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Welcome everyone.

It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, October the eighth, on an absolutely beautiful day here in Lexington.

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It is Wingsday here at ks Bar Dollar Wing's Best Deal you're gonna get in town for the food you get and we'll be open here to eleven.

We got people here from Lexington, we got people here from Franklin County, Shepherdsville, and then a couple of big guests.

Drew Franklin's dad is here for the first Yeah, Franco see Drew Franklin's dad.

And then a huge shock Hello, ks or Bob.

That's ninety two that has been calling the Bob that is not from Jamestown, but the Bob.

He is here for the first time and didn't look like I thought he would, did you.

He walked in and says hello, and you're like, wait a minute, I know who you are.

He literally said hello, Ryan, and I Santon, I go I know that boy.

Yeah.

I knew it immediately that that was He didn't say hello to me or Drew, but he did say hello to Ry.

It was impressive.

He said two words and you cut him off from like, I know who you is.

I know that voice.

You know, impressive I give people by voice.

He's probably the person I was sitting here thinking that has called the show the most that I had never seen until today.

Would you agree with that?

Have we ever seen the truth.

We've seen a picture of him, but I've never met.

The truth, so I think the truth actually would hold that.

But but Bob might have been second.

Yeah, a great special guest here today.

Sometimes I have an image of callers and I almost don't want to meet him, but then I'm actually glad to meet it.

But I always have an image of people, and then it throws it out the window.

You're two, but you don't look a day over eighty six.

He looks great for looks great for ninety two.

And I like your little beanie too.

I would wear that little beanie sometimes.

Drove himself there at the age of that's amazing.

Now you can't talk all right because we got where we got headsets on.

But I would drove himself here at ninety two.

Honor and a pleasure.

Serve you're You're still better driver than Ryan even right now.

So yesterday Lexington got the most rain in a day he had ever gotten in October, and the fifth most rain in the day had ever gotten in history.

Did you know that my basement flooded?

So yes, I absolutely know.

Their basement flooded.

Yeah, since another free ad campaign served pro going national.

I've never had water in my basement ever.

Well I've only lived there for six years, but my basement had a layer of water all on it left all the way.

It was wild.

They're driving around yesterday, I mean there were streets flooded all over Lexington, Louisville I think had a lot of flooding.

But uh, but it looks like everything's okay.

But just pounded rain all day until about seven o'clock.

Yeah, my crops needed it.

I was glad for that, But I had a lot of things around town.

I didn't have an umbrella, so I would just have to step out and just accept that I'm soaked walking around places.

Yeah it was, but but now it's beautiful today, and uh, a lot of good stuff going on.

I just want to say I'm in I'm in a good mood, like I'm in a really good movie.

Yeah.

Why, I slept more last night continuously than I have in years.

I went like nine hours without waking up.

Usually I wake up at like five and a half six hours and then I, you know, have to go to the restroom or something.

Then I'm awake and I kind of drift back and now this was just solid.

Went to bed at eleven thirty and did not move until eight thirty.

So I'm like, in, this is the most energy I've had in forever.

I don't know why, but but I did.

But I bet you still woke up ten minutes for your alarm as well.

I know, mind, I never hear my lot, it's amazing, but.

This was like this.

So just just so you know, if you hear a lot of energy, that's why it's happening, Dreue.

I don't know why I slipped so well, but I'm in.

Probably need a little catch up sleep.

Maybe.

I know you've been back a few days, but still probably South Africa.

The alarm would go off.

We had to leave it multiple days.

We had to get on the Safari vehicle at five point fifteen because that's when animals are out.

That's when they do there.

Yeah, so when as the sun comes up, that's when animals.

I think that's when they're I see these kids are here.

I'm sorry.

I think that's when their hornyest is in the morning.

So like that's when they get up and they, uh, what do you living?

I think it's it's just science.

I just give them a quick look to see if they were.

But that's why they're out.

So that's what you were there to see.

You're watching grays like eating some grass.

I mean I didn't.

I didn't go for that.

It wasn't like that's what I was.

It's just there most likely to come out in public so that they can meet their their spouses during that time, and then when it gets later in the day, they tend to like blend into the the to the bush and it's harder to see them.

That's the thing.

So if you had to say, did did the ladies kind of hand lead you?

Or did you hand lead the ladies?

I don't know what that means, like did they were they taking care of you?

Making sure you were.

Take care of me?

You know I am I am mid forties and have been by myself since I was eighteen.

I'm fine.

We know you though out in the bush or were they kind of handleading you around?

They were left that it was a car.

We got in and then we would get out.

There was no we were not out.

They hold your hands and you're fighting rhinos.

