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H3 Blair Kerkhoff

30 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of discussion in this episode?

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All Weather Decks is a 24-time Angie Super Service Award recipient and probably helped one of your neighbors. Call All Weather Decks today at 913-206-1974 or go to allweatherdecks.net and mention you heard it right here on 810. Call now and relax. Second half of the program begins right now as we broadcast live at one of our favorite places on earth. That's Family Leisure, K10 or Ridgeview.

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We just gave away the Chiefs package. We had our winner in-house. We're drawing two winners an hour. We just gave away – let me give the whole rundown, the – Let's see. We still got the speakers. We're going to give those away.

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Coming up, we gave away the Chiefs Pool Lake Snow Inflatable Package, including three different kinds of Chiefs floaties, one for, like, inner tubing down the slopes, a couple for the pool, the lake, three inflatable Chiefs pool noodles. As well, a great lake package, great pool package for the Kansas City Chiefs. That's right.

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Here at Family Leisure, we're still going to be giving away more things like the Airhead Rebel Lake Tube. So it's a one-person tube, perfect for tubing at the lake, plus a 60-foot tow rope and air pump included. We've got the Wow Sound Foam.

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floatable bluetooth speaker the wow sound buoy floatable bluetooth speaker uh those are outstanding we had a plan all the way down the way here and you can hear them all the way up here so they got some oomph if you uh win those uh we've got the airhead pongo bongo beverage pong inflatable game the viper 797 electric dartboard and 100 gift card to be used here today

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At Family Leisure, for any of the toys you need, toy and accessories, come on in. It's here in store, so you can win that as well. And that speaker has more than just oomph. It has range, which it isn't just loud. It has a really dynamic range. It sounds fantastic. It's great. You can win that. Plus, anything you buy today before 630, you get an additional 10% off.

Chapter 2: What recent achievements have Kansas college basketball teams accomplished?

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And they're already taking discounts all over the store. Today is the beginning of the final weekend of the Sundance Spa Wellness Sale. Buy a Sundance Spa. Get your choice of a free infrared sauna, free fire pit, or a free love seat set. Plus, they've got great specials going on now on the swimming pools, pool tables, saunas, discounted patio furniture. Love the patio furniture.

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I've got patio furniture that's 22 years old. I purchased it in 2004. Still in use. Still in use. It's great. They do a fantastic job. Great products, whether it's an arcade game you need or family and fun come together. It's right here at K10 in Ridgeview. It's family leisure. Like I said, buy before 630 today. You get an extra 10% off. So that's gone at 630. Such a deal. Poof.

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It's a great deal. Poof. How do you not take advantage of that? I'm going to take advantage of it. I'm not telling the wife because she's always like, don't come back, we're a whole star. That's how my wife sounds, too. You can attest to that, right, Curtis?

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Chapter 3: How are college basketball programs adapting to changes in funding and recruitment?

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Oh, yes. Very gravelly voice. Sounds a lot like me. It's funny. It is funny, yeah.

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177.826 - 190.421 Blair Kerkhoff

You know, as I was driving in today, I was reminded that this is the – all the commerce that's built up around here. So it's all the hotels and restaurants and bars. This is the original.

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This is the only thing that was here back in the day. There's no Olathe without Family Leisure is what I'm saying. This was it between – There's definitely no West Olathe without Family Leisure. Right, right. Showed it was possible, and the Chiefs are just skiing in their wake.

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Between Lenexa and DeSoto, this was it.

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Where the Chiefs practice facility is going to be is right over just a little bit down the road.

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A lot of foresight by these hotels and shops and restaurants and bars to open up.

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Well, and another reason to come down here to K-10 and Ridgeview, they're almost done with it already. You can see it now. No, not even a shovel in the ground. Not even a shovel in the ground. You hear Blair Kirkoff. He's, of course, brought to you by our friends at Art and Frame Warehouse, framekc.com. Find them online at framekc.com. See them in person at 92nd and Metcalf.

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Go to Art and Frame Warehouse online at framekc.com. And our buddy Jack has arrived. It is always great to see Jack. Telling tall tales of a visit to the number seven Jayhawks beatdown of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, right?

Chapter 4: What impact does expanding the NCAA tournament have on college basketball?

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Maybe Oklahoma State as well. And Mizzou.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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All the local rivals. They swept them all. And Brian Haney had the call, so what did it sound like, Curtis? He wants a strikeout. He gets a strikeout. A two-hand whiffer. I don't know. A two-hand whiffer. Thunder whiffer. Well, now you need to listen to his baseball calls so you can add. I think I've heard him do baseball. He did the Royals. Yeah, that's what it was.

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One or two games. Yeah, yeah. A series. He has done a series with the Royals.

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Multi-talented. Yep. Brian Haney. Yep. And a prince.

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Yep. He's all right.

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He's okay. No, he's a great guy. He is absolutely a prince of a guy. He's so nice. When you talk, you're like, are you sure you work in the media? What are you doing in this business? Are you supposed to be a jaded, angry, sour guy like, you know, us?

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I think he rivals you when it comes to framed collectors.

