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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, March the twelfth,
Speaker 2: on the way to the SEC Tournament. It is SEC
Speaker 2: Tournament Week. The games start here in just three hours
Speaker 2: and we are here in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where you
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Speaker 2: We are here in Bowling Green where the nice folks
Speaker 2: at the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative have allowed us
Speaker 2: to do the show here today. I got a full house.
Speaker 2: We got Ryan, we got Drew, we got Shannon, and
Speaker 2: our SEC Tournament trip is sponsored by Clayton and Krome.
Speaker 2: You've heard me talk about Clayton and Krum over the
Speaker 2: years with their leather goods, but this is a special
Speaker 2: sponsorship that I want to quickly note at the beginning.
Speaker 2: Clayton and Crum has been They've been with us since
Speaker 2: they started the company. I think they met here in
Speaker 2: Bowling Green actually see are you and me? They were
Speaker 2: students at Western and their second employee was a guy
Speaker 2: named Parker, and this sponsorship is in honor of him.
Speaker 2: He's going through a battle with a rare form of cancer,
Speaker 2: thirty years old with a baby girl, and Clayton and
Speaker 2: Kroum wanted to honor him by sponsoring this trip and
Speaker 2: to tell him that he has loved and to keep fighting.
Speaker 2: And that's what we're gonna do. And just like the
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Speaker 2: you use a co KSR. They have some discounts. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about it more later, but in honor of Parker
Speaker 2: our SEC tournament trip, we're thinking about you and Ryan
Speaker 2: excited to be on the road.
Speaker 3: First of all, the season flew by. I can't believe
Speaker 3: it's already March madness in time for the postseason by.
Speaker 3: I go back to there's so much optimism and excitement
Speaker 3: about this year compared to where we were this time
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 4: It's a different look.
Speaker 3: We were going through the brackets and I'm thinking last
Speaker 3: year I didn't think Kentucky would have.
Speaker 4: Much of a chance.
Speaker 3: But this year, there's so much excitement going into the tournament.
Speaker 3: This year, everybody's got that optimism.
Speaker 5: I remember thinking they're gonna make it run. Last year,
Speaker 5: I think I even picked them to win it. But
Speaker 5: then I remember Nashville that night after the loss. It
Speaker 5: was just utter shock and I remember a lot of
Speaker 5: people saying, I'm not doing this again. I cannot come back.
Speaker 2: That was the maddest in person crowd I ever remember
Speaker 2: in a UK basketball game. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 2: seen a crowd. And it was bad the next week
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh too, but it was worse here. Yes, I
Speaker 2: think the fact that like everybody was here and it
Speaker 2: was at night and everybody been drinking, and like when
Speaker 2: we lost to Texas and him, because that game was
Speaker 2: like never closed, like we were down most of the game,
Speaker 2: the crowd was just they were just done, and it
Speaker 2: was almost like that was a moment where you go, Okay,
Speaker 2: well this isn't gonna work. Take that to this year,
Speaker 2: where I think we're gonna have Shannon one of the
Speaker 2: best crowds we've ever had in Nashville. It reminds me
Speaker 2: of in twenty ten on Cow's first year, how like
Speaker 2: everybody just seemed to want to be there for that tournament.
Speaker 2: We're not necessarily as good as we were that year,
Speaker 2: but I do think you're gonna have a similar crowd
Speaker 2: in nash year.
Speaker 6: I'm looking for Nashville to just be craz Yeah. I
Speaker 6: think that the level of excitement is probably going to
Speaker 6: be at a level that it hasn't been since COVID,
Speaker 6: maybe since twenty nine.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be the best tournament for the SEC.
Speaker 2: For Kentucky fans, now, we need to win games, but
Speaker 2: for fans that probably you've had since COVID.
Speaker 6: You know, just just went one game first of all right,
Speaker 6: let's just go day to day. When that first game,
Speaker 6: if you do, it'd be the first win since twenty
Speaker 6: twenty two, which I can't even believe.
Speaker 4: That's a freazing thing, pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: So all right, let me give you. Let me give
Speaker 2: you some facts here that I thought of last night.
Speaker 2: So for this is, if not my favorite week of
Speaker 2: the year, it's one of my favorite weeks, and it
Speaker 2: goes back my entire life. The SEC tournament has been
Speaker 2: one of my favorite things to do. So I want
Speaker 2: to give you some numbers that I just realized my grandfather.
Speaker 2: I started going to the SEC tournament because my grandfather
Speaker 2: and his best friends would go. The first SEC tournament
Speaker 2: they went to was nineteen eighty five, which is forty
Speaker 2: years ago this weekend. I think one of the last
Speaker 2: members of that group passed away in the last year
Speaker 2: and they went forty years ago as their anniversary. I
Speaker 2: went and counted up. This is my thirtieth WOW SEC tournament,
Speaker 2: so their fortieth, my thirtieth. We started KSR the website
Speaker 2: twenty years ago. This year we start to KSR the
Speaker 2: radio show fifteen years ago. This year the twenty fifteen team.
Speaker 2: This will be the one basketball part my opinion, maybe
Speaker 2: the best team of my lifetime ten years ago. And
Speaker 2: then it was here today, five years ago that the
Speaker 2: SEC tournament and NCAA tournament were canceled. Five years ago
Speaker 2: to this day, So a lot of anniversaries for me
Speaker 2: personally this year fortieth that this became something in our
Speaker 2: family's lives. Thirtieth tournament for me, So Ran, I'm very
Speaker 2: excited about this.
Speaker 3: You know, just you mentioned what happened here five years
Speaker 3: ago on this day just kind of blows my mind.
Speaker 2: Because it was today, five years ago they canceled the tournament. Today,
Speaker 2: yesterday was the anniversary of all the you know, stuff
Speaker 2: happened in the night before, but the official we were
Speaker 2: sitting in a conference room five years ago today with
Speaker 2: the athletic directors meeting in the room next to us,
Speaker 2: deciding what they were gonna do. And then while we
Speaker 2: were on the air, if you remember, Ryan, they canceled
Speaker 2: the tournament.
Speaker 3: Didn't Shanny go still a big bottle of handsands just.
Speaker 4: Trying to protect you guys. I mean, I didn't know
Speaker 4: what was going on.
