Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR Pre Show.
Speaker 1: Today is Monday, April seventh. You can give us call
Speaker 1: at eight five nine two eight zero to two eight
Speaker 1: seven or text us at five oh two two six
Speaker 1: five six six five six is always The KSR Pre
Speaker 1: Show is brought to you by Italics Fine Italian dining
Speaker 1: right here in Lexington, Kentucky, on Main Street in the
Speaker 1: city center where we are now. I am here live
Speaker 1: and studio in Lexington without my co host Shannon the Dude.
Speaker 1: Almost all of KSR is actually off this week down
Speaker 1: on down in the beach, maybe down in Amster down Damn.
Speaker 1: They're in a lot of different places. But Shannon and
Speaker 1: Ryan on their bro date together this week, so it
Speaker 1: will be a week of special guest Drew Franklin. Big
Speaker 1: week for him as well, Drew Palooza. I'll be joining
Speaker 1: him on KSR a little later today. Our friend Corey
Speaker 1: Price will join us then. But joining me for this
Speaker 1: first hour on the KSR Pre Show is a guy
Speaker 1: that's he's tapped in, folks, I mean he's locked in.
Speaker 1: It's his busy time of the year. It is Transfer
Speaker 1: portal expert Jacob Policheck, who works for KSR plus. Good morning, Jacob,
Speaker 1: how are you.
Speaker 2: Good morning Billy. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: First time having you on the pre show, so it
Speaker 1: is an honor to have you here. I got your
Speaker 1: last name right, correct. Polo check, Polo check okay, right,
Speaker 1: I get a lot of polar check, but it is
Speaker 1: polo check.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Good well. You do a great job on KSR plus
Speaker 1: and the YouTube channel as well with rapid reactions. And
Speaker 1: I thought i'd have you in to talk a little
Speaker 1: transfer portal because I don't know what's going on, Jacob.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be one hundred percent and honest with you,
Speaker 1: Like these kids are changing their minds last minute. I mean,
Speaker 1: Kentucky's trying to fill out a roster. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a really interesting time of year, don't you think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is really NonStop right now. It was NonStop
Speaker 3: before the season even ended. And now the second Kentucky
Speaker 3: lost in the tournament, it hit a full head and
Speaker 3: now they're going after guys every single day.
Speaker 1: Kentucky's got a new commit they missed out on a
Speaker 1: couple others. We'll break that down throughout the show and
Speaker 1: if you have any questions for Jacob, maybe if you
Speaker 1: have an eye on a recruit that Kentucky would should
Speaker 1: check out Texas five o two two six five six
Speaker 1: six five six. I do want to want to start
Speaker 1: with the severe weather that we've had throughout the Commonwealth
Speaker 1: this past weekend, Jacob. It's been unreal the amount of
Speaker 1: rain that we've gotten. You know, Keemlin will be racing
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow after had they had to delay their schedule,
Speaker 1: but other things have gotten delayed, including thunder over Louisville
Speaker 1: being canceled this weekend. I guess the ground is just
Speaker 1: gonna be too wet for them to do these these
Speaker 1: these festivities and the fireworks show that was supposed to
Speaker 1: happen this weekend. The only other time it's happened was
Speaker 1: during COVID, Jacob. So you know the weather's bad when
Speaker 1: you got to cancel a great event like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's unfortunate to hear.
Speaker 3: Actually, when I was in high school, the first time
Speaker 3: I ever went to Kentucky, I visited Louisville and it
Speaker 3: just so happened that thunder over Louisville was taking place.
Speaker 2: Oh it was.
Speaker 1: That was the first time.
Speaker 2: It was the first time I visited.
Speaker 3: It was not planned We just happened to be there
Speaker 3: when it happened, and it was a really cool.
Speaker 2: Four timing four time.
Speaker 1: It is crowded as hell down there, but I'm sad
Speaker 1: to see that. I mean, it really is. We've seen
Speaker 1: some flooding all throughout the states, some terrible images coming
Speaker 1: out of places like Frankfort, Kentucky, where a boy was
Speaker 1: washed away walking to the to the I guess the
Speaker 1: school bus stop a little on Friday. I've seen houses
Speaker 1: floating down the floating down the road. It's just been
Speaker 1: incredible to see. And our thoughts and prayers are with
Speaker 1: everybody affected. Dawson Springs in the western part of the
Speaker 1: state is underwater, so I'm thinking about everybody today throughout
Speaker 1: the Commonwealth and some of the severe weather that we've gotten,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's bad when Keeenlan's backed up, when
Speaker 1: thunder is canceled, and we're just hoping that we can
Speaker 1: all get through this week a little bit drier. You know,
Speaker 1: we're excited for Drudihost. But Jacob I had something over
Speaker 1: the weekend that I want to share. I did a
Speaker 1: little spring cleaning, trying to clean up the upstairs and
Speaker 1: the closets, and found my old class ring, and I've
Speaker 1: got it on this morning. Jake, there you go, pass
Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, the Western Kentucky Old Toppers with this
Speaker 1: huge red stone on the top of it. That is
Speaker 1: a nice ring, And I want to start with a
Speaker 1: little bit of a fair or foul. Do you think
Speaker 1: I think it's tacky to wear a class ring? I
Speaker 1: mean maybe to an event of like your graduating class.
Speaker 1: But if I were to just start wearing this around, Jacob,
Speaker 1: would you look at me a little differently?
Speaker 3: If you've got it flaunted, I think it's better than
Speaker 3: sitting in a drawer where you're never going to see it.
Speaker 1: If you have it, I think I think it's definitely fair.
Speaker 1: You gotta wear that thing fair. So if we were
Speaker 1: to go fair or foul, you'll say fair on the
Speaker 1: class ring.
Speaker 2: I think one hundred percent fair. I think it looks good.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm also wearing it on. I guess where my
Speaker 1: wedding ring would be, since I don't have one yet,
Speaker 1: I guess that changes. If you were to have a
Speaker 1: wedding ring, maybe you put it on your right index
Speaker 1: finger or your ring finger on your right hand to differentiate.
Speaker 1: But for now, if I'm gonna punch you with my
Speaker 1: left fist. You're gonna get a little bit impression right now,
Speaker 1: Jacob with the class ring. Where did you go to college?
Speaker 1: You didn't go to Kentucky.
Speaker 3: I went to the University of Kansas, Kansas. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: another blue blood.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, Shannon's not here to say Kansas is the worst state,
Speaker 1: so I will it's one of the most boring states.
Speaker 1: Would you agree with that or do you have a
Speaker 1: fond place in your heart for it?
Speaker 2: I would one hundred percent agree with that.
Speaker 3: I always tell people that the best city in Kansas
Speaker 3: is Kansas.
