2026-03-11- KSR - Hour 2

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It is the Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers KSR pregame show or Hour 2 of KSR whichever you want it to be 859-280-2287 772-774-5254 just got a message from one of my friends starting to see some of the big blue mist in nashville not quite what it is normally but there are a lot of kentucky fans here it's cool to hear that guy called in right at the end of the first hour he's in line with other uk fans waiting to get in for the game today it's kind of cool to hear that uh i don't know if this is a compliment shannon somebody writes as a woman i want to agree with the guy it's fine ryan's a harmless dirty old man and not a creepy old perv. There's a big difference. Really? Dirty old man, creepy old perv. I would fall under the same category, under the same umbrella. She says there's a distinction. Well, that's good, Ryan. It's a backhanded compliment, Ryan. That's kind of a compliment. I don't even know if I even agree with her. Well, you think you're creepy? I can be a little cringy. Yeah. Yeah, you can. I think she's trying to say, though, well, my vote is let's get in none of those categories. Yes. And just be regular. Dakota Johnson has a new Calvin Klein ad campaign. I saw it. I've seen it. Calvin Klein's all up in the JFK show. Oh, really? That's my dirty... Your guilty pleasure show. Guilty pleasure. That show is awful. It's awful, but it's actually kind of great. And I feel like... It just reminded me how much better the 90s were, Shannon, than everything else. Yeah. Except for the cigarettes. The cigarettes... I'm anti-cigarette. But besides the cigarettes, the 90s were just better. Pop culture was better. Pop culture is better. Music's better. You name it all across the board. Pre-9-11. Economy was good. Did everybody say that, though, back in my day? I don't know if they realized it or not, but I think we're going to look back in hindsight and say that pre-computers, we didn't have to worry about being available 24 hours a day. But we're the old men now saying that everything was good. No, but I think it's true. I think even young people are kind of nostalgic about it. Just like Shannon, when we were young, people were nostalgic about the 60s. Yeah. Right? They were like, oh, we missed all the great times in the 60s. Right. I'm going to say the 90s were. Before we got addicted to these phones, we still did face-to-face things. Yeah. Yeah, but if you wanted to find something out, you had to go to a library, look it up. But that's okay. We don't need to know all this stuff. Now I can just pull out my phone and boom, there it is. But maybe we don't need to know everything. Yeah. No AI. Good. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Kentucky and LSU. I'm going to go to the phone here in just one second. LSU's without their backup big. Robert Thomas or whatever, he's going to be out. He's been playing well recently. I don't remember if he played well against us, but that gives them one less big, probably not a huge difference. Do you feel good? Actually, I do, and that's why I picked Malachi to be my player of the game. They're a little thin in the front court, and he came coming off the Malachi miracle shot. First SEC tournament. The kid's going to play well today for Kentucky. Dakota Johnson is Don Johnson's daughter? Yeah. Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson's daughter. How did I not know that? I don't know. Not up on pop culture I guess. Huh. We're talking about Robert Miller too, right? Not Robert Thomas from LSU. I'm talking about Dakota Johnson. Robert Miller. You said Robert Thomas. I'm sorry. I don't keep the LSU roster on my Rolodex. And I don't have a Rolodex anymore and I had one in the 90s and it was good it was better you remember when we played them down there it was a must-win game for them they played really well now they got nothing to play for i mean they're not going to the tournament well and then some people think there is their coach getting fired i think he's probably gonna get fired yeah because they're talking about trying to bring will wade back are they really they bring him back yeah there there are some people in lsu that want that although i don't i think nc state's probably a better job where he is now well i I don't know if you'd bring somebody back. Who is their coach? Matt McMahon still? Yeah, that's it. He was from Murray, right? Yes, that's right. I do not know how I know that. How'd you pull that one out? I don't know. I'm really surprised I know who LSU's coach is. Let's talk about what happens if we – we talked earlier about what happens if we win. What happens if we lose? What's the postgame show like today if we lose? Apocalyptic? There'll be people calling for Pope's firing