2026-04-08- KSR - Hour 1

Known for his crowd work, Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes club favorite Ian Bag, April 9th through the 11th, then from Saturday Night Live and the hit TV show DMV, catch Tim Meadows, April 16th through the 18th, and from Netflix and social media catch Amber Autry May 1st and 2nd, for tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows call 859-271 Joke or visit ComedyOffBroadway.com. Welcome everyone to Kentucky Sports Radio Wednesday August 8th, I am Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill where it is Wings Day Wednesday. I'm excited, I'm actually going to get some wings. I haven't had good KS Bar wings since I've been traveling in a couple weeks and it's a dollar wings today. Even with all the difficulties and price around America, you can still come here and get dollar wings on Wednesday and burgers from Nochalins. You got to take a small loan to fill your gas tank but you can come here and get dollar wings after where afterwards. That's right, it was 4.39 in somewhere. My goodness. The other day. Was it really? Yeah, I'm trying to think where I was. It was in Kentucky though, maybe it was in, I guess it was in Louisville, I'm not sure. I saw pictures 5.19 somewhere around here today. In Kentucky? Yeah, it wasn't Lexington, somebody sent me a picture. Wow, well don't go there. Well anyway, Clark's Pumpin' Shop phone line 859-280-2287, Avis and Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7745-254 and this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. Ryan Lemon, I'm on a high right now from my Cincinnati Reds who won a game. They had no business winning last night. Look at that hat over there. I appreciate that. I will have plenty of time to break it down but it's nice to, you know, after being frustrated at times this year during football and basketball season, it's fun to see them before they collapse because they still have the second fewest runs in baseball. So we're going to collapse but until then it's the summer of it. You did come in with a little pep in your step this morning. It was fun. I watched the whole game. I watched the dude. It was the best pitching performance I've ever seen by the other guy. Yeah, he was awesome. And then we still somehow won. Well you showed me how Ellie scored the time right now. 99% of a major league baseball player would not have been able to score. Well but it's Ellie and he's wearing a hoodie now. That's why he's so good. He's wearing- So let's slow him down. No, because he said it keeps him cool. It's like having a parachute back there. That's what people say but he said, I heard him say, they asked him and he said first of all it keeps him cool and second it's a vibe. Okay. After that play last night, I was way ahead of it. I've been keeping cool and a vibe for a long time. It's been challenging people to race in hoodies before. It's true. I'm not going to do that today. I didn't take, didn't take Amy. We got Montgomery County here. Lexi, where are you all from? Olive Hill. Tom T. Hall Country in the house. And what about you? Burt, Bourbon County, Lexington. So here you go. Good morning. A man right here is working on his driver's permit. Dad let him drive over here today from Elizabeth town. Get the hours in. Got the driver's permit. So what's the rules on that now? You get it at- 16 but you got to drive 120 hours. Yeah, 15 and a half. You get it. 15 and a half year old's driving? No wonder these roads are so windy. When did that happen? I wouldn't let a 15 and a half year old drive. So you got to drive with your parent and you got to drive 120 hours to get your true permit. Well how do they know that? You got to fill out a log. So you can just make something up. Josiah would drive from my house at Douglas. That was two hours. Are you admitting the line on a government form? I plead the fifth. I think he admitted for his son, not even him. To be quite frank with you, you can't plead the fifth because you just admitted it. That was AI. That was AI. It was AI. Yeah. Okay, that's interesting. Okay, Drew, people keep asking me, have you had a baby? I hope not. I keep checking my phone, nothing yet, but we are in... Stu, Sunday? Sunday is the official due date, but we're at the point where anything could happen. So he's got a dilemma. Friday, we're in Somerset. I asked the doctor. The doctor said, check with Abby in the morning, see how she's feeling, and then you should be okay. So you, I mean, you could have a memory that the baby could come and you'd be at Don Franklin in Somerset. And I would have to name the baby Don in that moment. The girl, DAWN, Don Franklin. So we are at Don Franklin in Somerset on Friday, potentially on Baby Watch. I prefer Sunday. I'm really, I really want Master Sunday, but we're at any moment. Well, that would be, I mean, just if we're talking content, oh, yeah, let's think about the show, which is ultimately what I think is most important. You having to leave Don Franklin to rush and go have a baby would be great content. Yeah, for you all. How does that work? Am I allowed to speed? Can I throw some flashers on and maybe bend the rules a little bit? Oh, that's interesting. Maybe there can be a Pulaski County escort. Yes. Well, now we got to set this up. Yeah. Well, we're ready. So I was going to ask if you want to go to the Reds game with me Sunday. You're out. Probably, no, I will watch it from the hospital. Okay. All right. I was, I was going to offer there. I want to go to the Masters. That's a different conversation. So if I go to the Masters, it's up there. There's a Masters ticket out there. I can, I might have to take one. Well, I