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Speaker 2: in Lexington. It is the most exciting week of the
Speaker 2: entire year when it comes to sports, with March Madness
Speaker 2: kicking off, and it's also the least productive work week
Speaker 2: of the entire year. Nobody's going to be paying attention
Speaker 2: at work on Thursday and Friday. But I'm excited for everything.
Speaker 2: We got a lot to talk about, Billy. But first
Speaker 2: of all, how are you doing. It's good to see
Speaker 2: you again. Good to be back here in Louisville for me.
Speaker 2: You're in Lexington this morning. What's going on?
Speaker 3: Good morning, dude, what's up? Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you.
Speaker 3: I don't have any green on, but if you try
Speaker 3: to pinch me, I might punch you in the face. Shan,
Speaker 3: I do not try to pinch me this morning. But
Speaker 3: it's good to see you. How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good man.
Speaker 2: I don't have any green on either. I just realized that,
Speaker 2: I mean, you can pinch me, just don't pinch my
Speaker 2: nipples out like that.
Speaker 3: No, nobody like you can't pinch me. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 3: that was the dumbest thing in school. But you know what,
Speaker 3: it's your tradition. Did you go out and party like
Speaker 3: most Saint Patrick's Day weekends twenty something year olds do?
Speaker 1: Did I ever?
Speaker 3: I mean, who, you're probably too tired from the sec turnout.
Speaker 1: Who am I kid?
Speaker 2: I'll be out drinking green beer probably later on today.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you can go to ks Bar
Speaker 2: and grill. We're gonna have some of that green die
Speaker 2: beer that you can consume, and we'll go we'll go
Speaker 2: drink down some green beer a little bit later.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: You know you think about it though, like adding the
Speaker 2: color green to beer. I don't know why it tastes
Speaker 2: so much better. First of all, revolutions get a little
Speaker 2: green in it. But it's like the only thing that
Speaker 2: you consume that you can have green that we're perfectly
Speaker 2: fine with. Like, you know, if I go out and
Speaker 2: I'll order a steak and they bring it to me
Speaker 2: and they set it down in front of me, and
Speaker 2: it's green.
Speaker 1: You're sending that thing back.
Speaker 2: If I go and I order some fries and they're green,
Speaker 2: I'm not eating green fries. I'm not even eating green bananas.
Speaker 2: But for some reason, you give me a green beer.
Speaker 2: It tastes good, man, it just goes down perfectly.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you don't eat your vegetables, Shannon. Do
Speaker 3: you not have a little green on your plate every
Speaker 3: single night?
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be green. That's my point.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about adding the color green to stuff that's
Speaker 2: not supposed to be green. Beer is not supposed to
Speaker 2: be green. It's supposed to be amber or gold, not green.
Speaker 2: But you know, you ad a little green to it,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's good.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, you're right, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 3: If you're at the bar you're drinking green beer instead
Speaker 3: of normal beer. They just seem to go down a
Speaker 3: little bit better. So, very festive way to celebrate the holiday.
Speaker 3: And you know what, Shannon's speaking of holidays. You see
Speaker 3: what I got right here?
Speaker 1: Aha, you got the bracket.
Speaker 3: You got the boy, you could smell it, the.
Speaker 1: Big beautiful bracket in front of you. We'll get to that.
Speaker 2: I think maybe Billy the best way to attack this.
Speaker 2: Since we've got so much to talk about, let's just
Speaker 2: go kind of chronologically from Friday throughout the weekend and
Speaker 2: kind of where we left off with the show on
Speaker 2: Friday morning. So Kentucky loses to Alabama and the se tournament,
Speaker 2: not surprisingly, but I didn't. I guess I was surprised
Speaker 2: that they got beat by nearly thirty points, ninety nine
Speaker 2: to seventy in a game where Kentucky was just beaten
Speaker 2: and bruised. I mean, they looked like they had just
Speaker 2: been in a street fight. I mean, the first game
Speaker 2: against Oklahoma, you had Colin Chandler with the blood trickling
Speaker 2: down his face like Tyler Ulis. Then on Friday night,
Speaker 2: Oh Way gets punt like just an elbow right to
Speaker 2: the face, ends up. I mean, did you see the
Speaker 2: picture of his lip? Oh both of his lips. No foul,
Speaker 2: No foul there. I mean, he was blitting all over
Speaker 2: the floor, had to get stitched up. Still came back
Speaker 2: in the game, but it just wasn't enough for Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Andrew Carr was over there on the bike. I mean
Speaker 2: his back issues I think were flaring up a little bit.
Speaker 2: So Kentucky hobbled into this game, Billy, and it showed.
Speaker 2: But you know, you gotta look forward, put that one
Speaker 2: behind you, and get ready for what's next.
Speaker 3: You know, we said it was tough for a team
Speaker 3: to beat another team three times in a single year.
Speaker 3: Well Alabama did exactly that versus Kentucky. And not only that,
Speaker 3: it was the worst SEC Tournament loss of all time.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and five, Kentucky lost to Florida by seventeen.
Speaker 3: They lost to twenty nine to Alabama in that last game.
Speaker 3: So it was definitely a tough one. It was not
Speaker 3: a fun second half. That game was in hand well
Speaker 3: into the second half. You know, Shandon, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to cry officiating. That was not the reason why Kentucky lost.
Speaker 3: But boy were there some bad calls in that first.
Speaker 1: There were some bad calls.
Speaker 2: But I saw a lot of people on social media crying,
Speaker 2: go we lost the game because the stop it.
Speaker 3: You lost by twenty nine points. No, no important distinction.
Speaker 3: They didn't lose because of that.
Speaker 2: The other thing is Kentucky went to the free throw
Speaker 2: line a lot more times than Alabama. I don't have
Speaker 2: the exact numbers in front of me, but you can't
Speaker 2: cry foul it being the reason that Kentucky lost. Now
Speaker 2: that elbow to the phase of oh wait should have
Speaker 2: been a foul. There were definitely some miscalls. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to say there weren't, but it wasn't the difference
Speaker 2: in Kentucky winning and losing the game. It may have
Speaker 2: been the difference between Kentucky losing bout twenty nine and
Speaker 2: losing by twenty.
