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It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Friday, December the twentieth, on another rainy, nasty day.
Been a nasty week in terms of weather.
The snow tonight, snow tonight, playoff games tomorrow and tonight just absolute chaos of weather. And you can give Shallvick Clark's publish up full line. That's eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four In this dish sponsored by the TJ smid Love's called Tj'll Make Them Pay. We are here at ks Bar Grill already a good group of people here. I'm just kind of feeling like there's gonna be a bunch of people here today. You got Indiana Notre Dame tonight in the snow in South Bend.
Have you seen it's already.
Snowing, snowing up there to South Bend.
Yeah, ticket's going four hundred dollars just to get in on a snowy day in South Bend. It looks like they're even gonna be doing I saw this morning they're gonna be doing College Game Day at three point thirty outside in the snow. They said, I don't think they've ever done college game Day. They've done it in the rain, but they've never done it in the snow. And there's a good chance this afternoon, Drew, it's gonna be in the snow.
Oh yeah, I'm very looking forward to that game, all the playoff games, even though I've tried to block college football out of my mind, but the last half Kentucky season went, I'm really looking forward to tonight seeing that.
I'm excited about the playoff.
You know, the games this week, the games this weekend, we're gonna we'll talk about them and pick them later, but they're all big spreads, but just the idea of being in the home stadium. I think except for that environment at Penn State, the rest of the environment's gonna be great.
I think tomorrow.
Night, that Tennessee Ohio State game, that's gonna be an amazing environment. Could be snowing during that as well. Yeah, so I think it's gonna be really good.
I think that's the one everybody's kind of anxious to see. What can Tennessee actually sneak a lot of fans into the game and overtake the stadium a little bit. Has has Ohio State kind of checked out? Has Michigan kind of going to beat them twice?
You know if they If you've checked out for the playoff, then that's on you if you can't even get excited about the playoff.
But so that all that will be fun.
I think you can make an argument that tomorrow is one of the great days of sports of all time. I mean, think about what all I mean, let's just say here in Kentucky, but everywhere. Kentucky obviously plays at five thirty against Ohio State.
But you have three college football playoff.
Games, and you have two really good NFL games Chiefs and Texans and Steelers and Ravens, and then in the middle of that Kentucky basketball. If you ever wanted a Saturday to tell your your husband or your wife, I ain't leaving. I'm not getting out tomorrow, is one of them said right here, I'm not leaving tomorrow. You know what, you can come sit. Also, you could sit at that bar store right there and not have to leave the whole day tomorrow, Drew.
Would be that day.
Oh yeah, if we didn't have the pregame show at three, there might be a chance. I don't take twenty steps tomorrow around my house. I mean, I'm gonna be sunk into that couch the entire day, maybe even starting tonight, might sleep there for all the football we have coming into the Kentucky back.
Now, I do have a question for this woman right here. Who's with you, sir? She still yes, she still has her back to us. You just don't even want to see us firm it was all discussion. You need to turn around. I can't look at your back the whole time. It makes me feel it makes me feel like you don't like me.
Like you.
I mean, imagine like if you just come into a room, if you were to go watch, you know, a comedy show, and you just sat on the fourth row with your back to the person. There you go and I see, isn't that bad?
There we got I think he was worried about same sighting in the booth.
But you can do that in this season. Oh, it's okay, it's it's a beautiful thing. Don't worry about it.
Eighth, twenty eighty seven The Cats. Last night, Ryan went to Hamilton on Broadway in New York. Uh, they were brought up on stage. They got to meet the crew and the staff. I guess Mark Pope, if you remember, said that he Hamilton was like his favorite thing, so they probably dragged him there. But I want to can I give you something I noticed last night in the picture that I just thought was cool?
All right, all right, you've been around your kids in high school? Right? Yes? Uh senior if I'm.
Correct, lasts has he picked where he's going to college?
Yeah? No, when's when's the when's the decision?
We have to make our college visits after the holidays.
They thought you already went to like five places.
Those were game day visits. They had to go visit the campus and they take you and talk to you about you.
You couldn't have seen the campus the same time you were there for the game.
We did a little bit, but they you know, they can show you the dorm rooms and they sit you down on financial aid people and try to you know, win you over. That's coming up after the holiday period coming up, or you can't do that. That's true on the calendar.
So so anyway, I was looking at the picture, and if you're listening.
At home, you should pull up the picture of them with the Hamilton crew.