hope, I hope you get to go to Don Franklin, but I also don't want you to be, to be, to be stressed at Don Franklin. I'm planning to be there, but we'll see. We'll see how nature goes. Okay. Well, they're very, very exciting. This is yesterday. Well, yesterday is one of those days like where the phone kind of gets wedded to my hand, which I don't enjoy, which is because you, you want to make sure if something happens, you're ready to go. There are, I think Jeff Goodman said 4,000 players that played last year that are eligible to play college basketball next year. And at this moment, 1,400 of them are in the pool. So that's a lot. You know, this is just how college basketball is now. And you just have to accept it. Like, I mean, I, I saw on, I think a KS board thread, something like, this is not the college basketball. I know, well, it's not, you know, I mean, I'm not going to try to debate with you. It's just not, but it's also never going to be again. So you just need to kind of decide this new world of the sport. Do you enjoy it or not? I think here's where I think I am on it. I think it's awesome when the games start. I think what this has done is it has made it to where when the games start, the games are better. The teams are better. The players are older. They have incentive to stay. I don't think what Cal did these, those first few years here at Kentucky where it was all different. I don't think you could do that now. I really don't. Cause the guys are so much older, which is why he's always like 26, 27, 28 year olds, cause I think he likes coaching freshmen and I just don't think you can do that anymore. If that's all you have. Yeah. And there's that stat that's out. There's been like one freshman starting the championship game in like a year or whatever I mean, Duke is, Duke had pretty elite freshmen and they had a couple older guys, but you know, they saw him kind of fall apart, freshman mistakes and kind of fell apart at the end of that game against Yukon. So I think the sport is actually better for it. Now it can make these few weeks insanely hectic. And I would also understand Ryan, why people might say, you know what, just tell me who's on the team. Kind of like, I can't follow this to every single guy. Just in the end, tell me who's on the team. I could understand that. I'm kind of one of those guys because there's so much happening. I feel sorry for guys like Jack Pilgrim and Jacob, you know, cause they have to stay up with everybody entering the portal. Jacob. I was talking to him last night. He gets up at like seven a.m. and he's going to like 11 to PM and he, he, he, I guess he took his, he took someone to dinner last night. I think he and Jack went to dinner. Oh, I thought it was a woman. Okay. Well, I don't know what they did. You know what? Let's scratch that. Cause I don't know what his relationship status is. Yeah. I don't know what they were. Let's just say what was there for work purposes, but if there's something else that's, that's between them. He's one like an HR involved. He's one in Jack, but I talked to him and like even at dinner, he's having to sit there and take phone calls. Like this is his super bowl. He loves calling people. I don't know. And I could not do that. He will just cold call. I think he called Todd golden one day before it could talk to games. Like I get interviewed and they're like, well, how much I hate calling people. I called a woman yesterday just to inquire about house design and I felt like I was bothering her and that's her job. And I was like, I don't, I'm sorry to call you. Jack's calling people to annoy him and he has no problem doing it. You gotta have a special personality to be able to do that. I couldn't do it. I'm with you. I don't need that. I don't want to bother people. I feel like you could do it. You call it. You talk to anybody. Well, I like to talk to them, but if you're taking your 15th phone call in an hour about are you getting the transfer portal or not? Yeah. It would be a little, it would be a little annoying. I had to DM a high school band by the bio because he wasn't answering and I still get anxiety about it. I did not want to send it, but I was already outside his high school waiting and couldn't get ahold of anyone and it still haunts me 10 years later. Yeah. That's, that's funny. I don't like reaching out to high school. We would send you to go see the new Kentucky players. Yeah. And just when you, when they don't answer the first calls, I kind of want to bug this 17 year old, but I'm here, but you have to bug him. All right. So, but we do get, when we get actual concrete news, that's important. So yesterday, the actual concrete news is that Cam Williams is coming back. He's now officially only the second guy back, Moreno and him, although Moreno is, I guess, technically in the, in the draft, but I think he'll be back. I assume Colin Chandler is going to be back, although he hasn't said it yet. Cam Williams, I think when he came here, the assumption was always going to be he was a two year player. I don't think the first year went exactly as they wanted because he got hurt and was out for a period of time. I think this is a great guy to get back. My guess is he's kind of going to be slotted in a six man role next year. I don't know that, but that's my guess, but he is long. He can guard when he plays well. He can guard and he can shoot threes. I drew love having him on the team. So I was excited to see that news. Me too. I kind of got a slower start than a lot of people expected, probably even him, but I mean, he had that eight, three pointers against Bellarmine. I think he had 15 against Mississippi State, something