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Now here's Matt Jones.

Welcome everyone, it is Kentucky Sports Radio.

I'm Matt Jones.

Wednesday, March the 18th, the day before the two best days of sports of the year,

the first round of the NCA tournament.

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Everybody is here. Nice to see you folks.

I haven't seen you since Nashville.

So you've been up in New York doing your ESPN thing.

You did a really good job, though, by the way.

You got to see the bracket thing.

We're going to talk about that.

Well, I mean, first of all, good to see you too, and we saw Shane and earlier,

Mario's here, they did come out.

Matt Jones is bracket and thanks to everybody who looked at it.

If you haven't yet, go watch it.

Good numbers.

You know, I'm a very, I can't help it.

I'm a little bit of a competitive person.

Compare it to the other videos.

The other videos got placement on the main ESPN page.

And ours didn't.

But nevertheless, I think the last time I looked,

like 18,000 people watched on YouTube and then on all the social media.

So that was good for us.

I had to put myself in the position of the producers.

Like, oh, my goodness.

We got to put this guy on.

He's crazy.

He does.

He's radio show crazy.

I've worked with you forever.

We mean I'm crazy.

Some people would say you're crazy, right?

Yeah, I mean, you by far of this group are crazier.

When the ESPN radio world, you're probably Mr. Crazy.

And they're first, the first team out of the hat.

You call them the evil empire.

And like the fourth team out of the hat,

you talk about Bill Cells' hair piece.

And you got to think I'll be back in the booth like,

oh, my goodness, what are we done?

Oh, I think they liked it.

You know, the way I look at it is if you have to sit there

and do that all day, you want something different.

True, right?

You want something interesting and fun.

They were laughing.

I judge when I do ESPN radio.

This is true.

If I can make my producers laugh, I know we're rolling

because they have to listen to this boring monotonous sports talk

all the time.

So if I can get a reaction out of them,

I'm like, okay, we're doing something.

Well, first of all, the hands looked amazing.

I mean, I don't know what you think about the hands.

I don't know what kind of moisturize my ears.

My goodness, they actually glow.

They actually have a glow.

I didn't like the vitamin C serum that you kind of rub on your hands.

I think I'm glad to hear you say that

because someone in the comment section said,

why did you wear white gloves?

And I didn't think that was very nice.

Yeah, you should have got a manicure before you went in there.

No, I think it looked good.

I didn't see the pics.

I was just looking at your names.

I didn't look good.

And then, you know, they had suggested they were like,

you should put some makeup on your cheeks under your eye

so it doesn't glare and I was like, I'm good.

Now I see next time I'll do that

because my right cheek, you know, you get a level of vanity

when you see yourself on camera that you shouldn't.

But nevertheless, I was overall very pleased.

To your point about having fun with it,

I speaking for me, I don't have any interest

in just watching someone read me their bracket

without having a little fun with it.

Like, just post the picture and I'll read it myself.

I don't need step by step.

Well, I think they're going to rebound

and they're going to win.

No, you got to have fun with it.

You got to have fun.

What's the point of otherwise?

Plus, I don't know anything.

You knew the Sienna was a crayon.

I said it was a good color.

It was a good color.

That's right.

And I gave a shout out to everyone

that's ever been nice to me.

Yes, you did.

Like Jay Lucas, Nolan Smith, Ugo, Ugo.

Ugo, there's no other bracket preview

where Ugo's got a mention.

No doubt.

I don't know with the term that you just had.

You never got ACC terms.

But I was like, you know, I'm going to give Ugo a shout out.

Yeah.

And so yeah, I was, I still look good in your Madisonville hat.

I was a little worried about that.

Do I saw it?

Like, what are you so worried about?

You sound like you sound like you're my dad.

It's okay.

I kind of feel like I'm your father.

Like you're on the ESPN set.

You would be the worst.

You know, he hosted the bracket show, right?

Like if they let him post the little bracket show.

I think he's on radio.

But now you're on TV and you're on the sports center set.

So it's supposed to air.

They're going to air all of ours.

I think at some point today on ESPNU,

but they said we don't know what time yet.

I would have thought Shane and they have the times

for shows picked out before the day of.

Yeah.

But apparently on ESPNU, it's just like,

there's just a guy go, well, let's air this night now.

That'd be fun.

Sounds like chaos.

Like we gave him way too much credit

to think they were organized over that.

Oh, listen, one of the things you learn,

like a good lesson for people is, you know,

there's this idea in news and sports

that there's this organized group of people

trying to control the think.

