KSR - 2026-04-10- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: April 10, 2026

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One person writes, did Ryan get chili bumps at the closing? Yeah, that front surprise you didn't say that. I just felt so proud. I mean, I was kind of just sitting there. He even bought lunch. That's how excited he was. He even bought lunch because you got a nice little check yesterday. I did, and I can't thank you enough for that.

My family thanks you. I have food now for a couple months. How much you eating? It's true. You better have a lot of food. Well, you know, we're meeting a handyman guy out with your house today. Kind of get some little issues, kind of fix and get it going for you. It'll be perfect for you.

One person writes, you keep talking about furniture. Matt, did you not have furniture in your old house? The same furniture I had since college. I mean, I did. It's like if you, if you walked into my living space in both, well, not so much Lexington, but especially in Louisville, if you walked into my living space, you would probably think this guy's just 24 but reads a lot of books. That's probably what you would think.

So I did recognize that, you know, it's time to get closer to adulthood in terms of, because literally I had the same place in Louisville I've had for 18 years with the same stuff in it pretty much. So it is kind of time for an update. I went to that too when I moved. I had like my kitchen utensils and I looked at them and I was like, my idiot friends were using these in 2007. I should probably renew going into a new house and buy some new things. Yeah. And I have a, so this is kind of cool.

My mom suggested this. When I became a lawyer, my mom was like, you should buy a desk that is a really nice desk that you can have for your entire legal career. And it's like, you know this was with you from the beginning. So I bought this old antique desk. And, of course, my legal career spanned four years. But now I have this desk. And it is 100 years old, and it's beautiful. But it also weighs like 50,000 pounds.

And so moving that is very, very difficult. It's part of the reason I never moved in Louisville is I never wanted to move that desk. I said, I will just stay here until they bury me so that I never have to move this desk. That's the one thing you've talked about. That's the one thing you're going to bring into your house. It's like it goes back to like the 1800s, I think. And now if you're thinking about putting it upstairs. Yeah, it's not getting upstairs.

I don't know. I don't even know how we do that. All right, a couple things here. And then I want to talk about a conversation I had yesterday. The, what is it? Artemis, or as I call it, in Bell County, Artemis. Artemis. Space show is on its way back.

Or the pod is what, orio? Yeah, I was mispronounce it. I interrupted. Whatever I said was wrong. Whatever it is, it's on its way back. And I was reading about this yesterday. So I think like 2 o'clock or 2.30 or something, it will come through the atmosphere. And for eight minutes, you may have seen this in movies over the years,

Apollo 13 or whatever. For eight minutes, it will come through the atmosphere and they will lose all communication with ground level. And they will basically just be, you know, spiraling into the pits of earth through whatever is in our atmosphere, helium, I don't know, whatever it is, getting through there for eight minutes. And it is the most dangerous part of the mission. It is the thing that over the years has failed at times, but all the way through and then eight minutes later, they will be able to communicate again and then they will splash down in the ocean. And I was reading this thing where an astronaut that had done it said it is the scariest eight minutes that you can have in life. So here's my question. I was thinking about that. Think about eight minutes. A long time.

Long time. Can't talk to anybody, you know, just falling fast. You're fire. You have a I mean, it's, who knows? It's got to be crazy. How do you think you would handle those eight minutes? Well, first, the four of us are interlocking fingers. Got interlock fingers for that. I think if you're going to interlock fingers, though, that's an excuse to do it. That's a time that I think interlocking fingers would be okay.

Me and my fellow astronauts, we're becoming one in that moment. We're holding on to each other. I don't know how intense it is. I don't know if we can sing, but we're doing something to distract ourselves. We're just going to power through this eight minutes and then smooth sailing the rest of the way home. Definitely interlocking fingers. You can handle the eight minutes. I'm with Drew.

I'll be singing, praying, trying to that eight minutes, I'm sure it feels like eight hours. Oh, it's got to. It's got to take forever. I don't know if I could do it. So you just stay in space? Leave me up here. I can't do that. I would even leave Earth to go up in space, I don't think.

