KSR - 2026-04-15- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

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And Ryan, the excitement we had yesterday, I guess you could say, tempered a little bit this morning, as neither. we have yet to hear from Tyron Stokes or Rob Wright and both guys came and left without a commitment. And Kentucky fans were a roller coaster of emotions yesterday. I mean, if you were online a lot during yesterday, you saw the agony and ecstasy of humanity. It was like the old wide world of sports video where the guy was tumbling down the hill on the ski lift. That was kind of how it was.

You said on Monday, this is like the old school refresh day. It's definitely a refresh day. After refreshing all day, Monday, all day, Tuesday, I'm like, come on. Man, I just like got smacked in the punch in the stomach a little bit with no news, no good news, I should say. So let's just for people who aren't online all the time, here's the update. No one has committed yet. Kentucky has zero commitments in the class beyond the guys that are returning from last year. Stokes, right after the show, well, the Stokes saga feels like it was a week ago, but it actually was yesterday.

Yeah. I said he got taken to the airport. I didn't say a reader on the text machine said he got taking the airport in a blue Kia. Right. People got very angry at that. Very angry. Very angry. And then the random guy Trilly Donovan said, no, he's still there.

And he was, and so everybody got mad at me. And for two hours, people were like ready to sit. me to the, you know, send me to the gallows. And then it turns out the Trilly-Donovan guy was wrong and he had left this morning. And he had left on the exact flight that that guy said he was on. Now, whether he was in a blue Kia, in my mind, he's always going to be in a blue Kia. But we will, I guess, never know if he was in a blue Kia or not. But he did not commit.

And Kentucky decided to wait. They're going to wait on him, even though it's not clear what his thought process is. bummer, not a shock. Do you wait on him if you're Kentucky? Like I said yesterday, I think the fact that he's the number one recruit in the country, you need this to kind of re-emphasize, we are Kentucky. I think you wait on him. I just think he's the word of way he had to wait on him, but like it's going to be tough.

Now, I've been told that there is a lot of money for Tyron Stokes, but it is like just for him. So they've built their roster on this idea of an amount of money. So let's just say theoretically they've said we want to spend $15 million on a roster. Okay. They have slotted for a guy in Tyron Stokes' position. Let's say it's 2 million. I don't know what the amount is, but let's just say it's 2 million.

They were willing to, if Tyron Stokes is 6, go 4 over for that position. But if he doesn't come, that 4 is gone, so it'll just be the 2. Does that make sense? Yes. So I actually think Tyron Stokes' money is kind of allocated to him. So it won't have a huge effect if he doesn't come. They'll just go get a $2 million guy instead of it. Where I do think it matters is the longer he goes,

the quality of guys that you could get to replace him goes down by the day. Oh, yes. I mean, two days ago, there were only five of the top hundred players were committed. Now it's like 50, right? So like the amount of people is going down by the minute. and you got to get a team. Louisville just got their third guy. They're about to get their fourth guy,

and like we have no guys, and we don't have a lot of guys returning. So that's mine, just a sheer numbers thing is nerve-wracking. But the bigger negative is Rob Wright. So here's the situation. Kentucky, we couldn't really say this yesterday because you don't want to jinx things.

Because if we had said it, I think, I already know, I'd be getting blamed for this. But it's true. They thought yesterday was a formality. Like bringing him here, there was a whole set of things planned. You know, you heard Jeff Goodman say, unless they screw it up, he's coming. The idea was this was going to happen here yesterday.

And it didn't. They just didn't. And he decided he needed more time. I think maybe UK said, look, we got to know in. by the end of the day, Wednesday. So I think we're going to find out today, unless, you know, these things change quickly. But I don't think there's any way to spend. It is very disappointed.

It's a top five dude in the portal. This is a guy who can be the centerpiece of your team. Right? Right. He can be your Otega away. And I don't know how many others of those people are out there. All right. I think he was, Stokes obviously is.

But he, in the portal, in terms of guys, Kentucky's recruiting, he was like the one. And they were going to get him. And then I don't know. I don't know what happened. He basically, I think they said we need the night and they went home and now we'll see what happens. Travis Branum of 24-7 sports apparently just put out an update that says he believes he's

leaning BYU now. I will say to you, I don't, there's a lot of people that are using some of this as a public leverage play. But I will say this, I don't feel great about it. Hopefully it flips. It flipped yesterday. Yesterday, everyone, including me, thought he was coming. It was like, all right, what time is our celebration?