Speaker 2: We were a lot more than that. We always talk
Speaker 2: about that. There was a lot more crazy stuff than that.
Speaker 2: I mean the athletic directors were meeting next door. Mitch
Speaker 2: Barnhart was outside trying to figure out how to get
Speaker 2: the UK softball team home from Florida. They were stuck
Speaker 2: in Florida with no flights and he didn't know exactly
Speaker 2: how to get him back. They were trying to decide
Speaker 2: what they were gonna do with all, with everything. You
Speaker 2: remember the governor called in. That was when he kind
Speaker 2: of wanted to give a message to the state of Hey,
Speaker 2: this is serious. I mean, it was just a whole thing.
Speaker 2: And now five years later, Drew, I do think this
Speaker 2: is the most excited this fan base has been for
Speaker 2: an SEC tournament probably since then.
Speaker 5: Yeah, unfortunately it has not been good since then. Shannon
Speaker 5: mentions the one win. We haven't even won a game
Speaker 5: in Nashville since before COVID. We beat a ten seed Alabama.
Speaker 5: That was our last win in Bridgestone Arena. So Kentucky's
Speaker 5: do and even though you're a six seed and really
Speaker 5: not expected to make much of a run. I agree
Speaker 5: that there Big Blue is gonna be everywhere on Broadway
Speaker 5: just to be a part of what might happen.
Speaker 2: So I think it is gonna be a pretty a
Speaker 2: pretty great week. Now. Kentucky, of course plays tomorrow night
Speaker 2: at nine thirty. I still will use the Eastern times,
Speaker 2: even though we're gonna be in the Central time zone.
Speaker 2: But you know, tournament stars, Cal Perry's playing in the
Speaker 2: first game today here at one o'clock against South Carolina.
Speaker 2: You know, I was on a podcast with like these
Speaker 2: guys in Boston, it's like gambling podcast a couple days ago,
Speaker 2: and they asked me the question, is it harder to
Speaker 2: win this year the SEC Tournament or the NCAA Tournament?
Speaker 2: And that may seem like a stupid question in a
Speaker 2: lot of years, but I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's a stupid question. I was sitting
Speaker 2: here and looking at it, and I was thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's just say you're Kentucky, all right. Here are the
Speaker 2: four games you would have to win to win the
Speaker 2: SEC Tournament. Beat a Georgia team that's gonna be in
Speaker 2: the NCAA Tournament, beat Alabama, beat Florida, beat off. There's
Speaker 2: a decent chance that when you look at a team
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen to national title game path, they won't play
Speaker 2: a harder group than that. There's a decent. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a decent argument that that is the case. And
Speaker 2: even if you were Alabama you get a double bye.
Speaker 2: What if I told you to win the title with
Speaker 2: the double bye, you had to beat Kentucky, Florida, and Opera.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty hard run. Whoever wins this, I do
Speaker 2: think will have the equivalent of an elite eight to
Speaker 2: title run just to win the SEC tournament.
Speaker 3: This may be the only year it ever happens, but
Speaker 3: it's definitely true. This year the SEC Tournament is harder.
Speaker 3: You mentioned Kentucky's path. Those are three teams that were
Speaker 3: potential number one seeds for most of the year in Auburn,
Speaker 3: Florida and Alabama that would run would never happen in
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 4: Have to go through there to get to the championship.
Speaker 5: And if you just look at the odds, Kentucky's eight
Speaker 5: to one to make the final four in nineteen to
Speaker 5: one to.
Speaker 2: Win the SECS. So is that right?
Speaker 5: I mean almost more than double you know the probability there.
Speaker 2: It just shows you how razy with gallant they have
Speaker 2: in front of them.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of debating on which would you rather do.
Speaker 5: I'm go back and forth on win go to the
Speaker 5: final four. But I mean a winning the SEC championship
Speaker 5: this year, whatever you think of how much it means
Speaker 5: in the big picture, that is a huge accomplishment.
Speaker 2: I think it's I do think it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: I mean it's interesting the younger coaches in the league,
Speaker 2: or at least the coaches that are on I heard.
Speaker 2: I saw Mark Pope, Bruce Pearl, Nate Oates, and Todd
Speaker 2: Golden all say in the last two days winning this
Speaker 2: SEC tournament is a huge deal for us. There's another
Speaker 2: coach on the other side who took the opposite view,
Speaker 2: But I do think this will be you know, look,
Speaker 2: only one team's gonna win the national championship, So if
Speaker 2: you're not gonna do that, you might. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is like this. Auburn won it last year's first time
Speaker 2: they ever won it, the first time they won since
Speaker 2: like the eighties. They were into it. I think that
Speaker 2: we should be too.
Speaker 6: No matter what path you end up getting in the
Speaker 6: NCAA tournament, I think you've already and I made this
Speaker 6: point last week, I don't think that you're gonna be
Speaker 6: playing any tougher teams than what you've already played in
Speaker 6: the SEC, so I think at this point you're not
Speaker 6: afraid of anybody, regardless of what your situation is.
Speaker 2: So we also have some other things on the line here.
Speaker 2: First of all, Shannon the dude has been credential for
Speaker 2: the first time ever at the SEC. You're gonna walk
Speaker 2: in now listen, if you'all gonna sit here, then you
Speaker 2: have to clap claps and get a free show and
Speaker 2: watch like it's a movie. I've been participate.
Speaker 4: I've been denied for ten straight years. Give it up
Speaker 4: for my credential.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously, I mean you're so like you're gonna walk
Speaker 2: in here this afternoon. Yeah, I mean, this is like
Speaker 2: gonna be your Your eye is gonna be big. They
Speaker 2: finally they've turned you down ten straight years and then
Speaker 2: decided that this year you were good.
Speaker 6: I expect to be sitting right next to Jay Billis.
Speaker 6: I want a headset so I can chime in on
Speaker 6: the broadcast.
Speaker 2: I want to make you need to get on cameraight now. Mario,
Speaker 2: first time he's ever applied, actually got credential. He got
Speaker 2: in one, so this will be his first time to
Speaker 2: so kind of a new era. Ryan of them credentialing
Speaker 2: the new guard.
