KSR - 2026-04-13- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk UK Basketball recruiting and the latest news from the weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A vision auto-glass text machine 7-7-7-4 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. Call T.J. I'll make them pay. I was sitting here thinking, Ryan, so I've been doing this 20 years. I was thinking about it, what were the big recruiting days? Okay. All right, the days where the Kentucky universe was in recruit watch mode.

And then I went even further to say, what were the days that it was the refresh every hour, 10 minute mode? So let's go through them in the KSR error. Okay. Patterson and Lucas, a day leaked that they were both going to choose. Patterson ended up postponing it. Lucas went early.

Lucas went that day. And he would pick Florida. But that day, the site crashed. 600 times on KSR. Okay. So that's day one for me. Yeah, that was so early in the internet world, we all was new. And our server couldn't host it. Yeah.

Like we couldn't hold it. We had started in 2005 and in 2007, we didn't have the technological capability. But everybody was going to it. Then I think the day, the door day with Cal. Yeah. As we watched the door to see if he was going to leave from Memphis. I think that may be the most legendary. day in UK internet history, don't you think, where everyone watched a random door in Memphis

to see if Cal would walk out of it? And just hearing you talk about it now makes me kind of embarrassed how we were acting at that time. Because yeah, a local TV crew, and by the way, Shannon, nice to have you back. Yeah, I'm going to be back. Shannon, do you remember that? A local TV crew just set a camera outside of a door. Yep. And we all watched it. What? All day long. And then he flew here. And there were cameras at the airport. And so that was. That was. We watched. We watched it. And we all watched it. And then. And then he flew here. And so, that's the wild day. Also before that, the Billy Clyde getting fired day. No doubt. Alan Cutler chasing him around. Yep. So that's actually day two, day three would be. Then I think

day four is a few days after the Cal Day when it started become, okay, well, Wall come, will cousins come, will Zavier Henry come? Oh, what a name for the past, right? So then I would think the next one was probably Nerland's Noel and Shabazz Mohammed decided on the same day. Yep, they sure did. On the set of like SportsCenter or something. Number one and two, both decided on the same day. Kentucky was a finalist for both. Right. And Nerlin shaved the UK logo in the back of his head. Turned spun around so you can see the UK logo in the back of his hair.

So then I think the next one is the day whether the twins decided to come back. No doubt. That's definitely got it. That's pretty high. I think that one might be second to Cal as the day all, will the twins come back? Because they waited until the last day. Remember, we got the guy Shannon at Aheart to make his, with the national voice guy to make the reeds. That's right. What was it? First they split a zygote. Now they're splitting defenders. The twins are back. You and Turkey Hunter had a turkey hunter and I spent the afternoon writing them.

And then this guy just read whatever we sent. Whatever you sent him, he voiced it. That was a great one. And then, but then I was trying to think about after that, Hamadu Diallo deciding whether to return went into the night. And it didn't come out until like 1230 at night. Because he really did it like after the midnight deadline. He did.

You didn't find out about it until after the deadline. But I don't know if there's been one since then like that. That was like a six or seven year period where just because of the way the internet was, it just was like it overwhelmed in a positive manner. But I don't think since COVID, I guess the closest thing we've had was the day Cala Perry was walking around with a dog in a stroller. It is. Since COVID, it's probably the biggest internet moment. Is that the biggest UK fan internet day since COVID is Cal Walker?

around with a dog in a stroller, Shannon? I think it is, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Is he going to leave? Is he going to leave? Is he not? And then Mitch Barnhart and Mark Hill or whatever, they like take the SUVs into his house and then he comes out in a stroller and waves at the camera. What a bizarre moment. What a bizarre moment. I still remember getting the text while I was eating at Skyline that basically said he'd like to come back, but it's not happening. And, um, I think that's the only one post-COVID, right? I don't know what I can think of right now where we were so tied glued to the internet

and refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh. Well, I think today is one of those days. I mean, from what I understand, Stokes arrived late last night. Rob Wright arrived this morning and now Wright and Stokes are on campus. And for people who weren't on the internet this weekend, Tyron Stokes, number one player in America

announces he's visiting. I think that happened Saturday morning. and that feels like a long time ago. It does. That was Saturday morning? Yes, I think it was Saturday morning. So the number one player in America is going to be on campus today. Then we find out that Rob Wright, who's probably, who's a top five portal guy, probably

the number two point guard in the portal, he's coming today as well. So I think it's fair to say that of the people we know Kentucky is associated with that are available to play college basketball next year, these are the two best players Kentucky is talking to. It's amazing. You get these top two guys, two eligible players, and they're on campus at the same time. At the same time. On the same visit. So both guys here at the same time.

