2026-03-03- KSR - Hour 2

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I've even used Stockton Mortgage myself on my own home loan. For your home loan needs, Stockton.com and click Get Started. Stockton Mortgage, NMLS 8259, equal housing lender, NMLS, consumeraccess.org. Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is Hour 2, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-774-5254. I do have one piece of information. I've gotten multiple texts from people, I assume, Drew, that are listening, who say that the Southland Minister is a UK fan. Okay, good. There are people not following the rule and listening, and I don't want to call him a UofL fan if he's not. No, it's a horrible accusation. That's like the worst thing you can call someone. You can't do that. You cannot call somebody a UofL fan that's a UK fan. They're struggling, by the way, UofL. Just fell out of the top 25. Top 25. First time all year. Pat Kelsey only has one win in the two years he's been there over a team that was in the top 30 in the net. Now, unfortunately, that was us. So you can't talk too much trash about it. But they can't beat anybody good. They play Syracuse at home tonight. They'll crush them. Then they go to Miami Saturday. Might lose another one. A lot of UofL fans work in this building. Very upset. They They in some ways seem almost more upset than Kentucky fans were at Pope because I don't think they have that connection with Kelsey where they want him to succeed because he's one of them like we do with Pope. That and Pope at least has several top AP wins where Kelsey, that's one of the problems is he's not winning those games. Also, his last press conference, he didn't have his glasses on. I didn't really know who I was looking at. He looked all sad. It's just fallen so far from when he was popping the cafeteria, getting all the fans fired up when he first got there. For a long time, and now, I don't know. So we'll see. The tournament can change a lot of stuff. Tyron Stokes is according to, is it Fran Fashilla? Is that who said that? Who was it? About taking another trip? Yeah, about Tyron Stokes coming to Kentucky. I think it came from his coach to someone at ESPN. Yeah, his coach told Fran Fraschilla that Tyron Stokes has not only not made his decision, he's going to visit Kentucky one more time. What do we make of this news? I mean, encouraging because it sounded like before he had kind of eliminated Kentucky. At least the door is still cracked a little bit that he wants to come back for another visit and entertain the thought of maybe committing at one point. He told Paul Biancardi, Stokes is planning another visit to UK after the season. Okay, so clearly we want him, right? Clearly, you know, Pope sees the value in high school recruiting, which I like. There are people who tried to make the argument when we don't get these guys, oh, that's kind of – it's because that's not what Pope does. Pope wants this guy. At this point, you still want this kid, right? He's the number one player in the country, absolutely. Like I said earlier, I don't care if you're third choice, fourth choice, fifth choice. If he picks you, you want him. Are you worried at all about this whole question of attitude? I mean, that's been something we've heard for years with this kid. And then Kansas had to kind of deal with whatever they've been dealing with with Darren Peterson. So there are some people saying, well, they don't want to deal with that again. Drew, I think he's the – when you get the number one player in the country, I think you take the risk. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I think you have to take the risk, right? Yeah, there's some stories about him with some locker room stuff. you know you don't love that but kentucky's kind of in desperation mode i mean i would take him regardless even if you had a class but right now you got to get bodies for next year and if the number one recruit in america wants to be a part of that you absolutely have to take him also it seems kansas pretty much had this locked up it just keeps trickling and trickling and trickling so now kentucky gets a visit if kansas doesn't close soon maybe maybe you are back in the mix more than we thought we had it locked up this may just be a guy you know that's when they're in a relationship at the end Shannon they're like I just can't commit yeah yeah you wouldn't know anything about no of course no no no no you wouldn't either no so yeah I mean that might be that might be what it is do you agree with me Shannon you take this kid no matter what you know he's the top rated guy so I think you take him no matter what unfortunately it could work out to where you have a situation with Peterson at Kansas and you get a guy that has an attitude problem and it's hard to manage that but do we think we would be better i guess my question ryan is do you think we'd be better without him because if you don't then you'd give it a shot i unless you can convince me there's somebody out there we can get that would be