2025-03-18 - KSR PRE-SHOW

Shannon The Dude and Billy Rutledge talk UK vs. Troy, NCAA Tournament picks, and take your calls.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR pre Show.
Today is Tuesday, March eighteenth. I am Billy Rutlich along
with Shannon the Dude, and you can give us a
call on the Clark's Pumping Shop phone line. It's eight
five nine two eight oh two two eight seven, Texas
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brought to you by ital X Fine Italian Dining in Lexington.
That's where I'm at today, high atop the City Center,
along with Shannon the Dude, who is in Louisville, joining
me remotely as he does every morning. Good morning, dude,
what's up now?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Doing well? Man? I'm just wondering if I could get
some gas money from you, uh to get to Milwaukee
later on this week. It's gonna be a long trip
and uh gas is not cheap, so I thought maybe
you could uh throw a little a little money in
the pool and see if we could get enough to
get to Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Not me, I go to Costco to save I guess
ten cents every time I fill up on because of
my membership. But Mark Pope on The Mark Pope Show,
last night saying that he would give Kentucky fans gas money.
It's just a seven hour drive to Milwaukee.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Show.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. First of all, let's let's go back
on what you just said there. Yeah, you and I
we go to Clark's pumping Shop or Clark's pumping We
pomp We shop at Clark's, not cost Carrio, Clark's pumping Shop.
But anyway, yeah, I don't know any man. You know,
Pope I think made a slight mistake when he agreed
to pay for everyone's ice cream at that game at

(01:33):
Roup earlier this year. Now he's agreed that he will
We're saying that he will pay people's gas money if
they need it to get to Milwaukee. I don't think
that was a wise decision, because now you're gonna have
all these freeloaders just saying, hey, give me some money.
And then, you know, one guy even took him up
and not even asking for gas money, asking for a
plane ticket from Florida. He didn't say he's gonna buy

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your plane ticket to get there. He said gas money.
So don't don't abuse it, folks.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Now, the responses came been quickly after he made that
that statement on air last night.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
One.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
You got to think his wife probably needs a little
gas money, remember her her car breaking down the middle
of the road and Mark Pope having to come save her.
He did mention that that ice cream bill was a
little bit bigger than he thought it was gonna be shading,
So I think you're exactly right. But he's gonna he's
gonna do it again, and it just shows his connection
to this fan basin.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
But I don't know how you're gonna reach.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Him, But if you can get a hold of him,
maybe he just seems like the type of guy that
would give you gas money. Shannon, would you ever give
me gas money?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Dumm, No, but you can ask, Okay, you can pay
for your own gas. You ever run out of gas
before like that? I have, Actually, I was not even
that long ago, ran out of gas coming back from
Lexington for a remote in the iHeart vehicle. I was not.
I was not very pleased at all with our promotions

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people that day because you know, you get a gas card, well,
a gas card wouldn't work. And I'm like, you know,
I had to do this before where I'm paying for
you know, gas money out of my own pocket. I'm
not doing that. I'm gonna I'm gonna just try to
get back to the studio, and if I don't, one
of them is going to have to come get me.
And that's what happened. I ran out of gas and
I sat there and they had to come bring me gas.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh, they came and got you. Yes, I thought you
were going to like start walking on the end of
the stay.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
This gas card hadn't worked for months. I'm like, at
some point, somebody's got to learn their lesson. So I
made them have to come build me out and bring
the gas tank on the side of the highway. I
think that was last year. So instead of stopping for gas,
it was paying yes, and paying for it out of
my own pocket, which I've been doing.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, you were so determined to not put any of
your own money.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
But I've already done it. I've not done it anymore.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Ran out of freaking gas. Yeah, because you were so stubborn,
they had.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
And somebody had to stop what they were doing, go
get a gas tank, fill it up and bring me
gas on the side.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I just love the image of you mumbling to yourself,
They're going to learn today.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Didn't fill up the tank I'm not trying to do
you got a gas card. It's not that hard. Make
sure it works.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Did you feel like Kramer at all and Seinfeld trying
to take that thing to the limit with that thing
on E Because I always feel like I'm.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Doing that when I'm not going to the gas. I'll
do it all the time. It's like I've got it
now to a science. Like when the light comes on,
that's just a suggestion that you should get gas. It
doesn't mean you really have to get gas. I'll wait
till the little meter is all the way past that
last it's got to be you know that last little
block on there. I'll wait till let's pass that block

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about a you know, quarter of an inch, and then
I go, okay, now it's now it's being for real,
Like I need something on my gas tank that goes, hey,
you're you're kind of out of gas. Now, okay, let's
get serious. Now you really need to go get gas
or you're gonna run out, Like right now, I need that.
I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
The light is just a suggestion, and my meter is
past the e at this point, Like if it's Addie,
we still got a few miles. Shit, it's got to
be past e and going towards the floorboard.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
But you're right. Go to Clark's Pumping Shop to get
your gas, and if.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
You're fueling up for Milwaukee, that's the perfect place for
some gas and some food and drinks. Shannon, I've got
my bracket right here, it's filled out, and I believe
I have the perfect bracket.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
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Speaker 2 (05:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
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if they had the perfect bracket. Shannon, I'm not sure
if that's still the thing, But according to Yahoo's Sports,
you have the odds of one in nine point two
quin trillion of having a perfect bracket. That's one point

