2026-04-06- KSR - Hour 2

Summary

KSR Podcast – Hour 2 (April 6, 2026)

Host: Matt Jones
Panel: Drew, Jay Bilas, Guest Analysts
Network: iHeartPodcasts and Sports Talk 790 (WKRD-AM)

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Episode Overview

The second hour of KSR centers on a lively, honest panel discussion about Kentucky basketball, the evolving college sports landscape, fan culture, NIL deals, NCAA transfer rules, and a surprise deep dive into the new HBO show "The Neighbors." The hosts cover UK vs. other blue bloods, social media’s effect on recruiting, recent NIL deals, and even a few lighter moments concerning baseball and pop culture.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Atmosphere at the Duke-UConn Game and Blue Blood Status

(04:00–06:00)

• Matt describes the Duke-UConn Final Four game as "one of the best environments" ever experienced, with equal and intense supporters for both teams.
• Discusses the final shot and the unique aspects of college basketball's rules regarding timeouts and buzzer beaters.
• Panel reaches consensus: UConn is now undeniably a college basketball blue blood, joining Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, and Kansas, with some debate about UCLA’s continued inclusion.
• Notable Stats: Winning recent championships with three different head coaches (UConn, Kentucky, and Carolina).

Quote

"Anytime we have the conversation, it has to be Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Kansas, and UConn... You definitely have to put UConn. There's no argument they're not in there."
— Matt Jones (05:47)

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Kentucky Fan Base and Recruiting "Negativity" Narrative

(07:07–18:18)

• Social media rumor: Both Mark Pope and John Calipari reportedly blame UK's fan negativity for hurting recruiting since 2020.
• Matt fiercely defends Big Blue Nation, asserting on-court failures—not fan tweets—have driven recruiting struggles.
• Comparison with other fan bases: Kansas, Duke, UNC, and Louisville all face intense criticism; UK’s situation is not unique.
• Discussion on the dangers of coaches and administrators shifting blame to fan behavior instead of results.
• Emphasis on majority of UK fans being supportive and urging players to focus on real-life interactions, not online trolls.

Quote

"If you're losing a player in the NIL age because of tweets, then they weren't coming here anyway."
— Matt Jones (16:58)

Quote

"The most passionate and best fans are here. Now if you live your life only online, it can seem like the world is falling apart, right? … But go outside, smell the flowers."
— Jay Bilas (13:26, 13:45)

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Executive Order on College Eligibility and Transfers

(22:00–28:29)

• Brief question on President Trump’s executive order proposing five-year eligibility and limiting athletes to one free transfer.
• Panel explains: Unlikely to have impact—executive order will not stand, Congressional action is required.
• They critique the one-transfer rule: It gives schools excessive power and restricts player movement, especially if situations change (coach fired, toxic environment, etc.).
• Jay Bilas suggests the real solution: Allowing student-athletes to sign contracts with schools to protect their interests.

Quote

"Let them sign contracts, then that'll fix it. But the NCAA doesn't want to do that."
— Jay Bilas (24:36)

• Matt observes that despite all calls for change, college sports have never been more popular or lucrative.

Quote

"The ratings are higher than they've ever been. The games are higher than they've ever been. The money is high."
— Matt Jones (25:02)

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NIL, Fanatics Deal, and Recruiting Implications

(36:38–40:43)

• UK and JMI announce a 12-year deal with Fanatics: 25 players will have personal branded merchandise as part of NIL opportunities.
• Panel reaction: Generally positive, applauding creativity and potential to attract players.
• Concerns: Long-term contracts made amid an uncertain, rapidly changing landscape; whether top basketball recruits with existing deals (e.g., Tyron Stokes) are accommodated.
• Football players less likely to be affected, while top-5 basketball recruits might already have apparel company agreements.

Quote

"The proof is in do you get players... That's going to be the whole thing."
— Matt Jones (38:36)

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"Neighbors" on HBO – Watercooler TV

(29:09–32:43)

• Extended, spoiler-averse banter about the shocking Episode 6 of HBO’s "The Neighbors."
• Matt, Drew, and others rave about episodes and the wild escalation in episode 6.
• Rick is challenged to watch it "cold" for a fresh reaction in the next episode.
• Panel delighted by quirky, surprising moments (Backstreet Boy cameo, community living), drawing parallels to their colleague’s personality.

Quote

"There are very few things at this stage of my life that make me go, 'whoa.' But when he got in that cart and started driving... That was a whoa."
— Matt Jones (32:09)

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Cincinnati Reds Frustration: The "Unfixable" Blister

(34:09–36:32)

• Matt vents about pitcher Nick Lodolo’s miserable three-year struggle with a recurring pitching-hand blister.
• Panel expresses disbelief at modern medicine’s inability to treat the problem and jokes about possible causes.

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Closing Thoughts: Fanbase, ESPN, and Bill Raftery’s Real Age

(45:13–48:34)

• Matt shares a story of ESPN executives asking about KSR’s rabid but friendly Kentucky audience.
• Bill Raftery’s age becomes a humorous mystery: he claims he’s even older than 82.
• Panel agree Raftery is, along with Vitale and Barkley, among the most iconic voices in basketball broadcasting.

Quote

"He’s probably the most second most iconic next to Vitale in history."
— Matt Jones (48:29)

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Panel’s NCAA Basketball Championship Picks

(49:10–50:05)

• Panel leans Michigan to win and cover against UConn, but Matt picks UConn to at least cover and sees potential for a UConn upset.

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Additional Memorable Moments

• Fan Meme Creation (45:00):
  Matt is delighted by listeners producing a "Wookiee of the Year" meme about Reds rookie Sal Stewart in minutes.
• Furniture Shopping Dread (41:50):
  Matt laments researching interior designers in Lexington, sharing his aversion to floral couches.

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Useful Timestamps for Key Segments

• [04:00] – Duke-UConn Game Atmosphere & Blue Bloods Discussion
• [07:07] – Fan Negativity & Impact on Recruiting
• [10:01] – Social Media Blame vs. Program Results
• [16:43] – NIL, Recruiting, and Coaches Shifting Blame
• [22:00] – Trump’s Executive Order on College Sports
• [29:09] – "Neighbors" HBO Banter
• [36:38] – UK-Fanatics NIL Deal
• [41:50] – New House & Interior Design Humor
• [45:13] – Kentucky Fanbase vs. Online Perception
• [46:34] – Bill Raftery Age Anecdote
• [49:10] – NCAA Final Game Predictions

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Notable Quotes

"It's an excuse to say that... When you're losing players, it's not because of that."
— Jay Bilas (12:20)

"If you only live in this circle of online, the hate is... can be bad. Now what I think happens with our players sometimes is they are perpetually online."
— Matt Jones (14:03–14:10)

"Winning cures everything."
— Guest Analyst (17:51)

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Summary Tone

The tone is direct, self-aware, humorous, sometimes exasperated—equal parts impassioned sports talk, critical self-reflection, and a celebration of UK sports fandom and culture.