I mean, that sends a clear signal that Kentucky could be a power player. So it is, I mean, this is the day. Yep. You know, this is the day that the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Take him to Keenham. Keenland's closed on Monday, right? We stop taking them.

Keenland. It hasn't worked. The Keenland thing has been a curse. We need Keenland to be closed on Monday. No offense to Keenland. Maybe that's why they brought him in. I don't know what it is. I think that had been pretty successful, but in the Pope era, maybe they look at the, made the horses look at them the wrong way. I don't, the Keenland thing hasn't seemed to work. So these guys are here. And, I mean, for people who don't find, I mean, this is the number one high school player in America. This is the best high school player that would have come to this school since Carl Towns. Yeah.

Yeah. It's no doubt. I think this is the best high school player that would have come to Kentucky. I mean, Fox and Monk were very highly rated, but not as highly rated as this kid. And Scal was rated high, but not as good. But even then people didn't think he was as good as they think this kid is. Right. This would be the best high school player to come here since Carl Towns. And if you go through the Cal era, the only players that were probably consensus considered to be best pros would have been Wall, Cousins, Nerlans, Carl.

Or yeah, I'm sorry, Anthony Davis. Wall Cousins, Anthony Davis, Nerlands, Carl. And Stokes would probably be somewhere around Carl in what people think of him as a high school player. So just think about what I just said. That's a pretty big guy to get here. Then in terms of college transfer portal guys, I think it's safe to say this is the top player out of the portal that has ever been recruited to Kentucky.

Oscar Shibway was highly recruited, but I don't think he was ranked as high as this kid is. And Pope hasn't gotten a guy ranked as high. Jackson Robinson is probably his best commitment. out of the portal, but he wouldn't be ranked as high as Rob Wright. So this is the biggest day of the Pope recruiting era, and you could make an argument, Ryan. It's the biggest day of the Pope era going forward. I think it is the fact that you can get Tyron Stokes to come to an on-campus visit this late in his

recruitment, after people were kind of saying he's leaning back towards Kansas again to get him to come on campus and make a visit and to get Rob Wright to make his first visit is to Kentucky. I think both of those are huge statements as far as what Pope's trying to do now. Now, we saw the best Shannon of Kentucky fandom yesterday. Oh, yeah. Because the news starts to spread. Rob Wright's coming. Stokes is coming.

And our fan base goes, they lose their mind in the best way. Yes. Right? This is why I'm not listening to you haters on the internet, including some in our own fan base who seem to get off on just telling us. us that our fans stink. This is why you stink. Because days like yesterday are why Kentucky fans are great. Yeah, I know other people make banners, but how many people make banners within minutes of the kids announcing they're coming? Right? Yeah. And put it on their house and

Adam as the day goes along. That's what was funny. Adam is the day goes along. And then coaches drive by and FaceTime players and say, come visit and we'll ask. And we'll ask. you to the house. Yeah. Right? That house now is going to be going to have the billboard for a visit. I believe it's a frat house. I don't know if it's Sigma. I don't know. We're going to have that kid on in a little while. Banner boys. But they're calling themselves. I think I think I gave them the name Banner Boys. Whatever gave it. Whoever gave it to them, they're going with it. I don't feel like we've had this much excitement. I agree, which this fan base needed that. Right. Like they needed this.

This fan base needed that excitement. And now these kids are here. People are putting it on their random houses. Did you see that guy's house at the Arboretum? He put a banner up there too. So it's catching. It's catching on. I saw the Walmart and Nicholasville now has the banners.

You're going to hang one outside your new house? I don't know how to make them. But if I did, if I did, I would. I like the idea of other banners. People said we should do it at KS Bar. We're closed today or we would. Yeah. We can do it maybe this week.

