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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Baybsolutely beautiful day in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Christian County at the
grand opening of the A Vision Glass Facility here in
Hopkinsville off Sequoia. Is that right, zakoyah Rowe. I've only
been told that ten times. It still has it registered
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I hope you will if I'm nine two eight h
twenty two eighty seven. Here's what I want you to
do if you call it today. I want everybody to
start their call with the football record that you think
Kentucky's gonna have this year, and how many regular season
losses in basketball? So remember I don't expect everybody to
do the math because there's thirty one games. So you
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just tell me how. I want to know football record
and your regular season loss in basketball A five' nine
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven and the A
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two seven seven four five two five four Ryan A
Vision Glass been with us forever. They'd fix your windshields
when you when you break them fixture glass. They also
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have cleaner that I use, uh because you see how
spotless my car windshield is always and nice to be
here in one of our favorite towns in in Hopkinsville.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, this is their sixteenth store they've opened now in
the state of Kentucky. Great friends of the show for
a long time, and you're right, man, Hopkinsville never disappointed.
I think this is like our fourth or fifth show.
Always have big crowds when we come here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I mean I would say, you know, outside of
h of Lexington and Middlesbrough, probably I have more friends
of come from here than anywhere. Jason Moore, Duncan Cavanaugh,
Johnny Bruce, Carrie Bruce, Adam cooling back. I'm sure I'm
missing people, but you know, all those folks I've been
friends with for over twenty years from this city, so
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I've been here quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I've been here a time or two. We like to
say that West Kentucky is the best Kentucky. I hope
you all have been enjoying us.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Stay here. Yeah. I like seeing the two seven oh everywhere. Yes,
so very nice to be out here. I've played this
golf course quite a bit over the years, lost a
lot of golf balls on the part where all the
houses are on the left, hitting people's yards. So it's
a great place to be. We stayed last night at
the Holiday Inn, the New Holiday Inn out there at
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the edge. It was fun because we got to see Mario.
I thought Billy was soft, I mean Mario. Ten minutes.
Mario was walking around saying crazy stuff in Hopkinsville. So
it was nice. He was having a good time.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
He fully initiated. He really did stay in with Ryan.
Traveling with Ryan. I'll tell you break somebody, so Ryan did.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I I heard you all talked about this earlier, but
of course there's people who may not have heard it.
You I heard were not just snoring. You were talking
in your sleep last night.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, Mario said, I did everything I was talking. I
was snoring like crazy. But the best story I think is,
you know how Billy got locked in a bathroom On
one of the road trips, Mario and I.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Got locked out of our bathroom.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
So at two o'clock in the morning, I get up
to pee and the doors locked our bathroom. Mario had
accidentally locked the door to the bathroom. We couldn't get in,
so I had to go down in the lobby at
two o'clock in the morning and get somebody to come
up to our room. I'd brought him up to a
room when Mario was asleep to open the bathroom door
for us.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Because you have like that excuse me, I you know,
but we're all friends here. You have that old man
prostate where you have to like you have to like
pee like every like three or four times a night. Amen.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, yes, like I said earlier, if I can get
through one night without peeing, I am a happy camper.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Is that like a goal of yeah, like you like
it's nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
But if you're in a room just with one other person,
I don't know about you, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I don't lock I shut the door.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I don't lock the door, like I would trust that
Ryan wouldn't just wander in.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Are you guys like that?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Why don't you just not drink before you go to bed?
Or do you? Does it not matter?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
No? I do that normally. But you know, we were
having some drinks last night, so I wanted to, you know,
be social.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Good, Well, I'm glad you got out of it. Ryan,
You're always good at this. All the best athletes from Hopkinsville,
this town. We talk about this every time we come.
We talked about it last night. I would say this
town has to be one of the national leaders in
NBA players per kapita of any and especially in like
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a ten year period.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
At one point, Yeah, outside of Louisville, Hockinfill's produced the
most NBA talent basketball.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
More than Lexington. I don't think a lot of people
in the state runs. There are more NBA players from here,
oh yeah, than in Lexington in the last thirty years.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Chris Whitney was probably the first one that started the
all this onslaught of great basketball talent. Isaiah Victor, Lamont Barnes, Hopson,
Greg Buckner, Andre Buckner, Robbie Moss, Anthony Hicky, I mean
those are just basketball players.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I mean that's eight really good basketball like. Of those eight,
the one people may not know is Andre Buckner who
played it Duke you know, I mean like that that
they have had an unbelievable run here drew and a
lot of those were, like I said, in a ten
year period. There was a time. I don't know, have
the schools combined yet, hopkins are they going to combine
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the building it? Hey? How are you by the way? Uh,
they're going to combine. But there was a time you had,
uh a Hopkinsville and Christian or Christian County and they
were all good, all good at basketball.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
But you do tell me about it. I went to Madisonville.
We did not love seeing the Hopkinsville schools on the schedule.
You could go all day with football players. Remember Curtis Pully,
They could do about everything.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
With r Kus.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Pinner was a football player from here. Jerry Clayburn is
from here. I mean, Hopkinsville brings it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, so a lot of athletes and like I said,
great great place to be today. So I I guess
it was what a day or two ago that I
was on the show, and I well, I guess it
was yesterday and we talked about grading Mark Pope okay.
And so during that conversation I had a lot of
people write me and I we ran into some guys
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came out last night to the mixer where we were
and we're talking about it, and they were sort of
talking about with Mark Pope. They said they sort of said, Matt,
give me like your actual, not what you hope, but
kind of your actual. Do you think this is going
to work? And if it's going to work on what
level is it gonna work? So I was thinking about
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that last night. I was trying to think, Okay, what
is what do I actually think is gonna happen? And
it was interesting because when I when I spoke with
him on Wednesday, he has a vision which I'm not
gonna go into because I want him to be able
to share it. I think he wants to come on
this show and sort of at some point shit a
long term vision for the program that I find interesting
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but and exciting, but also different than I think a
lot of people in coaching are doing. So I'll start
with you, Drew, do you do you think before Mark
Pope leaves here? I'm gonna go over a few do
you think he succeeds at Kentucky in the broad sense, Yeah,
I absolutely believe that. Do you think he makes a
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Final four at Kentucky? I absolutely do.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I think the way the game has gone, you're getting
a little more of the transfert transfer players a little
bit older. I think he's putting the right system in
place and winning college basketball moving forward.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Do you think he wins a national championship at Kentucky
that one? You gotta have a little bit of luck,
you know. I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm not necessarily predicting it's gonna happen, but I think
today will be in the conversation more than once and
we'll have a shot at it. So I'll lean yes.
But I mean it is a hard thing, hard, hard
thing to ask for someone.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Do you think when he leaves here? If I were
to give you the coaches of Patina, cal Tubby, Billy
joe By, let's leave her up out of the conversation.
That group, that's five coaches. If we were to rank
them right now, by the way, how would we rank
them in terms of career? That's that's actually a good
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Billy's last Okay, So let's assume Billy's last, probably Eddie's
next to last. So let's take Rick, Cal, job and
uh Tubby rank them before before I put where we're
gonna put Pope in. What ranked those right now? Ryan?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
If I had to rank them right now looking at
their career, I hate to say this. I'm gonna have
to say Patino one, Cal two. I gotta go Tubby three,
Joby four.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, so you're going Patino, Cal, Tubby, Joe By, Shannon,
how are you raking?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I think that's the list. I think Patino's won.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I only put because he well, part of it was
because he wasn't here long enough to fill you know,
like Caliperri was here so long. If we just took
the first half of his time, A Kentucky cow would
absolutely agree number one. But the nine and sixteen season
you have the factor that is and losing in the
first round that never happened when Patino was here. So
because of that, and they both have one national title,
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I'm going Patino number one, Cal number two, number three.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, Okay, what about you? I think Shannon makes a
good point.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I've I've struggled with the Cal verse Patino exercise plenty
of times. But I think Cal's ending gives Patino the nod.
I mean they both took the program from a pretty
bad place and turned it around very quickly and won
a title. Like Shannon said, if Patino had stayed a
little longer and maybe had hopefully not a nine win season,
but it's, you know, a dip like Cal did, I
think it could be different, But I'm going Patino because
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it was mostly successful the whole time.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So Patino's here ninety to ninety seven, so he's here
eight years, right, Cal is here twenty ten to basically
twenty four, he's he's here fifteen years, all right, So
you're basically talking about half Patino's here half. If I'm
gonna make the case for both, and then I'll say
which one. I think the case for Cal is his
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first eight years or his twenty ten to twenty seventeen.
Outside of RUP in like forty eight, forty nine fifty one,
which is a different era, it's the most successful run
in Kentucky history. I mean they made final fours in
twenty ten, fourteen, fifteen, and eleven, so four out of
four out of six years, actually, excuse me, yeah, four
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out of sixty did make it in twenty ten. Four
out of five years, four out of six years, they
were a contender, run every year except when Noel got hurt.
Except when Noel got hurt. They made all those final fours.