like that. Then he gets hurt right as he started getting going and getting the minutes he deserved. So his injury came at a bad time and I'm glad they're bringing him back. And really, let's include Chandler. If we're being honest, the people we didn't mind waving goodbye to have left and the ones we're wanting to keep look like they're going to keep. So I'd say so far, so good on what he's doing with the team from this past season. You know, can't wait was just settling into his role. You know, he was just starting to play well. He was starting. He was finally, finally shot knocking down threes and then that injury happened. It just happened at the worst time for that kid. So I'm glad he's going to come back. Maybe get a chance to shine for a whole season. I don't think there was anybody on the team that when they shot, I was 100% confident was going in. But the two I was most confident were Chandler and Cam. I kind of thought like if they take the shot, I feel pretty good. I kind of was of the view if they're open shoot, everybody else. I was like, all right, well, think about it before you do it with those two guys. I was like, if you're open shoot, so I'm glad to have him. And so I was thinking as I was sitting, having my McMuffin this morning, how do you, if you're an average fan, how do you process this portal? I mean, you keep reading names and you hear Mark Pope zooming with this guy. It's interesting. Sometimes he chooses to zoom, but sometimes he facetimes. How do you decide which one to do? Because he's facetiming with some guys and zooming with the others. That like an unofficial tale of who he's interested in the most? Maybe on the other end, they don't pay for the premium and they're out of minutes. So he has to switch. He clearly has the professional subscription because he's living on zoom. Oh, okay. Well, I think I would choose to facetime. It's just easier than send them. I would choose to text for me. Mark Pope does. I will say, did you see the picture of him on facetime with one guy? He needs to back up the back. He's got the Mario thing where he sticks the phone directly in his face. So I would just say the same way I asked Mario sometimes to back the camera up. I'm going to make a little suggestion to Mark, back the camera up. Your face should not take up three-fourths of the camera. Do you agree with that? I totally agree that I saw that. You know, his first year of class, he did a lot of facetiming and it worked. You know, had some success. Maybe he feels like it's more personal connection with somebody when you facetime the guy, but my view is going to be so I was trying to think, what do I want this roster to look like? And so I thought about, all right, they've got, let's assume they have Chandler. With Chandler, Moreno, I think you have two guys that the assumption is going to be they're going to start. Everybody can go. Oh, I'd love to have Chandler come off the bench. I'd love to have Moreno. Those guys did not come back to have started this year and come off the bench next year. So I think you just need to assume those guys are going to start. I would say Cam is like your sixth or seventh mate. That's what they brought him in here originally. That's what he played drew. I figure that's what he'll do next year. Do you agree? Yeah. And I wouldn't think with the year he had coming off an injury, he'd have many opportunities to go take a big role somewhere else. Exactly. That would be any better than anything here. So what am I looking for? All right. I think if you look at the tournament, every team that succeeded had two or three guys who could ball, right? These teams that were good. You know, you had Yukon had the big fella, Reed or whatever's named Silas Demery and Caravan were consistent and then Mullins played well at the end. You look at Michigan, they had probably four guys that were like that, probably seven or eight guys that would play. I'm going to assume Chandler and Moreno are two of ours. If they end up not being good enough to be two of ours, then that's going to be a problem. But they're going to be paid like they're going to be two of ours. So in my view, Drew, we got to go get two dudes. Right? Absolutely. And I don't know who they are. Probably one of them needs to be a point guard. Yes. Like your point guard has to be a dude. And I think one of them probably needs to be a big, but Moreno is the kind that it could be like a six, nine big, or it could be a seven, 11, one, seven, 11. Wow. Yeah. A seven foot, seven, one big. You could get two different kinds and I think it would still work with Moreno. And then I think you need at least one other really solid guy. And then you fill the rest with role players. That's what I'm looking for in this class. So I'm kind of looking for two studs. One guy that like on any given night might lead the team in scoring. And then three or four kind of guys to fit a role. Do you agree with that? I do. Are we giving up on Stokes? I mean, I don't feel good. Stokes would be one of the two. I mean, if you get Stokes, then he's, he's filling in one of the two studs. In the dream world, he's there without. And I'm not giving up on him yet, by the way. But that takes one of, I'm considering him almost like a poor audition because this is so late in the year. There's enough point guards out there right now that will be stars. I mean, heck, some of them were stars last year. Yeah, you have to get one of those guys. You absolutely have to. Because there are so many point guards that have entered because there are a lot. Does that make you less want to take the guy who might be injured at LSU? Yeah. I mean, if he showed up today on campus with his luggage and said, I want to be a wildcat, maybe you take him so you don't miss out on others. But right from BYU just went in, Zoom Diallo from Washington yesterday. There's some, some, as you say, dudes, some guys that you really want to go out and try to get. Yeah. So that's our, that's my take on it. We'll talk about a couple of the guys as the show goes on and more. We are here at KS Bar and Grill. Good to see everybody all of Hill. You know, play a Tom T. Hall song for these people. Okay, Rick. We'll do. All right. We'll be right back. It's KS. Wonder. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 8, 5, 9, 2, 8, 0, 22, 87. This is what is this? Faster horses. Is that right? Horses by Rocky Hall. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey and more money. That's what he says are the the secrets to life. Like that one song you play all the time when he just says, and onions. That's all the things he likes. I love. I love onions. Nothing wrong with loving onions. Nobody loves onions. Oh, I do. You don't like onions? A raw thing and a raw. Well, nobody eats a raw onion, but you put it in other things and like, nobody just sits and eat that. I would think a person's crazy. It's like if they just eat a raw onion. I had to do that as part of like a church fear factor thing. I'm telling you, it affected me for a month. I could not get rid of onion. Oh, eat it like an apple. It's still on. What did you mean a church fear factor thing? It was like we were doing a youth group and there's all these dares and mine was to eat an onion like an apple. What kind of church do you go to? This was, well, I went to the first Presbyterian church, but this might have happened. That's the first. Be careful of those Presbyterians. I think the Methodist put me up to this cross town. I was with some friends, but I'm telling you how bad you think it is. It was war. I couldn't brush my teeth 10 times a day for a month and couldn't get it out. I was just telling you during the break, Ryan, this is it may be the thing that finally has me consider getting married is this house. Because I'm learning how little that I know about things. You know, I met with the landscape yesterday and they sent me and they're like, these are the things you need. And it was a long list. Yes. And I was like, I know how businesses are. I don't think I need all these things, but I have no idea what I need. So I asked my mom and I asked hubby's wife. Yes. Which of these things do I need? And there were like 11 choices and they both picked the exact same ones. There we go. And exact, which means somehow. They have a gene. That they know. Yes. That I don't have. And I wonder if that's true about other things. Oh, I guarantee it's true about a lot of things. And women is they're smarter than us. Women is smarter than us. They are another great shirt for you. Women is smarter than they is. You'll you'll learn there's a lot going on in the house that you didn't think you'd have to be ready for. Yes, things will break. 859-280-2287. One person writes, right. Are you really willing to hit your wagon to Chandler? He needs to be fourth option, maybe third at best. Well, OK, but my what I just told you was I wanted three to four guys that were really good. I think Chandler is one of them. So there, you know, if he's your third or fourth option, that's up to you. But yeah, he can be third or fourth option on a really good team. Yes. Just like Breyland Mullins. You know, Breyland Mullins has probably got a bigger upside, but he didn't play well. A lot of the a lot of the year Chandler can be as good as that guy can. I think of the jump he made from where he couldn't even play as freshman year before Christmas, got a little better at postseason, hit some big shots and a huge jump as a sophomore. I mean, there is a world where guys get better every year. I mean, if he takes another big jump and all the shots he hit, than everybody, like he's like what, 20, he's married. He's not out. Get distracted. Yeah, I mean, he's he's got a chance to be, I think, really good. Do I got a 401k? Do I think you could win with him as your best player? No. But can he be the third best player on a team that's really good? Yes, I do think that. I feel like we all agree. No disrespect to Chandler and Moreno, but the two dudes, they bring it to be better than both those guys. We need two guys better than both of Moreno and Chandler. I definitely need one and I probably need to. Yes. But I definitely need one. They got to get one. They got to have a dude. Yes. Right. They got to have a dude. They they got to go look. OK, I don't I don't know that you'll get somebody better than no way, but you got to get somebody in his ballpark. Yes, I agree. Totally agree. And then with Aberdeen, you got to get somebody that was at least as good as Aberdeen at the end of the year, right? Because now at the beginning of the year, he wasn't very good, but in a perfect world, you'd get an OA equal and an upgrade to Aberdeen and Moreno and Chandler get better. And then you get better complementary pieces than what you had last year, where it just felt like it was a mishmash of parts that didn't really work together. And really, I know the season didn't go well, but getting better than no way in Aberdeen, it isn't going to be that easy. It's not. And those guys had a really great year, especially at the end. And I think at the four, however good they are, you need somebody that can space. They just lack shooting at that position this year. Go find even I prefer a starter, but even if it's an Anzley Almanor type that just sits in the corner and not really needs that for