1
00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,680
Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes Ian Bag March seventh

2
00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:07,960
Speaker 1: through the ninth, Then catch JP Sears March fourteenth through

3
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,639
Speaker 1: the sixteenth, and don't miss Jeffrey Osmas March twenty second

4
00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,200
Speaker 1: and twenty third. Comedy Off Broadway opened and downtown Lexington

5
00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,200
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven, and they're still bringing the best

6
00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,479
Speaker 1: in stand up comedy to the area thirty seven years later.

7
00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,360
Speaker 1: Call eight five nine two seven one joke or visit

8
00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,040
Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway dot com off Bay.

9
00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:34,960
Speaker 2: Welcome everyone to Kentucky Sports Radio. It is what the

10
00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,840
Speaker 2: twenty second Friday, March twenty second. I met Jones here

11
00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,320
Speaker 2: live in Pittsburgh where it's been a long night for

12
00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,000
Speaker 2: Drew and I. You can give us a shout. We'll

13
00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,120
Speaker 2: open up the phones. Rick will open up the phones.

14
00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,200
Speaker 2: At the end of the segment. Okay, gotcha. Clark's Pappa

15
00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,280
Speaker 2: Shop phone line eight five nine two eight oh twenty

16
00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,960
Speaker 2: two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is

17
00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,080
Speaker 2: seven seven two seven seven four five two five four.

18
00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,520
Speaker 2: In this ditition spots about a TJ. Smith officer called TJ.

19
00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,520
Speaker 2: I'll make them Hey. Ryan and Shannon are in Louisville,

20
00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,480
Speaker 2: we'll bring them in in just a second. They're, excuse me,

21
00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,920
Speaker 2: rather in Lexington at the KS Bar and Grill where

22
00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,000
Speaker 2: they're gonna spend the day there may hopefully somebody will

23
00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,119
Speaker 2: join them over the course of the next twenty four hours.

24
00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,480
Speaker 2: But Kats lose last night. I had some extensive comments

25
00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:25,720
Speaker 2: on the postgame show. It was another unacceptable loss after

26
00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,680
Speaker 2: a number of years of unacceptable losses. And if you

27
00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,520
Speaker 2: didn't hear the show, I said after the game that

28
00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,720
Speaker 2: I kind of believe there needs to be a separation

29
00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:39,320
Speaker 2: now between Cal and the university, that Cal's time here

30
00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:44,640
Speaker 2: probably should should have passed. You know, I'm not I

31
00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,520
Speaker 2: did an hour and a half on it last night,

32
00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,080
Speaker 2: so I'm not gonna sort of repeat that line of argument.

33
00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,720
Speaker 2: You can hear it on podcasts, But I do think

34
00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,640
Speaker 2: it's the conclusion I guess I will start with this.

35
00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,960
Speaker 2: I'll ask the three of you guys, let's just cut

36
00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,560
Speaker 2: right to it. Do you agree with my conclusion that

37
00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:05,000
Speaker 2: the best thing for Kentucky basketball going forward is to

38
00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,360
Speaker 2: go in a new direction? Drew, you were on with

39
00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:08,880
Speaker 2: me for mitt last night. I don't think I asked

40
00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,280
Speaker 2: you that explicitly, So what would you say yeah, I

41
00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,920
Speaker 2: just I don't know how we can get excited for

42
00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,240
Speaker 2: another year with what it with, because it's just gonna

43
00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:18,320
Speaker 2: be the same messaging.

44
00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,280
Speaker 3: Look at these freshmen, wait till March, lose couple in November, December,

45
00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,080
Speaker 3: don't worry, we're young. It's gonna be the exact same movie.

46
00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,919
Speaker 3: And that is going to be so uncomfortable. The fan

47
00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,720
Speaker 3: support will be down. They'll show it at Madness and whatever.

48
00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,240
Speaker 3: Next year, it will be a brutal offseason. It'll be

49
00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,400
Speaker 3: unfair to these freshmen coming in who deserve their own path.

50
00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,560
Speaker 3: But if he says look at these five stars, I mean,

51
00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,920
Speaker 3: you know the George Bush video reducts the shoe, I mean,

52
00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,720
Speaker 3: no one wants to hear him say look at these

53
00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,360
Speaker 3: five stars after just fumbling teams loaded with five stars

54
00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,440
Speaker 3: recently and having nothing to show for it.

55
00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,160
Speaker 4: So it's just gonna it's just uncomfortable now it.

56
00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,320
Speaker 3: I don't know legally what you do, but I feel

57
00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,000
Speaker 3: like Mitch and Cal just need to sit down and

58
00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,680
Speaker 3: be like, we both know this is going to be

59
00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,160
Speaker 3: very weird moving forward. We have to come to some

60
00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:07,920
Speaker 3: form of agreement.

61
00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,880
Speaker 2: Right, you haven't been on yet since this happened. What

62
00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,080
Speaker 2: are your thoughts.

63
00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:15,480
Speaker 5: First of all, what you said last night in the

64
00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,760
Speaker 5: postgame show was really really good, and it was like

65
00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,320
Speaker 5: kind of what I was feeling but kind of afraid

66
00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,600
Speaker 5: to say it and even afraid to say it today.

67
00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,040
Speaker 6: But it's I think it's it's accurate.

68
00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,440
Speaker 5: The first five years of the Caliperi era some of

69
00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,359
Speaker 5: the glory days of Kentucky basketball, but these last four

70
00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,680
Speaker 5: years have been some of the most disappointing era ever

71
00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,760
Speaker 5: for Kentucky basketball. And Joe b as much as he

72
00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,560
Speaker 5: was beloved at the end of his tenure, people were

73
00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,200
Speaker 5: ready to run him out of town. Tubby Smith, as

74
00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,119
Speaker 5: much as he was beloved, they were ready to run

75
00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,480
Speaker 5: him out of town. I think we've got to that

76
00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,880
Speaker 5: point again with cal and it's sad to me.

77
00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,800
Speaker 2: It's hard to even say them. Yeah, it is sad. No,

78
00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:56,119
Speaker 2: I completely agree with you that it's sad. It's I mean, look,

79
00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,920
Speaker 2: the last four year period, if you go historically, you

80
00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,800
Speaker 2: could make a strong argument is the worst four year

81
00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,280
Speaker 2: period in the history of the school from postseason success.

82
00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:09,120
Speaker 2: We've had some worst eras when it comes to regular season,

83
00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,040
Speaker 2: but when it comes to postseason, you can make a

84
00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,200
Speaker 2: strong argument. It's the worst it's ever been about. Here's

85
00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,320
Speaker 2: a stat before I get Shannon's. I saw this last night.

86
00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,800
Speaker 2: Blew my mind. Kentucky is two and eight in its

87
00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,560
Speaker 2: last ten postseason games. I'm sc NCAA tournament games two

88
00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,320
Speaker 2: and eight. Let me give you a stat that'll make

89
00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,919
Speaker 2: even worse. In those ten two and eight two and

90
00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,839
Speaker 2: eight games, they were favored in all ten of them.