immediately. They will not be happy if they lose to LSU in the first game of the SEC tournament on a Wednesday. There'll be people that want him fired. Gone. 16 seed. LSU's the last seed. Yeah. Don't you think you'll get people calling for him? And they'll want you to call for it. Well, I'm not going to call for it with the tournament next week. And I'm not going to probably call for it anyway because I don't believe that. But I will say, you know, this would be another strike. Yep. Because I told you I judged the season on three criteria. he has already failed or D-plussed this regular season. One. Now we have two and three. And can't – I mean, if we get to Friday and we lose, like you're playing Florida, they might win the national championship. I'm not going to go crazy. Now, it is your fault you're in a situation where you may have to play them Friday. But if you lose to LSU in the first round, you know, well, it is what it is. Now, a name got floated around yesterday. It's still not clear to me whether or not Mark Pope's hiring a GM. Why don't you just come out? But he will not call it a GM. He'll just say we're hiring people to do things. You know, there's some stubbornness now coming on this. So there's some guy that people are talking that was at BYU and now is with the Milwaukee Bucks. But it sounds like he would not be a GM. He would be some sort of analytic something. Model. He kept saying model. He said that three or four times in the press conference. Model. He said model quite a bit. Look at the models. Yeah. I don't think we need any more models. It's just a glaring omission if every team's got one except you and St. John's. Yeah, and Rick Pitino, you know, he's won. He won the Big East Championship. But it's probably terrible that – Drew was right. It's the fact that St. John's got rid of it is – because, you know, he's so connected to Rick. Yes. Well, anyway, the guy that they mentioned, I don't know him. He may be great at it, but it just looks like they're not going to. I mean, the portal's going to open in what? The portal opens in three weeks, but it's not even about that. There are guys every day who their season is ending. Let me give you an example. Last night, who won between, was it Sienna and Merrimack? Don't know. I think it was Sienna and Merrimack. Merrimack had a dude that's averaging 24 points a game as a freshman and was player of the league in that league. I think Sienna beat them. Yeah, they did. So Merrimack, that guy is now ready to be talking. He's a free agent. Ready to go. And if he's averaging 24 points a game as a freshman, he's going somewhere. Somebody bigs him to get him. Now, I'm not saying we should get him. I don't know him. But teams are going to start contacting him to death. Yeah. And we don't have anybody in place to do that. And we don't have anybody in place. So I don't know if you want the guy from Merrimack, but I will tell you, a freshman at 24 points a game, you got to at least look at him from Miss Mary, Mac, Mac, Mac, all dressed in black. You might want him. And then there was a kid at the Hofstra game. The MVP of that tournament was a freshman who averaged 26 points a game in the conference tournament. You got it. He's going to go somewhere else. Yeah. You got to put yourself in position to get a chance to these guys. And I hope we – I assume we have guys who know who these people are, but it feels like if you're going to have a GM, you'd want to have them. That's what a GM's job is for. Because Merrimack guy's phone's ringing today. Yes. So, Joe, go for it, Joe. Joe, go ahead. Hey, Matt. Hey, Matt. I want to give a shout-out to Grayson County. Cougars were in third region last night. Who? Grayson County. Upset Davis County in third. Yeah. Is that a big upset? Well, they beat Davis County, I think, with a favorite, and Grayson County not only beat them, they won the region. They're coming to rub. They beat them twice in two weeks. There's the only team in the state that beat Davis County all year. Well, let's go Grayson County. When's the last time Grayson County's been to the Sweet 16? 2009. Wow. All right, well, good for Grayson County. Yeah, they got beat by Jared Polson's West District team. Grayson County got a player that committed to Western next year Jack Loxton Well good for him He a pretty good ball player Well good We get them to come by the bar and I cheer them on All right. We'll do that, Matt. Appreciate it. Congrats to Grayson County. You can see your North Oral beat your Bell County Bobcats. I saw that. And also, how about shout-out Larry Blondell, his Butler High School, where he taught 50 years ago. He talked about it on the show. And they don't ever go, right? Well, I may have forgotten one, but yeah, they're rare to come out of that region. Larry taught math at Butler High School in