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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, March the
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Speaker 3: you called TJ. Hill, make him bay. How you doing, sir?
Speaker 3: We are after a long march run, well at least
Speaker 3: of us traveling, maybe decently long run for the team.
Speaker 3: We are back here in Lexington and Ryan there is
Speaker 3: a ton of stuff to get to and uh, in
Speaker 3: order to catch my first flight, I have to leave
Speaker 3: at eleven thirty, So I'm gonna make sure we get
Speaker 3: to all as much of it as we can.
Speaker 4: Off the top, I guess we'll start.
Speaker 3: We have not been on the morning show since the
Speaker 3: lost Tennessee, which was late Friday night. Now that it's
Speaker 3: you've had forty eight hours, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 5: Just you saying that was Friday night? It seems like
Speaker 5: it was two weeks ago, and that pregame show we
Speaker 5: did it ten Roofs, seemed like that was two weeks ago.
Speaker 5: It didn't play well, you know, a great season kind
Speaker 5: of anything with a thud. The game didn't go nearly
Speaker 5: of all the scenarios I thought might happen. Getting whooped
Speaker 5: like that was not one of the scenarios I thought
Speaker 5: might happen.
Speaker 4: Really, yeah, I thought that was a scenario they could happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn' think they.
Speaker 3: I mean we just the same thing that happened to us,
Speaker 3: happened to them the next day, and happened to Michigan
Speaker 3: State the next day, and happened to Alabama, uh in
Speaker 3: the in the Elite eight. Just these you know, just teams.
Speaker 3: Kind of all those games were the same. A team
Speaker 3: jumped on them early and then they just could never
Speaker 3: catch up. And that's kind of how it was for
Speaker 3: us too.
Speaker 4: Drew.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to be Tennessee, you needed to make threes in
Speaker 6: the In the two regular season wins, they hit twelve threes,
Speaker 6: and both of those shooting fifty percent, So six threes
Speaker 6: in a game when what four of them were by
Speaker 6: Butler and then Colin Chandler throws in a prayer before halftime.
Speaker 6: That just wasn't nearly enough from outside to hang with Tennessee.
Speaker 3: If you tell me Braa O Way and Carr are
Speaker 3: gonna combine for one to three, we're in trouble. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, we're in trouble at that point. I mean
Speaker 3: that that that's probably the game. And you know, you
Speaker 3: most of it was Tennessee. Tennessee's defense was great, and
Speaker 3: we just honestly, as I watched these games this weekend,
Speaker 3: all of these teams had the same thing. Happened to
Speaker 3: him Us, Michigan State, Uh, yesterday, Tennessee Alabama.
Speaker 4: You just just at the beginning.
Speaker 3: You fell behind, and it just felt like you were
Speaker 3: always climbing the hill that you couldn't get over.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Tennessee got that nine, ten, eleven point lead, and
Speaker 5: we never could you know, chip into it, could never
Speaker 5: cut it down. It'd go up to fifteen, then come
Speaker 5: back to nine to ten. It just always just stayed
Speaker 5: that way for most of the game. And when you
Speaker 5: you guys said, like we hit twelve three pointers in
Speaker 5: the first two games, we only shot fifteen three pointers.
Speaker 5: Tennessee took the three pointer, always.
Speaker 3: Had a great game plan. They basically said, you're getting
Speaker 3: no threes.
Speaker 4: Dude. Did the same thing to Alabama.
Speaker 3: They're like, you're not getting threes, so now try to
Speaker 3: beat us some other way. And and we we just
Speaker 3: didn't have the you know, we just didn't didn't have
Speaker 3: the game plan or the success in executed it. Now,
Speaker 3: with that said, a lot of our conversation after the
Speaker 3: game was about the season as a whole and being
Speaker 3: positive about it. I've become no less positive about the
Speaker 3: season than ever there's you know, and it seems like
Speaker 3: looking online, it's tough when you Drew look right after
Speaker 3: the game because people get all angry, especially when it's
Speaker 3: on Friday night.
Speaker 4: They might be drunk and they're like, yeah, right.
Speaker 3: But when everybody takes a step back and starts forming
Speaker 3: coherent sentences.
Speaker 5: Feels like the fan base is still.
Speaker 4: In a very good place. Do you agree with that?
Speaker 4: I think so too.
Speaker 6: And I was also I expected to hurt a little
Speaker 6: more than I did. I think part of it was
Speaker 6: because it looked like it was over pretty quickly in
Speaker 6: that game. It did come down to like a crazy
Speaker 6: buzzer beater. We should have done this, should have done that.
Speaker 6: You just got beat. Also, just that loss, even though
Speaker 6: it was to Tennessee, the ones we've suffered the last
Speaker 6: few years were much worse. So getting over that first
Speaker 6: weekend hump not you know, lower in the bar for
Speaker 6: Kentucky basketball, But that one did sit a little easier
Speaker 6: than I thought it would. Although I hung around Saturday,
Speaker 6: the worst part was just that sea of orange and
Speaker 6: all of them were talking trash. I ended up leaving
Speaker 6: town Saturday night when we wanted to stay, because I
Speaker 6: just couldn't be there anymore. Every restaurant, just walking down
Speaker 6: the street. I was still wearing Kentucky gears, so they
Speaker 6: were very vocal on Saturday.
Speaker 3: They had a lot of people didn't help them on
Speaker 3: Sunday because they went and did the same thing. And uh,
Speaker 3: we'll talk about those games. I still want to make
Speaker 3: fun of Tennessee even though they beat us.
Speaker 4: But but but but we but we lose. I think
Speaker 4: we all talked on the postgame show. We were all
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 3: It was a good post game show, but we all talked,
Speaker 3: gave the grade an A. These guys I think are
Speaker 3: gonna be remembered very positively, don't you All.
Speaker 5: These guys will be beloved. And we fell in love
Speaker 5: with this group of guys, you know, overcoming the injuries.
Speaker 5: You know, they played their butts off, you know, they
Speaker 5: gave everything they had. But this one year they were
Speaker 5: gonna be here. They wore that Kentucky uniform proud, and
Speaker 5: I think we saw that and felt that.
Speaker 3: Which player are gonna not not which player will be
Speaker 3: the most, uh, like the biggest one to miss from
Speaker 3: an impact, just on a personal level, which one are
Speaker 3: you gonna miss the most?
Speaker 4: Like, who's gonna be the one you go? I missed that?
Speaker 4: I miss a lot of them.