Speaker 2: City, which is not even in Kansas, Missouri. There you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, we'll get to know Jacob as
Speaker 1: the show goes on. I once drove through Kansas. It
Speaker 1: was the only time that I stopped driving to Colorado.
Speaker 1: So I drove from Louisville to Colorado. It's a long drive.
Speaker 1: We stopped in Kansas City to watch a Royals game.
Speaker 1: We stayed overnight, and really the only time of the
Speaker 1: trip I didn't drive was through Kansas. So I started
Speaker 1: to take a nap in the passenger seat, and that's
Speaker 1: when we got pulled over. So it was like a fiance.
Speaker 1: You know what, just back in the passenger seat. I'll
Speaker 1: drive the rest of the way. She's gonna get pulled over.
Speaker 1: But hey, man, what a what fun weekend it was.
Speaker 1: Those final four games were incredible, weren't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was four.
Speaker 3: Number one seeds and they were really the four best
Speaker 3: teams in the Country's hard to arg game.
Speaker 1: Oh, people complain about all the chalk, but it allowed
Speaker 1: you to get some pretty good games. In the Final four.
Speaker 1: Florida defeats Auburn seventy nine to seventy three. I mean
Speaker 1: Walter Clayton junior man, I mean, first person since Larry
Speaker 1: Bird to have back to back thirty point games in
Speaker 1: the Elite Eight in the final four. It wasn't only
Speaker 1: his range, Jacob his layup pack, which was incredible. I
Speaker 1: mean he was. He's somebody that's definitely turning heads, isn't he.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he could do everything, and for his size to
Speaker 3: be able to get to the hoop like he does,
Speaker 3: it's pretty impressive. I think a lot of teams are
Speaker 3: going to regret not drafting him in the upcoming didn't
Speaker 3: he go.
Speaker 1: To Iona Is that was at his transfer portal?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he went to Iona and then transferred
Speaker 3: two years ago.
Speaker 2: I want to say, so.
Speaker 1: Got that Ricky p in him a little bit, He's
Speaker 1: got that dog in him. So that was That was
Speaker 1: a great game. Despite Jeni Broome being the player of
Speaker 1: the year and Bruce Pearl being the coach of the year,
Speaker 1: Auburn could not get over that hump. Despite what's the
Speaker 1: guy's name, Baker, Chad Baker Massari. He said that little
Speaker 1: Oh my god, glad that he is. I mean, doesn't
Speaker 1: he have another year of eligibility.
Speaker 2: He does because of the jew coach.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable, It's unbelievable that guy.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I was, I'm gonna be glad to see his career end,
Speaker 1: but maybe it'll be at a different school instead of Auburn.
Speaker 1: But really, the game we will remember for eternity was
Speaker 1: that Houston upset over Duke seventy to sixty seven, where
Speaker 1: Duke I believe, had one field goal in the final
Speaker 1: ten minutes of the game, a collapse that saw Houston
Speaker 1: trailing by fourteen at one point, I mean, Florida trailed
Speaker 1: by eight at halftime to Auburn, and we thought that
Speaker 1: was a great comeback. But Jacob we didn't have to
Speaker 1: wait but two hours to see a historic collapse from
Speaker 1: Duke in that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think everyone in America that is not a
Speaker 3: Duke basketball fan was pretty happy about that. And I
Speaker 3: was just surprised that Cooper Flagg didn't slip in the
Speaker 3: last place. Yeah, just missing the shot.
Speaker 1: Well, Kentucky ends up beating Florida, who's in the National
Speaker 1: Championship game tonight, and Duke who lost that game versus Houston.
Speaker 1: I was really happy for Calvin Sampson. We've talked about
Speaker 1: on this show before about his journey to Houston and
Speaker 1: just really him turning into one of the best coaches
Speaker 1: in the sport, doing it the right way. But to
Speaker 1: see Duke Luke like lose like that was incredible, It
Speaker 1: really was.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: John Schier was undefeated up ten and you know, leading
Speaker 1: it half and things like that. So many great stats
Speaker 1: came out of that. It was a historic loss for
Speaker 1: the Blue Devils.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a collapse of epic proportions.
Speaker 1: And like you said, I think we were all okay
Speaker 1: with it. I think we were all absolutely okay with it,
Speaker 1: but they just they kept hanging around, hanging around. Duke
Speaker 1: can never put them away, kind of very similar to
Speaker 1: the Kentucky game. And you know what a Duke roster
Speaker 1: you talk about underachieving, I mean a historically good roster,
Speaker 1: don't you think one that they'll look back on, like,
Speaker 1: how did they not win the title? For that one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: When are you ever going to have a talent like
Speaker 3: Cooper Flag playing on your basketball team?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Never?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know what, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: would have called it over the back foul on Cooper Flag,
Speaker 1: But you know what, I enjoyed seeing it called, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I enjoyed that in the moment,
Speaker 1: there was no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And they just let Houston hang around too long. They
Speaker 3: really should have closed that game out. You can't let
Speaker 3: good teams hang around, and they got the bad end
Speaker 3: of the sixth.
Speaker 1: I was stun though, weren't you? Like I just could
Speaker 1: not believe what I was watching to some degree. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was shocking and it was just fun to watch.
Speaker 1: You just you're hanging on the edge of your seat
Speaker 1: the whole game, thinking is this actually gonna happen?
Speaker 2: And when it does you can rejoice a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't like Duke. I covered Kentucky. I went to Kansas,
Speaker 3: so Duke is pretty high on list of schools.
Speaker 2: I don't like.
Speaker 1: So, I know you cover Kentucky as a job, but
Speaker 1: where's your fandom?
Speaker 2: Lie? Are you a So.
Speaker 1: I'm rock chalk jayhawk kind of guy?
Speaker 2: Deep down, I'm a little bit.
Speaker 3: But I've been doing the journalism thing since I was
Speaker 3: a sophomore in high school, so I kind of, even
Speaker 3: when I was in college, tried to maintain of a
Speaker 3: level of objectivity.
Speaker 2: I understand, but I did when I was in high school.
Speaker 3: I tell this story before I I was actually considering
Speaker 3: Kansas and Kentucky. Those were my two schools that I
Speaker 3: was considering going to, and they were playing each other
Speaker 3: in basketball one day and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 3: whoever wins this, I'll go to school there. So maybe
Speaker 3: if things would have turned turned out a little differently,
Speaker 3: did Kansas win that game? Kansas won that game and
Speaker 3: I wound up going to Wow.
