2025-12-05- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Friday, December the fifth.

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Speaker 2: I've met Jones on.

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Speaker 2: That is a love seat. I love it.

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Speaker 2: A lot of friends here.

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Speaker 3: We've got Judge Gabe over there, Kent Bull who hits the ball golf ball farther than any person that I know. Uh, we've got Mema here. We got all kinds of good folks and glad to be Glad to be here today.

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Speaker 6: That's a brilliant idea.

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Speaker 7: I knew that was gonna get him excited. I'm surprised he's here doing the show with us, with all these mattresses laying around right behind us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Suzanne is here. Nice to see you in the gear. So everybody's here, Shannon. We've got all kinds of stuff going.

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Speaker 4: We got Christmas cards, we got cookies, and we got couches.

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Speaker 6: What else do you need?

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Speaker 2: So if you're in the Glasgow area, come on out.

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Speaker 3: I was almost late because they what's the road they've shut down out there, Highway ninety.

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Speaker 2: You know, give yourself time.

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Speaker 3: I set for about fifteen minutes, did not think I was gonna make it, but got here in just in time.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of stuff to get to.

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Speaker 3: This is a big day, big weekend for UK sports, including a game in Nashville, volleyball, et cetera. But I actually think the biggest news has nothing to do with UK sports. I'm gonna step to the side and let my co host Drew Franklin speak here for a second.

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Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, a little wanting na na here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got some breaking news, so let's go breaking news ring.

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Speaker 7: All right, all right, wife Abby is here. We are on our way to Nashville, and we want to share with everyone that we are expecting a baby girl for my girl, dad Era. I will take any tips that you guys fellas have out there that have girls, but we.

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Speaker 2: Can sit on this gi me.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we've been sitting on this secret for a while. But heading to Nashville, I think it's gonna be hard to keep that secret any longer. So we're going let it out and let everybody know. And we're very excited do masters Sunday, baby girl.

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Speaker 3: After twenty years of well after fifteen years of Kentucky Sports Radio on the radio, this is.

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Speaker 2: The first KSR.

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Speaker 3: Child, Ryan Lemon coming and very excited for Drew. He told us a while back, but the announcement public today and we're proud of him.

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Speaker 2: I almost feel like a proud uncle. I had texted or tweeted.

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Speaker 3: On his or I'm gonna get it right, put a comment on gram where I said have a nice baby, because that's all I know.

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Speaker 2: How to say.

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Speaker 7: But we got a good laugh out of that.

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Speaker 5: So Ryan, I know you're happy to super excited for Drew and Abbey. I mean this is awesome and we all become uncles. You know, we're all gonna take ownership in this little girl. Ryan is a good name for a girl as well as.

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Speaker 2: A boy that don't do that.

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Speaker 8: Ryan Franklin has a nice ring to just saying Shannon could go either way to call it ks baby for right now?

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Speaker 7: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we her at remotes and you always have the memory of you announced it to the world at the Ashley Furniture outlet in Glasgow.

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Speaker 7: I couldn't think of a more special place Glasgow. We have a lot of good friends here. We like furniture. Maybe we'll go with the name Ashley, who knows?

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Speaker 2: Just kidding? That would be perfect timing.

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Speaker 4: And I all.

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Speaker 3: Know what kind of what kind of rockers you all gotta be already h Yes, by the way, Ashley Furniture in Glasgow and Somerset Drew.

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Speaker 2: I'm very proud of you and excited. When when is it due?

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Speaker 7: Master Sunday? If you hand him the calendar and said pick a date, that's probably the one I would have circled.

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Speaker 4: Do you plan that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: God, I mean it's right after we win number nine. I'll have a week to get back from Indianapolis. Just sit and watch golf all weekend. Yeah, you're not allowed.

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Speaker 3: To have it the weekend before, so you're gonna have to make sure it is that weekend.

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Speaker 7: Well, you all will make great babysitters. I'm really looking forward to her first road trip will be next year. Wherever we're going. I'm just she'll be tacking along.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I would be a great babysitter. Well, it is exciting. So that's part of a big day of news.

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Speaker 3: Let's go through just a little catch up for people who haven't who haven't followed it. All right, So the good news. UK volleyball won its first round of the NCAA tournament. You can clap for the Apps as they beat Wofford last night in a fairly easy match. They will play tonight at seven o'clock against UCLA. So that game will be I think it might even be on regular television, but it will certainly be on on the computer. But UK will play UCLA. Now, the game technically starts at seven, but actually we'll start thirty minutes after whatever the game was before, so it could be as early as six point thirty they said so, but either way, it is tonight and we will have it at the bar along with the basketball game. But the UK volleyball team wins their first game tonight. They are a favorite, but that this is a game they could lose if they don't play well. UCLA has been very good in years past, So that's tonight. The basketball team, of course, is on their way. They play Gonzaga seven o'clock tonight in Nashville in a game that's nerve racking to say the least. Hopefully, hopefully we get it done we need it. And then the football there's a lot of news with UK has basically announced, well they haven't announced officially, but we know their offensive coordinator is gonna be a guy named Joe Sloan. They are going to.

