2026-03-11- KSR - Hour 2

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – March 11, 2026, Hour 2

Podcast Hosts: Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, Shannon
Main Theme:
The KSR crew, live from Nashville ahead of Kentucky's SEC Tournament opener against LSU, discuss the atmosphere, fan expectations, Kentucky’s season under new coach Mark Pope, SEC tournament hopes, roster speculation, Louisville-area geography, and Kentucky high school basketball.

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Episode Overview

This episode is a blend of Kentucky basketball analysis, fan culture, and local color—broadcast on the eve of the Wildcats’ first SEC tournament game, with a mix of pregame excitement and skepticism about the team’s prospects under coach Mark Pope. The hosts dive into topics related to lineup changes, SEC tournament stakes, nostalgia for 1990s culture, and a recurring focus on Louisville neighborhood rivalries and local schools.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Nashville Pregame Buzz & UK Fan Presence

• Kentucky fans are arriving in Nashville, though not in typical overwhelming numbers.
  • Matt Jones (03:13): “Starting to see some of the big blue mist in Nashville. Not quite what it is normally, but there are a lot of Kentucky fans here.”
  • The hosts take calls from fans lining up for the game, conveying a mixture of optimism and nervousness about the team's unpredictability.

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2. SEC Tournament Stakes & Mark Pope's Scrutiny

• If Kentucky loses to LSU (the tournament’s 16th seed), the postgame mood will be “apocalyptic.”
  • Matt Jones (07:24): “What's the postgame show like today if we lose? Apocalyptic.”
  • Fans will call for Coach Mark Pope’s firing if there's an early loss—although Matt and Drew dismiss the possibility and remain loyal for now.
• Mark Pope’s program leadership is under scrutiny, especially regarding hiring a General Manager (GM) to help with recruiting and the transfer portal.
  • Discussion of whether Pope will hire a GM, with frustration over his reticence to call the position a “GM.”
  • Matt Jones (08:59): “He will not call it a GM. He'll just say we're hiring people to do things...there’s some stubbornness now coming on this.”
  • Debate over the importance of quickly hiring staff to capitalize on transfer prospects and the looming transfer portal deadline.

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3. Nostalgia & Pop Culture: 90s vs. Today

• The crew laments the loss of simpler, pre-smartphone times and reminisces about the superiority of 90s pop culture.
  • Matt Jones (04:35): “It just reminded me how much better the 90s were… except for the cigarettes. The 90s were just better.”
  • Shannon (05:02): “Back in my day... I think we're gonna look back in hindsight and say that pre-computers, we didn't have to worry about being available 24 hours a day.”
  • Matt Jones (05:22): “The 90s were before we got addicted to these phones. We still, like, did face to face things.”

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4. LSU Matchup & Tournament Predictions

• LSU is missing key players, theoretically giving UK an advantage.
  • Drew Franklin (06:11): “That's why I picked Malachi to be my player of the game there. They're a little thin in the front court...”
• Discussion of possible scenario outcomes: Would fans prefer winning the SEC Tournament but losing in the first round of the NCAA, or losing early in the SEC but making the Sweet 16?
  • Hosts agree: Winning five straight games and the SEC Tournament is more memorable than another Sweet 16 exit.
    • Drew Franklin (15:40): “The fact we've not won the tournament since, what, 2018... This year's team's not going to win a title in the NCAA tournament. If we win the SEC title, I'm taking it.”

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5. Roster, Recruiting, and Transfer Portal Concerns

• Repeated frustration that UK is lagging in recruiting and transfer market agility due to lack of a GM.
  • Cited: Standout freshman from Merrimack (24ppg) and Hofstra (26ppg in conference tournament) are being targeted by other programs, but UK isn’t ready to move.

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6. SEC Tournament X-Factors

• Debate on which less-heralded UK player could have a breakout tournament ("random MVP pick").
  • Nominees: Colin Chandler, Yellowbitch, BG (jokingly).
  • Wager: If BG (Brandon Garrison) scores double digits, Matt tags he'll ride a mechanical bull at Kid Rock's bar wearing a cowboy hat.
    • Shannon (23:26): “You gotta get on the mechanical bull at Kid Rock’s bar on Broadway.”
    • Matt Jones: “If BG gets double digits. Mechanical bull.”

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7. Louisville Geography & High School Basketball

• Extended, humorous exploration of Louisville neighborhoods—Shively, South End, Dixie Highway—and the identities associated with each.
  • Debates over which area various schools and bars (Hoops, Stooges) are located in, and how serious Louisville natives are about their local geography.
    • Matt Jones (20:14): “Louisville people, man, they take the parts of their town seriously... They all have their own fire departments.”
  • Spotlight on local high school basketball (Grayson County’s run, Butler and Doss High Schools), with call-ins from proud alumni offering trivia and history.
    • Chris Harvey on Doss High School (41:53): “I wanted to give you some facts... Opened in 1967... nickname is the Dragons, colors burgundy and gold. Famous alumni...”

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8. Spring Football & Practice Regimen

• Brief update on UK football practice under new offensive coordinator Will Stein; each practice introduces a new offensive/defensive set, building across 15 practices.
  • Matt Jones (29:42): “Interesting. Will Stein said 15 practices. Every practice they introduce a new set so that at the end of it they will have introduced all of their sets.”
  • Old-school, full-tackle spring scrimmages are returning.
    • Drew Franklin (29:49): “That’s old school spring football. You have the scrimmage every Saturday.”

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9. Callers’ Opinions and Fan Vibes

• Several callers offer predictions, express concerns, boast about recent high school tournament wins, or share misgivings about the team’s mental preparation.
  • Mike (25:27): “I think whoever is best mentally prepared for this game today wins. And I believe that nod goes to LSU. I'm picking LSU.”
  • Matt Jones (26:28, pushing back): “None of us have any idea what LSU basketball is doing right now...We know about our team. We don't know anything about the LSU team.”

