2026-03-04- KSR - Hour 2

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3:03NMLS ConsumerAxis.org. Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, our number two, Kentucky Sports Radio 8259 280 2287. We are here at the KS Bar and Grill. Open for lunch now. It is Wings Day. Dollar Wings. Are you excited about that? Yes. I'm excited about watching the women play it today here. Yes, the women are starting right now and they're shooting a three and they're making a three, as they lead six to nothing to start the game against Arkansas. Arkansas 115 in Conference Drew. So hopefully we can get that victory. You don't love being the first game of the tournament but you can get an extra game playing a team that you should be able to handle. Careful not to cast our curse here, but Arkansas had a rough year. All right. I have two things that I really got a little under the radar yesterday I want to know. Let's start with Lee Todd, former UK president,

4:03was interviewed. I thought he had some interesting stuff to say. He was asked about the hiring of John Calapari back in the day. And he said, and this is the first time I've ever heard someone say this, that Mitch Barnhart came to him after Tubby left and said he wanted to hire John Calapari. And Lee Todd said, no. I don't want you to. We can't risk the scandal. And so they ended up with Billy. And then two years later, of course, that didn't work. He says Barnhart went to Lee Todd and said, please, why don't you at least come and talk to Cal and in those few hours, Cal won Lee Todd over. That's really not what people have thought for a long time. Do you think Lee Todd is doing Mitch a solid? Or do you think that's what happened? Never heard this story till Lee Todd said it. And I think he's doing falling on the sword to kind of honor Mitch a little more on his retirement.

5:05I don't know why he's waited 25 years to do it, but I mean, I do think it is true. There's been this idea for a long time that Mitch didn't want to hire Cal and Mike Pratt made him and all that. I've always thought that was not true, because I know it's not true. I was communicating a lot with Mike Pratt during that hiring process. And while Cal was his favorite choice, he said, he said at the time that they basically had to convince Lee Todd. What I had never heard was that Mitch wanted to hire Cal the first time. I mean, Lee knows better than I do, and I think Lee's an honest man, but I had never heard that. Neither, and I'd heard the opposite a thousand times. I kind of make you wonder why Lee didn't get out in front of this as Mitch. That was the narrative for 20 years. Yeah. I guess it's nice for him to say it if that's really how it went down on the day Mitch is being talked about

6:05and celebrating his retirement. So let's talk about what Cal says. Someone read to me, Cal's, you know, John Calipari. Maybe you don't want John Calipari to do your eulogy in life with his congratulations tweet to Mitch yesterday. Read for me, Drew. Calipari's farewell tweet to Mitch Barnhart. Do we need some soft music? No, I think you're good. I just heard that Mitch Barnhart is retiring. I wanted to say, even though Mitch and I didn't always see eye to eye, he did a good job, and I wish he and Connie well in retirement. I mean, Shannon, that's not exactly the most blowing endorsement ever. I was waiting for Drew to continue. That's it. That's all. Two sentences, is that it? Or one sentence? The next tweet is about the new Tyson patch on their jerseys. That's all you get. Even though Mitch and I didn't see eye to eye,

7:05I liked it. That was, he felt like he needed to say that immediately. The fact that it's so brief tells you all you need to know about the relationship. That was all he likes. That would be three or four tweet long. I give John Calipari a lot of credit. That's an honest tweet. It is. That sums up their relationship. It does. You know what? I don't really like him. But I hope he's happy. You did a good job. I hope him and Connie can be happy. I hope him and Connie are fun happiness. I thought he could have gone like so many great memories. New Orleans 2012. The work we did. The great success we had. No, it didn't see that. I could walk, man. Good luck with your initiative. Yeah. You know what? You were good. Hope things go well for you. So when Cal was here, we all knew there was somebody else kind of running his Twitter account. It's obvious. I think he wrote that one. I think he wrote that one. Yep. That was one that has his finger prints all over it. I don't think that was the Arkansas media direction. I think he wrote that one.

8:05You know, when he was here, I would say all the time. Mitch and Cal don't like each other. And people used to write me and go, why do you say that? You don't know that, Matt Jones. Well, if you ever thought I was not telling the truth, just go back and look at that tweet. How many times do we have to hear you are causing drama that doesn't exist or trying to stir up trouble? No, that was their relationship. And I think when I hang up my boots, my radio boots, the two, if I did it today, the two craziest memories to me, number one will always be Billy Gillespie being chased by Alan Cutler. And that day when they couldn't find him in Lexington, he was driving around New Circle Road, trying to hide from getting fired. But number two, I think is the day of John Calipari walking his dog out on the street and that interview with Mitch, where they both sit there with the WWF belt behind them,