his offense. One of the guys with the roleplayers got to make got to make threes got to like that we know he comes in and makes them. I think that's probably what he envisioned Trent Noah being. And then he just wasn't. Right. That you got, you got to have that. I would assume. Speaking of Trent, still no word on him. Yeah, I don't know. I wonder if they're privately trying to see what the market is or if they have one. All right. We're going to phones. Bob and James Town is banned for one week. OK. You got that, Rick, because I can't see the calls. OK, Rick. I'll mark that down. All right. Who's up first? Joey is up for Joey. Go ahead, Joey. Hey, guys, how y'all doing? I'm talking about the least at the Johnson Derrick Johnson put out the other day. Yes. I don't really like it. I think it's selective and I think if I mean, I'm not saying Jasper ain't good. I'm sure he is maybe on down the road. But if you're good, the cream usually rises at the top and you'll be able to find minutes and he had ever chance in the world last season to find minutes and just I just couldn't see him doing it. What do you think about that? I mean, Jasper, I appreciate the call, especially after low got hurt, had every chance to play. Kentucky needed him. They needed him to play. And when they put in, he was not helpful. I don't know what else there is to say. I really don't. I mean, you know, now, is that because of something in practice or didn't connect? I don't know. I mean, but I just know that when he came in, the longer the season got, when he came in, the worse it was to the point that they weren't even playing him at the end. And that was and when they did in the biggest game of the year, it didn't go well. So yeah, you couldn't take Aberdeen off the floor because it kind of took a step back and Aberdeen was playing so well pretty much for the second half of the season. Go back to the first five games of the year. I bet if you go back and look, Aberdeen was pretty bad. Yeah, he was. And Jasper was kind of not far away from him. Aberdeen grew, Jasper didn't. What are you going to do? You know, we all thought at the end of the year, play Aberdeen and away until their legs fall off. We were getting mad because Pope was benching them because there was just a clear difference in that. And that's why Aberdeen is trying to get a fifth year. Saw that. I have to tell you, I don't know that he's concerned. I'd love to have him back. I don't want him. I'd want him to be back. Like I wouldn't want him to be the starting point guard. I'd want to be like a two guard. But if we, if he could, I'd love that. Wouldn't you? Yeah, I don't really get his argument. Good luck on your ace. I like that he's only has an argument if what I'm going to talk about right after the break happens. So we will talk about that when we return. 8, 5, 9, 2, 8, 0, 22, 87. We'll be right back. KSI. Welcome back. Tucky Sports Radio 8, 5, 9, 2, 8, 0, 22, 87. Text machine 772-774-5254. One person writes, Matt, onions have healing qualities. If your feet hurt and you put onions in your socks, it will make it better. Don't believe that. Never heard that. Don't believe it. Never heard that. It can't be true. Onions in your socks. Onions in your socks. Anybody ever heard that? We got people here. So in the back, you look like somebody would have heard it. He's on his phone. So he doesn't. He hasn't heard it. There's no, there's no, there's no way that's true. We need to ask Freddie. Freddie's the one who's got all the crazy. Freddie would know. Freddie or Richie Farmer will text him. I know you're listening, Richie. If onions in your socks, if you all did that at Clay County under Bobby Keith, you let me know. One person says, Matt, I eat raw onions and drink whole white milk every day for lunch. It's part of my health regimen. It actually works. Yuck. That sounds awful. Those are literally the two things that I would say make you a psychopath. I've told you when I see someone drinking whole white milk, I think they're a psychopath. And now if I saw some, can you imagine if you went somewhere and saw someone eating a raw onion and drinking whole white milk, you would, that'd be, you'd pull your kids next to you and you wouldn't move to the other side of the room. You should send that number to the FBI. Do they sit down and just cut it up? But you're complete, sir. And I just said that. They go, okay, we get it. We're on it. We understand. All right. So before we go back to phones, Ross Dellinger and, and you know, sometimes I like to give people ideas of who to follow cause social media can be such a cesspool. But if there are certain people you follow, like I have people that I think know about various parts of life that I'm interested. Like that dude, Phil Stewart that I had on my podcast, he's great to follow about anything war related cause he never gives his opinion. He just says what's happening. And I think that's really good. Like I don't need your opinion. Just tell me, except the problem is he types in all caps, which I'm like, stop yelling at me, Phil, but he's really good, especially being good during this Iran thing. Similarly, Ross Dellinger is the guy to follow when it comes to what is happening with the NCAA Congress president in terms of the future of college sports. Okay. He's on it. He's the number one guy. I don't know if he, I don't know who he's talking to, but he has everything first. He said this morning that the NCAA is voting on a proposal next week. You remember Trump released his executive order. It had like 30 things in it, but they're one of the things that was in it. And probably the one that is the least controversial amongst players