Oh, come on. You wouldn't go? If, like, that was your career, I mean, you might not go now. But if that was your career and your life's goal was to go up there and, you know, get, I mean, you just be. like no because of those eight minutes? Well, no, if that was my career. I was thinking about right now, I don't know if it would be worth it to me because that's got to be just unbelievably scary to lose all communications with the people that's trying

to guide you to the ocean if you can land safely. Do you think when you're up in space and kind of floating around, would you be worried about the thing that's to come a few days later? Would it get into your mind and make it not to where you could enjoy so much this amazing time? No, and they've had so much training and been preparing for this for so long. But they have no control. Part of it is like you're also not in control.

You're just falling. Yeah, I would be, I would love to do it. I don't think I have the education that I would get that opportunity. But if I would love to do it and I would handle the eight minutes to be able to experience the rest of it. If you believe Hollywood, you're falling, you're spinning, you're tumbling. It's like it's spinning you around like crazy for eight minutes. I ain't doing that. I mean, aren't you just like in a seatbelt?

What do you mean the, you mean the capsule is spinning or you yourself? In Hollywood, the capsule is spinning and tumble? Those are movies. Those are not documented. But that's what's going through my head. Just give me a Benadryl and knock me out. I sleep through it. Well, that's a good issue.

I think that might need you alert eight minutes later. You might need to land in the water after that. I ain't doing it. Well, he had strong thoughts about the bathroom while you were going to. Did you see they had bathroom problems like two or three times? Shut up. I don't want to hear you talk about a bathroom anymore. Stinky situation.

All right. Shut up. By the way, did you see, has anyone here seen the big huge movie about Space, the Project Hail Mary? Has anybody seen that? No one's seen, like everyone in the world's seen it gets no one here, just me and you. Well, then I'm only really talking to you, sir. I don't understand why everybody liked it so much. He's just talking to a rock for two hours.

Like, for people, he just, I don't know what I thought it was about. I didn't know anything about it. I didn't know I was going to watch a guy talk to a rock for two hours. hours and I was supposed to think they were friends. Did you, was it meaningful to you? It was. How about E.T.? Okay, but E.T. I got a cuter face. This was just a rock. It was just a rock with arms. I just never got it. I mean, I, is it like Castaway with Tom Hanks and a volleyball? He's just

talking to that for two hours? Kind of, but in this case, the rock is talking back, but it's not speaking English, although I never really understood how the computer was supposed to have been able to translate his language. But regardless, it, you know, Sounds like a big endorsement. There were people around me. There were people around me in the theater crying. Like literally, there were people crying when, I'm going to spoil it, but the rock and he don't get to get married. So there were people that were crying, and I didn't, I don't know.

I just felt like, what am I missing? He's talking to a rock. And like, what is, I don't know. So I'd be interested if you go and see it. You know, it's good. It sounds like it. It sounds like you're a big fan. Yeah, you sold it really well.

But there are people who are saying it's like the best. best movie they've seen in years. And I just, I feel like I'm fundamentally missing because it's, because the only, the whole movie is him talking to this rock. And it's long. It's like seven and a half hours long. I don't know. So it doesn't get the Matt Jones movie list at the end of the year. I mean, I'm not going to go again. But I, but I, I was like, I'm going to see what's it called, the drama or something that's out right now. I want to see that. But I'm not going to see the rock movie anymore. Who's up next? Jordan is up next. Jordan. Go ahead, Jordan. Hey Matt. So I think as fans, we can all agree that, you know, in the NIL era, Kentucky Sports hasn't really been, you know, what we have hoped for. And I'm trying to decide, you know, what the big problem is. And I kind of narrowed it down to two different schools of thought. And I wanted to see what your thoughts were. So the first one is, is it a problem of expectations? And what I mean by that is, you know, you just said, progress.

evidence loaded up on Miles Bird. No. I'm going to answer your first one. It's not, I'm tired, and I'm going to continue to be tired of people, and I know that you're not doing this, you're just suggesting it. But people have to stop acting like our expectations are unreasonable. This is Kentucky basketball. I'm not asking us to win every national championship. I'm asking us to not be, lose 14 games and lose to Missouri and Georgia at home,

and lose by 40 to Gonzaga. Like, I'm not, I'm not asking for unreasonable things. Now, in football, sometimes our expectations are unreasonable, but to be fair, we won, you know, four games back to back. I don't think it's unreasonable to say, can we compete to go to a bowl every year? So I'm going to disagree with number one. So what's the next possibility? Let me sort of maybe it's other programs expectations. Like, Providence doesn't expect to be good every year.