9:10awkwardly trying to act like their friends. Like their buddy buddy, and we're going to run it back one more time. We're in it together. We're on board. We have both agreed with everything. We're in it. We're in a team now. We're in ending for those years when basketball wasn't going well. When nobody watching at home was believing a single word they were saying. And if you don't want to know why you shouldn't believe it is, two days later, he's gone. They did that interview on a Tuesday. And by Thursday, he was on his way to Arkansas. I had a little bit of sympathy for Mitch on that one. I did too. I think Cal, honestly, Cal lied to Mitch there. Yeah. That was Cal lied to Mitch, said it was good, and then was talking to Arkansas. That was, that was, that was poor form by Cal. It helped us though. So I'm glad it happened. Yeah. All right. Next day. Hardly Gilmore. He's there. The Hardly Gilmore thing is one of the great hilarious stories. So Hardly Gilmore is coming back to Kentucky

10:11for the third time in 15 months. Pretty hard to do. This is an amazing timeline. I'm going to read you the Hardly Gilmore timeline. December 28th, 2024. Hardly Gilmore leaves Kentucky and enters the portal. Okay. So that means on December 27th, he was here. January 1st, 2025, he commits to Nebraska. April 16th, 2025, leaves Nebraska and enters the portal again. So he was at Nebraska for three months. On April 17th, he returns to Kentucky. Plays for Kentucky. On January 7th, he enters the transfer portal again, leaving Kentucky for a second time. Commits to Louisville on January 8th. On January 12th, leaves Louisville after four days. Four days. Commits to Baylor on January 12th of this year. And now March 3rd decommits from Baylor and is back to Kentucky again.

11:14He has, in 15 months, played for Kentucky, Nebraska, Kentucky, Louisville, Baylor, and now back to Kentucky. That's the craziest resume I've ever seen. And I shouldn't have that short amount of time. And a little over one year's time. I don't know how you, the kid, how you may reign any eligibility at all. This day and age, you transfer back and forth and it went a week. I shouldn't have that smell. After, you know, they say, third time's a charm. This time, I think he sticks. He's no longer going to be hardly Gilmore. He's going to be fully Gilmore with Kentucky. And he's going to have a good, I know that Will Stein wanted to keep him. He just, remember when we talked about what Will Stein thought about receivers? He was like, I'm only paying a lot of money for a stud. And if you're not a stud, I think hardly Gilmore was one of those. He's like, I'd like to have you. But I'm going to pay you a certain amount of money. And if you can get something else somewhere else, then, then do it. Yeah, he's, his poor guidance counselor and academic advisors have been in hell lately.

12:14He's put these transcripts. I think Mitch is going to be working with the sports. That could be part of it. Yeah. I guess you can say, well, my man, he loves Lexington. Even though he likes to look around. He always comes back home. I'd use this in a recruiting pamphlet. Like, look, this dude went to Nebraska. Enrolled him was in the locker room and ran back. I like getting something around, ran back. I like the, he was at Louisville for four days. That's really funny to me. That's an event he got like four or five of our guys. Hardly stays for a couple days up. I'm out. Not what I thought. But I actually think he'll play. I do think he'll play this year. I actually think he'll be helpful for us. And if you remember, we've talked about receivers, the one position where we were a little thin. So I actually think Kentucky's probably happy about this. Well, last year, when Bowley got it going a little bit there towards the end of the year, one a few games. Part of it was he started throwing it to Gilmore a lot. He had a couple games of five or six perceptions there towards the end. Yeah, he definitely had some moments last year where he thought, okay, this guy could really be a big time receiver at some point. So welcome back, Hardly Gilmore. I know you'll probably be gone in a few months,

13:15but then we will welcome you back again when the season starts. If he lives again, just say, all right, see you, man. And leave everything right where it is. Don't take his name plate off the locker. He'll be back. Don't change any paperwork. Just let him have his moment. He'll come back. He'll be back. The boomerang. Who's up next, Shannon? Go ahead, Adam. Hey, what's up, guys? Happy trails today, Baker. Matt, does this open up the door for you to go back on the pregame show? I think that's very unlikely that they'll put me on the pregame show, but you know, I did it for a couple years. I enjoyed it. Dave preceded me in a lot of success. I proceeded, Dave, and being let go by the UK Broadcasting. Yeah, I listened to Dave for a long time. I hate to see him go, but also... So you've given us the candidates' replacement and who you think is most likely. And your opinion, who would you want to see? I know that the loaded questions... Yeah, I mean, in your friend. Well, Dwayne is my friend.

