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Speaker 3: All right, good morning, ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, Grandpa's
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Speaker 3: of Kentucky Sports Radio. Thursday April third, Ryan Leman, Drew Franklin,
Speaker 3: and Shannon the Dude here for you today. Matt is
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Speaker 3: Our clock's pupping shop phone line is eight five nine
Speaker 3: two eight zho two two eighty seven. Guys. A rough
Speaker 3: night across our state last night. I mean it was,
Speaker 3: it was awful. I mean there's tornado warnings all across
Speaker 3: our state, a lot of damage across our state, a
Speaker 3: lot of people still without power this morning. Were you
Speaker 3: awoken by the tornado warning alarm on your phone in
Speaker 3: the middle of the night.
Speaker 4: I was, I mean most of the night before I
Speaker 4: fell asleep, I stayed up watching it, keeping up with it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I saw Madisonville had one kind of touchdown nearby. I
Speaker 4: was worried about that. It's all, I mean, really across
Speaker 4: the whole state.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: My attention was all on it, and I finally fell
Speaker 4: asleep around midnight. And then round two is when I
Speaker 4: got the tornado noise from my phone that scared the
Speaker 4: crap out of me, and me and my wife went
Speaker 4: down and I went downstairs and got it's close to
Speaker 4: the I have a basement, but did as best we
Speaker 4: could to get to a safe area and kind of
Speaker 4: waited to see how it'd come through Lection and luckily
Speaker 4: it kind of went around and dismissed lectioning in. But
Speaker 4: still just an awful night across the state. I was
Speaker 4: trying to catch up this morning. You know, it's a
Speaker 4: lot of when you find out, you wake up in daylight,
Speaker 4: see what happened. And a lot of damage in Louisville,
Speaker 4: just areas all over I've have we even seen anything
Speaker 4: that that widespread?
Speaker 6: That was crazy?
Speaker 3: Anyware tell yeah, Shannon, I guess louisvill got hit a
Speaker 3: lot harder than we did over here in Lexington it did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh, Middletown in Jaytown there was a confirmed tornado.
Speaker 2: So definitely our thoughts are with those people who were
Speaker 2: waking up and having to deal with the damage that
Speaker 2: that storm caused last night. I'll tell you though, Ryan,
Speaker 2: when you live close to a fire department, there's pros
Speaker 2: and cons. The pro is like if the house catches
Speaker 2: on fire. I like my gchiancees. I like my choices
Speaker 2: of the house surviving the fire, but when it's a
Speaker 2: tornado that's coming through, those sirens go off and they
Speaker 2: are so loud. I feel like I've got a siren
Speaker 2: that's going off for an hour straight, like in my ear.
Speaker 2: So I didn't get much sleep last night, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I definitely want to keep our thoughts with those who were,
Speaker 2: you know, victims of the tornado last night.
Speaker 3: It was it was bad here. Yeah, I guess they're
Speaker 3: saying one touchdown maybe in the Murray area Paducah. I
Speaker 3: think a church and Paduca got destroyed.
Speaker 6: I saw that they're.
Speaker 3: Saying East Louisville. But there were warnings even this morning
Speaker 3: when I woke up, there were still warnings south of
Speaker 3: US in Jamestown and Somerset, in that area down there.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a it was an awful cell
Speaker 3: that went through. I don't know the reports of injuries yet,
Speaker 3: but I haven't heard any. Thankfully, maybe we got through
Speaker 3: without anybody really having a bad injury. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was trying to scan the news for that this morning.
Speaker 4: I didn't see anything. So hopefully that's the case that,
Speaker 4: you know, nothing too severe other than some some property damage.
Speaker 4: You know, we got listeners not just in Kentucky. Tennessee
Speaker 4: got hit real bad and it saw Selmer, Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Like thatd some deaths in Tennessee actually Arkansas.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I got to give a little bit of a shout
Speaker 4: out the Ryan Hall yall. We've talked about him on
Speaker 4: this show. I watched his YouTube. I had I was
Speaker 4: going back and forth between wk YT and l e
Speaker 4: X here in Lexington on my TV, but I had
Speaker 4: him pulled up on YouTube. He's the guy out of
Speaker 4: Pike Village, right. He must have been live streaming for
Speaker 4: twelve hours straight. And I mean at one point there
Speaker 4: was like two hundred and fifty thousand viewers, and he
Speaker 4: does an amazing job of keeping you updated like he
Speaker 4: I mean, he just stayed on top of it. I
Speaker 4: didn't watch the whole stream, but that dude did not
Speaker 4: stop yesterday. He might still be going. I have no idea,
Speaker 4: but if no one watches him, I encourage it. He
Speaker 4: was very helpful. He even talked about up in Ohio,
Speaker 4: where my wife's from. He kind of covers a little
Speaker 4: more than just Kentucky, but he's just constantly moving. He
Speaker 4: has like storm chasers everywhere with videos. He's got the
Speaker 4: live thing that he goes into. So as this continues,
Speaker 4: or god forbid it, we get into it again. You know,
Speaker 4: watch your your local news because they were very helpful
Speaker 4: in the middle of the night too. But Ryan Hall, y'all,
Speaker 4: it does a great job. He's got like two million
Speaker 4: subscribers on YouTube out of Pikeville, of pike bul he
Speaker 4: has like a y'all watch out and you know, not
Speaker 4: to make light of the situation, but I mean it's
Speaker 4: he does a really good job.
Speaker 6: I spent most of my night watching him.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I like to poke fun in our
Speaker 3: local weather guys, Bill Mack, Chris Bailey, Jim Callwell, TG shuck. Well,
Speaker 3: maybe because I work with him. I know these guys
Speaker 3: and I had to work in the newsroom with him.
Speaker 3: I always liked to poke atuse. I felt like they
Speaker 3: got a little more favoritism than the sports department did.
Speaker 3: But it's nights like last night. They are absolutely crucial
Speaker 3: to saving lives. I mean, like I said, I like
Speaker 3: to poke. You can't predict the mother nature, but they
Speaker 3: can tell you what it's doing right now, and that's
Speaker 3: why you tune in immediately to Bill Mack or Chris
Speaker 3: Bailey or whoever your weather local weather guy to watch
Speaker 3: because they can definitely tell you what it's doing right
Speaker 3: now and save maybe save your life or maybe keep
Speaker 3: you from getting injured.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, especially when it was coming to Lexington. I
Speaker 4: mean I was just back and forth with those who
Speaker 4: actually Abby had one on the iPad, we had another
Speaker 4: on TV, and then Royan hall yall on the phone,
Speaker 4: so we had all three going. But you know, watching
Speaker 4: Bill and Chris last night, they even seemed a little
Speaker 4: more scared than a weatherman is. Usually there's up there reporting.
Speaker 4: I think Bill even called his family.
Speaker 3: Called his wife and daughter alive on the air, tell
Speaker 3: him to get shelter.