Speaker 3: You're still there's a bad block call on Andrew Carr
Speaker 3: that got him into some early foul trouble. There was
Speaker 3: no continuation call on Amari when it was clearly called
Speaker 3: just the other night. So it inconsistent and that's what
Speaker 3: makes I think people the most mad. But you know what,
Speaker 3: Alabama is just the better team. And you know, they
Speaker 3: went on to not look very good in their next game,
Speaker 3: despite how well they played versus Florida, the eventual SEC
Speaker 3: Tournament champion. But you know, I think the news from
Speaker 3: that game was Mark Pope saying before the game started
Speaker 3: that they got the best possible news about Lamont Butler right,
Speaker 3: because that guy is going to be a big part
Speaker 3: of this next run for contact.
Speaker 1: And that's the situation.
Speaker 2: Lambat Butler will be available for the NCAA tournament. He
Speaker 2: was obviously still feeling the effects of that shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: It's a different shoulder injury, though, Billy.
Speaker 2: It makes me wonder, like he had that one injury
Speaker 2: all year long that he's been dealing with.
Speaker 1: This is a same shoulder, different injury.
Speaker 2: So I mean, at this point, does it mean that
Speaker 2: like his shoulders just hanging on by a thread? I mean,
Speaker 2: how many different injuries to a single shoulder can you have?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think it would be any more than two.
Speaker 2: Lamott Butler's got both of them.
Speaker 1: Apparently.
Speaker 3: Well, he had such a big like not like cast,
Speaker 3: but like sling and brace that he had on, and
Speaker 3: Goose mentioned that they changed the brace that he was
Speaker 3: wearing to a much lighter option before the game that
Speaker 3: he reinjured it, So you maybe think maybe did that
Speaker 3: play a factor at all? You know, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: he couldn't finish with his left with that bigger brace on,
Speaker 3: so maybe they were looking to change that at all.
Speaker 3: But to hear the news that he would be back
Speaker 3: for the NCAA tournament is huge. I mean, just simply put,
Speaker 3: that's a guy. There's a reason they flew all the
Speaker 3: way to Vegas to on the first day the transferportal
Speaker 3: to try to get that guy to come to Kentucky
Speaker 3: and the shot that he hit with San Diego State.
Speaker 3: He brings a lot of experience and a calming presence
Speaker 3: to this team that's going to be paramount. And so
Speaker 3: that was some great news because this has been a
Speaker 3: year of injuries, whether you like it or not. Shenon right,
Speaker 3: I mean, we will look back in one of the
Speaker 3: biggest storylines will be you know, what could have been
Speaker 3: if this team was at full strength and without Jackson Robinson.
Speaker 3: It's good to hear that Lamont Butler will be back.
Speaker 2: Absolutely the right call though, to sit him out to
Speaker 2: make sure he's healthy for the NCAA tournament. So people
Speaker 2: are going, well, if the SEC tournament doesn't mean anything,
Speaker 2: stop it.
Speaker 1: He's not. Pope's not saying that.
Speaker 2: Pope absolutely put meaning to the SEC tournament. But if
Speaker 2: you have the choice of playing a guy possibly having them,
Speaker 2: you know, be one hard hit away from being out
Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament. It would be stupid to play LaMonte
Speaker 2: Butler against Alabama. So I think that's one hundred percent
Speaker 2: of the right call by Mark Pope. So I came
Speaker 2: back home, Billy on Saturday morning, and now we're gonna
Speaker 2: I don't even know. I mean, I guess I have
Speaker 2: to pack quickly again because I think Wednesday morning we
Speaker 2: were leaving and we're off to Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Baby,
Speaker 2: here we come. Kentucky'll be the three seed taking on Troy,
Speaker 2: and if they win, and I'm not going to look
Speaker 2: past Troy just yet. We'll talk about Troy in a
Speaker 2: minute and what you know about Troy, but if they win,
Speaker 2: they'll be playing the winner of Illinois, the sixth seed
Speaker 2: or Texas Xavier. That's the playing game to get to Illinois.
Speaker 2: But Billy, I gotta tell you, just looking at the bracket,
Speaker 2: that's a very favorable path for k You to get
Speaker 2: to the sweet sixteen, even with the injuries that they have.
Speaker 1: Do you agree?
Speaker 3: I do? And then you get to the sweet sixteen theoretically,
Speaker 3: and you play a team you've already beaten twice this
Speaker 3: year in Tennessee in Indianapolis, which I kind of love.
Speaker 3: How fun. Would that matchup be Houston obviously the one seed,
Speaker 3: and they're you know, Kelvin Sampson's in great things with
Speaker 3: that program. But I can't look at that draw and
Speaker 3: think that Kentucky got slided in any way. Shannon, I mean,
Speaker 3: this is a great draw for Kentucky. It is. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is a Troy team that, while can be physical
Speaker 3: and good on defense, they are not good at shooting
Speaker 3: the three. So I think Kentucky, with their tempo, if
Speaker 3: they can have a red relatively decent shooting night, they
Speaker 3: can win that game. And then if you're able to
Speaker 3: beat you know, an up and down Illinois team, maybe
Speaker 3: Texas or Xavier, then you're onto the Sweet sixteen. And
Speaker 3: I think you've acheased every goal that you've wanted before
Speaker 3: the season started.
Speaker 1: You've a cheezed it or achieved.
Speaker 3: It a cheese achieved whichever whichever you'd like.
Speaker 2: But you know, like if Kentucky were one hundred percent healthy,
Speaker 2: I think that they would have a very good chance
Speaker 2: of getting to the Elite eight, very good chance. Now,
Speaker 2: you know, if let's say Tennessee, you know the seeds
Speaker 2: hole Tennessee makes it to the Sweet sixteen, let's say
Speaker 2: Kentucky gets there. Yes, they've beaten Tennessee twice this year.
Speaker 2: But again I go back to Kentucky just being completely
Speaker 2: bruised and battered. I just wonder how healthy La Motte
Speaker 2: Butler is going to be if they make it that far.