So once every three to five years, they can just save all their high-I-L money. We beat Santa Clara. We beat Santa Clara after hitting a mirror. half court shot at the buzzer to send it to overtime. We probably spent 10 times more money of NIL on our program than Santa Claire. It's not ridiculous to think, hey, can we not need a miracle shot to go to overtime to Santa Claire? Okay. And then the other one I had was potentially a question of resources.

So, like, obviously, you know, there are football schools like Ohio State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, that that don't really care about basketball, they just load up on football. There are basketball schools that don't care about football like St. John's, Yukon. And then there are schools that do both, but have a lot of really rich donors, like Texas tech. Okay. So, you know, like those. Yeah, but that's not our issue from what I've been told.

And again, I'm not in the balance in the budget. I do not think amount of money is our problem. Yeah. Now, it might be one day. but as of today, I don't think at least in the last few years, Drew, the amount of money we've had is wrong. I mean, literally, we spent more on our roster than almost any team in the country last year. So clearly the amount of money was not wrong. Now, I do think football maybe two or three years ago, amount of money was an issue.

I do not think it's an issue right now. But what might be an issue is how that money is allocated. and some of the provisions that are used to allocate the money. But I don't think, to your point, does Michigan and Texas have more money than us? Yes. Are they always going to have more money than us? Yes. But at least in the last few years, I don't think it's been a amount of money so much as how it has been used.

Okay. I understand. Last thing, Costco has top three pizza in Lexington. I don't disagree. I appreciate it. Really? I'll just go eat lunch at Costco. Costco is top three pizza?

Top three is pretty strong, but it's easily top ten, maybe top five for me. Now, I will say this in terms of money. I don't think money's been our issue in the last three years, but I do think there's a red flag out there that almost no one has talked about. For the first time in my lifetime of covering UK sports, one of the things Mitch Barnhart has been very proud of for 20 years is that UK Athletics was self-sustaining. They paid for themselves, right?

They didn't take any money from the university. They didn't take any money from students. It was actually, there weren't too many athletic departments that did it. UK did it. Kind of buried in all the news about, you know, we're making the athletics board private, we're giving Mitch this goodbye package, all this stuff. UK athletics took like a $50 million loan from the university. That is not sustainable long term.

Now, it may be okay right now, but, I mean, they took a massive I don't think UK Athletics has ever had to take a loan from the university. UK Athletics took this big loan. I will say, Ryan, long term, they've got to find a way to fix the budget because they're not going to be able to do that.

Is the $50 million hit from lack of success in football and basketball or two prime programs? No, I mean, I think it's all of a sudden you had $21 million a year in RevShare you had to give and you've never been budgeting for that $21 million. So all of a sudden they just got $21 million added to the budget. So I understand why they had to do it,

but they've got to find a way to make that up in the future. They won't be able to keep doing it. No, I can't do that. And I worry, you know, they're planning this big entertainment district that they think's going to bring in a lot of revenue, but just as someone who knows the Lexington dining and going out scene a little bit, I worry that even that'll work and they could get even farther in the hole. I mean, that'll be great on game days, but whatever that ends up being,

what's that going to be like on a Monday in the summer? You know, I wonder if that's going to be as profitable as they think it's going to be. Well, I mean, one of the problems about you can, athletics becoming a private LLC and essentially a profit-making enterprise. Maybe that leads to a lot of success. But what if those businesses fail? You know what I mean? I mean, if UK athletics puts up a hotel, what if the hotel fails?