Speaker 4: Now, not that I wasn't already a little worried, but
Speaker 4: you know, seeing those guys on TV have a little
Speaker 4: fear and saying this is something we haven't ever seen before,
Speaker 4: you know, it added to it. But they did a
Speaker 4: great job too. Everyone I watched kept us all informed
Speaker 4: and hopefully everyone took advice and stayed as safe as possible.
Speaker 3: Shannon, what's the one weather guy in Louisville? Weinstein Weinberg, Weinberg,
Speaker 3: Mark Weinberg. Yeah, he's the one that was kind of
Speaker 3: causing the weatherman beef for a while. Uh, Louisville used
Speaker 3: to have a weather guy. He wore a captain's hat,
Speaker 3: Captain Reed Yayden.
Speaker 2: You remember him, Yeah, yeah, he wore a captain's hat
Speaker 2: while he would do the broadcast.
Speaker 3: Sometimes, like would be outside, he'd wear a little captain's hat,
Speaker 3: Captain Reid Yayden. I don't know the Louisville weather guys,
Speaker 3: but I'm just not just praising our weather guys in Lexton,
Speaker 3: the weather guys in Louisville, bowling, Green Paduca, everybody last night,
Speaker 3: everybody's tuned in to watch him. But then, you know,
Speaker 3: you people lose power. So that's when they say, man,
Speaker 3: that's why AM radio is so important. You got your
Speaker 3: battery powered AM radio to keep up with weather reports.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you know, at one point my TV
Speaker 4: was getting a little funky. Then go to Twitter, that
Speaker 4: did a great job opening posting there and keeping everybody informed,
Speaker 4: just everyone that doesn't. You know, I can't watch every
Speaker 4: community in every station, certainly here in Lection and they
Speaker 4: were good, and I'm sure everywhere else they were on
Speaker 4: top of it to keep everyone as safe as possible.
Speaker 3: Well, the storm is not just affected last night, It's
Speaker 3: gonna be the whole weekend. Like Keenland canceled their opening
Speaker 3: day Friday tomorrow and we're gonna not gonna open out
Speaker 3: till Sunday. Drue, don't. I've never seen that happen. I've
Speaker 3: I mean, I've been around here for a long time.
Speaker 3: I've not known Keenland to postpone opening day ever. And
Speaker 3: the Bluegrass Steaks is supposed to be Saturday, that's their
Speaker 3: Kentucky Derby. Yeah, they've moved it to Tuesday. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just kind of really kind of emphasizes how bad
Speaker 3: the weather is in this area over the next couple
Speaker 3: of days.
Speaker 4: It's like moving the Super Bowl around here. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: not that this is important to safety in the weather,
Speaker 4: but I thought all probably made plans to be at
Speaker 4: Keenland this weekend. No one ever imagines Keenland could get
Speaker 4: postponed removed, And now it's moved on to the to
Speaker 4: the to the weekdays, which will be unique. But I
Speaker 4: mean that just shows what kind of situation we're in
Speaker 4: around here. It's still still coming.
Speaker 3: UK Baseball is supposed to host Old Miss this weekend
Speaker 3: starting tonight, it's tonight at seven, Tomorrow night at six thirty,
Speaker 3: and then Saturday at two. It's a Thursday through Saturday series.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know if they're gonna get any
Speaker 3: of those games in any of them. I don't know
Speaker 3: what they're gonna know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think they've made any announcements yet. But
Speaker 4: if you're moving Keenland and with everything we go on,
Speaker 4: I would be surprised if we have baseball Kentucky prout
Speaker 4: partner maybe later in the weekend. I haven't looked that
Speaker 4: far ahead, but it's hard to imagine they'll get three
Speaker 4: games in with old miss, with the forecast we have
Speaker 4: still in front of us.
Speaker 2: If they do, I just hope they get out to
Speaker 2: a big lead early. That way, minjie On canstall. You
Speaker 2: can go maybe you know, kick up some dust, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, throw some mud at the umpire and delay
Speaker 2: the game as long as possible so they can win.
Speaker 3: You know, that's still getting a lot of play. But
Speaker 3: the thing is Kentucky was up by five runs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like it was a one run
Speaker 3: game and then two outs and maybe going into the
Speaker 3: curfew time Kentucky was up five.
Speaker 6: I have a little bit of scoop on that. Okay,
Speaker 6: not really scoop.
Speaker 4: I just learned more about the situation. We were kind
Speaker 4: of saying it's silly to have that curfew at four
Speaker 4: thirty local time. I mean, I agree with Minji and
Speaker 4: you know, taking advantage of the rule, But I thought
Speaker 4: four thirty that seems early for a curfew.
Speaker 6: But in talking to.
Speaker 4: People around the team, they still didn't get home till
Speaker 4: nearly three in the morning. Because there's not a direct
Speaker 4: college station to Lexington. They had to bust two hours
Speaker 4: to Houston, they got diverted to Cincinnati, and then they
Speaker 4: have to bust from Cincinnati to Lexington. So it makes
Speaker 4: a little more sense to that curfew as early as
Speaker 4: it is after. You know, I kind of thought that
Speaker 4: was ridiculous before, at least in that scenario. Now, if
Speaker 4: you're playing in Knoxville, okay, that's different. But they had
Speaker 4: even you know, having that game called early. UK barely
Speaker 4: got back in time. This kid slept a few hours
Speaker 4: in her class the next day. So hearing a little
Speaker 4: bit more about just the logistics behind the scenes, that
Speaker 4: curfew rule makes a little more sense to me.
Speaker 3: Shannon, I'm sure they all got home and went straight
Speaker 3: to class al class on Monday morning.
Speaker 2: Too, right, Yeah, And that's also like why I don't
Speaker 2: understand what the conference realignment you got, Like, you know,
Speaker 2: Stanford for instance, is going to be traveling all the
Speaker 2: way across the country to play other teams like on
Speaker 2: a weeknight. You know, I think it's ridiculous, but you know,
Speaker 2: at this point it is what it is.
Speaker 3: But so just you know, stay tuned. Social media posts
Speaker 3: will keep you updated if they're going to do play
Speaker 3: UK Baseball tonight. First game is at seven o'clock. By
Speaker 3: the way, the UK women's gymnastics team opens up playing
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament today at one. We're gonna have it
Speaker 3: on the big screen. Oh nice, kind of like you know,
Speaker 3: maybe ourn little UK Gymnastics watch party, but we'll have
Speaker 3: it here at kas Barn Grow if you want to
Speaker 3: come and watch it as they open up their own
Speaker 3: version of March Madness.
Speaker 4: You know, I used to attend Excite Night every once
Speaker 4: in a while. That's there earlier in the season. Event,
Speaker 4: you know, we can do some Excite afternoon here at Kosbar.
Speaker 4: Might have to have you get up and move the
Speaker 4: satellite around. If there's any weather complications, get on the roof.
Speaker 4: You've done that before.