better than getting him i'm taking him and yeah it might not work out but you know what's there are other guys people get that don't work out you know mark mark pope needs this as nothing else for perception purposes that I can go out and recruit the top kids in the country and can get them to come to Kentucky he needs that more than anything there is earlier this year we weren't exactly leading the country in positive attitudes on the team either so I mean remember how the year started I mean if okay might have another locker room situation coming in and maybe they'll play chess and get along you know feels like that's that's a big part is maybe they play chess and everybody will everybody will be happy now Kentucky the SEC women's tournament starts tomorrow morning so let me just go over some stuff. Kentucky women play tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. Eastern time, 11 a.m. Eastern time. First game of the SEC tournament, Kentucky plays at 11 a.m. Now, as you know, we're on the air then. So tomorrow morning, just as a heads up, we're going to do the show as regular. It'll be on all the same things at 10 a.m. Then at 10.45, we will lose the Lexington and Louisville affiliates. You all will go to the game. But we will keep doing the show. You'll need to turn on the Somerset affiliate if you're listening on streaming. If you're listening at home, you just listen on the station. Is that WSFC? Something like that? Mario's going to make a graphic as to how you do it. All right? But just so you know, when you're listening tomorrow, we'll still be on podcast full and we'll still be doing the show. But at 1045, they'll switch to the women. And I understand if you want to keep listening, listen to women. I get that. at the bar tomorrow we're going to be doing the show at the bar we will have cash will be there but we will also have the women's game on while we're doing the show and it is wsfc actually just yesterday gus sent an updated affiliate list that i put on ksr every morning so if you get lost you can go find that too and find what's close to you wsfc and so if you're in lexington tomorrow you can come watch the show we will also have the game and they'll both be going on and so that's uh that's an exciting morning let's go to chase go ahead chase morning gentlemen Shannon um I've got quick thing are you saying I'm not a gentleman is that a shot at Shannon gentleman and Shannon go ahead I would never disparage the good name of Shannon the dude um with the prospect of certain announcements on the horizon I'm wondering about our 80s department's approach to coaching in endgame environments? Do you think that a new AD who may butt in the shirt a little lower may have less concern with more superiority, more concern with winning and a better home game advantage? And along those lines, what's stopping us from poaching whoever's in charge of the endgame environment at South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, any of these places that are just electric? Why can't we get any of those people? Well, I think, appreciate the call. If there were to be a transition at the top of UK athletics, I think without question, the question is going to be what's next and what is the philosophy? I'm of the belief that college sports are so fundamentally different today than they were even four years ago that you have to hire somebody who's eager to embrace that change. Whoever that is, okay, whoever that is, you know, it's sort of like saying if you are, I don't know, if you're a computer person and you don't like AI, then you probably shouldn't hire that person to run your AI department, right? You should hire someone who understands and probably embraces the technology to run your AI department. Even if I don't. So like I wouldn't be who you should hire because I don't like AI. If you're somebody that doesn't like what's happening in college sports, then don't hire that person to be in charge of college sports. So I think it's going to be very important for Kentucky, whenever that job were to come open to hire someone who embraces the future and who says whatever the future is we at Kentucky will be at the front that's what I want to hear Ryan from whoever ends up with that job whenever it comes open yeah because it's ultimately a business they're trying to make money and you can't be afraid to spend money to make money you know everybody's in competition for the entertainment dollar you want to make your product good enough where they want to come and spend their money and watch your internet watch your product you can't have any hesitation about the sport correct if you don't like college sports that is totally fine but my view has been for years if you don't like college sports as it is that you're right then you need to not be in it it's that simple because just look around the country just look at college basketball look at the coaches that are succeeding. Dusty May, John Shire, Nate Oates, Todd Golden, Danny Hurley. You don't hear, Drew, those coaches on TV