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Now Here's Matt Jones wankme back.
I remember two Kentucky sports radio here. It's ks Bar and Grill. Come on out and see us dollar wings all day, all night into the wee hours, or at least until we close, which is not the wee hours, but.
We it's night. It's gonna be.
You know, the weather's starting to be like the normal temperature here, it's gonna be probably eighties, early low nineties from now on.
Right.
Yeah, it's just a rain like the next four days, so is it? Yeah, bummer, you really follow the weather reports, don't you?
Are you there's an age where people look at the weather every single day.
Yeah.
I'm not at that age yet, are you. I?
I'm there when i'd like to be outside, you know, hang out by the pool. Last night I sat out and watched the pacers and then and so do you just go out home.
And just sit out by the pools by yourself?
Last night?
Yeah?
So are we talking like shirt off?
No?
I had a shirt on? Okay, Yeah, it was just me sitting out there watching the pace.
Is your is your yard fenced in? Yes?
So you could just go out there however you want it right like it's your world and I have.
I will say, you can still see into his area from someplace.
Yes, but you know, if it's dark.
There you go.
That's good. I'm glad to hear that. Eight nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. I want to talk just a second about we talked yesterday and then we went by the way.
Congrats to the Darren and his friends. Y.
Yeah, I thought they did a good job filling in and winning the contest. I thought they did an excellent job, much better than I would have thought. I fence to them just because it's just a hard gig. I thought they did well. I thought you guys thought. I thought it went really well.
I'm with you went a lot better than I thought it was going to and it gives me confidence. Now we do it again, we still have some success.
The next person will probably be there, but we did by at least. Let's not press our luck. We got those guys were smart. You when he told me he was graduating from Pharmacus school, I knew he had to be smart, right, you had to.
So of like, smart helps a lot, so I but so that was good.
But we had been talking and so we had to stop about this this settlement on this case, and I understand that it's not the most exciting fun radio in the world to talk about the settlement of a lawsuit.
But I read a lot about.
It yesterday because two of the four, so the all the small schools, have agreed to the settlement. Now the ACC and the Big twelve have as well. So the only two left are the SEC and the Big Ten, which, by the way, are the two that have to do it like they're the ones that, ultimately, like the other twenty nine conferences or thirty, can be cool with it. But if the SEC and the Big ten are not cool with it, it any happening. So that's so the big part is still to come. But I was reading more about the ramifications, and if anything I have to say, I may have even undersold it in the sense of so the way this is going is there going to be two point I said two billion. Now the number is two point eight billion dollars. Two point eight billion dollars for former athletes, so former athletes. Now, I don't know what sports it is. I don't know if it's just football and basketball, if it includes baseball, I'm sure it'll include women's basketball, because I don't know how they could do it otherwise. But does it include like tennis and swimming, You know, I don't know, but it is going to certainly include football, basketball, and I would assume certainly include women's basketball. Two point eight billion to be distributed. So think about that logistical nightmare. How in the world do you pay that out? But somebody's going to have to figure it out.
Yes, right, But then twenty twenty to twenty two million.
Dollars a year set aside by each school. And what is that money for. Well, part of that money will be to pay to the NCAAA to pay back that two point eight billion dollars in whatever, and then part of it is for athletes. And basically they're probably going to set a cap of let's say thirty million dollars, but teams will have to pay let's say twelve and schools can decide what they want to.
Pay in between that based on their decisions. Now, a lot of that's in the weeds. But here's where I think you're gonna see it the most. I think you're gonna see sports. A couple of sports are going to be cut. It's just going to happen. I don't I mean, I don't think there's gonna be any way around it. Also, these coaches salaries are going down, like they just are. There is gonna be no way that these schools will be able to pay what they are paying for football and basket coach ball coaches in perpetu it. And even if they don't go down, they ain't gonna keep rising. Like you know, how we said this was the year to be in the portal. This was probably a year to go get hired as a head coach or to get your contract extended.
Yeah.
Right.
But I think the other thing is, all of a sudden, a skill that is a very important skill in pro sports but has really not mattered a lot in college is going to now be hugely important, which is the GM of the school, which is essentially the athletic director.
But now budgets. It used to be that these.
Schools kind of whatever they needed to pay, they had or at least they had access to.