Speaker 2: But still, you know, you give me the bracket, you
Speaker 2: give me that path, I will take that all day.
Speaker 2: You want to look at some teams that got screwed,
Speaker 2: they don't have to look far. You don't have to
Speaker 2: look far, man, Louisville, guy, Look, I know the ac
Speaker 2: ceed is terrible.
Speaker 1: I get it. They didn't play a whole lot of
Speaker 1: great games.
Speaker 2: They still won twenty seven games, went to the ACC Championship,
Speaker 2: lost the Duke yesterday, and get not only the eight seed,
Speaker 2: you got to play a really good Creton team in
Speaker 2: the first round. Then if you win, you got to
Speaker 2: play the best team the top seed.
Speaker 3: Number one seed in the bracket in Auburn.
Speaker 2: Now, if it's any consolation at all, I guess you
Speaker 2: could say, well, Louis's gonna have a lot of fans there,
Speaker 2: being in Larst. They don't have to travel very far,
Speaker 2: just just an hour hour and a half away.
Speaker 1: But still, man like I think Louisville got jobbed.
Speaker 2: And you know, look, I'm no Lobill fan, but just
Speaker 2: looking at it objectively, I think that the Lovell gad
Speaker 2: job being the eight seed with Auburn as.
Speaker 3: They're one, a lot of disrespect towards Louisville and some
Speaker 3: real questions towards the selection committee, because how do you
Speaker 3: put Louisville in as an eight? I think they could
Speaker 3: have much rather been suited as maybe even a like
Speaker 3: a five, But you put him in as an eight.
Speaker 3: They only have three three wins against teams in the
Speaker 3: field of sixty eight. That's two against Clemson and one
Speaker 3: versus North Carolina, so you discount the conference a lot.
Speaker 3: And then North Carolina gets in Shannon with a one
Speaker 3: in twelve quad one record.
Speaker 2: I've got issues with that. We've got to talk about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, okay, we'll talk about it now. We'll
Speaker 2: talk more Kentucky Troy in just a minute. But did
Speaker 2: North Carolina deserve to get in? No, they did not know,
Speaker 2: They did not.
Speaker 1: It was the record?
Speaker 2: Was it one in twelve versus quad one teams? One
Speaker 2: in twelve versus quad one teams? They get in over
Speaker 2: West Virginia who had six quad one wins, Ohio State,
Speaker 2: six quad one wins. Indiana they didn't belong in at either,
Speaker 2: but they had four quad one wins and every loss
Speaker 2: was to a quad one team a quad one game.
Speaker 1: Yet North Carolina gets in.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm one to talk about conspiracy theories
Speaker 2: when it comes to the NCAA tournament. Bubba Kingham, that
Speaker 2: one the well, the North Carolina athletic director on the
Speaker 2: selection committee. And I know they're supposed to step out
Speaker 2: of the room and they're not allowed to be in
Speaker 2: on the conversation when you talk about the team that
Speaker 2: you're the AD four. But don't tell me that he's
Speaker 2: not having conversations, you know during the lunch break and
Speaker 2: during their the water cooler breaks about North Tell me, Billy,
Speaker 2: did North Carolina belong in?
Speaker 1: And I want you to answer this too.
Speaker 2: I don't think athletic directors should be a part of
Speaker 2: the selection committee at all, at all.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with that?
Speaker 3: No? Not the selection committee. Now, there are many situations
Speaker 3: where the AD should be involved. The NCAA is a
Speaker 3: collection of ads and school presidents, so I think you
Speaker 3: know that they run that position to a degree. But
Speaker 3: for the selection committee when it means so much of
Speaker 3: these teams know. The UNCAD shouldn't be taking as lunch
Speaker 3: break to convince others to help his team get in.
Speaker 3: It's unfair, it is now. I did feel bad for
Speaker 3: North Carolina versus Duke. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 3: the ending of that game over the weekend, Shannon, where
Speaker 3: there was a lane violation during the tying free throw
Speaker 3: in the final seconds that canceled it out and allowed
Speaker 3: Duke to win without Cooper flag. I get that that's
Speaker 3: tough for UNC, but this is a situation that goes
Speaker 3: to show why we should not expand the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: A team like UNC should not be a no doubt
Speaker 3: in the NCAA tournament field. They should be left out,
Speaker 3: and they were the team on the bubble that got
Speaker 3: let in because their AD was on the freaking selection committee.
Speaker 3: It makes me furious, Shannon, and especially in a year
Speaker 3: where the ACC is so bad and UNC goes one
Speaker 3: to twelve and quad one games and they still get in.
Speaker 3: It's just a complete brand move, is it not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you can fact check me on this, but
Speaker 2: what I saw on one report was that Bubba Cunningham,
Speaker 2: you and see athletic director gets one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: extra if North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Makes it into the end.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 2: No fact check me on that before I you know,
Speaker 2: we say facts are optional.
Speaker 1: We'll hear at KSR. So could that be wrong?
Speaker 2: It could be, but you know, again, there's so much
Speaker 2: information out there. That's what I read from one one
Speaker 2: report that he would get that bump in salary if
Speaker 2: North Carolina makes the tournament. So that's why I say
Speaker 2: athletic directors should not be a part of the select
Speaker 2: feel it feels like.
Speaker 3: This year the selection committee leaned in to the made
Speaker 3: for TV matchups more than any other year. Shannon, I mean,
Speaker 3: can we get to maybe the biggest story of the
Speaker 3: tournament in this segment or do you want to save
Speaker 3: it for later.
Speaker 2: Let's save it for Let's take a break, Let's tell
Speaker 2: it Rag, we'll come back. We'll talk more Kentucky Troy,
Speaker 2: we'll talk more about the brackets. I want to hear
Speaker 2: what your final four leave you match it man, Yep,
Speaker 2: We'll get to all of it and we'll take your calls.
Speaker 2: Eight five, nine, two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 2: It's shannat the Dude, Billy reliche the KSR pre show,
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: I love that song, the March Madness theme song. This
Speaker 2: is the older version of the theme song, Billy. This
Speaker 2: is what they use from ninety three to two thousand
Speaker 2: and three. I say this every year. I'll say it again.