going, I don't like what's happening with college basketball. They just go win. Right? They just go win. And that's what I want in the jobs at Kentucky. Will Stein did that. He came in, he was like, look, whatever the rules are, we'll make them work that's what we need yeah you just know that's what's so excited about will stein he even said exactly that his press conference like if you want to complain about how this job is now you're going to get left behind the rules and what's in front of us it is what it is so jump in and embrace it and love it or you not going to be able to succeed that why i mean he showed up with two GMs He an example of a young guy that ready for what next in the future and hopefully the rest of the athletic department kind of we see more of that youthful and exciting movement coming in. And it's not a criticism if you don't want to do it. Just don't do it. Give it to somebody who wants to. Dan, go ahead, Dan. Yeah, hey, Matt. Can I talk football? Yeah, if you want. with you. Yeah, look, this is Dan from Rocky Mountain. I got a tour through the Joe Craft Athletic Center a couple weeks ago on a Saturday. Let me tell you, me and my buddies, we had such a positive vibe, man. We were so excited when we left there. We got to meet a lot of the football players. Courtney Love's the one who took us through there. He won the Warfel Award back in 2017, something like that. but we got to watch, they were practicing. A quarter of the team was practicing, you know, in the indoor facility. And I'll tell you, every time we met these players, they were all so cordial. I am so pumped up about UK football this year. I'll tell you, everybody should be. Will Stein has just changed the whole vibe, man. It was just a fantastic tour. Well, good. I'm glad. I appreciate you letting me know, Dan, and nice to hear from you. appreciate the call we hope to have Will Stein Ryan on the show on Monday just for people to know he's kind of making the rounds talking to some people getting ready for the spring football season to start you can tell his energetic level is going to be infectious on everybody else they're excited to get out there Shannon his energetic level is going to be infectious I think it's true we know what Ryan means we've been around him for so long like you wouldn't want to read that from the transcript for the people at the church i mean infectious yeah not a word right infectious infectious yeah that too his energetic levels were infectious put that on a t-shirt that's right jacob go ahead jacob Hey, Matt. Just wanted to talk two things. One, the new AD, whenever that time comes, I think that respectfully they need to, kind of like what you were saying, embrace the modern college sports. I think specifically we need to really be mindful of somebody who really understands college basketball. As the athletic director for the University of Kentucky, I think that basketball is definitely our flagship program when it comes to sports. And they need to approach basketball with modern eyes. And I think that that means that it can't be a Mitch 2.0. We can't have just a repeat of what we have had. I know that Mitch has done a lot of good things, and I'll appreciate that, but we can't have him again. Well, I appreciate the call. That's going to be the conversation. I'm not saying that I don't think the person who can be the next one can't have a connection to him, but in my opinion, they can't have his view that has pervaded the last five years about what college sports is because it's not that anymore. If, uh, cats fans, if you haven't checked out the Kentucky sports factory, now's the time. It's a 92,000 square foot indoor sports factory in Madisonville. We were just there Friday. Amazing. Six basketball courts, 12 volleyball courts, 20, 22 pickleball courts, 60 yard indoor turf field. They got a great restaurant, which had awesome food, sponsorship opportunities. You can go play a game there. You can rent it out for an event. It's great. It's in Madisonville. I think it's the best facility in the state. The Kentucky Sports Factory or KentuckySportsFactory.com. Really was an impressive place to be. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSR. In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief. The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history. Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict? A villain? A nurse named Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt! 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I dread the conversation with my son. What do you think you'd say? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Conference tourney madness week really starts today. Ton of tournaments all over the place. Drew, I love the small tournaments tonight. A lot going on tonight in terms of you got Kentucky playing and then all these smaller tournaments. I love watching them. ESPN Plus has them all, and then you get the big games going into the championships. Are you a fan of, I guess they call it, Madness Week? Oh, absolutely. Today, not as much because every SEC game except one is tonight. There's one Wednesday game. The rest are all loaded into tonight, so I'll be locked in our conference. But tomorrow, I love at noon, you just sit down and watch a little ASUN, I'll admit. but I'm mostly tuned in for the gambling. I won't lie, but of course, you can watch basketball in the middle of the day while you're working. Of course, I'm excited about all of them. Yeah, I try to go to one of those most years, although I don't think it's going to happen this year, but I do really enjoy it. The Sun Belt goes on for like a week. Yeah, what do you think of those tournaments where, all right, you know, there's the regular way conferences can do a bracket the way the SEC does, but they have these tournaments where they're trying to protect their top seeds. So it's like 9 plays 12, 10 plays 11, and then the winners play 8 and 7, and then the winners play 6 and 5. Do you like it like that, Shannon, or to give the best teams a little bit of an advantage? It puts a lot of weight on the regular season because the bottom four have to win seven games in seven days to win the title. And it starts today and doesn't end until next Monday. Yeah. I mean, I get it, though, don't you? I mean, I get it. You're trying to protect your – I want your best team to represent your league in the NCAA tournament. Because you have the best chance to get a seed where you can pull off an upset. Right. Yeah. But, man, I kind of pull for those bottom four teams to run the gauntlet, though. That would be really cool to see. Which one do you prefer? If you were running a conference, Ryan, and you're doing a regular tournament, you're doing a gauntlet. I think you've got to do this way. Like Miami of Ohio is a perfect example this year. And they're a regular bracket. So they're getting no advantage, Miami of Ohio. I think you'd want to modify the bracket to kind of protect them a little bit to kind of get them in the tournament. But I'm with Shannon. I would pull for one of those underdog guys to kind of win four, five, six games in a row and maybe make this Cinderella run and get into the tournament that way. Speaking about Miami of Ohio, what do you think about Bruce Pearl versus Miami of Ohio? Bruce Pearl is holding the ground of if they lose, they're out. And he went as far as to say that if they were in the Big East, they would come in last place. Those are strong words. By the way, I don't think he's wrong. I completely agree with Bruce. I don't think he's wrong. They've got to play somebody good. I think Miami of Ohio, if they go undefeated, I think it would be cool to see them in the tournament. But I also think they would come in last in the SEC. I do. Now I want to see them make the tournament and actually beat somebody. But that's a one-game scenario. And maybe they will. Maybe they'll lose by 25. But if they had to play home and away in the – first of all, Miami of Ohio would win no games on the road. Can we agree on that in the SEC? I think that's fair. 0-9. Now, could they pull off one or two in their home arena? Maybe. But, Drew, I think they go – if they're in the SEC, I think they go 2-16. I think they lose every game in the SEC. I mean, they just played like the 298th team and needed a layup at the buzzer to win it. Their conference, they barely have any teams in the top 200. I'm completely with Bruce Pearl. For me, it's very simple. If they win their conference tournament, they win undefeated, so they're in anyway. If they don't win their conference tournament, they lost. Everyone shut up. They're not undefeated. They don't get in. Yeah, that's how I am. By the way, did you see the Miami of Ohio coach, Ryan, did you see him kick the speaker over? I did. What's the speaker do to him, man? Take it out on the speaker. You saw this, right, Drew, Shannon? And you saw, so he broke the speaker for Western Michigan. But here's what we just learned on ESPN learned. The speaker was actually not Western Michigan's. It was their halftime entertainment, the most incredible DJ Chuck. Okay, so it was DJ Chuck's speaker. And by the way, he doesn't just call himself DJ Chuck. He calls himself the most incredible DJ Chuck. Well, the speaker's blown out, so how does he feel about that? speaker caused DJ Chuck $3,000 worth of damage, Miami of Ohio has agreed to reimburse DJ Chuck as they should for his speaker. So did DJ Chuck not get to perform at halftime? I think DJ Chuck was not able to perform at halftime. That's an easy payday for him. And he's incredible. His speaker just got chucked. Yeah. Poor DJ Chuck. I didn't know that was part of the halftime entertainment speaker and first i now say i want to go here the most do you think you could get him to open for you at 10 maroon maybe maybe maybe we should open for him if he's that incredible i don't know you all are not the most incredible i mean if somebody wants to come in and chuck our equipment and pay us and give us new equipment that be all right Not yet to play still get paid Let go to