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Speaker 2: Steal Louisville's head recruiting coordinator. The head recruiting coordinator for.

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Speaker 3: Louisville football, Pete Nachta, is coming to Kentucky to be the head recruiting coordinator at Kentucky Football in what I think is a very surprising move.

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Speaker 2: And there are some recruits.

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Speaker 3: That Kentucky may be getting at the last minute that they could pull today. All that is news. Which of those Drew do you think is the most important.

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Speaker 7: I'm kind of gonna leave with Pete Nocta. Okay, let's talk about it a little more Louisville influence to the staff.

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Speaker 3: So for people who don't know, Pete Nocta is the guy who basically is in charge of Louisville recruiting. Vince is kind of a head recruiter in terms of he would Kentucky and Ohio. But Pete Nocta is essentially Louisville's for lack of a better term, GM. It's the head of recruiting. Now we have a GM, but he's going to be the head of recruiting at Kentucky. I would meant I don't know a lot about you know, who he got, who his players are.

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Speaker 2: I don't really know about his ability to recruit.

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Speaker 3: I do know this, people at Louisville loving, I mean loving, especially the people that are kind of engaged with the pro They've talked about him. One of them tweeted out yesterday he can go anywhere he wants, he better not go to Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: And then he went to Kentucky. Uh.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what impact it'll have, but I do also say, you know what they take Vince, We'll take this guy, Ryan, What.

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Speaker 6: Do you think I can talk a lot about Pete Knocked.

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Speaker 2: I've known it.

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Speaker 5: He was like five years old. His dad is a long Yeah really yeah. His dad is a long time high school football coach in Lexington. Pete grew up a running the sidelines with a ball boy in these dad's games. We were covering the games at Brian Station. A super super guy had a real bad health scare several years ago, and he's conquered that.

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Speaker 2: But you're right.

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Speaker 5: People love him and that's why they've done well in recruiting because because he's just that guy you liked.

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Speaker 2: What did you think when you heard he was coming?

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Speaker 5: I was super excited. I kind of came out of nowhere for me. But like I said, I've been a Pete Knocka fan for a long time. He and I text, We even text once in a while.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Scoop back, Yeah, Scoopy about the scoop something for us?

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, See, I didn't even know you had that connection. Continuing this theme, though, Shannon of guys from Kentucky with Kentucky connections, I mean, this is going to be a football staff. I mean, Justin Burk is from Kentucky will Stein, Pete Knachta.

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Speaker 2: I mean they are assembling a crew of people who grew up in this state and where Kentucky fans growing up.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 8: Let's keep the guys here home. And I think you're right. You know they got vents. Now we took two of theirs, We'll get two for one. Everyone that you take from us, we'll take two of yours.

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Speaker 7: I don't know Pete like Ryan does, but a lot of my friends grew up with him, and they've talked highly of him since I was hating on Louisville ten years ago. Also, he's been there forever. He's gone through multiple coaches and they've kept under around, So how much of means. But even though I don't know him personally, I mean, as you all said, everyone loves the guy and speaks holly of him.

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Speaker 3: Now, I do think it's interesting. Vince Merrow tweeted out yesterday. I initially thought it was in response to our will Stein interview, because Shannon will Stein said something to the effect of We're gonna lot own the state of Kentucky and then go into Ohio. And then Vince was like, good luck getting Kentucky and Ohio that you know that's us or whatever. But now I kind of wonder if maybe he was learning the Pete Nocton news too. I'm not sure he was. He was a salty big dog yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: I want to see some of this back and forth. You know, Vince Merrill tweeting during games was sort of a boss move. But I think we've got a good rivalry going on between will Stein and now Vince Merrill Loisville.

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Speaker 3: They also end up taking an offensive coordinator named Joe Sloane. He comes from uhhere, where's he come from? East Carolina? He was at LSU. When he was at LSU, he did coach Jadon Daniels, who ended up in the NFL and obviously had a great year. He was part of this year's team that did not do very well. It's interesting will Stein says he will not call plays, meaning will Stein, this guy will but I'm sure he'll have impact on it.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about that higher?

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Speaker 6: That's the I love the high.

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Speaker 5: That is the most interesting thing for me that will Stein's been this creative play caller. That's how he made a name for himself at Oregon. And he's going to hand it over to this guy, Joe Slncel. He must truly trust this guy to hand over all those play countabilities that he's been so successful at.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure I'll have a role in a dude who's such I can't imagine.

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Speaker 2: He just says, yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna give my opinion. I don't think it will be like that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And he kind of said as much. He said, I'm not gonna be in the headset, you know, having the conversation sending in the plays. But I will have a big uh saying what is actually being called even though he's not actually calling it.