Speaker 3: If there's anything I'm an expert at. It's the pommel horse. Okay,
Speaker 3: I can I can do it. I can talk about it.
Speaker 3: That's about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I talk to him.
Speaker 3: I did walk with the balance beam. I've walked on
Speaker 3: a balance beam before.
Speaker 6: Did you make it across?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think I did it. If it gives
Speaker 3: a little tough So yeah, we'll have that game on
Speaker 3: here at UH at one o'clock if you want to
Speaker 3: come out and watch it. So we're gonna take your calls.
Speaker 3: Eight five nine two aight, oh two two eight seven.
Speaker 3: We got Liam in the studio today, Drew and Shannon.
Speaker 3: Liam running the show today.
Speaker 2: Try I taught him, Well, he's he's a pro already.
Speaker 2: I mean one day, he's already running the show. Ran
Speaker 2: the pre show this morning, he ran the lead report.
Speaker 2: So he's a he's an old grizzled veteran in here
Speaker 2: with this today.
Speaker 6: So you give us you're getting pushed out, Shannon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good with that.
Speaker 6: Liam. We need to put Liam on the graphic up here,
Speaker 6: the cartoon.
Speaker 3: Next to us, So give us a call eight five
Speaker 3: nine two two two eight seven Later Andy show, We're
Speaker 3: gonna have a little surprise. You guys don't even know
Speaker 3: what we're gonna do yet. I don't know, don't even know.
Speaker 6: Yet, but you texted me show topics last night, but.
Speaker 3: You don't know what one thing I'm doing and got
Speaker 3: everything I'm doing, just one little thing we're going to
Speaker 3: do later before you go.
Speaker 4: I will compliment you. I I've worked with KOSR. I'm
Speaker 4: about to hit year sixteen. I'm an old man. I
Speaker 4: think only four times in my life have I been
Speaker 4: sent a text message with show topics, and it's been
Speaker 4: you every time, and you did it again last night.
Speaker 6: So thank you.
Speaker 4: Not that I'm not prepared to always try to, you know,
Speaker 4: be knowledgeable of everything going on, but you you sent
Speaker 4: a basically a script.
Speaker 6: I feel ready to go today, so thank you.
Speaker 3: Well, Shannon. There's not a whole lot going on, so
Speaker 3: I'm trying to find them some topics to try to
Speaker 3: give it to talk about today.
Speaker 2: So sometimes you just gotta make up the show as
Speaker 2: you go, make.
Speaker 3: Up the show as you go.
Speaker 4: So when people know how much you care, well, thank
Speaker 4: you. You don't just show up and hit go and talk
Speaker 4: for two hours.
Speaker 2: Yes, he does, he does, he does.
Speaker 3: He's had. When I'm not hosting, I do probably very
Speaker 3: little show pre code and looking at Twitter.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm proud of who youself.
Speaker 3: So we'll take your calls. Eight five nine two Hito,
Speaker 3: two tweets. We went a lot of phone calls today, Ryan,
Speaker 3: Drew and Shannon. We're right back here on Kentucky's Ports Radio.
Speaker 3: This is one of my favorite songs ever. Liam. By
Speaker 3: the way, great job. I didn't even tell you what
Speaker 3: song to pick. Look he in the pre show he
Speaker 3: played Incubus for Billy and Stone Tiple Pilots for Shannon.
Speaker 3: I said, dude, you gotta play some Hooting the Blowfish
Speaker 3: then today and he goes, I saw hooting the Blowfish
Speaker 3: last summer in Cincinnati. Liam, that's my guy. This is
Speaker 3: this is an awesome song. This is a this is
Speaker 3: a feel good song that was on the Friends soundtrack.
Speaker 3: They didn't even release in one of their albums. It
Speaker 3: was on the Friend's soundtrack. But I love this song.
Speaker 3: Well done.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you were actually at that same concert right
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: I didn't get to go.
Speaker 2: Oh you call yourself a fan?
Speaker 3: I think I think I had a college visitor or
Speaker 3: a camp that weekend or something. I remember I couldn't go.
Speaker 3: I had to play dad that weekend. So yeah, well
Speaker 3: thanks for bringing that up. Sean Shannon eight two two
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Speaker 3: One thing that's kind of gone under the radar because
Speaker 3: it's March Madness and we're up on the final four.
Speaker 3: We've been so hop on the transfer portal and everything
Speaker 3: that's happened since the postseason is the UK spring football season.
Speaker 3: They had kind of a media opportunity yesterday. Drew, You've
Speaker 3: been out there. What are your what are you hearing
Speaker 3: or what are your thoughts so far about what's going
Speaker 3: on in UK spring football. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I went out to the open practice yesterday. It started
Speaker 4: at nine, and you know, I had to leave for
Speaker 4: the show. So when I was out there, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of stretching and getting loose. I missed the actual
Speaker 4: you know, throwing it around and all the fun stuff.
Speaker 4: There's there's highlights on ksr's YouTube right now. I went
Speaker 4: back and watch those there's some good ones there, but
Speaker 4: early takeaways just seeing Zach Calzada for the first time
Speaker 4: in person. I got to see him throw it a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It's hard to have a big takeaway when I'm out
Speaker 4: there just for a few minutes, but he and Bowlie
Speaker 4: were looking good. There's some highlights in that YouTube video.
Speaker 4: The new receiver Kendrick Law. I think he's gonna pan
Speaker 4: out to be pretty well. My biggest takeaway honestly, the
Speaker 4: new wide receivers coach. He's got a lot of juice it.
Speaker 4: I took my coffee in there to wake up to
Speaker 4: go be ready to meet you guys. I mean, he
Speaker 4: was getting in people's rear ends using language I can't
Speaker 4: say on radio, and he might have been the loudest
Speaker 4: coach on the field as best as I could tell.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about him because that's a room that had
Speaker 4: some culture issues and what I've seen in thirty minutes
Speaker 4: of him talking to those guys are yelling at those guys.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's not gonna put up with any funny business.
Speaker 4: I mean that dude was strictly business and it was
Speaker 4: fun watching him just coach them up, even though they
Speaker 4: were still just kind of getting into practice there.
Speaker 3: As far as groups Shannon, everybody so far seems to
Speaker 3: be praising the offensive line. I mean, I heard it
Speaker 3: this morning on the Leach Report, justin Rowling. I think
Speaker 3: we're talking about the offensive line. Other guys who've gone
Speaker 3: to practice him been praising the offensive line. I mean,
Speaker 3: if there is one area that I think that needed
Speaker 3: improvement and that looks like it has been improved, it's
Speaker 3: got to be the offensive line.
Speaker 2: It all starts there. How many times do we have
Speaker 2: to say after the game, well, you know, if our
Speaker 2: quarterback could stay vertical, we would have had a chance
Speaker 2: to win that game. So I think it all all
Speaker 2: starts with that offensive line. And you know, I hope
Speaker 2: that there's gonna be some excitement building for this team.
