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Speaker 2: want to hear from you today. We got some yesterday.
Speaker 2: I'd like to have even more today. I haven't done
Speaker 2: as many callers as I wanted this week. We've been
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Speaker 2: text machine. Again, I don't know what hour it is.
Speaker 2: I assume he's still looking at tulips and doing that
Speaker 2: fellowship things he does, but it looks like he's been
Speaker 2: having a good time. Ryan and Shannon are still on
Speaker 2: their vacation in Panama City having a good time. Mario's
Speaker 2: visiting family in Florida. I got guys everywhere, but we've
Speaker 2: had fun so far this week. And today I brought
Speaker 2: in my dear friend Adam Luckett. You know him from
Speaker 2: KSR on three a KSR plus eleven personnel, all the
Speaker 2: things you do covering UK football. Yeah, I'll going. He's
Speaker 2: a proud of Saint X High School, the team that
Speaker 2: might have collapsed in the state tournament. He's still getting
Speaker 2: over that one. But everyone loves Adam Luckett, and we're
Speaker 2: excited to have him today. We're gonna talk a little
Speaker 2: UK football. It's been basketball all week, but spring football
Speaker 2: has been going on. They have a big Saturday coming
Speaker 2: up and no one knows it better than Adam Luckett.
Speaker 2: So Adam, we'll get to the football later, but thank
Speaker 2: you for making the trip from Louisville and joining me here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the one of my favorite weekends of the year,
Speaker 3: Kentucky Football Master's double Dip. And now we throw in
Speaker 3: the trio Adam Luckett on KSR Withdrew Franklin.
Speaker 2: I mean, what more could you want as a sports fan?
Speaker 3: We're how lucky are the listeners right now to get
Speaker 3: us by ourselves just talk ball and some other shenanigans.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to all the listeners for having Adam luckin to
Speaker 2: day and for the Masters. And since you set me up,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna start with the Masters. We do have
Speaker 2: a few news pieces to go before we get to
Speaker 2: our football breakdown. But I did my annual tradition of
Speaker 2: waking up way too early to be in my seat
Speaker 2: an hour ahead of the seven thirty am start time
Speaker 2: this morning to watch everything down at Augusta National on that.
Speaker 2: By the way, some people called me out yesterday. I
Speaker 2: didn't know I did it, but I went back and listened.
Speaker 2: I was saying Augusta. I guess I turned on my
Speaker 2: redneck there for a little bit. So Augusta National not
Speaker 2: all Augusta as I was saying yesterday. But I woke
Speaker 2: up this morning to watch the honorary the what do
Speaker 2: you call him? Starters? Honorary starters? Correct, it's up early.
Speaker 2: My guy Fred Ridley, he welcomed us all to the tournament,
Speaker 2: the best tournament in golf. Had my guy Gary Player,
Speaker 2: Jack Nickols, and Tom Watson start off. They always hit
Speaker 2: the three t's to get things started. And were you
Speaker 2: up early? Did you watch it or were you preparing
Speaker 2: for our show today?
Speaker 3: I was up early, but I didn't get eyes on
Speaker 3: the honorary start this year. Unfortunately. It's one of my
Speaker 3: favorite parts of this weekend is watching that.
Speaker 2: Typically, well, I mean, just for three guys hitting a
Speaker 2: golf shot into the fairway and then walking away, it
Speaker 2: shouldn't be that exciting. But this morning, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I was pretty impressed by Gary Player eighty nine years old.
Speaker 2: You know, he hits a good drive. They all do.
Speaker 2: They still got it. But my man at eighty nine
Speaker 2: high kick where his foot was at like eye level.
Speaker 2: I tweeted a photo of it. I'm not even half
Speaker 2: of his age and I can't do anything like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, truly remarkable athleticism by the eighty nine year
Speaker 2: old Gary Player. And then Jack followed him, and this
Speaker 2: bro my heart. Jack could barely get the tea in
Speaker 2: the ground and I was nervous, thinking like is he
Speaker 2: gonna fall over? I mean, it was bad. He even
Speaker 2: said I don't know if I can do this, and
Speaker 2: there was like an awkward silence. It took him a minute,
Speaker 2: but that part of the morning actually hurt me a
Speaker 2: little bit. He did get it, he did get it
Speaker 2: teed up, but it was it was touch and go
Speaker 2: there for a second. That would have really killed the
Speaker 2: vibe to start the Masters if Jack Nicholas, a legend,
Speaker 2: couldn't have even gotten the ball on the team right.
Speaker 3: And it like what's the What's the Master's without Jack?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Like that's he's the iconic figure of the event, and
Speaker 3: so yeah, I could definitely see why you well you
Speaker 3: had that, But Gary Player has got us cover.
Speaker 4: He'll be here a thirty years.
Speaker 3: Gary's gonna help Gary kicks until twenty fifty two. Gary
Speaker 3: player is gonna out last gym Nance.
Speaker 2: Oh of course, Jim. Jim's almost retired, only eleven years
Speaker 2: to go. Jack hit it well. I don't want I'm
Speaker 2: not here to just you know, Jack still got it.
Speaker 2: But the act of bending over again the tea in
Speaker 2: the ground. Next year, maybe let's go ahead and have
Speaker 2: the ball teed up for all three of them.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Tom Watson also hit it good and then they were off.
Speaker 2: We're watching it here at KOs Bar where we have
Speaker 2: Master's specials. Come get your uh your sampler that Monique
Speaker 2: works so hard on to copycat the guy to Pimento cheese,
Speaker 2: egg salad sandwich and the pork sandwich. We've got holes four, five,
Speaker 2: and six streaming on the broadcast. Since it's not on
Speaker 2: TV yet, we're going through Masters dot Com onto the
Speaker 2: big TV. Got that going on. We won't I know,
Speaker 2: not everyone loves golf, so we won't do two hours
Speaker 2: of talking about golf. But Adam and I are both excited.
Speaker 2: I got my Amen Corner T shirt on, got a
Speaker 2: Master's hat. As you said, it's just one of the
Speaker 2: best times of the year. You were there last year, right,
Speaker 2: I was there last year. Speaking of that, Billy is
Speaker 2: going to join us in the second hour. Billy has
Speaker 2: also been We both have a few Master's memories. Last year, especially,
Speaker 2: it was kind of awkward for both of us as
Speaker 2: some UK basketball news hit while I was on the
Speaker 2: golf course without a phone and Billy had to fill in.
Speaker 2: But we'll break that down later. For now, let's get
Speaker 2: to a little bit of the news. We've started with
Speaker 2: basketball every show. It's been so newsy this week, so
Speaker 2: I'll stick with that. We're finally gonna get a visit
Speaker 2: from from Wilkerson. The Sam Houston transfer dead period today
Speaker 2: so we can't visit yet, but after today it's looking
Speaker 2: like he will come and visit. Lexington R. Pope is
Speaker 2: considering him to fill that shooter spot. As we went
Speaker 2: over a couple times already this week. Average twenty and
Speaker 2: a half points, four rebounds, two assists on forty seven
Speaker 2: point seven percent from three. That's that's pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: excuse me, no, forty four point five. Got my numbers.