like the mid-70s. Got the Larry Bump this week. And they play North Laurel in the first, or no, they play Hazard. So it's a battle of Eastern Kentucky, a battle of Larry. Butler v. Hazard. Larry loved that guy and the fact that he talked about Butler on the show. Where is Butler High School in Louisville, Shannon? I don't think I've ever passed it. What part of town is it in? I don't know exactly. I'm sure I've been there. I probably played baseball there back in high school, but I don't know where it's at. Well, look it up. I don't know what street that's on. DG, go ahead, DG. Crumbs Lane. Well, where's Crumbs Lane? I mean, you want me to get you an Alice? Oh, it's in Shively? Butler is in Shively. Yeah, there you go. I didn't know that. Shively's its own thing. You know? Shively's like. Yeah. You got Shively-like, you got to know people. You got to be tough to live in Shively. Shively's a different kind of place. Lively Shively. Lively, that's right. They call it Lively Shively. First time I moved to Louisville, I was looking for a sports bar. And I looked it up, and it said, go to this place. I think it was called Hoops. Oh, yeah, yeah. Hoops on Great Lane. That's in Shively, isn't it? I think so. And I went, and I was like, oh. You're amongst them. Okay. Welcome to hoops. KG, go ahead. What's up, fellas? It's DG. DG, go ahead. Coming into Nashville right now with my dad. Excited about today. Maybe we can get the win, hopefully. I had a little would you rather question for you all. Me and my buddies, we do a podcast called Bluegrass State of Mind. Shout out to that. You can't give a shout out to your own podcast. You can't go – you can't be like, shout out to myself. You can't do that. But go ahead. Well, it's more so for the other guys. But anyways, would you rather us run the table this week and weekend and win five straight games and win the SEC championship and get bounced the first round of the NCAA tournament, or would you rather us lose today and make it to the Sweet 16 and get bounced the Sweet 16? I think you have a case for both. I think I know where you are going to go. That's an interesting question. I appreciate the call. I'm taking the SEC tournament. If you're telling me Sweet 16, now if you go one more round and we say Elite 8, then I'm going to take the Elite 8. But for the Sweet 16, give me the SEC tournament five straight in five days. I think it would be a fun run. It would be one we remember. I'll take it. The fact we've not won the tournament since, what, 2018 with Shea, if we make five wins in five days and win the tournament, I'm taking that. We went to the Sweet 16 last year. This year's team's not going to win a title in the NCAA tournament. If we win the SEC title, I'm taking it. If you told me Elite Eight, I'd take the Elite Eight run. But I think in order to do that, we're probably going to have to beat Florida, Tennessee, and maybe Arkansas back-to-back. How awesome would that be? Let's do it. Can you imagine what Nashville would be like? It'd be crazy. It'd be like Lively Shively. At Hoops. At Hoops. Is Hoops still open? Yeah, I think they are. this team winning any kind of championship I think you would take. I think most fans would agree with us too, don't you? Have you been to Hoops? I have. Yeah. Yep. I may have to go back sometimes. I literally, when I first moved to Louisville in 2006 first place I went. Lively shot. I think I used to host an event out there. Yeah, that's the kind of place that would have events I think back in the day. Oh, well, they weren't there. I wasn't there that day. I think it was that place. Slip and slide? Bikini slip and slide. I was the host. That was a great gig. Shannon was in the bikinis. 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Over 70 locations statewide. it's court.com experience the best in rehab kort.com we'll take a break be right back kentucky sports radio people very like technical about their what's shively shively and what's south end must be i consider everything south basically shively right yeah i mean when it says south side next to hoops on a map it's close yeah close enough i'm trying to be complimentary i like that's it's close to dixie highway you're in shop yeah now people are saying no no it's south end that's like the difference when people go we're in bell county if you're in clear clear creek and straight creek yeah still all creek so where's the dividing line people have to in louisville Louisville people, man, they take the parts of their town seriously. They do. Don't they? Yeah, they do. Yeah, I mean, if you're in Linden or you're in J-Town or you're in St. Matthews or you're in the Highlands or you're in PRP, like everything, people take their section of town seriously. Part of it's because, Shannon, they all have their own fire departments and their