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2026-02-24- KSR - Hour 2

43 min
Feb 24, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio covers UK basketball recruiting, coaching professionalism standards, NCAA tournament bracketology, and various sports analysis including discussions about officiating consistency and historical sports figures.

Insights
  • Modern high school recruits prioritize financial compensation and playing time over traditional program prestige like Kentucky's name-on-front jersey tradition
  • Coaching attire and professionalism may influence team perception but doesn't directly correlate with winning outcomes
  • Inconsistent officiating across games suggests systemic issues rather than isolated incidents, affecting competitive fairness
  • Criminal investigation complexity increases when investigators over-theorize suspect behavior rather than accounting for irrational decision-making
  • Recruiting landscape has fundamentally shifted as younger players lack historical context of UK basketball's dominant era
Trends
Shift from formal coaching attire (suits) to casual athletic wear post-COVID with no reversal despite initial predictionsIncreased emphasis on NIL and direct compensation in college basketball recruiting over program traditionGrowing recognition that younger recruits have different reference points for program prestige based on recent performanceInconsistent foul-calling patterns across games suggesting possible systemic officiating issues in college basketballExpansion of college football playoff format (12 to 24 teams) significantly impacts program accessibility and recruiting narratives
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People
Pat Riley
Former Kentucky basketball player and Lakers coach who criticized modern coaches for not wearing suits during halftim...
Rick Pitino
Former Kentucky basketball coach discussed regarding coaching professionalism and attire standards in college basketball
Cal Calipari
Former Kentucky basketball coach referenced for his approach to officiating and recruiting, known for Golden Corral T...
Mark Stoops
Kentucky football coach discussed regarding playoff expansion impact and recruiting implications for football program
John Calipari
Referenced as historical figure whose era players (John Wall, Anthony Davis) are now distant memories for current rec...
James Earl Ray
Historical figure discussed in context of criminal investigation methodology and investigator over-theorization
Martin Luther King Jr.
Historical figure whose assassination is subject of book 'Hellhound on His Trail' discussing investigation methodology
Jesse Jackson
Historical figure discussed regarding accuracy of claims about MLK assassination and subsequent career trajectory
Dennis Gates
Missouri basketball coach noted for maintaining professional suit-wearing standard among modern college coaches
Nancy Guthrie
Local abduction victim discussed regarding investigation updates and theory of mistaken identity in crime
Quotes
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Stockton Mortgage ad readEarly in Hour 2
"I don't think they have to wear a suit, but I do think they need to stop being slobs. And this comes from someone that dresses like that every day."
Matt JonesMid-Hour 2
"They were just assuming he wouldn't do the stupid thing. Thought he was a mastermind. He continued to do the stupid thing."
Matt JonesDiscussing James Earl Ray investigation
"John Wall played at Kentucky when you were two years old. You don't have that memory of Kentucky being cool."
Matt JonesDiscussing recruiting generational gap
"I think the young it matters probably a little bit but does it matter a lot. I think they're just looking out money and playing time. That's all they care about."