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Conclusion

This episode is a must-listen for Kentucky fans seeking frank talk on blue blood debates, NIL realities, the future of college sports, and local flavor—with a dose of TV recommendations and Kentucky sports humor throughout.

Transcript

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Our number two TY Sports Radio 859-28022 87 we haven't gone to the phones may do it but we haven't yet. 772-774-5254 Donnie Freeman by the way, Drew was saying a Caden Lewis can't shoot free throws. Not Blackwell.

[Drew]

Yeah, no, no Blackwell can definitely some reason Caden Lewis not so much.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah one person writes Matt, glad to have you back. Tell me what the atmosphere was like in that Duke Yukon game. Well, I was on here Tuesday and talked about it so I won't go into detail but it was awesome. Best that was one of the best

[Guest Analyst]

environments you've ever been in.

[Matt Jones]

Without question.

[Jay Bilas]

Just cause the crowd was half Duke,

[Matt Jones]

half Yukon going back and forth and then the shot just came out of nowhere.

[Jay Bilas]

You know it was like the always shot. There's something about in college like college basketball I think the fact that you

[Matt Jones]

can't call timeout and move it to half court. Yeah, right.

[Jay Bilas]

Which that allows for more buzzer beaters. But you also don't get like the full court excitement. And it's kind of like with always

[Matt Jones]

thing against Santa Clara.

[Jay Bilas]

The fact that it happens so quickly and there's no stop and play almost

[Matt Jones]

makes it to where you don't have time to process how crazy it is. Right. Same thing with O way this was.

[Drew]

Drew Ty.

[Jay Bilas]

Some of the favorite members came out of timeouts though.

[Drew]

But this is not advancing the.

[Jay Bilas]

Yeah, but this like getting the steel or coming off a make. There's something about it just kind of

[Matt Jones]

flowing like that that makes you go whoa. And that, that was cool.

[Guest Analyst]

Your point of not being able to process it was perfect. With the video of Grant Hill and Bill Raft.

[Jay Bilas]

I thought Bill Raftery had died.

[Guest Analyst]

They couldn't process it.

[Matt Jones]

I thought he might have died. Like literally it looked like he died and I loved it. There are such a good team by the way. I know. And I think Grant Hill's very good too. But what, what an amazing moment.

[Jay Bilas]

But now we need them to lose. This has all been fun, but we

[Matt Jones]

need them to not win title seven tonight.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah, you know it's bad as we wanted Duke to lose, now you got to root against Connecticut.

[Jay Bilas]

And by the way, Yukon is a blue blood now.

[Matt Jones]

Like anytime we have the conversation, it has to be Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Kansas and UConn. And then you can debate whether you want to still put UCLA there, but you definitely have to put Yukon. They, there's no argument that they're not in there.

[Drew]

Yeah, just if you look at the title count, you can't kick them out.

[Matt Jones]

You have to, you can't kick them out. You can't say it's recency bias. Well, I mean four of our titles were in a 10 year period in the 40s and 50s. Like you have to, if you put UCLA in there, they're all in the 60s and 70s for the most part. So you gotta, you gotta do that.

[Jay Bilas]

It's crazy.

[Guest Analyst]

The stat you mentioned earlier though, that when they go to the final, when they make get the NCAA tournament, like they either win it or they don't make it.

[Jay Bilas]

Yeah. And three different, three different coaches is important.

[Matt Jones]

It's important that they've won with three

[Guest Analyst]

different coaches in a short amount of time.

[Jay Bilas]

We have won with the most coach. We have won with five.

[Matt Jones]

I was looking at this.

[Jay Bilas]

We've won with five, Carolinas won with

[Matt Jones]

three and they've won with three and that's it.

[Drew]

And one of them Was Kevin Ollie.

[Jay Bilas]

Yeah, but that's it. The amount of programs that have won with more than two coaches is three.

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[Matt Jones]

Kentucky, Carolina and UConn.

[Jay Bilas]

That's it. That matters.

[Guest Analyst]

It does matter.

[Matt Jones]

In terms of how you judge this stuff. Now, I do want to say. So I'm going to. I need to take up for Big Blue Nation.

[Jay Bilas]

And this is taking up for Big

[Matt Jones]

Blue Nation in part against other people,

[Jay Bilas]

but it's also in part against some of our own parts of Big Blue Nation. And none of this is to criticize

[Matt Jones]

the point I'm about to make, but I also think it's completely unfair.

[Jay Bilas]

So an account on Twitter called Thrill

[Matt Jones]

Kitely, which is a really good name for a account, by the way. I don't know who Thrill Kitely is, but that's a great name for account.

[Jay Bilas]

Do you know who Thrill Kitely?

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[Guest Analyst]

I've seen him. I've seen the account. I don't know who it is.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. I thought you knew it. It says he's class of 25 at UK. So I was like, you hanging out with her?

[Guest Analyst]

No, I just know of the account.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Jay Bilas]

So he puts out. I'm hearing that both Mark Pope and John Calipari have privately vented that UK's

[Matt Jones]

fan base has negatively affected recruiting since 2020.

[Jay Bilas]

Other schools use the fan base and

[Matt Jones]

the negativity against UK and it has

[Jay Bilas]

cost multiple elite recruits. And that kind of went viral of

[Matt Jones]

fans being like, our fans stink. It's our own fans in general saying that.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So I responded, andrew, I thought you would be proud of this response. I said, yeah, it couldn't be that. Since that time, this team has missed the tournament, had two embarrassing first round losses, not started two top 10 picks, and had a Ferrari season in mediocrity. No, it's got to be the fans fault.

[Drew]

It's definitely the five mean tweets that people see couldn't be the results of the team.

[Jay Bilas]

So since 2020 is very important because

[Matt Jones]

since 2020, we've lost Oakland, we've lost to St. Peter's we've missed the tournament, we've put Reed and Rob on the bench, and we have had a Ferrari season play out the way this one did.