Yes. I'll make Mario stand on the street with a side. Right. But it is exciting. And now, like you said, our fan base needed this. They did. Now, Shannon, there's a lot of pressure. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Because for Mark Pope, you know, he has, I think, intentionally kind of not kept the fans in the loop as to what's going on by not talking to the media privately or having, you know what I mean? So the media doesn't really know UK's plans. Is that good? It might be if, well, I don't think it is long term, but this year it might be fine if they get all these guys. Like in the end, it doesn't matter if they get all the guys, right?

But expectations are now all in on these two guys. And I think this fan base, this is a feast or famine moment. If he gets two of these guys, this fan base is going to lose their mind. And it honestly doesn't matter who he gets in the rest of the class. People are going to be excited all off. Yes. Would you agree? Get those two guys?

I think people will be very excited. Let's roll. If he gets one of them, there'll be some excitement, and then it'll depend on what else he does. Right. But if he gets neither. If it's considered a with. Oh, yeah. Oh.

The negativity that we had going into the off season. This is the thing. When you bank everything on a day and you get everybody excited and you have banners and you have coaches pull it over and stream. like it's got like like this is you know now you have to deliver yes if you deliver you have been washed in the blood of the BB in Lamb like no one's going to worry about it right but if you don't then you know there's going to be people very frustrated but I'm going to be positive and assume there's a lot of good signs right Stokes is coming here exactly

there's good signs yeah Stokes is coming here he paid his own way to come from Portland, Oregon. This late in the process. This late in the process. Because he already taken an official visit so we couldn't give him another one, so he had to come. Yeah. Rob Wright is coming. We flew to see him Saturday, and he agreed to come Monday morning.

And I think this is his first visit anywhere. So this is, you know, huge. Huge day. So this is a refreshed day. If we had not, if we would pay for the text alerts, you know, that cost money now to do. Remember we used to send text alerts. Yeah. And now of a sudden it cost a bajillion dollars.

I almost wish I could put them into effect for one day. Imagine if you got a text message that said, because you remember the old text messages they had Ryan yelling and it would scare people. It was a bam, bam, bam, firepower. What were we thinking? I don't know. I'd love to do it again. I just don't know how to do it for an economically responsible amount of money.

But it's a big day and it'll be exciting. and we'll, I don't think anything will happen. I don't know that they'll commit tonight. But here's what I know. UK wants to, when they leave, UK wants to know in their mind whether or not they think they're getting them. Yeah. Because the rest of their class depends on what these two guys do.

They have a budget. These guys are going to get a lot of the budget. So if they don't get them, they have a lot more money to get other people. But if they do, they have less. They have a whole set of visits potentially scheduled. for the rest of the week, but it's all contingent on these guys. So I don't know if we'll get a commitment tonight from either one of them. But I think UK doesn't want them leaving without UK feeling like they're going to know what

these kids are doing. Right. It's like a car salesman. You get the person on the lot. You don't want them to leave the lot without buying a car. I don't know that they'll, I don't know if they'll buy the car. But they need to know, I think in UK's mind, are you buying this car, even if we wait and let you do it on your own time. So we'll see. Do you like the fact that they got both on the campus at the same time

where they kind of work together? They must think that's a good idea and they know the kids better than I do. So I can't say. Like I, on the one hand you would go, well, these kids, they even know each other. But you know what? Mark Popin, they're not stupid. They know how big a deal this is. They know what they clearly wanted to do it on purpose.

Yeah. So I'm going to assume they know what they're doing. So 859-280-22. We're going to take a break. we'll take your calls. Text machine is 772, 774-5-254. It's KSR. Bam, bam, firepower.

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Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Cliverts show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. You know, the text machine is full of like sightings. Already this morning? Oh, yeah. I've been getting sightings all morning already. Now, I don't know what to believe, Shannon.

So you have to take everything with a grain of salt. I need pictures. If you got a sighting, send you the picture. I agree with you. Pictures would help. And I need them to be blurry because recruiting pictures are always. voice blur. The cleaner the picture, the more I think now it's A-I. But a good fuzzy picture at Carson's, I believe. It's like a picture of Bigfoot. Yes, that's exactly right. Every

recruiting picture needs to be fuzzy. One person writes, Matt, I think you might be wrong about Stokes having flown last night. My parents say they were on a flight with him this morning and he was very nice. Very nice. Good to hear. But that doesn't mean that that's true. Yeah, could have been anybody. Okay. Yeah. It was actually Eli Capiluto and somehow they confused the two of them. Well, I mean, do you know what he looks like? Stokes?

