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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. It is the local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show.

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Speaker 1: Kentucky loses on Senior Night at home eighty four seventy

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Speaker 1: seven to the Florida Gators. Finished the season nineteen and twelve,

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Speaker 1: and now, depending on what happens in the Oklahoma Texas

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Speaker 1: game tonight, will either be the nine or ten seed

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Speaker 1: in the SEC Tournament. Playing on Wednesday for what I

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Speaker 1: believe is the first time in the history of Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever played on Wednesday before. Of course,

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Speaker 1: more teams play on Wednesday now because the conference has expanded,

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Speaker 1: But nevertheless, if I'm nine two eight h twenty two

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Speaker 1: eighty seven, Kentucky really never had a shot in this game.

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Speaker 1: And part of what is disappointing is they have now

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Speaker 1: played eighty minutes of basketball against Florida this year and

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Speaker 1: they have not led for one second of those eighty minutes.

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Speaker 1: Florida is better, and as my friend Aaron Fleeiner said

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Speaker 1: in a tweet, Florida is what Kentucky used to be

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Speaker 1: at various points in our history, and certainly in the

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Speaker 1: last thirty five years, Kentucky just you know, fell down

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Speaker 1: eleven nothing fought back, made it, made it eleven nine,

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Speaker 1: and then at one point twenty to nineteen, but then

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Speaker 1: gave up another thirteen er run and ended up with

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Speaker 1: being down thirty three nineteen, and then really never was over.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the closest they got was

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Speaker 1: at the end of the game, when really it was

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Speaker 1: I was there for the beginning. I love Senior Day.

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Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for everybody's families being there, and I'm

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Speaker 1: a sucker from my old Kentucky home. And it was

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Speaker 1: a great Kentucky pregame atmosphere. I will say once again,

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Speaker 1: you know, we have had some really really exciting I've

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Speaker 1: gone to three of the home games before just to

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Speaker 1: speerings the atmosphere in Tennessee, Vandy, in Kentucky and they

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Speaker 1: all have irkuen Me Kontenessee, vand in Florida, and they've

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Speaker 1: all been amazing. I mean, the fans showed up. Fans

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Speaker 1: showed up forty five minutes before the game. I mean

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Speaker 1: the place was full, it was electric in there, and

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Speaker 1: then just completely deflated at the beginning. I told Billy, I,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's hard enough for me to watching the

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Speaker 1: games in the arena. I just don't, especially especially at

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Speaker 1: way up. And I ended up leaving right after that

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Speaker 1: eleven zero run. It was like, I'll just watch it

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Speaker 1: at home, and it was it was bad. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can give Kentucky credit for fighting back, but I'm

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Speaker 1: sort of tired about I'm tired of being down huge

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Speaker 1: in the first half. It's been a problem under marks

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Speaker 1: down double digits in the first half. I had kept

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Speaker 1: mean literally, it's I think it's like fifteen times in

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Speaker 1: two years. It's a crazy amount and it's ridiculous for

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Speaker 1: Kentucky to do that. And it's ridiculous. They ended up

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Speaker 1: not getting blown out on the score, but if you

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Speaker 1: watch the game, you know we were blown out. And

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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous to get blown out at home. Kentucky should

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Speaker 1: not get blown out at home by anyone. You know,

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Speaker 1: occasionally you might get blown out on a road, but

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Speaker 1: you should never ever ever get blown out at home.

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Speaker 1: And while we only lost by seven. That's not how

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Speaker 1: the game played. The team way too often takes essentially breaks.

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Speaker 1: A perfect example to me was the play I believe

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Speaker 1: fourteen nine four. Well, no, he cut it to eleven

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Speaker 1: fourteen to nine. Am I right about that? Is that

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Speaker 1: And the excitement you got from a Diabat three, which

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Speaker 1: And the key sequence in the game. Obviously the start

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Speaker 1: Kentucky team not paying patiently, not getting back. Florida killed

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Speaker 1: maybe three times. It was literally just because we didn't

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Speaker 1: nine turnovers for the game. It was just not getting back.

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Speaker 1: And then Florida's really good. Don't get me wrong, Florida's

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Speaker 1: Tink you finishes nineteen and twelve in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: I judge. We've talked a lot about this on KSR.

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Speaker 1: I judge a team on three things. The non conference.

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Speaker 1: I want you to be play good teams, win games

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Speaker 1: that matter, and be competitive, but ultimately it doesn't really

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Speaker 1: if you look at the non conference, we went two

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Speaker 1: and Indiana's not that great, but beat Saint John's who

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Speaker 1: won the Big East, but got blown out by Michigan State,

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Speaker 1: blown out by Gonzaga, lost it home to North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: and didn't really get blown out by Louisville. But it

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Speaker 1: was a game very similar to this one where we

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Speaker 1: you get to conference play, and in conference play it's

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Speaker 1: the second straight year we finished ten and eight. Last

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Speaker 1: Pope at Kentucky has been twenty and sixteen in the SEC.

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Speaker 1: That's that's not what you do at Kentucky. You don't

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Speaker 1: go twenty and sixteen. You don't. So the SEC to

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Speaker 1: but it's it's barely passing. And the only reason I

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Speaker 1: your point guard at the beginning, and you did lose

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Speaker 1: like your six man. I've said to you, I don't

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Speaker 1: put anything on Jay and Quain's I never expected him

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Speaker 1: you have to understand there's a possibility he won't play.