They won a ton of games, and we were the
coolest program.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
For Rick.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You'd go, okay, yeah, that's good, But ninety two to
ninety eight was pretty awesome as well. Right you went
to you were dominant, ninety three, maybe the best team,
the only team that could beat you, beat you. You
win it in ninety six, you go to the finals
in ninety seven, You set up a great roster in
ninety eight, and in ninety five were in the Elite eight.
The reason I put Rick ahead of Cal, part of
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it is the ending of Cal, But for me more
it's what Rick had to build it from because he
didn't have the ability to go get Wall Cousins and
those guys, because you didn't have the one and done
air right, so you weren't able to go get that.
And as low as we were with Billy, we were
much lower when Rick came here. Scholarship restrictions, playing with
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you know, basically a group of guys from Kentucky, I
mean that think about his first team best player was
Dereck Miller, Right, So I think what Rick had to
build it from is why you put him number one.
But I actually think Ryan, they're really really close. It
is close.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Pre Covid there, it's pre Covid, it's Cow, it's Cal.
But you get you have to add what has happened
the last couple of years. You have to think, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So now let's let's put Pope in there, Shannon when
his career is over in that ranking of Rick. Uh Now,
remember all four of those guys won national championship, so
all four of them more successful. But Rick, Cal, Tubby,
Joe b Where will Mark Pope be at the end
of his career?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Man, that's a great question, because you gotta win a
national title to jump over any of those guys.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
And I think that Pope can make a final four.
I agree with Drew.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I'm not willing to say that he's gonna win a
national title here.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
So you're gonna put him fit, I'm gonna put him fifth,
all right, what about you? Right?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I kind of think of Tubby and Joby about the
same kind of way we look at Cal and Patino
about the same, and I think Pope is right in there,
though he's gonna ride be riding that Tubby joby era,
and I view Pope a lot like Tubby. I think
he won't have a team like full of superstars like
Cal had, or a team like that ninety six team.
He's gonna have teams like Tubby had with Chuck Hayes
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in that group. They're just a really good college basketball team.
So I'm gonna put him up.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'm gonna put him with tied with Tubby for third. Wow, third,
it was a cheating Tied for third. It's kind of
a cop out. Is a cop out answer, he can't
do it? What about you? I'm going fifth.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
But it's a little unfair because so much has changed,
so those guys, some of those years, the SEC was awful.
You know Pope's going It's a loaded confer college basketball
across the board. Teams are better. I think it's gonna
be hard for any school anywhere to do kind of
the run Cow had and the run Patino had, because
I just think we're gonna have there's gonna be so
ebbs and flows, and I don't see any team really
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putting together at Dynasty. So I think it's hard to
ask for him to do that, which would be hard
to put him above. Yeah, but it's a good fifth,
it's a great fifth.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Can I just add that I don't what it's saying
that putting him at fifth, I don't think. I'm not
saying that he's not gonna have successful.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
No paots, give your opinion, no caveats. Clearly you could.
You could be in fifth and still win a national title. Honestly,
with that group, I'm most slotting fourth. I'm gonna put
him after Tubby, ahead of cow. Here's what I think
is gonna be his challenge. I wonder I am still
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a little concerned about recruiting because I still believe you've
got to go. You can get a superstar from the
transfer portal. You can get it, but like you gotta
have one or two, right, you gotta have one or two.
And I need to see him go get those guys. Okay,
I need to see him go get him. I'm not
saying he can't. But besides, I mean, his highest rate
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recruit of his life is Colin Chandler. That's here right now.
I think that's important to remember. So I need to
go see him do that. But with that said, I'm
with you Ryan that, like Tubby, I think he'll take
a team like that. Maybe one of my favorite teams
I don't know about you all, is the two thousand
and three Kentucky Tea. Yeah. I know they lost to
Marquett and Dwayne Wade, but I love that team. Eric
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Chuck Hayes, Eric Daniels, Fitch, Hawkins, Bogans, I love that team.
I think Ryan, we will see the best of Pope's
teams will look like that team.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Just like you said, I think that's dead all what
we're looking at. So maybe you know now that coach
Brooks and Coach Hardner here who really good recruiters, Maybe
that I gotta see it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You gotta see it. You gotta see it though, because
to be honest, if we're being honest, he didn't get
the stud in the portal and we're not really leading
with one yet in recruiting. So I need to see
him go get one. Huh. I don't think you have
to get a top five guy, but I do think
you have to get top fifteen guys, and I just
need to go see him do it. Two, we need
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to go break a five nine two eighth, twenty two
eighty seven. We're gonna take a break. We'll be right
back here in Hopkinsville. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Good
music from Rick, as always were good. Rick. Oh we're
fine today. You gotta cue me? Did you? Did you
cue me? Are we on? We are on? Sorry about that.
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Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Here in Hopkinsville a
vision glass. Rick. I've missed you. I miss hearing great
hits like this. How was your summer?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Rick?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
It was great? Probably not as good as yours, but
uh not bad. I bet you were happy sitting on
your back porch, drinking wine and enjoying yourself. We are
here a day vision glass. Absolutely awesome crowd give Hopkinsville,
give yourselves a rout of applause. This is the first
one of these we've done in in like three months.
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And great crowd. We always get a great crowd here.
I'm trying to think we've been here that at the
old Holiday Inn, right wasn't there? Wasn't there an old
Holiday Inn and a different part of town. We we
we did it there one time. I remember, I had
a great crowd. The big Sports complex we did one.
We did want sports complex, so so very nice. Appreciate
all of you coming out on the text machine. One
person rights, Matt, I thought after your vacation that you
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would stop being negative about basketball, but I guess I'm
wrong positive. I literally just said that he would be
the fourth best coach of all time in front of
a person who won a national championship, which implies he
will probably win a national championship. And Shannon, that is
still not positive enough for people who, I guess want
you to say that coach that has only won one
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NCAA tournament game ever will be the greatest coach in
the history of college basketball. And if you don't say that,
that's not you're so negative man.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I mean, you off five national titles once again, you
raked him below me, and they're talking about me and
not you. Shit, I think they expect it from me,
they get it from you. They want you to, you know,
hype it up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Let me let me as I said, I'm gonna keep
a lot of my conversation with Mark private and because
I think some of it he wants to talk about here.
But I think he'd be fine with me saying this,
because this was an interesting exchange with him my head.
One of things I said to him was I was like, look,
I want you to understand I don't know what you've
heard about us and and blah blah and negativity. And
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he actually cut me off, which is hard to do,
as you know, I don't. It's hard to cut me off.
Appreciate your talking. He kind of said, I appreciate your
your monologue. He cut me off and he said, listen this,
and this almost a direct quote. He said, what makes
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Kentucky basketball Kentucky basketball is the expectation. He said, I
want the fans in the arena to expect us to
win every game. And he said, I want you to
rip me if you think I deserve to be ripped.
He said, I want you to rip me because that
ripping is what makes this Kentucky. And I was like, well,
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I'm not gonna rip you. I was like, I haven't
ripped anybody. He said, do it. He wants to be ripped. No,
he said, if I deserve it, do it, he goes,
because the day you stop doing it is the day
that's in Kentucky anymore.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
He gets it. Yeah, and it was interesting. I said, look, dude,
I'm I'm not. I want you to succeed, which is true.
The difference between KSR and some media outlets, not in
Kentucky but in other places is we want them to succeed.
We just did our annual revenue for the bars in
Oakland did not make last year a profitable year. I
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need them to succeed. But he was adamant. He said,
I want the expectation. He said, I want to win
every game, and I don't want people to expect mediocrity.
This is Kentucky. So if he's like that, then I
think we as fans need to be like that. And
I don't think he's scared about it. That's one of
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the things I've always liked about Mark Stoops. Mark Stoops
will tell me if I deserve to be ripped, rip me. Now.
He doesn't love it, but he understands like that comes
with it, and it looks like Mark Pope does as well.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I love that he said that to you to me,
I want my coach to hurt when we lose. I
want my coach to be excited when we win. I
don't want my coach to say, well, I get to
go home and spend time with my dog after they
lose an important game.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I want him to hurt like we hurt. I mean
his exact word was rip me, and like I almost
got defensive, shann I was like, I'm not gonna not
gonna rip.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
When have you ever had a coach say that to
you ever? Ever?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah? I never? I mean, to be fair, I haven't
dealt with that many coaches because we've been had these
long run.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
We just went from one that was, you know, super sensitive,
that type of thing, to now, I go, I who
was asking you to rip him?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
It's interesting because like on a personal level, Drew, I
don't think I would have been as defense of as Cow,
but I probably more lean towards cal like I don't
Shannon loves to be criticized. I don't really if I'm
being honest, I mean, I'm better about it than I
used to be, but I don't love it. But it
seemed to me like Mark Pope is walking in here
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with like he is like be Kentucky fans, That's what
I'm coming for. Be wild, that's what I want. And
if that includes criticizing me, I'm good with.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
He's shown many times he's one of us, and this
is what I was gonna add earlier, if it works
with Mark Pope, it will be better than it will
have been with anyone. I guess he was a player.
We already adorn him before he's even coached the game.
So if it does pan out, that'll be a ceiling
and something we wouldn't have had with anyone else. Even
the guys that they were talking he could, they have
gotten hurly. Nobody could do what Pope can do if
it works out, because we'll enjoy it so much more
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going on the ride with him because he's one of us.