Speaker 3: I just want to see Shannon's credential because he apparently
Speaker 3: he submitted a headshot of him wearing his gold ov
Speaker 3: W jacket.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be credentials so the SEC tournament for me
Speaker 2: that don't know. They denied his head shot because he's
Speaker 2: sending in an OVW picture.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no no.
Speaker 6: I sent in a picture of KSR with a headset on,
Speaker 6: and they said we need another headshot, so I sent
Speaker 6: them the OVW picture with the gold jackets.
Speaker 4: So we'll see if that one maybe gets approved.
Speaker 2: I kind of doubt it will. I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: you're probably gonna have to take one.
Speaker 6: Not gonna look like the Facebook profile before you add
Speaker 6: your profile.
Speaker 4: It's just like the outline of somebody's head.
Speaker 6: It's gonna look like, uh but but who do you
Speaker 6: think got bumped? You know, if they approved me, is
Speaker 6: somebody had to get bumped?
Speaker 2: Question? I know, I understand how you didn't get in
Speaker 2: because they everyone else on earth was. It seemed to
Speaker 2: allowed him.
Speaker 4: I mean, they were letting people off the streets. You
Speaker 4: let me.
Speaker 2: I got credential for the SEC tournament before even UK
Speaker 2: would credential me for the games like it was. It
Speaker 2: was easier.
Speaker 6: So what they always told me was you don't go
Speaker 6: to enough home games. But then there are other people
Speaker 6: like I don't know you like what the.
Speaker 2: Only game I went to was the Archita game this year,
Speaker 2: so exactly. Well, but so that'll be fun. Now tomorrow
Speaker 2: we will do our show at ten roof. It is
Speaker 2: nine o'clock Central. Shannon's pre show will be at eight
Speaker 2: o'clock Central. There will open I think they're opening the
Speaker 2: doors at seven. Is that right? Seven o'clock. They're gonna
Speaker 2: open it at seven, So we hope to see you
Speaker 2: all at ten roof. It should be the start of
Speaker 2: a long, fun day in Nashville where I think Blue
Speaker 2: will be, uh will be everywhere.
Speaker 5: That's my favorite show of the year with KSR. This
Speaker 5: is my favorite week of the year with Kentucky basketball.
Speaker 5: I'm just hoping we make it a little longer into
Speaker 5: the weekend because it's it's been a real gut punch
Speaker 5: the last couple of years, getting so excited to only
Speaker 5: turn around and come straight back home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So so that that's gonna be our our thing
Speaker 2: for the week. I do want to before we go
Speaker 2: to break here because I want this to be a fun,
Speaker 2: exciting show. But I do think we need to note
Speaker 2: the passing of Louisville's Junior Bridgeman before we go to break.
Speaker 2: For people who don't know, Junior Bridgeman's one of the
Speaker 2: more amazing stories really ever in sports, and he went
Speaker 2: to University of Louisville, one of their best players of
Speaker 2: all time, was really on their first really great team
Speaker 2: in the seventies, played in the NBA for ten years,
Speaker 2: eight years from Milwaukee Bucks. Back then, his average salary
Speaker 2: was two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. He became
Speaker 2: literally a billionaire after playing basketball. He owned something like
Speaker 2: five hundred windys we were reading today. He owned one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five chilis. He owned like he basically
Speaker 2: started a restaurant conglomerate. But more importantly, he was like
Speaker 2: the beacon of the city of Louisville. He helped the city.
Speaker 2: He was a big part of the Muhammad Ali Center
Speaker 2: coming in. In many ways, he was the soul of
Speaker 2: Louisville basketball as a program, as a player, as a
Speaker 2: member of the board, as a donor, but also as
Speaker 2: an amazing success story. I saw Charles Barkley last night say,
Speaker 2: one time I looked at the who are the richest
Speaker 2: basketball players of all time? And it was Michael Jordan,
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson, and Junior Bridgeman, And I didn't even know
Speaker 2: who Junior Bridgeman was. Well, that's a testament to his success,
Speaker 2: but it's also a testament he was a pillar of
Speaker 2: the Louisville community, like gave back for generations, and he
Speaker 2: passed away yesterday. Louisville is our rival, but also as
Speaker 2: a human being and a member of this you know,
Speaker 2: a citizen of the state of Kentucky, Junior Bridgeman is
Speaker 2: what you would hope your child becomes. He's a really
Speaker 2: a great American success story who never forgot where he's from,
Speaker 2: who always gave back, and who everyone around him said
Speaker 2: was a very humble successful man. So I want to
Speaker 2: pass on my prayers to the Junior Bridgeman family, and
Speaker 2: I hope all Kentucky fans will do the same. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's almost as if the he's almost the equivalent of
Speaker 2: if you know, Dan Issel and Joe Kraft were the
Speaker 2: same part, and that's kind of what it is for Louisville.
Speaker 2: So God bless him and his family, and I know
Speaker 2: you guys join me in saying we wish them nothing
Speaker 2: but the best.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I regret I never got to meet him, because
Speaker 3: all you hear is nothing but fantastic things about that
Speaker 3: man went from nothing to a billionaire, and it just
Speaker 3: what a great ambassador for the university and for the city.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people I'm really close to. We're
Speaker 2: very good friends with him, Craig Greenberg, mayor Louisville. Larry Bench,
Speaker 2: who it's one of our owners of O BW. Parron
Speaker 2: is very close with him as well that you've heard
Speaker 2: on this show. So prayers out to Junior Bridgeman and
Speaker 2: everybody who's a Louisville basketball fan on his passing. We're
Speaker 2: going to take a break and come back here in
Speaker 2: Bowling Green. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It
Speaker 2: is Kentucky Sports Radio here on the road to the
Speaker 2: SEC Tournament in Bowling Green, Kentucky at the Green River
Speaker 2: Regional Educational Cooperative. Thanks to letting us be here in
Speaker 2: Bowling Green. We got up very early to get out
Speaker 2: of here. We left Lexington just a little bit after
Speaker 2: seven in the morning, but now ready to go and
Speaker 2: then and getting to getting to Nashville today, I will say, Drew,
Speaker 2: I gotta get some excitement from uh, some of our
Speaker 2: some of some of our texters seven seven two seven
Speaker 2: seven four five two five four maybe a little depressing
Speaker 2: to start. Can I read you the first two textas
Speaker 2: text I read this is like one of the most
Speaker 2: excited he let me let me read you the first
Speaker 2: two texts I saw. One's from a guy named JR. Matt.