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10. Wild Eggs Wednesday Contest

• Regular KSR segment where fans can win a $50 Wild Eggs gift card by guessing a mystery word posted to KSR’s Twitter account.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On 90s Nostalgia:
  “It just reminded me how much better the 90s were, Shannon, than everything else...except for the cigarettes.” — Matt Jones (04:35)

• On the risk of losing to LSU:
  “What's the postgame show like today if we lose? Apocalyptic.” — Matt Jones (07:24)

• On Louisville geography debates:
  “Louisville people, man, they take the parts of their town seriously. They do, don’t they?” — Matt Jones (20:40)

• Wagering with Show Bets:
  “If BG gets double digits. Mechanical bull...I'm taking the cowboy hat. It's red.” — Matt Jones (23:32–23:38)

• On Kentucky’s recent SEC tournament drought:
  “If you look at the graphic of SEC tournament winners, it's amazing to see all the Kentucky logos. But we don't have one recently.” — Matt Jones (33:36)

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Important Timestamps

• 03:13 – Show opens, atmosphere in Nashville, fan excitement.
• 07:24 – Stakes for Coach Mark Pope and the implications of a loss.
• 08:09 – Criteria for evaluating the season: Mark Pope’s report card.
• 09:19 – Debate on Mark Pope’s (non-)hiring of a GM/staff.
• 15:15–15:53 – “Would you rather?” tournament performance scenario debate.
• 23:26–23:32 – Mechanical bull bet for BG.
• 25:27–27:30 – Caller predicts LSU; Matt rebuts.
• 29:42–30:06 – Update on spring football, coaching methods.
• 41:53 – Call from Doss High School alumnus with school trivia.

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Concluding Insights

• The hosts are caught between hope and realism: they know this Kentucky squad is not a national title contender, but see value in an SEC tournament run for the sake of “fun and memories.”
• Mark Pope’s first year is being harshly evaluated; there’s strong fan consensus that further organizational support is needed, especially a GM for recruiting and transfer market agility.
• Louisville-area geography and Kentucky high school basketball receive more airtime than the actual matchup, highlighting KSR’s blend of local color and hoops talk.
• Listeners are primed for continued unpredictability, with hosts promising entertaining coverage “win or lose.”

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For more Kentucky news and daily sports radio, tune in weekdays 10-noon on KSR.

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[Shannon]

Welcome to hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is the Kentucky select Chevy dealers KSR pregame show or our number two of KSR. Whichever you want it to be. 8592-8022-8777-2774-5254. Just got a message from one of my friends. Starting to see some of the big blue mist in Nashville. Not quite what it is normally, but there are a lot of Kentucky fans here.

[Drew Franklin]

It was cool to hear that guy called in right at the end of the first hour. He's in line with other UK fans waiting to get in for the game today. It's kind of cool to hear that.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know if this is a compliment, Shannon. Somebody writes as a woman, I want to agree with the guy. It's fine. Ryan's a harmless dirty old man, not a creepy old perv. There's a big difference, really.

[Shannon]

Dirty old man, creepy old perv. I would fall under the same category under the same umbrella.

[Matt Jones]

She says there's a distinction. Well, that's good, Ryan.

[Shannon]

It's a backhanded compliment, right?

[Matt Jones]

That's kind of a compliment.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't even know if I even agree with her.

[Shannon]

Well, you think you're creepy.

[Drew Franklin]

I can be a little cringy.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Yeah, you can.

[Matt Jones]

I think she's trying to say, though. Well, my vote is let's get in none of those categories.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And just be regular. Dakota Johnson has a new Calvin Klein ad campaign.

[Drew Franklin]

I saw it. I've seen it.

[Matt Jones]

Calvin Klein's all up in the JFK show. He's all the. That's my. That's my dirty.

[Drew Franklin]

Your guilty Pleasure.

[Matt Jones]

Pleasure. That show is awful. It's awful, but it's actually kind of great. And I feel like. I feel like the. It just reminded me how much better the 90s were, Shannon, than everything else.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Except for the cigarettes. The cigarettes. I'm anti cigarette. But besides the cigarettes, the 90s were just better.

[Shannon]

Pop culture was better, pop culture is

[Matt Jones]

better, music's better, you name it. All across pre 9 11. But did every economy was good?

[Shannon]

Everybody say that, though. Back in my day, I don't know

[Matt Jones]

if they realized it or not, but I think we're gonna look back in hindsight and say that pre computers, we didn't have to worry about being available 24 hours a day.

[Shannon]

But we're the old men now. Saying was.

[Matt Jones]

No, but I think it's true. I think even young people are kind of nostalgic about it. Just like Shannon, when we were young, people were nostalgic about, like the 60s.

[Shannon]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[Matt Jones]

They were like, oh, we missed all the great times in the 60s. Right. I'm going to say the 90s were before we got addicted to these phones. We still, like, did face to face things.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Shannon]

But if you wanted to find something out, you had to go to a library, look it up. That's okay.

[Matt Jones]

We don't need to know all this stuff now.

[Shannon]

I can just pull up my phone and boom, there it is.

[Matt Jones]

But maybe we don't need to know everything.

[Shannon]

Yeah. No.

[Matt Jones]

AI good. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Kentucky and lsu. I'm going to go to the phone here in just one second. LSU's without their backup, big Robert Thomas or whatever. He's going to be out. He. He's been playing well recently. I don't remember if he played well against us, but that gives them one less big. Probably not a huge difference. You feel good?

[Drew Franklin]

Actually, I do. And that's why I picked Malachi to be my player of the game there. You know, they're a little thin in the front court and, you know, he came coming off the Malachi miracle shot. First SEC tournament. The kid's going to play well today for Kentucky.

[Matt Jones]

Dakota Johnson is Don Johnson's daughter.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson's daughter.

[Matt Jones]

How did I not know that?

[Shannon]

I don't know.

[Drew Franklin]

Not up on pop culture, I guess, huh?

[Shannon]

We talk about Robert Miller, too, right? Not Robert Thomas from lsu.

[Matt Jones]

I'm talking about Dakota Johnson. Robert Miller.

[Shannon]

You said Robert Thomas. I'm going to go talk about.

[Matt Jones]

I'm sorry, I don't keep the LSU roster on my roller decks, and I don't have a Rolodex anymore and I had one in the 90s and it was good. It was better.