He's more than one of us because he played for
the team and won a title.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Were any of you all at the press conference in
Lexington you were, then you can I'm sure you would
agree with this. I'm not just saying this. I can't.
I don't know how many sports experiences at Kentucky I've
had that felt like that. Now, obviously there were things
that are more exciting, like winning a championship, but it
was almost People would mock this if they weren't Kentucky fans,
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but you all are all Kentucky fans. It was like
a church. It was it was like you were at church.
Am I wrong. You were there, like it was like
I was there. It was like a It was almost
like when you were a kid, like I got saved
as a Christian at a revival. I didn't go there
expecting to do it right, like I got caught up
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in it and I just kind of walked in and
I'm and like, that was my moment for Kentucky basketball.
It felt like a revival. It felt like and again,
who knows, maybe it won't even work, but Ryan, that
feeling is kind of why Drew's right. If it works,
it will feel a different way than when it's worked
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in the past, and then well, you're right.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
There was something special about that event where we felt
like I think the fans felt like, Okay, we got
our program back.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Here are people crying, you know, people crying everywhere. Like
I don't think unless you were there. I don't think
unless you were there, people can realize what that building
I'm felt like. And so if he's able to win
and that feeling a companies winning a title, then I
think that'll be the kind of feeling that like you
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just don't get a lot and now we got to
see if he does all right A five nine two
eight oh, twenty two eighty seven, going to talk some football.
It's like he had a huge day at the Olympics yesterday.
Be right back. This is KSR, where Amack take you
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such a great crowd here on this day. One person writes, Matt,
while you were gone, I know you're a control freak.
Thanks a lot, I love you. But yeah, but were
you Did you have full confidence? If you're being honest
in the guys, No, but I was very I'm kidd
I'm kidding. I was much less nervous this time than
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I was like six years ago or whatever. I think
we created the perfect schedule. You know, I went away
one time and we had all guest hosts. I think
that got away from the rhythm a little bit of
what we do. And then I think having Myron one
day and Tom one day and then you guys and
you all rotating each other out right, I think I
think it went about as well as it could.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
The addition of Myron on Monday and Tom on Wednesday
helped the summer get along.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And those guys were great. I mean, they really killed it.
They did a great jobs and you all, like everybody
loves you, right, so it was good it you all.
They they held the ratings closer than we've ever done before.
So to me, that's a success. And I think it
also showcases you know, Ryan, Ryan has always been a
radio pro, but like I'll say, a nice thing Drew
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has gotten. I think Drew's a pro Shannon nice like Shannon.
You know, we know more about Shannon's personality every year.
Billy continues to get better. It's been putting Mario in.
So I think it was I think it went really well.
Did you all enjoy it? Thank you very much. We
had a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I actually enjoyed because I don't usually drive the show
much and I got to do that more than I've
ever done. Had fun doing that. Like media day, Ryan
had something come up, couldn't make it, but we just
kept on rolling.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Ryan actually had to do show prep for the first
time in show history, which was it intersting.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
But you did a great job man.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So yes, the answer that question is is yes, eight, five, nine, two,
eight oh, twenty two eighty seven. Who's up first? Rick?
Got Ethan? Up first? Ethan? Go ahead? Ethan? Hey, hey all,
don doing good.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
So on the basketball projections, I don't really know how
to think about the season coming up. So I asked
chat GBT and they said twelve losses with going.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Nice Yes, chat GPT, So they have us going nineteen
and twelve. Yes, boo ayill right, they don't know anything.
I hate that, all right, So twelve losses, what do
you what's your football record?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Well, this is the one you're gonna love. Then ten
and two?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh Chap GBT says ten and two and four?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
No like that, absolutely not, that's me.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Oh that's you, okay, all right?
Speaker 8 (25:49):
So you well that's that old mares and neither splitting
Texas and Tennessee. But I think we take one on Georgia.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You think we beat Georgia at home?
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Well, you gotta think they've lost. How many years have
we been competitive with Georgia and then all of a
sudden number nineteen their tight end comes out of there
brock balers and just dominates the game. Well, last time
I take he's playing on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Now he is all right, well, I like it. So
what's your question besides that? Well, so it.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Seems like in the past couple of years in football,
we get up two three touchdowns and then we just
start playing conservatives. Do you think we get away from that?
Because Missouri last year in.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Clinton's a great question. I don't know. I mean, I
appreciate the call. It like ultimately the conservative or not
Ryan is a Mark Stoopstick right, Like it's a Mark Stoopsteck.
I mean, those guys call the plays, but when Stoops
wants them to slow it down, that's his decision. He
can say all he wants. He's not gonna do that anymore.
(26:50):
I kind of feel like you got to show me that, Mark,
because we've seen ten years of his natural inclination is
to slow it down. So I hope we don't, but
I think people should remember while that cost us against Missouri,
we've won a lot of games doing that. Where he
sort of deflates the ball and we run out the clock.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I have a hard time believing he's gonna change, because
it is he liked that grounded and pounded, moved the
chains and run the clock. That's just his philosophy, and
it's gonna be really hard for him. For me, I
think he's gonna change.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
By the way, Drew just put into chat GPT, what
are we doing in football? So robots?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
They say to narrow it down to specific prediction. They're
going eight and four, but facing losses against Georgia Alabama,
don't play.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Them Tennessee Alabama. Maybe they met Texas there. They're still
figuring out the sec AI. It's not perfect, and they
still have us playing games we're not playing.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Then what about where I showed you the other day,
write an episode of KSR and it's like, Matt Jones,
welcome to Jacky Sports Radio Rights.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You all talk about that on the air. We did
so right. So I was with Drew and Drew said
watch this and he put in the computer ride an
episode of ks R, and it was like scary how
it sounded with us. I mean, they had my intro
like they did the whole intro a vision glass text machine.
They had the number. Oh my, remember we've never written
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that out. Like that's like these things are going to
take over the world. And I don't know if everybody's
as scared about it as I am, but like that
was crazy because it's there's never been a transcript. I
think of our show and it like had my entire intro.
It had me throwing to Ryan. When I throw to Ryan,
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it was kind of scared. How I don't know how
they make.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
You know, we're just up here and winging it. We
could just read off a script.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
So we had this podcast seminar while we uh last
this week and advertising. This guy got up from the
National iHeart and he goes, you know, we have this
new thing now where we're going to start translating shows
into other languages through AI and I and so basically
he was like, you know, we can translate KSR into
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Spanish with AI voices that are modeled to sound like US,
so you could hear like Spanish Southern accents trying to speak.
I think Mateo Jones overmuch. I guess Matao Jones.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That kind of blows my mind. Who's up next? Got
Allen up next, Alan, go ahead, Allen.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Hey, guys, first time caller, long time listener.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Who are what's up? All right?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Hey, my I got a theory on why Mark Pope's
gonna be so successful with Kentucky. You want to hear
what you guys think about it. Last year he was
in the Big Twelve, which was between them and the SEC.
They were the two best basketball conferences in the country.
He wins twenty four games with the BYU roster, which
I understand BYU had a pretty good roster last year,
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but I think Kentucky with him at Kentucky, he will
always have a better roster than he had last year
at BYU.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Listen, I agree. I think the X and o's I
appreciate the call. I'd be shocked at the X and
o's with of Pope don't work. I'd be shocked. The
question for me is gonna be the players. But like
the good thing, this is why this year is important.
If we're good this year, he'll go get players. Like
if we're good this year and NBA guys see, hey,
you can still make it from the league, then we'll
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go get players. Ryan. So that's that's why we need
to be We need to be good this year, just
like Cal's first year was a job wall year, and
that's set up the next eight years. We need to
be good this year. Need to be good this year.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
And I think players a lot of guys may wait
just to kind of sit on the fence if they're
just considering Kentucky. Let's wait and see what that system's like,
how it works. And I'm am I gonna fit in
the way he likes to play.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, but I do think it'll happen. So we're here
in Hopkinsville, you know, Owensboro's western Kentucky. Did you see
this story Shannon about the surgeon in Owensboro that's been suspended? No, no,
what happened? Again? Let me be cause people on owens Brough,
I'm sure know more about this than I do. So
I don't. I know nothing more than what I read
in this newspaper article. So if there's more to it,
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tell me on the text machine seven seven two four
five two five for it. But there's this. This story
says this surgeon was operating on a guy and I
guess he had like a tube or something that I
don't know was in some part of the guy. And
I don't know like the medical details. There was like
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a tube somewhere and then whatever. But he, according to
the article, the guy was having a hard time the doctor,
the surgeon getting the tube out of the guy. Now
the guy is like out, you know, he's having a
hard time getting the tube out of the guy. And
it was frustrating, according to the witnesses. And so I
guess he kept pulling and like he kept pulling and
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trying to get it out, and he couldn't get it out.
And when he he was so frustrated about it that
he slapped the patient as if it was the patient's fall.
And he like, I don't know if it was hard.
