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Welcome to hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio

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Now here's Matt Jones.

Welcome back hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio 825928287.

We're going to go to the phones

and I want to use this like as a measure of the fan base.

You know, everybody talks about where the fan base is

or who thinks what?

Let's just we'll do the 30 seconds and let people go.

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Just a couple of things before we do it.

Number one, I have a TV show that if you all don't watch,

I will not be your friend.

What's it called?

Including those of you who are listening.

And if you don't have HBO Max, you don't have to watch it.

But if you do, have to watch it

because we have to discuss it in like a week.

After I get back from my week off, neighbors, neighbors.

Neighbors is what television is about.

More people should know it.

Everyone should watch it.

It's a show that's very simply about in real life,

neighbors fighting over stupid stuff.

I've watched two episodes.

I've been enthralled.

I've watched all of the rest of them tonight.

One of them is about a fence.

Two, insane people in Montana.

Insane for very different reasons,

but both insane fighting about a fence.

And it's great.

It's great.

Then about fighting about a little piece of land on a beach

and insight.

Fighting about cats, a woman has too many cats.

The neighbors like get rid of all these cats.

And then a couple, a gay couple,

fighting with their neighbor

because the neighbors turning a farm

in their little suburban neighborhood.

Just trust me.

You know everything you need to know.

Just watch it and then just marvel.

And by the way, I'm worried this will be me

in someone when I get to my new house.

I can also put my stamp of approval on it.

I've seen it.

It's very good.

It's great.

HBO is hot right now.

You got the bowling show.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Rooster.

Rooster's DTF St. Louis.

Yes.

The Game of Thrones spin off was awesome.

Just Brian, I know you'll like.

Okay.

HBO show.

It's not like it's not scripted,

but it's just about neighbors fighting over dumb things.

I'm in it.

I'm on it.

Great.

And the thing is,

after the first two episodes,

they don't solve how all these things end.

I hope they're going to do that before it's over.

Put tie it all together.

I need to know like what the guys with the fence.

I mean, you talk about two crazy people.

And like they're trying to find common ground,

but they're both insane.

One of them thinks he's a dungeon and dragon's lord.

The other one's like a QAnon guy.

They have pier scenes everywhere.

And then they bring in this dude on a motorcycle

to try to mediate and he looks as crazy as they are.

If I wasn't a fight with my neighbor in HBO,

I wanted to document it.

I'd be like, maybe we're out of line here.

Maybe we should dial it back just a little bit.

They want to feature us on HBO.

If HBO thinks y'all are a little much,

maybe you should dial back to promise me you'll watch it.

Oh, yeah, I'll watch it.

Once you turn it on, I know you.

Okay.

You're going to love it.

You might get your own episode too.

Let's go say you're about to move into a new neighborhood.

You're going to love it.

I also got credentialed for the East Regional.

So I'm going to.

It's massive.

You're going to Duke St. John's Michigan State UConn.

I mean, my thought is, when are you going to have a regional

that has, I mean, those are four, I mean,

if you consider Patino separate than St. John's,

I mean, you got Duke, Patino, Hurley, and Izzo.

Come on.

It's a wild line up.

It's a wild line up.

You can go as a member of the media and just enjoy the game.

You're going to have to be, you know, get a better seat

than I get in Ripperine.

No doubt.

You're going to have to be a better extrader.

The media will call you out.

You know what?

You're tall.

I'm not doing any of that.

I'm just going to watch it and I'm going to enjoy it.

Because like, those are going to be two great games.

Yeah.

You're going to enjoy the games.

Yeah.

You have to get up and leave and pace or anything.

I might be pacing four St. John's against Duke.

You're going to always have John's.

Well, I got to be in the media.

So I'm not supposed to wear a.

Yeah.

But I'm going and I'm looking forward to it.

I couldn't believe they credentialed me in three minutes.

I couldn't believe it.

It was easier to get that than the SEC tournament.

Shannon, I can't get even.

Just more tonight.

It just means more.

All right.

So let's see what the, let's see what the people think.

Here we go.

Let's just go down here.

Let's start with Rick.

Go Rick.

It wouldn't have mattered if we had two point guards on the floor.

They couldn't handle Iowa State's defense.

And it was also like they didn't do no pregame preparation for that defense.

And then when we did get through the defense, we couldn't make no shots.

So you don't think the left hand and point guard matters.

No.

Not bad.

All right.

All right.