And they're like, whoa, ESPN, if you walk in,

it's a bunch of people going, all right, well, we do now.

Yeah.

Look, there's no grand plan.

I talked to literally the top people at ESPN

while I was there.

Great people seem nice, but like they're just sitting

around going, like nobody's, there is no grand plan.

Everybody's just a human being.

That goes to about theory.

Everyone in life is just trying their best.

That's exactly right.

That's just like trying their kid that grew up and got a job

and they're just trying their best.

Just think about your job and how much you procrastinate

and try, that's exactly what they're doing too.

I loved it when I talked to you at half time

when you're doing that college football bowl game.

And the first thing you said to me,

this is the most chaotic thing I've ever been part of

in my life.

It's dude.

That was, that was, it's all very nice to see.

Like sometimes I say on here,

we're the only show that ever breaks down

and we do break down more shinning than any other show.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, everybody has those moments.

Yep.

And so anyway, thank you all for watching it.

It was good.

And the people that made the nice comments,

the guy that said that about the hands with the gloves.

A lot of people were like, those are the hands of a man

who's never worked.

True.

And you don't have to say it's true.

Well, we know it is.

But maybe the white glove comment was all,

I think they were saying my hands were pale.

I think they were saying my hands were pale.

You know, you put on white gloves that are, you know,

formal events.

I don't think that's what they meant.

I think they meant that I was, I don't know,

I think they meant that I was pale.

So we're leaving for St. Louis after this is over.

I've got like an insane amount of topics.

So we're going to keep the phones closed.

At least for the first hour, maybe in the second hour,

we'll open them.

That's just, I woke up and ended up with 15 topics.

We already did one, which was the bracket.

So I want to go through a few of those.

One of the things I'm going to ask for,

we're going to St. Louis.

Yes.

I'm trying to think, I've been to St. Louis.

We were there when we played Wichita State.

Right.

The SEC tournament the one year.

When I was in college, we went to the arch

and my friends, I climbed to the top

and my friends spelled out a dirty word

with their bodies on the ground.

Oh, wow.

So you didn't realize we were wild boys.

Wow, college.

We spelled out a dirty word

and I took the picture from the top.

Wow.

Wichita still had that.

Yeah.

I don't know.

You don't want to incriminate yourself.

I hate it out of that.

We thought we were.

Other kids went to spring break.

We went to the arch and spelled out words with our body.

I want to party with you guys.

Wow.

But because of that, I do think I realize I haven't done

like the St. Louis.

We're to eat, for instance.

So it's me, you and Mario.

So on the text machine, 772, 774, 5254.

If you have St. Louis tips, we're to eat,

we're gonna have some free time.

So we're to go visit, I've been to the arch.

Overrated.

It's ideas over.

It's just a big glass for me.

But it's the gateway to the west.

It's a pretty big deal.

But it's just, I'd rather stay in the east.

Like there are a thousand buildings in New York

taller than the arch.

What's the point?

It's ways.

Yeah, it's as miraculous.

What's miraculous about it?

There's arch, it's just like there.

It's not just there, they built it.

It's awesome.

It's a beautiful thing.

Makes my heart see.

But why is it, what's so great about it?

Because it's the open to the gateway to the west.

You don't know you're on your way to the west

until you go through the arch.

And you can't go around it.

You have to walk through it.

Under it.

I'm with you, Shannon.

It's kind of like what was it?

Devils knob that we went to.

No, the devil's tower.

Devils tower.

Biggest bunch of BS I've ever seen.

Also.

So if you have St. Louis,

recommendations, let me know.

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People have asked about a show.

We are still contemplating.

We may not do a live show,

but we may do something where after the Kentucky

Santa Clara game, if we win,

we'll do the post game in some kind of bar

and invite Kentucky fans that are there

to come celebrate with us.

But we still don't know yet.

We got to find the place.

We're going to our house.

When I tried to get the Airbnb last night,

there were only two left.

Oh, really?

It was only in pink.

Perfect.

Yeah, that's it.

It was a pink pony bachelorette house.

Perfect.

I didn't get that one.

I decided I couldn't take that much pink.

So I got the other one and that's where we'll be.

Yeah, the content would have been great in the pink house.

So are you excited?

I see.

I love St. Louis.

When I was a kid,

that's where our family would go to watch,

go to Bush Gardens and watch a cardinal game.

Every summer, go to the arch,

Bush Gardens cardinal game.