It wasn't that hard, but he like went and then
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he got it out, and he like made some joke
like that's how it took, you know. And I guess
he thought it was funny. And now he's gonna lose
his license for five years. According to the uh Kentucky
Medical thing.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
You can't be smacking patients. I think I think that's
safe to say.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I think he thought it was like a playful smack, like, oh,
get this thing out of your body, dude, loosen up.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Well, clearly it worked though, right, I mean maybe that
goes on more than what we realized.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You think that's what did it.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
I mean, if it came out, that's what it takes.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And what if you're the patient. You wake up and
he said, yeah, the doctor had to smack you to
get this.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Clearly the patient knows. Now, yeah, because it's in the
at least in the newspaper. I like shinning thinking that's
what worked. It's like that thing. It's like you causation correlation.
You're not worried about it.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Sometimes it gets duck. You's got to kick it, smack it,
whatever you're gonna do to make it work. Your TV
doesn't work. But back in the day, you do you
smack the tallionnail.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Sudden it come on. Well, the doctor says he didn't
do it, but there are witnesses that say he did.
So I guess they believe drew the witnesses. And so
now the surgeon's create is no longer going to be
a surgeon.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
It's like, uh, yeah, we fixed everything inside. Your jaws
a little broken, don't ask about that. Apologies, we'll fix that.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I know the surgery went a little weird. I know
it was on your stomach, but like sorry, just had
to smack you right in the face. A new report
from the Kentucky Chamber Shannon highlights a massive economic impact
of housing in this state.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
You know that, Yes I knew it was coming.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yes I learned right now. Home building and remodeling generate
tax revenue up to one point five billion dollars. So
we want to hear it from you. Do you think
there's enough affordable housing? If there's not, how can we
do it? Ky chamber dot com slash housing and tell
us the biggest housing issue in your community. So if
you're in a town and you want leaders to understand
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the housing issues in your community, Ky chamber dot com
slash housing. We will take a break and come back
right here at Hopkinsville, Kentucky's KSR. Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio.
Think about think about Rix music. I never know exactly
when it's gonna hit, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Like it just you jump in there wherever it feels
right Ricks.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Like whatever, I'll we'll do, We'll do whatever. We are
here in Hopkinsville at a Vision Glass. Thank you to
uh this woman here who brought us bread bread from
Emily's Bread basket here in Hopkinsville. I'm excited. You know,
I got used to really good uh bread in Europe,
and now this is good, you know, homemade bread.
Speaker 10 (34:38):
She said, they mail it to me if I like it,
So look forward to sourdough. I love good sourd ough bread.
So very cool here in Hopkinsville have Emily's bread basket. Now,
I've had three people Ryan who've written me saying they've
been smacked while having surgery. What I'm gonna have to
throw the challenge, FLA, that's a lot of people being smacked.
(34:58):
Let me read this one. You tell me if you
believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
When I had surgery from my shoulder in high school,
I woke up and one of the nurses was smacking
me in the face pretty good. I didn't pass back out,
and when I woke up again, I remembered it and
I said, yes, I remember being smacked. The nurse quickly
went out of the room and came back with a
couple others and started apologizing and saying they didn't think
anyone would remember. It also happened in Owensboro, so as
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Owen's brother like get surgery, get smacked, Capital of the country,
I thought one was crazy. You've already gotten all these replies.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
I was trying to say, I think that happens, you know,
especially when you're out.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
You gotta wake somebody up.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
What do you do? So you think doctors like it's
just like a thing that doctors do. They just kind
of smack you in the face and nobody talks about it.
Really it works interesting.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I can I can almost give the nurse a little
bit of a pass. They're trying to wake you up
from r anesthesia. I can't give the doctor a pass
for smacking him trying.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
So you give the nurse a pass for a smack
a little.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Because you know, like if somebody passes out, if somebody
passed out here, we might go up to him.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Like, no, we wouldn't smack him in the face.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
Is Mack Ryan when he's snoring?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Listen? You know, I please don't do that to me,
Like I don't want to be smacked you. I mean,
I feel like there's there's other ways to wake somebody
up and just smacking them across the face. Yeah, it
seems like it happens, So I can give the nurse
a little bit of it happened at least once twice
in Owensborough. Very cool here, got a couple of my
uh friend's mother's here, Turkey Hunter's Mom's there, the uh
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Carrie and Johnny's mom back there. Very neat to look
up and see. Uh even though their kids, well Carrie's
still here, but even though their kids are gone, they
still come and see us. Yeah. That nice.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
You mentioned this, but you have so many connections to
this town, been from the other side of the state,
so I'm not surprised they all turned up to say hi,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Good to see both of y'all. Got the mayor here
as well. Uh, so it's nice to have everybody here. Eight.
I'm nine to twenty two eighty seven, Chee Chee Rodriguez
died and uh that makes me sad because when I
was you know, I don't know the Senior Tour golf.
I don't know if people still watch it, Like I
don't even know who's on it anymore. But when I
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was a kid, the Senior Tour was kind of a
big thing. Ryan right, like, people watched it. Nicholas was
on it, and Palmer and Chi Chee. Again, A lot
of people may be too young to remember this, but
he would make a putt and then he would act
like his putter was like a you know, a sword. Yeah,
and he would go and then he would like take
it and he would host it like that. And so
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you know, young Matt Jones at eight years old, if
I didn't pick it up and like three or four
at three or four feet would start his sword fighting
and I'd try to be Chi Chi Rodriguez. So he
died at eighty eight years old.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
That made me sayd he was really like the first
personality that I remember from golf.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Huge person huge.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Personality, you know, And you're right. It was all because
of him doing the Zoro sword after something.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
And he seemed even though he was like fifty five
or I'm fifty six years old, he's just seemed cool.
Like he just seemed like a dude with swag. That
picture Shannon I showed you he's at the Masters and
he looks like a million bucks. Like being in Europe,
I'll tell you Spanish people are insanely good looking, male
or female, Like they all are like like, that's like
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the best looking people. And he just looks cool. And
then his caddy, Shannon is like six foot six, black
guy with an afro that has his Master's hat on
top of his afro, And I'm like, that might be
the swaggiest picture I've ever seen in my lot.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
I saw that picture and I was thinking, those are
the guys you want to go out club.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Back in the seventies, ye.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
We had to show up at the Masters with that,
like Drew, that was a look I was like in
the seventies sometimes, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Back then it was hard to find any personality in golf.
You know, it's hard to show any in golf. That
guy had a lot of character. He Chichi also had
a little swag to him. He could wear some flashy
clothes out there. When else Yeah, RF when I was
a kid, love Cheechie Rodriguez. Hadn't thought about him in
a long time. Rest in peace to him. Who's up next?
Speaker 2 (38:58):
God? Just it up next? Justin, go ahead, justin Yes.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
I think football will most likely go eight and four,
did it? I think that if we do get a
ninth win, it's gonna come with Old Miss because they
don't have a defense. If our defenses is if our
offense is clicking like they're saying, we should be able
to outshoot them, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Record how many losses in basketball.
Speaker 9 (39:25):
I think we'll end up with fourteen or fifteen losses
in basketball.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Who but I need to see what we're gonna get team.
I mean, that's like that we don't make the tournament.
You think you think we're gonna miss the tournament.
Speaker 9 (39:38):
I think we're gonna miss. But I think we're gonna
have some losses against big teams that we need, like
like Duke.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
We need. I don't like that. All right, Well, what's
your other thing then? Since you're such a bummer, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
My other thing is we're eleven years going on twelve years,
I think without a championship. Now, how many years do
we go without a championship before we've become the next
Indiana Basketball?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, you got you gotta stop with you. Indiana's not
one anything since what eighty seven? That's different. I mean
that's different has been Indiana's don't yet. But an Indian
has not been to a Final four since two thousand
and one. They've only had like one good year in
the last fifteen years, that Oladipot year. The Indiana stuff,
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like we've we matter, okay, even when we've lost in
these first rounds, we've been like a two seed or
a three seed. We are a long way from Indiana.
Speaker 9 (40:34):
Well, well, the things that we've got to do something
within the first five.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Years, Yeah, within five years. I appreciate the call. Pope
needs to be good. I mean, if he's not good
for five years, he won't be the coach here anymore.
But you think they you think this crowd comes out
to a show in Indiana. No, I mean I remember
Ryan that one time we stopped at a pizza place
in Indiana and Indiana was playing like me, and it
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wasn't even on the TVs. And I said, I mean,
the game's not even on here. They were showing a
different basketball game, And I was like, I don't care
what those Hoosier fans say. That's not Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
We have done shows in Indiana that have crowds as
big as this.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
In Indiana, we would get take the biggest Indiana show.
We could go to Bloomington and get a bigger crowd
than they do in their town. So Kentucky is not Drew.