And here's what I noticed, and I have not noticed this for a long time for any group of people, especially guys that age. In the picture, if you look at it, every single player on the UK basketball team is smiling, like not just smiling like cheesy, smiling, like a huge smile on their face. And you're around people that age. Can you ever think of getting a group of guys that age together and they all smile?
No, because the trend is you got to look like a tough guy. You don't smile on photo.
We took a picture of my Georgetown class. I think I'm the only person smile. You remember the Louisville basketball picture. Pat Kelsey is the only person smiling. It looked like to Meroup, our team is like the happiest team.
And if you think about it, they're all older.
They're all like twenty one, twenty two, twenty three years old, and it was something. I know, this is a little thing, right, but it looks like a group of guys that are very happy. And I think that translates to why our fans like this group so much. I think they're older, they seem like a group that is enjoying the experience of being at UK, that appreciates it. And I think part of the reason we've fallen in love with this team. We obviously love Pope, we love the style of play, but I think some of it is this group of young men seem like guys you just want to be happy to be around.
I think you hit it. I think you're right.
This group of players enjoy and appreciate this opportunity to have to play for UK basketball, and I think it's reflective, and not just at Hamilton, but on the court.
You know, they're very supportive of everybody on the court.
I mean, you could see a scenario where Mark Pope says, hey, guys, it's Thursday night in New York City.
We're going to a play.
You can a long play, and you could see that they're being maybe some players go, are you kidding me?
Like, because this is the.
Best you know this, This is like the best weekend to go to New York if you go to New York. If for fans who are going the game, this is the best weekend. There's Christmas, It's it's the the tree and and and and lights, there's all there's all this stuff going on. This is the best weekend. And then the guy and then your coach goes, we're going to a play. You might not like it, but even they seem even happy with that.
Yeah, I mean they've got three guys from the area, probably lots of friends to see. But no, we're going to the Richard Rogers Theater where I know Richard big fan, but I know a Mari Williams did not fit that seat very well.
Three OUTU seats amazing. He was smiling.
Well, I'm sure the uh we all we all know about the Pope New York connection where Mark and LeAnn started dating there and they love it so much, so I'm not surprised to see that they're taking the team on a tour around Manhattan. Probably a lot more of that's come today now.
If Kentucky were to win tomorrow and the spread is not out yet, I think it's gonna be like I said eight, nine, ten, something like that for Kentucky. If Kentucky were to win, that means they would have gone through this what we thought at the beginning of the year would be a gauntlet. Ohio State has ended up not being quite as good. But you know, Duke, Gonzaga, Clemson, Louisville.
And Ohio State.
When the season started, we said we hoped they'd go three and two, right, and that most of us thought they'd probably go.
Two and three.
I did, I said two and three.
But we hoped they'd go three and two.
If they beat Ohio State, that means they're gonna have gone through that gauntlet four and one.
That has to be considered.
If we win, Ryan a massive success going into conference play.
Yeah, we go back just what two months ago.
I think that we would be very, very excited if they could somehow just squeak out three wins to beat Duke and Gonzaga like they did convincingly. I think the shows that just well, they weren't.
We won both of them right at the end, but they did win.
Yeah, show some toughness and battle back.
I think they just the best basketball I still believe is yet to come for this team.
You think so, I think so.
You think there's gonna be better basketball than beating Duke and Gonzaga Gozag.
On the road because you know they're still not shooting the ball as great as we all thought they could. So I think it's coming. When they put it all together, this team is going to be a superstar team.
I just think going back to April, even Mitch Barnhardt, who was like the one person that woned Mark Pope in the moment, even he couldn't have dreamed it could have gone this well, No, no one would have believed this in April, that you'd be you'd have one win.
At this point, you would have already.
Signed Marino and Jasper John us already in the top of the recruiting rankings. He's literally outside of losing to Clemson, which none of us really care about at this point. It has been a perfect whatever seven months for Mark Poper.
Uh. There's a guy on social media, has a website.
I don't know his last name, so I'm sorry to him forgetting his last name wrong. His name is like Evan men Kaiyawa or something.
Whatever it is.