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Oh, he does not rival me.

Chapter 5: How do local teams compare to national favorites in college basketball?

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One of the days, him and his buddies take a trip. to like a big show. And one of these days, I've been offered the opportunity to go. And I'm going to take him up on it one of these days.

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Yeah, yeah. It sounds like a museum that his basement or wherever he keeps it all.

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Yeah, he does. He's impressive, to say the least. I told him once that it was after they won in 22. I got too many people on the payroll right now, though. Got to graduate some out of the payroll, literally. I can't think where we were. It was off the air, I think. And I said, think about this.

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In the history of Kansas basketball, which is pretty rich, two men have called a national championship game win on the radio. You and Bob Davis. Really? Who called the first one? They weren't on in 52? They might have been on, but, I mean, think of the list he's on, though.

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Well.

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To call a national basketball, yeah, even one of three national basketball championship games.

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No, that's rare company to be part of that.

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And to do it at your alma mater is even better.

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Yep. Oh, for sure.

Chapter 6: What challenges do mid-major teams face in the current college basketball landscape?

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Tennis got dropped by a whole bunch of schools a couple of days ago. Yeah, just this week. And, like, Arkansas dropped its men's and women's tennis. Yeah, St. Louis U did, too. Mighty Arkansas, the big SEC. We have so much money. We don't know what to do with it. Oh, my God. It's just unbelievable. Whoa, pig. Love. Yeah. You know? It's rest of tennis, 40, Arkansas, love.

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Would you look at this clown doing the whoa, pig suey? Is that what that is? Arm thing, yeah. Go ahead and do it so Curtis can see how the arm thing goes with the whoa, pig suey. I thought you were having a stroke. Pig suey. Yeah. Wow. Pig suey. Yeah. Pig suey, crazy. I'd find something else.

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That's what kept Dana Altman from coaching there.

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He went, yeah, I'm not doing it. He didn't do it very well when they announced him. And then I was like, no. Is he trying to land a plane? What are you doing? But I will tell you that when you take a tour of Arkansas, the tour begins with, okay, everybody, here we go. And they lead you in how to do that.

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Chapter 7: What insights does Blair Kerkhoff provide on player evaluations in college basketball?

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Guess who didn't participate? Who's got – The entire family? No, no. They felt peer pressure. Not Tubby. I was like, no. Not happening. Not now. Not yet. But, yes, they're quite proud of the Wopik Sui down there. They won't be doing it at tennis matches. They will not be doing it at tennis matches.

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And I bring this up because basically that was coming out at the exact same time that the entire college basketball world was bitching and moaning about the fact that they are going to expand to 76 teams in the men's and women's tournament. And nobody, all they're doing, all I saw on Twitter is,

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And a couple of the different writings I saw was like, I mean, so we're going to get – this means we're going to have Auburn in the tournament, you know. Oh, it's like we would have had this team or that team. Nobody mentioning, huh, I wonder why they're doing this. Because that to me is the story. SEC schools are cutting programs. They're hemorrhaging cash in athletics.

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This is an attempt to generate more revenue. This is an attempt to give more inventory, to sell more commercials, to generate more revenue, to try to get a bigger – deal in the future to have an expanded tournament.

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649.161 - 673.111 Blair Kerkhoff

That's what this is about. In 2031, I think they're going to go back to the... That's when the current basketball NCAA tournament contract expires. You're right. They are going to go back to the... Before that, they'll go back to the negotiating table and try to get a bigger contract. But now they're going to do it with 76, which means we go from the first four to the first 12.

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Is that what they're going to call it? It's going to be... Yeah. There are going to be two days of six games.

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What are they going to call it? It's another one of their – remember when they had the initial round or something?

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I think it's just going to be the opening round.

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Opening round. That's what it is.

Chapter 8: How do recent changes in college sports funding affect team performance?

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It's 12 games. Yeah, yeah. But two batches of six. Oh, okay.

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I thought you were saying six in total.

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714.384 - 736.476 Blair Kerkhoff

Yeah, six in Dayton and six in the second site. Just to do the math, you get 52 teams that don't have to play in the opening round and 24 that do. That's how you get to 76. Which I again say, why aren't we just at 80? Yeah, yeah. It's a better mathematical number. Listen, I read all the things you read this week, and I tried to muster up some anger about it, and I couldn't.

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I mean, I know why they're doing it. They're doing it because it can generate more revenue. They're doing it because there's a tournament in Vegas that's getting teams to play. Yeah. Right? The NIT. I heard someone say, well, why don't they do it, and then maybe they could call it the National Invitational Tournament. It'd be like the NIT. No, they did that, and that doesn't generate the revenue.

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When it's the NCAA tournament, when it's for all the marbles, people will watch. And for all the people that are upset about it, don't watch.

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Yeah, yeah. And look, maybe they won't. Maybe for a lot of people the tournament will start when it gets to 64 on that Thursday of that week. And that's fine.

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They'll come around at some point.

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They will. Watch, don't watch. I don't care. But this is – I just didn't have enough anger in me to care as much as I see other people care.

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Yeah.

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