91
00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,440
Speaker 2: No way favored in all ten of their last postseason games,

92
00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,240
Speaker 2: and they're two and eight in those ten, Shannon, what

93
00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:42,799
Speaker 2: do you think?

94
00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,680
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, if Calipari is not the coach

95
00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,000
Speaker 7: here next year, it's because one person doesn't want to

96
00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,160
Speaker 7: be here, and that's John Calipari. He's the one who's

97
00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,400
Speaker 7: ultimately going to make the decision should he be gone.

98
00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,320
Speaker 7: You know what, I'm going to be in the minority here.

99
00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:58,799
Speaker 7: I still believe cal can get it done.

100
00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,760
Speaker 2: Really, See, that's shocking to me because I would have

101
00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,840
Speaker 2: thought you'd have been the first one to say it,

102
00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,119
Speaker 2: because you've been harder on him than anybody. What makes

103
00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,280
Speaker 2: you think that the situation would be better next year?

104
00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,960
Speaker 7: I know fans are tired of hearing it because we

105
00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,239
Speaker 7: always have to talk about next year and next year's

106
00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:17,960
Speaker 7: talent coming in.

107
00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,640
Speaker 8: He's still gonna have next year a loaded.

108
00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,760
Speaker 7: Class, a lot of talent, and it's gonna be exactly exactly.

109
00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,680
Speaker 8: But I still believe that he can get it done.

110
00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,720
Speaker 7: I'm just wondering, like, if we move a different direction,

111
00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,039
Speaker 7: you're gonna have some some rebuilding years here at Kentucky.

112
00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,000
Speaker 2: But we are gonna have that anyway. I mean, like,

113
00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,760
Speaker 2: what are we gonna go home from the tournament early? Yeah,

114
00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,680
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you should have the opinion you want.

115
00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,960
Speaker 2: I'm surprised at your opinion, but that's totally fine. But

116
00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,640
Speaker 2: I I mean, we're gonna, like, no one's gonna be

117
00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,840
Speaker 2: on this team next year that's on it now except

118
00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,360
Speaker 2: two or three people, So we're gonna be rebuilding either way.

119
00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess the question I would ask is,

120
00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,360
Speaker 2: if you can't be Oakland with an All American and

121
00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,520
Speaker 2: two projected top five picks and seven other guys that

122
00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,800
Speaker 2: can play Shannon, what does it matter who's coming next year.

123
00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,240
Speaker 7: I understand what you're saying, like that lost last night

124
00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,359
Speaker 7: is inexcusable. What's happened in the last four seasons is inexcusable,

125
00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,080
Speaker 7: But do I think that it's possible that Caliperi can

126
00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:22,720
Speaker 7: get back to what he was doing at the first

127
00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,200
Speaker 7: part of his career at Kentucky.

128
00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,120
Speaker 8: I still believe that's possible.

129
00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:28,840
Speaker 7: Will it happened, I don't know, but I think that

130
00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,359
Speaker 7: it is still I don't believe it.

131
00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,560
Speaker 2: I don't now. I actually will say I don't believe

132
00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,159
Speaker 2: that's possible. I don't believe Ran that it's possible for

133
00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:37,680
Speaker 2: him to do what he did the first seven or

134
00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,960
Speaker 2: eight years. Do I think it's possible that he could

135
00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,320
Speaker 2: have a year where they're good and going to run. Yeah,

136
00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,160
Speaker 2: that could have been this year. But Ryan, the day

137
00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,320
Speaker 2: the glory days are gone, right, Like, I mean, you know,

138
00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,760
Speaker 2: Aerosmith can put on a reunion tour and it might

139
00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,280
Speaker 2: be good, but they ain't gonna be Aerosmith anymore.

140
00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, but they had a good comeback album, was it

141
00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,240
Speaker 7: Pump in the nineties. I mean, the people kind of

142
00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,599
Speaker 7: wrote them off and they came back and were popular again.

143
00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,600
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I mean, I appreciate the optimism,

144
00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,600
Speaker 2: I guess, but I don't. I don't have it, Ryan,

145
00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,240
Speaker 2: I just don't. I mean, I I some of me

146
00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,400
Speaker 2: wishes I did you said Ryan that you were sad

147
00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,440
Speaker 2: like I was. I am sad about it. I'm genuinely

148
00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,280
Speaker 2: sad about it. It's like anything that ends that like,

149
00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,440
Speaker 2: deep down you enjoyed, but I just how can we

150
00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,680
Speaker 2: have an off season like that's gonna happen? Ryan?

151
00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,320
Speaker 6: If he returns, it'll be awful.

152
00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:32,520
Speaker 2: I'm feeling to be awful.

153
00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:33,320
Speaker 6: It'll be awful.

154
00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,360
Speaker 5: And I sat right here on this stage last night

155
00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,120
Speaker 5: and watch people walk out of here and their heads

156
00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,040
Speaker 5: were down, their shoulders were and they weren't mad.

157
00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:41,520
Speaker 6: It was a sadness.

158
00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,600
Speaker 2: Well, so what was that like? Okay, because we're Drew

159
00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,360
Speaker 2: and I were on press row, you're sitting amongst them

160
00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,040
Speaker 2: there at the bar, what was the sadness like?

161
00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,760
Speaker 5: It was like, and I hate to use this analogy,

162
00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,400
Speaker 5: but like you had somebody and your family had passed away.

163
00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,760
Speaker 6: I mean it was like they were just as solemn.

164
00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,240
Speaker 5: It was surreal almost because here we are a where

165
00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,480
Speaker 5: the NCAA tournament, there's a lot of excitement in here

166
00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,080
Speaker 5: that it's packed, and then when it's over, people just quietly,

167
00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,240
Speaker 5: not even talking, heads down, shoulders down, walking out and

168
00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,720
Speaker 5: not wanting to make eye contact with anybody. It was

169
00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,160
Speaker 5: it was as sad as I felt. It made me

170
00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,720
Speaker 5: feel even sadder to see how it was affecting everybody.

171
00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,080
Speaker 2: It was funny with Drew because I thought yesterday, what

172
00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,600
Speaker 2: I thought was gonna happen was I thought like my

173
00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,840
Speaker 2: post game show was gonna be full of anger, and

174
00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,400
Speaker 2: it was. It was sadness. I mean, if you go

175
00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:31,320
Speaker 2: back and listen, it's all people being sad. They're not

176
00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,959
Speaker 2: like angry, They're just like sad that they It felt

177
00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,920
Speaker 2: like everyone collectively outside of Shannon realized like it's over.

178
00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,320
Speaker 3: You know, you're you're angry when you disagree with something

179
00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,800
Speaker 3: like a timeout, or you're angry when you lose a

180
00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,160
Speaker 3: game you shouldn't have. You're sad when you love something,

181
00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,920
Speaker 3: and like it's just being taken from me. I love

182
00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,679
Speaker 3: the SEC tournament. I've said all year. I know we're

183
00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,760
Speaker 3: folks on final fours. I want an SEC tournament. You

184
00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,480
Speaker 3: know we did in Nashville. We came to straight home

185
00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,640
Speaker 3: this weekend. This is one of the best weekends of

186
00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,520
Speaker 3: the year probably for everyone listening. Today, specifically when Kentucky's

187
00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,199
Speaker 3: not playing, is one of my favorite days of the

188
00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,080
Speaker 3: year because the stress is over. I do not move

189
00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,800
Speaker 3: from the couch and I watch as much basketball as possible.

