1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes back film and MTV 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: star Tom Green April nineteenth and twenty. I didn't catch 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: international comedy sensation Randy felt face on his first Lexington 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: visit April twenty fifth through the twenty seven and from 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: the Lee and Haley Show. It's Lee Cruz for two 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: nights only me third and fourth for tickets to all 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: shows called a five nine, two seven, one joke or 8 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: visit Comedy off Broadway dot com off Byway. 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones. 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 4: Well, welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday. It is 12 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 4: April the seventeenth. I'm Matt Jones. I am in Louisville, Kentucky, 13 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 4: here at the studio with Shannon. I got Ryan and 14 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 4: Drew are in Lexington. You can give Sean the Clark's 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 4: Puppet Shop phone line. I can see the names now, Shannon. 16 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 4: So I'm gonna make sure today to get the people on. 17 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 4: Would you like to do a shot? Clock Channing, you 18 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 4: haven't got to do one in a while. 19 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, let's do it. Let's go for it, all right, 20 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 5: So let's do the shot. 21 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 4: Clock, thirty seconds to give your stuff eight five nine 22 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 4: two eight zero twenty two eighty seven. Text machine a 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 4: vision glass is seven seven two seven seven four five 24 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 4: two five four in the decision spots about a t J. 25 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 4: Smith loves if you call TJ, You'll make them pay. 26 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 4: I actually had one of my friends tell me Shannon, 27 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 4: they like you buzzing people on the shot clock more 28 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 4: than anything else on the show. 29 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 3: Because they know when it's coming. Well, they just like 30 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 3: to a sweet little old lady and I have to 31 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 3: go yes. 32 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 4: And I actually thought that was kind of mean to 33 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 4: the rest of us on the show. We put all 34 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 4: this content out and then the thing that my friend 35 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 4: likes the most is you just hitting a button that 36 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 4: goes erk. 37 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 5: That's what they like the most. 38 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 3: Well, we'll give it to them today. 39 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 4: But if you have I'd like to hear your thoughts 40 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 4: on Pope and the New Era and a thirty second 41 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 4: or last. Ryan and Drew are here, and Ryan, I 42 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 4: will tell you last night was probably the first time 43 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 4: in about two weeks plus that I haven't been glued 44 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 4: to the phone the entire day. Sort of we're coming 45 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 4: on the down end of everything. But then we got 46 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 4: Roster we got staff and I wanted to see if 47 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 4: you agreed with this. It feels like to me, UK 48 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 4: fans are more interested in recruiting today than they've been 49 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 4: in like ten years. 50 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 5: Would you agree with that? 51 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 6: Yeah? And I was gonna I want to ask you, 52 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 6: this is it because when the other coaching staff was here, 53 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 6: we just knew we were gonna get a top five recruit, 54 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 6: a top ten recruit every single year. 55 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 5: I think that was part of it. 56 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 4: I think part of it was you knew you were 57 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 4: gonna get a ton of good players. Yeah, you also 58 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 4: knew that, like we wouldn't know how good they are 59 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 4: until about December or January, and I think there was 60 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 4: some complacency, but now drew when the portal names are mentioned, 61 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 4: it can be a kid from you know, whatever school 62 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 4: in the country, and everybody's learning everything about them, and 63 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 4: it feels like it's a island of misfit toys of 64 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 4: all these people. 65 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 5: And I think it's been since. 66 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 4: Probably the early call years, I've seen people this interested 67 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 4: in individual players. 68 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 7: Yep. 69 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 8: I think it's in part like Ryan said that with 70 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 8: cal you just knew you'd end up with something. The 71 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 8: floor was always high enough. You didn't have to worry 72 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 8: and pay close attention if you didn't want to. But 73 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 8: now it's also just the excitement of this uncertainty with Pope. 74 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 8: I mean, we have no clue what direction he'll go 75 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 8: with with things, how successful he'll be getting players. Even 76 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 8: just his comments, like I think his coaches shows. You'll 77 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 8: listen to those more just because it's something new and 78 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 8: refreshing and nothing against cal But everything kind of got 79 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 8: to be repetitive. Now we just don't know what's next, 80 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 8: so we're gonna hang on to every move he makes. 81 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about what I know and then what 82 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 4: I think we'll find out in the next couple of days. 83 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 4: All right, So first of all, you have the staff, 84 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 4: all right. Right now as we speak, Mark Pope is 85 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 4: sitting in a room, and this is what's happening. You've 86 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 4: got Mark Hill, who's the assistant aduh to Mitch Barnhardt. 87 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 5: He is kind of in charge with Mark Pope of. 88 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 4: Trying to hire not just assistant coaches but support staff. 89 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 4: So the two of them are sitting there in a room. 90 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 4: And then Rock Oliver who Ryan. How has Rock Oliver 91 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 4: been here for every coach? I mean he was here 92 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 4: with Patina. Yes he was, and he was here with Tubby, 93 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 4: and he was here with cal and I think now 94 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 4: he's gonna be here with Pope. Is there anyone more 95 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 4: consistent in UK athletics than Rock Oliver. 96 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 6: No, he's been thirty years, he's been on that sideline 97 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 6: and he looks exactly the same. 98 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 5: He looks exactly speaking about the same. 99 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 4: That picture I posted this morning of Jack Gibbons at 100 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 4: his high school commitment. 101 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 5: Did you see that picture looks exactly the same. 102 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 4: First of all, he looked forty when he was eighteen, 103 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 4: and he looks forty today at sixty some years old. Hey, yeah, Drew, 104 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 4: I've never seen a human being not age one instant 105 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 4: in forty plus years. 106 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 7: You know, I'm a big alien gud. 107 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 8: I think when we start founding him, Jack might be 108 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 8: one of the first people we look at that picture. 109 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 4: Look at that picture. He I mean, first of all, 110 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 4: he looked like, as somebody put on my Twitter, he 111 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 4: looked like he was forty with a mortgage in that picture. 112 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 3: So he did all of his aging from zero to eight. 113 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 5: I think he did. 114 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 4: I think in high school he aged and then he 115 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 4: was like his body goes that's it. 116 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 5: No, more. And then what about that tie is awesome? 117 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 4: Can you imagine wearing that tie a thick short tie? No, 118 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 4: it is like it's the tie is only to his nipples. 