DrewDiscussing name-on-front jersey recruiting impact
Full Transcript
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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. now here's matt jones welcome back hour number two sound like peter brady when it's time to change uh 859-280-2287 text machine is 772-774-5254 uh so apparently see again this is why we say things we don't know because we learned yes the first fazole's was on paris pike north broadway yeah where it says north broadway there's a one out there close to the interstate is that the one they're talking about they say the first one closed in 2017 so where would it have been well then cory price just tweeted out it was on north broadway what does cory price know and they had it was always out there on north broadway and the interstate that little he only got three of the eight free throw shooters at trivia that surprised me that surprised me well that was a hard question uh all right so we have you know my mom's friend my my friend too claudia Oh, yeah. Our friend. Everybody's friend. You can't have her. All of us get sure. That's right. She writes to say, she has Finnish descent, Finland. She goes, please let everyone know, it's not sauna. Everyone thinks it is, and that's how you say it. But it comes from a Finnish word, and it's supposed to be sauna. It makes it sound like fingernails on a chalkboard for me and other Finnish people. It's not sauna, sauna. So here's the thing, Ryan. You should go around only saying sauna. Okay, I'll try it. And people will think you're wrong, but Shannon, he'll actually be the one that's right. He can educate everybody in the sauna. That's right. In their underwear. You can tell everybody, we're not in a sauna. We're in a sauna. That's a good actual icebreaker for when you're in a sauna, sitting next to somebody in their underwear. Did you know this is a sauna, not a sauna? Did you know it was a sauna? Yeah. I've never heard that, but I trust her 100%. I trust her. Yep. She's the only Finnish person I know. You didn't even know she was Finnish, but I believe her. I've never heard Sounder. This is how proud she is about being Finnish. Her grandson, named Finn. That's right. Named Finn. There you go. I get it now. So that's how you know you're proud to be Finnish. I trust her. Let's go over a couple things. Number one, Pat Riley, former Kentucky basketball player. Up front. Lakers coach. they built a statue for him outside of the Lakers arena. During the halftime speech while they were honoring him he looked at the coaches for the Celtics and the Lakers which was Joe Mazzula and J.J. Redick and said I sure wish these coaches would wear suits. Because they were both wearing sweat kind of stuff. do you saw Riley said all these coaches now don't wear suits we need to show professionalism and wear suits called them out wow called out the other guys too James Worthy was the only one wearing a tie yeah he was called out his only former players like nice of y'all to dress up for me yeah yeah do you agree with Pat Riley coaches need to do what they did before COVID and go back to wearing suits uh Eileen yes at the end of the day I don't care what anyone wears but I do miss when coaches would dress up a little bit. Now, sometimes they're dressed like I am on my couch. Nothing wrong with that. I enjoy elastic waistbands as much as anyone, but I did like it better when my coach was buttoned up and dressed to the nines over there. Don't you think it shows authority to wear suits? I think one of the things that made Pat Riley Pat Riley was his fashion of always wearing the Armani suits and looking... Patino still does it. Patino still does it. And I think of Jay Wright always wearing the nice suits. You've seen how handsome Jay Wright looked in his suit. It does command respect and authority. Cal doesn't wear a tie now all the time, but he still wears the blazer. Shannon, suits. I like the look of a suit. It doesn't make you win. Just look at Jerry Stackhouse. That's true. I would say if I were a coach, I would not want to have to wear a suit. It's probably not comfortable. No, but I like the look of the coach wearing the suit better. So here's what I would say. I don't think they have to wear a suit, but I do think they need to stop being slobs. And this comes from someone that dresses like that every day. I do think you should dress better than pullover jogging pants. You should look different than the equipment manager. I agree with that. So I'm okay not wearing a suit. I'm okay if you wear a jacket and pants. But I do kind of think these guys that all look like the equipment manager, Like John Shire dresses like the equipment manager. Pope does some of the time. Pope does away games, suits home. I kind of think, Ryan, there should be – it's what I feel about preachers. Yeah. Just some level of professionalism. I don't like my preachers in jeans. I'm fine with my people in church in jeans. But you're the preacher. You're not supposed to look like you're hanging out at Club 11 in Miami. You're a preacher. Same thing with these coaches. Bob Knight just wore the red sweater forever, and then Huggins kind of did the pullover. But even that, Huggins is the originator of this. Bob Knight, at least the sweater is still a little more dressed up. And he had khakis on at least. He had khakis. Huggins was the first one to be like, I don't care. And it was joked about forever, like Huggins over there in his