Now it's not just the hotel failing. Maybe it's UK athletics failing. Like, businesses fail, you know? And when you make an athletic department essentially a business, maybe you go gangbusters. or maybe you go bust. And I think that is something that's at least a worry, right? And now that they're doing all these LLCs, they're just one after another.

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Jeff Drummond, who many of you know the name for going back 25, almost 30 years. worked at the cats' paws for a long time. Then Cats Illustrated has recently joined KSR Plus. A couple days ago, the folks that run on three told us that they were making a change and that Jeff would no longer be part of House of Blue and part of KSR Plus. That was met online with a lot of negative reaction because Jeff Drummond is an awesome guy. He's one of the few people covering UK sports, been doing it longer than I have. And it was nice because he was, it was not nice that happened, but it was nice how much people showcased, how much they liked him.

For those of you that follow UK sports on the internet, he goes back longer than anyone. So myself and Justin Rowland, some other folks, we, Tyler, we talked to the people at On 3, the leaders, and to their credit. They reversed the decision. They kind of heard the fans, brought him back. He will now be back with the website. Jeff's one of the nicest people, Ryan. I know you've known him forever. And it's very rare in today's sort of corporate world that a decision is made

and then people actually listen to the consumers and then flip it. Because businesses don't want to do that. But they did. I appreciate that. And it's nice to have Jeff Drummond doing what he's supposed to do, which is covering UK sports. I was so happy to see that. And I really commend on three for doing that,

listening to the public because Jeff Drummond is one of the best people you will ever meet in this business. I mean, he's been, matter of fact, I think I sent Jeff his very first text message. That's how far back we go. We used to, we discovered text messages, yes. What do you mean you sent him his first text messages? I did. You know, when the cell phones finally came around, late 90s, I sent him his first text message. How do you know that? Because he called me, like, what is this? I don't know what is. How do I text you back? This was five years ago. A true story. Hang on just a second. So you're telling me, what year is this? Late 90s, maybe, early 2000s? I'm not serving. So you have a cell phone. So you have a cell phone.

phone. Yeah. You're a texter. And I'm a new texter. And you send, did you send Jeff a text message? He probably had some recruiting story. I needed the update. Needed the scoop.

And you tell me he had never gotten one until you sent it. Yeah. And he called me like, what is this? How do I text you back? That's hard for me to believe. True story. Facts. All right, at the forefront of technology over here.

I didn't realize I had my own Mark Zuckerberg standing next to me. But breaking the technology to the world of Texas. He is one of the best guys. He's great at what he does. He's a better person. And I'm so happy to see him back in the fold. Well, good. By the way, I learned AI from Ryan, too.

He sent me chat GPT and I'm, What is this, Ryan Lemon? You're always on the forefront. Yeah, I hated that Jeff had to go through that. I know that was probably rough 24 hours on him and his wife. But I hope he saw that response that night after the news leaked out. How many people appreciate him and love him. And I'm glad it got corrected.

So stinks that he had to go through it, but I'm glad it's ended up the right way and the way it needs to be. Because Jeff, as I wrote, I can't imagine the U.K. Internet without Jeff Drummond being a part of it. I think 1999 was his first year. First year was 1999. The first time I was on the Internet, reading about U.K. sports was 1998. And I don't remember the names of the people who were doing it then, but I do remember Jeff. He was kind of the young guy at the time. And now he's one of the old guard doing it.

I'm glad to see it. Personally, he's like the only person that talking, well, I should have. I can't say the only, but like any media event, Jeff is quick to come up and start a conversation and say hi. He's just a great and friendly guy outside of the Internet, too. Yeah, I'm glad to have you back. He's a Reds guy. He's a big Reds family. Who's up next?

Mike is up next. Mike, go ahead. Was Ryan Lemon the first person to send you a text message, Mike? He was not, but, Matt, I hate having to talk to you under these circumstances, but I must chastise you once again from the good name of the Hamburg Costco. I don't know. I guess, you know, as somebody once told me, I guess you just don't get it. I mean, if you don't understand Costco, I guess you don't get it.