I was driving around.

The hardest thing was the sun because it was on my face the whole.

That was really the only the only problem that we did have.

I was so impressed with the two people on the trip that were from South Africa, how good they were at spotting stuff.

Like if we didn't have them, I don't think I mean, maybe you know, we've seen the elephants, but in general a lot of the other stuff.

They'd be like, you know, uh, leopard right, and you'd go what and then there it was, which.

Was like actual tour guides or people on your Yeah, there was that we had.

I had the whole trip, so he did all eleven days, and then we had someone specifically for the Safari and the woman for the Safari.

She could see stuff just it was unbelievable.

She could would just be like, uh, zebra right over there, and then you would see it and it was time.

That's not how we say it.

I'm saying the South Africa Now that fine, I'm all right, I've been to South I've been to the Johannesburg soccer game.

I'm I'm I've been there.

I'm good.

But yeah, that that's it was really cool and it's not like what you think like you probably think of like this green, lush land.

This was like brown.

So it wasn't the most beautiful landscape, but it made it easier to see the animals because there weren't leaves and stuff everywhere, which actually made it easy.

So they're just like one person driving and one person watching, like it.

Was one person.

So it was a car and it had like a high thing, you know, where people could sit on the top, but I had to sit in the bottom because there weren't enough seats, So it was me and her sitting ground level and everybody else was up top, and she would drive around and she could just she could.

Just see uh everything, So it was it was awesome.

We did it for two days, but that five fifteen, those five fifteen wake up calls, there's a part of me is like I've seen plenty of animals.

I skipped the third one.

To be honest with you, I can see you you're not a morning person.

Don't really care.

When we did cover zero and it finished at like one five in the morning, and I said, I'm not going on the third day, and I'm sorry.

So, uh, yesterday Drew and I went to UK Pro Day and I'm gonna go ahead and tell you now, like what is it basket no offense to all things UK football and Mark, I'm basketball.

All right, I'm all in.

I'm basketball.

I watching that yesterday got me very very excited, like very exciting.

We I don't know how good will end up being, like it depends on how they connect and all that.

But we got a squad.

We got dudes upon dudes upon dude.

We've got twelve guys that are really good.

Otega didn't play, so he would be the twelfth, but he wasn't playing yesterday, And even the thirteenth, Reese Potter could if you needed him to go in, he could play.

I mean, we got we got guys, and they're fun to watch, and they're crazy athletic.

And all I can do is compare it to last year.

Drew you and I sat there last year, I watched him.

My take last year was wow, they can shoot.

They can really shoot.

But I did think I'm I might be more athletic than a couple of weeks.

That was my take last year.

This year, maybe you take a ten percent drop in shooting, not a huge drop, maybe a ten percent drop in shooting.

But we got some athletes, and we got some dudes that are like Jalen Lowe, I already had all the stock I bought, like, I called my broker and bought even more.

I mean, he's so fast, he's so fast.

We didn't have we didn't have that guy last year.

We haven't had a dude this fast off the bounce since Well dialing Ham was like that, right, but we haven't had many of them like that in the you know, Fox dialing Ham, wall Low was probably not as fast as those guys, but he'd be right behind them.

Would you agree with that?

Oh yeah, yeah, he looked great last night.

And just to be a proa, they're out there dipping on the floor.

He was yelling at people, getting up in their face if they were if they made a mistake.

It was like I felt like they were getting ready to play the tournament.

Such a contrast between the pro days of Cal and this in terms of I mean they were practicing, and I feel bad for y'all at home, cause it was really it reminded me of when Cal Perry was here the first few years.

He would invite me to practice every year and I would say, Man, I wish fans could see this.

I wish you could see how much back then Cal and Roebrick were coaching.

Because when if you went to practice, you'd be like, oh, this is something that's what I felt like yesterday.

I know it was on, but I believe it didn't.

They show just poor Dick and Goose just talking the whole time.

Yeah, I'm good to hear you.

Guys got to enjoy it because I was sitting at home didn't get to enjoy.

It very much.

The reviews online are not good.

Do that?

Why even bother showing it if you're not gonna show it well?

Like you and I said before the show, show this you can talk, but show the scrimmage while you're talking.

Shown practice.

I wish fans.

I wish fans could see it.

I wish you could see, Like, first of all, I wish you could see how good a coach we have and how good of assistance we have.

They leaded just as much as Yeah, I.

Mean, Mark Fox is out there doing great stuff.

Alvin Brooks, the McClain guy, Jason Hard I wish we could wish people could see and appreciate what they're doing.

So here's what stuck out to me.

Jyalen Lowe stuck out the most.