190
00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,040
Speaker 3: I want to see zero of this NCAA tournament. It's hard.

191
00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,800
Speaker 3: I want to go see the Sweet sixteen. I'm excited

192
00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,400
Speaker 3: to maybe get back to Lexington. I'm very excited to

193
00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,480
Speaker 3: get the heart of Pittsburgh. But two of my favorite events.

194
00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,200
Speaker 3: And like I said, I assume a lot of people

195
00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,880
Speaker 3: SEC Tournament, NCAA Tournament Kentucky really wasn't even a participant

196
00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:30,920
Speaker 3: for yet another year.

197
00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is like right now. The headline

198
00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,840
Speaker 2: story on First Take has John cal Perry under a chief.

199
00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,800
Speaker 2: You go look at college basketball last night. Nobody else

200
00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,760
Speaker 2: great got beat. The lowest seeds that won or the

201
00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,240
Speaker 2: highest seeds that lost yesterday were a couple six is

202
00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,560
Speaker 2: besides us. And we let a dude who was playing

203
00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,840
Speaker 2: last year ride against Wesleyan. Last year, that Jack Golkie

204
00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,120
Speaker 2: dude went over seven against Wesleyan.

205
00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,839
Speaker 5: It's got that powerhouse defense. Wesleyan put on him o

206
00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,959
Speaker 5: for seven against Wesleyan, and then last night he goes

207
00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,480
Speaker 5: for thirty and we have no answer.

208
00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,520
Speaker 8: You knew exactly, you knew exactly.

209
00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,200
Speaker 2: What he was gonna do, and we knew exactly the

210
00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,600
Speaker 2: defense they were gonna play and we knew exact and

211
00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,840
Speaker 2: we couldn't stop it. If you want to make the argument,

212
00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,160
Speaker 2: we don't have good X and O coaching just put

213
00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,840
Speaker 2: up last night. There was a zone that is the

214
00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,559
Speaker 2: only defense they play, and we weren't ready. It took

215
00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,520
Speaker 2: us till halftime to put Antonio Reeves in the corner.

216
00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,640
Speaker 2: And I was sitting next to a dude who's in coaching,

217
00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,520
Speaker 2: who looked at me and said, why don't they have

218
00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:39,080
Speaker 2: anybody in the corner, Like they should put Reeves in

219
00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,760
Speaker 2: the corner. And at halftime he did, and guess what,

220
00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,079
Speaker 2: we got some open threes. Yep. But it took him

221
00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,520
Speaker 2: a half to do that, and he was like, the

222
00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,439
Speaker 2: basics in this defense are guy in the middle, guy

223
00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,720
Speaker 2: in the corner. They can't guard them both. We put

224
00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:55,440
Speaker 2: the guy in the middle, but we didn't put the

225
00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,440
Speaker 2: guy in the corner. And at one point they said, well,

226
00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:58,840
Speaker 2: why don't you put a guy that can shoot in

227
00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,520
Speaker 2: the middle, and we didn't, And like, Ryan, these are

228
00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,520
Speaker 2: bay I mean, this is coaching one oh one, like

229
00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:09,920
Speaker 2: it's it's third grade level, and we had We didn't

230
00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,320
Speaker 2: put Reeves on Gulkie until the second half and He

231
00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,480
Speaker 2: had seven threes in the first half and three in

232
00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,199
Speaker 2: the second half, and Ryan two of those were crazy good.

233
00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,199
Speaker 2: We didn't even make an adjustment there.

234
00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,440
Speaker 6: That's what is so frustrating about this game.

235
00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,480
Speaker 5: The coach for Oakland basically told Kentucky exactly what he

236
00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,440
Speaker 5: was gonna do, exactly what he was gonna do, and

237
00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:31,559
Speaker 5: he went out and did it.

238
00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,760
Speaker 2: And then they thought they were gonna win and thought

239
00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:34,640
Speaker 2: he knew.

240
00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:37,440
Speaker 7: Gotta respect the swag, right, I mean, you com back.

241
00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,000
Speaker 7: They called their shot, they said what they were gonna do.

242
00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,079
Speaker 7: They loved the match up against Kentucky, and I'll be

243
00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,080
Speaker 7: damn but they didn't go out there and do exactly

244
00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,240
Speaker 7: what they said they were gonna do.

245
00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:46,040
Speaker 8: I respect it.

246
00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:46,400
Speaker 2: Everybody.

247
00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:47,960
Speaker 5: Everybody knew he was to go play that zone, and

248
00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,640
Speaker 5: like Matt said, it looked like Kentucky was not prepared

249
00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:51,359
Speaker 5: to play.

250
00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,400
Speaker 2: If you go look at the points we scored, the

251
00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,600
Speaker 2: vast majority of them were just because we had dudes

252
00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,560
Speaker 2: that were better. But in terms of a schematic thing, no,

253
00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:01,960
Speaker 2: we were not ready.

254
00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,160
Speaker 3: We'll never know, but I would love to see the

255
00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,800
Speaker 3: game plan because this was a very obvious. I mean,

256
00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,240
Speaker 3: most of us don't know one percent of what that

257
00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,880
Speaker 3: coaching staff knows. But if you have a Twitter account,

258
00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,960
Speaker 3: you knew Oakland has a guy who shoots threes from

259
00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,720
Speaker 3: the wing and Bragg's valley doesn't take twos, and that

260
00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,040
Speaker 3: they're gonna zone. And it was like Kentucky was like, oh, well,

261
00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:21,920
Speaker 3: look at this. They got a three point shooter. There

262
00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000
Speaker 3: is one point after he had already made like four.

263
00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,200
Speaker 3: I grabbed the stranger's arm next to me and squeezed

264
00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,920
Speaker 3: it because Golki was leaking up the side of the court.

265
00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:30,760
Speaker 2: We had five.

266
00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:32,560
Speaker 3: Players not even looking at him. They didn't even know

267
00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,719
Speaker 3: where he was. And I yelled, we don't even know

268
00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:36,439
Speaker 3: where he is on the court right now. And then

269
00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:37,320
Speaker 3: he bangs another three.

270
00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,640
Speaker 2: I'm not doing this to pick on the kid, but

271
00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,000
Speaker 2: I think it's emblematic of how we approach the game.

272
00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,160
Speaker 2: I want you to watch the play where the guy

273
00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,800
Speaker 2: hits the corner three to put it away. If you

274
00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:54,199
Speaker 2: get a chance, go watch it. Rob Dillingham his job

275
00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,319
Speaker 2: right there is to not give up the corner three.