and coaches and admit it's the one thing everybody seems to be okay with would be players would have five years of eligibility from the year they graduated high school, five years and they can play all five years, but no exceptions, no red shirts, no waivers. The only exceptions would be for military or for a religious mission. So for, but, but other than that, five years, if you get hurt, still lose one of your years. So five years to play five years, but you can, if you're healthy play five years of college sports, I think did so Aberdeen maybe saw sees this down the path. That's why he may be wanting to play another year. So this would go into effect next year, but they have yet to say whether guys that graduated this year would get to participate. So we don't know that still to be decided, but starting for guys who are graduating high school this year, men and women, they all could do it. Do you like it? Yeah. I think I would like that. I mean, there's little things that are trivial, like throughout the record books before now, cause every record would get shattered, but that's not the end of the world. So yeah, I would like that. I mean, you guys now are, are got camera on Fletcher is about to play as seventh year. I think that's extreme. Yeah. So I'm saying if you limit them at five, sorry if something happens, your circumstances change, you have a five year window. I could give him that. I like it. I mean, we have to get used to, but I mean, just think about what could be. I mean, OA could play again. Yeah. Aberdeen could play again. I don't think OA, maybe you would want to, if this happens. I kind of think they're going to say guys this year can't do it because it would be just too hectic to in the middle of portal season. All of a sudden a thousand new guys are eligible. But I do like it for the future. Actually, do you? I do for guys like football, football. Aberdeen is a great example because he's not going to get drafted, but he can come back from a fifth year, make more money than he would make playing professionally. So it does have his advantages for guys like that. And football, I mean, there's very few guys that play all five years. So I mean, it would allow football players to kind of, or teams to recruit freshmen and let them, I think now I don't like the only one transfer thing because of reasons we've talked about this is that's not part of this. This is just five years. But it looks like it's going to happen. So we're going to have to all kind of retrain our minds to guys are now in college for five years. Yeah. And it throws out waivers. I mean, it'll stink if someone gets hurt a couple of times, but you know, when you graduate high school, you have a five year window and whatever happens happens. Like everybody's in agreement. You get five years. Like if something, if you get hurt, sorry about it, you got a five year window. Don't have to worry about it case by case. And you may say, well, why does the NCAA want to do this? The reason is this will help them in court. Part of what hurt them in court is they would go, they argued in front of courts, Hey, we have to, we can't allow six years, seventh year, whatever guys, because we have a principle. And then the court, the judges were like, yeah, but you gave an exception here and you give an exception here and you give, and well, you're giving an exception here. So you're telling us we have to do it, but you're letting this guy play and you let this guy, and you got this reason and this reason. I think the courts were kind of like, if you're going to tell us you have to do it, you have to do it. You can't just keep letting these exceptions. So I think the NCAA has decided, if we just say five years, no exceptions, better chance of it holding up in court for my flimsy legal analysis, I think they're probably right about that. It would give them a better chance of them that being upholding. You know, we tend to think about basketball, but like you mentioned football, women's basketball, some of these sports where these players will stay an extra year, help them help those programs grow even more. Yeah. So just something to watch could happen next week and start affecting next year's players, maybe these guys, but probably more likely next year's. Who's next? Alex is next. Alex, go ahead, Alex. You literally just talked about the topic I was going to call and ask you. I was going to say there's a world in which Matt Jones can create the perfect law for the United States for NIL and transfer portal. What would it look like? I would say if you tell me that there's going to be a five year rule, okay? Tell me there's going to be a five year rule. If I could create, if I could snap my fingers and it became law, I would say a you can only transfer twice because I think that would allow kids the chance to start at a small school, move up. And then if it doesn't work out, have one more, if you can't find your fit after three schools, then that probably is on you after that. I think you would have something where you, you have the rev share like we have, you allow private deals, but cap the total of the private deals that I think the courts would allow that. If they said you can have some private money, but we're going to cap it at a million dollars a player. I actually think courts would probably think that's okay for a variety of reasons. And I think if you did those things, I think from a court perspective, you'd probably be okay. Now, in a perfect world, I think you should make these kids employees, but that becomes very complicated. Now I understand why the NCA doesn't want to do this. But if you just did those things rev share