KSR - 2026-04-07- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 7, 2026

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Call 859-271 joke or visit Comedyoff Broadway.com. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Tuesday. April the 7th. I'm Matt Jones here on a nice day in Lexington, Kentucky, where we are debuting or at least, I guess, testing some new, camera video equipment that could make this show look professional one day. I'm hearing good things. I can't see it because I'm on the other side of it. You guys can see it. I'm looking at the

screen. Does it look good? Oh, yes. We're like, is this 4K or 5K? All right. Well, good. I wish someone had told me I would have shaved and worn contacts today, but this stuff's not getting out today. But now, I mean, if it looks this good, I might have to not wear hoodies. I don't know. It could change my entire wardrobe. It's very high tech. And like when one of us starts talking, the camera automatically switches to that camera. Yeah, so apparently there's AI in this,

I'm told. By the way, Clark's Pubbit Shop phone line is 859-280-2287. A Vision Autoglass Text Machine, 772-745254 in this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith law office. You call TJ I'll make a pay. I'm told that this, like, Mario, when it's over, can

say, give us the five, you know, or like when they were talking about Mark Pope, put together a clip and it can give him something to start from. So it actually leads to where he can put out more clips every day if he wants. So it's made it to where he's going to have to do more work, which is nice. It does the hard part for him, though. He doesn't have to edit who's talking. Like literally when Ryan started talking, a camera moved and it went to him and showed you in a split screen.

So actually, Mario, you might be getting pushed out the door by this fancy equipment. Yes, you get to train yourself for your replacement. Are these lights? These little lights right here? There's going to be lights and like everybody's going to look better. I'm looking forward to it. But this is a big day today. I mean, let's just the portal opens according to our wonderful president.

Civilization may end at 8 o'clock tonight. So there's a lot happening this morning. Yeah, it's been nice working with you guys. World coming to an end tonight. I thought all we wanted was cheaper eggs. And now we need, we need cheaper, now we want cheaper gas. Well, let's just hope we get to that point. But we won't spend today.

I don't want to make everybody enraged. It's transfer portal day. It is transfer portal day. We're going to talk a lot about it. Let's start, though, for a second with the game last night. Yeah. Because I think not so much that, first of all, are we glad Michigan won? Yes.

Avoided the worst case scenario. Yeah, Yukon winning would have been bad. Yeah, Michigan, that's fine. I mean, where they got two now. I mean, it stinks. A lot of those guys on the court. last night we're Kentucky targets and we finished second. But other than that, whatever, Michigan.

Congratulations. So that was kind of my takeaway in some ways is that that Michigan team was probably the vision of what Mark Pope's hope would happen here. Right? They had five. So think about it. Second year coach. Yes. Right?

Yes. They had five transfers. A lot of size. And I actually think Mark tried to get a lot of size. We had five bigs on the roster, even though guys got hurt and some people didn't. We had five bigs on the roster. A lot of size, very efficient offensively. We were not.

But you're right. We recruited a couple of those guys. I mean, Yaxel, the point guard we looked at. Dimry Mullins was probably going to be here. I'm just saying the court altogether. Yeah. Dimery and Mullins, both were people that we thought could have. end up here. They called the big guy who had such a big game Mara from Emusil. I don't know how

close that guy, but he's another one we were watching last spring. There's really a moment I was looking at the court and I was like, I remember writing about most of these guys in Kentucky being close. And depending on who you ask, Kentucky either spent the most money on their roster or some people think the second to Michigan, just depends on who you ask. So as I sat there and watched it, I thought, all right, there's two ways you can look at this. You can look at this and go, oh no. like second year coach we struggled all year and they got transfers

and we got the wrong ones and you can be like well we went in the wrong direction or you can say Mark Pope had the right game plan just the wrong execution which one would you all be

in that regard I think they didn't get heating at the right players So you think right game plan, wrong execution? Right game plan, wrong execution. Still the right coach? Still the right coach. Okay. And I'm, you know, I'm holding out hope that this year he will get the right players.

But even Yaxel, he was good coming out of UAB. They had no idea he was going to be this good. Yeah, they did. He was the top transfer. He was one of the draft. I mean, he, well, okay, did they think he was going to be a first team all-American? Right. I mean, maybe not.

But, I mean, I bet that was Michigan's hope. Yes, absolutely. He was the number one player in the portal. And Mara even took a step up. Now, he definitely's better, I think, that people thought he would be. And Cado took a big step. North Carolina kind of threw him away. And then he ends up being a most outstanding player in the Final Four.