14:16I was thinking on my drive here this morning because on a personal level, I want Dwayne because he's my friend and you root for your friend. I also think objectively, Dwayne is the best at checking all the boxes this job needs. Is Dwayne a perfect candidate? No, because of the football piece. Now, DePaul is starting to turn it around, but it took a couple years. But I kind of know what he was dealing with there. And so I actually think his early struggles, I understand. So Dwayne to me is number one, but I acknowledge that I have buys. So if I say Dwayne's won, for me, he's won. Second would be what Drew said. You got to go ask Rob Mullins to say no. And maybe even you do that first. And then I think you're looking at, you know, after that, for me, it would probably be Strickland, would be my top three. The thing is, Dwayne will say yes.

15:16So if you ask him, he'll be the AB. But yeah, I would say for me, Dwayne Rob Mullins and Scott Strickland would be my top choices. And I like Martin Newton, too. I hadn't really thought of that as a pie. He's a little older, though, yet he won't have the job as long as some of these other guys might. And Sanford's not Oregon, Alabama or Florida, but he has had a lot of success there. And then we all know his history in this town. Yeah. I think, and I appreciate the call. I think it's very important. Kentucky athletics is tied to a handful of donors in a way other programs aren't. And I just think it's very important you have somebody with a connection to those people. It doesn't mean they run the program. It just means practically speaking, you got to be able to do that. You know, when Dwayne left here to take the 80 job at DePaul, I think we all thought at the time he needed doing this just to groom himself, get himself groomed for the UK job when Mitch Barnhart retired.

16:16If the John Calipari era had not ended the way it was, and Cal was still a coach here, Dwayne would be the next 80. Because Dwayne and Cal had a great relationship. But the Calipari in-era ending led to a different situation. And, you know, part of that was Dwayne needed to go prove himself somewhere. And the hope was probably Cal still would be here when this door opened. It just didn't work out that way on the calendar. 8-5-9-2-8-0-2287 Kentucky women lead 16 to 7. Against dark and saw. We will take a break. Take a cause. People have got their wings. That smells really good. Hope it tastes as good as it smells. We'll take a break. And be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Draft King Sportsbook puts you right in the middle of basketball's biggest star-driven moments. Whether it's regular season, all star, they can bet. Player props, bet live. And when a game turns fast, Draft King has your back with an early exit. If a player gets injured in the first half, the bet stays alive. You're not out of it if one of the guys falls. And once it settles, you still get paid in cash.

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21:20Because Delaware is not a very big step. No, he covers Delaware basketball. He says that Mark Pope is in Philadelphia today to watch Dink Pate of the G League, the Westchester Knicks play to potentially play college basketball next year. Dink Pate would be, I think, a good addition for us next year. Everything you read is the kid can score. And I like, I'd be for it, would you? Heck yeah, I mean we'll see what goes into the portal. That doesn't shape itself out. But they need something at this point. If you're not going to get a freshman, yeah, go to the G League. I mean, I don't love the chaos that is recruiting right now. But go get the best player you can find. My god, one last night. Del Monaco. Tau Rico. We were joking about this. Can I say what happened to me? About what? We were talking about his name. Oh yeah. And then on my phone, I have a text message show up from his campaign, one in donations today. The fact that our phones listened to us like that is crazy.

22:22I mean, so you got a thing asking for a donation to him and you don't even know who he is. Didn't even know who he was. I just happened to ask you today. Your guy went last night. Del Monaco. You said, let's tell Del Rico. Tau Rico. And then I'll get my phone and I have a text message from his campaign one the one day donation. Yeah. Well, he won. Made me very happy. Here's what I would say. I posted about it. And of course, the online trolls start yelling at me. If you're interested in like why I like this person? Like I think a lot of viewers sincere. Go watch his interview with Joe Roke. It's like two and a half hours. And if I were to articulate sort of my views, he probably does it better than I could articulate it myself. So James Tau Rico, he won the primary yesterday. I was a little surprised because I didn't think guys like him could win a Democratic primary, but he did. So I may disappear to Texas and go volunteer. Which he said you're going to volunteer for his campaign. Why don't they text you for that information? I told him to text you that you had the money. Take around with you.

23:23You're going to donate? T-S-R. Texas sports radio. Who's up first, Santa? Tate. Tate, go ahead, Tate. Hey guys, love you, but I had to call it and make one correction. Obviously last night was not excusable. Hope had some issues. But he actually did call a time out during that run, like the 4-19 month. Yeah, after they had already taken the lead. After they had already taken the lead. So he called the time out. We were up 12 and they, I think, grabbed the lead by two. And then he called the time out. So I mean, he did not stop the run until after they took the lead by one. But that's a 13-0 run. It's been said that he... But that's a 13-0 run. But the talk is that he didn't call a time out the entire first half, which is just false. Well, we never said that hang on. He needed to call a time out. That stands. Nobody said he didn't call a time out the whole half.