Didn't happen. We've learned these 18, 19, 20-year-old kids changed their mind overnight a lot of times. So I kind of thought I might wake up this morning like, hey, he committed before he left town. The money for him is essentially the same at Kentucky and B. Kentucky is probably slightly more, but it's in the ballpark of the center. So the Kentucky fan is thinking he's using us as leverage to get more money from the YU. He's wrong about that. BYU gave a final offer.

Kentucky gave a final offer. Kentucky's offers higher. He just might decide not to take it. Yeah. And by the way, that's not a good sign. If a kid wants less to not. To play it, BYU. I mean, this is Kentucky, right?

Like this is Kentucky. And I wish I could say to you. Like here's what I'd like to be able to say. Because part of what I would like to do, because I think people go so far crazy online, that part of what I would like to do is kind of quell the uprising. But what's hard for me is, and you've heard me talk about this for a while, none of us know what UK is doing. None of us know.

I talked to pretty much everybody yesterday that does this locally, including people that don't work for us. Nobody knows. I talk to national people who know what every school is doing, and they don't know either. Nobody knows. So I'd like to be able to come on here and go, don't worry. Maybe it's like Baghdad Bob. Everything's going to be fine.

But I have no idea what their plan is. I just know that part of the plan initially included that guy coming here yesterday. and it didn't happen. They've always known Stokes was like 50% shot or less. But this one was like 90%. And now we'll see. Is it 50 now? Is it 20?

I mean, I don't know because I don't know the kid. But that's where we are. So the fan base obviously. The fan base is freaking out. And in my opinion, they're freaking out a little bit too much. But some freaking out, I think, is okay. Hey, we're, like, part of me's going, who, like, are we, how do we make sure we're good?

Like, if you want to go to a Final Four, you need one of these two dudes to commit. Or you need Zoom Diallo and a bunch of other really good dudes, okay? And that could still happen. But the window for that is closing rapidly, in my opinion. Yeah, because there was so much excitement going into, going into this week that we're going to, to maybe get both of these guys.

Zoom, so they are committed. This is the one thing I do know. They are committed. We've got to have Rob Wright or Zoom Diallo. I am under the understanding that it's like one of those has to be done by the time we go to bed tonight. So if we go to bed tonight and we have neither, or we start to hear Zoom Diallo's taking visits to other school, then I'm really going to work. Yeah. I think Rob Bright is a step up from Zoom Diallo, but I think Zoom Diallo is still really good.

So he's like 1A and 1B? No, I think it's a 1 and a 2. Okay. But I think the 2 is okay if you can get a lot of other good guys. But when you look at the board, a lot of other good guys, they can get them, but they're going to have to run, what do you call it, in cards. They're going to have to have a perfect draw. Like everything else is going to have to work.

And some of the dudes they're looking at, you know, Magoon Guath decided to go to DePaul yesterday. That's a perfect example, though, of where DePaul is going to pay him like their best player. we were going to pay him like we was his fourth best player and he's going to go take the money to be the best. Magoon Gwath going to DePaul is a perfect example of how NIL in some way levels the playing field. Because it allows a team like DePaul to pay a dude as a first. Now, DePaul may still end up stinking, but they can take that player. So I think another thing, the narrative I've seen online is that if Kentucky misses out on some of these big name guys,

they're going to overpay just to fill their roster with other guys. I think that'll probably happen. think what happens is and is there could be a period where all of a sudden like we don't even know our team for a while and we get all guys from overseas. I do think that's, I do think that's a possibility. Because like I was told, so I was talking to a national guy and it's not, it's actually one of the kind of secondary national people. And they were like, look, there's, there are not enough players from some schools that need

players. So they were like, who's Arkansas going to get next year? Right. They were like, Arkansas has no, they have the kid from Georgia, and then like, if Thomas goes to the draft, they were like, who's going to be on their team? The national media is like, who is Kentucky going to have? Arizona needs players. Like, big time programs need players, and they're like, some of these, there's not enough players. They're going to have to go overseas again. They're going to fill the roster. And they said there's some value in that because those people are that those guys are cheaper but regardless i don't want kentucky to get to the point that