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Speaker 2: Show him make five died two eighth, twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 3: All of this, though, I mean, ultimately we will find out Shannon on the field.

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Speaker 2: What what will end up happening.

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Speaker 3: But all of this is kind of just trying together momentum, right, Like I mean, this is ultimately injecting excitement bringing in these names. I mean, there's some tall I don't know if they're gonna get this kid from Louisiana this receiver today, but he was an LSU commitment. I think four knocked or excuse me, four Joe Sloan when he was there that kid might end up flipping to us. That would be one of the bigger receiver commits we've gotten in years. I think it's all just about kind of re energizing the fan.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, a lot of excitement right now. You know, we talked about Mark Pope when he came here. He won the press conference. I felt the same way about Will Stein just a couple of days ago at his press conference as well. So, you know, bringing in a guy who the last couple of years at LSU averaged four hundred yards of offense every game. I mean, that's you know, you look at the numbers. That's something to get excited about.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: You guys are not like in the thick of UK Louisville, but there are Louisville fans here in Glasgow because I've fought with them on your golf courses for one here, Oh oh you got one, Jess hand Hey, Well, you know, everybody's got their weaknesses. But I do think I mean, taking their former quarterback. Two Trinity guys are the head coaches. They have Vince, we now have their recruiting director Ryan. I mean in terms of on the football side, you know, the two basketball coaches might be nice and like each other. But you gotta think on the football side, this is the spiciest this rivalry he's been in a while, wouldn't you think.

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Speaker 5: I think there's no doubt about it, especially now with will Stein being our coach. I mean, you know, Jeff Bromp says some great things about will Stein. Will Stein Sen's some great things about Jeff Brown. But you know they want to go at it, man, with these Trinity guys. The Trity of Mafia finally gets to come invade our our stadium for a change, and I've been looking forward to how it plays out.

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Speaker 7: And more more so on their end, they'll probably turn down the hatred just a little bit because you know, they love getting their shots off at UK, just like we fire back at them. But they really love that guy. So I don't think there's.

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Speaker 3: Those guys if you if you ask Louisville fans. I was talking to a buddy of mine, actually my accountant yesterday who's a huge Louisville fan, and he said will Stein was his favorite player, Everett at will just because he how much he he loved the guy, how interesting he was, et cetera. I mean, like literally we haven't just taken there, We've taken it would be the equivalent.

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Speaker 2: I think what the equivalent is. I mean it would be I don't want to make the exact.

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Speaker 3: Analogy because because this guy was a lot better than will Stein was for Louisville, but it would be like Shannon, if Jared Lorenzen went and coached at Louisville or something, people would go nuts.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's a little bit of that.

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Speaker 8: The whole day kind of feels like a fever dream. I still can't get over the fact that Vince Merrill was at Louisville. It just still feels weird even this you know, this time that's past. But yeah, and then who would have thought that we would have had a former Louisville quarterback as our head coach.

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Speaker 3: And I love Vince Merrill, but we told him Drew, if he went, what did is he become from big dog to what to a little dog? That's just what it is, because you went to Louisville and that's.

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Speaker 2: Where we are right now.

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Speaker 7: We'll mention this yesterday, but at the Big press conference a couple of days ago, Steven sent me a picture from the back and I didn't know all the guys in the photo, but apparently with some old Louisville receivers that were there wearing blue some like some actual people that played for Louisville. They didn't have the emblem, but they're wearing blue shirts. They're supporting will Stein at the press conference.

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Speaker 2: So you gotta love it.

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Speaker 7: Weird seeing that.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back.

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Speaker 7: Here and Ashley your furniture.

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Speaker 2: That was the joke, Ashley furniture. I'm with you. I expected more from you on that if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. It was a dad joke. It was a good joke.

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Speaker 3: Seven seven seven four five two five four. Let's talk just a second about basketball before we go the phones. Kentucky playing at against Gonzaga today. This is a big game for me regardless. I mean, we need this one. Got some good news yesterday that Jalen Lowe is going to UH is gonna be coming back at some point. We don't know if he's coming back today, but he will come back. For me, that is huge news, right because I mean, I don't mean to be pessimistic, but I feel like if we didn't have Jalen low I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know if we're gonna be good this year. Now.

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Speaker 3: I'm not certain we're gonna be good with him, but I know we're gonna be better than we'd be otherwise.

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Speaker 2: Let's skip let's skip today for a second.

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Speaker 3: Do you agree with me that that's major news even though he could get hurt again, that at least he's gonna give it a try.

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Speaker 5: I think he is the answer for a lot of the offensive woes that this team is having problems with, just being that point guard out there, that leader, and that moves Aberdeen to his natural position of off the ball a little bit. I think a lot of things can a lot of problems can be solved with Jalen Low coming back.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he'll get the offense moving. I don't know if we'll see him tonight, and I hope we do because we know how desperate it's getting already this earlier in the season. But I was someone when the news broke. I didn't in my brain, I didn't expect him. I just didn't know what either. I thought for him and his future, it might be better not to play. So I'm thrilled that he's going through with it. Whenever we get to see him, and the sooner the better because he won't solve all the team's problems, but it'll get that offense moving because it's just completely big flat without him.