I don't get it. I don't get it. And I'm not trying to be Mr. Unpopular with my Project Hail Mary take and my Costco take. I don't get it. But that's okay. You know, it just feels like. I must forewarn you.

I do not think that talking down upon your newly, I guess your new area in Hamburg is a smart decision. I think it will continue to age poorly. Well, I mean, the good thing about like Walmart-type stores is that you can get whatever you need. But Costco just does the same thing, but then it's like 5,000 of them. And it just feels like if you were to sort of look at what the rest of the world thinks is wrong with America, it's when you walk into Costco and they're like, would you like 10,000 cleaner solutions? And you're like, man, I just want to be able to take the state off my counter.

I can't believe you compared it to Walmart. I'm now with the callers. We can't have this slander of Walmart. That's kind of crazy, bro. I like Walmart. I appreciate the call. We have it in Middlesbrough. We have the first Super Walmart in Kentucky in Middlesbrough.

Who's next? I think you just need to take one ride with the Kirkland Toilipaper, and you'll be in for Costco. Who's next? Michael Todd is next. Michael Todd, go ahead. Hey, Matt. Sorry if you already touched in on this, but I think. him yesterday on Twitter,

Jasper Johnson's uncle, trying to run his mouth again. And, I mean, that dude never stopped. I mean, you would think that Jasper Johnson

averaged 40 points and 15 rebounds last year. And then he's like, he's like, without saying that he's like trying to pull the race card like Mark took the racist or something.

Well, he didn't say that. But I will say, appreciate the call. He, I mean, at this point, he clearly likes the attention and uh you know that's what it is i he played here which makes it to where it's hard to just ignore what he says at the same time with respect to to to derrick jasper's

now no longer on the team so he kind of said his piece and my view is we just kind of move on so i did see that comment but i didn't really feel like it was bringing up because what else is there to say he's made it clear that he thinks jasper was handled incorrectly he's made it clear what he thinks about Pope. All right, you've made that clear. I think now we move on to whoever these next players are, and we get ready and celebrate them. Because Pope is going to still be here, and Jasper

is not. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio, here at Don Franklin Hyundai in Somerset. I was just saying to them during the break, you know, from the old for those of you that back watched

wrestlers when it came out on Netflix, I know a lot of people did. A lot of names from that show this weekend they're doing another one of those slap fighting things which i don't want to watch that i don't think that's entertaining it kind of freaks me out but there are people that like it haley is in it wrestlers she's big in it isn't she she's like going for a belt okay then they have uh two people you may not remember but they were in the show danny moe and facade they're in it and then shira is in it i saw it on the market shira is massive whoever's getting slapped by him.

Why in the world would you want to do that? I was like, is this just like everyone from the old OVW days? When is Shannon going to be in it? We got to get Shannon signed up for the slap fighting. That's crazy to me. Like, I'll watch about anything, but just sitting there and slapping each other back and forth is wild. I think it's pretty crazy as well.

You remember we said yesterday that on the Masters, Drew was going to name whoever wins the Masters, he was going to name his little baby girl. that first name, and we talked about the options. And then we all did our picks. Ryan Lemon picked Rory McElroy. I picked a guy named Sam Burns, and looking right now at the leaderboard,

tied for first, are Sam Burns and Roy McElroy. Who knows golf like me and Ryan Lemon? I see a Samantha, Rory Franklin coming in your future. Could be. I mean, that is actually a legitimate, that could be a name of a girl. Samantha Rory Franklin? And I would probably get slapped.

Jose Maria fell off. I was really counting on that one. It was a fun hour there. But are you proud? You and I, we know ball. We know golf. I did a lot of show prep last night picking my golfer. You knew literally one golfer's name.

I knew the guy that won last year. Let's go with him. Repeat. Yesterday, Derek Abney, UK football practice, former Derek Abney, was at the practice. And there's video. Will Stein had him speak to the team. I think it's very cool, Drew, to see Will Stein kind of embrace it. It's interesting because Will Stein grew up during the Tim Couch, Derek Abney era.