Speaker 2: They're forty seven point seven from the field, forty four
Speaker 2: point five from three, made nearly ninety threes at that clip.
Speaker 2: You know, we were kind of yats. It was looking
Speaker 2: like might work with him from USC. That's kind of
Speaker 2: gotten a little more in Washington's direction. But Wilson's gonna
Speaker 2: come to campus and that's that's big as the mark.
Speaker 2: Pope's looking to fill that shooting role.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a two time All USA performer seventeen
Speaker 3: to twenty plus point games last year. Just can really
Speaker 3: fill it up. And he's got size six five two guard.
Speaker 3: I think you kind of look at what Kentucky's looking
Speaker 3: for size athleticism plus the shooting. I think he checks
Speaker 3: a lot of boxes. There was a lot of Indiana
Speaker 3: buzz with him. Yeah, so there's a chance for Kentucky
Speaker 3: pull one over on the Hoosiers with their new coach
Speaker 3: Darren de Bryes and of course Indiane. But don't think
Speaker 3: they come to up next year.
Speaker 2: Do Yeah? We don't want to play against this guy.
Speaker 2: I gotta lock him up. He's also looking at Auburn
Speaker 2: and Old Miss. You know, Bruce Pearl just being desperate
Speaker 2: down there, trying to call everyone we're calling. We already
Speaker 2: took Jaden Quaintans out of Bruce's hands. He thought he
Speaker 2: could pull that one off, but good chance to add
Speaker 2: maybe not the final piece, but maybe the most important
Speaker 2: piece of shooting there with Wilkerson. You're known as the
Speaker 2: football guy. But you know you know it all mentioned
Speaker 2: this yesterday, Ky, Sorry, you gotta know everything. Just at
Speaker 2: any moment you could. You could get a text, hey
Speaker 2: can you post this? And you gotta be knowledgeable? Uh
Speaker 2: what did we haven't had you on? What are your
Speaker 2: thoughts of how the portaling has gone so far for
Speaker 2: Kentucky and how the roster's shaping up?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 3: Obviously there was a slow start and you felt like
Speaker 3: they missed on some guys. It felt like the DIT
Speaker 3: and losing Donovan did it felt like a big one,
Speaker 3: you know. So they pivot to Jalen Lowe. But ever
Speaker 3: since then, I think you have to really be a
Speaker 3: fan of the process and where they're at. I think obviously,
Speaker 3: like the Quaintance development, I have some issues or not issues,
Speaker 3: but worries about just how healthy is he gonna be?
Speaker 3: But if he's healthy, he's one of them. He could
Speaker 3: be an All American. I think next year, I think
Speaker 3: Diabante kind of fits what they want to do or
Speaker 3: what they're looking for, and I think Wilkerson really all
Speaker 3: three of these guys are kind of in on the
Speaker 3: two guard. Wilkerson, Wesley Yates, which is kind of trending
Speaker 3: in the other direction, and then Drawn Druan Pierre Junior.
Speaker 3: I believe all of those guys they have size of
Speaker 3: two guard and they can all shoot it, and so
Speaker 3: that's kind of what they need that they they want
Speaker 3: more athleticism, they want more size, want more links, but
Speaker 3: they can't.
Speaker 4: You gotta have the shooting as well.
Speaker 3: And I think it's really important to get a knockdown
Speaker 3: shooter at the two and I think they have some
Speaker 3: good options.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd love for it to be. Wilkerson also yesterday
Speaker 2: on three put a prediction in our got Pete, he said,
Speaker 2: calling my shot. The confidence level was listed as low,
Speaker 2: but he at least put a prediction in for Alvaro Foguerrez.
Speaker 2: I believe we're saying it El l Popo. I think
Speaker 2: I learned yesterday.
Speaker 4: Spain is what I'm calling the big the.
Speaker 2: Big Spaniard, the big Tariff, That's what I'm calling him.
Speaker 2: We got to get him from from across the pond.
Speaker 2: I still don't know if he's over there or has
Speaker 2: made it over here yet, but now is uh Kentucky's
Speaker 2: adding the Wilkerson visit and the dead period ends today
Speaker 2: where they couldn't visit. Maybe he's gonna speed that up.
Speaker 2: But heck, I wonder is there a world where you
Speaker 2: add Wilkerson and al Varo. I mean, I'm dreaming dreams
Speaker 2: if they're able to pull that off.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think al Varro is kind of the Andrew Carr
Speaker 3: replacement four, who can shoot a little bit, who can pass,
Speaker 3: give you some rebounding shop blocking, but mainly gonna with
Speaker 3: his offensive versatility, can post, can step out, hit threes,
Speaker 3: and can play some five for you in a pinch
Speaker 3: if you need it. And so that I think would
Speaker 3: be a big one. I think, you know what's going
Speaker 3: on with Brandon Gayarrison, that's something we're gonna have to
Speaker 3: figure out. I think that's everyone kind of waiting on that.
Speaker 3: That feels like the next Domino, figuring out what happens there.
Speaker 3: And then Alvarro is out there and he's been linked
Speaker 3: to Kentucky. Really seems like since the beginning there.
Speaker 2: Is Brandon Garrison online speculation. This is not Drew Franklin
Speaker 2: ks are reporting this, but the internet went wild because
Speaker 2: you know, we freak out on social media. I guess
Speaker 2: he changed his his bio on Instagram and it doesn't
Speaker 2: say Kentucky. I don't. I mean, I guess that could
Speaker 2: be an indicator. I'm sure he is reconsidering his position
Speaker 2: with Kentucky after they added acquaintance. I mean, if I'm Garrison,
Speaker 2: I would also say, hold on, what's going on? Wait
Speaker 2: a minute. But last night there was a lot of
Speaker 2: speculation about his social media profile changing. So I guess
Speaker 2: that is one thing we'll have to watch.
Speaker 3: As a man who dabbles in high school football recruiting,
Speaker 3: I would not put too much stock into what's going
Speaker 3: on on some of these social accounts, whether ig, Facebook, TikTok.
Speaker 2: Maybe the man just wanted to change his profile.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows, But yeah, you feel like it feels
Speaker 3: like maybe some smoke with everything else when you kind
Speaker 3: of add all the pieces together.
Speaker 4: But we'll just have to wait and see.
Speaker 2: And it would make sense if he wanted to reconsider.
Speaker 2: I hope he stays. You know, I wanted him to
Speaker 2: go shopping in the portal at that spot. I don't
Speaker 2: know if he can be the guy because if he
Speaker 2: doesn't take the next jump, I don't know if you're
Speaker 2: championship level. If that you're starting five. But I would
Speaker 2: still like to have Brandon Garrison on the team. Nothing else,
Speaker 2: just when we play Oklahoma. He's gotta let him know.
Speaker 2: Again he's got wave at somebody.
Speaker 3: Well the law. I mean, he embraced the rivalry.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: He's over there with Pat Kelsey mixing it up.
Speaker 3: So from that aspect, yes, and again in the portal,
Speaker 3: like there's not like if Brandon Garrison enters.