pajamas. And, you know, the coaches text each other, hey, let's not wear coach tonight. Let's all wear it. Maybe. There's like a group text. Yeah. Yeah. I made a – they started doing this in COVID, like we all did. You know, we weren't our best selves there for a while. But I predicted it would never come back, especially because you get your Nike logo or your Adidas logo. That's a good point. And I think they're being paid a little bit to wear these too. The guy in Missouri wears a suit. He does. And I think he looks sharp. Dennis Gates? Dennis Gates. If I were a coach, I'd dress up. I think he looks really sharp when he does it. I would want the opportunity to kind of dress up a little bit. Steven Pearl was wearing a t-shirt. He was. Yeah, wore a t-shirt. He was wearing a t-shirt. I don't know. Was it like an autism thing, though? Like an awareness? Yeah, fundraiser awareness. Okay, I'm all right. One game. Fair enough. One game. He could have dressed it up a little bit. No, I'll take that. I didn't know that. One game, I'm good with that. you know the dawn staley she'll wear like football jerseys yeah what about uh kim mulkey what she spends on her now kim mulkey why i don't like her she's out there sashaying and shantay right i like that she dresses what are you laughing at we need your video of that kim and i own the same sweater remember i got the one she wore isn't that what rupaul said sashay shantay i don't i didn't watch a lot of rupaul you might play rupaul during the next segment i think she says sashay shantay i think you're telling yourself not that rupaul had a song what was her song she had a song i didn't know you were such a fan of rupaul more is in your background rupaul got famous from a song tell us about it yeah what was it called see it's called like supermodel right yeah you don't act like it wasn't a big song in the 90s i've never heard it never heard it if it's out in the 90s you know it stop it you've shannon there's no way you haven't heard i've never heard it i'll find it okay we just don't know it called supermodel you're the thank you there we go i'm not an expert on rupaul this on your high yoga mix this was a very famous song famous to you no famous to every that's what made rupaul famous was this song well now we gotta hear it here i'm not even waiting just play it right now okay yes all right here we go work it you gotta work it girl oh my god i hate to admit i know this song yeah of course you don't know this song i do know i remember this song come on shannon i remember this sorry I was listening to Alice and Shane's It got a lot of play on the radio This was huge Yeah it was I've never heard this I can't believe you haven't heard this The text machine is going to be full of people Who've heard this I'm embarrassed I know it It was like the number one song in America Y'all are crazy Let's go to Michael Go ahead Michael Everybody's looking at me like I'm nuts I'm just learning more I'll let it play since you're such a fan of this Okay Michael I appreciate coming in on that song I appreciate that Michael had you heard this song let's be honest Yes I've heard that song Thank you very much And you were right about those words Those words are in that song Thank you Sashay Shantae Because I used to say I used to say when he was here Sashay Sharae For Thomas When he would be so bad My comment about the word sauna is it sounds like an Eastern Kentucky way to say sauna. It does. It's like salmon. It's like when people say salmon. Yeah. So if you'll indulge me, I've got a quick comment and two questions, and I'll hang up and- Shannon, turn that down. I can't focus. Come on. I can't focus with you playing that song in the background. Go ahead. You're no fun. So my comment is on the statistic thing that he likes to do. So I just want to say, how did that work out for the Oakland A's when they did that after that one season? Well, it went well, but here's the thing about the Oakland A's when they did it. So the Oakland A's did analytics, but they didn't have any money. It would get them to the playoffs, and then they couldn't win. But then the Boston Red Sox did it with money, and they won the title. The problem, though, was the reason it worked for those teams is that the other teams weren't doing it. Well, now everybody uses analytics, so it doesn't really work as well as it did then because you don't have a market advantage like the A's and then the Red Sox did. Right. But the variables are never the same because you don know how people are going to play from game to game But you know I just wanted to make that comment And then my first question would be I read a high school rule book Now, disclaimer, it is high school. I didn't look at college. You cannot extend partially or fully your arms. But then there's another above it that says it's not legal to use hands on an opponent, which in any way inhibits the freedom of court. I mean, you know, that was a fact. So my question is, is that something that they could have reviewed when they called the foul? Can't review foul calls. Can't review foul calls. Okay, last question. Have you seen this douchebag of a Kentucky fan that's named Chris Adams that is in love and infatuated with Rick Pitino? I appreciate the call. We're not going to care. Who cares about one random UK fan? I mean, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it certainly could have been called a foul on Chandler. I just don't think it should have been