119 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 2: It's a nipple tiet. 120 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 5: I think he's wearing the club and shirt with the 121 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:36,359 Speaker 5: nipple tie. 122 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 4: And I think he walked down the streets of Lexington 123 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 4: just owning this place, didn't he. 124 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 2: Sure that's not a napkin hanging flu I mean it's 125 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 2: you know, you put like a little napkin so you 126 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 2: don't spill it all over. 127 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 4: I'm some one of the great pictures I've ever seen 128 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 4: of Jack Gibbons at his nipple tie. But anyway, so 129 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 4: sitting in a room, this is what I'm told is happening. 130 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 4: Sitting in a room at UK, you have Mark Pope, 131 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 4: Mark Hill and Rock Oliver and the three of them 132 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 4: are basically doing everything right now. And if you think 133 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 4: about it, Ryan, there's a million things to do. I mean, 134 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 4: you have to find a staff, you have to find players. 135 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 4: You also have to like move right like, there's all 136 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 4: this stuff going and so he needs help. So they 137 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 4: are trying to get to the point where they will 138 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 4: have I think their goal is to have most if 139 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 4: not all the staff by the end of the week, 140 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 4: even if it's not officially announced done. Now they get 141 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 4: five assistant coaches nowadays, which is which is a difference. 142 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 4: One of them is going to be this dude from 143 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 4: b YU what's his name, Drew Krueger, Chad. 144 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 6: Cougar, the analytics guy you're talking about. 145 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:45,239 Speaker 5: No, the assistant coach. 146 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 4: There's an assistant coach whose name is something, And then 147 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 4: there's an analytics guy, and I don't know what his job. 148 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 5: Title will be. 149 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 4: We will probably find out today about what I think 150 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 4: is a pretty big name chasing. If they don't get him, 151 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 4: I will tell you they went for him and what 152 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 4: it was. 153 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 5: If they do get him, we'll obviously know. 154 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 4: And then I don't know exactly what they're gonna do 155 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 4: with the other guys there is. I'm told there's a 156 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 4: coach that if they got him, there'd be at least one, 157 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 4: maybe two players that would come with him. But I 158 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 4: do think Ryan soon will have a better notion of 159 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 4: at least what the staff. 160 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 5: Is going to be. 161 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 4: And I think Mark is almost exclusively looking for guys 162 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 4: who can go get players because I think he feels 163 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 4: like with him and the dude from BYU. 164 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,119 Speaker 5: He's got guys who can draw up a skeep. 165 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like the staff's step one. You got 166 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 6: to get that staff in place to then go out 167 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 6: and fill out your roster. So I agree with you. 168 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 6: I think we'll know a lot about the staff by 169 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 6: the end of the week. Maybe after the weekend, here's 170 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 6: some more players that join the roster. But I think 171 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 6: everybody is as excited about developing this staff as they 172 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 6: are about the rosters. See everybody's talk about, well, who's 173 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 6: gonna hire, who's gonna be on the staff? 174 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 4: But I would say this true, everybody does need to 175 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 4: calm down, all right. I like the freak out from 176 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 4: our fans, but we're freaking out a little much. 177 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 5: Okay. It has now been what sixty. 178 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 4: Hours since the press conference, and people act like the 179 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 4: season Drew is starting tomorrow. Some of the best players 180 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 4: to get in the portal got in yesterday. Jeff Goodman 181 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 4: says there are high, high end players still to come 182 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 4: that are just waiting on their last nil checks from 183 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 4: their other school to clear, and then they're coming. There's 184 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 4: still a lot of time. I'll use the example John 185 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 4: cal Perry, just because his press conference was five days 186 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 4: before ours. You know what they've yet to announce for him, 187 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 4: Drew a staff Like, everybody's reporting that all the guys 188 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 4: from here are coming, but I've been told one of 189 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 4: them might not come, so they haven't announced that. And 190 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 4: you know how many players he's gotten so far? One 191 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 4: big z that's it. That's the only player he's gotten 192 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 4: so far. So we have as many players as he does. 193 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 4: I just say that to say I do think our 194 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 4: fan base needs to take a collective deep breath. I 195 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 4: don't need once every ten minutes someone to write me 196 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 4: on the text machine and say, are you worried we 197 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 4: don't have players yet? 198 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 5: No, I'm not. 199 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 4: I really won't be worried unless we get to the 200 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 4: end of next weekend before and not have players. Then Drew, 201 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 4: I might go, Okay, what's going on, But I still 202 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 4: think we are completely on schedule. 203 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 8: Yeah, I'd say the concern is also that passion we 204 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 8: saw on Sunday. If we're gonna be that crazy to 205 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 8: show up like we did it rup, a lot of 206 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,079 Speaker 8: those people are gonna want instant results too, because we're 207 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 8: showing how passionate we are behind this era. But we 208 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 8: do have to remember Pope. Probably if you dropped him 209 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 8: off in downtown Lexton couldn't find his office. 210 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 7: Right now. I mean, he's still. 211 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 8: Learning everything about UK over there, finding his staff, meeting people, 212 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 8: learning his way around. He's having those conversations, I'm sure, 213 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 8: and those will be announced in due time, but it 214 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 8: is still very early in the Mark Pope era. 215 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 4: Now, there were a handful of players that I think 216 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 4: he contacted almost immediately, but then yesterday and this it 217 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 4: really started coming in. 218 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 5: Last night. 219 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 4: They started making contact with a bunch of guys for 220 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 4: the first time. And the list now I think is 221 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 4: like eleven people. It's on KSR plus. It includes, you know, 222 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 4: a kid from Belmont, a kid from Utah State, a 223 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 4: kid from Dayton, a kid from Oklahoma, a kid from 224 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 4: Oklahoma State. But I think the one that got everybody 225 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 4: intrigued Ryan was Jeremy. 226 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 5: Roach from Duke yep. 227 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 4: And the reason is it's not that he's necessarily significantly 228 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 4: better than any of the others. We just haven't seen 229 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 4: the others play. I think, of all the kids I've seen, 230 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 4: maybe that kid from Utah State might be the best 231 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 4: of them that we said. But Jeremy Roach is a 232 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 4: guy you might know his name, you know, Duke, and 233 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 4: I think he has intentionally picked his schools, Shannon to 234 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 4: create drama. 