[Drew Franklin]

You remember when we played them down there, it was a must win game for them. They played really well. Now they got nothing to play for. I mean they're not going to the tournament.

[Matt Jones]

Well. And then some people think is their coach getting fired?

[Drew Franklin]

I think he's probably going to get fired.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Because they're talking about trying to bring Will Wade back.

[Drew Franklin]

Are they really? They'd bring him back?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. There are some people at LSU that want that, although I don't. I think NC State's probably a better job where he is now.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, I don't know if you'd bring

[Matt Jones]

somebody back who is their coach. Matt McMahon still.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, that's it.

[Matt Jones]

He went to for Murray, right?

[Drew Franklin]

Yes. Huh. That's right.

[Matt Jones]

I don't. I do not know how I know that.

[Drew Franklin]

How'd you pull that one out?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know. I'm really surprised. I know who else she's coaches. Let's talk about what happens if we. We talked earlier about what happens if we win when we lose. What's the postgame show like today if we lose? Apocalyptic.

[Drew Franklin]

There'll be people calling for Pope's firing immediately. They will not be happy if they lose to LSLU in the first game of the SEC tournament on a Wednesday. They just. There'll be people that way. Fired, gone.

[Matt Jones]

16 seat. LSU is the last seat.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. Don't you think people. You'll get people calling for him and they'll want you to call for it.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I'm not going to call for it with the tournament next week and I'm not going to probably call for it anyway because I don't believe that. But I will say, you know, this would be another strike.

[Drew Franklin]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

Because I told you I judged the season on three criteria. He has already failed or D plused this regular season. 1. Now we have 2 and 3 and can't. I mean, you know, if we get to Friday and we lose like you're playing Florida, they might win the national championship. I'm not going to go crazy now. It is your fault. You're in a situation where you may have to play them Friday.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

But if you lose to LSLU in the first round, you know. Well, it is what it is. Now there a name got floated around yesterday. It's still not clear to me whether or not Mark Pope's hiring a gm.

[Drew Franklin]

Why don't you just come out.

[Matt Jones]

But he won't say. He will not call It a gm.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

He'll just say we're hiring people to do things. It. I'm. You know, there's some stubbornness now coming on this. So there's some guy that people are. Are talking that was. It was for at BYU and now is with the Milwaukee Bucks. But it sounds like he would not be a gm. He would be some sort of analytic something.

[Shannon]

Model kept saying model. He said that three or four times in the press conference. Model.

[Matt Jones]

He said model quite a bit.

[Shannon]

Look at the models.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't think we need any more models.

[Drew Franklin]

It just. It's a glaring omission if every team's got one except you and St. John's

[Matt Jones]

well, yeah, and Rip Tino, you know, he's one.

[Drew Franklin]

He won the Big east championship.

[Matt Jones]

But it's probably terrible that Drew was right. It's. The fact that St. John's got rid of it is because, you know, he's so connected to.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Well, anyway, the guy that they mentioned, I don't know him, he may be great at it, but it just looks like they're not going to.

[Drew Franklin]

I mean, the portal is going to open in what?

[Matt Jones]

The portal opens in three weeks, but it's not even about that. You need like there are guys every day who. Their season is ending. Let's. Let me give you an example. Last night, who won between. Was it Sienna and Merrimack?

[Drew Franklin]

Don't know.

[Matt Jones]

I think it was Sienna. Merrimack. Merrimack had a dude that's averaging 24 points a game as a freshman and was player of the league in that league. I think Sienna beat him.

[Shannon]

Yeah, they do.

[Matt Jones]

So Merrimack, that guy is now ready to be talked.

[Drew Franklin]

He's a free agent.

[Matt Jones]

He's averaging 24 points a game in the. In the. As a freshman. In that he's. He's going somewhere.

[Drew Franklin]

Somebody behind him.

[Matt Jones]

I'm not saying we should get him. I don't know him. But like, teams are going to start contacting him to that.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, right. We don't have anybody in place, and

[Matt Jones]

we don't have anybody in place. So I don't know if you want the guy from Merrimack, but I will tell you, a freshman at 24 points a game, you got at least. Look at him from Miss Mary Mack. Mac. Mac, all dressed in black. You might. You might want him. And then there was a kid at the Hofstra game, the MVP of that tournament was a freshman who averaged 26 points a game in the conference tournament. You got it. He's going to go somewhere Else.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, you got to get your. Put yourself in position.

[Matt Jones]

You got to. I hope we. I assume we have guys who know who these people are, but feels like if you're going to have a GM, you'd want to have them.

[Drew Franklin]

That's what a GM's job.

[Matt Jones]

Because. More Merrimack, guys. Phones ringing today.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

So, Joe, go for it. Joe. Joe, go ahead.

[Callers]

Hey, Matt. Hey, Matt. Glad to be on the show. I want to give a shout out to Preston County Cougars winning third region last night.

[Drew Franklin]

Who Grayson county upset Davis County Cougars. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Is that a big upset?

[Drew Franklin]

Well, they beat Davis County, I think was a favorite. And Grayson county not only beat them, they won the region. They're coming to rub.

[Callers]

They beat them twice in two weeks. Is the only team in the state that beat Davis county all year.

[Matt Jones]

But let's go, Grayson County. When's the last time Grayson County's been to the sweet 16?

[Callers]

2009.

[Shannon]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Well, good for Grayson County.

[Callers]

They got. Yeah, they got. They got beat by Jared Paulson's. West County's got a. A player that's committed to Western next year, Jack Loxton.

[Matt Jones]

Well, good for him.

[Callers]

He's a pretty good ball player.

[Matt Jones]

So we'll go. We'll bring a. Get them to come by the bar and I'll cheer them on.

[Callers]

All right, we'll do that.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate it. Congrats to Grayson County.

[Drew Franklin]

You see your North. North Oral beach or Bell County Bobcat?

[Matt Jones]

I saw that. And also, how about Shout Out Larry Blondell, His Butler High School where he taught 50 years ago.

[Drew Franklin]

He talked about it on the show.

[Matt Jones]

And they don't ever go right.

[Drew Franklin]

I can't. Well, I may have forgotten one, but. Yeah, they're rare to come out of that region.