Speaker 2: I can't get excited about the SEC Tournament. I can't
Speaker 2: see the Cats winning any game. Cal messed it up
Speaker 2: for me. Here's hoping I'm wrong? Shut up, JR? What
Speaker 2: do you mean Cow's gone on another team? Like? What
Speaker 2: do you mean? Can't? And then this one? This wee
Speaker 2: you want to talk about a Debbie downer, Shannon Matt.
Speaker 2: Let's play pray there's not a repeat of the tornado
Speaker 2: game during the tournament in two thousand and eight. I
Speaker 2: always worry about the weather.
Speaker 4: What does that have to do with it? The weather's
Speaker 4: gonna be perfect down there.
Speaker 2: How many times do you think the how many times
Speaker 2: do you think a tornado is gonna hit the SEC Tournament?
Speaker 2: It happened once in history, and how does.
Speaker 4: That thought even come to your mind?
Speaker 2: Do you really go outside of your house and go, well,
Speaker 2: it doesn't have a tornado today the day you we're
Speaker 2: at the n SCC. I mean, those are the two
Speaker 2: most DeBie Downer quotes I've ever heard. So I need
Speaker 2: the text machine to have some uplift seven seven four
Speaker 2: five two five four.
Speaker 5: I don't want to back that texture. But Saturday's weather
Speaker 5: is supposed to be terrib Okay.
Speaker 2: Why did you say? Why are you backing the text?
Speaker 5: I'm not saying we're gonna recreate Georgia back, no, no,
Speaker 5: but what the weather is supposed to be horrible on
Speaker 5: Saturday for the day we all want to be on buss.
Speaker 2: You want to note? Is it supposed to be I'm
Speaker 2: still excited you have to turn on me. I'm just
Speaker 2: noting the weather.
Speaker 5: On Saturday is supposed to be war I'm not saying
Speaker 5: it's the Georgia Dome all over again.
Speaker 2: Exactly right. Let's see if we win on Thursday before
Speaker 2: we start worrying about the weather on Saturday.
Speaker 3: I can say I hope we're they're playing still playing
Speaker 3: on Saturday.
Speaker 4: That'd be a good good achievement for me. In my book.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was Drew that text.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be a great week, all right, everybody be positive,
Speaker 6: it's gonna.
Speaker 5: Be I'm excited, but I can note that the weather's bad,
Speaker 5: and everybody calm down.
Speaker 2: I looked at the forecast man on Saturday, all right.
Speaker 2: Beyond yes, last night the tournament added u NC Wilmington
Speaker 2: Robert Morris. Yes, Bobby ended up making Bobby mo our
Speaker 2: first round game. That would be kind of interesting. Saint
Speaker 2: Francis of Pennsylvania, which you probably didn't even know was
Speaker 2: a school. And then Gonzaga won in what I thought
Speaker 2: was the worst basketball game I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2: Final score fifty four to forty nine, and Gonzaga and
Speaker 2: Saint Mary's combined Ryan to go one for twenty nine
Speaker 2: from three point land. It's the worst shooting three point
Speaker 2: game in the history of any conference tournament in college basketball.
Speaker 2: I actually tried to watch them, and they're both NCAA
Speaker 2: Tournament teams that played in it.
Speaker 3: I watched it, and I saw Gonzaga was ahead like
Speaker 3: my five. I thought that'd be gonna be a good
Speaker 3: win for them, and then I just could not watch
Speaker 3: it anymore.
Speaker 4: It was awful.
Speaker 2: It was. Honestly, we talk about how exciting and good
Speaker 2: these see games have been this year, think of the
Speaker 2: exact opposite. It was the worst basketball game I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: And those are two good teams in theory.
Speaker 5: I had it on kind of a background noise as
Speaker 5: I was packing, but I would look up and even
Speaker 5: the announcers were kind of talking about what a horrible
Speaker 5: product it was for two teams. That and also this
Speaker 5: time you hear those teams usually put on an entertaining
Speaker 5: game in that conference. That was not much fun to
Speaker 5: watch last night.
Speaker 6: You could take the five of us, we could go
Speaker 6: one for twenty nine. I am confident we could get
Speaker 6: one out of twenty nine.
Speaker 2: One out of twenty nine. Who do you think Ryan
Speaker 2: is the most important player for Kentucky to succeed over
Speaker 2: the next few days.
Speaker 3: Well, I think we've seen Otega kind of take over.
Speaker 3: He's got to be that guy. Without Jackson Robinson, you
Speaker 3: need somebody who can go depend on the it's gonna
Speaker 3: go get you sixteen, eighteen to twenty points a game.
Speaker 3: I think, so Otega is that guy. He's got to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 2: It's a boy, answer Drew, But I know it's probably
Speaker 2: one you agree with. A lot of Kentucky's success this
Speaker 2: year has been does Kobe Bray hit shot? And Kobe
Speaker 2: Bray hit shots, We're good. If he doesn't hit shots,
Speaker 2: we're usually not.
Speaker 5: You'll have to have both of them. But I'm not
Speaker 5: going with either one of those for my answer. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm going Lamont Butler.
Speaker 2: There's a chick. It's in your first game.
Speaker 5: You got Oklahoma with Fears in the back court, who
Speaker 5: carved up down there. Even though he still won that game,
Speaker 5: you could advance have Mark Sears again, I know we're
Speaker 5: gonna need defense there, so I think they're gonna make
Speaker 5: a run. Butler's defense on some of the best guards
Speaker 5: in the conference will be the difference maker.
Speaker 2: I actually like that that call because with Fears and
Speaker 2: Seers back to back, you know, we did not have
Speaker 2: Butler when we played Seers last We did have him,
Speaker 2: but only like fourteen minutes when we played against Fears,
Speaker 2: So I actually think that's.
Speaker 5: A pretty Walter Clayton after that, if you beat Alabama,
Speaker 5: it's a long run of great point guards.
Speaker 4: In the one out.
Speaker 6: Throwing up Mary Williams as well, who I think has
Speaker 6: been very impressive in the second half of the season.
Speaker 6: So if he's able to have a good game, I
Speaker 6: think Kentucky has a chance to roll it.