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Speaker 1: But Jay, so not having Jalen Low and Cam Williams matters,

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Speaker 1: But that still doesn't excuse the record. We got more

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Speaker 1: So I just I don't accept that it's it's a factor,

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Speaker 1: Now the next thing is, yes, is he tournament and

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Speaker 1: Pope say we're going down there to win. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we have a coach that cares about it.

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Speaker 1: I care about it. But we haven't been good in

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Speaker 1: three games to get to the weekend. This time, we'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens. If Texas beats Oklahoma tonight, you might

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Speaker 1: I don't know where it fits out, but it looks

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Speaker 1: like maybe LSU or South Carolina or Ole Miss in

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Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament. I would say unless Kentucky wins multiple

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Speaker 1: games in the SEC tournament, you're probably looking at a seven.

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Speaker 1: Maybe if you win two games in the SEC and

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Speaker 1: maybe you get to a six, but that means you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a hard first round game in the NCAA.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna play somebody good. So there is a chance

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Speaker 1: to change the narrative on the season, but there are

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Speaker 1: no more room. There's no more room for mistakes. Tucky

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Speaker 1: finishes the year disappointing nineteen and twelve is not acceptable.

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Speaker 1: And I'll give you a stat that's sobering. In two seasons,

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Speaker 1: Mark Pope's regular season record is now only two games

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Speaker 1: better than Billy Gillespie's was two games. So sec is

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Speaker 1: better than it was then, but still two games. That's frustrating,

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Speaker 1: and it should be frustrating to all fans. And now

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Speaker 1: we see over the but things can change in March.

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Speaker 1: lot of times March just backs up what you saw

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Speaker 1: I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Want

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Speaker 1: to hear what you think about this? You know, what

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Speaker 1: I thought Otago way by the way went out playing

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Speaker 1: the ways played all year, gave it is all. Aberdeen

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Speaker 1: learned when they shut down Colin Chandler, this offense drags.

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Speaker 1: Happened tonight, and this happened a lot of the year.

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Speaker 1: Local Toy Dealers KSR postcam show. Welcome Back. It is

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Speaker 1: the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. A five, nine, two,

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Speaker 1: eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Some good questions on

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Speaker 1: the text machine. One person rights Matt. I hadn't realized

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Speaker 1: we were only two games better than Billy Gillespie. Billy

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Speaker 1: Gillespie didn't come back. Do you think Mark Pope should

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Speaker 1: come back? Well? Should is a complicated conversation. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he Shouldn't I think he I think you just

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Speaker 1: you do it for a variety of reasons, including the

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Speaker 1: fact that you know. There are a lot of reasons.

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Speaker 1: One is the contract. One is the Innisle situation across.

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Speaker 1: One is our athletic department budget. One is you know

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Speaker 1: he went here and we want it to work. But

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Speaker 1: I do think next year is the year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I do think next year is the year. And he

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Speaker 1: has no players, so it's it's understandable to be pessimistic.

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Speaker 1: I think Billy would have been here a third year

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Speaker 1: if not for the off the courts. But Billy would

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Speaker 1: been Okay, we'll see what happens in year three. I

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Speaker 1: would actually go so far as to say, if Billy

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Speaker 1: didn't have his meltdown at the end of that season

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Speaker 1: where you may remember he said I'm not ambassador for

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Speaker 1: the school and he had all kinds he said crazy stuff,

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Speaker 1: I think he probably would have been back for a

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Speaker 1: third year. I support him being back for third year,

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Speaker 1: but the third year will decide it, at least for

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Speaker 1: me going forward. One person rights, Matt, Let's say all

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Speaker 1: those guys were healthy, what would our record be. All

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Speaker 1: those guys were healthy, could be better. I'm not counting,

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Speaker 1: I mean appreciate the call. I mean that's I understand

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Speaker 1: of the fan base is agreed at that point. Now

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Speaker 1: on this, I think it's a lot closer, and I

431
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Speaker 1: think people are all over the place. Who's next? Ryan?

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Speaker 1: Is next? Ryan? Go ahead, Hey.

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Speaker 7: Matthew Albert Jones. I was just calling to see what

434
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Speaker 7: kind of success do you need to see from coach

435
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Speaker 7: Mark Pope in order to be excited for season three.

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Speaker 7: We got recruiting. It's a giant issue. Talent is an

437
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Speaker 7: issue where I've matched it every game we played.

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Speaker 1: Can I be honest with you on that question. There

439
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Speaker 1: will be almost nothing that can happen in the end

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Speaker 1: tournament that will change my mind. And let me say why.

441
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: I think the tournament there's a lot of randomness. So

442
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Speaker 1: let's say we make a run to the Elite eight.

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Speaker 1: Do I still think this roster was well put together? No?

444
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Speaker 1: I don't. Do I still not have problems with his coaching.

445
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: I do. So what would make me feel better going

446
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: in the next year them going out and getting a

447
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Speaker 1: good roster and not striking out with every recruit and

448
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 1: striking out with all of their top portal attempts. That's

449
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Speaker 1: what's happened last year. They lost their top three guys

450
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Speaker 1: in the portal and they got probably their second choice

451
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Speaker 1: on like three different guys, and they've got no recruits.