Every summer.

There were two little ballpark village.

That's a cool place.

That's a really cool place now.

We were there when we went, when we went to 2014

went to ballpark village.

Well, if you in station,

if you all have suggestions,

especially places to eat,

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All right, I have something I want to say

to get us ready for these games.

All right.

The glasses off must be important.

I'm very adamant about this, okay?

It is time, at least for the next four days,

for us to get ready

and to believe in this Kentucky basketball team.

Okay.

Because we have nothing to lose.

What is there to lose?

Nothing.

Meaning, if it doesn't work out,

we got a whole off season complaint about it.

For four or five days,

we need to be all in.

Because here's why.

These are for crucial days for Mark Pope

and for this iteration of Kentucky basketball.

Crucial.

How we see what will be his most important year

will be determined by these next four days, right?

Let me, there will be,

there are three possible scenarios.

Let's go over.

Let's say we lose to Santa Clara.

It's going to be a bad off season.

There are going to be people who are going to say

this isn't going to work.

There's a good chance that some of the teams

that we compare ourselves to

are about to have a really good March.

And it'll be awful and there'll be so much pressure

to get this roster right.

And even if it is right,

people will not believe it until it starts.

A loss to Santa Clara puts Mark Pope in a do

or die situation next year.

If you beat Santa Clara and you lose to Iowa State,

in my opinion, you're kind of right

where you are right now.

There will be a lot of people

who still kind of believe in him.

There'll be people skeptical

and then there'll be people who think he's going to fail.

And we're kind of at status quo.

So the way the fan base feels right now,

that's how they feel.

But what if we win?

What if we beat Iowa State?

What if we get to the sweet 16

for the second straight year?

What if we take this team that for a lot of the years

felt disjointed, et cetera?

And all of a sudden we move to a regional

and whoever we play in the next game

be it Virginia, Tennessee, whoever.

There's no reason we can't beat that team, right?

Already beat Tennessee twice.

And Virginia's Virginia.

You all of a sudden have a chance to start believing.

The game is in Chicago.

Yeah.

That ain't that far.

There's a lot of Kentucky fans there.

It would kind of feel you would get that adrenaline

in your blood again.

Does adrenaline go in your blood?

Let's just say it does.

Okay, I don't know anatomy.

But it will be extremely exciting.

And Mark will get some momentum

going into a recruiting season.

And I do think this fan base

will look at the team and the program

completely differently than they look right now.

Because you will have beaten one of the seven teams

according to Kim Palm that has a chance

to win the national title.

So these four days in St. Louis

have a chance to set the program

even farther back than it is right now.

Or kick off some momentum

that can lead next year to feel exciting

like we did this year.

If that's the case,

why not for the next 96 hours

get on board and be excited?

You nailed it.

That's exactly right.

And we as Kentucky fans should do that.

Can we go back to what Mark's story wrote?

He said, this Mark Pope's legacy

could be decided within the next month.

This is it.

It is time right now to see what he can do.

This is part one of it.

I think making the team for next year is part two.

But this is a part one.

And Drew, you have a chance in this part one

to make part two easier depending on what happens.

And that's why March is the best.

Because whatever you've thought up to this point,

if you're very negative,

they can shut you up and by going on a run

and going to a stage in the tournament,

you didn't think they could reach.

They can answer a lot of questions people have right now

or at least get some confidence back by Pope by going on a run.

That's what makes the tournament special.

If the ideas you have of these teams going into it,

you could be completely wrong

and they could surprise you and rewrite their whole season

just in a couple of weeks.

2014, the momentum of a program turned around

with that victory over Wichita State.

In St. Louis.

In St. Louis.

They got on a run.

They ended up in the championship game.

Next thing you know,

Willie and the twins want to return

and you get one of the great Kentucky teams

in the history of the sport the next year.

Yep.

Had they lost to Wichita State,

maybe the twins don't return.

Maybe Willie.

Negativity occurs all year

and 2015 never happened.

So this is a massive weekend.

This is a nervous weekend.

This is a match going to leave the arena weekend.

Are you going to the arena?

Oh, I'm going to go and then leave.

But it also is a chance

to really get Kentucky basketball

feeling like Kentucky basketball again.

And so we might as well get excited

and try to make it happen.

We'll take a break.

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What are the, what are the St. Louis songs?

I'm sure there's one with Nelly.

St. Louis, St.

Find me in St. Louis.

There's one called Meet Me in St. Louis.