So all these guys who were like my childhood slash, you know, high school people I watched, that's who he watched too. So he's enamored by them. So Derek Abney spoke to the team yesterday. I think that's cool. Yeah, that's just added to all the excitement coming out of that building now. I mean, until they play actual football, you know, they're winning every single. thing right now with the publicity.

But it started, like he was shouting out Raphael Little in his first interviews. He'll just randomly take pictures around the facility of legends. Andre Woodson came back a week or two ago. I mean, we haven't heard from Andre Woodson in forever. He was at practice. So I love that Will and their staff are including all these legends, I'd say, from the program's past. A big group of people that I know, including Max, they all went to practice yesterday.

And they were saying, like, dude, the energy's amazing. Just the what, like, people are so into it. The players are dialed in. He was like, it looks like so much fun. And they all had the same thing, Ryan. They said, our offensive line looks like the guys we used to play against Alabama. And he was like, you know, if you just look at them, they look like an Alabama LSU offensive line. He was like, we can see where the money went when it comes to that offensive line.

It's so crazy. The two or three guys I've talked to him into practice say the same thing. The energy is unbelievable and the offensive line is massive, huge. I mean, I'm glad, like said literally, the starting offensive line, the word was that it looked to me like when we played Alabama. Yeah, line was a huge priority, but I also love how young these coaches are and how they're getting into it. Yesterday, the cornerbacks coach was available after practice and he had a splint on, and he broke his finger by jumping in practice and trying to do the peanut punch. I mean, they're not just sitting on the sideline with clipboards and blowing whistles. They're getting out there and trying to mix it up and be a part of it.

You like our coach is getting injured. We're not injured, but, I mean, respectfully to the last staff, I don't think those guys were getting out there and getting on the field, 10 toes down, as Coach Allen Brown said yesterday. But I like that they're still young enough to really get and, you know, fill it and be a part of it. Yeah. Who's up next? Taylor is up next.

Taylor, go ahead, Taylor. Hey, guys, excited to hear that Jay Drum is back. Glad to hear that news. I just wanted to say, I think this weekend that we are due for some good basketball recruiting news since Gary is going to be occupied with the baby, and I'm getting married. So I feel like we're putting some good positive vibes out in the years. It's a good time for news to come out, right? Like during this.

Well, and I think with the Nike hoops, maybe we get, I'm wishful thinking. But I also used to be a Costco hater, but we're also using Costco cake as our wedding cake. So I can't really be too much of the years. What are these people not do? Do you just like, so they do pizza, hot dogs, wedding cake, toilet paper? They do it all? Tires, golf clubs. But see, do we want to have one company running all of our stuff?

I think that would be Amazon would be the problem there. Okay, true. You just need to experience Costco. I have, and I felt like I needed a shower when it was over. That can be the case. I appreciate the call. Who's next? Kevin is up next.

Kevin, go ahead, Kevin. Yeah, I just kind of wanted to make an argument for retaining talent and paying them, even if it's a little higher than what they think. But because, you know, there's only so many studs, the axles in the portal. So let's just say, hypothetically, we get, you know, Diallo and then the Syracuse Power Ford. That's basically another O-Way and Aberdeen. So, and then, you know, we fill that out with the, with the role players, the guy from Colgate we're looking at and, you know, some other,

and that Colgate guy is worth, like, I think he's ranked 140th. So my point is, we're only going to get in these. I think the Colgate guy is a backup. So if they bring in the Colgate guy, he's, you're looking, they're bringing him in it as a backup, I would assume. Okay, so here's my hypothetical, or here's my question then. Would you rather not over, overpay a little bit for Yelovich and Chandler or have, or have the Colgate guy.

But I mean, why do you think? I say this, Chandler, I wish stayed, okay? I do wish Chandler stayed. But like, take Yellovich. I like Yelovich, but I would make the argument that there are 40 Yelovich's in the portal. That there's like, like he's, I like him, but on a really good team, Yelovich is a backup. So I feel like we can go find another Yelovich. Chandler's a different conversation, but do you disagree?