24:23I mean, are you trying to act like that was a reason? No, absolutely. That last night on the post game show. Okay, but that did... Okay. Five. If I said that, I don't remember saying that, then I was incorrect. But the point of... He didn't call it out. He even said that like he had one that he would lose that half time. He did. And that's why I think he did it. No, he did it. When he didn't call a time out... He called the time out. When he didn't call a time out during the 13-0 run, he had a time out that he would have lost. Now, you're saying he called it after the run fair enough. And if I said he didn't, then I was incorrect. But my point was during the 13-0 run that changed the game, he did not call a time out. And I was... I'm right about that. Yeah, I mean, he called it at the end of the 13-0 run. Which is too late. We're losing at that point. We're losing at that point. 23-30 point. Yes, and we did not come out of the time out. And we did not... It was too late. That was my point. I appreciate the call. I was screaming at my TV call a time out.

25:25So I know that happened. I wasn't going crazy. I was yelling get a time out. No, it is fair to say after that break, we didn't come out and play any better. I mean, that's completely correct. I mean, we gave a 36-6 run. It's just ridiculous. Any coach in that situation is looking to stop the bleeding, especially when you're on the road. Call a time out. So the crowd quits down. They lose their momentum. It just didn't have a way to play. Can I pay a compliment to the staff in the first half? Yeah. We got the best challenge guy. Matt sent Tarena. I need to look up his name. I might have gotten that wrong. But our challenge guy that sits behind Pope, he did it again. He's unbelievable. Give him the million matches. So is he the one that says? He sits there and he makes the call. I don't know his record this year, but I'm going to say he's 100%. But he did it again last night. It didn't matter, obviously. But that was a big move early in the game when he challenged and just more credit to him, because that's his role back there. It part of what's so frustrating is they came out so well early. Yeah. Not only did they score, but they got ahead of the defense, got a bunch of dunks. They were so good early,

26:25and then it's just like it completely collapsed. They got that lead, and like they almost put it in cruise control, and he played the bench, and played the wrong combination of guys. And they also didn't hustle nearly as much. The effort in the first half, those last eight minutes was poor. It was. And that's what we saw in that run. That is their style. That is what you have to avoid. And that's why I wanted to time out, because you could see it happening where they're creating the chaos. Kentucky's throwing it to nobody, and A&M is running in gun, and that's why, sure, he called one after the 130 run, but you got to cut that off immediately because that's where they throught. You know, Mark Pope has said all year. Obviously, through the end of the year, he said, I have a Ferrari, and we're going to be successful. But even throughout struggles this year, he has come back and been like, we're going to do something special. You know, like he is, that has kind of stopped, because they're running out of time. But you get the sense that he really felt like this was going to work this year. And it sort of felt like to me, he's never quite connected with this group, because I think he kept feeling like it's going to

27:26happen, and they've won some games, but it just hasn't happened yet. He saw the performance like we got against Vanderbilt last weekend. That's the Ferrari he thought he was going to get. Do you think we come out and play well against Florida? I do, by the way. Probably. I think we come out. I don't know if we can win, but I bet that game is very close. I agree. We played Florida actually pretty well down there. They're big, didn't hurt us. It was their back court guys that hurt us. Who's next? Let's go to Joe. Joe, go ahead, Joe. Matt, does losing? Is it just me or does losing to Bucky? Kurt Wurst and like losing to Jason Tom or Jerome? You don't like losing to guys named Bucky? Yeah. Bucky's a lot of names. You don't hear a lot of Bucky's. That just ate me up all night, but I hadn't thought of it until just now. One of the biggest sports talk advertisers in the last like whatever, 10 years is that manscaper.

28:27And the way Ryan said that the way he was grooming himself and his wild eggs worked, I think this is a match made in heaven. Yeah, I think Ryan would be a good manscaper advertiser. They should look into you for that. It feels like that one's dead. That one really is connected to you. I'm willing to volunteer and do a live demonstration if we need to. So, you know, I had something to say. A Bucky. Bucky. People don't name their kids Bucky, do they? What is the name? What is the name that leads to Bucky being what they're called? Is it Bucky? He's a Henry. So how do Henry's turn into Bucky's? Well, there's a Bucky Henry Hall of Fame baseball player. Maybe that, because his name is Henry, maybe they start calling Bucky Henry. But in general, where does the name Bucky come from? How do you, like, you know, what Jack will come from?