own police departments. It's so different. You don't do that in Lexington. You're not like, No. I'm Tate's Creek. Everybody's just Lexi. People live on Dixie Highway, like on Dixie Highway for some reason, or like really just like don't mess up where my hometown is. You've got to get it right. I love Dixie Highway. But Dixie Highway, it's a different city than everywhere. It really is. No, it really is. You would barely know you're in Louisville if you're out on Dixie Highway. So what's the high school out there you're talking about in the south side area? well Iroquois yeah right I think DeSales is close is it isn't Fairdale out there close yeah so and hoops yeah but don't say hoops is in shively 859-280-2287 one person writes if we were to win the SEC tournament who would be the MVP well oh way but you know sometimes in the SEC tournament you get your Dominique Hawkins you get your random guy who's a random guy you think could have a big tournament Colin Chandler he'd be my pick yeah I don't know if he's random but yeah I mean he because he could put up big point games he gets hot I mean random would be somebody like Yelovich yeah I'd be shocked if he were the MVP yeah if yeah well not MVP but if Yelovich made all first team because he scored double digits every game or something so who would be the one guy outside of yellow bitch yellow well there's only we only play nine guys so you're running out of if we can't pick stars or yellow bitch then we're basically running out of people because jasper and noah won't play enough yeah so you're down to now don't tell me bg malachi don't stop with bg he would be random bg would be the most random here i'll tell you what let's do a bet because I would like this to happen. Give me something to do if BG goes double digits in the game. All right. What's something I could do? Shave your head. No. I have enough problem with that as it is. I'm not shaving. Fix us all a dinner. Oh, come on. Oh, come on. That's not a prize for you. I don't know. I'm going to do something for the fans. I got it. You got to get on the mechanical bull at Kid Rock's bar on Broadway. All right, I'll do that. Yeah. If BG gets double digits, we'll do mechanical bull. Wow. I'm taking the cowboy hat. It's red. You got to. It's Nashville. Yeah. If you see me out in the cowboy hat, you know the party started. Murph, go ahead, Murph. Hey, Matt, how are you all? Doing good. Just want to clarify, for the U.S. not to advance onto the tournament, Mexico has to score five or more runs for them to advance or Italy to win. So they have to score five runs? Five or more, yes. Okay. So for us to go, we need either Mexico to lose or to score less than five runs. Yes. Gotcha. Okay. And then my next thing is, this is Nashville. We have Otega Owe. If you're scared, go to church. We're beating Florida. Well, listen, I appreciate the call. I'm going to pick us to win every game because it's Nashville and it's time for us to take that city back. But first we've got to beat LSU. Let's beat the first game first. If we had gotten South Carolina or Ole Miss, I'd feel good about it. But we got the one team that – I mean, they outplayed us in that game. We beat them. They did. We stole that one. Like I said, that game meant so much to them at that point. They had to get a win. Now they've got a lame duck coach. Nobody cares. are not going to the NCAA tournament. I think we're catching them at a good time. There's another high school that's out there, DOS. It's out on the south end? Yeah. That's a high school you never hear anyone mention. No. Do you? Do you ever hear DOS? You know anybody that ever went to DOS? No. I have no idea. I've never heard. DOS may be the most anonymous Louisville school. Isn't it, Shannon? I mean, I've heard of it. I know it exists. Tell me something you know about Doss. Nothing exists. I don't know anything about it. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Hey, I think whoever's best mentally prepared for this game today wins, and I believe that nod goes to LSU I picking LSU I think this team this coaching staff you know we lucked out winning down there and I think they want this game big time. I think they want it more than us, and I think they're mentally prepared. But, I mean, when you say they want it more than us, let me ask you a question. Give me one fact that makes you think they want it more than us. Tell me your LSU want-to knowledge. well I just we stole that game from them down there but that has nothing to do with how much they wanted where are you getting that information because I think it's my own feeling their coach this is probably his last game I think they want to win this one for the coach too but they want to beat us bad because we beat them down there at their place again I appreciate I think sometimes it's