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Now here's Matt Jones. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.480 Working back Tucky Sports Radio here at the KOs Bar 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.119 and Grail Wings day Dollar Wings all day and night. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.959 Come on out and have lunch or dinner. This guy 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.399 right here, he came in but smile on his face, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.880 sitting down to eat, and gave me the great news. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.120 He was like, your left for your tires flat? And 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.000 I thought, well, I mean, he doesn't know what he's 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.240 talking about. It's not I mean, he's I'm a tire expert. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.080 And then I went outside in my left for your 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.000 tires flat. I don't know how that happened. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:34.760 Well, if you need a segment off to go, put 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.479 the spear on, Drew and I can handle this. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:38.440 You know what I mean. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:40.440 I'm pretty good at that. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.520 But like, uh, I may let other people practice on it. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:45.080 You can. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.200 Michelle right there has got a pump right across the street. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.480 Yeah, I have a couple, but right, you're jack right. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.560 Yeah, I mean I have like three jacks, and three 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:58.720 three Jackson is unnecessarily one. The hard part would be 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.680 in case I see people on the side road, Shannon, 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:01.480 I need to help. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.919 Yeah, I'm gonna put a somebody's car up on blocks 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:04.760 with three jacks. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.440 The hard part would be cleaning out the back to 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.840 get to the spare tire and the jack all the 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:11.799 stuff in the back of your car. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.960 So that wasn't really uh, that wasn't really good steaks steaks, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.440 but uh, thank you for telling me that, sir, You're 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.799 you get two dollars weeks today. Through throughout the rest 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.680 of the day. Eight f nine, twenty two eighty seven. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.280 Kobe Brea. Uh, Kobe Brea opened some eyes there at 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:32.800 the NBA Combine. He shot fifty seven percent on all shots, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.520 which is like six or seventh best of. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:35.680 All the players. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.240 But more importantly, I saw kind of getting some good buzz, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.760 uh seeing some mock drafts where he's risen to the 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.920 top of the second round instead of instead of at 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.359 the bottom. Kobe Brea might get drafted, Drew. That's kind 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:50.400 of exciting, isn't it. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.359 I think at this point I'd be surprised if he's 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.480 not drafted, if we're to believe all these mock drafts. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.000 Once the once the order was set, uh two nights ago, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.639 every publication there is put one out yesterday, and I 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.760 think they all consider him somewhere in the second round, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.360 some in the back of the second round, but some 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.359 as high as right away in the second so I'm 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.680 expecting it when the draft gets here. And he measured 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.520 really well. A lot of these guys, you see what 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.440 they have in their college media guys and they get 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.600 to the combine, it's like four inch difference. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.120 I think he was right at six seven. It was 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:18.119 it was a good size. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.799 For one of those two dudes at Rutgers. I get 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.600 him confused, but what Base Bailey. He was listed by 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.920 Rutgers at six ten and then they measured him he 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.360 was six seven and a half, which that'll that will 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.200 hurt you. He's probably now not going to be a 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.959 top three pick because of his measurements. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.840 Kobe Bray was six five and three quarters barefoot. I 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.040 don't know why they do barefoot, but put some shoes 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.440 on him, and that's right around six seven. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.200 It's weird because you don't play bear exactly. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.440 So he's getting great reviews from the combine. That's good though. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.680 It's it's awesome because we saw him become a better 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.520 player as the season went on. He was just a 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.400 spot up shooter to start with. By the time the 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.040 season end that he was creating his own shot. He 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.040 was getting you know, making the moves to get open 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.720 so we can get a shot off. He's he's earned 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:57.640 that right to play in the NBA. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.760 He's yeah, do you think he will become any like 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.800 will he play in the NBA? I mean his defense, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.960 His defense was an issue here, so it's hard to 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.600 imagine how it's not in the NBA. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:10.480 But what do you think. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.240 I think some miles storm on the bench and use him. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.520 I mean, hopefully that defense improved. It got a lot 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.480 better at the very end of the year. By tournament time, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.200 he was defending pretty well. But it still has a 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.000 ways to go to get a lot of minutes. But 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.360 I do think he'll be wearing a uniform and getting 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.320 minutes sparingly somewhere just because how he shoots so well. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.240 He's a perfect example of how it is so hard 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.000 for a lot of college fans to project the NBA. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.520 Because if you were looking at Kentucky's team last year 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.360 and you were saying, okay, who are the best players, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.200 you probably would have ranked him like fifth or sixth. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.520 You know, you would have said, uh Otega, you know, 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:53.560 Jackson Robinson, Lamont Butler, Amari Williams, maybe even Andrew Carr 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.080 before he got hurt. But the NBA is looking for 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:02.560 one specific set of skill sets, and fifteen years ago 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.080 those skill sets were athleticism and that still matters. But 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.719 now shooting is a lot more of what that skill 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.080 set is, and he has it more consistently than those 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:12.479 other guys. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.680 There's no doubt about it that it's a shooters league 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.400 and that's one thing he can do well. I've learned 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.800 over the years. I've been burned a couple of times 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:21.600 saying that guys will never play in the NBA. Like 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.520 I remember I said Winning Gabriel will never play in 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.280 the NBA, Jared Vanderbilt. These guys surprised me, and he 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.280 can do the thing the NBA coaches want done that 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:31.400 shoot the basketball. 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:32.200 It happens. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.960 I think a lot more now in the NBA that 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.520 they see guys and they are putting you into a 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.240 slot unless you're a superstar, you know, unless you're Anthony 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.040 Edwards or whatever. They're saying, Okay, I need a big 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.919 who can do this. I need a wing who can shoot. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.760 I need a three and D guy, right, I need 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.240 a point guard who can do this. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.800 And if you can do that, they'd. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.440 Rather have that than say a Jackson Robinson, who can 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.240 do a lot of things well but isn't necessarily a 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.400 superstar at anything. 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.800 And three pointing shooting is such a priority now, like 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.479 the guys Ryan mentioned, nothing against the pass coach, but 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.360 you know that some guys just weren't allowed to shoot 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.760 threes here, and then in one summer before they get 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.480 the NBA, they prove they have a shot, like guys 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.159 like Julius Randall just knocking down threes consistently. I mean, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.440 he's a big example. He's a superstar, but anyone that 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.000 can make a three has a shot in the NBA. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:22.040 Yeah. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.159 And then Boogie Flanned from Arkansas, who at one point 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.600 probably would have been the point guard, would have been 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.640 the point guard here at Kentucky. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.480 He is withdrawing from the draft. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.240 He's a perfect example of how nil has changed college sports. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.640 This is a dude who certainly would have been in 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.760 the draft, but he's withdrawing even. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.719 Though he could have still been a first round pick 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.440 because there's more money for him in college. Most people 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.640 think he's going to go to Florida and be the 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:54.760 point guard there. Surprised, Are you surprised Col's gonna. 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.480 Lose a point guard? 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.600 He's actually slipped really far. Cal even put out a 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.400 tweet a few weeks ago about how he's a first 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.440 round pick. I think everyone had him as a second 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.599 and I saw if a dude doesn't go first round, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.880 this will be Cal's first year not having a first 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.240 rounder since like two thousand and seven. Really, yeah, so 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.320 all the pressures on a due who's also projected fringe 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.360 kind of more so second round right now. But uh, 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.960 with flanned, I'm really surprised that didn't work out, especially 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.400 when he got hurt. A lot of us thought he 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.440 was kind of just getting ready for the NBA. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.040 I was gonna say, do you think if he hadn't 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.920 got hurt he would have been a first round pick? 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.840 Did the injury kind of derail? I don't think he 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:31.560 was playing great. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.720 I mean, I I you know, not to not to 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.520 pick on cow, but I want you to think about 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:46.320 the slippage in point guards from Cal. Let's even go 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.920 back to Memphis through the last few years. Let's just 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.160 let's just relate who the Cal Perry point guards have. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.000 Been in the last few years. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:08:02.120 Started with Derrick Rose, Tyreek Evans, John Wall, Brandon Knight, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:12.560 Marcus Tige, Andrew Harrison Tyler, Ulssdaron Fox, Shae Gilgess, Alexander Right, 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.640 go through that list. Now let's look at what the 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:23.080 post COVID point guards were Devin ask you, Severe Wheeler, 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:29.880 DJ Wagner and now Boogie Flynn. That's a massive drop off. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.920 And if you want to talk about the drop off 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:37.360 in Cal as a coach, is that the explanation drew 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.280 that you started with these guys who were able to 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.760 dominate have pro careers, and then you end with guys 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.000 who are not first round picks and might not even 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.160 play in the league. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.640 Especially when he's so you know, so much of giving 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.640 him in the dribble drive, you know, go and attack, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.280 and then you end up with Devin Rescuing who picks 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.120 up his dribble at half court, and Severe Wheeler who 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.000 couldn't really do it that well. I think years from now, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.040 when we look back at Cal's career, you will have 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.440 to talk about pre COVID and post COVID. I don't 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.600 know what happened, but I've seen a lot of night 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.120 and day difference in him as the talent he's using. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.599 It could also just be with Portal and NL. It 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.920 might not just be the COVID year. But it is 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.880 it has been a completely different story around him since 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:22.760 that twenty nineteen twenty twenty sex and. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:23.439 He also went away. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.080 I mean, in that group of post COVID guys, there 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.760 are some dudes who are pretty good that he wouldn't. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:31.400 Let play point guard. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:32.959 So I was gonna say Case. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:38.760 Wallace, ty Ty Washington, even Davyon Mintz, he wouldn't John L. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.760 Davis who played a little point guard at Florida Atlantic, 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.160 and then he didn't let him play. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:43.640 It. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.800 It's Rob should have been the starter. Let's just let's 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.760 go ahead and say it. Rob could have been one 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:48.280 on the list. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:49.120 Okay, so do it. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.880 So think about think about what that list is of Devin, 0:09:54.000 --> 0:10:01.679 ask you Severe Wheeler, DJ Wagner, and and what that 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.440 list could have been, which would have been Davion Mintz, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.800 ty Ty Washington, Cason Wallace, Rob Dillingham. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:15.120 That's a different feel, that's a different list. I gotta 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.199 be honest, though, I really thought DJ was going to 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:18.840 be that guy. You know, we talked about him for 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.800 years until he got here. I thought he was going 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.240 to be in that same I did conversation as the 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.959 great cal point guard. It just it just didn't happen. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.000 Yeah, it just didn't happen. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:34.120 Who's up next, shit, Bradley, Bradley, go ahead, Bradley, Hey. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.840 Man, I just had a quick question for you. For 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:39.160 the longest time, you always said that we shouldn't choose 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.520 coaches just because they have a connection to the university. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.800 But now that we have Pope, has that tune changed 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.440 or did we just get lucky with Pope? 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:48.440 No? 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.040 I still feel the same way. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:50.800 I mean. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.040 Again, you let's go back to when Pope was hired. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.600 If you look at who the candidates were, I think 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.880 he would equally as qualified as the candidates that we 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.200 were down to at the time. So I think my 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.840 opinion over the years has been, if it's a tie, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.240 you could give it to the Kentucky guy, But if 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.680 it is not a tie, you picked the best coach. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.600 I think when you get down to the final two 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.280 candidates were Shaka Smart and Mark Pope, then to me, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:26.040 it's a tie and you take Mark Pope. But if 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.920 the university had allowed them to hire Bruce Pearl or 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.120 Nate Oates, I think you would have hired Bruce Pearl 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.120 or Naate Oates. And I think even Mark Pope would 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.440 have probably understood that, but that's not how it played out. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.760 So my position is still the same. I mean, take 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.640 John Shire, Duke doing a great job recruiting, should have 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.600 won a national championship last year. Mike Krzyzewski probably wins 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:49.920 a national championship with that group. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:50.440 Last year. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.400 Duke hired a dude who had never coached before. Carolina 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.640 hired Hubert Davis, who had never coached before. I think 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.480 when you got a job like that, you get the 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.880 best dude, Drew you can get, and then that's that. Yeah, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.360 in maybe go ahead, sir. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.520 Sorry, So do you think that Pope still would have 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.320 been one of the top candidates even if he hadn't 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:12.120 have played at UK? 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:15.640 Yeah? 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:16.240 Maybe? 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:17.720 I mean it depends again. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.040 Once, once the university made the decision that they were 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:25.400 not gonna hire Nat Oates, Bruce Pearl, Chris Beard or 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.960 Sean Miller, which that decision was made, you can argue 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.960 whether it should have been or not, but that decision 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.920 was made by the higher ups in the university. Then 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.520 Mark Pope to me, was just as qualified as everybody else. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.640 I mean, who's the coach at Louisville right now, Pat Kelsey? 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.720 Did he do a good job. Did you know who 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.760 he was before he coached before he got the Louisville job? 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:49.560 Probably not. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.520 Look at the coach at Michigan, Dusty May. How many 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:57.680 people knew who he was? Probably not many. So I 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.000 think it's a different era of hiring coaches. You can't 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.160 just go steal the big name. And yes, I think 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.080 I appreciate the call. If you look at who was 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:09.640 available and who Kentucky was allowed to hire, Mark Pope 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:10.920 was as qualified as any of them. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.480 I haven't wrote a list before he even got hired. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.800 I had him tenth, but like all the way through, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.040 six or seven were crossed off because some they wouldn't 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.439 talk to, some would turn him down. I think I 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:22.920 had Todd Golden ahead of him and ended up that 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.280 looking like pretty good. But uh, once Pope had that 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.400 one year at b YU before we hired him, that 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.000 put him on the list because it was their first 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.040 year in the Big twelve. I think they finished fourth. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.720 Before that, he didn't really have the resume, but that 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.520 one season I think really took him up to the 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:36.600 next tier of coaches. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.239 But look at Todd Goldan, he came from San Francisco, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:45.160 right Nate Oates came from Buffalo. I mean, those dudes 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.400 came from small schools. Mark Pope was at BYU, had 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.120 had some success. He's as qualified as those dudes were 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:52.440 before they took their jobs. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.640 Yeah, I think I've just seen true. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:55.480 I did. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.880 All beautiful dudes. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.720 It's a fair question. The guy asked, if you take 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.319 away Mark Pope's UK basketball career, would he have been 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.960 considered as a head coach? And I think Drew hit 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:09.680 it that the one year that what he was able 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.000 to do turning around BYU made them a power. I 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.840 think kind of opened some eyes in the coaching world. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.840 They lost the tournament game to Dukane or whatever it was, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.600 but that was their first year in the Big twelve, 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.800 and he actually had a great season all things considered. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.280 I think that put him on a lot of lists. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.640 I mean, you're right to be fair. Would he have 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.000 been hired if he hadn't gone to Kentucky? Probably not. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.560 But would you rather have Shaka Smart because that's who. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:35.120 It would have been. 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:38.160 I didn't really want him anyway. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:38.920 I think that's who. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:39.120 Like. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:44.400 Let's say Mark Pope didn't exist, SHACKA Smart's the coach here? 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:46.760 Is that better? Not? 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.600 For me. No, not really. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:54.280 I mean Chock is good, but he failed at Texas. Yeah, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:55.920 so would you have wanted to try it here? 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:57.960 You know? I'm not sure? 0:14:58.520 --> 0:14:58.640 Uh. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:14:59.720 Hey, Wildcat fans. 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.040 Club Blue is the official and aile fundraising partner at 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.240 the University of Kentucky and they're excited to introduce Club 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.160 Blue Kids. 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We got to reach 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:17.560 out and help each other when they need some help. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.600 I should buy some of the catfish for lunch to 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.600 fish brothers. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.400 Just not in an actual war. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:24.640 Yeah, I don't. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.600 I'm not sure any of us would really be good 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:27.480 in an actual war. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.120 Who do you think would be if you were if 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.000 you were in the trenches in World War One? Of 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.560 the six of us, who who would you want the 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.080 most combination of all the skills needed. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.480 I'd say none of us are coming home, but I would. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.960 Shannon has a wrestling championship belt. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.040 It's not yahoo. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.760 I can shoot, and he's from Blood County. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.920 Can you can you you can shoot a gun? Yeah? 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.000 But like good, well, yes I can. Shannon first, he's first. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.280 I'm certainly last. I don't. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:05.800 I can't shoot a gun. I'm a big target. I 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.960 probably mouth off to the other side. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:09.040 You would get it started. 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.440 You would walk out into the field and try to 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.520 talk first Germans, my man, my man, what are you doing? 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:17.960 Like why are we out here? 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:24.800 And then it's not I like comfort, so I would 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:25.280 be last. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.240 I think that's you know, that's the way it goes. 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.879 I have I need help with everybody listening with something 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:38.240 you tire. Tomorrow is the start of the new Matt 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.800 Jones Show. It'll air on Thursday nights at six o'clock 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.160 on w h A. S Is it on here in Lexington? 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.359 Do we know yet? I think it is. Let's just 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.560 say it is. If it's not, we'll we'll force him to. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.960 It's on six o'clock. It's gonna be every I mean 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.199 it's gonna be every week. I'm gonna be talking to 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:02.800 somebody new about everything. My first ever Matt Jones podcast, 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.359 the guest was Beaumonti Jones, so I'm bringing him back 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.800 to be the first guest on this one. But we'll 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.080 have a ton of people over things, and then we're 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.400 restarting the podcast as a podcast too. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:16.280 So you'll be able. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.119