[Jay Bilas]

So I just want to take a

[Matt Jones]

second just to take up for Big Blue Nation.

[Jay Bilas]

Now, I'm not going to act like

[Matt Jones]

there aren't fools online. Just go look at my responses on any given day.

[Jay Bilas]

People can be outrageously cruel online.

[Matt Jones]

Outrageously.

[Jay Bilas]

And it's gotten worse.

[Matt Jones]

And I get it all the time.

[Jay Bilas]

The players get it in some ways worse. And it's despicable that people do it. But it's also unfortunately human reality. Go look at what any human being

[Matt Jones]

of notoriety says and then read their responses. It's awful. And it's worse on Twitter than anywhere else. But it's also bad on TikTok. It's really bad everywhere. Instagram people seem the nicest, but that's because it's mostly women on Instagram.

[Jay Bilas]

But it's bad. People are mean and on Twitter they can use fake identities, which makes them even meaner.

[Matt Jones]

And I'm not trying to downplay that that happens. Okay.

[Jay Bilas]

And I'm not downplaying that thrill kitely, even though I don't know who that is, is wrong that coaches privately blame the fans. I'll even go so far as to

[Matt Jones]

say he's right or she or whoever runs that account.

[Jay Bilas]

They do. Cal did. And I've heard that that has been done by some folks at uk. I can't say it's Pope specifically, but

[Matt Jones]

folks at UK now.

[Jay Bilas]

But I will just say this.

[Matt Jones]

They're full of it.

[Jay Bilas]

They are using other people for their own failures. I want to remind you just what

[Matt Jones]

has happened in the last few weeks at other schools.

[Jay Bilas]

Hunter Dickinson went on a podcast and said that the Kansas team was ready to finish their season early because they

[Matt Jones]

hated their fans so much. That was Kansas, who by the way, seems to be doing fine in recruiting

[Jay Bilas]

Duke. Go look at what Kaden Boozer just

[Matt Jones]

had to go through.

[Jay Bilas]

Go look at his comp. Go look. Just Google Caden Boozers name and see what people say about him since that play.

[Drew]

Some of the worst I've ever seen.

[Jay Bilas]

It is maybe the worst I've ever seen. Go look at any football team when a kicker misses a kick.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

All right. Go look at North Carolina after they lost to VCU and what their players

[Matt Jones]

and Hubert Davis took.

[Jay Bilas]

Now do Kentucky fans, are they like that?

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Jay Bilas]

Go look at what Louisville fans did with Mikhail Brown when he wouldn't play this year.

[Matt Jones]

Right?

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[Jay Bilas]

Do our fans do that?

[Matt Jones]

Without question, some of them do, but

[Jay Bilas]

so do everybody else's. So when you're losing players, it's not because of that. Have you heard John Shire say we can't get players because of what people said to Kaden Boozer?

[Guest Analyst]

No.

[Jay Bilas]

Have you heard Kansas?

[Matt Jones]

They're they Tyron Stokes.

[Jay Bilas]

We're either going to get him or

[Matt Jones]

they're going to get him.

[Jay Bilas]

Don't hear anything because of the mean tweets because he's going to have to Go to one school or the other

[Matt Jones]

that has mean tweets.

[Jay Bilas]

It is an excuse to say that do. Now do I think other coaches maybe use Kentucky fan tweets against the the program? Possibly. But you know what we need to do? Our fan base and our coaches and our administrators need to take up for the fans. Why are we writing this stuff and blaming. Don't blame cat fan in your eye. When that person says something bad, tell them to shut up. But when we perpetuate this narrative that we're awful, we're hurting ourselves more than the tweets. Right. If John Calipari and Mark Pope and again, I don't know that those two guys personally do it. But if they do, that only hurts us, right?

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

Because what we should say is they've got people too. It's the, you know, nastiness of the Internet. But how about we focus on the multi millions of Kentucky fans that are wonderful.

[Matt Jones]

Right.

[Guest Analyst]

Most passionate fans in the country right here.

[Jay Bilas]

The most passionate and best fans are here. Now if you live your life only online, it can seem like the world

[Matt Jones]

is falling apart, right?

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

Because online world, the life world stinks. But go outside,

[Matt Jones]

right?

[Guest Analyst]

Smell the flowers.

[Jay Bilas]

And I have to remind myself this.

[Matt Jones]

Now I get too online sometimes and

[Jay Bilas]

then I have to go to a

[Matt Jones]

remote and go see like the actual fans, right. I have to go to a game and like see the actual fans.

[Jay Bilas]

Because if you only live in this circle of online, the hate. The hate is. Can be bad. Now what I think happens with our

[Matt Jones]

players sometimes is they are perpetually online, some of them.

[Jay Bilas]

And so they do feel that.

[Matt Jones]

I get it.

[Jay Bilas]

But you know what we're never going to be able to do?

[Matt Jones]

Fix the niceness online.

[Jay Bilas]

Because when you try to be nice to people or say something back, they

[Matt Jones]

just get meaner sometimes. Especially the anonymous accounts.

[Drew]

And it's mostly anonymous accounts.

[Jay Bilas]

And it's mostly anonymous accounts. How do we also even know these are Kentucky fans? So I would say that continuing to

[Matt Jones]

perpetuate this myth that Kentucky fans are worse than everybody else only hurts us. We should instead a focus on the

[Jay Bilas]

good fans and be don't let people off the hook by blaming fans.

[Matt Jones]

We've joked about how when we lose games, their fans go Matt Jones fault. Okay, it's our fault.

[Jay Bilas]

Now we're to the point that if we don't get a recruit, it's random Internet accounts fault.

[Matt Jones]

I just don't buy it. And that's my little rant.

[Guest Analyst]

That's a great rant. I think we all need to Hear that? I think we see the small minority of fans that are little vocal and we think that's how it represents our entire fan base. And that's not even close to being the truth.

[Jay Bilas]

But part of the reason people think it represents it is because we spend

[Matt Jones]

so much time yelling at each other

[Jay Bilas]

and like, ignore those people. And I do think it's the coach's

[Matt Jones]

responsibility and the administrator's responsibility to get

[Jay Bilas]

the players to ignore them.

[Matt Jones]

Right.

[Jay Bilas]

They do need to do that.