due to time and due to the fact that you could have called a foul on the Auburn guy before that. Easily. That's why at that time of game, I think that should have just been a no call. Should have just been a no call. Terry in Shepherdsville, go ahead. Bluetooth, but I'm driving, so there's nothing I can do about it. You're going to have to put up with it. Sorry. Tonight. I like Terry. I'll let him try. Go ahead. Tonight, if you want to feel good about the game, just bet what you can afford to lose, 5, 10, 20, whatever you're comfortable with. Yeah, the emotional hedge. Bet down on the money line. The emotional hedge. You're exactly right. I've done it many times. And as far – and, yeah, if we win, then great. I just wanted to say one thing about the Pope's tirade. I think you've got to be a little bit smarter when you're judging it. He's not just talking about that game. He's talking about the overall we don't get the calls without saying we don't get the calls. It's not whining. It's true. They don't get a fair whistle on the road, and they rarely get a fair whistle at Rupp. So I just think he's letting people know we're not putting up with it, and we're going to go take care of business so you can't be a factor. Thanks. I'll hang up and listen. Yeah, I mean, maybe. I appreciate the call. I don't know. I guess on some level there ought to be a study, Drew, as to whether or not what is the best method to get the best result from officials. Is it criticizing them? Is it being nice to them? Is it screaming at them? I don't know the answer to that. but if your goal is to get the right the best calls what method works best i mean in game you have to a little yelling that's the sport but for the most part 90 of the time i'm being a suck up even if i don't want to even if it hurts me i would think that for most you know my theory about life which is you either have to be insanely nice or a jerk to get what you want i kind of wonder if It's like that with coaching. You've got to either be the coach that the refs love or you've got to be the one that scares them to death. Like Patino and Calipari, they're on the officials from the moment the ball's tipped. But then there are others who sort of – Then like you watch John Shire. Never says anything. And he smiles and he like put his arm around him and go. And maybe you have to be one of those two extremes. Yeah. If you're in the middle, it doesn't work. If it's me and I'm a ref and I get the ones that are yelling at me nonstop, my brain is thinking i'll show you like that might not be everyone's personality there might be people's personality is maybe if i just give this guy a call he'll shut up leave me alone yeah but i would turn it into a sport between the two of us which wouldn't which wouldn't be the right thing to do so it might be different depending on which ref you're talking about and what his personality i think that plays a big part of it they got to know these guys know how far can i push this guy and i can't push this guy drew and i would be the same ref so it'd be bad for anybody yelling at us. Oh, Shannon would definitely I would be so spiteful I'd tee him up. Oh, I'd look at the student section and shush him Give him a DX job. Y'all want to yell at me I'll be right back at you. Now that we have the brutal winner behind us, we can get back to the grill. Noche Linda Farms offers over 20 items on their website. 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If you told me to guess, I would have thought this was like 80s, but you said it came out in the 90s? I think it was like early 90s. It was around the same time as Ice Ice Baby, Can't Touch This, Rico Suave. Oh, Rico. He's a pastor now in like East Kentucky. Pastor in Ashland. Yeah. Gerardo. Yeah. Pastor Nash. Yes, he is. One of the great facts that if you listen to this show, you probably know, but most people wouldn't know. Didn't know it until it came up on this show. Yeah. One person writes, Matt, if we're a seven seed, what two seed would you most want to see? Who are the two seeds right now? Do we know? Let me put a new bracket. Michigan State, Iowa State. It's not Michigan State, I don't think. They're lower than that, aren't they? I thought they were there. Maybe they are. Yeah, read me the two seeds. I'll tell you which one I want to play. I mean, we'd be an underdog against all of them uh let's see oh this is very interactive looking bracket here uh iowa state purdue purdue uh illinois and houston the one i'd want to play the least is houston um i'd be good with any of the other three yeah in terms of like feeling like we had a chance i'd probably rank it see because we beat purdue earlier in the year i don't want to play because they're playing good now i feel like they would take it yeah i would say i would of those i would want to play illinois first then iowa state then purdue and then houston could be another matchup with big z then he's in illinois would you like to know where we are in the bracketology we're an eight seed playing clemson in the first round with uconn in the next round in philadelphia so so if you're going to get a ones if you're going to play a one seed that's who i'd want to play the other ones i wouldn't want to play duke wouldn't want to play michigan wouldn't want to player zone so if we had to be an eight or nine i'd want to play uconn yeah i think they'd kill us they might but i'm just saying like that's the one we've got the best shot at i