452
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Speaker 1: So you want me to have excitement, Let's see what

453
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Speaker 1: you do. You know, if we make the final four,

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Speaker 1: I'll be excited. We make the Elite eight, I'll probably

455
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Speaker 1: be excited, But there's probably not My view is probably

456
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Speaker 1: not gonna change much based on what happens in the

457
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Speaker 1: next few weeks.

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Speaker 7: The big issue line to see is our guys getting

459
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Speaker 7: out coached every game. It doesn't matter if we're not

460
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Speaker 7: every game matter if we're in Rupperna. A lot of games,

461
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Speaker 7: he's getting out coursed. He looks up matched, looks like

462
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Speaker 7: he can't coach out of a paper bag. To me,

463
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Speaker 7: at times, we are not Vanderbilt. We are not o

464
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Speaker 7: miss to quote Marcustigue, we is Kentucky and right now

465
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 7: it feels like we are Mississippi State.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the call. I don't disagree with you. A couple

467
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Speaker 1: things here before we take a break. Morehead States playing

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Speaker 1: for a tournament birth tonight. The OBC Championship is here

469
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Speaker 1: relatively soon. Who do they play? Do you know who

470
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Speaker 1: they play?

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Speaker 8: I don't, let me just look it up right now.

472
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Speaker 1: They play tonight for the first official bid, and there

473
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Speaker 1: actually is one bid that's already been decided. Long Island

474
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Speaker 1: plays mercy Hurst tomorrow in the Northeast Conference, and Mercyhurst

475
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Speaker 1: is not eligible for the tournament this year because they're

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Speaker 1: still transitioning from Division two, so Long Island automatically has

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Speaker 1: the bid and do you know who coaches Long Island Billy?

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Speaker 8: Know who?

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Speaker 1: That would be Rod Strickland, former UK assistant coach who

480
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Speaker 1: has built that team from his first year they won

481
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: three games to this year they won I think twenty

482
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Speaker 1: three and they're going to the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 8: Tennessee State is who moreheads since the state?

484
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think that. I think Tennessee State may be

485
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Speaker 1: the one and Morehead the two or something. So good

486
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Speaker 1: luck to morehead to night. We'll take a break and

487
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Speaker 1: be right back. This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR

488
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Speaker 1: postgame show. Welcome back. It is the Local Toy Dealers

489
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Speaker 1: KSR postgame Show. Uh, one person rights, Matt. You really

490
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: need to hear Yellovich postgame answers. They were very telling.

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Speaker 1: What did they say? I haven't heard these do you

492
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Speaker 1: know what this says?

493
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Speaker 8: I haven't been able to hear it?

494
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Speaker 1: And he said they said that he was they were

495
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Speaker 1: not tired, by the way, I've never bought the tired.

496
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: I wish Mark Pope. He said that at the game tonight.

497
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Speaker 1: He was like, you know, we start making turnovers when

498
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Speaker 1: we're tired. Ridiculous, ridiculous statements. It continues the I don't

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Speaker 1: know what he thinks when he says stuff. I mean,

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Speaker 1: may he may actually believe that, But I mean, we

501
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Speaker 1: were down eleven nothing to start the game. Were we tired?

502
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: The game was just starting and then we were we

503
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Speaker 1: the thirteen oh run that changed the game was with

504
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: it twenty to nineteen? Were we tired? We were still

505
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Speaker 1: ten minutes into the game. If we aren't so tired

506
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Speaker 1: all the time, I don't believe we're tired. By the

507
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Speaker 1: way I watch it, I do not. I sometimes see

508
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: the bigs get tired, but the guards never looked tired

509
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: to me. Chandler looked a little tired one of those games,

510
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Speaker 1: I can't remember which one. I have yet to see

511
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Speaker 1: Oway and Aberdeen look tired. But the tired is ridiculous.

512
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Speaker 1: But if they are tired, then that's on your conditioning. Yes,

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Speaker 1: if they really are tired, then that's on you, because

514
00:28:54,120 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: like these are crazy good athletes. Almost every player on

515
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Speaker 1: this team is at least a good athlete, and some

516
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: of them are great athletes. So don't give me the tired.

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Speaker 1: It's just I'm tired of the tired, billy. I'll be

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Speaker 1: honest with you.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, tonight was demoralizing for me. I will say that

520
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 9: eleven zero run to start the game. The game wasn't

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Speaker 9: even on TV yet, I know, yeah, I couldn't even

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Speaker 9: watch it, and by the time it.

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Speaker 8: It was down double digits.

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Speaker 1: I got to see it up close. It was like

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Speaker 1: watching chill. I thought we were gonna lose by forty

526
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Speaker 1: after watching the first few minutes because it looked like

527
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: we were pathetic. But you know, he did fight fight

528
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: back on one person, right, it's mad. It looks if

529
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: you say Drew is the one that is most negative,

530
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: it's looked like he's the only one that understands what

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Speaker 1: Kentucky basketball is. No, I mean, I understand this has

532
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: not been Kentucky basketball. It's not like it's this has

533
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: been bad, but it's not been Kentucky basketball really for

534
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Speaker 1: six years. I mean, if we're really honest with ourself,

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00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: we've had one really one good season in six years

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Speaker 1: in the regular season, and in that year we lost

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Speaker 1: to Saint Peter's in the first round of tournament. So

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00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: think about it. Kentucky basketball has not been Kentucky basketball

539
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: since COVID. So the question is when's it gonna change?