Yeah. Yeah, that wouldn't have been predicted. I saw it as Pope saw the right people. Because, I mean, he targeted a lot of these guys and just didn't get over the hump. So I believe he can spot them. We got to get them. I actually agree with you on that. I mean, he did with Yaxel.

Demery Mullins, clearly wanted these guys, all of whom had quite a bit of success. But he didn't get any of them. And so what do we make of that? Do we make of it? Can he get them in the future? We certainly spent the money, but we just didn't get him. Yaxel said they offered him, what, 7 to 9 million, remember? I don't believe that either.

I mean, I'm on Pope's side on that. I don't believe Kentucky offered anybody. First of all, it would be ludicrous for him to take. We don't know what his life is going to be. Like, he said he's projected a draft. He may not play in the draft. He probably will play

in the NBA, but he might not. It would be insane to not take that. I don't believe that. I'm on Pope's. Me too. And I said at the time, 7 to 9 million is not an offer. Seven to 9 million is a $9 million dollar offer. Yeah, exactly. It's a big range that he threw out there. You can go, you know what, I'll take seven.

I know you give me nine, but I'll take seven. So I'm glad Michigan won. Yukon now six times. We still have a two title lead on Yukon. With Danny Hurley still relatively young, we might need it. That's the thing. Yukon doesn't get their seventh, but more importantly,

Danny Hurley doesn't get his third in four years. He would have been unbearable. And then Dusty May, you know, I want you to think about Dusty May for a second. Because Dusty May, Louisville, Louisville Insiders were posting that they, were preparing the press conference for Dusty May at Louisville. Like they had a time and were ready.

And Dusty May last night in the post game said Louisville Vandy at Michigan wanted me. He said I initially was more interested in one. I'm going to assume he means Louisville. And he goes, and then I just decided I can win the national championship at Michigan. Implication, I don't know if I can win at Louisville. That's, you know, so we were close to having that dude down the road. that would be a problem. If you're a Louisville fan, you'd be kind of sick.

For us, we had no chance at him because Cal hadn't left yet. Right? I mean, we had done the reconciliation interview, taking his dog down the street in a stroller. We forgot all about that. Like, we were still doing all that. So we had no chance. He was already hired at Michigan when the job came open. But it's interesting just as a... sort of thought exercise, you know, after we lost Oakland,

what if they'd moved immediately? We still would have owed that money, which means I don't think they could. But for Louisville, you'd be sick. Right. And Pat Kelsey may still end up being good, but you'd be sick. Yeah, they had them. They had him.

They probably didn't think there'd be a championship two years later, but a big loss for them. And watching that game last night, I kept thinking about, and I posted a picture, we went and saw Michigan the year before Dusty May got hired, that Indiana game. It was pretty empty. In the picture I tweeted, me and Ryan looked to be the only people standing up caring about what's going on.

I think they won three conference games that year, and it just shows how immediate things can turn around with the right hire and the right portal editions. Because what we saw was not a program on heading towards a tournament. And it also shows something that I think fans need to remember in the portal era. You're never like, the program is never going to be in a place where it can't recover. You can recover overnight. Sure you can. Now, I mean, you got to have the right higher, right?

That's the beauty of the portal. But you can recover overnight. Yep. You can go out there and in two years, I mean, last year he made the Sweet 16 this year, they win the national championship. You can do it. Yep. And I also think Yukon shows that the idea that Blue Bloods are done is false. I do think we've learned and we'll talk about Carolina later.

Blue Bloods have a harder time just picking whatever coach they want now. But Blue Bloods still have an advantage. Yeah, I don't believe that. They still have an advantage. and we need to take advantage of our advantage, which gets me to portal stuff. So Malcolm Moreno, if you listen to the show, we told you exactly what was going to happen.

Coming back to Kentucky, but going through the draft process. I expect him to play at Kentucky absent something crazy. Good news. What was interesting is in Jack Pilgrim's report says took less than the highest offers to come back so that Kentucky could build a team around him. What do you make of that? It's surprising that in this era someone would take a little bit of a pay cut to go somewhere.