don't think we can beat those other just just what is that where does it say we play philly in the south region houston is the regional should we be so lucky i mean philly would be great clemson it would be a toss-up we could lose that game is that fat guy still play for clemson no i think he's finally gone. You're talking about the guy that looked like a punk rocker. He went to play football. Killed us. That's right, he went to play football. What? Yeah. He killed Kentucky last year. Dylan, go ahead, Dylan. Hey, Matt, I got one question. I'll hang up and listen. Okay. Is it more likely in 2028 that we are in the NCAA college football playoffs or we have a new basketball coach? When in 2028? Are you talking about like fall 2028? Just a year, like going into college football players. I mean, the more likely thing would be we would have a new basketball coach. I mean, the two scenarios, you're asking Kentucky to finish higher than they finished in the college football playoff than the rankings ever, at least in my lifetime, or we have a bad season next year. I mean, I think the more likely scenario would be we would have a bad season. I think that's now if they expand the playoff to 24 that's a different conversation yes it is that's a different conversation and then at that point it becomes more interesting but if it's at 12 then the answer would be have a new coach the way we are right now with no recruits coming in and things not working out we thought they were going to I think that's that's an obvious answer on that would be a more interesting question is what's let's say it got to 16 what's more likely by 2030 national title playoff berth I would lean national title because that can be done one great offseason and you in the conversation Football as excited as I am of Will Stein there no evidence that this is going to head towards the football Still, I mean, I love what they've done now, but we've seen nothing to suggest they're going to playoff. I'd say 24 would be a playoff. Because I think if they were to bring in 24 teams, you would need to come in like 7th in the SEC. so those two years that they finished regular season 9-3 they would probably be in the field let's say 24 was the number we would have been in twice in the Stoops era if it was 16 we'd have been in once and then 12 we would not have been in so yeah if they were to get to 24 then we'll play in the playoff one day if they get to 16 we'll probably play once and we need to be like we better fill that stadium up I think they could catch fire in a bottle One of those years and make it in football 12 I don't know that we would make That'd be tough But if it's 24 then I do think we would make it At some point Tracy go ahead Tracy Got a minute A minute? Okay well let's cut this down First of all I saw you guys at Radcliffe About 10 days ago And what a difference in the last 10 days Since the way everybody was feeling then That's true Yeah. Another thing, real quick, because now I'm under 40 seconds. Y'all might want to talk to DraftKings about seeing if they can get a prop on when team fouls will happen. Auburn didn't get their first foul the other night until 10 minutes 58 in the first half. And last night, Kansas had four fouls to give with under a minute in the first half. And I just, when Self held up four fingers and said, we've got four to give. I thought, okay, it's not just happening to us. No, you're right. I appreciate the call. Sometimes it's never consistent, but it was clear early in that Auburn game they were going to let them beat each other up. And they did until the last play. And then they changed it differently. We'll be right back. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call TJ. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. A couple open lines. One person writes in, Ryan said I think they could catch fire in a bottle. That is not what the line is. It's catch lightning in a bottle. Did I say fire in a bottle? You did. Definitely did. Good. I think it works. Do you do that on purpose? No. You do like three of those a week. I think your mind just kind of goes that way sometimes. One person writes, Matt, how have they still not caught the guy who took Nancy Guthrie? I don't know, man. Oh, there's an update. What's the update? Is this from 94.5? Is this from last night's news? I absolutely heard it on the show on 94.5 last night. Okay. They have video now of the masked guy there at her house like a day or two before the abduction. Like her ring camera caught him there a couple days before, wearing the same ski mask and clothes. So he came back twice then? So, yeah, the second time he came back and abducted her. Okay. What am I supposed to make of that news? How does that advance it? That he was scouting it out, so it's premeditated. Targeted. He could have been scouting it for a robbery. Yeah. Here's another thing. Can we go ahead and tell you? No, wait until tomorrow. They think it was the – there's a theory that it could be mistaken identity because the people next door have a large, like, gemstone business, and they store a lot of these real expensive gems in their house. So he might have gotten the wrong place. Maybe. That's just a theory they're throwing out there. Who's throwing it out there? 