[Drew]

They shouldn't. If a player comes up, and I don't believe this has happened one time, by the way. I mean, John Caliperi's last recruiting class had three of the top five players. He had the number one center, the number one small forward, number one combo guard, and then Rob and Reed. I mean, I don't think Cal. What more did he want from that class that ruined fans? And with Pope, if people are truly coming up to you in a sit down recruiting and they're saying, well, so and so did this SEC school, SEC school showed me this one tweet, I'd be like, hey, let me show you how we sold out Rupp arena for a press conference where people didn't even really want me.

[Jay Bilas]

Like, and if you really think Louisville

[Matt Jones]

coaches, and I don't know if this

[Jay Bilas]

is true, but if Louisville coaches are using Kentucky tweets, then just pull up Louisville fan tweets. Like, if that's what if we're going. If that's what you're going to have

[Matt Jones]

to do, then do it.

[Jay Bilas]

Because it's not just Kentucky. Here is what is fact.

[Matt Jones]

And I will say this and drop it. If you ask me more questions, I'm just going to drop it.

[Jay Bilas]

There is a player of some significance who staffs have come out.

[Matt Jones]

This player of some significance did not come here. And they have said that a player's family member said it was because of tweets. I don't even know if I believe that.

[Jay Bilas]

But if you're losing a player in

[Matt Jones]

the nil age because of tweets, then they weren't coming here anyway, in my opinion.

[Drew]

If they produce those tweets, show them all the good. Show them that after a loss in Rupp arena, there's still a line of people waiting to get a picture and an autograph on their way out. Even if they had a bad game, highlight the good stuff and be like, okay, sure, you showed me five tweets there on a printout. I'm sorry, that happens. But look at all this other stuff.

[Jay Bilas]

There is a player that that these

[Matt Jones]

folks are using as an example. I would say to you that privately the people around that player have blamed other forces, some of which we've talked about on this show.

[Jay Bilas]

And maybe this is a way to

[Matt Jones]

deflect from the blame going to them and put it on random anonymous fans.

[Jay Bilas]

At the end of the day, the

[Matt Jones]

proof is in the pudding. You get the players or you don't. And by the way, once we start

[Jay Bilas]

getting the players and we win, all these tweets will go away.

[Guest Analyst]

Of course, winning cures everything.

[Matt Jones]

You win.

[Jay Bilas]

It's going to be great. We all want Kentucky to win. I had this conversation a few weeks

[Matt Jones]

ago with one of the Kentucky somebody in the UK administration.

[Jay Bilas]

I said, look, we all want us to win. Let's remember that. Let's stop pointing fingers and let's try to win.

[Matt Jones]

And to me, that should be the ultimate goal. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR hey, Donald.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Text Machine 772-7745254. One person writes, Matt, they should get former players who've been on teams to talk about how good fans are after they leave.

[Jay Bilas]

You see that all the time. Even somebody like Khalil Whitney, who had

[Matt Jones]

a tough time here, then leaves and talks about how great it was that fans still supported him. That will happen with all these guys, too.

[Jay Bilas]

I mean, it's gonna. It'll happen. I mean, remember Clue Whitney?

[Matt Jones]

I'm not sure a career could have gone more negatively than his did.

[Jay Bilas]

And yet people still embrace that kid

[Matt Jones]

when he comes back.

[Guest Analyst]

The twins talked about it when they were here this summer.

[Matt Jones]

Twins.

[Jay Bilas]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, twins.

[Guest Analyst]

How much love they feel and love coming back now as a former player,

[Drew]

even in that documentary on Saturday, always says he sees all the tweets, but then he's like, you just gotta shrug it off. You know, it's Twitter and then go

[Matt Jones]

out in the world.

[Drew]

The Internet's mean. We can't change the Internet.

[Guest Analyst]

Us old people like me that. They want to tell these young kids, well, just stay off social media, man. They grew up with social media. They're on social media every day.

[Matt Jones]

It's hard for them. I totally get that. All right, one person writes, matt, what do you think about President Trump's executive order? Will you finally say he did something good? I mean, he had quite a Easter tweet yesterday.

[Guest Analyst]

Speaking of tweets on a holy day.

[Matt Jones]

That was beautiful. What did you almost cuss?

[Guest Analyst]

I said I was gonna say shame on you.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, I thought you were about to cuss. Do not cuss. Our bosses are in the.

[Guest Analyst]

That's true.

[T-Mobile Ad Legal Voice]

They are.

[Jay Bilas]

You calm down.

[Guest Analyst]

I'm sorry.

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All right.

[Matt Jones]

Thank you. Yeah, yeah. Well, look, the executive order, I mean, people can agree or disagree with what's in it. My point is it's ultimately completely useless. He's not allowed to do that. So somebody will challenge it in court, and when they do, he will lose. So I do think where it is important is it tells you where, like, his staff is on this, which is they want to have five years for five.

[Jay Bilas]

So this could mean guys have five

[Matt Jones]

years of eligibility now.

[Jay Bilas]

So that's something I don't think people

[Matt Jones]

are talking about a lot.

[Jay Bilas]

If Trump were to get his way.

[Matt Jones]

And again, none of this matters. Congress has to be the one to do this. But you could get five years to play. So a guy. Forget about red shirts. You could just play five years, which I think is interesting. And then second, though, is only one transfer.

[Jay Bilas]

That's the part I don't like.

[Guest Analyst]

One free transfer. Right.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

Because what if you transfer and you just hate the place?

[Stockton Mortgage Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Let's play it out like this.

[Jay Bilas]

Let's take Jasper Johnson.

[Guest Analyst]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Jasper Johnson comes to uk, it doesn't work out.

[Jay Bilas]

Do you agree it's best for Jasper

[Matt Jones]

and UK for him to move on?

[Guest Analyst]

That's a good part about the transfer portal.

[Matt Jones]

Here's the problem for if you only have one transfer, let's say he goes to Alabama. That's where he's going.

[Jay Bilas]

Let's say he goes to Alabama. Now, what if he gets down there

[Matt Jones]

and it doesn't work out?

[Jay Bilas]

Or what if he gets down now Alabama can just say, Jasper, after year one, we're only going to pay you $100,000. You know why? Because you can't do anything about it.

[Guest Analyst]

Can't transfer again.

[Jay Bilas]

You can't go anywhere. You've given all the leverage to the schools. The schools can now because you're not allowed to sign a contract. So Jasper can't ensure that the school can't just block him for the rest of his career. Isn't that the exact thing we were

[Matt Jones]

trying to get away from before?