235 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 3: It seems it. 236 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 5: I think the dude is like. 237 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 4: A TV produce sir, and just decided he want drum 238 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 4: and wanted drama. So he has his first three final 239 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 4: schools Kentucky, Arkansas. 240 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 5: And Saint John's. 241 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 3: I love it. 242 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 4: I wish you've thrown in Tarlatan State just for the 243 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 4: heck of it. Kentucky, Arkansas and Saint John's. Now, when 244 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 4: he got in the portal, so this started leaking last week. 245 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 4: He was gonna get in the portal, and the assumption 246 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 4: was he was going to go to Saint John's. 247 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:27,959 Speaker 5: Why I don't know. 248 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 4: Then before he announced yesterday, the assumption was Arkansas. I 249 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 4: guess that Cow. People thought he's jumping in the portal 250 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 4: for Cow. And now there are people who think Kentucky's 251 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 4: got as good a shot as those other two. 252 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 5: So Ryan, I'm not saying it matters, but you know. 253 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 4: Kentucky versus Arkansas versus Saint John's for a kid is 254 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 4: a pretty amazing thing. 255 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 6: It got all our attention immediately when he saw those 256 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 6: three schools who he's trying to nail it down to 257 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 6: So that's like, you know, the first big battle for 258 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 6: coach Pope, you know, going against Patino and cali Peri. 259 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 6: For this guy, it doesn't matter who he is, but 260 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 6: then we got to beat those other two guys. 261 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 4: Will First of all, I don't know that we have 262 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 4: to beat anybody for him, because I do think Drew, 263 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 4: we will lose, maybe not against Patino, we will lose 264 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 4: a lot like Col's gonna win recruiting battles. He's always 265 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 4: won recruiting battles. The question for me, Drew is does 266 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 4: he win games? 267 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 7: Yeah? 268 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 8: I completely agree, and we might lose some head to 269 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 8: heads with Cal. Col's got more relationships than Mark Pope 270 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 8: could ever build in a couple of months here in 271 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 8: Kentucky on the recruiting trail. Uh with Roach, I mean, 272 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,719 Speaker 8: that's a guy that's played a lot of basketball. When 273 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 8: you when fans are worried about names out there and 274 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 8: who UK could get. I don't know how close he 275 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 8: is to UK, but that's a dude average fourteen points 276 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 8: a game for Duke. I think fans would be excited 277 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 8: about him in another name. You didn't mention that. I'm 278 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 8: pumped about that They called his baby pages Douyakovic out 279 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 8: there Andres Dakovich. Uh, he was a freshman at Stanford. 280 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 8: That's a guy like see the Yeah, he. 281 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 5: Was a McDonald's All American and then just didn't have 282 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 5: a good year. It's stay up for whatever reason. I 283 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 5: don't know. I didn't watch their games. 284 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 7: But you're right, I'd love to stay in contact with him. 285 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what it was that made him 286 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 5: not connect there, but he was a McDonald's All American. But 287 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 5: I would say, Shandon, if you could beat Arkansas and 288 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 5: Saint John's for a kid to start it. 289 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be a good start. 290 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 5: That would be kind of exciting. 291 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 6: One. 292 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 2: Here's my take on it. He already knows where he's going. 293 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 2: He's just trolling the other two schools. The other two. 294 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, come on, you think that's a coincidence that 295 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 2: those three, of all the schools, it's those. 296 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 4: There's a line of thought that says that that is 297 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 4: giving like cal devious thoughts saying he's going to Arkansas, 298 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 4: but he wanted to throw the other two in so 299 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 4: it looks like he beat him for it, right, you 300 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 4: think that's plausible. 301 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,559 Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I'm saying I think that he already 302 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,719 Speaker 2: has his mind made it and it's strolling. Well, I 303 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 2: don't know that it's Arkansas, but whoever it may be, 304 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 2: he's trolling the other two. So maybe it is Arkans, 305 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 2: maybe it's Kentucky. 306 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 4: But I don't think Jeremy Roach would care to What 307 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 4: does he care about Saint John's. If there's trolling going on, 308 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 4: I would think Shannon. It's at the top, right, it's 309 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 4: with whoever the coach is, because they're the one that 310 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 4: would care. 311 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 3: So you think the coach is telling them. 312 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 2: Also tell everybody that you're considering Jeremy Roach. 313 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 5: Drew cares to troll, say Rick Patino or Mark. 314 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 2: Pope the fan bases. Though maybe well I don't know, 315 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 2: maybe I'm reaching it. I don't know, But what you 316 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 2: said it's not too far off from what I was saying. 317 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 8: It's an old move and recruit Col's even done it. 318 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 5: Caw does it all the time. 319 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 7: That's a move. 320 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 8: I'm not saying that's what Roach is doing, but that's 321 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 8: an old tactic in recruiting. It says, hey, if you 322 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 8: include these teams and you pick our hat over them, 323 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 8: it gives us a boost moving forward. 324 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 7: For other recruits. 325 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 8: It kind of gives us that win over these teams 326 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 8: if you'll just pretend including so. 327 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 4: I you know, sometimes you learn things over the years, 328 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 4: and I know Col's mojo. Cal correctly say that schools 329 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 4: would add us at the last minute, so it could 330 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 4: look like the school. 331 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 5: Got a victory over over UK. But Cal does the 332 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 5: same thing. 333 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 4: All right, Cal does the same thing Cal likes before 334 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 4: he gets a commitment a few days before, to have 335 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 4: it leak out that he's considering whatever school he likes. 336 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 4: That that's happened. It used to happen a lot. It 337 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 4: didn't happen as much recently. But I don't know what 338 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 4: he's gonna do. I hope he comes to Kentucky. We 339 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 4: could use it. But I do I'm I do think 340 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 4: Shannon's devious mind is in the ballpark of where this is. 341 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 5: I just don't know what school, uh it favors. 342 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 4: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, 343 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 4: We're gonna do a thirty second shot clock. If you 344 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 4: have questions, you can ask him, just your thoughts on 345 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 4: what's going on. We'll take a break as CHAOSI welcome 346 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 4: back Tucky smorts radio. All right, So I have a 347 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 4: comment I want to read here, and this is I 348 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 4: think I just want to answer this once because I've 349 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 4: gotten this one hundred times, and one person writes, I'm 350 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 4: I'm excited about Pope. 351 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 5: I think he's going to do a great job. 352 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 4: But are you worried we're teetering a little too close 353 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 4: to like Billy Gillespie years with some of these teams. 