John John John. Hey, how y'all doing? Doing good. You think we're going to win or not? Well, I mean, our picks are at the end of the show. What do you think? I think we do. I think we go down there and win by 15. I think the way we've been playing, And if we play like we did against Vanderbilt, I think we win. Well, I hope you're right. I appreciate the call. We got a minute here. Is that right? Sherry. Go ahead, Sherry. Hey, this is just a funny. You wanted somebody funny, so here you go. Why does Ryan Lemon take his clothes off all the time? I've been wondering the same thing for years. Is this a joke or an actual question? No, no, Matt. It's an actual question. Every time y'all do something, he takes that shirt off. Why the nudity? That's right. That's a good question. Actually, don't ask Ryan. He'll try to be funny. Why does he do it? He'll say because it's for lovers. I think the reason, Sherry, is he's kind of funny looking. And I think when he takes his clothes off, it's kind of like a comedy thing. Right? Like, it's like, oh, look, Ryan, there he is. I just love him. And so I just wonder, but you know, I love all y'all, but it's so funny. He was just rubbing his chest on them women at that one place. Yeah, I didn't encourage that. You know, I thought that was. I didn't think so. Yeah, I didn't encourage that. I appreciate. You wouldn't do that. I would not do that. I appreciate it. Yeah, I will not be taking my time. I think Sherry was thirsty. Drew, I'm not there. This is supposed to be your responsibility. He's beyond controlling at this point. Remember, he's the one that's almost 60. 859-280-2287. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call TJ. He'll make him pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. We have breaking news. Rani-na-na! I hinted at this earlier today, and it has now also been reported by Pete Thamel of ESPN. Mitch Barnhart is expected to retire as soon as today, but likely this week. After 24 years as the athletic director, Mitch Barnhart is expected to retire. So I've heard it's going to be today, but I think if it's not today, it will be this week. conversations have been ongoing in the last four or five days over the weekend with folks that make decisions in the university both boards at board of trustees etc and this is where they ended up I think Mitch I'm going to give you my quick take and then we'll go around I think Mitch 24 years has been a tremendous athletic director who you could make a pretty strong argument that virtually every sport was better after he was AD than it was before. A lot of really good hires in major sports. Some that come to mind, you know, Rich Brooks, Mark Stoops. See what happens with Will Stein, obviously. John Calipari. We'll see what happens with Mark Pope. on the women's side, Matthew Mitchell, Kenny Brooks, Nick Mingione, volleyball, Craig Skinner. They've had a lot of success in softball, track, you name it. He, I think, sort of took UK athletics from a school that was good at basketball and occasionally would be good at something else to really a great athletic department across the board. and in the process helped make the University of Kentucky a much better place than when he got there from an athletic standpoint. 24 years, longest serving AD in the history of UK athletics and now will retire. No word on what happens next or when. If you remember, we talked in the fall. His contract allowed him to be paid a certain amount a year if he got through Christmas. and I said back in the fall I expected him to retire this spring and he will now and I think he leaves this legacy as a great athletic director for the University of Kentucky who is stepping away at a time that I think is correct for him to do leading into the next generation. Ryan what do you think? It's a loss man you're right you hit you hit all the highlights it's a that's a big chair to fill with what he did here at the University of Kentucky but if he's not the kind a guy that wants to adapt to the changing college athletic world. Maybe it is the right time for him to step down and get a breath of fresh air in there. But outstanding work he did at the University of Kentucky. We'll always like him or not. Of course, he made some decisions a lot of people weren't happy with. Overall, he was a great improvement for the University of Kentucky. Yeah, I mean, 24 years, you're going to make decisions that people don't like. And on a personal level, I don't know that he ever particularly loved us, but I will say this almost without fail always kind um a couple times in my life did really really kind things at times that were important I think he's a really good man who uh who you know just on a personal level people should really appreciate was was head of this school for so long true yeah you listed his accomplishments I'll add internally some people in the building speak really highly of him and working for him people i know well including like during covid when a lot of athletic departments were having to you know cut bait with some