Speaker 6: I mean, Amario was my favorite, going back to May
Speaker 6: when I had my first interview with him, before i'd
Speaker 6: even seen him touch a basketball. I just liked to
Speaker 6: a Mario from the beginning that he panned out playing
Speaker 6: really well. But I'll be honest that might have flipped
Speaker 6: a little towards Butler, just how he played in that
Speaker 6: last game, the images of him and Pope with their
Speaker 6: arms around each other, what he said at the press conference.
Speaker 6: I'll miss a lot of them, but his leadership, even
Speaker 6: though you know he wasn't available a lot or.
Speaker 4: Some of the year.
Speaker 6: I mean, Butler was pretty special looking back, even in
Speaker 6: that last game.
Speaker 4: Shanon, what about you? Which one are you gonna miss?
Speaker 2: Kelby Brea, man, I mean, I've never seen a guy
Speaker 2: who could when he's hot, is a better shooter than
Speaker 2: Kelby Brea, And I think that he's gonna be somebody
Speaker 2: they're gonna miss next year.
Speaker 3: I think if they had stayed healthy all year, he
Speaker 3: would have had a shot to break the percentage three
Speaker 3: point record. He had to take ones that are not
Speaker 3: his normal thing once Robinson got hurt.
Speaker 4: What about you.
Speaker 5: I always leaned towards point guards anyway, So it's probably Butler,
Speaker 5: just the fact the dude fought through the injuries. I mean,
Speaker 5: he was a wounded warrior most of the second half
Speaker 5: of the season. Cutted it out. Were that big old race,
Speaker 5: had the monster game against Louisville when he came back,
Speaker 5: had the monster game against Tennessee, two of our biggest rivals.
Speaker 5: So I'll definitely be Lamont Butler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I would say I have an affinity
Speaker 3: for guys who have a lot of pressure on him
Speaker 3: and then and then, so I probably will miss Jackson
Speaker 3: Robinson just because I do think he would is the
Speaker 3: difference in us making a run or not. Because he
Speaker 3: was the best thing we had close to a star
Speaker 3: really on the team, and times it showed up, times
Speaker 3: it didn't. But I did like him quite a bit.
Speaker 3: But I will tell you after.
Speaker 4: The postgame press conferences, I feel that way about all
Speaker 4: these guys.
Speaker 3: I mean, Kobe Bray is saying you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: pry this jersey off of me, Andrew Carr saying he
Speaker 3: doesn't want to take it off. You know, that's that's listen, man,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna write a script of what UK fans
Speaker 3: want to hear, Ryan, you would write that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, could you talked a lot about it. It's a
Speaker 5: different kind of one and done. It's not the one
Speaker 5: and done we used to. These guys are at the
Speaker 5: end of their career a lot of them. This will
Speaker 5: be the biggest game of their life. You know, they're
Speaker 5: gonna play overseas profession, but they won't play in a
Speaker 5: big monster arena or a big game like that probably
Speaker 5: ever again.
Speaker 3: So I think that was you know, I think that was.
Speaker 3: That's something I really will Missy. It's just that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. Now, then you get to the final four.
Speaker 3: First of all, I mean, I'm not gonna act like
Speaker 3: I'm some sort of genius, but I said all one
Speaker 3: seeds to final four because I thought they were all better,
Speaker 3: and I think they all showed themselves to be a
Speaker 3: lot better.
Speaker 4: Honestly.
Speaker 3: You know, none of them really got a test, except
Speaker 3: maybe Houston against Purdue.
Speaker 4: I mean, they all just kind of exploded.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna have, just from a talent perspective,
Speaker 3: one of the best final fours.
Speaker 4: Of all time.
Speaker 3: But it does feel like drew the four best teams
Speaker 3: made it. They were kind of definitively the four best
Speaker 3: teams and now we'll see what happens.
Speaker 6: Yeah, even Florida was on the ropes a little bit,
Speaker 6: but they had a good comeback, making some threes down
Speaker 6: the stretch to win that one. In my bracket, I
Speaker 6: had three ones in Alabama beating Duke. I think in
Speaker 6: hindsight that was just me being a Duke cater. I
Speaker 6: had them losing in the second round. But Duke has
Speaker 6: just run through everyone. So it does make for a
Speaker 6: good final four with the matchups. You know, some people
Speaker 6: hate on it being all chalk and it's lame to
Speaker 6: pick one seeds, but this year they just seem to
Speaker 6: be much blamed to.
Speaker 4: Pick one seeds if it's correctly right. When I went
Speaker 4: on tom since eighty.
Speaker 3: Five, when I went on ESP and the Joe Fortenbaugh
Speaker 3: and and my man Qugh Myers, they were like, how
Speaker 3: are you gonna pick all one seeds because it's gonna
Speaker 3: be what happens, Like I pick wrong things and it has.
Speaker 4: Now I feel like we've gotten.
Speaker 3: A pretty good set of results for Kentucky fans. And
Speaker 3: what I mean by that is, you know, Arkansas lost
Speaker 3: the same round we did. Yes, right, Louisville lost in
Speaker 3: the first round. Tennessee does beat us, but then they
Speaker 3: don't make a final four. They remain probably the best
Speaker 3: program to not make a Final four. The only thing
Speaker 3: left I think for Kentucky fans is can we get
Speaker 3: someone besides Duke to win?
Speaker 4: In a perfect world, I would want Houston to win.
Speaker 3: Houston has no effect on us. I mean they they haven't.
Speaker 3: You know, they haven't won one.
Speaker 4: Have they ever want?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: They want did they win one? No? I don't think
Speaker 4: they've won.
Speaker 5: They've ever won.
Speaker 3: Say, you know what, give it to Houston, Auburn and
Speaker 3: Florida I'd be okay with.
Speaker 4: So now let's just get Duke to lose. Do you
Speaker 4: agree with that?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So Houston plays Duke right and Florida plays Auburn correct.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna get one SEC team in the fine.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm hoping for. I'm probably leaning SE so
Speaker 5: you don't have to hope.
Speaker 4: That's gonna happen. One of those two teams is gonna
Speaker 4: be in the fund.
Speaker 5: And that's what the team I'm cheering for. I would
Speaker 5: like to see Houston, but I'm probably gonna pull for
Speaker 5: an SEC team.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I've been a diehard Houston fan ever since Friday Night.
Speaker 6: Kelvin Sampson's been knocking on the door for a while.
Speaker 6: You know, Kentucky knocked him out a few years ago.