Do we know how much? I don't know how much. But, you know, Malachi immediately posted on Instagram, a picture of him, a kid, and UK gears that have always been a cat. You know, we all know the stories from right down the road. It showed that, you know, some of that stuff still matters. Certainly Malachi's case, but it's not all money. We like to think it's just signed on the dotted line, but he clearly wants to be at UK,

and luckily worked out in UK's favor that way. Now, Mr. Allen Keck for governor's shirt. Wow, it's a throwback. I mean, they have to be the only person in the world that is still wearing that shirt. His wife still wearing one. But he ran three years ago and came in third in the primary, or fourth, I think. They're a very comfortable hoodie. How long are you going to keep rocking that?

Well, like I said, it's kind of soft, and I'm going to pull it out of the closet. Oh, this feels good. So I think I'll keep it until you runs for president. I'm trying to think of what would be a more random shirt. Like what other fourth place primary governor shirts could you see out there? I was going to surprise you. Maybe a peppy Martin for governor shirt. I tried to find my Kelly Craft for governor t-shirt to wear underneath this hoodie.

You're the only person who endorsed every candidate. Yeah, I can't find you also endorse Danny Beshear. I did. Yeah. You get a found a way to endorse. And you like running. I wear my Ryan Corals t-shirt a lot. So you have a t-shirt for him too?

Yes. Yeah. And Mike Harmon. Mike Harmon didn't run for governor, did he? Yeah, that one year, he was up there on the podium on the debate. It was the same year, wasn't it? Same year. So there were five.

Feed the data, steal the data. It wasn't steal the data. I think that would be a weird primary campaign. Steal the data. I believe there were five Republican candidates. Uh-huh. You endorsed. four of the five. I did. You didn't endorse

Daniel Cameron. Correct, because he didn't show up. He didn't want to come to the debate. And he didn't give me any clothes. You give me a shirt. I'm wearing it. I'll wear that Ryan Quorl's t-shirt a lot. And then you also endorsed Andy Bashir, the Democrat. I did. So I won. So I won. But I got the winner. I supported the winner. True.

All right. You hinted all year. Like, just be respectful to Malaga. That was your thing. Yeah. Did you kind of know that he would be willing to go under market value as long as it was respectful? I think he just wanted to feel wanted and feel respected and feel like you want me a part of this. Because he wanted, like Drew said, he wanted to be a part of this. I think he just wanted to feel the same from the other side.

I think there were some hurt feelings there for a little while that he wasn't feeling at love, that respect, that need. But I guess it came. It came. Respect comes. For sure. Yes. Yeah.

As do your shirt. I like to think he goes to his closet and it's just a bunch of politician's shirt. You know how like they send. Super Bowl loser shirts to Africa. They send political loser shirts to ride. There's one like formal, ones, you know, Today Radio, maybe you work out and your Kelly Craft shirt, you wear your Quarles shirt to dinner.

He's got 10 different versions of Amy McGrath shirts for all the directions she runs for. I really put my, threw my hat in totally for Alan Keck because he gave me the hoodie. The other guy just gave me a T-shirt. Alan Keck brought me a hoodie to Waffle House at one night. You're going to get loaded up with more gear from whoever's running Nick. Nate Morris is knocking on the door right now.

I was thinking about this. You know, this congressional spot in Lexington is now open, right? Like Andy Barr, woke Andy Barr, or whatever they call each other on those ads, he's running for Senate. So it's open. So there's like five Republicans and five Democrats running it. And I just realized I don't know who they are. And if I don't know who they are, there's no way the general public knows. Right?

So Ryan's closet could decide. So Ryan's closet could decide. the winner. Mm-hmm. Okay. You could literally end up with your spring wardrobe. I'm open for debate. He loves an election year. It's when you get some new wardrobe.

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One person writes, Matt, watching the game last night, I was just sitting there thinking there's no way we could have played with either of these teams. I think we could have played with Yukon in a one game scenario. I mean, we could have, there's a world we could have played with him. I don't think there was a world that we would have more than like a miracle game beaten Michigan. I agree. I think I even texted a few people. That looks like a fun sport they're playing out there.

Yeah. It was also very physical. Kentucky in a game, that physical wouldn't have stood a chance. You can did a good job of roughing it up early. That was very physical. And the ref had the high knees. Yeah, the high knee guy. He was, I like that.

You see him go down? Yeah, it popped right back. It's all that training. It's all the training. I love that the high knees guy got his time in the sun. You notice one of the other referees was the one you got frustrated with at the Iowa State Kentucky game, the bald one. Oh, the bald guy. He was on there?

Yeah, he was in the final four. Where's pants? mock worthy again. All right. Diabate in the portal. I said yesterday they were basically haggling over price. I guess the haggling didn't work.