I think Trent Noah is either grown or gotten stronger.

Would you agree with that.

He looked like just a bigger dude.

That was my number one takeaway, just appearance.

Trent Noah looks completely different.

He's I know, Pope wanted to add eighteen pounds.

He looked like he lost eighteen pounds.

He looks he's very lean, very.

Like like like he's skinny face gotten much skinnier.

I mean, you know, you don't like to say somebody has baby fat, but he probably had a little bit of baby weight on him last year and that's completely gone.

I thought so so to me.

Jyalen Lowe sticks out the most Otaga wasn't on the floor, but if you were watching, you would say, okay, that's our best player.

Trent Noah looked really good.

Michael Moreno, mal excuse me.

I talked to his brother Michael during the who Just Got Married?

Malcolm Moreno, that kid.

The difference between him and when he was a junior in high school, which was the last time i'd seen him play, they're different kids.

Moreno's gonna play.

Yeah, I didn't know if he would after watching yesterday.

He's gonna play, didn't you.

Think, I mean, we thought, you know, he's a McGall's all American.

He's gonna be good, but maybe not quite ready.

They're pre stacked.

Store them at the end of the bench.

Maybe you'll need him.

He was just going up and dunking on he's heads in a crowded paint last night.

Yeah, he's bulked up a lot too.

I didn't watch a lot in high school, but he looks college ready.

Uh.

We A lot of guys can shoot.

I mean, Aberdeen makes like every shot he takes.

Uh.

Did low shoot the ball well from pretty good?

Yeah?

I mean, but I mean Lowe's thing is the way he takes people off the bounds.

But yes, low shot the ball with good to hear.

Uh, you know, Noah, it's one practice, so I'm not getting ahead of myself.

My only concern was, Uh, was our man Diabate shoots not great?

I don't know if that's he didn't take many last year.

Yeah, I think everybody thought he was gonna come in here.

I don't see him shooting a lot of threes.

I think he took We looked at him, was it like twenty five all of last year?

Yeah, he didn't.

He didn't look like he'd taken many.

So it'd be interesting to see because in Pope's system, your four needs to shoot threes.

So if he plays the four, I'll be interested to see what what they do, because because he's not gonna shoot much, I wouldn't think maybe they play him at the four, but he's actually playing five on offense because I think Moreno and and Garrison can shoot from outside.

But uh, Jasper Johnson, Uh you know, look good who whom I'm missing here?

Uh?

Well my king?

Colin Chandler.

Colin Chandler.

Dude, Drew's right, Like, if he doesn't start, he may not start.

He's a six man and he will dunk on people so much belts.

Yeah, I mean he will dunk on.

Your face a couple last night.

He can play the one, or the team can bring him off the bench, six man, back up E, the one guy, either of those guys.

It's just the thing that strikes me about this is how deep this team is.

It's not twenty fifteen deep because those were all pros, right so, but they were young, but they were all pros.

But you take that team out, this is the deepest team we've had.

I don't know since win twenty fifteen was deeper.

But you get beyond that Now, I don't know who's deeper than this when you're twelfth man is Yellovich?

Yeah, and he's the ty Now how about him having to run to the top of the Yes, so he got in trouble and he had to run the steps.

Yeah, So Pope told him something like shoot the ball, and he kind of snapped back at him and Pope goes, run this stay and so like in front of all of us, he had to run this.

He had to touch the very time.

If Brandon Garrison got in trouble for something and he did the worst punishment I've ever seen back, I would just say to you, Yeah, So he had to take a towel.

Yeah, and he was on one end of the floor Today show on the screen.

He was on one end of the floor and he had the towel on the ground and he had to run with the towel on the ground, like bent over like a triangle, all the way up and all the way back.

And I literally thought, if they did that to me, I'd quit.

My back was hurting was watching him that.

And before they got into the scrimmages and drills, they did the diving on the floor drill.

That's the old Billy go.

I don't think Caliver did that.

They just roll the ball out there and tell you to go dive.

And I was just like cringing every time they did it.

I only apparently would do that for like thirty minutes did They only did it one time?

And I think he did it on gravel, Yeah, shards of glass.

But I came away very, very excited.

My take on it is this team is deep, foul trouble.

Not worried about it unless it's the point guard.

We're very deep.

My only question will be who are our stars.

I know Jaylen Lowe is going to be one, and I assume O take is gonna be the second.

You know, ja Billis always says you gotta have three.

We'll see who the third develops.

But we got a lot of choices in my opinion as to who that can be.

The third game of being Jaden Layton's once he gets healthy.

Mate.

Yes, he didn't do the he didn't do the back and forth, so he did some workouts, but he didn't do the five on five, so we didn't really get to see him in that context.

