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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5: Welcome everyone.
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Speaker 6: Ryan Drew Shannon, It is a beautiful day, but I
Speaker 6: have to tell you this is one of my least
Speaker 6: favorite days of the year. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 6: it might be my least favorite day of the year
Speaker 6: because I cannot stand Ryan April Fool's Day.
Speaker 5: I've hated it when since I was a kid, and
Speaker 5: in the.
Speaker 6: Days of Twitter and news and tweets, I do not
Speaker 6: like April Fool's Day, and it is upon us right now.
Speaker 2: I love April Fool's Day, one of the greatest days
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 5: Of course you do. I could see that. Why do
Speaker 5: you like it so much?
Speaker 2: I just like pulling little, little, sneaky little pranks on people.
Speaker 2: I've had some classic ones over the years.
Speaker 6: What do you mean you had some classic ones? Like
Speaker 6: and first of all, you can't call them classic. What
Speaker 6: is that them so classic?
Speaker 2: You know, at the TV station, you work till midnight.
Speaker 2: So I snuck into the sales department and stole all
Speaker 2: the wheels off the bottom of their shoes, so when
Speaker 2: they came in on the bottom of their chairs, so
Speaker 2: when they came in the next morning, they didn't have
Speaker 2: any wheels on their chairs.
Speaker 5: That's not an April Fool's joke.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a great April Fools joke.
Speaker 6: That's not an April Do you not understand what an
Speaker 6: April fool's joke is. April fool's joke is not just
Speaker 6: doing things diabolical to people. It's making them believe one
Speaker 6: thing and then the other is true. How was what
Speaker 6: you did in April Fool's joke?
Speaker 2: I think it falls under the April fool's umbrella, you know.
Speaker 2: I think it's a prank stree.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's it. That's just a jerk thing
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 6: Is it's like deflating people's tires and then saying April fools.
Speaker 2: Haha.
Speaker 7: I'm glad you didn't ask me before, Ryan, Ryan, don't
Speaker 7: take offense to this, but I was gonna say, April
Speaker 7: Fool's Day is when people who aren't funny think they're funny.
Speaker 5: That's exactly right. You are one hundred percent correct, Drew.
Speaker 5: I hate April fools, Shanon, what about you?
Speaker 3: I don't believe what anybody says any other day of
Speaker 3: the year, so why would I believe them on April Fools?
Speaker 4: So I never fall for these. It's hard to get
Speaker 4: me on these.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, Tiger the one I saw this morning, Drew
Speaker 6: is Tiger Woods say, I've had like four weeks of
Speaker 6: treatment and now my achilles is good. I'm playing in
Speaker 6: the Masters. And then it's just like April fools. Well,
Speaker 6: why was that April fools? Like I felt sorry for
Speaker 6: you that you hurt your I actually think that was
Speaker 6: a terrible job, Drew, April fools, isn't it?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 7: Did anyone laugh? I didn't laugh, or like, there's not
Speaker 7: even a joke. And in the sports world it's like,
Speaker 7: you know, so and so signs with the school for
Speaker 7: fifty million dollars. Okay, that's not funny, and no one
Speaker 7: believes that. Like it's gotten so predictable.
Speaker 5: I could get over yours ride. That's not a joke.
Speaker 6: That's just like hurting people just taking the wheels off
Speaker 6: their chairs, like did they fall.
Speaker 2: And they sit in their chair and they try to
Speaker 2: scoot up and it doesn't move. It's just there's nothing
Speaker 2: but hysterical laugh.
Speaker 7: And you did this to people that are working on
Speaker 7: all the newsroom.
Speaker 2: Hey, I here's another one. I did One time I
Speaker 2: called one of the local radio stations here when I
Speaker 2: was a channel eighteen, called one of the local radio
Speaker 2: stations here in Lexington and told them that Luke wukosh
Speaker 2: orb Zoo was going back to Poland, leaving the team
Speaker 2: going back to Poland after the season. They fell for it,
Speaker 2: completely fell for it.
Speaker 5: So you gave basically fake news to people I did.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think that's at least what April News
Speaker 6: is or April Fools is supposed to be.
Speaker 5: But Drew, I.
Speaker 6: Don't think news. Do you think news people like Ryan
Speaker 6: should participate in it?
Speaker 5: You had him back in Poland?
Speaker 2: Yeah, look to leave the t go back on. Matter of fact,
Speaker 2: it was the lap that it was this station that
Speaker 2: I called in.
Speaker 7: Love Simon and his voice for April Fool's Day.
Speaker 6: Were they mad that you had given them essentially false
Speaker 6: news to put on the air.
Speaker 2: Well, by the end of the conversation, I said, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, what is today? And then they hung up
Speaker 2: on me. So, you know, I let it go on
Speaker 2: for about fifteen twenty thirty seconds.
Speaker 6: You are, I'm just gonna let it go if I'm
Speaker 6: nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Drew. I
Speaker 6: told Shannon this during the break, I had one of
Speaker 6: the more uncomfortable Uh, things that I've ever done, and
Speaker 6: I think this could happen to you. Okay, So I'm
Speaker 6: staying in a part of town that I look across
Speaker 6: the street, Drew, and there's a comedy club across the street,
Speaker 6: all right, And so I thought, well, there's a comedy
Speaker 6: club across the street. I why don't I just go tonight?
Speaker 5: Right? Like they have a show.
Speaker 6: Let me just walk over there. And do you know
Speaker 6: who the comedian Mark Normand is?
Speaker 5: Yeah? You know who he is? Right?
Speaker 6: So he has a thing on he has like something
Speaker 6: he does once a week called the Good Eggs Show,
Speaker 6: which I guess is Shannon. It's just people that he likes.
Speaker 6: He puts them all on a show together, all right.
Speaker 6: So you know they said sometimes he's there, sometimes he's not.
Speaker 5: So I thought, well, I'll just walk over there.
Speaker 6: And the first hint should have been when I got
Speaker 6: online Drew and the tickets were twelve dollars.
Speaker 5: Okay, because that's a pretty.
Speaker 6: Cheap amount of money, but I thought, you know they
Speaker 6: do this to drink minimum.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 6: I walk over there, I get my ticket, I walk in, Shannon,
Speaker 6: there are.