Yeah. Num, not a hundred. Like, you've seen him. Would I recognize him on a plane? I think I would know it wasn't Eli Capiluto. Right. But if he walked in right now. But there was a guy on a plane to Lexington this morning.

And me knowing Stokes was coming, I think I would know it's hit. 18, 19 years old. But if I saw him at that Zach Bryan concert, would I know it's him? No. I mean, the Louisville recruits that committed yesterday, Badunga and whatever the other guy's name, they were in a bar that Max and Miles and I went to Saturday. Oh, they were.

And I didn't know what they look like, but I was like, that dude's 610, Shannon. He's got to be somebody. Yeah, exactly. There's not a whole lot of 6'10 guys who are walking around. I mean, you don't see a lot of Marstown Road. So I assume that's probably. It would be nice if Kentucky can get these two guys in one day because Louisville just got their two guys in one day.

Yes, that's true. All right, so let's talk about the UK roster made decisions. Okay. So since the last time we were on the air, Yelovich announced he was transferring. Right. And also committed to Ohio State. So that all happened since we were on the air. Yes.

Thoughts. I kind of felt like he underachieve last year. I kind of had the door open. Don't the door hit you with a good lord split you. go go go that's a little harsh isn't it wow yeah i mean what that's it was good here why fuss he wrote a really nice note he did write a really nice note why you being quite why's he being mean shannon i don't think that take you don't mean that take that back i definitely take it back i've tried to be funny you don't what is the lesson we have learned from this show you do not

try to be funny don't try you're naturally funny right yes exactly so stop trying go ahead now take that back i did take it back okay thought his note was really nice. I liked that he said, I know some of you all have mixed feelings about me, but I do not have mixed feelings about you. And he even said Big Blue Nation is going to be great again. I thought that was a great, actually can't think of a player who's written. Like, you know, I mean, people will write the, I love you, Big Blue Nation. And that's nice, but I actually thought he wrote it to where it was clear like he wrote it. Yeah, a lot of it feels chat GPT-ish. Yes, but his didn't. No, no, no. It felt very sincere too. Yeah, I think he meant it.

all the more reason you should be nice to him. Brandon Garrison committed to Alabama. I kind of was surprised when I saw that. Well, considering I know what he asked Kentucky for, you would assume Alabama paid more than that. I'm very surprised. Yeah. Maybe, you know, you heard, you heard Oates say after the season,

I got to get more big dudes who can rebound and be physical. He did say that. Do you think that Garrison's that guy for him? Clearly he does or I don't think he goes and gets it. Yeah, he believes he can be that physical guy inside, but we saw it for two years. He's not that guy. He can be that guy in spurts. Yeah.

But I don't know that he's that guy consistently. But I was surprised because he asked Kentucky for a substantial raise. And Kentucky said no. And presumably, Shannon, you've got to think Arkansas said yes. Right. Or, excuse me, Alabama. Yeah. I mean, he doesn't give you a whole lot offensively except for the game in the SEC tournament where he went off.

But he does give you that physicality that you need in the SEC. He's getting a technical when he comes in here next year. Because we host them next year. We do host them next year. Yeah, he's going to get a technical. No doubt. That's when he's at his best when he gets a technical. Jasper Johnson being rumored to go to Arkansas.

Yeah. What if Cal goes and gets Jasper? Well, that just adds to the get Derek Johnson's Facebook feed. Get ready for that. That's such a cow move, too, to come in here and get Jasper grew up in Lexington and played the UK. I wish him the best. And honestly, Cal might be the best coach for a guy like that.

Well, Kyle was interested in him before, right? Was he? I offered him. He did. I thought he did. Yeah. I mean, that might work for him. I just think you're going to have a hard time.

You know, Arkansas doesn't have any players yet, and you don't hear about their name with a lot of teams in the portal. So I don't know what their situation is. is they do have a couple of really good recruits. All right. Trent Noah's coming back. Yes, all that. Excited about that.