like we're going to have to look at film of a greece point a greek point guard and you know grainy and go well i guess that's our guy you Illinois kind of did that the last couple years they did and it worked it worked for them but you know i don't know we've brought in what yellowvitch and big z yeah who was like the seventh man in illinois yeah so so i i don't i mean so where do you have to be people? I'm bummed. I'm bummed. Like, they had it. They had it yesterday. And it didn't happen. Now, maybe it still happens. Maybe he commits today. I'm not, I'm not given up. Because if he commits today, then who cares if it was a day later, right? But they had it yesterday. They had a whole game plan of stuff. And then didn't happen. Maybe he wanted, here's the optimist view. Maybe you wanted to just go home and just, you know, just tell mom and grandma before he told everybody else. I don't, I think that view is.

We're reaching here. Not a real view. You know, and part of it is like, from a PR standpoint, again, you know, you get everybody's hopes up. Yes. Yeah. The fall, as good as it was, the day that they put the banners up and all that stuff. If everybody does that, you know, it has to work. You can't strike out.

You can't strike out. The Stokes thing, I think our fans understand. We're rolling the dice there. Come on in, Phelves. You can just sit down. You're rolling the dice there, but the right thing was, I mean, remember Jeff Goodman said, unless they screw it up, he's coming. So is Donnie Freeman here today? Yes, he came.

He came. That's another thing. You know, people put out yesterday, Donnie Freeman was skipping his visit. That wasn't true either. And he's here. So he is here. He's here. And Kentucky could get him.

Yes. They might get him today. I don't know. But at this point, here's what I will say. What is disappointing to me about UK's recruiting right now is pretty much if you look across the board, when a player gets connected to a school, that school locks it up. Just look around. Every time we've seen player connected to a school, they lock it up.

We just can't seem to lock it up. And why? And I think there's a lot of reasonable questions as to why. In this case, you know, I've had criticisms of JMI and I still may, and I still do occasionally. But in this case, the money is there. And they're still not. So at least in Rob Wright's case, you can't blame the structural anything. It's there.

Kentucky is offering more money than BYU, and he might still go back to BYU. And it's BYU, Shannon, I mean, no offense. Like if you were part of that faith, I understand it, or if you're from you, this kid has no connection to that state. If you lose to like Duke or North Carolina, you even, Kansas, whatever. But BYU, that's concerning. Yeah, Colin Chandler, I get it because that's his home and he's Mormon. But like, this kid has no connection to BYU. And this isn't just a one-off thing last year, you know, with Yaxel and Wilkerson and Demery.

But I think with those guys, yeah, no, you're right. you're right so i i am i'm bummed i mean i'm not ready to to jump off the cliff yet i think it is important let let it play out but i was really confident like monday night i drove by those kids house that had the banners and i waved and i was really confident i was like we're going to be doing a show here thursday even if we don't get stokes we're going to probably have at least freeman and and uh and right we'll do a show here thursday and we'll do a show here thursday and It'll be a party. And then last night I was like, man, in 48 hours I have a different view.

Like you said, you could see it on social media the way our fan base just got bummed. The long of the day went on, the more depressing it got to be on social media. And the toxic parts of the fan base, this feeds them. Yes. Because like, we'll see how it ends up, but it was a, it was a poor 24 hours. We'll take a break. 859-280-2287.

Give us a call. There could be news that comes during these two hours. The other thing is, man, people in Chevy Chase decided they wanted to talk to me yesterday. Did you get more replied about Chevy Chase or about recruiting? Honestly, on Twitter, it was all Twitter and KS. Board's basketball. But on the text machine, you would have to think, somebody put that in a Chevy Chase Facebook group. They may have. They may have.

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I heart radio. What's up, guys? This is Clivert Taylor the 4th. And on my podcast, The Cliverts show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker. Yeah, you know these kids.

This linebacker walks up to me. He goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What? Time out. Quarterback on office blue of 42. Hey, rec, my mama want you to wave at her. What? Where's she at?

