November 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon discuss the issues plaguing Kentucky Basketball and take your calls live from Parlour Pizza in Lexington.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Now here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Welcome everyone.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Friday, November the twenty first
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Speaker 4 (00:46):
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Speaker 2 (01:15):
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Speaker 4 (01:19):
Hot honey Pepperoni pizza is here, and I'm sure a
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a TJ. Smith office. If you call TJ, he'll make
them pay. It's rainy and kind of disgusting and has
been for a while, and I think it's gonna be
this weekend, But nevertheless, this is our last dual football
basketball weekend of the year. Ryan, football Season's almost over?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Are you sad?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's indy?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
You know?
Speaker 7 (02:00):
It's It's kind of weird how I have flipped. I
am more looking forward to that football game tomorrow than
I am the basketball game tonight. I probably wouldn't have
said that a couple weeks ago. But I'm excited about
the football game. You are, You're excited, Yeah, I mean
you know it's gonna be tough. We're gonna be an
underdog word touchdown underdog already. But just to see him
on the court, on the field where they've played the
last three games, I think Vandy maybe overlooking.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Us a little bit. I think we're a trap game for.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Vandy sold out, We're a trap game for.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Van He's trying to get into the playoffs. There's no
trapping Gay to next week.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, I hope we'd beat I honestly hope we beat Vandy,
just to shut your smug mouth up. You have been
You have been way too trash talking to be a
Vanderbilt face. This is your last nerdy year of excitement
that that football program will ever have.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Would love, just like I would love to shut up. Well,
the Louisville people aren't bragging anymore, so now I think
the thing left to do is shut up your pro
tractor dork mouths down there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And Nash, you're mistaking me for Diego Pavia. He's the
one that talks off the track.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I don't consider him at dort Diego prove you all
as I think Drew said, he must have taken online classes.
That guy's not he is not a real Vandy.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yea wait until it comes back eighth year.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Next year, he keeps suing, So he's the guy in
the Walmart parking lot ten years after he graduates high school,
cruising around. But Drew, I think we have a shot tomorrow.
Maybe I'm just delusional, but why not.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I think we have a shot.
Speaker 8 (03:21):
I'm actually expecting a rare shootout for Kentucky football game.
I don't think they're gonna be able to stop Pavia,
and we've seen that offense turn the quarter of the
last three or four games, and I think we're gonna
have a little bit of a bowy Pavia shootout down.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
And now I actually do too.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I'm looking. I'm with Ryan. I'm looking for the game too.
We are here at Parlor Pizza, where there is pizza
if you, I would hope if you come and join us,
you can come sit with some of your KSR fans
order food. I've been asked a lot, Ryan, I want
to make something clear. I've been asked a lot. Have
we forgotten the Ryan has to eat out by himself.
We have not. It's been really a travel circumstance. I
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have not been here and the next week, of course Thanksgiving.
I'm now maybe targeting the week after Thanksgiving. But I
want you to know you're you're not out of doing that.
I know you thought if you didn't mention it, nobody would,
but you're not out of the week of going and
eating by yourself.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
I really thought it was gonna be one of those
Matt Jones ideas like the camp out the Waddi Werewolf
twenty four hours of Ryan Radio. I thought this was
gonna just kind of slide in that ether and then
we all.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Forget about it. It still could. Don't worry, it's not.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I'm not gonna let it because I have people reminding me.
They want to see you be alone for a period
of time. So I just want people to know we
have not forgotten it, and I want you to maybe
you can get some practice this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well I did have a little practice last night.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Yoga girl had something to do, so I went to
the opening of the Festival of Lights at Appleby's Football Park.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I saw that what was that.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Well, you know, like they've got the Christmas light that
the horse park you have to drive through. This is similar,
but you walk through it. You park and you walk
through the ballpark. It's really kind of cool. But I
had to eat by myself. There a lot of people around.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I still ate by myself.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
There.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
You go to the holiday show by yourself, that's.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Much worse thing.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
I went to the holiday show by myself, by my
walk through the thing by myself.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Yeah, so that counts.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There's one down.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
No, that doesn't count. But that is sad in its
own way. That's much worse than going to dinner. Well,
it's better. I went to dinner at a restaurant and
ended up shating with the dude screaming at me the
whole time, and which was it? Which that's people, that's
a rare experience. But there was a drunk guy at
the bar just screaming my jones and then he would
laugh like he had said the funniest thing in the world,
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and then he just got and then he waited a
few couple of minutes he go mad, yeah, and then
he would.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Just sounds like a pleasant experience. Did you at least
take his picture?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
No? I mean I contemplated. I sit there and go, okay,
because there's like an angel and a devil on my shoulders.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
There.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
There's like my mom going, don't give him the time
of day, this that you would just be acknowledging him
by like and my mom is right. And then there's
the devil going, I want to embarrass this dude and
maybe take his picture. And but I ended up. I
let it, I let my mom went out, and I
just I left. And so what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're just to that level now where you can't even
go out in public without getting.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It's totally fine. I don't know, man, I don't know
why this guy he was particularly rude. But nevertheless, we're
here here today and like I said, due weekend, basketball tonight,
football tomorrow. One of the things I was gonna ask
is which one you're more excited about? Ryan? Is clear
it's football for me. It's football. Does is anybody basketball?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
I basketball?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (06:31):
I mean, I am excited about football, but I'm just
looking at what's in front of me.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I'll get to football in the morning.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
I know we won't get any questions answered tonight, but
I just I need a good taste in my mouth.
I need some joy around Kentucky basketball, assuming this is
a blowout. I just need to smile again with that
team in rupper.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, so we had to. They had to pope press
conference after it was over. I think really two or
three noteworthy things about it. Uh One, he basically said,
you know, and this is gonna be my last time
bringing it up because I do think fans are kind
of exhausted of it. But it is worth noting. He
tried to close the book on the Louisville thing by
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saying it was nothing, which you know, I don't believe you.
I don't believe him either. I'm gonna be honest. I
love you, Mark, I don't believe you. You don't bring
something like that up and then go we're gonna tease
Taylor Swift. Lets you think about it, and then go, hey,
why are you all wondering about it? But with what's
going on? Like he started that, it's fine. It is
what it is. I do think it's not productive for
it to keep being brought up. But that's on him.
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That's a that's a screw up on his on his part.
Second thing, he said, though, and I do think this
is a little different and important is he said there
are no chemistry issues on the team. He was like
all the talk out there about them not liking each other,
et cetera. He said that is not true. Now, my
my inclination is gonna be to believe him. But then
I don't know, what do you think about that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I've never heard of coach say we have chemistry issues?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Are you say? What else would you expect him to say?
And like you said, I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
There's nothing to it because if there was nothing to it,
why bring it up at all in the first place.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yep, So clearly they want to be fair.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
He didn't bring up that they had chemistry. Is so
you brought up that something happened the fans have created
And I'm not saying the fans are wrong, right, I'm
just saying the sort of rumors about chemistry are like
people like us watching their body language, right, and then
fans these kind of stories. My thought about chemistry, Drew
has always just been watching them on the court. They
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don't look like a group of guys who kind of
love each other. I mean, that could be wrong, but
that's what it's looked. That's where mine come from.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Yeah, I'm the same way, and we have multiple friends
that are at that game in New York. It's just
not what's on TV. They're just looking at them. They're
looking at Michigan State, a team that's playing for each other,
and they're looking at Kentucky, a team that wasn't. And
so we've been on there's been times there's been an
open guy and he doesn't pass it. You know what,
That could be nothing, but it's just from a basketball standpoint,
there's no chemistry. And then I worry about even the
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team liking each other. But they're not a cohesive unit
right now. There's no debating that. Whatever is going on.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
There were I talk to two new people that were
sitting Ryan like court side in two different places, and
they both had essentially the same art thing. They were like,
there's apparently an incident where Brandon Garrison and some teammates
yelled at each other, not like in a fighting way,
but in a arguing way. But the bigger thing was
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they just they were like, they don't communicate, they don't
seem to talk. And then I heard some like Mark
Pope sort of being a level of upset. You don't
see a lot I mean, I don't think you can
act like things are rosy right now, whatever the case is,
I don't think they're rosy.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
We can all look, I mean, we're basketball beanies.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
We can all look.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Something is off, something is just a little off. And
I think it's a combination of everything you said. Maybe
Pope is backed out of character, Maybe they had a
little issue in the locker room. Maybe they're being a
little selfish on the court. Maybe losing Jalen Lowe's put
them into a tailspan. I think it's kind of maybe
a combination of all that.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Well, let's talk about a couple other things from it.
First of all, he said that Brandon Garrison is the
second most efficient player on the team right now, which
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You wouldn't think.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I'm a numbers guy, Like I'm a big believer in
if the numbers say it, the numbers say it. Like
I sometimes I don't like when people argue with numbers
because I'm like, numbers are objective. I don't know if
these numbers are objective. You know, maybe if you include
the games against the bad teams he's done really well
against then. But he was very adamant, look, Brandon Garrison
is the second most efficient guy. He's done a lot
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better than people realize. So I don't think this is
a guy drew that he's gonna be out of starting
lineup soon.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
No, and this is the Pope speaker we knew we're
gonna get. Everything is always perfect and rosie. Like someone
asked about Brandon Garrison. You can say he's not playing
as well as we need him, and he needs to
get his button gear, but he's spun it to Hope,
but his efficiency numbers like at some point we can
be a little negative. We have eyeballs, like, let's call
it like we see it. We don't have to put
a positive, beautiful, extraordinary spin on literally everything.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Okay, So with that point I had, if some people
write me last night, you tell tell me if what
your thought is on this and say that they feel
like you are. They said turning. I don't believe you're
turning on Pope, but that you have like a lot
of negativity about the pope experience.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Right, Yes, would you agree with that? Hell? Yes?