Speaker 2: This is the best version of the March Madness theme song.
Speaker 2: Sorry to anybody who's listening on podcasts who can't hear it,
Speaker 2: but just you can look it up. The version of
Speaker 2: it now is too slow and it's it's like it's
Speaker 2: the same song, but it's the slower version of this song.
Speaker 2: This is the best version of my opinion, do you
Speaker 2: remember this.
Speaker 3: The of course? This one shining moment after the tournament's over,
Speaker 3: another iconic, iconic sound. I did miss Greg Gumble on
Speaker 3: the selection so yesterday. I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: I don't know what is said percent.
Speaker 2: I love the intro by the way that they gave
Speaker 2: for Greg Gumble talking about the NCAA tournament and they
Speaker 2: played Rolling Stones start Me Up, which I know it
Speaker 2: was his favorite band, was The Stones. I thought that
Speaker 2: was a great tribute to Gumble there at the very beginning.
Speaker 2: But yeah, not the same without him on this Saint
Speaker 2: Patrick's station.
Speaker 3: Snon. Somebody wrote in and said, will you get any
Speaker 3: green chili at Skyline Chili shan No big day for that, right,
Speaker 3: not eating noodles, No chili, No, not doing it? Green
Speaker 3: eggs and ham no? Maybe can I interest you? I am.
Speaker 1: I will not eat green eggs and ham.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I went on to eat them in a car. I
Speaker 2: will not eat them at a bar. Oh good, I
Speaker 2: don't think that was in there.
Speaker 3: That was just arrived, So I was hoping it's.
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Speaker 3: I haven't haven't done it yet. I just printed out
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Speaker 2: The most frustrating thing about these office pools. You know,
Speaker 2: I watched the games all year. I think I've got
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Speaker 2: So you know what, that's that's why it's the uh
Speaker 2: the greatest two weeks in support, I guess that's right. Well,
Speaker 2: not two weeks however long, however long it is, that
Speaker 2: is the greatest first couple of days in sports. Thursday
Speaker 2: and Friday coming up, all right, So let's before we
Speaker 2: get to the phones. Eight five, nine, and two eight
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Speaker 2: Let's look at Kentucky's first round opponent, Troy Billy. First
Speaker 2: of all, what do we know about Troy? Do you
Speaker 2: know which state Troit Troy is in? Oh, and that's easy,
Speaker 2: that's Alabama. That's right, Yeah, all right? Do you know
Speaker 2: what conference they're in?
Speaker 3: The Fun Belt or yes, most people know it as
Speaker 3: the Sun Belt.
Speaker 1: Yep, right. They rank sixth in offensive rebound efficiency. I
Speaker 1: learned that this morning.
Speaker 2: Okay, but they are a terrible three point shooting team,
Speaker 2: so I feel like that plays very well into the
Speaker 2: hands of Kentucky. They are a solid defensive team, only
Speaker 2: allowing opposing teams to average sixty six points. So either
Speaker 2: way though, I feel good about this game, going in
Speaker 2: number one knowing that they're a bad three point shooting team,
Speaker 2: which of course means they'll come out and probably know
Speaker 2: nil about sixteen or seventeen threes against Kentucky in the
Speaker 2: first round.
Speaker 3: I do believe that they have the SEC or not
Speaker 3: the SEC, the Sun Belt Player of the Year on
Speaker 3: their roster as well. So somebody that we will I'm
Speaker 3: sure we'll talk more about before Friday. We've got a
Speaker 3: few days to break down the Troy Trojans. But John
Speaker 3: Summerl also comes to mind as somebody that was once
Speaker 3: at Troy. I think at one point was that true.
Speaker 3: I think he was. Yeah, So now now at tu
Speaker 3: Lane the old John Summerle game. But this is a
Speaker 3: team that Kentucky should handle, right. I mean, we've said
Speaker 3: it in the past, there's been a nervousness with this
Speaker 3: first game, but I feel like based on the draw, Shannon,
Speaker 3: you know it also being on Friday, we get a
Speaker 3: whole day to watch the NCAA tournament games and you know,
Speaker 3: not be out before the tournament even starts. So a
Speaker 3: lot of good things I think when you're looking at this,
Speaker 3: and then even if you were to look past it,
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, Illinois doesn't scare me, Shannon, Illinois
Speaker 3: doesn't scare me.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you're not afraid of Illinois. I think.
Speaker 3: I mean Texas was a team that you you collapsed against,
Speaker 3: but that was that was you also played that game
Speaker 3: shorthanded as well without Lamont Butler. I believe.
Speaker 2: So let's just win the first one. Let's just get
Speaker 2: past Troy, because we don't.
Speaker 3: Talking myself into the second week.
Speaker 2: We all remember Oakland and we don't want to get
Speaker 2: Saint Peter again. So let's let's just get past Troy
Speaker 2: and then we'll figure it out from there. Hey, when
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Speaker 2: go to the phones and talk to Steve. What's up Steve?
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, guys, how you doing good? Hey to
Speaker 4: kind of recap the SEC tournament. Great job on your
Speaker 4: costear chain, and I know that was a four hour marathon.
Speaker 4: But on Wednesday, you know, the general admission seating, I
Speaker 4: got to sit down right behind the South Carolina Bitch
Speaker 4: and it was about what seemed like a ten minute
Speaker 4: dialogue between you, Mario and a security guard. I don't
Speaker 4: know if you guys elaborate on that prior show, but
Speaker 4: you kind of elaborate have that conversation with Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I talked about this a little bit on Thursdays
Speaker 2: and Friday show. But basically, when you go in and
Speaker 2: this is the first time I'd ever been credentialed at
Speaker 2: the SEC tournament, you go in and on your credential.
Speaker 2: You got numbers like mine said one, and I don't know,
Speaker 2: like another number, let's say four, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But I go in and they don't really point you
Speaker 1: in any direction.
Speaker 2: So, like backstage at the SEC tournament, as a credentialed
Speaker 2: media member, we could have just.