I don't know if there's a 47-footer or 6-11 guys that can shoot the three and pass the way he can. But there's a lot of guys who can't rebound and can't play defense. I mean, while I agree with you, not everybody can shoot like him. He's a really good shooter, and he's unique in that regard. But he is a terrible rebounder and a really bad defender. So, I mean, yes, for a big, there aren't a lot of guys that shoot like him. I will agree with that. But like a lot of people, he giveeth, but he taketh away.

Yeah, good points. I think there's a ton of value, though. And we know those guys have been here. They've seen what it's like to play at UK. And to me, if you've got to pay them a million more to get them here, you know, do it. I mean, I just think they're more valuable than guys that are going to be role players and bench players, and we're bringing them in. And they are unproven here.

No, I understand what you're saying. All right. I appreciate the call. let me put it a different way, Drew. Bill Simmons, who I've listened to for many, many, many years, when he's talking about in the NBA draft, he always does his draft preview. And they say this every year, and I really like this because it makes me think. He'll say, all right, I just watch the NBA finals, whoever played. And when he's looking at draft people, he'll go, could this guy have played in that game? Could you have put him in that game and he could fit in?

And Bill says when you're down to two players, ask yourself that question. I actually like that as a stat. So here's my question for it. We just watched the final four. How many guys on our roster do you look at and you go they could have played in those games? All right? I think O'A certainly could have. I think Aberdeen could have.

I think Moreno could have, although he would have had a physical difficulty with it. Chandler could have, but probably coming off the bench. But in my opinion, if you don't look at a guy on your roster and say he could have played in that Michigan, Yukon game, then it's not the worst thing in the world, Drew, if you're replacing them for somebody else. I'm not saying that he would have been the best player, but could he have just played in that game? I don't think we had many that could have, especially with the physicality. It might be O.A. Aberdeen and Diabate off the bench for me. And I love Malachi, but we saw Malachi in the tournament.

Diabonte could have played. Yeah, I mean, I love Malacon. I'm glad he's back, but I don't think as a freshman he could have done much in that game either. Now, I think he'll make a big jump. But no, I don't think many people on that roster could have held up. I mean, I even said that night, like, they were playing a different sport than what Kentucky played. Yeah, the Final Four games were so physical and rough. Not a lot of great outside shooting, so I don't know how much Chandler would have played.

I think it would have been, like, Drewsville. I think Diabate may have played the most minutes of anybody in the Final Four. I will say about Chandler. I agree with you that all things being equal, I'd rather have Chandler. But I don't know that you can pay, as I said yesterday, if you were going to pay Chandler what he wanted, he needed to be our second best player on the team. So the question you have to ask yourselves,

do you think we could have made a final four next year with Colin Chandler as the second best player on the team? If the answer is yes, then I understand being disappointed that he's gone. If the answer is no, he wanted us to pay him like the second best player on the team. And I don't Drew think he could have been the second best player on a final four team. I'm his biggest fan. I agree. And on the point of overpaying, like you just said, pay Chandler and Yellovich each an extra million.

Well, that's two million you got and get a pretty good player that you would be overpaying. Yeah, I mean, if you wanted to pay Chandler and Yelovitch each a million more, then you would have needed Chandler to be the second best player on the team. and Yellovich to be the fourth best player on the team. And let's assume Moreno by what you're paying him is the third best player on the team. Can you win a national championship with one really good player off the portal, Chandler, Moreno, and Yelovich? And what I would say to you is we started Chandler, Moreno, and Yovitch this year.

We're running it back. We had two guys better than those guys, and you saw how good we were. we're essentially just running it back. And I, Ryan, don't think that would be what you would do. Like I said yesterday, with all due respect to Colin Chandler, they need to go out and get a couple guys better than him. If they want to make a run and get Kentucky basketball back, they need guys that are better than Colin Chandler.