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Did you watch the last two games? My god, we
were down by twenty in our only two meaningful game.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
I'm not saying fire the guy and I still think
it can get corrected, but I'm not going to act
like that was a fun eight days we just went
through at all.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
And I'm also annoying.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
You don't usually get like this, well, I mean, this
is not We also don't go down by twenty four
to Louisville like, let's it's strictly basketball, and then acting
like it's fine when it's not.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
It can get fine. This is all just me reacting
to the last eight days. But my other bit complaint.
He keeps saying we flipped the switch too early? Why
are we flipping switches for Marquee games? Like shouldn't they already.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Know this is Louisville? Like why is there a literal switch?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Right?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
All right, guys, let's get ready now. No, they should
have been ready weeks ago. But you also don't want
to hear flip switch again.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
But I'm just you know, for for long time listeners
of this show, I think they know, like they know
all of our personalities, and this is a lot more
worked up than you usually get.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Okay, let me remind you all we were down by
twenty in the only two games that have mattered.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
All right, I'm not I'm not saying about wrong. I'm
not saying that, but you would agree this is not a.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Normal Drew rykay, when it's not normal being down by
twenty Drew's got Pope fatigue?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Already sounds like that a little bit, it does, you know?
I think the listeners that were reacting, I mean, does
do you have Pope fatigue?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
It's not Pope specific. I don't know if I'm not
making my point. We've played two games and at the
tip we weren't in. You're making your point, but like,
I can't act like that's fine. We don't do that
at Kentucky. We've never done that again. When have we
be been down by twenty to Louisville?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Exactly, So, yes, that's what I'm reacting to. Yeah, I
mean be and Poper good. I wish we'd stop flipping
switches and it's beautiful, right, you all speculate I'm down.
I'm tired of being down by twenty.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
It was quite embarrassing when Michigan State puts their walk
on and at the end of the game because they're
beating us so bad.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Exactly when does that happen?
Speaker 10 (13:15):
That?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Was it ever happened? Very very rarely?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Well, I am.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I am concerned not so much about Mark or the
state of I'm concerned that this team is just not
very good. And that's what worries me is that I'm
sitting there looking and I think that text message I
got that sort of looked. I had this inclination back
in July. But my saving grace was that Jayalen Lowe
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I thought was going to be a star. But it
just if I just wonder if we just don't have
enough good guys. I mean, Rick Patino said yesterday, and
I thought this was a really interesting comment and maybe
we'll talk about it later. Rick said college basketball is
better right now than it's been in twenty five years.
And I think that's right. I think a lot of
people like to complain about NIL, and I think NIL
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has had some negative effects on football, but when it
comes to basketball, the quality of play is better. Now.
You got guys staying longer. Thing everybody wanted. Everybody wanted
to may people stay a long. Well, now they're staying longer.
You got foreign players coming in that could have been pros,
and in some cases we're pros and they're now coming in.
The freshmen are now skipping G League and overtime they're coming.
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This is more talent in college basketball than has existed.
And if you watch some of these other games, like
even last night, Wake Forest played Texas Tech and it
was a great game, And you watch these games, and
then I go, are guys good enough for this?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Like I got I see you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Illinoise got like five guys who can take people off
the dribble and score and hit threes. And I'm like,
I mean, are we good enough? I don't know? And
so that that's what kind of worries me is did
we accident? Did we sort of stack a team of
role players with two stars that are hurt and a
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third guy in no way that's just not.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Doing his thing.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We're gonna find out.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I got a tough slot of hate Saint John's, North
Carolina and Zaga.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
That's kind of what worries me. If I'm nine two
eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We are here at
Parlor Pizza Ryan Lemon, who soon will be eating by himself,
worked up Drew Franklin in a regular shade in the dude,
be right back this Parlor Pizza. No, this is kosr
Water back of this Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine,
twenty two eighty seven, it is fascinating for me to
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read the text machine and read fans reactions. First of all,
it seems like a lot of people agree with Drew.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You call me Frank today.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I was about to say, well, that's what says Frank
is this Frank Franklin. Frank's here at He's a nice
legacy from the Caliperio. What's what's funny though, to me,
is there are, in literally back to back text Shannon,
there are people that complain that KSR and is both
too negative and too sunshine pumps oh really, which really
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just means that for those people, they just want you
to reflect whatever their opinion is. I just want to
hear it right back. Whatever my opinion is, is the
right opinion, give it back to me. I am. I
am surprised. I'm both surprised and not surprised. We're struggling.
I'm surprised we're struggling by so much. I didn't think
Mark Pope teens would lose by this amount of points
to teams. But I am not surprised that with otaga
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Oway not playing well, Ryan, we're struggling so much because
I still I said all year, we're only gonna be
good if Jaalen Lowe's good and we don't have Low
and Otaga has struggled. Now we had some good news
I think about low yesterday, Yes we did, which is
Pope said essentially, we're gonna work and we're gonna try
to give it another go or something like that. So
that says to me he hasn't given up on the season,
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which I assumed he would have to be honest. So
I heard that as he's gonna try to play again
and that's good. Is that how you heard it? That's
exactly how I heard it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I think we all heard.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
For the Michigan State game, that was the other way
he was leaning towards surgery. Maybe that game kind of
made him want to come back and help the team.
He saw how pitiful they were without.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Him, they were.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
You know, he makes a difference the minute he walks
on the on the court, he just you know, the
offense just runs better, more efficient. But even without without him,
Otega is still the key man. He has got to
snap out of this.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
But I think he turned some of those role players
drew into really good players, like a guy who's a
who's a third option. It's harder for him if he's
the second option. But if he gets to be the
third option, right, So Denzel Aberdeen is the dude you're
leaving open to guard old Way and Low. Okay, now
wait a minute, but if we're all standing around waiting
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on Denzel Aberdeen to score, I don't know. So like
at Florida, he got to be that guy because Walter
Clayton and those guys were getting and he got to
kind of be the the third fourth option. Maybe all
these guys are meant for a role that with Low
out and no Way not playing well, they.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Don't get to do Yeah, and uh, you know, I know,
we got used to the one and done and guys
just are what they are. But guys are supposed to
get better each year. And I know a lot of
these were just role players, but when you lock them in,
you're hoping they get better. And two of the starters
have not only not gotten better, they seem to have
gotten worse. And that is a huge problem.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
That's a really good point about this. We got so
used to one and done that like whatever we saw,
that's just what they were. Guys get better look at
college like colin a way is a perfect I don't
know what Away was like as a freshman, but he
wasn't probably what he is. So you know, I will
say that Jamal Mashburn and then we'll we'll we'll move on.
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Jamal Mashburn was on a different game last night and
he's sitting with it. I mean, there's a lot of
people in Kentucky connections. Adam Lefko is the host, used
to be in Louisville. Uh, Mashburn's on there, Bruce Pearl's
on there, Jalen Rose and his steak hair are on there,
and uh and they and Mashburn said they're not playing
like wildcats. They're a team that with a bunch of
kiddies and basically said, you need a dude. That was
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when Mashburn was saying you need a dude. And he
was like, none of these guys look like a dude.
That's kind of what we've been saying, Ryan. But it
was interesting here Mashburn, who was certainly a dude in
his day, he say that.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
So the optimistic Kentucky fan might say, Matt, the calendar
does still say November.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
There's plenty of time it.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Turns out, who's the dude?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
If Jalen low doesn't let's I mean, if we're being
this is why I'm worried. If Jalen low doesn't come back,
who's the dude?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's got to be Otega man. Don't you think it's
gotta be?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
And I don't know, Maybe it's I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
If he's a guy, you know, and Jayden Quainton's comes back,
can he be that guy?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
So maybe he'll certainly help defensively in rebounds.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
He will help with that a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know, assuming Jaylen Lowe will come back, and that's
a big assumption. But if he does, and if Quaintan's
you know, recovers, I want to see what this team
looks like, fully healthy, then I'll judge the team. I'm
gonna reserve my judgment until that happens.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I will too, if you promise me they'll be full healthy.
We haven't seen jan and Quaint's play a game yet, right,
and we don't know about Jaylen Lowe. So we'll see
who's up first. If I'm nine to twenty eighty seven, Adam, Adam,
go ahead, Adam, go ahead, Adam, or don't Who's next, Brin, Brin,
go ahead, Brent.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
Hey Man, thank you for taking my call. I was
listening to Jack last night on his Sources Say, and
he was talking about Marks Mark Pope's inability to read
the room like with a fan base in his postgame
press conferences, and then he went into how this is
how this is affecting recruiting, and he gets you know,
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like some examples about like how it's carrying over like
into the recruiting area.