So he does like sort of nerd stuff on sports. That's his thing. He basically does nerd numbers and nerd stats. And he had this video yesterday that I thought was fascinating. He went back and looked at the teams from last that were in the or in the top seventy five of the kim Pom, and he looked to see how many of them had the biggest roster turnover and how many of them had the smallest roster turnover, basically, how many of them had returning players, and they did. And he went through the fifteen teams who had the biggest roster turnover, and he said, of the fifteen teams with the biggest roster turnover, thirteen of them have performed below expectations so far this year. Thirteen of them basically have done less with the roster than what it looked like they would do before, whereas the fifteen with the most people returning, twelve of them have outperformed expectations. And his thesis was that in today's portal world, having people return is huge for success. But then he said there's one exception, which is Kentucky. He said, Kentucky has outperformed expectation per player more than any other team in the top seventy five. And you go look at the other teams that have underperformed, Louisville, Arkansas, and he goes through them, and then there's Kentucky, Who's the one that has outperformed expectations more than almost any other team. I think that what makes what Mark Pope has done Ryan even more impressed the fact that, like, we've done this with no returning players.
Do you think part of it is Pope was able to just get the right guy like he did to.
These other teams did too.
I mean, these other teams did the exact same thing, they picked who they wanted.
I just think he's been able to get more out of this group than he would than anybody would have thought.
Probably one of the only ones on the list that doesn't have a returning coaching staff either, although that might be helpful in the scenario. It might be why he's standing out the coaching change there. But it is remarkable that they have brand new across the board. I guess you can count Travis Perry was committed. But other than that, none of these guys but.
Didn't play here.
Yeah as far as last March, they weren't even thinking that.
Yeah, so you know, we'll see what happens. In converslation.
We went over that schedule the other day and Mario posted the video of our picks. Most criticism, especially from the old angry people on Facebook, was that we picked too many losses.
I can't win with these people, Mario.
I pick us nine wins in football, then I'm way too optimistic. Pick six losses in basketball. I'm way too pessimistic. I don't know what these numbers are that people want.
Us to pick.
But going into it the non conference, let's assume we win tomorrow, and again we could lose, but let's assume we win.
Gotta be an A to A plus, right.
No doubt about it.
Yeah, the way they played and beat these teams we talked about it is it is definitely a high A yeah.
A plus.
I mean you could have beaten Clemson, but really, just I mean, you want to win that, but does anyone really care that they want? Is that pulling any of your opinion down to Mark Pope whatsoever? In the game no, I mean I go a plus. It's been fun to beat Clemson. That's the one.
Uh yeah, I think I go a plus. It doesn't change my opinion of anything you tell me.
I beat Duke Louisville Gonzaga in a non conference unless I've lost to Brown, I'm take giving that an A plus.
I don't know how you can.
Even if they lose to Ohio State tomorrow. I think I'm still giving them an A for their non conference.
I don't know about it. A Live State's not good. I might I might go down town your minus if they.
Were to looks.
Yeah, by the way, everybody joined me. Today is Shannon's birthday? Happy birthday? Is Shannon the dude?
Oh? Thank you?
It's actually tomorrow, but I'll take an early birthday.
Is it tomorrow? Yeah? And whatever? Today? Yeah, everybody said it was today, so that they're lying to you.
Have somebody to take these off the next like month after today.
So Shannon, was that true? How much are you off?
I'm off till January third. That's two weeks.
You're off till January third.
Listen, mister ten week vacation. I don't want to hear about mine.
He's off till January third.
That's two weeks two.
Must be nice option, yeah, must be nice, off till January third.
Birthday party.
Okay, so how old are you?
Do we really have to say? I mean, I'm now, I really don't even want.
To talk about it. But come on, you're not ninety.
I'll be forty two.
He's gonna be forty two years old. Are you?
Are you doing anything for your birthday? Because you have that terrible birthday where people just get you one present because it's easy.
That is the shortest day of the entire year.
So yeah, tomorrow it's the shortest day.
Gloomy, but uh yeah, I mean usually I get one present. This is your Christmas and your Birthday wrapped into one.
Well, well, happy happy birthday to Shannon. He's he a lot of people don't. We'll forget has been on the show longer than Ryan Andrews. Shannon is actually the uh Shannon is actually the second person on the show.
A lot of people forget.
That run March of twenty eleven.
I think March of twenty eleven, we had only I did six months with seven months with Zach and then he was gone and then Shannon came in March of twenty eleven.
And I started May of twenty eleven, so yeah, he had a couple months on me.
Yeah, if I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven to two four five two five four. We're gonna take a break and be right back. Mark Pope weighed in on the sit versus Stand controversy yesterday, sort of, We'll be right back.
This is ksr WA. I'm back.
It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live ks Baruf.
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You could come in today, still time to pick the Indiana Notre Dame game for our money thing. So it's like tomorrow everybody that comes in will pick the other games, but Indiana Notre Dame kicks off tonight, so that your best chance of winning the money is probably coming in today and picking the Indiana Notre Dame game.