29:27John. But do people name their kids Bucky? I don't know a Bucky. I don't know where they come from, how it starts. I just, it's an odd name to start. Look at your child. Come out and go. That's a Bucky. I'll be right back. T.J. Smith, Personal Injury Attorney. Call T.J. He'll make him pay. Now, more Kentucky sports radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Kentucky sports radio, 859-282-287. Todd is very upset. Todd? Todd writes, if you're going to have a radio show that allows folks to call it and talk, then don't keep people on hold while your crew rambles about multiple topics. Pick a topic for an hour. Give your take. Shut up and take calls. Wow. Was that Todd from yesterday that changed his name from Michael? I don't know. Todd very upset that. Michael would be a lot nicer than Todd. You must be new to this show because this show is basically us rambling about multiple topics.

30:34I mean, that is the show. A long time with that. A lot of mornings have been doing that. Post game show. It's me rambling and then letting you take your calls. What about having six guys on the court? I like the effort. Got to throw something. I don't know. That was working. How did they not catch that? I don't know. He was right. He was right. He was right. He showed the screen. There are six guys out there that are getting ready to shoot a free throw. And that's what felt crazy. It was a dead action. And they didn't see six guys out there. What if we had won because of that? It'd be awesome. But I noticed in the Vandy game last night, Shen and they went back in time. Did you see that? And called a flagrant on a play that had happened like two plays before? Yeah, yeah. I didn't know you could do that. Did you? No. I guess they're making it up as we go. I've never seen that. It felt like they made it. It was a key point in the game. They went backwards a couple of plays and were like, yeah, that was a flagrant a couple of plays ago. Came down to the wire there. In our game with the six players, I get a little annoyed by the short bench complaints.

31:36But if we're going to play six guys at one time, I do think you're hurting your bench there and your fatigue. If you're running out more guys than you need to. It was, you know, you talked about Pope not liking the Saturday Tuesday. What's he going to fill in the SEC tournament when we play Wednesday, Thursday, Friday? I mean, that's going to be hard. We're playing Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. All right. I'm back in now. You're talking me into some stuff now. Yeah, also the Wednesday to Saturday turn around is the same thing. Like there's seven days in a week. If two days are game days, it is impossible to have three days off between every game. That is true. I mean, Wednesday Saturday is the exact same thing. You're going to have a two day gap between games. So you have to. It's just a really, really bad argument that he's trying to say fatigue is hurting his team. You and I are going with Mario. Well, first of all, it is the Wild Eggs Wednesday. Yes. You can use your best spot for breakfast and brunch. And Wild Eggs is not just about Ryan's ads. It's also about good food.

32:36It's Wild Eggs Wednesday. Our Wild Eggs word of the day, which will get you a $50 gift card from Wild Eggs, is now being sent out on the KSR TikTok. Ryan picked the word. Oh, no. Have you just put it up? I got to look at this. All right. I got to see what you put. Okay. If Ryan picked the word, there's no way this is not. The first response that is correct wins. Oh, my goodness. That's a lot of letters. Yeah. Mommy, Squammy. Oh, that's a good one. Is this one word? This is not one word, right? That's one word. I haven't gotten to it yet. I have no idea what that is. That's not one word. Yeah. You found a word with 14 letters? Oh, no, that's not it. Shannon, do you know what it is? Are you looking at it? I'm trying to find it here. Somebody forgettable. I got it one check. Oh, sorry. You, this is two days in a row. True. And this is two days in a row. All right.

33:36You win. Did you become Ryan with Diarrhea at the mouth? I just pulled it up. And it just pulled it out. This is two days in a row that you have just completely dropped. What are you doing? I got it at first sight. It doesn't matter. It's a game. I understand. Did you drop it, Shannon? No. Pick harder ones. I had mouth control. Oh, did you drop it? He dropped the middlesboro thing yesterday. He saw his social media. You'll be fine. Pick harder words. I'll give his look at it. And mouth control. He doesn't have mouth control. That's the next week's scrambled word mouth control. Yeah. mouth control. Tom, there's your word drop at the SEC tournament mouth control. That was easy. True doesn't have it. Finally, we are going tomorrow to middlesboro. It was supposed to be a surprise. Drew dropped it during the show. Let's get excited. And then Shannon left it on the podcast. I blame both of you. You forgot to remind me. I blame you. Here's the reason we're doing it. I wanted it to be a surprise for everybody else. I really, so we'll talk about this more tomorrow.