Speaker 6: They've they've been in the hunt just about every year.
Speaker 6: I think this year they finally get it behind them.
Speaker 6: I'd probably hate saying it out loud and maybe want
Speaker 6: Bruce to get one ahead of Florida, but Duke is bottom, bottom,
Speaker 6: bottom of what we want to see.
Speaker 3: Did you see the Houston tweet Shannon to the guy
Speaker 3: there was somebody there was someone from Purdue that had
Speaker 3: written something like Kevin Sampson doesn't know how to coach
Speaker 3: or something during the game, and the Houston official, not
Speaker 3: the basketball account, the official university account, retweeted it and said,
Speaker 3: you forgot your l.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good good. I thought that was whoever ran that.
Speaker 3: Houston account to me, if you weren't for him before, Shannon,
Speaker 3: that might have been the reason to do it.
Speaker 2: And what a dumb comment saying that he can't coach
Speaker 2: as he's in the final four now, but out.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a final four of guys. You know,
Speaker 3: Kelvin Sampson. People got Houston fans. You can't even give
Speaker 3: people compliments anymore. And I thought this was a compliment.
Speaker 3: I said, Kelvin Sampson's one of the three best coaches
Speaker 3: in the country. He takes, which I agree, I do
Speaker 3: think now I think I would say Bill self, uh,
Speaker 3: Tom Izzo and him and then you know, maybe throwing
Speaker 3: Rick right like, but I I do think though, and well,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry Danny Hurley. I meant Bill Self, Danny Hurley
Speaker 3: and him is all ill put just a not below
Speaker 3: because he hadn't you know, it's not been as good
Speaker 3: the last few years.
Speaker 4: But I thought that was.
Speaker 3: A kind and I said, he wins with dudes you've
Speaker 3: never heard of, which, let's be real, like who I mean, LJ.
Speaker 4: Crier, Okay, maybe maybe you've heard it. Who else? Nobody?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, all I got was people, you'll know ball you casual,
Speaker 4: no ball, Shandon, you know what.
Speaker 2: You're probably right, we don't know you know what?
Speaker 3: We only who the seventh man for Houston is I
Speaker 3: have no idea, But here's what I know.
Speaker 4: They've had the same dudes for ten years.
Speaker 3: All of whom look like they could beat you into submission,
Speaker 3: and they're tough. And then one of them graduates and
Speaker 3: then they just clone his twin and come out there
Speaker 3: and play again.
Speaker 4: And my point this is a compliment. I never even
Speaker 4: know their players, but I know they're gonna be good.
Speaker 4: And that's to That's to Kevin SAMs.
Speaker 5: He's an outstanding coach. He had years ago, made Oklahoma
Speaker 5: on one of the best runs we've you know, seen
Speaker 5: in the last twenty five years. He was doing the
Speaker 5: same thing in Indiana before he got in trouble. Now
Speaker 5: he's done the same thing in Houston. Everywhere he goes.
Speaker 5: The guy's a winner.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, I am a casual in times. I mean,
Speaker 3: name me, heyse Okay, mariw you watch a ton of basketball.
Speaker 3: Give me someone from Houston's roster the last ten years,
Speaker 3: the last ten years. Just give me a Houston player
Speaker 3: besides Crier. I think they had a guy named like Snead,
Speaker 3: a chem eLife one. Now that was a long time
Speaker 3: she'd shed. Now name another one. Oh about you? Sir,
Speaker 3: let's call collectively put our hands. Let's all these casuals
Speaker 3: put our heads together.
Speaker 6: Name some Houston play Traymond Mark that transferred to the SEC.
Speaker 4: Don't think that's a real person.
Speaker 5: So Clyde the Glide directions.
Speaker 3: Again, that's the eighties. But my point is that you know,
Speaker 3: but that's a compliment to him. We don't know any
Speaker 3: of these people, and they're still in the final.
Speaker 5: Like Drew said, they've been knocking on the door for
Speaker 5: several years and I didn't know. The Purdue had him
Speaker 5: down there and I thought, oh no, he's gonna collapse again.
Speaker 5: But he was able to find a way to win it,
Speaker 5: get to the final four.
Speaker 3: The only negative about them is you got to see
Speaker 3: Jim Nance. Yeah, that's the only na he's sitting there.
Speaker 3: He's the only person I know that went there.
Speaker 2: You don't like Jim Dance?
Speaker 4: What's wrong with Jim Nance? It's fine. I just feel
Speaker 4: like I'm looking at an oil payer. You don't want
Speaker 4: his ties. You don't want tie I do?
Speaker 3: I do like Jim. Maybe he'll give me a pin again.
Speaker 3: Eight five, nine, two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about UK has been busy in the portal.
Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen has a UK player as a champion, and
Speaker 3: then controversy in women's basketball. There's a lot to yab about.
Speaker 3: That's next here on KAZAR Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 3: How are you a five, nine, two eight oh twenty
Speaker 3: two eighty seven? We have some breaking news. Shinnon tea
Speaker 3: dude running nine Prisa has entered the transfer portal. He
Speaker 3: will be uh using his final year of eligibility and
Speaker 3: we'll go somewhere that is not Kentucky as he enters
Speaker 3: the transfer portal. For me, this is not surprising news
Speaker 3: at all. I like Kerr and I think he's a
Speaker 3: He's a fun guy to have around. I don't know
Speaker 3: that it went great here. I think fans really loved
Speaker 3: the kid, but I think maybe things weren't glorious with
Speaker 3: him and and uh.
Speaker 4: In uk So.
Speaker 3: This is one of the things with Mark, like you're
Speaker 3: not gonna hear anything negative, which is why I think
Speaker 3: he's going to be a beloved coach. But I can
Speaker 3: just tell you I don't think things went exactly the
Speaker 3: way they wanted them to uh so, but I'm sure
Speaker 3: he will still get what do you call it when
Speaker 3: you leave a job in the smagles, I write you
Speaker 3: a letter of recommendation. I'm sure he'll still get a
Speaker 3: letter of recommendation, but I think it's been known probably
Speaker 3: since January that he would not be back right.
Speaker 5: And you know, he knows that Kentucky's gonna bring in
Speaker 5: a point guard and Kerr himself.
Speaker 3: It's a mutual decision. This is not, this is not.
Speaker 3: This is very much a mutual.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he can go in the open market and find
Speaker 5: a team that also needs a point guard make some
Speaker 5: money in the same process. So I don't think it's
Speaker 5: a shocked anybody he's leaving.