540
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: But we have to. But I also accept the realities

541
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: of you know, there are people who want to just

542
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: fire people all the time and think that's gonna help.

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00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: I think what's got to help is a complete change

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00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: of mentality at the university. That's what has to start

545
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: the university. Well, I mean, that's a conversation. We'll save

546
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: it for the offseason. But no, this isn't Kentucky basket.

547
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: It has not been Kentucky basketball since they shut down

548
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: that SEC tournament in Nashville. It really hasn't.

549
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Speaker 8: Who's next, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Mike, Go ahead, Mike, that's this Mike, you town what's

551
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: going on?

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Speaker 3: A couple of points the BILLI Lessbie comparison to Mark Pope,

553
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 3: college basketball is in a different landscape now, well okay.

554
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: But I don't disagree with that. But so what so

555
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: what you've got to adjust? Right? I mean, yes, it

556
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: is different. The SEC is better in ile exists. You

557
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: are exactly right, it's different. But you know who's you

558
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: know who I'm watching play right now, Duke. They're number

559
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: one in the country. They're twenty eight and two. It's

560
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: they're winning by twenty against North Carolina and they don't

561
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Speaker 1: even have the coach that built the program so guess

562
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Speaker 1: what they did?

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00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 10: Yeah, Justine, Oh yeah.

564
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Speaker 1: But that's just true. You know who else has been

565
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: good the last six years? Kansas? You know who else

566
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Speaker 1: has been good the last six years? Yukont You know

567
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: who made a national championship in the last six years?

568
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: A national championship game? North Carolina? They adjusted some of

569
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Speaker 1: why can't we.

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Speaker 4: All?

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Speaker 1: Right?

572
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Speaker 3: So another point is, but I answer.

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Speaker 1: That question because I'm not trying to like go at you,

574
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: but when I hear that conversation quite a bit, college

575
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: basketball is different, Okay, but why have all the other

576
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: powers adjusted and we have it? Why is Florida going

577
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: for a back to back title with a completely different roster?

578
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Speaker 3: Well, you definitely have to get out there and find

579
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Speaker 3: some good talent, but we also have them do it.

580
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Speaker 1: But what excuse? There's no excuse.

581
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Speaker 10: That's right.

582
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Speaker 1: If college back, I like, if I was looking at

583
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Speaker 1: the top twenty five in college basketball and the top

584
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: five teams were Minnesota, LSU, like just complete random teams,

585
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: then I might agree with you. But they're the same

586
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Speaker 1: teams that have been good for all time. It's just

587
00:32:59,120 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: we're not there.

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00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 3: Correct now. My last point and then they'll hang up.

589
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 3: Hope is soft when that comes to the officials. You

590
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Speaker 3: see john Shire, you see Hurley, well you even see

591
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 3: uh Florida's coach to Knight.

592
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: They whine all the time, Todd Golden, and.

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Speaker 3: They get and they get and they yeah, Todd Golden

594
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Speaker 3: and they get all the costs. And so why couldn't

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Speaker 3: we get a review tonight, That's what I want to know.

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Speaker 1: Well, we were out of timeouts and we had used

597
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Speaker 1: AR so like that's why when you take your last

598
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Speaker 1: time out, then the only way you can get a

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Speaker 1: review is if the ref initiates himself and he has

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Speaker 1: the ability to do it in the last two minutes.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's fair to criticize it. I didn't

602
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Speaker 1: that they didn't do it, but at the same time, yes,

603
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you watch college basketball

604
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Speaker 1: for the most part, on things like out of that,

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Speaker 1: they almost never initiated unless a coach challenges it.

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Speaker 3: Well, but you got just coached Yukon's coach and Florida's

607
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 3: coach putting pressure on the referees well to look at it,

608
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 3: and they get it, and they get it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate call. I mean, that's uh, that's true.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't disagree with that. He's he he

611
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 1: yells at refs. He just does it a different way.

612
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what the right strategy is with refs,

613
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: but I will say this, Todd Golden does not shut

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Speaker 1: up h during the game Who's Next?

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00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 8: Neither did Cal. No, he didn't.

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00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: Times we thought Cal. Sometimes we thought Cal hurt himself

617
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Speaker 1: by doing that. You know, who knows what works? Who's next?

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Speaker 1: Another Mike, Mike, go ahead, Mike.

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Speaker 11: Hey, I'll tell you man, there's nobody's been a bigger

620
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 11: Hope supporter of than Maid. But he's bats me because

621
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Speaker 11: you know, there are always people talking about our talent,

622
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Speaker 11: and uh, it's not the most talented, But I do

623
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Speaker 11: believe it's talented at us to compete in the SDC.

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Speaker 11: And I think his management of the roster is worse

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Speaker 11: than the actual roster.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. I agree with the second point,

627
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 1: and I actually agree with the first point. He may

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Speaker 1: not have the talent to be as good as Florida,

629
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Speaker 1: but we have just as much talent as probably everybody

630
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Speaker 1: in the league except Florida, Arkansas and Alabama. And guess what,

631
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Speaker 1: we beat have.