Yeah, I loved what Diabate did. He was fun. There's not many dudes that can bring that physicality and toughness. But with Pope's offense, he needs a shooter in that spacing. So seeing him go, would I've liked him back, sure, as a sixth man,

but I'm hopeful Pope can go find something better that fits the puzzle a little more than Diabate did. I think that was part of the problem last year as Pope overcorrected with defense and didn't have enough shooters. Yeah, after his first year in a conference, he said, I need to go out and get somebody like Mo Diabate on my team.

When he went out and got Diabate, he was the only one of brought the toughness most of the season. I think Diabate could have been someone you brought back, but you couldn't bring him back at $2 million a year. Right. See, here's one of the things I think you're going to see interesting in the port. There are going to be guys who team,

would like to have that other teams are willing to pay top dollar for that you want to pay third or fourth dollar. So there was somebody I just saw that got in the portal. Who was it? Jacob just did a story. It was like Kentucky and Duke won him, but Baylor and LSU are willing to make them their top guy. I think you're going to see that. Sure.

You're going to see guys who probably would rather play for Kentucky or Duke, but Kentucky and do can only offer half the money because bailor and lSU are going to build the team around this right and a lot of these guys like diabate it is their last year to make big money i mean the NBA probably isn't calling yeah they'll end up overseas making decent money this is your last shot to make a couple million playing basketball deabate is diabate may be like all right i can go to a team and be the second highest paid i'd be the fifth or six highs paid on kentucky so i can't do that yeah and i i get that especially for somebody you're right like him who's probably not going to to play

All right, so the portal is now open, all right? And so the question is, who's Kentucky going after? Now, let me, I'm going to do, I want to give like a little context for everybody that's listening at home and, you know, seeing this when you see it online. This staff has taken a unique approach, in my opinion, to how information gets out about players. I will tell you what most staffs do. And then I'll tell you what it seems like Pope's staff is doing. Most staffs believe that the best way to get good information on the portal is to sort of use reporters, both national and local, kind of as sounding boards.

What do the national and local reporters want? Well, they want information, right, for their people. What do the coaches want? They want information on what other schools are doing. And who's paying for one? And these reporters in this new portal world are kind of playing important roles. They talk to the agents, they talk to the coaches, they talk to the players, and they kind of give each other information. So, for instance, you know, take Mo Diabate.

Mark Pope or someone on his staff would go to a reporter, all right, how much does his agent say he wants? He said he wants two. Has anybody offering him to? Well, I'm hearing Baylor was. offer him to. Okay, well, we're not going to go past one. And they're almost like middlemen. Would you agree with this? Yeah. And the national guys, especially, I think, play a huge role in this. And some local guys, but the national guys really do. Your Joe Tipton's, etc. Kentucky staff, and they did, they did not do this the first year. The first year, they kind of used those people.

last year they really didn't. I would argue that's why they sometimes ended up paying too much and too little. And this year, it's looking like they're not going to again. So my point is to say to you, when we talk about players, on the Kentucky side, at least I can tell you, it's hard to know what Mark Pope wants, because Mark Pope's people, as of this point, really aren't saying much. You're now hearing it from the age.

When you see stories, it's mostly coming from the agents. When you see a story, Mark Pope's going to talk to this player. For the most part, it's coming from the player. Because for the second straight year, UK's kind of taking the view, we're doing our own thing. Now, maybe it'll work. I think last year it caused them to not understand the market. Hopefully with the addition of the guy, the new whatever he's. King Brown, the dorm.

Maybe he'll know more of what all's going on. And I hope that's true. So I just think that's important to know until you kind of hear me otherwise say. I don't think we still have a whole lot of idea of what UK wants, with one exception. I think it's fairly clear that this kid from LSU is one of Pope's two top targets for a point guard. Thomas. Deaton Thomas. Deaton Thomas.

Played at LSU. Left-handed, right? Remember we had all those plays for left-handed points. Got a couple left-handed targets on the portal board. Maybe we're running back the left-handed points. He must like the lefties. Was really good last year when he played. Led the SEC and assist when he played.

It was probably the second best point guard in the league when he played. But then he was out because he hurt his foot and was out the last half of the year. Did he play against us? No. I don't think he did. Yeah. Because he was hurt and didn't. I think the injury might have to be shortly before our game.

My view, Drew, is. If the kid is healthy, he's kind of what I would want at point guard. I wish he shot a little bit better. But his assist, his assist the turnover ratio was great. But he wasn't healthy. So do you run it back for a third straight year and cross your fingers on a healthy point guard? I really like him. And Kentucky recruited him before low last year.