Glynna, 30 seconds for everybody.

Glynna go.

I'm just really sad and kind of at a loss for words for how Kentucky basketball is right now.

And another thing, the baby crime on the post game show could not have been a more KRS ending to the way our season has gone.

It was really loud.

Appreciate it, Glynna.

Like when I was, it was, it was very KRS.

That's exactly right.

Chris, go.

Yeah, I do not think Mark Pope is the answer.

He was not qualified for this position.

He's done nothing to change my mind since.

And I don't see it getting better in the future.

But I will say that I am going to be positive this summer.

He is going to be the coach.

So nothing to do but get behind him and support him.

And neighbors is a great show.

Thank you.

Thank you.

There you go.

Appreciate it.

8-5-9-2-8-0-2-2-8-7.

Let's hear what you got to say.

This is your chance.

Mark, go Mark.

First time long time.

Who?

My intelligence was my intelligence.

And I had a big blue nation was insulted when you go on a radio show and try to try to justify this season.

Last year he went on a press conference after getting the sweet 16.

And it's easy to be a gracious winner.

I suppose.

But now he doesn't know how to act in defeat.

He used the numbers he used or ridiculous.

Pope overall.

63.9%.

Nathaniel Go.

I wanted to say I think the show yesterday, Mark Pope showed him a little more optimism about next year.

The main reason was his creators comment.

Finally seems like he needs a lead talent.

And I was a little sketchglass for the post game show where he made the comment of finding guys that want to be a Kentucky because of what Kentucky is.

Kentucky is Kentucky because we've had elite players throughout the years.

Not because we've gotten guys that just wanted to be at Kentucky.

So go get those guys in the coach, Pope.

And we will make them.

There you go.

Like it.

By the way, say what you said about the show Paradise.

Yeah, Paradise is my favorite show on TV.

And last night thought I'll take a little break from basketball.

I'll just watch the women win.

It's a great point in the season.

And towards the end of President's given this big speech about falling down his season empires.

And then he goes, don't get me started on Kentucky basketball.

Can I just get a distraction?

So he was acting like Kentucky was a fall in him.

Yeah.

He's naming all these times in history that people thought they had it all and how quickly it can fall.

And then he went, don't get me started with Kentucky basketball.

Yeah, talk to Josh Hopkins about that.

That's why it was on initially.

Yeah.

It's going way too far the other way now.

Now it's even being negative.

Yeah.

We can't have these shows be negative on the shows we like.

Let's go to Adam.

Go Adam.

What's up guys?

It's hard.

I was ready for a change at the end of the Calibary area in a gotten stale.

But Mark's Pope's comments about Calibary comparing the two.

Calibary is a Hall of Fame coach that has a national championship in six final four.

So, I mean, you're not comparing apples to apples.

Mark Pope has not accomplished anything near what Calibary has done.

Appreciate it's calm.

Aaron, go ahead Aaron.

Again, the reason I'm doing this, I think it's interesting to hear a cross section of the fan base there.

I don't think there's any entity where you hear more different viewpoints,

which is why I want to give people a chance to go.

Go Aaron.

Hey, man, it's Aaron from Haregate.

Look, man, I'm a Pope supporter,

but something's changed between last year, man, this year.

He's a different person.

I really think he's feeling the pressure of the job.

The stuff last night that he said, the one thing I never heard was,

guys, this is my fault.

You know, I'm the one to blame and I'm going to get this right.

I've still yet to hear that.

And that does give me a lot of pause and a lot of worry.

Yeah.

Ma, go ahead, Ma.

Might be mad.

That's my fault.

They're mad.

Matt or Ma.

Yeah.

Go ahead, Matt.

I think what's going to burn Pope next season is going to bring back too many of these guys.

And we're just going to have a bad foundation of non-tizic security,

non as it can football in the sport.

I think Chandler and Marine are starters,

the more bench players and he's got to go out and find five or six guys.

And you can put them to the final.

Appreciate the call.

I did sound like retention was a big thing for him.

So you do wonder how many of these guys he wants to bring back.

Yes.

I mean, you know, we talked about Brandon Garrison.

I think he really, really loves Brandon Garrison.

Is he a guy you want to bring back?

One of the people I spoke to last night said if it was up to Pope,

this was their direct quote.

If it was up to Pope, he thought he'd bring everyone back except one guy.

And he didn't say who the guy was.