Speaker 2: They just picked every starter except the dude who's played
Speaker 2: the best last two games, Andrew Carry. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: been probably our best player in these last two games.
Speaker 3: And if if they end up playing Alabama, he's gonna be.
Speaker 4: Key because he got rocked. Yes, he wasn't.
Speaker 3: Roy and got rocked. He's got to show up and
Speaker 3: play good.
Speaker 2: And that he got rocked first time, and then he
Speaker 2: was barely moving in the second one. So it'd be
Speaker 2: interesting to see how he does when he's at full speed.
Speaker 2: Because that you go watch that first game, we actually
Speaker 2: outplayed them. It's just Grant Nelson had a crazy game
Speaker 2: twenty four and eleven. If I'm not mistaken, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2: Who's up first, John, Joseph, Joseph, go ahead, Joseph.
Speaker 7: I ain't made a ben sense football suits that I
Speaker 7: talked to you, but anyway, I just want to ask you.
Speaker 8: How do you think we'll do a naught?
Speaker 7: You think we win two three games there at How
Speaker 7: do you think we're doing.
Speaker 2: The n C A turkey? All right? Thank you, Joseph, Well,
Speaker 2: I'll say the same thing that I said when the
Speaker 2: show started, which is I think Kentucky. Listen, they could
Speaker 2: lose this first game. They could make it to the finals.
Speaker 2: I mean, you play Oklahoma or Georgia. We lost to Georgia.
Speaker 2: We beat Oklahoma by one point. We play Alabama, I
Speaker 2: think we can win. We play Florida, We've already beaten them.
Speaker 2: Auburn be tougher, but who knows they could even lose.
Speaker 2: I mean, but so like, I have no idea. This
Speaker 2: is the first SEC tournament ever that I would say
Speaker 2: you could win any of the four games. You can
Speaker 2: lose any of them.
Speaker 6: I feel very confident winning Thursday. Keep in mind you
Speaker 6: because you play Georgia and Oklahoma on the road, and
Speaker 6: this game tomorrow is going to be basically a home game,
Speaker 6: though it's that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It will be a home game. The good thing is
Speaker 2: you look at the bracket. Let's just see what the
Speaker 2: bracket would be tomorrow night. Mississippi State, Missouri. Let's say
Speaker 2: Georgia or Oklahoma, Kentucky. Those teams don't bring fan bases,
Speaker 2: so that that arena tomorrow night is gonna be eighty
Speaker 2: to ninety percent Kentucky fans, if not more, because those
Speaker 2: teams don't bring fan bases. So it's gonna be wild
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 3: And be a home field court, Adventage and.
Speaker 2: Be a home field court. Evan, it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: home We'll take a break right back to Kentucky sports radio.
Speaker 2: People are riding in with their own reasons to be
Speaker 2: excited or having a hard time being excited about the tournament. Yeah,
Speaker 2: one person writes, Matt, I can't get excited about the
Speaker 2: SEC tournament. The Greek island of Santorini had an earthquake.
Speaker 2: I can't watch the game. I'm sorry about that wish
Speaker 2: for those people. But yes, Santorini's of like very luxurious island.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like it's where all the people go
Speaker 2: on their honeymoons, you know, like they have the is
Speaker 2: that the one that has the blue the blue house, right,
Speaker 2: bluish blue and white. Yeah, it's like a very it's
Speaker 2: like an Instagram place.
Speaker 3: You should go there, right, So what the next location
Speaker 3: for white Lotus?
Speaker 4: Maybe something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably a little too like it's probably a
Speaker 2: little too touristy, like they tried to go somewhere a
Speaker 2: little off the beaten path.
Speaker 6: But yeah, does it cost more than Nashville, because Nashville
Speaker 6: is absolutely probably, although it's not that I'm out, I
Speaker 6: can't afford.
Speaker 2: It to Yeah, probably a little bit if I'm nine
Speaker 2: two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. One person writes, Matt,
Speaker 2: you you said that game last night was awful, and
Speaker 2: it will. But Saint Francis beat Central Connecticut State forty
Speaker 2: six forty three in that Championship of the tournament. Those
Speaker 2: are two really bad games for championship week.
Speaker 5: Otherwise, March has been pretty exciting. Those two were a
Speaker 5: couple of duds, but I've enjoyed watching some of the
Speaker 5: conference tournaments in the lead up to this. Before we
Speaker 5: get dialed in on the main one, another.
Speaker 2: Person writes, Matt, let's all say a prayer. Excuse me.
Speaker 2: One person rights, let's say a prayer for Matt. He
Speaker 2: thinks seven o'clock is early. Most of us are already up.
Speaker 2: Then you think most people are already up at seven?
Speaker 4: Probably so anybody's got a job.
Speaker 3: Parents that have kids, getting people have kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, not everybody that has a job gets
Speaker 2: up at seven.
Speaker 6: No, those who work on like third shift, don't get
Speaker 6: up at seven. They're going to bed at seven. Everybody
Speaker 6: else goes.
Speaker 2: I work at nine. Who might sleep till seven? I
Speaker 2: grant you, I sleep later, but I stay up later
Speaker 2: than people. Ryan, I don't go to bed till like
Speaker 2: one dude.
Speaker 4: And still we've talked about this before.
Speaker 3: You don't send an alarm clock, but somehow you wake
Speaker 3: up every day that the right time for you to
Speaker 3: GI go to the radio show.
Speaker 2: Uh, there's a story that Drew I knew Ryan would like,
Speaker 2: which I thought I had to bring up. This is
Speaker 2: one of those maybe we ought to mute as microphone,
Speaker 2: but nevertheless is especially there are new Major League Baseball hats.
Speaker 2: So have you seen these hats? Yeah, so they have that.
Speaker 2: You know you were part of the reason one team
Speaker 2: sold out. Uh, they they're new hats. And they take
Speaker 2: the normal team logo, but then they take the main
Speaker 2: letter for a team for each team and just stick
Speaker 2: them in the middle, so like it'll say like Cincinnati
Speaker 2: spelled out, but then with a C right in the
Speaker 2: middle and it covers up a few of the letters, right.
