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Speaker 2: This is not Matt Jones. Welcome into Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: I am Drew Franklin filling in for Matt Jones. I'm
Speaker 2: also filling in for Ryan Lemon, I'm filling in for
Speaker 2: Shannon the Dude, and I'm filling in for our guy
Speaker 2: Mario Maitland. All four of them took vacation at the
Speaker 2: same time this week, leaving me to fly solo. Got
Speaker 2: my guy, Billy r. Sports. He didn't take vacation. He
Speaker 2: lives here at the iHeart Studio. He'll be staying with me.
Speaker 2: But you know, I feel phil lonely, so far used
Speaker 2: to having my guys here. I'm used to just showing up.
Speaker 2: Matt's done the show prep, but I'm flying solo. Feel
Speaker 2: a little bit like Kevin McAllister on Home Alone. Billy.
Speaker 2: Everybody just got on a plane and left me forgot
Speaker 2: all about me back here. But I will defend the
Speaker 2: KSR house while they're gone. We'll do some stuff we
Speaker 2: don't normally get to do when our parents and siblings
Speaker 2: are here. We'll eat some junk food, watch some rubbish,
Speaker 2: maybe get a little trouble, but we're gonna have a fun,
Speaker 2: fun week. First, I guess I gotta do our checklist. Billy,
Speaker 2: help me get you know you're the one that knows.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I get this right. First
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Speaker 2: We have the a Vision auto glass text machine. It
Speaker 2: is somewhere in Amsterdam. If you want to text that.
Speaker 2: It will not help us here, but feel free to
Speaker 2: blow Matt up as he is across the pond. And
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Speaker 4: Billy, We're underway. Absolutely, it's great to be with you, Drew.
Speaker 4: Like you've said throughout the week, We're just gonna keep
Speaker 4: showing up and doing ourb for Drew Palooza. Drew Unterrupted
Speaker 4: was the name that I write. I like that one,
Speaker 4: but I know you're gonna kill it. So really looking
Speaker 4: forward to this week and glad to be with you today.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate you sticking around. You just did
Speaker 2: a good a pre show Drew Palooza. I feel like
Speaker 2: puts a lot of pressure on me. I just want
Speaker 2: to show up and do the show like I've been
Speaker 2: doing for a decade. I know the guys are gone,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to keep it kind of the same.
Speaker 2: But Drew Palooza, I think a listener came up with
Speaker 2: that feels like it needs T shirts, signage, posters, that
Speaker 2: that feels like a little more than I need. It
Speaker 2: makes it a bigger event than I than I felt
Speaker 2: like coming into even though I am very excited to
Speaker 2: do this.
Speaker 4: Get a T shirt done, Kentucky branded. We got a
Speaker 4: graphic done about it. So I hope you're not feeling
Speaker 4: the pressure, Drew, But the the entire state's going to
Speaker 4: be listening.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, maybe even people beyond.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe so well, Uh, we.
Speaker 2: Could start a lot of different directions, you know, Mark
Speaker 2: Pope added another player to the to the roster over
Speaker 2: the weekend, lots of trans transfer, portal news. But Billy,
Speaker 2: I went to start with the state of our country.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about that? Did you see it
Speaker 2: going that way? In your face? Looks terrified right now?
Speaker 4: Just a state of the Union to start, Drew week I.
Speaker 2: Love you know, well, we've been divided as a nation lately,
Speaker 2: but on Saturday we were all united, with Duke giving
Speaker 2: us an all time collapse in the final four. So
Speaker 2: even though we could talk about our own roster, how
Speaker 2: it looks, how it's shaping out, what we need, who
Speaker 2: we're talking to, I would much rather talk about that
Speaker 2: meltdown that we saw in San Antonio, because I'm sure
Speaker 2: you're like me. It absolutely made the weekend.
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag's face when he got called for that over
Speaker 4: over the back foul after the misfree throw.
Speaker 2: Incredible priceless. No, they tried to tell us he was
Speaker 2: better than Anthony Davis could slurp up the tears. They
Speaker 2: tried to tell us Zion was better Nanthony Davis. Neither
Speaker 2: one of them got a ring. Duke led for thirty
Speaker 2: five minutes, thirty five minutes over Houston. They led by
Speaker 2: fourteen with eight minutes left, nine with two minutes left, six,
Speaker 2: with thirty seconds left. ESPN gave them a ninety nine
Speaker 2: percent chance of winning. Houston got it done, scoring nine
Speaker 2: points in the final thirty three seconds. Did you ever
Speaker 2: thinking that game that Houston could pull it off? And
Speaker 2: did you celebrate as much as I did? I almost
Speaker 2: went to State Street. I'm that much of a hater
Speaker 2: against Duke that I treated it like my own team.
Speaker 4: In one thought the game was Overdrew. I'm one hundred
Speaker 4: percent honest with you. I was starting to move on
Speaker 4: to other things, starting to look at my phone a
Speaker 4: little bit more than watching the game, and they just
Speaker 4: keep hanging around, hanging around, and john Shire collapses at
Speaker 4: the end.
Speaker 2: How great was that? It?
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 4: I was stunned, though, weren't you? I mean, I jaw
Speaker 4: on the floor while celebrating. Obviously, with Duke loving I
Speaker 4: was stunned that Houston was able to make that comeback. Duke,
Speaker 4: I think one field goal in the final ten minutes of.
Speaker 2: Your game, Chef's kiss. I wasn't gonna confess to this,
Speaker 2: but you said you started doing other things. I in
Speaker 2: the second half turned on the movie Conclaves about electing
Speaker 2: a new Pope. I had the game on. You know,
Speaker 2: I bring out my side TV. It's usually for NFL Sundays.
Speaker 2: I prop it up in a little chair in my
Speaker 2: living room next to my usual TV. But Conclave took
Speaker 2: over the big TV. I was so tired of watching
Speaker 2: the Duke love Fest. They kept showing Coach k kept
Speaker 2: telling me how great Cooper Flag is. So I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I got to find out who this
Speaker 2: new pope is that they're electing. In this movie that
Speaker 2: won an Oscar was nominated for an Oscar. But I
Speaker 2: had it on corner of the room, kind of watching it,
Speaker 2: a little side of them about three minutes left out
Speaker 2: of side. Okay, this is going to the big TV
Speaker 2: with sound. Just absolutely love the collapse. I thought, for
Speaker 2: a moment, you know, Houston got that technical foul. Yeah,
Speaker 2: reaching over on the inbounds and Kelvin Samson put his
Speaker 2: face in his hands, and I thought it was a
Speaker 2: good run. While we lasted, but they just continued to
Speaker 2: get it done. You mentioned that over the back call
Speaker 2: that really changed things. Even though Doug Shalls wasn't a
Speaker 2: part of that call, I felt like Doug got some
Speaker 2: good TV time there at the end of the game.