[Jay Bilas]

So I understand guys going five schools in five years, but Jay Bilis was right.

[Matt Jones]

Did you see the argument between Jay and Cal and Seth Greenberg?

[Drew]

Yeah, I read about it, but you can't read it.

[T-Mobile Ad Legal Voice]

It was really good.

[Jay Bilas]

Jay Bilis made a good point. You want to fix this? Let them Sign contracts, Let them sign contracts, then that'll fix it. Yes, but the NCAA doesn't want to do that.

[Matt Jones]

They don't want to let them sign contracts. But do you want to fix it,

[Jay Bilas]

then let them do it? No. What's interesting to me is everybody says this system is unsustainable. Why?

[Matt Jones]

The ratings are higher than they've ever been.

[Guest Analyst]

Good point.

[Matt Jones]

The games are higher than they've ever been. The money is high.

[Jay Bilas]

But you know what?

[Matt Jones]

It's going to go down eventually because people won't pay it.

[Jay Bilas]

But is anybody saying coaches should be paid less? Is anybody saying AD should be paid less? Maybe AD shouldn't get to sign million dollar for life deals.

[Matt Jones]

I'll say that.

[T-Mobile Ad Male Voice 2]

But.

[Jay Bilas]

But the President's not getting involved with that, is he?

[Guest Analyst]

No.

[Jay Bilas]

So.

[Matt Jones]

So I don't really care so much about the executive order because it's not going to stand up. But this legislation at some point is going to happen. And I think if they do the

[Jay Bilas]

only one transfer, I understand why people think that sounds good, but in practice, use Jasper Johnson, if he transfers, wherever he goes will now have control of

[Matt Jones]

that kid for the rest of his time and there's not a thing he can do about it.

[Guest Analyst]

So is the rule where if he transferred a second time, he'd have to sit out a year like it used to be?

[Drew]

Yes, you only have the five year

[Matt Jones]

window, but then you only have the

[Jay Bilas]

five year window, so you're basically forcing him to not play for a year. Yeah, I don't.

[Matt Jones]

Is that good?

[Drew]

And is it Congress like I'll use North Carolina example because he liked North Carolina. If he had transferred to North Carolina and then Hubert Davis gets fired, is he still stuck or do they go back to looking into that? There's your circumstances can.

[Jay Bilas]

And then are you going to get waivers?

[Matt Jones]

And we're back to the situation where everybody applies for waivers and we know

[Drew]

they weren't good at that in the first place.

[Jay Bilas]

And then what if you go there and the coach does something bad to you? What if you go there and the

[Matt Jones]

coach smacks you in the face? Are you saying he can't leave now?

[Drew]

Four more years stuck.

[Jay Bilas]

So I just don't like, I don't like the rule.

[Matt Jones]

I think they're, you know, John Caliperi, man. Every time he talks about it, the players get older. You know, he used to go, there's 24 year olds playing basketball. Then he's like, there's 25 year olds.

[Jay Bilas]

And then when he was on there with Bill, he goes, There's 28 year olds who is 28 playing basketball.

[Guest Analyst]

He used the same joke with two kids in a mortgage.

[Drew]

I heard it got contentious with Cal and Billis, like I said, because Billis

[Jay Bilas]

was basically calling Cal out for being in Greenberg.

[Matt Jones]

Greenberg was shockingly on Cal side. And they were both like, there has to be rules. There has to be.

[Jay Bilas]

And Billis was like, why?

[Matt Jones]

This is the highest rated tournament of all time. Everyone agrees the quality of play is better than it's ever been.

[Jay Bilas]

Why do we. What is the deal? If you don't want to pay money for these guys, just don't.

[Drew]

Touche.

[Jay Bilas]

You don't have to like you. Nobody's making you.

[Guest Analyst]

Football ratings are up. Basketball ratings are up. The sport is at its highest level.

[Matt Jones]

I saw a great tweet and it was a little political, but I don't care. It showed a picture of Zoran Mandami and it said college basketball coaches and ads, whenever it comes to sports, they all become socialist. They do. They all are like, we got to stop paying these people. We got to collectivize. We got to share the money. We got to make sure players don't like.

[Jay Bilas]

They all become zoron.

[Guest Analyst]

They're going to share their own money.

[Jay Bilas]

No, they are.

[Matt Jones]

No, they're capitalists for themselves, but they're

[Jay Bilas]

socialists for the players. It's just. It's interesting.

[Matt Jones]

All right, we'll take a break, have a little more fun. When we come back. Ksr. Welcome back, techie Sports radio bbn.

[Jay Bilas]

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[Matt Jones]

They'll help you get what you need to heal and get back to things you enjoy. It's court physical therapy. Over 70 locations statewide. Court.com for the best in rehab, it's k o r d dot com. We got to talk about something, Drew, me and you. So last night, neighbors, episode six, you jumped in. You did it. Oh, my goodness.

[Drew]

That's incredible.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I don't know how many people listening to this have. Have gone ahead and bit the bullet and watched the show. I highly recommend episodes one through five. Okay, highly recommend.

[Drew]

Especially two. Two is my favorite.

[Matt Jones]

Which one was two?

[Drew]

The retired guys with the hot tub in the house.

[Matt Jones]

Like the guys with the hot tub in the house? Yeah, the guy that does karate and all that? Yeah, he's. He's good.

[Jay Bilas]

Have you watched them all?

[Guest Analyst]

Watched it all.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so all Right. So we can, the three of us, talk about 1 through 5. Highly recommend crazy people. Really? Petty disputes.

[Drew]

A Backstreet Boy appearance. Who saw that coming?

[Matt Jones]

By the way, there's an update on. There's an update on the Backstreet Boy, so love it.

[Jay Bilas]

Episode six.

[Matt Jones]

Wow. Wow.

[Jay Bilas]

Rick, have you seen Neighbors?

[Matt Jones]

No, I haven't seen that. I haven't checked.

[Jay Bilas]

I want you to rig. Do you have hbo?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, hbo.

[Jay Bilas]

Max, I want you tonight, Rick.

[Matt Jones]

Don't read one thing about it. Just turn on Neighbors and watch episode six only. Okay, I'll do that.

[Jay Bilas]

Will you do that?

[Matt Jones]

Are you here tomorrow?

[Stockton Mortgage Advertiser]

I'm here all week.

[Jay Bilas]

Okay, so just tonight, just watch episode six and then come back and I want your thoughts.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Stockton Mortgage Advertiser]

You're.