Speaker 5: Nine people there n nine people, and.
Speaker 6: The first dude speaking is Drew we've talked about every
Speaker 6: time we go to New York, who do we always see.
Speaker 5: On stage at the at the comedy places.
Speaker 7: Uh, I see David Shall at Judah Friedlander.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 6: He's there, But Shennon, there's only nine people, like there's
Speaker 6: there's that.
Speaker 5: We've never had a KSR remote with.
Speaker 6: Only nine people, Like, there's nine people, And let me
Speaker 6: tell you the epitome of awkward. Sitting in a room
Speaker 6: with nine people when a comedian's trying to do a show,
Speaker 6: like it.
Speaker 5: Couldn't be more awkward.
Speaker 6: You feel like he's just talking to you, like he's
Speaker 6: not doing a show, he's just talking to you. And
Speaker 6: because there's only nine people, I think he feels awkward, Drew,
Speaker 6: and so he feels like he has to like talk
Speaker 6: to you each individually. And I didn't want to talk
Speaker 6: to him. I was in a hoodie, i'd been outside,
Speaker 6: I was raining. After four minutes, I just got up
Speaker 6: and left. I couldn't stay there. It was so awkward. No,
Speaker 6: I'm serious. I waited until he was done, Like he
Speaker 6: was the guy, I don't know what you call it,
Speaker 6: that will like come on and then you'll introduce everybody else,
Speaker 6: you know what?
Speaker 5: I mean. So I waited till he.
Speaker 6: Had gone, and he introduced the first person and I
Speaker 6: just walked out Drew and I decided it was too
Speaker 6: awkward for me.
Speaker 5: There were too few people. It was.
Speaker 6: It was an event where I thought, you need more
Speaker 6: than nine people to tell jokes or I can't stay
Speaker 6: in here any longer.
Speaker 7: I've been in a small setting for comedy show and
Speaker 7: you feel an obligation to laugh. You have to force
Speaker 7: it because there's uncomfortable eye contact. You know, you kind
Speaker 7: of got to carry the crowd for him, and if
Speaker 7: it's just not working, well, it's terribly uncomfortable.
Speaker 5: Just think how much.
Speaker 3: Power, how much power you had in that moment when
Speaker 3: you left, ten percent of the crowd left was gone.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I couldn't stay for exactly Like Drew said, I
Speaker 9: felt like I had to laugh at all the chokes
Speaker 9: because he was looking me right in the eye, and
Speaker 9: there were two women that They also put me in
Speaker 9: a table with two strangers this whole huge room.
Speaker 6: They made me sit right next to two strangers, and
Speaker 6: I didn't. I felt like I had an obligation to
Speaker 6: laugh and I couldn't do it.
Speaker 5: I could not sit there and fake laugh. I've seen
Speaker 5: you to Friedlander five times at these comedy clubs.
Speaker 6: And then they brought out they were about to bring
Speaker 6: on another person, and Shannon I was like.
Speaker 5: I can't do this. This is too much work.
Speaker 6: This was supposed to be fun, and now I feel
Speaker 6: like I'm performing for him.
Speaker 3: I know I'm in the minority when I say this,
Speaker 3: but I love awkward situations.
Speaker 4: So I I want to just.
Speaker 3: Deadpans stared him, stared into his soul and not laugh
Speaker 3: one time, just to make it even more.
Speaker 5: I know I could totally see you doing that. I
Speaker 5: could totally you would like you would take pride.
Speaker 4: Yeah, laughing exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I couldn't do it.
Speaker 6: So I just came home and I and he got
Speaker 6: my Mark Norman got my fifteen bucks.
Speaker 5: But I saw Ryan.
Speaker 6: There were six comedians on the bill and there was
Speaker 6: fifteen bucks and there were only nine people. So I
Speaker 6: mean that means what did they do?
Speaker 5: The math?
Speaker 6: Fifteen pup bucks, nine people, it's one hundred thirty five
Speaker 6: dollars they took in split six ways. I mean, those
Speaker 6: people were making twenty bucks to be there.
Speaker 2: It's made me awkward and uncomfortable hearing you talk about it.
Speaker 6: I'll I can't ever go back. No, I mean, I
Speaker 6: guess it's Monday at seven o'clock, Drew. I shouldn't have
Speaker 6: thought it was gonna be packed, but I certainly thought
Speaker 6: there'd be more people than nine.
Speaker 5: At the thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, I'm not someone that even when
Speaker 7: I think something's funny, I'm not really expressing I do.
Speaker 7: I'm not a big, laugh out loud guy. I like
Speaker 7: to blend in the back of a quiet crowd. I
Speaker 7: would have been so uncomfortable in a tiny grow knowing
Speaker 7: they're looking at me for a reaction. I probably would
Speaker 7: have left with you.
Speaker 6: Well, I was out and that was that, and I
Speaker 6: came home to uh, you know, lots of lots of
Speaker 6: portal chatter which I want to get to. But we
Speaker 6: did this conversation yesterday. Ryan of a guy called in
Speaker 6: and said, what's your your final grade on the season?
Speaker 5: And are you pleased or are you not?
Speaker 6: And and you know, I've said a couple of times
Speaker 6: that I thought for me the grade was an A.
Speaker 6: This guy said a bea, which led to all day
Speaker 6: kind of me getting messages on the text machine about
Speaker 6: grades on the year.
Speaker 5: And it seems like to me most of our fans
Speaker 5: are happy about how the year went.
Speaker 6: But I have no there has been a little group
Speaker 6: of people going, Matt, aren't we lowering our standards in
Speaker 6: saying that a team that I think in the end
Speaker 6: had what twelve losses and a sweet sixteen, that that's
Speaker 6: an a Now, I think you have to look at
Speaker 6: the circumstances of all that's happened to come to that.
Speaker 6: But do you give any credibility to the argument that
Speaker 6: the caller had and then people had after that, You know,
Speaker 6: you can't get to the point. I mean Tubby basically
Speaker 6: was called ten loss Tubby and kind of run off
Speaker 6: for losing double digit games. You agree or disagree with
Speaker 6: that point.