Well, he said after the game, I have a sophomore guard in the starting lineup,

a young center and a young power forward as first year college basketball.

So at least endorsed that would be Chandler, Marino, Yellowvitch.

Essentially, I didn't know I didn't hear him say that.

Darnell, go ahead, Darnell.

Darnell.

Hello.

Go.

You know, I still like Pope, you know, like this season,

he has a five and three record against a sweet 16 teams.

And I will stay there.

Number one, see that they blew out Purdue by 24 points on their home court in the middle of the season.

So go, Pope.

All right.

They weren't a number one seed.

They were two.

Grant, go ahead, Grant.

Hey, Joe, my first time long time.

Who up?

Hey, you know, I think we need to just stop pretending that Mark was anything,

but a personality higher for Mitch.

I know we played here.

We love the guy, but he had very minimal success as a head coach prior to coming to Kentucky.

And I think all of our fears prior to the press conference that lift that nostalgic fire

and it's all came true.

I don't think he's qualified.

I just don't think he's got the chops for this.

Love the guy.

He's a wonderful.

CW go.

Well, I'm discouraged and what I'm discouraged about were stuck with Mark Pope.

It's all about Mitch go.

All right.

So the guy stole my personality piece because I'm going to give you an alternative.

There are two major sports factions here in Kentucky.

I'm going to leave a little, but Churchill Downs a long time ago had a perception issue.

And they fixed it by getting young, getting lean, getting smart.

Now they're a national, in fact, international superpower.

UK needs to make a hire to help that at the A.D.

I actually think it's a great analogy.

Appreciate the call.

Churchill Downs was in the Kentucky Derby were in a crisis about 10 to 12 years ago.

And they've turned it down to where when I meet strangers of all ages,

the first thing they say to me when I hear Kentucky is I'd love to go to the Derby.

Like in Churchill, what they did, I don't really know.

I'm not, I'm not up on exactly.

But that's a, I like that analogy quite a bit.

Conner, go Conner.

Just wanted to say that the Marcus cousins who went after Matt Jones.

He's the same to Marcus cousins that said that UK would not be on TV anymore after Cal.

Also, he's not UK. He's Cal University.

Appreciate the call.

I don't want to, I appreciate you taking, taking up from me.

But I, I do love the Marcus.

The Marcus wants Kentucky to be good.

That you just reminded me what it was.

I forgot about that.

I was trying to remember why the Marcus got mad at me when Cal left.

Because he did and I couldn't, and that's what it was.

He said we'd never be on TV anymore.

And I responded that that was ridiculous.

And that was when he got mad.

That's it.

Now I remember, last night I was sitting there racking my brain going, he got mad at me,

but I can't remember what it was.

That's what it was.

He went on TV and said they would not be on television again.

And I was like, that's absurd.

And then he, he got upset.

That was it.

That was it.

Cool, man. Go ahead, cool.

Hope is like soap, not on a rope.

In prison, we're screwed.

Mark, go ahead, Mark.

Hope, 63.9 percent in two years.

Cal over the last three or four years, 63.5 percent.

To focus on how selective these numbers are.

Cal's last year, 69.7 percent.

Cal's last two years, 67.2 percent.

Cal's last three years, 70.3 percent.

Cal's last five years, 66.9 percent.

Last six, 69.6, everything else is above 70.

This is such trying to use numbers to justify is ridiculous.

And that is an insult to big blue nation.

Appreciate it.

That's actually interesting.

The only time frame in which Pope would have been better where those were four.

He's just saying it wouldn't have been true at two, three, five, six, only with four.

But to be fair, four is post-COVID.

And that's for a lot of people kind of a natural breaking point.

But that's an interesting point.

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Drew's way too happy about these Facebook groups.

I can't quit school.

I'm paying attention to you all.

These are out of control.

It's worse than I ever imagined.

But imagine if that's all Pope sees.

And he thinks that is the news report.

There's four reports of very prominent UK people dying this way.

I'm not going to say their names because it's so outrageous.

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Allison was one of my best friends growing up.

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Let's go back to these.

Nick, go for it, Nick.

Hey, Matt.

I mean, before I standing on that, I'm really starting to hear about your friend Mom.

I appreciate it.

And then I assume all of you will be.

So thank you very much.

Now, we'll get you, we'll get, since you're kind, we'll start your 30 seconds now.

Go ahead.

Thanks, man.

Hey, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

I didn't have any issues with the comments.