Speaker 1: So Jacob chose his school based on a one basketball game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it turned out to be the best because
Speaker 3: I get to experience both Lawrence and Lexington.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, that's that, you know. Bill self a disappointing
Speaker 1: year a loss to John Caliperry in the tournament. But
Speaker 1: you know what, we're not We're not gonna cry about
Speaker 1: that over here on the KSR pre show. But it
Speaker 1: is Florida versus Houston tonight in the National Championship Game,
Speaker 1: eight fifty start. It's always a light one for these
Speaker 1: national titles. But I believe is it Florida that's a
Speaker 1: favorite in this game? Maybe by three and a half. Jacob,
Speaker 1: what's what's your early thoughts.
Speaker 4: On this one?
Speaker 3: I think you gotta go with Florida. But they've been
Speaker 3: so good down the street, and we've seen what Walter
Speaker 3: Clayton has done. When you have a guy like that
Speaker 3: in March, just an elite guard, those guys are just
Speaker 3: hard to slow down and you don't want to pick
Speaker 3: against them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Florida had those back to back titles
Speaker 1: in the in the two thousands and and now Todd
Speaker 1: Golden could have a lot of success.
Speaker 2: Over these coming years at Florida.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think back to that Kentucky game, man,
Speaker 1: what was it like one hundred and six to one
Speaker 1: hundred or something like that. It was it was that
Speaker 1: early start game. It was, Yeah, it was like.
Speaker 3: Noon or eleven o'clock, and yeah, they both teams scored
Speaker 3: in the hundreds, which you don't see very often. And
Speaker 3: I think this is this is assigned to other coaches
Speaker 3: because Todd Golden did a phone interview with me the
Speaker 3: day of the game or the day before the game,
Speaker 3: previewing his team. So, hey, if you want to go
Speaker 3: to the national title game, do an interview with me
Speaker 3: the day of the Kentucky game, and good things will happen.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Is that the Is that the how
Speaker 1: we get to the title game? Okay, that's cool, Well
Speaker 1: it should be exciting. I'm just you know, Houston is
Speaker 1: so good at defense, and you know Florida loves to
Speaker 1: play at that up tempo pace that this will be
Speaker 1: a fun matchup. I was just hoping that Duke didn't
Speaker 1: blow out Houston so for them to keep it close,
Speaker 1: and they just kept hitting those threes and Duke was
Speaker 1: missing some free throws late.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Just definitely a disappointing loss for the Blue Devils and
Speaker 1: and Houston their their their their story keeps on in
Speaker 1: Kelvin Sampson, So we're looking forward to that tonight, the
Speaker 1: National title in between Houston and Florida puts a bow
Speaker 1: on it all. We get to watch one shining moment
Speaker 1: after the game, Jacob. That's always a great time. And
Speaker 1: and then we hit the sports dead period, So you
Speaker 1: get ready for it, folks, I mean, unless you enjoy
Speaker 1: the dog days of baseball and maybe a little NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1: We still got some NHL going to Jacob, but not
Speaker 1: a lot of NHL fans around these parts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm I'm a Brewer fan, so I'll be
Speaker 3: tuned into the MLB season. They've struggled to start the year,
Speaker 3: but I think they'll turn it around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Shanon, don't want to talk a lot of baseball
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Play it so bad.
Speaker 1: But Jacob is an expert on recruiting in the transfer portals,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna take an early here. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll start to dive in a little bit about Kentucky's
Speaker 1: latest commitment, a point guard from Pittsburgh, maybe some targets
Speaker 1: that Kentucky has along the way. Somebody snapped a photo
Speaker 1: of Mark Pope and San Antonio this week.
Speaker 2: Did you see this, Jacob? I did see that.
Speaker 1: He just looked so bothered and it wasn't I don't
Speaker 1: think because of getting the picture with the fan. I
Speaker 1: think it may have been something that had just been
Speaker 1: told to him on the phone right before he took
Speaker 1: the picture. We'll talk about what that possibly could have
Speaker 1: been and much more on the way. It's Billy Rutlige
Speaker 1: and Jacob Polojeck from KSR plus joining us on the
Speaker 1: KOSR pre Show. We will be right back. It's a
Speaker 1: Monday edition of the pre Show. Billy Rutledge no Shannon
Speaker 1: the Dude this week, so we're bringing in some special guests.
Speaker 1: Jacob Poulocheck is our first guest of the week. He
Speaker 1: is with KOs R Plus. He does a great job
Speaker 1: on the recruiting and transfer portal scene and with it
Speaker 1: being a confusing time, Jacob's going to talk about it
Speaker 1: with us today. Eight five nine two eight h two
Speaker 1: two eight seven is the phone line. One person says
Speaker 1: on the text line, Yeah, we're in a heist. School
Speaker 1: letter jacket and class rings is peaked in high school energy.
Speaker 1: I would understand the letterman jacket, Jacob, if I was
Speaker 1: strutting around here with my letters on. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: little a little more than the class ring. I liked
Speaker 1: the was it house of cards where he would bang
Speaker 1: it on the table and that was some dramatic effects there.
Speaker 1: But am I having peaked in high school energy with
Speaker 1: my bangs in my class ring this morning?
Speaker 2: I don't listen to the haters. I think it looks great.
Speaker 3: Well, if you were wearing a letterman, I'd probably have
Speaker 3: a different a different comment here, But I like the ring.
Speaker 3: I don't think you should. I don't think you should
Speaker 3: let anyone dissuade you into it.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Jacob. And speaking of not listening to
Speaker 1: the haters, you've had a few haters over the past
Speaker 1: couple weeks or so. How's your mental health doing? Or
Speaker 1: you're not letting the haters get to you? Are you
Speaker 1: be ready? That's all I gotta say. Two words, be ready?
Speaker 2: Two words, be ready.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you have a sense of humor about that.
Speaker 1: I felt like you were getting killed a little bit
Speaker 1: on online unfairly because you know that was the news
Speaker 1: at the time. Was it not? Can change?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Things did change and I was I was made people
Speaker 3: let me know about it, and uh, yeah, it's all
Speaker 3: in good fun. It's gotten a lot more attention to
Speaker 3: KSR plus, which is all I can ask for.
Speaker 1: Uh, And that had to do with Donovan dent correct
Speaker 1: that was the new Mexico transfer that ended up not
Speaker 1: going to Kentucky and then he committed to was it Ucla?
Speaker 2: Ucla? He stayed home, He's from that area.
Speaker 3: To sum it up real quickly, Kentucky put in a
Speaker 3: good nil offer. Nobody thought Ucla would match. They ended
Speaker 3: up matching it, and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think it feels like Big Blue
Speaker 1: Nations started to panic a little bit when the UAB transfer.
Speaker 1: Is it Yaxel, Yaxel Lendenburgh. Lendenburgh did not pick the
Speaker 1: Cats to commit. He actually ended up going to Michigan
Speaker 1: with Dusty May. That was I felt like somebody that
Speaker 1: Kentucky was a front runner for Jacob. What happened there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was one that Kentucky was right in the
Speaker 3: mix the whole way. It was one that we knew
Speaker 3: from the second he entered the portal it was gonna
Speaker 3: be a quick recruitment.