Speaker 2: I really really happy for Doug. Big moment for him
Speaker 2: in that game. But what'd you think about that over
Speaker 2: the back call. That's kind of a big talking point
Speaker 2: as part of the collapse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, listen, it's Duke, So I think the
Speaker 4: consensus is that, you know what, that was a foul.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna cry over Duke having a bad call
Speaker 4: against them, but we've seen a lot of questionable calls
Speaker 4: in college basketball this year, so I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 4: not going to act shocked when there's a questionable one
Speaker 4: on one of the biggest stages in college basketball this year.
Speaker 4: But ultimately it was just it was it was really
Speaker 4: great to see. I'm really happy for Kelvin Samps and
Speaker 4: that guy's story and about building that basketball program at
Speaker 4: Houston has been incredible. Jim Nance as well, you know,
Speaker 4: shedd and tears. It is a good story with Houston,
Speaker 4: but overall, just glad to see Duke not in that
Speaker 4: big game tonight.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite aspects of the game, other than
Speaker 2: Duke making one field goal for the final ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Really impressive stat from Duke's seven foot two projected top
Speaker 2: ten pick. Mal you watch zero rebounds, you are seven
Speaker 2: foot two and you are being considered a top ten pick.
Speaker 2: Some mock drafts even have him in the top five.
Speaker 2: My man got zero rebounds in the National championship and
Speaker 2: it even better statistic he was a minus twenty and
Speaker 2: twenty one minutes of basketball. How is that even possible.
Speaker 4: That they're not making up any ground with you out there,
Speaker 4: but with zero rebounders as a seven footer, I didn't
Speaker 4: realize that, Drew. That is that is hard to do.
Speaker 2: It's very hard to do. You can talk about the
Speaker 2: over back. You can also talk about Procter missing that
Speaker 2: free throw, Shire playing a little stallball. There was the
Speaker 2: stat that he was like seventy seven and zero when
Speaker 2: Duke has a ten point lead. Love seeing him fall apart.
Speaker 2: Kind of felt like that Kentucky game when Kentucky beat
Speaker 2: him in the Champions Classic, same situation, Cooper Flagg had
Speaker 2: a chance to win it against Kentucky. He slipped, but
Speaker 2: in this one went to that spin move that Mark
Speaker 2: Pope pointed out in the Kentucky game. I'm sure Mark
Speaker 2: Pope saw that coming against Houston and he just fell short,
Speaker 2: hit in front iron and it goes the other way
Speaker 2: and Houston gets the win.
Speaker 4: Little deja vu, wasn't it. I mean, just get put
Speaker 4: at Cooper in isolation. He's gonna rotate and then try
Speaker 4: to shoot. But against Kentucky he obviously turned the ball over.
Speaker 4: People told me that Kentucky did trail Duke by ten points,
Speaker 4: so I.
Speaker 2: Thought that, but that stat popped up that it had
Speaker 2: not happened, so I guess CBS needs to get the
Speaker 2: stats correct.
Speaker 4: I read it as that had not happened on the
Speaker 4: pre show, and then I got a bunch of people
Speaker 4: correcting me, so I assume that it did happen. But
Speaker 4: that was just such a signature win for Mark Pope
Speaker 4: this year, not only beating Duke but Gonzaga and then
Speaker 4: to see Duke lose was.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna lie. That made for
Speaker 4: a great I guess what would you say, cap of
Speaker 4: the day after Florida and Auburn as well the day
Speaker 4: before the same day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one more thing on Duke Houston. Yeah, how about
Speaker 2: White Lotus just they knew, they had to have known,
Speaker 2: but it was like episode two or three earlier in
Speaker 2: the season. We're not playing spoiler on White Lotus. I
Speaker 2: know last last finale I did. I won't ruin it
Speaker 2: for everyone, but if you haven't seen like the second
Speaker 2: or third episode by now, that's on you. But one
Speaker 2: of the main characters, the dad, is wearing a Duke
Speaker 2: T shirt and he puts a gun to his head
Speaker 2: for that screenshot of a Duke fan right there with
Speaker 2: the bullet to his dome. And we thought this will
Speaker 2: pop up back up in the installed tournament. We thought
Speaker 2: maybe the first weekend, and an upset looked like the
Speaker 2: White Lotus meme had died, and then they blow that
Speaker 2: huge lead and that thing was all over the internet,
Speaker 2: as it should have been.
Speaker 4: Incredibly timely. I mean with the with the finale last night,
Speaker 4: it's like they thought this through and they said, Hey,
Speaker 4: our finale will be the weekend of the Final four.
Speaker 4: Let's put him in some apparel of a team that
Speaker 4: could be there and it ends up being it. But
Speaker 4: for Duke to you know, were they like suing for
Speaker 4: this or they need to take it down, or they
Speaker 4: were whining about it?
Speaker 2: Oh did you watch the finale? I did. Yeah, Well
Speaker 2: they did it again with the scene. There's another scene
Speaker 2: with the T shirt. Not going to reveal anything about
Speaker 2: what happens in the storyline, but there. They gave us
Speaker 2: another meme last night. But just great to see Duke lose.
Speaker 2: I know it's not the right attitude you should have
Speaker 2: when your team's not in it, to be hating on
Speaker 2: another team so much, but that's that's what we are
Speaker 2: as Kentucky fans.
Speaker 4: And they and they tried a full court pass at
Speaker 4: the end of that game drew. Oh yeah, they tried it,
Speaker 4: and the college basketball gods were not gonna let that
Speaker 4: happen twice.
Speaker 2: I mean that one wasn't even close. But even the
Speaker 2: even the fade away at the end had a little
Speaker 2: late nourished Why didn't he hit front iron back in
Speaker 2: ninety two? Yeah, but on the other game, Florida Advance
Speaker 2: beating Auburn. Auburn led for that much of that one.
Speaker 2: It was Bruce Pearl's second Final four appearance after twenty
Speaker 2: nineteen when he got in beating our Kentucky Wildcats and
Speaker 2: that Elite eight stupid Tigers in that one. But I
Speaker 2: thought it was interesting. I'm sure that they've featured this
Speaker 2: on the broadcast. Lots of people already know, but the
Speaker 2: connection of Pearl and Todd Golden. Pearl coached Todd Golden
Speaker 2: in the Jewish Olympics years ago, and then really Todd
Speaker 2: Golden was one of Pearl's very first hires at Auburn.
Speaker 2: He hired his son Steven and he hired Todd Golden.
Speaker 2: So a history with those guys. And then they meet
Speaker 2: Florida versus Auburn first SEC matchup in the Final four.
Speaker 2: Did it turn out the way he thought it? Did it?
Speaker 5: Did?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: Florida was my National Championship pick for a reason because
Speaker 4: when they play at that tempo, they are hard to stop.
Speaker 4: And Walter Clayton showed off his layup package. Man, I mean, boy,
Speaker 4: was he good first player since Larry Bird I think
Speaker 4: to have back to back thirty point games in the
Speaker 4: Elite eight in the Final four, and he was incredible.