Speaker 2: So they do that for every team. So for instance, Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: it says like Phillies, but then has a pe right
Speaker 2: in the middle, et cetera. Well, they made a little
Speaker 2: bit of a mistake at least when uh when talking
Speaker 2: about two teams, the Tech Texas Rangers and the Anaheigh Angels.
Speaker 2: First of all, Anaheim it says a N and then
Speaker 2: the G is covered up by an A and it
Speaker 2: says E L S. You can do the spelling there,
Speaker 2: but thankfully there is an E or else it would
Speaker 2: be significantly worse. But then Texas spells out T e
Speaker 2: X A S, but the T covers up the X,
Speaker 2: and you probably think, well, that's okay, who cares. But
Speaker 2: you might not be bilingual because if you're Spanish, if
Speaker 2: you speak Spanish, T E T A S has a
Speaker 2: meaning and I'll let you all google it. I won't
Speaker 2: say what it is, but just google what T E
Speaker 2: T A S is in Spanish. And because of that
Speaker 2: Hispanic people, they sold out within moments. You can't even
Speaker 2: get one. Major League Baseball has actually now apologized and
Speaker 2: said we didn't mean to put that on a hat
Speaker 2: that will become a very expensive hat. Did they not
Speaker 2: have one person that spoke Spanish drew on the staff,
Speaker 2: or maybe did tatus. I think I can say that
Speaker 2: it's what was on the hat. Josiah speaks Spanish, clearly,
Speaker 2: maybe a mistake. You know.
Speaker 5: Normally I say that someone should be in the room
Speaker 5: just as an outsider to raise their hand. He'd be like,
Speaker 5: what are we doing? We have to think about the
Speaker 5: reaction to this. But this one, I think it was intentional.
Speaker 5: I think they saw it and realized, oh, this is
Speaker 5: gonna sell out.
Speaker 2: But you know, there's a lot of people now who
Speaker 2: criticize the idea of diversity in the workplace. This is
Speaker 2: why you need it. It's for things like this. So
Speaker 2: somebody could go maybe.
Speaker 6: Not if you're the angels, you could have slid the
Speaker 6: a over maybe one way or another. I don't know
Speaker 6: if you saw the Oakland a's, but there's spells as
Speaker 6: a's and then the atic the other s, the analytics.
Speaker 6: So they didn't do themselves any favor either. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: with you, like, somebody should look at that and go,
Speaker 6: you should.
Speaker 2: Maybe we don't put that on these.
Speaker 5: When I first saw these, I just saw the graphics
Speaker 5: on Twitter. I didn't I thought they were like photoshopped,
Speaker 5: like this would be funny. Then I saw it's an
Speaker 5: actual MLB dot Com get it at the MLB store.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. And they could have put like
Speaker 2: like instead of Texas Rangers. That would have worked, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Because they did Angels and they did a lot of
Speaker 5: the you know, the.
Speaker 2: Mass Texas is right there. So now I know what
Speaker 2: I'm getting Ryan for Christmas, and you and and you
Speaker 2: would be very happy.
Speaker 3: The whole point is to what sell product. They knew
Speaker 3: what they were doing. The Texas and the Rangers is
Speaker 3: the perfect example. They've made it that way try on purpose.
Speaker 3: I think somebody figured it out, like, oh, we're going
Speaker 3: to sell a lot of these, let's push it.
Speaker 2: They sold them out within like five minutes. You absolutely
Speaker 2: they were. They were gone. Who's up first, Jake and Florida?
Speaker 4: Jake?
Speaker 2: How are you? Jake?
Speaker 8: Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: How's it gone? Doing good?
Speaker 4: So shout out to my hops, Jeff.
Speaker 8: I'm finding Cincinnati and then we're just in Nashville on Friday.
Speaker 8: Hopefully the Cats can make it. My buddy had a surgery,
Speaker 8: so he's on some crazy drugs right now, and he
Speaker 8: thinks he's a fortune teller and his prediction is that
Speaker 8: Kobe Bray is gonna have a Carson Edwards experience in
Speaker 8: this tournament. Wanted to know y'all thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: Uh, I hope he plays well. I mean Kobe Brayan. Look,
Speaker 2: he's he hit a bunch of shots against Missouri. It's
Speaker 2: kind of been drew in these last few games. He'll
Speaker 2: get like one half where he gets hot, you know.
Speaker 2: Against Florida's really the only time this year he's had
Speaker 2: two abs and he finished with seven. But he had
Speaker 2: three threes against Missouri in the first half. Kind of
Speaker 2: kept him going when they otherwise weren't playing great.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you told me I could get three to four
Speaker 2: threes from Brey a game, I'd probably take it if
Speaker 2: you gave it to me right now, because when we's
Speaker 2: had zero or one, that's when we've lost. So I'd
Speaker 2: like to see Braya. If he gets three or four game,
Speaker 2: I'll take it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, throwing out Missouri because he played well there if
Speaker 5: you looked at his splits. But before that game he
Speaker 5: was horrible on the road and great at home. I'm
Speaker 5: wondering going to Nashville, is it Rupperina specifically or having
Speaker 5: home fans with him, because he could treat Nashville like
Speaker 5: a home game and shoot well. But whether he shoots
Speaker 5: well or not, he's also stepped up defensively, rebounding, He's
Speaker 5: been driving a little more than he was before. He's
Speaker 5: become a more well rounded players. The season's gone on.
Speaker 2: When this crowd is good in Nashville, which it hasn't
Speaker 2: necessarily been. It actually wasn't bad last year. We just
Speaker 2: never were in the game. But when it's been good,
Speaker 2: like the ten years prior to COVID, this is a
Speaker 2: better home court advans than rough. I've always believed that
Speaker 2: at the SEC Tournament when it's good because it's a
Speaker 2: loud crowd, it's people who have decided I'm going to
Speaker 2: take the time to come down there and Ryan, Like,
Speaker 2: I think about the twenty ten game against Tennessee the
Speaker 2: Wall year, that's one of the loudest crowds I've ever
Speaker 2: been to associated with the UK game, the Mississippi State
Speaker 2: game that year where Cousins gets the put back, I
Speaker 2: mean that was wild. I think about the anname that
Speaker 2: one year, the Tyler Eulss year where it was in
Speaker 2: that comeback. We came back in the second half, and
Speaker 2: I don't know that I've ever been in an arena
Speaker 2: as loud as that. When it is loud at the
Speaker 2: SEC Tournament, it's the best of the Kentucky crowd.