But he could shoot too.

He was he was drained, shot and well to the point of death.

My other big takeaway.

We haven't named him yet.

Braydon Hawthorne is the best fifteenth man in the country.

Sorry, it's not even close.

He's good.

Now he's got to put on weight, but.

He's right author.

Who was it that said he was Tayshaw?

I mean, just anyone, just look at him.

If he's left he's right handed.

He looks like Braydon Author.

I don't know how much he'll play this year, but he's playing at the school.

Yeah, yes, for sure.

That was a great pickup for whatever he was right.

I don't know, right around twenty five thirty.

Yeah, he can almost look at him because he won't play this year.

He's just too thin.

It's almost like you've got a five star locked in for next year.

There's what he is.

He reminds me of when cal would bring in classes and then the last guy in the class would be like our eighth and that's him.

It's just he's our thirteenth man this year.

So he was hitting everything.

Yeah eight, I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

We'll take a break, we'll talk more about it.

We're a little giddy because I we're gonna be good.

This Chasar walking back in his Kentucky sports radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four Here at UH Weingsday one person rights, Matt, how are they condition wise?

Looked condition wise?

Looked good to me?

I mean didn't I didn't see anybody like tugging on their shorts.

They they go, they move constantly, like they don't they don't ever stop, like it's constant movement.

That was something.

Cow's practices were like that too.

Like those guys they they they they just like to keep them going, don't really give them a chance to rest.

And the way they do it is they got like twenty guys.

Yeah, they got like seven guys that are UH managers or I guess they would call them what do they call it analysts, And they're playing two some and so it just makes it to where no one stops, like it's just one group goes to the end of the court and then they start the second one and they start him back and like there's no there's no waiting, there's no standing around.

That was my big takeaway last season the first time we saw practice.

It's just there are so many people involved.

Yeah, they got a dude.

It's same dude they had last year.

They got a dude that is thirty eight with a mortgage out there playing bass.

I'm telling you there's a guy out there now.

We looked up his college guys.

I'm to tell you what's his name, Fitzpatrick.

Yeah, he was the Patriot League Player of the Year.

He had like a ten year career overseas.

I'm not I'm not mocking this dude.

He's this dude.

This dude would eat up the YMCA.

He's he's got.

Last year, he wore two knee braces.

This year now he's wearing those pants like the white Titan sleeves, the sleeves and and and he's a bucket.

Yeah, but he moves like I think he needs to go to hot yoga because I mean he he moves less fluidly than me, but he still will give him the up and under and the dipsy dude, you know, I mean, he's still doing his he's still doing his thing.

I don't know where they got this guy, because he's in his mid thirties.

I think thirty five.

He played it five years old and he's like posting up Brandon Garrison.

What like it's it's it's fun to watch.

Can I tell the rumor of what he really did to Brandon Garrison?

What?

Oh, yeah, there's going around.

He say, good news, though I be careful this.

This says more about how good our gratist does anything else.

Oh, there's a rumor going around that he dunked on Brandon Garrison.

Not just that I've seen it and it happened last night.

Oh it happened, But I was talking about this guy and how good he is when he got.

A dipsy due on Brandon Garrison.

His teammates all did the thing where you dunk on people and like, so like, clearly it's a running it's a running joke that he has.

Uh, I'm gonna have to believe that.

I don't know if that dude can get up and get it dunk.

I don't know if he could jump.

But but he's fun to watch.

I mean, I will say, when you got a thirty five year old out there running with him, it's kind of funny and.

People would probably recognize them if we could share its radio.

But he's on the bench with the clipboard in a suit like he's around, you would probably recognize his face, but very unsuspecting at age thirty five.

But a good basketball player they have out there helping out makes me want to see some video.

I mean for sure, Well you could have watched the yesterday if they would have.

Showed it, you know it.

Did they show any of it?

Very very little.

I got so frustrated.

I was smopping up water in my basement anyway when I had it on soul.

But again the only thing I really noticed was that they seemed just more muscular, like thicker.

There's so much more athletic.

Yeah, and I don't think you realized.

I mean, you know how much more athletic Away and Butler were than the other guys last year.

And it just really stuck out how much.

Well, now you got a team and everybody looks like everybody looks like that, including like Trent Noah.

I mean, Trent Noah looks different than he did last year as well.

And I just couldn't get over how like competitive they were.

Pope said it media day.

Sometimes we have to stop them from fighting each other because every practice they're going to war.

I kind of saw a little bit of that.

They're there to entertain scouts and just get some drills and measurements out there.

And like I said, they're treating it like they're about to go play the tournament.