Speaker 2: I disagree really, I think you have to consider all
Speaker 2: the factors and the factors about the no staff and
Speaker 2: no roster when he first got here. In the fact
Speaker 2: he took this tag bunch of guys and still were
Speaker 2: able to have these huge wins throughout the season. I
Speaker 2: think the wins far exceed the couple of bad losses
Speaker 2: they had. You know, losing a Arkansas home was bad.
Speaker 2: They finished the season with a thud lose to Tennessee
Speaker 2: and the NCA Tournament was kind of bad, but I
Speaker 2: think the big wins far overshadow that.
Speaker 6: And you know, we also have to think have to
Speaker 6: consider Drew how hard the conference was, right, I mean,
Speaker 6: if we were in the ACC, let's just say we
Speaker 6: played Louisville schedule, what's our record in conference? We were
Speaker 6: ten and eight in conference? What are we if we're
Speaker 6: in the ACC this year? Are we fifteen and three,
Speaker 6: fourteen and four, sixteen and two?
Speaker 5: Like, I mean, some of it has to be.
Speaker 6: We played in arguably the hardest conference ever in college basketball.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a big part of the fan base that
Speaker 7: just says, this is Kentucky. We're supposed to be the
Speaker 7: goal standard. We're supposed to win every year. But you
Speaker 7: have to look at the circumstances. Even like the twenty
Speaker 7: fifteen team that ran the table. If you go back
Speaker 7: and look at Ken Palm and the SEC teams year,
Speaker 7: the league was terrible. Now, that team was awesome in itself,
Speaker 7: but the competition has just changed so much from year
Speaker 7: to year to where now the SEC was, as we know,
Speaker 7: fourteen teams in the tournament. Then you throw in the
Speaker 7: injuries that you've had to go through. At some point,
Speaker 7: you can't just keep saying this is Kentucky. You have
Speaker 7: to look at what's happened in front of you. And
Speaker 7: if you have a depleted roster and you're in the
Speaker 7: best conference of all time, there's gonna be a little
Speaker 7: bit of a dip. Now, you can be upset about
Speaker 7: losing to Georgia and losing to Texas. I'm completely with
Speaker 7: you on that, but you can't just keep saying this
Speaker 7: is Kentucky, we're number one every year. Because things change.
Speaker 7: You got to look at the big picture.
Speaker 6: Do you, Shannon, you're the most cynical of the group,
Speaker 6: Do you have any sympathy to the argument of, well,
Speaker 6: it's a be just because we can't say the Sweet
Speaker 6: sixteen is enough.
Speaker 4: No, it's a dumb argument.
Speaker 3: First of all, if Kentucky were in the ACC, they
Speaker 3: would have had one loss they went to and one
Speaker 3: against the top three teams in the ACC this season.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I look at Okay, let's just compare
Speaker 3: to John Calli Perry's first year.
Speaker 4: His first year here, he went to the Elite eight.
Speaker 3: Mark Pope was one went away from doing that with
Speaker 3: a team full of far less talented guys than what
Speaker 3: CALIBERI had in his first year.
Speaker 6: If Mark Pope had what, did we have five first
Speaker 6: round draft picks on that team? I think yeah, his
Speaker 6: first year, Yeah he had five first round draft picks.
Speaker 5: This team will have no first.
Speaker 3: So considering what Pope did with what he had, giving
Speaker 3: him a bee is just it's not even an argument.
Speaker 5: To me.
Speaker 4: It's a soliday. I don't think there's any argument for that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't really either, but I do think there
Speaker 6: is a and some of this is just the modern
Speaker 6: like whatever position somebody has, there are people who want
Speaker 6: to take the opposite just to argue. But you know,
Speaker 6: I guess he could have won a couple more games.
Speaker 6: But I mean, you look at that roster, especially after
Speaker 6: Jackson Robinson goes out a Sweet sixteen with that roster,
Speaker 6: to me, is not only performing to your seed. It
Speaker 6: might be overperforming because I'm not sure we're a three
Speaker 6: seed if Jackson Robinson's out.
Speaker 5: The whole year.
Speaker 6: So to be able to do that, I think he
Speaker 6: deserves a lot of credit, and I think most fans
Speaker 6: give it to him. But it is interesting to me
Speaker 6: that there's this little sort of and and and part
Speaker 6: of it's the anxiety about the portal, which we'll talk
Speaker 6: about uh, in a minute. If I'm nine two eight
Speaker 6: oh twenty two eighty seven, You're not gonna pull an
Speaker 6: April Fool's joke, are you.
Speaker 5: Ryan? At some point during the show.
Speaker 2: I'm contemplating I'm going one with him, So I'm worried.
Speaker 7: I'm looking at my chair seeing what's going on.
Speaker 6: I believe you literally thought that was a joke, just
Speaker 6: taking the wheels off people's chair.
Speaker 5: Did you say, April fools? When they fell to the ground.
Speaker 2: They didn't follow the ground, They just couldn't scoot their
Speaker 2: chair over the carpet.
Speaker 5: And so when they said what happened, what did did
Speaker 5: you just go, April fools?
Speaker 2: April fools? Funny?
Speaker 5: Funny?
Speaker 4: Did you walk out a bucket of wheels.
Speaker 5: On the chair?
Speaker 2: Next year, I took a roll of tape and taped
Speaker 2: up their doorknobs. They couldn't open the door to get
Speaker 2: in their office.
Speaker 7: A lot of people laugh at that.
Speaker 5: None of this, none of this is in April.
Speaker 4: Fools, just torturing people.
Speaker 6: Just those are not April Fool's jokes in any sense
Speaker 6: of the word.
Speaker 7: And this is third shift in a newsroom, doesn't Maybe
Speaker 7: they needed the wheels their chairs and to get into their.
Speaker 2: You know, haha, funny funny they got them back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it seems hilarious.
Speaker 6: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
Speaker 6: we will take a break.
Speaker 5: Be right back to Kazark. Welcome back into is Kentucky
Speaker 5: sports radio.
Speaker 6: People are she talking about pranks they've pulled and asking
Speaker 6: whether or not it's April Fools. This woman says she
Speaker 6: went on Facebook and she told everyone to text her
Speaker 6: husband and tell them they wanted to buy Lamas from him,
Speaker 6: even though he doesn't own Lamas, and he got five
Speaker 6: hundred text messages from people about Lamas.
Speaker 5: Now, does that sound like an April Fool's joke?