276
00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:03,440
Speaker 2: At one point he stayed straight up, not watching his

277
00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,040
Speaker 2: man just kind of e'm the guy. Dude takes a

278
00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,400
Speaker 2: drive to the basket. Dillingham does not cut off ball

279
00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,400
Speaker 2: and he leaves his man. He just like waves his

280
00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,240
Speaker 2: arm go over open three. And if you watch it,

281
00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,839
Speaker 2: it's happened all year when the only thing you can't

282
00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:22,800
Speaker 2: do right there, Ryan's give a three. Even if they

283
00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,480
Speaker 2: score two, you got a chance. You just can't give

284
00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,120
Speaker 2: up a three. And we give a wide open corner three.

285
00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,680
Speaker 2: And to me, that's the season in a nutshell. We

286
00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,320
Speaker 2: just the most basic things we don't do.

287
00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,480
Speaker 5: And it's like throughout the season, you know, I kept

288
00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,640
Speaker 5: holding out hope that they would get better defensively and

289
00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,920
Speaker 5: these guys would kind of learn some basic defensive principles

290
00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,480
Speaker 5: and they and they never did. And I'm telling you,

291
00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:47,920
Speaker 5: I mean, I hate to say this, but if I

292
00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,160
Speaker 5: was playing in that game that golkie kid was having

293
00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,280
Speaker 5: those kind of coming off that screen, he'd have a

294
00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:53,480
Speaker 5: shoulder in his chest.

295
00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,000
Speaker 2: But they were the one putting the shoulders in our chest.

296
00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,560
Speaker 2: And if I watched the way they played, they played

297
00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:03,640
Speaker 2: like the dudes that were Kentucky. They talked trash, their

298
00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:08,800
Speaker 2: fans were on our guys. They they were Kentucky and

299
00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:13,120
Speaker 2: we were Oakland. They weren't scared. We were scared. If

300
00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,400
Speaker 2: it wasn't for Antonio Reeves and Trey Mitchell. Coincidentally, the

301
00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,360
Speaker 2: two seniors we had, we lose that game by twenty

302
00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:20,760
Speaker 2: we get punked.

303
00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:23,440
Speaker 7: If not for them, My question is when do we

304
00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:28,280
Speaker 7: start becoming scared as Kentucky scared of Ben Majors, scared

305
00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:28,840
Speaker 7: of fourteen.

306
00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,840
Speaker 2: Well, we've had it for the last four years, which

307
00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,560
Speaker 2: is why I'm saying to you, I don't think it

308
00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,720
Speaker 2: can continue. I just don't. And that makes me sad

309
00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,440
Speaker 2: to say. And you can hear this, It makes me

310
00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,920
Speaker 2: sad to say, but I don't think this can go on.

311
00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,960
Speaker 2: The fan base forget about Matt Ryan, Drew Shannon. The

312
00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,840
Speaker 2: fan base is done. Like just just take a look anywhere.

313
00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,800
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't There are people haven't talked to

314
00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,560
Speaker 2: in years, texting me their soliloquies. Is why he has

315
00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:57,120
Speaker 2: to be done.

316
00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:59,560
Speaker 3: I've never had as many text messages I had last night.

317
00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,360
Speaker 3: I heard from he people haven't talked to in a decade.

318
00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:03,520
Speaker 3: They're just like, we got a link to for a

319
00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:04,920
Speaker 3: go fund me, Like what do I do? How can

320
00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:06,720
Speaker 3: I do this? So, I mean, good to hear from you.

321
00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,200
Speaker 2: I don't know how it continued. And then Mitch, you

322
00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,480
Speaker 2: know Mitch wouldn't comment. That says a lot. I don't

323
00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:18,040
Speaker 2: know that Mitch has ever not commented. So, well, this

324
00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,320
Speaker 2: is what we'll do today is figure out I don't

325
00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,360
Speaker 2: know what we'll do. We'll just sit and talk about it.

326
00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,800
Speaker 2: We are in Pittsburgh. You and I are going to

327
00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,640
Speaker 2: get in the car soon as it's over and go home.

328
00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:27,160
Speaker 4: Not soon.

329
00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,120
Speaker 2: I had a lot of stuff packed for the next

330
00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,560
Speaker 2: three weeks. Ch I really thought we were going to do.

331
00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:34,200
Speaker 2: I didn't think there's any way they were going to

332
00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,120
Speaker 2: lose this weekend. But unfortunately, it's Kentucky basketball now, you

333
00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,520
Speaker 2: could lose it anytime. We'll take a break a period back,

334
00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:54,200
Speaker 2: it's canceled. Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine

335
00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,840
Speaker 2: twenty two eighty seven, I could be really evil here

336
00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,240
Speaker 2: and make an announcement Drew that would throw everybody off

337
00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,280
Speaker 2: and say that there's breaking news. Should I do that?

338
00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:06,800
Speaker 4: Well?

339
00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit of a.

340
00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,080
Speaker 4: A little misleading of a breaking news.

341
00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,120
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll still play the breaking news, but

342
00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:23,720
Speaker 2: breaking news. Rick the UK coach has departed the dance

343
00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,440
Speaker 2: team coach after fifteen years. The UK dance team coach

344
00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,680
Speaker 2: has resigned this morning in an official email.

345
00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,000
Speaker 4: He's got the email Don Walters.

346
00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,480
Speaker 5: So Donald's a nice guy with Don in charge of

347
00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,440
Speaker 5: the last night.

348
00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,120
Speaker 3: No, but she was with the program for a long

349
00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,720
Speaker 3: time and very beloved. There kind of a surprising email

350
00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:46,320
Speaker 3: coming through the thing that.

351
00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,840
Speaker 2: Was didn't it? Well, I had I was thinking it.

352
00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,840
Speaker 3: She's a formerder won some national championship, had the team

353
00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:55,800
Speaker 3: for fifteen years.

354
00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:57,800
Speaker 4: So that email just came across the UK wire.

355
00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, so well there you go. Uh, if I've not

356
00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,800
Speaker 2: wish heard the best, if I'm nine two eight oh,

357
00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:08,159
Speaker 2: twenty two eighty seven, not the not the coaching news

358
00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,760
Speaker 2: that that that probably everybody thought, let me ask your predictions.

359
00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,360
Speaker 2: So we asked what you wanted or what you think

360
00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:19,399
Speaker 2: should happen next week next Friday, is John cal Perry

361
00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:20,080
Speaker 2: the coach Here.

362
00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,240
Speaker 6: I'll go, I'll say yes, I say yes, he's going

363
00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,000
Speaker 6: to be I don't.

364
00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,640
Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely, Eleen yes a week from now.

365
00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:38,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna say no, wow, wow, Wow.

366
00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,360
Speaker 8: That's scoop or scuttle butter.

367
00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,400
Speaker 2: Just no, no, no, it's neither. It's just a it's

368
00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,680
Speaker 2: just a gut yeah. I mean this is not knowing anything.

369
00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:51,800
Speaker 2: It's just a gut reaction. Like I think, I mean,

370
00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,040
Speaker 2: it's not tenable. Like at the end of the day,

371
00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,399
Speaker 2: there's no way that they can't run his back Like

372
00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,840
Speaker 2: they can't. They can't. How do you run it back? You?