Hey, Ms. Parker. Listen to the Clifford show on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. Some questions here. One person writes, Matt, do at some point we have to say that this staff just can't close and maybe have difficulties interacting with players? I don't know, but I can understand why people would guess that. Again, I've said this many times.

You're going to hear me say it until I'm blue in the face. I know it wears people out because they'll go, Matt, you're just saying that because they won't talk to you. It's just the truth. PR 101, don't be silent. When you're silent, the void is filled by rumor. Go look at what happened. We may talk about it later with Diana Rusini and Mike Vrable. Right.

Those pictures came out. And I don't know what the truth is on that, but nobody said a word for a week. And the story just got bigger and bigger and bigger. And now eventually she's had to resign. She finally made a statement. Vrable keeps pushing off his press conferences, but at some point he's going to do one and guess what's going to happen? He's going to get asked about it. Absolutely he will.

And so, like, by not doing anything initially, I think they thought it would just go away. It never goes away, right? you've got it you have to address stuff head on by them being silent in UK like not talking to the press then people the worst beliefs people can they gain oxygen so yesterday they were like random screenshot of text chats coming on of people saying things and I don't even know if the people that they claim we're saying them we're saying them but they take on a life of their own because there's no information to counter it yes and that's terrible terrible PR. So is it Mark Pope can't relate to guys? I don't know, but I need another explanation if it's

not and nobody gives one. The original question about the staff, we do have some new faces on the staff this year. Yeah, we have, Mario has a Mario spy right now. Look at him. He's a Mario spy. Right now, Freeman is with Pope, Mo Williams, Malachi, and Cam at a Lexington location, which we will not say. Yes. So that's happening right now. Which makes me feel? In a public location. Like, not in a room.

Yeah. Makes me feel? Makes you feel what? Good. I mean, they were in public locations with the other guys, too. I like Carson's. We've got to stop taking people. We're on a Z.

We're on an Ofer Street right now on Carson's. As good as the food is, I think that's where you take my mom and Larry. I don't know that that's what you're doing. Take him to Keenlin. I don't think that's been working either, hasn't it? One person writes, Matt, do you think we will have a point guard at the end of today? Yes, I do. I think if Rob Wright doesn't give him an answer, I think Zoom Diallo will come here.

And if he doesn't, then you should really get worried. Because then there's really no really good backup option, and they will have struck out on their top two guys after offering them more money than anyone else did. And that's a bad sign. Yeah, because like we said, and Zubialo, by the way, I would say is like Lamont Butler, probably right in the Lamont Butler range.

I think Rob Wright's better than Lamont Butler, which is partially why I wanted it. If they'd miss out on them, like I said, then they'll probably overpay for a point guard that maybe he's not as good as we. But there's not that many left. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. and not as good as what we had. Yeah.

By the way, one person I did talk to last night who knows this class really well said, look, Matt, here's one thing you should tell your fans. The top 10 guys on these lists are better than everybody else. Rob Wright's one of the top 10. He said, but got 11 through guy 75, it's not that much different. He goes, a lot of it's just fit and whether or not. And he was like, ask people in your fan base. Who would you rather have?

Colin Chandler, Mo Diabate, Denzel Aberdeen, Brandon Garrison, Jasper Johnson. He was like, everybody's going to give you different answers. Right. That's kind of how it is for all of these teams, well, or, you know, these other guys. And that makes sense to me. When year one, they did a good job of picking out those guys to fill their roster, you know, with guys from Drexel and Ferry Dickinson and guys like that. Do you think Jasper's going to go to Arkansas?

I do. I kind of have a gut feeling. That's where he's going to end up. Your gut feelings are usually more than a gut when it comes to that. group. I do not know. I'm saying that's my gut feeling. Notice how he switched.

He switched it. I mean, a cow apparently was in town. But to give an example, I mean, if Cal gets him, he's getting Jasper to start. Yes. So, you know, that's why I'm saying. Lots of teams don't have a roster.

Jasper's not even on the top hundred list. And he would go to Arkansas and probably start. Maybe start. Yeah. So one person writes, in here, Matt, do you think our fan base contributes to this with the toxicity? No, not really. I mean, I think that's an easy excuse.