94.5. That's a 94.5 theory. Bumbling idiot has committed the perfect crime because nobody can figure it out. Okay, so I'm reading this book. Highly recommend this book. Put this on your list. Okay. Fascinating. It's called Hellhound on His Trail. It's by Hampton Sides. it is about the killing of Martin Luther King and then the attempt to try to catch the guy and in the book one of the things they say is it took them a long time to catch the guy James Earl Ray but initially his name is Eric Gould part of why it took so long Shannon was because they had this thought that he was this brilliant like mastermind and he was an idiot. And so they were trying to give him traits, like what would be the rational thing to do, and he would do the opposite because he was doing the stupid thing to do and they were out thinking themselves. Wow. Interesting, yeah. Which makes you wonder if that's what has happened with this. They're going, oh, well, it's probably because of this. And it was maybe just like, what do I do next? Yeah. So like with the James O'Reilly thing, they were sitting there going, oh, he bought the gun in Birmingham. So he surely wouldn't go back there. But then he did. He did go back to Birmingham. They were like, oh, he's from Atlanta. He surely wouldn't go back there. He did. But then he did. he i learned in the book took a greyhound from atlanta and had a changeover in london kentucky where the closest they came to getting him was in london kentucky wow he came up through chattanooga knoxville had a changeover in london he wanted to go to cincinnati and uh they almost got him in london somebody in the london greyhound station recognized him as potentially the guy but he was already on the greyhound and gone by the time it's hard to predict what someone will do if they don't even know what they're doing they're just wandering around and they were like one of the things they were like well he surely won't get in a greyhound where we can track him and then he was in a greyhound and they said the fbi changed a lot of the way they do on some of these crimes from that because they were just assuming he wouldn't do the stupid thing thought he was a mastermind he continued to do the stupid thing very interesting what was the name of the book hellhound on his trail i love it it's an older book but i've had it for a long time and just had never read it and i i've been engulfed in it it's long i mean you gotta want it it's long but it's really interesting you know i walked past the lorraine hotel we were in memphis that one weekend and the line was too long to go for us to wait in but they've kept it exactly the way it was the moment he got well i didn't realize It wasn't until I read that book. Like, at the time he was killed, Martin Luther King was being, like, hit on all sides. We always think of, like, the racist people. But a lot of the black, like, at the time, a lot of black leaders were against him, too. They thought he was too nonviolent. They were like, we've got to be harsher. And so he was, like, he was getting hit from all sides. and then when he got assassinated people obviously have have this view of him and they should as this amazing figure but at the time he was very controversial on both sides there were people who thought he was too moderate so i just you know you learn all that when you read the book and i told you you know rest in peace but the book doesn't paint your guy jesse jackson very well yeah he told me that story basically paints him as lying about what happened because he was there Jesse Jackson got famous by doing an interview the day after the shooting on the Today Show saying Martin Luther King died in his arms. But he didn't. The other men that were there. The other men that were there, they had gone to the hospital with Martin Luther King because they were much more close to him. And they left Jesse behind. Jesse does the interview, gets famous, then leaves the group and starts his own thing. And was kind of not truthful in the interview. And said he died in his arms. I mean, Jesse Jackson was there, but that's not what happened. He died in a guy named Abernathy's arms. So that stuff is – I just find it really, really interesting. I think a lot of people would like it. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Yeah, I guess facts are optional, shall I say. Sometimes, yeah. I had a DUI, and in 2000, about 2010, I went to Canada. So they didn't stop you? No. Well, there you go. Have a good day, boys. Tell us. Let us know about it. He snuck across the border. He wanted us to know that he went with his DUI. Had a DUI? To Canada. They let him go. Good for him. Maybe everybody in Canada, maybe it's just. Beat the system. They look at you and they decide the cut of your jib. That's why they detained you for a couple hours? I've been detained twice. Oh, twice. Yeah. First time was hubby farting and me laughing. Or second time. The first time I was driving, we weren't just driving. We wanted to drive a road trip around Canada. And we decided to go up through Montana. And it was me and I was from Kentucky. My friend Chris Mosley, who had an Indiana ID, we had rented a car that had like Missouri license plates. And we were going across the border in this rural Montana crossing. and they thought all that was very skeptical you are not they were like what are you going to do when you're here and we're like drive around and they were like drive around you guys look a little shady yeah and so they stopped us for a long time i mean they didn't do anything they just kept searching stuff but they were like why is your car from a different state than you are from