Speaker 2: And I put up on KSR plus.
Speaker 3: I think the day before that, I was told Kentucky
Speaker 3: was in a good spot. They had a position, they
Speaker 3: had the chance to make up ground, but they were
Speaker 3: not the favorite. Michigan ended up pulling that out, and
Speaker 3: that may be for the best because he will probably
Speaker 3: be the highest paid player in the entire transfer portal.
Speaker 1: I've also heard is somebody that's a candidate to stay
Speaker 1: in the NBA draft if he hears the right things.
Speaker 1: And if you were to get a commitment from a
Speaker 1: guy that would just end up leaving you the same offseason,
Speaker 1: that would set you back, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that it would be a much worse
Speaker 3: reaction from Big Blue Nation had Kentucky gotten the commitment
Speaker 3: there and he stayed in the draft, rather than just
Speaker 3: losing him to Michigan. And maybe Kentucky fans will be
Speaker 3: able to laugh at Michigan in a few weeks if
Speaker 3: he stays in the draft.
Speaker 1: Well, Michigan had a little bit of a resurgence with
Speaker 1: Dusty May. We'll see if they can continue that. One
Speaker 1: name that they had already gotten in the transfer portal
Speaker 1: maybe a week or so ago, was Cam Williams. Can
Speaker 1: Entucky actually brought this guy in while they still had
Speaker 1: games to play, And that's just I guess recruiting nowadays
Speaker 1: is that you've got to start recruiting your roster before
Speaker 1: your season is even over. A lot of times, but
Speaker 1: Cam Williams comes from Tulane. I believe Jacob, and tell
Speaker 1: me what Kentucky's gonna get with this guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can play the two, he can play the three.
Speaker 3: This is a commitment that I think really surprised Kentucky
Speaker 3: because they were obviously recruiting him, but I don't think
Speaker 3: they were pushing too hard for a commitment yet when
Speaker 3: he gave them a call and said he wanted to
Speaker 3: head to Kentucky, and that just starts off your transfer
Speaker 3: portal class in a really nice fashion. A guy with
Speaker 3: NBA potential, His stats might not jump off the page
Speaker 3: to you. Nine point three points a game, four point
Speaker 3: five rebounds, but he's really got a high, high ceiling.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, somebody that's tall and can shoot a three
Speaker 1: is going to be welcome on any basketball team, I think, Jacob.
Speaker 1: But that's a guy that's a little bit more athletic
Speaker 1: than maybe we've seen in this last transfer port class.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he compliments otega Ver.
Speaker 3: Well, he's a good shooter, but he's also athletic, can
Speaker 3: get to the rim. He can do everything you want
Speaker 3: in that kind of hybrid wing two three spot, So
Speaker 3: he can fit alongside a lot of guys, and I
Speaker 3: think that it's a good first commitment to have because
Speaker 3: people will want to play with him.
Speaker 1: M well, that's good. Another one of those guys that
Speaker 1: is going to play with him is new point guard
Speaker 1: commit Jalen Lowe. He comes from Pitt. He was All
Speaker 1: ACC third team over the season. Not the best three
Speaker 1: point shooter, Jacob, but what is Kentucky getting with this guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're getting a guy that's really good at getting
Speaker 3: to the rim. He's not a great three point shooter,
Speaker 3: as you mentioned, but it's funny. I got a text
Speaker 3: from a friend who's a pit beat writer right after
Speaker 3: the commitment and he texted me and he said, he
Speaker 3: is going to be so laughably good there, I cannot wait.
Speaker 3: So the pit people have hold him in very high regard,
Speaker 3: and I think that he's going to step in be
Speaker 3: that point guard one and then you've got kayten Lewis
Speaker 3: and Jasper Johnson also to help compliment him.
Speaker 1: So somebody that didn't have a lot of talent around
Speaker 1: him and could benefit from some shooters being able to
Speaker 1: space the floor and let him do a little bit
Speaker 1: more of what he is successful at.
Speaker 3: Right Absolutely like You see the thirty seven percent from
Speaker 3: the field, and it might alarm you a little bit,
Speaker 3: but he won't be asked to shoot the ball nearly
Speaker 3: as much as he did at Pitt last year.
Speaker 1: That's thirty seven percent from three.
Speaker 3: Correct, No, that is actually thirty seven percent from the field,
Speaker 3: twenty six percent twenty six point six percent, so he
Speaker 3: can round that up to twenty seven percent from three.
Speaker 1: How is he turning over the ball?
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 1: Is he a I mean somebody that can take care
Speaker 1: of the ball. Is it somebody he's had issues in
Speaker 1: the past? Like, tell me why Mark Pope in Kentucky
Speaker 1: is so high on this guy? Or is was it
Speaker 1: or was this somebody that they just had to adjust
Speaker 1: to get after they didn't get somebody they wanted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had three turnovers a game last year, which
Speaker 3: is not great, But like I said, he his usage
Speaker 3: was just so high that he had the ball in
Speaker 3: his hands the entire game. And whenever you have that,
Speaker 3: you're you're bound to turn over the ball. And if
Speaker 3: you're not a knockdown shooter, your percentages might struggle. But
Speaker 3: we saw what happened with Lamont Butler last season when
Speaker 3: he went from being a guy that you don't expect
Speaker 3: to knock down shots to be in A pretty competent
Speaker 3: shooter for the point guard position.
Speaker 1: Average sixteen point eight points a game, five point five assists,
Speaker 1: four point two rebounds, one point eight steals in thirty
Speaker 1: five minutes. As a sophomore he comes in will have
Speaker 1: two years of eligibility remaining as well, so somebody that
Speaker 1: can learn Pope's system. I'm a little worried about the three,
Speaker 1: but you don't have to be the best three point
Speaker 1: shooter if you're the point guard, right Jacob.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he shot.
Speaker 3: He attempted fourteen shots a game last season. He's not
Speaker 3: gonna do anything near that Kentucky, which will allow him
Speaker 3: to be a lot more efficient.
Speaker 1: And also had his best performances versus Louisville, I believe.
Speaker 1: I think in the two games that he's played versus Louisville,
Speaker 1: I think he's scored over twenty points in each game.
Speaker 1: So if he's got even an ounce of a Lamont
Speaker 1: Butler in him, the thirty three points versus the Cards,
Speaker 1: and just the defensive intensity that he had all year,
Speaker 1: then he can be a great fit. The six foot
Speaker 1: three point guard from Pitt Jalen Lowe being the newest edition.
Speaker 1: So just a couple of minutes left. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about what's next for Kentucky and the transfer portal.