[Matt Jones]

Why? Why? You all have your hands in your head.

[Guest Analyst]

Poor Rick.

[Jay Bilas]

Don't you think Rick should see it?

[Guest Analyst]

I don't know. I don't know if I want anybody to see that part of me now.

[Matt Jones]

I really want to see it. See. Okay, so without spoiling it for Rick, because I want to give Rick the chance to watch it. And then we talk details tomorrow. Wow.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Drew]

A lot going on there.

[Guest Analyst]

Wow is a good way to put

[Jay Bilas]

it in the end.

[Matt Jones]

Did you feel sorry for that guy?

[Drew]

I was so happy when he found Community. I thought he was going to stick around. I was. I actually.

[Matt Jones]

What about the woman, though?

[Drew]

Incredible. The music video. I've not stopped singing Shake that, you know, won't say it here. That was a. That was a plot twist I didn't see coming. I thought we were focused on him. And then she brought her own stuff to the door.

[Matt Jones]

She had her own thing going.

[Drew]

And I did get very sad with the constant text messaging, though.

[Matt Jones]

I did, too.

[Drew]

You're not answering me.

[Matt Jones]

I couldn't watch the text. That actually made me the texting. You know how sometimes you just, like. It's so cringy you can't even look at it. That was one of those, what about the Community? Again, speaking broadly here so we don't spoil it for Rick.

[Guest Analyst]

I really didn't realize. I guess there were communities like that that existed where I could see you

[Matt Jones]

living in one of those communities. All I could think about is, there's a world where Ryan Lemon could live here. Did you have that thought?

[Drew]

Absolutely. I could see him rocking that stage at karaoke night.

[Guest Analyst]

I definitely would rock karaoke night.

[Matt Jones]

I am not sure when this show ends. You will not end up at one of those places. I

[Jay Bilas]

will say there are very few

[Matt Jones]

things at this stage of my life that make Me go, whoa.

[Jay Bilas]

But when he got in that cart.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Golf cart. And started driving through that place, that was a. Whoa.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

That was what?

[Jay Bilas]

I wasn't ready. I thought I was ready.

[Matt Jones]

I wasn't ready.

[Drew]

I had been warned so many times to the point, I'm like, I don't even know if I need to watch it. I know so much about it, and I still had to pick my jaw off the floor.

[Jay Bilas]

So, Rick, you take your view tonight. Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. And then we'll talk about it tomorrow.

[Stockton Mortgage Advertiser]

Sounds good to me.

[Guest Analyst]

All you wanted to watch is.

[Matt Jones]

And we won't have to go into details. I want you to also know, Rick, all of us in the KSR world, our prayers are with you, my man. I appreciate that very much.

[Jay Bilas]

And you.

[Matt Jones]

You and I, we don't have to go into it, but like, everybody listening. I hope you know that, Rick. Yes. Okay. I just want to make. We love you, Rick. We love you. All right, so now with that said, Spring of Ellie got a big hit last night.

[Jay Bilas]

Six and three.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah. Swept the Rangers.

[Matt Jones]

Swept the Rangers. A who?

[Jay Bilas]

Hanio.

[Guest Analyst]

Chase. Burns had a big game.

[Jay Bilas]

Burns had a big game.

[Matt Jones]

Used to Summer of Sal.

[Jay Bilas]

Spring of Ellie.

[Matt Jones]

Summer of Sal.

[Guest Analyst]

He's leading candidate to win WIE of the year right now.

[Jay Bilas]

Wookie of the year. He's going to be Wookie of the year.

[Guest Analyst]

Of the year, Sal.

[Matt Jones]

Wow. Somebody needs to make a meme of that.

[Jay Bilas]

Sal Stewart, Wookiee of the year. Just like the Star wars.

[Drew]

That'll be online in 10 minutes.

[T-Mobile Ad Male Voice 2]

Somebody.

[Jay Bilas]

Somebody send that to me. I like Sal Stewart.

[Matt Jones]

Wookie of the year.

[Jay Bilas]

Little speech deer got a big hit.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

So, you know, I'm not giving up yet.

[Drew]

It's just we get this every year. We get the excitement, and then around May, you'll be like, I'm never going again. And then they'll win a series in June and you'll be back.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's how it works. Now can I go ahead and tell you something I'm mad about?

[Guest Analyst]

What's that?

[Matt Jones]

This damn blister.

[Guest Analyst]

Oh, yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

What is with the. We've. We've talked about this. I don't understand this blister. Nick Lodolo's had the same blister for

[Matt Jones]

three years, and he keeps being out and he.

[Jay Bilas]

They're like. They've. The story I read said they've tried every single thing one can do to fix a blister. Have we found out that in the medical profession the only unfixable thing is a finger blister? He can't fix it. He said they've tried rubbing sandpaper on it to get a callus.

[Matt Jones]

It just keeps popping.

[Jay Bilas]

How's that possible?

[Guest Analyst]

I don't get it. Like I said, I played baseball my whole life. Not one time did a pitcher miss a play start because he had a blister. Not ever.

[Jay Bilas]

But this is three years of the

[Drew]

same blister, same guy, three weeks I could understand. It just won't go away. And every time you try something it gets worse.

[Matt Jones]

But three years is ridiculous.

[Jay Bilas]

There have to explain to me.

[Matt Jones]

So a blister is just like irritation from rubbing, right?

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah, over time and time again.

[Jay Bilas]

But does your hand like my feet?

[Matt Jones]

You can get a calluses?

[Jay Bilas]

Yeah, they do. But I have parts of my feet that can't blister because they've calloused up. So if he's been pitching, can your fingers. Not callous.

[Matt Jones]

Exactly.

[Guest Analyst]

He's been pitching the same hand for 20 years.

[Jay Bilas]

You got soft little baby hands.

[Guest Analyst]

Maybe. I don't know what's going on there.

[Jay Bilas]

Do you know? How do you know?

[Drew]

Like I said, I can understand short term why it'd be a problem. But the fact this has spanned multiple seasons. Like what's. What's the next for everything? He struggles. You just got to amputate it.

[Jay Bilas]

Can you put.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Jay Bilas]

Somebody may be able to tell.

[Matt Jones]

Maybe there's a baseball.

[Jay Bilas]

Can I not put a band aid on it?

[Guest Analyst]

Probably not.

[Matt Jones]

Why?

[Guest Analyst]

Nothing on your throwing hand.

[Jay Bilas]

So you can't have.