354 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 4: These players are not of the quality that we've had 355 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 4: in the past, and that worries me. All Right, that's 356 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 4: a two part question. First of all, Billy Gillespie years. No, 357 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 4: Billy Gillespie was getting these dudes out of high school. 358 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 4: When they're freshmen in high school or eighth grade, you 359 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 4: had no notion of if they could play at college 360 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 4: at all. And guess what, they couldn't. These dudes that 361 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 4: we're talking about have all played in college and succeeded 362 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 4: at various levels, either really succeeded or still been pretty good. 363 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 4: So it's nothing like Billy Gillespie. But second, and this 364 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 4: is the thing we all have to do, and I'm 365 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 4: as guilty of this as anybody. We have to clear 366 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 4: our brains of the Caliperi recruiting method. Caliperi's philosophy, which 367 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 4: worked for many of his years, was get the best 368 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 4: players the highest rankings, and there's glitz and glamour in that, right, 369 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 4: So you bring in this amazing shiny object every year, 370 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,959 Speaker 4: and for some of the years it really worked. But 371 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 4: then COVID happened, College basketball changed, NIL changed, the transfer 372 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 4: portal changed, and what happened Ryan When we did that 373 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:22,719 Speaker 4: strategy the last five years didn't work as well. We sucked, 374 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 4: or at least did poorly compared to the past. Yep, 375 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 4: So that strategy, at least recently has not worked. We're 376 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 4: gonna do the opposite. The objects we get now are 377 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 4: not gonna be as shiny and bright. You're not gonna 378 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 4: see them dunking on people's faces in the McDonald's game. 379 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 4: These objects are not gonna be shiny and bright, but 380 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 4: you know what, they might be better long term. 381 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 5: We'll see. We won't know till the season. 382 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 4: But I hope people I see people say something like 383 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 4: like they talk about the kid from Belmont. I saw 384 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 4: somebody and said, oh, we're taking dudes from Belmont. Well, 385 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 4: you know what, that dude from Belmont from Northern Colorado 386 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 4: last year was the SEC Player of the Year. So 387 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 4: I just think, Drew, we have to change our mindset 388 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 4: because the shiny objects of the col era are not 389 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 4: coming here anymore, at least not as many. And by 390 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 4: the way, those shiny objects all broke and we had 391 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 4: to take them back to the factory when it was over. 392 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 7: Unfortunate. And I want to remind people. 393 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 8: I know, I've seen people react to like the Khalifa 394 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 8: guy potentially transferring. You're like, oh, we're getting the BYU players. 395 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 8: Last year, BYU beat Kansas, Baylor, Texas, all these players 396 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 8: that you say you never heard of. They won a 397 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 8: lot of big games and finished ahead of Kentucky and 398 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 8: the Ken Palm rankings. They're like a top fifteen offense. 399 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 8: So when you're seeing these guys like, well, I've never 400 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 8: heard of him. They were a very good basketball team 401 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 8: last year at BYU. So now you move park Mark 402 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 8: Pope over or park Mope, either one, and he takes 403 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:58,719 Speaker 8: the guys he wants and then puts others around him. 404 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 8: With Kentucky's facilities resources, who knows what he can do. 405 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 8: But I don't think we should react like he's just 406 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 8: bring in some bums. I mean, these guys want a 407 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 8: lot of college basketball games against good teams. 408 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 4: When Arkansas comes into RUP next year, chances are very 409 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 4: high their objects are gonna be shinier than ours. But 410 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 4: the question is who's going to win the game. Because 411 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 4: we out shiny object every team in the country with 412 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 4: Cal except maybe Duke, and we lost to oak Oh 413 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 4: you think Oakland's objects sh and more shinier than ours. 414 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're pretty dull to me till that game. 415 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 5: Until that game. 416 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 4: So I do think like we just got to reorientate 417 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 4: ourselves of well, when are we gonna get the big names? 418 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 4: If you want the big names, that's probably not this anymore. 419 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 4: We'll get some of them, but we ain't gonna get 420 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 4: six of them like we used to. And I just 421 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 4: think we need to change. Go look at the way 422 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 4: Villanova recruited over the years, or KHN or even Kansas, 423 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 4: although Kansas would still compete for the top dudes, Carolina, 424 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 4: I think that's where you're gonna see our recruiting less 425 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 4: what Kentucky and Duke did in the last few years. 426 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 4: All right, thirty seconds, Zach, go for it. 427 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 9: Hey, Matt, you know, I'm excited about where we're going 428 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 9: with Pope, but I always dreaded the day that Cal left, 429 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 9: but part of me was excited because I thought it 430 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 9: might be a good opportunity for you to share maybe 431 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 9: behind the scenes story that you hadn't been able to 432 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 9: share until this point. 433 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 5: We will one day. 434 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 4: I'm going to take, like I want to get through 435 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 4: Pope getting a roster, and then I think we're gonna 436 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 4: I've decided we're gonna have a day where Drew and 437 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 4: Ryan and I just kind of talk about how it 438 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 4: all went down. We'll make it almost like a podcast 439 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 4: day where we just kind of go through it all. 440 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,959 Speaker 4: I want to give Pope his shine before we're talking 441 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 4: about Cal and extensive, but I do think we ought 442 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 4: to do a day like that. I think we need 443 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 4: to kind of discuss. You know, a lot of times 444 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 4: people didn't understand what was really happening and had one reaction, 445 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 4: and had they known, they would have had a different one. 446 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 4: And some of that we can talk about now. Some 447 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 4: of the stuff with Cal, especially the early years when 448 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 4: I talked to him extensively, I did that in privacy 449 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 4: and I owe it to him to never like betray that, 450 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 4: and I won't. 451 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 5: But there will be stuff, especially. 452 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 4: Of the last three or four years that I think 453 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 4: we should discuss to see how it all screwed up. 454 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 4: But I want to give Pope his chance to build 455 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 4: things before we do that. 456 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 5: Seth, go ahead, seth. 457 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 10: Ay Mat, how are you, buddy? 458 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 5: What's up? 459 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 9: Hey? 460 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 10: So part of more fan base right now is acting 461 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 10: like that episode off the Office where the lot starts 462 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 10: the fire real and he waking out where nothing's really happening. 463 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 10: Everybody just seems to cool out. Two things really quick. 464 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 10: I know when we got thirty seconds, can he Payne? 