All right, Judy Garland.

St. Louis doesn't really like roll off the tongue for a song.

No, a lot of St. Louis, they say though.

St. Louis.

Like in this song, St. Louis.

Yeah, all right.

Well, that's all right.

We'll see if you got some St. Louis.

Probably need to play some Nelly.

Okay.

See what other artists are from St. Louis.

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Eight, five, nine, two, eight, oh, 2287.

One person writes Matt.

I burn, oh, he said, brother, brother.

I can't allow myself to have hope for this season.

It's not worth the in near inevitable fall.

It will bring that is not the way to live life.

It is not the way to live life to have no hope

because you might get hurt.

If you live like that,

you're going to sit in your house

and just be scared all the time.

Think about right.

Okay.

He knows that when he gets married,

there's a chance it'll fail,

but he keeps getting married.

Right.

Cause you got to have the hope.

Got to have the hope.

The hope is what life is about.

If you sit and worry, you always can be sad.

Like I once dated a woman, she said,

I'm worried that you'll break my heart.

Maybe.

I didn't say that, but like,

but that if you, if you, if that's your thing,

if that's your thing,

then you can't ever date anyone.

Heartbreak kid.

Imagine.

But like if you're worried about losing the new thing,

I won't give excited about any game.

We can always have our heart broken.

You still get up off the mat Drew

and you keep believing because why not?

In 96 hours, it'll be decided anyway.

And this is March.

Last I checked, we get one of these a year.

I mean, it's our favorite time of the year.

Sure, we're a little disappointed

on how the regular season went,

but March madness is here.

And it's like Christmas for Kentucky fans.

Maybe our toys aren't as shiny

and we're not grids walled in our house

this year with all the lights.

And it's not as exciting as it would be as a one-seed,

but it's still March and it's right in front of us.

One person writes, Matt,

do you really believe a 14-law sweet 16 season

would be a success at Kentucky?

No, not, not totally, but that's,

success is in everybody's eyes.

Like some people think success is you have to win a title.

There's not many people think that,

but they'll say final four, whatever.

Success is in the eye of the boulder.

What I will say is do I think overall,

it would be successful?

No, probably not, but do I think considering, Ryan,

where we are at this minute, then yes, I do.

Yeah, big picture.

The way we played all year, et cetera.

Yeah, big picture overall, it is not a success,

but where we are today with what the injuries

and the way the season's gone,

to get that far would be a success for this team.

I always think about golfers, Drew,

because I've wondered if I was a professional golfer,

and I was in 47th place going into the final round,

and I knew I couldn't win,

and let's say I'm Tiger Woods and I have a ton of money.

Am I still driven to play the best I can

to come in 31st?

I think the true grades are, right?

Like you're still driven to put the best performance you can out.

I don't think any of us think we're going to win

the national championship,

but why not still be driven to see us do the best

that we can based on where we are right now?

Yeah, and think about these players,

they're going in with the right attitude.

This is Otago always last tournament, whatever happens.

Same for Aberdeen, same for a lot of them.

This group won't be together again.

They're going in with the mindset of let's win six games,

was the fan base, whatever you think of them to this point,

at least believe with them and we'll see what happens.

And if it ends Friday or a bad loss,

that's a big problem we'll worry about when we get to it.

And maybe you get a moment, Shannon,

that we remember forever, right?

Maybe you get one, and then that's nice.

I mean, if you could beat Santa Clara and Iowa State,

that would definitely be something to remember.

Yeah, I mean, Iowa State's a very good team.

Maybe you get a moment where James Young forgets to play

and they come out of the timeout huddle

and he hits the game winning three pointer.

You never know what might happen.

Also, we're focusing on the path.

How many times do we see the path just completely open up?

Well, if not just to sue it, I want to see stay with you.

You know, probably when Murray State played San Francisco,

they were sitting there going,

well, we have no chance against Kentucky

and then we lost the St. Peter's.

Time after time, it happens almost every year.

Half opens for a team that time after time.

If you look and you know, that's exactly right.

Mark's story, you mentioned him.

Also, you know, listen,

we've been hard on Pope myself included.

I think Mark's story made a really good point

as to where Pope should get some crit, okay?

Mark's story said, hey, Arkansas won the SEC

and everybody's comparing.

He said though, and Drew and I've made some version

of this point a lot of the year.

The comparison for Mark Pope, if you want to compare,

is not what John Calipari's doing at Arkansas.