Yeah, this is a heck of a contest we've got going on. That's a lot of money Country Roads is putting out.
Thank you very much for Country Roads Spirits for doing that. Okay, let's go to the text machine. One person rights mad is someone that's been in New York over ten times is the worst weekend to go. It's all tourists. It's insane, yes, but I'm telling tourists to go. Of course, it's a big weekend for tourists. That's why I'm saying tourists, this is the weekend to go. Like, if you have sort of a dream of what New York looks like that you don't want to go in July.
It's hot. This is exactly like the kind of New York people envision.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think you're gonna get a better New York experience. And right now there's gonna be crowds. Gonna be a lot of crowds around that this year. It is unbelievable how many people try to get around that tree. You cannot move. Other than that, it's still pretty awesome. Still, whatever part of the city you're in, there's something festive around.
And by the way, if you're going to the game, Jack Dempsey's is having like a massive UK party.
Before and after the game.
That bar, which is a big bar, it'll be filled to the brim with Kentucky fans before and after the game. If you're going, it's like two or three blocks from Madison Square Garden maybe four or something like that.
It's very very cool. There'll be Kentucky fans everywhere.
You said yesterday on the show, you have a little fomo missing out of going.
Yeah, I'm bombed. I'm not going. I just can't.
I can't pull it off with all the stuff I gotta do, and I may have to go to London first week of January, and so I just I'm not gonna be able to do it. I'm gonna do the show from London if I go. Unlike Shannon, I don't just take vacations.
Oh yeah, yeah, how many times did you do the show?
Ten weeks? But you know what, that's different? Oh, it's different. It was different.
It was that was us. That was a relaxation trip. That's different than vacation. One person writes, Matt, my wife and I have one big pet peeve of the show. There's the two words that Ryan uses interchangeably that don't mean what he thinks he does. He says anxious and eager as if they're the same word, and they're not. Will you get him to define anxious and eager? What does anxious mean?
Anxious means you're a little you know, you're a little concern, you know, you're a little worried about something, You're you know, there's a situation coming up. If you're anxious means you're like, oh, well, you know, I've got a tiptoe into that situation.
Is that the dictionary definition?
So yeah, I think they use tiptoe tiptoe.
Into a situation. And do they go ooh when they do when they is in the in the dictionary?
Yeah?
Okay, So what's eager?
Eager means I'm really excited about something like I'm eager for the game tomorrow. I'm excited to sit down and watch the game tomorrow.
But so do you think you use them correctly?
I have not used the word eager in fifty years, so I don't know what those that person's talking about.
Fifty years, Lee, fifty years. Do you use anxious though to mean excited?
Probably?
Yeah, maybe you switch anxious yeah to eager.
Yeah, that's probably what they're talking about.
Yeah, yeah, all right, Well you'll try you'll keep that and got to work on that. Will you see if if at some point before the end of the show, you can use the word eager correctly.
Okay, eager or anxious because they using anxious wrong.
You You can use eager if you haven't said it in fifty years, Drew, now is a good time to do it.
Don't be put an eager in his mouth. He's not so dead to this point.
All right, Well, we'll see how if he does it correctly. They asked Mark's uh pope yesterday if he had a view on the sit versus stand thing, and he said, this is the only time I felt like he's ever been evasive. He said, oh, I'm not aware of that. It's hard for me to believe he's every aware there.
But uh.
He basically gave a kumbai yah. Everyone should do what they want to do. Sit or stand is fine. We want to make this special. I I think he was gonna say stand up. Stop whining about people standing up, but he said I don't want to get in trouble, so I think he's on our side.
Drew, what do you think he caught himself?
He was like, oh, I really want to comment, but before I do, I need to get all of the details.
He even looked over at deb Moore and he wanted to say stand. He did. He had to bite his tongue.
He's like, I better get all the details on this before I put out an official comment. That's what gets me in trouble. But I think he was gonna be team stand for sure. We know Pope's in his enthusiasm.
You know, as the coach, he wants the fans to stand, to be excited and support his team and make it loud and make it a good home court advantage.
Of course, that's what he wants to say.
And this is dominated talk all week. What was the kid's name? Caleb? Caleb?
Caleb has certainly led a revolution. Whether or not he'll have troops behind him, I guess we'll see it the Brown game, but there's no doubt it's interesting though most of the online sentiment is for him saying stand up. But people's started trying to make me feel guilty, Drew, And I'm gonna say they did.
They kind of knew how to make me feel guilty. Do you wanna know what?