Speaker 3: Ran out there and around.
Speaker 2: We were right, we were literally right behind the Vanderbilt team.
Speaker 2: Like I could have gone in there and like given
Speaker 2: him a pep talk if I wanted to. Like, there's
Speaker 2: no security at all to stop us from just running
Speaker 2: out there and getting in the layup line with him.
Speaker 2: So we wander out there and I go over to
Speaker 2: where the media section is and there's not one seat available,
Speaker 2: So I go, okay, and Ryan, you know he's been
Speaker 2: credentialed every year, he goes over here is the overflow
Speaker 2: seating for media. So we go to sit there, and
Speaker 2: then a security guard a few minutes later comes up
Speaker 2: and goes to Mario.
Speaker 1: He goes, hey, Mario. He called out Mario by name.
Speaker 2: By the way, I name from twenty feet away, and
Speaker 2: on those credentials, your name is tiny, Like you can't
Speaker 2: you can't read that from all the way across the
Speaker 2: celebrity but this guy that worked there at Bridge Done
Speaker 2: Arena calls out Mario and goes, you can't sit here.
Speaker 1: So then, of course Matt did not like that. He
Speaker 1: went off on one of the security guards, you.
Speaker 2: Know, asked for the manager, as he should have, because
Speaker 2: here's the thing, none of us sitting there, according to
Speaker 2: the security guy, had the right number on our credential.
Speaker 2: So I basically looked at Him'm gonna look, man, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna sit here and watch this fandy game. You know
Speaker 2: I'm credentialed. I'm not going anywhere. He goes, well, I'll
Speaker 2: get the cops. I go go get them, and then uh,
Speaker 2: and then he goes he goes, well you can't sit here.
Speaker 2: I go, well, nobody here in this section, Billy, it
Speaker 2: was half full. Nobody in that section had the right credentials.
Speaker 2: I go, so until you kick everybody out of here,
Speaker 2: I'm not going anywhere. I'm sitting right here. So eventually
Speaker 2: he walked off and never bothered me again. Wow, the
Speaker 2: old what are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Thanks for the call, Steve. We gotta let you go.
Speaker 1: We're up against it here. We gotta break the take, Kim.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Take your phone calls on the KSR pre Show. It
Speaker 2: is the KSR Pre Show eighty five, nine and two,
Speaker 2: eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Little Saint Patti's stay
Speaker 2: music for you. Always think about this song?
Speaker 1: Do you know this song?
Speaker 3: Billy but I do? Drop Kick Murphy's Yeah, I've heard
Speaker 3: it before. Would you ever bust out into a river
Speaker 3: dance when you hear something like that? No, for dance.
Speaker 2: That was a big thing back in the day. Right
Speaker 2: is river dancing is still a thing that people still
Speaker 2: go watch river dance.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's a culture of people that do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe in like Vegas or something.
Speaker 3: It was always Chad Johnson would do sometimes did a
Speaker 3: river dance touchdown celebration for Cincinnati back when I was
Speaker 3: a kid. That's where I initially got it from. But
Speaker 3: you drink a couple of those green beers, Shannon, you
Speaker 3: might see me start river dancing, so you never know.
Speaker 3: It's still a thing.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: You fact checked me on the unc AD, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the text line did and you know, people said,
Speaker 3: Shannon is right. I just read North Carolina AD's contract.
Speaker 3: He can get a bonus equal to one month pay
Speaker 3: if the men's team make the tournament. His annual pay
Speaker 3: is one point two million. They're hundred grand checks out
Speaker 3: if the team makes the tournament. Now, fourteen teams from
Speaker 3: the SEC made the tournament. Billy, is that incredible air
Speaker 3: or foul?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Did all fourteen teams deserve them make the tournament? Or
Speaker 2: do you think that maybe that number should have been
Speaker 2: closer to twelve or thirteen.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say fair. I think Texas was the borderline one.
Speaker 3: They were right on the edge. In Indiana, in Boise State,
Speaker 3: maybe even in West Virginia are some of the biggest
Speaker 3: snubs when it comes to the tournament. But overall, I
Speaker 3: think that I'm not too outraged by Texas getting in, Shannon.
Speaker 3: I mean, they played in the what we will remember
Speaker 3: as the most difficult and the best college basketball conference
Speaker 3: of all time. I mean, the record was eleven before
Speaker 3: this number of fourteen was reached, So I didn't see
Speaker 3: what Indiana did and think, boy, did they fully deserve
Speaker 3: to be in over Texas. So if we're looking at semantics,
Speaker 3: I go ultimately fair on this.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about what was probably gonna be one
Speaker 2: of the most anticipated matchups in the second round.
Speaker 1: If it happens, Oh, possible.
Speaker 2: Rick Bettino versus John Caliperi in the second round, if
Speaker 2: Saint John's wins their first game, and if Arkansas can
Speaker 2: beat Kansas.
Speaker 1: You're looking forward to this. I would love to see
Speaker 1: Rick versus.
Speaker 3: Cal What a pod? I mean, I wish I could
Speaker 3: get tickets to this one man. Not only does Saint
Speaker 3: John's take on Omaha in their first game and the
Speaker 3: Outrunner and he's beaten of the trash Can.
Speaker 2: See I'm a little conflicted here, like I want Patino
Speaker 2: and Saint John's to win, but you know, if they
Speaker 2: weren't playing Saint John's, I'd be pulling for Omaha because
Speaker 2: of our connection with the Outrunners and the trash can
Speaker 2: beat down that happened when they won the their conference tournament.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I would love to see an upset, even though
Speaker 3: it would be Ricky p I'd love to see Omaha,
Speaker 3: as a fifteen seed, get it done. But not only that,
Speaker 3: I mean Bill self versus John Caliperi, two guys that
Speaker 3: have won national championships against each other in the first round.
