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Ryan and Drew did make it in in Lexington.

Shannon made it in in Louisville.

Guys, I hear it's cold here, but sunny.

I hear you guys had like traffic McGueden today, both all of you, right?

Apparently, black ice has taken over downtown Lexington and traffic was a nightmare.

Drew got in a lot worse than I did coming from his side of town.

It takes me 12, sometimes 13 minutes to get from house to show.

This morning, I left at 9 a.m., and I barely made it.

Yeah.

Took me an hour as well.

I nearly slid off the road twice coming in, so it's better there.

So what's going on?

So are cars wrecking or is it traffic?

Or is it all the above?

Yeah, all the above.

Everything.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, that's no good.

Was it was this scene that people know this was coming?

No.

No.

We got like a light dusting of snow.

I even looked out my window this morning in the street.

Look fine.

So I'm just doing my normal routine until phone starts blowing up with friends turning around

and going home and my wife running late and Billy sent us a message.

So I ran out the door as early as I could.

Yeah.

By the way, Mario is a complete chicken.

Mario is like, I don't drive in ice.

Can I stay?

I want a diva.

Really?

I know.

You had a diva on the payroll.

And you know, I'm not going to risk his risk his well-being Shannon.

So I said, sure you could stay home.

But I thought, well, maybe it'll just be me and Shannon.

Maybe nobody can get there.

But then Ryan and Drew make it.

Ryan and Mario seems kind of diva.

He's staying at home being scared of the ice.

You know, that really surprises me.

Especially after seeing all that manliness he saw on you riding that bull the other day.

No, no.

This is not on me.

Look, I would have been the one person that's always I would have been it.

But I'm just saying, yeah, I mean, yeah, you all didn't ride the bull.

I don't want to hear it.

But I would say, but I was surprised that Mario backed out.

Well, hopefully everybody is safe.

I know I did see a thing that said the Lexington police were no longer taking calls

Drew for car accidents unless it involved an injury because they had too many.

They said, we cannot take calls for car accidents unless there's an injury.

At least, right.

And I'm sure that'll change at some point.

But that must mean that, you know, it's like Bristol motor speedway or something.

Just wrecks everywhere.

I only saw one wreck on my way in.

It wasn't too bad.

But it was just a parking lot having to go so slow.

I'm sure there were wrecks elsewhere.

But it wasn't too bad as far as wrecks going my way in.

Just way too much traffic and completely unexpected.

I was kind of thankful this wasn't tomorrow because the sweet 16 starts tomorrow.

It could have been even worse with all that traffic coming in tomorrow.

Yeah, so sweet 16 starts tomorrow.

We'll talk a little bit more about that.

Obviously, the NCAA tournament is Thursday.

We made a mistake.

Me and Ryan.

And we, I didn't look to see when the deadline for credentials was.

I thought it would be longer than five o'clock yesterday.

Uh-oh.

And I got on at eight o'clock to try to fill it out.

And it was closed.

So I beg, I beg to the Missouri Valley commissioner.

Because that's who's putting on the St. Louis regional.

Yeah.

The Missouri Valley commissioner who I oddly know.

But from having gone to the Missouri Valley conference.

I begged for forgiveness.

And we'll see if it happens.

Because if it doesn't, then we might not even go on to St. Louis.

I mean, there's no reason to go out there and not get to go to the game.

Right.

So, um, so we'll see.

We're, we're playing on leave for St. Louis tomorrow.

Or Ryan, maybe we won't.

I don't know.

It's all in the hands of the Missouri Valley commissioner.

Well, you know, you used to copy last night.

I didn't, I never received a link either.

So I don't know.

Well, I got the link.

I just assumed you had till longer than five o'clock the day after.

I mean, I assumed you had at least a full day.

But I guess you didn't.

Uh, and that's on me.

And so hopefully, you know, I don't know how kind people are drew in the Missouri Valley.

But I guess we'll figure that out.

Well, it's one of the kindest conferences.

And if I feel like it is, right?

Yeah, I think you all will be fine.

Maybe one of our teams are any of our teams in the Missouri Valley from.

It's my Murray states in the Missouri Valley state.

Yes, that's correct.

So maybe some of our Murray state people can, can help us.

I'm at the mercy of the Valley.

You know, I don't know.

I'm at the, I'm at the, but Drew, you and I have been to the Missouri Valley conference.

At least twice, right?

Haven't we?

I know I've been, we've been to so many random things.

I would, I've been anything.

That was Arge Madness.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's where we were well really high in the hockey game, right?

Yeah.

Their press rose like on the roof.

Yeah.

That was a fun trip.

I mean, you're definitely in there now.