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nine to two, or excuse me, one in nine point
two quinn trillion. A quinn trillion is a billion billion, Shannon.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Don't be doing math with me. Nine o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
That is the odds that you have of having the
perfect bracket. You have better odds of picking one specific
grain of rice from all of the rice ever harvested
in human history than having a perfect bracket.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I believe it. It's it's impossible. I don't if anyone
has ever said they've had the perfect bracket, they're a liar. Now,
did you see what Twitter's doing? Did you see what
Elon Musk is doing?

Speaker 3 (06:24):
No?

Speaker 2 (06:24):
What's he doing? So if you have the best bracket
out of everyone on Twitter, I'm still calling it Twitter.
It's not Exit's Twitter. He's gonna give you one hundred
thousand dollars. Not bad, right, But if you get the
perfect bracket on the Twitter bracket, perfect bracket, you get
a free trip to Mars tomorrow. To Mars, No, I

(06:44):
don't know if it's a one way trip. I don't
know that they're going to bring you back. I don't
think that's actually a good thing. That sounds like more
of a punishment. But I filled it out last night.
It popped up on Twitter. It said fill out the bracket.
If you get the perfect bracket, you get a free
trip to Mars from Eli. I think you're right.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Sound like a return trip, I mean one it takes
years to even get there, I believe. But Shannon, you
saw that and you signed up. You will have to
the trip to mar No, no, no, no, no, I don't.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, first of all, I'm not gonna have the perfect bracket.
I don't have to worry about it. But even if
I did, I'm not gonna take the trip. I would
just give it to you. Here you go, Billy, take
your one way trip. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
But I mean, if you do have a perfect bracket,
you are an alien and maybe that's where you should live.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, we'll see what kind of connection you get on Mars.
We can barely get a connection in Kentucky every day
for the show.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
One in nine point two, Quinn trillion, you have better
odds of winning the powerball jackpot three times in a row.
You also have better odds of getting struck by lightning
five times in a row.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's happened to some people.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
You have better odds of correctly picking one specific person
on Earth and then correctly picking out one specific.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Hair on their head.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Wow, the odds are not in your favor for having
a perfect bracket, So don't get too torn up when
your upset doesn't hiton.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I can't even pick the se Sea bracket, so let
alone you know my track record, I'm picking stuff. I'm
ready to throw my bracket in the garbage about day
two of the tournament a boy Friday. By the time
Kentucky plays, my bracket will already be messed up.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
So I went one day and picked every game correctly,
and I think everybody in my neighborhood heard about it.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Shannon.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
I think I just started going door to door to
that point just to say, hey, I'm in like the
one percent tile or to the ninety nine percent tile.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I think you need to check this out. But I
think we all have the same sentiment.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
On Thursday of Friday, when the tournament starts, it's one
of the most unproductive days of the year, is it not,
doubt Yeah, nobody. Millions of dollars lost in the economy
because people are just not paying attention to the work
that they should be doing. And a former host of
Kentucky Sports Radio, John Fantas, summed this up perfectly.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I wanted to play this for you.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
If you're working Thursday or Friday, you're an idiot, Like
forget forget it if you are actually going into the
office and trying to do real work, are you kidding me?
You're taking off if you're if you live in Louisville
and your team that hasn't been in the NCAA tournament
in six years, and you say, you know you've got

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that July trip to Disney and I really want to
ride did the Space Mountain or the Star Wars ride
at Hollywood Studios? And I can't afford to take off
the one day of work where my team that's been
six years in the making. Are you serious right now
you're going to be at that game. And if you
are in America watching our network right now, you are

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not working on Thursday or Friday. And if your boss
has a problem with it, tell them they can go
see Jeff Goodman and Rob Dolster because I'm not having it.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
That courtesy of the field of sixty eight and a
little pointed there at not only Disney adults, which I
kind of love, Shannon, but also Louisville fans. Man, You're
not working in the city of Louisville on Thursday or
Friday this week.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
You're not, no, And I'm glad that Kentucky at least
has the seven thirty game on Friday night instead of
having to play at new But yeah, for Google fans,
you're kicking off the tournament. I mean talking about again
Lowvo having a bad draw than having to play on
noon of day number one of the tournament. But yeah,
nobody's I mean, you're going to work, You're not paying attention.
Everybody's watching it on their phone, sneak it off to