[Matt Jones]

Larry taught math at Butler High School in, like, the mid sevent.

[Drew Franklin]

Got the Larry Bump this week.

[Matt Jones]

And they play North Laurel in the first or. No, they play Hazard. So it's a battle of Eastern Kentucky. Battle of Larry Butler v. Hazard.

[Drew Franklin]

Larry. Larry. Love that guy. And the fact that he talked about Butler on the show.

[Matt Jones]

Where is Butler High School? In Louisville. Shannon. I don't think I've ever passed it. What part of town is it in?

[Shannon]

I don't know exactly. I'm sure I've been there. I probably played baseball there back in high school, but I don't know where it's at.

[Matt Jones]

Well, look it up. I don't know what street that's on. Dg. Go ahead.

[Shannon]

DJ Crumbs Lane.

[Matt Jones]

Well, where's Crumbs Lane?

[Shannon]

I mean, you want me to get you.

[Matt Jones]

Now it's in Shively. Butler is in Shively.

[Shannon]

Yeah. There you go.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't know that. Yeah, Shively's its own thing, you know, Shively's like, yeah, you got Shively. Like, you got to know people.

[Shannon]

Gotta be tough to live in Shively.

[Matt Jones]

You can't. Shively is a different. Different kind of place.

[Shannon]

Lively Shively.

[Matt Jones]

Lively. That's right. They call it Lively Shively. First time I moved to Louisville, I was looking for a sports bar and I looked it up and it said, go to this place. I think it was called Hoops.

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Hoops on Grade Lane, in shot.

[Matt Jones]

That's in Shively, isn't it?

[Shannon]

I think so.

[Matt Jones]

And I went. And I was like, oh, you're amongst them. Okay. Welcome to Hoops. Kg, go ahead.

[Callers]

What's up, fellas? It's DG coming into Nashville right now with my dad. Excited about today. Maybe we can get the win. Hopefully. I had a. Would you rather Question for you, for you all. So me and my buddies, we do a podcast called Bluegrass State of Mind. Shout out to that.

[Drew Franklin]

But

[Matt Jones]

you can't give a shout out. You can't go. You can't be like, shout out to myself. You can't do that. But go ahead.

[Callers]

Well, it's more so for the other guys, but anyways, would you rather us run the table this week and weekend and win five straight games and win the SEC Championship and get bounced the first round of the NCAA Tournament, or would you rather let's lose today and make it to the sweet 16 and get bounced to sweet 16? I think you have a case for both. I. I think I know where you

[Matt Jones]

are going to go, but I think that's an interesting question. I appreciate the call. I'm taking the SEC tournament if you're telling me sweet 16 now. If you go. Me. If you go one more round and we say elite eight, then I'm going to take the elite eight. But for the sweet 16, give me the SEC tournament. Five straight in five days. I think it would be a fun run. It would be one we remember. I'll take it.

[Drew Franklin]

The fact we've not won the tournament since, what, 2018 with Shea? We make five wins in five days and win the tournament. I'm taking that. We went to the Sweet 16 last year. This year's team's not going to win a title in the NCAA tournament. If we win the SEC title, I'm taking it.

[Matt Jones]

If you told me Elite Eight I'd take the elite a run but I think if in order to do that we're probably going to have to beat Florida, Tennessee and maybe Arkansas back to back.

[Drew Franklin]

How awesome would that be?

[Matt Jones]

It can you imagine what Nashville be like?

[Drew Franklin]

Be crazy.

[Matt Jones]

It'd be like lively. Shively at hoops. At hoops. Hoops still open.

[Shannon]

Yeah. I think they are this team winning any kind of championship I think you would take. Right.

[Drew Franklin]

I think most fans would agree with us too, don't you?

[Matt Jones]

Have you been to hoops?

[Shannon]

I have, yeah. Yep.

[Matt Jones]

May have to go back some time. I literally when I first moved to Louisville in 2006, first place I went lively shot.

[Shannon]

I think I used to host an event out there.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. They that's the kind of place that would have a bikini sleeping slide back in the day. Oh well they weren't there. That was I wasn't there that day. I think it was that slip and

[Shannon]

slide bikini slip and slide. I was the host. That was a great gig.

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[Matt Jones]

People very like, technical about their what's shively and what south end must be? I consider everything south. Basically. Shively, right? Yeah.

[Shannon]

I mean, when it says south side next to hoops on a map, it's click. Yeah, close enough.

[Matt Jones]

I'm trying to be complimentary. I like that's. It's close to Dixie Highway. You're in shop. Yeah. Now people are saying, no, no, it's South End. That's like the difference with people who go, we're in Bell County. If you're in Clear Creek and Straight Creek. Yeah. Still all Creek.

[Drew Franklin]

So what's the dividing line? People have to. In Louisville.

[Matt Jones]

Louisville people, man, they take the parts of their town seriously. They do, don't they?

[Shannon]

Yeah, they do.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, you, you're. If you're in Linden or you're in J Town or you're in St. Matthews or you're in the Highlands or you're in prp, like everything people take their section of town seriously. Part of it's because Shannon, they all have like their own fire departments.

[Shannon]

Well, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And their own police departments. It's so. It's so different. It's so weird. Like, you don't do that in Lexington. You're not like. No, I'm Tate's Creek. Well, you know, everybody's just lexing.

[Shannon]

People live on the. In Dixie Highway. Like on Dixie highway for some reason or like really just like.

[Drew Franklin]

Don't.

[Shannon]

Don't mess up where my hometown is. Don't. You know, you got to get it right.

[Matt Jones]

I love Dixie Highway. Yeah, but Dixie highway, you. It's a different city than everywhere.

[Shannon]

It really is.

[Matt Jones]

No, it really is. Like you're.

[Drew Franklin]

You.

[Matt Jones]

You would barely know you're in Louisville if you're. If you're out on Dixie Highway.

[Drew Franklin]

So what's the high school out there you're talking about in that south side area?

[Matt Jones]

Well, Iroquois. Yeah, right.

[Shannon]

I think the cells is close.