Speaker 4: What is this is gonna be his fourth or fifth
Speaker 4: school Virginia or four for school, fifth year for school,
Speaker 4: maybe six year.
Speaker 6: I really enjoyed having him around, and he even was
Speaker 6: a good teammate on the bench during game was injured.
Speaker 6: I mean I was surprised how emotional he was after
Speaker 6: the loss Friday night, after not playing as much and
Speaker 6: kind of knowing he was on his way out. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I think once he got injured, you know, things weren't
Speaker 6: working out well with maybe just being around town. You know,
Speaker 6: Kurt likes to have a good time and uh, even
Speaker 6: if he off the court stuff wasn't there. I just
Speaker 6: in a numbers game. I don't know where you would
Speaker 6: have put him because you got to get a guard.
Speaker 6: You got Jasper coming in, uh, another guard coming in.
Speaker 6: Just and he's a guy playing another year of college basketball.
Speaker 6: He's gonna want to start and make a lot of money,
Speaker 6: and it wasn't there for him here.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you can like somebody and just be like, I
Speaker 3: like you, just not here. And I think that that
Speaker 3: may have been it with her.
Speaker 6: I think that fun personality was on at all times,
Speaker 6: and sometimes it's like we need to be a little more.
Speaker 3: I will say this, and I think this is gonna
Speaker 3: apply to what we talk about in a little bit
Speaker 3: as well with the women's basketball thing. I think it's
Speaker 3: very important for people sitting at home to not assume
Speaker 3: you know everything because of like what you see during
Speaker 3: the game. Right, So sometimes you'll see somebody like I
Speaker 3: remember we had a game earlier this year where somebody
Speaker 3: was like, I don't like so and so's facial expressions,
Speaker 3: and I wanted to be like the camera was on
Speaker 3: them for twenty five seconds. Maybe you caught them on
Speaker 3: the bad twenty five seconds. I think sometimes you know,
Speaker 3: just because you just because you think you know, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of time in these people's lives, you don't
Speaker 3: know what's going on, and so I just think it's
Speaker 3: important with Kerr, Like I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: wanting to return because they lie him and he's funny
Speaker 3: and they like him on the bench. But I think
Speaker 3: it was probably it's but probably best for both and
Speaker 3: I hope he goes and crushes it somewhere else. You know,
Speaker 3: we heard I got a text message back after he
Speaker 3: got hurt saying he'll be at Saint John's next year.
Speaker 3: It's hard for me to see him playing for rig
Speaker 3: but if he does, then I'm gonna say that text message.
Speaker 4: Knew what they were talking.
Speaker 5: He did kind of become after I got hurt in
Speaker 5: the Gonzaga game, kind of the team cheerleader on the
Speaker 5: bench when Otega hit the last second shot against that,
Speaker 5: Kerr was the first guy that ran down to Florida
Speaker 5: by three. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think the players really liked him a lot.
Speaker 6: I remember him for injuring himself in the Gonzaga game
Speaker 6: and still running the link to the courtot with a
Speaker 6: bum leg. That was and that showed he did have
Speaker 6: a lot of heart when he was playing.
Speaker 3: And he had some personality early on when some of
Speaker 3: our other players were maybe just kind of getting to
Speaker 3: feel it. All right, So let's talk about our portal.
Speaker 3: You know, if you if you subscribe it. First off,
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Speaker 4: But let's go through, all right.
Speaker 3: So Donovan Dan, the kid from New Mexico, Kentucky had
Speaker 3: out offered everybody and then UCLA matched it. He wanted
Speaker 3: to go there because it's closer to home. So Kentucky
Speaker 3: now looking a lot of different directions, they get the
Speaker 3: commitment from the kid from Tulane. Again, people online were like,
Speaker 3: you don't know anybody's name, you just know the kid
Speaker 3: from I'm not learning people's name till they come. Why
Speaker 3: do I need to learn people's name if they're not
Speaker 3: gonna be here, right, So you get the Robert Morris
Speaker 3: kid and the Davidson kid. I think they're gonna get
Speaker 3: one of those two guys. Maybe I'll be wrong, but
Speaker 3: I think they will. Those are two the Robert Morris
Speaker 3: kids hanging out in Spain. So I don't know if
Speaker 3: we're gonna go there or not. Those are the bigs.
Speaker 3: They're now talking to the point guard at Georgia. What's
Speaker 3: his name, Silas?
Speaker 4: Lannie Silas? Do you remember him from when we played?
Speaker 5: I remember the name. The name tells me, but I
Speaker 5: don't remember what he did against this.
Speaker 3: That severe wheeler pipeline from Jo So yeah, he started
Speaker 3: then LSU they have a name a guy named.
Speaker 6: What Victorious Miller Victorious, which is a great name. Also
Speaker 6: the son of Silk the Shocker, one of my favorite rappers. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he's the son of Silk, the nephew of Master P.
Speaker 3: Make him say uhh no, no, no, no, no uh he
Speaker 3: they're talking to him. Then they've got uh the kid
Speaker 3: at Sam Houston State that shoots all the threes.
Speaker 4: Right. Who else has come in and out of our lives?
Speaker 6: There's a new uh new one that popped up yesterday
Speaker 6: or maybe Saturday from UCF Big twelve lening score.
Speaker 4: He's a Big twelve leading score.
Speaker 3: Now he's case because he's a big twelve leading scorer,
Speaker 3: scores a lot, but this would be his fourth school
Speaker 3: in four years, and some people are like.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's a bad time.
Speaker 3: You know. My view about that is if Mark thinks
Speaker 3: he can make it work, then I think he can
Speaker 3: make it.
Speaker 4: Wow. But he was a big twelve leading score that's
Speaker 4: pretty good.
Speaker 6: There was a zoom schedule today, so they're taking it seriously.
Speaker 5: Yes, uh was great about we saw roster construction. Getting
Speaker 5: the guys to fit the pieces. What he wants to
Speaker 5: do offensively, So he'll go out and get those guys
Speaker 5: to fit the pieces.
Speaker 3: Let's sen the Georgia point guard. There's a great story
Speaker 3: about him. What was his name again, Silas Jr. Silas boy,
Speaker 3: old man, Silas Dimmery's boy. Apparently Mark Pope on Saturday
Speaker 3: called up Silas Dimmery said hey, Silas, what are you
Speaker 3: doing man? And he was like, I'm just doing my
Speaker 3: thing with my Dimmery family and he said you got
Speaker 3: dinner plans and.