Speaker 1: But what do you think about the fit of Kerr
Speaker 1: Krisa going to Cincinnati over the weekend, Jacob.
Speaker 3: I think it's a good fit. I think it's very exciting.
Speaker 3: The thing that a lot of people don't realize with
Speaker 3: Kerr is I know he put in his Instagram post
Speaker 3: when he committed that this is his last year, but
Speaker 3: there's actually a path for him to return for another
Speaker 3: year next season because of a suspension he had at
Speaker 3: West Virginia. I don't want to get into the details,
Speaker 3: but he really could be in college for two more seasons,
Speaker 3: which is pretty insane to me.
Speaker 1: That's incredible. He's already on his fourth different team.
Speaker 2: I believe maybe a fifth next year. We'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, that guy is just embodying the new transferportal
Speaker 1: era and what it's going to be like more and
Speaker 1: more for these kids. One more before we take the break.
Speaker 1: Big Z on the way to Illinois to team up
Speaker 1: with his brother and Orlando Antique, who I believe is
Speaker 1: still on the coaching staff there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 1: Familiar face, gets to see his brother. I'm just his
Speaker 1: poor stomach is gonna have to adjust to a different cuisine.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, he'll he'll have to avoid some of that
Speaker 3: that food a little bit further away in Chicago.
Speaker 1: But he's not getting a dog off the street. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's got a strong enough stomach for it.
Speaker 2: Jacob.
Speaker 3: That might cause some trouble for Illinois, but it will
Speaker 3: be fun to see him playing with his brother.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take a break with with Jacob
Speaker 1: polo Check this morning here on the KOSR pre Show.
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back. It is the KOSR Pre Show
Speaker 1: rolling here on a Monday. It's Billy Rutledge and Jacob
Speaker 1: polo Check. You can find him on Twitter. Is it
Speaker 1: at Jacob polo Check at Polo Check ks polo Check
Speaker 1: KSR writes for KSR dot Com and KSR Plus. With
Speaker 1: all the recruiting and transfer portal scoop, people not really
Speaker 1: sold on this pit point guard coming to Kentucky. Here
Speaker 1: is some responses. One person online on Twitter, Brian says,
Speaker 1: I don't understand the recruitment. I feel Pope took him
Speaker 1: in desperation. Another person on the text line says Jacob
Speaker 1: trying to sugarcoat it. Standards at UK now are third
Speaker 1: team All ACC players terrible acc at that Jacob, was
Speaker 1: there any sense of desperation with UK signing this guy
Speaker 1: or is this somebody that they think feels that they
Speaker 1: can fit their scheme.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not gonna come here and say that he
Speaker 3: was their first choice. I think we all know that
Speaker 3: they wanted Donovan Dent. They were going after Silas Demri
Speaker 3: from Georgia, so he wasn't their number one choice. But
Speaker 3: I think after missing on your top guys, it's hard
Speaker 3: to do better than a third team All ACC guy
Speaker 3: out of the portal that averaged almost seventeen points a game.
Speaker 3: I think that under Mark Pope he could be a really,
Speaker 3: really good player.
Speaker 1: Do you think he brings more than maybe kerkkrisa who
Speaker 1: was already in house or is that you know, motivations
Speaker 1: are different, right, Maybe Kerr wants more guaranteed starting time
Speaker 1: or whatnot. But do you feel like low can bring
Speaker 1: a lot that maybe Kerr did not? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think that Lowe going to be brought in
Speaker 3: to be your point guard one while Kayden Lewis is
Speaker 3: getting used to the college game.
Speaker 2: I don't think Kerr.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody would have been too excited to
Speaker 3: have Kerk Crisa as Kentucky's point guard one next season,
Speaker 3: as much as some fans might have loved him.
Speaker 1: So you bring oh Way back hopefully, I think that's
Speaker 1: the that's the biggest hope of this transfer portal time.
Speaker 1: Garrison another guy that I think you try to pencil
Speaker 1: in for him to come back unless you bring in
Speaker 1: a bunch of other bigs. And then you have Chandler
Speaker 1: Noah Perry, you also have freshman like Johnson Lewis and
Speaker 1: Moreno we talked about Cam Williams coming for Tulane. What
Speaker 1: does Kentucky do next in the transfer portal, Jacob.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they've got their their eyes set on
Speaker 3: a few guys. The first guy I'll mention is Alvarro
Speaker 3: Faulgarris from Robert Morris, who I believe is still currently
Speaker 3: in Spain, so that one's moving a little bit slowly,
Speaker 3: but they seem to be very well positioned there. Power
Speaker 3: forward who can hit threes forty one percent from three.
Speaker 3: I think he's six ten or something around that mark.
Speaker 3: So if you can have a six ten big that's
Speaker 3: hit in threes. That would be really good. And then
Speaker 3: you got a few other guys like Wesley Yates from
Speaker 3: USC that they're going after. You got Jaron Pierre from
Speaker 3: Jacksonville State and those are and then you got Mohammed
Speaker 3: Diabate from Alabama, who will see how serious the interest is.
Speaker 1: Well love him? Yeah, I mean he killed Kentucky, didn't
Speaker 1: He was the.
Speaker 3: Reason that otego Away had lost his ten point streak
Speaker 3: because he was defending him most of that gay So
Speaker 3: Kentucky fan should be very familiar with him.
Speaker 1: You mentioned a name, Wesley Yates. That's the guy that
Speaker 1: was at Washington at one point, then was at USC
Speaker 1: looking for his third school, but was an AAU teammate
Speaker 1: of one of Kentucky's newest commits.
Speaker 4: Is that right?
Speaker 3: I think he was if I remember that right? I
Speaker 3: believe that was with Jalen Low.
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually Jalen Low and Cam Williams is if what
Speaker 1: I'm reading is correct. And was also spent time in
Speaker 1: the past with UK assistant Alvin Brooks. So somebody that's
Speaker 1: familiar with a lot of faces on the roster already.
Speaker 1: So maybe somebody that you know they're texting or tweeting
Speaker 1: or sharing their Instagram posts. Jacob, it's a weird thing
Speaker 1: to cover. Talk to me a little bit about covering,
Speaker 1: recruiting and the transfer portal. I mean, these guys can
Speaker 1: change their mind at the very last minute. It kind
Speaker 1: of drives you crazy, doesn't huh.
Speaker 2: It definitely drives you crazy.
Speaker 3: I try to stay away from the who's following who
Speaker 3: on Instagram because that can get a little blown out
Speaker 3: of proportion. I feel like every day I'm seeing a
Speaker 3: new Twitter post of oh my god, ex Kentucky Target
Speaker 3: followed why Kentucky Target on Instagram, and then the guy
Speaker 3: ends up going to Memphis or something not related anywhere close.