Speaker 12 (20:47):
And I was wondering if you had.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Heard anything like that, I'll hang out and listen.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Well I have not. I mean, Jack, Jack, I don't
do like I don't talk to high school kids or
coaches anymore, so I can't. Jack would know that a
lot better than mine than me. You know, there's always
been this question about, well, how does Mark relate to players,
et cetera. Is there because you know, I mean, he's
shandon kind of a corny guy, like how does how
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does that work? My view has always been judging by
what he brings in. Now we haven't brought in a
superstar yet, and so you do wonder about that. So
I can't say about the recruiting thing. I still think
Ryan fans still really loved the guy, and I think
he's done a really good job of reading the room
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except the last eight or ten days. So I don't
want to just say, like make these grand pronouncements that
he doesn't know how to talk to fans. I just
think he's had a bad couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Yeah, and we talked about that whole Louisville pregame incident.
He's one and initiated that.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
He brought it up to us.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
We would probably never know anything ever happened, But he
didn't even say anything. I think he's too honest to
a fault sometimes and maybe he's kind of learning by
fire that maybe there some things that need to stay in.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
The locker room. You should know that though he played
here he puts this bas.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
But you also can just have a bad week. You can.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
You know, you can just have a bad week.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Sometimes you're grumpy.
Speaker 11 (22:09):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Sometimes I walk out of the show and go, eh,
I don't know if that's what I wanted to say,
you know, And he he only gets ten minutes in
front of us three times, right, so you know, maybe
just had bad days. We'll see the problem is we're
not gonna know anything else till we play somebody Good
and it's two weeks and it's two weeks away until
we do. We'll take a break here a Parlor Pizza.
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have to say. I mean, like you know, you're not
You're no Shannon, but you do. You do a good
job with the music selection. And Liam, I do appreciate
it when you're there.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I try to play it gets the people going, you know, well.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I know if it gets people going, but you get
it's me going.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
But I just like you do it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
On topic, we are here at Parlor Pizza. It was
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By the way, so congratulations them. Those awards just came out.
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Speaker 6 (23:40):
Have it for the Arkansas game. I'll be here eight.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Five nine two eight zero twenty two eighty seven. I
don't want to make this all like you know, complaining,
so I also want to talk about a couple other things.
They got a question for you, right all right's go.
The guy that's in charge of the transportation department. His
name is Sean Duffy. He was on the Real World
or road rue are one of those, so he's perfect
to run the transportation department. He he did an interview
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and he said a bunch of things about the holiday
travel seas. But one thing he said is he is
he thinks people should dress up more when they go
on planes. He said that if everyone dressed up more
when we went on planes, it would be a better experience. Now,
I know, back in the day, like you would see
those pictures in like the fifties and sixties, people would
wear suits or they would dress up and they would
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look really uh you know, it would look like it
would look like they're going to church when they go
on planes. Of course, now people like look like they
just woke up going on planes. You like to fly
sprint to a lot of places. Do you think that
that would be spirit Do you think it would be
better for people to dress up and then if they
if they, if you did, will you dress up to
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go on plane?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I mean where else in our lives are we crammed
into a metal cylinder where you're sitting in the middle
roll and you're trying to find a place just to
lay back and put your and put your elbows.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
You want to be comfortable.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
Man, I'm wearing sweats and a hoodie and flip flopped
and I'm being comfortable.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
But do you think if people dressed up it would
be like everybody'd be more polite and civilized and it
would be a better experience for everyone.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
No, make me more uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
It's for you, especially because you don't ever dress out,
no anything, what about you?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
No?
Speaker 8 (25:22):
I mean, actually I like when I see it's usually
someone a little older. They're there and they're in like
a full suit. I have like a briefcase. It's kind
of sweet when I see that, but I'm not doing it.
I'm usually taking the first flight in the morning. I
usually roll out of bed and crawl into an uber
and get to the airport.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I see all those pictures channing from like the fifties
and sixties when people did dress up, And I don't
know when that changed, because I can't think of a
time in my lifetime that I've ever seen in people
not just look terrible on a plane. So when did
that change?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Because you know, with the hippies and the sixties, probably
think it was they traded out of their suits for
ty die And you know.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I mean, I don't know that I'm the best person
to because I wear a hoodie almost every day. But like,
but like I've talked about, I don't like churches now.
I don't like the whole where jeans to church thing that,
But but I don't consider planes like that to me. Planes,
I don't know if me wearing a suit's gonna make
anything better. It's just gonna give me a wrinkle jacket.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Exactly, gonna make you more uncomfortable, and if you're traveling,
I'm all about comfort. I really don't care how I look.
I'm there for the comfort.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
So you don't think that's gonna change. I think that
will ever change anytime.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Well that was I didn't know the road rules guys
are transportation.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yeah, is Sean Duffy he married? I think he married
a woman from road rules or excuse me, from real world.
It was a road rules real world marriage.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
The challenge was a challenge marriage.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
They did. They married together. She his wife, was on
the one with Puck eating the guy's peanut butter. Okay,
that's back when I used to watch You Have Me Too.
It's been all over the road. I guess it makes sense.
That's true. He traveled. He's perfect for the transportation department.
Who's up next?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Otis?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Otis, go ahead, otis?
Speaker 12 (27:00):
How you gentlemen doing.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I know you're doing well.
Speaker 12 (27:01):
I'm not going to ask that retort question.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I haven't heard from you in a long time. O this,
so I want you to get that engine rammed and
start talking fast.
Speaker 12 (27:09):
All right, man, I just got two concerns. I'm a
little concerned about Mark Pope. The last I want to say,
dating back to the tournament, the last big, big game,
not the little game. He has got blown out Tennessee, Georgetown, Louisville,
and of course this last one. So I'm a little
concerned about that situation. I hope he can get that rectified.
And my main concern is with oh way, I'm thinking
in my mind, this is my you know, I'm really injected,
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and this is my opinion. I'm thinking, in my mind,
he thought he should have went to the draft and
should be in the NBA. He didn't want to come
back to college because you guys, think about it. He
waded it to the last second to declare he's coming back.
But in my mind, he thought he probably was a
better prospect than the Mart Butler and some of the
other guys that got drafted. So he's stuck in limbo, like, man,
I want to be here, but I don't want to
be here. I want to be here for the money,
but at the same time, I want to go on
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to my start my career. So what do you I
want to hang up and get you a pin on
that thank you guys holiday and look forward to you.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Here's my secret for fans when you talk about wanting
to be in the NBA. Here's a little secret. Every
single guy wants to be in the NBA, every one
of them, every single one of them, all of them.
So I don't care. Think about Reed Shepherd. Do you
remember how everybody go read Shepherd's from Kentucky and he
loves his place and he'll want it. Like when he
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had a chance to go to the NBA, what do
he do to the NBA? To the NBA. I mean,
all these guys want to go to the NBA. So
I'm not gonna hold it against Oway that he wanted
to go to the NBA. Right, We've had guys wait
till last minute, come back the next year and be great,
you know.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
So Keith Bogan's a perfect example.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Tried to go to the NBA twice, got turned down twice,
came back his senior year and had one of the
best years for UK in the last twenty five years.
So that, to me, Ryan is not an excuse for
him playing bad. Is he wanted to be in the NBA.
All these guys wanted to be in the NBA. You know,
Jay Long went through the process as well. He wasn't picked,
but I mean like or he wasn't gonna be selected,
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but they all want to be in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
It's like last year they played with like a chip
on his shoulder, like I have something to prove that
I do belong here, do an NBA prospect.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
This year, it seems like that's missing.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
And I don't know what between these years right now,
if he's just so concentrating on what the NBA scouts
told him that you got to become a ned three
point shooter if you're ever going to play in this league,
and he think that's what I have to do, come
out and shoot seven eight threes a game.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I think it's a combination of that Drew and then
there's a combination of the thing he was good at.
It is hard for him because we're not making shots,
we're not spacing the floor and the lanes he got
last year. Excuse me, he's not getting And don't forget
Amari Williams used to be at the top of the
key leading the offense, and Brandon Garrison doesn't do quite
the same job at that maybe as Amari Williams did.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
And he had more shooters around him. I think that's
a very big problem for Away right now. I actually
went back and watched his highlights the other day, and
he would get the ball and the second it touched
his hands, no hesitation, I'm going to the rim and
he was finishing. I don't know that he's done that
once this year. I mean he's attacked, but there's been
some delay. We passing around the perimeter. You take a shot,
I'll take a shot. He seems like a completely different player.
(29:58):
And I get the caller's point, but almost flip it
the other way. I watched Oway in the combine. He
was playing really well.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
He should see Nichols in Eastern Illinois and be like,
I Am going to kill these guys. And he doesn't
have that attitude.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Yeah, he hasn't had he said twelve or fourteen points,
but we probably need him tap twenty or twenty two,
like you were reading some of his box scores at
the end of last year. Who's next? Kenji? Kenji?
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Go ahead, Hey guys, I'm thanks for taking my call.
First off, I heard you all talking about more talent
in college nowadays. Do you feel like, why do you
think we missing out on that talent? Hopefully we can
get a guy like Tyron Stoves. And then secondly, i'd
like to say, how do you all feel about maybe
moving and I love Colin chan On the first of all,
maybe moving him to second stringy and bringing in Jasper
(30:44):
at the Star because I think that Colin will give
us a boost off second srinkle of second string as
a struggling well.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I mean, if we don't have Colin, then I wonder
who's gonna make a shot. I think you do that
We've just made our shooting even worse than it was before.