Speaker 4: He had to be I mean he had to be
Speaker 4: ever sense of the word incredible for Florida to win
Speaker 4: that game. You know, Broom has been a great story
Speaker 4: as the National Player of the Year and a guy
Speaker 4: coming from Morehead. I feel like I've kind of rooted
Speaker 4: for him a little bit to a degree for Auburn,
Speaker 4: but I thought, you know, it was a good game.
Speaker 4: Auburn was up eight at halftime, so for Florida to
Speaker 4: come back and the baby faced Todd Golden to keep
Speaker 4: it rolling. Now is it the youngest coach or the
Speaker 4: oldest coach could win the title tonight and him and
Speaker 4: Calvin Sampson. So I'm looking forward to a fun matchup.
Speaker 2: What about you?
Speaker 4: What'd you think of that?
Speaker 2: Sec? I was pretty indifferent. You know, Florida, I guess
Speaker 2: they're they're pretty far behind in titles, but you don't
Speaker 2: want them getting too many. Where they got two. They
Speaker 2: won in twenty six, two thousand and seven. It's the
Speaker 2: last time they were there, so I leaned Auburn a
Speaker 2: little bit, even though the belts in Reparina were still
Speaker 2: fresh on my mind. I didn't want to have them
Speaker 2: to have the satisfaction. But you nailed at Walter Clayton.
Speaker 2: He's special thirty four points. I mean, I du was
Speaker 2: at Iona for Rick Patino a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: transfers to Florida has a special year. It's makes us
Speaker 2: look back on that January game in reperena. How in
Speaker 2: the heck to Kentucky? Well, they didn't really contain him.
Speaker 2: I think it's one oh seven to one oh two,
Speaker 2: But Kentucky pulling that off looks even better in hindsight.
Speaker 2: You know what it was?
Speaker 4: It was that early start. I mean, Kentucky's such an
Speaker 4: old team, true that they were able to get it
Speaker 4: out of the way, go to that early early bird
Speaker 4: special at Golden Corral afterwards and get to bed by
Speaker 4: eight o'clock. I mean, those old guys makes a difference,
Speaker 4: but it does make you scratch your head a little bit.
Speaker 4: How did they beat that Florida team? Now that they'll
Speaker 4: be playing tonight in the National Championship, it goes to
Speaker 4: show you what this team's potential and ceiling was when
Speaker 4: they were fully healthy.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, one more note I head from the final four,
Speaker 2: then we'll move on. We have Corey Price in studio.
Speaker 2: He's going to teach us about Kentucky's eight National Championships.
Speaker 2: I thought it's, you know, championship Day, and since we're
Speaker 2: not a part of it, we will reflect on the
Speaker 2: eight times Kentucky did win it. So a lot of
Speaker 2: us remember twenty twelve, ninety six, ninety eight. But we'll
Speaker 2: start back at the beginning. I don't have a lot
Speaker 2: of firsthand knowledge of those and memories, but we did
Speaker 2: some homework and Corey's going to teach us a lot
Speaker 2: about those. But like that before we get to that
Speaker 2: and the transfer portal news that was big over the weekend.
Speaker 2: One more from the Final four? Did you see Jelly
Speaker 2: Roll playing before the Final four games? I saw he performed.
Speaker 4: I asked the fiance if she liked Jelly Roll. She
Speaker 4: said she wasn't a fan, and then I think we
Speaker 4: changed it after that?
Speaker 2: What did?
Speaker 4: What did Jelly Roll do as well?
Speaker 2: I like Jelly Roll. I'm not I don't drive around
Speaker 2: listening to jelly Roll, but when it comes on, you know,
Speaker 2: I'll sing a little bit. And he's apparently the nicest
Speaker 2: guy of all time. He lives in Nashville. I have
Speaker 2: friends that have known him a little bit, golfed with him,
Speaker 2: live near him, and they just act like he is
Speaker 2: the greatest human on earth, even though you know, judging
Speaker 2: a book by its cover with all the tattoos and
Speaker 2: stuff might not come across that way. But I'm bringing
Speaker 2: him up because in his performance, his drummer was wearing
Speaker 2: a Louisville football jersey. I guess Jelly Roll has a
Speaker 2: Louisville fan in his group. Also odd to wear a
Speaker 2: football jersey at a at a Final four event, whatever that.
Speaker 2: But the cameras turned him so you didn't see that.
Speaker 2: He take the cameras right on him. It's a solo
Speaker 2: shot on this cards fan drumming for Jelly Roll, and
Speaker 2: he just takes his drumstick and licks it from bottom
Speaker 2: to top while looking at the camera. It was very
Speaker 2: Louisville behavior. You're on the big stage, you're wearing the
Speaker 2: wrong uniform. But I thought for a second Louisville was
Speaker 2: gonna have a cool moment being part of the Final
Speaker 2: four introduction. And then my man just licks his drumstick
Speaker 2: up and down, proving that, you know, louis Of fans,
Speaker 2: they just are what they are.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know, probably getting a little too intimate with
Speaker 4: your musical instruments there. I always think of when you
Speaker 4: think of Louisville behavior, the fan drinking out of the
Speaker 4: garbage bag and the Louisville tailgate and can you remember
Speaker 4: that one?
Speaker 2: What a classic? She full bag of trash and ripped
Speaker 2: off a bottom corner and just chugged it.
Speaker 4: Get a little testy right now with all their transfer
Speaker 4: portal additions.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, we'll get to that next. They're doing
Speaker 2: pretty well. We got a pat Lousville on the back,
Speaker 2: but not too hard. Kentucky also got an edition. Over
Speaker 2: the weekend. You had Jacob Polchek from KSR Plus on
Speaker 2: on the KSR pre show. And as he was leaving
Speaker 2: packing things up, saying goodbye to me, I said, where
Speaker 2: are you going? Why don't you just stay? We're gonna
Speaker 2: talk portal. Might as well have Jacob on. So Jacob
Speaker 2: will do the next segment with us. As we go
Speaker 2: over where Kentucky he stands in the portal. Who they added?
Speaker 2: How the roster shakes up? Corey Price is here? He
Speaker 2: brought donuts. He also brought me a gift that he says,
Speaker 2: I have to open on the air. Oh is that right?
Speaker 2: We'll do it later. It's nicely wrapped in a plastic bag.
Speaker 2: Might have moved there for a minute, so I'm a
Speaker 2: little nervous about what that could be. We got Keenlan,
Speaker 2: we got masters a lot going on, but we'll take
Speaker 2: a break now, we'll come back with Jacob and the
Speaker 2: news around Kentucky basketball, and we'll be right back. Welcome
Speaker 2: back to KSR. Drew Franklin filling in for the whole
Speaker 2: crew as they take vacations. At the same time, Billy
Speaker 2: our Sports is here with me. He's gonna do the
Speaker 2: full two hours. I appreciate Billy sticking around after his
Speaker 2: pre show so I can have some familiarity with the
Speaker 2: KSR personalities here.