Speaker 4: It's a prank. I don't know that it's a joke, though, Yeah.
Speaker 6: It is a prank. I kind of agree. I don't
Speaker 6: know if it's an April Fool's joke. I feel like
Speaker 6: April Fools is I tell you something drew that an
Speaker 6: act like it's true, but it's not.
Speaker 5: That's April Fools.
Speaker 6: I think just pulling a prank is not, in and
Speaker 6: of itself April Fools.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess, yeah, you're not. Really, you're fooling all
Speaker 7: the people that emailed the husband.
Speaker 6: But no, they were in on it. They were just
Speaker 6: they were part like they were doing it as part
Speaker 6: of the Yeah. The uh he the victim there. It's
Speaker 6: more of just pranking him than April fooling him as
Speaker 6: I interpret the holiday. Yes, one person writes it sounds
Speaker 6: like to me Ryan uses April Fools as a chance
Speaker 6: to just be a jerk.
Speaker 2: I think it's a free pass today to break.
Speaker 7: Your your your April Fools prank didn't go very well.
Speaker 2: All the the wheels off the chairs. I got a
Speaker 2: call from the chief engineer at my house and like
Speaker 2: he said, look, you got like five seconds to fix
Speaker 2: this right now. So I got I got into a
Speaker 2: little trouble.
Speaker 6: I can understand why like that. It's not you can't
Speaker 6: do like someone could have gotten hurt.
Speaker 2: Uh No, they just couldn't scoot him as long as
Speaker 2: he got to laugh at it.
Speaker 6: He's just Ryan thinks he could just walk behind somebody,
Speaker 6: smack him in the face and go April Fools.
Speaker 7: Dennis the Menace over here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 6: Also, by the way, Drew six years ago today, John
Speaker 6: Caliperi announced he would stay at Kentucky with a lifetime
Speaker 6: contract and that he quote didn't want to coach any
Speaker 6: other school.
Speaker 5: Ever, What do you think about that?
Speaker 4: That's an April fol joke, got us.
Speaker 7: That's how you do it, Ryan, That's exactly right.
Speaker 5: That was the John Calipery long play. That's exactly right.
Speaker 6: He's like, you know what, in five years this will
Speaker 6: all payoff trail.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but there was April first, twenty nineteen when he
Speaker 5: announced I will be going nowhere else and I will
Speaker 5: finish my career at.
Speaker 2: Kentucky's which goes to got Bede by Kansas State, and
Speaker 2: UCLA was flirting with him. Is that when all that happened?
Speaker 6: I think that's when that happened. And in hindsight, we've
Speaker 6: talked about this honestly, Ryan, that's.
Speaker 5: When he should have left.
Speaker 6: Yes, I think if he left then, but I mean,
Speaker 6: Mitch could not have let him go.
Speaker 5: Mitch would have taken a lot of heat.
Speaker 6: So I understand why they did that lifetime, but it
Speaker 6: would have been best for all parties if he.
Speaker 5: Left them, don't you think like I?
Speaker 6: In hindsight, that was the moment that would have been
Speaker 6: the perfect time for him to exit.
Speaker 2: Mitch Barnhardt had to keep him here. You couldn't let
Speaker 2: he had to for UCLA, you.
Speaker 6: Could, but if your Cow wouldn't that have been the
Speaker 6: right time for cal to go like it would have
Speaker 6: I think people would have. You know, It's like George
Speaker 6: Costanza says, you want to leave him, want more Drew,
Speaker 6: And that was the moment that I think he could
Speaker 6: have done that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, looking back, I'm I think I was even for
Speaker 7: the lifetime contract in the moment because at that time
Speaker 7: Cow was still Cal here and winning a bunch of games.
Speaker 7: I don't think anyone saw the way it would tank.
Speaker 7: But now that we know what we know, horrible, horrible decision.
Speaker 7: It's just a great April Fool's Day, prink.
Speaker 3: He should have definitely if he left. Saint Peter's doesn't happen,
Speaker 3: Oakland doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: Not in six.
Speaker 5: Covides, COVID doesn't happen. We don't even have COVID.
Speaker 7: Exactly exactly the tournament families, it's exactly right, COVID goes away.
Speaker 6: Everyone wrote me after the show yesterday and said, the
Speaker 6: last five minutes of the show became the price is right? Yeah,
Speaker 6: what happened there? Because I don't know what they're talking.
Speaker 3: Look, I understand that everybody looked at me as suspect
Speaker 3: number one, but I wasn't even watching the Prices right.
Speaker 3: Somehow happened in the Lexington studio where they had I
Speaker 3: guess the board on the TV because there was severe
Speaker 3: weather the night before. They were testing something and somebody
Speaker 3: forgot to turn that off during the break and instead
Speaker 3: of hearing us, you heard the last you heard the
Speaker 3: showcase showdown and the Price is Right? I see they
Speaker 3: were giving away a really good vacation package too.
Speaker 6: So they they skipped the last segment and it just
Speaker 6: played the Price is Right over the radio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, we had a good segment too.
Speaker 5: And so what about the podcast? Is it the Price
Speaker 5: is Right?
Speaker 4: No, no, it's it's what we.
Speaker 5: Only in Lexington, only in Lexington.
Speaker 6: So people listening to our show in the last ten
Speaker 6: minutes just heard the Price is Right.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep. Wow, there's some kind of funny about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So so they had just left it on the TV
Speaker 6: from the night before the emergency.
Speaker 3: Way right, Yeah, they were testing it during the break
Speaker 3: and I, you know, I asked you figure out.
Speaker 6: I couldn't figure out how in the world would the
Speaker 6: Price is Right beyond the rail radio is it.
Speaker 2: Still try When you heard it, didn't you immediately think
Speaker 2: Shannon was watching prices right in the studio and somehow
Speaker 2: mixed a button up and came out.
Speaker 5: I mean I didn't know about it.
Speaker 6: I just I was sitting at the airport and just
Speaker 6: take got message after message of why is the price
Speaker 6: is right on? And I thought I did assume it
Speaker 6: was Shannon that didn't but uh, but I didn't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe I thought it was April fools. Who's who's up first?
Speaker 4: Let's go to Sean.
Speaker 5: Sean, go ahead, Sean.