First of all, you got to remember, only like 1% of the world is on Twitter, right? Like, it's like, let me ask you, fellas, are you guys on Twitter a lot? You are, you too aren't. Are you on Twitter a lot? Neither of you are on. Mario's only on occasionally. Shannon, aren't, Mario's not on at all. Shannon, did you spend?

I'm on Twitter quite a bit. Yeah, Mario said he's not an on. Shannon's on some. My point is, I just broke my necklace. Oh, you did? Yeah. Yeah. My buddy's daughter made that for me.

Oh, okay. I thought it was the white necklace. There's not the white necklace, and it went everywhere. All right, what was that saying? Oh, Twitter. Yeah. So I think a lot of it is, if you're online a lot, it feels more than it is in the real world. Because it was pretty toxic yesterday as the day went on.

But I think also Louisville, getting a lot of guys. That doesn't help. Louisville's going to have the most expensive roster in the next year. How are they getting all that money? Where's that money coming from? I don't know. Planet Fitness must be having a lot of memberships. All right. We'll take your calls right after this. KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T. T.J., he'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772.727. said before 5254.

I had a very good source just in me. It'll be Bama, Arkansas, or Georgia for Jasper Jones. So there you go. I heard the Bama in Arkansas. Georgia's a new name into the mix there. Well, if he goes to Georgia, just remember where you heard it first. I remember where I heard it first. Will you?

Yeah. And you'll say. I will broadcast it forever. One person writes, Matt, two years ago, Ryan was great at his locks as to who we were going to get. Last year he struggled. Yep. I have a feeling it's at every other. other year thing for Ryan.

So who are his lot? Has he heard any locks so far? Nope. I'm telling you, I think we all learned last year that the transfer portal people is an overnight thing. It's a bidding war. It's making outbid the other person the next day. We'll go to the phone.

What do you think about lamello ball? Should he have gotten kicked out for grabbing Bam last night in that game? That was dirty. I think of a dirty play like that, you kick the kid out. I don't care who it is. I'm not just saying because it was Bam and Melo that we don't like. That was a dirty play last night. I thought it was pretty dirty, yeah.

I mean, I thought he, you know, he, and he'd done it before. Did you see he did it two years ago? I didn't know that. He did it to Bam two years ago. Did it to Bam two years ago. I mean, I bet he wasn't trying to hurt him. Probably not. But he did hurt him.

Yep. And so. It's a dirty play. So it's a dirty play. I mean, and he should have been kicked out. Should have definitely been kicked out. If Bam can't play, then he should not play. playing game the playoffs is a big deal it's a great game though did you watch it didn't watch any

oh it was awesome i mean back and forth big shots down the stretch and tyler hero uh made some plays tyler hero hit a hit a couple crazy shots to get him there but uh he should have been kicked out yeah and like i said it's not great environment too charlotte's had a heck of environment not just because it was bam we love bam and because mellow and we were anti mellow when he was playing at UCLA you just can't do that they can't allow that kind of play yeah no matter what level all right I'm a little hesitant because you don't know what the fans are going to be like here. But let's see what we got. Let's go to the phone, Shannon.

Who's up first? Let's go to William. William. Hey, good morning. You come out here talking about firing people all the time. Who is? Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. I've never talked about firing anybody.

No, I mean, hang on. Hang on, don't just, you don't. I got someone you need to fire. Hang on, don't just come in here and say that I say, things I don't say. I've never one time said anyone should be fired except Joker Phillips in whatever year that was. So you're either not a listener or you're just lying. And since there's a lot of people listening right now that don't normally listen, I want to be clear. I'd have never said to fire anybody. Now go ahead. Okay. Well, I don't know if it's an AI picture, but whoever

took that picture of you with your knee up on a box should get fired, because that is the All right. I appreciate the call. I appreciate the call. Good start. Yesterday we started with Burke Kreisher? By the way, I'll both, hang on, I'll Burke Chryser, an apology. I forgot about something. Okay. Someone reminded me he came on this show. He did. I was going to say that yesterday, but I wasn't for sure.

Why didn't you say it? Now I feel bad. He did come on this show during COVID when we did that whole, see who you can get to call in. You remember that? Yep. And someone got Burt Kreischer to call in. And then he talked positively about us on his podcast. Oh, he did. Yeah, he said that we were like a lot of fun.