I probably had ten people over the last few days. You know what they wrote me said, Matt, how would you feel if you took Larry to the game and someone stood in front of him the whole time?
You'd have to ask that, gentleman. And and I.
You know, I thought about it, and I was like, I wouldn't like that because Larry wouldn't be able to stand the whole game. So I don't know, I'm still forestanding. But when they put it in that real world thing, because I tried to take Larry to like one game a year, and he wouldn't be able to stand the whole game. And if one kid that was kind of drunk was standing there standing just to stand, I wouldn't love that. So they did put it in words that I could understand. Drew, I mean, what do you think about that? You like Larry too? Unless you're gonna say otherwise.
No, No, I'm not saying that.
But when we made the initial case for standing, there was the caveat if someone's older and is unable behind you, that's a different scenario. So I think Larry would fall into that. I think they're using your own words against you here to get you on team sit.
I'm not on team sit.
Team stand ninety nine times out of one hundred.
But if so, do you think the Calebs of the world, if they were standing in front of a Larry, do you think they would sit out?
My opinion, A big thing, big detail in the Caleb story is the people directly behind him said they're okay with it. And I think if the two people who have to stir at your rear end the whole night are okay with it, everybody else can do it.
Right.
So, when you said that, I put my dad in the same scenario. If I was sitting by my dad and there was some people standing in front of him, I would want that person to sit down. So my dad or I would have asked you to say, hey, man.
Would you have called the security.
Oh no, I don't know about called security, but I probably would have had a conversation.
You'd have been a vigilanti and took it in your own hand.
Be respectful, all right, Well, they did make me at least think about it slightly.
We'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSR.
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A minute about a non before we go, the phones, a non sports thing that I found bizarre.
Yesterday, so the Luigi guy, I thought.
We weren't gonna think about him until his trial, probably a year and a half from now. But then yesterday they decided to They extradited him to New York.
And I don't know what they were doing.
Did you see the video of them basically giving him his like purp walk?
Did you see that? So they let him off the plane.
First of all, they have like forty people there and they are in the tactical gear.
They walk him out like he's a Batman villain.
It was literally like they were walking the Joker out of the thing.
There are it looks like military people around. And here's what I don't understand.
They all have bulletproof vests and helmets on. And what I found bizarre is he doesn't seem to have a bulletproof vest on. He, to me, in that scenario is the one most likely to potentially be like shot, like like Jack Ruby, right.
And he doesn't.
He's just wearing this orangehow so that was weird to me that you're you're almost mythologizing this this guy by making him look like this super criminal. But then also the mayor of New York. Are we what's wrong the battery's flashing? Did you not plug it in? Mario set it up?
Yeah? Look at that, just throwing Mario under.
The bus again.
Did you just see him just throw Mario.
Into the bus Yep?
Some days he plugs it in, some days unbelievable.
What uh? What? He just threw Mario into the bush? That was Are you should be ashamed? Rian Lemon?
Your job is to set this up. You're just gonna throw Mario into the bus?
Uh?
He set it up this morning and we just had a little battery thing. I didn't want it to go off during there.
Why did you have to say he set it up?
Because he did set it up. I'm not lying.
Do you remember a few weeks ago when something happened and even though we made fun of Billy, he wouldn't bring anyone else into a mess that was made.
That is true player. So guess who's not a team player?
I will, I will apologize, but not take responsibilities.
All right, So so back to Luigi.
Then, also in the group of people walking, Luigi, the Mayor of New York, came to walk with them, all right, that's ridiculous. The Mayor of New York has no reason to be there. He's not law enforcement. I know he used to be law enforcement, but he's not now. They asked him why, and he said, I wanted him to look me in the eye and see that he can't do such things.
Shut up, like like, seriously, he already did it. Yeah, he already did it.
And do you think all those dudes in tactical gear didn't teach him anything? But he was like, oh no, the Mayor of New York standing here, I must name you shouldn't have done it.
I thought the whole scene was ridiculous.
It did look like a villain in a in a Batman movie. I saw someone even did the side by side of a movie where it almost looks identical of a fictional character being walked in way over the top. I even saw one of the uh, one of the guys escorting him had on like these really exclusive Jordans that are there.
Was a dude where there was a dude wherein Jordans that are like Jordan that are worth like five thousand dollars.
There was a guy wearing them that was on the police department.
Now I don't know what the police make and they should spend their money on whatever they want. But if you're walking around in five thousand dollars Jordan's and you're a police officer, there is a question.
Of like, hey, dude, where'd you get those? Like isn't that kind of just where you got him? But it's like you knew this was the.