I just don't think that's going to be true anymore.
And so now these schools are going to have to make choices that are going to decide the competitiveness of their programs or not. As I had one person involved in athletics for a smaller school. Tell me, I don't care if you're Ohio State, Texas or whatever. You ain't gonna be able to be good at everything anymore. So you're just gonna have to decide what you wanna be good at, cause you ain't gonna be good at everything anymore. The days that like Texas and Texas is the main example. But Ohio State mission pick the school, We're gonna be good at every sport.
You just ain't gonna be able to do that anymore.
So the schools are gonna have to decide what sports are important to us, and they're probably all gonna choose football, and they'll probably most of them choose basketball. But after that, you probably got have to look at one of the secondary and sports and go all right, well, we're gonna be tennis, we're.
Gonna be volleyball, and like, cause you're not gonna be able to be good drew at everything from now on.
And what they're talking about maybe twenty million a year for some of these schools. I worry how much we'll trickle down to fans too when we see ticket increases. Will they be trying to get more money from fans to make up that.
Much more money I think you can get. I mean, we see this here at UK basketball until this year that those like they were big chunks of empty sections at UK basketball.
Imagine what it's going with It's like at these other schools. You can't.
I mean, Alabama had some football games that weren't full. It's true, right, Alabama had football games that were not full. You can't, I mean, you can't keep going forever.
Do you do you see a situation where, like some schools, I'm just gonna use Eastern this as an example where you know it costs so much to run a football program, getting rid of even something in like football.
Yeah, I mean I'm not saying Eastern, but there will be schools that will do that. In what is this twenty twenty four end of May, In twenty twenty six end of May, this will be a completely different college sports universe.
Now here's the good news.
It sounds a lot of it sounds like gloom and do The last few months have felt like the wild West of college sports, right, like Tyson Chicken's gonna give four million, Jerry with Jones and ball this stuff, and like it seems out of can what this settlement will do is it's going to allow rules to be put in place. And so while I think these next two years are going to be bumpy, college sports, from twenty twenty six on, I think has a chance to be stable, but it's going to look completely different than it looks now, and I don't think people.
Really are ready for what's about to have.
Wow, And I think some of the hardest choices are coming this summer where some of these big schools are going to have to this summer make decisions as to what they're going to do with programs.
So you said, like the SEC and the Big Ten that they will decide as a conference or is it up to the eat individual school.
They decide as a conference. Okay, and then real quick worth talking about what athletes do. Okay, So let's say you're a high school athlete. A lot of people listening will have kids who will be high school or who have a chance to be a college athlete. A college athlete will come to a school and they are, as part of the lawsuit, automatically part of this class. Right Drew decides to play basketball at Kentucky, if he does nothing, he is part of this class and he will get an amount of money. How what that amount of money is will be set by UK. UK will decide out of the twenty million dollars that are going to athletes, how much is going to basketball players and how much is going to football players. And guess what schools are gonna show their priorities by what they choose there, right, Yeah, that's gonna be interesting. There are gonna be some basketball coaches who think the football team's getting too much, and there're gonna be some football coaches who think the basketball team's gonna be much.
And there's some baseball coaches going we ain't getting anything.
But when you sign up for a school, you're gonna you're gonna be part of that class unless an athlete will have the ability to opt out.
And negotiate their own thing.
And my assumption is a lot of great ones will do that, right, a lot of great ones will do.
That, which adds a whole nother piece to it.
But it's college sports has always been a business, but the business side of it is about to be a lot more prominent than it used to be. And I just don't know that people ryan are realizing that. And we're two conferences away from agreeing to this. The SEC and the Big Ten are the last two, and the reports are the SEC is deciding today and the Big Ten is deciding tomorrow.
And you think they'll both agree to it.
I think they don't have a choice. Yeah, they don't have a choice.
There's no other system unless they want to spend the next decade getting hauled.
To court and losing.
Because I get a lot of people that write me like, we put this up yesterday, and a lot of people write me and go.
Matt, why don't they throw out and burber berber.
Like when the Supreme Court rules nine O, folks, it's over. There ain't nobody else to go to. When Justice Alito, who's flying an upside down flag, and when Soda Mayor who is marching in the Black Lives Matter protests, when the two of them agree, you're done, Like you're done, so you just now have to accept the new world.