We need to be better than we've been the last
few years. But I don't think we're in danger of
being anywhere close to India.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
They've been irrelevant for a very long time, and we're
in a bit of a drought here. Also, that's not
Pope's problem, it's post problem. That's not his faults. So
I don't think we're anywhere in that conversation.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yeah, you know, the reality is Yukon's been better than us,
Kansas has been better than us. But it's not like,
you know, to use a phrase, it's not like we
just fell off the turnip truck. Like we're still We're
still around and kicking. We're gonna take a break and
be right back here on Sequoia Drive and Hopkinsville, NY
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Baybsolutely beautiful day in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Christian County at the
grand opening of the A Vision Glass Facility here in
Hopkinsville off Sequoia. Is that right, zakoyah Rowe. I've only
been told that ten times. It still has it registered
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I hope you will if I'm nine two eight h
twenty two eighty seven. Here's what I want you to
do if you call it today. I want everybody to
start their call with the football record that you think
Kentucky's gonna have this year, and how many regular season
losses in basketball? So remember I don't expect everybody to
do the math because there's thirty one games. So you
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just tell me how. I want to know football record
and your regular season loss in basketball A five' nine
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven and the A
Vision Auto Glass text machine. Where we are seven seven
two seven seven four five two five four Ryan A
Vision Glass been with us forever. They'd fix your windshields
when you when you break them fixture glass. They also
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have cleaner that I use, uh because you see how
spotless my car windshield is always and nice to be
here in one of our favorite towns in in Hopkinsville.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, this is their sixteenth store they've opened now in
the state of Kentucky. Great friends of the show for
a long time, and you're right, man, Hopkinsville never disappointed.
I think this is like our fourth or fifth show.
Always have big crowds when we come here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I mean I would say, you know, outside of
h of Lexington and Middlesbrough, probably I have more friends
of come from here than anywhere. Jason Moore, Duncan Cavanaugh,
Johnny Bruce, Carrie Bruce, Adam cooling back. I'm sure I'm
missing people, but you know, all those folks I've been
friends with for over twenty years from this city, so
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I've been here quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I've been here a time or two. We like to
say that West Kentucky is the best Kentucky. I hope
you all have been enjoying us.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Stay here. Yeah. I like seeing the two seven oh everywhere. Yes,
so very nice to be out here. I've played this
golf course quite a bit over the years, lost a
lot of golf balls on the part where all the
houses are on the left, hitting people's yards. So it's
a great place to be. We stayed last night at
the Holiday Inn, the New Holiday Inn out there at
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the edge. It was fun because we got to see Mario.
I thought Billy was soft, I mean Mario. Ten minutes.
Mario was walking around saying crazy stuff in Hopkinsville. So
it was nice. He was having a good time.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
He fully initiated. He really did stay in with Ryan.
Traveling with Ryan. I'll tell you break somebody, so Ryan did.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I I heard you all talked about this earlier, but
of course there's people who may not have heard it.
You I heard were not just snoring. You were talking
in your sleep last night.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, Mario said, I did everything I was talking. I
was snoring like crazy. But the best story I think is,
you know how Billy got locked in a bathroom On
one of the road trips, Mario and I.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Got locked out of our bathroom.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
So at two o'clock in the morning, I get up
to pee and the doors locked our bathroom. Mario had
accidentally locked the door to the bathroom. We couldn't get in,
so I had to go down in the lobby at
two o'clock in the morning and get somebody to come
up to our room. I'd brought him up to a
room when Mario was asleep to open the bathroom door
for us.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Because you have like that excuse me, I you know,
but we're all friends here. You have that old man
prostate where you have to like you have to like
pee like every like three or four times a night. Amen.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, yes, like I said earlier, if I can get
through one night without peeing, I am a happy camper.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Is that like a goal of yeah, like you like
it's nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
But if you're in a room just with one other person,
I don't know about you, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I don't lock I shut the door.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I don't lock the door, like I would trust that
Ryan wouldn't just wander in.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Are you guys like that?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Why don't you just not drink before you go to bed?
Or do you? Does it not matter?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
No? I do that normally. But you know, we were
having some drinks last night, so I wanted to, you know,
be social.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Good, Well, I'm glad you got out of it. Ryan,
You're always good at this. All the best athletes from Hopkinsville,
this town. We talk about this every time we come.
We talked about it last night. I would say this
town has to be one of the national leaders in
NBA players per kapita of any and especially in like
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a ten year period.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
At one point, Yeah, outside of Louisville, Hockinfill's produced the
most NBA talent basketball.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
More than Lexington. I don't think a lot of people
in the state runs. There are more NBA players from here,
oh yeah, than in Lexington in the last thirty years.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Chris Whitney was probably the first one that started the
all this onslaught of great basketball talent. Isaiah Victor, Lamont Barnes, Hopson,
Greg Buckner, Andre Buckner, Robbie Moss, Anthony Hicky, I mean
those are just basketball players.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I mean that's eight really good basketball like. Of those eight,
the one people may not know is Andre Buckner who
played it Duke you know, I mean like that that
they have had an unbelievable run here drew and a
lot of those were, like I said, in a ten
year period. There was a time. I don't know, have
the schools combined yet, hopkins are they going to combine
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the building it? Hey? How are you by the way? Uh,
they're going to combine. But there was a time you had,
uh a Hopkinsville and Christian or Christian County and they
were all good, all good at basketball.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
But you do tell me about it. I went to Madisonville.
We did not love seeing the Hopkinsville schools on the schedule.
You could go all day with football players. Remember Curtis Pully,
They could do about everything.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
With r Kus.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Pinner was a football player from here. Jerry Clayburn is
from here. I mean, Hopkinsville brings it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, so a lot of athletes and like I said,
great great place to be today. So I I guess
it was what a day or two ago that I
was on the show, and I well, I guess it
was yesterday and we talked about grading Mark Pope okay.
And so during that conversation I had a lot of
people write me and I we ran into some guys
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came out last night to the mixer where we were
and we're talking about it, and they were sort of
talking about with Mark Pope. They said they sort of said, Matt,
give me like your actual, not what you hope, but
kind of your actual. Do you think this is going
to work? And if it's going to work on what
level is it gonna work? So I was thinking about
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that last night. I was trying to think, Okay, what
is what do I actually think is gonna happen? And
it was interesting because when I when I spoke with
him on Wednesday, he has a vision which I'm not
gonna go into because I want him to be able
to share it. I think he wants to come on
this show and sort of at some point shit a
long term vision for the program that I find interesting
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but and exciting, but also different than I think a
lot of people in coaching are doing. So I'll start
with you, Drew, do you do you think before Mark
Pope leaves here? I'm gonna go over a few do
you think he succeeds at Kentucky in the broad sense, Yeah,
I absolutely believe that. Do you think he makes a
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Final four at Kentucky? I absolutely do.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I think the way the game has gone, you're getting
a little more of the transfert transfer players a little
bit older. I think he's putting the right system in
place and winning college basketball moving forward.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Do you think he wins a national championship at Kentucky
that one? You gotta have a little bit of luck,
you know. I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm not necessarily predicting it's gonna happen, but I think
today will be in the conversation more than once and
we'll have a shot at it. So I'll lean yes.
But I mean it is a hard thing, hard, hard
thing to ask for someone.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Do you think when he leaves here? If I were
to give you the coaches of Patina, cal Tubby, Billy
joe By, let's leave her up out of the conversation.
That group, that's five coaches. If we were to rank
them right now, by the way, how would we rank
them in terms of career? That's that's actually a good
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Billy's last Okay, So let's assume Billy's last, probably Eddie's
next to last. So let's take Rick, Cal, job and
uh Tubby rank them before before I put where we're
gonna put Pope in. What ranked those right now? Ryan?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
If I had to rank them right now looking at
their career, I hate to say this. I'm gonna have
to say Patino one, Cal two. I gotta go Tubby three,
Joby four.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, so you're going Patino, Cal, Tubby, Joe By, Shannon,
how are you raking?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I think that's the list. I think Patino's won.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I only put because he well, part of it was
because he wasn't here long enough to fill you know,
like Caliperri was here so long. If we just took
the first half of his time, A Kentucky cow would
absolutely agree number one. But the nine and sixteen season
you have the factor that is and losing in the
first round that never happened when Patino was here. So
because of that, and they both have one national title,
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I'm going Patino number one, Cal number two, number three.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, Okay, what about you? I think Shannon makes a
good point.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I've I've struggled with the Cal verse Patino exercise plenty
of times. But I think Cal's ending gives Patino the nod.
I mean they both took the program from a pretty
bad place and turned it around very quickly and won
a title. Like Shannon said, if Patino had stayed a
little longer and maybe had hopefully not a nine win season,
but it's, you know, a dip like Cal did, I
think it could be different, But I'm going Patino because
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it was mostly successful the whole time.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So Patino's here ninety to ninety seven, so he's here
eight years, right, Cal is here twenty ten to basically
twenty four, he's he's here fifteen years, all right, So
you're basically talking about half Patino's here half. If I'm
gonna make the case for both, and then I'll say
which one. I think the case for Cal is his
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first eight years or his twenty ten to twenty seventeen.
Outside of RUP in like forty eight, forty nine fifty one,
which is a different era, it's the most successful run
in Kentucky history. I mean they made final fours in
twenty ten, fourteen, fifteen, and eleven, so four out of
four out of six years, actually, excuse me, yeah, four
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out of sixty did make it in twenty ten. Four
out of five years, four out of six years, they
were a contender, run every year except when Noel got hurt.
Except when Noel got hurt. They made all those final fours.
They won a ton of games, and we were the
coolest program.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
For Rick.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You'd go, okay, yeah, that's good, But ninety two to
ninety eight was pretty awesome as well. Right you went
to you were dominant, ninety three, maybe the best team,
the only team that could beat you, beat you. You
win it in ninety six, you go to the finals
in ninety seven, You set up a great roster in
ninety eight, and in ninety five were in the Elite eight.