I also liked I was watching because this is the worry people have about Jayal and Low, like will he be selfish?

Right?

Will he share the ball?

I like, again, just practice feels like he gave up shots to share the ball throughout the whole thing.

Did you agree with that?

Yeah?

And that's the thing I think he's gonna do a lot of.

Pat Kelsey has a comment when they played him last year, he was like Low would get ever anywhere he wanted, and Raydy, he thought he was about to lay it in.

He's now kicked it out to someone for an open three.

It was like he just finds the spots and then can distribute out to the open man better than anyone he had.

Really, he's gonna like he can get a step.

The player reminds me the most of it, I'm sure, because the whole left handed thing.

But is dearon Fox not as fast as dearon Fox.

I mean, Dalon Fix is like another level of fast, So I'm not saying he's that fast.

But when you're sitting there watching him, if you were to say, like, what is the comparison, I would say, de Aaron Fox?

Do you agree with that?

Yeah, he would appreciate that too, because he knows Darren Daron Fox recruited him to Kentucky.

They're both Texas guys.

So but that's might be a little bit, might be a little bit in how they play.

Yeah, I mean being from the same you know, Grassrooms best not.

I'm not trying to put the deeron Fox because deeron Fox was like insanely quick.

I'm not saying he's that, but he's you know, a half step behind that quick and and he'll he'll get to the ring.

You know, we didn't have dudes who could get to the rim last year.

At the end of the day, you know, Away would muscle his way to the rim and Butler would.

But now we got a dude who can take you to the ring.

That's good what you said earlier he was knocking down shot.

I think that was the big knock on him.

He was that good of a shooter.

If I'm nine two twenty two eighty sent we will take your calls.

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Here's Matt Jones.

Welcome back, Tekey Sports Radio seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt, I haven't heard this kind of giddiness from you about UK basketball in a long time.

It makes me excited.

Well, I mean part of it was in the preseason.

Cal wasn't letting me come to anything since COVID, so I didn't.

And then I went last year and I was excited, but I could tell the limitations of that team.

I think that team, by the way last year, when we look back, really will have overperformed and we should be really proud of the of the way they played all year.

I mean, I genuinely believe that, especially when you start to see the teams that Pope will probably have going forward.

Do you agree with that?

Yeah, definitely.

I mean we loved a lot of those guys, but like and Andrew Carr with back problems, it's not half his athletic as what we saw last night.

Not even close.

And then and then the second thing is, you know, we've had a lot of elite talent here and you can you can see it, like you can see when guys and I love this is something we didn't have under cal.

I love watching guys improve.

I love seeing how much better Trent Noah is, and I love seeing how much better Colin Chandler is.

Like that makes me, that just makes me excited.

We don't we've not gotten to do that in fifteen years, to watch guys Ryan like, really improve?

Did you anybody say anything about what Otega's return is week?

Now?

He's back this week?

Because I interviewed him Monday and I was like, are you back practicing?

He was like, I'm back to full speed.

Maybe he just didn't want to do that in front of the pros.

Your second practice back and you've already done the NBA thing in May.

That was me speculating, But he did say he's back this week.

Yeah.

I think I was told he will play in the Blue White Game, which is a week from Saturday.

We'll see what he does with Big Blue Madness.

One person writes, Matt, you didn't mention Cam Williams.

You guys never talk about him, just because amongst the guys, he didn't stand out as much as the others.

But he made every shot I saw him take, not necessarily and say to me, Drew, he looked like a seventh, eighth, ninth man.

But he made every shot he took.

I saw he blocked a three pointer.

That was one of those whoa like.

Not many people would go up and get a three pointer like you did, and then hitting some threes.

You could see flashes.

But as you said, I mean when I'm writing down the people that jumped off the page, he's a little farther down, but that you could see potential.

There were moments.

One person writes, Ryan's assessment of you needing someone to take care of yourself is correct.

Most men in their mid forties don't ruin their iPhone putting it in the same pocket as a coke can, all right, First of all, that's rude.

Secondly, or go without an iPhone during a once in a lifetrying trip in a foreign country that could be dangerous, just to save money that would cost what your shoes cost.

All right.

I don't need this from you.

No.

The reason I didn't buy a new iPhone, I thought, I said this, So in South Africa, everything cost about a third of what it cost here.

So like, if you were to go to get McDonald's in South Africa, what is McDonald's nine ten dollars per meal?

There?

It would be like three.

So like, so that's cool.

I mean food, you know, a diet coke, Like a bottle of coke zero was like eighty four cents or something.

But now the opposite to that is luxury goods are insanely expensive.

So an iPhone, I think I got this iPhone.