Photo Jordan's day. I assume he doesn't wear those every day.
I wouldn't think so there was one big photo.
People acting like this guy as a hero. There are people going on and getting tattoos of this.
Totally agree and see that's where I think it's actually I've talked about the people sort of making this du to hero. I think that's a I think that is a shame and I actually think it's a really terrible statement about society. But if you don't want to make him a hero, don't give him the the joker walk right, like bring him in the back door.
You're making him more of a hero.
Now, people are all you know, there's gonna be people get a tattoo of that scene there. It's like they're doing everything they can to make this guy even more famous.
On a moor, serious note. I mean someone sitting at home that has issues and crazy thoughts sees I can become this big exactly that everyone looks to. You don't want anyone trying to copycat because they see what it can turn into.
I mean the mayor being there.
I've decided the Mayor of New York has to be one of the bigger clowns in office. I mean he's he got indicted because he's like flying to Turkey and getting upgrades and then he comes out and he walks there.
Come on, man, total Like Drew said, that's a total photo off.
And you're right, it's a sad depiction our society. Where why didn't they take him out the back door like normal people? You just got to parade him out there like he's a superhero.
Yeah, I mean they on a helicopter. Come on, I just found it ridiculous.
Who's up next, Let's go to Nate. Nate, go ahead, Nate.
Hey, what's up? Mat?
Yeah?
So I was.
I made the trip out to climbing Pleasure in also, and you know this has been I've been thinking about this all week because this happened to me out there. It's happened to me before I rup too. You know, people have actually sit down. I've kind of been like, you know, I want to cheer from my team, you know, So the same thing happened to me. There some Gonzaga fans behind us, you know, anyway, sir, can you sit down? Didn't he I didn't even actually say sir. They're just like, can you sit down? I'm like, I'm going to cheer for my team. It's when we're coming back, right. Well, this guy did not like me saying that, and ex splitter of Kentucky fans is what he said. And I just turned back around and I'm like just kind of looked at him and just kept clapping and standing up. Well it wasn't About ten minutes later, my buddy goes to the bathroom. Guy him out there with who's from Issaquah, which is really close, right, He goes to the bathroom. While he's in the bathroom, three people come and get me and come to talk to me. And I'm like, oh, okay, well I expect this.
So what happened? You got to go a little faster. Kick me out?
Man.
They took me out the game for standing.
Well did you curse that? Did you curse it? Anyone.
I did not curse it anyone. No, I didn't. Well, you're gonna get say I was threatening though, that's the funniest thing. They were like, you were threatening and you did not apologize. That's exactly what they told me why they kicked me out.
Well, you can't well that we don't have jurisdiction over Washington. But I'm sorry that happened to you. I appreciate the call. When you're on the road, you're gonna get less of a leeway than at home in terms of standing in that stuff. So I I understand. I mean, they shouldn't have done that, but you're gonna get more hassle on the road. The question is are our fans here gonna get hassle? And like I said, we'll find out at the Brown game.
He's actually pretty good.
We got a little bit about a two week break between Reugh games. Section fifteen needs to cool off a little bit. Then you did not see each other for a while because I worried if they'd played again four days later, you might have those groups button heads again.
And I also remember the first SEC game is Florida at eleven am. Yes, you picked the loss in that game. Ryan, I'm a little worried about that game. Florida is undefeated. But also, you know eleven am. We've never played that I know of at eleven am for a home game.
Ever.
Do you think our do you think our crowd for that game will get there in time and will.
Make that the atmosphere it needs to be.
This is gonna be the challenge for the fan base. Yeah, because the students aren't back yet, right, so the fans the students will not be back. I don't think they're back yet for that game. Okay, I'm be wrong about that, but I don't think they're back yet. So it's a challeng gonna be a challenge for our fan base. Okay, you've showed up for every game. You're gonna show up at eleven o'clock SEC opener game.
Not just showed up like you need to be loud, because I mean that's gonna be If you look at the rankings, that's like our third or fourth hardest game in the season is that game?
It really is. They're a top team. Outside of blowing a big leading against North Carolina, they still won the game, and the four or five games before that, they're just absolutely drilling teams.
I mean, they're beating teams about thirty and they have size, which they're not.
It's physical, They're not physical like some of the teams, but they have size, like you know they I still don't understand why we're playing that game at eleven am, But the game is at eleven am.
We're gonna have to be ready to play, no kidding.