Speaker 3: This has been a historically bad year for Kansas as well,
Speaker 3: So I mean, if they were to put a bow
Speaker 3: on their season with a loss to John Caliperi's mediocre
Speaker 3: Arkansas squad. I mean, either way you cut it, I
Speaker 3: think it's interesting. But if we were to get cal
Speaker 3: versus Rick in that second round game, Shannon, who are
Speaker 3: you pulling for?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Come on, you know, easy, easy money on Rick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got to get it done. Though.
Speaker 2: I hope that that happens because that will be a
Speaker 2: fun one to watch. I've actually got Saint john making
Speaker 2: a run and going to the Final four in my bracket.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 1: You want to hear my final four?
Speaker 3: Oh, you've you've already got it, Okay, you can tell me. Okay,
Speaker 3: I haven't filled one out.
Speaker 1: So what I got?
Speaker 2: So I've got I'm going chalk on Auburn making making
Speaker 2: it to the final four. Okay, I think they are
Speaker 2: even though they lost in the SEC Tournament. I think
Speaker 2: they're still probably the best team in college basketball. Although Florida,
Speaker 2: you know, they've got an argument too. I've got Saint
Speaker 2: John's beating Florida though to get into the Final four.
Speaker 2: So I got Auburn, Saint John's, I got Clemson coming
Speaker 2: out of the Midwest. What look it's not going to
Speaker 2: be ones and twos and never is. You got to
Speaker 2: go out on a limb at some point. And then
Speaker 2: and then Alabama coming out of the East, Alabama knocking
Speaker 2: off Duke in the final four. So I got Auburn, Alabama,
Speaker 2: Saint John's, Clemson. Now I think Kentucky. I've got Kentucky
Speaker 2: in my Sweet sixteen. I would pick them to make
Speaker 2: a deeper run. I just I'm concerned about the injuries.
Speaker 2: That's why I don't have them going farther. If they
Speaker 2: were they were completely healthy, I wouldn't be too hesitant
Speaker 2: to put Kentucky in the final four.
Speaker 3: So you got them losing to Tennessee then Sweet sug.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think.
Speaker 2: I mean, even though they've beaten Tennessee already again, you
Speaker 2: got to take into account even though Alabama just did
Speaker 2: it hard to beat a team three times in one season,
Speaker 2: and Kentucky's not fully healthy. If Kentucky were fully healthy,
Speaker 2: of course, I've got Kentucky beating Tennis.
Speaker 3: But I don't. I don't know if Clemson gets out
Speaker 3: of the first round. I mean, they've got McNeice, little
Speaker 3: will Wade, action Shannon.
Speaker 1: That's why this is the best thing in sports going.
Speaker 1: That's why I need to change it, keep it, keep
Speaker 1: it as it is.
Speaker 3: What about Vandy, I mean they made it in the deturnament.
Speaker 3: Think Saint Mary's and then Alabama back to back wins.
Speaker 3: That might be tough.
Speaker 2: Vandy is not going to win their first game. They
Speaker 2: they've lost their last three. They're on the down trend.
Speaker 2: Luckily they didn't have to play their the playing game
Speaker 2: as an eleven seed.
Speaker 1: But I don't think they make it past St. Mary's
Speaker 1: in the first round.
Speaker 3: Uh, tell me if you thought this though, Shannon, I
Speaker 3: believe it's the East Section. I don't have it on
Speaker 3: my bracket here. But when Byu came in as the six,
Speaker 3: and I thought that Kentucky was going to be that
Speaker 3: three seed, didn't you? I mean they ended up bicking Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: I saw that and I go I was sitting here
Speaker 2: watching it with my dad and I said to him,
Speaker 2: all right, I'll put money on this. And again, this
Speaker 2: is why I always lose on DraftKings, because I put
Speaker 2: money on stupid stuff. But I said, I would bet
Speaker 2: you right now that three seed's going to be Kentucky
Speaker 2: had to be Kentucky, and it was Wisconsin. Yeah, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was okay. Yeah, so but I've got BYU. I
Speaker 2: think that they come out of that and they could
Speaker 2: probably make a Sweet sixteen run. I could see them
Speaker 2: beating Wisconsin, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they definitely could. But no, no, man, it's
Speaker 3: exciting Clemson in the final four though, Man, talk about
Speaker 3: bold prediction from Shannon here to start out.
Speaker 2: BacT like that's crazy. Though, if you go back and
Speaker 2: look at final what do we have a few years ago?
Speaker 2: San Diego State in the final.
Speaker 3: Four, Well, I mean just I mean think about more
Speaker 3: even more recently, I mean like NC State made a
Speaker 3: Final four, Miami made their way out there. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's been plenty of high seed teams to go on
Speaker 3: a run. So it's it's definitely possible and makes probably
Speaker 3: what the NCAA Tournament mark men's the best postseason in.
Speaker 2: Sports, no doubt. You think, what's even close? What would
Speaker 2: even come close? Not the World Series, not the NBA Finals,
Speaker 2: not the Stanley.
Speaker 3: Cup, the postseason as a whole, I mean, you're hard
Speaker 3: pressed to find anything like this.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: It's that winner go home aspect. It's in the NFL,
Speaker 3: but in basketball, it just feels feels like even more fun.
Speaker 1: Hey, five nine two twenty two eighty seven. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Jake. What's up, Jake? Oh no, Jake, Jake hung up?
Speaker 1: All right? Okay, John Short, what's up?
Speaker 3: Hey, Johnny?
Speaker 6: Nothing less with ray for our bigies. Now, I know
Speaker 6: tough that means fast. But if we're going winning women's
Speaker 6: fasty about super final corportations? Is Kentucky Vannonbilt, Georgia, Alabama
Speaker 6: and women's and men's basketball?
Speaker 2: Oh, you got Vandy in Kentucky out of the SEC
Speaker 2: and men's and women's final four.
Speaker 1: I like your pick.
Speaker 3: That may be tough, John.
Speaker 2: So the women have got Liberty Kentucky's the four seed, right,
Speaker 2: they play Liberty the thirteenth, right, and then they would
Speaker 2: play the winner of Kansas State or Fairfield.
Speaker 1: I thought Fairfield was a hotel chain Fairfield.