Even Evansville, I think, send the Missouri Valley conferences.

We got two school, two of our schools are there.

All right.

Hopefully we can make it happen.

Because I would like to go.

I'm flying back to Louisville tonight to try to make the trip.

But I guess we'll find out.

Um, cool thing happened yesterday.

All right.

Uh, and this is, and, and I have to say, you know, there's been a long time rivalry

on this show, Shane and going back a while with Seth Greenberg.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Better have my money.

Yeah.

He hosted this show once and was very adamant about getting his money,

which I, yeah, which, which I think I heart finally paid.

But Seth, you know, I, Seth better have his money.

Shit.

That's one of the things we've learned.

And it was literally like $30.

I'm sorry.

How much you promised him, but he was blowing me up.

It was very little.

I mean, that was back in the early days, right?

Yeah.

I had a lot of money at all, but he wanted it.

And, uh, well, so last night, I'm here in Bristol.

And I had stuff here until about five o'clock.

And then I was just going to come to the hotel and just hang out.

And I get a phone call at six o'clock that says Seth Greenberg cannot fly out of Nashville due to weather.

And he was supposed to do a digital hand bracket thing with us.

And now I can't.

Can you fill in and do it?

And Ryan, I'm like, what's, what's the lesson when you're trying to, to rise in a company?

The answer is always yes.

Right?

You just say nox.

You take it.

You just say yes.

Yep.

So I go, sure, what do I need to do?

And they're like, you need to be here right now.

And, um, you're going to have to fit.

I guess J Williams, Jeff Borzello call it.

All these college basketball people had done it.

Just show up.

And I go, well, I haven't showered.

I don't want they're like, just where would you got on?

What do you have on?

All right.

I had a hoodie and I had a Madisonville hat.

And so Madisonville's getting some national TV play.

Shut up.

And a jacket.

So I drive quickly over to ESPN, get through security, get in there.

And they're doing this thing, which I think it's going to come out today,

where they put one camera on me and then one camera above me just on my hands.

And they have me fill out a bracket and explain it.

Okay.

And they said, this will be on ESPN digital and it'll run on ESPN news.

So go for it.

And you know, they say, fill out the bracket.

And then Shannon, they say, do it in 12 minutes.

Oh, okay.

So you have to almost in your mind, think about spacing out 12 minutes.

Yeah. Right.

Face yourself.

And you know, it's just a monologue.

You know, Drew, I don't like to host by myself.

I don't really think that's entertaining.

But you basically now have 12 minutes just to fill out your bracket.

Now, those of you that know me, Drew, you know, I don't have great handwriting.

You've seen my handwriting.

Doctor's handwriting.

Maybe serial killer handwriting.

Yeah.

It's not serial killer handwriting.

It's just not great pinmanship.

But the camera is above me only on my hands.

And then it occurs to me, Drew, did I clip my fingernails?

Right.

Because this is a close-up on your hands.

Thankfully, the night before I had clipped my fingernails.

But I don't know if you all have ever looked.

Just take a second and look at your hands.

Okay.

Everybody just do this.

And think to yourself, do you want these hands in HD on national television?

Because you start to see imperfections in your hands when you do that.

And all I could think is, okay, what are people going to focus on on my hands?

I have, what is the thing?

Because you know how the internet is.

Ryan, they'll focus on something.

Right.

Yeah.

I remember one time I did a video and they just kept saying, where's your left eyebrow?

Because of the way the sun was sitting.

It was.

Do you remember that?

That was.

I didn't remember that one.

Because the light shined in certain way that it looked like only a half of a left eyebrow.

Yeah.

You did.

Look, I granted it.

It looked like it.

Yeah.

So I'm sitting there last night, sort of, you know, looking at my hands and going, all right,

well, we just have to do it.

I start down the path.

And I'm so used to Ryan doing this show and even Matt Myron on Sunday mornings.

Sometimes I don't think about what I said.

As I'm feeling out the bracket, I made a bill self hair piece joke.

Oh my.

On that go over.

They'll kept it in.

They kept it in.

But I mean, I guess because no one stopped me and said, okay, let's not do that.

And I kind of just kept going throughout, sort of making snide comments about coaches along

the way.

And I guess they're going to keep it because at the end they were like, that's great.

You did an awesome job.

Exactly what we wanted.

Thank you very much.

So that apparently will come out this morning and Ryan, national TV exposure for my hands.

And hopefully they didn't look too awful on TV.

It may work because everybody else is probably going to be like real serious and real critical things.

Oh, they are.

Yeah.

Without question.

So yours may actually work.

I fit right in with what they're trying to pull off on this little broadcast.