I don't think Pope was deflecting.

I don't think he did anything that struck me as a grigious character wise.

Didn't shift blame.

He said it's not the standard.

This is an acceptable.

It's going to get better.

Cautiously optimistic.

Get it done.

I want to see results.

We'll see in two months.

Might feel differently in two months.

We don't get it done.

But I'll wait until that.

All right.

There you go.

That's probably the most positive one so far.

Let's go to Joe.

Go ahead, Joe.

Mark, it's a beautiful game when you don't have 20 turnovers a day.

Mark, go back to fundamentals.

If you have to put blinders on Colin Chandler's, they don't look down at the floor when he's dribbling.

Please do it.

If that young man comes back and don't go to Mormon land, he could be an all SEC guard.

Put blinders on the kids so he don't look down when he's dribbling.

Thanks a lot.

Good bye.

What an amazing.

I do want to say, first of all, he's right.

He does look down when he dribbles and he does turn it over then.

That's actually a really good call.

With that said, that block, I went and watched it again.

It'll be forgotten to history.

It will be.

But that block was insane that he got in the second half.

Don't know how I got to it.

How did he get that?

I don't know.

That was incredible.

That's one of those.

I said, you want to have the wins.

You can reward that and that can be remembered for a long time.

I mean, he got so high up and he came from nowhere.

Other side of the free throw lane and then go, go gadget arm.

Somehow he got up to the wall.

That's the block that if you were like, I don't know if Colin Chandler has it.

He's got that.

And there ain't many people that got that.

Nope.

So, yeah.

Will.

Go ahead, Will.

Will.

All right.

No will.

If I have 92802287, Stephen, go.

Hey, guys.

All right.

Regarding JMI, can you please explain how our new football coach can go out and sign one of

the elite quarterbacks in the portal that's going to cost millions of dollars.

Have us in the running for another super elite quarterback in the portal.

But our basketball coach can't seem to get anybody who is elite.

All right.

So this is, I'll answer that question.

It is a different process for football and basketball.

Okay.

Football, we have like 16 million in revshare or 15 million in revshare to distribute amongst

players.

And the football market is such that only a handful of people really demand big money.

So you're essentially competing with just a few schools just for a few guys.

And it is clear to me at least that the JMI deal allows the football team the resources

they need basketball is different basketball is a handful of guys.

The top of which demand huge amounts of money.

And we're at the top of the food chain, whereas at UK football, we're in the middle.

It's a different process.

Does JMI work for that?

We'll see.

I'm not ready to say no, but I'm also skeptical.

But we'll see.

We'll know a lot more in a couple of months, but football and basketball are two completely

different processes.

I am ready to say with some confidence that I think JMI's process for football is actually

working pretty well.

I am yet to believe that it is for basketball, although I'm open to be proven that it has,

but we got to get some players first.

And then I'll believe it.

Scott, go ahead, Scott.

Hey, can you hear me?

Go for it.

30 seconds.

Hey, if I'm a coach of a D1 school, I'm not recruiting a point guard that can't go left

as well if he can go right.

I can't believe it.

I can't agree with it.

But I appreciate it.

Go catch.

Appreciate it.

I'm kind of great.

So ambidextrous these days, right, left is really doesn't matter.

I think that was an odd, he's like, we designed the whole offense around a left-handed point

guard.

I just, I didn't really realize basketball was like that.

Sometimes you'll hear in the NFL, them say that a left-handed quarterback, you have to

change things for.

But that makes more sense to me because you're back, like if you're a lefty, you're right

tackle is your blind side instead.

So I, I get that.

I don't really get it with basketball.

I don't either.

And it seems if that was your plan, a good defensive scout would be like, well, they

go left a lot and they can't go right.

So let's just stop that.

Yeah.

I don't know.

30 seconds.

Hey, man.

All right.

Last year, Marco did what I think is just short of miraculous.

He took a thing with zero players returning, built a roster in a couple of weeks and went

to sweet 16, beat a lot of top 15 teams.

You don't do that if you don't have a coach.

This year, he sucked at roster management.

He overreacted to what he was causing problems last year.

It definitely caused him problems.

But once you're in the season, you can't change that.

So you have to deal with the bad roster.

It was a bad year.

I'm definitely on board with a third season to see what he does.

Garfant suck.

Appreciate it.

Fascinating.

So we've done four segments of this two yesterday, two today, three were pretty negative.

That was a little more positive.