So now I feel bad because he was nice to us. And so I'm still not going to say I'm a huge fan of the comedy, but he was a nice guy when he was on here. And so I owe Burt Kreischer an apology. Well, I hope he doesn't hear what we said yesterday and talk bad about us now. But if he does, I hope he hears me saying now that now I remember. I'd forgotten that because when we had him on those years ago, I didn't know who he was. Remember?

And then we realized he was a big deal, and he's blown up since then. See, I almost said that, but I wasn't really 100% certain. Shannon, you were supposed to correct me yesterday. I didn't know that. I had forgotten about it. I had forgotten about it until somebody said it. So, anyway, who's up next? Morris.

Morris, go ahead, Morris. Yeah, two points. First, it's too bad. This isn't happening later in the summer because we could take it a, up a notch by learning the flight pads to the recruits and have our farmers cut banners in the corn like they do corn mazes. That would have been good, yeah. And second, I'm trying not to panic and still be positive overall because, you know, Pope's first year,

I didn't really know the guys we got other than maybe Lamont Butler because of the tourney. But I'm getting to wonder if a player already has a relationship with another school or maybe they have a geographic preference if their agent just says go to Kentucky to get a number to up your value. I'm hoping we're not getting the reputation to shop Kentucky so you can take it to another school. I mean, we might be, but I think the – I appreciate the call. We're not the only school that gets used to up offers for other schools. The question is, why can't we close? That's the question.

These other schools are closing, all of them. They get a guy on campus. It's over. We're not. Like I said, I think – What do you think it is? I did a lot of talking in that first 30 minutes. What do you think of it?

I mean, you hear things. I think, I hate to say it, but it's what we do in our show. No, to be clear, this is what he's saying, just for the record. Not necessarily, Shan, I want to be very clear. Whatever he's about to say, this is Ryan Lemon saying it, not me. Now, go ahead. It appears that maybe our coaching staffs having a hard time to connecting with these younger players, not just the recruits, but even the guys we had on the team last year, it just seems...

Why do you think that is? I don't know. I really, I honestly don't know, but it just seems like... Do you think there's too much selling the front of the jersey? Maybe. Maybe. Kentucky. The problem is, I don't know.

Okay, so this is a hard conversation to have because he... Mark is a great guy. Yeah. And I've only had one long conversation with him and then a couple of shorter conversations. He is really nice, but he's like, he's really nice and he's really intense. But he also like, I don't know, he doesn't necessarily put you at ease because he's almost, I just wonder, I do wonder if he can relate to the guys. And I think Mo Williams helps, but then I wonder how many of the guys on the staff.

could relate to those guys. Yeah. I don't know. If you've got, again, it's horrible to say, but you've got a Mark Fox and a Mark Pope, can they relate to the younger kids? And the longer this goes on, it seems like there is an issue. I mean, it's not the money. It's not the facilities.

It's not their tradition. It's not the program. What is it then? Yeah, I mean, we're not getting, at least with the guys we're talking about so far, we're not getting outbid. Like, they're just, I mean, in the Rob Wright situation, I think if he goes to BYU, he might have taken slightly less money to do that. That's a big slap in your face, and he goes back to BYU, BYU for less money.

In Planet Kentucky, Kentucky for more money. Colin Chandler went to BYU for more money. BYU was willing to pay like a million more dollars for Colin than we were. I can't begrudge that. I also don't blame Pope for that. I really don't. Like, what are you supposed to do? But if you don't get a guy who you offered more money and they still go somewhere else, to BYU.

You can't even have any pouticapau on that campus. I knew you were going to say that. The question Shannon was just when. That's why I called this police officer to take you away. You guys on fire there? Yeah. Who's next? Let's go to Randall.

Randall. Go ahead, Randall. How about it, Matt? I just got a suggestion, you know, for the coaching staff, ditched Carson's and take the kids down to Malibu Jacks, get some pictures with, you know, Don Emo and all the guys riding go carts. That'd put a little excitement. That feels a little cheesy, though, to me too.

I feel like that sort of. Well, either that or get, you know, Mark behind the desk, like the Godfather, and you got Mark Fox up there on the shoulder like Sunny. And they got the contract on the desk. Yeah, again, you're saying things that would, you're saying things that would be like a priest, like what 55-year-old men would want to come. That's not what college kids.