Speaker 4: He's like, no, just Saturday, we're hanging out.
Speaker 3: Mark said see you then and he just flew to
Speaker 3: Georgia and had dinner with it.
Speaker 5: Really, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 4: Why are you surprised this was on KSR Plus.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to be the sidekick guy, Like you're telling
Speaker 5: me a new story.
Speaker 4: Oh you already knew that. Yeah, okay, don't be fake,
Speaker 4: just just if you know it. I thought you were
Speaker 4: breaking news to Ryan.
Speaker 2: I don't believe them, right, I love you.
Speaker 5: I don't believe that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw that, you saw it? Yeah, so so
Speaker 5: why did you that go?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 5: That's my job as the co host kind of prop
Speaker 5: up the lead guy.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, so I'm gonna keep explaining it to you.
Speaker 3: So Ryan, he then goes to Georgia and shows up
Speaker 3: and has dinner with him.
Speaker 5: That's pretty damn cool.
Speaker 4: I think it's cool, right cool? What are you doing
Speaker 4: for dinner? Nothing? We're coming from Kentucky. You like that
Speaker 4: He wasn't even invited to dinner.
Speaker 5: He just can't What if Lonnie Demmy had a date
Speaker 5: Saturday night?
Speaker 3: Well Lonnie would if. I don't know if Silas did.
Speaker 3: But what what do you make of it?
Speaker 6: I like the Jacob a k s R Plus interviewed
Speaker 6: the family. They were like, we kind of didn't believe
Speaker 6: him when he was like, what are you all doing?
Speaker 4: For dinner.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna head that way, like is he being serious?
Speaker 6: And then you know, hops on the jet pops up
Speaker 6: a couple hours later, Shandon awesome or weird?
Speaker 2: Awesome?
Speaker 4: Awesome but.
Speaker 5: Very awesome.
Speaker 4: Yes, he could come to my house.
Speaker 3: So I have a feeling silas dimmery sounds like, I mean,
Speaker 3: they're gonna go have dinner with him.
Speaker 6: They're very interested in he's visiting Saint John's today though,
Speaker 6: can tomorrow go away?
Speaker 4: I'll be right back. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.
Speaker 4: He'll make them pay now.
Speaker 2: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's
Speaker 2: Matt Jones.
Speaker 4: This could be our basketball team next year. Uh nanah, nanah.
Speaker 5: What do you think I like it?
Speaker 4: Go for it? Yes? If I'm nine two eight, is.
Speaker 5: Gonna come out bopping his head to this?
Speaker 4: I think you would. Yes, and it'll be dork, but
Speaker 4: it'll be awesome. Right. One person rights, Matt.
Speaker 3: I love when people invite themselves to my house to
Speaker 3: eat food.
Speaker 4: I do that sometimes.
Speaker 3: No, I mean I just say, like, oh, Hobby, Jason,
Speaker 3: would you you want you want?
Speaker 4: You want company?
Speaker 5: What do you haven't eat tonight?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Because Like, one of the things I've learned about people
Speaker 3: is it's, uh, what's the word, what's the word I'm
Speaker 3: looking for?
Speaker 4: Where where you don't move?
Speaker 3: And you just like, ah, I can't think whether what's
Speaker 3: the word I'm looking Anyway, The biggest thing that keeps
Speaker 3: people from hanging out with their friends and doing stuff
Speaker 3: is that they just don't make plans, like like nobody
Speaker 3: just like they just nobody makes the initial call. So
Speaker 3: you make the initial call just to get people moving. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: because everybody's waiting for somebody to call them. You're that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because I'm the single one of our of my friends,
Speaker 3: I'm the one trying to remind the married people.
Speaker 4: That they have lives outside of their house that they
Speaker 4: can go and do. Right, So you can come meet
Speaker 4: at my house anytime.
Speaker 3: What's the word where you talk about like, it's I
Speaker 3: want to say inerrancy, but inertia. Inertia is what keeps
Speaker 3: people from there. You just stop and you just stay
Speaker 3: where you are.
Speaker 5: So do you call Hubby say hey, what are you eating?
Speaker 5: And then Jason what he's in it? And picked the
Speaker 5: best one?
Speaker 4: No, I don't ask them to cook.
Speaker 3: I'll say it might be a Friday night, I'll be like,
Speaker 3: you all have dinner plans, you want to go out?
Speaker 3: If they say, well, it's I'm like, well if you want, like,
Speaker 3: I'll bring the food over and they usually will say
Speaker 3: yes to that.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't never ask people to cook for me. That
Speaker 3: would be a little I don't think Mark Pope was like, hey,
Speaker 3: woman cook for me and I'm gonna come see your son.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they would have catered it. Probably not to
Speaker 3: eat there. Yeah, but you can crash our house anytime.
Speaker 4: Do we get do we get credit? Do I I
Speaker 4: get credited?
Speaker 3: If kerkcrease a pic Saint John's because we just had
Speaker 3: another person, right, So you think it's gonna be saying.
Speaker 5: You're the first person I heard say that.
Speaker 4: I say back in December, long time, a long time.
Speaker 4: All right, So you sent something out last night that
Speaker 4: was like what did you send out? With the internet
Speaker 4: on fire? My phone was blowing up about it.
Speaker 5: I just tweeted out magoon and then the googly eyes,
Speaker 5: google eyes, googly eyes.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 3: You gotta be careful with that because like people might
Speaker 3: have thought you were like Magoon, what a handsome fellow.
Speaker 3: That's not that's not what you were doing. You think
Speaker 3: we're gonna get the kid. He's from San Diego.
Speaker 5: States, San Diego State, seven foot or thin, he's only
Speaker 5: like two ten ten. Yeah, when he went to say
Speaker 5: slender Man, yes, and I think when he first got
Speaker 5: there he was one ninety seventy. But uh, yeah, he's
Speaker 5: uh did a zoom call yesterday apparently went very very well.
Speaker 5: I would just keep an eyeball on him. Magoon Gwathe.
Speaker 3: Now you have been pretty money with your scoop, but
Speaker 3: then you had a scuttle butt fall apart.
Speaker 4: So we calling this a scoop or a scuttle butt.
Speaker 5: It's scooped that he met with him.
Speaker 4: And that, but is it scooped that he's coming here.
Speaker 5: We hasn't pulled the trigger yet, but I would say
Speaker 5: I would say chances are.