If you want to compare Mark Pope,

you can, if you want to compare him

when Cal first got here, Cal was clearly better.

But maybe the relevant comparison

is what Cal did the last four years before he left.

And in that comparison, Mark Pope's crushing.

John Calipari in his last four years won one tournament game.

He won one SEC tournament game.

He had more losses or a worse regular season percentage.

Mark Pope's already won two NCAA games.

He's already won two SEC games in half as many years.

And so, you know, we can debate till the cows come home.

Would Cal have done what he did at Arkansas here?

I think the answer is no.

Maybe some people think the answer is yes.

But this idea that somehow Mark Pope has done worse

than Cal did post-COVID is ridiculous to him.

He's done better.

That's why on Sunday, I was not listening to anyone

trying to dunk on Kentucky

because they were rewriting how it ended here.

Did people forget losing to the non-seed Texas A&M

in Nashville and then turning around and losing

in the first round of the NCAA tournament?

As you said, in four years, one tournament win.

Like why are they trying to dunk on a SEC tournament win?

I mean, why are we good for him at Arkansas?

We all know he got rejuvenate all that.

That people are trying to rewrite how it ended here.

It was not good here.

Kentucky was not winning in the postseason

over a long period of time.

I mean, there was this Billy Gillespie type numbers

there at the end.

And there's this group of goobers

who all usually have the same pictures of the people

who call me a stinker label who say,

you know, you ran the coach off.

We did not run the coach off.

We're not that powerful.

And if we were, then he's too wimpy to be here anyway

if he's worried about a radio host.

But even if we did,

if you don't like what Mark Pope's done,

do you remember what Cal was doing at the end?

Now, granted, Cal had an amazing first 10 years.

But you don't pay people on what happened in the past.

You pay him on what's going to happen in the future.

We'll take a break, very bad KSR.

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Here's Matt Jones.

You can't help but dance to Nellie, right?

I mean, he's got, we've talked about this before.

He's got so many hits.

Oh, yeah.

So when you got Air Force one, you got the one I used to,

I did my law school exam too with the, I can't remember.

Got a little EI, a little number one.

Yeah, yeah.

The one with Tim McGraw over and over again, over and over again.

This is the one.

This is the, this is the, this is the major, you know, I love Nellie.

I love Nellie so much.

Totally fine.

He played the Trump inauguration, get it, Nellie.

You saw him at the Legends ballpark too, right?

I did.

What a, what a blank show that was.

Him Juvenile, that was ridiculous.

I've seen Nellie a few times.

I did.

I did.

He has a hard time getting there on time.

First of all, he plays anywhere.

He'll play like a barber, like he really will.

I think he played the Corbin Arena.

Did he play the Corbin Arena?

I'm sure he did.

He plays everywhere.

Nellie must still need money because he never stops playing.

But good for Nellie.

Amen.

Good night of sports TV last night.

Do you watch a little USA, Venezuela?

I saw the highlights and I saw your boy hit the game.

You didn't watch the game?

No, I was watching the basketball.

Oh my goodness, that was one of the most exciting baseball games

I've ever seen.

I would have thought you would have been right on top of it.

I was so engrossed with Howard and UMBC.

I couldn't turn away.

Shannon, did you watch the game?

No, I watched the first four.

You're telling me, you're base, you baseball heads didn't watch

that game.

I've never seen a baseball game with more emotion.

Yeah.

And you know, World Series games I know are huge.

But I'm not sure that stadium, when did Miami move to Caracas?

It was rocking.

It was Venezuela took over.

It was wild.

It was, I mean, the excitement of Bryce Harper hits the tour on home run to tie it.

And then you go to the ninth and, eh, who hit me?

Just gets the game winning hit.

He looked like he was about to spontaneously combust when he got the hit.

Then they won and the celebration, it was like, I was, I'm for America, but I couldn't

help but smile at how happy they were.

I said out loud, am I a bad person that I'm enjoying Venezuela right now?

It was amazing to watch.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

If you would ask me, Matt, how many Venezuelans do you know?

I'd be like, well, we got that one guy, the president.

I didn't rise.

How many I knew?

I there was a there was Salvador Perez, who they said he was 35, Shannon, he's check the

birth certificate.

He looked 60 to me.

Yeah.

He's at least 40, but he was still playing.

Yup.

He caught during the game.

Good for him.

And then he was like, is that Miguel Cabrera?

I don't even know, coaches are famous.

Like Miguel Cabrera.

