This is Interrupted by Matt Jones on News Radio 840, WHAS.

Now here's Matt Jones.

All right, it is episode 23 of Interrupted by Matt Jones, presented by Cornbread Hemp.

This is the Good Life, and we are now happy to be joined by somebody I have known for a long time.

Probably going back now almost 20 years, he's been everywhere from Fox Sports to ESPN to now

field of 68, probably soon to be field of 72 on and on three sports, Jeff Goodman. Jeff, it's very nice to have you to talk a little college basketball.

Likewise, Matt.

Likewise, it's been too long doing this together on air.

We had a chance to have breakfast, lunch, whatever we did last year in Lexington, which was long overdue.

It is, and I want to talk to you a little bit about sort of your history and relationship

with UK and even with yours truly at some point. But let's just start with this. I want to use

this kind of as a college basketball talk preview for the season.

And I'll start with this.

I don't know if you agree or not, but I actually think college basketball is in a really

good spot.

I think NIL, while it has had negatives for football especially, I actually think it's been

a net positive for basketball, and the sport

is in a much better spot than it was, say, 10 years ago in terms of fan interest, etc. Do you

agree or disagree with that statement? Yeah, probably fan interests, probably yes. I don't know if it

means that the sport is in a better place than it is now.

You know, I think the hard part for me is still, you know, while kids are getting paid and for some that it's awesome,

you know, I think you've got these rosters that are turning over at such a rate that, you know, frankly, the quality

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