Speaker 10: Hey, guys doing I'm doing good the first time long
Speaker 10: time Kentucky as because the first thing at worked this morning,
Speaker 10: slipping through you know Twitter, uh say not take our
Speaker 10: way was in the portal and I was like, I
Speaker 10: know it's say for fools Day, Yeah that you believe?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would have been suspect. Let me say this
Speaker 6: about Otega away when it comes to portal. There are
Speaker 6: schools that have like had their people talk to his people.
Speaker 6: There are schools that are offering him insane amounts of money,
Speaker 6: like in school at least one school in conference trying
Speaker 6: to get him to come. I do not think he
Speaker 6: will leave. I think I think part of what so
Speaker 6: when we look at the portal part, one of the
Speaker 6: things we have to recognize is when you're looking at
Speaker 6: the money Kentucky spends, they're gonna have to spend money
Speaker 6: to keep otaga Oway here. So when you see like
Speaker 6: a school sign a random person and you see again,
Speaker 6: I don't believe any of these numbers, but let's say
Speaker 6: that it says they signed a guy and gave him
Speaker 6: three million dollars.
Speaker 5: A lot of those schools.
Speaker 6: Don't have to do what Kentucky does, which is they're
Speaker 6: gonna have to pay a big chunk of money to
Speaker 6: keep one of their own guys. You know, Louisville for instance.
Speaker 6: I don't think they have to do that, but we do,
Speaker 6: so I do. I don't expect the take away to
Speaker 6: go anywhere, but I do think it's important for people
Speaker 6: to recognize that some of our in Aisle budget is
Speaker 6: going to be used to just keep these guys here
Speaker 6: that we already have.
Speaker 10: Right, and I have a aprilfol so I'm pretty sure
Speaker 10: it was on aprilfuls me and my wife was expect
Speaker 10: and baby. Well, the nurse that brought us back didn't
Speaker 10: ask anything at all about me. She just themed I
Speaker 10: was bad. So she does all this stuff wow the opening,
Speaker 10: and then she looks at me and she's like, congratulations
Speaker 10: bad and I thought that. I was like, ma'am, I'm
Speaker 10: not the dad, I'm a brother. She turns fishy different,
Speaker 10: shaved a lot like I'm so sorry, and I said, ma'am,
Speaker 10: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5: Oh you played that okay.
Speaker 6: I didn't know where that was going. I thought there.
Speaker 6: I thought that could go a lot of different ways.
Speaker 6: I got you, okay, So then you acted like you
Speaker 6: were that all right, that's an April fool's joke, although
Speaker 6: I thought that story was going to go in a
Speaker 6: different direction. Thank you very much. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 6: We'll take a break, be right back.
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Speaker 6: looking forward to getting back to the lanes.
Speaker 2: It's actually a lot of fun. I mean the group
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Speaker 2: just kind of fun and it just kind of get
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Speaker 5: We'll even see if we can get Shannon to drive.
Speaker 6: That would be amazing if Shannon drives there, because you
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Speaker 6: Let's talk a little bit about the portal. First, Bryce
Speaker 6: Hopkins Drew gets in and he's going to Saint John's.
Speaker 6: So Bryce, who played for col is now gonna go
Speaker 6: play for Rick. I was trying to think. I don't
Speaker 6: think there's ever been anyone that played for Cal and
Speaker 6: Rick all the stories he will be able to tell.
Speaker 5: Are you pulling for Bryce at Saint John's.
Speaker 7: I'm pulling for him to write a book when his
Speaker 7: career is over. But yeah, I'll root for him a
Speaker 7: little bit. I liked Bryce when he was here. I
Speaker 7: definitely wish you'd played more. I remember him having a
Speaker 7: big game and Cal said it's time to start playing Bryce,
Speaker 7: and then I'm not sure he played again. So he
Speaker 7: was injured the last two seasons, didn't play much. So
Speaker 7: I'm glad he's getting another chance, fresh start because I've
Speaker 7: always liked him and rooted for him except the one
Speaker 7: time he played Kentucky.
Speaker 6: Got a lot of interactions with Kentucky obviously played here.
Speaker 6: Remember then we played him Ryan in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 6: And now he's gonna play for Rick. You gotta wonder
Speaker 6: what is Cal think of a cow guy going to Rick.
Speaker 6: I think that would be literally I would love to
Speaker 6: talk to him when that's over and see what he
Speaker 6: has to say comparing the guys.
Speaker 2: That would be kind of interesting to have him on comparing.
Speaker 2: But I saw the picture of him and when he transferred, man,
Speaker 2: he is a grown ass man. Now he's a big,
Speaker 2: strong looking dude. I'd like to have him back here.
Speaker 3: Actually he was a big dude when he got into college.
Speaker 3: But I think Rick will get us full potential out
Speaker 3: of him.
Speaker 4: You know he hasn't. I think he's a lot better
Speaker 4: than what he has played and what we've.
Speaker 6: Seen well, he was good for Providence till he got hurt,
Speaker 6: Like he was, he was playing pretty well for them
Speaker 6: that first year, and then he got hurt. And now
Speaker 6: big Z is back in the portal that got a
Speaker 6: ton of news he's leaving Arkansas.
Speaker 5: Let's start with this leave us side.
Speaker 6: Whether I think most Kentucky fans would say if Mark
Speaker 6: Pope were to want him, everybody would welcome him back.
Speaker 6: But let's just say you were the coach. I'll start
Speaker 6: with you, Drew, and then just go around, would you
Speaker 6: want big Z next year? Let's even say that we're
Speaker 6: an option. I kind of think it's not an option. Remember,
Speaker 6: he was probably the one yelling at our fans the
Speaker 6: most when they were here. Cal had to like pull
Speaker 6: him away from the court after it was over. He
Speaker 6: when he left yesterday put on Instagram, wou pig suey.
Speaker 6: But let's just say he wanted to come, Would you
Speaker 6: want Zu?
Speaker 7: I would have the conversation. He wouldn't be high on
Speaker 7: my list. Actually, this current situation, I think they need
Speaker 7: to get tougher and a little better defensively inside. But
Speaker 7: I would if he were really really interested. Just if
Speaker 7: I'm Mark Pope and the style bigs he plays. I
Speaker 7: think it would work, So I would hear him out,
Speaker 7: but he wouldn't get my biggest bag. I would have
Speaker 7: other guys ahead of him, but I wouldn't rule him out,
Speaker 7: and I would certainly talk to him.