34:39We got a fairly positive report about my dad. And I wanted to take the show and go spin the show with my, we're going to do a show in front of my parents tomorrow. So Ryan, Drew and Marty and I are going to middlesboro and doing the show there tomorrow. I didn't want to like say it because it's not a remote. We're just going to be at our house. But people have asked for a long time and I appreciate it. Everybody comes up and asks me about my dad. He, you know, still has a long road ahead. But it's a more positive situation than it was a couple months ago. And so we wanted to go kind of celebrate with him and go down there. So it's supposed to be a surprise that Drew ruined. But that's what we're, it's going to be unforgettable. That's what we're going to be. That's what we're doing tomorrow. Larry's one of our favorite guys. You know, I admire and respect that man and what he's going through right now. So yeah, we just wanted to give him, give him his flowers tomorrow. By the way, people got it right. Shannon once drew, said it. They were able to actually get it correct.

35:41Do you have a chance to pull up the word? Do you see it scrambled? I took longer fond and ticktock than I did getting the word. Unbelievable. Who's next? Craig. Craig. Go ahead, Craig. Hey, bless your dad. That's good news. I just wanted to say, I think last night was probably the most disheartening loss that Popus has she's been here just because, you know, it gave up 90 plus in March. The timeout. Same thing. Substitution. Same things. And, you know, we could make excuses for it. He didn't really get worked by John Wooden out there. I mean, it was just rough to watch. But I wanted to get your thoughts. I think a lot of times your first reaction is your best reaction. And I know looking back from all the higher smiles of the kids. I can remember the first one was Eddie Sutton. I wasn't that excited. But everybody tries to talk himself into it. Turned out poorly. I thought it was a home run with Patino. It was. Toby's the only one. I wasn't that excited.

36:41It turned out to be a really good coach, I thought. Billy G wasn't excited to understand how this guy, you know, got the job. Turned out poorly. I was fired up for Cal. And then I think most people as much as we tried to talk our stuff into Pope. When he was hired, it was lukewarm at best from everybody. And I think, you know, I hate it. But I don't want to keep it warm. I will see. I don't think it's going to work. Well, and you might be right. We'll see. But I also, I appreciate the car. I'm not ready to give up yet at all. I mean, I, I am discouraged. But as I said last night, I don't think it's, I don't think Pope doesn't know how to coach. I don't think he doesn't know how to motivate. I don't think he, I'm worried about getting players. But I don't think he is somehow not good at his job. But I also get very frustrated. I think he is. I've decided in his, in my mind, he is the computer engineer who believes whatever the computer says is correct.

37:41Even if the inputs are not correct and you're getting a weird answer. He reminds me of the people on Twitter that will just ask, rock everything. And whatever it says, it assumes what has to be correct. It said it. That's how I think Pope is with these analytics. It's like, it tells me to take out Aberdeen. I have to. Yeah, but you know, Mark, Aberdeen is the only guy that we have that can dribble it up the floor. Well, I'm taking him out. I love analytics and basketball. You need him. But your eyeballs should be the final say. And if a guy is just not out there giving us best or when he's missing shots, he's wide right, clanking it off the backboard. You need to put the analytics aside. Maybe he's not bringing with the analytic study with that night. Or maybe you have a guy who you didn't expect to play well is on fire. You just kind of got to ride that wave and trust what's happening right in front of you. What do you think about Garrison throwing in that ball in the guy's face? I predicted that Garrison would have a fight or a technical at some point during that game.

38:42And I thought that was going to be it. I thought he's going to hit that guy and they're going to get up and they're going to have a fight. I kind of like it. We need somebody like that. Neither Jamal, McLeod, God. It's not afraid to push people around. He just needs to do it more often. I don't know if he needs to take two threes. No. Take that out of your repertoire. It's a good move though. I like what he did. Yeah. I'm a little bit, although we might have had a little four on five if he could have thrown it out and got going. But still, I like got a land of your feet, just giving the old Josh Harrelson and Jared Solinger's play. I could be he be 6-11 and miss a bunny layup. Right in front of him. And he does that quite a bit. He does that quite a bit. Kentucky was up 20 in this game against Arkansas. It has now been cut to nine. The Kentucky women lead 42-33 here with just about 30 seconds left in the first half. We'll take a break. 8-5-9-2-8-0-2287. Hopefully Drew will spoil more surprises. Oh, no, her ball. It's not the word. It's not the word. No, it doesn't fit.

39:42That's not the word. Tell me all the others. Too many tees. Oh, wait a minute. Hang on. No, wait a minute. I gave a fake word. No, apparently it is unfa- You spelled it wrong, didn't you, Ryan? I didn't push it on the lithographic. There are too many tees. So my answer is incorrect. Hang on just a second. I was throwing you off. Unfor- Yeah. You spelled unforgettable wrong. I didn't put it on the graphic. Unforgettable list. I'm just glad that he's off me. You spelled unforgettable wrong. It wasn't me. Also, he just copied and paced what I said. You copied and paced what he said. So there are three tees on here. Eliminates unforgettable. My name is out of this. But what did you intend the word to be? Unforgettable. So, unforgettable. There's no S in your word. Look. Unforgettable? I sent him a word. There's spell check. There's all kinds of things you can do.