[Matt Jones]

Is it? Isn't Fairdale out there close? Yeah, so. And Hoops News. But don't say hoops is in Shively. 859280 2287. One person writes, if we were to win the SEC tournament, who would be the MVP? Well away. But you know, sometimes in the SEC tournament, you get your Dominique Hawkins, you get your random guy. Who's a random guy you think could have a big tournament?

[Shannon]

Colin Chandler. He'd be my pick.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't know if he's random, but yeah, I mean he. Cause he could put up big point games.

[Shannon]

He gets hot.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, random would be somebody like Yellow Bitch.

[Shannon]

Yeah, I'd be shocked if he were the mvp.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, if. Yeah, well, not mvp, but if Yellow Bitch made all first team because he scored double digits every game or something.

[Drew Franklin]

So who would be the one guy outside of Yellow Bitch? Yellow?

[Matt Jones]

Well, there's only. We only play nine guys, so you're running out of. If we can't pick stars or Yellow Bitch, then we're basically running out of people because Jasper and Noah won't play enough.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. So you're down to now.

[Matt Jones]

Don't tell me BG Malachi, don't stop with pg.

[Shannon]

He would be random.

[Matt Jones]

BG would be the most random here. I'll tell you what. Let's do a bet because I would like this to happen. Give me something to do if BG goes double digits in the game. All right. What's something I could do?

[Shannon]

Shave your head?

[Matt Jones]

Not yet. No, that's. I have enough problem with that as it is. I'm not shaving it.

[Drew Franklin]

Fix us all a dinner.

[Shannon]

Oh, come on.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, come on. That's not. That's not a prize for you. I don't know if. Something for the fans.

[Shannon]

I got it. You got to get on the mechanical bull at Kid Rock's bar on Broadway.

[Matt Jones]

All right, I'll do that.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

If BG gets double digits. Mechanical bull.

[Drew Franklin]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

I'm taking the cowboy hat. It's red.

[Drew Franklin]

You got to. It's Nashville.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. If you see me out in the cowboy hat, you know the party started. Murph. Go ahead, Murph.

[Callers]

Hey, Matt. How are you doing?

[Matt Jones]

Good.

[Callers]

Just want to clarify for the US not to advance onto the tournament. Mexico has to score five or more runs for them to advance or Italy to win.

[Matt Jones]

So they have to score five runs.

[Callers]

Five or more. Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. So we need. So for us to go. We neither either Mexico to lose or to score less than five runs.

[Callers]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Gotcha. Okay. All right.

[Callers]

And then my next thing is. This is Nashville. We have a tag away. If you're scared, go to church. We're beating Florida.

[Matt Jones]

Well, let's. Listen. I'm gonna be. I appreciate the call. I'm gonna pick us to win every game because it's Nashville and it's time for us to take that city back. But first, we gotta beat lsu.

[Drew Franklin]

Let's just beat the first game first.

[Matt Jones]

And I'm. You know, if we were get. If we had gotten South Carolina or Ole Miss, I'd feel good about it. But we got the one team that. I mean, they outplayed us in that game. We beat them.

[Drew Franklin]

They did.

[Matt Jones]

We kind of. We stole that one.

[Drew Franklin]

Like I said, that game meant so much to them at that point. They had to get a win. Now they got a lame duck coach. Nobody cares. They're not going to the NCAA tournament. I think we're catching them at a good time.

[Matt Jones]

There's another high school that's out there, Doss.

[Drew Franklin]

It's out on the south end.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's a high school. You never hear anyone mention.

[Drew Franklin]

No.

[Matt Jones]

Do you. Do you ever hear Dossier?

[Drew Franklin]

You know anybody ever went to dos?

[Matt Jones]

No, I have no idea. I've never heard. DOS May be the most anonymous Louisville school. Isn't it, Shannon?

[Shannon]

I mean, I've heard of it. I know it exists.

[Matt Jones]

Tell me something you know about Doss.

[Shannon]

Nothing.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know anything about it. Yeah, Mike. Go ahead, Mike.

[Callers]

Hey, I think whoever is best mentally prepared for this game today wins. And I believe that Nod goes to lsu. I'm picking lsu. I think this team, this coaching staff, you know, we lucked out winning down There. And I think they want this game big time. I think they want it more than us. And I think they're mentally prepared.

[Matt Jones]

But, I mean, when you say more than us. Let me ask you a question. Give me one fact that makes you think they want it more than us. Tell me your LSU want to knowledge.

[Callers]

Well, I just. They. We stole that game from them, but

[Matt Jones]

that has nothing to do with how much they wanted. Like, where are you getting that information? Because I think. And I'm not.

[Callers]

It's my own feeling. I'm their coach. This is probably his last game. I think they want to win this one for the coach, too. But they want to beat us bad because we beat them down there at their place again.

[Matt Jones]

Well, everybody. Yeah. Well, I appreciate. I think sometimes it's easy when we're down on our team to just assume that, you know, the other team's gonna be much more. Maybe they will. I don't know. But, like, let's be honest. None of us have any idea what LSU basketball is doing right now.

[Drew Franklin]

No. Can we say the same thing about our team?

[Matt Jones]

No. We know about our team. We don't know anything about the LSU team. There might be 0.1% of the listeners here that really know the LSU basketball team. Like, we don't fall. We don't. If we're honest. If we're honest, we don't know it's going to be about us. If we play well, we will win. If we don't, then we give them a chance to win. But, like, we don't know what LSU is thinking going into this game. Oh, do we? Do you know?

[Drew Franklin]

That's what I feel like. Our team's been so unpredictable. I don't know about our team.

[Shannon]

I know something about Doss High School. Now what? Derek Anderson went to dos.

[Matt Jones]

That's right. Wow.

[Drew Franklin]

Did he really?

[Matt Jones]

Right. DA Went to dos.

[Shannon]

Thanks.

[Matt Jones]

Did he go to the Sweet sixteen when he was here? When he was there?

[Shannon]

I don't know. Yeah, but he went there.

[Matt Jones]

Good call. All right, we'll take a break. Be right back. It's the Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers, ksr. Pretty good.