Speaker 2: I feel like, though it's gonna be, uh, let's wait
Speaker 2: and see what we got before we get too excited.
Speaker 2: You know. I feel like we've gotten our hopes up
Speaker 2: the last few years, and yeah, this may be a
Speaker 2: show me season. You know, Let's see what you got
Speaker 2: and then you know the fan base will get excited
Speaker 2: based on what we see on the field.
Speaker 4: Every year, there's a dude, because there's so many new
Speaker 4: pieces these days. You go to that first practice and
Speaker 4: there's like, who the hell's that guy? Uh, Shea's Pete.
Speaker 4: I think I'm pronouncing that right. He's the offensive line
Speaker 4: rom from New Mexico State.
Speaker 6: He is a giant, is he?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was really good there.
Speaker 4: He was one of the top targets in the in
Speaker 4: the portal for an offensive line. Again, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: just there. They're just hitting the sleds and getting loose
Speaker 4: in the little bit of time I was there. But
Speaker 4: that dude is a giant. He's listed at six eight
Speaker 4: three twenty. He's gonna be a big part of that line.
Speaker 4: Jagger was still out there. He's gonna be part of
Speaker 4: the starting right.
Speaker 3: He said this point. Yeah, he's playing center right now,
Speaker 3: just because the center from Western Kentucky. That transferred in
Speaker 3: as maybe battling some injuries or something right now, so
Speaker 3: that the Western Kentucky kids probably gonna be the center.
Speaker 3: Although Jagger's feeling excuse me, filling in at the moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Evan Wibberley believe is the offensive I'm from Western
Speaker 4: I was surprised, at least when I was there getting started.
Speaker 4: Jason Patterson was getting more of the running back one.
Speaker 4: Touches didn't really see that coming.
Speaker 3: Well, that's been the other I think offensive line and
Speaker 3: running back, those have been the two groups that have
Speaker 3: getting the most attention. You know, Patterson was kind of
Speaker 3: just you sparingly at times last year. Then will Cox
Speaker 3: kind of came in and kind of took a lot
Speaker 3: of his reps. But DJ Miller and Jason Patterson are
Speaker 3: the two running backs. I think they're running one and
Speaker 3: two right now.
Speaker 6: I have a will Cox take.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's a picture going around.
Speaker 6: I don't know if he's just time his shoes again. No,
Speaker 6: we got to get those shoes.
Speaker 4: Might have been just the beginning, might have gotten the
Speaker 4: laced up before they started getting into some actual hitting
Speaker 4: each other and running some stuff.
Speaker 6: But early on I think we might have another shoe
Speaker 6: string problem.
Speaker 3: The dude's good. I mean, we saw he's got flash,
Speaker 3: so he could be really good. But many you got
Speaker 3: to keep your shoes on you're not gonna be able
Speaker 3: to play. And I think one time Stoops got so
Speaker 3: frustrated with him last year about it. He benched him,
Speaker 3: took him out of the game and didn't put him back.
Speaker 6: You remember it happened as soon as he uh, as
Speaker 6: soon as he got called out for it, that's right.
Speaker 3: Then it happened again.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: Macklin was out there one of the one of the
Speaker 4: few people I recognized right away. He was doing some
Speaker 4: uh catching some punts. When I was out there, they
Speaker 4: were just getting into throwing the ball.
Speaker 6: As I left.
Speaker 4: Like I said, Kendrick Law made a few impressive catches
Speaker 4: and moves that I think gives him a little potential,
Speaker 4: but it's all so early to know. Hopefully they do
Speaker 4: some kind of open spring practice.
Speaker 3: I've not heard anything.
Speaker 6: I got it down.
Speaker 4: Where everybody can get out there at least give the
Speaker 4: media more looks at him because there's still a lot
Speaker 4: of new pieces to learn.
Speaker 3: A couple of Kentucky guys, local guys, I guess, are
Speaker 3: kind of looking good so far and spring practice. Willie
Speaker 3: Rodriguez from Covington Catholic, Uh, you know, had a couple
Speaker 3: of bright spots during the season last year. But I
Speaker 3: guess he's really stepped up this season already.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was already gigantic. I remember when he
Speaker 4: came to Chaos Bar on his visit as a high schooler.
Speaker 6: I'm like that guy's in high school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a fresh grown ass man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's even he's even gotten more grown. You know,
Speaker 4: every year we say it's the tight Ends year, and
Speaker 4: they get these good recruits and then you know, the
Speaker 4: offense just doesn't get him too as much as we like.
Speaker 4: Last year, they had to do more blocking than I
Speaker 4: think they wanted to do. I'm trying to temper tight
Speaker 4: end expectations, but Willie Rodriguez does look the part, and
Speaker 4: he made some huge plays as a freshman last year.
Speaker 3: The other Kentucky kid that's kind of turned some heads
Speaker 3: is Montavin Quisenberry, the true freshman from Boyle County. You know,
Speaker 3: the wide receiver room kind of got thin there a
Speaker 3: little bit, but he may be a guy to step
Speaker 3: in and fill in that slot role that they like
Speaker 3: to use a lot. We know he's obviously very talented.
Speaker 3: I've seen him play a lot, so he's already opening
Speaker 3: to my eyes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you saw him in high school more than I did.
Speaker 6: I know he was.
Speaker 4: I think he's only a three star, wasn't as highly
Speaker 4: recruited as maybe his numbers suggests. I think that sounded
Speaker 4: like it's gonna translate over to to.
Speaker 3: College already I think he's a he's a perfect for
Speaker 3: that slot that they like to use. You know, we've
Speaker 3: seen guys just kind of flourish in that in that
Speaker 3: slot position. Lynn Bowden, you know, he kind of made
Speaker 3: a famous one from that. I think Quisenberry could be
Speaker 3: that kind of guy.
Speaker 6: Had some interviews.
Speaker 4: Calzada spoke yesterday, we're getting that time where you know,
Speaker 4: we're starting to get you know, two of those a week.
Speaker 4: I'd say, we're putting those up on ksr's YouTube. It's
Speaker 4: clear they're not, you know, Stoops even said to us,
Speaker 4: you know, not making headlines. They're staying a little more
Speaker 4: quiet than the years are. Even with Calzada, it was
Speaker 4: a lot of just he's well media trained, wasn't wasn't
Speaker 4: giving you a whole lot early in the game. But
Speaker 4: that's a guy to play a lot of football. Who
Speaker 4: knows how it'll turn out here, but he's very experienced
Speaker 4: and from what I could tell, looked like he was
Speaker 4: a pretty good leader early on in the day.
Speaker 3: And I don't think Cutter Bully just gonna hand it
Speaker 3: over to him. You know, Cutter wants to be the
Speaker 3: starter too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Cutter will, I mean, it is a competition.
Speaker 4: I think Cutter will be right there with him. Curterer
Speaker 4: looked good out there, best of that I could tell.