I would say, well, just send them to a party on campus or, you know, I don't know, I appreciate the call. Whatever it is, it's not working. It's not. Like I said, this is not just a one-off thing right now. We can go back to last year. they kind of whiffed on their main targets last year? What if, though, like this afternoon,

you just were to get a commitment from Rob Wright? Would everybody be good? I'm changing my mind immediately. All right. What if you were to get a commitment from Zoom Diallo this afternoon? Then what happens? I'm excited, but not as excited. I think that's fair.

Are you willing to kind of take a deep breath and then see what happens with the rest of the class? If we get, like, say, yeah, Zoom Diallo and then a Donnie Freeman? Okay, well now... I think the kid from Furman, they got a really good chance of getting him. The Alex Wilkins, who I think is good. Yeah.

Is he a shooter? I was told as talented as anybody just kind of wild. Wild as a player, not as a person. And it's Kentucky, it's Kentucky or Yukon for him. But I think we're offering slightly more money, which again, if he goes to Yukon, when we're offering more money, that's also a, you know. And for a young 22, 20 year old kid, Yukon's been. the team. So what if we end up at the end of the week, we have Zoom Diallo, Alex Wilkins, and

Donnie Freeman. Where are you then? Adam, with Malachi and Cam? I am not thinking we're final four-bound, but that's a squad I could get behind. I think it's solid. Solid, yeah. Okay. A lot of times people avoid thinking about their roof. Nobody spends a lot of time doing it, but it is the most ignored part of the home, Ryan. If something breaks in your kitchen, you fix it, but with a roof, you can put it off. But that's why I like CRC roofing and renovations. They make the process simple. They'll come over, tell you what your option is. They do roofing, gutters, siding, windows, and more, things that protect your house from Kentucky weather. 859-327, 39-13.

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And on my podcast, The Cliverts Show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker walks up to me, he goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What? Time out. Quarterback on office, Blue, 42. Hey, my mama want you to wave at her.

What? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Cliverts show on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. 8592-8027. The text machine is 772-754. One person writes, you have never said that you want anybody to be fired, but you didn't address the substance of what he said, which is that picture. I like that picture.

It's worked very well for me. That's your glamour shot photo. Yeah, because people aren't used to see me like that. I understand. But, yeah, I'm a fan of that picture. That picture is their picture, people that really like that picture. The most important thing, do the ladies like the picture? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

I'm not worried about whether a dude likes a picture. Me or Mario or Drew or Shannon. Who cares if a guy likes it? I didn't take the picture for Mario. Yeah, we kind of made fun of you at that picture. It's a thirst trap picture. It's a thirst trap picture. That's my thirst trap picture.

It should be your profile picture. That's my version of Shannon when he wore those little skimpies in the ring that one time. It's his thirst trap picture. That's right. Sometimes I need a good laugh. I just pull that picture up of Shannon, any speedo, and just. That's a great. Just jealous you don't have it.

Yeah, I agree. He is jealous. Are you, I decided not to go to WrestleMania. I was thinking about flying out to Vegas and going, but I decided not to. It's just a lot of money to get out there. go and then come back. Why is going to the concert in Middlesboro this weekend instead? What concert?

You say there was like a big concert? Dwight Yolkham. Dwight Yolkham is in Lexington. It's right outside my door. Oh, I thought I was in Middlesbril. No, it's in Lexington. It's at the park. It's at Garden Park.

Dwight Yokem and Zizi Top. You can't miss that. When I was a kid, that was my favorite artist. You can't miss that then? Can I say one thing before we go back to phone? Yeah. I finally have found a policy. People have asked me for years.

Matt, you dirt. liberal, why can't you ever say anything good about Trump? I've got something good to say about Trump. Roll the tape, Shannon. I saw yesterday he said that he believes his favorite thing in life is Diet Coke. He said, now, he went further a little more than I would. He said he thinks Diet Coke can help cure cancer because he said when you pour it on grass, it kills grass. First of all, is that even true if you pour it on grass, it kills grass?