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Speaker 11: More talent than Georgia.

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00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: Oh, without question, more talent than Georgia, Missouri, Texas, all

634
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Speaker 1: these teams we've lost to. We beat Texas, but A

635
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: and M like we have more talent than all those teams.

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Speaker 11: You're exactly right, and shout out to Oscar Collumns for

637
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 11: colling for some of these upper guys to step beside.

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Speaker 11: I thought that was bold take, but also the correct take.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the call. Who's next?

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Speaker 8: Andrew is next?

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Speaker 1: Andrew? Go ahead, Andrew?

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00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 10: And I called you after the Uh, well, wellkn tuck

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00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 10: a football game, and I kind of have the same

644
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 10: question again, like, what's like a sales point? Uh, if

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00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 10: you're the ad, obviously it won't be Mitch, but you know,

646
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Speaker 10: a few seasons tickets the football, as I do in basketball. Both,

647
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 10: what's like a sales point for me to renew again? Uh?

648
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 10: They got it with football because they fired set whatever.

649
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: Well, basketball, my sales point would be, we're gonna be

650
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: good at basketball again, and we're gonna be really good.

651
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: Now is it gonna be a pope? I don't know. Yeah,

652
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: yeah we will. This school there's too much, but there's.

653
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 10: Only next year.

654
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Speaker 1: We will no, no, no, no, no? Oh, Well, I mean

655
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: the reason you would renew is if you lose your

656
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: season tickets next year, you're gonna be sitting up in

657
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: the rafters. Unless you're already sitting in the rafters. And

658
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: then maybe you don't. Then maybe you don't. I don't know,

659
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, like the reason, it's the same

660
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: reason I renewed for the Reds when I knew they

661
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: were gonna be terrible, because I wanted to keep my

662
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: seats for if they got good. That's the way. But

663
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: but and again, before when you say would you renew

664
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: next year, let's see what the rock. We didn't even

665
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: know what the roster is like. We don't know one

666
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: person that's gonna be on the team next year for sure.

667
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 10: Yeah, but I'll we'll probably have to renew before that,

668
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 10: before that's known.

669
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: We're gonna know by. We're gonna know pretty quick. We're

670
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: gonna know by it probably may first. Most of the roster.

671
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 10: Should should we Okay, Okay, so maybe the roster will

672
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 10: be fine. I guess. I just I just feel you

673
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 10: can't really feel optimistic about it. I want through to

674
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 10: succeed more than anyone. I just I just don't think

675
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 10: how you can feel optimistic about like the direction of

676
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 10: the program. Right, I'm just same as football, and it changed.

677
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 10: It changed after I talked to you in that game.

678
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 10: So I kind of think, what can basketball do to

679
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 10: change the direction? And I don't want it to be

680
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 10: a change like it was for football. I want there

681
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 10: to be something else. Well, that's not gonna happen.

682
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: So and I appreciate the call. That's not gonna happen.

683
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: So you'll have to decide if you're uh positive enough

684
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: without that. Who's next?

685
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 9: Let's give our Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney moneymaker of

686
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 9: the game. Next, Matt injured, get small town compassion with

687
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,479
Speaker 9: big city results when you call the Rocker at two

688
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 9: seven zero three two one four four two nine, And

689
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 9: tonight it goes to otega Oway twenty eight points. Was

690
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 9: four of eight from deep, eight of eight from the

691
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 9: free throw line in thirty eight minutes.

692
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 8: He had only one turnover.

693
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 9: And to add to the stat that you shared on

694
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Speaker 9: the pregame show, Oway has now scored double digits in

695
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,439
Speaker 9: sixty three of the sixty seven games that he's played

696
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 9: with at Kentucky. He is our moneymaker of the game tonight, All.

697
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Speaker 1: Right sounds good? Eight five nine, twenty two eighty seven. Uh,

698
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: by the way, well, let's do one more call real quick.

699
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: Who's name?

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Speaker 8: Okay, Chris?

701
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: Is that Chris? Go ahead, Chris?

702
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 3: Hey, Matt. I kind of like where the conversation's going

703
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 3: because I got program concerns. Two years ago we made

704
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 3: a reach higher, but I was one of twenty four

705
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 3: thousand people at RUP to welcome Pope with open arms.

706
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 3: We flash forward these two years. The record is what

707
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 3: the record is. We have no recruits, we have no

708
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 3: site of hiring a general manager to run this thing.

709
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 3: We have Jmi, who just canned Baker, who I love.

710
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 3: We have Mitch who's stepping aside. He kind of but

711
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 3: he's in another role, but he's not going to be

712
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 3: vad Okay, great, Like, where is my hope for this

713
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 3: program coming from?

714
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I can't determine your optimism or not,

715
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: but everything you just questioned I have the same questions.

716
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: Mark Story wrote in the Herald Leader just a week ago.