Speaker 4: I'm tripling my hours of work, so that should be
Speaker 4: reflected on my paycheck, right.
Speaker 2: Big big money. Yeah, I guess we should get to
Speaker 2: the big roster news. As I mentioned in the first segment,
Speaker 2: Jacob from KSR Plus, who works around the clock track
Speaker 2: and recruiting and all the Kentucky basketball movements, was on
Speaker 2: his way out of the building and I said, well, heck,
Speaker 2: why don't you just stick around with us. We're gonna
Speaker 2: be talking about it, you know, as much as anyone.
Speaker 2: So Jacob, I appreciate, appreciate you hanging around hope you
Speaker 2: know someone's watching your dog. I know usually the dog
Speaker 2: sittings an issue. I hope we're not keeping you away
Speaker 2: from home for too long. Is that we good?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Hey, if he's if he's gonna do damage, he's
Speaker 3: probably already done it by now.
Speaker 4: So what's the harm You got a puppy tearing things
Speaker 4: up or what?
Speaker 3: He's got bad separation anxiety.
Speaker 2: But he's getting better with it, so he'll be all right. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll run through what's happening with UK basketball, then you
Speaker 2: can go check on your pupp But I appreciate you
Speaker 2: being here as we react to the big news over
Speaker 2: the weekend. On Saturday, Kentucky added a point guard to
Speaker 2: the back court. Jalen Lowe, a six three hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy five lefty from Pittsburgh. He was third team All ACC.
Speaker 2: He has two years left of eligibility. Averaged sixteen eight
Speaker 2: sixteen point eight points, five point five assists, four point
Speaker 2: two rebounds, and a sophomore year for a pretty terrible
Speaker 2: pit team. They went eight and twelve in the ACC.
Speaker 2: He's got some good size. Watching his tape, he can
Speaker 2: really get to the rim. Great change of pace makes
Speaker 2: his free throws looks like a good stry didn't shoot
Speaker 2: it that well. Shot twenty seven percent from three at
Speaker 2: thirty eight percent from the field. A lot of people
Speaker 2: are hoping that getting into Pope's system and having some
Speaker 2: better pieces around instead of playing for a terrible team
Speaker 2: will help his efficiency. But Jacob, I'll start with you.
Speaker 2: What did you think of the addition of low over
Speaker 2: the weekend?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Billy, let me know that people are not too
Speaker 3: happy about this edition, but I think it's a really
Speaker 3: good pick up for Kentucky. Like you said, he's not
Speaker 3: the best shooter, but he's come up clutch.
Speaker 2: In a lot of games.
Speaker 3: If you want to get excited about this guy, I
Speaker 3: urge you to look back at his game against Duke
Speaker 3: his freshman year. So a couple of years ago, he
Speaker 3: hit the game winning shot over Kyle Philipowski at Duke
Speaker 3: in Cameron Indoor, shushing the Duke fans. So he's an
Speaker 3: exciting player. And I had a pit beat writer text
Speaker 3: me about him that they're getting a really, really good player.
Speaker 2: I'm sold on a big shot in Duke. Also, he
Speaker 2: played Louisville twice this year. Twenty four points, six assists
Speaker 2: in one game, sixteen points, ten rebounds, favassists and the other.
Speaker 2: I even wrote down what Pat Kelsey said about and
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey said, he's a dynamic guard. He puts fouls
Speaker 2: on you. He's as fast and quick twitch as any
Speaker 2: guard we're gonna play against. He has an uncanny knack
Speaker 2: when he gets to the rim and if you come over,
Speaker 2: he has this ability at the last second to whoop
Speaker 2: and fire that thing for threes. So looks like we'll
Speaker 2: have to put some shooters around him. But it's a
Speaker 2: guy that can really facilitate. He and O Way will
Speaker 2: make great drivers. I just mentioning the negative reaction. I
Speaker 2: think he's a good piece. I think a lot of
Speaker 2: that is everyone wanted Dent. You know Kentucky. It's everybody
Speaker 2: wants the number one ranked of everything. You lose Dent
Speaker 2: to UCLA, who followed Kentucky's big offer with a big
Speaker 2: offer of their own and kept him home. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, we gotta trust Pope. I think Pope found
Speaker 2: what he wanted. I like what I've seen him low.
Speaker 2: I like how I can fit, how he can make
Speaker 2: a big jump. But there is a little bit of
Speaker 2: fan disappointment, which I feel like our fans just read
Speaker 2: the stats on ESPN dot com. They see a site
Speaker 2: ranked transfer portals and then they're like, I can't believe
Speaker 2: we lost this guy when they probably didn't even know
Speaker 2: that person was on the two months ago. But there
Speaker 2: has been a little bit of a disappointing reaction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think you're getting Low at a much
Speaker 3: better value than you would have gotten Dent being the
Speaker 3: number one player in the portal.
Speaker 2: He went for a lot of nil money.
Speaker 3: Getting a guy like Low, you're not spending as much
Speaker 3: you can build out the rest of the roster, and
Speaker 3: he was really i'd say probably their third option at
Speaker 3: point guard, so you're not going too far down the list.
Speaker 3: But I think they got a really good player in Low.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think Kentucky fans spent all year trashing the ACC
Speaker 4: and now they've got to turn around and talk themselves
Speaker 4: into a third team All ACC guard. But that doesn't
Speaker 4: mean that he doesn't have room to grow to become
Speaker 4: a better player and could be even better in a
Speaker 4: system like Mark Pope's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think you put him around SEC talent,
Speaker 3: you put him around Kentucky talent. He's not going to
Speaker 3: be shooting as much as he did at Pittsburgh, So
Speaker 3: it'll allow him to be more efficient. And if you
Speaker 3: want proof of a guy that can shoot the ball
Speaker 3: a little better at point guard, just look at Lamont
Speaker 3: Butler what he did going from San Diego State to Kentucky.
Speaker 3: I think Low could have a growth like that. And
Speaker 3: he's lefty, and he's lefty.
Speaker 4: Which is all left backcourt. It's getting a lot of lefties, Jasper.
Speaker 2: Johnson and Kayden Lewis now Low. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is about lefties, and I am a lefty, so
Speaker 2: maybe I should know. Corey, you're a lefty. You just
Speaker 2: raised your left hand. That told on yourself that you're
Speaker 2: a lefty. It just I don't know if it really
Speaker 2: matters to a defender. Maybe it does, but it just
Speaker 2: looks so much better when a lefty shooting ball. It
Speaker 2: really does. I don't know the science behind it, maybe
Speaker 2: just because it looks so different, but it just looks
Speaker 2: so pure when you've got a lefty shooting, and we
Speaker 2: got three of them in the back court looking forward
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 4: Well, football too, like you don't see it often because
Speaker 4: it changes you know a lot. You know, your left
Speaker 4: tackle is not the blind side blocker anymore. Receivers kind
Speaker 4: of have to play a different ball. And but Michael
Speaker 4: Pennix is doing it with the Atlanta Falcons and it's
Speaker 4: just esthetically pleasing.