What is Mark Emmert doing after he had fifteen years of sitting on a golden toilet up there in Indianapolis and just rolling in money? He got to sneak out of this right as he got messy? Where's he insist?
Every college basketball fan will owe if this if we come through this successfully. Everybody will owe Charlie Baker, the new president, a lot of sport.
Just to give you an example of him.
When they hired him to be the new president of the NCAA, I thought, man, that's got to be a great move.
He was a.
Republican governor of Massachusetts who had eighty five percent approval in the most democratic state in America.
That said to me, that dude must be pretty good at what he does.
Right for a state that wants to disagree with him for everyone to agree with him. The NCAA hired him, and from what I can tell, he seems to be doing a very good job.
Ryan of navigating this so far.
That's tough to you should be put him, But yeah, I guess we put a lot of trust in him. His leadership.
Well, they don't really have a choice.
And I actually think Mitch Barnhart, by the way, because Mitch Barnhart is the longest tenured ad in the SEC, I think a lot of the you know, let's be real, the SEC and the Big ten were huge in crafting this settlement.
I actually think Mitch.
Barnhart had a lot to do with it, probably so because because he is the dean kind of.
The sec A d S. Who's next, Jeff.
Jeff, go ahead, Jeff, hey man, Hey guys, how are you guys doing doing good?
Not to change the subject, ony, but since you brought up your disregard and dislike of dogs, I thought I would bring up that puppy mill thing and Lexington again, they're.
Voting on that.
The council is voting on that next month.
Okay, And it's.
Not it's really not designed to keep people from selling dogs like from neighbor to neighbor. It's really just to keep those pet stores from selling these puppy mills.
But it also will have the effect of saying you can't sell from neighbor to neighbor, right, I mean that may not be what it's designed for, but it may have that effect.
It could maybe to a small effect. Yeah, I think it kind of people report that. But if those pet stores would just kind of partner with the humane societies, the rescues and sold those dogs, there really wouldn't.
Be any problem, gotcha? All right? Well, thank you, I appreciate the goal. That's going to be quite a council meeting.
Maybe we'll send Mario to go to the Dog Council meeting, because that's going to be quite a thing.
I think I just saw something that the Humane Society is at full capacity. They need some help. If you're looking about adopting a dog, go out there. They need some help right now.
Perfect good stuff. We'll take a break, be right back. If I've nine eight twenty two eighty seven. Kentucky's losing two nothing and not done well, so for them early, we'll take a break right back. You're exactly right, dude. This is totally the dogs in that commercial.
Yep.
You know I want to donate right now, reaching into my pocket.
Yeah, yeah, it's like, all right, you don't have a dime. Are there still places shit? And speaking of diamonds where I can turn coins into money?
Uh yeah, I think there's like machines that you can dump.
But they still exist. They still like Kroger because I am stars. You know.
Now I don't have any coins, but I still have a huge jar of them that I thought I was gonna save to one day like take a vacation on. But now they're just in the way, and so I think I'm gonna go turn them in. You have to pay like a crazy rate though, to do it at the thing, don't.
Yeah, you may end up with a lot of money that have to be you're spending money to go on your trip. Some banks will still do that for you and not charge, but.
You have to roll it.
Most banks, don't you. They make you bring it. I think they make you bring it in.
My bank doesn't.
You can just take it in like a big sock.
You have to separate the coins. You don't even have to do that. So if I just walk in with my big product quarters, they'll let me all right, yeah, hey, uh to my bank out there.
Sorry, they told me to do it.
So when I walk in there in the next couple of days, it's not my fault.
Twenty six dollars.
What is this jar you have? I'm curious now what it looks like. It's like a big old pickle jar.
I don't know about you.
Like I don't use cash anymore, Yeah, I mean I rarely use cash, and so everything's a card.
So I don't ever have coins, but I used to have a big like so you're gonna make fun of me about this.
Like I don't you know, I don't I don't cook, shocking, so I have like a big pot that you would use for cooking, but it's just filled with coin that utensil I mean no, I mean there's coins that have been there for probably probably fifteen years. So I'm not gonna ever use that pot because I feel like stuff might have I don't know, there's probably probably not good, but I.