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the break room to watch the game. It should be
a company holiday. I agree.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, having it on the laptop while you're in a
class in college was was what I remember the most.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
The cool thing in high school was I don't know
if your teachers would do this, but like you know,
if we were good, they would roll in the TV,
feel it out, and wheel it out. You know, we
didn't have t with flat screens on the wall. We
had like the boob tube, the big boxy TV. They'd
have to roll it in and they go, all right,
let's hook it up when we watch you know, Kentucky
playing at noon on a Friday afternoon. So those were

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always good memories.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Now, I remember Kemba Walker in the Big East Tournament.
Remember when he went off in that that run that
he had for Yukon. I remember watching it on one
of those TVs that was wheeled in by a substitute teacher.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
There's a little nostalgia to it, and it's the teacher.
What do you think the real teacher was doing that day? Aha,
took all works we could watch the game.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's right, It's the most wonderful time of the year
because not only students but teachers would take off work
to watch this great sporting event. You know, the Cats
take on Troy on Friday, but before that we mentioned
the Louisville Cardinals. They are the first game of the tournament,
taking on Creighton in the eight to nine matchup, And
really Louisville's been been the talk of the bracket and

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them getting snubbed to a degree, And I think that
my favorite conspiracy theory by Louisville fan Shannon. I don't
know if you've heard this, is that the committee got
Louisville and Memphis just switched.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Up, switch got them confused. Yeah, I just got them confused.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Because the numbers actually almost perfectly align with this. If
you look at the net, Louisville's twenty fourth Memphis is
forty ninth. Remember, Memphis got a five, Louisville got a eighth.
Right in the RPI, Louisville sixteen, Memphis is twenty two.
In the KEMPOM Louisville's twenty three, Memphis thirty four. Even

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in the ESPN BPI Louisville is twenty, Memphis is forty two. Shannon,
is it possible that this committee just happened to switch
the two names because Memphis is actually an underdog as
a five seed in their first game versus Colorado State.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean, if it were Louisville and let's say there
was a team called, I don't know, Lewisville that I
could see and maybe them screwing it up. But Louisville
and Memphis don't even sound alike. There's no way, there's
no way that they could screw that up, right, you
wouldn't think so. But you look at the numbers, they
don't lie. How did mephis end up with a five seed?

(12:37):
I have more of a problem with Memphis as a
five seed than I'll do Level in eight.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
It just doesn't make sense. Like, just look at the net.
Louisville twenty four, Memphis forty nine. The net is created
by the NCAA. That is what they use to determine
the order of the of the NCAA tournament. Yep, how
is it possible that Memphis got that seeding compared to Louisville.
It just does not make makes sense. And you know,
I think the outrage is justified a little bit by

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Cardinal fans. But they get Lexington right, They get that
benefit and they get a chance to take over this town.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
You always hear about the quad one wins and how
much emphasis the selection committee puts on a team and
how many quad one wins they get, and you look
at North Carolina one in twelve against quad one teams,
I think you can throw that out though. I mean,
I think that it means something to a degree, But
to say it's the be all end all how you
did versus quad one teams, I don't think that it

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means as much. If you look at how North Carolina
got in this.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Year, one in nine point two quintrillion, you have better
odds of seeing Shannon the Dude have a speaking role
in a movie than having a perfect You're.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Just supposed to be working on that. That's all because
of you. You're supposed to be my agent who's supposed
to reach out and get me a speaking role in
a movie.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
You.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I guess part of those odds is that you have
me as an agent, So I think that's it. Maybe
if I hired a better agent, maybe i'd have a
better chance.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
A five nine two two two eight seven. We'd like
to hear from you this morning. Shannon mentioned North Carolina.
They're in action tonight. We've got some first four games
to us that we'll break down a little bit. We'll
tell you who's in that matchup and much more on
the way. It's a Tuesday edition of the KSR pre Show,
and we'll.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Be right back. Welcome back. It is the CaSR Pre Show.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Shannon the Dude's company vehicles running on empty, trying to
get back from a remote.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
No, I won't fill up. We've got to learn their lesson.
They gotta get I've been asking for this gas card
to work for months and every week putting my own money,
and I said, enough's enough. I'm gonna drive this thing
back and it's gonna be on empty when the next
person gets in it, or I'm gonna run out of
gas right here. And I'm fine with either. Oh, I
love it. At some point or another, I get to

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the breaking point of frustration. I'm like, you know what,
that's fine.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Oh, one of these days, so you won't run out
of gas, you'll run out of charge, shan in. The
charging station won't be close enough at all the electric
vehicles that'll be around. Maybe not anytime soon, but probably
one of these days in the future.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
One person said twenty years ago, I almost got fired
for leaving work in the middle of the day to
watch Kentucky in March Madness.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
It was a Saturday game.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
I was already working overtime, but they still got mad
that I wasn't one hundred percent focused on production. He
was living in Dallas, Texas at the time. Shannon, Probably
that was part of your issue, is because people don't
care about college basketball anywhere like they do in Kentucky. Yeah,
but I think the problem was you just tried to leave,
right You got to try to sneak it, maybe watch

(15:41):
it on your phone or a tablet.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
It sounded like he just wanted to go to the
bar or all of a sudden, you know, I'm sick,
you know, I'm coming down with coming down with the flu.
I think I got to get out of here. I
don't want to get everybody else sick. Then all of
a sudden, you look like you're just watching out for
your co workers instead of trying to sneak off to
watch a ballgame.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Speaking of something sick is that we will have to
watch North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament. They are one
of the first four games today. They take on San
Diego State in the matchup of two eleven seeds, while
the game before it is Saint Francis versus Alabama State.
The winner of that game I believe, Shannon, is it
Auburn or is it Auduke?