Speaker 3: So I try to stay away from that. But Wesley
Speaker 3: Yates is probably the best player that Kentucky is going
Speaker 3: after right now.
Speaker 1: How do you think these conversations are going. I mean,
Speaker 1: Mark Pope is getting on his private jet and flying
Speaker 1: to meet guys overnight. I mean they're constantly on the phone.
Speaker 1: Do you think their prom seeing playing time millions of dollars?
Speaker 1: You know? Do you think these kids are starting with
Speaker 1: small talk before they get into the the big numbers? Jacob,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I want a little insight on
Speaker 1: how do you think that these coaches are conversating with
Speaker 1: players in the transfer portal nowadays?
Speaker 3: Well, it seems like you're having a lot of assistance
Speaker 3: reach out. First, set up an initial call if they
Speaker 3: like them, set up a zoom call with the whole staff, okay,
Speaker 3: and then they can start getting into this is how
Speaker 3: we see you in our system. And also obviously the
Speaker 3: money talk of this is what we want to offer
Speaker 3: you an nil But yeah, I think that it's kind
Speaker 3: of a slow route to get there to the nil point.
Speaker 3: I think that's once you really know this is our guy,
Speaker 3: this is a guy we want, and let's go lock
Speaker 3: him down.
Speaker 1: How do you see this change in over the next
Speaker 1: couple of years or so? You know, this week is
Speaker 1: when we could be seeing that settlement in in in
Speaker 1: the court case. That could you know, make it so
Speaker 1: like you have a set amount of money to share
Speaker 1: with your athletic department. So I mean, and this is
Speaker 1: all it's all been in the wild West over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Do you think that this is
Speaker 1: going to be much more organized? Maybe a year or
Speaker 1: two from now.
Speaker 2: It can't get any less organized.
Speaker 1: So that's true, that's true, it could not get less organized.
Speaker 1: But what are some changes that you maybe see coming
Speaker 1: in the next couple of years. Yeah, sot, Right now,
Speaker 1: what you're seeing is a lot of teams want to
Speaker 1: unload that collective nil money, locking down players, getting them
Speaker 1: committed early before this house settlement where most of most
Speaker 1: collective nil, the regular nil deals that we know today,
Speaker 1: we'll all have to go through a clearinghouse. But then
Speaker 1: there's going to be the revenue share aspect, where basically
Speaker 1: teams will have a certain amount of money to split
Speaker 1: amongst their players. You have a fifteen roster scholarship a
Speaker 1: roster limit fifteen players, so a lot of people see
Speaker 1: that as an increase, but you still have walk ons,
Speaker 1: and coaches will want to keep walk on so they
Speaker 1: don't have to pay their collective revenue or their revenue
Speaker 1: share among fifteen players.
Speaker 3: They can only do that among twelve players. A player
Speaker 3: could get more money.
Speaker 1: Ah, so the less players that you have, the more
Speaker 1: money you could offer to the players that you do have.
Speaker 3: Exactly, and a lot of times walk ons won't be
Speaker 3: getting that revenue share, or at least getting a very
Speaker 3: small chunk of it.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because I mean cal could pay his team
Speaker 1: and his players a lot more per player. If there
Speaker 1: were limits, then maybe somebody that had more players on
Speaker 1: the bench and you fill out that fifteen. But then
Speaker 1: you have the luxury of depth. So that's an interesting point,
Speaker 1: you know. Speaking of NIL deals, I saw a Mari
Speaker 1: Williams finally got that weeed a big steal. Did you
Speaker 1: see that over the weekend? I believe it was perfect.
Speaker 1: That's what nil deals are for. Right then they waited
Speaker 1: way too long for that. I don't know if there
Speaker 1: were some international things that they needed to do, but
Speaker 1: you know this nil it's just completely changed the way
Speaker 1: kids look at schools, right It's like what opportunities and
Speaker 1: how much money can I make before you even talk
Speaker 1: about starting time or even playing for the school. So
Speaker 1: we've seen that change the landscape over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years.
Speaker 3: Yes, sometimes Nio will put a team, put their foot
Speaker 3: in the door and give give them a chance at
Speaker 3: landing a guy, and sometimes it could be the deciding factor.
Speaker 3: I'm not here to say that it's always the deciding factor,
Speaker 3: but when you're a top transfer and you're deciding between
Speaker 3: two schools that you like, a difference maker could be nio.
Speaker 1: Now, tell me about KSR plus. What is it that
Speaker 1: you guys offer on there that you know maybe listeners
Speaker 1: of this show would be interested in.
Speaker 3: Well, so I'm writing three stories a day on KSR plus.
Speaker 3: We got Adam Luckett from KSR who writes a story
Speaker 3: on there every once in a while. But really the
Speaker 3: main selling point of KSR plus is the message board.
Speaker 3: I'm on there almost all day. All of the KSR
Speaker 3: staff is on there interacting with people. It's a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. And we're giving hour by hour updates on
Speaker 3: the transfer portal right now because it's nuts.
Speaker 1: Now do we have people losing their mind on the
Speaker 1: message boards? Because that I think is the appeal of
Speaker 1: message boards is some of these hot takes after or
Speaker 1: a UK loss or a UK recruiting loss. Jacob is,
Speaker 1: does that still remain on these message boards? Because that
Speaker 1: was my favorite part of the old school message board.
Speaker 3: Jase, it still remains, And unfortunately for me and fortunately
Speaker 3: for a lot of other people, I have to moderate
Speaker 3: that so we make sure that it doesn't get too
Speaker 3: toxic of after a loss that people aren't people can
Speaker 3: vent their frustrations, but we limit it to a point
Speaker 3: so that it's not absolutely nuts.
Speaker 1: See when I have a bad hair day and somebody
Speaker 1: posts my picture online, I can just not look at
Speaker 1: the mentions. You're telling me, you've got to go through
Speaker 1: the mansions. I've got to go through the moderate them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not a job for the faint of heart,
Speaker 1: especially if you're in this business of reporting information and
Speaker 1: it changing by the hour.
Speaker 2: Jacob.
Speaker 3: If I could survive moderating the message board after the
Speaker 3: Oakland loss, I can survive anything.
Speaker 1: Was that a bad one?
Speaker 2: That was as worse as I've seen it?
Speaker 1: Well, I was, you know, hosting a morning show the
Speaker 1: morning after the losses of Saint Peter's and Oakland, So
Speaker 1: I understand that to a degree. I actually hosted the
Speaker 1: Leach Report the morning after the Saint Peter's loss, So
Speaker 1: it was like, I was very you know, professional and
Speaker 1: my journalism one oh one hat for the Leech Report,
Speaker 1: and then I came on on the pre show and
Speaker 1: I was like, what was that? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: But you were probably in Kansas still, Jacob.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was not covering Kentucky in yours.