That guy.

That guy might be on Facebook.

That's where Pope gets some of his positive info.

We'll be right back.

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Here's Matt Jones.

We've lost drew to Facebook.

Incredible.

Like, now you drew his become Mark Pope and he is going to get all of his news.

The one you just showed me where Mark Pope stormed the set of the view and yelled at

whoopie Goldberg.

Got to deal with whoopie.

Got to know that happened.

Really?

I know.

I thought I would have seen that somewhere else.

I didn't know that that happened.

Are there people that believe that the amount of comments and shares suggest yet will

be yelled unplug his microphone and Pope said, you can mute my mic, but you can't mute

the truth.

Oh, take that one, man.

Wow.

Who has time to create these fake stories?

Paul Dave.

I got one.

You know, I pay for subscription.

Yeah.

Like, who has time for those?

Who is the person that sees that and goes, yeah.

Mark Pope is on the view and confirmed whoopie.

I mean, I haven't seen it anywhere else, but it is on National Inquirer of the internet,

but it is on Pope's pup.

So it must be true.

Yeah.

Well, Joy tried to deescalate.

And then Anna.

Oh, Joy tried to do it.

Yeah.

Joy Bayhars.

She tried to deescalate.

Okay.

I don't know who that is, but she muttered unhinged.

But Pope didn't punch.

He did not flinch.

She muttered unhinged.

Yep.

Wow.

The view.

I'm going to do a collection of these for KSR later.

My favorites.

So many people believe it, man.

No, I'm going to make it very clear.

Please don't do this, but they aren't going to be like a lesson.

The one you showed me that showed, Shannon, there's one that's like AI that's like Kentucky

fans brawling with Florida fans.

And it shows an old man in a Kentucky jersey beating up students in the Florida students.

I see the Mark Pope on the viewing.

So again, there's Mark Pope on the view.

He looks unhinged to be fair to Anna Navarro.

Wow.

Why would they have Mark Pope on the view?

But the thing is though, like, I can see why if Mark is only getting his news air.

He's like, this is what the news is.

Yes, people are prus.

But I don't know.

He's got to know though, like, that's not in the courier journal, right?

Like he's got to know that's not, it's funny, the courier journal, Ryan Black just replied

to me.

He's like, we have not been reporting on this.

We've been missing this story.

Wow.

We've lost through to Facebook forever.

All right.

Real quick, before I go back to the fan thing, Brett Sensor.

All right.

Let's quickly set this up.

Brett Sensor, one of the biggest donors to UK athletics, UK football, I think is his

primary donation.

I don't know how much he does for basketball.

He is a bit was maybe still is a big UK football donor, also donates to some of the secondary

sports.

He didn't interview with Linda Blackford in the hailed and then Drew was able to obtain

a letter that he sent to UK demanding to the president, the board of trustees and who

is the other one?

Oh, and the athletic board that they reversed the Barnhart deal.

He says many things in the letter, but I think this is the crucial one and this is the

most important.

And this is what is my problem with the deal.

He is exactly right.

There is no deal that the president of the university would do in any realm of the university, where

he could solo give someone $2 million with no oversight.

There's no scenario where you are allowed as a president to do that, except he decided

to do it right here.

And Setzer's point is there cannot be a world in which a president can unilaterally

give away $2 million with no oversight.

And essentially he's asking the board of trustees and the athletic board show some oversight

and overruled.

Step up.

That's what he said.

Yep.

I think it's completely reasonable, Brett.

I think it's completely right about that.

There's no other situation where a unit on the way out the door, like it's not even an

exchange for services.

Yeah, I know he's going to be, you know, instructor to the initiative to sports, whatever.

But he already had that job.

You just unilaterally gave him two more years of a deal.

And for what?

What are we getting back?

That's the thing.

Contracts are, you learn this in law school, there has to be consideration.

And what is consideration?

I give you this, but you give me something back, true, right?

Makes sense.

In this case, we're giving it to Mitch and he's not giving anything back because he had

already agreed to do this job for a different amount of money.

And we made it longer in 10 tickets for life, which I had someone tell me yesterday could,

if it includes his kids and grandkids, right?

That could be worth millions.

I think it ends with, when he and his wife have passed, I don't know if it just keeps

getting passed down after that.

Oh, so it's just he and his wife.

I think regardless.

It's just the price of tickets.

It's smart.

Is he mid 60s, late 60s?

Okay.