Speaker 4: The portal, he'll be one of the top rank centers.
Speaker 3: Of course, so I think that's something to keep in
Speaker 3: mind too, Like if you're gonna lose a player, where
Speaker 3: would he end up? If he enters the portal, He's
Speaker 3: gonna get probably a good offer to go play somewhere.
Speaker 2: Isn't he the one that was at Arkansas when he committed,
Speaker 2: Like on his visit last year.
Speaker 4: He was somewhere.
Speaker 2: I can't remember where it was Arkansas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they pivoted from Osibor Or Great Ossibor ended up
Speaker 3: at Washington vollowed as coach from Utah State and it
Speaker 3: was kind of out of nowhere. And that's the thing
Speaker 3: with Pope, he really does keep things button up, so
Speaker 3: like reacting in real time, it's kind of hard because
Speaker 3: you don't know really which direction they're leaning. I'd like
Speaker 3: that all of these recruitments, it feels like.
Speaker 2: Of course, Pope's been very good at keeping this quiet.
Speaker 2: I think last year when they were I and Jeremy
Speaker 2: roach and that leaked out and then they end up losing them,
Speaker 2: I think he learned a lesson there, and he's keeping
Speaker 2: those lips sill. Speaking of Pope, he was in Washington,
Speaker 2: DC yesterday. We'll just pivot into that with a random
Speaker 2: cast of characters. There was Mitch Barnhardt and then your
Speaker 2: boy Josh Katis. I mean, did they just load up
Speaker 2: the UK Athletics playing and head that way with Kenny Brooks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Kenny Brooks not a Kentucky person. But there is an
Speaker 2: image of Pat Kelsey standing next to Mark Pope in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2: We just need those two standing next to each other
Speaker 2: as much as possible.
Speaker 4: Some one bout Pat Kelsey a step stal geez, if
Speaker 4: I'm man.
Speaker 2: Out, if I'm Pat, I refuse to go anywhere near
Speaker 2: Mark Pope. I don't even shake his hand before the
Speaker 2: rivalry game, but they were up in DC. I guess
Speaker 2: is this tied to the House settlement a little bit
Speaker 2: up there campaigning for something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting the Wilkerson recruitment because what you're seeing
Speaker 3: in this basketball portal like it moves slower last year.
Speaker 3: But players are wanting to lock in deals before the
Speaker 3: settlement's passed. Because once the settlement is passed, which is
Speaker 3: looking like it will be next week as of right now,
Speaker 3: it could change. You were not gonna be Basically, the
Speaker 3: collectives are gonna have to go through a clearinghouse, which
Speaker 3: Mitch Bonnhart's gonna be involved in, and you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to fair mark right, So you're gonna have to prove
Speaker 3: it's not pay for play like you're doing a serve
Speaker 3: is kind of So it's gonna be harder to get
Speaker 3: nil pay for play. Essentially deals pass, So a lot
Speaker 3: of players are locking in deals right away to get
Speaker 3: paid right now.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: What they were there in DC for is once this
Speaker 3: settlement gets past, the NCAA still wants help and they
Speaker 3: want a bill pass that protects them from anti trust
Speaker 3: lawsuits for this clear now, So then they're gonna set
Speaker 3: up so That's what that was about. There they were
Speaker 3: hobnobbing essentially with members of Congress and be like, we
Speaker 3: need we really need your help and support on this.
Speaker 3: And so that's what that essentially was about.
Speaker 2: You and ralsh on eleven personnel have been Josh Kattis
Speaker 2: fan since he got on campus. You call him the
Speaker 2: ass kicker. I'm sure they just needed a student representative there,
Speaker 2: But I did feel like that was a that was
Speaker 2: kind of a surprising personality in that group heading up there,
Speaker 2: that Josh Kattis joined the group. I assume maybe stoops.
Speaker 2: You know, he's in the middle of spring ball. Maybe
Speaker 2: he couldn't take off, so they had to send someone.
Speaker 2: And do we know how Josh Kattis ended up there.
Speaker 2: I love that he was tweeting or posting pictures from
Speaker 2: the White House. Looked like he had a good time.
Speaker 3: That is a great question, is Justicatus want to be
Speaker 3: a politician? You see the next governor of Kentucky? Who knows?
Speaker 2: Could he have been hired by dose? Who knows? But
Speaker 2: a unique day yesterday with UK up in Washington, DC
Speaker 2: trying to get things done. Is this house thing gets
Speaker 2: to its seems like its final hour? The hearing was
Speaker 2: on Monday, and they say by next week, we should
Speaker 2: should know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, basically they they came for six hours and basically
Speaker 3: what that hearing was for. They had four hundred thousand,
Speaker 3: four hundred thousand people involved in this law or the
Speaker 3: class action lawsuit that was gonna get paid from the NCAA, Like,
Speaker 3: there were six hundred objectors, and some of the objectors
Speaker 3: came and kind of gave their reasons why they objected.
Speaker 3: The judge was like, okay, and then she wants to
Speaker 3: see kind of roster limits how they set that up.
Speaker 3: So they have to go back and kind of work
Speaker 3: on some things, but it's expected. She even said it's
Speaker 3: a good settlement, like I want to pass this essentially
Speaker 3: without saying that, but that's kind of what she said.
Speaker 2: I've read a story about her just as seventy five
Speaker 2: year old woman has it all in her hands.
Speaker 3: Right, and she was the one on the obeyonon case
Speaker 3: which kind of started all of this over a decade ago.
Speaker 3: It's the same same judge in Oakland, and so the
Speaker 3: guy expectation is that this is going to pass and
Speaker 3: they can happen as early as next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll unfold soon. We'll break it down when that happens,
Speaker 2: but for now, we'll take a break here on KSR.
Speaker 2: We'll start with the spring football talk after this, and
Speaker 2: later in the show, we're gonna be joined by Todd
Speaker 2: Bryant taking a break from spring practice over there to
Speaker 2: chat with us. Be interesting to see what he has
Speaker 2: to say about probably taking on a new leadership role.
Speaker 2: Even though he's only a junior, he's already played a
Speaker 2: lot of football for that team that's full of new faces.
Speaker 2: So we look forward to hearing from him. It's Drew
Speaker 2: Franklin with Adam Luckett. Billy will be joining us soon
Speaker 2: to add to the master's conversation. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Goodek Sports Radio. Drew Franklin here with
Speaker 2: Adam Luckett. Billy Rutlis just walked in quick timing from
Speaker 2: downtown after you did the pre show with Officer Don
Speaker 2: this morning.
Speaker 5: So guys, count Paris, it's good to see you.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Actually, someone asks I'll ahead and address that.
Speaker 2: I've been getting questions in my Twitter DMS at Drew
Speaker 2: Franklin KSR. That'll be my text machine. Hit me up
Speaker 2: if you have any questions for the show. But a
Speaker 2: couple of people this morning wanted to know if I've
Speaker 2: opened my script, and I will just be very quick
Speaker 2: and let you know. No, I have not.