easy when we're down on our team to just assume that, you know, the other team's going to be much more. Maybe they will. I don't know. But, like, let's be honest. None of us have any idea what LSU basketball is doing right now. No. Could we say the same thing about our team? No. We know about our team. We don't know anything about the LSU team. There might be 0.1% of the listeners here that really know the LSU basketball team. We don't. If we're honest, we don't know. It's going to be about us. If we play well, we will win. If we don't, then we give them a chance to win. But we don't know what LSU is thinking going into this game. Do we? Do you know? That's what I feel like. Our team has been so unpredictable. Well, I don't know about our team. I know something about Doss High School now. What? Derek Anderson went to Doss. That's right. Wow. Did he really? That's right. D.A. went to Doss. Did he go to Sweet 16 when he was here? When he was there? I don't know. Yeah. But he went there. Good call. All right. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's the Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers KSR. Pretty good. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. You know, the Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers KSR pregame, you never know where it's going to end up. I mean, this is all about the south side of Louisville. I'm glad to be told that I was right, Shannon. Hoops has moved. The one you and I went to was somewhere else. Maybe that's what we're thinking about. The one now is out there next to the airport, and I believe that that was close to where the plane crashed. Oh, yeah. Great lane, right? Yeah, I think that just recently, I think that was very close to that place. We're getting to that age where you just go, didn't there used to be a pharmacy over there? Yeah, there used to be a shoe store over there. I used to laugh at my parents and grandparents because they would do that. They'd go, it used to be where T.H. Campbell was. And I'd be like, I hope I don't do that. Here we are. But then you can't help it. You can't help it. Hoops used to be over there. You can't help your ass where the prime sirloin was. Sorry. It's the SEC tournament. We're playing on Wednesday. What do you want from me? KS Bar opens at 11, and the game will be on at 1230. I know Nick Roush and Adam Luckett will be there. They can answer all your football questions there. They're coming from spring practice to there. Spring practice happened. It's interesting. Will Stein said 15 practices. Every practice, they introduce a new set. So that at the end of it, they will have introduced all of their sets. So they've timed it to where each day they learn something new, and then the next day they go over what they learned and then teach them another thing. And that each day they will slowly build up to teach the entire offense and defense over the course of the 15 days. That's what you've got to do when you're starting from scratch, starting something new. I love what he said yesterday, too. They're going to have scrimmages. With tackling. With tackling. Do you like that? I do like that. That's old school spring football. You have the scrimmage every Saturday. Well, we're going to say that if somebody gets hurt. Probably not, but I'm playing it right now. We're going to have a real spring game. You know, he keeps talking about that, and they're going to play. This is not going to be too in touch, Shannon. They're going to tackle in the spring. Can't play scared. As you know, if you're scared, go to church. Scared, go to church. 859-280-2287. Marshall, go ahead, Marshall. Sounds like Mike needs to go to church. I agree. And I'm on I-40. I'm on I-40. I just got out of class, taking a midterm. definitely failed it but we were locked in i'm oh and seven in my last uh kentucky collegiate basketball and football games but it changes today you we've lost the last seven games you've been to i was at the vandy game in nashville i was at the louisville game this year um i was at the football game of texas old miss and uh tennessee lost to bama last year next to see tournament. I'm missing one more. I can't remember what it was. But today, Colin Chandler is going for five threes. He is dunking on everybody. Always going for 30. It's going to be a hell of a night. Go Cats. Go Big Blue. C-A-T-S. Cats. Cats. Cats. Love it. Love it. You do not beat a Mike team eight straight times. No, you don't. Eighth times a chunk. If we lose, we're blaming that guy. If we lose, it's your fault though, Mike. Marshall. Same to Marshall's fault too. We're going to be doing the postgame show in Bowling Green and then driving to Nashville after that. So we'll get to Nashville tonight. Remember, tomorrow we are at 10 roof. Win or lose. That's right. Win or lose. Win or