I think he meant this is a compliment, but it could have been a put down, Drew.

I'm not sure he said, well, everybody else had a lot of analysis.

You added personality, which might just be a way to go.

It didn't sound like you knew anything, but that's all right.

See, I take that as a compliment.

Yeah.

Analysis, especially on TV, fill out your bracket.

It gets boring.

Like, let's have some fun.

It's March, men.

You don't have to give me points per possession right now while you're filling out your bracket.

So I would prefer because I didn't think it through, Shannon.

I think I have Akron to the sweet 16 in my bracket.

Yeah.

Which might be a mistake.

I'm almost certain I put Akron to the sweet 16.

I don't 100% remember what where I put everybody.

I did pick Louisville to lose in the first round.

And I called Duke the evil empire.

So I felt like I got a chance to Shannon to air all my grievances on national.

I like that you did that.

You didn't go complete chalk.

There's nothing more annoying than they go to these experts and they have their final four.

And it's all one seeds.

Well, mine's pretty chalk.

I mean, I got mostly one seeds in the final four.

But nevertheless, I will say it was kind of exciting.

It's the first time I've ever done anything on ESPN.

Ryan, where they put me in a, you know, I was in the sports center studio, right?

That's where they put me to do it because that's where they take it.

And they had just finished the women's bracketology show.

And can I give you an embarrassing moment?

Yes, please.

So I walk in there.

They've just finished the women's bracketology show.

There's like three former women's players.

And did you know there was a woman's Joe Lanardi?

Did you know this?

Yes.

His name's Charlie something.

Do you know what it is?

Charlie Cream?

Charlie the G.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Is that his name?

I think it's Charlie Cream.

So they're doing the show.

And I'm in there.

And we have like, it takes them 20 minutes to change the set around to get to where they take the women's bracketology set off and put this set on.

So we're all just kind of standing there.

And they're all talking about the women's tournament.

And Ryan, I feel like I want to fit in.

But I don't know what to say because I don't know these people.

Was Rebecca Lobo out there?

She was not.

I didn't recognize the women's, I've seen them on TV, but I didn't know who they were.

Right.

So I'm wanting to try to fit in because I don't, you know, I want to be friends with these people.

So I just kind of bring up the Kentucky women's team.

And I'm like, you know, Kentucky women.

Yeah.

Who do you all think is going to win when they play West Virginia?

You know, Shannon trying to relate, right?

Who's going to win when we play West Virginia?

Yeah.

And I think two of them have picked Kentucky and one of them have picked West Virginia.

And then I said, yeah, I feel like Kenny's team really should have gotten gotten to host.

They should have been the foresee.

Shannon, I don't really know if that's true or not.

Yeah.

But that's what you felt in that moment.

But I thought I was saying in that moment.

Yeah.

And then the guy who looks at me and goes, well, no, you have to look at their wins versus losses versus West Virginia.

You know, he lost once in Peru.

And I was like, yeah, but and I started to argue with him.

And then I realized that's the guy who does bracketology for the women's bracket.

You know, you argue with Joe Lanardi.

It would be like me going, come on, Joe Lanardi.

What do you know?

What do you know?

What do you know?

And all of a sudden, somebody, I could see the producer was trying to help me and he goes, that's Charlie Kreme.

He runs the women's bracketology and I went, you know what?

Never mind.

I'm sure you're correct.

My bad.

I was about to argue.

So Kenny Brooks, I tried to argue your case to Charlie Kreme, I guess.

But Drew, he probably did no more about it than I did.

It's alright.

I like you putting up the fight.

And he had Kentucky close just a few weeks ago and changed it.

So he can't act like it's a crazy sentiment that you would say.

He said they were West Virginia was probably the last team to get a home seed.

And we were the last team to not.

So he said if we had, if they, if we had won one more game, we would be hosting them in Lexington.

Instead, they're hosting us in West Virginia.

So right.

To me, your point is valid.

You have a good point.

If they were the last team to get a host and Kentucky was the next one in line, you wrote a good talking point.

But I didn't, but I didn't have a way.

I argued Kentucky should get it, but I had zero facts to back myself up.

I was just trying to make more conversation.

Yeah, he was much more prepared.

I just, you could have just made another Bill Self Herpes joke to him.

I just kept riding that way.

Oh, that's really all I can bring to the table.

But it was cool.

And do me a favor.

When it comes out today, if you see it, watch it because hopefully it'll get enough views to where it doesn't look as pale in comparison to the other to the stars who got to do it.

So when it comes out, I'll link it now.

Hope you all will check it out and look at my hands.

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One person writes, Matt,

I am going to now be watching Seth Greenberg's hands this week

to see who has the better years or his.