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[Matt Jones]

You know the Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers, ksr. Pregame. You never know what it's going to end up. I mean, we've. Dude, this is all about the south side of Louisville. I'm glad to be told that I was right. Shannon Hoops has moved the one you and I went to was somewhere else.

[Shannon]

Maybe that's what we're.

[Matt Jones]

The one now is out there next to the airport. And I believe that that was close to where the plane crashed.

[Shannon]

Oh yeah, Great lane, right?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I think that just recently I think that was very close to. To that place we're getting to that age where you just go, didn't there

[Shannon]

used to be a pharmacy over there?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, there used to be a shoe store there. I used to laugh at my. My parents and grandparents because they would do that. They'd go, yeah, used to be where TH Campbell was. And I'd be like, I hope I don't do that.

[Shannon]

Here we are.

[Matt Jones]

But then you can't help it. You can't help it. Hoops used to be over there. You can't help your ass. Where the prime sirloin was. Sorry. It's the SEC tournament. We're playing on Wednesday. What do you want from me? KS Bar opens at 11 and the game will be on at 12:30. I know Nick Rouse and Adam Luck. It'll be there. They can answer all your football questions there. They're coming from spring practice to their spring practice happened. Interesting. Will Stein said 15 practices. Every practice they introduce a new set so that at the end of it they will have introduced all of their sets. So they've timed it to where each day they learn something new and then the next day they go over what they learn and then teach them another thing. And that each day they will slowly build up to teach the entire offense and defense over the course of the 15 days.

[Drew Franklin]

What you got to do and you're starting from scratch, starting something new. I love what he said yesterday too. They're going to have scrimmages. They're going to play a real tackling with tackling.

[Matt Jones]

Do you like that?

[Drew Franklin]

I do like that. That's old school spring football. You have the scrimmage every Saturday.

[Matt Jones]

Well, we're going to say that if somebody gets hurt, probably not.

[Drew Franklin]

But I'm playing it right now. We're going to have a real spring game. You know he keeps talking about that and they're going to play.

[Matt Jones]

This is not going to be too and touched Shannon. They're going to tackle in the spring.

[Shannon]

Can't play scared as you know. If you're scared, go to church.

[Matt Jones]

Scared, go to church. 859280, 2287 Marshall. Go ahead Marshall.

[Callers]

Sounds like Mike needs to go to church. I agree and I'm on I40. I'm on I40. I just got out of class, taking a midterm. Definitely failed it. But we are locked in. I'm 07 in my last Kentucky collegiate basketball and football games. But it changes today.

[Drew Franklin]

You.

[Matt Jones]

You. We've lost the last seven games you've been to.

[Callers]

I was at the Vandy game in Nashville. I was at the Louisville game this year. I was at the football game of Texas Ole Miss and Tennessee. Lost to Bama last year. Next state tournament, I'm missing one more. I can't remember what it was. But today, Colin chandler going for five threes.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Callers]

Dunking on everybody. Always going for 30. It's going to be a hell of a night. Go Cats. Go Big Blue. C, A T S. Cats. Cats. Cats.

[Matt Jones]

Love it. Love it. I say, you know, you do not beat a Mike team eight straight times. No, you don't. Eight times a chunk.

[Shannon]

If we lose, we're blaming that guy.

[Matt Jones]

If we use. It's your fault, though, Mike Marshall. Same Marshall's fault, too. We're going to be doing the post game show in Bowling Green and then driving to Nashville after that. So we'll get to Nashville tonight. Remember, tomorrow we are at Tin Roof. Win or lose.

[Drew Franklin]

It's right. Win or lose.

[Matt Jones]

Win or lose. So we want you to be there. It'll either be fun getting you ready for the game against Missouri or it'll be tears and beers with Drew. But we want you to be ready tomorrow because we're going to be there either way, starting. What are y'. All. What. What are you doing? Are you doing a pre show tomorrow? What's happening tomorrow?

[Shannon]

We're doing the same thing. If Kentucky wins. We're doing the same thing tomorrow.

[Matt Jones]

Kentucky wins tomorrow. Then it'll be. And then if we lose, I don't know what we're doing.

[Shannon]

I guess we'll do the pre show and then the KSR show.

[Matt Jones]

I guess.

[Shannon]

Yeah, sounds like.

[Matt Jones]

But either way, 9 o', clock, which will be 8 o' clock central. You're there.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And we play Missouri. Hopefully we win. It's very complicated, this whole thing. Mike. Go ahead, Mike. How many mics do we have? Go ahead, Mike.

[Callers]

Yeah, y' all gonna be hating the mics today. I tell you that, but I tell you, I was sitting there listening. I'm so sick of. Oh, man. Which would you rather suck less at? You know, I'm just gonna tell you, man, this is Kentucky. You could have took us in the SEC tournament against the field throughout history and make money. If he can't get a GM and he don't do what he needs to do, then get his ass out of town. Goodbye.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, a lot of people

[Drew Franklin]

say the same thing.

[Matt Jones]

Those are strong words, but also. I understand what he means. Let's go to Kim. Go ahead, Kim.

[Callers]

Hey, Matt. We're coming into Nashville. We have tickets for today. Where were those tickets that you said for the whole session were? 348.

[Matt Jones]

It was on StubHub.

[Callers]

StubHub. Great. Thank you. Go Cats. We're going to win today by 20.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate it. I mean, hopefully they're still there on stuff, but there are others for like 383, 70.

[Drew Franklin]

You know the mike, right? The Kentucky's won, what, 31 sec tournament titles and the second place team is Alabama with eight. This is our tournament.

[Matt Jones]

If you look at the graphic of SEC tournament winners, it's amazing to see all the Kentucky logos. But we don't have one recently.

[Drew Franklin]

Not since 2018. Right?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

It's a long drought.

[Matt Jones]

Hamden. What's up, Hamden?

[Callers]

Hey. My boss bet me money that I wouldn't call into the show, so I told him I wouldn't ask a question.

[Matt Jones]

We gotta ask a question in Hampden.

[Callers]

My question is, what? Who do you think has to step up like Marcus Lee did during our run in 2014? I know we've talked about Brandon Garrison, but to me, it's Yellow Bitch. If he can hit.

[Matt Jones]

I agree with the game.