The reason I put Rick ahead of Cal, part of
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it is the ending of Cal, But for me more
it's what Rick had to build it from because he
didn't have the ability to go get Wall Cousins and
those guys, because you didn't have the one and done
air right, so you weren't able to go get that.
And as low as we were with Billy, we were
much lower when Rick came here. Scholarship restrictions, playing with
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you know, basically a group of guys from Kentucky, I
mean that think about his first team best player was
Dereck Miller, Right, So I think what Rick had to
build it from is why you put him number one.
But I actually think Ryan, they're really really close. It
is close.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Pre Covid there, it's pre Covid, it's Cow, it's Cal.
But you get you have to add what has happened
the last couple of years. You have to think, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So now let's let's put Pope in there, Shannon when
his career is over in that ranking of Rick. Uh Now,
remember all four of those guys won national championship, so
all four of them more successful. But Rick, Cal, Tubby,
Joe b Where will Mark Pope be at the end
of his career?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Man, that's a great question, because you gotta win a
national title to jump over any of those guys.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
And I think that Pope can make a final four.
I agree with Drew.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I'm not willing to say that he's gonna win a
national title here.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
So you're gonna put him fit, I'm gonna put him fifth,
all right, what about you? Right?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I kind of think of Tubby and Joby about the
same kind of way we look at Cal and Patino
about the same, and I think Pope is right in there,
though he's gonna ride be riding that Tubby joby era,
and I view Pope a lot like Tubby. I think
he won't have a team like full of superstars like
Cal had, or a team like that ninety six team.
He's gonna have teams like Tubby had with Chuck Hayes
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in that group. They're just a really good college basketball team.
So I'm gonna put him up.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'm gonna put him with tied with Tubby for third. Wow, third,
it was a cheating Tied for third. It's kind of
a cop out. Is a cop out answer, he can't
do it? What about you? I'm going fifth.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
But it's a little unfair because so much has changed,
so those guys, some of those years, the SEC was awful.
You know Pope's going It's a loaded confer college basketball
across the board. Teams are better. I think it's gonna
be hard for any school anywhere to do kind of
the run Cow had and the run Patino had, because
I just think we're gonna have there's gonna be so
ebbs and flows, and I don't see any team really
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putting together at Dynasty. So I think it's hard to
ask for him to do that, which would be hard
to put him above. Yeah, but it's a good fifth,
it's a great fifth.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Can I just add that I don't what it's saying
that putting him at fifth, I don't think. I'm not
saying that he's not gonna have successful.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
No paots, give your opinion, no caveats. Clearly you could.
You could be in fifth and still win a national title. Honestly,
with that group, I'm most slotting fourth. I'm gonna put
him after Tubby, ahead of cow. Here's what I think
is gonna be his challenge. I wonder I am still
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a little concerned about recruiting because I still believe you've
got to go. You can get a superstar from the
transfer portal. You can get it, but like you gotta
have one or two, right, you gotta have one or two.
And I need to see him go get those guys. Okay,
I need to see him go get him. I'm not
saying he can't. But besides, I mean, his highest rate
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recruit of his life is Colin Chandler. That's here right now.
I think that's important to remember. So I need to
go see him do that. But with that said, I'm
with you Ryan that, like Tubby, I think he'll take
a team like that. Maybe one of my favorite teams
I don't know about you all, is the two thousand
and three Kentucky Tea. Yeah. I know they lost to
Marquett and Dwayne Wade, but I love that team. Eric
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Chuck Hayes, Eric Daniels, Fitch, Hawkins, Bogans, I love that team.
I think Ryan, we will see the best of Pope's
teams will look like that team.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Just like you said, I think that's dead all what
we're looking at. So maybe you know now that coach
Brooks and Coach Hardner here who really good recruiters, Maybe
that I gotta see it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You gotta see it. You gotta see it though, because
to be honest, if we're being honest, he didn't get
the stud in the portal and we're not really leading
with one yet in recruiting. So I need to see
him go get one. Huh. I don't think you have
to get a top five guy, but I do think
you have to get top fifteen guys, and I just
need to go see him do it. Two, we need
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to go break a five nine two eighth, twenty two
eighty seven. We're gonna take a break. We'll be right
back here in Hopkinsville. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Good
music from Rick, as always were good. Rick. Oh we're
fine today. You gotta cue me? Did you? Did you
cue me? Are we on? We are on? Sorry about that.
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Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Here in Hopkinsville a
vision glass. Rick. I've missed you. I miss hearing great
hits like this. How was your summer?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Rick?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
It was great? Probably not as good as yours, but
uh not bad. I bet you were happy sitting on
your back porch, drinking wine and enjoying yourself. We are
here a day vision glass. Absolutely awesome crowd give Hopkinsville,
give yourselves a rout of applause. This is the first
one of these we've done in in like three months.
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And great crowd. We always get a great crowd here.
I'm trying to think we've been here that at the
old Holiday Inn, right wasn't there? Wasn't there an old
Holiday Inn and a different part of town. We we
we did it there one time. I remember, I had
a great crowd. The big Sports complex we did one.
We did want sports complex, so so very nice. Appreciate
all of you coming out on the text machine. One
person rights, Matt, I thought after your vacation that you
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would stop being negative about basketball, but I guess I'm
wrong positive. I literally just said that he would be
the fourth best coach of all time in front of
a person who won a national championship, which implies he
will probably win a national championship. And Shannon, that is
still not positive enough for people who, I guess want
you to say that coach that has only won one
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NCAA tournament game ever will be the greatest coach in
the history of college basketball. And if you don't say that,
that's not you're so negative man.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I mean, you off five national titles once again, you
raked him below me, and they're talking about me and
not you. Shit, I think they expect it from me,
they get it from you. They want you to, you know,
hype it up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Let me let me as I said, I'm gonna keep
a lot of my conversation with Mark private and because
I think some of it he wants to talk about here.
But I think he'd be fine with me saying this,
because this was an interesting exchange with him my head.
One of things I said to him was I was like, look,
I want you to understand I don't know what you've
heard about us and and blah blah and negativity. And
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he actually cut me off, which is hard to do,
as you know, I don't. It's hard to cut me off.
Appreciate your talking. He kind of said, I appreciate your
your monologue. He cut me off and he said, listen this,
and this almost a direct quote. He said, what makes
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Kentucky basketball Kentucky basketball is the expectation. He said, I
want the fans in the arena to expect us to
win every game. And he said, I want you to
rip me if you think I deserve to be ripped.
He said, I want you to rip me because that
ripping is what makes this Kentucky. And I was like, well,
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I'm not gonna rip you. I was like, I haven't
ripped anybody. He said, do it. He wants to be ripped. No,
he said, if I deserve it, do it, he goes,
because the day you stop doing it is the day
that's in Kentucky anymore.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
He gets it. Yeah, and it was interesting. I said, look, dude,
I'm I'm not. I want you to succeed, which is true.
The difference between KSR and some media outlets, not in
Kentucky but in other places is we want them to succeed.
We just did our annual revenue for the bars in
Oakland did not make last year a profitable year. I
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need them to succeed. But he was adamant. He said,
I want the expectation. He said, I want to win
every game, and I don't want people to expect mediocrity.
This is Kentucky. So if he's like that, then I
think we as fans need to be like that. And
I don't think he's scared about it. That's one of
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the things I've always liked about Mark Stoops. Mark Stoops
will tell me if I deserve to be ripped, rip me. Now.
He doesn't love it, but he understands like that comes
with it, and it looks like Mark Pope does as well.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I love that he said that to you to me,
I want my coach to hurt when we lose. I
want my coach to be excited when we win. I
don't want my coach to say, well, I get to
go home and spend time with my dog after they
lose an important game.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I want him to hurt like we hurt. I mean
his exact word was rip me, and like I almost
got defensive, shann I was like, I'm not gonna not
gonna rip.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
When have you ever had a coach say that to
you ever? Ever?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah? I never? I mean, to be fair, I haven't
dealt with that many coaches because we've been had these
long run.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
We just went from one that was, you know, super sensitive,
that type of thing, to now, I go, I who
was asking you to rip him?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
It's interesting because like on a personal level, Drew, I
don't think I would have been as defense of as Cow,
but I probably more lean towards cal like I don't
Shannon loves to be criticized. I don't really if I'm
being honest, I mean, I'm better about it than I
used to be, but I don't love it. But it
seemed to me like Mark Pope is walking in here
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with like he is like be Kentucky fans, That's what
I'm coming for. Be wild, that's what I want. And
if that includes criticizing me, I'm good with.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
He's shown many times he's one of us, and this
is what I was gonna add earlier, if it works
with Mark Pope, it will be better than it will
have been with anyone. I guess he was a player.
We already adorn him before he's even coached the game.
So if it does pan out, that'll be a ceiling
and something we wouldn't have had with anyone else. Even
the guys that they were talking he could, they have
gotten hurly. Nobody could do what Pope can do if
it works out, because we'll enjoy it so much more
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going on the ride with him because he's one of us.
He's more than one of us because he played for
the team and won a title.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Were any of you all at the press conference in
Lexington you were, then you can I'm sure you would
agree with this. I'm not just saying this. I can't.
I don't know how many sports experiences at Kentucky I've
had that felt like that. Now, obviously there were things
that are more exciting, like winning a championship, but it
was almost People would mock this if they weren't Kentucky fans,
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but you all are all Kentucky fans. It was like
a church. It was it was like you were at church.
Am I wrong. You were there, like it was like
I was there. It was like a It was almost
like when you were a kid, like I got saved
as a Christian at a revival. I didn't go there
expecting to do it right, like I got caught up
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in it and I just kind of walked in and
I'm and like, that was my moment for Kentucky basketball.
It felt like a revival. It felt like and again,
who knows, maybe it won't even work, but Ryan, that
feeling is kind of why Drew's right. If it works,
it will feel a different way than when it's worked
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in the past, and then well, you're right.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
There was something special about that event where we felt
like I think the fans felt like, Okay, we got
our program back.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Here are people crying, you know, people crying everywhere. Like
I don't think unless you were there. I don't think
unless you were there, people can realize what that building
I'm felt like. And so if he's able to win
and that feeling a companies winning a title, then I
think that'll be the kind of feeling that like you
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just don't get a lot and now we got to
see if he does all right A five nine two
eight oh, twenty two eighty seven, going to talk some football.
It's like he had a huge day at the Olympics yesterday.
Be right back. This is KSR, where Amack take you
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such a great crowd here on this day. One person writes, Matt,
while you were gone, I know you're a control freak.
Thanks a lot, I love you. But yeah, but were
you Did you have full confidence? If you're being honest
in the guys, No, but I was very I'm kidd
I'm kidding. I was much less nervous this time than
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I was like six years ago or whatever. I think
we created the perfect schedule. You know, I went away
one time and we had all guest hosts. I think
that got away from the rhythm a little bit of
what we do. And then I think having Myron one
day and Tom one day and then you guys and
you all rotating each other out right, I think I
think it went about as well as it could.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
The addition of Myron on Monday and Tom on Wednesday
helped the summer get along.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And those guys were great. I mean, they really killed it.
They did a great jobs and you all, like everybody
loves you, right, so it was good it you all.
They they held the ratings closer than we've ever done before.
So to me, that's a success. And I think it
also showcases you know, Ryan, Ryan has always been a
radio pro, but like I'll say, a nice thing Drew
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has gotten. I think Drew's a pro Shannon nice like Shannon.
You know, we know more about Shannon's personality every year.
Billy continues to get better. It's been putting Mario in.
So I think it was I think it went really well.
Did you all enjoy it? Thank you very much. We
had a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I actually enjoyed because I don't usually drive the show
much and I got to do that more than I've
ever done. Had fun doing that. Like media day, Ryan
had something come up, couldn't make it, but we just
kept on rolling.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Ryan actually had to do show prep for the first
time in show history, which was it intersting.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
But you did a great job man.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So yes, the answer that question is is yes, eight, five, nine, two,
eight oh, twenty two eighty seven. Who's up first? Rick?
Got Ethan? Up first? Ethan? Go ahead? Ethan? Hey, hey all,
don doing good.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
So on the basketball projections, I don't really know how
to think about the season coming up. So I asked
chat GBT and they said twelve losses with going.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Nice Yes, chat GPT, So they have us going nineteen
and twelve. Yes, boo ayill right, they don't know anything.
I hate that, all right, So twelve losses, what do
you what's your football record?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Well, this is the one you're gonna love. Then ten
and two?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh Chap GBT says ten and two and four?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
No like that, absolutely not, that's me.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Oh that's you, okay, all right?
Speaker 8 (25:49):
So you well that's that old mares and neither splitting
Texas and Tennessee. But I think we take one on Georgia.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You think we beat Georgia at home?
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Well, you gotta think they've lost. How many years have
we been competitive with Georgia and then all of a
sudden number nineteen their tight end comes out of there
brock balers and just dominates the game. Well, last time
I take he's playing on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Now he is all right, well, I like it. So
what's your question besides that? Well, so it.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Seems like in the past couple of years in football,
we get up two three touchdowns and then we just
start playing conservatives. Do you think we get away from that?
Because Missouri last year in.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Clinton's a great question. I don't know. I mean, I
appreciate the call. It like ultimately the conservative or not
Ryan is a Mark Stoopstick right, Like it's a Mark Stoopsteck.
I mean, those guys call the plays, but when Stoops
wants them to slow it down, that's his decision. He
can say all he wants. He's not gonna do that anymore.
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I kind of feel like you got to show me that, Mark,
because we've seen ten years of his natural inclination is
to slow it down. So I hope we don't, but
I think people should remember while that cost us against Missouri,
we've won a lot of games doing that. Where he
sort of deflates the ball and we run out the clock.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I have a hard time believing he's gonna change, because
it is he liked that grounded and pounded, moved the
chains and run the clock. That's just his philosophy, and
it's gonna be really hard for him. For me, I
think he's gonna change.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
By the way, Drew just put into chat GPT, what
are we doing in football? So robots?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
They say to narrow it down to specific prediction. They're
going eight and four, but facing losses against Georgia Alabama,
don't play.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Them Tennessee Alabama. Maybe they met Texas there. They're still
figuring out the sec AI. It's not perfect, and they
still have us playing games we're not playing.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Then what about where I showed you the other day,
write an episode of KSR and it's like, Matt Jones,
welcome to Jacky Sports Radio Rights.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You all talk about that on the air. We did
so right. So I was with Drew and Drew said
watch this and he put in the computer ride an
episode of ks R, and it was like scary how
it sounded with us. I mean, they had my intro
like they did the whole intro a vision glass text machine.
They had the number. Oh my, remember we've never written
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that out. Like that's like these things are going to
take over the world. And I don't know if everybody's
as scared about it as I am, but like that
was crazy because it's there's never been a transcript. I
think of our show and it like had my entire intro.
It had me throwing to Ryan. When I throw to Ryan,
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it was kind of scared. How I don't know how
they make.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
You know, we're just up here and winging it. We
could just read off a script.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
So we had this podcast seminar while we uh last
this week and advertising. This guy got up from the
National iHeart and he goes, you know, we have this
new thing now where we're going to start translating shows
into other languages through AI and I and so basically
he was like, you know, we can translate KSR into
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Spanish with AI voices that are modeled to sound like US,
so you could hear like Spanish Southern accents trying to speak.
I think Mateo Jones overmuch. I guess Matao Jones.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That kind of blows my mind. Who's up next? Got
Allen up next, Alan, go ahead, Allen.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Hey, guys, first time caller, long time listener.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Who are what's up? All right?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Hey, my I got a theory on why Mark Pope's
gonna be so successful with Kentucky. You want to hear
what you guys think about it. Last year he was
in the Big Twelve, which was between them and the SEC.
They were the two best basketball conferences in the country.
He wins twenty four games with the BYU roster, which
I understand BYU had a pretty good roster last year,
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but I think Kentucky with him at Kentucky, he will
always have a better roster than he had last year
at BYU.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Listen, I agree. I think the X and o's I
appreciate the call. I'd be shocked at the X and
o's with of Pope don't work. I'd be shocked. The
question for me is gonna be the players. But like
the good thing, this is why this year is important.
If we're good this year, he'll go get players. Like
if we're good this year and NBA guys see, hey,
you can still make it from the league, then we'll
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go get players. Ryan. So that's that's why we need
to be We need to be good this year, just
like Cal's first year was a job wall year, and
that's set up the next eight years. We need to
be good this year. Need to be good this year.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
And I think players a lot of guys may wait
just to kind of sit on the fence if they're
just considering Kentucky. Let's wait and see what that system's like,
how it works. And I'm am I gonna fit in
the way he likes to play.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, but I do think it'll happen. So we're here
in Hopkinsville, you know, Owensboro's western Kentucky. Did you see
this story Shannon about the surgeon in Owensboro that's been suspended? No, no,
what happened? Again? Let me be cause people on owens Brough,
I'm sure know more about this than I do. So
I don't. I know nothing more than what I read
in this newspaper article. So if there's more to it,
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tell me on the text machine seven seven two four
five two five for it. But there's this. This story
says this surgeon was operating on a guy and I
guess he had like a tube or something that I
don't know was in some part of the guy. And
I don't know like the medical details. There was like
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a tube somewhere and then whatever. But he, according to
the article, the guy was having a hard time the doctor,
the surgeon getting the tube out of the guy. Now
the guy is like out, you know, he's having a
hard time getting the tube out of the guy. And
it was frustrating, according to the witnesses. And so I
guess he kept pulling and like he kept pulling and
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trying to get it out, and he couldn't get it out.
And when he he was so frustrated about it that
he slapped the patient as if it was the patient's fall.
And he like, I don't know if it was hard.
It wasn't that hard, but he like went and then
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he got it out, and he like made some joke
like that's how it took, you know. And I guess
he thought it was funny. And now he's gonna lose
his license for five years. According to the uh Kentucky
Medical thing.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
You can't be smacking patients. I think I think that's
safe to say.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I think he thought it was like a playful smack, like, oh,
get this thing out of your body, dude, loosen up.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Well, clearly it worked though, right, I mean maybe that
goes on more than what we realized.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You think that's what did it.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
I mean, if it came out, that's what it takes.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And what if you're the patient. You wake up and
he said, yeah, the doctor had to smack you to
get this.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Clearly the patient knows. Now, yeah, because it's in the
at least in the newspaper. I like shinning thinking that's
what worked. It's like that thing. It's like you causation correlation.
You're not worried about it.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Sometimes it gets duck. You's got to kick it, smack it,
whatever you're gonna do to make it work. Your TV
doesn't work. But back in the day, you do you
smack the tallionnail.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Sudden it come on. Well, the doctor says he didn't
do it, but there are witnesses that say he did.
So I guess they believe drew the witnesses. And so
now the surgeon's create is no longer going to be
a surgeon.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
It's like, uh, yeah, we fixed everything inside. Your jaws
a little broken, don't ask about that. Apologies, we'll fix that.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I know the surgery went a little weird. I know
it was on your stomach, but like sorry, just had
to smack you right in the face. A new report
from the Kentucky Chamber Shannon highlights a massive economic impact
of housing in this state.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
You know that, Yes I knew it was coming.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yes I learned right now. Home building and remodeling generate
tax revenue up to one point five billion dollars. So
we want to hear it from you. Do you think
there's enough affordable housing? If there's not, how can we
do it? Ky chamber dot com slash housing and tell
us the biggest housing issue in your community. So if
you're in a town and you want leaders to understand
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the housing issues in your community, Ky chamber dot com
slash housing. We will take a break and come back
right here at Hopkinsville, Kentucky's KSR. Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio.
Think about think about Rix music. I never know exactly
when it's gonna hit, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Like it just you jump in there wherever it feels
right Ricks.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Like whatever, I'll we'll do, We'll do whatever. We are
here in Hopkinsville at a Vision Glass. Thank you to
uh this woman here who brought us bread bread from
Emily's Bread basket here in Hopkinsville. I'm excited. You know,
I got used to really good uh bread in Europe,
and now this is good, you know, homemade bread.
Speaker 10 (34:38):
She said, they mail it to me if I like it,
So look forward to sourdough. I love good sourd ough bread.
So very cool here in Hopkinsville have Emily's bread basket. Now,
I've had three people Ryan who've written me saying they've
been smacked while having surgery. What I'm gonna have to
throw the challenge, FLA, that's a lot of people being smacked.
(34:58):
Let me read this one. You tell me if you
believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
When I had surgery from my shoulder in high school,
I woke up and one of the nurses was smacking
me in the face pretty good. I didn't pass back out,
and when I woke up again, I remembered it and
I said, yes, I remember being smacked. The nurse quickly
went out of the room and came back with a
couple others and started apologizing and saying they didn't think
anyone would remember. It also happened in Owensboro, so as
(35:26):
Owen's brother like get surgery, get smacked, Capital of the country,
I thought one was crazy. You've already gotten all these replies.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
I was trying to say, I think that happens, you know,
especially when you're out.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
You gotta wake somebody up.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
What do you do? So you think doctors like it's
just like a thing that doctors do. They just kind
of smack you in the face and nobody talks about it.
Really it works interesting.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I can I can almost give the nurse a little
bit of a pass. They're trying to wake you up
from r anesthesia. I can't give the doctor a pass
for smacking him trying.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
So you give the nurse a pass for a smack
a little.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Because you know, like if somebody passes out, if somebody
passed out here, we might go up to him.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Like, no, we wouldn't smack him in the face.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
Is Mack Ryan when he's snoring?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Listen? You know, I please don't do that to me,
Like I don't want to be smacked you. I mean,
I feel like there's there's other ways to wake somebody
up and just smacking them across the face. Yeah, it
seems like it happens, So I can give the nurse
a little bit of it happened at least once twice
in Owensborough. Very cool here, got a couple of my
uh friend's mother's here, Turkey Hunter's Mom's there, the uh
(36:29):
Carrie and Johnny's mom back there. Very neat to look
up and see. Uh even though their kids, well Carrie's
still here, but even though their kids are gone, they
still come and see us. Yeah. That nice.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
You mentioned this, but you have so many connections to
this town, been from the other side of the state,
so I'm not surprised they all turned up to say hi,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Good to see both of y'all. Got the mayor here
as well. Uh, so it's nice to have everybody here. Eight.
I'm nine to twenty two eighty seven, Chee Chee Rodriguez
died and uh that makes me sad because when I
was you know, I don't know the Senior Tour golf.
I don't know if people still watch it, Like I
don't even know who's on it anymore. But when I
(37:07):
was a kid, the Senior Tour was kind of a
big thing. Ryan right, like, people watched it. Nicholas was
on it, and Palmer and Chi Chee. Again, A lot
of people may be too young to remember this, but
he would make a putt and then he would act
like his putter was like a you know, a sword. Yeah,
and he would go and then he would like take
it and he would host it like that. And so
(37:30):
you know, young Matt Jones at eight years old, if
I didn't pick it up and like three or four
at three or four feet would start his sword fighting
and I'd try to be Chi Chi Rodriguez. So he
died at eighty eight years old.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
That made me sayd he was really like the first
personality that I remember from golf.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Huge person huge.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Personality, you know, And you're right. It was all because
of him doing the Zoro sword after something.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
And he seemed even though he was like fifty five
or I'm fifty six years old, he's just seemed cool.
Like he just seemed like a dude with swag. That
picture Shannon I showed you he's at the Masters and
he looks like a million bucks. Like being in Europe,
I'll tell you Spanish people are insanely good looking, male
or female, Like they all are like like, that's like
(38:17):
the best looking people. And he just looks cool. And
then his caddy, Shannon is like six foot six, black
guy with an afro that has his Master's hat on
top of his afro, And I'm like, that might be
the swaggiest picture I've ever seen in my lot.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
I saw that picture and I was thinking, those are
the guys you want to go out club.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Back in the seventies, ye.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
We had to show up at the Masters with that,
like Drew, that was a look I was like in
the seventies sometimes, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Back then it was hard to find any personality in golf.
You know, it's hard to show any in golf. That
guy had a lot of character. He Chichi also had
a little swag to him. He could wear some flashy
clothes out there. When else Yeah, RF when I was
a kid, love Cheechie Rodriguez. Hadn't thought about him in
a long time. Rest in peace to him. Who's up next?
Speaker 2 (38:58):
God? Just it up next? Justin, go ahead, justin Yes.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
I think football will most likely go eight and four,
did it? I think that if we do get a
ninth win, it's gonna come with Old Miss because they
don't have a defense. If our defenses is if our
offense is clicking like they're saying, we should be able
to outshoot them, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Record how many losses in basketball.
Speaker 9 (39:25):
I think we'll end up with fourteen or fifteen losses
in basketball.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Who but I need to see what we're gonna get team.
I mean, that's like that we don't make the tournament.
You think you think we're gonna miss the tournament.
Speaker 9 (39:38):
I think we're gonna miss. But I think we're gonna
have some losses against big teams that we need, like
like Duke.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
We need. I don't like that. All right, Well, what's
your other thing then? Since you're such a bummer, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
My other thing is we're eleven years going on twelve years,
I think without a championship. Now, how many years do
we go without a championship before we've become the next
Indiana Basketball?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, you got you gotta stop with you. Indiana's not
one anything since what eighty seven? That's different. I mean
that's different has been Indiana's don't yet. But an Indian
has not been to a Final four since two thousand
and one. They've only had like one good year in
the last fifteen years, that Oladipot year. The Indiana stuff,
(40:24):
like we've we matter, okay, even when we've lost in
these first rounds, we've been like a two seed or
a three seed. We are a long way from Indiana.
Speaker 9 (40:34):
Well, well, the things that we've got to do something
within the first five.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Years, Yeah, within five years. I appreciate the call. Pope
needs to be good. I mean, if he's not good
for five years, he won't be the coach here anymore.
But you think they you think this crowd comes out
to a show in Indiana. No, I mean I remember
Ryan that one time we stopped at a pizza place
in Indiana and Indiana was playing like me, and it
(41:00):
wasn't even on the TVs. And I said, I mean,
the game's not even on here. They were showing a
different basketball game, And I was like, I don't care
what those Hoosier fans say. That's not Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
We have done shows in Indiana that have crowds as
big as this.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
In Indiana, we would get take the biggest Indiana show.
We could go to Bloomington and get a bigger crowd
than they do in their town. So Kentucky is not Drew.
We need to be better than we've been the last
few years. But I don't think we're in danger of
being anywhere close to India.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
They've been irrelevant for a very long time, and we're
in a bit of a drought here. Also, that's not
Pope's problem, it's post problem. That's not his faults. So
I don't think we're anywhere in that conversation.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yeah, you know, the reality is Yukon's been better than us,
Kansas has been better than us. But it's not like,
you know, to use a phrase, it's not like we
just fell off the turnip truck. Like we're still We're
still around and kicking. We're gonna take a break and
be right back here on Sequoia Drive and Hopkinsville, NY
Vision Glass. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Host
Matt Jones
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