Have a like like that you could put like a turkey.
In full of coin full of coins to haul that to the bank.
It's probably heavy.
Guarantee it's heavy. They're gonna call the police immediately when they see somebody opening.
A pot full of coins.
Do you think they'll think it's weird if I walk in with a.
Pot full of coins?
Least?
So what would you put them in?
Anything? A baggie or any Yeah, listen, you've got to take you gotta take Mario there. He's got to go with you.
And will you go with me to the bank with my pot full of coins? Okay?
Because after you drop the coins and they're separating them, then you're just the guy standing at the bank with an empty pot. And I think that's that's I'll.
Give them a pot. They can have a pot in the pot too, thank you for their troubles. They could have the pot bank. Yeah, all right, if I'm nine seven Scheffler. He uh.
The video went everywhere yesterday, so the whole nation was commenting on our our price, our district county attorney excuse me in Louisville. And then Romans you get on TikTok. I don't know how many of you are on the TikTok, but you get on TikTok. Romans is everywhere, and like people in the comments section stand in him like yeah, They're all like, I want.
Him to be my lawyer. Can he cut?
Like for Romans, this is the best thing that's ever happened for him, isn't it.
Yeah?
I mean he was in the middle of Breonna Taylor, but this may be give him more exposures.
Certainly getting more TikTok exposure.
Yes, yes, yeah, it's It is kind of fascinating when you watch that video to hear their argument back and forth, you know, in a formal setting like that.
Well, the argument the district tournament was was terrible. Almost said it. It was terrible because he acknowledged the argument he was making is not the legal standard. Romans pointed it out, he said, I agree with him, and then just kept arguing it, and the judgement and the judges the judge genuinely seemed perplexed, like why are you arguing this?
That's not the standard.
You know, judge said it with romans pretty quickly. But he's he's viral for that Southern draw.
A lot of people that haven't heard of voice like that's a Metcalfe County, metcalf County coming out out and going, well, Judge especially.
I mean, this is Scotty Scheffler, this is this is a huge thing.
And then you hear that. So what happened? So June third is the new date. June third is the new date. I'm gonna be gone. They're not gonna make him come walk into that court, are they.
I it'd be a circus of course. Does that what the district attorney wants? Well, nobody knows. I mean that's I think, why would you Why would you fight changing the arraiment date unless you want the video of him walking in?
Yeah?
Right, So I think they got two weeks or while I'm gone on June third, we're gonna have anhim Like.
They can't do that. I mean that we do not, this city, the city and state do not need that.
Videos coming out. Yeah, yes, peen me and the videos coming out tomorrow. So I don't know what it's gonna show, but there's a video now tomorrow that will come out. Who knows, maybe that changes everything, Maybe it ends up looking different after that. But I just I just feel like we didn't need this story was already ridiculous, and now yesterday or Monday.
Did not help because after that incident, I think everybody was just rating of Valhalla and the golf tournament, and the ratings are high. Everything was a huge success. But this is going to continue to be the black cloud that covers everything.
And you can't Can you imagine if the sports centers live outside the Jefferson County Courthouse as they're walking him. I mean, yeah, I hope they.
I hope they've got to be in Ohio at the memorial just after that. It's not too long a drive. He could pull off both. Yeah, who's up next, Steve, Steve, go ahead, Steve.
Hey, guys, love the show.
I just wanted to. I think I have the winning entry for the song commercial thing. Okay, it's obviously more current than the others, and I'd like to give you guys a clue because I think the clue either Shannon or Drew.
Would probably get this.
Well, what is it?
Uh? The clue is it's another truck commercial.
Okay, that's not a clue. Okay, what what? What into?
Like?
What truck company?
I think she did it for Ram, not Chevy?
Okay, yeah, I don't know about that.
I discovered her.
Do you all know that?
One?
I appreciate the college.
I know they know Laney Wilson.
We know who she mean, I know who Landey? Well, like how the XX like? I know who Laney Wilson is too.
I mean, actually that's the kind of music I actually listened to as opposed to.
This is the song he's talking about, though.
I don't know that. I don't know what he's talking about.
I don't know.
I don't appreciate the call. Who's up next, Sean? Sean? Go ahead? Sean?