lose. So we want you to be there. It'll either be fun getting you ready for the game against Missouri or it'll be tears and beers with Drew. But we want you to be ready tomorrow because we're going to be there either way. What are you doing? Are you doing a pre-show tomorrow? What's happening tomorrow? We're doing the same thing. If Kentucky wins, we're doing the same thing tomorrow. So if Kentucky wins tomorrow, then if we lose, I don't know what we're doing. I guess we'll do the pre-show and then the KSR show. I guess. Yeah. But either way, 9 o'clock, which will be 8 o'clock Central, you're there. Yeah. Yes. And we play Missouri. Hopefully we win. it's very complicated, this whole thing. Mike, go ahead, Mike. How many Mikes do we have? Go ahead, Mike. Yeah, y'all are going to be hating the Mikes today, I tell you that. But I tell you, I was in there listening. I'm so sick of it. Oh, man, which would you rather suck less at, the SEC tournament or the NCAA tournament? You know, I'm just going to tell you, man, when this is Kentucky, you could have took us in the SEC tournament against the field throughout history and made money. if he gonna get a GM and he don't do what he needs to do then get his ass out of town goodbye well I mean a lot of people both say the same thing those are strong words but also I understand what he means let's go to Kim go ahead Kim hey Matt we're coming into Nashville we have tickets for today where were those tickets that you said for the host session were 348 it was on StubHub StubHub. Great. Thank you. Go Cats. We're going to win today by 20. Appreciate it. I mean, hopefully they're still on StubHub. But there are others for like 380, 370. Mike's right. Kentucky's won, what, 31 SEC tournament titles, and the second place team is Alabama with eight. This is our tournament. If you look at the graphic of SEC tournament winners, it's amazing to see all the Kentucky logos. But we don't have one recently. Not since 2018, right? Yeah. It's a long drought. Hamden. What's up, Hamden? Hey, my boss bet me money that I wouldn't call into the show, so I told him I wouldn't ask a question. Well, you got to ask a question then, Hamden. My question is, who do you think has to step up like Marcus Lee did during our run in 2014? I know we've talked about Brandon Garrison, but to me it's Yellovich. If he can hit three or four degrees a game from a quarter spot like Andrew Carr did. For me, it's me. He changes the offense because with him, here's the thing about Yelovich. With him, then you have a shooting threat outside, which allows you to play Diabate if you need to, Malachi if you need to, and Garrison doesn't have to play if he's not playing bad. When Yelovich is hitting shots, it changes the entire ability of our team to score. Now, he can't be a dud defensively, which he is sometimes. so he's got to be decent enough defense so that we can have him to make threes Completely agree He's got the length to do it it's just he lacks his footwork sometimes is what I see watching at home Yeah and I appreciate the call he's actually sometimes can stay with his man outside he just gets bullied inside and that's where he's got to get better You know what he said after the game the other day he kind of called out a couple of his teammates and kind of called them out for being selfish, kind of called them out, you know, fatigue's not a factor. Okay, now's your chance, bud. Step up and help put that team on your shoulders. All right, it's Wild Eggs Wednesday. It is. Which means you have a word. Ryan said his word, and I was like, that's terrible. So I picked the word. Yes, you did. To make it harder. What are we putting it on? It's on Twitter, under KSR the show. All right, it's going up now. First response wins $50 from Wild Eggs. it was a word Shannon that Ryan couldn't even spell oh boy are we sure it's gonna have the right letters and the right amount of letters well that's a good point Mark did you check the spelling before you did it we know what happened last week yeah I mean just another of our horrible contests I suggest that we just do bam it would be really easy I think we should have gone with that you know but you guys all right so it wild eggs wednesday that your chance it just went up uh it wings day at ks bar so when you watch the game you could also get dollar wings I bet it be a great environment too today to go out there and have lunch Yeah everybody got to get up and go And I keep getting confused what time it is. It's 1045 because we started early, right? Mm-hmm. And we're getting in a car here in 15 minutes and heading down the road. Heading down the road. What if they lose on the way? We can't. Turn around. Don't even say it. No, we're not turning around. We have to be there, yeah. It's time to score big this month at Don Franklin. Over 