Drew, I hope it's me.

If Seth Greenberg has hotter hands than me,

that's a driving trouble.

Oh, the joke's so want to make right now.

No, I mean, there's some good ones.

You saw the one from our friend, I'll be.

That's a great joke.

I wish I, I wish I could say them on the radio,

but I can't.

But good.

But a lot of honor for you.

You had to at the beginning, Ryan, go,

I'm at Jones,

and you should follow my bracket because, right?

And I looked at the other ones,

and Jeff Porzello was like,

I'm Jeff Porzello.

You should follow my bracket,

because I picked all the final four last year.

Right?

Okay.

So here's what I didn't know what to say.

So I said, I'm Matt Jones, you should follow my bracket,

because Seth Greenberg missed his play.

You can't trust somebody who can't.

That's what they called you.

That's exactly what I mean.

That was the only reason I was on it.

So I felt like that was, you know,

I'm getting just kind of a big kick of the fact that,

this is your big moment.

You give me a sports center set,

and you got a hoodie and a Madisonville hat on baseball hat on.

I didn't have a choice.

I literally, I didn't have anything else,

and they didn't have time for me to shower.

So Madisonville,

that hat you gave me a couple of weeks ago,

is now on the SPN.

And this is,

if this is my big break, Shane,

and it would be awesome,

because Seth Greenberg missed his play.

That would be,

yeah.

That would be,

I got you been feuding with all these years.

Feuding with him forever.

Yeah.

And then that would be what it is.

All right.

Yaxel Landenberg,

who of course went to Michigan.

They are a one-seed in the tournament.

He,

he did an interview

with a Michigan beat rider,

in which he said that Kentucky offered him,

his quote was,

$7 to $9 million to come to Lexington,

but he turned it down

because he wanted the family atmosphere

and the coach at Michigan.

And,

as soon as he put that out there,

you know,

it's inevitable that people see that

and then create a narrative based on what they believe.

So Michigan fans narrative is,

see,

things are so great here.

People will take significantly less money to come to Michigan.

Some people who really dislike Pope

or like see,

Pope can't even recruit

when he has this amount of money,

et cetera, et cetera.

My reaction,

Ryan is pretty simple.

There's no way that's true.

That's completely false.

I think,

no fairly well what Yaxle was offered.

It wasn't even close to the bottom of that amount of money.

And I do think it is possible

that Kentucky offered slightly more money than Michigan,

but not anywhere close to what he said.

Now Michigan,

so I tweaked that out,

Michigan fans say,

well, why would he make it up?

Well,

there are many reasons he would make it up.

First of all,

it makes him look good.

I took less money

because I'm a team player.

It makes Michigan look good.

His team.

This place is so great.

You come here even without less money.

And third,

it's a good narrative going into the tournament,

even though Michigan may have the highest paid roster in the country.

It's either them or us.

It makes him look like a bunch of plucky underdogs

who didn't take money

but came for the love of the game.

All of it's nonsense.

But I don't believe it's true.

Say whatever you want about UK recruiting.

If Kentucky,

no one offers $7 to $9 million.

Who would offer that?

Because you know what the player would say Drew?

I'll take nine.

Right?

It's seven or nine.

That's a $2 million gap.

That's a $2 million range.

People don't do that.

But secondly,

Ryan, if they had offered that,

he'd have taken it.

No one's going to Michigan for $4 million

when they could have nine at Kentucky.

That's ridiculous.

I don't know, Yaksal.

I'm sure he's a nice young man,

but Liar Liar pants on fire.

I agree with you.

There's no way that was the case.

That Kentucky probably made him a really good offer.

And like he said,

he tried to just make himself look better by saying,

I turned it all the money down,

all the glue,

all the cash,

because I wanted to play at Michigan.

Be a Wolverine.

I don't believe that.

I don't believe it.

I remember when it happened

and I was in some conversations

where I kind of had a sense of what was going on.

I think Michigan ended up paying

$4.2, $4.3,

something like that.

And I heard that Kentucky

maybe got up to $4.4.

But Kentucky also knew

that if they paid Yaksal that,

they would probably end up having to pay away that

or close.

So because you can't have him

being the highest paid player

when no way was returning.

So I think they stopped at that point.

There are some people

who will tell you Kentucky

ended up offering less.

I don't know for sure.

But I can tell you

that whether it's four,

4.2, 4.4,

through it,

8.7,

and it's certainly 8.9.

I don't believe that either.

Let's say it's 9,

because you know,

if they offer you 7.9,

you're going to focus on the 9.

He said Michigan paid a third of that.

So I can believe you take a little bit of a pay cut.