Miguel Cabrera looks like he did not hit the weight room when he was done with baseball,

but it was, I thought it was neat. And then they sang the national anthem. I loved watching

them sing their national anthem because none of them were on the same pace. I don't know. Everybody

knew the words, but they were not in the, I kind of like that. They're all just singing at their

own tempo. They're all to hurry to get to a club in Miami. Like, you could tell them to stay

care with the fact they had more people in our stadium than America did. Well, it was packed,

right? It was so loud. That was awesome. And it was like, it was unlike a baseball atmosphere.

Like people were treating it like it was like basketball or whatever. Like they were just losing

it the entire game. Well, it made, it's been a huge success. That's why they do this. That's

why I thought it was great. I really enjoyed it. And then Texas. So then the both first four games

were good. Yeah, they were. And the Texas game. Have you seen the video of the assistant coach running

on the floor? Oh, no, didn't see that. All right. So you need to look this up. So Texas hits with one.

So, so with one second to go, Texas hits a shot to take the lead. And all of a sudden,

I guess one of the Texas assistant coaches loses his mind and he runs on the floor. He's at the

free throw on. He literally runs on the floor. The game is going on. I didn't even notice that

the ref blows the whistle. You got to see Sean, Sean Miller shanning. He almost commits murder

on the side. Trying to get the guy. Because he thinks they're going to call a technical.

The refs come together and they clearly consider whether to give him a technical. And they decide

not to imagine you're the assistant, though. And you caused a technical at that moment. You're

you're out of a job at that point. I think he might be out of a job anyway.

Wow. Sean Miller. Yes. Sean Miller literally is about. I don't know that guy's name,

but he is lucky to be alive today. Turn to Sean Miller. So many turn to his back to the action

on the floor. And it's good just to yell at his his assistant coaches are holding him back from

that man. Wow. Yeah. So now here's my question. Watching that video. Wow. Should the refs have

called a technical. It is technically a technical. Yeah, it is. Now NC state called time out.

But it is unclear whether they decided to call time out in that moment or whether they did it

after the ref stop the game. So I don't know the answer to that question. But do you think you

go by the letter of the long call the technical or do you go? Okay. Let's not have the game

disrupted by this. What do you do? The rest had to decide we blew the whistle call the time out

before we saw him on the floor. They had to over. They would have called a technical. I believe

at that point. They had what would you do? Let's say. Let's say NC state was going to call a

time out. But they just hadn't yet. But you didn't know that what would you. Let me give you

the chain of events. You see the guy run on the floor first. Then NC state calls time out.

You know what happened. Are you calling it? No one you're going to give NC state two free throws

chance to tie the game and maybe to win if they then score on the next play. You have to. A coach

is running in the like to get to the free throw out on the court. If that happens before they call

the time out, you have to call it. What do you think? I'm teeing them up and I probably shouldn't

look at it this way. I have more grace if it's a player. They're young. They've in the moment.

A coach has to know that you're going to get fired. You have this man's job in your hands.

Well, don't be bad at your job. And then you won't get fired. You cannot run on the court.

You're going to get him up. For some reason, a player, I give a little more, you know,

a young comment moment. A coach has to know that I know you're teeing them up.

Yeah. I think NC state saved his job by calling a time out right there. If they don't call

a time out, you know he's going to get teed up. Yeah. And he is losing his job after that.

Especially if you lose the game after that. I'm probably going to let him go. Yeah. Because I'm,

you know, liberal. That's right. He was obviously just caught up in the moment.

But still a stupid liberal act like you've been there before.

Doesn't believe in law in the order. Yeah.

But you can't just have coaches running out of the court are referee law enforcement.

You can't just. No, you can't. I mean, it is an unbelievably stupid move by that guy.

And he would go into the annals like Chris Weber move over. We got a new guy. And right now,

I don't know his name. But if they had called that technical, I'd know his name everywhere.

The whole world would know his name. I mean, what if they had quickly inbounded the ball and

do just runs into the coach at the free throw line? Exactly. That's true. Yep. They quickly

inbounded. They before they called the time out and they somebody runs into him on the court.

It's taking a dive. I'm running up to him and falling. What was he thinking? That's

why you got no better. That's the problem. And there was a buzzer had not gone off.

Yeah, it's still time left. But it's not like he heard a horn and thought the game's over.

He's ran out there. Unbelievable. He's an excitable boy. He is an excitable boy.

After watching that video, though, I fear for his safety of Sean Miller coming after him.