Speaker 4: Very, very, very very question is it scoop or is
Speaker 4: it scuttle butt?
Speaker 5: A scoop?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
Speaker 6: Chaos Board lit up about it last night and I
Speaker 6: didn't have answers.
Speaker 4: I was like, the thing with scoop women is you
Speaker 4: also said he looks a woman. One more school.
Speaker 5: Michigan, Michigan Today.
Speaker 6: Apparently he's still considering staying at San Diego State. But
Speaker 6: I rode on the board with Scoop women. You don't
Speaker 6: know if he fell for a photoshopped image or if
Speaker 6: he had the Gwaff family over at his house.
Speaker 4: I mean, we don't know. There's a wide range of
Speaker 4: scoops scoop here. Yeah, that's true. He could.
Speaker 3: He could either fall for anything or be making out
Speaker 3: with the mother, like any of the questions.
Speaker 6: But it is rare for him to put himself out
Speaker 6: like on a on a transfer recruitment there.
Speaker 4: So it got a lot of tension. Your dad had
Speaker 4: like eighty thousand views on it. What Yeah, everyone everyone
Speaker 4: thinks you've got the scoop here.
Speaker 3: Everybody's like, he doesn't say much of worth, but when
Speaker 3: he does.
Speaker 2: It's reallyws this morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, just.
Speaker 5: The googly eyes. I just think he looks good.
Speaker 4: I do like Magoon wild. I hope we get him.
Speaker 6: He was the defensive player of the year and the
Speaker 6: freshman of the year. He can step out and shoot
Speaker 6: three a little bit. I'll play the four or the five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, here's the way I'm judging this recruiting.
Speaker 4: We you know there.
Speaker 3: This happened last year in the portal we have so
Speaker 3: many like Charlie Doomsday people who are like, we don't
Speaker 3: get a guy go pope Clothes're like, look, this is
Speaker 3: what this is now. What this is now is really
Speaker 3: managing money. You have a said amount of money and
Speaker 3: you have to build the pieces to the money that
Speaker 3: you have. And the problem for us judging it is
Speaker 3: we don't know how much money they have, although I
Speaker 3: do think they have quite a bit, and we don't
Speaker 3: know what the other people have, really, yeah, and we
Speaker 3: don't know what the other people need. And because of that,
Speaker 3: you can't just judge it in like a straight he
Speaker 3: sold him monitor or not. There's a financial component and
Speaker 3: because unlike the in Major league sports, we don't know
Speaker 3: the money we will starting next year, but we don't
Speaker 3: right now, you're just kind of left like, well, we're
Speaker 3: gonna get some of these guys and then we're not.
Speaker 4: I don't think it really says a.
Speaker 3: Lot about think about Kobe Brea, he picked us over
Speaker 3: Kansas due blah blah blah. Well, some of that I'm
Speaker 3: sure is he liked Mark Pope, but some of us,
Speaker 3: we probably gave me more money than Kansas and dude
Speaker 3: did so, I mean, that's kind of what we don't know.
Speaker 5: And like I said earlier, he's so good about just
Speaker 5: picking the guys that fit his program. I think he
Speaker 5: went out in a short amount of time and picked
Speaker 5: the perfect guys to fit what he wants to do offensively.
Speaker 5: This year, he'll do the same thing this year. He
Speaker 5: knows who he's got coming back, He'll go out and
Speaker 5: get the fill in the holes with a big guy,
Speaker 5: a point guard, a shooter.
Speaker 3: One person rates Matt. What was it like for you,
Speaker 3: Mom and Larry to go to the game? I think
Speaker 3: they really liked it. It was a lot though, Like
Speaker 3: it was, it was a lot. I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: know the last time you've taken an eighty seven year
Speaker 3: old around a NCAA Championship arena.
Speaker 4: There's a lot happening.
Speaker 3: I don't think you realize just when you go all
Speaker 3: the motion that's everywhere. Then you throw in taking them
Speaker 3: to tin roof where it was like they were the Beatles,
Speaker 3: like you know, people just taking their Like it was,
Speaker 3: it was a lot. And then the walk for those
Speaker 3: of you on the walk who came over and like
Speaker 3: would help my dad off a curb or something like,
Speaker 3: it was very very nice, but we walked. I thought
Speaker 3: it was right around the block, and it was like
Speaker 3: a mile, and you know, there's just so many people.
Speaker 3: Then you get in the arena and there's people just
Speaker 3: everywhere and they're all running around. And then you know,
Speaker 3: when my parents sit down, I go up there and
Speaker 3: everybody's talking to it's it's I think it was.
Speaker 4: I think they loved it, but I also think Ryan
Speaker 4: maybe was a little overwhelming for them.
Speaker 5: You know, I think we all got a kick of
Speaker 5: you telling the story of you guys walking over. People
Speaker 5: come up, put their arm around Larry, getting a selfie
Speaker 5: with Larry.
Speaker 4: I mean people were taking selfies of Larry.
Speaker 3: I guarantee you no one's ever taking a selfie of Larry,
Speaker 3: Like I don't think Larry necessarily knows what a selfie is.
Speaker 4: And because he still has like a touchdown phone.
Speaker 5: And he said he was moving fast with a cane,
Speaker 5: he was booking it.
Speaker 4: I think he felt like he had to move really
Speaker 4: fast and we were like my mom and I just
Speaker 4: kept going, it's okay, we can slow down. But I
Speaker 4: think he wanted to keep up with the hustle and
Speaker 4: the bustle.
Speaker 3: And then we ended up on behind that TV shot
Speaker 3: really neat, like that'll be a picture I'll keep of
Speaker 3: us walking into the arena and so but you do
Speaker 3: have to take moments.
Speaker 4: Through to appreciate that because like I.
Speaker 3: Don't know how many times I'll get to do something
Speaker 3: like that again, like to sit at the tournament with
Speaker 3: my parents and watch the game and have it was
Speaker 3: just it was it was nice, but it's but that's
Speaker 3: a that's a big place and there's a lot going
Speaker 3: on getting in and out.
Speaker 6: Well, I got to Tenru first, knowing they weren't far behind,
Speaker 6: and I was even telling people now when they get here,
Speaker 6: let's create a path at a table reserved.
Speaker 4: But when Larry got there thirty minutes.
Speaker 6: For our show and there's just the house of dj
Speaker 6: blasting clubbing music. It's a right by Larry's ear, I'm
Speaker 6: thinking it's one thing we're going on.