Speaker 2: Ryan, I'm kind of drue, I think, just the fact
Speaker 2: because he fits Pope's system, and that's when he left
Speaker 2: the first time. I thought, man, it'd be good if
Speaker 2: he could stay. He's kind of the guy that would
Speaker 2: maybe thrive and what Pope's trying to do offensively. So
Speaker 2: I think I definitely would have the conversation with him,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't spend all my money on him, for sure.
Speaker 4: Shannon no time to move on. We've already had him here.
Speaker 3: I think he struggled a lot of the season with Arkansas,
Speaker 3: and there's sixteen hundred players in the portal. I think
Speaker 3: there's probably a lot more better talent, to be honest
Speaker 3: with you, out there than big Z.
Speaker 4: So I wouldn't move on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean, if Pope decided to take he
Speaker 6: might be like, that's fine. But I'm kind of with
Speaker 6: Shannon in the sense of I mean, he can't guard anybody,
Speaker 6: and we we can't have we gotta have dudes who
Speaker 6: could play some defense. And honestly, I thought Drew that
Speaker 6: Arkansas got better when they stopped playing him right when
Speaker 6: they went to a do as they're big. I think
Speaker 6: that's kind of when they went on their run. So
Speaker 6: for me, I think it'd be a no. I heard
Speaker 6: you on the pre show, Shannon, talking about do we
Speaker 6: consider z a cat? You know, I pretty much think
Speaker 6: anybody that plays here I consider to be a cat.
Speaker 6: I think, Shannon, you were taking the position they needed
Speaker 6: to or no, Billy was taking the position they needed
Speaker 6: to finish here right to be a cat.
Speaker 3: I think it was a caller that was saying that.
Speaker 3: I think if you were here for a year, then
Speaker 3: you're a cat. Once a cat, always a cat, is
Speaker 3: my opinion on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's kind of my opinion too. But I mean,
Speaker 5: I did find it.
Speaker 6: Interesting he was Drew the most aggressive of the Wagner
Speaker 6: do Z.
Speaker 5: He was the one most.
Speaker 6: Aggressive in rup that night against our fans, which I
Speaker 6: thought was kind of odd because he actually got the
Speaker 6: best reaction from our fan base, but he didn't seem
Speaker 6: to like it as much as the rest of him.
Speaker 7: There's a video of him on his way to the back. Now,
Speaker 7: he was provoked by fans, but it got pretty heated
Speaker 7: at the same time. If you're Z, I mean Kentucky
Speaker 7: got you into the school in the middle of the semester,
Speaker 7: which I still don't know how they pulled that off.
Speaker 7: They were like, yeah, he's in class. Then he brought
Speaker 7: him across the pond and just threw him in a class.
Speaker 7: I mean, the fans put up a billboard for him
Speaker 7: to get him eligible. Of all people that should have
Speaker 7: had a little more gratitude towards Kentucky, but it'd be
Speaker 7: big Z of that group.
Speaker 5: But he was being booed and his teammates were being booed.
Speaker 6: So yeah, if Popward decided to do it, I'd be fine,
Speaker 6: but I kind of would be surprised.
Speaker 4: I think he would go maybe play with his brother
Speaker 4: in Illinois.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe his brother brother played well against us. Would
Speaker 6: he hit four threes against us in that game?
Speaker 5: I mean, he kind of kept him in it. Who's next?
Speaker 2: Z played well against us at rub He had him
Speaker 2: probably his best game of the year that game.
Speaker 11: Edward Edward, go ahead, Edward, Hey, Matt, Hey, guys, how
Speaker 11: you doing good?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 11: So twos just a comment and a question really quick
Speaker 11: regarding Bryce Hopkins rooting for the guy now when he
Speaker 11: first left and he made those comments about the program,
Speaker 11: how cow was making him play like a robot, I
Speaker 11: kind of just despise the guy. My favorite moment of
Speaker 11: that season where we lost in the round of thirty
Speaker 11: two to Kansas State, was Jacob Toppins swatting his bunk
Speaker 11: off the backboard and then Antonio Reeves going down and
Speaker 11: hitting that three that kind of put us up like
Speaker 11: eight or nine, and then he was crying in Cal's
Speaker 11: arms after.
Speaker 8: It was a pretty sick image. I loved it, and
Speaker 8: that might be.
Speaker 11: Awful of me to say, but yeah, go be hop now.
Speaker 11: But wasn't a fan when he left. My question that
Speaker 11: if we all weigh in on, is on behalf of
Speaker 11: my brother who can't call in because he's got a
Speaker 11: quote unquote important job compared to me. I'm in sale,
Speaker 11: so he thinks what I do isn't real, which is
Speaker 11: totally fine.
Speaker 8: But so my question is as far as rival reason.
Speaker 11: When I say that for us, I mean Tennessee Duke qvel,
Speaker 11: I feel like they've lost their edge a little bit.
Speaker 11: Not pointing to the fans or anything in particular. But
Speaker 11: you know, we like Pat Kelcey. We think Cooper Flag
Speaker 11: is generational. We still feel hatred for Tennessee, but I'd
Speaker 11: love to get your thoughts on Like, No.
Speaker 6: I think they have taken it. I think the coaches
Speaker 6: have made it a little different. I mean, I appreciate
Speaker 6: to call Rick Barnes is not really hateable. Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 6: not really hateable. I still hate Duke. I don't know
Speaker 6: why your buddy acts like Cooper Flag is likable.
Speaker 5: I still am am rooting for him to slip in
Speaker 5: the final four.
Speaker 6: I think maybe part of it, Ryan is that Arkansas
Speaker 6: with Cal took a lot of the focus this year.
Speaker 5: The level stuff will kick up.
Speaker 6: I feel like when Kelsey starts winning, he'll start talking
Speaker 6: trash and but yeah, probably all those rivalries have tamed
Speaker 6: a little bit, but maybe the Arkansas when is what
Speaker 6: amped up instead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that seemed to be the main rivalry this year.
Speaker 2: For sure, it was Arkansas.
Speaker 4: But you're right about Louisville.