I got the seven for like sixteen hundred dollars, and in South Africa it's like forty three hundred dollars.

Because the disparity of wealth is so much that the rich people are so rich they can just charge them anything, and thus they do so like the like I don't buy Rolex watches, but there was a Rolex store and somebody in our group went and they were, like, the Rolexes here are two and a half times as much as they are in New York City in South Africa.

The other thing is if you get a phone in South Africa, they can't give you an American phone number.

So I would have just had a South African phone number for the rest of my life.

And I was like, what's that gonna do for me?

So that's why I drew.

I didn't that would have been funny.

Well to the counterpoint to the original text about not take care of yourself.

You're you're here right now.

Have you seen fine?

If you made it, you did take care of yourself.

Yeah.

There was only one time, at one night that I was a little nervous.

I was at the mall trying to get my phone fixed.

They finished.

It was like three and a half hour walk and they tell you do not take taxis on the street.

They're like, that's don't that's dangerous either getting an uber or call a taxi company and have them come get you.

Well, I didn't have any way to call anybody, and I wasn't gonna go up to people and go can go taxi with your food like that.

I would, you know that makes me So I was like, look, i'll walk.

It's three and a half miles, it's on the beach, right, I'll be fine.

Well, it was day, but it was turning into night and by the time I got the last mile it was dark and it's just you know, during the day, everyone's out, but it's like at night, it's like they turned the lights off in the entire city and everybody goes home or everybody gets inside.

So all of a sudden, these streets that were bustling with people, there's nobody there.

Oh yeah, yeah, I mean you don't.

You don't walk at night.

And you're walking at night, I what.

For the last half mile.

So that was like a little that was like a little like, all right, let's speed up a little bit.

I wasn't in the worst neighborhood.

It was fine, but like, but they just don't walk at night in Johannesburg or Cape Town.

We just do not.

Out in the rural areas.

I think they do it more, but just in Johannesburg and Cape Town, you do not walk at night.

Drew did tell a story on you.

You guys did cover zero and you're in a tent and where everybody else was trying to sleep.

You're trying to whisper it because you didn't want to wake everybody.

I was in a tent and everybody else was in the tent and they were asleep, and I was trying not to love, trying not to wake them up, but I'm sitting there going, you know, Joe Flacco and I go sh because they loved you.

It was one fifteen in the morning out in the woods.

So who's up next?

Let's go to Andrew.

Andrew?

How are you, Andrew?

Wonderful?

Hey, Matt.

I don't know if you heard yesterday, but the tickets went on sale this morning at ten o'clock for the uk U of L game.

I've been on hold for a few minutes and there were still, I don't know, quite a few left.

So there's tickets.

Tickets for uk U of L at the Young Center are on sale right now.

Correct, they're not sold out?

With a buddy of mine, you got yeah, we uh wow, ten o'clock they went on sale.

I've been on hold.

Are you talking?

Are you talking football or basketball?

I'm talking basketball.

I have faced the tickets released from U of L.

They're all up top, but uh ninety eight.

That's amazing.

One tweeted me that too, that they bought a buy.

The uk U of L basketball tickets on a year that their top fifteen they did not sell out.

I'm about some right now.

Wow.

Well, thank you for letting me knowpreciate the appreciate the call.

That's so.

I actually had written down Ryan that I'm I'm I'm kind of amazed about Louisville attendance at things.

So louill played Virginia in football Saturday was at four o'clock, beautiful weather.

Louisville is undefeated and Virginia is right.

Yeah, And if you look at their schedule, you could have made a strong argument that if Louisville wins that game, they have a path to the playoff.

Not I mean, not certain to make it, but they have a path if you look at it.

And yet there were twenty five thousand empty seats or maybe twenty thousand empty seats.

I couldn't believe.

It, which is kind of crazy.

There was so much excitement about this season.

I think of Louislle football.

FeAs what do you make of the fact that this is that they cannot sell out the uk U of L basketball game on a year they probably have the best chance to win that they've had in forever.

I said this year ago.

They're broken and it's not fixable like when Pat Kelsey.

But they have two young, exciting coaches and look.

At their I pulled up ticket Master.

There are plenty of upper level seats available for the Kentucky But.

It's a Tuesday night, right Tuesday, what though, Yeah you.

Think Let me ask you if uk U of L was here this year on a Tuesday night, you think there'd be tickets.

No, it's well, the first market games.

Of the season.

Who cares if it's a week night, But there's plenty online right now.

Is the Saint Andrew's Fair that week?

Well?

Now, last Saturday was the Saint James Art Fair.

Yeah, and I do wonder if they didn't sell out because of the Saint James Art Fair because it was going on last week.