Speaker 4: But again, I was in and out yesterday. I'm hoping
Speaker 4: we'll get more opportunities like that. I should just skip
Speaker 4: the show and watch more football because it was exciting
Speaker 4: to be out there. It's a good morning for the
Speaker 4: weather hit and just close the close the book on
Speaker 4: basketball and football Spring football leases right here in front of.
Speaker 3: Us, Shannon, did you see enough of Cutter Bully to
Speaker 3: think he could be the guy some point here or
Speaker 3: you or even this season?
Speaker 1: Not really.
Speaker 2: I feel like he got put in the game and
Speaker 2: situations a lot of times that weren't really fair for him,
Speaker 2: you know. But I mean, I think he's probably got
Speaker 2: the potential, But I just, you know, did I really
Speaker 2: see enough of them last year?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Not not for me? What about you?
Speaker 3: I think he's got the talent, he just needs some
Speaker 3: more experience. You know that. You're right, he wasn't fair
Speaker 3: the way they threw him into a couple of those positions.
Speaker 2: Like Florida that he went into whenever that was the
Speaker 2: best situation to come into.
Speaker 6: So but I just.
Speaker 4: Stood up off the bench I didn't think he was
Speaker 4: warming up. They were like, cutter, you're in You're in there,
Speaker 4: like what you know.
Speaker 6: I think a little bit of a warning.
Speaker 3: I think he's got the talent to definitely be the
Speaker 3: guy at some point, whether he's ready right now or not.
Speaker 3: Maybe he needs another little some more seasoning. I don't know.
Speaker 3: The only other name I want to throw out there,
Speaker 3: I ask for a new name that we don't know
Speaker 3: that people should pay attention to. Defense him in Marcus
Speaker 3: Grace from South Dakota.
Speaker 6: I was gonna bring him up.
Speaker 3: I guess he must be a man child.
Speaker 4: The defensive line looks like you could be in good shape.
Speaker 4: He was another big commitment when they got him. Lots
Speaker 4: of people wanted him out of the portal. He and
Speaker 4: Gusta Gusta Gusta how you pronounce another another big portal
Speaker 4: get And then Josiah Hayes is back. He had a
Speaker 4: bad injury last year. Can be a big piece. So
Speaker 4: even though you lose Dion, I think the defensive line
Speaker 4: can be in good shape.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have to be. I mean they lost just
Speaker 3: they lost everybody pretty much except for Josiah Hayes. So
Speaker 3: that was a definite position of need, the defensive line
Speaker 3: and offensive line and position of need. That seems like
Speaker 3: on paper they filled those spots already.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I said about the practice, I hope, you know,
Speaker 4: we need some excitement in the season. I think we
Speaker 4: all a lot of people have the same mentality around
Speaker 4: Kentucky football next year, even if you think they'll be better,
Speaker 4: that schedule is brutal next fall. So I hope they
Speaker 4: can open up and get more glimpse at him. So
Speaker 4: it just drum up as much expreing excitement as they can.
Speaker 3: So there's your spring football update. We haven't talked much
Speaker 3: about it. We did a whole segment on it right there,
Speaker 3: so I should get him date. We'll come back. We'll
Speaker 3: take your calls eight five nine two way two to
Speaker 3: eight seven.
Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports. Ready present it by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 2: Now here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, Ryan Drew and Shannon. As Matt
Speaker 3: is off. We think probably in Amsterdam now for his fellowship.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: He was very excited about it, and I understand the myself.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a exclusive select fraternity of he's in.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: They went to Birmingham. They've been in was it Veil?
Speaker 3: It was in Colorado?
Speaker 6: Was it Veil?
Speaker 3: And now they're in Amsterdam. So we're proud of him
Speaker 3: getting to do something like that, kind of once in
Speaker 3: a lifetime opportunity. So he'll be back, I believe on
Speaker 3: Monday the twenty first, got his day back.
Speaker 4: Is this the secret society that won't let him talk
Speaker 4: about the Denver Airport and all the conspiracies in America
Speaker 4: before he goes and they try to silence people like me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they're trying to uncover the Denver Airport.
Speaker 4: You remember when we were when we were in Denver, Max
Speaker 4: and I kept wanting to talk about Oh yes, Matt wouldn't.
Speaker 6: And I think it's part of this fellowship. I think they.
Speaker 4: I think they're trying to use him with these lavish
Speaker 4: trips to silence people like me who want answers.
Speaker 2: You got all next week to break it down, you
Speaker 2: got you know, there's I think a lot of people
Speaker 2: out there that want to hear Rufe Ranklin's conspiracy theories.
Speaker 2: So have you take it out?
Speaker 6: It's on the list. All right, We're gonna find out
Speaker 6: what's under the pyramids next week?
Speaker 3: Are you ready for Drew Palooza Drew Week.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've got a lot of topics in mind.
Speaker 4: I've had a lot of people tell me don't overdo
Speaker 4: it with guests. I'm gonna have some guests. I'm still
Speaker 4: I'm waiting to get some yeses and no's. But I've
Speaker 4: written a lot of I've done a lot of show prep.
Speaker 4: I'm on my best ron lemon of potential topics. There's
Speaker 4: two days where it's mostly gonna be just me and Billy,
Speaker 4: and he will have just done the pre shows, so
Speaker 4: he might be a little winded. We're gonna have to
Speaker 4: really lean into some stuff like conspiracy theories. One person
Speaker 4: wants me to actually go back to my old apartment
Speaker 4: and interview who lives there now to see if the ghost.
Speaker 3: Is the ghost is there maybe remote? That's not a
Speaker 3: bad idea.
Speaker 6: We'll see. But got a lot of things in the works.
Speaker 3: Shannon, and I got a couple of people tell me
Speaker 3: that Captain reed Yayden is still doing weather on Whas.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I knew he was still around. I didn't
Speaker 2: know if he was working full time maybe a little
Speaker 2: part time gig on the weekends. I'll see him one
Speaker 2: of there every now and then so I don't see
Speaker 2: the captain hat though, while he worth at the captain
Speaker 2: hat sometimes.
Speaker 3: Okay, Also Shannon, apparently Liam has been keeping a secret
Speaker 3: what's up? He was also this past season the voice
Speaker 3: of the Danville Admirals. Oh is that true? Liam?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Play by play voice of the Danville Admirals.
Speaker 4: Listen, I'm a big Liam fan. He was asking me
Speaker 4: about Patty's uh settlement in Grand Rivers during the break,
Speaker 4: got me craving Western Kentucky pork chop, flower pot, bread
Speaker 4: and strawberry butter.
Speaker 6: Y'all know what that's all about. We ever been to that.
Speaker 3: I've been there one time.
Speaker 6: I think I took you on.
Speaker 3: The pork chop was like three inches thick. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and the strawberry butter on the rolls was to die for.
Speaker 6: The bread comes out in that flower pot, and didn't
Speaker 6: it burn down? It's after they're back there, right Liam.