Speaker 4: But before we start, you know Shannon, the DJs like
Speaker 4: and listen to.
Speaker 3: Well, the first thing he did was take his hearing naids.
Speaker 3: As he did, he took both his hearing aids out
Speaker 3: because it was pretty loud.
Speaker 5: It was loud, very loud.
Speaker 4: But your wife, apparently Abby was very sweet to my
Speaker 4: fav My mom probably said nine or ten times like
Speaker 4: Abby is the sweetest, And there was a little bit
Speaker 4: of like are you gonna get married?
Speaker 3: Like is there ever gonna be an Abby like in
Speaker 3: your in your life?
Speaker 4: But she was very nice.
Speaker 6: She was very excited to help him get in hang
Speaker 6: with him while we were yapping. She's a great teammate.
Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen Malachai Moreno and Great Crossing win the title.
Speaker 3: Lot of upsets on the on the way the final
Speaker 3: was bowling Green and Great Crossing, which is surprised a
Speaker 3: lot of people. Moco Montgomery County got to the semifinals,
Speaker 3: but was he named MVP?
Speaker 4: Malcolm Morenos named MVP.
Speaker 3: So another of these guys going and playing in the
Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen, winning the title and then coming to Kentucky.
Speaker 3: He joins that list. It's only like, you know eight
Speaker 3: or ten people. He joins at this that.
Speaker 5: I went to the championship game Saturday night and he
Speaker 5: just dominated, and they said he was just as good
Speaker 5: in the semifinal game against Moco. I think he saved
Speaker 5: his best basketball for here at the end of the
Speaker 5: season and show everybody why he's a five star and
Speaker 5: why he's mister Basketball and why he's coming to Kentucky
Speaker 5: and he's just gonna get better and better.
Speaker 4: Won the state championship.
Speaker 3: Think about this, played in the semifinals at one thirty
Speaker 3: on Saturday. Then they do that thing where they play
Speaker 3: the finals at night. I don't ever understand why they
Speaker 3: do that, but they play the finals at night. He
Speaker 3: then must have gotten on a plane. He did, because
Speaker 3: he was then at the McDonald's All American practice on
Speaker 3: Sunday and he was named one of the outs of
Speaker 3: the All American practice after just having won the state.
Speaker 6: Tournament the night before. Gota be an exhausting run for him.
Speaker 6: But I mean they've played so well. They pretty much
Speaker 6: ran through the Sweet sixteen, and I just think it's cool.
Speaker 6: You know, last year's Sweet sixteen championship had two future
Speaker 6: Wildcats in it. Now next year's roster is gonna have
Speaker 6: another state champ on it, hopefully the other two stick around.
Speaker 6: You have three kids on UK's roster who were in
Speaker 6: the last two championship games of the state tournament. That's
Speaker 6: that's pretty unique for Kentucky roster these days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so very cool. And I think a lot of
Speaker 3: the staff was at that game on Saturday night. The
Speaker 3: ones that didn't go have dinner with what's his head?
Speaker 5: I didn't see him. I'm saying on press Row any
Speaker 5: my free chick fil A.
Speaker 3: See them press row acting like you were a super
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Speaker 3: All right, so let's talk for just a second about
Speaker 3: the other big story the weekend, which was on the
Speaker 3: women's side. Cassidy Row who's from eastern Kentucky where in Eastern.
Speaker 5: Kentucky, Shelby Valley High School.
Speaker 3: Shelby Valley High School, uh, came to came to UK,
Speaker 3: played here for a few years, and then she posted
Speaker 3: that she was no longer going to be playing basketball
Speaker 3: at Kentucky. She actually was no longer going to play
Speaker 3: basketball at all, even though she has a year of eligibility.
Speaker 4: She's gonna go I think to physical therapy school or something.
Speaker 3: And then reports started coming out from various people that
Speaker 3: cover the women's team that Kenny Brooks did not offer
Speaker 3: like sort of suggested to her she needed to transfer
Speaker 3: and that wouldn't have a scholarship for this year. There
Speaker 3: are some people very upset online, I think in part
Speaker 3: because they might have known her when she was in
Speaker 3: high school. Her dad is a prominent coach. Some media
Speaker 3: members very upset, seem like some fans very upset as well. Ryan,
Speaker 3: I'm curious we have not talked about this. I'm curious
Speaker 3: as to what your take is.
Speaker 5: I can see coach Brooks's point, and he wants to
Speaker 5: get the best players possible to try to win a championship.
Speaker 5: They now have fifteen scholarships. Cassidy Row is going to
Speaker 5: be a senior. She's the one girl that stayed during
Speaker 5: the coaching transition and kind of held everything together. She
Speaker 5: gave everything she had to this program for three years,
Speaker 5: and now you're telling her your senior year that you
Speaker 5: don't have a spot for when you've got fifteen spots
Speaker 5: on that bench. I can see her Coach Brook's point,
Speaker 5: but I think the perception of it is horrible.
Speaker 4: True kind of agree.
Speaker 6: I mean, she committed to UK earlier in her high
Speaker 6: school career, committed to Matthew Mitchell, had a couple bad injuries,
Speaker 6: still made it to UK. She seems like she's been
Speaker 6: nothing but a great teammate. There's clips that were going around.
Speaker 6: Now she's the first one off the bench to you know,
Speaker 6: congratulate or whatever's going on in the game. She hops
Speaker 6: right up and wants to be a part of it.
Speaker 6: You know, if he has seven transfers ready to go
Speaker 6: to take all those spots, I guess I get it.
Speaker 6: But I still think you got to look at the
Speaker 6: circumstances on this one, or if you knew it was
Speaker 6: gonna happen, let her know before she could at least
Speaker 6: have a senior day as a junior. It just seems
Speaker 6: like someone that's been a pretty good glue around that
Speaker 6: program lately and nothing but a good teammate shouldn't be
Speaker 6: pushed out the door like that. Having all the Kentucky
Speaker 6: connections and everything else.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's important to note Kenny Brooks hasn't
Speaker 3: said anything, so we don't know. I mean, we only
Speaker 3: know what Cassidy said, and she didn't throw him under
Speaker 3: the bus. I mean, I think a lot of the
Speaker 3: reports are from outside people, and I'm sure those reports
Speaker 3: are true. I'm not questioning them, but we haven't heard
Speaker 3: anything from Kenny one way or the other.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing. I think it's I want to
Speaker 4: try to figure.
Speaker 3: Out why people are so frustrated by this, because I
Speaker 3: do want to narrow into why I think.