I know you can take corrosion off of like your battery on a car if you pull it. I've seen that. I need to be careful because I have Diet Coke's and now I have grass. So I need to be careful if that's true. I also don't understand the scientifically between if you pour it on grass, it will also then kill cancer. Is grass cancerous? I'm not aware. I don't know.

But I will say this. Leave all the specifics to the side. He is right about Diet Coke. It's one of the things we should. You know, he also apparently does not like dogs. There you go You got two things Common out

Okay Don't bring up the golf thing I know what you're going to say That he cheats on golf I do not cheat on golf I just move the ball Into a better spot Sometimes

Like McDonald's? Yeah I don't like McDonald's food guy I'm a Diet Coke guy Yeah but you're there in the line Every morning So we have a policy that we agree with That's a good start Bipartisan compromise

There is some magic in the Diet Coke I don't know if it'll kill grass I don't if it'll kill cancer But there is a little magic Is that a thing, though, that it kills grass? I have never heard that. He said that like everybody knows it kills grass. And I didn't think that was true, but maybe so.

Who's up next? Tyler. Tyler, go ahead, Tyler. Hey, Matt, I've got two things. First is that I'm not really, I listen almost every day, but I haven't heard you mention anything about it. But I wanted to get your two cents on Denzel Aberdeen going back to Florida. Yeah, we didn't talk about that. So Denzel Aberdeen is entering the portal.

he's asking for a fifth year. I have no idea if I think you'll get it. Now, they are probably going to give everybody a fifth year, like a five-year thing, but I don't know if that will apply to these guys. Maybe Aberdeen's hoping it will. Him going back to Florida, be honest with you, not a good sign.

Not a great sign that a kid comes here and then decides to go back where he was originally, especially since he was good here. It's not like he didn't play. He was good here, and we liked him. So, yeah, I didn't love that. I mean, he was one of our best players. He's our second best player, yeah.

Times, he was our first best player down the stretch. My second thing was just me personally, the way Stokes has grown this whole thing out so long, it's making me want him less and less. That's just me personally. Yeah, I mean, I think you know with, I appreciate the call, you know with Tyron Stokes what you're getting when you sign up. You know how you can meet somebody? I've got to be careful with this analogy.

You know how you can date somebody and you know this person is beautiful or this person is fun, but you know you're signing up for a lot of extra stuff. Drama. Drama. You just know, okay, this is a, this is a, you know, a miss Kentucky, but there's going to be a lot that comes with it.

That's what Tyron Stokes is. You're going to be signing up for stuff. but I think the reason I want him is the good thing about Tyrone Stokes is there's drama but when the game starts he's everything you want he's a team player he's a great passer he's unselfish his teammates love him

you get all this other stuff off the court but when the game starts so he doesn't bring that drama on the court like some guys do does that make sense I think that's a perfect Demarcus is the best example about that. You know, Demarcus had you had to, I love DeMarcus, but people had to deal with stuff.

But when he played, he played unselfishly, and he gave it his all, and you got everything you wanted. That's why I think if you're Mark Pope, you've got to wait. If the guy's going to wait a couple weeks, I think you have to wait a couple weeks to see if you can get him. It gets you two more weeks to kind of work on him as well, try to convince him to come here. Yeah.

One person writes, Matt, if Trump comes out against pickleball, does that help? Yes, now we're starting to build an agenda. Wow. He is running mate. You guys are so alike. Hopefully he doesn't run for anything again. What's next? Let's go to Joey.

Joey, go ahead, Joey. Yeah, I'd like to throw out maybe a crazy hypothetical. Okay. We know how things played out with Calipari and Kenny Payne. Yes. Do you foresee a possible world ever where the coach that's out there that has said the worst mistake he ever made, was leaving Kentucky, would possibly come back to UK, and Pope would assist him the way King King.

Yeah, no. There's, I mean, you can't. Okay. No, no. I mean, Kenny Payne went to Arkansas, but Kenny Payne did not become Cal's assistant at Louisville, right? So no. Now, could I see a world where Mark Pope was left Kentucky if he was fired, and he went and became an assistant at St. John's for Rick?

Yeah, I could see that world. But I could not see a world that Rick came and became the head coach in Kentucky with Marcus's assistant. I do not think that would happen. A lot of people would like to see that. I think it's not going to happen. Not going to happen. All right. We'll take a break.

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