I'm still starting Colin Chandler at least at this point.
You know, if you're just asking who deserves to be
benched of the starters, it be Oway. I mean, if
we're being real, if you want to take two starters
that deserve to be bench and be Oway and Garrison,
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and then you'd start Johnson and moreno the freshman, so
I would not take out Colin Chandler. I appreciate the call. Now,
why aren't we getting the top guys? It's an interesting question,
it is. I mean, so you look at recruiting right now,
we have yet to get a top guy, not from
the state of Kentucky. We've yet to do it. And
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that's an issue, especially this year in a class where
his freshmen are really good.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Like, there's some really good freshmen.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
AJ Devons at v y U, Caleb Wilson at at
North Carolina, Darren Peterson at Kansas, but Cameron Boozer at Duke,
the kid out at Arizona whose name I forget, but
he's been, he's been, He's he's been really good. I mean,
there's been all these dudes really playing. Then you go
back last year to the portal. Donovan Dent, probably the
number one player in the ended up not getting him.
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The kid that went to Michigan, yack Sole whatever, ended
up not getting me. We did get Jayalen Lowe, but
he was kind of our second choice at point guard.
There's a lot of guys. The guy Ryan called incorrectly
Lamar Wilkinson. Why do you think when it comes we've
gotten a ton of really good players, But why do
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you think we haven't gotten the great player yet under Pope?
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I don't know, I g it's a question we can't answer.
That's why these these like you mentioned other day, there's
these three top freshmen. Kentucky's got to get one of
those three guys, or the perception that he can't get anybody.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It's just gonna grow.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Well, let's use that.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I mean, we are kinda very we're either one or
two with like three of the top twelve players in
the country. But like all the other non players signed
with their schools, why are the three we want? Why
aren't they coming?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Like?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Why is it all the other guys teams are getting
their guy locked up Drew and we're not like why
that's that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
No, And it could be Pope's personality. But one thing
I thought the moment he took the job is he
does not play anyone over thirty minutes a game. We
see it so last year, we're seeing it now. He
wants to play ten deep. And if you're a five star,
number one Stokes, either number two, number three, you're gonna
get thirty to thirty five minutes wherever you go. And
whatever he's doing in the living room is what he's saying.
(33:28):
I think just the way he shows he doesn't give
people the minutes and let them kind of be the guy.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
That's what Jack Pilgrim picks it is.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
I mean Jack Pergram the moment he took the job,
because at BYU everybody played about the same minutes in
the twenties.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I think Mark Pope is too nice, too honest to
open and say what you want about Caliperry. He was
a great salesman, I don't I don't see that in here.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
So what's interesting though, He's also he's not playing some
of those freshmen this year, and then he just lost
two guys that they thought they were gonna get. Yeah,
last day. I mean, he had a kid flipped from
Arkansas to Maryland on the last that didn't used to happen.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
So I wonder if it's just fundamentally a different.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Game and we haven't adapted yet.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Because of money. We got the money.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Yeah, they're using us to get more money from other people.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
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We will take a break and be right back here
at Parlor Pizza. This is KSR. Welcome back in this
Kentucky Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eight oh twenty
two eighty seven here at Parlor Pizza, best pizza in Lexington,
and folks are starting to order the hot honey pepperoni.
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
These wings look amazing. I can't wait to try one
of those.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Looking forward to uh to try it? One person rights, Matt,
I'm for Frank Franklin. Uh I think instead of playing
paying eleven or twelve guys and being deep, we should
pay six or seven dudes and then have role players
that you know. I mean, we'll find out. Maybe that
is the strategy. I don't know. I mean, but then
we did that last year. Then people got hurt and
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we were going, hey, wish we had more players. I mean,
remember when we parted the issue last year as we
were playing Travis Perry and we're like, oh, now we're
not good enough. So I don't know. I mean, I
think whatever you do, the injuries can the greatest plans
of mice and men, Uh what is it? Best laid
plans of mice and men may not matter if you
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get hurt.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
You know, We've always said you can judge a team
of how many NBA guys they got. We have none
that that does you right there at the talent level.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
I mean, we will have one when Jayden Quainton's plays,
but he's not playing right now. But right now on
the court tonight, we will not have one NBA player playing.
There might be guys who develop in the NBA players,
but there are no NBA players right now playing. And
by the way, there were no NBA players on the
team last year like real ones. I'm not saying those
guys can't make the league and play, but right consistently
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making the league and being a we didn't have him
last year, we don't have him this year, Drew. It's
just how it is.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
And I, as you said, with the freshman, I think
this college basketball season is gonna be pretty unique with
how many stars there are, even some transfer portal guys
like Hagerty who we could have gone after. And you
have like forty for Kansas State last night and just
doing whatever he wanted.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Do you remember the guy's name, what was it, Magoon
Guathe or whatever from San Diego State? He had twenty
four in his last game, and if you watch it,
you go, oh, he would have been nice. So but
maybe those guys will end up showing up for us
as we go. If I'm nine two eight oho twenty
two eighty seven, I have a question for you, Ryan, Okay,
(37:23):
Jenny Bust do you know who Jenny Buss.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Is, owner of the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Owner of the Lakers. Yesterday she fired her two brothers
as the head of scouting for the Lakers. So her
two brothers, Joey and Jesse, had kind of been running
the Lakers scouting department, and she got rid of them
and said, it was nice having you here, brothers, but
get out now. Presumably they all sort of owned the
(37:48):
team together, but she runs it. I don't know if dad.
I guess Dad selected her and said cause I think
in their TV show the two brothers were both idiots.
She so she they select the one. But do you
think you could fire your brother from the team that
you all own together.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
It's gonna make for a very awkward Thanksgiving next week
when they sit down and across the table and there's
your two brothers and you fired both of them. I
don't I could maybe fire him, but I would reassign
him to a different position, you know, like let's let's
move you down to a to what head of custodial
services or something.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Here's what I think that's worse.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
I think that that is definitely worse.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
At least you're still employed, that's right.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Could you fire your brother absolutely?
Speaker 8 (38:32):
I mean, if I own a coffee shop, he's the barista. No,
you own the Lakers, They're gonna be all right. Like,
let's find someone who can run this ship. I mean,
there are million billionaires sorry, brothers, you had fun playing Scout,
go do something else.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I'm gonna go if your mark stoops, Can you fire
your brother Mike?
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, I never would have hired thee to begin with.
That's about the thing. I wouldn't have been in that situation.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
I mean, you all are acting all hardcore. I've seen
you all go above and beyond for I've seen all
of you guys go above and beyond for family members.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
It's easy the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
It is theoretically possible to to fire family, but it's
another thing Ryan to do it. Like, I can't see
you firing you. You can talk all the trash you want,
but I have no I've seen your relationship with your brother.
It is hard for me to see you fire in
your brother.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
That's I would just reassign him.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I'm just like, but what if he doesn't want to
be reassigned, Well.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Then I'm gonna make him be reassigned. So you're gonna fire, Well,
so you gotta you have to move into the custodial service.
The custodial services, But like, do you like there's some
cushy job in the front office.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I'm sure he would like that.
Speaker 7 (39:41):
He's stilling getting benefits getting No, he is upset, No,
only if you reassign him.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I would reassign my guy.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
I'm telling you he's upset right now.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
He doesn't my brother.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yes, in my hypothetical, he does not want to be reassigned.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Well, it's it's that or nothing. You can't always do
what you want.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Is your brother's name Chad?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Oh okay, I I thought you were just making up
a name and saying your brother was Chad. Right.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
So I'm a casual Cowboys fan. They need to do
this too.
Speaker 8 (40:10):
I love that you all like having your family operations.
These are billion dollar businesses you're dealing. This isn't This
is even completely different than stoops and stoops. I'm when
I'm thinking, you own the Lakers. Yes, get out here,
go find a hobby, like we need to actually win
and have the best of the best year.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
You all would not have good family meals after that, but.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
We would have a good team.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Yeah yeah, and we would.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Make more money.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
It's tied to me. They did it because the Lakers
are better this year than they've been in a long time,
which seems like a which seems like a weird time
to do it. Who's up next, Jake, Jake, go ahead, Jake.
Speaker 13 (40:41):
Hey More and mad Team. I actually have a quick
comment for you, and then a question about tonight's game.
So uh, to kind of piggyback off the discussion about
Cope not being able to land the top recruits. I
think the diagnosis for that is actually pretty simple, and
it's minutes per game. Did you know that we only
have one guy on our team playing more than twenty
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five minutes per game, and that's Denzel Aberdeen at twenty
five point four. So if you're you know, Tyron Stokes
or you know, name your top favorite recruit. If you
see that man, you want to play and put on
a good film for the NBA. So I think that'd
be a pretty big deterrent for some of these guys,
especially ni own money for everything.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
I think that's a perfectly I think you're exactly right.
I appreciate the call. I go back to Pope would
look at the analytics and go, guys are not efficient
unless they play twenty five minutes. But you're exactly right.
If I'm Tyron Stokes, I'm number one player in the country.
Do I want to come play twenty minutes a game?
Probably not. I will note Cal did the same thing
often and he got guys to come, so you can't
(41:41):
do it.