[Callers]

For me, it's him, like Andrew Carr did.

[Matt Jones]

For me, it's me. It's. He changes the offense because with him. Here's the thing about Yellow Bitch. With him, then you. You have a shooting threat outside, which allows you to play dbate if you need to, Malachi if you need to. And Garrison doesn't have to play if he's not playing bad. When Yovich is hitting shots, it changes the entire ability of our team to score. Now, he can't be a dud defensively, which he is sometimes. So he's got it, like, be, you know, decent enough defense so that we can have him to make threes.

[Callers]

Completely agree. Completely agree. He's got the length to do it. It's just he lacks his footwork sometimes is what I see watching at home.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And I appreciate the call. He's actually sometimes can stay with his man outside. He just gets bullied inside, and that's where he's got to get better.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, he said after the game the other day, kind of called out a couple of his teammates and kind of called him out for being selfish. Kind of called out, you know, fatigue Is not a factor. Okay, Now's your chance, bud. Step up and help put that team on your shoulders.

[Matt Jones]

All right. It's Wild Eggs Wednesday.

[Drew Franklin]

It is.

[Matt Jones]

Which means you have a word. Ryan said his word and I was like, that's terrible. So I picked the word.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes, you did.

[Matt Jones]

To make it harder. What, are we putting it on Twitter? It's on Twitter under ksr, the show. All right, it's going up now. First response wins $50 from wild eggs. It was a word, Shannon, that Ryan couldn't even spell.

[Shannon]

Oh, boy. Are we sure it's going to have the right letters and the right amount of letters?

[Matt Jones]

Well, that's a good point. Mark. Did you check the spelling before you did it?

[Shannon]

We know what happened last week.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, just another of our horrible contests.

[Shannon]

I suggest that we just do bam. It would be really easy.

[Drew Franklin]

I think we should have gone with

[Shannon]

that, you know, but you guys want to make it.

[Matt Jones]

So it's Wild Eggs Wednesday. That's your chance. It just went up. It's Wednesday at KS Bar. So you watch the game. You could also get dollar wings.

[Drew Franklin]

I better be a great environment too today. Go out there.

[Matt Jones]

Everybody's got to get up and go. And I keep getting confused what time it is. It's 10:45. Because we started early. Right. And we're getting in a car here in 15 minutes and heading down the road.

[Drew Franklin]

Heading down the road.

[Matt Jones]

What if they lose on the way? We can't.

[Drew Franklin]

Don't even. Don't even say it.

[Matt Jones]

No, we're not turning around.

[Drew Franklin]

We have to be there. Yeah.

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[Callers]

Yeah, Matt. Dallas High School. We had a player that played for us in 96 that went to Dallas High School. He transferred from Ohio State.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we mentioned Derek Anderson. We mentioned it.

[Callers]

Derek Anderson. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Callers]

Okay. I was just wondering. I didn't hear that. Okay, thank you.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate it, Joe. Go ahead, Joe.

[Callers]

Hey, Matt, how you doing?

[Matt Jones]

Good.

[Callers]

I'm the last. I'm the last guy to take up for Patino. I still can't stand him. But it's worth noting that he's gonna hire another gm. That GM was fired by the university after like a month long investigation into some weird finances stuff. The same guy.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. I didn't know. So he said, he said he's gonna hire another. He's gonna hire another guy then.

[Callers]

Yeah, yeah. That guy that Patino hired had left Nebraska under a little bit of conf. You know, health issues, slash. He was about to get fired. And. And Patino essentially said, I can't talk about it because it wasn't my decision. The university fired him, but we're going to be looking as soon as season ends.

[Matt Jones]

Didn't know that makes sense. All right. I'm actually glad to hear that. I appreciate the call. I mean, not that he stole money, but that maybe that'll make pope get one. We'll take a break. 859-280-2287 come back. It's Kentucky select Chevy dealers KSR pregame.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back, Tucky Slick. Chevy dealers KSR pregame show. I just, I can't get this geography right. So the. The bar next to the airport or the plane crashed is Stooges, which is apparently the sister bar to hoops. Yeah, Stooges.

[Shannon]

I've been to all of them.

[Drew Franklin]

So where's the new hoops now? Now I'm totally confused.

[Shannon]

Strawberry Lane, right?

[Matt Jones]

Strawberry Lane, Yeah. Which is nice, I guess. I'm not going to dare say what part of town it's in. Kentucky's now a nine and a half point favorite. Opened at six and a half, now up to nine and a half.

[Drew Franklin]

It's a lot of points for a team you had to have a miracle to beat earlier this season, but you

[Matt Jones]

were on their floor. They, as you've said many times, they had a lot to play for, but now they're, they're not making the tournament. So they got less to play for. Now I want their season ends today.

[Drew Franklin]

It is ends today.

[Matt Jones]

If we beat them. Yeah, they can all get in the portal.

[Drew Franklin]

And they probably will.

[Matt Jones]

They probably will. Chris. Go ahead, Chris.

[Callers]

Matt, this is Chris Harvey. I am a proud Dawes High School grad.

[Matt Jones]

All right.

[Callers]

I wanted to. I wanted to give you some facts. Okay. Quickly opened. It opened in 1967, about 1100 students. Its nickname is the Dragons. Colors burgundy and gold. Famous alumni Dwight Whitten at whas. Larry Birkin.

[Matt Jones]

Harry Burkhead, the father of the. The. Yeah, that's right. Larry Birkhead. I remember him from the derby parties. Remember M. Shannon? He was married to Anacole Smith. Yeah. Or had had a baby with her. Yes.

[Callers]

Tim Pelke, the 1980. 1988 Ms. Basketball. I think the girls were lost in the state championship game in 1988 in basketball and the boys have been in the state finals twice, 1980 and 2014. So I just.

[Matt Jones]

There you go.

[Callers]

My school there.

[Matt Jones]

Well, there you go. I appreciate you giving some Dos Facts. Dos Dragons a good name. Appreciate the call. That's a good name. Dos Dragons. If I ever opened a high school, and I would have no reason to ever do that, if I were going to do that, I would want to give it a unique nickname. Like I like last night. Hofstra's nickname is the Pride. Did not know that. Hofstra Pride.