I'm excited. I mean, I really thought Trent may lean and go somewhere else try to get some more minutes and play. But obviously he's a Kentucky kid. He wants to put on that Kentucky jersey. He's a great guy to have on your team for this reason. One, I mean, hopefully he still can be good. But these local businesses are paying his Nile.

Oh, there's no doubt. Like what Nile is supposed to be? Yeah. Noah gets it. Like, Noah should, the NCAA should put him on the, brochure of what NIL. My guess is his NIL is being paid. He might not even take any of the revshake.

His money might all be from these local businesses because they all want to invest in the hometown kids. He's got a couple big ones that he's already signed up for. That he signed immediately that I think extended throughout his time here. So, Shannon, you might get a kid that on the open markets you'd have to pay 400,000, 500,000, and you don't have to pay anything. Because he's making the money on the NIL deals. Because he'll be making it on the NIL deal.

I felt like just that spring ankle kind of threw him off track and he never kind of got was the same guy after that this past season. So I'm glad to have him. I still hope there's some, there's contribution in there. Yeah, for sure. And he wants to be here. So, all right, that's good. We'll take a break. Take your calls after this.

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We also know of a couple of other visits this week. Ronnie Freeman from Syracuse is visiting tomorrow. Donnie. Donnie. Well, he's got a brother named Ronnie. He works at the auto shop. At the auto shop. Yeah, Donnie and Ronnie.

Yeah, the Freeman boys. So they're coming together. Ronnie's coming with Donnie. Gotcha. Okay. then Colgate transfer Jalen Cox is coming to Kentucky on Wednesday. I've actually oddly seen him play too. I watched a Colgate game.

Really? Yeah, he was very talented. Average, it's like 18 points a game at Colgate. Any news out of the Zoom Diallo visit was just here this past weekend? Not yet, but I've heard Kentucky still interested in him, but I get the sense they have money for two out of those three guys of Wright-Stokes Diallo. I mean, maybe if they get two of them, then some donors are like, well, heck, let's make it three. But I think it'll be a kind of two of three situation there.

Text machine, wake up text machine people. This is a big day. This is a day the text machine should be exploding with comments, information, and more importantly, random pictures from Carson's. Yes. Okay. That's where they got the picture at Zoom was this weekend. Yeah, somebody took a picture at Carson's with Zoom. Yeah. Right. That's good. That's good. That's what we like. Our spies.

I don't want to, I mean, this is a basketball day, but we have to talk about something that happened with football because maybe the biggest, well, not maybe. This is the highest ranked quarterback to commit to Kentucky since who? I heard John Hale on this morning, I think with Tom Leeds said they thought Drew Barker was also a four star. But it's not just a four star. He is ranked in 24-7 sports, or excuse me, in Ron. rivals as the number two quarterback in America. So you got to go back to- Jake. Now, do I say gna-rot? That's what they were saying on the Leach Report, I think.

Is it gna-Rot? Yeah, I think it is. Nah, it's rot. That's what they were saying on the Leaport. Jake Na-Rot. Number two quarterback in America picks Kentucky over Oregon. He's one of the elite 11 quarterbacks. They pick 11 of them.

I think Drew Barker was that as well. Yeah. And he committed to Kentucky after visiting Willstone. That's huge. I mean, that is, now again, high school commitments in 2026, you never know. There's the portal. There's all kinds of things that can happen. But I will say this.

You tell me I get the number two quarterback in America to commit at a school that we were four and eight the last two years. I'm going to say, heck yeah. This is huge. It just tells you what people think about Will Stein. as a coach, what he did at Oregon with his quarterbacks, what Joe Sloan did with Caden Daniels, Caden Daniels, Caden Daniels. Keep going. You'll get it one of the times. Those two guys, what they've done with their quarterbacks out that's obviously people taking notice of that. So this may be, if this guy can come in and have success, that may be a pipeline

that continues to happen. Yeah, but just this kid. Big. I mean, this is the best quarterback we've had commit here since. Is it Couch? The Couch would be the only one to be ranked in the country. I mean, it's got to be couch, right? I don't think we've had a dude. We've never had the number two quarterback. Couch was number one. Barker was top five to seven. The kid that committed and the Ponatowski kid was in the top something. You know what? Morgan Newton was high, but I was actually. No, he was. Remember the other kid that also committed the same year as Morgan Newton? What was his name? Mazakowski or whatever. Masatowski. But you know, but we haven't had number two.