Oh, Sean Miller. You're ready. Just was like, I'm not even going to watch the end of the game.

I'm going to kill this. He did. He did. He's a back-turned-of-the-action.

I'm going to want. He thought they were going to call it technical. When the reps huddled,

I think Sean Miller thought, oh my goodness, they're going to call it technical.

I got a prediction. I wonder if he'll be on the bench in a few days.

You think so, Mickey's that like get out of here. Maybe.

Vital and Barclay did the game. And by did the game, Shane and I mean, they did not mention the game.

There was a love affair. But so the play I played, I lost his voice. Yeah. So he was like,

which means you got more Barclay. They had to fill the towel. They had to fill the time.

And I think they just talked about anything. And at one point Vital realized they were so off-script

that even he goes, I think we got to talk about the game. So we got a game going on.

I mean, it's an NCA tournament game. Remember during Kentucky and Indiana they did that.

Yes. But you know, it's a December game and whatever.

They got a little off-script. At one point, Vital started kissing Barclay.

Yeah, they were kissing each other.

A lot of TV. He did rivalry.

A little smooch. See, I loved it. I loved hearing those guys talk during the game.

I know, but if you were a Texas or NC State fan and it was an NCA tournament game, would you have

enjoyed it? I don't know. Our Kentucky fans didn't enjoy the NCA tournament.

I did too. But to be fair, I have a huge soft spot in my heart for both those guys.

I love them both. And I think, you know, Vital had never done an NCA tournament game.

You're right. So I thought that was cool and then Barclay, I think Barclay

adds to everything. But I think the guy not having his voice and thus they just were left.

It was like you were having a five-year-old, like a fifth grade band, but with no conductor.

Yeah. There's nobody to rain them. Everybody was just hitting the symbols and like,

it was just kind of going insane. I enjoyed it. But Drew, if I was a Texas or NC State fan,

I probably would have hated it. And one thing that's fun about Barclay this time of years,

it's pretty obvious. He's not very detailed in college basketball. But that's fun.

I like it. Nobody has someone to lean on with him. So when the play-by-play guy left him,

Barclay is just, he was railing on the NCAA at one point. He was giving all kinds of opinions.

I specifically enjoy that he doesn't know anything about it. Part of that is self-preservation,

because I have to go on ESPN Shannon and talk about things I don't know either. But I do enjoy

that he's just like, the big dude over there throws the ball in there. It's like when they brought

on Snoop Dogg to call him like Tyson fight. But if I was a Texas or NC State fan, probably more

people watching that game last night were not Texas or NC State fans, so it's kind of they enjoyed it.

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a break and be right back, KSR. I'm telling you, weirdest lyrics of any song, but it's got a great

beat. Yeah. Excitable boy. I can't even like focus. The song sounds so happy. Yep.

And the lyrics are dark and like sad, but that's okay. That's probably why he did it on purpose.

That kind of, you know, 859, 280, 2287. We walked in here. I ran into parent. Yeah. I'm still mad at him.

Why? Because he said he was coming to the SEC term and he just didn't.

Oh, who just doesn't come to a trip. So like my group to go the SEC term is 15 people.

That's who gets the invite every year. And I'm sure in everybody out there, you all have a group

of friends like this. They're the people you can count on. And then the people you can count on.

So of the 15 people, I know every year, one of my friends, he's got like he can't, he ends up

never being able to come, but that's because he's got like 17 children. I don't know how many

have a lot of busy. But he's literally like every day a new child comes out. You should get

that checked out. So I'll give him a break. Then I have a friend who's a lawyer and he claims to

always being trial. But I don't think he's ever even had a trial. Like Larry's always like, well,

I got a trial. No, you don't send a picture of a trial. You've never once had a trial.

But he's like, well, it's scheduled. You know, I might have to go. I was like, you've never,

there's never been one trial. And yet, so he always came. So we know that he flakes too.

But then there's parent who always says he's coming and never comes. And I always believe in him.

I made multiple bets with people like, well, he's not gonna come. I was like, he's coming. Trust

this is the year. This, I promise you, he's come. New year, new parent. Nope. Didn't come.

Do you have friends like that? Oh, yeah. They say they're going to do something. And then you

just know they're not coming. Right. My one of my great memories from the SEC term in St. Louis

involves parent because he tried to fight people. That's why I want him there. He's a good

bodyguard. He's a good bodyguard. He's fun. But he's not coming. Like, that's what happens.