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Speaker 8: Huge news that he's gonna give it a try. You know, people like to question players toughness. I like that he's actually trying to come back, and when he does, I think it's gonna make the offense go because whatever lineup we had last game against the North Carolina is not it the best this team.

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Speaker 2: Has looked against the team all year. That was decent.

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Speaker 3: It was about a fifteen minute stretch with Jayon Lowe in the second half and everybody I know people remember the turnover at the end, missing the free throws, but he took us from twenty four points down to it was a one possession game on the road, and since then, our offense has.

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Speaker 2: Yet to look good in one of these games.

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Speaker 3: I don't think our offense looked good one minute against Michigan State, and I don't really think it looked good against North Carolina, even though we had a chance to win the game.

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Speaker 2: So I think that's huge. Now, on the other side.

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Speaker 3: Modiabate has a high ankle spring. They're saying that's usually a four to seven week injury. He's been out two, so I think you got to assume he does not play until we maybe get to SEC play.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a tough injury for Kentucky two.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's debilitating, especially against the teams we're gonna be playing. It may hurt us against Gonzaga, but not so much. Maybe against Indiana and Saint John's and then you get him back for SEC play.

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Speaker 2: But it is a bummer.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you were Mark Pope and you started the season and you go, Okay, who are the most who are the most talented guys on your roster? Here's a decent chance that Kentucky has been without is now out without three of the four. Sure, Jayleen, Lom, Diabate and Jade Quaints. At least he's gonna get one back, but now you're losing another one. Mark Pope and injuries have just been a terrible combination.

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Speaker 2: The last couple of years.

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Speaker 5: You're right, Tonight's game is the reason Mark Pope went out and got Mohammed Diabate. I mean that e K dude and Huff. I mean these are guys that destroyed us. He needed a guy like diabatee. They need him tonight, They need that the game.

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Speaker 2: This is a game they could really use him to night.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Gonzaga's got that e K guy, Like that's who we'd put on him, like it's gonna be tonight is a night we could really use him, but we're not gonna have him.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Gonzaga has got some size that's one of their strengths. They have a lot of strenks, and really Kentucky just as a team lacks toughness and physicality, and he's like the guy, He's the dog on the team with him not out there. It just really shows just from their how they play and their identity.

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Speaker 3: So we have I mean, are any of you going to the game tonight? I mean we're on your path, you going, There's a haym full of people, So.

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Speaker 4: Any chance we win, I mean there's always a chance.

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Speaker 2: Right. What's the spread?

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Speaker 4: Three?

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Speaker 7: It moved quickly.

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Speaker 2: It's only three.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I was shocked. It's already up to six and a half. Fun out o it is three when at earlier.

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Speaker 3: Thought I mean honestly, I thought it was gonna be like eight or not three. That Vegas likes us for some reason.

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Speaker 7: I put it out on Twitter when it came out, and all of my replies are Kentucky fans saying they're betting on Gonzaga, which isn't exciting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how we won the game last year. Weren't we down like by twenty at halftime or something. Cresa got hurt and like it was like it seemed like it was falling apart. K was destroying us last year, and when that's what a Mario Williams in there, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I just don't gonna be a problem again tonight.

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Speaker 2: He is. I feel like he owned us in Repara. I feel like he's playing for ten years.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he had that huge game against US at Reparena, and he had a big game against US last year against Seattle in Seattle. I feel like we've been going against him for forever. He's he's gonna be tough, but I mean bigger picture. So I really haven't gotten to talk a lot about the North Carolina game. I was so disappointed in that game, like that's the game that has you know, Michigan State is pretty good and Louisville's pretty good despite what happened in Arkansas, but I don't think North Carolina's good.

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Speaker 2: And that game is.

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Speaker 3: At home and we look so discombobulated on offense, and I I mean, I want to I hope it gets better. I want to say it will, but I don't know. Drew, we we can't shoot. We have like two guys that can beat people off the dribble.

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Speaker 2: Like what effort.

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Speaker 8: That was a big problem too. I mean they got crushed on the board center What I mean.

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Speaker 3: What is the thing to make me go, all right, this is gonna get better. Besides Jalen Low coming back.

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Speaker 7: I don't mean to be down, and there's really nothing right now. We just have to hope they flip a switch and figure it out in a hurry. I mean they've only had a couple of days to practice since then. But it was equally disappointing that the defense was so good. Caleb Wilson is the star yellowch actually defended him really well. He didn't even beat you. You beat yourselves by not being able to score at all. Helped him to Like we lost.