Speaker 2: Dan's not forget the hefty lefty, our favorite lefty call time,
Speaker 2: of course, Jacob, before you go back to dog sitting,
Speaker 2: what else should we be looking for in the transfer
Speaker 2: portal right now?
Speaker 3: The one guy that I'm watching right now is Wesley
Speaker 3: Yates from USC scored fourteen points a game last year,
Speaker 3: and Kentucky has already reached out to him.
Speaker 2: They're recruiting him.
Speaker 3: Another school to watch there is Washington, and so he's
Speaker 3: got I got my eyes on him. And then we've
Speaker 3: got a full list of guys that they're going after
Speaker 3: over on ks R plus.
Speaker 2: But check out kiss our plus. Check out kiss our Plus.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Wesley Yates is really the number one target
Speaker 3: in my eyes right now.
Speaker 2: He's a great example of the fan overreaction. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if we'll get Wesley Yates. You're in
Speaker 2: a good spot. But on Friday, Kentucky fans are like,
Speaker 2: there's no more people left, the portals closed. What are
Speaker 2: we gonna do? And then Wesley Yates enters. You've got
Speaker 2: guys enter in today. The thing's right from Baylor just ending.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's open for two more weeks. I wrote
Speaker 2: a big thing about this. I'm not telling you how
Speaker 2: to fan, but it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 2: If a guy goes to another school because he had
Speaker 2: a zoom with Mark Pope or that, you think the
Speaker 2: portal's closed and there's no one left. Wesley Yates is
Speaker 2: a great example. No one was talking about him last
Speaker 2: week on Friday, the sky is falling in Big Blue Nation.
Speaker 2: Saturday morning, Yates pops up in a good spot there. Pierre,
Speaker 2: who I called Jason Pierre last week, still embarrassed by that.
Speaker 2: He's still in the mix. So a lot of good
Speaker 2: options overall. Before we let you go out out KSR plus,
Speaker 2: things going well there after a few you know, the
Speaker 2: dent thing. We weren't not our fault. It changed on
Speaker 2: a dome. But you kind a lot of heat for that.
Speaker 2: When you're doing all right, we good. I'm doing good.
Speaker 3: I think the people on ks R plus are the
Speaker 3: ones that understand because they saw the full shift. They
Speaker 3: saw it go from Kentucky's in a good spot. Oh,
Speaker 3: UCLA's picking up traction. Oh, Ucla might have the lead
Speaker 3: to all right, he's going to UCLA.
Speaker 2: Well cool, Keep following Jacob there on KSR plus ks board.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of fun. We have a show
Speaker 2: thread going every day on ks board. Check that out.
Speaker 2: But Jacob, thank you for stopping by and dropping a
Speaker 2: little insight on low and we look forward to what
Speaker 2: you're reporting next. Maybe a commitment today, who knows? That's
Speaker 2: not a Ryan lemontoo much. Just not hoping, but should
Speaker 2: be more pieces fallowing soon. Absolutely, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jacob. All right, well we'll take another break.
Speaker 2: Corey Price. We're gonna let him talk. He brought donuts.
Speaker 2: That's the least we can do. So we'll be right
Speaker 2: back on KSR. Here's not Matt Jones. I'm Drew Franklin,
Speaker 2: sitting with my good friend Billy Rutledge. Corey Price plugging
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Speaker 2: True, that's right, it's been a long time. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to some golf you like my hat. Little masters have here.
Speaker 2: It's that time of the year. The birds chirping, Billy,
Speaker 2: the fake birds are chirping. A few more portal things
Speaker 2: that we didn't get to with jacobf This just flies by, Billy.
Speaker 2: I got a bunch of notes. It's not gonna get
Speaker 2: to half.
Speaker 4: Of them' that's what happens. But you'd rather be over
Speaker 4: prepared than under prepared, right.
Speaker 2: I'm a big prepared guy. I always want to be prepared.
Speaker 2: Kerr crisa. He has a new home. He entered the
Speaker 2: portal leaving Kentucky a week ago, spent five or six
Speaker 2: days shopping around, and he has landed at Cincinnati. He
Speaker 2: will be a bear Cat, going back to the Big
Speaker 2: Twelve for his sixth season of college basketball. Unbelievable six seasons.
Speaker 2: I'll even play his old school West Virginia and Arizona,
Speaker 2: both old schools in the Big Twelve. But Kerr, we
Speaker 2: were expected him to enter the portal. He did. There
Speaker 2: were rumors about Saint John's maybe being in the mix.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear much about Cincinnati, but yesterday news dropped
Speaker 2: at Kerr will be a Bearcat just going across the river.
Speaker 2: What do you think about that news, Billy?
Speaker 4: You know, shades of C. J. Frederick. I wish him
Speaker 4: nothing but the best. You know, I've heard rumblings that
Speaker 4: maybe things weren't the best behind the scenes, But look,
Speaker 4: that's a guy that even after breaking his foot, he
Speaker 4: still got back on defense and contested that shot. I
Speaker 4: will remember that for a while. Despite him not playing
Speaker 4: only like nine games, this year and getting that medical
Speaker 4: red shirt. But I know there's some pressure there in
Speaker 4: Cincinnati for that coach to make the tournament that he
Speaker 4: has not made it in four or five years at
Speaker 4: this point. But do you feel like the new pit
Speaker 4: transfer is an upgrade over Kirkrisa in the grands game
Speaker 4: of things, because it feels like I do.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know that he'll be Laman Butler.
Speaker 2: I was a big fan of Lamont, but you gotta
Speaker 2: remember this time Lamont wasn't highly ranked. We all rely
Speaker 2: on these transfer portal rankings. Ansley Almanor was like number
Speaker 2: three hundred to something, three hundred and forty fifth and
Speaker 2: it was down to Siena in Kentucky. Yeah, we liked
Speaker 2: Ansley Almanora a right, right, Yeah, sure. Amari Williams was
Speaker 2: like seventy fifth. Did Amory turn out? Okay, now we don't.
Speaker 2: It's Kentucky. We don't always want to have the seventy
Speaker 2: fifth and three hundred and forty fifth person. I'm not
Speaker 2: sugarcoating things, but you gotta remember, we don't know what
Speaker 2: will happen when they get into the system, get around
Speaker 2: better pieces, go up a level. Pope's coaching the fan
Speaker 2: base and Reperena can bring the best out of people.
Speaker 2: So we truly don't know how these guys will pan out.
Speaker 2: But I did like Low, especially watching highlights. He's fun,
Speaker 2: he's quick.
Speaker 4: I have had to adjust my expectations in year one
Speaker 4: because cal would bring in all the five stars, right
Speaker 4: and you are getting guys from Drexvil in the transfer portal.
Speaker 4: But now in year two, the transfer portal is in
Speaker 4: full swing and you've got some cream of the crop
Speaker 4: in the SEC that it looked like some guys value
Speaker 4: over Kentucky right now. So it's just it's a brave
Speaker 4: new world. If you've read that book, Drew, and I
Speaker 4: think Mark Pope is the right guy for the job.