And my other friends are going to have four more kids this year. And he's not going to come. And

there's this apparently in Fate County. There's a trial every 30 seconds.

And, but we did get the core of the core 11 are always there. And they, and they came

although one of your core forgot to bring another one of the core. Yeah, we talked about that.

You just left. How do you leave all people to leave? How do you leave hubby? Yeah,

you leave the guy who ordered the house. I forget my two friends get in without him.

To the group. It looks same. But I'm upset. I don't know how you just year after year.

Don't show up. Does he get bumped out of the group and somebody subs in?

But I want him to come because he's fun. But I'm never going to believe in him again. He owes me

because I bet and it didn't happen. You know one of my favorite things to do. It's tournament time,

Shannon. That means let's check in with Mike Frances. Oh, yeah. Okay. Your

friends are still doing Mike in the mad dog. Wake up, Mike. Couple of you. He is our favorite radio

host that we never have listened to. All right. So he fell asleep that one time snored on the air,

which is amazing. It is. He talked about Maryland a few years ago in the tournament. He was like,

they've won some games. They've lost some games. They've been up. They've been up. They've been down.

He clearly never seen. But he may have topped himself better than anyone this time, making

these picks. So all these dudes in New York, the way they talk about college basketballs,

they just talk about St. John's because they don't know how to say. It's Rick Patino and it's in

their city. So if you watch first take, it's just Steven A. Smith and Chris Russo yelling about

St. John's because they're the only teams they know. Mike Francesa claims to have watched every

St. John's getting this year. Okay. Okay. Knowing him a little bit already. Don't believe me. That's

what he claims. But he had one of them more outrageous statements of all time. He's talking about

one of the St. John's players. I just want you to listen to this and see what you think he might

have gotten rock. They score on the break. They score off the turn on the and they score off the

offensive rhythm. And then Zubi sometimes will get a little thing going. Zubi can look really

bad offensively and he can look really sweet offensively. He's going to be interested to see

what happens. Especially against Kansas. Remember, he left Kansas, but that's a long time ago. And

he left Kansas because of M. B. And M. B. is a different player than Zubi. I mean, M. B.

when he's healthy is a guy who score 50 points in the NBA. He's a big time talent.

That's no big deal that you know, that M. B. was over him. I mean, that happens. And he came

and he found the home. So he says Zubi came to St. John's because he couldn't get him because of

him beat. John beat graduated from a wet left Kansas in 2014. So he's been in college a long time.

Zubi was nine back then. Zubi was nine years old. When Joel and B. left Kansas.

He said he was nine years old. He couldn't get in though. And he said Zubi couldn't get in.

Well, no wonder he's just nine because of Joel and B. I think his age would be the bigger

world block than in B. Being on the team. Now he did yesterday. He addressed on the show his

mistake. Okay. After people made fun of him, he goes, I was thinking of Hunter Dickinson.

Oh, really similar players there. Hunter Dickinson's not gone for 50 in the NBA. No.

You were thinking of Joel and B. And you don't know what you're talking about.

Hunter Dickinson and B. I don't, I'm not falling for that one either. As stupid as that was,

just play the beginning again. This is his explanation of St. John. They score on the break.

They score off the turnover and they score off the offensive rebound.

And then Zubi sometimes will get a little thing going.

He'll sometimes get a little thing going. Yeah. They play good. He's played bad. He's played good.

He's played bad. He's been bad. But the problem wasn't being really sweet offense.

He's gonna be interested to see what happens. He looks sweet. He's got to be interesting to see what

happens. I want to see the little thing he does. But I didn't see that on the scouting report.

Zubi gets a little thing going. He's like that. He looks sweet. What do you think he means by

gets a little thing going? But there's a little dance. Maybe a little tap dance. I love Mike

Francis. I do too. But he needs to join. He needs to join Barkley and just let the two of them do

my goodness. It's amazing. He has a job. I guess because it is entertaining to hear that. I follow

that funhouse account that just constantly counts that all they do is make fun of him.

It feels like this happens daily stuff. That's all the whole account is just playing clips where

he does things like that. And they're frequent. And yet he still has a show every day. But he wasn't

not. When Joe Ellen beat played. He meant 100 Dickens. Yeah. This is a podcast. He's still on the

air like radio. No, the podcast runs on the air. Oh, wow. By the way, his team, those some

chompers that he's got. What do you call those? The nearest veneers? Yeah. Those are some veneers.

Do you go too big? Yeah. I think that's a failure to say. We'll take a break. Come back.

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