And they did the stories of his, you know, they did the Zoom. And he loves Pope and he loves Kentucky. And then he went to LSU. And then Kentucky ends up a low. so we know there's already a connection there in recruitment. I don't love going after an injured guy with what you've been through, regardless of his game, because I think he's really good. I don't think you can just go get another injured person

and then next year if it goes wrong, be like, well, we got injured again. If I promised you he was healthy, would you want? Yeah, I like him if he's healthy. He was great at UNLV. It's just how much risk, like how much are you willing to risk an injury? How much are you willing to risk, right? Like I said, after the Jaden Quayton's experience, I had a little gun shy maybe. He hurt his foot.

foot's heel. I think, I mean, Kentucky is talking to him, I believe actually, as we speak. So, just something to watch. But we might have another, please don't get injured. Another gamble. We'll see. We'll take a break. Take your calls right for this.

KSR. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. All right, stuff's going to continue to happen throughout the show and throughout the next couple of days. Devin Vanderpult Pool from Florida Atlantic, Kentucky is meeting with. today via Zoom. He's a guard from Florida Atlantic. Normally, I would not know anyone from Florida Atlantic or schools like that, but Tom Crean was on KS or on ESPN with me one Sunday. And he asked me, he was like, will you watch Florida Atlantic versus South Florida? I'm calling the game today.

And I was, because I asked, what are you doing today? I'm like, nothing. He goes, watch this game. So I felt like I owed it to it. Sure. And I watched a half. So I've watched this kid for one half. But in that half, he was the best player on the floor. There we go. And I was like, all right, that kid's good. And I could tell Kreen loved him. So he's a guard. And he's probably the second person I know for a fact Kentucky's talking to today.

There are others, I'm sure, but those are the ones that I know. Yeah, I'd be lying if I said I watched any Florida Atlantic basketball this year. No, I'm proud of you. But it's just box score watching. He's had some huge game, scored a lot of points, keeps his turnovers down, good rebounder. I mean, he's got the numbers. Yeah. He's a great score.

He could be like, I don't know if he's a dude, but he's close to a dude. Like, I definitely would love to have that guy. All right. So let's go to the phones. I want to ask people, the injury stuff, et cetera. Plus, Rick, just as kind of a tease, you did watch Neighbors Episode 6, I hear. Yes, I did. Oh, I can't wait to hear Rick's.

I can't wait for his opinion. Also not surprised he did his homework. That's Rick, Rick's big show guy. I know, but like, well, I don't, I want to hear anything. I just want to get his natural. It's a natural episode. I want to get his natural. Yeah, it's about as natural as you can get.

That's for sure. All right. Let's go to Jordan, Rick. Jordan, go ahead. Hey, Matt. So, you know, kind of touching on what you were speaking on with, you know, Dayton and Thomas from LSU, he is a good player when he plays.

He's actually a guard that I would like for us to have. I am a little leery about the injury thing, but for me, I think him, Vanderpul is actually good options, but the guy that I really, really want, I would do anything for us to land is Donnie Freeman from Syracuse. I want that guy to be R4 so bad. And I would do anything to get in. Well, I know Kentucky has, I appreciate the call at least made contact with him. I don't know how interested he is. I mean, there's going to be a million guys come in. There's probably guys coming in. We don't even know yet. But, you know, he's very good. So I want

to go back to the injury. for a second. Do you consider being injured? So it was just a foot injury, right? Do you consider that like a trait that continues to happen? Or do you just say, well, that was some random occurrence? Ligaments and knees are different to me. But what about just a random foot injury?

On Thomas and, you know, being healthy next year? Yeah. I would just, I hate the idea of next December we get, well, we're injured again. When you went out and got a guy coming off a surgery. It could. But like if you know a guy just said sir And I would like Thomas I mean if he shows up I will be happy

But in the back of my mind I'm like we can't keep saying the injury thing And then going out and getting guys that are coming off surgery So if you're Mark Pope And you have to You got to be good next year Have to make or break year I think for him Would you risk it with a guy like that?

I'm not turning him down But I'm also making other calls to filling out everybody But let's say he sat on the phone today I'll come, but today's the day. By tomorrow I'll be somewhere else if you don't want me. Are you, are you, are you, are you, are you, are you, are you, are you, are you, are you, are you? Well, I don't know.