40:42Let me see what you sent him. Right there. Unforgettable. That's exactly what I said. Yeah, that's on you, Mario. You put three tees in no S. Wow. What a crew we got here. Look at this. Look at this crew idea with you. I mean, wow. I mean, I got Ryan. Wow. Who the first time took two words. I got Drew just blurting out the answer. Not the answer. And Mario misspelling every day. Can we count this person? They said, ton forgettable. I think we should just count it. Next week, can we just make the word count? Yeah. You know? The Wild Eggs Wednesday. Like everything we do, a disaster. Perfect. We'll take a break. Be right back. Okay. Ready for a different take on Formula One? Look no further than no grip. A new podcast tackling the culture of motor racing's most coveted series. Join me, Lily Herman, as we dive into the under-explored pockets of F1. Including the astrology of the current grid. Louis Hamilton, crappy corn son, cancer moon. Wouldn't you know it? Michael Schumacher is also a capricorn son, cancer moon.

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43:45when the monster gets a voice of her own. What I was more interested in was the monstrousness inside of each of us. You can spend your life running from those things, or you can turn around and shake hands with them. If I'm honest about that, and I tell my story about monsters really dealing in something truthful. And I do it in a way that's pop, that's hot, that's like getting on a roller coaster will people respond. Listen to Bookmarked, the Reese's Book Club podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I went and sat on the little ottoman in front of him. And I said, hi, dad. And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen. She says, I have some cookies in here. This is a badass congregation. Right.

44:45Just finish five years. I'm gonna have cookies and milk and milk. Yeah. On the Cino Show podcast, each episode invites you into a raw, unfiltered conversations about recovery, resilience and redemption. On a recent episode, I sit down with actor, cultural icon Danny Trail, talk about addiction, transformation and the power of second chances, the entire season two is now available to binge, featuring powerful conversations with a guest like Tiffany Attish, Johnny Knoxville, and more. I'm an alcohol. And without this truth, I'm a die. Open your free iHeartRadio app, search the Cino Show, and listen now. Welcome back, techie sports radio. 859-280-2287. On the text machine, one person writes, Matt, why did you do that one on TikTok? I don't have TikTok. Exactly. It's to try to get you to follow our TikTok.

45:46There's a method to this madness. I didn't fall off the turn-up truck yesterday. Like you, we do it on the different social media accounts, so then you follow and we grow the social media accounts. It's marketing. Right. That's what you're trying to do with this. I was spreading it out. I mean, our TikTok account, we didn't even have a TikTok account when we hired Mario. And now it has 42,800 people. And he built that from nothing. And it's made a huge impact. College students, in high school college, a little bit out of college, they know us now, from TikTok. I meet people all the time who are like, you're the guy from TikTok. Which is weird to me. But, you know, the reason we hired Mario is I started to notice that like, we weren't as big from like 20 to 27-year-olds

46:46as we used to be. And I'm getting older, so how are we going to do it? And that it has worked extremely well. So like, that's the whole point. You do Facebook for the older people, Twitter for people my age, Instagram for like 18 years younger than me, and then TikTok for younger than that. And then there'll be something else, flip-flap or something, and we'll have to put it on there too. We on Blue Sky next week? I can't do with Blue Sky. I tried because I was like, this is where my political people are, and I can't. They're all, it's awful. I wouldn't be on Twitter either, except we have to for sports. Instagram is my, I think that's the right place for me. Maybe TikTok. Twitter's too mean, Facebook, and all people falling for AI images of like, Jesus, hugging, NATO's, and I'm like, this is not, this is not real. You could do it through social. I think it would be. I'm not, I don't think the true social's right for me. No, no. Probably. I haven't been on it, but I'm just going to guess.