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Speaker 3: To North Carolina's B players. We actually held Caleb Wilson. I would have dropped him a couple of spots in the draft based on how Yellovich guarded he. But then you got a guy who was the guy that made the winning shot, Dixon of Dixon, like he hadn't done ayth he had the last five points.

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Speaker 4: Then you gotta take more than thirteen threes too. That's all they took in that.

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Speaker 6: North Bred garrison to take more threes he's only got hit one.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know you. I want to take more than third before, only gonna.

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Speaker 4: Make one and let him do his thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see, all right, we'll take a break, try to be a little happier.

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Speaker 2: We are here at Ashley Fire to.

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Speaker 3: Trade five nine, two eighty seven And this is KZ of Quarterback Tackie Sport Radio Kentucky and Zach Gonzaga seven o'clock tonight. Pregame show will be at four thirty. We'll have all the we'll have both games at the bar. I hope you'll come and join us. We have a football team there. Last night Raceland. We're gonna preview the high school games later with our high school expert here.

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Speaker 2: Some good ones.

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Speaker 3: Actually, there's a preyer four that could be real battles this week this weekend.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Racelin Rams came in last night. They've been to the state finals like three of the last four years and still looking for their first titles.

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Speaker 2: That game's at noon. It's on Prep Spin.

00:23:33
Speaker 3: If you that'll be a great game Raceland and LCA, that'll be that should be a battle.

00:23:38
Speaker 5: They race a Kentucky Country day, same thing. LCA plays two a against Owensborough Catholic.

00:23:44
Speaker 3: Consider all those schools, Shannon, the same l and Christian Academy. You're essentially the same school. One person on a text machine, rights, Matt. This basketball team's play is a reflection of their dress. They're sloppy, half their jerseys untucked, and they wear different colored shoes. They look like a bunch of dudes in a pickup game rather than a blue blood college team. I think most teams now are wearing different shoes. I didn't notice they do go with their jerseys untucked a lot. I mean, I don't like I don't like tucking things in, so I'm not gonna criticize them, but usually they don't let them do that.

00:24:20
Speaker 2: And I did notice, Drew actually that we do go jersey untucked a lot. The shoes.

00:24:24
Speaker 7: I don't think that's gonna change, but I guess we could present ourselves a little better with the tucked in jerseys. I don't do we want to be like the Yankees, though, And everybody's got to look the same, and you can't have certain facial hair.

00:24:35
Speaker 2: No.

00:24:36
Speaker 7: But but I will.

00:24:38
Speaker 3: Say, I don't I don't you know, I don't know, But Shannon, it does not look to me like the team likes each other.

00:24:46
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that. Yeah, I mean, it just doesn't like you, just little thing. Except for when walker Horn made.

00:24:53
Speaker 4: That through everybody united over there, I just haven't.

00:24:56
Speaker 3: I feel like there hasn't been a moment where it looks like these guys are are there are fans of spending time with each other.

00:25:02
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's almost clearly some on court chemistry, as we've heard from I think Travis Ford said that. But if there is off the court chemistry issues, that's a bigger issue in its own.

00:25:12
Speaker 2: Like that, that's a hard thing to overcome.

00:25:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is.

00:25:14
Speaker 3: You better have all if you're gonna be if we've had something, We've had a one team at Kentucky that I don't know that they were the closest group in the world.

00:25:23
Speaker 4: The group that had to go bowling together was that the year.

00:25:26
Speaker 3: No, I mean, I'm not gonna say which one it was because they're I don't want to say which one it was. But there was a group that was a really good team. But they didn't love each other. But they were standing so much talent that it didn't really matter, Like they like, it didn't really matter because they were they had so much talent, but they struggled a little bit through the year and then kind of came together.

00:25:49
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what this group has. We'll wait and see who's up first. Paul is up first, Paul, go ahead.

00:25:54
Speaker 9: Paul, Hey, thanks for taking my call first time on here.

00:26:00
Speaker 10: But who my question is? Yeah, I'm excited about our football coach, but my questions about the offensive coordinator. Joe Sloan from LSU. LSU had a pretty bad year. Their offense couldn't put up points. Nussmyer ended up losing the starting quarterback job, So I'm curious how that's going to play out at Kentucky, where our offense seems to have a history of going east and west when we should be going north and south. What are your thoughts on the offensive coordinator?

00:26:29
Speaker 2: Higher?

00:26:29
Speaker 3: Well, I mean what I would say is the year before, two years before, they had a really good offense, so you know, I mean it didn't work out. I wasn't there to know how much is Joe Sloan's fault or not, but I think you'd struggle to find an offensive coordinator that's never had a bad year. I know he's had a lot of other good seasons. I know, he produced a quarterback that ended up being the number one overall draft pick, So overall.

00:26:56
Speaker 2: One bad season.

00:26:58
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the amount you know you you could say that about a lot of people, but I would say our head coach is one of the best offensive minds in the country. He chose this guy, Ryan, I think you got to give him some leeway to go.