That's a 30-year span from Tim Kowston now to get a guy ranked this high, a quarterback outside of the state of Kentucky to commit to Kentucky. Well, okay, is he the highest ranked quarterback outside the state of Kentucky ever? I think we said all this about Potatowski, but this kid's right higher than him. Yeah, it's got to be then. All the top quarterbacks, ranked quarterbacks, are all from Kentucky. Well, Morgan Newton. You said he was from Indiana.

Yeah. So was Morgan Newton the highest? He wasn't second in the country. No. Morgan Newton Shannon skipped the Kentucky Tennessee game to take the L-Sat. Still my favorite Kentucky football story. He's committed to his education.

I understand. And he didn't even become a lawyer, did he? I think he works Yeah, in Lexington as a... But he's not a lawyer. What do you call him a clerk or whatever? A law clerk? Something. He works for a law firm, I think.

Okay, so he is in law. Yeah. All right, well then I guess it did make sense because he wasn't going to be in the NFL. So, well, anyway, great commitment. You know, Will Stein is feeding the studs. You got your stud right there. That's a stud.

And they got a defensive tackle who picked Kentucky over Auburn and Alabama. I'd say that kid must be a stud too. If he was a four-star. From Alabama. From Alabama. I said, I don't want to go to Auburn, Alabama. I want to go to Kentucky. Okay, man.

Another stud. That'd be like a kid from, you know, Harlan going, I'm not going to Kentucky or Louisville. I'm going to Auburn. Yeah. Seems a little odd, but commitment for doing it. Yeah. Hey.

So great stuff for Will Stott. Huge stuff. Let's get started. Derek. Go ahead, Derek. Hey, man. I'm glad you brought up the quarterback thing. I was going to mention that.

Let me preface by saying, of course, I'm happy to have them. I'm better to have them committed than not. But it feels like, you know, for the better part of a decade or so, we never really see these high school recruits end up starting the season at quarterback. So I just find it kind of hard to get as excited for high school quarterback recruits. But then don't. But why would you say that in some ways? Like I don't mean say that to be rude to you.

I'm sure you're a wonderful dude. But why would you say that? Like if you don't want to get as excited about the number two quarterback in America coming, then just don't. But why not at least you did say it's better to have it than not. But if you don't want to get excited, why would you just? just call and say, I'm not excited. I don't understand that mindset. Sorry, I wouldn't come across that way. I am very excited. I just hope it ends up

materializing with him leading out. Well, I do too, but I do too, but there'll never be a day that it feels like it will materialize more than the day he picks the school. So can we have a day to be happy about it? And how do you think that plays with Ponatowski moving for? I don't care. I'll be honest with you. I don't care. I want, I mean, if Ponatowski, my assumption is it'll work itself out. One of those kids will end up being, if Ponatowski ends up really good, then maybe that kid decides not to come. Naurot.

If Naurot ends up coming as really good, maybe Ponatowski leaves. But what I like is that we have a lot of options. It was only two or three years ago that like we were down to playing guys who couldn't make forward passes in the games, and we had no chance against anybody. So I love the amount of options. they have. Yeah, me too. I love the idea of bringing somebody up because, you know, going back, we've Sawyer Smith and all these just transfers for quite a while now. I think it'd be awesome to have

somebody come up in the system and let Stein kind of do his thing. Yeah. Well, I appreciate the call. And that is a good point about, you know, we've had to take transfer so many years. This is a guy who will be in the system the whole time. If you're a UK football fan, you should be jumping up and down and having a parade in the street. You've got the second ranked quarterback in the Kentucky commit to your school. I'm not trying to jump. jump on that guy, but like if we can't be happy about a commitment of the highest ranked quarterback of all time without already talking Shannon about what if he leads, he just got here. Exactly.

Yeah, if you can't be happy about that, you can't be happy about anything. I don't understand it. I mean, of course he could leave. But right, anybody could leave that. But anyone could leave. Yeah. We all could leave. That's right.