Hey, Matt. I usually just text the Vision Glass text machine, but I had to call end today. Me and my very beautiful and really really smart wife got into an argument last night and she told me that I was stupid, and I'm like, why would you say that to me when you forced me to listen to ks R Matt Jones says it all the time, so it's gotta be okay for me.
So this, Wow, I didn't realize that. I didn't realize I used the word stupid that much. Did you?
You're impacting other people?
Wait a minute, this woman says, I do.
That's three three stupid.
I do not call you. I just think I think. I say, all right, so I'm gonna try to take it out. I'll tell you what, every I'll punish myself a dollar.
For every stupid. No, put a coin in the coin pot.
Yes, I'll put I'll put I put punished myself a dollar for every student.
I don't want to.
I don't want to set a bad example to the to the young people.
You know we're on the show with you. I've never realized this, but this is now three people in an hour that are saying it. So I'm wondering how many how many others out there have this been?
Had absolutely no idea? One person rites Matt. Have you given up on.
The Reds yet? The one last night? So there's one. Uh.
They got the Dodgers this weekend, so that's gonna be fun.
That's gonna be difficult.
Quick thing I'm gonna probably give away my tickets tonight via social media, so just be watching for that. At some point, I say this with love and respect to all of you. Stop asking me for my tickets while I'm on the break, okay, like I love all of you all, but.
Just it's okay, all right, You're not ticket a message.
Don't ask me to ask Maddie.
I'm not.
I'm not a stupid question.
Unless I unless you TJ Smith personal injury attorney.
Call TJ.
He'll make them pay.
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A back Tucky Sports Radio. If you're missing the SEC tournament listening to us, thank you. Uh. Kentucky is down two nothing to LSU after three Kentucky still doesn't have a hit yet, which is.
Uh, I have a base runner. I think they're old for nine.
Yeah, they had a guy just get out, which I've never seen for Did you see that He got hit by the pitch, but they said he leaned into it and so he called him out.
I didn't know that the punishment for that was to be out.
I didn't realize it either.
I wasn't watching. I do I mean two oh. I think if you've been paying attention, we'll take two oh all day. Yeah, I believe they've left five on base. This could be much uglier than it is right now.
So if they if they win, we play tomorrow at four thirty, and Ryan and I have talked about we may organize a mini quick watch party if they win tomorrow for the four to thirty game. If they lose, it's during the show again tomorrow, so we'll have the same issue with being on WSFC, and we'll have it on during the show while we're here.
At the bar.
So either way, if they play tomorrow, you can watch the game here, but we might do like a little bit of watch party slash send Matt down the road here tomorrow if we win today, which right now we are.
We're not doing one person rights. Matt.
Don't fall for these people who tell you to not have cash. The an all electronic money.
Uh.
Society is the sign of the end of times. That seems a little created. It's a little that's a lot, isn't it like to.
Hear more about their thoughts.
People always say it's the end of times.
By the way, you know, people are always saying like they always say it's the end of times. And the thing is, people have been saying that since humans were created. If you read history, there's been in every generation someone has said the world is about to end, and at some point someone's gonna be right.
But we skip over all the people that were wrong.
Right.
Like seriously, when I was a kid, remember we got out of school one day because the world was gonna end.
A lot of people don't realize that we did. One time.
We got out of school because they said the world was gonna end because of an earthquake yep, And did it happen Nope, No, and then it never happens, and then nobody gets punished for being wrong, right, And so every day everybody's like, well, you know, that's the sign of the end of times.
Look, trunk money, it's finally gonna be the one that does it.
Credit Card's gonna take us down.
There a people thought cars were gonna do that. The Internet, the you know, fire, the wheel birds. It just feels like it feels like that's something I just I don't buy any of.
That, do you.
We went from nineteen ninety nine to the year two thousand, the whole wood was supposed to shut down because you know, all the computers couldn't handle the zero zero part of it.
That got that Okay, yeah, I got through that as well. Folks, the uh, I wanted to tell you, we still have a handful of the railbird parking tickets, so if you want one, you need to get it soon. Well, I'll put that parking pass up again today, but we uh, we're gonna we're gonna have this lot full, so you need to do it relatively soon.
Who's next, Mike, Mike, go ahead, Mike.