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we only know of Zoom, but usually they do these things in pairs or two or three. So I wouldn't be shocked if there's someone else that's coming to all weekend. You know, I don't, I would say this is a great weekend to be a subscriber of KSR Plus because between Jacob and Jack and Jeff Drummond and Justin and, well, Drew's going to be having a baby, but all of these folks, there is going to be a lot of information. I think it's going to, I think this weekend's when the dam breaks. For instance, tomorrow at Keenland, they're going to have, those of you at Keenland, you are all of our reporters tomorrow because there will be Kentucky players at Keenland tomorrow,

and it's going to be up to y'all to capture them because I bet you there will be. There might be people out there today, but I know there will be U.K. prospective basketball players drew out there tomorrow. Yep, and Zoom has already landed. He tweeted a picture from. Well, he might be out there this afternoon. Yeah, from the locker room. I do think back to last year when we took Lamar Wilkins into the winter circle and we're like, we got this guy.

We took him to the Keenland Winter Circle and showed them our horses. Then the next day he picks another school. But it is important to get those guys out there. That's a good question. Do you think Keenland works? Because we did go like 0 for four last year on Keenland people. It works in the sense that Kentucky's one of the only places where like everyone recognizes these guys. So they get mobbed by the fans.

As far as the horses and the Bergu, I don't know if that's going to have a big impact. but putting them out in front of so many people that know who they are, it really helps. Well, the first year Pope was here, Keenlin, we were like five for five on Keenland. Amari was one of those favorites. Amari, Andrew Carr, I think Lamont, but, like, we got them all. Then last year we weren't, so we need to get Keenlin Ryan back on the good side because you're not going to have two better days to go out there than today and tomorrow. That's what I was going to say.

I think they're picture-perfect weather to take somebody out there and show the beauty of Keenland. Because you get that thing when you walk in, it just feels like you're in a special place. hopefully the recruits will feel that yes 859-2802287 who's up next Ryan is up next Ryan go ahead Ryan hey Matt I'm gonna get right to it try to make this quick I want to thank you for turning me on to the neighbor's series so good and I was watching it now and I was watching it the last episode there and as I'm watching it I'm watching it with my wife interestingly enough and I've realized that they sent him to the colony down here in Hudson, Florida, and that's where I live.

Oh, wait, did you live in the nudist colony? No, I live in Hudson, Florida. Let's get that straight, man. Okay, so you live in the town, not the nudist colonies of. Okay, gotcha. Yes, correct. So I'm telling my friend the other day, we're riding down the road, I'm telling him about the show and about how it's here in Hudson, and there are several different nudist colonies

here. He has an entire shop. Yeah, he does mobile work, and he got a call, and they needed somebody to come out to one of those places and change a tire. So he brought his guys in the office, and he says, listen, you know, I'm sending you out here to this place, and it's a nudist colony, so, you know, people are going to be naked. And they were like, no problem, boss, no problem at all. He said, well, he said the punchline is they don't allow anybody with clothes on out there, so you guys are going to have to disrobe before. you change it's tight. I thought it was fun.

No, it's good. Did your guys then sign up and go yes? No, no, the guys were like, nope, we're out, boss. Can't do it. Okay, got you. Well, I appreciate the call. It is odd. All the nudists go to this town where this man lives,

and then you go from there. Again, I highly recommend the show. I can say five episodes, everyone will like. people have different views about the sixth one but the other five are all are gold it's kind of crazy there's one of these places in this town to have eight of these kind of places in that town that's kind of good like it's right drew everybody needs to be around people of like you know just be like so they all go there and you got variety though maybe they don't they don't bother everybody like they don't bother everybody else everywhere else how do you pick your community though

like do you tour these and it's like uh that's what dany was doing danny was taking a tour of this one now i wonder how you decide which one you prefer which of the dude Because like Ryan said, you think one would be enough for everyone, but they have options. They have options. Who's next? Competition is important in this world. Brian is up next. Brian, go ahead.

Go ahead, sir. All right, who's next, Rick? Okay, Mike is up next. Mike, go ahead. Hey, guys. Just wanted to remind everybody that there is pro football in Louisville tonight. Did Louisville Kings play the Orlando Storm? 8 o'clock at Lynn Family?

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