We might not be here tomorrow. Shannon is leaving. That's right. I just left for a week. Exactly. Drew, by the way, not yet have a baby that we know. Texting this morning. Nothing yet. We're on Baby Watch. Also, think about how exciting it could be. You could get Stokes, right, and baby. All in the same day. And that's how I'll remember that kid's birthday.

That's true. For the rest of his life. April 13. Did you say it was going to be Rory? Well, we said it was going to be whoever won the Masters. Yeah. Well, then it's, there you go. It's Rory. And so we predicted on the show. I predicted Sam Burns, who had a good tournament, had a shot. And Ryan Lippman predicted Roy McElroy, and we mocked him and now they win. Of course.

Of course, the golf's nowhere over here. I know ball. Elijah, go ahead, Elijah. All right. Terry, go ahead, Terry. Hey, good morning, guys. Just wanted to say that I am extremely excited about what's going on today around the basketball and football. And I just believe the reason for having Wright and Stokes together is show them that

this is who you're going to be with. And this is going to be a big part of your team. So for me, I'm extremely excited, feel optimistic. But I believe you don't get one without the other. And I believe we're going to land both of them today and start putting us back on the map. Hope you're right. Appreciate the call. Yeah, I mean, maybe Pope gets in the room.

And he says, all right. Stokes, Wright, Malachi, Cam, whatever we end up with, you four are the core. And that's true. They will be four of the top six guys on the team. They absolutely will be. So they could look there and say, you will be four of the six. Yes. Let's roll.

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podcast. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. Text Machine, I got a couple of messages asking if I'm angry or grumpy. I'm not. I'm actually the opposite. I'm happy and I don't want people to dampen my vibe. Well, just a little disappointing. What's the phrase I want to use, Mario? I don't want to somebody to kill my, but like, peeing your Cheerios. Okay, shut up. You are the last person that would know what the friend. And again, we are instituting a rule. starting this week, you do not get to say the name of bodily function. Gotcha. All right?

Gotcha. I got sent a clip of the week I was gone. What was it? You do not get to talk about bodily functions. All right. So I don't want to hear that word or the corresponding P word or really Shannon any P word. Yeah. Because there's a lot of them, he could say.

There was a lot one day. So, all right? Got it. That's the rule. What's the phrase I was looking for, Mark? Chill my vibe. Crimp my style. Whatever.

Whatever the phrase is, I just don't, you know. Kill your vibe. I mean, if Tyron Stokes commits tomorrow, someone could call, or tonight, someone could call tomorrow and go, well, hope he doesn't decommit Wednesday. Yeah, I mean, that's true. But can we celebrate for a minute? That's what we should be doing today with the football kid.

All right. Did you see, did you see Drake how he made the Toronto Rafters what they made him do to his seats? I heard you and Mario talking about it. I didn't know this. I saw it. Yeah. It's, it's a little extra. It's like, got icicles hanging on.

He's got icicles hanging on them. Why? Well, because, I mean, I think he makes him look cool. But here's what I thought about it, Shannon. Yeah. So I was talking to designers for my house. And one of them told me that they had designed a very prominent celebrity suite at the Titans games. And I was like, you know, you talk about something rich people do.

They first of all, have suites at the Titans game. And have it professionally furnished. And then have it professionally furnished and designed. So that night I was going to my first Reds game in my seats. And I thought, Shannon, wonder what the Reds have done for my seats. Are you stout my seats? Have they done something for my seats? Same rips that were in there last year.

Oh, my. Not repaired. Couldn't he put duct tape on it? Same stains on the chairs. That's your fault. Now, I'm not, what do you mean? It's my fault. The stains are your chair.

Who else would have stained them? That's not the point. The point is, I'm just saying like they're faded. Do you know what I mean? They're faded. I'm just saying, Reds, is it too much to act? ask for people who have held season tickets for eight years to not have rips in the seats?

I'm not asking for a design or iced out Drake. You wanted to take care of your season ticket people. They should, I mean... I mean, it's a lot of money. Yeah. A lot of money and they stink. Yeah, they're not good. They're not good. They're the worst nine and seven team that's ever existed. At this month's their easiest schedule.