Speaker 3: You're right, The SEC Tournament crowded is just different. These
Speaker 3: are people that often take their vacation, you know, save
Speaker 3: up them all year for this one week. And they're starving,
Speaker 3: starving to have some success and success here since they
Speaker 3: haven't had a win in this town since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: And then you throw in the game being at nine
Speaker 2: thirty and people having a chance to party all day.
Speaker 2: I just think it could be really rowdy in there.
Speaker 6: As long as they can make it into the arena,
Speaker 6: as well as they can stumble to their seat, it
Speaker 6: is going to be the best atmosphere that it can
Speaker 6: be down there.
Speaker 2: Now. No, there's one or two people that gave and
Speaker 2: I they may have to help me get into the
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Speaker 2: for their support. Here, one person writes in the text machine, Matt,
Speaker 2: ninety five percent of a mayor cans are up before
Speaker 2: seven am. You're the one that's ridiculous. I don't believe that.
Speaker 2: All right, how many people in this room are up
Speaker 2: before seven am? Raise their hand? All right, so about
Speaker 2: half of this room, So fifty percent. I'll accept fifty percent,
Speaker 2: not accepting ninety five percent.
Speaker 6: I'ven't worked by seven am. What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: You're not even waking up to listen.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of respect for people who do it,
Speaker 2: like people who work to night shift. People work factory jobs.
Speaker 2: They have to get there five six am, Like, I
Speaker 2: have a ton of respect. You guys are working harder
Speaker 2: than I ever could. With that said, I ain't getting
Speaker 2: up at seven am, like I've already thought about this.
Speaker 2: If ESPN offered me the National Morning Show, can't do it?
Speaker 4: Oh come on, yeah, you will know I'm not.
Speaker 2: Do you know what, Timmy, You've I've done that show.
Speaker 2: You have to get up at like four thirty every morning.
Speaker 2: I'm not adjusting my life at this point in my life.
Speaker 2: I'm not getting up at four thirty more. If it
Speaker 2: had been ten years ago, yeah maybe, But if they
Speaker 2: would liked me enough to give me the morning show,
Speaker 2: I'd say give me the afternoon show. I'm not getting
Speaker 2: up before thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3: I respect these people that get up at four thirty
Speaker 3: and go work out for an hour or two before
Speaker 3: they even go to work.
Speaker 2: Who does that?
Speaker 3: But I think they're a little crazy.
Speaker 2: But who are those people?
Speaker 4: I used to do that?
Speaker 2: I've done them before too.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I used to get up in like five first
Speaker 4: thing you do is get up in exercise. Yep.
Speaker 5: I used to go that title boxing three times a week,
Speaker 5: six am class.
Speaker 2: That sounds awful.
Speaker 5: One thing I noticed this morning. I I'm usually up
Speaker 5: by seven, but not out of my house. On my
Speaker 5: way to Marios to meet him at six thirty, I
Speaker 5: saw a bunch of school buses with kids. I didn't
Speaker 5: know kids run buses that early. Maybe I'm just out
Speaker 5: of touch, but that's way too early for going to school.
Speaker 2: That's part of why some people want to get rid
Speaker 2: of or whatever. I can't remember which is whitch daylight
Speaker 2: saving times or the other, but like it leads to
Speaker 2: kids going to school in the dark. Intact, it was
Speaker 2: pitch black outside. I didn't know it started that. The
Speaker 2: amount of text messages that I got yesterday about Pulaski Southwest.
Speaker 2: So okay, look, let me just say to that you've
Speaker 2: people that have any connection to Pulaski Southwestern. This ain't
Speaker 2: me talk, all right. I don't know you all. You've
Speaker 2: probably been to our show at mister Daddy's. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you're wonderful people. But the amount of people from all
Speaker 2: over the state who have said unequivocally that the meanest
Speaker 2: and craziest fans of Pulaski Southwestern is unbelievable to me.
Speaker 2: I probably had fifty text message. Unless there's a concerted
Speaker 2: campaign to go after Blast, unless Elon has decided to
Speaker 2: go after Pulaski Southwestern, there has to be something to it.
Speaker 2: I mean, the amount of messages I got, and then
Speaker 2: when I put that video on Twitter last night, and
Speaker 2: then that got a whole new round of people talking
Speaker 2: about Southwestern. What is happening at Southwestern? That's not that
Speaker 2: far from here?
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the video didn't help their argument much, did it last?
Speaker 3: But I've never heard that. But boy, we've got enough
Speaker 3: messages to kind of support it that that's a kind
Speaker 3: of a general consensus.
Speaker 4: We need to go by there and see if these
Speaker 4: people are really that mean.
Speaker 6: I don't believe it. I think that we're on some
Speaker 6: sort of smear campaign.
Speaker 2: There's a soccer team in England that's like Division two
Speaker 2: or three. Like they're not in the top division. They're
Speaker 2: called Millwall, Okay, and they are basically known. Their whole
Speaker 2: reason they're known is that their fans are Huligans. Like
Speaker 2: that's the whole thing. Like if you say Millwall, everybody's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're fans. Is Drew Pulaski Southwestern the mill Wall of Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Based on reactions to that video, like I heard from
Speaker 5: a bunch of people too, had some people from that
Speaker 5: area like, please don't call it Pulaski Southwestern.
Speaker 2: We don't even want Pulaski associated that just South Southwestern,
Speaker 2: so that you don't even make Pulaski County.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hate to crown someone as maybe one of
Speaker 5: the worst fan base in the state, but I've never
Speaker 5: been there.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of Matt said, a lot.
Speaker 5: Of messages out about how bad it is, and that's
Speaker 5: just that's.
Speaker 2: How it goes.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, Again, I think we need to
Speaker 4: go to a game. I think we need to go.
Speaker 4: We need to go.
Speaker 6: I mean, we're making these people sound like they're the
Speaker 6: Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 4: Fans of high school.
Speaker 2: Basketball booed Santa Claus. They flipped him off and called
Speaker 2: him a dah Yeah, I think that's what they did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw a screenshot last night. I think it
Speaker 5: was a reply to your video of the ref's face
Speaker 5: when she was acting like that. I didn't see that
Speaker 5: in the original video. But the ref is just appalled
Speaker 5: by what's going on in the crowd.