00:27:11
Speaker 2: All right, That's the way I'll take it.

00:27:13
Speaker 5: When you're head coach coach bo Nick Dylan Gabriel and he's got a number one draft pick in at Oregon right now, and this guy coaching, Jaydon Daniels, I mean, yeah, how.

00:27:23
Speaker 6: Good are we set up for our offense?

00:27:24
Speaker 2: Man?

00:27:25
Speaker 6: I just gotta find the right pieces to plug into. I totally trust those two guys.

00:27:29
Speaker 3: I generally speaking, take this few with assistant coaches Drew when I'm not even seen the head coach. I remember this when Mark Stoops was assembling his staff, I'm gonna give him.

00:27:38
Speaker 2: His first staff.

00:27:39
Speaker 3: I'm won't give him whoever he wants, right like who without critic criticism?

00:27:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, whoever you want?

00:27:45
Speaker 3: Like this is your first time coaching, you know these people better than I do. I did not know this dude's name before yesterday. So yeah, maybe he didn't have a great year at LSU. But if our new coach wants, he gets to assemble his first staff.

00:28:01
Speaker 2: In my view, without criticism. Do you agree with that?

00:28:04
Speaker 7: Yeah, I completely agree. And LSU just had problems overall. We don't know what kind of impact he had. I know some of their fans are kind of mocking Kentucky on Twitter right now, but that could have been nuss Meyer wasn't good. We know Kelly was a disaster. That could have been the whole operation this past season. I'm willing to to you know, let as you said, let what do you call it shop for their own groceries. We'll let will Stein do that and we'll judge how it looks after the first year.

00:28:26
Speaker 3: And also different between what LSU expects and what Kentucky expects right out the gates, that would be my fault.

00:28:35
Speaker 7: They did take our offensive line coach.

00:28:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, okay, you know what, that's a really good point. Yeah, are you still there, sir?

00:28:43
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm here.

00:28:43
Speaker 2: Did you like Will Wolford as our offensive line coach?

00:28:49
Speaker 9: I mean, we've had a pretty good running game in the past, so yeah, I thought.

00:28:52
Speaker 2: He did, Okay, but he wasn't here for that.

00:28:55
Speaker 3: Like we've had terrible offensive lines two of the last three years. I mean, my guess is you are not a fan of.

00:29:00
Speaker 2: His or am I wrong?

00:29:03
Speaker 9: No, that's pretty accurate.

00:29:05
Speaker 3: Okay, Lsu just took him. Is Lsu stupid? Lane Kiffin just took him? Is he stupid?

00:29:11
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:29:12
Speaker 9: I mean you make a pretty good point. You make, Okay, good point. I'm optimistic about it. I'm a little sad to hear the news coming out from BBN about Mark Pope. A lot of people saying he's on the hot.

00:29:21
Speaker 10: Seat already, but we haven't had a healthy roster all year.

00:29:24
Speaker 3: And yeah, nobody, I mean nobody, he's not on the hot Yeah, I appreciate the call. Yeah you switch, you're switching to a just something else negative. He's not on the hot seat. But back to back to Sloan. We'll see what happens. But I feel I'm gonna feel confident until it not right.

00:29:40
Speaker 7: And Stein's the best offensive play caller in the country. Everybody wanted him, you know, everybody wants to coach with Will Stein. I think even though he's as he said, I'm not actually sending into plays. My footprint is gonna be all over it. So I'd say he's still gonna be and everybody wants to coach with Willstein.

00:29:54
Speaker 2: I love that confidence, right, yeah, yes, I agree.

00:29:58
Speaker 3: There'd be a couple of lines people will remember. Remember it was just a couple of weeks ago. Mark Pope said in the press conference, this team will not fail.

00:30:04
Speaker 4: Uh huh, Well, how's that working out for you?

00:30:06
Speaker 2: Well, caes is not over.

00:30:07
Speaker 4: Who's next?

00:30:09
Speaker 7: Big Don?

00:30:09
Speaker 2: Is next? Big Don? How are you? Hey?

00:30:13
Speaker 11: Boys?

00:30:14
Speaker 4: What's going on?

00:30:14
Speaker 11: It's Big Dom?

00:30:17
Speaker 2: All right? Appreciate the call.

00:30:19
Speaker 3: I think, Rick, you're gonna have to listen to whether it's Don or there's another letter after it, because I think maybe he had another letter after it.

00:30:28
Speaker 8: Rick, Okay, well that was the guy that called the postgame show the other night.

00:30:33
Speaker 7: He was very emotional after the game, yes night.

00:30:36
Speaker 2: Was that a real caller? Yeah? Yeah, oh okay, my bad.

00:30:39
Speaker 7: You had a great postgame.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: Don called back if if he if he's called before, If you're listening, my fault, I thought you said something else.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: Call back.

00:30:47
Speaker 3: Who's next? We'll take your call. Rick, if he calls, will put him on immediately. Go ahead, Who's next?