I mean, Pope's pretty good at bringing juice and energy at all times. But we've seen slow starts in the Duke game, the Gonzaga game, the Clemson game. Kentucky need to come out of the gate or Florida will really take advantage of it.
We all talk about the halftime adjudgtments. Are you at all.
Worried about the fact that the first halves haven't been great in a lot of these big games. I mean, going back, bad first half against Duke, bad first half against Gonzaga, bad first half against Clemson, bad first half against.
Louisville, Like, does that bother you at all?
It's a little concerning that against Duke and Gonzaga, the two elite teams. I mean, we can all agree, Matt, you're even getting criticized for first half tweets. But minutes into that game, everyone thought, my goodness, it doesn't look like we belong on the floor with this team.
Now.
To their credit, obviously they made adjustments and went on to win, but they got to start starting off a little bittle better in these games and not have to rely on a second half comeback.
Good coaches, Mark few guy at Duke, they're good coaches.
Man.
They're already for this Kentucky team coming in and play them.
Who's up next, Doug, Doug, go ahead, Doug.
Hey, guys, who's stug out? In spoke? Can talking about that North Dakota Alabama game you guys are talking about yesterday. My son actually goes to the University of North Dakota and that game was kind of a big deal around there. They were all talking about it. But obviously they're not a basketball school. They are a hockey school. They are UK of the hockey world. They are eight time national champions out there. But that game was a was a big deal around campus. He actually got to go to that game.
Well, of course it was.
I mean, you get you get an It was a lot of team coming to your small school like that.
I would think it would be a lot of fun for them. I'm sure that that was amazing. Yeah, well.
Go ahead, just one thing at the at the Gonzagg game, I was there, and I think you just got to be aware of what's going on around you, kind of like the situation with Larry. You know, there were two of girls sitting behind me at that game, even if they had stood, if I was standing, and they weren't seeing over me, So I stood out in the aisle some. I sat down some just just to kind of you know, I knew they weren't going to be able to see, so just to be a little courteous.
Yeah, No, I'm just I appreciate the call. I mean, I do think courtesy is part of it.
Now.
In that other game, they had a guy flipping him off. He didn't look necessarily to be the most courteous person himself.
So I ask you doing the commercial break, do you think people will stand at the Brown game just out of Spike?
Yes, there will be people do it.
Yeah, I mean that's that's that's our you know, that's our society in some ways now as people. I think people do stuff sometimes now just to get the reaction they're not even it's not because they really want to do it. They want to make the other person mad, and I, you know, I hope that doesn't happen, but we'll see. Stop over paying for sunglasses. Check out Shady Rays, an independent American owned company right here in Kentucky. Whether you need shades for running, fishing, biking, golfing, Shady Rays is the best offers, the best protection program and the best sunglasses. Over three hundred thousand five star reviews. One in Lexington, one in Louisville, Shady rays dot com. If you're looking for a gift this weekend right before Christmas the stocking stuff for try our good friends at Shady Rays. We'll take a break very back here at Kosbar with a ton of Kentucky fans.
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There you go, We'll be right Back's Kentucky Sports Radio working back at is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the KS Bar and grill a f I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven one person rights on the text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four ryme was very quick to throw Mario under the bus. I don't think you would have done that to anyone except Ryan. Does everyone pick on Ryan because he picks on everyone else?
No, I don't know, it sounds like it.
It was just, you know, we were about our battery was about to die.
I needed to I understand. But the but the immediately it was Mario.
Well you you said I put the equipment together and I didn't.
Today just showed some characters, showed some character comes out in stressful moments. We know that speaking the truth, we know that eight five two eighty seven. By the way, that the get in price for the Florida game right now, it's pretty expensive, so that may suggest that. You know, it's eleven o'clock, A lot of people are a lot of people are gonna be there.
Mark Pope's first SEC game.
I'm not surprised that.
Will be rowdy.
Can put it at nine am, and I think it'd be the exact same experience.
Yeah, I think that would. Uh yeah, no, exactly right. One person.
One person writes Matt, you shouldn't give Luigi airtime if you don't want him to be popular.
Yeah, I'm the one that's given him time.
He wasn't on every news show in the country and every social media.
It is it is us that is given. No.
I mean, it is the story, but you didn't have to give him that moment of glory.
When I put my phone down last night, I actually thought, I can't look at another picture of this guy because it was Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, TV. It was on every screen I owned.
The guy's a murderer. He murdered somebody's husband, somebody's dad. Yes, should celebrate.
One person writes Matt.
Do you ever think the mayor of New York looks a little bit like Pat Adams?
It's actually not a bad they're both last name Adams.