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Auburn okay?

Speaker 1 (16:18):
And then UNC San Diego State, I believe the winner
will take on Ole miss s Shannon, are you excited
to get the attorney? I guess somewhat underway with the fourth?

Speaker 2 (16:29):
First four? Yeah, yeah, I like the first four. It's fine,
you know, it's I don't care who's playing at this point.
I just love March Madness, and it's just all the
games are so exciting, even these playing games. So I
will be definitely watching the games tonight, even though North
Carolina is, as we pointed out, the least deserving team
in the tournament. They're a four and a half point favorite.

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Speaker 1 (17:00):
Give me san Diego State. I'm tired of this talk
of North Carolina. They're ad did all this work on
the selection committee For them to lose on the first
night that we.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Watched games, wouldn't that be great? I mean, that's too
I'm pulling for San Diego State. I'm going to be
watching that game just to pull for San Diego State,
and I'm gonna go ahead and pick them and say
that they are going to win the game tonight and
get North Carolina out and we can we can just
laugh at North Carolina for even being in the tournament
to begin with. Then the first game is Saint Francis

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Pennsylvania PA versus Alabama State. Alabama State's a four and
a half point favored in that game.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna go Alabama State just for the sole
fact that Saint Francis doesn't have a winning record. I
believe they're sixteen and seventeen on the year, and so
I think for that for that reason, Channon will go
Alabama State in this game at Dayton.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
But for that very reason that you gave out to
this what I'm gonna pick Saint Francis. They obviously had
to go on a run, they had to win their
tournament to get in. So I think that they are
They're hot right now. I'm gonna pick Saint Francis to
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Speaker 1 (18:31):
It seems pretty silly that a current athletic director would
be on the selection committee for the NCAA tournament. Don't
give me the whole Oh he steps out of the
room when they talk about his team.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Don't believe it. I mean he may he may do that,
but don't don't act like they don't have conversations before
and after.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
I also like to think he's just like glaring through
the sea through part of the window and the door,
and he's.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Just watching your dogs. When you let him out to
pee in the backyard and it's cold outside, they're like,
all right, I'm done, let me in, like banging on
the glass trying to get back in.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
That's exactly how I see Bubba Cunningham with the NCAA
selection committee. But that was one of the points that
the West Virginia governor was making yesterday as he called
for an investigation over West Virginia's tourney.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
So he's going to sue the NCAA.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Who he called the National Corrupt Athletic Association. I like
it now, I like the acronym. I will give him that.
But Shannon, is is it just like? What are we
doing here?

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Is there anything what we're doing? What we're doing is
wasting time and money with this threatening illegal action. I mean,
they're not going to shut down the tournament West Virginia,
Governor because your team didn't make it. Does West Virginia
belong in instead of North Carolina? Absolutely they do, But
it is what it is. At this point, they're not
going to stop it. If anything, this governor will probably
get a few extra votes at the next election. That's

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all this is. I think that's probably what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
He stood up for us during our darkest time. Mountaineers
didn't make the turn.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Didn't Desanta's in Florida or some politician make a big
deal about it when Florida State didn't make the football playoffs?
I mean, nothing ever came with that, So I think
I think you're right there was something. It's just a
it's a political move, is all. It is, some grand standing.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Maybe I just feel bad for the players. I mean,
now it kind of becomes a joke, right and go.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Out and whin the n West Virginia prove that you
belong there.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, let's talk about the nit. We'll get to the
phones in just a second. The NIT is in under
some drama right now because they rescinded an invite to
a team that is South Alabama. I don't know if
you read this, but you see, Riverside had to decline
their invitation to the NIT because of previous commitments to
the CBI. So the NIT went to South Alabama and said, hey,

(20:40):
you're in. The coaches told the players and the team,
and then one hour later, Riverside informed the NIT they
were able to get out of their commitment and accept
the NIT bid. The NIT then had to call South
Alabama and said that they are out.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Shannon, how it's like when you're It's like when you
have a wedding list and you've got a certain amount
of people who can come, and you got to make
a cut somewhere. You invite a team, then you go, oops,
we forgot aunt. Sally over here has got to make
it to make it on the list too, so you're out.
I kind of feel bad for him, though, I feel