Hey, how you guys doing doing good? Hey, I gotta a little off topic. But my wife works with the High Hospital. Okay, and see that there is a prostate drug that has amazing side effects that makes your hair, your hair grow back.
I mean, are you being Is this like a joke, like are you gonna have a punchline?
The reason, the reason I was caught in the guy yesterday was a pharmacist. And I'm wondering if if you don't have prostate issues, let it hurts you to take a prostate drug, if you to make your hair grow back.
Well, first of all, I don't think that we're the people to ask that question.
Too.
I would ask a medical professional, but you're saying there's a.
Well, all right, I appreciate the call. Do you believe that?
Maybe?
I mean, who knows?
How have they not made a drug for people's hair to grow back?
That's the crazy thing.
We have drugs to do everything. How have they not fixed that?
I don't have an answer for you.
Are you gonna be able to host this for two months?
I'm ready.
I've gone to you twice in the last thirty seconds, and you've said three words.
Well, that's I have no answer about the disaster of the world over a credit card. That's ridiculous. This about a drug that for weake your hair go back.
I'm with you.
I don't understand how we do not have that and everything else, feeling that it.
Would be money for that if that was to you're the ones that's done the procedure. When you're going through all this, was there any point? Are you ever gonna do more of that?
No?
No, I think I'm happy with my Baalt spot back here. I like my little hair up in the front. But you wouldn't want to fill in the ballt spy. I don't care. I can't see it.
I respect that every time I get my haircut. That's how I want the back. I'm like, I don't know, I can't see it.
I can't see it.
Yeah, but but you're glad you got on the front.
Yeah.
I like that right there, or I would be completely bald right now.
It does make you look younger, don't you.
I mean, the the pictures of you before you got there got it, you look older than you look now.
And that was like literally like six years ago.
Longer than that one.
I don't know.
Yeah, but you don't you think you be rocking a solid horseshoe right now?
Oh, you looked.
You look a lot younger as it is. I actually think it worked well for you.
Well, thank you, sir.
So do you wish it had been a pill instead of the I mean, you went well because it didn't hurt.
It hurt, it hurt.
It's uncomfortable for three days.
I still have the picture of your scabbed up heads awful remote.
You were a trooper.
He came to a remote the day after his hair surgery, and where they put it in. Each hair was a scab and it was you look it was really odd looking.
You were also in a lot of pain. You had to wear like a chef's hat. Yes, and you said, don't take it off. It would do it on the show live on the show. So I hadn't seen it either.
I have a somewhere in this phone there's a picture of your scabby head, and it was it was awful, it was it didn't look good.
I'll grant that. Who's next, n Kevin? Go ahead? Kevin?
Yes? Uh?
How like the way the team that's coming in, what would be your starting five?
Okay? Are we saying with or without Jackson Robinson?
The makeup right now?
Without him?
Without him? All right?
Without him, They're gonna start Lamont Butler at point guard point, They're gonna start uh Amari Williams at center.
They're gonna start Andrew Carr at power forward, and.
Then Bray you will he be the shooting guard who bray you? The dude from Dayton I mean Brea Brea maybe, but it also could be that kid from Oklahoma.
Yeah, he might have to be a wing in the scenario if you don't get rob he might have to do.
Might have to play him both. You probably would play.
Bray three for Robinson, But the scenario otherwise.
I think you would start.
If let's say Robinson comes, then I think your starting lineup is Butler, Brea, Robinson, Carr Williams with always your sixth and set maybe Chandler R seventh And then you see what who develops amongst everybody else?
Is that?
How you don't forget our boy Kirk Risa in the back court. But I don't think he'd start, but he'd be one of the first off the bench.
Now he'll definitely be like an annoy off the beach, coming in and doing stuff that's.
Perfect for him. But we know of him, you know the guy that comes in and immediately a little little juice.
With Let's say you don't get Jackson Robinson, because I do think it is important to think about the worst possible option. Let's say you don't get him. I assume they'll find someone. But let's say the team as it's constituted now is the best form of the team will have. How good are they?
I mean, I think they're good, good enough to get to the weekend of the SEC tournament and maybe the second weekend in the NCAA tournament. I think they're good enough to.
Do that well, So they're sweet sixteen good probably you think they're that good.