But your agent would say,

what are we doing

if you turn down $6 million

because you like to coach

at another school?

No agent is going to agree to that.

With all that money,

he's talking about his career

on down the road.

That's 6 million right there.

It's a pretty good chunk

to start your career.

So I don't believe for one second

that the gap is wide as he says it is.

Maybe Kentucky offered

a little more

and he preferred Michigan.

But $7.9 million

and Michigan paid a third of that.

I do not believe that at all.

Is there any 24-year-old kid?

Because he's older

than most people in college basketball.

23-24.

Is there any kid

in that you think

would turn down

$9 million for three?

No.

No.

I don't care what your age is.

Anybody with a brain

has taken $9 million over three.

I mean,

would you take a couple hundred

thousand less

to be in a place you love?

Maybe.

Would you take...

I mean, there's a lot of scenarios

I could see.

But there is no scenario

where there are two major programs

and one offers you $6 million

more.

Three versus nine

Ryan and you take the three.

It's just not happened.

It's not happening.

It's not changing money

for his entire family.

I got to think of this.

Maybe he was trying to

total up.

Well, he said they're

going to give me a car.

They said they're going to give me

a country car.

Look at that.

That's a heck of a car.

I don't know.

Maybe he was adding all this up

and he came up with his head.

It's somewhere between $7.9 million.

I get free McDonald's

for all year while I'm there.

I don't know what he was trying to add up.

I don't believe it.

And I'm not going to be like,

I'm not saying,

okay, he's lying.

But I don't believe it happened.

I think there's an exaggeration

aspect.

We all sometimes people tend to

embellish things to look good

and miss you get offered more

than they asked.

When it comes to money,

the players and most everyone

is lying because the incentive

is to do it.

And I just think that's important.

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8-5-9-28-0-2287.

Text machine 772-774-5254.

By the way,

Aidan Holloway,

the Alabama player that got

pulled over with the weed,

turns out it was 2.1 pounds

of weed, not one pound.

My goodness.

So twice as many drew

that would be according to

Shannon's math 2,000 pots.

And so it's going to be

hard to say that was

for individual possession,

right?

Yeah, I mean, you must have

some severe glaucoma

if you need 2 pounds of weed

on you at any moment.

Yeah.

I don't know the Holloway

or his life,

but if you have 2 million on you,

you're probably sharing,

or 2 pounds on you,

you probably have,

or sharing that

with other people,

maybe for sure.

So he's out of the NCAA

tournament.

Yeah.

Alabama is playing,

I think, Hofstra.

And then who are they

scheduled to play in the

second round?

Who's their 5-seed?

I don't have the bracket

in front of me.

I have Hofstra beating them,

so I didn't need them

going very far in my bracket.

Well, whoever it was,

I certainly will take the

5-seed now to the sweet

16 without their

bleeding score.

What is it?

BYU.

BYU.

6.

Well, somebody.

Texas Tech.

Excuse me.

It's Texas Tech.

Final answers.

I have Texas Tech losing

in the first round,

because they play...

No, then Iowa.

I have 12, verse 13

in that weekend.

Yeah.

That may end up happening.

Shannon, you said there

was a thread of former

March Madness heroes

and what they're doing now.

I thought this was

interesting.

Okay.

College sports only.

Of course, we remember

Doug, Eddert, St.

Peters.

What's he doing?

He has now a basketball

trainer in coach.

So he's not even

playing basketball.

No.

Because he only played

against us a few years ago.

He's already out of basketball.

He's not even

playing overseas.

Nope.

He's a trainer in a coach.

That's even more ridiculous.

How about Kevin Pitsch?

How about Kevin Pitsch?

How about Kevin Pitsch

Nagel from West Virginia?

Let me guess.

He's selling tractors.

Close.

No, he's a West Virginia

middle school principal.

Oh, actually, I had

heard that.

That also makes sense, though.

I bet he also coaches

like assistant coach

on the football team, too.

That's got to be Pitsch Nagel.

Right.

Who else?

Let me give you one more

here.

Marshall Henderson, of course,

from Ole Miss.

He is now the director

of business development

at Rhino Golf.

Wow.

Yeah.

You see?

You see?

Did you see business

development?

That's got to be it.

That's got to be, he's

just a sales guy, right?

Yeah.

He goes Ryan and goes

to golf shops and plays

golf with somebody

and tries to sell him

something, right?

That's got to be that.

Yeah.

If I find any more that are

interesting, I'll let you

know as we go throughout the

show.

All right.

859-280-2287.

Who's up first?

Let's go to Will.

Will.

Go ahead, Will.

Hey, Matt.