Are you turning the keys over? I would probably take it at his best. He'll be one of the best guards available. Like at hell. He's right now just so people know, rank the third best point guard in the portal. So it's not like he's some chump. He's the third best point guard, 11th best player in the portal. Now that those, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, he'll go down as new guys in her.

but he will finish as a top 8 to 10 point guard in the portal without question, maybe top 5 to 6. I take him and add lots of depth. I don't rely on him the whole year. You don't rely on him and then just this guy. You cannot. If you were to, if you take him he were to get hurt, nobody wants to hear, oh, we got hurt again because you knew the circumstance.

Because you knew, like with Queens. Would you get him a good backup? Would you roll the dice? See, I think you said to make a break year for Coach Pope, and it begins and ends with the point guard. He's got to have a good point guard. I think his legacy. may depend on this point guard for this season.

So are you risking it? No. So you're going to look at the kid and go, no, and then you're going to hope something else better comes? Yeah. All right. So we got a split decision. Part of me saying take him is I don't know if Pope can, I don't know where Pope is with the other guards. We know last year he didn't get his first second or third option. He didn't get his first.

Well, no, Jaylon Lowe was one of his first. But he probably had four options and he struck out with three. He still liked Lowe. So I don't know how picky Pope can be Because I don't know his other conversation I would take it I don't know if he has like the money saved for you know Someone was somebody on with Tom Leach today and said we're leading now with Tyron

Stokes did I read that? I didn't hear it Anybody listen to Tom Leach today? I heard bits and pieces I didn't hear that part that message that someone was on with Tom Leach and said that But I don't know who the someone was and I also don't know if that actually happened So this is if anyone listen to Tom sure some of it one of you listened to Tom Leach, write on the text machine and let me know who was on.

I'm trying to play it back in my head. You know, I'm a big listen to Tom in the shower guy. It's got to be Mike the course. Mike was yesterday. He's on Fridays. Okay. And yeah, I honestly couldn't tell you. If somebody knows, I would like to know, because I did hear, I got a random text message from somebody going, did you hear some, somebody was on Tom Leach and said Tyron Stokes is Kentucky, but I didn't hear it.

I know he had, Jenna from the colonel. I heard that part. I don't think she mentioned Stokes. There might have been another segment. Jenna Lifshin from the colonel. They wasn't her. I'm saying no, I could have missed it. I'm in and out.

You know, I'm getting ready for our show. And Tom's background. These are the kind of things you need to know. You should be up scouting the Tom Leach show. Joey, go ahead, Joey. Yes. Are you talking to me? Is your name Joey?

Yeah, but I don't remember giving you out my name. But anyway, I must. Well, no, it pops up sometimes. So even if you didn't, like, if you, Like it comes up, but you're Joey. I know your phone number. I mean, I'm not going to call you, but I could. Okay.

Well, when you accepted my call, I'm like, hello, hello, and then I just was just hanging. So good. Okay, now I know what can happen. I go ahead. I cheered. Yeah, I cheered back in 1978 when we won the NCAA championship in St. Louis. I'm calling because you had a brief conversation about the candidates to replace McConnell. I don't want to talk about, I don't want to do that.

Are we talking about the congressional candidates? No, no, no, no, no. I cheered Nate Morris' dad was a cheerleader with me at UK. Well, that's, okay. Well, good. I'm glad. I just thought I, yeah, back in 1978, and that's all I'm going to say. You know, he's woke Nate Morris and fake Nate Morris, according to commercials that run every six seconds on the television screen.

I know, and he probably might have to do with all that money. I appreciate it. No more, that's good. That's funny. I was just making a joke. I was just making a joke, not making me. He may be the nicest guy. I just, it was a joke because they run those ads all the time. Does Daniel Cameron ever run an ad?

I've not seen one. That's the way to go. I think it's a great strategy. I'm the guy. If I see your ad too much, not even think about you. He's like, there's three of us, but you forget I'm here. I think it's good strategy. Tom Leach had Travis Branham.

I didn't hear that. Travis Brandon. What did Travis Brandom say? Well, I didn't hear that. I just know who his guests were. So maybe Travis said something. Oh, so it could have been Larry Vaught. I heard most of Larry. I heard Larry and Jenna. I don't know if Larry has Tyron Stokes. And I feel like if Travis said it, that'd be big news.

But I'm just letting you know who the Leach guess were. There we go. Tom Leach. Right to the source. Tom Leach said Travis Branden was on the show and he thinks Stokes is going to Kansas. Okay. So I got the exact opposite. Sorry, I missed the first segment, Tom. Tom, the rest was great.