Speaker 4: What do we do it?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm watching the Masters? What do you do it?
Speaker 6: It's only a couple weeks away, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's two weeks from Friday costume fittings tomorrow, right after
Speaker 2: our show. I got to rush out of there. You
Speaker 2: and I are hosting tomorrow. Gotta go get my account
Speaker 2: Paris outfit on. I don't know what that entails, but
Speaker 2: I'll be looking forward to it. Our guy Paul here
Speaker 2: is holding up the flyer has my name on it.
Speaker 2: Look at that. Look how official I'll look on that program.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be the beginning of something special or
Speaker 2: it's gonna be an absolute disaster. There's no in between.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm excited for you. And we need Mario to
Speaker 6: come back so we can get some video.
Speaker 2: No, we don't need video, please Mario. We're gonna it's
Speaker 2: gonna be like Augusta National. No phones, We're gonna leave
Speaker 2: your phones in your car. Just be there and enjoy
Speaker 2: the moment. When I'm on stage absolutely bombing or becoming
Speaker 2: the next few jackmen. Uh, let's talk a little football.
Speaker 2: I know everyone's excited about Kentucky football. They've been going
Speaker 2: for a couple weeks now. This upcoming Saturday, what we
Speaker 2: call on it? Is it a spring showcase? Is that
Speaker 2: officially what I'm supposed to say it is?
Speaker 4: That is the official term?
Speaker 2: All right? Well, ten am, This Saturday free and open
Speaker 2: to the public. You can go watch Kentucky football. And
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it's like an open practice. I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's what they're wanting to call it, but
Speaker 2: you will be able to see the team in person.
Speaker 2: Won't be televised or live stream. So if you want
Speaker 2: to see the new team that has like thirty something
Speaker 2: new pieces on it, get out there this Saturday. Do
Speaker 2: we know a format?
Speaker 4: Do we know?
Speaker 2: Do we know anything?
Speaker 3: Will you not specifically, But the assumption we're kind of
Speaker 3: working with is that it's gonna be the same as
Speaker 3: last year, which was essentially a practice, but they gave
Speaker 3: you they had an extended eleven on eleven scrimmage, so
Speaker 3: if you got in there late enough, it would just
Speaker 3: feel like a normal spring game. But the first kind
Speaker 3: of thirty minutes is stretching in individual drills, kind of
Speaker 3: getting like what they do in the pre before it
Speaker 3: get gotcha and then the game starts. It would be
Speaker 3: kind of similar to that. It is what I'm what
Speaker 3: kind of the working assumption, I think is probably what
Speaker 3: we'll see.
Speaker 4: It wasn't tackled the ground.
Speaker 3: It was more kind of what football terms they call thudding,
Speaker 3: which is just kind of like you go up and
Speaker 3: hit somebody, but you don't complete the tackle.
Speaker 4: And so that's what kind of we're working. Well, what
Speaker 4: we'll see.
Speaker 2: I'll be out there. It starts at ten am. It's
Speaker 2: at Krogerfield. I don't think I said that. The said
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a few limitations as they're getting ready
Speaker 2: for the Tyler Childers concert. I guess certain areas won't
Speaker 2: be open, not that they need the whole place, but
Speaker 2: it'll just be open seating. Like I said, doors open nine.
Speaker 2: Get out there if you want to watch the Cats.
Speaker 2: Weather should be good. You can go meet the new team,
Speaker 2: which brings me to my first question for Adam. Looktt, Adam,
Speaker 2: I pride myself I've been a Kentucky football fan going
Speaker 2: way back. I've even said I like it a little
Speaker 2: more than basketball. It's like fifty point five percent to
Speaker 2: forty nine point five percent. I've just always loved UK football,
Speaker 2: even in their worst years. I used to know the
Speaker 2: three deep, the four deep, the five deep, I knew
Speaker 2: the walk ons. I went to that media practice last
Speaker 2: week with you all. I was only able to stay
Speaker 2: about thirty minutes because I had to get to the show.
Speaker 2: I didn't know anyone who that is out there, and
Speaker 2: it was just fresh faces across the board. So I
Speaker 2: kind of want to start with just who's on the team,
Speaker 2: But let's start with at least the position that everyone
Speaker 2: will be most focused on. I did get a look
Speaker 2: at Zach Calzada, and what are we hearing about him
Speaker 2: in camp? I know there's been conversations with him. Just
Speaker 2: brush us up to speed on what's going on with him,
Speaker 2: and then we'll just go through the whole roster and
Speaker 2: what's ahead for the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first things first, I think there's gonna be a
Speaker 3: lot of people that ask, like, who's gonna start at quarterback?
Speaker 4: With Cutter Bowley.
Speaker 3: Again, the working assumption is that Calzada will be the starter,
Speaker 3: So he will be your starting quarterback this year. This
Speaker 3: is a guy who will turn twenty five years old
Speaker 3: in November. During the season, he will turn twenty five.
Speaker 2: We got our own Chad Baker Maszari we do.
Speaker 3: This is an old guy, older guy who's played a
Speaker 3: lot of college football. It's played a lot of snaps
Speaker 3: to kind of rap on the kind of rap on him.
Speaker 3: He's more athletic than you think. He can do some
Speaker 3: things running the football, but I would say it's mostly
Speaker 3: gonna be kind of his like Levis type runs QB
Speaker 3: power where he's getting downhill game yards that way, and
Speaker 3: then in the pocket he's known for having a big arm,
Speaker 3: can stretch the field vertically, but no one when to
Speaker 3: like take some gas off the ball. It's kind of
Speaker 3: something he's gonna have to work on. But he and
Speaker 3: in carnate word, he showed that he can create kind
Speaker 3: of make some plays with being an athlete, which is
Speaker 3: something I think Kentucky like when they scouted him and
Speaker 3: evaluated him. And so again he's a guy who's played
Speaker 3: played quarterback in the SEC is one games in the SEC.
Speaker 3: So he's a guy that in theory should bring a
Speaker 3: much higher floor than what they've had in the past,
Speaker 3: where there was kind of the big variant swings with
Speaker 3: some of their starters at quarterback, and so that's what
Speaker 3: they have in Calzata. And then I think they have
Speaker 3: a backup that they probably feel the best about that
Speaker 3: they've had and probably, I would say a long time
Speaker 3: with Cutter.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Kalsada being twenty five. This is his seventh
Speaker 2: year of football.
Speaker 3: That is correct, twenty nineteen high school graduate, Mercy. How
Speaker 3: does that even happen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it was it Auburn. He missed part
Speaker 2: of the year most of the year and was able
Speaker 2: to get red shirt for that.
Speaker 3: He got a medical red shirt for a season at Auburn.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you know they'll call it an open competition.
Speaker 2: You don't think Bully can push him at all. I'm
Speaker 2: a big Bowley guy. I wanted him at Texas even
Speaker 2: though it didn't go well. I thought he was putting
Speaker 2: a bad situation at Florida. You mentioned it'll be a
Speaker 2: great backup, But is there any chance he can he
Speaker 2: can make a run at taking the job before fall
Speaker 2: gets here.