6,000 new and certified pre-owned vehicles go the distance with Don Franklin's powertrain protection. Slam dunks deals all month long. Don Franklin Auto. If you need parts need replacing, it's Don Franklin. Score big or online. Don Franklin driven by family. Let's go to Joe. Go ahead, Joe. Yeah, Matt. Dolph High School, we had a player that played for us in 96 that went to Dawes High School. He transferred from Ohio State. Yeah, we mentioned him, Derek Anderson. We mentioned him. Derek Anderson, yeah. Okay, I was just wondering. I didn't hear that. Okay, thank you. Appreciate it. Joe, go ahead, Joe. Hey, Matt, how you doing? Good. I'm the last guy to take up for Patino. I still can't stand him, but it's worth noting that he's going to hire another GM. That GM was fired by the university after like a month-long investigation into some weird finances stuff. Oh, okay. I didn't know. So he said he's going to hire another guy then. Yeah, yeah. That guy that Patino hired had left Nebraska under a little bit of health issues slash he was about to get fired. And Patino essentially said, I can't talk about it because it wasn't my decision. The university fired him. but we're going to be looking as soon as the season ends. Didn't know that. Makes sense. All right. I'm actually glad to hear that. I appreciate the call. I mean, not that he stole money, but that maybe that'll make Pope get one. We'll take a break. 859-280-2287. Come back. It's Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers, KSR pregame. Welcome back. Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers, KSR pregame show. I just, I can't get this geography right. so the the bar next to the airport or the plane crashed is stooges which is apparently the sister bar to hoops okay yeah stooges i've been to all of them so where's the new hoops now now i'm totally confused strawberry lane right strawberry lane yeah which is nice i guess but i'm not going to dare say what part of town it's in uh kentucky's now a nine and a half point favorite opened at six and a half now up to nine and a half it's a lot of points for a team you had to have a miracle to beat earlier this season. Yeah, but you were on their floor. They, as you've said many times, they had a lot to play for, but now they're not making the tournament. So they got less to play for now. Their season ends today. It ends today. If we beat them. Yeah. They can all get in the portal. And they probably will. They probably will. Chris, go ahead, Chris. Matt, this is Chris Harvey. I am a proud Dawes High School grad. All right. I wanted to give you some facts. Okay? Quickly. Opened in 1967. About 1,100 students. Its nickname is the Dragons. Colors Burgundy and Gold. Famous alumni, Dwight Witten at WHAS. Oh, wow. Larry Burkhead. Larry Burkhead. The father of Anna Cole Smith. The father of Anna Cole Smith. Yeah, that's right. Larry Burkhead. I remember him from the derby parties. Remember him, Shannon? He was married to Anna Goldsmith. Of course. Yeah, or had a baby with her. Yes. Tim Pelkey, the 1988 Miss Basketball. I think the girls were lost in the state championship game in 1988 in basketball, and the boys have been in the state finals twice, 1980 and 2014. All right, well, there you go. My school there. Well, there you go. I appreciate you giving some Doss facts. Doss Dragon's a good name. It's a good name. Appreciate the call. That's a good name. Doss Dragons. If I ever opened a high school, and I would have no reason to ever do that, if I were going to do that, I would want to give it a unique nickname. Like I like last night, Hofstra's nickname is The Pride. It's a good nickname. Hofstra Pride. What's Monmouth? Long Island. The Long Island are the dolphins. I don't know what Monmouth is. It should be the mammoths. Monmouth mammoths. That would be great. That would be great. I think because Long Island, they do the fins up. Have you seen that? Mario's from Long Island. He's shaking his head. Did you know that? They've started this new thing where Long Island, where they're about to shoot a free throw, and they go, fins up, and they all make the safety thing on top of their head. I kind of like that. I do, too. It's really stupid, but it's good. Madison, go ahead, Madison. Rod Strickland coaches Long Island, former Kentucky assistant. They're in the tournament. Yes. Dave Baker just didn't hear yelling. You don't even have a microphone, Dave. By the way, we support you, Dave. 100%. Let's go. Madison. Hey, y'all. We're in Nashville. We're hot. We're so excited. But honestly, still can't get that game out of my head in 2023. When we lost, it was terrible. Last time we went to the game, all night, we were in Nashville, and we lost. But we're going to win this one. We're already breaking the – Let's do it. Appreciate it, Madison. We're breaking the Mike streak. We're breaking the Madison streak. and I think a woman named Mikey Madison won the Oscar last year for Anora. It's all coming together. There we go. Remember, 8 minus 5 is 3. No, 8 minus 3 is 5. 5 in 5 days. 5 in 5. 8 minus 3 is 5. That's it. Kelly, go ahead, Kelly. Kelly. Kelly. Well, we lost Kelly. Kelly should have had some cornbread hemp. Go to cornbreadhemp.com, promo code KSR. Cornbread Hemp is where you get gummies and topical oils to rest and relax and get yourself ready for your night and get sleep. It is cornbreadhemp and cornbreadhemp.com. There's no better way to get yourself ready to relax and sleep than cornbread hemp. Let's go to Jared. Go ahead, Jared. Hey, Matt. So earlier this week, they released the All-Americans list. And like many Kentucky fans, I noticed that Yaxel is on that list along with Caleb Wilson. Yes. And it was a little bit of salt in the wound knowing that we were about to get both of those guys and then we didn't. Correct. My question is, Mark Pope, seeing that he lost two All-Americans, I mean, at what point does he say, I can't do this recruiting thing? I need a little bit of extra help. I'm getting a GM. What point does he say that? I mean, it all depends on how a person internalizes mistakes, right? So I appreciate the call. For me, when I don't have some sort of success, I sit there and think, okay, what could I have done differently? What went wrong? That's one way to do it. The other way to do it is to blame things and act like, well, not my fault. It was this or their agent or this team or whatever. I think it's much more productive to look at yourself and not beat yourself up, but go, what could I do differently? Or you can say it's everybody else's fault. I think the best leaders internalize and try to make it better. I hope Mark's one of those. I think he kind of is, but let's see. The caller asked when should he have done it. He should have done it over a year ago. Have somebody in place to do the picture. But my view is I don't really care how he manages his program so long as it works. The problem is right now in terms of getting players, it's not working. Yeah. So, Mike, go ahead, Mike. Okay. I called in earlier and I got cut off, I guess. But here's my question posed to you guys. What makes you think that this team is going to be mentally prepared for this game today when they haven't really been except for a few games this year? What makes you think they're going to be prepared? I don't know. You prepared for A&M and you couldn't get prepared for Florida. But they were prepared for two games against Tennessee and they were prepared for a game against Vandy. I don't know. I mean, I can't say that. There were reasons why they were prepared for that game. They were motivated to beat those. I appreciate the call. I think they're probably – this is the tournament. If you're not motivated for this, what are you going to be motivated for? I mean, I don't know that they're going to be motivated. I have no idea. but I also don't know that they won't. We have no way of knowing. This team is completely unpredictable. Yeah, that's what I was saying earlier. There's no way to know what team you're going to get tonight, tomorrow. There's just no way to know. They could come out, lights out today, and then stink it up tomorrow. You just don't know what this team's going to be like. With that said, it's time to pick a game for DraftKings. Bet $5, you win $200 on DraftKings. Go to DK, get the app, promo codes KSR. I'll start with you, Shannon, since you're not usually on the Kentucky Select Chevy dealers KSR pregame. What's the score? What's the score? I think Kentucky wins, but I think it's going to be close. I'm going to say cats win 87, 83. All right. And your MVP? Well, on our group chat, I picked the bang this twins. The bang this twins. All right. Perfect. Ryan. I think it's going to be a close game, and I like the under in this game on point total. So I'm going to 74, 73. I'm going to get like a one-point rock fight most of the game. Kind of an ugly game most of the game. Malachi Marino carries over into Nashville against LSU. Malachi Marino. All right, I'm going to say Kentucky 80-72 with the Nashville theme. I'll take what's the one bar that's not a new country bar there? Roberts? Is that the last one left from back in the day? Tootsies? Yeah, that's still, though, kind of. Legends? We're Tin Roof guys, though. Sorry, Tin Roof is the MVP because we will be there tomorrow at 9 a.m. at Tin Roof. We hope to see you there. 9 a.m. tomorrow Eastern, 8 Central if we win, if we lose you're still coming it's mandatory post game show for us will be somewhere in Bowling Green, we'll see you later this has been the Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers KSR pregame, let's win this game Cats