465 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 10: What do you think the possibility of him coming on 466 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 10: with Mark Pope? He'll recruit and then what are the 467 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 10: possibilities of him get Pope getting Jeff Shepherd? 468 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 4: No one, Jeff Shepard ask me tomorrow on the other one. Right, Okay, 469 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 4: I thought you might have had a. 470 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 5: Comment, true, go ahead, true. 471 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 11: I call her a long time listener. Hey, I was 472 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 11: at the press conference. To make a long story short, 473 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 11: you said older guys were head tears and eyes, and 474 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,719 Speaker 11: I was probably one of them. Thought when they were 475 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 11: showing all the championships, were thinking about your grandfather sitting 476 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 11: in front of the silver Tolle radio when he was 477 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 11: five years old. He was thinking about your brother who 478 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 11: passed away, watched the games and if cal his own 479 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 11: statistics says, if he could. 480 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 4: First, Shannon, you wanted to do that. I agree with you, 481 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 4: though true. Before Shannon did it, That's what it was. 482 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 4: It was the connection to what was always so special 483 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 4: about this to it, and I think that's partially why 484 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 4: everybody loved it so much. We'll take a break, be 485 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 4: right back, KOSR. 486 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 5: TJ. Smith personal injury attorney called TJ. 487 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 7: He'll make them pay. 488 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 2: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. 489 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 3: Here's Matt Joes. 490 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 4: Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. Text machine seven seven two 491 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 4: seven seven four five two five four. By the way, 492 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,919 Speaker 4: it's Wings Day, ks Bar all day and night Dollar Wings. 493 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 4: I think there's trivia tonight, Taylor Swift, Triva tomorrow. It's 494 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 4: almost full, Shannon, only a handful of seats left. 495 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 3: I knew the Swifty show up. 496 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 4: The new album's coming out. They're ready to go. One 497 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 4: person rights, Matt. I like how you. I agree with 498 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 4: you all that Jack Gibbons nipple tie looks odd, but 499 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 4: I want the four of you to be honest. What's 500 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 4: the oddest thing you used to wear that you thought 501 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 4: looked good. All right, I'll answer first, because I know mine. 502 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 4: When I was in college, especially Shannon and I wore turtlenecks. Yeah, 503 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 4: and I thought I looked smooth, like had a little 504 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 4: turtleneck covered. Now, part of it was because when I 505 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 4: was a freshman, I had actne on my neck and 506 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 4: saw under cover it up. Yeah, but turtlenecks are a 507 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 4: horrible look, and I would go turtleneck sometimes, so that 508 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 4: would be my bad pictures. 509 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 5: What about you? 510 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 2: You're asking a guy who wears span Dex every week, 511 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 2: what's the strangest thing he's ever. 512 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 7: Worn with it? 513 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 4: Back in the day, was there something you wore that 514 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 4: you thought was cool and now in hindsight, like. 515 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 3: The parachute pants, Like back in the. 516 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaker 2: Mean, I had a pair of them that I would 517 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 2: wear on a bi weekly basis, like hammer pants. 518 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, so I thought that, Oh, I'd love to see that. 519 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 3: I don't know if I have any pictures. If I 520 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 3: find one, you. 521 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 5: Got to find a picture of you in the parachute pants. 522 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 5: What about you? 523 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 8: Drew trying to think, I'm sure there's something terrible. Immediately, 524 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 8: my my bowl haircut came to mind. That's not clothing. 525 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 8: But I don't know why I've seen. 526 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 7: You with the haircut. 527 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,959 Speaker 5: Yeah, well I was a child, but well I had 528 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 5: it when I was. 529 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 8: But I'm sure there. I wore velcrow Walmart shoes for 530 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 8: a while in college. I don't regret that though, but 531 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 8: that was definitely a fashion faufall. 532 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 7: Nice all right, you may be shocked. 533 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 6: Uh, you know, I grew up in the seventies and eighties, 534 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 6: probably the two worst fashion eras in the history of man. 535 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 6: In the seventies, I had butterfly collars, bell bottom pants, 536 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,880 Speaker 6: disco silk shirts with the massive amount of Now. 537 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 5: Weren't you only like you were only like thirteen? 538 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 6: At least I still had them. Oh yes, oh yeah, 539 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 6: I could go to middle school dances and you wear 540 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 6: the I had a nipple tie, or was absolutely. 541 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,159 Speaker 3: Oh you did have a nip that was a thing 542 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 3: back then, A short fat tie. 543 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 6: Oh yes, oh yeah, I had one. You brought my motherfulter. 544 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 6: I got one dressed up for Easter in a nipple 545 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 6: tie and a silky disco butterfly collar shirt. 546 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 5: Yeah. 547 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 4: Hey, turn your mic down just a little bit, right, 548 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 4: and you're coming. Twenty two eighty seven. Another person writes 549 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 4: Matt I keep seeing this online and I know you 550 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 4: want to wait on the cow stuff, but I do 551 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 4: wonder about this. Do you think politics had something to 552 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 4: do with col leaving? This is the dumbest thing that's 553 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 4: gone that's been out there, is this idea that somehow, 554 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 4: you know, there's a story that's out there online you 555 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 4: can you can find it and it's not true, and 556 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,439 Speaker 4: it has gotten passed around his fact, which is unfortunate 557 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 4: about you know, cal Perry and and and the Crafts 558 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 4: and it's just it's it's it's not a true story, 559 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 4: but it became fact. I just want to say this 560 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 4: for a second, just about the Crafts as UK boosters. 561 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 4: All right, So politically, you know, I'm not sure there 562 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,919 Speaker 4: are very many people I would disagree with more than 563 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 4: the Crafts. So and you know that if you've listened 564 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 4: to this show. But when it comes to giving to 565 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 4: this university, specifically the athletics department, if it wasn't for them, 566 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 4: I don't really know what UK would do. I mean that, like, 567 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 4: I don't think we I don't know what we would do. 568 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 4: And the buildings that are all over that campus, like 569 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 4: they have either played a big part in building or 570 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 4: built the whole thing. So I think it's convenient for 571 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 4: some people who were sad to see how go to 572 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 4: sort of blame them or politics or me or whatever. 573 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 4: But it's not It is not fair to them. And 574 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 4: I'll say this. The good things that are gonna happen 575 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 4: and the things that will give Mark Pope the best 576 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 4: chance to succeed, they don't happen without them. So I 577 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 4: just think I do want to take up for them 578 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 4: in that regard. If we were to sit here and 579 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 4: to make politics, I would have many criticisms, but just 580 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 4: as human beings, those are both really good people. And 581 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 4: I just hate how this narrative just went out there 582 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 4: and people are accepting it as fact because I don't 583 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 4: think it's fair. 584 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,120 Speaker 5: Let's go to Chris. 585 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 12: Go ahead, Chris, all right, guys, two stories or First 586 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 12: of all, when Rock Harber was first here in the nineties, 587 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 12: I was a fat, little middle schooler running for a 588 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 12: city by UK campus and missed it. He picked me 589 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 12: up and took me home. 590 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 5: Well that's nice. 591 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 12: Yeah. 592 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 5: Second of all, we are Kentucky first. 593 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 12: We're not players. First, we're not fans first, we are 594 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 12: Kentucky first. Go cats. 595 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 5: I agree, and I said on Twitter. Ryan, It's so 596 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 5: nice that whether you were pro or ready for Cow 597 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 5: to go, it's so nice to see this fan base 598 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 5: unified for the first time I think probably since COVID. 599 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 6: And like we said this week, we had become a 600 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 6: fan base divided, especially after the season ended against Oakland. 601 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 6: We were extremely divided. And this has kind of brought 602 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 6: us all back together. We're all big, one, happy family again. 603 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 4: It seems like I, you know, Drew had gotten to 604 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 4: the I mean, you and I talked a lot about 605 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 4: this in Pittsburgh after we lost. I just didn't know 606 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 4: how this fan base could get through another year. I 607 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 4: didn't without like just going at each other. And this 608 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 4: is like the old days, Like this is like it 609 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 4: was in the early col years where everybody was on 610 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 4: the same page and like Michael Wilbon says something and 611 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 4: you go after him like that's what this is now, 612 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 4: you know absolutely. 613 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 8: That's why I was ready for a reset, because if 614 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 8: Cal had another year in him, if he had lost 615 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 8: in the second round, Lexington would burn. But if Mark 616 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 8: Pope or if it had been a different coach than 617 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 8: Mark Pope starting something new, if they lose in the 618 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 8: second round, you're growing and building. I just didn't think 619 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 8: we could go another year and it not work out 620 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 8: with Cow because I thought it had already gotten too 621 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 8: bad as it was with the Oakland game, with the 622 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 8: fan base being separated and people just not everyone, but 623 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 8: a lot of people are losing faith in his operation here. 624 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 8: So that's why I wanted to change. And I think 625 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 8: we're seeing that excitement now, even though none of us 626 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 8: know what's next. 627 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 5: Shannon, somebody wrote me and said they used to wear 628 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 5: pants to school that halfway through the day when it 629 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 5: got hot, you could take them off they were velcrowed 630 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 5: and turn into shorts. 631 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 3: Oh wow, I remember the cow you could unzip. I 632 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 3: think I had a pair of those where you could 633 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 3: zip them and turn them into shorts. 634 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 4: That's like, can you imagine just velcrowing off your pants 635 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 4: into shorts while you were school? Although if you were 636 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 4: like an elementary school, I would bet people thought that 637 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 4: was cool. 638 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 12: You know. 639 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, It's like, look, he can take half his pants 640 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 5: off but keep the rest of them on. 641 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 3: It's convenient. 642 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 5: Yes, I seriously, how does Jack Gibbons look exactly the 643 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 5: same like he. 644 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 6: Has SiGe the year from that picture you posted today? 645 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 5: But he did look forty when he was eighteen. Share 646 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 5: that's true he did? Yeh. All right, let's go to 647 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 5: casey thirty seconds go. 648 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 13: Hey, good morning, fellas. I just wanted to give everybody 649 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 13: some flowers. Your guys coverage of all this new Mark 650 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 13: Pope stuff has been great, and I just wanted to 651 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 13: give cash Flow some love. And I also wanted to say, 652 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 13: what the heck is up with my ram metcalf saying 653 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 13: Arkansas is going to make it to a final four 654 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 13: before us? Great job getting Sailers in on national radio. 655 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 5: Gokay, yeah, myrone is ridiculous. Arkansass you really say that? 656 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 14: He did? 657 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 5: I think you just want to argue with me on this. 658 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 5: I see, but Arkansas's not making. 659 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 6: A final four. 660 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 5: I mean, if Kyl couldn't win here, what makes him good? Okay? 661 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 4: So let's make the case again. I like to say, 662 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 4: what's the best case? Okay, So what's the best case 663 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 4: for Arkansas making a Final four before Kentucky. 664 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 5: Well, it's not going to. 665 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 4: Be that cal Perry makes final for US because he 666 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 4: hasn't made one in ten years. So the best case, 667 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 4: drew to me, is this. You could say cal knew 668 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 4: he needed to make changes, but he was too stubborn 669 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 4: to do it here because he didn't want people to 670 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 4: think that he was like giving in. So he gets 671 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 4: a fresh start at Arkansas and he can act like 672 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 4: any changes he makes are changes he wanted to make 673 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 4: on his own, and then he goes and does them. 674 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 4: The problem with that, to me, though, is he's witting 675 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 4: and is at least trying to hire the same guys, 676 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 4: although I'm not sure he's going to get them all. 677 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 4: But what makes you think he's going to be modern 678 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 4: Drew if he's not bringing in anyone except the same 679 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 4: ideas that were there from the beginning. 680 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 7: Yeah, and one, I don't care what cal does. I 681 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 7: know a lot of people do. 682 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 8: Arkansas got a completely different cal than what UK would 683 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 8: have had next year, So if he has a great year, 684 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 8: we cannot say that would have happened in election. 685 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 7: And that's just the way I'm looking at it. 686 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 5: I agree with that. 687 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,479 Speaker 8: Also, he might not get that recruiting class. We might 688 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 8: see Caw end up with a bunch of old porter 689 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 8: players portal players because he has to win. Just a 690 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 8: few weeks ago, he looked into the camera and said 691 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 8: he's not doing that election and sticking with freshmen. So 692 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 8: it's like you're saying his philosophy might actually change at 693 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 8: Arkansas again, all. 694 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 5: Six of these freshmen. 695 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 4: That's another thing people are I think all of those 696 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 4: guys Ryan are looking at other schools. 697 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 7: Now. 698 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 5: They might still end up in Arkansas. 699 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 4: But I don't think the Paradell was not getting Travis 700 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 4: Perry obviously, but the parade of five freshmen that he was, 701 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 4: I don't know that he'll. 702 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 5: Get all of them. 703 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 6: You know, Now he can sell what he did here 704 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 6: at Kentucky kind of like what Mark stoops when he 705 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 6: when he got here, He's like, Okay, we were selling 706 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 6: what we did at Florida State, but now we have they. 707 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 6: He has to go win or this impression he's gonna 708 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 6: get all these top guys every single year, I think 709 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 6: will diminish. 710 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 5: I think he has put people in the NBA. That's 711 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 5: what we'll do. Here's my all. Right, let me ask 712 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 5: you this, Shannon. Does he go to the raft and 713 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 5: sit with Reid and Rob Oh. 714 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 3: Wow, I'm gonna say that he will. 715 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that he will because he was still 716 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 2: their coach. Even though he's not Kentucky's coach anymore, he 717 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 2: was still their guy. 718 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 3: I feel like he should do that. Actually, I think 719 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 3: he will. 720 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 5: What do you think, Drew? I have my guess what 721 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 5: do you think? 722 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 8: I think he will, especially if anyone invites him. I mean, 723 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 8: if those players want to ask, he should be there. 724 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 5: That's the question. He'll go. He's a good he's a 725 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 5: good guy. He'll go if invited. 726 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 7: Now, I don't think he'll. 727 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 5: He'll be invited. 728 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 7: I think Rob. 729 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 8: Rob more likely than Reid obviously, but I don't I 730 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 8: have no idea in the relationship. 731 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 4: I think he actually has. Well, I'm not gonna speculate. 732 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 4: I actually think Reid would be maybe more likely in 733 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 4: my man than Rot. 734 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 5: But we'll see to I don't know, though. It's a 735 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,080 Speaker 5: good question question. 736 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 4: I mean, if he's invited, he should go, and he 737 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 4: will go, yes, but I don't know what will happen 738 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 4: with that. You know, the energy around Big Blue Nation 739 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 4: has been absolutely amazing. Mitch came on our show and 740 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,880 Speaker 4: he told you about Club Blue. Well, so this was 741 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 4: a fan started thing. You may have seen that fans 742 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 4: started giving forty one dollars to Club Blue for Pope 743 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 4: and they called it the forty you know, forty one 744 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 4: for Pope. So Club Blue is going to do the 745 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 4: Pope package, Ryan, Are you ready for this? Forty one 746 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 4: dollars a month. All one hundred percent goes to men's basketball. 747 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 4: Nil subscribers will receive an exclusive sign print from Mark 748 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,720 Speaker 4: Pope welcome, welcoming them to Club Blue. So it's forty 749 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 4: one dollars a month. Forty one dollars for number forty 750 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:47,800 Speaker 4: one Club bluenil dot com and choose the Pope forty 751 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 4: one membership. It includes a sign print signed exclusively by 752 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 4: Mark Pope welcoming you in. 753 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 5: So that's another thing he's got to do, Shannon, to 754 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 5: sign all. 755 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 3: These things, all right, it's going to keep him busy. 756 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,239 Speaker 5: That's going to keep him busy. 757 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 4: Club blueenil dot com the Pope forty one membership a 758 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,399 Speaker 4: special membership to honor Mark Pope joining go to Club 759 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 4: blue inil dot com. I bet that's gonna be popular. 760 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 4: I'm just guessing, but I'm gonna bet it is. We'll 761 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 4: be right back, Schazz, Yeah, suit and tie. Drew, is 762 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,360 Speaker 4: this you and this picture? Corey Price tweeted, Oh yeah. 763 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 7: Me and me and some biscuits and gravy. 764 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 5: That is you right there? 765 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 7: Also, I think that's freshman year. Maybe eighth grade. 766 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 5: That's that's high school, Drew. 767 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 7: It's close. Yeah, probably freshman. I think, Wow, Look at. 768 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 5: He dude, I thought I was dorky. Yeah, you and 769 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 5: I would have like you and I would have gotten 770 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:41,840 Speaker 5: all the ladies. 771 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,360 Speaker 7: I had offensive line potential. 772 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:45,479 Speaker 6: Wow. 773 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 5: What a picture. Go to at Corey P eight. 774 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:49,320 Speaker 7: I love it. 775 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 5: Wow, you really did have the bowl? Like that's a 776 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 5: rock the. 777 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 8: Bowl from age whenever I had hair, probably ten years 778 00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:58,839 Speaker 8: past when you should have the bowl? 779 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 5: Wow, and he looks awesome. 780 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,320 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, maybe like sixth grade. I couldn't 781 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 2: believe that was your freshman year. 782 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 12: I like it. 783 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:07,319 Speaker 7: It's around that area. 784 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 5: What a what a pimp? 785 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 7: I didn't have the car yet, but I certainly shouldn't 786 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,359 Speaker 7: be looking like that at that age. 787 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:16,399 Speaker 5: Twenty two eighty seven. 788 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 4: How about the UK baseball team beats Louisville last night, 789 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 4: seventeen to thirteen in a game that didn't feel like 790 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,920 Speaker 4: it was ever going to end. They're now number in 791 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,920 Speaker 4: D one and baseball. They are number three in the 792 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,920 Speaker 4: country and will play number four in the country Tennessee Friday, 793 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 4: Saturday and Sunday. The reserve seats are already sold out 794 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 4: now they have general admission. I don't know if the 795 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 4: weather's supposed to be good rhyme, but if it is, 796 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 4: I think this is going to be a crowning weekend 797 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,160 Speaker 4: for UK baseball. 798 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,840 Speaker 6: Huge, huge weekend for UK baseball. Already off on the 799 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,480 Speaker 6: best start in SEC history for UK that that game 800 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 6: last night was like batting practice. I mean it was 801 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 6: just like Kentucky. Every time they got up, they were 802 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,920 Speaker 6: knocking in runs. It seemed like this is a big 803 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 6: series because Tennessee obviously is a really good place to. 804 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,280 Speaker 5: Win this series. 805 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 4: I think you'll play Arkansas in two weeks for your 806 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 4: chance to win only your second SEC title. Yep, you 807 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 4: got to get through this series though. 808 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 5: First. 809 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,160 Speaker 4: If you get through this series, you'll end up bringing 810 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,600 Speaker 4: Arkansas here with a shot to win the SEC for 811 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 4: only the second time in school history. So huge weekend. 812 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it. I'm gonna go out there 813 00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 4: at least one or two of those games. Michael from 814 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 4: Dallas thirty seconds. 815 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:30,920 Speaker 7: Hey, what's up, fellas. 816 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:32,880 Speaker 14: You know, it's been a while since I got to 817 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,920 Speaker 14: call into you guys. Obviously being a part of the 818 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,759 Speaker 14: program for four years, it's a little bit different, but 819 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 14: you know, at my time at Kentucky, I had a 820 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 14: privilege of being around a lot of great coaches, a 821 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,560 Speaker 14: lot of great people, and you know, I wanted to 822 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 14: take a second to give Cowson credit. 823 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,440 Speaker 3: You know, there's no way you. 824 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,239 Speaker 14: Can you can take away from that guy, the fact 825 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,000 Speaker 14: that he cared about those players, the fact that he was, 826 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,280 Speaker 14: you know, there to do whatever. 827 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 7: He could to get them the best opportunity available. 828 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,359 Speaker 5: But I really do think that extent it's too late. 829 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,960 Speaker 5: You already hit it. Even Michael from Dallas gets Shannon's buzzer. 830 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,880 Speaker 6: Wait, we can still extend, and can't we. 831 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,680 Speaker 4: He's already hung on. First of all, Michael, it's nice 832 00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,759 Speaker 4: to hear from you. For people who don't know, that's 833 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,400 Speaker 4: one of the coolest stories in the world. Michael started 834 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 4: out as a kid caller to our postgame show in 835 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 4: like seventh grade and called us all through high school 836 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,800 Speaker 4: and then got to UK and got to be a 837 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,280 Speaker 4: manager on the basketball team throughout college and just finished 838 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,359 Speaker 4: I think two years ago. That's pretty awesome. Like that's 839 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:40,319 Speaker 4: the quintessential like Kentucky dream right there, right Like you're 840 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,120 Speaker 4: calling postgame shows and you end up a manager on 841 00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:43,640 Speaker 4: the team. 842 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:45,320 Speaker 7: We remember when his voice cracked. 843 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:49,320 Speaker 4: Yes, I mean it's unbelievable. And Shannon still though the buzzer, 844 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,719 Speaker 4: like the herdbreak comes for all in the form of us. 845 00:38:54,560 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 4: The buzzer is undefeated. Diego thirty seconds? Diego? All right, no, diego, let's. 846 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:04,719 Speaker 7: Go around Joe. 847 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 5: All right? Do you lose in seconds? You only got 848 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 5: twenty one. 849 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,319 Speaker 15: Do you think Kentucky will try to get that four 850 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,279 Speaker 15: star Jeremy Roach from Duke? 851 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, we should have just went ahead and let it happened. 852 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,960 Speaker 4: Appreciate it. I mean we already talked about that. We 853 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,160 Speaker 4: did a whole segment on it. 854 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,960 Speaker 6: So when Roach picked Duke was Kentucky one of the finalist. 855 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,640 Speaker 5: I don't remember. To be honest with you, I don't know. 856 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,400 Speaker 5: Let's go to Randy. Thirty seconds go Randy. 857 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,800 Speaker 16: Good morning, gentlemen. There is an old saying with calip 858 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,960 Speaker 16: there's an old saying that a leopard never loses its spots. 859 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,640 Speaker 16: So just remember that when we go to coaching style 860 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,879 Speaker 16: and everything else. So and also, Matthew, I think there 861 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,719 Speaker 16: you should be on the mount rushmore of Kentucky Athletics 862 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,680 Speaker 16: for coverage of the media as well. So I'll hang 863 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:53,920 Speaker 16: up you guys have a good one. 864 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,080 Speaker 5: Thanks very kind of you. I appreciate it. 865 00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,800 Speaker 4: I would say, yes, cal Perry Drew is gonna do 866 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 4: cal Perry stuff right Like, it's gonna be the same. 867 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,080 Speaker 4: You know, we had a year here where he had 868 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,160 Speaker 4: all old guys. The year we lost to uh to 869 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 4: what Saint Peter's that was mostly old guys. So I 870 00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,919 Speaker 4: mean he's still gonna do the same thing. We're still 871 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,880 Speaker 4: gonna clear out and it's still gonna try to go 872 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,520 Speaker 4: one on one or they're gonna do that. So we're 873 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,520 Speaker 4: gonna see it's gonna be so fascinating to like readjust 874 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,960 Speaker 4: our brains drew to a completely different recruiting style and playing. 875 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:27,759 Speaker 5: Style than what we're used to. 876 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,720 Speaker 8: That's what's so exciting, even though we have no clue 877 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,279 Speaker 8: how it will work out, just to change whether it's 878 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 8: good or bad, it's we're trying something new and we 879 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,919 Speaker 8: hope it works. I think a lot about that Kellen 880 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,359 Speaker 8: Grady year. Yeah, when Kellen said I'm gonna go back 881 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,800 Speaker 8: and stand in my corner. Yeah, in that offense, whereas 882 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,120 Speaker 8: this offense there will be no standing period. I don't 883 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 8: think I mean. 884 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:46,480 Speaker 7: There will be. 885 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 11: Uh. 886 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:48,879 Speaker 8: Kellen might have loved this one a little more because 887 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,160 Speaker 8: I think there's gonna be a lot of movement to 888 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:51,720 Speaker 8: free up three point shooters. 889 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,160 Speaker 7: It's just a completely different look than what ken. 890 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:54,680 Speaker 5: Saint Peter's year was a waste. 891 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,320 Speaker 4: We should have been better, should have been better the 892 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,439 Speaker 4: year we lost to Kansas State and the say round. 893 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,239 Speaker 4: I don't know how much that team could have done, 894 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,000 Speaker 4: but that year we lost to Saint Peter's and this 895 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,919 Speaker 4: year we should have been a lot better. 896 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,399 Speaker 5: Rob thirty seconds go. Rob. 897 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:12,959 Speaker 15: Yeah, I think, like everybody else has said, you gotta 898 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,280 Speaker 15: get out of cal modive thinking. 899 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:16,880 Speaker 5: Season doesn't start till November. 900 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,520 Speaker 16: It doesn't matter about recruiting season, the players, the draft, 901 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:20,080 Speaker 16: any of that. 902 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,480 Speaker 15: I'd rather take the X and no coach. And let 903 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,000 Speaker 15: me ask you, I know what they would all say 904 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 15: before the end of the SEC coach is saying, you 905 00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,200 Speaker 15: think they're more afraid of cal now or they're afraid 906 00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:30,440 Speaker 15: of Pope and his style coming in. 907 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,320 Speaker 4: It's a good question. I talked to somebody I appreciate 908 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:38,160 Speaker 4: the call. Who is connected to a coach in the SEC. 909 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,760 Speaker 4: I won't say which one, And this was their exact words. 910 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,160 Speaker 4: The SEC is no longer afraid of Cal remains to 911 00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,439 Speaker 4: be seen about Pope. Everybody thinks he's smart. The question 912 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,360 Speaker 4: is can he handle that job? But I think the 913 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:57,920 Speaker 4: shine on Cal. I think the shine on Cal ended 914 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,320 Speaker 4: the second that Oakland game, but honestly, I think it 915 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,839 Speaker 4: ended before that. To the like, these guys don't come 916 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,399 Speaker 4: in as scared of them anymore because they do think 917 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,560 Speaker 4: they can out make adjustments once the game starts, and unfortunately, 918 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,080 Speaker 4: I think that's proven to be correct the last few years. 919 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,399 Speaker 4: We will take a break and we will come back 920 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,960 Speaker 4: our number two more of your thirty second shot clock calls. 921 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,160 Speaker 5: This is Kentucky Sports Radio.