00:30:52
Speaker 2: Evan is next. Evan, Go ahead, Evan, Matt.

00:30:57
Speaker 11: I'm on my way to Nashville right now. I'm a bet student at all Alburn, and I'm going to be very upset if I drive up here to watch our best players play twenty three or twenty four minutes a game and stand there and watch Brandon Garrison get taken advantage of by grahamy kay, and watch rebounds go right over his head. I do not know. Hope is going to have to get his minutes figured out, and I know he doesn't have any options, but you cannot play Brandon Garrison more than more than seven or eight minutes a game.

00:31:23
Speaker 3: This got lost, and I appreciate the call, Ryan. It got lost in the what happened the rest of the game. But I will note, because I was following along some money ESPN. We started out really hot against North Carolina, right Yeah, it's ten to four, crowd's going crazy, and what do we do? Mass substitution, mass substitution, and then all of a sudden, it's thirteen to ten North Carolina. I don't care what Mark so Pope says about analytics. I've watched for two years. These teams start fast, mass substitution turns around. Happened against It happened against Louisville on the road. People forget we had a lead in that game off the start. It happened in like seven or eight games last year. I don't know why insists on doing that. Why why do we mass substitute right at the beginning of the game. It has never worked.

00:32:21
Speaker 5: And you know, the second half of the game, he didn't substitute at all. He ran with those five guys, So he kind of flipped Floffy's philosophy.

00:32:27
Speaker 6: You've heard him.

00:32:27
Speaker 5: Say he wants to get those guys off the bench in case he needs them late in the game, and he wants to save some legs from his starters case he needs him late.

00:32:33
Speaker 2: But do we really think that if he brings one in Shannon or two that at the end of game, the guy are.

00:32:40
Speaker 3: All gonna collapse. I mean, I can't imagine that's true.

00:32:43
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so.

00:32:44
Speaker 8: The other thing is about, you know, these guys being tired after playing so many minutes. They're playing twenty minutes and we're talking about Yellowvins being tired.

00:32:51
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Ryan makes a good point, Drew, he played those guys the whole second half. I feel like that would make a bigger difference in being tired than the second set of the first half.

00:33:01
Speaker 7: And they were hot, like you, you just turned it off like they were rolling. Who knows what they could have gone up by it, and it's like, no seen enough from them, up ten four, Let's put in the next round. But the leave aside, just the one off the subbing at the other half. When he says they're tired of fatigue, I do not understand it because they're guys all over the country playing thirty something minutes a game, and our guys are in the hot twenties and he's talking about fatigue.

00:33:23
Speaker 8: You think when Pope was a player, any of those guys were tired. Rick was running their ass off in practice. Those guys weren't tired. I say something to that, Yeah, yeah, I agree.

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00:34:11
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00:34:11
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00:34:15
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00:35:02
Speaker 2: He's over there sweeping. He literally his fee.

00:35:05
Speaker 3: For coming here just got He now is going to owe Ashley Furniture money for this trip.

00:35:10
Speaker 8: Send the build a iHeartRadio, Send the build of Billy Rutley. You can't take this guy anywhere. He hasn't even had a mimosa yet. He's breaking stuff.

00:35:17
Speaker 3: And then I look, David said did you break that lamp? And he waved me off and said no. And now there's a picture of him looking at a shattered lamb.

00:35:25
Speaker 4: He's so stressed out right now look at him. You can see it.

00:35:28
Speaker 2: How do you break a lamb in a furniture store.

00:35:31
Speaker 7: I like, we just heard a loud shattered glass and we look up and there's a Billy. All these people that it could have been, None of the listeners did it. It was our own.

00:35:39
Speaker 3: And he also did it in that far corner where there would be no reason to uh yeah. So to the Ashley Furniture people, I'm very sorry, and to our rep who sold this uh please apologize profusely on behalf of us for letting Billy out of the house.

00:35:55
Speaker 2: Look at it.

00:35:55
Speaker 6: He's stressing out about it right now.

00:35:59
Speaker 4: Take him over to the mat is where he can't break anything.

00:36:01
Speaker 8: Lay down on one of those taken out Billy taking to collapses right there.

00:36:05
Speaker 2: All right.

00:36:06
Speaker 3: I actually apparently he did say dog. I thought he said something else. Uh so, my bad big dog is on the phone. Go ahead, big dog.

00:36:14
Speaker 2: It's done.

00:36:15
Speaker 4: Actually, okay, don.

00:36:19
Speaker 2: Here, big dog?

00:36:20
Speaker 3: All right, yeah, don don gotcha, not d O n G, which is what I thought.

00:36:27
Speaker 2: Go ahead, boy, I'm back in.

00:36:30
Speaker 11: I'm heading sack, I got.

00:36:36
Speaker 9: I'm back in on the.

00:36:37
Speaker 2: Cat all right.