717
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: These next two months are Mark Pope's career. I completely

718
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: agree with that. I'll go further. These next six months

719
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Speaker 1: are massive for the future of Kentucky basketball, not just

720
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Speaker 1: Mark Pope. I would make an argument that if Kentucky

721
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Speaker 1: doesn't get its act together in the next four to

722
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: six months and do not make does not make the

723
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: right decision, then that will become a three or four

724
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: year process. It's hard to get out the ad higher

725
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,280
Speaker 1: is going to be crucial. There are many things happening

726
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes that are not you know. Part of

727
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 1: the issue is I can't just talk about them because

728
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: me talking about them will change everything, will change things,

729
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: not change things, but will make it completely different. But

730
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Speaker 1: they're happening and quick. Well, I mean, I just can't,

731
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Speaker 1: you know, I can't. But Mark Pope, you've got whether

732
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: he's going to succeed. What kind of roster are we

733
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Speaker 1: going to have? Are we going to hire a GM?

734
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Speaker 1: Is it going to be the right hire? I would

735
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Speaker 1: argue that when we get to the decisions that will

736
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Speaker 1: be made from today until August thirty first of next year,

737
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: I'll even say July first, because we'll have to have

738
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: an ad that the decisions from March seventh to July

739
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: first are going to determine the next five years of

740
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: Kentucky basketball. And so I'm nervous about it. But I'm

741
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: not giving up, but I am nervous about it.

742
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 3: Are you hopeful there are folks in the room.

743
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who's I'm gonna be

744
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: honest with you, I don't know who's making decisions. Is

745
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: not Eli Capluto. No offense to him, because I like

746
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 1: you like Cappalluto. I think he's done a good job.

747
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: I don't even know if he's making decisions. I doubt

748
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: I kind of don't think he'll be the president next year.

749
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: That's just my guess. That's that's not inside information, it's

750
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: just a guess. I mean, so you know Eli Cappoluto

751
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: spends a lot of his time in Alabama, I don't know.

752
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: So I honestly don't know who's making the decisions. So

753
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: when you ask me, are the people in the room,

754
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: I don't even really know who's in the room. I mean,

755
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: I was shocked today to see w Kyt say the

756
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: board of trustees of the university did not know about

757
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: the Mitch contract. What Eli did that on his own?

758
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: But did Eli do it? Did somebody else tell him that?

759
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. The problem is, So to answer your question,

760
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: I don't know who's making the decisions, so it's hard

761
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: for me to know.

762
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 3: Well, Matt thanks for being a boy, spiece. I appreciate you.

763
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 3: I appreciate what you do. Uh, just we need some hope, man.

764
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, and w I have hope because

765
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: I'm an optimistic person. But you know, I'll be real

766
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: with you on July first, I'll tell you how fastive

767
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: I feeling. And that doesn't mean i'll be right. Like

768
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: you know, my initial reaction to the poephire was negativity,

769
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: and then I switched. Maybe my initial reaction was right.

770
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: Maybe my switching will be right, have been right. Who knows,

771
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: but we'll see. We'll tell you break come back. Final segment,

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Speaker 1: Local Toy Dealers KSR Post Game Show. Welcome Back, Local

773
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Speaker 1: Toy Dealers KSR Post game Show. You say, L s

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Speaker 1: U and A and M's in triple overtime.

775
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Speaker 9: Eighty seven eighty five triple overtime, three minutes left.

776
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what the what? What?

777
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: What that game impacts? Who we who we would play? First?

778
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 1: All right, I'm sitting here looking at the SEC standings.

779
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: LSU is three and fourteen. LSU looks like they well

780
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: if so, if they win, then they would get into

781
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: a tie with South Carolina and Old Miss. So I

782
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: think we can say with confidence that we are either

783
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: going to play South Carolina, Old Miss, or LSU in

784
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Speaker 1: the first row. Do you have a preference as to

785
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: which of those you would play?

786
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Speaker 9: Not Old Miss because I know Travis Perry scoring twenty

787
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 9: in that game.

788
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think is the best of those teams. Yeah,

789
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: I think South Carolina's awful, but so, I mean, we

790
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: should beat all of them those teams, but LSU is

791
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: probably the best of that group.

792
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 8: So one at South Carolina already, and then it.

793
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: Looks like we're gonna be either the nine or the ten.

794
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: So that will be us or it would look to

795
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: me like if we are the nine, we would play

796
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: Missouri in the next round. And if we were the ten,

797
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,919
Speaker 1: I think we would play Georgia in the next round.

798
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: I would so, so it looks like we're gonna get

799
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: a chance to avenge one of those home losses. We'll see,

800
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: though I can't. The tie breakers are so weird, So

801
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: would you Arkansas or Alabama? Will had who won when

802
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 1: Arkansas played Alabama this year? That's who the two would be.

803
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 8: I don't know. I'm guessing Alabama, but let me check.

804
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 1: Let's see Alabama beat Arkansas, so that means Alabama will

805
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: be the two seed, assuming they beat Auburn tonight, which

806
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 1: would make Alabama our team. We would play on Friday.

807
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 1: So it looks like we will play either South Carolina,

808
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: Mississippi or LSU. Then in the next round either Missouri

809
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: or Georgia. And in the next round either Florida or Alabama.

810
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: That's lost the path. Yeah yeah, but that's what happens

811
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: when you go to tonight. Who's up next? Stub stub,

812
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 1: go ahead, stub.

813
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 12: Hey, Mat, So, Colin Chandler is way too easy to

814
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 12: take out.

815
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 11: Of a game.

816
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: He is unfortunate.

817
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, it's it's unfortunate.

818
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: And well that's two straight games and that is worrisome

819
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: for the postseason. He's been essentially taken out of both

820
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: of those games.