373
00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,960
Speaker 2: I want you to just think about the practicalities of

374
00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:11,520
Speaker 2: the things you have to do to have a basketball program. Okay,

375
00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,760
Speaker 2: how are they gonna raise an aisle money to go

376
00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,280
Speaker 2: get kids in this off season?

377
00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,679
Speaker 5: How who's given it? Like, like, like, who's given it?

378
00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,520
Speaker 5: I'm being serious, bad timing? Who launched that law?

379
00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:25,040
Speaker 8: Familiar?

380
00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:29,199
Speaker 2: Ye? Just that, I mean, that's that's but that that's bad.

381
00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,760
Speaker 2: But that's fixable long term. But short term, you got

382
00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,600
Speaker 2: to go into portal in the next few weeks and

383
00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,840
Speaker 2: get kids. Who's who? Where's that money coming from?

384
00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaker 4: And what kid is looking in this like oh yeah,

385
00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:41,200
Speaker 4: that looks fun?

386
00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,240
Speaker 2: Yeah? And how many of these dudes are gonna stay?

387
00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:45,000
Speaker 2: Like over the course of the next few weeks, when

388
00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,720
Speaker 2: all these dudes announced they're gonna leave, how's that gonna go? Right?

389
00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,879
Speaker 2: And then when you sit here and he how do

390
00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,480
Speaker 2: you pump this fan base up in the off season?

391
00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,680
Speaker 2: How do you lead into next year? We said Ryan

392
00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,919
Speaker 2: back in September, nothing's gonna matter until March. Well what

393
00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,919
Speaker 2: matters next year? Yeah, they can go thirty one and

394
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000
Speaker 2: oh when people are gonna think they might lose in

395
00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:16,320
Speaker 2: the first round, like I just so so do. I

396
00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:20,879
Speaker 2: don't know anything about it, but Ryan, I don't know

397
00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,760
Speaker 2: how it happens. And I will say this, it's clear

398
00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,480
Speaker 2: that a change is being considered.

399
00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:31,919
Speaker 5: Or Mitch Martinhart makes a statement yesterday, I believe, Yeah,

400
00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,439
Speaker 5: I believe that. I think it's it's something he's definitely

401
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,479
Speaker 5: got to consider. I guess my my fear is if

402
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,560
Speaker 5: they do make a change, cal become the head coach,

403
00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,960
Speaker 5: let's say Michigan, and then they go on some big run.

404
00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:48,400
Speaker 2: Okay, but then good like okay, you know you you

405
00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,440
Speaker 2: you and your wife split and she may end up

406
00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:56,880
Speaker 2: marrying somebody and be happy. Good for her, right Like that's.

407
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,359
Speaker 8: You know, cus, it could have been me.

408
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 2: No, No, it's it's what we were all right. No.

409
00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:10,720
Speaker 2: I mean, so I have a family friend to a

410
00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,920
Speaker 2: couple who I'm still very good friends with both of them.

411
00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 2: They both they got a divorce, they both went and

412
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 2: married somebody else, and they both were happy. Isn't that

413
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,920
Speaker 2: what you want? So? And I always have been kind

414
00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 2: of amazed at their relationship. So why can't that be us?

415
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,760
Speaker 2: Why can't he go to Michigan and have success and

416
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,800
Speaker 2: we go get someone else and have success, Like, why

417
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 2: can't that happen?

418
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 7: It can't happen in the perfect world. Yeah, yeah, if

419
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:40,880
Speaker 7: we get somebody else and no, he.

420
00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,679
Speaker 2: Might go to Michigan and and and we fail, or

421
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,399
Speaker 2: we might get a coach and he fails. But like,

422
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,160
Speaker 2: this can't keep happening. We can't keep coming home after

423
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,960
Speaker 2: after dinner not speaking to each other, Like how much

424
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 2: longer are we supposed to do that? Riot?

425
00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 5: Well, I think, like you said what I was feeling

426
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,480
Speaker 5: last that time has come for a change. As sad

427
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 5: as it is, it just seems like for this program,

428
00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 5: the time has come.

429
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 2: I mean, I look, you know, maybe that's a little

430
00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:15,639
Speaker 2: aggressive to say it will happen, but I guess, Shandon,

431
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 2: I just don't see the scenario. I understand that in

432
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 2: theory the man can coach again. Well here, I mean,

433
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 2: I agree with that in theory, but from a practical standpoint,

434
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:29,359
Speaker 2: how does it happen?

435
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, fans are tired of talking about next season, and

436
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 7: that's what we've been talking about for the last four

437
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,000
Speaker 7: seasons now, And how are they gonna.

438
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 2: Raise the five million they need in Innisle to go

439
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 2: get players?

440
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 6: Who wants to give that program right now?

441
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:43,880
Speaker 2: Who's gonna pay that?

442
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 3: And I don't know who will be on the team

443
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,360
Speaker 3: next year. And if he were to leave, I think

444
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,159
Speaker 3: that class would probably go with him. But whoever it is,

445
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,119
Speaker 3: if he were back, it just wouldn't be fair to

446
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 3: them to not get the experience of the fan excitement.

447
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 3: So much of being Kentucky is the passion the fans

448
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 3: put in it. They have a lot of love. It

449
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 3: will be so unfair to whatever names are on the roster,

450
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 3: But it's the situation that's been built up before them

451
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 3: That's just why it will be so uncomfortable. They could

452
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,680
Speaker 3: be a good team, but there's a lot of fans

453
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 3: support that just isn't coming back no matter what at

454
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 3: this point until changes made at least.

455
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 2: Well eight f twenty two eighty seven. We will take

456
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 2: calls starting in the next segment. One person writes, Matt,

457
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,120
Speaker 2: I saw you and Drew sitting on the sideline. Two

458
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 2: people couldn't have looked sadder. The only thing Sader was

459
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 2: sitting in the team Hotel Ryan last night while they

460
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 2: were celebrated. Dude, that was surreal.

461
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,199
Speaker 5: You're going through your opening segment and bringing all this

462
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 5: talk about cal and then you in the background you

463
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 5: hear the band and people clapping.

464
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 2: That was a little surreal. Last night, there was nowhere

465
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,120
Speaker 2: else for me to go. I mean, we're staying fifteen

466
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 2: minutes out and I had to. It was the only

467
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 2: hotel close. I walk in and during the show, Jack

468
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 2: Gulky walks in. It's like, are you kidding me? Well,

469
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 2: you beat me spots miserable, might as well be really miserable.

470
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 2: We'll take a break. Come back, It's chash Welcome back

471
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 2: our number two half hour number two of Hour one

472
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 2: Kentucky Sports Radio. One person writes, Matt, are you gonna

473
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 2: still watch the rest of the games of the weekend? Yeah? Maybe?

474
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 2: I mean today we'll be driving Shannon Ryan will be

475
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 2: at the bar today. I hope some of you will

476
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 2: go join him. Shannon was nice enough to drive up

477
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 2: this morning. I bet you didn't think you'd be driving

478
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 2: up for a loss.

479
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 8: I did not.

480
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 7: I did not, But you know, it's still the first round.

481
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 7: It's still my two favorite days of the year when

482
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 7: it comes to sports. So I'm gonna try to enjoy

483
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 7: it as much as I can.