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bad for the players.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
I mean, imagine you're a senior, you think your season's over,
you get a late invite to a big postseason tournament
like the n I T and then it's rescinded. Because
UC Riverside was able to get out of a previous
commitment that seems foul.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Shannon, Yeah, we should have like a playing game, like
let's see who roll between the two? Yeah, let's see
who really wants to be in this n I T.
We got playing games for everything else, while I have
a playing game for the n I T. We let
them battle it out.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
I mean, I think for the most part the n
I T is is lost its stature, but just poor
form by them to rescind an invite.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
So much of the n I T is who really
wants to be there? Like a lot of times, you
don't necessarily see the most talented team win the n
I T. I mean, look at Kentucky and Robert Morris, right,
you think if Kentucky was really play all out that
they would lose the Robert I don't think so. I mean,
but then again, they lost to Saint Peter's Oakland in
other years, so maybe maybe not. But point being though,
the n I T I think, more so than anything,

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is about who really wants to be there and who's
taking it seriously and wants to win a championship.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh well, one team that doesn't want to be there,
as South Carolina, they declined an invite to the NIT.
I think that shows you that maybe going into the
portal and getting your players for next year may be
more important than meaningless postseason games like the n IT.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
All right, we'll take a break. We've got some people
on the line.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
We'll get to your calls next eight five nine two
a H two two A seven and much more on
the way here on the ks Apprecia, welcome back. I
love Alenis morris Set. I was gonna say I know
that voice.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
I couldn't put it. Elenis Morrisset and Fiona Apple might
be my two favorite female voices. I love both of them.
I think I saw Alanis Morris Set with you Live Shit,
Bourbon and Beyond a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Right, that's right, that was the one fiance really wanted
to see. And I met you out there and and
then you went sea and then you went into like
the pit like you kind of like you're like, did
I see you later?

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Wait, I don't remember. Did I go into the pit
for Alanis Moris.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
I think it was the show maybe that was coming
up after Alanis Morrissett. But you you went into the
crowd and like disappeared, like uh, like I would never
see you again.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
No, I wonder who was next. I can't remember it
was it like Duran Duran or something. I don't think
to go back and look at the date and see
you go into the pit for Duran Duran. I don't
think it's really a pit. That's like going into the
pit for the beach boys or something like. Nobody's gonna
be washing it for that. A lot of pushing in
cheven when the beach boys go up there. No, it's
more like a lot of like cramped up backs in
the pit. Has Alice Blue Gown ever gotten a mosh

(23:39):
pit going on? No? No, no, we've We've had some
good crowds, but uh not any not any mosh pits.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
You can join us on the phone or via the
text line. The text line is five oh two two
six five six six five six, where many remind us
that Mitch Barnhardt not too many years ago was on
the selection community and possibly uh of it. But that
doesn't make it right, Shannah right, I mean, that still
doesn't excuse why current athletic directors would be.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
On the selection. I don't want any athletic directors being
a part of the committee, and I understand it. I've
just looked it up here. Twelve member basketball selection committee.
It's made up of ads and conference commissioners. I'd be
fine if it was just all conference commissioners. Point being,
I don't want anybody with a financial incentive for a
team to get in to be a part of the committee. Now.
I don't know like how conference commissioners get paid. I

(24:27):
don't know if they get bonuses for more teams making
the tournament. If so, that shouldn't be a thing. But
I'm just saying, like, I don't want anybody that has
an incentive financially to put a team in that doesn't
belong in a part of the committee. Yeah to me.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
And Bubba made one hundred grand right in his contract
because North Carolina made the tournament. And how do you
feel as a team that doesn't have somebody on that committee?

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Right?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Like right, you can't help but feel slighted. And if
you're a team like West Virginia and you're like, hey,
we had the resume to get in, why is it
that North Carolina is in with a one to twelve
on record. I've never even heard that bad of a
record getting in, Shannon, but you know, expect more of
that if you see the NCAA tournament expand you know
what I mean, you want more bad teams like North

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Carolina in the tournament, We'll just make more teams available
to make that.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
If you just took the name North Carolina off of
the team, yeah, blond resume, you said this team is
one and twelve versus quad one teams, I would say
the only way they made it this must be some
small school that played a really strong schedule that won
their conference tournament, right right, That's that's the way I
would say that. Okay, if I didn't know it was

(25:32):
North Carolina, it must have been a small team that
got on a run, won their conference tournament and they
were an automatic bit, not an at large bid.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
And then if you put North Carolina and you probably
have some respect for the conference as a whole, but
then you don't show that with Louisville making the OECC.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Was garbage outside of Duke Louisville and clips and the
ACC was garbage. It was Yeah, I mean, it is
what it is at this point. But I just hope
North Carolina gets their buck kick tonight so we can
all do too. I think we all do.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Go San Diego State it'll be fun watching that one tonight.
Let's get to the phones though. We've got some people
on the line. I believe Scott is our first caller
this morning. Good morning, Scott, How.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Good boy, guys, thy quick question? If Cali Perry and
Patino meet in the game, who's the crowd go pull for?