five years, two transfers and they can make up to let's say a million dollars, you can pick the number in private endorsements. I actually think that would hold up in court and that would, I would be good with it. Well, I mean, you're the, you're the brains of the operation. So I guess we'll have to, but thank you very much. And also, uh, you're getting a house and stuff. Do you know how to change your ad? No, I don't even know what those words mean. I don't even know what he just said. My ad noise. Isn't that something removed? Now it's in your hot water tank, your ad node rod. It's supposed to change it about once every three to five years. Yeah, that's probably not going to get changed. I appreciate the call. I've never bought the, you got the good one that lasts. Have you ever heard of ad node rod? I think he made that up. This guy, I look at this guy, this guy knows how to fix it. If he doesn't know what it is, they made that, he made that up to try to catch. He's trying to flex. If he, if he is good with it, then I'm okay with it. I fixed a toilet this past weekend, but I made a mistake. I didn't turn the water off. It's shot water. It knocked my hat off and it hit the ceiling and just soak the bathroom. So if you need help on plumbing, I got, so if I have a plumbing, I'll make the mess, but I fixed it. Richie farmer, Chomson. Who's up next? Do you want Richie's message? What's Richie's message? No on onions and socks, but they do observe smells. They do what? Absorb some smells. Yes. Okay. Go ahead. Right. Richard is next. Richard, go ahead, Richard. Yes. I like to see it. Morning fellas. I'd like to see us get teams and shoot them all. The three fire like, um, uh, Connecticut did like, uh, Illinois did. Um, and a couple more of the teams. They, um, I like, I like some of those totally offensive teams. They reminded me of the team we had, uh, uh, post first year and I kind of liked those. I hope you get some players that'll match that. That's all I got. Y'all have. Appreciate it. It was interesting. Michigan. So we, we've talked. I've been one of the biggest proponents. You got to score, score, score. It's all about offense. This final four kind of went in the other direction. It did. Michigan. So listen to these two stats about Michigan in the four last games, Michigan one to win the title. So against Yukon, Illinois, I think Tennessee and Alabama, they held all four of their, those teams to their lowest shooting percentage of the entire year. Wow. All four of them, the three teams that made the final four, the two that, that they play that they played, but then also who did Illinois beat, um, or see a Yukon beat Illinois. Michigan held all three of their, those teams in their games to their lowest field go percentages the year. Michigan kind of won the title by being big and playing defense. Nate Oates, who I think most Kentucky fans agree, we think Nate Oates is a smart coach. Nate Oates said after the season, I'm kind of changing the way I'm recruiting a little bit. I still want guys that can shoot, but I've kind of now believe you've got a defense and offensive play, play defense and offensive rebounds. So he was like, I got to start getting bigs again, but bigs who can play inside, not just bigs who can shoot threes. Those were two very prominent coaches, Dusty May and Nate Oates, kind of going against the view of shooting. Be interesting to see if Pope is following it or does he go back to the other? It does seem that's, that's the trend. I mean, even Todd Golden, I think said that he wants a big, big guys, physical guys. And he had that team this year and he had that team. And look what they did. They were one of the SEC. So yeah, those Michigan guys, they're just more physical than you con guys pushed them around. And I think that's now going to be a trend for the years ahead. They blocked everything in that. Yeah, they bought your side on them. Commonwealth causes ultimate bourbon collection raffle is your chance to win an incredible bourbon collection and support Kentucky charities at the same time. If they sell 500 tickets this month, right? What happens? They're going to donate 7500 to the central Kentucky youth orchestra. Wow. Okay. Yeah. Do you know anyone in the central Kentucky youth orchestra? I don't. $7500 will get to them. If you buy 500, if we get 500 tickets sold, Commonwealth causes.org, the bourbon raffle, follow at Wack, at KY causes on social or download and support with Commonwealth causes. We'll take a break. Be right back here at KS bars, Kentucky sports radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky sports radio eight five nine two eight oh 2287. Anode rod is a metal rod in your heater that can collect corrosion and that you should change every eight to 10 years apparently. Didn't know I've never heard that. Well, now there's a lot of people have written it. I don't think they're making it up. I'm sure it's true. Yeah. So that's important. Um, one person writes, Matt, you did not answer the guy's question at the end of the show and I assumed you would talk about it today. The guy that said that Pope couldn't relate to modern players because he was kind of a dork. Would you guys talk about it and do you agree? Well, he is kind of a dork, but that's okay. I don't think he's the only dork in college basketball. I think there are other dorks that are successful. I do, I do wonder. So let's go back to his first year team drew. He certainly connected to those guys, but it wasn't a unique group. Wouldn't you say, I mean, it was all seniors team seem to be relatively smart. Mari's British came from Drexel came from Drexel. You know, you had a kid from Kobe, Brea. I