Speaker 4: But you know, also, I'm not going to expect him
Speaker 4: to get the best of the best every single time.
Speaker 2: I've not read that book. I have not read that
Speaker 2: at all. And if you look at last year's portal ranking,
Speaker 2: some of the top guys didn't pan out. The schools
Speaker 2: that did the best in the portal didn't have a
Speaker 2: great year. It's all about the right fit and I
Speaker 2: just got to trust Pope on this. There is one
Speaker 2: that was a bit of a loss we all wanted
Speaker 2: Yaksul Lindenberg from UAB. Yeah, number one guy in the portal.
Speaker 2: Kentucky was in great standing with him. Pope had flown
Speaker 2: to see him. They had been zooming. He picked Michigan
Speaker 2: on Saturday. So that is if we were going to
Speaker 2: say that there is a loss, that's one that hurt. However,
Speaker 2: there's talk that he will still go to the NBA.
Speaker 2: So as long as he just goes to the NBA
Speaker 2: and ditches Michigan in a couple months, then we can
Speaker 2: look at that. And maybe Pope was out in front
Speaker 2: of it. Maybe Pope even knew that was the case,
Speaker 2: but in the moment, it didn't love seeing Yaxell go
Speaker 2: to Michigan.
Speaker 4: You would really hate that if you're all in on
Speaker 4: this guy, he's committed to your school and then decides
Speaker 4: to just go to the NBA.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I think of recent recruiting Missus with Hunter Dickinson, with
Speaker 4: Great Osibor, and both of those guys I don't think
Speaker 4: lit up the world at their new stops, and I
Speaker 4: think you look back at it and say, thank God
Speaker 4: they didn't come here, right. So yeah, I do think
Speaker 4: Big Blue Nation, for the most part, needs to pump
Speaker 4: the brakes and allow this process to play out before
Speaker 4: you have your hot takes about how you think Pope
Speaker 4: is doing. But I'm not gonna lie. I've had to
Speaker 4: adjust my expectations a little bit over the last couple weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we all get antsy as teams started
Speaker 2: getting additions. Louisville's done well. We want to see stuff,
Speaker 2: but we also have to remember how last year went.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're way ahead of that, already in a
Speaker 2: better spot. I think people aren't considering assuming he stays,
Speaker 2: and so far it's looking like it will. I mean
Speaker 2: otega Oway would be top five in the portal. I
Speaker 2: think everyone was happy when you took Jasper Johnson from Alabama.
Speaker 2: I mean Nat Oates thought he had Jasper Johnson. Pope
Speaker 2: went and won that recruitment. Kayden Lewis down to duke
Speaker 2: in Yukon. Pope pulled him away from there. So there's
Speaker 2: still good pieces you got to consider in the grand
Speaker 2: scheme of.
Speaker 4: Things, and retaining otega Away is a huge part of
Speaker 4: what you want to do next year. And I'm not
Speaker 4: sure any news is dropped on that yet as he
Speaker 4: still waits to make a decision. But that's a guy
Speaker 4: I'd love to see in year two of Mark Pope system.
Speaker 4: And think about some of the other guys. Colin Chandler's
Speaker 4: another one that week.
Speaker 2: Expect sleeping on him, right, I mean, look at the
Speaker 2: jump he just made. You know, as everyone knows two
Speaker 2: years off from basketball, you get reminded of that inny
Speaker 2: time there's a game and he does something. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I mean, look at the jump he just made. From
Speaker 2: November to the NCAA tournament. If I had told you
Speaker 2: at Christmas he would be hitting logo threes and step
Speaker 2: back threes in March, mad as, you would have thought
Speaker 2: I'm crazy. But if he made that jump in a
Speaker 2: few months as a freshman, what about a whole summer
Speaker 2: and going into a sophomore season, what can he be
Speaker 2: capable of doing?
Speaker 4: And not specific to Chandler, but this team improved so
Speaker 4: much on defense after that Old Miss game. When it
Speaker 4: comes to Chempom ratings that it makes me confident that
Speaker 4: no matter the roster, Pope can adjust and get them
Speaker 4: to focus on things they need to.
Speaker 2: Corey Price, I haven't been talking to you yet. You're
Speaker 2: you've been here. I think you got here two hours early.
Speaker 2: You were here before, Billy, you were here before ready
Speaker 2: the people that opened the city center downtown.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Where where do you stand in your your patients and
Speaker 2: how you feel about the the transfer portal movement so far?
Speaker 6: Well, for I say, a long time listener of first
Speaker 6: time guest.
Speaker 2: Oh, welcome, first time at the bar, would never put
Speaker 2: the headset on you everyone, just so they know, I
Speaker 2: guess I better set up Corey if you don't know,
Speaker 2: and you probably do. We reference him a lot big
Speaker 2: on Twitter. Somehow finds every stat in the world, every
Speaker 2: newspaper clipping in the world, every uh school photo of
Speaker 2: every person we've ever had on the show, even school
Speaker 2: photos of people like Dan Docketts. To get to that,
Speaker 2: Dan is a great, great gab out Corey. Corey can
Speaker 2: find anything on the Internet and he's specific specifically good
Speaker 2: at stats. So we're gonna get to that a little later.
Speaker 2: But back to your your portal thoughts.
Speaker 6: I would see late great j T would say, it's
Speaker 6: now coach Pope, he's got it. Uh Like I said,
Speaker 6: uh uh he is a male alum. By the way,
Speaker 6: shout out to the Bulldogs. Yeah so uh like I said,
Speaker 6: last year, we were not nearly at this point, we've
Speaker 6: already got two guys. I think, uh, I'm I'm optimistic.
Speaker 6: I'm hoping for maybe the guy from Princeton.
Speaker 2: Maybe Lee, Yeah, Xavian Xavi. Lee looks good. I don't
Speaker 2: know what adding low will do. You're still looking at Pierre,
Speaker 2: but he's he's still an option. He's got some fun highlights.
Speaker 2: He's another guy that can get to the rim. Billy.
Speaker 2: I feel like we we had some calls and already
Speaker 2: lost one that they went away. I don't want to
Speaker 2: run people off. I'm already already taking too long to
Speaker 2: get to the Clark's Pumping Shop phone line.
Speaker 4: So it's on Monday. We understand if somebody has something
Speaker 4: come up at the beginning of the work, dake.
Speaker 2: But are you running it? There is Rick running it?
Speaker 4: Rick is running it?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Rick, let's go to the phone line. Good
Speaker 2: to see you, Rick, or hear from you, Rick. Who's
Speaker 2: up first on the phone line? First off is LLL
Speaker 2: cool ta love starting my week with LL cool ta
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 7: Hey, Hey, Drew and crew. Hey, I'm out here in
Speaker 7: Montana droning the skies, but I wanted to kind of
Speaker 7: figure out what we're gonna do with our roster. It
Speaker 7: seems like we are like point guard heavy right now.