So until 20, 25 years, 10 tickets, those values might be what, $20,000 a ticket, depending

on where they are, do the math, adds up 10, yep.

Just for the record, I was told by somebody that would know, Joby Hall got tickets later

in life after he finished.

Still have to pay for him.

That's paid for him.

That is crazy.

His family got zero Joby Hall to get season tickets, had to pay for them.

And Mitch Barnhart gets 10 for life, free, tens outrageous.

That is crazy.

How many family members you got?

Shane and seriously?

Yeah.

That's ridiculous.

I mean, I can see him getting them, but not 10.

And even if you think he believes deserves that, it should be approved.

I want the board of trustees and the athletic boards sign their names to it.

If it's approved, if it's, if it's so approved, sign your names to it.

You know, say it, what do you say it with your chest, sign your name to it.

So I think Brett sets his letter from what I've seen seems completely reasonable.

And folks, this isn't going to go away.

It's not just Matt Jones chirping.

You now have Linda Blackford at the hair leader.

You have now donors and believe me, there are faculty and all that like this is not going

away for UK and they can go on every radio show that no one listens to and chirp about.

They better like this is not going away.

And I can tell you, you know, Brett took a big step forward by putting his name out there

and letting this be public.

But there's a lot of them that haven't written letters yet that are big time on Brett's

side.

There's a lot of boosters who think this stinks like a lot of the fans do.

So him putting out there was, you know, he put a, put his name and face to it.

But he's, there's a lot of people in his corner is going to take somebody with a big time

player to step up and get the ball rolling in that like that.

And so Brett sets her stepping up, you know, he's, like he said, a major player in this.

I have the letter.

People take the notes.

He said these things should be communicated transparently.

This is all ultimately made for the benefit of students.

That's the reason the university Kentucky exists.

None of that happened shutting down legitimate questions and resorting to name calling falls

well below the dignity of any university, especially Kentucky.

And let me say again, I don't even really all that much blame Mitch.

But this is the fun.

Y'all didn't even show up to his press conference.

I want you to think about that.

Let's say I'm on Mitch's side.

He worked there 24 years.

It's his retirement press conference and the president doesn't even come.

He doesn't even come what and then has yet to take a question from the public.

Give me a break.

That's chicken blank.

Well, he put out a video, he put out a video, but again, a video without question.

No, I mean, he's saying we got to make cuts like you just, yeah, we got to make cuts.

Here's two million dollars to Mitch.

And then and then Mitch didn't help himself by in defending the two million dollars, which

I guess anyone would do.

I want, I want two million dollars.

He calls everybody knuckleheads.

There's a good way to, a good way to fix questions is to call people names.

That always works.

And minimize it to two or three people when I can promise you it's a lot more than that.

So very clearly, you know, good for Brad.

Let's go to a couple more of these and then we'll do it in the next segment.

Mark, go.

Is there any help that the next athletic director will put more emphasis on UK basketball?

Mitch Barnhart was probably the most successful athletic director overall, but arguably the

least for Kentucky basketball.

He won half as many championships and CM and he had the same number of final fours and

twice the time.

Is there any help for us moving forward?

Appreciate the call.

Well, I think there's hope.

I mean, Mitch can be here.

So regardless of whether that was correct or not what you said, like he's gone.

So it'll just depend on who's next.

Mike, go.

Hey, guys, I just want to say we've had some of the greatest coaches in college basketball

at my time, you know, on this earth as a detective fan, but I'm really worried right now because

I think, you know, anybody gets a nation by one word, at least in CRIF camp, right?

He can use names and places.

Well, somebody tell me something, but you take back about my first question.

Did you get that from Facebook?

Yeah, I mean, come on, dude, like, can he find his way to reparator to the end of

it?

I don't think that's fair, but I don't think that the argument isn't that he believes Facebook.

The argument is though that he's taking that as the representation of what's out there.

What's been reported?

He's taking, I don't think he thinks, I mean, he knows these things are true, but the

problem is he's taking that as when he says, this is what fans think he's taking this.

No, fans are laughing at this now I'll be laughing at it.

Now, if Aunt Bertha is not laughing at it, you need to tell Aunt Bertha, come on.

There's a lot of Aunt Bertha's up there.

I mean, let's go.

These are just because it's a picture doesn't mean it's true.

Although to be fair, Pope did put whip, whoopie in a place and he did.

He did.

I hate the view, too.

It's whoopie even still on that show.