[Matt Jones]

Where it have a bandaid?

[Guest Analyst]

I don't think so. Considered a foreign substance, foreign object on your throwing hand, in your glove. Nothing like that.

[Jay Bilas]

So you. I didn't realize that. So you couldn't you no band aid.

[Guest Analyst]

Not as your pitcher, not on your throwing hand.

[Jay Bilas]

But what do they think a band aid is going to do?

[Guest Analyst]

Distract the hitter. They'll see that band aid. Okay.

[Jay Bilas]

We'll make it flesh colored.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah, yeah.

[Drew]

He can't use like the blue Snoopy one or anything.

[Jay Bilas]

Yeah, he just has to. He has to use the same as his skin. Still can't do that.

[Guest Analyst]

I don't get it, man. I've never heard a pitcher have this many problems with it. Every now and then maybe one come up for the same guy to happen

[Stockton Mortgage Advertiser]

year after year after year. Something's not right.

[Guest Analyst]

Maybe he got manicures his whole life and he's got little soft little baby hands.

[Matt Jones]

It's infuriating because we could use him because he's good. He's good. He's 6 11.

[Stockton Mortgage Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

All right. They announced during the time I was away that UK has signed a deal with Fanatics. JMI signs a deal for 12 years that allows Fanatics merchandise and 25 players during those 12 years will have their own branded Fanatics merchandise. That's part of Nil deals. What are your thoughts?

[Drew]

I like the idea of players being able to, you know, add another layer to them, go out and get money. I hope it does really well in nil. I don't know why we keep signing these decade long deals in such a time of uncertainty, where the sport changes on a dime any day. But overall I'd say it's positive as long as the players are getting compensated enough to get here.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's my take. It seems positive to me. I don't see the negative in general. I think it seems creative and we

[Drew]

asked for them to do creative things. This would be a creative thing.

[Matt Jones]

I think with all of these deals, ultimately the proof is in do you get players. Right.

[Drew]

So yeah, the idea, because they already have Fanatics deals, you can go get the logo. I guess like a Colin Chandler could have his own line through fanatics now

[Matt Jones]

using the uk and UK is the one that's. So I think the theory is UK goes up to Tyron Stokes and says we're going to create Tyron Stokes branded clothes through fanatics and through that we will give you more money in. I think that's the theory, Ryan, of what it is.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Guest Analyst]

So I just want how they're going to spread it out. Like does UK football, UK basketball. Is Clara Strack get one for UK women's basketball. How do they spread it out?

[Matt Jones]

I think they just figure out who they want.

[Drew]

Biggest names on campus.

[Matt Jones]

Who are the people that we want

[Guest Analyst]

to get 25 guys if you're that 26.

[Matt Jones]

Well, but I would bet if it's working, fanatics probably guaranteed 25. But if it's working then maybe they'll do 50 or you know, I mean, I don't.

[Jay Bilas]

I'm with Drew.

[Matt Jones]

I think it actually sounds like a good idea. The question for me is only, you know, the proof.

[Jay Bilas]

Do you get players or not?

[Matt Jones]

Like that's going to be the whole thing and I. And we'll have to wait and see. We don't really know if you got

[Guest Analyst]

a popular guy like just Trent for example, who came in and everybody loved him in the 13th region. Everybody would want a Trent.

[Matt Jones]

No, I think if you did that with Trent Noah when he first got here, that would have been a great.

[Guest Analyst]

Exactly.

[Matt Jones]

A great idea.

[Jay Bilas]

And I think the good here's the

[Matt Jones]

good thing about this. Like Kentucky branded has done these deals with players.

[Jay Bilas]

But. But now uk, like in theory, a player could create Trent Noah branded merchandise

[Matt Jones]

that has the UK logo and that he could wear in warmups.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Drew]

A counter would be, what if they have a company that they like and want to do deal with and fanatics is like, well, we don't deal with that company.

[Matt Jones]

That's. There you go.

[Drew]

But I.

[Matt Jones]

Details. If you're Tyron Stokes and you already have a deal with a company, will UK let you keep it? We don't really know the answer to that.

[Jay Bilas]

UK has said yes.

[Matt Jones]

But privately you hear conversations that they make it so difficult that the players are like, I don't really think we can do this. So I don't know.

[Jay Bilas]

But that is a very small group

[Matt Jones]

of players that of course like handful of the top basketball recruits.

[Jay Bilas]

Which is why I genuinely do believe

[Matt Jones]

that the JM idea works for football. We just have to see about basketball. And I'm not ready to say yes or no yet, but I did think this was positive. It was a decent step.

[Guest Analyst]

You're saying not for basketball because there's more opportunities for the basketball players out there.

[Jay Bilas]

I think the football guys we're.

[Matt Jones]

We're recruiting, they don't come in here with deals. We're recruiting like the 96th best.

[Jay Bilas]

Like basketball. We're recruiting the top four dudes in

[Matt Jones]

America and they might already have deals.

[Stockton Mortgage Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

Like Tyrone Stokes already has a deal with Nike. Kansas clearly is saying to him, we'll work around it.

[Matt Jones]

My question is, are UK and jmi when the kid has a deal with Adidas, are we willing to work around

[Jay Bilas]

it and we don't know the answer

[Matt Jones]

that we've had some hints that maybe they're not, but we don't really know. That's really the question.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

We close on my house on on Thursday.

[Guest Analyst]

On Thursday. Thursday after.

[Jay Bilas]

Are you ready?

[Matt Jones]

Like, I'm not going to go and show up. And, like you will have moved me to a new house.

[Drew]

Got your paperwork ready?

[Guest Analyst]

We got your repair guy ready. Go in as soon as you close, your pool guy, your fence guy. Everybody's lined up, ready to go as soon as you close.

[Matt Jones]

All right.

[Drew]

And then the housewarming party.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we gotta have a housewarming party.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

First I gotta get furniture. We'll bring furniture.

[Drew]

I'll bring you a stool.

[Matt Jones]

First I gotta get furniture. I was researching interior designers this week. Yeah, that's not a fun research.

[Guest Analyst]

No.

[Drew]

Buckle up on furnishing that place. It's whatever you think it's going to be.

[Matt Jones]

It's going to be more. Yeah, but I don't know how to judge them. People in Lexington seem to have a lot of floral designs on their couches.

[Guest Analyst]

Patterns coming back, not necessarily the manly thing you want.

[Matt Jones]

I don't want those floral designs.