I agree.
I won't be thinking thoughts about, you know, planning trips, so we're gonna be at this stop in the NCAA turnam won't be getting ahead of myself with each round. But I think they would be in the postseason and would be uh you know, I think Alabama's gonna be really strong in the SEC, but not far behind them in a third four fifth, So you would put them third fourth in the SEC. Yeah, they wouldn't win it, but they would be in the top half in the we haven't won it. Sometimes I'm not saying it's gonna be worse off. Also, I think if they don't get Jackson Robinson, a lot has been made about Pope's binder that he's been seeing with at the Peach Jam, that dude's got a backup plan that we just don't know. He has to. He's way too prepared and on top of this to be all in on one guy at this point, and whether it be a reclass international and other guy's not being said. I don't believe Pope will strike out on Robinson and uh Lan Aar and not have something else.
I think it's gonna be interesting to see what happens. The cal Era allowed fans to do this. It allowed everyone during the offseason dream of success. So if you think about it, in the cal Era, we were always a national championship contender in May, June, July, August, September, October, so he had six months in our head of being a national championship contender.
Then sometimes it remained and sometimes.
It didn't, but you had six months that we walked around going, we can win the national championship. What's gonna be interesting this year is the final result could be better, likely will be better than it was last year. Yeah, but we will not have those six months before of thinking we're a national championship contender and we shouldn't let that change our psyche about the season.
Does that make sense.
I think that can be a good thing too.
It can be a good thing, but it will One of the things that is exciting about being a Kentucky fan during the cal Era is this idea of the always the possibility. Right, the possibility was always exciting, exciting, exciting and exciting, and then when it doesn't happen, it was major disappointment. But then you would just go, well, but next year, right, this is gonna be like more realistic based, and I just think it's gonna take our fan base a little while to adjust to that rhyme, you know what I mean?
Yeah, And I, like Drew said, I think that could be a good thing for our fan base to kind of have a reset and get our expectations kind of and check a little bit that. You know, this year may not be a national championship year, but let's give him time to get to that point.
Yeah.
Seven, these people right here live in Austria. Yeah, I heard him say that in Austria.
In Vienna. I've been to.
I've been a week in Vienna. You did, Yeah, my brother lived there. He was there working there from the military.
What do you remember of your Vienna? Because I may go, I've never been to Vienna. I may go, what what do you remember?
And we ate a lot of Viner's Fitzel, Yeah, a lot of beer.
But did you think like it was a beautiful city?
It was awesome. We went to all the tourist stuff around Vienna.
Give me.
We went some underground submarine place where they used to make submarines underground.
They looked very surprised. Yeah, I don't Shannon, I don't think that that's true. Yeah, believe they made the submarines underground.
Yeah, and they shot some movie down there that they were making, like during.
The World Universal Studios in Hollywood.
The Epcot Center at Austria stop is not.
Actually you go down and get in a boat like you are.
I had to walk in down.
Okay, I can believe that there's a submarine museum, But are you telling me they make the submarines underground?
They did during the war to kind of hide their work.
Oh okay, okay, all right, I can buy that. I can buy that.
So this was but Austria, they were they were on Germany side, weren't they.
Yeah, so you were like visiting the other side.
Yeah, it was a tourist it's a tourist attraction.
Now.
Yeah.
We went to some outdoor uh plaza where they had pizza outside and to this day it's the best pizza I've ever had in my life.
I remember that in Austria.
In Austria does look like one class submarine was started in Austria.
Austria.
But you know, I mean that's like saying the best sushi you had was in like Spain, Like that's not like you know what I mean. I mean, pizza is an Italian thing, not in Austria.
They put some magic in that though, and it was awesome.
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Yes, the Kentucky is now first and third, two outs down to nothing, so maybe they could get something happen another air. I've never seen a college baseball it has so many errors. Yeah, you know, I mean, I haven't watched a ton of it over the years, and watching a lot of Kentucky they make like they make teams make so many errors against.
Them, makes you appreciate you go watch the Reds that make that make it look easy. You know, that's why they're big Major leaguers.