I didn't thought about that, but now that he says it.
Now did you say that?
You can see there's years a little bit.
I can see that.
Pat Adams, by the way, had another big controversial game the other night. He stopped the game, made a speech. It was exactly like the Kentucky Louisville game. I'm starting to wonder if Pat Adams is gonna get the becoming like Teddy Valentine and like Higgins, he becomes the America's least favorite official that's.
Got a brand, and I'm glad he's staying consistent with it. So Ryan, you could learn from that, but I mean, that's that's what Pat does.
One of our listeners just brought us this.
They call it, I guess Christmas crack, which is like the little checks mix with with sugar.
On it, which made me think.
I saw there putting a donut place right over here next door, Drew, we're gonna, you and I are gonna. You and I are both addicted to donuts. We're gonna have to make a pact to make it to where we don't eat there every day, or you and I will both get fat. Like you're gonna we have to watch with each other that it's going right over there next to first watch.
I'm very good when I go to the grocery. I don't buy unhealthy things. Once they're in the house, they don't last a second. I also don't seek out donuts in town. I don't go across town to find one of the many great donut places in lection. I'm good at avoiding it. But when it's near me, in front of me.
Right there. It's called Jeff's.
They have that in Louisville, and for people who listen in Louisville, you know it's really really good and it's going in right there.
Five or six mornings week. We're in this in this building. We have to watch out for each other. Yeah, who's up next? Kentucky Joe, Kentucky Joe. All Right, Merry Christmas, Kentucky Joe, how are you?
Yeah, I will say Merry Christmas to y'all.
Thank you.
So I got a couple of comments. I think I think they lose you saying it's a sad story. It's like you say, uh, it's a state of affairs the day, it's crazy, all right.
But but your other comment, But.
My other comment is is that probably probably uh, I'm im as a that guy was standing standing in front of me, I would have I would have seen thanks him had stone cold Will dancing the same time. I think.
I don't know what that means. At the game.
You're talking about somebody who was standing in front of him.
He was, Yeah, I'm talking about the game. Okay.
That made me want to leave.
It would make me want to lead to Joe. Marry Christmas, okay, very Christmas.
Yeah, you're an happy new Year, y'all.
Happy new Year.
One person writes in, Drew, I'll let you answer this, Mark Pope, John cal Perry. Over the next three years now, having seen both of them in their new things, who goes farther in the tournament over the next three years combined? Poper, Cal, Perry, Pope.
I don't even think Cal's got three years in fave. He'll just watching for really, you think he just will do like a year or two. We'll see how it goes.
I mean, he's got a good recruiting class coming, he does.
It's also Fayetteville, Arkansas. I just I don't know how much the man's got the tank there.
So I'll go Pope.
Since Cal has not been to the second round in the n CATE tournament since what twenty nineteen, I'm going Pope went.
Second round once, we would say, lost to Kansas State that year in Greensboro.
That's right, second weekend I meant to say, Yeah, the second weekend since twenty nineteen.
I'm gonna Pope.
Yeah, I'm gonna say Pope.
I probably would have said Cal before this season started, even though I still thought it was the right decision to make a move.
But I think, I mean, just look at this year. Do you see I mean, do you see that Arkansas team?
How do you think they're gonna handle SEC play do you think do you think the Arkansas team goes above five hundred in the SEC?
I don't know their exact schedule. They're getting a little better now that a who's healthy. I mean they had games to their credit, they'd win them, but kind of like Kentucky had problems, they'd go down really early and you think, man, they just don't have it this year.
But then they get what do you think they do in the SEC?
I mean, look the schedule, there's some easier than others, but they're gonna be playing everybody good too.
I'll say they're over five hundred, all.
Right, So let's say you think they go ten and eight.
Actually know what, I'm going nine to nine, five hundred even, and they're on the bubble.
See, I think they're five hundred as well.
By the way, I think any team that goes five hundred in the SEC this year is in the NCAA Tournament. Yes, any team that goes five hundred is in. And maybe even if you go like eight and ten, depending on what your non conference was. This is if I'm an SEC school that's not Tennessee, Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky teams going for the title.
My goal is the coach would be go five hundred.
Because now because of the non conference, how all these teams have wins. I genuinely think any team that goes five hundred, Ryan is in the NCAA, and.
That's what we're talking about. Kansas. They may beat an Auburn team, but then they'll lose.
The Arkansas could go five hundred and be like an eight or nine Sea in the tournament. Kim Palm has them going eight and ten with the NIAS. So we'll take a break.