484
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 8: Here at the bar.

485
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 2: Had a great day yesterday, Ryan. I don't know what

486
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 2: the rest of them it's gonna be like, but.

487
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 6: It was great all day long, like a lot of

488
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 6: Sweet sixteen.

489
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 2: It was so excited. His fan base was so excited

490
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 2: all yeah, and it was you know, even it's like

491
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 2: the Charlie Brown football even after it gets pulled from us,

492
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 2: we're still excited. Now. I want to say, I've all

493
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 2: year it's been fascinating to read social media and specifically

494
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 2: read the text machine to kind of see where the

495
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 2: fans are. And you know, I think Col's had most

496
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:27,959
Speaker 2: of the fans kind of down on him, but there

497
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 2: were still very, very vocal advocates. I don't hear as

498
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 2: much of that anymore I did. I have gotten a

499
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 2: few versions of something like this, so let me read it.

500
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 2: It says, Matt. I know secretly you're happy that they

501
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 2: lost because now you're vindicated for always hating Col. Now's

502
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:46,880
Speaker 2: not the time to give up on him, but you

503
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 2: have wanted him to be gone forever. I know you

504
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,640
Speaker 2: and Drew are laughing. I saw a picture of you laughing.

505
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,719
Speaker 2: Don't tell me you're not happy. Well, first of all,

506
00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 2: they did catch a picture of me and Drew laughing.

507
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 2: I don't know what we were laughing about, but there

508
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 2: is a picture of us laughing.

509
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 8: You are allowed to laugh. I mean, it's like.

510
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 2: During yesterday I laughed. But no, I'm I'm completely bummed out.

511
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 2: And you know, I can go over all this all

512
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 2: you want, but at the end of the day, I'm

513
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 2: I'm a fan and I hate it. And it's been

514
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 2: two levels. First of all, on the fan level, it sucked.

515
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 2: I feel the same way you all do. Like we've

516
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 2: I look forward to this. These are my favorite weeks

517
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 2: of the year. We've we've gone owing to all year long.

518
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 2: It's been built for March, built for March, built for March,

519
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 2: and we come to March and we're oh and two

520
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 2: and and and if you if you're honest about it.

521
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 2: We were dominated in both games. I mean we led

522
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 2: a couple times to last night, but like they were

523
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 2: the better team. Had we won, Ryan, we'd just stolen

524
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 2: that game, right, Like they led the whole game pretty much.

525
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 6: Oakland deserved to win. They than Kentucky.

526
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 2: They missed ten free throws and some bunnies around the room.

527
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 2: I mean that they deserve that they deserve to win.

528
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 2: On a personal level, I don't take gratification in it,

529
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 2: but I do. I wanted us to. I wanted to

530
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:13,199
Speaker 2: be proven wrong. But I also all of us on

531
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 2: this show, but I, probably more than most, took a

532
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 2: lot of personal beatings by people that I've tried to

533
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: entertain for years for just having a different opinion than them.

534
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 2: And oh, you only do this because and now those

535
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 2: same people are saying the same thing and when they

536
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 2: say it, it must have been rational. But when I

537
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: said it was because I had an agenda. But they're

538
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 2: saying the same thing now. I mean, there's nobody publicly

539
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 2: advocating for cal right now. But it's been a tough year.

540
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 2: It's tough to listen to postgame press conferences and to

541
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 2: clearly hear this coach that you've not only idolized, that

542
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 2: you've had a friendship, like take shots at you because

543
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 2: he has. And I think it's always been a distraction

544
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 2: for him. He's his problem is he wants to win,

545
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 2: but he wants to win his way. That's as important

546
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 2: to him, Drew as anything. When his way and then

547
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: he can go see what I did see what how

548
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,719
Speaker 2: many times to see what I did right the time?

549
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: How many times is the you know, they all been

550
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 2: saying I'm gonna just sho do this, but I do this,

551
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 2: and yeah, you know, here comes tweet the old built

552
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 2: from it like it's all. It's all like his his

553
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 2: way of thinking has become antagonistic to his fans and

554
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 2: to the media and to like he has become an antagonist,

555
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 2: not a protagonist. And because of that, that's part of

556
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 2: why Drew I say it can't go on because he's

557
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 2: just gonna be more bitter now, right, So we're more

558
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 2: bitter the fans. He's gonna be more bitter. How's it

559
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 2: gonna get better? That's why it's just so weird.

560
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 3: Even if you're like Shannon, you believe he still has

561
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 3: it in him, it's I just feel, as you compared

562
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 3: it to a marriage. The relationship is just very broken

563
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 3: right now. And I think part of a lot of

564
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,959
Speaker 3: people would have a little more grace and sympathy if

565
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 3: he didn't spend the whole year beating his chest when

566
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 3: he won or deflecting when he lost. That Auburn press

567
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 3: conference down there, I wasn't in the room when they

568
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 3: beat Auburn. I didn't make that trip. That was uncomfortable

569
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 3: and unhinged press conference when he was doing the look

570
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 3: at me, look what we did?

571
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: We back to do all that you better go win?

572
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: What I mean, better go to the final four.

573
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 3: So now that he didn't, and he's already done the

574
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 3: whole year of you know, I guess we say talking

575
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 3: down a little bit or gloating when he's winning, but

576
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 3: then hiding when he's not. Now at the end, no

577
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 3: one's really in your corner because you spent the whole year,

578
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 3: you know, telling people that.

579
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: He does better like us, and by us, I think

580
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 2: it's the fan base. He would probably say it's like

581
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 2: us as in media, but riot that relationship, it's so antagonistic. Now,

582
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 2: I just don't know how everybody starts to love each

583
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 2: other again.

584
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 5: That's why I think, like you said last night, it

585
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 5: just has come time for a change because I don't

586
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 5: know how you can repair it going into next season.

587
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 5: There's no way I think it can be repaired the

588
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 5: way we've been punching the gut the last four years.

589
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 3: I want to add something on cheering against him, that

590
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 3: is absolutely not the case. And after we have a

591
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 3: little bit of a cooling off. Whenever this does end,

592
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,959
Speaker 3: I will think fondly of him and the era as

593
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 3: a whole. Just like when I think of Rick Patino,

594
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 3: I'm wearing the ninety six shirt right now. I don't

595
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 3: think about him leaving. I think about the fun stuff.

596
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 3: I have great Tubby Smith memories. It'll be the same

597
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 3: case for col When I'm looking at the overall thing,

598
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 3: I still like Cal.

599
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 2: Just these last few.

600
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 3: Years have been broken for what was supposed to be

601
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 3: the gold standard in college basketball, and it's hard to

602
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 3: just keep saying, all right, let's just do another offseason.

603
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 3: We'll win June and July, we'll have the draft, we'll.

604
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 2: Have the class.

605
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 4: But November through April maybe we won't be good.

606
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 2: I mean, how do we live? I mean, how is

607
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 2: this fan base gonna feel about the draft? Like seriously,

608
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 2: that's like.