Speaker 3: I think the only situation where Bully becomes a starter
Speaker 3: this year is if Calsuda gets hurt or if things
Speaker 3: are not going well and they just need to make
Speaker 3: a change. I think the plan all along with Cutter,
Speaker 3: was to getting for two years and then starting year
Speaker 3: three like that was the working blueprint, and I think
Speaker 3: that's still that's still the plan moving forward.
Speaker 2: How much will help Bush Hampden his second year. You know,
Speaker 2: we coordinators don't come back very often around these parts.
Speaker 2: Last year he was putting a little bit of a
Speaker 2: bad spot. It was a very late addition when Liam
Speaker 2: Cohen disappeared in the night to go to Florida. Do
Speaker 2: you think we got some confidence in Hamden it'll be
Speaker 2: up help out with Calzada, knowing that Bush at least
Speaker 2: has a year behind him and in behind the eight
Speaker 2: balls starting his time at.
Speaker 3: UK this year right, Like, it's hard to kind of
Speaker 3: have player continuity in this age, so many moving parts.
Speaker 3: Kentucky specifically leaned in to a new having a new team,
Speaker 3: but they're selling big the coach continuity. It's not just Hamden,
Speaker 3: it's every coach is back except for the receiver coach.
Speaker 3: So they believe that that's going to help them get
Speaker 3: off to a faster start that and I think the
Speaker 3: big thing for Hamden is he wasn't familiar with last
Speaker 3: year's team. He got the hand pick this roster. Essentially
Speaker 3: the entire roster. Quarterback, offensive lineman, receivers, tailback like these
Speaker 3: are his players. So you have to hope that that
Speaker 3: leads to better results. If it doesn't, they're going to
Speaker 3: be in trouble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cohen built the plan last year, then left you
Speaker 2: had Hampden and he had really no control of the roster.
Speaker 2: I think he added Gavin Wimsy, but it was what
Speaker 2: it was when he took over, so at least he's
Speaker 2: in a better spot. We're in a better spot now
Speaker 2: that Billy are Sports is here. Got your master's hat on.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's just one of the best days of the year, Drew.
Speaker 6: I know we're on the same page and even Adam too.
Speaker 6: So I've got nothing played later today except sit on
Speaker 6: the couch.
Speaker 2: And watch them. Well, we'll share some memories we've both
Speaker 2: been and we had a unique Monday last year. But
Speaker 2: for right now, we'll take a quick break. It's Drew,
Speaker 2: Adam Luckett and Billy Rutledge at ks Bar watching the
Speaker 2: best tournament sports on TV. We'll be right back. Welcome
Speaker 2: back to KSR. We're here on a Thursday April tenth.
Speaker 2: People have noted that I haven't been given the date
Speaker 2: or the weather like Matt does. I guess they want
Speaker 2: some continuity with the show while he's gone. So, uh yeah, Thursday,
Speaker 2: April tenth, and it looks like blue skies. Yep, we
Speaker 2: go there, Billy. Is that is that how it works?
Speaker 5: Sunshining?
Speaker 6: I you know, I do the pre show before KSR
Speaker 6: and I naturally have a routine to start the show
Speaker 6: now and I find myself giving weather reports too.
Speaker 5: I don't know what it is, but Matt does such
Speaker 5: a good.
Speaker 2: In our brains. Sorry, I didn't do it the first
Speaker 2: three days. You mentioned how you're going home and just
Speaker 2: watching the Masters. After this, my Master's Thursday's really been
Speaker 2: thrown off. What's going on last weekend? Not only did
Speaker 2: my AC go out, my dishwasher broke, I've got moles
Speaker 2: tearing up my yard and my ice maker, my freezer broke.
Speaker 2: I mean all at once. So when I go home,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna have repair people everywhere. I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: in the backyard with a shovel going at war with
Speaker 2: these moles.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, I want to sit on the couch, put
Speaker 2: my feet up and listen to the fake birds and
Speaker 2: look at the Azelias on TV, and I just have
Speaker 2: an absolute war zone at home.
Speaker 5: It sounds like a stressful weekend, Adam, don't it.
Speaker 4: They say bad things happen in threes. I got for
Speaker 4: Dree Frankly four.
Speaker 2: Five and six. Yeah, I asked. I think I mentioned
Speaker 2: this on Friday, maybe Monday about the mole problem. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's it's not going away. Those little those little critters
Speaker 2: are hard to catch.
Speaker 6: Well, the advice was sound, at least what I heard.
Speaker 6: You got to get one of those traps.
Speaker 2: I have a trap.
Speaker 6: I think that's going to work here because my dad
Speaker 6: and I have fought the moles before, and it's it's
Speaker 6: an ordeal.
Speaker 5: There's no doubt.
Speaker 2: Someone wrote me and said they live in eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I don't remember the exact part. And there's a ninety
Speaker 2: five year old woman in their neighborhood that will just
Speaker 2: get a shotgun and take care of moles. So if
Speaker 2: the trap doesn't work and all my repair people can't
Speaker 2: fix things, might have to call her up to come home.
Speaker 5: Bring your shotgun.
Speaker 4: I need the help, please.
Speaker 2: Rick, let's knock out some phone calls. Who's Who's up first,
Speaker 2: got Shawn up first, Sean, thanks for calling in.
Speaker 7: Hey, Uh having a good day. Uh just wanted the
Speaker 7: pile and think that you haven't that about and uh
Speaker 7: just want to flagging blay, I said, and uh, just
Speaker 7: one of those how you guys?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate the call. I heard he wanted
Speaker 2: to be a part of Drew palooza. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that was my headphones. Did you all get much
Speaker 2: of that?
Speaker 3: I think portal scuttle, but he was wondering if you
Speaker 3: had any scuttle to share with a good listeners case.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'm sorry. I couldn't hear your call very well.
Speaker 2: I was trying to let you go there. I wasn't
Speaker 2: just me. I guess we shared what we know. We're
Speaker 2: just watching Wilkerson Hill. His visit be coming up soon.
Speaker 2: He's looking at Indiana, Old Miss and Auburn. You'd love
Speaker 2: to have him as the shooter you got. Al Varo
Speaker 2: will eventually come over from Spain. I assume they will
Speaker 2: get him on campus. I don't think that's been reported,
Speaker 2: but on three is put in a not the not
Speaker 2: the official prediction, but in a in a blog post,
Speaker 2: wrote confidence level low, but calling my shot Kentucky. So
Speaker 2: I'd say those two are the watch and then whatever
Speaker 2: Brandon Garrison wants to do. If he wants to be
Speaker 2: a part of this final four run next year, there's
Speaker 2: a spot for him. But if he sees the writing
Speaker 2: on the wall and once more minutes or can get
Speaker 2: more opportunities somewhere else, maybe he goes. But I think
Speaker 2: that's the current state of the roster.
Speaker 6: You guys talked about the Instagram thing already, we did. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I don't know how much that matters. I mean, these
Speaker 6: kids today will change their social media profile for anything.
Speaker 5: But do you want Brandon Garrison back.