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Speaker 2 (01:15):
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Speaker 4 (01:19):
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a TJ. Smith office. If you call TJ, he'll make
them pay. It's rainy and kind of disgusting and has
been for a while, and I think it's gonna be
this weekend, But nevertheless, this is our last dual football
basketball weekend of the year. Ryan, football Season's almost over?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Are you sad?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's indy?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
You know?
Speaker 7 (02:00):
It's It's kind of weird how I have flipped. I
am more looking forward to that football game tomorrow than
I am the basketball game tonight. I probably wouldn't have
said that a couple weeks ago. But I'm excited about
the football game. You are, You're excited, Yeah, I mean
you know it's gonna be tough. We're gonna be an
underdog word touchdown underdog already. But just to see him
on the court, on the field where they've played the
last three games, I think Vandy maybe overlooking.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Us a little bit. I think we're a trap game for.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Vandy sold out, We're a trap game for.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Van He's trying to get into the playoffs. There's no
trapping Gay to next week.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, I hope we'd beat I honestly hope we beat Vandy,
just to shut your smug mouth up. You have been
You have been way too trash talking to be a
Vanderbilt face. This is your last nerdy year of excitement
that that football program will ever have.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Would love, just like I would love to shut up. Well,
the Louisville people aren't bragging anymore, so now I think
the thing left to do is shut up your pro
tractor dork mouths down there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And Nash, you're mistaking me for Diego Pavia. He's the
one that talks off the track.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I don't consider him at dort Diego prove you all
as I think Drew said, he must have taken online classes.
That guy's not he is not a real Vandy.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yea wait until it comes back eighth year.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Next year, he keeps suing, So he's the guy in
the Walmart parking lot ten years after he graduates high school,
cruising around. But Drew, I think we have a shot tomorrow.
Maybe I'm just delusional, but why not.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I think we have a shot.
Speaker 8 (03:21):
I'm actually expecting a rare shootout for Kentucky football game.
I don't think they're gonna be able to stop Pavia,
and we've seen that offense turn the quarter of the
last three or four games, and I think we're gonna
have a little bit of a bowy Pavia shootout down.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
And now I actually do too.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I'm looking. I'm with Ryan. I'm looking for the game too.
We are here at Parlor Pizza, where there is pizza
if you, I would hope if you come and join us,
you can come sit with some of your KSR fans
order food. I've been asked a lot, Ryan, I want
to make something clear. I've been asked a lot. Have
we forgotten the Ryan has to eat out by himself.
We have not. It's been really a travel circumstance. I
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have not been here and the next week, of course Thanksgiving.
I'm now maybe targeting the week after Thanksgiving. But I
want you to know you're you're not out of doing that.
I know you thought if you didn't mention it, nobody would,
but you're not out of the week of going and
eating by yourself.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
I really thought it was gonna be one of those
Matt Jones ideas like the camp out the Waddi Werewolf
twenty four hours of Ryan Radio. I thought this was
gonna just kind of slide in that ether and then
we all.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Forget about it. It still could. Don't worry, it's not.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I'm not gonna let it because I have people reminding me.
They want to see you be alone for a period
of time. So I just want people to know we
have not forgotten it, and I want you to maybe
you can get some practice this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well I did have a little practice last night.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Yoga girl had something to do, so I went to
the opening of the Festival of Lights at Appleby's Football Park.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I saw that what was that.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Well, you know, like they've got the Christmas light that
the horse park you have to drive through. This is similar,
but you walk through it. You park and you walk
through the ballpark. It's really kind of cool. But I
had to eat by myself. There a lot of people around.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I still ate by myself.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
There.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
You go to the holiday show by yourself, that's.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Much worse thing.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
I went to the holiday show by myself, by my
walk through the thing by myself.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Yeah, so that counts.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There's one down.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
No, that doesn't count. But that is sad in its
own way. That's much worse than going to dinner. Well,
it's better. I went to dinner at a restaurant and
ended up shating with the dude screaming at me the
whole time, and which was it? Which that's people, that's
a rare experience. But there was a drunk guy at
the bar just screaming my jones and then he would
laugh like he had said the funniest thing in the world,
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and then he just got and then he waited a
few couple of minutes he go mad, yeah, and then
he would.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Just sounds like a pleasant experience. Did you at least
take his picture?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
No? I mean I contemplated. I sit there and go, okay,
because there's like an angel and a devil on my shoulders.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
There.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
There's like my mom going, don't give him the time
of day, this that you would just be acknowledging him
by like and my mom is right. And then there's
the devil going, I want to embarrass this dude and
maybe take his picture. And but I ended up. I
let it, I let my mom went out, and I
just I left. And so what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're just to that level now where you can't even
go out in public without getting.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It's totally fine. I don't know, man, I don't know
why this guy he was particularly rude. But nevertheless, we're
here here today and like I said, due weekend, basketball tonight,
football tomorrow. One of the things I was gonna ask
is which one you're more excited about? Ryan? Is clear
it's football for me. It's football. Does is anybody basketball?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
I basketball?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (06:31):
I mean, I am excited about football, but I'm just
looking at what's in front of me.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I'll get to football in the morning.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
I know we won't get any questions answered tonight, but
I just I need a good taste in my mouth.
I need some joy around Kentucky basketball, assuming this is
a blowout. I just need to smile again with that
team in rupper.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, so we had to. They had to pope press
conference after it was over. I think really two or
three noteworthy things about it. Uh One, he basically said,
you know, and this is gonna be my last time
bringing it up because I do think fans are kind
of exhausted of it. But it is worth noting. He
tried to close the book on the Louisville thing by
(07:08):
saying it was nothing, which you know, I don't believe you.
I don't believe him either. I'm gonna be honest. I
love you, Mark, I don't believe you. You don't bring
something like that up and then go we're gonna tease
Taylor Swift. Lets you think about it, and then go, hey,
why are you all wondering about it? But with what's
going on? Like he started that, it's fine. It is
what it is. I do think it's not productive for
it to keep being brought up. But that's on him.
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That's a that's a screw up on his on his part.
Second thing, he said, though, and I do think this
is a little different and important is he said there
are no chemistry issues on the team. He was like
all the talk out there about them not liking each other,
et cetera. He said that is not true. Now, my
my inclination is gonna be to believe him. But then
I don't know, what do you think about that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I've never heard of coach say we have chemistry issues?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Are you say? What else would you expect him to say?
And like you said, I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
There's nothing to it because if there was nothing to it,
why bring it up at all in the first place.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yep, So clearly they want to be fair.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
He didn't bring up that they had chemistry. Is so
you brought up that something happened the fans have created
And I'm not saying the fans are wrong, right, I'm
just saying the sort of rumors about chemistry are like
people like us watching their body language, right, and then
fans these kind of stories. My thought about chemistry, Drew
has always just been watching them on the court. They
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don't look like a group of guys who kind of
love each other. I mean, that could be wrong, but
that's what it's looked. That's where mine come from.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Yeah, I'm the same way, and we have multiple friends
that are at that game in New York. It's just
not what's on TV. They're just looking at them. They're
looking at Michigan State, a team that's playing for each other,
and they're looking at Kentucky, a team that wasn't. And
so we've been on there's been times there's been an
open guy and he doesn't pass it. You know what,
That could be nothing, but it's just from a basketball standpoint,
there's no chemistry. And then I worry about even the
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team liking each other. But they're not a cohesive unit
right now. There's no debating that. Whatever is going on.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
There were I talk to two new people that were
sitting Ryan like court side in two different places, and
they both had essentially the same art thing. They were like,
there's apparently an incident where Brandon Garrison and some teammates
yelled at each other, not like in a fighting way,
but in a arguing way. But the bigger thing was
(09:19):
they just they were like, they don't communicate, they don't
seem to talk. And then I heard some like Mark
Pope sort of being a level of upset. You don't
see a lot I mean, I don't think you can
act like things are rosy right now, whatever the case is,
I don't think they're rosy.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
We can all look, I mean, we're basketball beanies.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
We can all look.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Something is off, something is just a little off. And
I think it's a combination of everything you said. Maybe
Pope is backed out of character, Maybe they had a
little issue in the locker room. Maybe they're being a
little selfish on the court. Maybe losing Jalen Lowe's put
them into a tailspan. I think it's kind of maybe
a combination of all that.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Well, let's talk about a couple other things from it.
First of all, he said that Brandon Garrison is the
second most efficient player on the team right now, which
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You wouldn't think.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I'm a numbers guy, Like I'm a big believer in
if the numbers say it, the numbers say it. Like
I sometimes I don't like when people argue with numbers
because I'm like, numbers are objective. I don't know if
these numbers are objective. You know, maybe if you include
the games against the bad teams he's done really well
against then. But he was very adamant, look, Brandon Garrison
is the second most efficient guy. He's done a lot
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better than people realize. So I don't think this is
a guy drew that he's gonna be out of starting
lineup soon.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
No, and this is the Pope speaker we knew we're
gonna get. Everything is always perfect and rosie. Like someone
asked about Brandon Garrison. You can say he's not playing
as well as we need him, and he needs to
get his button gear, but he's spun it to Hope,
but his efficiency numbers like at some point we can
be a little negative. We have eyeballs, like, let's call
it like we see it. We don't have to put
a positive, beautiful, extraordinary spin on literally everything.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Okay, So with that point I had, if some people
write me last night, you tell tell me if what
your thought is on this and say that they feel
like you are. They said turning. I don't believe you're
turning on Pope, but that you have like a lot
of negativity about the pope experience.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Right, Yes, would you agree with that? Hell? Yes?