With all the conversation

about the GM stuff,

in the NBA and NFL,

the pecking order is the

order, then the GM,

then the coach,

then the player,

personnel, guys,

mixed in there somewhere.

What are your thoughts on

the hierarchy in the F-

Fascinating question.

Fascinating question.

I think you make a very

good point.

Drew, I had this conversation

with somebody that I think

may have been a candidate

at one time for the job.

And I appreciate the call.

In the NBA, the GM works for

the owner, which in college

sports would mean the GM works

for the AD.

But in college basketball,

what is happening is the AD works

for the coach.

So really the coach has

final say.

That's different than

in pro sports.

And I think there are some

people who would be

otherwise interested in these

jobs who don't like the idea

of the coach ultimately telling

them, hey, you're going to do

what I say.

What do you think?

Do you think the person who

picks the players?

Should it be like the NBA?

Where the person who picks

the players picks them

separately from the coach?

Or do you like in college

basketball?

The coach is still

ultimately pick his players.

It's tough.

If you have a really good gym,

I say let them do it because

you know, in pro sports,

the GM can span multiple

coaches.

And if you have a good one,

that can carry your

franchise a little bit.

But it is odd how in college,

the head coach is doing all

the interviewing.

I guess.

Lean giving the coach more

of the power.

But if you, if we hired like a

Tashon Prince or someone

that's a true GM, I would say

sign him to forever and the

coaches can change

underneath them.

But if Pope were to just go

out and get somebody coach

with it as an assistant, I

don't think you would give

them that responsibility

long term beyond Pope.

I mean, Ryan, clearly the

coach is going to be in charge

if the coach is the one doing

the interviews, right?

But it is interesting that in

college, that's completely

different from the way the

professional team set them up.

And maybe that makes

sense.

The players aren't there

as long.

I guess.

But it is, it is a completely

flip of the power structure

from the professional level.

And it is, you know, like Drew

said, in college basketball,

the head coach is the face of

your program.

That's the guy that goes into

the living room.

That's the guy that talks to

moms and dads.

You need that GM for the

balancing of the budget and

you know, roster development.

But you still need your coach

to be the face of the program

and get out there and make it

happen.

Yeah.

Coaches, I think, are much

more central to who decides

to go to college.

Then they are in the NBA.

I don't think a lot of players

make their decisions on which

franchise they're going to

based on the coach.

In college, they do.

So it probably does make

sense for the GM to be under

the coach, even on the college

level.

Who's next?

Morris.

Morris.

Go ahead, Morris.

Yeah.

Got a comment.

And a question.

I'm over here in Henderson.

And I already got my

tickets for Friday.

How much are Kentucky's

going to be well represented?

It's closer to us to say

Lewis and his Lexington.

So I think, well,

I think, well,

I'm glad to hear that showing

there.

My question is,

already seeing so many

portal announcements,

like the kids from

Belmont and so many others.

And every time you read

about these players,

it seems like they're the

greatest ones that have

ever played in their

conference,

MVPs.

Is there any kind of resource

that's already out there,

whether it's the KSR board

or ESPN board?

It's like the high school

where it goes ahead and

writes these announcements as

they get put out there,

writes players,

kind of where they are.

Yeah.

So on three sports,

and I don't know when they'll

start it,

but they'll have a

ranking system.

I think ESPN does it too,

where they rank the guys

based on how they think

they're worth.

Now, I think in the

transfer portal system,

I found those rankings

are a lot less scientific

because,

unlike at high school,

where all the players

are playing against

each other,

and you can kind of see

who's best.

It's harder in the

transfer portal.

So if you look at

it, I think they give you

a ballpark,

but I don't know that

number one and number

twenty have quite the

gap.

But with that said,

they will exist.

Now, the question of

who is Kentucky

recruiting?

I don't think we're

going to know that,

honestly,

sir, until Kentucky

loses.

Whenever Kentucky

loses, I think you'll

start to hear bits of

news about who they're

reaching out to.

It's natural right now

that if a player comes

out, you go,

oh, I want him.

Oh, I want him.

But really,

we're going to have

the ball.

I want him.

But really, we don't

even know who Kentucky's

interested in.

So I would say to you,

on three, you'll have a

ranking system.

I would use that as a

resource,

but you really won't know

who Kentucky's interested

in until whenever they

lose.

And hopefully that's

three weeks down the

road.

And the spirit of

unrealistic ranges.

I think we'll bring back

either one to eight

players from this year's

team.

One day, it's probably

right.

We did this a few

weeks ago on who we

thought was going to

come back.

You know, where are you

now on it?

I'm still...

I don't...

Let's not...

Since it's

tournament week, let's not

say names,

because I want to get

completely pumped to win

these games.

I'm still, kind of,

four to five.

Where are you

drew in terms of

numbers?

Uh...

In my head, I'd say

about five.

Okay.

I'm about you.

Brian.

I'm dropping

mine to three.

Oh, Shane.

Oh, is this good?

No.

No.

Yeah.

We're making our

predictions.

I'm dropping mine to

those.

I know how to read

him.

Now, he's not been on...

He's not been on his

A game on the scoop

here.

No, he just took

some of his own

goals.

But sometimes he had...

Yeah, that's exactly

right.

Brian's the kind of guy

he talked to their home

inspector.

He talked to the

termite guy.

Yeah.

Low recently said

he's planning to come

back when we were

speculating before there

was no comment from

anyone on low.

He didn't say that.

He didn't say that.

He didn't say that.

Someone got it in a

locker room and it wasn't

like an official.

I'm coming back.

But some of their comments

in the SEC were leading

towards.

That's what he would

want to be the plan.

But I mean, anything can

happen when the portal opens

if it goes out and

finds two awesome.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Late last week.

I'm trying to get the

exact one.

Hey, I'll be back.

But it was kind of leaning

that way.

I did not know that.

Who's next?

Take a ball, Paul.

Paul.

Go ahead.

What's up, Matt Jones?

What's going on?

Found out.

Did you ever find out

yesterday?

I read what the

tax stamp is.

I do have a basketball

file.

I did read that.

Yeah.

You're going to use it for

medicinal use.

You have to have a stamp.

And I guess that in,

at least in Alabama.

Yeah.

It's basically a business

license.

It's basically getting

for not paying taxes on

selling dope.

Yeah.

Well,

a couple things on a basketball

team.

I know they look at things

differently.

And I'm not that nasty.

I'm not really a

bad guy.

You know, you know, I am an

average fan of $7 because, in

my opinion, a seven

seed means you're a top 28 team

in the country.

And be honest with you, I'm a

cat fan.

But I don't think we're anywhere

never the top 28 team in

the country.

I've complained for years now,

and I listen to Ryan lemon

said so many times.

When I think about grown ass

men.

And you're actually

talking about the Iowa

state matchup before it came

out.

Like they didn't have grown

said they're a team that if Kentucky plays their best, they have a shot with. I didn't I

never use the phrase grown-ass men. They do. They're.

Keeps using it.

But I don't think he said I would.

I have it either.

But.

Okay. My biggest problem with the basketball team is not just last year or this year, even in the

calorie, I just, you know, I, yeah, we might not shoot it well. We might, but.

Our lack of physicality is, is our big. So get the ball two feet from the goal.

I don't even think about shooting until we change the narrative of it.

I think Cal has a great team.

I think Arkansas.

Well, they're not Florida, but I think you'll see Arkansas out of the tournament for that one reason.

I think they'll get pushed and shoved around.

When the manners, because I just don't think they're full of strong.

Yeah.

I'll let you go.

What I appreciate.

Do we need more?

I think this year's team could use a guy like that.

I think they probably thought.

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All right, it looks like we might be able to get into the game, Ryan.

For the last time we went to St. Louis.

I gave that with a poop tooth.

That's right.

What happened now?

Oh, that's right.

Your tooth broke during the game.

During the fried ravioli.

During the game and half my tooth broke off.

I can still remember Ryan turning and looking at me and smiling and asking for his tooth was okay.

And it was not okay.

I didn't realize that.

Okay, good.

That was the Wichita State game we went over there before.

I think we're eating with Jerry Tipton.

Yeah.

Well, it looks like they just wrote me.

The Missouri Valley people, they seem nice.

Drew, which is good.

I'm glad to hear that.

I like, I like, I like the, I'm in on the Missouri Valley.

Told you the condos conference in athletics.

Not surprised they already got back to you before the show.

Yeah.

859-280-2287.

One person writes on the text machine, Matt.

Did you see the Oklahoma City Thunder video where they're asking all the players who they're picking in March Madness?

All the players basically picked the place they went to college except Shay and Cason.

I did see that.

So Shay Gilges Alexander says Arkansas or Kentucky.

But he said Arkansas first.

And then Cason Wallace says Arkansas.

Yeah, it broke my heart a little bit.

Not gonna lie.

You know, I think part of what we like is Kentucky fans.

It's the feel that the players are part of us.

I think for the most part that has always happened.

Part of the deal though with Calapari, you're doing a devil's bargain when you have it.

And we used to talk about this when he was here.

Because Cal is very upfront about we people come here.

He always talks about the name on the back of the Jersey.

And I believe he means that sincerely.

But part of what he also says is they come here for me.

Remember when he went to Arkansas, he said nothing's changed and the train just moved to a different place.

Part of the devil's bargain you make with Cal is you're gonna have success, especially in the early days.

But it's about me, meaning the coach, unless this.

And that's why he has tremendous success and you get to feel that and you feel part of it.

But then when he leaves, the same thing has happened at every school he's left.

He's left and they don't feel the affection for him because he leaves.

And when he left UMass and when he left Memphis, they don't invite him back.

Remember, I mean, they had that huge controversy when Memphis thought about inviting back and their fans revolted.

Right.

That's just kind of how it goes with Cal.

You are, you're making a bargain where you're gonna get success in the short term.

But long term, it's about Cal and it's about his relationship with the players.

So the good thing is over the years, we've seen a lot of guys ranging from John Wall to Anthony Davis to Marcus Cousins to Willie Cousin.

All these people feel that connection with with UK.

But then there's gonna be guys who for whatever reason, that connection is Cal first.

UK second or in case of Wallace's place, he just said Cal.

I think if you asked them, do you feel love for your alma mater, they would all say yes.

But Ryan, that's, you know, that is what you sign up for with Cal.

You sign up for, it is ultimately going to be about Cal and the university will be second.

And you kind of know that going in.

It hurts, like you said, kind of hurts to hear these guys say that.

When they leave and come back, they feel the love.

And I think that grows.

So maybe Shay and Casey just need to make a couple of trips back to Lexington and feel that love again.

Especially Casey.

Casey was here for, you know, one bad year.

Shay won an SEC tournament title, made him good around the NCAA tournament.

Yeah, Drew, I was bummed to see it.

I don't blame those guys.

I think that's part of how they sell them.

I'll admit I was bummed to see it, especially about Casey, because Shay said them both.

But Casey's saying arc, it's all only, but again, he was just walking by.

I don't hold it against him, but it is a little bit of a bummer.

It is. Shay saying both.

I was fine with that.

Shay's done plenty for Kentucky since he's been gone.

Yes he is.

And I'm sure if he had to pick between the two schools, he wouldn't think twice about picking Kentucky.

I just wish Casey would have included us in his mention.

Please mention our name, Casey.

I hate to bring this up because it's been beaten to death.

But when, when Reed wore the Arkansas, that kind of told us, you know, any player could do it when the Kentucky boy did it.

So it's kind of just had the expectation that these guys might be saying it would give him the opportunity.

But there have been others.

Willie on our show was like, hell no, I'm not like an Arkansas.

I'm Kentucky through and through, you know, Darious has said that.

There have been a few who won't entertain the idea of being a razor back fan.

And it might be partially Shannon, which years we were really good in which years we weren't.

Because the experience here sometimes is based a little bit on how our fans are.

You know, Hunter Dickinson.

Did you all see the Hunter Dickinson interview?

Yeah.

Hunter Dickinson did an interview with yesterday where he's talking about Kansas.

He was basically like, a lot of my teammates and I were like, let's just end this season.

This isn't fun.

Our fans are me.

So Hunter Dickinson probably feels no love for Kansas.

But it's because his team struggled.

So, you know, that might be part of it.

It's a lot easier to get along with the fans, Shannon, when you're winning than when you're not with.

Oh, of course.

Yeah.

You hear that criticism when you're having a bad season.

It's interesting to see where does the loyalty lie?

Is it with the coach or is it with the university?

I will say, ultimately, remember this is a long game.

Okay.

I don't know.

Right.

How much longer you think John Kyle Perry is going to coach three years, four years, two, five.

Who knows?

I would have thought it was less, but he seems to be re-energized again now at Arkansas.

But if we'll say if he loses, what if he loses to Hawaii?

He might not be his energized.

Right.

Let's do it.

Yeah.

But my point is, one of these days he won't be coaching Arkansas and Shay and Kason got a long career in a long life.

And Drew, when that happens in 10 years, you know what their answers going to be.

It's going to be Kentucky.

So, I mean, these dudes aren't becoming lifelong Arkansas fans.

But, but I'm not going to, I'm not going to lie.

It does, it does stink.

Especially in the case.

If I remember right, it wasn't Kason close to Tyler Ulus.

Maybe that's another reason he's pulling for Arkansas.

That's right.

That is partially why I came here.

Yeah.

You know, it is what it is.

The, the, the, the, the caliperi did awesome things here.

But like I remember, we said this when he came, you are making a bargain with, with, with Cal.

And it's a bargain of, we're going to have great memories.

But it's always going to some extent be about Cal.

And I think that's kind of what you see with, with that as well.

We're going to go back to hour two.

Talk a little UK, Santa Clara.

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