I know. All right. So we saw the banners. Yes. Theo is on the phone. Theo is, do you live in the house with the banners? Yes, yes Okay, and do you All right, so you are, how many people live in that house? We got 10 guys And we got my buddy Gabe next me right now

The leaders of the banner boys Theo and Gabe Would you call you two the leaders? Yeah, I'd say we had the idea of it Okay, so you guys had the idea So when you hear Stokes is coming What do you go do? Where did you go get that big banner?

So yeah, we were just sitting around Saturday morning hanging out in the living room, and we're scrolling on Twitter as we usually do. And I see that Stokes is visiting on Monday. So I kind of just jokingly say to Gabe, I'm like, we should like make a banner or something, kind of just kind of laugh it off. And then Sunday morning. Sunday came and we're like, yeah, let's go do it.

So we drove to Home Depot, got some spray paint. And we drove around looking for bed sheets. And then one of my buddies brought it over. So that's, is that a used bed sheet? Is that your buddy's, use bed sheet? No, no, no. He wouldn't bought it. Because I'll, I'll pay for y'all to get clean bedsheets up there. We need no stains. All right. So then you put those up. They start to get attention. And then last night the coaches came by. Tell everybody about there.

Oh, yeah, we were just sitting outside and I see a white truck stop in front of the car or in front of the house. And I was like, that looks like Coach McLean. They pulled up a little bit. And we saw the doors open. It was Coach McLean and Coach Moe. They walked out. I like they calls him Coach Moe. Like he's already his buddy now. Coach Moe Williams, he hangs with Gabe and Theo.

All right. Go ahead, though. But he said, Coach Moe was taking a video. And Coach McLean, he was like, Donnie's mad. You all have one up for him. And he turned his phone around. So he was FaceTiming Donnie Freeman,

the recruit from Syracuse. And he said he's mad. You don't have one of it. And then you all went and put another one up, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah, we immediately saw that. So we ran downstairs, spray pan another, hung it up, and then that was on social media too. So is the plan to any time a guy's on campus?

Are you going to keep this up? Yeah, that's the thing. I was like, well, I mean, if we're the Banner Boys now, now we just got to roll with it. Well, Banner Boys is a good thing. Now, are you all in a fraternity that I hear? Yeah, yeah. We're Sigma Kyes here at U. K.

Sigma Kyes. Okay. So I suggested, Ryan, that if we get right in Stokes, we ought to do our show at that house this week. I love it. I mean, we got to make that happen. So if we get both those guys, maybe Thursday we could do the house. Would you be okay if we did? Absolutely.

Okay. All right, I tell you what, I got your phone number. if it works out, then maybe on Thursday, we'll go out there and do the show there. I don't know. I think you guys have better be careful what you wish for because who knows who might show up for that. And if you get, you all have my information. If you get any more messages of recruits, you let me know, okay? Absolutely.

You'll see the banners. Well, tell me before you put the banners up. But seriously, that is very cool that you all did that. like that's the best of UK fandom. And what do you think about the fact and how other people are putting them up at their houses? Yeah, that's awesome. I hope to see them all over at Lexington.

That's great. All right. Gabe, Theo, thank you very much. Well done. Absolutely. Thank you guys. Go cats. Thank you for having us. There you go.

So isn't that cool? For all the pushback, our fans get a lot of times, that's our fan base at its best. We're some fraternity guys, having some fun, and an idea just jumps out of nowhere, and now everybody wants to be a part of it. you're going to do. I'm going to give Mario this number. You're good at Mario. Gabe and Theo, I assume you're still listening. When you get back to Lexington, because he's in Louisville

out, you go by there and give us a little, is that all right? We'll get put Mario on the streets, kind of check it out. Also, make sure they have restrooms that are not disgusting if we're going to do a show there Thursday. Listen, I've been in, I know what Frat House restrooms can look like. But very cool. And then I love that other places are doing it. I do too. But you've got a lot of time for today. And if this happens, if they get both those guys, it's reason to celebrate and have a good time and have a party. I love it.

I don't know if they realize if we just show up on the yard. What's the last time I've been to a Fright House? It's been 20 years for me. Yeah. I guess maybe I went to a couple at Duke Law School many years ago. But that's probably it. All right. We will take a break.

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