Thank you very much. So just ignore. This is why you've got to be careful about random text message. But see, we got to the source. That's right. You can't get a better source than Tom Leach. It's his show for crying out of his names and the title. What did Larry Vaugh say?

Oh, great things. Joe, go ahead, Joe. Thank you, gentlemen. Matt, I'm really interested in everything Mark Pope is doing in this third year. But I also look at the other side of the coin. I know Coach Brooks of our ladies' program, is going into his third year also. And my question to you, Matt,

and I really don't expect an answer because I don't think you probably know either. You think Coach Brooks has enough money if a number top five girl and the girl transfer portal was available and he would have enough money to go together. My number one worry about Coach Brooks is there's scuttle butt out there

that Virginia is trying to hire him. Can't have that. So my number one recruit is let's not have that happen. because that that chatter is out there. Now, I don't know if there's anything to it, but that chatter is out there on the Virginia sides. I'm going to, let's just-

Well, I'm not scared. I'm not scared because Virginia. I just, I just ask you a question. Do you think he has enough money? Don't get upset. Wait, me, if you think he has enough money, wouldn't you be upset if we lost our coach? There's plenty more coaches out there.

What are you worried about? Oh, wow. I don't know. County, Kitty Brooks is pretty good. I'm not in on that. I appreciate the call. I'm all in on Kitty Brooks. So do they have money?

It's a great question, actually. I do think UK's women's program has money to get players. I'm not sure they have money to get like the number one recruit in the portal. But I do think they have money because there is a dedicated stream of money of donors of UK women who give four UK women. Okay. I don't know if it's enough to get like who South Carolina, Texas, and Yukon can get,

but I think they're in there to compete at the next tier. I mean, right now we have three McDonald's, All-Americans, and Clara Stratt coming back. Exactly. That's a great roster hitting in the next season. And that might be like they just, that's what they need. They're like, we're good except but one or two supporting piece. Virginia Women's Basketball, apparently the founder of Reddit loves them

and just gives them a lot of money. and I can only assume he's very rich. Yeah, so I'm actually more concerned about that because I have no idea if he's interested, but like he's a Virginia guy, you know. So I just think you get to the SEC. Memorial's awesome. But then you got a good roster.

But then you can make the other case, which is you go to the ACC and you could dominate the conference. And if you're at a place unlike Virginia Tech where he was, it actually has a lot of money. So. Yeah, he got Virginia Tech to the Final Four. what could you do with Virginia and the guy from Reddit? Exactly.

Well, we don't have a guy from Reddit, but we have like, who do we have? The guy from FARC, Drew Curtis. Do you like women's basketball, Drew? Guy from KSR. Yeah. I think I saw, there was a story about the richest people in Kentucky. I think we've talked about this once, but I forget. You know, we always mentioned the crafts, and they have to be,

I'm sure they're in the top two or three. But the thing that said that the richest person, Kentucky was like a woman with storage use. units or something. I can't think of the exact company, but she's like the heir to a big storage fortune. I didn't realize big storage units could, can you, like, it's like the only multi-billionaire in the state is a storage unit person. You don't know what I think about it, but go for a drive around Lexington.

You can't go a mile without seeing a storage unit. So they all owned by this woman just walking around storing things? I don't know. All of them, but what a way to strike rich. Does she like women's basketball? Well, she likes to store things. How about we store some championships? Yeah, let's store some in I-o money.

So do we know who this person is with her storage units? I've read millions of stories about her. I always see her on the list. And doesn't she live in like... Like a small town, doesn't she? She lives in like Stanford or something, doesn't she? Something like that. I'll pull it up.

But yeah, she's the richest person in Kentucky last time I saw her. The richest person, they always have the richest person in Kentucky as being this woman with her storage. Like Drew said, they're everywhere. Every street corner in town. Tamara Gussar. Gustafson worth Gustafson worth 9.1 billion.

Her father was B. Wayne Hughes and started all this. So she just like her money is in storage. Yeah. The public storage is the name of the company. Very direct with their name too. Yeah, well they tell you exactly what they are. Yeah. No question of what they got going on there.

What are they doing over there at public storage? They fix bicycles. No, that's a lot of money. She should take an interest in UK athletics. Yeah. Would you like to be the wild? Us. Is she single? We'll take a break very back.