Speaker 7: It seems like we need to add a big man
Speaker 7: down bow. I mean, we got Brandon Garrison and Malick High,
Speaker 7: but I feel like we need to add some more
Speaker 7: size or we might be getting bullet down low.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. But before I give my thoughts on that,
Speaker 2: you're you're manning a drone in Montana right now? That
Speaker 2: sounds fair. Is this just like a hobby or you're
Speaker 2: out there for work? Tell me more about your droning
Speaker 2: in Montana. I'm sure that's some good scenery at the moment,
Speaker 2: especially at that hour.
Speaker 7: Oh man, that's beautiful. Yeah, I do it for work.
Speaker 7: It's pretty low key, honestly, but you do get a
Speaker 7: couple of neighbors who, you know, get a little edgy
Speaker 7: with you.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, stay safe out there. If you can
Speaker 2: send a picture or something on Twitter, we'd love to
Speaker 2: see the droning in Montana. What's going on up there?
Speaker 2: But thanks for calling in. We appreciate the call. And
Speaker 2: he's exactly right. We're tracking a lot of guards, but
Speaker 2: little Finn in the in the front court. Garrison Marino,
Speaker 2: as he said, but you gotta go out and get
Speaker 2: some forwards. I know he's gonna get a stretch for
Speaker 2: that can shoot, can kind of fill that Andrew Carr Roll,
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't mind a little bit of depth there too.
Speaker 2: Pretty concerning at the moment, even though he'll eventually get it.
Speaker 2: But Kentucky's roster right now as it stands, has ten players.
Speaker 2: You got Low Lewis Perry at point guard, O Way
Speaker 2: Chandler Johnson at two guard, then little Cam Williams, Trenta
Speaker 2: on the wing, but then it's just Garrison and Marino Billy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know in Mark Pope's system, he's not
Speaker 4: going to play the bigs thirty thirty five minutes, so
Speaker 4: you're gonna see more rotation and depth is important there.
Speaker 4: I think the guy from Robert Morris as the stretch
Speaker 4: for is probably one that a lot of people have
Speaker 4: circled right now if you're looking at specific guys. But
Speaker 4: I mean, look that there is absolutely the front court
Speaker 4: is an issue right now. They don't have the depth
Speaker 4: that they need right now. I'm very confident that Malachi
Speaker 4: Moreno will be a good player, but will he be
Speaker 4: the first few games? Will he need to adjust to
Speaker 4: the physicality of the SEC. I mean, he is a freshman,
Speaker 4: so it would be nice to bring in a transfer
Speaker 4: portal guy with experience like.
Speaker 2: The Robert Morriscat. Oh yeah, I'm gonna try to say
Speaker 2: his name, Alvero Folquerz.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say that's correct until somebody says otherwise.
Speaker 2: It's been quiet around him, but he was one of
Speaker 2: the first names to pop up when transfer portal season started.
Speaker 2: He's been over in Spain. I guess just you know,
Speaker 2: gotta go home check on things. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he's back, but the plan has been to get him
Speaker 2: for a visit. But that's one you know, we don't
Speaker 2: know that anything's a done deal. But he seems like
Speaker 2: a favorite to fill that Andrew Carr stretch forward role.
Speaker 4: And every year we see more and more Europeans I
Speaker 4: feel like impacting the college and the professional game. Speaking
Speaker 4: of big Z has a new home in Illinois, I
Speaker 4: believe correct teaming up with his brother in Orlando, Antigua,
Speaker 4: so uh, you know, hopefully his stomach can hold up
Speaker 4: in Illinois. It's been quite their journey for him.
Speaker 2: It will be fun to see the Avisich brothers there.
Speaker 2: I guess Coach Oh worked at work the phone got
Speaker 2: big Z to join him there. Coach Oh was big
Speaker 2: and getting big Z here to Kentucky, big Z stepping
Speaker 2: away from Arkansas to go for some brother who love
Speaker 2: in Illinois. I guess I'll root for big Z a
Speaker 2: little bit. I know people are indifferent. They didn't love
Speaker 2: his reactions in Reparina. Oh yeah, bood whatever. I'll be
Speaker 2: cheering for big Z at Illinois a little bit, not
Speaker 2: cheering too hard, but I hope things go well. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm the same way. I feel like I'm defending him.
Speaker 4: He doesn't know any better, Drew. I mean, he's just
Speaker 4: doing what Cal told him to do, and now he's
Speaker 4: breaking away from Cal and going up there with Coach Oh.
Speaker 2: You can't take that Georgia game memory from me. That
Speaker 2: was too much like Tric. We got time for one more,
Speaker 2: Rick sure to Ryan's up next, Ryan, Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 5: How you doing, Drew? I met you years ago with
Speaker 5: the barn Burn Creek and uh long haired old whitehead guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds fun.
Speaker 5: I'm a happy Yeah, you remember me? I think anyway,
Speaker 5: I'm a happy man this morning. I can't Stan Duke
Speaker 5: and uh, I've got a root for Florida because Billy's
Speaker 5: talking about uh uh Kentucky bands trashing the acc or whatever.
Speaker 5: Uh they've been to Louisville and the national van. I've
Speaker 5: been trashing that uh Southeastern Conference teams for years in basketball,
Speaker 5: and we finally proved that we had good teams. And
Speaker 5: actually I think this he sees basketball better than the football.
Speaker 5: And it's not all about money because everybody's got money nowadays.
Speaker 5: Uh we Uh, it's about a lot of that's coaching
Speaker 5: and and the players were getting Now. I don't think
Speaker 5: it's all about money because I think us the Big
Speaker 5: Ten had the best, had the best teams. But I
Speaker 5: also wanted to go to shout out a shout out
Speaker 5: to the Kentucky administration for put Bellerman on the schedule
Speaker 5: because I like Bellerman. I like coach Davenport. Remember Legie
Speaker 5: play for coach Chattingport in that game, you know, in
Speaker 5: that high school game at Ballad. I guess Ballad years ago.
Speaker 5: But I guess that's about all I got.
Speaker 2: We appreciate the call. Hope to see in another bar
Speaker 2: in Fern Creek. Also, glad you know I don't know
Speaker 2: the rules on language, but uh when it's just a
Speaker 2: slip of the tongue, like it was more of a
Speaker 2: stutter than the actual word there, right, Billy, Well, yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know that matters in the fcc fins, but
Speaker 4: we're gonna hope that, uh we don't get one for that.
Speaker 4: Can I use a callism here for something that you
Speaker 4: can do whatever that he was talking about this there's
Speaker 4: no rules this week because he was talking about there's
Speaker 4: everyone gets back the SEC and college basketball. Coaches win games,
Speaker 4: but administrations win championships. And I think it is has
Speaker 4: a lot to do about money, despite what the caller
Speaker 4: is saying, because the SEC has committed to basketball in
Speaker 4: many recent years. You've seen the coaches salaries go up.