Speaker 1: Ruby reds slippers, not even worrying about the cats.
Speaker 3: No, but the Oakland loss. I was certainly worried that
Speaker 3: one was a bad one.
Speaker 1: Hey, we saw a huge collapse over the weekend Duke
Speaker 1: falling to Houston, and I talked about it being historic.
Speaker 1: Here was one of those historic stats. Duke is the
Speaker 1: only team to lose an NCAA tournament game with a
Speaker 1: higher field goal percentage, more free throw attempts, more assist,
Speaker 1: fewer turnovers, and more steals than their opponent. The teams
Speaker 1: were three hundred and thirty five and zero prior to
Speaker 1: Houston's win. I mean Duke dominated that game well, is
Speaker 1: that they led by fourteen points with about eight minutes
Speaker 1: to go and then just a collapsed by the Blue Devils.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I saw one of the big.
Speaker 3: Twitter Twitter accounts posting that Duke was undefeated after under
Speaker 3: Shire with a ten point lead, and I had to
Speaker 3: think back, didn't they have a ten point lead over
Speaker 3: Kentucky earlier this year?
Speaker 2: I don't think that's nine. It was.
Speaker 1: Duke's lead was nine over Kentucky. Kentucky came back. Duke
Speaker 1: was seventy nine and zero under Shire in games where
Speaker 1: they led by at least ten points at any time,
Speaker 1: So not only the halftime lead that they had but
Speaker 1: ten points at any time, so.
Speaker 3: I stand corrected then I thought I thought they led
Speaker 3: by more than ten against Kentucky.
Speaker 2: That's surprising.
Speaker 1: Talk about disappointing if you're Duke. I mean an all
Speaker 1: time roster, a Cooper flag esque and they don't get
Speaker 1: it done. Houston and Florida tonight at eight fifty pm.
Speaker 1: Who you got, Jacob Before we move on, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stick with the SEC, gonna go Florida.
Speaker 2: I'll be rooting for Houston. I think that would be
Speaker 2: a better story.
Speaker 3: But if I'm making my pay, the SEC has been
Speaker 3: so good this year, it's only right that you get
Speaker 3: an SEC champions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go Florida two. And you know Walter
Speaker 1: Clayton Man, he's got is shades of Kemball Walker. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was just these these amazing guards and that can
Speaker 1: make plays that make your jaw drop. He has definitely
Speaker 1: done that several times in a team that Kentucky beat
Speaker 1: earlier this year. A five nine two eight oh two
Speaker 1: two eight seven. If you'd like to join the show,
Speaker 1: Texas at five o two two six five six six
Speaker 1: five six, We're gonna take a break here when we
Speaker 1: come back for our final segment, it'll be Billy and
Speaker 1: Jacob getting ready to hand it off to Drew Franklin,
Speaker 1: who is going to be hosting KSR this week. We've
Speaker 1: got a couple of news tidbits from over the weekend
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll talk more Transfer Portal with Jacob, because
Speaker 1: that is his job, it's his life, it's his busy
Speaker 1: season right now. And I won't make Jacob eat this
Speaker 1: twinkie in the studio. We'll save that for Shannon when
Speaker 1: he comes back. It's Jacob and Billy here on this
Speaker 1: Monday edition of the ksrpre Show. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: our final segment here on the KSR Pre Show. Billy Rutledge,
Speaker 1: big thank you. Jacob Poulachick, who joined us, does a
Speaker 1: great job on KSR plus. We were talking about a
Speaker 1: little bit about his process during the break and Jacob,
Speaker 1: you do a lot of cold calling. You just got
Speaker 1: to call people. Is that how you get people on
Speaker 1: the phone.
Speaker 3: That's how people pick up Once you let him know
Speaker 3: you're a reporter, it's it's hard to get him on
Speaker 3: the phone.
Speaker 1: So it's not like DMS or anything like that. You're
Speaker 1: picking up the phone in calling people.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's DMS, sometimes it's texting, but during transfer portal
Speaker 3: season it's mainly cold calling.
Speaker 1: Well, I told you during the break I would not
Speaker 1: want to do your job.
Speaker 2: I do not envy you.
Speaker 1: People seem to get mad at you for the recruiting
Speaker 1: news that comes out and not just how the landscape works.
Speaker 1: It's like you did it, Jacob. Somebody. They got to
Speaker 1: get mad at somebody, so it might as well be you. Right,
Speaker 1: don't kill the messenger. I am not recruiting any of
Speaker 1: these players. Hey, well, as long as you get me
Speaker 1: a two words be ready T shirt. When you start
Speaker 1: making them.
Speaker 2: I'll get you on. We're gonna start making.
Speaker 1: Those, okay.
Speaker 2: I like them good. I like how you're leaning into it,
Speaker 2: kind of lean into it as much as I can.
Speaker 1: Drew Franklin is going to be hosting KSR all week
Speaker 1: this week, and he's he's jumping on right before the
Speaker 1: big show today. What's up, Drew?
Speaker 4: How were we doing fellas hop in warm up the vocal
Speaker 4: cords a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you ready to go? You got your you know,
Speaker 1: Matt normally has his ten topics? Do you have your
Speaker 1: ten topics?
Speaker 4: I got some topics, you know, I'm as ready as
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get. We'll just we'll hit, we'll hit, go
Speaker 4: on the machine there in front of you at ten
Speaker 4: oh three and see what happens. But I'm looking forward
Speaker 4: to it.
Speaker 1: Well, we've got the National Championship, those final four games
Speaker 1: to recap. But selfishly, Drew, I'm looking forward to a
Speaker 1: little master's talk. Me and you love our golf. We
Speaker 1: got to play Valhalla last year together. That was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun.
Speaker 4: As the last time I golfed, is that the last
Speaker 4: time you got much anymore? I miss it?
Speaker 1: Well, we've got the Lexington Golf Scramble coming up, getting loose,
Speaker 1: so Drew, hopefully we'll have a team and be ready
Speaker 1: to go then. But Corey Price is going to be
Speaker 1: joining you later today, is that right?
Speaker 4: He is? He brought donuts. That's awesome. You know, Kentucky's
Speaker 4: not in the championship unfortunately tonight's game. So I thought
Speaker 4: we would use today as to learn about the championships.
Speaker 4: You know, we all remember twenty twelve, most of us
Speaker 4: remember ninety six, ninety eight, but we'll go way back,
Speaker 4: start at the beginning and just you know, teach the
Speaker 4: listeners about the eight seasons Kentucky have done. As we
Speaker 4: get ready for a ninth next year.