It happened last year.

I remember the jokes.

It's, well, we couldn't possibly fill the stadium, you know the Saint James Art Fair that's going on.

Oh are bad?

Well, it was going on this week too, so that might be.

Here's what I think happened.

I think two things happened that really screwed up U of L football basketball.

I don't understand how their basketball's not sold out.

That arena is the same size it was before.

The fact that they're not selling out is really something that's got to scare them.

Football.

What happened is Tom Jurch expanded that stadium to make it bigger than Kroger Field, and they don't have the fan base.

I mean, we have retracted our stadium.

I think correctly.

They expanded it, and their fan base cannot support the expansion of what that.

They have sixty thousand seats there now they can't handle that.

And you're right, though they have a path to ten wins.

I only have to play at Miami and they got Clemson at home.

But they might get to ten wins this year.

You think they'd be excited about that.

I think they really screwed up with the expansion.

And then the other thing is, and I've been saying this for fifteen years, Kentucky Athletics is a passion, all right.

Everybody in here that's here, you have that passion.

Bob's ninety two years old, drove from drove from louisll We got here from Etown, Franklin County.

You know, got people here who come just to watch the show.

In Lexington, Louisville, fandom is a party.

And there's a big difference between passion and party.

When the party's not fun, you don't go oh right, when the passion's there, you're you're with it, But when the party's not there, you don't go.

And it's not they haven't won at quite the level they did.

Tom Jertch created an atmosphere where going to uv L stuff was cool, but it still wasn't kind of in their blood drew like it is for us.

And I think you're seeing that now because they're they're good now and they're still not getting the same support.

Yeah, and I don't I don't think it's coming back.

I think another part of it is just scandal exhaustion.

If you're a fan of that basketball team.

I know a lot of them kept talking theirselves into seasons, but at some point you had to be like, I can't just keep doing this.

I mean, that was a brutal patch from the end of Patino.

You got Chris Mack turning on his buddy with the FBI.

I mean, their stuff is truly unbelievable, and I could understand if some of their basketball fans were like, I can't keep following, But.

You do wonder at some point they've got one of their own coaching.

Football grew up in that city, right, The Broms are like royalty in that city.

He's coaching football.

Last year they won what nine or two games.

Then you have hot Kentucky.

You got basketball.

They make the tournament.

They got a guy who whatever you think about how good he'll be, he's exciting, he's brought it.

They got a freshman, Michel Brown, who's gonna be one of the best players in the country this year as far as a freshman.

And they just they can't sell out the uk U.

Of L game broken.

I tell me, word gets out, there's tickets available, There's gonna be a lot of blue come in.

They well, I mean start right, starting right now.

We should have all those tickets they get.

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Where would Travis Perry be on this team?

Would he get to play?

I lean towards no, or if he did, he'd be like the twelfth man.

I mean he let's just look at the roster.

He's not playing over Jaalen low right, drew, not playing over a Takeo way correct, not playing over Denzel aberdear correct.

Uh.

Probably not playing over Jasper Johnson.

Or Colin Chandler or the other guard on the roster.

So I mean he would be sixth man on just in terms of guards.

So what I mean is it is it possible that he would play a little Yeah, but he would not get significant minutes.

I think Ryan in this group.

He's be one of those guys.

I think we look back wish he had to do over because he he just wasn't ready to play point guard in the sec last year, but at a necessity he had to because of the injuries.

I wish he could have had a chance to maybe develop a little better, but it just it was a good departure on both sides.

Of here's what will happen though, when we play them, he'll score fifteenth.

Yeah, he won't miss press spirit to.

It like when we play them, it is one hundred percent certain to me, Drew that he will have a big game.

That's just gonna happen.

That's fine, as long as they don't win the game.

You know, Travis was putting a bad spot last year when he committed to cal before Pope even got here, and we all just assumed he'd be at the end of the bench.

If you told us he'd be guarding Mark Sears at Alabama and his freshman season, we would say, what in the hell happened to get to that point.

But that's what Kentucky was in last year.

I think he'll be a good player long term, but I don't think he would have had a huge role this season with what they have.

Can we talk about the latest on your boy, Bill Belichick?

Oh yeah, So right after the show, they announced canceling the Hulu series the Hulu documentary about behind the scenes with Bill and joy Ran canceled.

Man, I was looking forward to it.

I think it would This is why you want to watch it.

Yes, absolutely, And now it looks like they're not gonna have it.

Uh.

Things just keep falling apart.

They call the GM a jerk, and now they canceled the Hulu series.