47:46Who's next? Let's go to Bob and James down. Good. Bob and James down. Go ahead. Well, Jim Holtz with the most. He has some good words for Mitch. Sounded good. Shame on J.M.F. What they did to Dave Baker. Hopefully the new idea going there and finding good contract lawyer and cut that J.M.I. lose. I got my fingers crossed for the sports story of the year. Miami-Razogs are going all the way. They're on the monitor. What do you think about Bruce Pearlbob saying you're on the monitor should not be in the tournament if they lose in the conference tournament? Well, I mean, that's Bruce's got an opinion. We'll see what lies out anyway. That's very magnanimous of him. Bruce has his opinion. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I appreciate the call. It'll be fascinating. You know, they won again by two points. They have won like 10 of their conference games have been two points, three points. They really do have an unbelievable ability

48:48to win these close games. I liked Jimmy Dykes line last night. He said people keep saying, haven't beat anybody. They've beat everybody. It's good line. I like it's a great line. It doesn't just beat anybody. They beat everybody. You think they, you know, they play Ohio Saturday Friday night. Play Ohio Friday night. If they win, undefeated for the season, be the first time anybody's gone under. So far in the last 15 years, the only three teams have gone out. Two of teams have gone undefeated. Gonzaga went undefeated one year and then the 2015 Kentucky team in the regular season. Miami would be third. I expect they'll do it with Ohio Friday. It'll be a pretty big favorite. And honestly, with the, even though they had some tight games throughout conference play, I think with the tournament right in front of them, they'll run the table in the conference tournament. But I saw it with Bruce. If they lose, you're undefeated conversations all the way. So what are you showing me? Well, never I think really is a fan base appreciate what that 2015 team did. They'll never be a power conference team go undefeated.

49:50And even, I mean, Gonzaga not a power conference team if Miami does it, not a power conference team. I mean, what's the last regular season undefeated in a power conference besides Kentucky? I guess, UNLV was undefeated, but also not a power conference. What conference would you tell state in when they, not a power conference? They were in the Missouri Valley at the time. Missouri Valley. So I mean, is it Indiana? Is it Indiana? Yeah, it's Indiana because I lost one. I mean, that deserved like, I know we lost. But in the last 50 years, there's been one power conference team go undefeated in a regular season and it's us. I mean, that's pretty amazing if you think about it. And I just run through your conference. You know, they're not like Miami playing scrubs. The hardest team on their schedule was Kansas and they won by 32. Would they smoke North Carolina that year? I'm sure Louisville was probably ranked when they beat them.

50:51And even in SCC, we had like two close games. If you remember, we played Ole Miss close at home. Yeah, almost beat us. Yep. And then at LSU, when Carl Towns had to hit that shot at the end of the win, I think pretty much every game, besides that, we had a little bit of a margin. Dominated most of that season. And we're so, so fun to watch. It's just a shame that title didn't end up here that year. I think, A&M took him to OT, too. I think they're... A&M. You're right. A&M did take us, though. Who's next? Dave. Hey, guys. I just had a random Kentucky basketball comment. I had a question for Ryan. I've been reading this really great book called Adolf Ruff and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball. Learning a lot, especially like I never knew that Cliff Barker on that 1948 team was in World War II and was like a German POV prisoner of war in like the World War II, and then come back and played for Kentucky basketball, which is fascinating. But it made me think about... I'll show you guys good after Memorial Coliseum reopened.

51:52And Ryan had made a comment about that Adolf Ruff's office. You couldn't get to it. They won't let you get to or something like that. Ryan, is that the case? And I just didn't know why that was the case. Yeah, it's kind of sad. Actually, it's tucked away back in a storage area. They use these office for like storage. It's kind of sad when you walk back there and see where it is now. Way back in the corner underneath everything. Adolf Ruff's office in Bavorial? Yeah. What do you mean they won't let you... Apparently, you got back there. Yeah, you have to get access to get back was a big storage area, but that's where it is to get back to it. And it's kind of sad. It's just kind of tucked away over there. Yeah, well, that is sad. All right, so tomorrow. So first of all tonight, we'll be at the 13th region. Get to the sea, a little bell cany, a little pineapple. Bell cany's got the... maybe the best freshman in the state in Braxton Ferguson. Get us watching him tonight. Yeah, that's a name. By the way, I think you've said this before. Freshman in sophomores. There was a sophomore. They lost. Was it male that went for like 45 points last night?

52:52I don't know. And Josh Lindsay at St. X is a sophomore. He's a superstar. Yeah, Ballard beat male in a crazy game last night in the regional. And then tomorrow we will be in Middlesbrough. My mom is cooking for us for breakfast. Nice. Yes, breakfast. So thank you guys very much. Great to see you all today. Appreciate you coming out. Friday we are at Paul Miller. Be back here tomorrow. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio. When you feel uncomfortable, what do you put on? Biggie. You put on biggie when you feel uncomfortable? I want to get confident. This is DJ Hester Prince Music Is Therapy. A new podcast from me. A DJ and licensed therapist. 12 months, 12 areas of your life. Money, love, career, confidence. This isn't just a podcast. It's unconventional therapy for your entire year. Listen to DJ Hester Prince Music Is Therapy. On the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Then she says, have you seen a photo of my son? And I'm like, who is this person?

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