He watches it.

I didn't know it.

First of all, I didn't know it still.

I know I was your Trump yellow about it, but I kind of wonder if Trump and Pope are like

the same because Trump's always angry about things on Facebook, too.

You think maybe Pope is on truth, social, I don't know.

There's this one person that writes me on the text machine, they're always like, when are

you going to start putting your posts on blue sky?

And I'm like, never.

I don't know more.

That's the democratic true social.

I'm not no more apps.

I tried to thread.

It couldn't even thread.

I wanted to thread.

I wanted to thread, but here's what I like about threads.

It's not in chronological order.

Why would you have a timeline that's not in chronological order?

Because then I look at it and I'm like, oh, and then it's like four days ago, Facebook

does that.

I know it's loud on Facebook.

I'm not on Facebook.

Adam, go.

First time, long time.

Who are?

Hey, real quick here.

First off, I think it's interesting for me that we have our name calling, Petulant Child

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I'm not going to call Mark Pope any names today, but I do think it's interesting.

Mark just needs to get some dudes.

I mean, that's the big thing he needs to get.

And then second off, Drew, you need to make sure that you're making those workforce initiative

AI posts to go right along with us to see what all the cool stuff we're going to get

in.

I can't to use AI stuff has to be online and there's no record of this initiative anywhere

on the internet.

So it doesn't exist.

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Rob, go Rob.

I want to say that I think that Mark Pope was a panic high above Barnhard.

He failed on Hurley.

Scott Drew didn't even make the NCAA tournament this year.

If Pope keeps his current too much of his current team,

we're in trouble going forward.

Barnhardt has six national championships, four in rifle, one in volleyball, and one in

basketball, and a major problem.

I think now is Eric Mundy, who's going to be your next president, and he's calling

all the shots.

Appreciate it.

Well, I hear that name a lot from people.

I don't know him.

We learned his name on this show a few months ago, and I keep hearing him as a fingerprints

on a lot of this.

We'll find out.

By the way, it was interesting when they announced that Barnhardt retired.

They said he had six national titles.

Rifles was pulling a lot of weight.

Yeah, it was.

Well, when I walked into that ceremony, they had them out on the table, and my brain was

like, Mitch has six, what?

And then it hit me.

Rifles doing strong work.

Rifles doing a lot.

Chris, go Chris.

Hey, Matt, first time, long time, first time I got my condolence for Drew falling into

the Facebook of this.

It's a shame.

He seemed like a nice guy.

He hates losing.

He's going to like for flyers.

Let me know.

I'll kick in.

Now, my comment is, I think it is laughable that people are criticizing this coaching staff.

They had injuries.

They missed on a kid that they thought might be able to play back up point guard.

That was probably the plan, but I will tell you, man, I wanted to hear him, but Shannon

is, we're Shannon Paul's rules, don't just 30 seconds or 30 seconds.

30 seconds is 30 seconds when we do this.

Johnny, go Johnny.

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Hey, say that Mark Pope is not at fault for the current state of affairs of Kentucky

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Mitch Barnhart is at fault.

Mark didn't hire himself when he didn't have the resume to do it.

Mitch did.

And Mitch is the one that needs to wear the egg on his face for where the program is.

Appreciate the call.

Ed, Ed.

I'm glad you mentioned coach Joby Hall, coach Joby Hall's first year following up eight

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His second year, he went a big fat 13 and 13.

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Are you mean to tell me, hang on to say it for you.

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You mean to tell me that fans got mad at the coach before Matt Jones and KSR existed?

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I thought we were the ones.

Yeah, baby.

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I don't see.

You know what?

I appreciate the call.

Yeah.

If I read online, I would have thought I'd appreciate that I am the reason fans complain

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Hmm.

I thought we made up the concept of being disappointed when our favorite team loses.

I didn't know that.

Rats.

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BK.

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Go big.

They unplugged.

Hey Matt, first time long time.

Oh.

Yes sir.

So I'm a six, seven left handed basketball player once removed 20 years ago in high school.

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I'm not in the league today, sir.

It is because Mark Pope was not running.

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Good point.

It's good point.

You have a great point.

You have a lot of chance.

Yeah.

Appreciate the call.

You could have.

Could have been a contender.

You're not.

Mark.

Go Mark.

Carl was still fourth place in the FCC in his second year.

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Thank you.

It is true.

Last year they did say they failed.

It's interesting.

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