Speaker 6: In and I heard the Kansas So you had a
Speaker 6: six sixth center or who is injured? Most of them
Speaker 6: the season be back from Insteadily tournament. I don't know
Speaker 6: what her name iss there. She got the guy's sixty
Speaker 6: sixth center. Who is that most of the year? Did
Speaker 6: you hear about that?
Speaker 3: I have not, but I was John already looking ahead
Speaker 3: to that second round matchup.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't look past Liberty.
Speaker 6: John, Liberty, we'll be livery and don't be livery, but
Speaker 6: thirty five Vegas we canna be tory about forty five vegans.
Speaker 6: And also we're gonna be Murray Stake tomorrow night in
Speaker 6: baseball and we're gonna be sleep Auburn in baseball this weekend. Well, John,
Speaker 6: let we need to talk about that too.
Speaker 2: It sounds like you got it all figured out. I
Speaker 2: don't think we need to talk you just you just
Speaker 2: told us what was gonna happen. I don't even need
Speaker 2: to watch the games now, ok.
Speaker 1: All right, John, thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: Thank you. THEAH one of those two games being played
Speaker 3: at Memorial Shannon. So like Kentucky getting the opportunity to host,
Speaker 3: you know, in the first year of the new renovated
Speaker 3: Historic Memorial Coliseum, the Cats and first year Kenny Brooks
Speaker 3: host and in their first two games in the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 3: What a successful year it's been for them, and then
Speaker 3: hopefully they can keep it rolling.
Speaker 2: If you had to guess, who do you think makes
Speaker 2: the deeper run, I'm gonna go with the women. I
Speaker 2: think just because of the fact that the men's team
Speaker 2: is as we've talked about, you know, dealing with so
Speaker 2: many injuries, don't have a completely healthy team. I think
Speaker 2: the women can make a deep run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to look at their bracket. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what it looks like outside of that
Speaker 3: Lexington Regional or at least Lexington first two games. You know,
Speaker 3: I got to think, you know, with how Kentucky plays,
Speaker 3: with how many you know, this tallest team that they've
Speaker 3: ever have, that they have a shot at it. But look,
Speaker 3: I mean they are so one dimensional with Georgia Amores.
Speaker 3: Somebody else has got to step up on that team,
Speaker 3: and I think you've seen during some of their worst
Speaker 3: losses it's been really the Georgia Amores show and no
Speaker 3: one else. So yeah, I know, look, it really helps
Speaker 3: that they're hosting those first two games. So I think
Speaker 3: if for this question, I'm definitely gonna take the women.
Speaker 3: But I'm not counting Kentucky out for getting pat getting
Speaker 3: to that second weekend, Shannon, I'm really not.
Speaker 2: I think it can happen for sure. I mean, can
Speaker 2: you beat Troy and can you beat Illinois?
Speaker 1: I think I think absolutely you can't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: The women's one seed is USC. I don't know a
Speaker 2: whole lot about USC.
Speaker 3: Or US C. Okay, well, I'm glad it's not Texas. No,
Speaker 3: are you sure it's not South Carolina? Oh yeah, South
Speaker 3: Carolus No.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, it's not no South Carolina's no,
Speaker 1: it's USC.
Speaker 3: Okay, because I've been confused by this.
Speaker 2: South Carolina's on the other side of the brocket for
Speaker 2: the team, so we'll good and hopefully Texas is Texas.
Speaker 2: Texas is on the other side, and then the other
Speaker 2: one's UCLA at the top of the brocket.
Speaker 1: This is I like this, So there you go.
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Speaker 3: You're the one that doesn't like it. Did you eat
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not eating a green donut.
Speaker 3: Why, well, it's the same thing. It's just green.
Speaker 1: Because I don't know if that's mold or if that's
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Speaker 3: They found black. They found black mold in my dorm,
Speaker 3: like two years after I graduated.
Speaker 1: Did you get a a compensation?
Speaker 3: I didn't get a check in the mail.
Speaker 1: You should have called TJ.
Speaker 3: What would he do?
Speaker 1: He'd make him pay?
Speaker 3: That's right, Well, what do you do?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: I just wanted you to say kind of question? Was
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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones and talk to Logan.
Speaker 8: What's up Logan, Hey, Billy A Shannon. You may have
Speaker 8: talked about this, My wife called me earlier in the show.
Speaker 8: But obviously Arkansas got in. We kind of saw what
Speaker 8: their bracket was some good storylines in. I was reading
Speaker 8: the NCUA or the ESPN's breakdown of the bracket, and
Speaker 8: one thing that I found interesting was that they noted
Speaker 8: that Boogie Flant has made a miraculous recovery and might
Speaker 8: try to play in the tournament. And I was wondering,
Speaker 8: what you guys thought about that? What you think about
Speaker 8: this injury, because I was always under the impression that
Speaker 8: they may have shut him down, not risked injury on
Speaker 8: what they thought was a lost season, and now he's
Speaker 8: coming back.
Speaker 4: What do you guys think about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was surprised to see that new, But I didn't,
Speaker 2: you know, I wasn't following Boogie Flann's injury all that closely.
Speaker 2: It was my understanding he was out for the season, Billy.
Speaker 2: But right, you know, if he's at a point to
Speaker 2: where they feel like they can put him out there
Speaker 2: and he can contribute and get some minutes for them,
Speaker 2: then good for Arkansas. But you know, I don't know
Speaker 2: if it was a miraculous recovery or if it's just
Speaker 2: Cali Perry, you know, where he maybe he could have
Speaker 2: played him during the SEC tournament, but we know what
Speaker 2: Cal thinks about the SEC tournament. To him, it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean anything, So why would he play risk a further
Speaker 2: injury to a guy who's coming back from injury.
Speaker 1: So, you know, it doesn't surprise me. Cal has always
Speaker 1: sort of been.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the words sneaky or just sort
Speaker 2: of you know, like you haven't seen him, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean I've seen him, and now you have to
Speaker 2: have those injury reports in the SEC. Right, But yeah,
Speaker 2: it doesn't It doesn't shock me that he's coming back.