Speaker 4: You've seen some of the best coaches in the game
Speaker 4: in the SEC now. So it's going to be very
Speaker 4: different than your your granddad's SEC or Kentucky just strolling
Speaker 4: to the SEC championship.
Speaker 2: Game every year.
Speaker 4: I mean, they are legit and they are here to stay.
Speaker 4: So I think I will be rooting for Florida in
Speaker 4: the championship game tonight for that reason.
Speaker 2: I've had Houston on my bracket since the beginning. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna stick with that. But you know, I get people
Speaker 2: like in the SEC as I look at the clock,
Speaker 2: I'm worried about my National Championship history lessons. I'm already
Speaker 2: a little behind skin.
Speaker 4: Well, we got a whole second hour.
Speaker 2: I mean, we got a lot of national championships, and
Speaker 2: we got callers, we got the masters, we got we
Speaker 2: got so much to talk about. I'm way behind on
Speaker 2: my notes. So, yes, you got a whole week. So
Speaker 2: that's true. But you know, with Corey here, we got
Speaker 2: to go through our championships. Brought him in it. Why
Speaker 2: we flew him in it? Why I brought donuts. So
Speaker 2: let's take a quick break and we come back. We
Speaker 2: will start our history lessons on Kentucky's eight national championships,
Speaker 2: and we'll take more of your calls here on KSR.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: Drew Franklin with Billy Religion, Corey Price. We're about to
Speaker 2: start our history lesson on Kentucky's eight national championships. But
Speaker 2: first a couple little notes here. Some of our KSR
Speaker 2: listeners on Twitter have tweeted me at Drew Franklin KSR.
Speaker 2: Hit me up there Jelly Rolls. Drummer is Cody Ash
Speaker 2: from Mount Washington and he went to Bullet East. Shannon
Speaker 2: the dudes next, So maybe Shannon knows Cody. Maybe Shannon
Speaker 2: and Cody were licking drumsticks together in high school.
Speaker 4: Probably eating banana croquette, but drumsticks next thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, before we get to our championships, Corey, you
Speaker 2: were saying that your father and our guy Rick right
Speaker 2: in the Louisville studio, we're high school classmates. Yep.
Speaker 6: They went to training class in nineteen seventy. Uh yeah,
Speaker 6: I got that picture of them at your rocks. That's right,
Speaker 6: got picture of them from sixty eight, their sophomore year.
Speaker 6: It's a small, small world.
Speaker 2: Very very cool connection there we have on the show.
Speaker 2: But let's get right to our our history. You know,
Speaker 2: Kentucky's got eight national championships. We're just gonna tell you
Speaker 2: a little about it, a little bit about each one.
Speaker 2: We don't want to forget, you know, some of them
Speaker 2: been a while. We've got like four and sixty five years.
Speaker 2: I don't like to say that out loud, but you know,
Speaker 2: we want to win it every year. It's four four,
Speaker 2: I mean, we got we gotta get the We gotta
Speaker 2: pumped these numbers up. We gotta get Pope going. But first, Corey,
Speaker 2: let's start with the first one, nineteen forty eight eight
Speaker 2: off RUPs eighteenth season when Kentucky beat Baylor in the
Speaker 2: title game in Madison Square Garden. What else do we
Speaker 2: know about that first title season?
Speaker 6: Outside we have eight more titles than the balls, so
Speaker 6: it's oh yes.
Speaker 2: And several more final fours. Oh yeah, good.
Speaker 6: Note they had a thirty six and three record the
Speaker 6: end of the season, that sixteen game Wayne streak. They
Speaker 6: pushed the ball up up the floor. They were fifth
Speaker 6: in the country and scoring offense at sixty nine points
Speaker 6: a game.
Speaker 2: It's nice.
Speaker 6: The leading scorer was a fellow mel alum, Ralph Beard.
Speaker 6: I can do a shout out to Mail today. Today
Speaker 6: is their birthday at their first day classes on April seventh,
Speaker 6: eighteen fifty six.
Speaker 2: Today's male's birthday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, that's interesting years old to high school go dogs.
Speaker 6: That team had three All Americans, of course, Ralph Beard,
Speaker 6: Alex Groza, and Wawah Jones. All five starters were named
Speaker 6: to the All conference team.
Speaker 2: I think we ever called the Fab five. Huh is
Speaker 2: it that one of our most famous starting fives of
Speaker 2: all time.
Speaker 6: Nine guys were picked in the draft from from that team.
Speaker 6: Seven actually played in the pros. The schedule was a
Speaker 6: little weird for the Commerce player. They only played nine games,
Speaker 6: but they were nine to zero. Won the Commerce in
Speaker 6: the season, won the Commerce Tournament.
Speaker 2: As you allude to.
Speaker 6: They defeated Baylor fifty eight to forty two in the
Speaker 6: national title game. Alex Groz had led the Cats and
Speaker 6: scoring the game with twelve points. Was also named the
Speaker 6: final four most I say player.
Speaker 2: He was pretty good.
Speaker 6: And then during the summer, the starting five was part
Speaker 6: of Team USA that won Olympic gold. They defeated France
Speaker 6: in the gold medal game is sixty five to twenty one.
Speaker 2: Wow. I like that. We win the national championship and
Speaker 2: they're like, hey, you guys want to just represent America
Speaker 2: in the Olympics. Was an assistant UK was the first
Speaker 2: college program to have five Olympic gold medals. I'll add
Speaker 2: that stat I liked you you texted me. The song
Speaker 2: of the Year was Minyana by with Dave Barbering the Brazilians.
Speaker 2: I guess we'll do a.
Speaker 6: Song of the years number one. The week of the finals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I also want to add they beat Tennessee three
Speaker 2: times that year, three times. A little topical beat them
Speaker 2: in the SEC tournament. We loved beating Tennessee. And Cliff
Speaker 2: Barker one of the one of the Fab five. He
Speaker 2: was a World War Two veteran and he was shot
Speaker 2: down over Germany and was a prisoner for sixteen months.
Speaker 2: And while he was imprisoned, he dribbled a volleyball to
Speaker 2: polish his skills before going on to play for Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I mean, what a different era could you imagine as
Speaker 2: we're in the portal right now, Like we're looking at
Speaker 2: a guy in a prison camp in World War Two.
Speaker 2: He's been dribbling a volleyball. But that just shows you
Speaker 2: what that era was like. I had a couple of
Speaker 2: World War Two veterans on that team, just completely different times.
Speaker 4: And eighteenth season for rout before he won a title.
Speaker 2: Yeah, finally finally got one. We'll do a little more
Speaker 2: on nineteen forty eight, move on to nineteen forty nine
Speaker 2: after the break, but Rick's counted me down after the
Speaker 2: first hour. We've had fun so far. More championship facts,
Speaker 2: maybe some championship trivia, maybe some Keenland talk, maybe some
Speaker 2: Masters talk. It's Drew here with Billy and Corey having
Speaker 2: lots of fun on a Monday, kicking off Drew Week.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this break.