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Did you watch the last two games? My god, we
were down by twenty in our only two meaningful game.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
I'm not saying fire the guy and I still think
it can get corrected, but I'm not going to act
like that was a fun eight days we just went
through at all.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
And I'm also annoying.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
You don't usually get like this, well, I mean, this
is not We also don't go down by twenty four
to Louisville like, let's it's strictly basketball, and then acting
like it's fine when it's not.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
It can get fine. This is all just me reacting
to the last eight days. But my other bit complaint.
He keeps saying we flipped the switch too early? Why
are we flipping switches for Marquee games? Like shouldn't they already.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Know this is Louisville? Like why is there a literal switch?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Right?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
All right, guys, let's get ready now. No, they should
have been ready weeks ago. But you also don't want
to hear flip switch again.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
But I'm just you know, for for long time listeners
of this show, I think they know, like they know
all of our personalities, and this is a lot more
worked up than you usually get.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Okay, let me remind you all we were down by
twenty in the only two games that have mattered.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
All right, I'm not I'm not saying about wrong. I'm
not saying that, but you would agree this is not a.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Normal Drew rykay, when it's not normal being down by
twenty Drew's got Pope fatigue?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Already sounds like that a little bit, it does, you know?
I think the listeners that were reacting, I mean, does
do you have Pope fatigue?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
It's not Pope specific. I don't know if I'm not
making my point. We've played two games and at the
tip we weren't in. You're making your point, but like,
I can't act like that's fine. We don't do that
at Kentucky. We've never done that again. When have we
be been down by twenty to Louisville?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Exactly, So, yes, that's what I'm reacting to. Yeah, I
mean be and Poper good. I wish we'd stop flipping
switches and it's beautiful, right, you all speculate I'm down.
I'm tired of being down by twenty.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
It was quite embarrassing when Michigan State puts their walk
on and at the end of the game because they're
beating us so bad.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Exactly when does that happen?
Speaker 10 (13:15):
That?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Was it ever happened? Very very rarely?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Well, I am.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I am concerned not so much about Mark or the
state of I'm concerned that this team is just not
very good. And that's what worries me is that I'm
sitting there looking and I think that text message I
got that sort of looked. I had this inclination back
in July. But my saving grace was that Jayalen Lowe
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I thought was going to be a star. But it
just if I just wonder if we just don't have
enough good guys. I mean, Rick Patino said yesterday, and
I thought this was a really interesting comment and maybe
we'll talk about it later. Rick said college basketball is
better right now than it's been in twenty five years.
And I think that's right. I think a lot of
people like to complain about NIL, and I think NIL
(14:04):
has had some negative effects on football, but when it
comes to basketball, the quality of play is better. Now.
You got guys staying longer. Thing everybody wanted. Everybody wanted
to may people stay a long. Well, now they're staying longer.
You got foreign players coming in that could have been pros,
and in some cases we're pros and they're now coming in.
The freshmen are now skipping G League and overtime they're coming.
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This is more talent in college basketball than has existed.
And if you watch some of these other games, like
even last night, Wake Forest played Texas Tech and it
was a great game, And you watch these games, and
then I go, are guys good enough for this?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Like I got I see you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Illinoise got like five guys who can take people off
the dribble and score and hit threes. And I'm like,
I mean, are we good enough? I don't know? And
so that that's what kind of worries me is did
we accident? Did we sort of stack a team of
role players with two stars that are hurt and a
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third guy in no way that's just not.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Doing his thing.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We're gonna find out.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I got a tough slot of hate Saint John's, North
Carolina and Zaga.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
That's kind of what worries me. If I'm nine two
eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We are here at
Parlor Pizza Ryan Lemon, who soon will be eating by himself,
worked up Drew Franklin in a regular shade in the dude,
be right back this Parlor Pizza. No, this is kosr
Water back of this Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine,
twenty two eighty seven, it is fascinating for me to
(15:36):
read the text machine and read fans reactions. First of all,
it seems like a lot of people agree with Drew.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You call me Frank today.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I was about to say, well, that's what says Frank
is this Frank Franklin. Frank's here at He's a nice
legacy from the Caliperio. What's what's funny though, to me,
is there are, in literally back to back text Shannon,
there are people that complain that KSR and is both
too negative and too sunshine pumps oh really, which really
(16:04):
just means that for those people, they just want you
to reflect whatever their opinion is. I just want to
hear it right back. Whatever my opinion is, is the
right opinion, give it back to me. I am. I
am surprised. I'm both surprised and not surprised. We're struggling.
I'm surprised we're struggling by so much. I didn't think
Mark Pope teens would lose by this amount of points
to teams. But I am not surprised that with otaga
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Oway not playing well, Ryan, we're struggling so much because
I still I said all year, we're only gonna be
good if Jaalen Lowe's good and we don't have Low
and Otaga has struggled. Now we had some good news
I think about low yesterday, Yes we did, which is
Pope said essentially, we're gonna work and we're gonna try
to give it another go or something like that. So
that says to me he hasn't given up on the season,
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which I assumed he would have to be honest. So
I heard that as he's gonna try to play again
and that's good. Is that how you heard it? That's
exactly how I heard it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I think we all heard.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
For the Michigan State game, that was the other way
he was leaning towards surgery. Maybe that game kind of
made him want to come back and help the team.
He saw how pitiful they were without.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Him, they were.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
You know, he makes a difference the minute he walks
on the on the court, he just you know, the
offense just runs better, more efficient. But even without without him,
Otega is still the key man. He has got to
snap out of this.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
But I think he turned some of those role players
drew into really good players, like a guy who's a
who's a third option. It's harder for him if he's
the second option. But if he gets to be the
third option, right, So Denzel Aberdeen is the dude you're
leaving open to guard old Way and Low. Okay, now
wait a minute, but if we're all standing around waiting
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on Denzel Aberdeen to score, I don't know. So like
at Florida, he got to be that guy because Walter
Clayton and those guys were getting and he got to
kind of be the the third fourth option. Maybe all
these guys are meant for a role that with Low
out and no Way not playing well, they.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Don't get to do Yeah, and uh, you know, I know,
we got used to the one and done and guys
just are what they are. But guys are supposed to
get better each year. And I know a lot of
these were just role players, but when you lock them in,
you're hoping they get better. And two of the starters
have not only not gotten better, they seem to have
gotten worse. And that is a huge problem.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
That's a really good point about this. We got so
used to one and done that like whatever we saw,
that's just what they were. Guys get better look at
college like colin a way is a perfect I don't
know what Away was like as a freshman, but he
wasn't probably what he is. So you know, I will
say that Jamal Mashburn and then we'll we'll we'll move on.
(18:37):
Jamal Mashburn was on a different game last night and
he's sitting with it. I mean, there's a lot of
people in Kentucky connections. Adam Lefko is the host, used
to be in Louisville. Uh, Mashburn's on there, Bruce Pearl's
on there, Jalen Rose and his steak hair are on there,
and uh and they and Mashburn said they're not playing
like wildcats. They're a team that with a bunch of
kiddies and basically said, you need a dude. That was
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when Mashburn was saying you need a dude. And he
was like, none of these guys look like a dude.
That's kind of what we've been saying, Ryan. But it
was interesting here Mashburn, who was certainly a dude in
his day, he say that.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
So the optimistic Kentucky fan might say, Matt, the calendar
does still say November.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
There's plenty of time it.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Turns out, who's the dude?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
If Jalen low doesn't let's I mean, if we're being
this is why I'm worried. If Jalen low doesn't come back,
who's the dude?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's got to be Otega man. Don't you think it's
gotta be?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
And I don't know, Maybe it's I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
If he's a guy, you know, and Jayden Quainton's comes back,
can he be that guy?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
So maybe he'll certainly help defensively in rebounds.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
He will help with that a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know, assuming Jaylen Lowe will come back, and that's
a big assumption. But if he does, and if Quaintan's
you know, recovers, I want to see what this team
looks like, fully healthy, then I'll judge the team. I'm
gonna reserve my judgment until that happens.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I will too, if you promise me they'll be full healthy.
We haven't seen jan and Quaint's play a game yet, right,
and we don't know about Jaylen Lowe. So we'll see
who's up first. If I'm nine to twenty eighty seven, Adam, Adam,
go ahead, Adam, go ahead, Adam, or don't Who's next, Brin, Brin,
go ahead, Brent.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
Hey Man, thank you for taking my call. I was
listening to Jack last night on his Sources Say, and
he was talking about Marks Mark Pope's inability to read
the room like with a fan base in his postgame
press conferences, and then he went into how this is
how this is affecting recruiting, and he gets you know,
(20:41):
like some examples about like how it's carrying over like
into the recruiting area.