Speaker 2: We kind of like Pat Kelsey right now, but sooner
Speaker 2: or later something's gonna happen where he'll say something or
Speaker 2: do something and we'll be able to poke at him
Speaker 2: again for su.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he's gonna put on his like youth
Speaker 6: XL pants and get upset at some point, and Drew,
Speaker 6: you know, like he's gonna say some he's I think
Speaker 6: he did an amazing job this year, winning that fan
Speaker 6: base over and all that, But I do think there's
Speaker 6: some trash talking arrogance in him that'll come out at
Speaker 6: some point, don't you, Drew.
Speaker 7: Yeah, But even when it does, it'll be corny. When
Speaker 7: we hated Liuleville at their peak of hatred, you know,
Speaker 7: they were actually bad guys. I mean they're doing stuff
Speaker 7: in restaurants. You had blowney heads, stealing money. Their players
Speaker 7: were unlikeable. Now, even when Pat Kelsey gets into that,
Speaker 7: it's still gonna be corny. Like yesterday, they have this
Speaker 7: new thing, I guess when they get a commit where
Speaker 7: he sends out the Pat signal and it's just him
Speaker 7: putting on his black rim sunglasses.
Speaker 5: What's it called the pet signal? Yeah, tweet that I
Speaker 5: didn't see that. What is that?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean there was no context. It's a video
Speaker 7: of him just pulling his glasses out of his pocket
Speaker 7: and putting him on, and the tweet said Pat signal
Speaker 7: I think it means they've gotten a commitment, but like
Speaker 7: the bat signal, But yeah, like that in itself, that's
Speaker 7: just it's a different level of villain. Now they're just corny,
Speaker 7: where before they're actual terrible human beings involved villain.
Speaker 4: Dork man.
Speaker 5: He's dork man, that's right, dork man. No, like past
Speaker 5: I liked him so far. He seems like a good dude.
Speaker 6: But let's wait till they're really good, or let's wait
Speaker 6: till they beat us once.
Speaker 5: Then I think it'll be different.
Speaker 6: Do you think Mark Pope is ever gonna be the
Speaker 6: kind of guy who gets into it with any coach ever, Like,
Speaker 6: I don't know if that'll happen.
Speaker 7: No, everyone's too beautiful and super special and extraordinary for him.
Speaker 5: To say beautiful.
Speaker 7: Did you hear last night?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna talk.
Speaker 6: We're gonna talk a little bit later about what his
Speaker 6: comments were on the show, But he said he said
Speaker 6: at one point he was asked about the portal and
Speaker 6: he goes, it's beautiful special chaos, And I was like,
Speaker 6: that's one of the strangest explanations, beautiful special chaos.
Speaker 7: I have extraordinaries. In the first segment last night, he.
Speaker 6: Loves beautiful, he loves extraordinary. What else does he look? Yeah,
Speaker 6: he's always like super. He uses super a lot. He
Speaker 6: says super quite a bit. He loves those uh adjectives
Speaker 6: that really hit home. How some how great something is
Speaker 6: if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 6: The women's basketball thing continues to sort of be a
Speaker 6: talking point. We'll get into it and some more right
Speaker 6: for this chaos art.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is Pope, right, yep, everything's beautiful.
Speaker 5: Everything's beautiful.
Speaker 6: There's a part of me though that MP's being able
Speaker 6: to live life like that shit right, Like, thing's beautiful.
Speaker 6: You know, you don't like you are like a cynical
Speaker 6: dark lord. You know in terms of how you look
Speaker 6: at things.
Speaker 5: Thank you wouldn't you? Would you like to be able
Speaker 5: to just look around and go, it's beautiful. The portal is.
Speaker 4: Beautiful, shine rainbows, and.
Speaker 5: Yes we have to that. That's what a bet.
Speaker 6: What's much better than to sit there and be like, oh,
Speaker 6: everything's miserable right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wish I had that outlook on life. That's
Speaker 4: great it is. I'm not mad at it.
Speaker 2: That's uh text machine, Pope said before in the Tennessee game.
Speaker 2: He used the word beautiful pressure. We have beautiful pressure.
Speaker 5: Even when pressure is beautiful, that would be great.
Speaker 6: What person writes Matt, I don't consider it's a text
Speaker 6: machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four.
Speaker 6: No one that leaves Kentucky is a cat. They chose
Speaker 6: to leave. Yeah, I think you're gonna have to change
Speaker 6: that view if you. I mean, is Kyle Wilcher a cat?
Speaker 6: Like he won a national championship here, we're gonna act
Speaker 6: like he's not. He seems to still love this play.
Speaker 6: I don't think you can. I don't think you can
Speaker 6: have Ryan that view in twenty twenty five. I mean
Speaker 6: you can have it, but I think you're gonna be
Speaker 6: disappointed a lot if you do well.
Speaker 2: I guess that the test is what we just saw
Speaker 2: z dj Ado. They all went to Arkansas to play
Speaker 2: for col Are they cow guys at Arkansas or do
Speaker 2: we consider him a cat?
Speaker 6: I think they're both. They're cow guys in a cat.
Speaker 6: They played here, but they played here for cal. I
Speaker 6: don't think those things for me are mutually exclusive, although
Speaker 6: they might be for some people like Ryan. I do
Speaker 6: want to go back to you for this because the
Speaker 6: Cassie row thing. I am amazed how many people are
Speaker 6: like genuinely upset about this. I think it's mostly, honestly
Speaker 6: an Eastern Kentucky thing, specifically a north eastern Kentucky thing.
Speaker 6: People who are from like fifteenth sixteenth region maybe watched
Speaker 6: her play when she was growing up.
Speaker 5: But there's a lot of people upset.
Speaker 6: I think her dad went and Drew did an unfiltered
Speaker 6: interview yesterday and in so doing kind of stirred the
Speaker 6: pot a little bit more on it. You know, I
Speaker 6: gave my opinion yesterday, which was basically, you know, we
Speaker 6: don't know everything, and I'm hesitant to be outraised when
Speaker 6: I don't know everything. And it's also the modern business
Speaker 6: of college basketball. But do you think this is gonna stick?