Speaker 4: People are frustrated. First of all, this happens all the time.
Speaker 5: It does.
Speaker 3: This happens all the time. Kenny Brooks is not the
Speaker 3: first coach to do this. Take any coach that you
Speaker 3: love that has ever coached here and they have asked.
Speaker 4: People to leave, all of them.
Speaker 3: Cale did it, Tubby did Ita, Tino did it, rich
Speaker 3: Rich Brooks did it, Mark Stoops has done it. Matthew
Speaker 3: Mitchell did it, MinJe Minjeon did it. A ton so
Speaker 3: any So it can't be that people are mad that
Speaker 3: he asked someone to transfer.
Speaker 4: That's happened with everybody, So that let's start with that. Second.
Speaker 3: You know, it can't be that she's stuck around, because
Speaker 3: that's happened with everybody, right, I think what bothers people
Speaker 3: At its core? Would you agree, Ryan, is that she's
Speaker 3: from Kentucky?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's odd to me how much this has
Speaker 3: worked people up. And I think it's gotta be the
Speaker 3: fact that she's from Kentucky.
Speaker 4: And would you agree with that?
Speaker 5: And not just from Kentucky, She's from the mountains, She's from.
Speaker 3: Shelby Valley And so is that why you think people
Speaker 3: are up?
Speaker 5: I think that's a huge part of it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the question then becomes like, I get it,
Speaker 3: but would we feel this way all the time? If
Speaker 3: are we going to take because you're you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to be careful. John Caliperry used to say privately that
Speaker 3: the reason he was has to take people from Kentucky
Speaker 3: is once you take him, you're adding the baggage of
Speaker 3: all the fan expectations of the state. That there's kind
Speaker 3: of a once you take a kid from Kentucky, better
Speaker 3: be good because the fans will expect you to play
Speaker 3: him and you'll hear about it all the time.
Speaker 4: And I think that's a big reason why he didn't
Speaker 4: take kids from Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Play some truth to that.
Speaker 3: So I do think it's worth noting that, like, if
Speaker 3: you want these people, these coaches, to take kids from Kentucky,
Speaker 3: you have to be judged on the same standards.
Speaker 4: Now, do I think Cassi Rowe can play should play.
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I didn't watch it enough to say, so I can't
Speaker 3: say I'm.
Speaker 4: With you a little bit.
Speaker 3: There's fifteen scholarships. It feels like there'd be one for her.
Speaker 3: But we also have to say if we say that
Speaker 3: because someone's from Kentucky, it's a different standard, it's gonna
Speaker 3: make people less likely to get people from Kentucky.
Speaker 4: That's probably true, right.
Speaker 5: I guess what if Coach Pope told Trent or Travis,
Speaker 5: you don't have a scholarship next year.
Speaker 4: We want you to people would be furious.
Speaker 5: Yeah, same thing.
Speaker 3: So but then if I'm Mark Pope and this kid
Speaker 3: two years down the road and I'm not sure, but
Speaker 3: I'd like to give him a chance, do you then
Speaker 3: go I don't want.
Speaker 4: That pushback again, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean Kenny told a lot of got people to
Speaker 3: leave last year. He told her to come back if
Speaker 3: she wanted to.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think everybody got so mad when he
Speaker 4: told the other people leave.
Speaker 3: It's just I I get it. I understand why people
Speaker 3: are upset. And my inclination is to be pro Eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 3: And if it were me as coach, I'd leave her
Speaker 3: on the team, be like, it's I got fifteen scholarships.
Speaker 3: But I also think we gotta be consistent. And now,
Speaker 3: if we set the presdent of if you recruited for
Speaker 3: kid from Kentucky, they have to stay all four years
Speaker 3: no matter what, you're probably gonna get fewer people recruited
Speaker 3: from Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think the big thing is just there's so many
Speaker 6: open spots. People are like, is there not just any
Speaker 6: way to keep her? You know, if they were down
Speaker 6: to just two or three roster spots that were open.
Speaker 6: They need to open another one to go to the portal.
Speaker 6: You'd probably sit with it a little better. But the
Speaker 6: fact that she's been feels like she's been a part
Speaker 6: of that program for eight years. I think she committed
Speaker 6: in like eighth grader or as a freshman. Just adding
Speaker 6: to it, everybody's known about her, and it just makes
Speaker 6: you wonder, are you really gonna go out and get
Speaker 6: that many people that there wasn't a spot for.
Speaker 4: But maybe he is.
Speaker 6: You know, it's his job to win basketball games and
Speaker 6: have the best roster he can.
Speaker 5: I think her backstory too, people fell in love with
Speaker 5: it because she blew her knee out like it was
Speaker 5: a sophomore or twice, rehab got back. Then her senior
Speaker 5: year she blows out the other knee, rehabbed, got back,
Speaker 5: made the rash Kentucky on her scholarship. She came to UK.
Speaker 5: Like I said, she's just kind of the the off
Speaker 5: the court leader, just kind of the glue that holds everybody.
Speaker 3: She's off the court leader to the fans. I mean
Speaker 3: George Amore was the leader of the team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, so like we fans had the connection, but
Speaker 4: George Amore was the leader of the team.
Speaker 3: Listen, I've never I don't even know if I've ever
Speaker 3: met this young woman.
Speaker 5: We met her when we did the show at Shelby
Speaker 5: Valley that day.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, show, Okay, you're right, you're right about that.
Speaker 3: I've met her dad, I think once or twice. She
Speaker 3: seems like a wonderful person. I don't I don't know
Speaker 3: at all. But I would also say, like, you know,
Speaker 3: this is also the business we're in now, Like part
Speaker 3: of the part of the thing about giving players money
Speaker 3: and giving them the ability to transfer is this. This
Speaker 3: is the other side, which is, if it's a business,
Speaker 3: it's a business.
Speaker 5: The other one it's a free agency.
Speaker 3: It's a free agency, and that that I can see
Speaker 3: why that would bother people. But if you're people like
Speaker 3: me who think these players should get paid, who think
Speaker 3: Georgia Amore and Claire Strack and these people should get
Speaker 3: I think Cassie had some nil deals, right, I think,
Speaker 3: then this is the opposite of it, which is they're
Speaker 3: gonna say, well, it's a business, so I hate it
Speaker 3: for But I also think we don't know everything. So
Speaker 3: I'm hesitant to condemn it. If that makes sense, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll take a break, come back. I renumber two. It's
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