[Jay Bilas]

So it's hard for me to find

[Matt Jones]

who does good designing that doesn't include, like, flowers on the couches.

[Drew]

Well, Mario's gonna design your studio right in the kitchen again.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, Mario doesn't get to do the new one. We'll take a break. Be right back. Scale.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back techie sports radio. 8592-802287-77277-45254 on the text machine. Thank you to the wookiee of the year pictures. Those were good. Yeah, I enjoyed that.

[Drew]

They did not disappoint.

[Matt Jones]

You did very good job. This is still like what I was saying about the good fan base. This is the best fan base. It is this thing. And I will say when I had conversations with ESPN at various points, I got asked by one of the top people at ESPN why do you think your audience is so good? And I said the people of Kentucky are the best. And they were like yeah, yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

And I said no, but I'm serious.

[Matt Jones]

Like they're the nicest people. And one of them goes, even though

[Jay Bilas]

you're a dirty liberal. And I said yes, even more so. Like the fact that they people will overlook those things because they just, they're, they're nice.

[Guest Analyst]

We know most of our people listening are not on your side politically.

[Jay Bilas]

Yeah, I mean, you know, but we all can laugh at the dude at

[Matt Jones]

the Kristi Gnomes husband, can't we?

[Guest Analyst]

Oh my, oh my.

[Matt Jones]

Be fair though. I could see you doing that, too.

[Guest Analyst]

I would do it for Halloween. Dress up. I don't know if I'd walk around.

[Matt Jones]

I can't do. Any ideas? I could see you being on the

[Jay Bilas]

neighbors show, and I could see you

[Matt Jones]

doing that as well. Before we finish, Bill Raftery. He's 82 years old, but he did an interview where he said, I'm actually older than that, but I don't tell people how old I am.

[Guest Analyst]

Really?

[Matt Jones]

Did you see that?

[Guest Analyst]

No.

[Matt Jones]

He said, I'm actually a few years older than that. But we. I don't want to say what it is, really.

[Drew]

So did you, like, forge a bursar?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know.

[Jay Bilas]

Is he, like, one of the Dominican baseball players who. Age is unknown.

[Drew]

He started to lie in the teens, and he just couldn't change it all.

[Matt Jones]

Or could it have been he changed his Facebook age for Tinder when he went to Dallas with Drew?

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

He was traveling to the Final Four,

[Drew]

and he's like, I got to lower my age.

[Matt Jones]

And then they won't let you change it back.

[Drew]

That happens to people.

[Guest Analyst]

I've heard.

[Matt Jones]

I wouldn't know anything about it, but I've heard that that happens.

[Drew]

Yeah. In the college basketball media landscape.

[Matt Jones]

And then 15 years later, you can't change it back, and people think that your Facebook age is younger.

[Drew]

That's got to be what it is.

[Guest Analyst]

Go with it.

[Jay Bilas]

But how about. So let me. So he's 82, and I have said

[Matt Jones]

I think he's amazing at his job for 82, but what if he's actually older than 82 and still that good at his job?

[Jay Bilas]

Pretty impressive, isn't it?

[Guest Analyst]

Super impressive to him to be. If he's mid-80s or higher, he's able to still do that. His call of that Brady Braylon Mullen shot will go down in history. The way he handled it, you know, he's. He's just one of the best.

[Matt Jones]

I think he's awesome.

[Jay Bilas]

I mean, do you like him?

[Drew]

Of course. Yeah.

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[Drew]

When a game starts, you got to hear the minimum before everything.

[Jay Bilas]

It's like, part of. Made that shot.

[Matt Jones]

You know, it looked like he died. And then he goes.

[Jay Bilas]

The audacity. Like, he even uses bigger words. Astounding.

[Guest Analyst]

I love the fact, too, that Ian Eagle shut up and let Rafterty cook there for a minute.

[Matt Jones]

He did.

[Jay Bilas]

So did Grant Hill.

[Guest Analyst]

Yep.

[Jay Bilas]

They both kind of backed off. Let them cook.

[Matt Jones]

That's good stuff.

[Drew]

Most of the lines I think of in college basketball come from Raftery. Onions with the kiss off the glass.

[Jay Bilas]

All of them.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Jay Bilas]

They're all him the lingerie on the deck.

[Matt Jones]

They're great. He's probably the most second most iconic next to vital in history.

[Guest Analyst]

Right?

[Matt Jones]

Vital is going to be number one.

[Jay Bilas]

Yeah. He's probably number two.

[Matt Jones]

Right.

[Guest Analyst]

And then Charles Barkley is probably sneaking up maybe number three.

[Matt Jones]

He's not even a college basketball guy, but he still is. All right. DraftKings you go bet $5. You bet wins. You can get $300 with the code KSR for March Madness. It is DraftKings KSR five bucks to $300 and remember the crown is yours if you have a game pro 1800 game or 18 plus Kentucky only eligibility supply betments will win receive bonus pets exp days minimum required additional turn responsible game resource sea sportsbook.draftkings.com promos Limited time offer Michigan Yukon who you got? Michigan is six and a half point favorite.

[Guest Analyst]

They win, they cover their. They're just on a roll right now. They met not one of the best teams we've seen in forever but one of the funnest to watch.

[Drew]

I wouldn't have said it before the weekend that they would blow out Yukon but what they did to Arizona, I think they're in for another big win tonight.

[Matt Jones]

Give me Yukon. Not necessarily to win, but this guy. They're not getting blown out.

[Guest Analyst]

Was Yaxel playing?

[Matt Jones]

Yes, the both guys are playing solo ball. Great name and Yaxel Both playing but UConn at least covers and it would not shock me if they win. You know my stat about the five

[Jay Bilas]

teams before the tournament. The only time I've ever been wrong are UConn teams. And now there might be another one. Michigan was one of my five. I didn't have UConn but so in the future it may just be these

[Matt Jones]

five teams and UConn.

[Drew]

I mean with the experience they have being there three out of the last four years, I mean that that will weigh in their favor. I mean a lot of the guys are new but they have some guys that played on those teams.

[Matt Jones]

All right, we will be back tomorrow. Neighbors Episode 6 Rick, you got that? Got it. And then we'll talk about the game and a lot more. Good to see you guys.

[Drew]

Welcome back.

[Matt Jones]

And now we go to this meeting. Big meeting today.

[Guest Analyst]

I dressed up.

[Drew]

You did?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Looks. You look great. See you later. That's KSI.

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