821
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 11: Yeah, he's just.

822
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 12: Bus is hard. He's just he's just soft. But what

823
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 12: frustrates me, Matt is these teams, Like you asked the

824
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 12: average Florida fan, they would trade in a heartbeat if

825
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 12: you said, hey, if we would trade your three basketball

826
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 12: national championships so even make.

827
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 3: The football playoffs, they would trade.

828
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Speaker 12: It without even battan I same thing with I.

829
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Speaker 1: Agree with you. I totally agree with you. I totally

830
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,439
Speaker 1: agree with that's so frustrating, and you're right. I thought

831
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,439
Speaker 1: that today. I was looking at the Florida fans there

832
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: and they had so few fans there, and I was

833
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, Man, they don't even care, and they're good,

834
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: and we would give anything to be good and we're not.

835
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 12: And the same thing with Alabama fans, with whatever success

836
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 12: they've had in Alabama football.

837
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Speaker 1: I don't know. No, that is without question. I completely

838
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: agree with you. You, I completely agree with you. I

839
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: appreciate the call that is. That is that I thought

840
00:46:55,280 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: about that tonight. It's frustrated. Who's next, Jeremy, Jeremy, go ahead, Jeremy.

841
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 13: Hey, what's up?

842
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:04,919
Speaker 1: Matt?

843
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 7: Uh?

844
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: What's going on?

845
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 13: So two things? Not much man, rough night. I think

846
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 13: I think I'm gonna hit on a couple of things

847
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 13: that some other collegs have already hit on, and they've

848
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 13: been good calls. But I think what we're talking about

849
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 13: is uncertainty. There's a ton of uncertainty surrounding the state

850
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 13: of the basketball program with with a new ad coming in,

851
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,280
Speaker 13: you know, Pope to some level on on the ropes

852
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 13: game to game, I think It's fair to say there

853
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 13: have been times that this program has faced uncertainty, but

854
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 13: I don't think they've ever faced it in the types

855
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,959
Speaker 13: of times that we're in where you've got nil you're

856
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 13: you're paying players, but we don't. We don't have a

857
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 13: recruit man. We don't have like a top twenty twenty

858
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 13: five kid out of high school coming in next year,

859
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 13: and that is that's uncharted territory.

860
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: Well, part of the uncertainty for me is the fact

861
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: that the entire system is changing. And if you look

862
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: throughout history, when the systems change. Okay, so when college

863
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: sports has undergone massive institutional change, the teams that figure

864
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: it out the best are not only good immediately, they

865
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: tend to become the teams that are good for the

866
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: next ten to fifteen years, right, So, and they do

867
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,919
Speaker 1: write the rules. And so think about when the one

868
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,760
Speaker 1: and done era started. We took advantage of it first,

869
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: and we kind of owned the sport for a few

870
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: years and for a decade. You know, this next iteration

871
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: of college basketball, it feels like ukont and Florida and

872
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: Duke and Houston have kind of figured it out and

873
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: they're kind of being good every year. No matter who

874
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:53,359
Speaker 1: they have, and I worry we're getting left behind. Now

875
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: there's another change coming, which is whatever college sports looks

876
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: like after Congress passes whatever legislation pass and so that

877
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: is the next thing. But I do I'm with you.

878
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 1: Part of the uncertainty is it feels like it's a

879
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: crucial time to be good and we're not good.

880
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 13: That's right, and and the only other thing was and

881
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 13: this just literally gets back. It gets back to you know,

882
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 13: fundamental coaching. You know, and even even Jimmy Dykes pointed

883
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 13: out today, you know, there was a couple of different

884
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 13: instances where you know, Golden Costs plays right, like they

885
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 13: they set up three dudes on the right side of

886
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 13: the court. It's a smoke screen. That dude set a

887
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 13: simple pick, handed the ball to Houck and he nailed

888
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 13: a three. I mean, that's it's fundamental basketball, right, It's

889
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 13: it's coaching. And I think there's a level like I

890
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,439
Speaker 13: think Mark Pope maybe too smart. I think he gets

891
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 13: locked he gets locked in that you can do battle

892
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 13: in his own head man. Yeah, he's gonna be too smart.

893
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: I've been around those Yeah, I appreciate it. I was

894
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: around a lot of those people. When I was in

895
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: law school, people who are really really smart, and they

896
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 1: almost were so smart that when they got in front

897
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: of a courtroom, they couldn't do it because they they

898
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: couldn't make oral arguments because they were almost too bookish.

899
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Mark Pope is like that, but that

900
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: does exist in some forms.

901
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 8: Who's next, Kleidas.

902
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: Kletus, go ahead, Kalidas, kleatus a no cleenas, Who's next?

903
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that was probably a fake caller,

904
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 1: just a just a guess who's next?

905
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 8: Jen May?

906
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: Jen May? How are you hey there?

907
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 14: I'm doing okay, really sad about the loss. I listened

908
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 14: to the show yesterday and was really excited when I

909
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 14: heard Jasper Johnson and Moreno talk about the game, and

910
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 14: they were really pumped up about it. And I really

911
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,479
Speaker 14: thought that we were talking in I knew I thought

912
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 14: it would.

913
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 3: Be really close.