people he did a good job of making sure uk didn't have to do that and has kept uk in the green for a long time so i know uh you know we know his like his accomplishments in sports and all the secondary stuff you listed but i i know behind the scenes a lot of people uh liked working for him very loyal person who produced a lot of over the years, you know, a lot of people that worked at UK are running other athletic departments around the country. And I think Drew's right, like a person who really stuck by his people. And, you know, I think there's a lot to say about that. I, you know, if you were going to give the pros, I think he is very good at managing people. a con. He was very difficult with dissent. Doesn't like to, never particularly like to be told that people had different opinions than him. Had an oddly quick temper sometimes. But you know, when you talk about hiring coaches, hiring Cal when he did, that went against probably what he normally would have done, but he did it and obviously that had a ton of success. Stuck with Rich Brooks when it wasn't popular and that ended up being successful. Took basically an unknown Mark Stoops and had success. Now, you also had Billy Gillespie. You also had Joker Phillips. You also had Kyra Elze. I mean, he had mistakes. But I think overall, a hiring record, Ryan, that's pretty good. And usually for athletic directors, that's your legacy. Who did you hire? Who did you set the program up with? And overall, you mentioned three misses. The rest of them have been home runs, grand slams. and you also mentioned his you're talking about a coach's tree his ad tree scott strickland greg burn dwayne peavey john cohen rob mullins yeah i want you to think about where the people that started here are the ad at florida alabama oregon all came from here yeah de paul uh where john cohen was at mississippi state mississippi state i mean just think about florida Alabama and Oregon. Three pretty big time power players. Three pretty big time programs and their ADs came from here over the years. So I wish Mitch the best. I think it'll be the big question is what's next? You know we should take a second everybody to celebrate his tenure because I do think it was very positive but what's next is the most important thing and we'll dominate the discussion and will UK hire someone internal? Do they already have the person picked or will they do a nationwide search and kind of open it up and go outside the family? These are the questions. You know, you hear the names people. He, I think you have two different ways to go. Eric Monday is a name you've heard a lot. Does he switch from working under the president to the athletic director? Does Mark Hill, who's second in command to Mitch, does he take the job? Do you bring back Dwayne Peavy, who's at DePaul, to take the job? Or do you say, we're not going in that direction at all. We're going to get someone none of us know. That, to me, will be the question that we figure out here over the next week or 10 days. And it'll be interesting to see. Eli Capilouto, I don't know how much longer he's going to be the president. So is he going to be making the decision? There's still a lot of questions to me that are up in the air That we'll find out here soon Let's go to Flower Power, go ahead How you doing? Doing good Listen, that Changeover tomorrow Is station 1240 AM 1240, alright It's Somerset station, 1240 AM And I have a statement, I want your reply off of it on Quentin's. But we played Georgia and that surreal kid. He tore us up. If we'd have had Quentin's in there, I don't think he'd have done that. No, I agree with you. That would have been a game where he would have been very useful. You're right. Yeah. But we're going to meet up on a big in the NCAA where we'll probably need him. That's true. I think that's a very valid point. There would be a game. Yeah, no, I agree with that. I appreciate the call. That, I think, is a very valid point of a game where you could just, even if it's just one game, where he could come in and make a difference. National Sleep Month is here, and the better rest is on your mind. It might be cornbread before bed. Not the food, but the organic hemp gummies, crafted with all natural botanicals like valerian root, chamomile, and lavender. It's all there. 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I dread the conversation with my son. What do you think you'd say? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That's definitely true about Mitch. Yeah. Yes. He certainly had that stubborn, I'm doing it the way I'm doing it. it if you don't like it including how i button my shirts all the way to the top we have our next ad just have like no buttons like just have it all hanging out you gotta show chest hair the next day that's right yeah gotta show a little bit of it if your dream home awaits you at the bluegrass home center.com you can now choose the siding the shutters the kitchen colors and more whether you're looking for your first home or upgrading to something better bigger bluegrass home center is a family-owned business specializing in meeting the needs of homebuyers with standard built single section and multi-section manufactured homes. It's in Rudy Bear Road in London, Kentucky, 606-215-3300. It is the Bluegrass Home Center. Come check it out today, bluegrasshomecenter.com. One person writes, Matt, I think Mitch did a good job, but if you're going to talk about his legacy, I think you can't skip over the contracts given to Calipari and to Mark Stoops that put us in a bind with both of them. He kind of lucked out on the Cal one, but we ended up having to pay the Stoops one. I don't think you can skip over that. Drew, do you agree? Completely agree. The Cal hire is weird for me with the credit to Mitch because he did hire him, but it was always reported that he didn't really want to. And then when Cal was here, they didn't talk. So when I'm looking at Mitch's legacy, the Calipari era of basketball, I don't know how much credit to give him, but he did make that hire and ended up with a banner. So I guess he's good there. It was just weird that they never really had a connection when they worked together for so many years. I'm going to give him credit for the hire because while I do think – I think it's easy sometimes to go, well, when you get a bad hire, it's on him. But when he gets a good hire, it was Mike Pratt or it was – Mike Pratt was part of it. But Mitch still made the decision. Mitch still had to be the one to do it. And his initial inclination was no. I think he initially wanted to hire Tom Izzo, but Cal won him over because of Cal's charm, and Mitch made the hire. So, Ryan, I do still give him credit for that. Now, the fact that their relationship was bad, I actually think is on both of them. You know, they both could be stubborn, and I think they just didn't connect. I think Mitch was smart enough to include a guy like Mike Pratt in that search. And when he hired Mark Stoops, he was smart enough to include a guy like Tim Couch in that search and get that research and everything. And Will Stein included Jacob Tammi. I mean, he always did that. He always kind of felt like having that connection to a former player was part of it. And I feel like I can almost give him a slide for the Cal lifetime contract because you could not let Cal go at that time to UCLA. I mean, you had to lock him up somehow. And I don't thought as much of that one as I do the Stoops. Now, the Stoops contract was a little different. It was a mistake, but you know what? At the time, they didn't think it. But, yes, I do think that gets noted. Now, this is Scott. Is this the minister at Southland? Is that what you said? Yeah. All right. Yes, sir. Scott, how are you, Scott? Hey, I can abide being called a lot of things. I can abide being called a lot of things, but a Louisville fan, I have to clear my name on that one. We did clear it. We heard that that was incorrect information, so I agree with you. My phone's been blowing up. We cannot call you a Louisville fan. I appreciate you calling in. So I saw the thing you posted at the church about what to tune out. did you mean ksr i did not i think that's important to uh to point out there's nothing about sports on there now you can interpret some of those to where it might apply to you guys but there's nothing about radio or sports but you did say podcasts that weren't about sports radio you did say podcasts that were not about jesus we're not about jesus but i wasn't i wasn't thinking of you guys as a podcast only you're called kentucky sports radio okay all right good deal This is not a legalistic thing. So as is obvious, because my phone's been blown up today, we have a whole bunch of people who are still listening to me all. Well, I mean, we talked about it initially yesterday. Did you hear about it then? I started hearing rumblings. And then today, I don't know what set it off, but my phone just started going nuts. So I had confirmation. I don't think people wanted to admit that they were listening. Because that would be... Exactly. So explain real quick. I've got like just a minute. What your goal with the challenge was or is? Yeah, man, I think you guys would probably agree with this. Like we just have so many voices. So much of our algorithm is shaped around creating like an echo chamber. We were just trying to reshape people's algorithms. So what if we just took a little time and just said, hey, let's just tune into one voice and see if that would maybe bring down the anxiety level that we all experience and many other things. So that was the goal. Okay, good. Well, first of all, I appreciate you calling in. Way to be a good sport. Yep, brother. And, uh, you listen, the, the, the couple of people I heard from about it were doing it. So they were doing your, your, your, your challenge. They were just saying to me that they missed the show. So clearly I think people have been following. There you go. There you go. And if people think that's what they need to tune out for a little while, that's their deal, but we're not