Speaker 6: I think they're good. And that was a while ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they that it's way nicer now they rebuilt it.
Speaker 3: It's nicer, noon improved patties, Michael.
Speaker 6: Liam, he's got a good attitude.
Speaker 3: Eight five two two eighty seven is get our first callar?
Speaker 3: Who we got Liam, Johnny, Johnny, go ahead, Johnny.
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, I'm just one of the I don't want
Speaker 8: to and all week talking up the same topics, but
Speaker 8: I just wanted to touch on the Cassidy Read situation a
Speaker 8: little bit.
Speaker 6: I might be in the minority.
Speaker 8: I'm completely fine with what coach Brooks did. It's his team,
Speaker 8: it's his decision to make. There's another young lady on
Speaker 8: the team that had a similar conversation with coach Brooks.
Speaker 8: Nobody seems to be upset about Sinaia Tyler being asked
Speaker 8: to transfer, and nobody was upset when coach Cal asked
Speaker 8: Kevin Galloway to transfer either whenever he took the job.
Speaker 8: So I just think it's very hypocritical and nobody deserves
Speaker 8: a spot on a team because of where they were
Speaker 8: born or where.
Speaker 3: They're from and appreciate.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, right, No, go ahead, and we'll get your
Speaker 3: other point in and we'll move on.
Speaker 8: I was also wondering if y'all heard anything any more
Speaker 8: news about the transfer portals, specifically about the baron Pierre Jr.
Speaker 8: And then the two guys.
Speaker 3: Breaking up a little bit. Yeah, okay, we'll get we'll
Speaker 3: get to the transfer portal. Maybe next segment we got
Speaker 3: some news, but.
Speaker 6: He didn't name the two big names. Best I could
Speaker 6: tell you, Yeah, the.
Speaker 3: Cassidy Roll thing is not going away. I think Matt
Speaker 3: was surprised yesterday when I told him, Man that Pete,
Speaker 3: that's to what people are talking around still about. Here.
Speaker 3: It is Thursday and we're still talking about it. The
Speaker 3: team just got beat is transfer portal season, and our
Speaker 3: first call is still about Cassidy Row. And I think
Speaker 3: he's he's right. The caller's right, like it shouldn't matter
Speaker 3: where she's from, but in this instance, it seems to
Speaker 3: matter where she's from. She's from eastern Kentucky. She's gonna
Speaker 3: be a senior. She was a you know, a cheerleader,
Speaker 3: a glue that kind of held everybody together when when
Speaker 3: they first started informed the team. There's a lot going
Speaker 3: on to it. But I think I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I can't explain it, but I think it does matter
Speaker 3: in this instance where she's from.
Speaker 4: I wonder if Kenny knew how this was gonna blow
Speaker 4: up when he uh when he made the decision to
Speaker 4: ask her to transfer, whatever actually happened behind the scenes,
Speaker 4: Because you're right, it's all anyone will talk about it,
Speaker 4: I know what. Or there's the group of people that
Speaker 4: are like, please stop talking about it because it's been
Speaker 4: talked about it so much. But it is, well all
Speaker 4: that's going on, you know, even though we're not in it. NCAA.
Speaker 4: Turner's about to ramp back up with the final four.
Speaker 4: Been talking spring football, UK baseball is going It is
Speaker 4: just Casside Row, Cassie Row, Cassidy Row. He's kind of
Speaker 4: right though about it happens like Cal ran off of
Speaker 4: an entire roster.
Speaker 3: Does happen?
Speaker 4: Some people tell you he had to be talked into
Speaker 4: keeping the ones he kept, like he wanted a completely
Speaker 4: clean slate and that would have included you know who's
Speaker 4: on that team.
Speaker 6: I guess Darius would have been a Kentucky guy. Didn't
Speaker 6: was landing Sloan? Was he? Did he get cut when
Speaker 6: Cal got here?
Speaker 3: I think he did?
Speaker 4: You know it unfortunately happens. I think it's just so
Speaker 4: much brought her with Cassidy because she committed when she
Speaker 4: was fourteen years old. I mean, it feels like she's
Speaker 4: been a part of that program for a decade now,
Speaker 4: and her dad being so active on Twitter, it's very
Speaker 4: clear they've been bleeding, blew their whole lives, and being
Speaker 4: from the area she's in, I just think that's adding
Speaker 4: to it so much.
Speaker 3: Shannon, Like I said, first call here, it is Thursday,
Speaker 3: and it's still a tot button topic on this show.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's gonna linger for a while, and you
Speaker 2: know fans will remember that. But how do you make
Speaker 2: that go away? You just keep winning. Now, if they
Speaker 2: start the season off and they start struggling, I think
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a topic that's going to be brought
Speaker 2: back up again.
Speaker 3: And you know, I you know, I get it.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I also understand Kentuckians we
Speaker 2: hold our own in higher regard than other players. Whether
Speaker 2: or not that's you know, what we should do or not,
Speaker 2: that's just I think that's natural. You know, if somebody
Speaker 2: from Kentucky, we want to pull for that person, we
Speaker 2: want to see them succeed. But if you're Kenny Brooks,
Speaker 2: to me, in my opinion, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: his responsibility is put together the roster with the best
Speaker 2: players that he possibly can, regardless of where they're from.
Speaker 3: Now, Alan Cutler, my buddy had Lonnie Rowe on Cassidy's
Speaker 3: dad and Alan asked him, if Kenny Brooks was sitting
Speaker 3: here across the table, what would you say to him?
Speaker 3: And Lonnie Roll basically said something like I would ask him,
Speaker 3: don't you have a heart? Where's your heart at?
Speaker 6: I think he said I'd pray for him.
Speaker 3: I'd pray for him, Yes he did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I caught part of that interview. I mean
Speaker 4: that added to it. Lonnie wouldn't hold him back. If
Speaker 4: anyone was wondering if this is blown out of the
Speaker 4: proportion and maybe something different happened behind the scenes, him
Speaker 4: being so upset suggests that, you know, what we're hearing
Speaker 4: is what happened. What will happen though, if Kenny goes
Speaker 4: out and gets this portal class that's amazing and fills
Speaker 4: every seat with just these players that are experienced to
Speaker 4: put up big numbers, where people going, well, okay, I
Speaker 4: mean look at that, Holly.
Speaker 6: Just we get it right now.
Speaker 4: Obviously we don't know now if he goes and gets
Speaker 4: three and then there's four spots he didn't feel, that's
Speaker 4: gonna look terrible. But it would be really hard to
Speaker 4: judge until we know what he brings in and how
Speaker 4: that roster shapes out.
Speaker 3: See, I've got like people are texting me now on
Speaker 3: my a vision last text machine. This is I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna read it. So would you be okay if the
Speaker 3: men's team had a chance at the number one point
Speaker 3: guard in the portal but we could not get him
Speaker 3: because Pope wanted to let curse down the team.
Speaker 2: Well, Kerr's not from Kentucky, Travis Perry, or that'd be
Speaker 2: a better example of Travis Perry, a.