Paul fine Baum, who apparently is back on the air, UH, said yesterday Bill Belichick is going to go down in history as the worst college football coach of all time, the best pro football coach of all time, and the worst college football coach of all time.

Worse than that guy from Uclair.

They can't be worse than the guy from UCLA who won one game in two years.

Is it possible he's the worst college football coach of all time.

He's got to be in the conversation to be as successful as he was in the pro ranks.

How can you fail that miserably in the only played four games, So it's not They got destroyed by Clemson last weekend destroyed.

I don't think I'll call him the worst of all time, but we are learning that there's a just completely different skill set.

The way you coach college in the NFL, because it's very obvious he's gonna need a little time to get acquainted.

I don't know how much time he has left in his coaching career.

But you think about how good that show would have.

Been great, awesome.

Doubled its ratings based on how I mean it would have been awesome to watch because like apparently there are fights in the locker room, Like if the cameras were all there, that would have been the greatest.

And I want to know, what kind of reality show do you just get to cancel?

You got it?

You agree to that?

When when when we brought the cameras into ov W, they didn't say, well, if you don't like what's going on, I mean the sure on TV right, Like I didn't you know, I mean there comes a point, Shandon, you shouldn't be able to cancel it.

I mean you I would think you would want drama, you would want controversy.

That's what makes the show good.

That's why people have to watch it.

The guys two and three so far, he's not the worst coach of all time in college.

Nobody wants to watch a boring show, right, We want to watch the drama.

Watch that's the good show.

So I think, Uh, I don't understand why they canceled it.

If they were four and one right now and that documentary came out, no party he would care to watch it.

But if they released it right now with a bad record and the Patriots drama and the Jordan drama, I'm running to watch it.

One person writes, Matt, do you think we have a big man who can be like Amari Williams last year handled the ball and pass.

I don't think they'll be as good as him at that.

I mean, I think he had a uniquely I mean, think about it.

He can't shoot, he's not much of an offensive player, and he's gonna make an NBA team because of how good a passer he is.

So I think that's a rare skill.

You know, Brandon Garrison is gonna have to be better at it.

What do you think of him yesterday?

Uh?

He looked pretty good.

I'm worried Brandon Garrison is gonna try to be Amara Williams this year, and Amari was kind of a unicorn.

There's not many a Mario Williams that can pass and bring it up like that at his size.

I hope.

So I hope Brandon Garrison can do it a little bit.

I hope we don't get to remember he'd force turnovers.

We called a BG time where he call his own number when we saw.

I hope he doesn't try to be a Mario because of Mario was his own thing.

We saw the Brandon Garrison still does the all right clear out here here it comes, although he does have a weird way of like getting an open lay up even though arms and limbs are going in seven different directions.

And he'll have a green light to take some threes this year, I think.

Because he's so big, there's something about his drives to the basket that looked nothing like anyone I've ever seen, because he'll shoot and he'll kick one leg up in the air and then his arm's over here and he's shooting, and he just looks like a praying mantis with with just blims going in every direct and then he goes in and.

Then he looks the other bench and wants to fight all of them.

Looks like he's got a lot going on there.

Yeah, they'll need that intensity though that you know, maybe a couple times last year had to reel him in a little bit, didn't Mariy like physically carry him off the court of all.

Yeah, yeah, but what Pope lacks in that fire, I think Garrison kind of helps bring it out.

Athlete.

He definitely has that.

So it's the backup in the post right now, Marino.

Diabatte at five some and Marino, I mean I think yellowch is third of the three.

Do you agree?

Yeah, he looks he looks a step slow to me.

I mean he's he made every shot.

I just think the same thing we saw with z.

I just think he's gotta have a hard time playing defense.

I mean he's a step slow to me, to everybody on the court.

I still want to see what he has in him because of media day, because some reports that came out of his first practice they didn't look good, and many day he was like, man, I sucked when I got here.

It was take it a little while and he's like, figure it out now.

But first few practices, I didn't know what I was doing.

And him being open about that and almost laughing at it gives me a little hope that he has he's confident that he's gonna get a doll then.

Yeah, I mean skill wise, you can see how skilled he is.

It's just gonna be a matter of can he guard anybody?

Can he guard anybody?

And that was the same thing we have as Z.

I mean Z, he was very skilled.

He just he couldn't guard people.

We'll have to see if he's gonna be able to guard people.

I don't know the answer.

Yelovitch does the one thing at the four point once and in the corner and hit shots.

Yeah.

I think he plays the five if we if we play, he do yeah, I mean if we if we play, But no, I mean he'll he'll play some.

But there's enough pieces there they can figure out though.

They'll figure something out.

But I just you'll see like he's he has a hard time staying in front of people throughout the thing.

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