914
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 14: I didn't think they stopped us like we did. But

915
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 14: I give a shout out to O Way. He's been

916
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 14: carrying us and he did a fantastic jobs night.

917
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. And Jack Gibbons apparently said

918
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: in the postgame show that he didn't think Kentucky believed

919
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: it could win. I hope that's I didn't hear him

920
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: say that, but I hope that's.

921
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 14: Not true, right, I know, right, I thought they would.

922
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 14: I just I also thought that Jasper Gonson, like when

923
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 14: he came out there was like a momentum change. He

924
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 14: kind of was a little bit selfish there, and.

925
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's plus minus was interestingly not that bad.

926
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: I mean, Billy was telling me the plus minus. You

927
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: said only one player had a positive plus minus, and

928
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Billy, Tell everybody who was the

929
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,280
Speaker 1: one player that had a positive plus minus.

930
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 9: Brandon Garrison in fourteen minutes was plus five, only person

931
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 9: in the plus for that stat.

932
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 1: It's interesting, billion Sometimes you never know who's next.

933
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 8: Bob and Jamestown.

934
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 1: Bob, go ahead, Matt. We could have. I mean, the

935
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 1: way that game played out, that clock business, we could

936
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: win very good game. I'm not blaming the I'm not

937
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: blaming the clock or the reft. We were completely outplayed.

938
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,280
Speaker 1: There were a couple of bad calls down the stretch.

939
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 1: The clock thing was an issue, but you know what

940
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: we if I kind of feel like this game the

941
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: way I did, I'm trying to think, was it Auburn

942
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: or one of those games where we had no business winning,

943
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: and if we had won, it would have been lucky.

944
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:27,720
Speaker 11: I would have been a stunner.

945
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 7: I mean.

946
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: It was lucky. We got completely outplayed the entire game.

947
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I agree.

948
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 13: But look, I mean, look the last minute of the game.

949
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 11: Well, how about those Miami RedHawks. Now I got my fingers.

950
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. I'm not worried about your Miami RedHawks.

951
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 1: It's a UK post games. I think that was the

952
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: only reason he wanted to.

953
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,240
Speaker 8: You know, we're seeing them in the tournament.

954
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: The thing is, I want to root for Miami, but

955
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: then that's Bob, right, so you have to. So that

956
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: makes it hard. Who's next?

957
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 8: We're getting matched up with them? How many will take care?

958
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: Let's do let's do uh, let's just do one more.

959
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:03,720
Speaker 1: Who's next?

960
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 8: Okay, Dirk?

961
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: Is that? Dirk? Go ahead?

962
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 6: Dark Hey man, I got a couple thoughts, and I'll

963
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 6: try to be brief before I hang up and listen.

964
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 6: You know, to the point at the very beginning of

965
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 6: the show about getting in these deficits and then coming

966
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 6: back for a lot of games this year. You know,

967
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 6: as my buddy Nick from Paris said, we're in a

968
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 6: bit of a rinse and repeat cycle with this team,

969
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 6: and unfortunately, the way the game's changed, I don't think

970
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 6: you can draw any positive lessons from coming back the

971
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 6: way you could ten years ago. You say you got

972
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 6: a second year coach rebuild or you know, building back

973
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 6: the program. But now you got to forget all the

974
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 6: lessons year to year because you've got total rus.

975
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 1: Every team is a new team. You're exactly right, And

976
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: the coaches that will adapt are the coaches that can

977
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: take a new group and go and I don't think

978
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: there's any doubt about that.

979
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 6: And the games themselves, I think are playing out more

980
00:53:57,800 --> 00:53:59,439
Speaker 6: like and this is not bad. This can be fun

981
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 6: to watch. They're playing out a lot more like NBA games,

982
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,839
Speaker 6: where you have wild lead changes, everybody's shooting twenty five

983
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,760
Speaker 6: to thirty three is a game. So it's not uncommon

984
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 6: to just turn a game on and see a team

985
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 6: up seventeen in the first half, and then you look

986
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 6: back at the TV and it's a tie game, just

987
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 6: like in the NBA. And so unfortunately, I mean, of

988
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 6: course you'd like to see a team fight back when

989
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 6: they're down twenty and they lose by seven instead of

990
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 6: giving up and losing by forty. But I'm just not

991
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:25,399
Speaker 6: sure what kind of lessons you can draw so.

992
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: Ill and I also, yeah, I agree with all that,

993
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 1: And I also would say, you know, if you fall

994
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: down twenty every game, yeah you come back and steal

995
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: a couple, but what about the other six? You know?

996
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: How about we How many games this year have we

997
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: gotten up a lot at the end of the first half.

998
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: Not many, but we've been down a whole lot. So

999
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: Kentucky will either play at They will either play at

1000
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 1: one o'clock or actually noon or seven. It will all

1001
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: come down to the Oklahoma Texas game tonight, and they

1002
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: are in the first half, and I'm gonna give us

1003
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 1: a score before we get out of here.

1004
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 8: Twelve seven Oklahoma.

1005
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, so really not much to say yet. Oklahoma wins,

1006
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 1: we play at noon. If Texas wins, we will play

1007
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 1: at seven. Thank you, folks very much for listening. We

1008
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Tough end of the regular season. The Cats

1009
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: go down. We will see you on Monday morning. This

1010
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 1: has been the Local Toy Dealers KSR post game show