Like if they make an air, it's crazy, but in college it happens all the time. One person writes, matt if Uk is one of the premier baseball excuse me, premier basketball programs in America. Why are we tempering our expectations? We should hold every coach to the same standard winning national championships. I love Pope, but it's just the way it should be. Well, okay, but what every rule or every standard has to have a punishment. So let's say we don't have a chance to win the national championship this year. What are you gonna do when you say, when you say hold them to a standard, what are you gonna do? Like, you gotta get the guy had four weeks to build his rosters. Give him a break. If in year two or year three, we're not pushing for that different situation. But in year one, how many teams have legitimately had a chance to win a national championship in a year. One coach that wasn't just inheriting a lineup. This doesn't happen, John CALIPERI gave us a shot, but who else has any special And he had walling DeMarcus Cousins. And I think this is important. He had already been recruiting those guys for another school. Yes, we hired a coach who wasn't recruiting the kind of players we recruit here. He was recruiting to BYU. So he had not gone after the top guys like Cal had before he came here from Memphis.
Well, Cousins had both said they were going wherever Cal was. That wasn't a Kentucky thing. I mean it worked out and they love Kentucky now, but in their recruitment, they were just following Cal to wherever he was going.
The only thing Kentucky got Cal with those dudes is can Kentucky got Cal Eric Bledsoe? But he had recruited Eric Bledsoe at Memphis as well, Right, I think Bledsoe had visited even when Billy was here. He even had been on Kentucky's campus before. Yeah, and and I you know I said this over the last thirteen years of Cal. The day Cal left. That next year was always going to be hard because Cal recruits. I'm not criticizing this. He does it and it worked for him. But he recruits Cal. Right, he doesn't recruit Kentucky. He recruits Cal. He said that at Arkansas. Yeah, he said, recruits. Say, we're just changing the adres.
Huh.
That worked when he was here. But that means when you leave, you got to restart Ryan, which is what we're having to do.
I think it'll be fair to hold Mark Pope to those standards in a year or two. Right now, he took the job with one guy on the roster and most of the top twenty kids already committed someplace. E.
I'll go farther to say I think it is fully reasonable to expecting year two to him have a top ten to fifteen roster. That is reasonable in the transfer portal era, with a year of recruiting with our nil base, we should expect him to have a top ten to fifteen roster next year.
Yeah, but this year.
You kind of have to do the best you can, and I actually think they've done a pretty good job, even though I think they need one more guy.
And they only have to win one game in March to be better than last year one in Nashville or the other tournament one.
Well, when you watch.
Shepherd and Dillingham in the NBA, is that always gonna be on your mind?
Yeah?
I already think about it. Yeah, I still listen to read and Rob I'm probably gonna get that to not his pizza again before the draft. I I'm just with those two. I'm still not over last season. Those are two of my favorite. When I see PJ.
Washington with Dallas, I don't sit there and think we lost Kansas State, but I kind of feel like with Reid and Rob, I'm gonna think that. I just I just kind of feel like I think that my death bed.
Could we know how good that team was and how even better they could have been if you played the right lineup the way you're supposed to. I'll never forget Nate Oats saying after that Alabama game, hey, cow, we just found your lineup. Like even he knew at that moment that's the lineups gonna win you a lot of games.
I know we've said this a thousand times, but I want you to think. Sam Vicini just put that stat out the other day when Reid, rob and Reeves were in the game together, every one hundred possessions we outscored the other team by thirty points. Every other lineup we put on the court in one hundred possessions, we only outscored them by six.
That's crazy, six to thirty. And in the Oakland game, they played two possessions together in the first half and only played multiple minutes together in the last few minutes of the game as we were desperately trying to say.
You're losing. Unbelievable.
That's and that's why, and that's why, and that's what we are.
We are and that's exactly why we are where we are where we are right now. Thank you everybody for coming out.
Good to see you. Nice.
Let's at lunch. We will be here again. Tomorrow be the last day we're in Lexington. It's Don Franklin Nissan in Somerset. They switched it from Kia to the Nissan. So keep that in mind again if we If Kentucky Baseball wins, they will play tomorrow at four point thirty. If they lose, they will play tomorrow during this show again as well, and be watching on social media because I'm going to give my Reds tickets away tonight.
Very cool.
So thank you all very much. We'll see you later. I'm gonna go to the bank with a big jar coins or a big pot, it's up.
See you later.