Speaker 4: Junior year Travis Perry. I mean it was stink. I
Speaker 4: love Travis Perry. He's probably been to Patty's and had
Speaker 4: the pork chop and too. But these guys are paid
Speaker 4: to do a job and they'll get fired quickly if
Speaker 4: they're not, you know, up to the standard. So I
Speaker 4: understand that they got to go out and get the
Speaker 4: best they can, even if it hurts some feelings.
Speaker 3: Let's get up one more call for we go to
Speaker 3: break who we got lamb Mickey, Mickey, Go ahead, Mickey.
Speaker 5: Mickey, God Drew, how you doing? Hey? I just wanted
Speaker 5: to say this real quick. I completely understand what the
Speaker 5: coach Brooks is done. I don't necessarily agree with it
Speaker 5: because I mean, guys, she was the first player off
Speaker 5: the bench when the game was on the line in
Speaker 5: the NCAA tournament because she could hit free throws and
Speaker 5: handle the ball. So she's not a non contributor. But
Speaker 5: I understand where he's coming from. But it is a
Speaker 5: place that we've got too that I don't particular what
Speaker 5: they care for. Just my thoughts, guys, I hang out
Speaker 5: and lifting.
Speaker 3: There we go two calls, both about cassid Row. That's
Speaker 3: why I think Matt was really surprised when I told
Speaker 3: him yesterday. Man, that's still what people are talking about
Speaker 3: around town. It's not necessarily the transfer portal.
Speaker 6: It's that next week, I'll do five days of cassider Row.
Speaker 6: You are aware. I'll keep it going, see how long
Speaker 6: we can make it last.
Speaker 3: If we do, want to give a get well shout
Speaker 3: out to our friend Ann from Estell County and maybe
Speaker 3: our oldest listener. I believe she's over one hundred years old, Shannon.
Speaker 3: I believe we found out a couple of years ago
Speaker 3: she was one hundred. She listens every single day. She's
Speaker 3: on the disabled list right now, so we need to
Speaker 3: give her a big shout out. Get well wishes and
Speaker 3: and hopefully we'll hear from you again soon. So there
Speaker 3: you go, and from Estell County. All right, well take
Speaker 3: our break, come back, go back to the phone lines
Speaker 3: eight five nine two eight oh two two eight seven.
Speaker 3: Ryan Drew and Shannon. This is Kentucky's Sports Radio. There
Speaker 3: we go. Welcome back, Ryan Drew and Shannon on Kentucky
Speaker 3: Sports Radio. Uh, we're live at cass Bar and Grill.
Speaker 3: Shannon's over in Louisville. We got a guy sitting here
Speaker 3: from Utah. Hunter.
Speaker 6: I recognized him as soon as he walked in.
Speaker 3: You get our show, you remember, yeah, Hey Hunter, Remember Shane.
Speaker 3: We did our show at Salt Lake City. He was
Speaker 3: there right at a hotel, right at a hotel lobby.
Speaker 3: They were your girlfriend, that's right. And he just walks
Speaker 3: in this morning, like, what are you doing here?
Speaker 4: Long way from home? That's a long way from Utah.
Speaker 4: When he was in Utah, he was a long way
Speaker 4: from home. I think you're from eastern Kentucky originally.
Speaker 3: Right, but he said, uh, on the way here, he
Speaker 3: got stuck in a snowstorm. What state was that in?
Speaker 3: In Wyoming? Had to spend five hours at a gas
Speaker 3: station because they closed the interstate where you.
Speaker 6: Drove from Utah.
Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness, who would drive all the way from
Speaker 4: Utah to Kentucky? Ryan, That's insane?
Speaker 3: Only idiots. And then last night the storms, he got
Speaker 3: stuck in Illinois. This dude fly next time.
Speaker 6: Still made it here to see us.
Speaker 3: Still made it. So you got family, Paduca, You're gonna
Speaker 3: be able to see them before you get it. Go home.
Speaker 3: Preston's Prestonsburg, prest Long end of the state. Sorry, so
Speaker 3: thank you Hunter thinks for coming out.
Speaker 6: Good to see hundred. Next time we drive to Salt
Speaker 6: Lake City, we'll be sure to link up again.
Speaker 3: A five nine two two eight seven. That's our phone number. Okay,
Speaker 3: before we get the phone, we're gonna talk a little
Speaker 3: transfer portal update. Yeah, Drew, any news that you're hearing rumbling,
Speaker 3: Because there's really been no firm commitment to ze out
Speaker 3: of cam Williams. He's been the only guy that verbally
Speaker 3: said he's coming.
Speaker 6: It sounds like Pope was on the move yesterday.
Speaker 4: We're all hunkered down here in Lexington except Hunter driving
Speaker 4: around in it to get here. But it sounds like
Speaker 4: Pope was in the sky. He was spotted in Dallas
Speaker 4: at the airport. Uh, the speculations he was in Dallas
Speaker 4: to meet Jason Pierre Junior. That's the new name we
Speaker 4: need to know. At it to your list of the
Speaker 4: other fifty names we've needed to know. But he was
Speaker 4: U think fourth in the country in scoring last year
Speaker 4: at Jacksonville State. Like a six to five guard. He
Speaker 4: plays all the ball. I don't know how that worked.
Speaker 4: Maybe you try to put him at point here. But
Speaker 4: he got like twenty one points a game, shot nearly
Speaker 4: forty percent from three. In the nit he scored thirty.
Speaker 4: He had games of like thirty thirty four, thirty six
Speaker 4: in the regular season. He seems to be the latest
Speaker 4: name on the portal board. And Pope was was spotted
Speaker 4: in Dallas, and the belief is that he was down
Speaker 4: there recruiting him. I guess he was on a visit
Speaker 4: to SMU, which makes.
Speaker 6: Me wonder, did we just crash this visit.
Speaker 3: After he left campus be waiting at McDonald's across the street.
Speaker 4: It's like, Okay, they paid for your hotel. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 4: meet you in the lobby and talk about another school.
Speaker 4: But the other one that we're still looking at, Yaxel Lindenberg. Yeah,
Speaker 4: love me some Yaxl, the UAB guy, big man. He's
Speaker 4: a kind of a fringe, probably early second round projection
Speaker 4: right now in the NBA, probably going to come back
Speaker 4: to college. The numbers that are being whispered about what
Speaker 4: he wants are just silly, Like I'm kind of mad.
Speaker 4: I think all this is inflated. But people are online
Speaker 4: are saying he could get up to four million. You'd
Speaker 4: go from second round projection to stay in school.
Speaker 6: For four million.
Speaker 3: I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: Heck yeah, again, I have some doubts about it being
Speaker 4: that high. That's what's being said. But he's he's probably
Speaker 4: the big fish that everybody would want the most. He's
Speaker 4: one of the top targets right now in the country.