Speaker 3: I've learned for thirty somethings like me, it's not a
Speaker 3: good practice to try to play the mind games with
Speaker 3: social media with teenagers. No so, but I will point
Speaker 3: out with Wilkerson, Joe Tipton has reported a visit is
Speaker 3: expected this weekend. Okay, the dead period just ends today
Speaker 3: Tomorrow's Friday, So Kentucky's gonna get one of those first visits. Typically,
Speaker 3: these portal recruitments, they move fast. That's typically not a
Speaker 3: bad thing. If you get one of the first visits
Speaker 3: for Kentucky, you would hope you get him on campus
Speaker 3: first and maybe you can wrap that up.
Speaker 2: And then they've been in fact since the beginning, I
Speaker 2: mean the dead period. You can still talk, you just
Speaker 2: can't write in person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you cannot take visits in Pope can't go
Speaker 3: to wherever Wilkerson's training are, where he's staying and talked
Speaker 3: to him.
Speaker 2: And Pope doesn't sleep, so he's probably been up at
Speaker 2: like two am zooming this kid over in Spain. I
Speaker 2: don't know how time zones work, but I'm I'm Pope's.
Speaker 2: Pope's been in talks with him. It's the report on
Speaker 2: the kid's always been that he before he does anything,
Speaker 2: he wants to actually get to campuses, so that that'll
Speaker 2: be big this weekend.
Speaker 6: Well, what was he driving a stick in South America
Speaker 6: last year trying to get to recruits? So I mean
Speaker 6: I forgot about its exactly good.
Speaker 2: Good call back there, Billy.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phone line.
Speaker 4: Rick got Alan up next.
Speaker 2: Alan, thanks for calling in. Hey, I'm a wonderful we're
Speaker 2: having a great time.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 8: I had a question have you I don't know if
Speaker 8: you mentioned it earlier this week, but have you heard
Speaker 8: anything about Travis Perry. You haven't mentioned him in as
Speaker 8: a contributor for next year, and I was just curious
Speaker 8: to see if you knew it something that the fans
Speaker 8: didn't have.
Speaker 2: All Right, I appreciate the call. I uh, you know,
Speaker 2: he's he's He and I are from the same dirt
Speaker 2: as a Bloodsoe and cousins used to say, we're reaching
Speaker 2: two guys. I know several Lion County people and when
Speaker 2: I've asked them, they don't. They haven't heard of Peepe.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 2: They just think he's gonna be right back on the team.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: As far as being a contributor, I don't think he'll
Speaker 2: have the Rollie did this year when half the team
Speaker 2: got injured and he had to step in. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, with Lowe coming in and pieces they've added,
Speaker 2: he might slide down the bench a little bit. You
Speaker 2: could still use him for shooting when called upon, But
Speaker 2: as far as him actually leaving or hitting the portal,
Speaker 2: at least the Lion County Lions, I know they haven't
Speaker 2: heard anything around town or expect that. So as far
Speaker 2: as I know, I expect Travis Perry to be on
Speaker 2: the team. I don't know if you guys have any
Speaker 2: expectations otherwise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we got a week left until the
Speaker 3: portal closes. I believe it closes the sixteenth. That could
Speaker 3: be wrong on that. Maybe it's in the week after,
Speaker 3: maybe it's two weeks. So he's got a little bit
Speaker 3: of time. I mean, I think the expectation would probably
Speaker 3: be he has a role similar to what he had
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I don't think the expectation was for him
Speaker 6: to play this much last year. I mean you had
Speaker 6: Kirka get hurt, Lamont Butler hurt at times. I mean
Speaker 6: he was really thrust it into a role that maybe
Speaker 6: some didn't expect for him to be.
Speaker 5: So I expect him to come back, And part of
Speaker 5: it is that he hasn't entered into the transfer portal yet.
Speaker 3: Right, And there's also gonna be more just year by
Speaker 3: year player development that you're.
Speaker 4: Gonna have with Pope that he just didn't have with
Speaker 4: Cali Perry.
Speaker 3: Not saying one is right or wrong, it's just a
Speaker 3: different way to build your team. I mean ross constructing.
Speaker 3: I think Travis Perry the plan for him always similar
Speaker 3: to Cutter Bowley, I think was developing for a couple
Speaker 3: of years and then when he's a junior, he can
Speaker 3: be a real piece of your team.
Speaker 4: He was just forced to be a real piece this
Speaker 4: year when they probably wasn't really read.
Speaker 3: It was probably maybe unfair to him to play him
Speaker 3: as much as they did, but they had their handless
Speaker 3: forced because of the injuries.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pope's made it clear right away he's gonna be
Speaker 2: big on retaining guys. He'll get a couple of freshmen
Speaker 2: that are highly ranked, a couple of portal guys, and
Speaker 2: try to keep the player players he has. And I'd
Speaker 2: say Noah, Chandler and Perry are a big part of that.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to football real quickly, like it, since
Speaker 2: that's where your big brain operates. This Saturday Spring Showcase,
Speaker 2: Let's say I'm a fan. I drove an hour from
Speaker 2: from an hour away to be here. I'm excited. I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to this new team, but I'm like Drew
Speaker 2: Franklin and I don't know the roster. Who are some
Speaker 2: new pieces that people should be looking out for on
Speaker 2: either side of the ball. Just someone you think could
Speaker 2: be an impact contributor right away?
Speaker 3: Kin trick Law Alabama receiver transfer number one. He's probably
Speaker 3: gonna be Kentucky's leading receiver this year, so I definitely
Speaker 3: get eyes on him. He's gonna be a guy they
Speaker 3: want to feature, and he's gonna his usage is gonna
Speaker 3: be similar I think to how they tried to use
Speaker 3: Barry and Brown last year. Jet sweeps quick game screens
Speaker 3: and then scheming up when to take vertical shots with him.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be a big piece, so I would definitely
Speaker 3: watch him. David gusta number sixty defensive tackle, is gonna
Speaker 3: play some nose for them. He was a really big
Speaker 3: win out of the portal Tennessee. Some other SEC squols
Speaker 3: were involved, who was a high dollar player for them
Speaker 3: to get. Was one of the best defensive tackles available
Speaker 3: in the portal. They're gonna need him to be a
Speaker 3: playmaker along with mcquee. Humphrey Race defensive end number fifty.
Speaker 3: So those are two guys I would really watch on
Speaker 3: defense law I think is kind of the big one.
Speaker 3: And then just how they handle a running back. I
Speaker 3: think it's gonna be a committee approach. Everyone knows Jamarian Wilcox.
Speaker 3: They went and got Dante Daldell, got him to get
Speaker 3: in the portal from Nebraska and landed him and then
Speaker 3: Jason Patterson. It sounds like he's having a really good
Speaker 3: spring practice a red shirt freshman till back. So those
Speaker 3: were kind of like just watching those we all know
Speaker 3: Kentucky wants to run the football outside of the obvious,
Speaker 3: which I think is Calzada, and just how does the
Speaker 3: offensive line look? Those are kind of a few peat
Speaker 3: players I would watch in all of those those three guys.
Speaker 3: I name, they're gonna need all of those guys to
Speaker 3: be really good players for them this year to max
Speaker 3: out to reach their potential.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Law could be the leading receiver, but you know,
Speaker 2: it was exciting to get Macklin back. Kind of quiet
Speaker 2: first half of the year, turned it on late. What
Speaker 2: are the expectations of him? I know last year he
Speaker 2: kind of moved to the slot when he's more of
Speaker 2: an outside vertical guy. Is uh getting back to his
Speaker 2: natural position? Well he should. We expect a big year
Speaker 2: out of him.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think one thing you're going to see early in
Speaker 3: this show case when levin on leven starts is we've
Speaker 3: heard about Kalzak's arm strength and they brought Macklin back
Speaker 3: to be kind of their vertical thread. I have a
Speaker 3: feeling we're gonna see a vertical shot to Macklin from
Speaker 3: Kalzada early in this this spring show case if you're
Speaker 3: there at Kroger Field. But yeah, I think with Macklin,
Speaker 3: they played him in the slot last year. Didn't really
Speaker 3: have a spot for him because they were they had
Speaker 3: to play a lot of tight ends because they couldn't block.
Speaker 3: Some tight ends were needed to help block, and then
Speaker 3: you had Dan Keen, Barry and Brown. There wasn't a
Speaker 3: lot of snaps for him, and this slight kind of
Speaker 3: experiment didn't work. I think Liam Collen kind of targeted
Speaker 3: him to play slight in his offense and they kind
Speaker 3: of kept that plan. It just didn't work. But Macklin
Speaker 3: played outside receiver at North Texas. He had his best
Speaker 3: year was one thousand yard receiver, was one of the
Speaker 3: best deep ball receivers in college football.
Speaker 4: And we saw some of that.
Speaker 3: Later in the year against Louisville, against Tennessee, against Texas
Speaker 3: him kind of making vertical plays down the field. That's
Speaker 3: gonna kind of be I think the plan for him
Speaker 3: this year is to play him outside and maybe not
Speaker 3: give him a ton of targets when we're going to him.
Speaker 3: We're throwing it deep and he's gonna be kind of
Speaker 3: their big play target on the outside.
Speaker 2: It's still only two names, say you know, we're reading reports.
Speaker 2: You and Raush have talked about it. They're little fin
Speaker 2: in the receiver room. Any other names. I guess the
Speaker 2: DJ Miller turned heads into practice.
Speaker 3: DJ Miller was a big recruiting win for them. Lane
Speaker 3: Kiffin o Miss really wanted him. He's only a true
Speaker 3: freshman now, but he's got long term potential. I would
Speaker 3: say he's gonna be a guy I think that plays
Speaker 3: in a rotational role, like he's kind of this year's
Speaker 3: Harley Gilmore, Like you know how they've kind of slowly
Speaker 3: put Gilmour in there. I think that's gonna be the
Speaker 3: plan for Miller and then for him maybe to be
Speaker 3: a starter next year. I don't know how big of
Speaker 3: a role he's gonna play. They got a choice do
Speaker 3: Lotto from Clemson to play a role, but he sounds
Speaker 3: like he's been banged up a little bit. They got
Speaker 3: a JJ Hester from Oklahoma to kind of be the
Speaker 3: vertical threat. He missed that open practice through we were at.
Speaker 2: He's played a lot of football. He was at Oklahoma
Speaker 2: for like three years in Missouri for two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was two two tour two at
Speaker 3: Oklahoma and then True True Edwards was really the big
Speaker 3: one that they haven't gotten cleared yet because he's got
Speaker 3: the Diego Pavia extra year of eligibility college. He's similar
Speaker 3: to Calsada like he's gonna be twenty four to twenty
Speaker 3: five next year. He with Kendrick Claw I think would
Speaker 3: be there. That would be their top two receivers if
Speaker 3: they can get him. But he's not gonna be out
Speaker 3: there for the spring game. But that's an important storyline
Speaker 3: to watch because he's gonna be a guy I think
Speaker 3: potentially can be one of their top top receivers and
Speaker 3: can be kind of a go to guy for Calzada
Speaker 3: or Bowlie who whoever is that quarterback.
Speaker 2: I was excited about True Edwards when he committed in December,
Speaker 2: January whatever it was looking at his highlight DAPE. That's
Speaker 2: a playmaker and it was pretty bummed to see that
Speaker 2: he wasn't already on campus. I guess he did the
Speaker 2: pro day down there in Louisiana, but they're still trying
Speaker 2: to get everything cleared. As you said to yeah, get
Speaker 2: him another year and get him on campus.
Speaker 3: I think the expectation is he's going to get clear
Speaker 3: because he fits just the language that they've released it
Speaker 3: to this point, the NCAA about who would be because
Speaker 3: you had to you had to play JUCO in a
Speaker 3: certain year, and it couldn't just be the COVID year.
Speaker 3: But he he played, he'd spent twenty twenty and twenty one,
Speaker 3: I believe, or twenty nineteen and twenty twenty in JUCO,
Speaker 3: so he should qualify. So I think the expectation they
Speaker 3: will get him. But it's one of those things where
Speaker 3: they have to get this house settlement through and then
Speaker 3: that that ruling will come. But the expectation for all
Speaker 3: these teams is that these junior college guys are gonna
Speaker 3: be able to get cleared in Edwards fits the criteria
Speaker 3: for that BILLI.
Speaker 6: You're writing all those down fill the quickly realizing how
Speaker 6: little I know about.
Speaker 5: The team this year. But I do want to ask you.
Speaker 6: I mean, discipline and culture were huge talking points after
Speaker 6: the season last year. Have you noticed any changes? Is
Speaker 6: there any difference that we could tell on the field
Speaker 6: on Saturday? Should I look for Willcox to have his
Speaker 6: shoes tied or what like have you sense to change.
Speaker 3: Well, there was a lot of talk or scuttle or
Speaker 3: talk about how maybe some players got away with not practicing.
Speaker 3: In just using this as example, they haven't maxed out
Speaker 3: the practices in the spring in the last couple of years,
Speaker 3: like they called they were closing up shop at eleven, twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 3: they went the whole spring they're gonna take they did
Speaker 3: all fifteen practice. Yeah, so that like just using that,
Speaker 3: that's a sample that they're maybe taking it more seriously
Speaker 3: over there. Mark Stoops has talked multiple times about how
Speaker 3: they changed the off season training program. And so to
Speaker 3: answer your question, it's too early to tell, like for
Speaker 3: where we sit, but they're saying the right things and
Speaker 3: they're doing things differently, like like the spring practice. Just
Speaker 3: using that, that's clear like change of we're gonna do
Speaker 3: things a little bit differently, and so we'll see how
Speaker 3: all that plays out. But they again they've got to
Speaker 3: really hand pick this roster in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: They got to go out and pick guys that they
Speaker 3: thought fit for them. And so we'll see if that
Speaker 3: if that's able to help them flip kind of that
Speaker 3: you're talking about, just like the culture and the standard
Speaker 3: and how we operate day to day, and we'll see
Speaker 3: if how what when once the games start, we'll get
Speaker 3: our answers, But so far that it seems like they're
Speaker 3: doing things differently, and we'll see if it works well.
Speaker 2: We got Todd Bryant coming up at eleven. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: ask him about the discipline and the culture and how
Speaker 2: things have changed behind the scenes. He was one of
Speaker 2: the players that didn't shy away from mentioning it. It
Speaker 2: had slipped at the end of last year. So I'm
Speaker 2: sure we'll get them on record saying how it's actually
Speaker 2: going over there. Someone who's actually living it right now
Speaker 2: will have those answers, But for right now, we'll take
Speaker 2: a quick break. I see my guy Steven Jaeger at
Speaker 2: two under just climbing that leaderboard. Love me some Steve
Speaker 2: Yeager look out for him, And I got JT posting
Speaker 2: another friend of the program with KSR former KSR blogger
Speaker 2: Aaron Fleener on the bag. Those are two guys we're
Speaker 2: watching at the Masters today now, uh posting birdied number two,
Speaker 2: but they I think he fell back to Evan. But
Speaker 2: those are two friends of the program. We're watching, and
Speaker 2: then we'll keep you updated with the masters and more
Speaker 2: football talk. We'll be right back on KSR. Welcome back
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Speaker 2: and will even share tips on how to properly prepare
Speaker 2: the cut. Steve even like cooked food for Matt since
Speaker 2: Matt doesn't know how to just so he could heat
Speaker 2: it up. That's how nice he is.
Speaker 4: Over there be direction.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he helped you on Valentine's Day. So support Steve
Speaker 2: and get some locally farmed beef at no Cha, Linda,
Speaker 2: that's at no you, Linda Farms dot com. You want
Speaker 2: to get back to more football or Masters? Maybe a
Speaker 2: little more football, you know, we're getting a little more
Speaker 2: sprink excitement.
Speaker 4: I have a Master's question for both of you.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll go back to Masters then.
Speaker 3: Like I've been to the players, and I've heard stories
Speaker 3: about the PGA say, people like to have a good time.
Speaker 2: People do like to have a good time, get a.
Speaker 3: Little maybe someone what one would call under overserved. Now
Speaker 3: at the Masters, do you it's like a classy Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: So you don't want to miss and if they are,
Speaker 6: they're escorted out.
Speaker 4: So that so that that does happen.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there's a decorum to it all, don't you think, Drew.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's a lot of cigar puffing going around,
Speaker 6: but there's no like teenagers getting routed or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm someone that likes to party, I've been known
Speaker 2: to put away a few beers, and they're very cheap there.
Speaker 2: But when you're at the Masters, you're dialed in, you're focused,
Speaker 2: you're just appreciating everything around you. I might have a few.
Speaker 2: In fact, I went to a practice round two years
Speaker 2: with my dad. It's one of my favorite moments ever.
Speaker 2: The players were done at Amen Corners. The last group
Speaker 2: went by and they had a little beer shack there
Speaker 2: and my dad ran a golf course for many years,
Speaker 2: so we just watched the ground screw get Amen Corner
Speaker 2: ready for the next day and we just sat there
Speaker 2: drinking two dollar beers. We were the only two people
Speaker 2: over there, and it was one of the coolest things ever.
Speaker 2: So sure you partake, but it is nowhere near the
Speaker 2: players where everybody's getting black out and routing. You see
Speaker 2: people passing out. This is a classy environment.
Speaker 4: Look, so you're telling me that if you wu that's
Speaker 4: frowned upon.
Speaker 2: If security didn't get to you, the person next to
Speaker 2: you and will beat you. Boy.
Speaker 6: So like, let's say this, like if you screamed mashed
Speaker 6: potatoes after somebody hits a shot, they would come over
Speaker 6: and talk to you.
Speaker 2: Like the gallery will handle you first, I think.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you will get the the looks. I mean, it's
Speaker 6: more like polite clapping after Drew is on Romeo and
Speaker 6: Juliet is what you should expect.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna keep with the Romeo and Juliette di exactly.
Speaker 5: I mean, well, it's not a dig. I mean, I'm
Speaker 5: excited for the script reading tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I'll practice it. I might do we were talking during
Speaker 2: the break, I might do a couple of different voices.
Speaker 2: Test them out on the KSR audience tomorrow. We'll decide
Speaker 2: which one I use for the play I mentioned Steve Yeager.
Speaker 2: I will tell my story real quick. I threw friend
Speaker 2: of a friend, ended up at a bachelor party with him,
Speaker 2: and there was this big beach house where we were
Speaker 2: all staying. Most of the guys were pro golfers, so
Speaker 2: I did not participate in many of the games. But
Speaker 2: he dropped a golf ball on the hardwood kitchen floor,
Speaker 2: took a range finder and pretended to like, look at
Speaker 2: a guy in the kayak and a kayak out on
Speaker 2: the ocean. He opens the kitchen door the back door
Speaker 2: to go outside. There is just glass everywhere, and we're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't think we should be doing this. I don't
Speaker 2: think we should be doing this. And he takes a
Speaker 2: full swing off the kitchen floor hits a golf ball
Speaker 2: out on the beach. It was one of the coolest
Speaker 2: things I've ever seen. Golf Channel I tweeted the video
Speaker 2: back then, Golf Channel even even shared it. But remarkable
Speaker 2: golf shots. So as you're watching him in at Augusta today,
Speaker 2: just know he could also hit it off your kitchen
Speaker 2: floor if needed.
Speaker 5: Was he challenged or did he just decide, Well, you know, just.
Speaker 2: Guys being dudes and getting a little bored, and when
Speaker 2: they're all pro golfers, they gotta they gotta show off
Speaker 2: their skills. But pretty impressive and he's a he's a
Speaker 2: nice guy. So even though he's he's not an American,
Speaker 2: we still like him. He might be against us in
Speaker 2: the Ryder Cup, but we're rooting for Steven right now,
Speaker 2: Stefan if you want to call him, and he's I
Speaker 2: think still two under, yeah.
Speaker 6: Rooting for him, rooting for JT, posting Justin Thomas, even
Speaker 6: Keegan Bradley who had a hole in one yesterday that
Speaker 6: was he is.
Speaker 3: Two under, drew one shot back of Aaron Rai Walking
Speaker 3: Neman tied at the top three under but we're it's
Speaker 3: early in the day, only one it looks like only
Speaker 3: one group has made the turn at this point.
Speaker 2: It's very early in the day for us. I have
Speaker 2: so many more football questions for you. But first we're
Speaker 2: gonna ask questions to Ty Bryant. He's coming up next.
Speaker 2: We're gonna rick call him up over there at the
Speaker 2: football stadium. He couldn't join us in person, but he's
Speaker 2: taking a break from the practices and the meetings going
Speaker 2: on over there as they wrap up spring practice, and
Speaker 2: we'll get his thoughts on everything that's going on in
Speaker 2: the outlook for the season, his big junior year in
Speaker 2: the secondary. So after this break we'll hear from Todd Bryant.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back