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She is one of the richest women in the world. Congratulations. And we got to get her involved. KSR presented by public storage has a nice ring to it. I had no idea there was so much money in storage. Like, that seems like that would be a pretty easy gig. Like you just build it, then like, all right, put your stuff in there. Have fun.

We'll make sure there's some. AC if you pay for it. Yeah. We'll lock the chain. We'll lock the gate. Put up a few cameras. It feels like that's... Why are we not doing that?

I've had to use a storage unit before. It might have even been her brand. I mean, I'll rent out of room. I don't have enough stuff in there for that. Have that much money off that many storage units. Somebody says they're big USC donors that her dad, was connected to OJ. I don't know if we brag on that.

Just keeps going. Yeah, she went to USC. Oh, so they donate to USC. Well, I feel like the bill, if they donate to USC, that's so far away. She should have one team that's close. Yes. One team far.

One team close. The people in L.A. aren't storing their furniture in Lexington. What about the people here? We got things to store. Yeah, our junk is in your facilities. Yeah, she can pick a sport here. Like, I think it'd be perfect.

Women's basketball. She can root for USC football, UK women's basketball. There we go. I don't understand the guy who, like, act like it wouldn't be a big deal of Kenny Brooks. It'd be a huge deal. Yeah, that was weird. He just took us to the Sweet 16 for the first time in 10 years. Yeah, I mean, we've been good.

We were awful when he got here. And if he leaves, he's taking Clara Strach and those McDonald's all Americans with him. No one's leaving. Don't listen to that guy. We're going to get this public. storage money into Kenny's hands by sundown. By sundown. You know, I mean, because you don't want to have happened,

have you been reading what's happened to Tennessee women's team? They have like no players. None. Like, so we had this woman on, what's the woman with the big Southern accent that does women's games? She does a lot of Kentucky games. I like her. She's really good.

We had her on my ESPN show Sunday to preview the National Championship game. I cannot remember now. I think it's Carolyn maybe, but she'll be like Carolyn Peck Yes how did you know that She was an assistant coach here Oh yeah she was The things you know

Yeah Like you were able to pull Carolyn Peck Yeah She was an assistant coach of the UK In your Alan Keck shirt Uh huh Maybe under Bernadette She may have been one of Bernadette's assistants

You're unbelievable And then she was the head coach at Purdue Vandy Vandy and she was at Purdue at one time He knows her whole resume. I have the resume. Do you have a Carolyn Peck trading card? I tell you one more.

She was the first coach of the Connecticut Sun when the WMA opened. I did not know the Connecticut Sun. Look it up. I think that might be a whiff. I think you went too far. You pushed your luck. It was Bernadette was with the Connecticut Sun. How about the Orlando miracle?

Close enough. Close enough. Unbelievable. Anyway, Ryan's favorite Carolyn Peck was on my show and she was ranting about how Tennessee's athletic department has just allowed you Tennessee women's basketball to fall apart. They won't spend any N I on money on it because they're only spending it on football, basketball, and baseball. And the whole school has transferred and was like, this is one of the saddest things, Tennessee women's basketball, the most historic program is being allowed to just collapse.

And she was talking about it. And then I saw someone yesterday was talking about the same thing, that basically Tennessee has just decided. we don't care about the Lady Vols anymore. It's crazy because the court is named Pat Summit Court. When I think of winning in basketball, you think of Tennessee and Yukon. Absolutely. That's who you think of Tennessee and Yukon and that they're just letting it. So, I mean, my point of all that is to say we can't let that happen.

We've got a potential guy here in Kenny Brooks. And we can't lose it to UVA. No. And you got an open door with Tennessee having nothing. Yeah, exactly. I mean, the league is still tough, but Tennessee's not. Yeah. South Carolina has probably kind of replaced Tennessee in the... NOSU is good.

NOSU and Texas. But we talk about blue buds for the guy. Tennessee's a blue blood. Blue blood for the women. I cannot believe how much you knew about Carolyn. Yeah. You also called BS. Somebody wrote in and said that the woman owned 10 derby winner horses,

and you were very angry about that in the break. I threw the BS flag. There's no way spin thrift farm has 10 former Connecticut. He started cussing. It's on the internet. It doesn't say they like, trained them, but you know, horses have to go somewhere after they win the derby. Maybe they just all chilling at Spintery farm.

Is that where the retired people got, the retired horses go to chill? Well, they have old friends farm out there. But that's not on Spinthrift. No. We're big fans, old friends. Yeah, we do their thing every year. Who knew? Again, Ryan's brain. Just Carolyn Peck's resume.

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