what's a rental car why'd you get a rental car why are you crossing in montana and they stopped us for a long time i think they were bored too we were like the only car that was crossing they didn't see much traffic in a few weeks they were just bored but but we got so i've had a hard time in canada well the one time you were with hubby you said they kept you for like two hours yeah i didn't i thought they weren't gonna let me in as a matter of fact he said at one time because our stuff was already there he was like your friends can go get it and bring it back to you you're not coming in that's when kentucky played yep you're all right cow yeah i was supposed to interview Cal. That's right. That was going to be my first interview with Cal and they weren't going to let me across. Then we got there. Barely. Mike, go ahead, Mike. You got me on that last one. I started talking about that. But anyway, I've been reading some insiders and the recruits saying they could get stubs if they pay for them. Are we still on that kick where it's like name on the front? Because I thought that was a horrible idea for high school kids from the beginning. I'm just curious about that. That's a good question. Pope has said, Drew, that he wants to make it to where you get guys. I appreciate the call. You want the name on the front. Does that work with modern players in your mind? I don't think so. We all love that Pope's doing that. We all grew up with Kentucky and want that to be a part of it. Leave that with the fans. When you're at the negotiating table with a five-star prospect, it's dollar signs, minutes, what can you do for me? we'll have the nostalgia and all that when they get there but i don't think it's working in recruiting you went through this now granted it was football but do you think that that matters to people i mean it matters probably a little bit but does it matter a lot i think the young it matters more to us the older generation than the younger generation i think they're just looking out money and playing time i think that's all they care about yeah i think that's probably true And we're farther and farther from these kids knowing Kentucky. You're right. John Wall feels fairly recent to us, but to these kids, that's an old head. John Wall, they're looking at the last five, six years. If you're a high school kid, this is going to make you feel old, but if you're a high school kid graduating in the class of 2026, John Wall played at Kentucky when you were two years old. Yeah. Who was it? You don't have that memory of Kentucky being cool. Anthony Davis was when you were four years old. Was it Jalen Lowe, one of the guys, they asked him who his favorite hero was, and he said, De'Aaron Fox was my hero growing up. I mean, now the guys that the players probably look up to the most is like Tyrese Maxey. Yeah. Or Shane Gilgis-Alexander. Who's your favorite UK player? Shane is usually the one. We see that as like the end of the Cal era. Uh-huh. But for them, that's who they know. That's their memory. Your dream home awaits at bluegrasshomecenter.com. You can choose the siding, the shutters, the kitchen colors, and more. Two, three, four, and five bedroom homes available. Bluegrass Home Center is a family-owned business specializing in meeting the needs of home buyers. They offer homes as low as $48,900. Flexible, fully customizable floor plans. 241 Rudy Bear Road in London, Kentucky. It is the Bluegrass Home Center. Go check them out. 502. Let's see. 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Late one night, Bobby Gumpwright became the victim of a random crime. He pulls the gun, tells me to lie down on the ground. He identified Jermaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Jermaine was sentenced to 99 years. I'm like, Lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity. The best lie is partial truth. For 22 years, only two people knew the truth. Until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. 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We're wet and we're very, very upset. That seemed like it was probably made after your trancy fraternity. You've made that joke six times probably in the last 15 years. It's always a knee slapper, too. Even the phrase knee slapper is sort of an example of your overall age. Scallywag. I do need to make a correction about the first Fazolis. The one that opened on North Broadway opened as Grazis. So when they rebranded the Fazolis, they opened up the new Fazolis on Richmond Road. So I was right. The new Fazolis Richmond Road was really... It is why you can't always listen to these people. Yeah. Because they all told me it was on North Broadway, and it sounds like I was right. Yeah, there was Grazzi's on North Broadway, and then they changed it to Fazoli's when they opened the new one on Richmond Road. Here's a good question. Matt, UK coaches, since you've been doing KSR, what's the weirdest fact about each of them? The one that sticks to my mind is Cal Perry, that he would eat every Thursday afternoon by himself at Golden Corral. That's a weird one. And that some people say he would eat just a plate of whipped cream as dessert. Manager at Golden Corral told me that. It was a good source. Think about that. Can't get a better source than the manager watching him. Every Thursday afternoon, he would sit at Golden Corral by himself, eat the buffet, and his dessert would be a plate of whipped cream. I have never been so aroused. That's