[Drew Franklin]

What's Monmouth? I don't know.

[Matt Jones]

Long Island. The Long island are the Dolphins, aren't they?

[Shannon]

Monmouth is. It should be the Mammoths.

[Matt Jones]

Monmouth Mammoths. That would be great, though. That would be great. I think Long. Because Long island, they do the fins up. Have you seen that?

[Drew Franklin]

He's. Mario's from Long Island. He's shaking.

[Matt Jones]

Did you know that they. Now they've started this new thing where. Where? Long island, where they. They're about to shoot a free throw, and they go fins up, and they all make the safety thing on top of their head. I can't.

[Drew Franklin]

I kind of like that.

[Matt Jones]

I do, too. It's really stupid, but it's good. Madison, Go ahead, Madison. Rod Strickland Coaches, Long island former Kentucky

[Drew Franklin]

ASSISTANT they're in the tournament.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. Look, Dave Baker, just in here yelling like he. Like, yeah. You don't even have a microphone, Dave, by the way, we. We. We support you, Dave.

[Drew Franklin]

100.

[Matt Jones]

Let's go, Madison.

[Callers]

Hey, y'.

[Drew Franklin]

All.

[Callers]

We're in Nashville. We're hyped. We're so excited. But honestly, still can't get that head, that game out of my head. In 2023, when we lost, it was terrible. Last time we went to the game, mom and I were in Nashville and we lost. But.

[Matt Jones]

But we're gonna win this one. We're already breaking them. Appreciate it. Madison. We're breaking the mic streak. We're breaking the Madison streak. And I think a woman named Mikey Madison won the Oscar last year for Anore. It's all coming together.

[Drew Franklin]

There we go.

[Matt Jones]

And remember, eight minus five was three.

[Shannon]

No, eight minus three is five. Five and five days.

[Drew Franklin]

Five and five.

[Matt Jones]

Eight minus three is five. That's it.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Kelly, go ahead. Kelly. Kelly. Well, we lost. Kelly. Kelly. Should have had some cornbread hemp. Go to cornbreadhemp.com promo code KSR. Cornbread Hemp is where you get gummies and topical oils to rest and relax and get yourself ready for your night and get sleep. It is cornbread hemp. And cornbreadhemp.com there's no better way to get yourself ready to relax and sleep than cornbread hemp. Let's go to Jared. Go ahead, Jared.

[Callers]

Hey, Matt. So earlier this week, they released the All Americans list. And like many Kentucky fans, I noticed that Yaxel is on that list along with Caleb Wilson.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Callers]

And it was a little bit of salt in the wound knowing that we were about to get both of those guys and then we didn't. Correct my question is Mark Pope, seeing that he lost to all Americans, I mean, at what point does he say, I can't do this recruiting thing, I need a little bit of extra help, I'm getting a gm. What point does he say that?

[Matt Jones]

I mean, it all depends on how a person internalizes mistakes. Right. So I appreciate the call. For me, when I don't have some sort of success, I sit there and think, okay, what could I have done differently? What went wrong? That's one way to do it. The other way to do it is to blame things and act like, well, not my fault. It was this or their agent or this team or whatever. I think it's much more productive to look at yourself and not beat yourself up, but go, what could I do differently? Or you can say, it's everybody else's fault. I think the best leaders internalize and try to make it better. I hope Mark's one of those. I think he kind of is. But let's see the color asked.

[Drew Franklin]

When should he have done it? Should have done it over a year ago, have somebody in place to do.

[Matt Jones]

But, you know, my view is I don't really care how he manages his program so long as it works. The problem is right now in terms of getting players, it's not working.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So, Mike, Go ahead, Mike.

[Callers]

Okay. I called in earlier and we. I got cut off, I guess. But here's my question posed to you guys. What makes you think that this team is going to be mentally prepared for this game today when they haven't really been except for a few games this year? What makes you think they're going to be prepared?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know, But they were prepared for two games against Tennessee and they were prepared for a game against Vandy. I don't know. I'm not. I mean, I can't say that there

[Callers]

were reasons why they were prepared for that game. They were motivated to be.

[Matt Jones]

I appreciate the call. I think they're probably motivated. This is the tournament. If you're not motivated for this, what are you going to be motivated for? I mean, I don't know that they're going to be motivated. I have no idea. But I also don't know that they won't. We have no way of knowing. This team is completely unpredictable.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, that's what I was saying earlier.

[Matt Jones]

There's no way to know what team you're going to get tonight tomorrow. Or there's just no way to know.

[Drew Franklin]

They could come out lights out today and then stink it up tomorrow. You just don't know what this team's going to be like.

[Matt Jones]

With that said, it's time to pick a game for DraftKings. Bet $5 you win $200 on DraftKings. Go to get the app promo codes KSR. I'll start with you Shannon, since you're not usually on the Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers KSR pregame. What's the score? What's the score?

[Shannon]

I think Kentucky wins, but I think it's going to be close. I'm going to say cats win 87. 83.

[Matt Jones]

All right. And you're MVP.

[Shannon]

Well on our group chat I picked the bang this twins since they always

[Matt Jones]

the bang this twins. All right. Perfect. Ryan.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think it's going to be a

[Drew Franklin]

close game and I like the under in this game on point total. So I'm going to go 74, 73. I'm going to get like a one point point rock fight most of the game. Kind of ugly game most of the game. Malachi Marino carries over into Nashville against LSU. Malachi Marino.

[Matt Jones]

All right, I'm going to say Kentucky 80 to 72 with the Nashville theme. I'll take what's the. What's the one bar that's not a new country bar there, Roberts. Is that the last one left from back in the day tootsies? And that's still though kind of legends though. Sorry. 10 Roof is the MVP because we will be there tomorrow at 9am at Tin Roof. We hope to see you there 9am tomorrow Eastern, 8 Central. If we win. If we lose, you're still coming. It's mandatory.

[Drew Franklin]

That's right.

[Matt Jones]

Post game show for us will be somewhere in Bowling Green. We'll see you later. This has been the Kentucky Select Chevy Dealers KSR pregame. Let's win this game Cats.

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