609
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 3: Don't do not say NBA draft, don't say say draft again,

610
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 3: get drafted that we really and it's gonna be like

611
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 3: it's just gonna be terrible. It's you know, and we

612
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 3: should be happy for everyone going to get drafts because

613
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 3: that is a big deal.

614
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 4: But Kentucky should get stuff from that too.

615
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 2: But these and these are good dudes, but like, you know,

616
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? All right? Who's up first? Rick?

617
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 2: Richard is up first? Richard go ahead.

618
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 9: Well, I know what it feels to be the life

619
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 9: and stock of college basketball.

620
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 2: Well, I mean we were last night. We were the

621
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: only major team upset in day one.

622
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 9: That's right, And you know what move me more than anything.

623
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 9: I really love these young men. I think they're a

624
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 9: tremendous group of kids. They're all clean cats. They try hard,

625
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 9: they work so much, and Kyle couldn't get it done.

626
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 9: I mean, man, I'm sixty nine years old. I started

627
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 9: watching the Cats one that was the Runs, and there

628
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 9: ain't but three times in my life we've had this

629
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 9: kind of talent on one team that was seventy five, ninety six,

630
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 9: and now the seventy five team lost in the finals

631
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 9: to UCLA. The ninety six team won at all, and

632
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 9: Cal couldn't get this team out of the first round.

633
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's true. I mean, I think this

634
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 2: team and I appreciate the call. I think this team

635
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 2: it's not in the top top of the talent. People

636
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 2: say seventy five that's before my time, but ninety six

637
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 2: and twenty fifteen. I think we're more talented than this group.

638
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 2: But Ryan, I think this group is in terms of

639
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 2: talent right there beneath them with a group of a

640
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 2: lot of other teams, and to not get out of

641
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 2: the first round with that is pathetic.

642
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 5: Maybe that's why it hurts so much, because not only

643
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 5: do we know the talent was there, we really really

644
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 5: liked this team. They were a likable bunch of guys.

645
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 5: They were fun to watch. Last couple years later after this,

646
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 5: that team was kind of hard to watch with Oscar

647
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 5: and as popular as he was, this team were not

648
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 5: only good, we liked him and we wanted.

649
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 6: Him to succeed. I think it's why it hurts a

650
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 6: little bit more.

651
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: Yes, there's I actually think Shannon the players being likable

652
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 2: almost hurt cal Moore because nobody blames the players. Everybody

653
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 2: blames him, you know what I mean?

654
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 7: Yep, absolutely, and it all go It should go back

655
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 7: on Cali Perry, all of this should. And it don't

656
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 7: get me wrong, when I was saying in the first segment,

657
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 7: like there's no doubt like Tubby Smith, as Ryan said,

658
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 7: he got ran out of town for doing a lot

659
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 7: lesser than or a lot I guess, you know, like

660
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 7: not as bad as Cali Perry has been in the

661
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 7: last four season. He got ran out out of town

662
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 7: for that. So I just I just think that maybe

663
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 7: Cali Perry still has one more in thement.

664
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 8: That's all I was saying in the first segment. I'm

665
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 8: getting crack too.

666
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 2: But I thought it'd be this one. Yeah, I thought

667
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 2: he had more more in him, but I thought it

668
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: was this.

669
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 6: It was this one he had to draw.

670
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: You had the team, but you know what, I'm gonna

671
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: give you some complaints you've heard in years past, that's true. Now.

672
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 2: They were all scared to death except the old guys

673
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 2: and Rob. Rob doesn't get scared. Reed Sheppard was scared.

674
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 2: DJ Wagner was scared. Justin Edwards for most of the

675
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 2: game was scared. He had a little run there at

676
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 2: the end.

677
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 4: You had a big shot in the comeback by Fierro.

678
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 2: May have been hurt a little, but was also a

679
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: little scared. They were tight, and by scared, I don't

680
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 2: mean like they were able. They were tight, though they

681
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,719
Speaker 2: were nervous. They'd look at the sideline when they missed.

682
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 2: Thank goodness for Antonio Reeves and Trey Mitchell. But to me,

683
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 2: that's the telling point. The two seniors scored forty one

684
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:40,959
Speaker 2: points and everybody else was just am I A. And

685
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 2: at some point, as I said in the game, every

686
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 2: year they're different players, the same result is happening. Ryan.

687
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 2: The only common denominator is the coach. Yeah, you know,

688
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: I look back and I kind of feel sorry for

689
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 2: some of these dudes, a guy like BJ Boston, right,

690
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: or Tie Tie or Casein or Davon Minz or Oscar

691
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 2: because people have been hard on these individuals. But the

692
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 2: common theme is still the same. Right, And I go

693
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 2: back to a point that I think is important. All

694
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 2: I want John cal Perry to do is to hold

695
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: himself to the same standard he holds his players. Get

696
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 2: up there and hold yourself to the same standards you

697
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 2: hold the players. I've heard you for years. They're not robots,

698
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 2: you know, but this isn't for everybody. I can't hide you.

699
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 2: And then he gets up there and when he's facing

700
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: tough questions, goes, well, you know, my guys just didn't

701
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 2: play like they played all year. It's on you. You cannot

702
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 2: hold eighteen and nineteen year olds to a standard and

703
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 2: then get mad when people hold you to the same standard.

704
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 2: All people are doing in criticizing cal are doing exactly

705
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 2: what he does publicly to his players, including last night.

706
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 2: And he's mad for us saying about him what he

707
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 2: says about these guys. He's making ten million dollars. Devin asked,

708
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 2: you didn't make that, Severe Wheeler didn't make that, and

709
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 2: you held them to that standard. You held Aaron Bradshaw

710
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 2: to that standard. Why can't it be held towards with you?

711
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 2: And he doesn't have an answer for that, and he

712
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 2: gets mad if you insinuate it. But it is the truth.

713
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 2: It is and there's no standard. Did Reed Shepherd play

714
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 2: well last night? No, not by any standard. And you

715
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 2: said that, well, guess what, you have not coached well

716
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 2: by any standard. And now you have to hear that

717
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 2: the way Reid had to hear it last night. And

718
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 2: with that, UK Federal Credit Union is the official credit

719
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 2: union of the University of Content, an award winning and

720
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: best place to work from student to graduate employee beyond.

721
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 2: UK Federal Credit Union is here for you, with two

722
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 2: locations on UK's campus. Go to UKFCU dot org to

723
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 2: join it's UK Federal Union membership bills were really eligibility

724
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 2: required fairly injured by n CUA. We'll take a break

725
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 2: very back, cass Hark, welcome back, take you sports radio

726
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 2: here live in Pittsburgh, Right and Shennon are in Lexington.

727
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 2: Uh if I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. Bill Simmons

728
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 2: apparently starts hip podcast podcast today with a twenty minute

729
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 2: bread on how bad Cal is as a coach. So

730
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 2: that's nice. You know that we're gonna get more of that.

731
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 4: It's gonna be all day, getting can be all done.