Speaker 12 (20:47):
And I was wondering if you had.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Heard anything like that, I'll hang out and listen.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Well I have not. I mean, Jack, Jack, I don't
do like I don't talk to high school kids or
coaches anymore, so I can't. Jack would know that a
lot better than mine than me. You know, there's always
been this question about, well, how does Mark relate to players,
et cetera. Is there because you know, I mean, he's
shandon kind of a corny guy, like how does how
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does that work? My view has always been judging by
what he brings in. Now we haven't brought in a
superstar yet, and so you do wonder about that. So
I can't say about the recruiting thing. I still think
Ryan fans still really loved the guy, and I think
he's done a really good job of reading the room
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except the last eight or ten days. So I don't
want to just say, like make these grand pronouncements that
he doesn't know how to talk to fans. I just
think he's had a bad couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Yeah, and we talked about that whole Louisville pregame incident.
He's one and initiated that.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
He brought it up to us.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
We would probably never know anything ever happened, But he
didn't even say anything. I think he's too honest to
a fault sometimes and maybe he's kind of learning by
fire that maybe there some things that need to stay in.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
The locker room. You should know that though he played
here he puts this bas.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
But you also can just have a bad week. You can.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
You know, you can just have a bad week.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Sometimes you're grumpy.
Speaker 11 (22:09):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Sometimes I walk out of the show and go, eh,
I don't know if that's what I wanted to say,
you know, And he he only gets ten minutes in
front of us three times, right, so you know, maybe
just had bad days. We'll see the problem is we're
not gonna know anything else till we play somebody Good
and it's two weeks and it's two weeks away until
we do. We'll take a break here a Parlor Pizza.
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This is Kentucky Sports Radio. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney
called TJ.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
He'll make them.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
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Speaker 4 (22:41):
Here's Matt walk them back Tucky Sports Radio. Liam, you
do a good job with the music selection. I do
have to say. I mean, like you know, you're not
You're no Shannon, but you do. You do a good
job with the music selection. And Liam, I do appreciate
it when you're there.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I try to play it gets the people going, you know, well.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I know if it gets people going, but you get
it's me going.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
But I just like you do it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
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Speaker 6 (23:40):
Have it for the Arkansas game. I'll be here eight.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Five nine two eight zero twenty two eighty seven. I
don't want to make this all like you know, complaining,
so I also want to talk about a couple other things.
They got a question for you, right all right's go.
The guy that's in charge of the transportation department. His
name is Sean Duffy. He was on the Real World
or road rue are one of those, so he's perfect
to run the transportation department. He he did an interview
(24:06):
and he said a bunch of things about the holiday
travel seas. But one thing he said is he is
he thinks people should dress up more when they go
on planes. He said that if everyone dressed up more
when we went on planes, it would be a better experience. Now,
I know, back in the day, like you would see
those pictures in like the fifties and sixties, people would
wear suits or they would dress up and they would
(24:27):
look really uh you know, it would look like it
would look like they're going to church when they go
on planes. Of course, now people like look like they
just woke up going on planes. You like to fly
sprint to a lot of places. Do you think that
that would be spirit Do you think it would be
better for people to dress up and then if they
if they, if you did, will you dress up to
(24:48):
go on plane?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I mean where else in our lives are we crammed
into a metal cylinder where you're sitting in the middle
roll and you're trying to find a place just to
lay back and put your and put your elbows.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
You want to be comfortable.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
Man, I'm wearing sweats and a hoodie and flip flopped
and I'm being comfortable.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
But do you think if people dressed up it would
be like everybody'd be more polite and civilized and it
would be a better experience for everyone.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
No, make me more uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
It's for you, especially because you don't ever dress out,
no anything, what about you?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
No?
Speaker 8 (25:22):
I mean, actually I like when I see it's usually
someone a little older. They're there and they're in like
a full suit. I have like a briefcase. It's kind
of sweet when I see that, but I'm not doing it.
I'm usually taking the first flight in the morning. I
usually roll out of bed and crawl into an uber
and get to the airport.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I see all those pictures channing from like the fifties
and sixties when people did dress up, And I don't
know when that changed, because I can't think of a
time in my lifetime that I've ever seen in people
not just look terrible on a plane. So when did
that change?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Because you know, with the hippies and the sixties, probably
think it was they traded out of their suits for
ty die And you know.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I mean, I don't know that I'm the best person
to because I wear a hoodie almost every day. But like,
but like I've talked about, I don't like churches now.
I don't like the whole where jeans to church thing that,
But but I don't consider planes like that to me. Planes,
I don't know if me wearing a suit's gonna make
anything better. It's just gonna give me a wrinkle jacket.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Exactly, gonna make you more uncomfortable, and if you're traveling,
I'm all about comfort. I really don't care how I look.
I'm there for the comfort.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
So you don't think that's gonna change. I think that
will ever change anytime.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Well that was I didn't know the road rules guys
are transportation.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yeah, is Sean Duffy he married? I think he married
a woman from road rules or excuse me, from real world.
It was a road rules real world marriage.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
The challenge was a challenge marriage.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
They did. They married together. She his wife, was on
the one with Puck eating the guy's peanut butter. Okay,
that's back when I used to watch You Have Me Too.
It's been all over the road. I guess it makes sense.
That's true. He traveled. He's perfect for the transportation department.
Who's up next?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Otis?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Otis, go ahead, otis?
Speaker 12 (27:00):
How you gentlemen doing.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I know you're doing well.
Speaker 12 (27:01):
I'm not going to ask that retort question.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I haven't heard from you in a long time. O this,
so I want you to get that engine rammed and
start talking fast.
Speaker 12 (27:09):
All right, man, I just got two concerns. I'm a
little concerned about Mark Pope. The last I want to say,
dating back to the tournament, the last big, big game,
not the little game. He has got blown out Tennessee, Georgetown, Louisville,
and of course this last one. So I'm a little
concerned about that situation. I hope he can get that rectified.
And my main concern is with oh way, I'm thinking
in my mind, this is my you know, I'm really injected,
(27:30):
and this is my opinion. I'm thinking, in my mind,
he thought he should have went to the draft and
should be in the NBA. He didn't want to come
back to college because you guys, think about it. He
waded it to the last second to declare he's coming back.
But in my mind, he thought he probably was a
better prospect than the Mart Butler and some of the
other guys that got drafted. So he's stuck in limbo, like, man,
I want to be here, but I don't want to
be here. I want to be here for the money,
but at the same time, I want to go on
(27:51):
to my start my career. So what do you I
want to hang up and get you a pin on
that thank you guys holiday and look forward to you.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Here's my secret for fans when you talk about wanting
to be in the NBA. Here's a little secret. Every
single guy wants to be in the NBA, every one
of them, every single one of them, all of them.
So I don't care. Think about Reed Shepherd. Do you
remember how everybody go read Shepherd's from Kentucky and he
loves his place and he'll want it. Like when he
(28:18):
had a chance to go to the NBA, what do
he do to the NBA? To the NBA. I mean,
all these guys want to go to the NBA. So
I'm not gonna hold it against Oway that he wanted
to go to the NBA. Right, We've had guys wait
till last minute, come back the next year and be great,
you know.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
So Keith Bogan's a perfect example.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Tried to go to the NBA twice, got turned down twice,
came back his senior year and had one of the
best years for UK in the last twenty five years.
So that, to me, Ryan is not an excuse for
him playing bad. Is he wanted to be in the NBA.
All these guys wanted to be in the NBA. You know,
Jay Long went through the process as well. He wasn't picked,
but I mean like or he wasn't gonna be selected,
(28:53):
but they all want to be in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
It's like last year they played with like a chip
on his shoulder, like I have something to prove that
I do belong here, do an NBA prospect.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
This year, it seems like that's missing.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
And I don't know what between these years right now,
if he's just so concentrating on what the NBA scouts
told him that you got to become a ned three
point shooter if you're ever going to play in this league,
and he think that's what I have to do, come
out and shoot seven eight threes a game.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I think it's a combination of that Drew and then
there's a combination of the thing he was good at.
It is hard for him because we're not making shots,
we're not spacing the floor and the lanes he got
last year. Excuse me, he's not getting And don't forget
Amari Williams used to be at the top of the
key leading the offense, and Brandon Garrison doesn't do quite
the same job at that maybe as Amari Williams did.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
And he had more shooters around him. I think that's
a very big problem for Away right now. I actually
went back and watched his highlights the other day, and
he would get the ball and the second it touched
his hands, no hesitation, I'm going to the rim and
he was finishing. I don't know that he's done that
once this year. I mean he's attacked, but there's been
some delay. We passing around the perimeter. You take a shot,
I'll take a shot. He seems like a completely different player.
(29:58):
And I get the caller's point, but almost flip it
the other way. I watched Oway in the combine. He
was playing really well.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
He should see Nichols in Eastern Illinois and be like,
I Am going to kill these guys. And he doesn't
have that attitude.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Yeah, he hasn't had he said twelve or fourteen points,
but we probably need him tap twenty or twenty two,
like you were reading some of his box scores at
the end of last year. Who's next? Kenji? Kenji?
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Go ahead, Hey guys, I'm thanks for taking my call.
First off, I heard you all talking about more talent
in college nowadays. Do you feel like, why do you
think we missing out on that talent? Hopefully we can
get a guy like Tyron Stoves. And then secondly, i'd
like to say, how do you all feel about maybe
moving and I love Colin chan On the first of all,
maybe moving him to second stringy and bringing in Jasper
(30:44):
at the Star because I think that Colin will give
us a boost off second srinkle of second string as
a struggling well.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I mean, if we don't have Colin, then I wonder
who's gonna make a shot. I think you do that
We've just made our shooting even worse than it was before.
I'm still starting Colin Chandler at least at this point.
You know, if you're just asking who deserves to be
benched of the starters, it be Oway. I mean, if
we're being real, if you want to take two starters
that deserve to be bench and be Oway and Garrison,
(31:11):
and then you'd start Johnson and moreno the freshman, so
I would not take out Colin Chandler. I appreciate the call. Now,
why aren't we getting the top guys? It's an interesting question,
it is. I mean, so you look at recruiting right now,
we have yet to get a top guy, not from
the state of Kentucky. We've yet to do it. And
(31:33):
that's an issue, especially this year in a class where
his freshmen are really good.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Like, there's some really good freshmen.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
AJ Devons at v y U, Caleb Wilson at at
North Carolina, Darren Peterson at Kansas, but Cameron Boozer at Duke,
the kid out at Arizona whose name I forget, but
he's been, he's been, He's he's been really good. I mean,
there's been all these dudes really playing. Then you go
back last year to the portal. Donovan Dent, probably the
number one player in the ended up not getting him.
(32:01):
The kid that went to Michigan, yack Sole whatever, ended
up not getting me. We did get Jayalen Lowe, but
he was kind of our second choice at point guard.
There's a lot of guys. The guy Ryan called incorrectly
Lamar Wilkinson. Why do you think when it comes we've
gotten a ton of really good players, But why do
(32:23):
you think we haven't gotten the great player yet under Pope?
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I don't know, I g it's a question we can't answer.
That's why these these like you mentioned other day, there's
these three top freshmen. Kentucky's got to get one of
those three guys, or the perception that he can't get anybody.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It's just gonna grow.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Well, let's use that.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I mean, we are kinda very we're either one or
two with like three of the top twelve players in
the country. But like all the other non players signed
with their schools, why are the three we want? Why
aren't they coming?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Like?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Why is it all the other guys teams are getting
their guy locked up Drew and we're not like why
that's that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
No, And it could be Pope's personality. But one thing
I thought the moment he took the job is he
does not play anyone over thirty minutes a game. We
see it so last year, we're seeing it now. He
wants to play ten deep. And if you're a five star,
number one Stokes, either number two, number three, you're gonna
get thirty to thirty five minutes wherever you go. And
whatever he's doing in the living room is what he's saying.
(33:28):
I think just the way he shows he doesn't give
people the minutes and let them kind of be the guy.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
That's what Jack Pilgrim picks it is.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
I mean Jack Pergram the moment he took the job,
because at BYU everybody played about the same minutes in
the twenties.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I think Mark Pope is too nice, too honest to
open and say what you want about Caliperry. He was
a great salesman, I don't I don't see that in here.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
So what's interesting though, He's also he's not playing some
of those freshmen this year, and then he just lost
two guys that they thought they were gonna get. Yeah,
last day. I mean, he had a kid flipped from
Arkansas to Maryland on the last that didn't used to happen.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
So I wonder if it's just fundamentally a different.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Game and we haven't adapted yet.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Because of money. We got the money.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Yeah, they're using us to get more money from other people.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
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We will take a break and be right back here
at Parlor Pizza. This is KSR. Welcome back in this
Kentucky Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eight oh twenty
two eighty seven here at Parlor Pizza, best pizza in Lexington,
and folks are starting to order the hot honey pepperoni.
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
These wings look amazing. I can't wait to try one
of those.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Looking forward to uh to try it? One person rights, Matt,
I'm for Frank Franklin. Uh I think instead of playing
paying eleven or twelve guys and being deep, we should
pay six or seven dudes and then have role players
that you know. I mean, we'll find out. Maybe that
is the strategy. I don't know. I mean, but then
we did that last year. Then people got hurt and
(35:53):
we were going, hey, wish we had more players. I mean,
remember when we parted the issue last year as we
were playing Travis Perry and we're like, oh, now we're
not good enough. So I don't know. I mean, I
think whatever you do, the injuries can the greatest plans
of mice and men, Uh what is it? Best laid
plans of mice and men may not matter if you
(36:14):
get hurt.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
You know, We've always said you can judge a team
of how many NBA guys they got. We have none
that that does you right there at the talent level.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
I mean, we will have one when Jayden Quainton's plays,
but he's not playing right now. But right now on
the court tonight, we will not have one NBA player playing.
There might be guys who develop in the NBA players,
but there are no NBA players right now playing. And
by the way, there were no NBA players on the
team last year like real ones. I'm not saying those
guys can't make the league and play, but right consistently
(36:44):
making the league and being a we didn't have him
last year, we don't have him this year, Drew. It's
just how it is.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
And I, as you said, with the freshman, I think
this college basketball season is gonna be pretty unique with
how many stars there are, even some transfer portal guys
like Hagerty who we could have gone after. And you
have like forty for Kansas State last night and just
doing whatever he wanted.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Do you remember the guy's name, what was it, Magoon
Guathe or whatever from San Diego State? He had twenty
four in his last game, and if you watch it,
you go, oh, he would have been nice. So but
maybe those guys will end up showing up for us
as we go. If I'm nine two eight oho twenty
two eighty seven, I have a question for you, Ryan, Okay,
(37:23):
Jenny Bust do you know who Jenny Buss.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Is, owner of the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Owner of the Lakers. Yesterday she fired her two brothers
as the head of scouting for the Lakers. So her
two brothers, Joey and Jesse, had kind of been running
the Lakers scouting department, and she got rid of them
and said, it was nice having you here, brothers, but
get out now. Presumably they all sort of owned the
(37:48):
team together, but she runs it. I don't know if dad.
I guess Dad selected her and said cause I think
in their TV show the two brothers were both idiots.
She so she they select the one. But do you
think you could fire your brother from the team that
you all own together.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
It's gonna make for a very awkward Thanksgiving next week
when they sit down and across the table and there's
your two brothers and you fired both of them. I
don't I could maybe fire him, but I would reassign
him to a different position, you know, like let's let's
move you down to a to what head of custodial
services or something.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Here's what I think that's worse.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
I think that that is definitely worse.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
At least you're still employed, that's right.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Could you fire your brother absolutely?
Speaker 8 (38:32):
I mean, if I own a coffee shop, he's the barista. No,
you own the Lakers, They're gonna be all right. Like,
let's find someone who can run this ship. I mean,
there are million billionaires sorry, brothers, you had fun playing Scout,
go do something else.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I'm gonna go if your mark stoops, Can you fire
your brother Mike?
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, I never would have hired thee to begin with.
That's about the thing. I wouldn't have been in that situation.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
I mean, you all are acting all hardcore. I've seen
you all go above and beyond for I've seen all
of you guys go above and beyond for family members.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
It's easy the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
It is theoretically possible to to fire family, but it's
another thing Ryan to do it. Like, I can't see
you firing you. You can talk all the trash you want,
but I have no I've seen your relationship with your brother.
It is hard for me to see you fire in
your brother.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
That's I would just reassign him.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I'm just like, but what if he doesn't want to
be reassigned, Well.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Then I'm gonna make him be reassigned. So you're gonna fire, Well,
so you gotta you have to move into the custodial service.
The custodial services, But like, do you like there's some
cushy job in the front office.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I'm sure he would like that.
Speaker 7 (39:41):
He's stilling getting benefits getting No, he is upset, No,
only if you reassign him.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I would reassign my guy.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
I'm telling you he's upset right now.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
He doesn't my brother.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yes, in my hypothetical, he does not want to be reassigned.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Well, it's it's that or nothing. You can't always do
what you want.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Is your brother's name Chad?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Oh okay, I I thought you were just making up
a name and saying your brother was Chad. Right.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
So I'm a casual Cowboys fan. They need to do
this too.
Speaker 8 (40:10):
I love that you all like having your family operations.
These are billion dollar businesses you're dealing. This isn't This
is even completely different than stoops and stoops. I'm when
I'm thinking, you own the Lakers. Yes, get out here,
go find a hobby, like we need to actually win
and have the best of the best year.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
You all would not have good family meals after that, but.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
We would have a good team.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Yeah yeah, and we would.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Make more money.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
It's tied to me. They did it because the Lakers
are better this year than they've been in a long time,
which seems like a which seems like a weird time
to do it. Who's up next, Jake, Jake, go ahead, Jake.
Speaker 13 (40:41):
Hey More and mad Team. I actually have a quick
comment for you, and then a question about tonight's game.
So uh, to kind of piggyback off the discussion about
Cope not being able to land the top recruits. I
think the diagnosis for that is actually pretty simple, and
it's minutes per game. Did you know that we only
have one guy on our team playing more than twenty
(41:02):
five minutes per game, and that's Denzel Aberdeen at twenty
five point four. So if you're you know, Tyron Stokes
or you know, name your top favorite recruit. If you
see that man, you want to play and put on
a good film for the NBA. So I think that'd
be a pretty big deterrent for some of these guys,
especially ni own money for everything.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
I think that's a perfectly I think you're exactly right.
I appreciate the call. I go back to Pope would
look at the analytics and go, guys are not efficient
unless they play twenty five minutes. But you're exactly right.
If I'm Tyron Stokes, I'm number one player in the country.
Do I want to come play twenty minutes a game?
Probably not. I will note Cal did the same thing
often and he got guys to come, so you can't
(41:41):
do it.
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