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Well, probably Ricky P. I mean it being in Providence.
Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, the games in Providence, I
would say probably Saint John's would have more fans than Arkansas,
So just regionally, yeah, probably.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
What about the Kentucky fans who thinks they're going to
pull forward?

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Oh? I think it's Rick Patino. I mean, there may
be a few fans that still hate Rick from his
time at Louisville, But I think that the majority of
Kentucky fans want to see Cali Perry lose that game,
especially this year, right, I mean with Ricky P coming
back into our hearts. Yeah. Yeah, you're one of them, Scott,
you'd rather see Patino win.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
I'm one of them. I hope albers a tournament game
his career.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Well, hold on, now, he's got to win a tournament
game for it to be Saint John's in Arkansas.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
I think, but you know, if it comes to where
uh Patina don't have to play, I'm fine with that.
I hope you know Caliperi, he does great for Kentucky
why I was there, but the way he left us,
you know, it's put a bad pace on mass So
I hope you don't succeed at another school. And uh,
I just like what he let us.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Thanks for the college guy, Thank you. You know, here's the
crazy thing, Billy. I mean, let's go back to a
year ago. If you'd have told me a year ago
our fan base would hate John Caliperi and love Rick
Battino again, I would say you're out of your mind.
But yet here we are March eighteenth, twenty twenty five,
and now we're pulling for Rick again, and we all

(27:52):
hate John Calipari.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Well, not only just Kentucky fans. I feel like Ricky
has become the darling of college basketball.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yes, man, I mean the guy was on Jimmy Fallon.
You have the team singing Jimmy fallon their New York's team.
I love it for Rick I really do. I mean,
he seems to be really happy. He's a New York guy.
He seems to fit in perfectly with Saint John's.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
I mean he coached at Iona just for the love
of the game, Shannon. I mean he went to Greece,
to Greece to do this all over. The question is
how many Kentucky fans show up to the Lexington Regional
when Louisville plays Auburn possibly or you know, uh, there's
gonna there's a couple of gig good games in Lexington.
There's no doubt even some Tennessee Valls fans coming down.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
So who knows. Let's take another call, Shann, who's up
next here? All right? L D is up next?

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Hey, l D?

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Shannon, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (28:43):
What's up? Okay?

Speaker 4 (28:45):
I was just gonna tell you all the last basketball
game I was at was in high school because I
was in negotiations with the cheerleaders.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
But did you ever get that jar pick was open?

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Did? Yes? I did? Oh, I took it.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
I wanted to tell you that the fishing calendar, the
old Farmer's Dominac, is a filling barometer. That's when the
fishing is the base.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
You believe that fishing calendar, Yeah, it's it's a filling barometer.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's why they can tell it's anytime the barometers filling,
it's it's a better face. But I just wanted to
cal and say, hey, yell and legs, Joe, thank you.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Jar pickles. I forgot to update you.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
So you took it to the wrestlers. They got it done,
your big biceps. The commentator, it's funny that.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
The commentator did it. Come on, come on that bad look.
I've been loosening up that jar of pickles for two
weeks for a good thing. He didn't bring it to
the remote. Yeah, what was funny was I was gonna
do a bit out of it, and you know, show
that this jar pickles could be opened. The first guy
opening popped it right open. He was the announcer and

(30:07):
the first guy to do it. But when he did it,
he had it turned sideways, which is maybe the technique
I didn't try. You know, I just had it flat
on the surface and was turning. He was like turning
the jar sideways and really cranking on it that way.
But when he did it, some of the pickle juice
fell onto the floor, and I don't know that he
cleaned it up too good, because like an hour later
I hear the wrestlers walking backstage, going, why does it

(30:29):
smell like two different kinds of pickles back here? And
I'm just laughing under my breath, going, he doesn't have
a clue what we just did earlier.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
So wow, some some of that juice must have got
on the wrestlers.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Who was it the Undertaker who was definitely afraid of pickles?
You never heard that? Have I told that before? No?
The Undertaker? The wrestler. I don't know how you could
be afraid of a pickle, but you can look this up.
The Undertaker is you think like a guy that size
isn't afraid of anything. Apparently he's afraid of pickles. So
like as a as a prank, some of the wrestlers,

(31:04):
I guess we're bold enough to prank. The Undertaker would
take like a pickle and put it in his gym bag. Okay,
so what he was in a match and then he'd
come back and there'd be a pickle in there.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Hold on, hold on, no, Now, I understand not liking
the taste of pickles, but how can you be scared
of a pickle? He's got a pickle phobia, like it's
a snake or something like that. You see it and you, yeah,
I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Okay, well look at you look it up during the
break and you tell me what you find.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
I mean, there's food phobias, but that's when you actually
put the food in your mouth. What would you would
you be afraid of a pickle for? Especially if you're
a big wrestler too.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
But here's the first thing that here's why the Undertaker
is afraid of cucumbers.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
See that sounds like a BuzzFeed headline or one of
those AI generated get you to click on the likes.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Is it denial about being afraid of cucumbers? But he
admits that they sometimes make the hair on his skin
stand up, goose.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Bump, the cucumber looking at me sideways? What the heck?

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, people have more phobias, man, I don't know. I
don't know. Do you have any kind of phobias. I
have a fear of heights. I don't know if that's
like a weird phobia. I think that's pretty common. But
I'm not like afraid of a food. Yeah, nothing comes
to mind that weird.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
I mean some basic stuff, like you know, I don't
want to see a snake in my crawl space. Or
anything like that, Shannon. But no phobia is like that.
That's just odd. But I've never you know, more people
have asked me about your pickle jar and me losing
my keys than any sports topic we've ever talked about
on this show.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
I'm just saying, you think that the breaking down the
games and the brackets matter. No, people just want to
talk about pickles. He says he's not afraid of them,
but will simply walk out of a room that has
cucumbers in it. Okay, so he just doesn't put it
up with it like he's just no non He can't
look at a cucumber, freaks them out.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Let's talk about pickles and peanuts. Peanut is next on
the line. What's up, Peanut?

Speaker 6 (33:01):
How was it going?

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Guys? Good?

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Anybody?

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Are you good?

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Are you?

Speaker 6 (33:09):
I was gonna tell you, hey, do you think do
you think the Undertaker is good at pickleball?

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Probably not? Probably not. I think.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Actually what I called for was in twenty twelve, I
worked at Chili's and Barkstown a dishwashers, and we played
of course, we played Lowan the five four. I went
to work that day, but right before the game, I
put my boots up on the Saints and I put
a posted note on it. It said go Cats, and

(33:39):
I left. I quit the job.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Oh really? So oh wow? So Kentucky was playing in
the Final Four. You said, enough is enough. I'm out
of here. I'm not going to stay back here and
wash dishes. We got a Kentucky game to watch.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
Yeah, it was against Louisville, and I had already missed
the Kentucky Indiana game that year where they hit that shot. Yeah,
I guess. So I was like, I'm not missing I.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Don't blame you, I guess somebody else. It's an important job.
You don't want to have clean dishes. But I think
I agree with you. It's definitely more important to watch
the Final Four than clean some dishes. Thanks for the call, Peanut,
Thank you, Peanut.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Wow the passion of this fan base shannon to quit
their job as a Chili's dishwasher to watch the Cats.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
I mean it depends on I guess how committed you
are to your job, right, Like, if you had a really,
really good job, you probably wouldn't quit it. But you know,
I think if you lose your job as a dishwasher
at Chili's, they need dishwashers over it Outback and Texas
Roadhouse and every other place. Chi Cheese is going to
need some dishwashers soon too. I might volunteer there just

(34:41):
to be able to eat their food.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Well, this is a perfect segue because they also need
dishwashers at waffle House. Shannon, and I want to give
a tip of the cap to ksr's own Jacob Politick.
He does a lot of great stuff for KSR. Plus.
Just the other night he interviewed Troy head coach sk
Cross and he explained to Jacob while he why he

(35:03):
only recruits players that like waffle House. Shannon, let me,
let's hear some of that.

Speaker 7 (35:08):
Ore a town of fifteen thousand when school's not in town,
so you can imagine you got one waffle house per
five thousand people, so probably most per capita anywhere in
the country. But started off the first two recruits I
brought on campus, We're driving down the main street. I
point out waffle House, ask him if they want to
eat there for breakfast, and they were like, waffle house.

(35:30):
You know, hell no, I don't want to go to
waffle House. I'm like, Okay, my bad. You know, we'll
trying to eat somewhere else. Long story short, we signed
neither one of those guys. Then we brought a guy
named Nick Stampley, who's an okge R kind of guy.
He was our third recruit to visit. We're driving by,
we don't even say anything about waffle house.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
He sees.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
He's like, oh, coach, y'all got a waffle house?

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Here? Can we go there tomorrow?

Speaker 7 (35:54):
He was our first signee. He was one of the
toughest guys we've ever coached, and from that point forward
we just kind of offhand ask them do you like
waffle House? The answer is yes, it's like we sign them.
If it's no, we never get them. So I told
my staff, I was like, hey, y'all can save a
lot of time and money first phone conversation in passing,

(36:18):
ask them do they like waffle house or not?

Speaker 2 (36:21):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
There's Kentucky's opponent, Troy head coach Scott Cross.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Do you like his philosophy on recruits in waffle Look,
if you could shoot and you can play defense, I
wouldn't care what you eat. I think that's I mean,
it's funny, but it's also ridiculous. I don't think that
that necessarily means you're a good player because you like
or don't like waffle House. But I'm a fan of
waffle House.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
You know.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
It's a former Kentucky Sports Radio Food Bracket winner, myram Metcalf,
who was on yesterday with this huge fan of waffle House.
I don't know if they got any waffle houses in Milwaukee,
but if they do, I might try to hit one
for breakfast.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Now, I'm a wild Eggs guy, the official breakfast of
Kentucky Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
So now you want to Now you're learning from me,
I'll teach you, mister me I go, But you know,
do you?

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Is it a character red flag if someone were to
say they don't like waffle House, and I think to
a degree, there would be. But Shannon, if you want
to draw the line, I don't care what my players eat,
then yeah that's fine.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
I mean, if you're a good player, I don't care
where you eat. But I'm like, I'm a fan of
waffle House saying I get the same thing every time
I go in. I already know my order. I don't need
to look at them minute. First of all, gonna start
off with an nice water because usually you know it
comes after a night of heavy drinking, so you gotta.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Okay, so you're hung over, Yeah, water's good, trying to
rebound here, you gotta rehydrate.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
And then I'm going with the bacon, egg and cheese
on Texas toast, Give me a side of hash browns,
extra pickles, and give me some of that hot sauce
over here, because I dumped the hot sauce on the plate.
Dip the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich and the hot sauce,
and then the pickles cool down the hotness, so you
follow it up with a pickle.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
A little acidity there at the end. We've had a
lot of pickle talk today. By the way, I'm not
afraid of pickles anymore. We'll have to go to the
Pickle Fest and no, no, that was highly overrated.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Take you the legacy pickle beer was off. The best
thing about Pickle Fest was Tyley Texas was in attendance.
And other than that, it was it was terrible.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Give me the All Star special eggs sunnyside up or
scrambled chin and it just kind of depends on what's
going on. And then I'm going coke for the drink.
Don't drink a lot of soda, but I like coke
with breakfast.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
I don't know what it is. Anything where I can
go there and I can watch them make it right
in front of me.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
I like that place and a fight possibly busting out
next to you. I mean, there's your entertainment right there.
Don't even have to look.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, great odds depending on what time of day you go.
Although you know it's likely to happen at a waffle
house a fight breakout more so than any other restaurant.
But if you go like after midnight, like I'm gonna say,
between the hours of like midnight and four am, there's
a good chance, like it's probably an eighty percent chance
there's gonna be a fight that breaks out. Oh yeah,

(38:56):
no doubt.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
But a test of character if you're looking to go
to the University of Troy and their basketball. Yeah, I
get your break A five nine, two, two eight seven.
Let's take that break uh, and coming up next, we'll
take a couple of calls and we'll hand it off
to KSR here on the show. Before the show, it's
the Kiss, Our appreciow, welcome back. It's our final segment,
and we've just got a couple of minutes after going

(39:18):
along in that last segment. So Shannon, let's try to
hit a call before.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
We get out of here. All right, let's go to
free Bird. Hey, what's up? Free Bird?

Speaker 3 (39:26):
What's up?

Speaker 8 (39:27):
Pre show? Approve?

Speaker 2 (39:28):
What's up? Man?

Speaker 8 (39:31):
A little story and then a question. Uh, nineteen eighty two,
nineteen eighty three is in seven to eighth grade and
you're talking about bringing in the TVs for basketball. Well,
my math teacher, mister Hudson, was a Dodgers saying, and
of course we did it for basketball, but when baseball
season was going on, get the Dodgers or the Reds

(39:52):
were on, or they were playing each other, and go, hey, man,
detail them, get your work done. TV is going on,
and we w a lot of baseball in those two
years in the classroom. And my question is two coaches,
who do you think more is on top of his

(40:12):
game right now? Latino or Tom Izzo. The only reason
I'm asking about is though I've always been.

Speaker 6 (40:18):
A big hisz Old fan.

Speaker 8 (40:19):
Yeah, if y'all want to put another one in fel frees,
who's on top of their game right now?

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Well, first of all, you'll yep, thanks for the coffee,
versus mister Hudson would be happy to know that the
Dodgers won a game in Tokyo earlier this morning. Did
you see that there's already baseball going on? The Dodgers
beat the Cubs this morning four to one.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Now, I didn't see it because I'm not getting up
at two in the morning to watch Tokyo Major League baseball.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Uh. But who's on top of their game? More so?
I would say Rick Patino, just because he's doing it
at other schools. You know, Tom has always been at
Michigan State forever. I think it's a lot easier to
do it at a at a school that you're established at,
more so than Rick Patino, who's just bouncing from school
to school and having success no matter where he goes.
So I'd pick Rick. What about you? I go Rick two.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
I've actually got both Izzo and Rick in my Elite
eight Shannon and possibly Izzo in my final four. I
think they might be able to get it done over Auburn,
but we'll have a couple of days to break down
our brackets even more. Shannon, tell me about DraftKings before
we have that.

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Speaker 1 (41:38):
Audio Apologies if you were on the line and we
weren't able to get to you today. A couple of
programming notes. It's Saint Francis versus Alabama tonight between two
sixteen seeds and then North Carolina versus San Diego State.
You can also watch the UK baseball team take on
Murray State. That game starts at six point thirty today.
For Shannon the Dude, I'm Billy Rutlis. This is the
ksrpre show. We will tell talk to you tomorrow