mean, we, we was a very smart group of guys in just especially the starting group. Cars started at Delaware. You know, they're all white forest. You know, can he go relate to the kid that's a top 20 talent? I don't know. I'm not sure. Maybe that's why he has a hard time getting them, but we might find out that that's not who he should coach. Like it's just not who he connects with. So I, so I think it's legitimate to wonder if those, if they can connect. But I think it's maybe still a little early to tell because he connected with his first group, even if he didn't connect with this one. That's why I like the Mo Williams hire so much. I even wrote Mo Williams is cooler than the entire UK staff combined. And he is. That's a fact. I said that Mo Williams can walk in the Peach Jam and execute a proper DAP and I don't know if we have anyone on the staff that can do that. I don't mean that to slight them. We knew that when we traded Cal for Pope. We were trading kind of cool for a little more brains and analytics. And I think Mo Williams will be a big help in that department. That's why I like the hire. Interesting. I'm not trying to, you know, it's a good thing to be nice. You think our guys can't DAP correctly. I think Mo Williams is probably the best DAP or we now have on staff. That's true. But Mo Williams is a level of cool that they needed, I think. And that's why I like that hire so much less. Yeah. I mean, everything, a staff can be Ryan like a show. Like we hired Mario. He's cooler than us. As a matter of fact, he doesn't know this. We were in with all of our bosses on Monday and we have a new boss. We have and they were explained. I was explaining the cast members to the new boss. And I was like, so Ryan is this and Drew is this and Shannon is this. And then I got to Mario and I'm explaining. And then Christie, who's one of our bosses, just interrupting, goes, he's cool. Thank you, Mario. But that's good. You do need someone like that. And Mo Williams can be that for us. We ought to back up Drew's point. You're going to DAP Mark Pope and Mark Fox, maybe not going to work. But Mo Williams, he got you. What is this? Have we heard about what's the story with Mark Fox? I'm worried about our staff to be on. We are in a pivotal offseason and we're down at least one and some uncertainty with others. So who is on the staff still? Cody Fieger is on the figure. Do we assume he's coming back? Yes. He and McClain were in that photo with so they're coming back. We have Mo Williams. Yes. Do we know if Mark Fox is back? I did not expect him to be back. But it is now April 8th and the portal season is rolling. Fox were to not come back. Does that mean there's two staff members open? It is weird. We're in portal season and it's almost like no one's even acknowledged this. I'm like, yeah, I brought it up on the show. I think yesterday I'm like, is this a concern that we don't even have a full staff and popes? You know, this is critical time for popes. Heck, his job really going into next season. And this is moving so fast. The Robinson guy that set right by the scores table. I think I've not seen anything about him leaving yet. He's still around. Yeah, I don't know. Again, but they just they have a culture of silence. They're not going to say anything until they have to. Mark Pope, I remember when he came here, he said, we're going to be open. This this this is this program is your program. We're going to be out. We're going to be talking. We're going to meet and they have done the exact opposite. And generally speaking, my view has always been when you go quiet, it's a bad sign. I'm hoping that's not true here. But I think it's a different conversation. I think they've completely screwed up PR for last year. I hope it improves. Who's up next? Dave is up next. Dave, go ahead, Dave. Dave. All right, no, Dave, who's next? OK, next is Mark. Mark, go ahead, Mark. It was going on that. And what's up? Hey, real quick, I got a question for you. Do you think basketball changed over the last five, six years? I know we always talk about modern offense is that the other thing. But man, I think right now, basketball changed the fact that you just go with just your side and power on people. I mean, I look at you, Conn, when they had their run two or three back to back championships, they had Clinton and the other big guy Florida with Chenle, Condon, those guys. Michigan started 7, 3, 6, 10 and 6, 9. You have nothing modern about that. I mean, it's just over. You're right. I mean, but they also were scoring 90 a game for a lot of the tournament. Yeah. I mean, you know, but a lot of those are close to the basket. That's true. Let's look like you're exactly right. I appreciate the call. You may remember, Ryan, that right before the season, I told you I was listening to an NBA preview podcast. It was Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe or whatever they were doing the preview. And they said in the NBA, things have now dramatically changed. He was like, size is back and offensive rebounding is back. The whole league now believes offensive rebounding is your key to winning. I think I said that at the beginning of the year and I go, I wonder if that's going to come to college basketball. I think it came this year. I believe it definitely came this year. I think it came this year. I think all of a sudden the idea that. You you got to hit the glass. I think the assumption is, look, these dudes don't shoot very well. Hit the glass. You know, and we'll see what we end up getting in the portal to resemble that. We'll take a break. KS Bar is now open. We'll be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio.