrill Kiteley? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've seen him. I've seen the account. I don't know who it is. Okay, I thought you knew it.

It says he's class of 25 at UK. So I was like, you hanging out with her on it? No. I just know of the account. Okay. So he puts out, I'm hearing that both Mark Pope and John Calipari have privately vented that UK's fan base has negatively affected recruiting since 2020. Other schools use the fan base and the negativity against UK and it has cost multiple elite recruits. And that kind of went viral of fans being like, our fans stink.

It's our own fans in general saying that. Yeah. So I responded, and Drew, I thought you would be proud of this response. I said, yeah, it couldn't be that since that time, this team has missed the tournament, had two embarrassing first round losses, not started two top 10 picks, and had a Ferrari season in mediocrity.

No, it's got to be the fans' fault. It's definitely the five mean tweets that people see. It couldn't be the results of the team. So since 2020 is very important because since 2020, we've lost to Oakland, we've lost to St. Peter. We've missed the tournament. We've put Reed and Rob on the bench.

And we have had a Ferrari season play out the way this would do. So I just want to take a second just to take up for Big Blue Nation. Now, I'm not going to act like there aren't fools online. Just go look at my responses on any given day. People can be outrageously cruel online. Outrageously. And it's gotten worse. And I get it.

all the time. The players get it in some ways worse. And it's despicable that people do it. But it's also, unfortunately, human reality. Go look at what any human being of notoriety says and then read their responses. It's awful. And it's worse on Twitter than anywhere else. But it's also bad on TikTok. It's really bad everywhere. Instagram people seem the nicest, but that's because it's mostly women on Instagram. But it's bad. People are mean. And on Twitter, they can use fake identities, which makes them even mean.

And I'm not trying to downplay that that happens. Okay. And I'm not downplaying that thrill kightly, even though I don't know who that is, is wrong that coaches privately blame the fans. I'll even go so far as to say, he's right, or she, or whoever runs that account. They do. Cal did, and I've heard that that has been done by some folks at UK. I can't say it's Pope specifically, but folks at UK now.

But I will just say this. They're full of it. They are using other people for their own failures. I want to remind you just what has happened in the last few weeks at other schools. Hunter Dickinson went on a podcast and said that the Kansas team was ready to finish their season early because they hated their fans so much. That was Kansas, who by the way, seems to be doing fine in recruiting. Duke, go look at what Caden Boozer just had to go through.

Go look at his company. Go look, just Google Caden Boozer's name and see what people say about him since that play. Some of the worst I've ever seen him. It is maybe the worst I've ever seen. Go look at any football team when a kicker misses a kick. Yeah. All right. Go look at North Carolina after they lost to VCU and what their players and Hubert Davis took.

Now, do Kentucky fans, are they like that? Yes. Go look at what Louisville fans did with McKell Brown when he wouldn't play this year. Right? Yep. Do our fans do that without question some of them? But so do everybody else's. So when you're losing players, it's not because of that.

Have you heard John Shire say we can't get players because of what people said to Caden Boozer? No. Have you heard Kansas? Tyron Stokes. We're either going to get him or they're going to get him. It's not going to be because of the mean tweets because he's going to have to go to one school or the other. that has mean tweets. It is an excuse to say that.

Now, do I think other coaches maybe use Kentucky fan tweets against the program? Possibly. But you know what we need to do? Our fan base and our coaches and our administrators need to take up for the fans. Why are we writing this stuff and blaming? Don't blame cat fan in your eye. when that person says something bad, tell them to shut up. But when we perpetuate this narrative that we're awful,

we're hurting ourselves more than the tweets. Right? If John Calipari and Mark Pope, and again, I don't know that those two guys personally do it, but if they do, that only hurts us. Right? Yeah. Because what we should say is they've got people to,

it's the nastiness of the internet. But how about we focus on the multi-milliones of Kentucky fans that are wonderful, right? Most passionate fans in the country are right here. The most passionate and best fans are here. Now, if you live your life only online, it can seem like the world is falling apart. Right? Yeah, because online, the world, the life, world stinks, but go outside. Right?

Smell the flowers. And I have to remind myself this. Now, I get too online sometimes. And then I have to go to a remote and go see like the actual thing. Uh-huh. Right. I have to go to a game and like see the actual things. Because if you only live in this circle of online, the hate is can be bad.

Now, what I think happens with our players sometimes is they are perpetually online, some of them. And so they do feel that. I get it. But you know what we're never going to be able to do? Fix the niceness online. Because when you try to be nice to people or say something back, they just get meaner sometimes, especially the anonymous accounts.

And it's mostly anonymous accounts. And it's mostly anonymous accounts. How do we also even know these are Kentucky fans? So I would say that continuing to perpetuate this myth that Kentucky fans are worse than everybody else only hurts us. we should instead, A, focus on the good fans, and B, don't let people off the hook by blaming fans. We've joked about how when we lose games, their fans go, Matt Jones' fault, KSR's fault. Now we're to the point that if we don't get a recruit, it's random internet accounts fault.

I just don't buy it. And that's my little rant. That's a great rant. I think we all need to hear that. I think we see the small minority of fans that are little vocal, and we think that's how it represents our entire fan base, and that's not even close to being the truth. But part of the reason people think it represents it

is because we spend so much time yelling at each other and, like, ignore those people. And I do think it's the coach's responsibility and the administrator's responsibility to get the players to ignore them, right? They do need to do that. They shouldn't. If a player comes up, and I don't, believe this has happened one time, by the way.

I mean, John Cala Perry's last recruiting class had three of the top five players. He had the number one center, the number one small forward, number one combo guard, and then Rob and Reed. I mean, I don't think Cal, what more did he want from that class that ruined fans? And with Pope, if people are truly coming up to you and sit down recruiting and they're saying, well, so-and-so at this SEC school, SEC school showed me this one tweet, I'd be like, hey, let me show you how we sold out Rupp Arena for a press conference where people didn't even really want me. And if you really think Louisville coaches, and I don't know if this is true,

but if Louisville coaches are using Kentucky tweets, then just pull up Louisville fan tweets. Like if that's what you're going to have to do, then do it. Because it's not just Kentucky. Here is what is fact. And I will say this and drop it. If you ask me more questions, I'm just going to drop it. There is a player of some significance who staffs have come out, this player of a player of some significance did not come here

and they have said that a player's family member said it was because of tweets. I don't even know if I believe that. But if you're losing a player in the NIL age because of tweets, then they weren't coming here anyway. If they produced those tweets, show them all the good. Show them that after a loss in Rupp Arena, there's still a line of people waiting to get a picture in an autograph on their way out, even if they had a bad game.

Highlight the good stuff and be like, okay, sure, you showed me five tweets there on a printout. I'm sorry that happens, but look at all this other good stuff. There is a player that these folks are using as an example. I would say to you that privately the people around that player have blamed other forces, some of which we've talked about on this show. And maybe this is a way to deflect from the blame going to them and put it on random anonymous fans.

At the end of the day, the proof is in the pudding. You get the players or you don't. And by the way, once we start getting the players and we win, all these tweets will go away. Of course. Winning cures everything. If you win, it's going to be great. We all want Kentucky to win. I had this conversation a few weeks ago with one of the Kentucky, somebody in the UK administration.

I said, look, we all want us to win. Let's remember that. Let's stop pointing fingers. and let's try to win. And to me, that's the, should be the ultimate goal. We'll take a break. Be right back. KS.R. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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supporting them. That will happen with all these guys, too. I mean, it's going to, it'll happen. I mean, remember, Khal Whitney, I'm not sure a career could have gone more negatively than his did. And yet people still embrace that kid when he comes back. The twins talked about it when they were here this summer? Twins, yes. Yeah, twins. How much love they feel and love coming back now as a former player. Even in that documentary on Saturday, always says he sees all the tweets,

but he's like, you just got to shrug it off, you know, Twitter. And then go out in the world. The internet's mean. We can't change the internet. Us old people like me, they want to tell these young kids will just stay off social media. Man, they grew up with social media. They're on social media every day. It's hard for them.

I totally get that. All right, one person writes, Matt, what do you think about President Trump's executive order? or will you finally say he did something good? I mean, he had quite a Easter tweet yesterday. Speaking to tweets. On a holy day. That was beautiful. Did you almost cuss?

I was going to say, shame on you. Oh, I thought you were about to cuss. Do not cuss. Our bosses are in the building. That's true. They are in the building. Can you calm down? I'm sorry.

All right. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, look, the executive order, I mean, people can agree or disagree with what's in it. My point is it's always. ultimately completely useless.

He's not allowed to do that. So somebody will challenge it in court, and when they do, he will lose. So I do think where it is important is it tells you where, like, his staff is on this, which is they want to have five years for five. So this could mean guys have five years of eligibility now. So that's something I don't think people are talking about a lot. If Trump were to get his way, and again, none of this matters. Congress has to be the one to do this.

But you could get five years to play. So a guy, forget about red shirts. You could just play five years, which I think is interesting. And then second, though, is only one transfer. That's the part I don't like. One free transfer, right? Yeah. Because what if you transfer and you just hate the place?

Yeah. Let's play it out like this. Let's take Jasper Johnson. Okay. Jasper Johnson comes to UK, it doesn't work out. Do you agree it's best for Jasper and UK for him to move on? That's a good part about the transfer portal. Here's the problem if you only have one transfer.

Let's say he goes to Alabama. That's where he's going. Let's say he goes to Alabama. Now what if he gets down there and it doesn't work out? What if he gets down? Now Alabama can just say, Jasper, after year one, We're only going to pay you $100,000. You know why?

Because you can't do anything about it. Can't transfer again. You can't go anywhere. You've given all the leverage to the schools. The schools can now, because you're not allowed to sign a contract, so Jasper can't ensure that the school can't just block him for the rest of his career. Isn't that the exact thing we were trying to get away from before? So I understand guys going five,

schools in five years, but Jay Billis was right. Did you see the argument between Jay and Cal and Seth Greenner? Yeah, I read about it, but you can't make me much good. It was really good. Jay Billis made a good point. You want to fix this? Let them sign contracts. Let them sign contracts. Let them sign contracts. Then that'll fix it. Yes. But the NCAA doesn't want to do that. They don't want to let them sign contracts. But do you want to fix it? Then let them do it. No, what's interesting to me is everybody says this system is unsustainable. Why? The ratings are higher than they've ever been.

Good point. The games are higher than they've ever been. The money is high. But you know what? It's going to go down eventually because people won't pay it. But is anybody saying coaches should be paid less? Is anybody saying 80? should be paid less.

Maybe AD shouldn't get to sign million dollars for life deals. I'll say that. But the president's not getting involved with that. Is he? No. So I don't really care so much about the executive order because it's not going to stand up. But this legislation at some point is going to happen. And I think if they do the only one transfer, I understand why people think that sounds good.

but in practice use Jasper Johnson. If he transfers, wherever he goes, will now have control of that kid for the rest of his time. And there's not a thing he can do about it. So is the rule where if he transferred a second time, he'd have to sit out a year like it used to be? Yes. You only have the five-year window.

But then you only have the five-year window. So you're basically forcing him to not play for a year. Uh-huh. Yeah. I don't, is that good? And is it, like, I'll use North Carolina example because he liked North Carolina. If he had transferred to North Carolina and then Hubert Davis gets fired, is he still stuck?

Or do they go back to looking into that? I don't know. Your circumstances can change so quickly. And then are you going to get waivers and we're back to the situation where everybody applies for waivers? And we know they weren't good at that in the first place. And then what if you go there and the coach does something bad to you? What if you go there and the coach smacks you in the face? Are you saying he can't leave now?

Four more years. Stuck. So I just don't like, I don't like the rule. I think they're, you know. John Calapary, man, every time he talks about it, the players get older. You know, he used to go, there's 24-year-olds playing basketball. Then he was like, there's 25-year-olds. And then when he was on there with Billis, he goes, there's 28-year-olds.

Who is 28 playing basketball? He used the same joke with two kids and a mortgage. I heard it got contentious with Cal and Billis. Because Billis was basically calling Cal out for being in Greenberg. Greenberg was, shockingly, on Cal's side. And they were both like, there has to be rules. and Billis was like, why? This is the highest rated tournament of all time.

Everyone agrees the quality of play is better than it's ever been. Why do we, what is the deal? If you don't want to pay money for these guys, just don't. Tushay. You don't have to. Nobody's making you. Football ratings are up, basketball ratings are up, the sport is at its highest level.

I saw a great tweet. And it was a little political, but I don't care. It showed a picture of Zoron Mondami, and it said, college basketball coaches and ADs whenever it comes to sports. They all become socialist. They do. They all are like, we got to stop paying these people. We got to collectivize.

We got to share the money. We got to make sure players that, like, they all become Zoron. You're going to share their own money? No, they are. no, they're capitalist for themselves, but they're socialist for the plate. It's just, it's interesting. All right, we'll take a break.

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You did it? Oh, my goodness. It's incredible. I mean, I don't know how many people listening to this have gone ahead and bit the bullet and watched the show. I highly recommend episodes one through five. Okay. highly recommend. Especially two.

Two is my favorite. Which one was two? The retired guys with the hot tub in the house. Like the guys with the hot tub in the house. Yes, the two, the guy that does karate and all that. Yeah, he's good. Have you watched them all? Watched it all.

Okay, so, all right, so we can, the three of us talk about. One through five, highly recommend. Crazy people, really petty disputes. A backstreet boy appearance? Who saw that coming? By the way, there's an update on that. You see that? There's an update on the back street boy.

Um, so love it. Episode 6. Wow. Wow. Rick, have you seen neighbors? No, I haven't seen that. I have to check that out. Rick, do you have HBO? Yeah, HBO Max. I want you tonight, Rick. Don't read one thing about it.

Just turn on neighbors and watch episode six only. Okay, I'll do that. Will you do that? Are you here tomorrow? I'm here all week. Okay. So just tonight. just watch episode six and then come back and I want your thoughts. Okay. Why are you all having your hands in your head?

Poor Rick. Don't you think Rick should see it? I don't know. I wouldn't know if I want anybody to see that. Now I really want to see it. See? Okay, so without spoiling it for Rick, because I want to give Rick the chance to watch it and then we talk details tomorrow.

Wow. Why going on there? Wow, is there a good way to put it. in the end, did you feel sorry for that guy? I was so happy when he found community. I thought he was going to stick around. I actually... What about the woman, though?

Incredible. The music video, I'm not stopped singing, shake that, you know, won't say it here. That was a plot twist I didn't see coming. I thought we were focused on him, and then she brought her own stuff to the table. She had her own thing going. And I did get very sad with the constant text messaging, though. I did too. You're not answering me.

Are you okay? I couldn't watch the text. That actually made me cringe. The texting, you know how sometimes you just like, it's so cringy, you can't even look at it. That was one of those. What about the community? Again, speaking broadly here so we don't spoil it for Rick. I really didn't realize, I guess, there were communities like that that existed where you lived that way.

I could see you living in one of those communities. All I could think about is there's a world where Ryan Lemon could live here. Because you have that thought. Oh, absolutely. I could see him rocking that stage at karaoke night. I definitely would rock karaoke night. I am not sure when this show ends. You will not end up at one of those places.

I will say there are very few things at this stage of my life that make me go, whoa. But when he got in that cart. Yeah. golf cart and started driving through that place. Uh-huh. That was a whoa. Yeah. That was a while.

I wasn't ready. I thought I was ready. I wasn't ready. I had been warned so many times to the point. I'm like, I don't even know if I need to watch it. I know so much about it. And I still had to pick my jaw off the floor. So, Rick, you take your view tonight.

Okay? Okay. And then we'll talk about it tomorrow. Sounds good to me. All you wanted to watch is episode six. And we won't have to go into details. I want you to also know, Rick. all of us in the KSR world, our prayers are with you, my man.

I appreciate that very much. And you, you, and I, we don't have to go into it for, but like everybody listening, I hope you know that. Rick. Yes. Okay. I just want to make sure. We love you, Rick.

We love you. All right. So now with that said, spring of Ellie. Got a big hit last night. Six and three. Yeah. Swept the Rangers. Swept the Rangers.

A. Huaheanio. Chase Burns had a big game. Chase Burns had a big game. Summer of Sal. Spring of Ellie, Summer of Sal. He's leading candidate to win Wookie of the year right now, I think. Wookie of the year? He's going to be Wookie of the year? He's going to be Wookie of the year. Wow. Somebody needs to make a meme of that. Sal Stewart, Wookie of the year. Just like the Star Wars.

That'll be online in two minutes. Somebody said that to me. I like Sal Stewart, wookie of the year. Little Spitzers Deer got a big hit. Yeah. So, you know, I'm not giving up yet. It's just, we get this every year. Yeah. We get the excitement.

And then around May, you'll be like, I'm never going again. And then they'll win a series in June and you'll be back. Yeah, that's how it works. Now, can I go ahead and tell you something I'm mad about? What's that? This damn blister. Oh, yeah. What is with the, we've talked about this.

I don't understand this blister. Nick Lodolo's had the same blister for three years and he keeps being out and they're like they've the story I read said they've tried every single thing one can do to fix a blister have we found out that in the medical profession the only unfixable thing is a finger blister

he can't fix it he said they've tried rubbing sandpaper on it to get a callus it just keeps popping how's that possible? I don't get it Like I said, I played baseball my whole life. Not one time did a pitcher miss a start because he had a blister. Not ever.

But this has been three years of the same blister. Same guy. Three weeks I could understand. It just won't go away. And every time you try something, it gets worse. But three years is ridiculous. There have to, explain to me. So a blister is just like irritation from rubbing, right?

Yeah, over time. We're time and time again. But does your hand, like my feet have calluses? Yeah. They do, but I have parts of my feet that can't blister because they've calloused up. Can your fingers not callous? Exactly. You've been pitching the same hand for 20 years.

You got soft little baby hands maybe. I don't know what's going on there. Do you know? No, like I said, I can understand short term why it'd be a problem, but the fact this has spanned multiple seasons. Like, what's the next, for everything he's tried, is he just got to have to amputated? What's next?

Can you put, okay, somebody may be able to tell me there's a baseball rule. Can I not put a band-aid on it? Probably not. Why? Nothing on your throwing hand. So you can't have a band-aid? I don't think so. I consider it a foreign substance, foreign object.

On your throwing hand and your glove, nothing like that. So you, I didn't realize that. So you couldn't, no band-aids. Not as you're a pitcher, not on your throwing hand. What do they think a band-aid is going to do? Distract the hitter. They'll see that band-aid. Okay, we'll make it flesh-colored.

Yeah. You can't use like the blue snobet. Noopie one or anything. Yeah, he just has to He has to use the same as his skin. Still can't do that? I don't get it, man. I've never heard a pitcher have this many problems with it. Every now and then, maybe one come up, but for the same guy to happen year after

year after year, something's not right. Maybe he got manicures his whole life and you've got a little soft little baby hands. It's infuriating, because we could use him because he's good. He's good. He's 6-11. Yeah. All right. They announced during the time I was away that

UK has signed a deal with fanatics. JMI signs a deal for 12 years that allows fanatics merchandise and 25 players during those 12 years will have their own branded fanatics merchandise that's part of NIL deals. What are your thoughts? I like the idea of players being able to, you know, add another layer to them go out and get money.

I hope it does really well in NIL. I don't know why we keep signing these decade-long deals in such a time of uncertainty. where the sport changes on a dime any day. But overall, I'd say it's positive as long as the players are getting compensated enough to get here. Yeah, that's my take. It seems positive to me. I don't see the negative in general.

I think it seems creative. And we ask for them to do creative things. This would be a creative thing. So I think with all of these deals, ultimately the proof is in, do you get players? Right. So, yeah, the idea, because they already have Fanatics Dills. You can go get the logo, I guess. like a Colin Chandler could have his own line through Fanatics now using the UK.

And UK is the one that's, so I think the theory is, UK goes up to Tyron Stokes and says, we're going to create Tyron Stokes branded clothes through Fanatics. And through that, we will give you more money in the, I think that's the theory, Ryan, of what it is. Yeah, so I just wonder how they're going to spread it out. Like does UK football, UK basketball, does Clara Strach get one for UK women's basketball?

How do they try to spread it out? I think they just figure out who they want. I want. Biggest names on campus. Yeah. I think you just say, who are the people that we want. They get 25 guys. If you're that 26 person.

Well, but I would bet if it's working, fanatics probably guaranteed 25, but if it's working, then maybe they'll do 50. You know, I mean, I don't. I'm with Drew. I think it actually sounds like a good idea. The question for me is only, you know, the proofs that do you get players or not? Like, that's going to be the whole thing. And we'll have to wait and see.

We don't really know. If you got a popular guy like, I'm just Trent, for example. example, who came in and everybody who loved him in the 13th region, everybody would want a no, I think if you did that with Trent Noah when he first got here, that would have been a great a great idea. And I think the good, here's the good thing about this. Like Kentucky branded has done these deals with players. But now UK, like in theory, a player could create Trent Noah branded merchandise that has the UK logo and that he could wear him warmups. Yeah. A counter would be, what if they have a

company that they like and want to do deal with and fanatics is like well we don't deal with that company that's there you go but i don't know the answer to that details if you're tiring stokes and you already have a deal with a company will UK let you keep it we don't really know the answer to that UK has said yes but privately you hear conversations that they make it so difficult that the players are like i don't really think we can do this so i don't know but that is a very small group of is that we've got. Of course. Like a handful of the top basketball recruits. Which is why I genuinely do believe that the JM idea works for football.

We just have to see about basketball. And I'm not ready to say yes or no yet. But I did think this was positive. It was a decent step. You're saying not for basketball because there's more opportunities for the basketball players out there? I think the football guys, we're recruiting. They don't come in here with deals. We're recruiting like.

the 96th best. But in basketball, we're recruiting the top four dudes in America. And they might already have deals. Yeah. Like Tyron Stokes already has a deal with Nike. Kansas clearly is saying to him, we'll work around it. My question is, are UK and JMI,

when the kid has a deal with Adidas, are we willing to work around? And we don't know the answer to that. We've had some hints. that maybe they're not, but we don't really know. That's really the question. Tell me about Stockton.

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First I got to get furniture. I was researching interior designers this week. Yeah. That's not a fun research. No. Buckle up on furnishing that place. It's whatever you think it's going to be. It's going to be more.

Yeah. But I don't know how to judge them. People in Lexington seem to have a lot of floral designs on their couches. Patterns coming back. Not necessarily the manly thing. I don't want those floral designs. So it's hard for me to find who does. who does good designing that doesn't include like flowers on the couches.

Well, Mario is going to design your studio, right? In the kitchen again. Yeah, Mario doesn't get to do the new one. We'll take a break. Very back. Skiaz on. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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and our podcast, Point Game is about defining the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin. and Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs.

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at the bar like you go through a training camp with that Isaiah you figure it out real quick get your ass up and down the court and you're going to get the ball so listen to point game on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts welcome back tucky sports radio 859280 2287 77272727452524 on the text machine thank you to the wookie of the year pictures those were good yeah I enjoyed that they did not disappoint You did not. You did a very, very good job. This is still, like what I was saying about the good fan base,

this is the best fan base. It is. This, uh, this, this thing. And what I will say, when I had conversations with ESPN at various points, I got asked by one of the top people at ESPN. Why do you think your audience is so good? And I said, the people of Kentucky are the best.

And they were like, yeah, yeah. And I said, no, but I'm serious. Like they're the nicest people. And one of them goes, even though you're a dirty liberal? And I said, yes. Even more so. Like the fact that people will overlook those things because they just, they're nice. We know most of our people listening are not on your side politically.

Yeah. I mean, you know, but we all can laugh at the dude at the Christy Nome's husband, can't we? Oh, my. Oh, my. Be fair, though, I could see you doing it. that too. I would do it for Halloween. Dress up.

I don't know if I'd walk around. I can see you being on the neighbor's show. And I can see you doing that as well. Before we finish. Bill Raftery. He's 82 years old. He did an interview where he said, I'm actually older than that,

but I don't tell people how old I am. Really? Did you see that? No. He said, I'm actually a few years older than that, but I don't want to say what it is. Really? So did he like forge a Burser?

I don't know. Is he like one of the Dominican baseball players who age is unknown? He started the line, the teens, and he just couldn't change it all these years. Or could it have been? He changed his Facebook age for Tinder when he went to Dallas with Drew. Yeah, he was traveling to the final floor. He's like, I've got to lower my age. And then they won't let you change it back.

That happens to people. I've heard. I wouldn't know anything about it, but I've heard that that happens. Yeah. In the college basketball media landscape. And then 15 years later, you can't change it back. And people think that your Facebook age is younger. That's got to be what it is.

Go with it. But how about, so let me say, so he's 82. And I have said, I think he's amazing at his job for 82. But what if he's actually older than 82 and still that good at his job? Pretty impressive, isn't it? Super impressive to him to be, if he's mid-80s or higher, he's able to still do that. His call of that Braylon Schottel go down in history the way he handled it. You know, he's just one of the best.

I think he's awesome. I mean, do you like him? Of course. Yeah. When a game starts, you got to hear the. Minerman. Before everything. It's like part of Paul's bass on street.

You know, it looked like he died. And then he goes, the audacity. Like, even uses, you know, bigger words. Astounding. I love the fact, too, that Iron Eagle shut up and let Rafterty cook there for a minute. He did. So did Grant Hill. Yep.

They both kind of backed off. Let them cook. That's good stuff. Most of the lines I think of in college basketball come from Raftery. You know, onions with the kiss off the glass, all of them. With the keys. Yeah, they're all him. The lingerie on the deck.

They're great. He's probably the most second, most iconic next to Vital in history, right? Vitow's going to be number one. Yeah. He's probably number two, right? And then Charles Barkley's probably sneaking up maybe number three. He's not even a college basketball guy, but he's still. is. All right, draft Kings, you go bet $5.

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Michigan is... Six and a half point favorite. They win, they cover. they're just on a roll right now. Not one of the best teams we've seen in forever, but one of the funnest to watch. I wouldn't have said it before the weekend that they would blow out in Yukon, but what they did

to Arizona, I think they're in for another big win tonight. Give me Yukon. Not necessarily to win, but they're not getting blown out. Was Yaxel playing? Yes, both guys are playing. Solo ball, great name, and Yaxel, both playing. But Yukon

at least covers, and it would not shock me. If they went. You know, my stat, about the five teams before the tournament, the only time I've ever been wrong are Yukon teams, and now there might be another one. Michigan was one of my five. I didn't have Yukon. So in the future, it may just be these five teams and Yukon.

I mean, with the experience they have being there three out of the last four years, I mean, that will weigh in their favor. I mean, a lot of the guys are new, but they have some guys that played on those teams. All right. We will be back tomorrow. Neighbors, Episode 6, Rick. You got that? Got it.

And then we'll talk about the game and a lot more. Good to see you guys again. Welcome back. And now we go to this meeting. Big meeting today. I'm nervous. You did. Yeah.

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