732
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 2: And it'll be like that for a while. One person writes, Matt,

733
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 2: do you agree with Jay Wright that you can't win

734
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 2: with freshman anymore? You know, I've held on with freshman

735
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 2: for a long time, but I do wonder now with

736
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 2: the transfer portal nil making guys stay longer. I mean

737
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 2: Jay Wright's argument was Ryan basically, with the transfer portal

738
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: and the way guys can move up in schools, you

739
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 2: just can't take freshman and win against these grown men

740
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 2: anymore because the grown men are now better than they

741
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 2: were a few years ago. Do you agree with that?

742
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 5: I think there's a little truth to that, and I

743
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 5: think that you know, is that led to more parody

744
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 5: in college basketball because of that, So I don't but

745
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 5: I don't buy.

746
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 2: The parody argument. We're the only one that lost.

747
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's across college basketball. I do

748
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 3: agree with it, Freshman.

749
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: No, No, I agree with what Jay Wright's saying, but

750
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 2: the parody argument. Remember two years ago the final four

751
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 2: was Duke North, Carolina, Kansas, and Villanova. Right now, last

752
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 2: year was weird, but like yesterday, the top five seeds

753
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 2: all one except us Shannon, we're the only one that lost.

754
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll see what happens today. But I think Jay

755
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 7: Wright is correct and what he's saying with NILB and

756
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 7: what it is, You're gonna have teams with older guys

757
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 7: and Howard freshman gonna match up with those guys. I mean,

758
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 7: unless you have, you know, guys going to the NBA,

759
00:37:58,920 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 7: which Kentucky has.

760
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 8: How many guys does Oakland have going to the NBA?

761
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 8: You know, I mean the one.

762
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 2: Dude, GOALKI got up and goes, I know I'm not

763
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 2: playing in.

764
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 8: The I love it. Yeah, you hear the story.

765
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 5: He transferred to Oakland to complete his accounting certificate or

766
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 5: masters or something.

767
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 6: That's why he was accountant.

768
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 3: He averaged five minutes a game at Hillsdale College like

769
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 3: three years.

770
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 2: Ago, and he just let us up. But the thing

771
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 2: that's crazy to me is how confident they were that

772
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 2: our guys were scared. Our guys were scared. They were

773
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 2: one hundred confident, they knew they were going to win,

774
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 2: and our dudes were scared. And that's on the coach.

775
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 3: This has been my takeaway all week, not this game, only,

776
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 3: not A and M, not Saint Peter's. It's these last

777
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 3: few years. People do not fear the Kentucky logo anymore.

778
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 3: And it's not just they don't fear anymore. They get

779
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 3: their bracket and go on local radio and celebrate that

780
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 3: they That has never been the case.

781
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 2: Forever.

782
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 4: People would get their bracket, they'd.

783
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 3: See Kentucky's on the other side, and they would excel

784
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 3: because they feared that logo and they feared Kentucky in

785
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 3: the tournament. We have a forty year old man in Rochester, Michigan,

786
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 3: or a forty year old coach in Rochester, Michigan talking

787
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 3: about how he wants Kentucky and that's the draw his

788
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 3: team of accountants got.

789
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 2: I thought, well him too, But regard why are the

790
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 2: future accountants being like, heck, yeah, we got Kentucky. Now

791
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 2: we're going to do this.

792
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 4: But that's the culture.

793
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 2: Now, who's up next?

794
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 8: Rick?

795
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 2: Charlene is up there, Charlene, how are you?

796
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 10: I'm not well, but thanks for asking. What coach caw

797
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 10: can't get through his thick hit is the University of

798
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 10: Kentucky is not John Caller Perry's private NBA development center.

799
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 10: Every decision he makes as a coach in every game,

800
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 10: it's like it's an NBA combined. It's how he distributes

801
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 10: playing minutes, it's how he decides who his starters will be.

802
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 10: Everything is about that player exposure and that player development.

803
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 10: And I am just so beyond last night we scored

804
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 10: two points in three and a half minutes, and it

805
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 10: took four minutes for Robin Reid, our two lottery picks

806
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 10: to get off the bench into the game and the actions.

807
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 2: Think about this, Charlie, This is with Reed Shepherd having

808
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 2: I think objectively a bad game. With that said, with Reid,

809
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 2: Rob and Reeves in together, Kentucky was plus four when

810
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 2: one of them was out, they were minus eight, and

811
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 2: yet they only.

812
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 10: Played Did he make that decision? And so he can

813
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 10: get DJ's exposure for the NBA draft down the road.

814
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 10: I feel like every decision he makes is permeated by

815
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 10: NBA player development. I'm over players first. It's time to

816
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 10: be Kentucky first.

817
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call. I also don't understand Ryan, why we

818
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 2: never went small once? They have no bigs, no bigs,

819
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 2: and we kept throwing seven footers out there? Why not

820
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 2: have Trey Mitchell play center? Yep? Seriously, why not have

821
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: Justin Edwards and trade Mitch? They would not have been

822
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 2: able to take advantage of that, So why not? What

823
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 2: good does it do to have seven footers no offense

824
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 2: who can't score down there? Ryde like, what good does

825
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 2: it do? No?

826
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 5: The lineup with Trey Mitchell to five, we saw it

827
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 5: work and this was a perfect game. To play it

828
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 5: and go perfect game?

829
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 2: You play it? Why not?

830
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 3: At one point, Golki had his hands on his knees

831
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 3: in the second half and we even said each other,

832
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 3: this is where we come back there so gassed and

833
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 3: they don't have the depth, and we're still slowing it

834
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 3: down so they can.

835
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 6: Cast their breath.

836
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 2: They were absolutely gassed. They were absolutely gassed. We should

837
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 2: have just run it down their throats. But with Ugo

838
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,760
Speaker 2: and Z they're tired and like, what like no offense

839
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 2: to those guys, But what did happen Ugo and Z

840
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 2: do for you tonight? Shannon?

841
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 6: Like nothing, nothing last night?

842
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 7: Nothing pe We'll combined out of all three seven footers,

843
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 7: I think ten points for the game.

844
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 2: Was probably the best of the group. We played him

845
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 2: like seven minutes?

846
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 4: Did the nuclear lineup get one minute?

847
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 2: The one?

848
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 3: Nate Oates is like, well, I just did Col's job

849
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 3: for him. There's this five Did we see them ever together?

850
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: One minute?

851
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 6: Oh?

852
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 4: I don't think Edward's played the four of the hot

853
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 4: my dream line up?

854
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, yep, you got Edwards doing with the.

855
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 5: Four with the guards and who k Kentucky wasn't gonna win

856
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 5: when they was fifty three fifty and he had a

857
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 5: wide open layup and he didn't even get it to

858
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 5: the rim.

859
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 6: I knew at that moment, like they're not gonna win.

860
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 2: He missed that dunk. That was the thing was Antonio Reeves,

861
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 2: Man Bob and Jamestown probably should never be able to

862
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 2: call again, honestly, because it's not for Antonio Reeves. We

863
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 2: lose that game by twenty points. M M. He kept

864
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 2: us in it. Unbelievable, all right, I want to talk

865
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 2: about sort of a state of the program thing, like

866
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 2: what what really happens next, because I think that's important.

867
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 2: We'll do that to lead AWARDAM too. It's KSR