Speaker 6: Or is this just like season's over, we don't have
Speaker 6: anything else to talk about. I mean, I hear the
Speaker 6: women's basketball team may get a big transfer commit today,
Speaker 6: So I wonder, you know, maybe after that happens, people
Speaker 6: look at things differently. But do you do you think
Speaker 6: this is gonna stick with Kenny for a little while.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid, you know,
Speaker 2: he did such a good job of getting our fan
Speaker 2: base for women's basketball super excited about what they did
Speaker 2: this year. The product on the court was so good
Speaker 2: that Memorial Cosseum was sold out. Fans love coming to
Speaker 2: the game. My fear is that this is called a
Speaker 2: little cause, a little fracture in the fan base. That
Speaker 2: may be hard to get those people back, just the
Speaker 2: ones that are on Cassidy side.
Speaker 5: But do you really like one statement?
Speaker 6: But haven't we seen over the years, if you win,
Speaker 6: everybody gets over everything.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he goes to the final four, that's gonna probably.
Speaker 6: I feel like if you lose, then people will bring
Speaker 6: this up as a thing to criticize. But if you win, Drew,
Speaker 6: doesn't everybody just get over everything at some point?
Speaker 7: I think so. As long as he goes out and
Speaker 7: gets a good portal class and carries that into next year,
Speaker 7: I think everyone will move on from this. Now. If
Speaker 7: he goes and signs three people and there's just four
Speaker 7: empty chairs on the bench, it might linger a little bit,
Speaker 7: but I think he's he's got a plan or he
Speaker 7: wouldn't have done it, and he's gonna add a lot
Speaker 7: of pieces that'll be helpful and at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, that's his job to make sure he's putting
Speaker 7: the best Russ.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you can. I think, Shannon, you can
Speaker 6: have both of these views equally. View number one, it
Speaker 6: does stink for the kid. If she wanted to play
Speaker 6: and was and wanted to have her senior year, it
Speaker 6: stinks for her, and I could see why she and
Speaker 6: her dad would be upset.
Speaker 5: I get that.
Speaker 6: You can also take the view of this is modern
Speaker 6: college basketball, and we are upset because she's from Kentucky.
Speaker 6: If because we every coach has done this to players
Speaker 6: from other schools all the time. And we also don't
Speaker 6: know the specifics of the conversation. I think that's important.
Speaker 6: Did he say you can't be on the team? Did
Speaker 6: he say I suggest you transfer? I mean, I don't know, Shannon,
Speaker 6: Like I don't know exactly what was said, and Kenny's
Speaker 6: probably gonna not say anything. I wouldn't think, or at
Speaker 6: least he won't, so so I don't know, Shannon. I
Speaker 6: I have mixed emotions on it, but I am surprised
Speaker 6: how many people are very upset about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right, it's all in the details. We
Speaker 3: weren't in the office when they had those conversations. What
Speaker 3: makes it more confusing for me is, you know, in
Speaker 3: that first round of the NCAA tournament when they were
Speaker 3: playing Liberty, Kenny Brooks brought Cassidy Row in to try to,
Speaker 3: you know, hold off Liberty, like she played a significant
Speaker 3: role on this team. The confusing part for me is
Speaker 3: how do you not find a roster spot for that person?
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, his job is
Speaker 3: to put together the best roster and the best team
Speaker 3: that he can and if he thinks that she shouldn't
Speaker 3: be a part of it, then that's his decision.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean this is back to if you don't
Speaker 6: like these kinds of things, that's why you need contracts
Speaker 6: where both sides can't you know, I mean both sides
Speaker 6: can't sort of stop the other one like you you
Speaker 6: admitted to each other. That's why I think Jay bills
Speaker 6: suggestion of employment contracts is really the best thing to
Speaker 6: do going forward. Who's up next, Jacob, Jacob, Go ahead, Jacob.
Speaker 8: I met I actually caught in to talk about the
Speaker 8: whole Casierro situation. You know, for me, it comes down
Speaker 8: to is Kenny the right person for the job? And
Speaker 8: I think it's one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 8: I think that what he did for the team this
Speaker 8: year he deserves an A plus. He brought them back
Speaker 8: from obscurity. I think the quickest way to get them
Speaker 8: back to obscurity would be to try to drive away
Speaker 8: Kenny Brooks. I think that I just have to trust
Speaker 8: that this is a decision that we might not understand,
Speaker 8: but it's the decision that he made that he thought
Speaker 8: was best and he just got to trust his leadership.
Speaker 8: That's to my take on it.
Speaker 6: I appreciate the call and for the most part agree, right.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think it was Bill Belichick baby that said,
Speaker 6: if you're gonna ask me to make you know, to
Speaker 6: make the meal, I gotta buy the groceries. Right. I
Speaker 6: do wonder if there's a part of that with this,
Speaker 6: like if you're gonna ask me to do it, then
Speaker 6: you know, then you gotta let me pick the players, right.
Speaker 6: I think that might be part of it.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no doubt we understand his motive to try
Speaker 2: to get the best roster possible to try to win
Speaker 2: a championship and go to the final four. That makes
Speaker 2: perfect sense. But like we talked about, you got fifteen
Speaker 2: scholarships starting next year, this girl's gonna.
Speaker 6: Be So it seems like it bothers you, like it
Speaker 6: seems like you are more you are of this show.
Speaker 6: I think the most bothered by it. In thirty seconds,
Speaker 6: articulate why.
Speaker 2: I think it's just because when she was the one
Speaker 2: that stuck around and kind of held everybody together when
Speaker 2: the coaching change.
Speaker 5: But do you know that she held everybody together?
Speaker 6: Like I mean, you say that a lot, but is
Speaker 6: it like like Georgia was the leader of that.
Speaker 2: Team, Cassidy was the one though that was to carry
Speaker 2: over from the only one to carry out from the
Speaker 2: old old regime, and she was able to like bring
Speaker 2: help bond that bridge, so to speak with everybody else.
Speaker 3: I just want to throw in that I bought a
Speaker 3: lot of mills that I didn't cook and they were
Speaker 3: all good for the most part.
Speaker 6: I just I've never cooked Ombia, so you know, but
Speaker 6: I'm learning, I'm learning and I get it.
Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting. We'll see. I think this will still
Speaker 5: be a topic going forward.
Speaker 6: We'll take a break, come back talk about Pope's comments yesterday.
Speaker 5: It's KOSR