Speaker 1: I had to look up a couple of notes from
Speaker 1: the championships, so just so I don't embarrass myself with
Speaker 1: any Reggie Hansen facts on the show later today. So
Speaker 1: the old Vernon Hatton's and the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did my own homework. It's not like I
Speaker 4: remember a lot about nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 1: No, missed most of that.
Speaker 4: But that's why we do show prep. We learned so
Speaker 4: we can educate the listeners. But it'll be fun.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely well five O two two sixty five six
Speaker 1: six five six if you'd like to text me today
Speaker 1: or at any point later today, as Matt and Ryan
Speaker 1: have taken the text lines with them. You know, we
Speaker 1: did get some news about an opponent on Kentucky's schedule.
Speaker 1: Kentucky will take on Bellerman in December in the upcoming season.
Speaker 1: It is not Scotty Davenport. It will be his son,
Speaker 1: Doug Davenport. But Jacob, I always like Kentucky plays in
Speaker 1: state schools. I'm gonna be the one that screams about
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky. I'll hit you with my class ring here
Speaker 1: if you say anything bad about it. But good to
Speaker 1: see Bellerman on the schedule.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think that drives a lot of people to want
Speaker 3: to go see these games when you have them in state,
Speaker 3: nothing more exciting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just bring in Western, bring in Eastern Drew. I
Speaker 1: mean they've got so many of these what is it
Speaker 1: BBN Invitational games? We got to get through. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, let's bring in the end state school. So
Speaker 1: I liked seeing that Doug Davenport will be coming in
Speaker 1: with Bellermant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if Ryan we're here, he would say, poop State.
Speaker 4: You know, he always says that anytime you're ask him
Speaker 4: about the schedule. But you got to play somebody there,
Speaker 4: And I like that they keep it in the Bluegrass.
Speaker 4: You know, Beller rooms here a few years ago with
Speaker 4: Scotty Davenport. Now we'll take the younger Davenport. Heck, I
Speaker 4: wish we could add Murray. You had Western just last year.
Speaker 4: I mean, keep it going. It's fun playing the in
Speaker 4: state schools.
Speaker 1: And Western tested you to the point where you knew
Speaker 1: that you had some issues defensively, right, So Western changed everything.
Speaker 4: They figured out the recipe.
Speaker 1: I think, So, I mean, I think you can look back.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the old miss game as the catalyst or
Speaker 1: duke or beating Gonzaga. It'll be the Western game. But
Speaker 1: Jacob just a couple of minutes left. You know, it
Speaker 1: was a fun first year for Mark Hope. I think
Speaker 1: many rose their letter grade for the year to an
Speaker 1: A after making the Sweet sixteen. Some may be a
Speaker 1: little bit more disappointed. Where did you land on a
Speaker 1: year one under Mark Pope?
Speaker 3: I'll give him an A minus maybe even in a
Speaker 3: like he didn't go one and done in the SEC
Speaker 3: tournament and he made the Sweet sixteen. Those are the
Speaker 3: two things that I felt like he needed to do
Speaker 3: in year one, And it also helps that he beat
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of top twenty five teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just doesn't help. They lost to Arkansas, Jacob.
Speaker 1: That was the one game, wasn't it, Like it felt
Speaker 1: like that was the one that we said before that
Speaker 1: you do not lose at all costs, and then they
Speaker 1: end up losing it. But then maybe it helped that
Speaker 1: Caliperry did go on a Sweet sixteen run right after that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that Arkansas loss is probably the one thing that
Speaker 3: has me at an A minus instead of an A.
Speaker 1: So in the fact that Drew's got to deal with
Speaker 1: his dad, the Tennessee Valls fan the entire time, and
Speaker 1: then losing in the NCAA tournament. Has he just been
Speaker 1: insufferable since? Or has it been nice to see that
Speaker 1: Houston has taken down Tennessee and Duke.
Speaker 4: After Kentucky lost to Tennessee, it was not not a
Speaker 4: good day to be me. It wasn't just him. I
Speaker 4: have several Vall's friends. Unfortunately. I don't know why I
Speaker 4: let these people in my life. But by halftime on
Speaker 4: Sunday it got real quiet. On Saturday they were saying, Drew,
Speaker 4: enjoy your baseball season, and at halftime of the Houston game,
Speaker 4: I was getting welped. It's baseball season. So uh it
Speaker 4: was just a little over twenty four hours. I had
Speaker 4: to deal with deal with it.
Speaker 1: Like good good. I don't know how Mike was able
Speaker 1: to turn coat like that, and you allowed that to happen, Drew.
Speaker 1: Is one of the bigger questions I'll ever have.
Speaker 4: Me too, me too. You think you know somebody, then
Speaker 4: they just switching like the Tennessee Valls.
Speaker 1: Well, Drew, thanks for hopping on with us here in
Speaker 1: this final Stey too excited for Drew Palooza excited for
Speaker 1: another two hours already with you. You're gonna kill it man.
Speaker 4: Uh, the Drew Palloza, I feels like it adds a
Speaker 4: lot of pressure, like it's this big, grand event. I'm
Speaker 4: just hosting KSR like I've been on this show for
Speaker 4: over a decade, just doing what I do. But Drew
Speaker 4: Palouza adds a whole another elbum T shirts.
Speaker 2: Now, this is this is.
Speaker 4: It's added more than I than I expected. But it'll
Speaker 4: be fun.
Speaker 1: Well, you did the game show a little earlier this
Speaker 1: year and we had a great time with that.
Speaker 4: So also, people forget a host of a week last
Speaker 4: summer when Shannon and Ryan took their vacation at the
Speaker 4: same time again and you were a big helping that.
Speaker 4: So even though Matt build this is the first time
Speaker 4: we did this last.
Speaker 1: Year, like you said, we'll keep clocking in. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: just keep showing up.
Speaker 2: We'll keep showing up to work and paychecks.
Speaker 4: Might not be that big, but we'll just keep.
Speaker 1: Showing up the low end of the scale when it
Speaker 1: comes to the KSR paychecks. But yeah, you're exactly right, Jacob,
Speaker 1: big thank you to you for jumping in, not only
Speaker 1: with your coverage on KSR Plus, but joining me this morning.
Speaker 1: I know this is a really busy time for you,
Speaker 1: so I know you got to get back to the cold, Colin,
Speaker 1: but thank you for all that you do, and thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us this morning.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure, all right.
Speaker 1: That is going to do it for us here on
Speaker 1: the KSR pre show our week without Shannon the Dude.
Speaker 1: We'll have more guests tomorrow and we'll talk more Kentucky
Speaker 1: sports for Jacob Polacheck. I'm Billy Rutledge. This has been
Speaker 1: the show before the show, and I'll talk to you
Speaker 1: in a bit with Drew on KSR