weird. So I think that's the cow one. Do you have one for someone? Well, Billy G used to go to Cracker Barrel for chicken and dumplings every week, whatever day that was. That's not weird. That's not weird. No, him going and singing karaoke is weird. That's the Billy Gillespie one. He would go to Shinoahe Pub by himself and sing karaoke. somehow that never got out until the end and he would sing amanda yeah which you go listen to those words it's kind of sad but he would sing karaoke at shinaway pub by himself and from what i understand would often wear a hat and nobody would know who he would use like a pseudonym so when they call him up they wouldn't say billy they'd be like rick he'd go up and sing about sometimes he would say he was built but like a lot of times he would the people at shinaway knew him but so he wouldn't get bothered sometimes he would come up and be like earl and he would sing but he would be by himself and then above him's a tv with sports center on it playing the highlights from the georgia game the night before yeah people could it was always right i always found that to be really that is the strangest that is pretty weird stranger than cowl whipped cream what about you do you have one for somebody i was trying to think of stoops i know the only like quirky thing with him would be parking in front of the kroger i think it's beaumont yeah He would park in the handicap space at Starbucks. But nothing to the level of eating a bowl of Cool Whip in public at a buffet. Yeah. I'm trying to think of a good Stoops one. You know, most of the Stoops ones just involve like – well, I mean, I went to Stoops' – the party he had where he broke the record for most wins at Kentucky. and that was a funny just the scene it was at the top of it was at the what used to be sky bar okay and um just interesting to see who's a who like a who's who of who was there um that was when one of stoops his friends from youngstown threw max duffy into a wall because he thought he was making fun of mark is that when they played youngstown i remember time when there was a lot of young so he went up to mark max went up to mark to give him a hard time about losing his hair or something and mark stoops his buddy who he'd grown up with who didn't know who max was thought somebody was screwing with him and threw max into a table young sound wow yeah that's exactly that happened and mark was like no no it's good he's our and he was like oh man sorry about that's my great guy winner yeah but that's young's town for they'll just throw you into a table. Put your back. Each other's back. I'm trying to think of videos. What about Joker? You got one for Joker? Nothing we can tell in the air. Rick Pitino. Here's a quirky thing. Would have premarital sex with a woman in a restaurant. No, he wouldn't. What? You made that up. Yeah. You totally made that up. In an Italian restaurant in a booth. No one would do that. You totally made that story up. With his equipment managers watching the booth. Oh, come on. Now you're just making stuff up. In a restaurant? In the right mind. In a restaurant. In like a nice restaurant. What? Like a four-star restaurant. Are you on Ambien again? No, I'm not. This happened. That happened. This happened. And then... What about the other people in the restaurant? Yeah. Well, they were cleared out. The equipment manager was watching the door so he didn't have to get in. The guy that owned the restaurant had given him the keys because he allowed him to use it after hours for this thing. No. Recreational activities. Come on. Yeah. and the booth where it happened probably closed it and report no it's marked you can go sit in it people will tell you that's the rick patino what's it when you say it's marked yeah it's just like a plaque there's my dna there yeah i know that one's weird not as weird as being at shinaway pub but it is a weird one wow i mean that truly sounds unbelievable there had to have been consequences for that actually oddly didn't get in trouble for that what got an extension Because nobody knew about it until now. I don't need to know about his extension. You've already told us enough. Let's go. DonFranklinAuto.com If you want a vehicle, go to Don Franklin Auto. Find your perfect match this month. Over 1,000 new and certified vehicles at Don Franklin. Installed with peace of mind. It is Don Franklin, mile after mile. There's a location near you. They'll find the vehicle you want, the price you can afford, and you're serviced by family. it's Don Franklin Otto driven by family the pregame show starts at 430 430 are we going to win Shannon? Yes they win tonight I think it's going to be tough though tougher than maybe what we think but I think they'll win I like it I'm feeling good Miles Stute who we've seen play a lot he started Vandy I believe had big games South Carolina he's out that helps our chances seven point favorite you can't lose games you're expected to win just get the job done and I think they do Win, don't cover. I think it's uncomfortably close for most of the game until they finally find a better team with the better players. They finally pull it out at the end. Yeah, I'm going to say they win. Drew made a good point. South Carolina, the good teams, destroy them. I'm going to say we have a comfortable victory, like 14. That'd be nice. But we'll see. Pre-game show is at 4.30. You can watch the game at the bar. 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