Speaker 2: But it was my understanding that he was out for
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 3: Well, it was conveniently said before the selection committee made
Speaker 3: their final decision, so maybe some positioning by cal But
Speaker 3: I think the bigger news is the do THEO is
Speaker 3: still going to be out. I don't think he's available
Speaker 3: for their first game versus Kansas, So you better hope
Speaker 3: Boogie's ready to go and comes back, you know, not
Speaker 3: with any rust, because it's gonna be a tough game
Speaker 3: regardless of who's playing.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jake Hey, Jake.
Speaker 3: Hey, I want to apologize Shannon, then I missed miss
Speaker 3: don't go ahead.
Speaker 1: It's okay, go ahead.
Speaker 6: I am just wanted the just wanted to get your
Speaker 6: thoughts on Kentucky women winning the winning win a winning
Speaker 6: it all this year.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Jake. I don't know that I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say they're gonna win at all. I think they've
Speaker 2: got a great chance to make a deep run. As
Speaker 2: we just talked about, You've got South Carolina and Texas
Speaker 2: on the other side of the bracket, so that's good news.
Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about facing either one of
Speaker 2: those teams unless you made it to the championship game.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I think they can make a good run.
Speaker 2: I don't know how far of a run they're going
Speaker 2: to make I would say Sweet sixteen is definitely doable
Speaker 2: and after.
Speaker 1: That we'll just see what happens.
Speaker 3: Well, what what what is success for both of these teams? Shannon?
Speaker 3: Is it the second weekend for both the women and
Speaker 3: the men? I mean, because of the way that the
Speaker 3: bracket has fallen, I feel like it could be. I
Speaker 3: mean if in the outside looking in, Kentucky should get
Speaker 3: past Troy in possibly Illinois, right, and if you look
Speaker 3: at how what Kenny Brooks has achieved, how the caliber
Speaker 3: of player that George Amore is. I mean, if they
Speaker 3: don't get to the second second weekend, I mean, that
Speaker 3: would be a tragedy, would it not?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But again, in the NCAA tournament, there's so many things
Speaker 2: that can happen.
Speaker 3: You know, It's like it's sound like a beaten dog
Speaker 3: a little bit, Shannon, Like, I know, like these last
Speaker 3: couple of years have been tough, but we're Kentucky, man,
Speaker 3: we gotta have higher exectations than.
Speaker 2: That can excuse us. But you don't have a full roster.
Speaker 2: You're going in with your first, your second, your third guard.
Speaker 2: You know, two of them out, one of them barely
Speaker 2: probably able to even play. But he's going to try
Speaker 2: to give it a go. Yeah you should beat Troy.
Speaker 2: Yeah you should be Illinois. But is it a is
Speaker 2: the season a failure? No, it's not a failure. If
Speaker 2: they lose to Illinois in the second round. I say,
Speaker 2: let's just get the first win and take it from there.
Speaker 2: Let's let's just worry about beating Troy. Okay, I think
Speaker 2: you beat Troy. That's Mark Pope's first ever NCAA tournament win.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say I'm happy if they go on
Speaker 2: in the second round, but I'm gonna say overall, dealing
Speaker 2: with what he's dealt with, I'm gonna say it's his success.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's see how healthy Lamon Butler is, right, Like,
Speaker 3: I mean, the guy may come in with one arm
Speaker 3: in that game versus Troy, and then you really have
Speaker 3: to adjust your expectations.
Speaker 2: But some people may look at that and go, man,
Speaker 2: you know you've really changed your expectations for Kentucky. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean again, you have to look at the overall picture.
Speaker 2: This is not a completely healthy team. Now you can say, well,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of teams out there that aren't healthy,
Speaker 2: but I don't know that there's any team that has
Speaker 2: dealt with the extent of injuries like Kentucky has all
Speaker 2: at one position.
Speaker 3: I want that Kentucky Tennessee game. Shannon in Indian. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not come on, ring, let's go.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Now Houston and.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little afraid of the Houston, but I don't
Speaker 2: have I think Houston could be upset early.
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah? Maybe s I U Edwardsville. No, just
Speaker 3: go right off the bat.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying the first round, but I don't I
Speaker 2: don't know that though, I don't know how far Houston
Speaker 2: will make it.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see Anthony Hick. What's up.
Speaker 6: Morning, guys?
Speaker 7: Go with you going on here?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 7: Draft Kings trying to make a round robin bet with
Speaker 7: all fourteen SEC teams and I've confirmed this with two
Speaker 7: other people. You can only bet twelve. There's only showing
Speaker 7: twelve SEC games Draft Kings. I'm missing Auburn and all
Speaker 7: miss just one. Did you guys look into that? Maybe
Speaker 7: bringing up with Matt and the Leader show. But for
Speaker 7: some reason on Draft Kings it only shows twelve SEC games.
Speaker 7: I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that. Thanks for the calling, Anthony.
Speaker 2: And I'll be honest with you, I've never done the
Speaker 2: round robin thing on there, so I'm not completely well.
Speaker 3: It's because those teams don't have an opponent yet. There's
Speaker 3: a couple of playing games that need to be decided
Speaker 3: to include Auburn's play in game and uh and Auburn's
Speaker 3: opponent in their playing game and Ole miss I believe.
Speaker 2: Makes perfect sense. Got about a minute left. I'll give
Speaker 2: you thirty seconds, Caleb, go.
Speaker 5: Hey, buddy, love the song. Ko's been listening to it
Speaker 5: on Spotify all weekend.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 5: It's an espionage bar. You got to have a password
Speaker 5: to get in. If not, they'll make you do a
Speaker 5: little dance. And then I just wanted to see how
Speaker 5: it was being credentialed the first time in Nashville.
Speaker 1: Credential Being credentialed is overrated. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: Apparently, thanks to call Caleb, we appreciate espionage. That sounds
Speaker 2: like a fun place to go.
Speaker 3: Would you do a little jig to get into a
Speaker 3: bar or would you just say eh, I'll just go
Speaker 3: to a different one.
Speaker 2: Depends on what's inside the bar, Like if you're tell
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I might.
Speaker 2: I might do that, or I would just get the
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