trying to be legalistic with it. And Hey, in all seriousness, all good fun. Great to hear from you guys. Great to hear from you and give my guy, James Tallarico, another chance, Scott, you have, uh, you have a good day. All righty. Appreciate it. 859-280-2287. Let's go to Stanley. Go ahead, Stanley. Hey, Matt, you coming to the 13th region at the Corbin Arena? Tomorrow. We'll be there. Ryan and Mario and I will be there tomorrow night. Good. We'll see you there. And I just wanted to say that about this season has been – I've been – you know, I'm old, and this has been one of the most exciting seasons that I can remember. I mean, just, you know, everybody's got such high expectations. What's made it so exciting for you? Is it just because you don't know what's going to happen game to game? You never know, man, what you're going to get. I've watched him all the way back to Issel and even Cotton Nash. I remember him, listening to him on the radio there in Barberville. It's just been a great year, man. You certainly don't know what you're going to get. I think good things are going to happen. That's exactly right. You never know. Appreciate the call. You certainly don't know what you're going to get. I don't know what we're going to get tonight. Marcia, go ahead, Marcia. Well, hello there. Hey there. I just wanted to comment on you telling the guy that they might beat the players tonight. And I hope they do. But I want to tell you, I went to South Carolina. And they run us out of the gym. Did they really? I was. Yes, they did. I was fired up. I was looking forward to seeing Pope and them. and we went over there. And I mean, there was nobody. South Carolina people left. None of their players came out. But we're standing there. If you do not have a blue band on, you must leave. And that only included. I wonder why. That doesn't usually happen at these road games. Maybe South Carolina was just particularly frustrated. yeah they run us out and Tommy happened to have a blue band on so he snuck down there and uh he got to meet the Noah's and they were nice to him and he said only uh Noah and uh Malachi came out and uh that was it they run us out there well I'm sorry and I went to oh it's okay I'll have another time sometimes. All right. I hate to cut you off, but I got to finish this. I appreciate it, Marcia. That's okay. Good to hear from you. Nice to hear from you. All right. Let's do a little DraftKings. Bet five. You can win up to $200 in bonus bets. Get yourself ready for March Madness. Big games coming this weekend and conference tournament week. Let's take our pick tonight. I'll start with you, Drew. We are a two-and-a-half-point underdog at A&M. What do you think? I like the Cats tonight. Obviously got a lot of momentum going with how well they played against vanderbilt i know it's a road game but they've played well on a lot of road games this year last one of the season i think the cats get it done and take advantage of a&m collapsing and on a late slot here so no bucky ball for drew shannon i'll go kentucky steals one on the road 77 76 i think colin chandler is going to continue to be hot you think we hit like a shot at the buzzer or something like that no i just think it's just a really really close game so yeah about like a one point game all right let's ryan yeah i'm with shannon i think it's gonna be a really close game because it means that this game means a lot for texas a&m for their ncaa tournament life so i think kentucky gets it though 79 77 i think it is uh i think it's a rock fight for most of the game i'll go away he's been just you can't go against him anymore i'm gonna take kentucky 82 80 i think it'll be a tough battle i say oh way we need to have him with a game winning shot down the stretch i think he gets an and one light that gives kentucky uh the win now do they announce the mitch retirement officially by 12 30 were they waiting until this show ends yes yes yes always happens any minute now they didn't want that to leak out probably i we announced it first they didn't want that well that will be the bed of the day because i think i said when the show started 12.05 didn't I? Yes. If this comes out in the next 35 minutes that will really make me laugh. We'll see. Right now it's just Pete Thaymore reporting it but I do think it's gonna come out today. We'll see if it happens in the next 35 minutes. We'll be back 4.30 for the pre-game show. You can watch the game at the bar tonight as well but we will be at 4.30 in studio for the pre-game. this has been Kentucky Sports Radio I'm Amanda Knox and in the new podcast Doubt the case of Lucy Letby we unpack the story of an unimaginable tragedy that gripped the UK in 2023 but what if we didn't get the whole story the moment you look at the whole picture the case collapsed what if the truth was disguised by a story we chose to believe oh my god I think she might be innocent listen to Doubt the case of Lucy Letby on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. 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