Speaker 4: They escorted.
Speaker 2: They escorted the woman out.
Speaker 4: They also escorted.
Speaker 2: A coach out. The police had to escort a coach out.
Speaker 2: That doesn't happen a lot.
Speaker 3: And if thought we stepped, somebody told us that was
Speaker 3: his mother in law at the coach.
Speaker 6: The coaches think they're the most exciting fan base in
Speaker 6: Kentucky got the meanest.
Speaker 2: I'm not the one saying that. I'm just saying if
Speaker 2: you were to take a poll in the state, if
Speaker 2: you go buy the text machine, that would be.
Speaker 6: What Middlesborough would never Madisonville would know.
Speaker 2: Politest fans in Middlesborough. They'll take you down to Shades
Speaker 2: and the Cracker Barrel. It will be wonderful. Chain Rock.
Speaker 4: Oh, who doesn't love a good chain rock?
Speaker 2: Who's up next, Corey? Corey? How are you Corey? Hey?
Speaker 7: What's going on, guys, I'm actually uh, I'm delivering all right,
Speaker 7: well selling country Boy and Bowling Green today. So on
Speaker 7: your way out to see the country Boy truck in.
Speaker 3: Me a wave.
Speaker 2: But we will need you, guys.
Speaker 7: I needed you guys to settle a debate with a
Speaker 7: buddy of mine that we're having. And the winner of
Speaker 7: the debate, Uh well, the loser of the debate has
Speaker 7: to buy big Blue Madness tickets for this up the
Speaker 7: next year.
Speaker 2: For the way, Blue Madness tickets are free. So that's
Speaker 2: not much, but it's but either way.
Speaker 7: Go ahead those third party tickets rather but anyway. Uh So,
Speaker 7: his side of the argument is we've seen peak Pope.
Speaker 7: It's not gonna get any better because we have so
Speaker 7: much experience, so on and so forth, or as my
Speaker 7: side of the argument says, we have five of these
Speaker 7: guys coming back, we have probably gonna get some transfers,
Speaker 7: and then we have the recruiting class that are the
Speaker 7: dogs that we were missing this year.
Speaker 2: Well, he's insane, Your friend is insane, and you're gonna win.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're gonna win the tickets. The idea appreciate
Speaker 2: the call that we've seen peak Pope this year and
Speaker 2: it'll only be worse is ludicrous. I mean, first of all,
Speaker 2: I think there's a decent chance that this is the
Speaker 2: worst talent in the broad perspective that Pope will have. Now.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be a worst team necessarily
Speaker 2: because I think he's gotten a lot out of these guys.
Speaker 2: But if he was able to get all these players
Speaker 2: drew having not coached here at all in four weeks,
Speaker 2: imagine what he can do Otherwise. I expect us to
Speaker 2: do even better in the portal this year than we
Speaker 2: did last year freshman. He still needs to go get
Speaker 2: an elite recruit not from Kentucky. We need to wait
Speaker 2: and see if he can do that. I don't know
Speaker 2: why he can't, but we need to see it. But
Speaker 2: I think we'll do just as well on the portal
Speaker 2: this year, if not better than last year. So I
Speaker 2: think it's ludicrous to say that. I mean, you're trying
Speaker 2: to tell me you think the best team Mark Pope
Speaker 2: will have here is a ten lost team. I just
Speaker 2: don't believe that. No.
Speaker 5: I think his friend's been drinking some of that country
Speaker 5: boy he's passed around bowling Green right now, How can
Speaker 5: you say he's peaked, yet he had a full year
Speaker 5: here to do anything. This time of year ago, Pope
Speaker 5: was building his next class for BYU and getting ready
Speaker 5: for tournament's ready for the Big twelve tournament, with no
Speaker 5: idea he'd be coaching Kentucky. Then he threw this together
Speaker 5: on the fly. If you want to say it after
Speaker 5: next season, maybe when he's had a full year and
Speaker 5: you know, fair circumstances to have a season, then maybe
Speaker 5: you can have that opinion. But I think it's crazy
Speaker 5: to say that this early in Pope's time at Kentucky.
Speaker 6: He put this team together in two weeks. He's dealt
Speaker 6: with injuries throughout the season, and in the best conference
Speaker 6: that we've ever seen in our lifetime.
Speaker 4: I think he's done a hell of the job.
Speaker 2: The injury's part of it is huge, best SEC ever,
Speaker 2: and he had injuries the whole time. I mean, Alabama
Speaker 2: has a chance to be a one seed. They have
Speaker 2: five conference losses. We have eight, like we have three
Speaker 2: more than a team that could be a one seed
Speaker 2: in the turn.
Speaker 3: You would think that it was probably harder this year
Speaker 3: because nobody had nothing to base it on. Now he
Speaker 3: can go out in the transfer portal next year. Look
Speaker 3: what we did. I think it'll be an easier sell
Speaker 3: from here on out.
Speaker 2: I had a national college Basketball rider I talk about
Speaker 2: Pope with me about a week ago, and he said,
Speaker 2: I still need to be proved. It needs to be
Speaker 2: proven to me that he can go get a top
Speaker 2: ten recruit not from Kentucky. Fair enough, he said, But
Speaker 2: I think Pope has arguably the best story to sell
Speaker 2: in the portal of anybody. He took a bunch of dudes,
Speaker 2: almost none of which were even ranked at the top
Speaker 2: of the transfer class, and he took them to the top.
Speaker 2: That's another thing we don't think about. A lot of
Speaker 2: these guys were ranked like thirty fifth in the portal fortieth, like,
Speaker 2: we didn't even really get a top ten portal guy,
Speaker 2: and yet we're still going to be a three seed
Speaker 2: in the NCAA Tournament. I think it's ridiculous to say
Speaker 2: that's the best he can do.
Speaker 5: He wouldn't got Oklahoma's sixth man and made him one
Speaker 5: of the best players in the conference. Imagine him going
Speaker 5: out and get another team's best.
Speaker 2: Player, exactly right. I think that's a great point. We
Speaker 2: will take a break come back our number two here
Speaker 2: in bowling green. This is KSR