Speaker 4: And uh, Pope might have met with him too, but
Speaker 4: they're tracking Pope's flame flame plane's up in Minneapolis. I
Speaker 4: guess maybe Yaxle's agent is up there, so maybe he
Speaker 4: was just meeting the agent. Maybe Yaxell was there. But Pope, man,
Speaker 4: he's just he's back at it. As we saw the
Speaker 4: last April mayish when he first got the job, every
Speaker 4: day was where's Pope today? He's he's back on his grind,
Speaker 4: chasing everybody around this year too.
Speaker 3: This Yaxle could be the best guy in the portal overall,
Speaker 3: could be one of one of the top five players
Speaker 3: in the portal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's talk of Alabama's all over him. Arkansas
Speaker 4: is on I mean, you name it. They want Yaxle.
Speaker 4: He's a double double guy. Uh he's I mean, all
Speaker 4: these guys have highlights. I usually tune in the highlight
Speaker 4: for a couple of minutes. I watched the whole like
Speaker 4: fifteen minute Yaxvill highlight. He's a He's a fun player
Speaker 4: that we'd love to have.
Speaker 3: He's from UAB and Chillie Donna. I guess has already posted.
Speaker 3: He thinks Alabama is gonna get it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: He drops random memes things like that. I think he
Speaker 4: did a Bama meme last night.
Speaker 6: He was also wrong on Magoon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so everybody's not calling you out here, but everybody's
Speaker 4: been a little thrown off.
Speaker 6: It can just.
Speaker 3: Change one change overnight.
Speaker 4: One booster calls a coach and says, I want that guy.
Speaker 4: Here's the money you didn't have, and that phone cally
Speaker 4: come completely change everything. But Yaxel he averaged like eighteen
Speaker 4: and twelve at UAB.
Speaker 6: He'll be in the NBA.
Speaker 4: If not, if he doesn't stick around this year testing
Speaker 4: the waters, certainly next year, and he'd be a great
Speaker 4: fit at UK, where they certainly need a lot of forts.
Speaker 3: I think it's safe to say Kentucky's in really good
Speaker 3: shape with Yaks. I think that's safe to say.
Speaker 6: How many eyeball emojis are you putting next to it?
Speaker 3: I would have posted it last night, but after what
Speaker 3: happened with Magoon, you know, you just but like you said,
Speaker 3: they could be in really good position with him and
Speaker 3: he decides to go to Alabama or he decides to
Speaker 3: go to the NBA.
Speaker 4: Michigan's also in there, but Michigan's been a real thorn
Speaker 4: in our side. Michigan's throwing around more money than any
Speaker 4: wants speak are expected this year. Testing may up there,
Speaker 4: but they're in the Mixporur too.
Speaker 3: Well, You're not gonna be able to blame Pope for
Speaker 3: a lack of effort because he's definitely doing everything he
Speaker 3: can to get the top players, and they're going all
Speaker 3: out on Yacks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Jason Pierre Junior, who's just kind of emerged
Speaker 4: in the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: No visit with him last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, he It's weird because I don't know if
Speaker 4: Pope would try to turn him into a point guard.
Speaker 4: He played off the ball mostly at Jacksonville State.
Speaker 6: Isn't that Harper? Is he still down there? Ray Harper?
Speaker 3: He's at the Jacksonville State that plays e KU and there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's still the coach there. I guess he's a
Speaker 6: Ray Harper.
Speaker 3: Biehlenberg County Breeman.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he played off the ball there. I don't know
Speaker 4: if you'd try to turn him to the point guard here.
Speaker 4: He's a little turnover prone, but maybe Pope could dial
Speaker 4: him in. But as a score, he is electric. Like
Speaker 4: I said, it was one of the talks in the
Speaker 4: entire country.
Speaker 3: So I think the news will die down now for
Speaker 3: the next several days because the transfer portal dead period
Speaker 3: started today. I'llbet it with today, so coaches can't have
Speaker 3: any visits. They can still communicate with them, I think
Speaker 3: on social media or whatever, but they can't have any
Speaker 3: face to face visits whatever during the dead period, which
Speaker 3: picks back up probably next Tuesday.
Speaker 6: So I think was so aggressive early?
Speaker 3: Yes, why was aggressive last night? Flying around everywhere.
Speaker 4: After his coaches show even though it didn't pan out
Speaker 4: with uh or who did he visit Monday? This is
Speaker 4: the one you reported. I'm getting my portal. Remember he
Speaker 4: did the coach a show then took off to Chicago. Yes,
Speaker 4: my brain is mushed with these portal targets. But no,
Speaker 4: that was Yacks. Yeah, that meet with Yas Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he met with Yax's agent last night.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So Pope's doing as best as he can in this window.
Speaker 4: And it sounds like just national people when they're chomming in.
Speaker 4: It seems like Kentucky has the money for all these
Speaker 4: sounds like Kentucky's in a good place financially. We just
Speaker 4: got closed the deal on some of them.
Speaker 3: So don't expect any news for a couple of days
Speaker 3: unless somebody recruit decides to go ahead and commit that.
Speaker 3: Maybe he has met with some people, but I think
Speaker 3: it'll die down. Let's get one quick call where we
Speaker 3: go to break who we got Lamb?
Speaker 6: Jason?
Speaker 3: It's Jared Pierre, by the way, Karen Pierre. That's who
Speaker 3: I know. He met with him last night. Bill, who
Speaker 3: got Limb? Who's this?
Speaker 6: Bill? Go ahead? Bill? Real quick?
Speaker 7: Hey, unders nil stuff. Let's say we'd give a player
Speaker 7: a million dollars to come to Kentucky. Do they have
Speaker 7: to do anything score so many points there or get
Speaker 7: so many rebounds? Is it? Or do we just hand
Speaker 7: them the money and hope they show up.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 3: Bill, appreciate the phone call. We had a couple of
Speaker 3: football players that were getting big paycheck that didn't even
Speaker 3: hardly play. That's it. You got to give it to them,
Speaker 3: no matter what they do on the on the court,
Speaker 3: on the field. We've had other schools give big money
Speaker 3: to guys that just didn't produce during the season last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm for players getting getting their money, but I
Speaker 4: thought the concept was you do a Clark's Pumping Shop commercial,
Speaker 4: get a little money. You wear a T shirt or
Speaker 4: sell a T shirt, you get a little money. It
Speaker 4: is just absolutely how much we pay you to come
Speaker 4: play here right now and right now. There's no contracts
Speaker 4: or agreements. They just come to school and get their bag.
Speaker 4: I mean even with curR, even though he was injured. No,
Speaker 4: I can't make a guy play when he's hurt. But
Speaker 4: you know, Kerr got his money.
Speaker 6: Put his money. It's not like they have.
Speaker 3: To want to play. What two three games.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't have.
Speaker 4: To check certain certain guidelines like you would have pro
Speaker 4: contract to get your bonuses. It's just hey, here's a
Speaker 4: bunch of money. Come to this school that's soon.
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