00:36:38
Speaker 3: I hope you're I hope you're right. I mean, we just had somebody here who just found a ticket. I just had somebody send me apparently two lower level tickets, which I'm gonna giveaway if I get them in my email to somebody here. They're so close. But uh, they got actually send them to me. But if they do, But go ahead.

00:36:58
Speaker 11: Drew, congratulations, And I gotta say, you ain't gonna have apoth of pissing now.

00:37:05
Speaker 2: Thank you.

00:37:06
Speaker 7: It's very kind.

00:37:07
Speaker 11: But hey, what the biggest mistake we've ever had?

00:37:14
Speaker 2: Responsibility?

00:37:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I appreciate the call, I will note something about that.

00:37:20
Speaker 2: We talked about this yesterday.

00:37:23
Speaker 3: I want to be clear, like I, I don't know if that NIL deal with JMI is going to work. All we'll see. I All I want to know is what's happening. That's all I'm asking. And my issue with Mitch. I mentioned my thing about him communicating. Still I still think that's true, but I just want to know about it because there were reports right after the show yesterday. This is before I even said all that. Excuse me, after I said this that Christian Collins the hot top high school recruit, that part of the reason Kentucky hasn't gotten him signed is they can't seem to work out the NIL deal.

00:38:01
Speaker 2: Now maybe it's justifiable.

00:38:05
Speaker 3: All I know is every other team got their top recruit signed, and the three we want so far we haven't been. So I'm I'm skeptical and I just need people to explain to me what's going on.

00:38:17
Speaker 2: And I don't think Mitch has done a good job.

00:38:20
Speaker 3: High school state championships are just yes, let's go over the first three. Tell me about the games today.

00:38:25
Speaker 5: First game is the Raceland Rams we talked about and Kentucky Country Day I know nothing about Kentucky Country Day other than that's where Los Angeles Dodger catcher Will Smith went to high school.

00:38:34
Speaker 6: It's about all I know.

00:38:35
Speaker 2: All right, Shannon, who you got?

00:38:37
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go Kentucky Country Day. We've already shown that Racelin can't win the Big One.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: They came to the bar last night, so I wish you hadn't said that. Well, I'm gonna go with who spent money with us last night?

00:38:49
Speaker 2: The big one? Shannon is ungrateful?

00:38:51
Speaker 5: Would you like Racelna came last night? They come every single year. We are on the Raceland Rams bandwagon.

00:38:57
Speaker 7: Of course, go with Raceland. I saw right, even had the hoodie on. Yes, today, I'm not all in because this guy.

00:39:02
Speaker 2: I'm gonna makeing a prediction.

00:39:04
Speaker 3: If you went to Kentucky Country Day, I don't think you'd fit him very well. I think you'd fit him better at Riceland from what I know of Kentucky Country Day.

00:39:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the next game?

00:39:13
Speaker 5: Two a's a battle the Christians and the Catholics, lection and Christian Catholic for years and then Owensboro Catholic big private school battle in two A.

00:39:21
Speaker 3: This is that this may be the best game of the whole weekend in terms of how close it is.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: I'll take Owensboro Catholic. What do you got.

00:39:27
Speaker 5: I gotta go with my hometown LCA Eagles, so I'm gonna go ELCA.

00:39:30
Speaker 7: I thought your hometown was Owensborough.

00:39:32
Speaker 6: That's my second hometown.

00:39:34
Speaker 7: That's true, I'm to say owens hometown Lexington.

00:39:39
Speaker 2: I think Owensborough's more of your hometown than Lexing.

00:39:41
Speaker 6: I've been in Lexton now for almost thirty years, so I think I kind.

00:39:44
Speaker 2: Of accepted you adopt Owensboro.

00:39:46
Speaker 7: Bro.

00:39:46
Speaker 6: What it's beneficial to me? I do.

00:39:49
Speaker 5: But now this is elsa. Oldsborough Catholic wanted to come to the restaurant too, but they wanted to bring one hundred people.

00:39:56
Speaker 2: All the more reasons that sound like a b I agree. You want to know.

00:40:02
Speaker 3: You want to know sometimes why the restaurant business is hard.

00:40:06
Speaker 2: One of the.

00:40:06
Speaker 3: Investors is like, they want to come to the restaurant.

00:40:10
Speaker 2: We can't do that.

00:40:11
Speaker 6: I was off for it.

00:40:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's the problem. The more people that want to come, the matter ride.

00:40:16
Speaker 7: We turned out one hundred new Uh.

00:40:18
Speaker 2: Brian's ridiculous. What do you have?

00:40:20
Speaker 7: His pick threw me off. I was gonna go with Lectioningon, but since Ryan abandoned his other hometown, I'll go Owensboro.

00:40:26
Speaker 4: Give me the Catholics.

00:40:27
Speaker 2: Yes, I went three for Owensborough Catholic. And what's the next game?

00:40:30
Speaker 6: Three A is Christian Academy of Louisville.

00:40:33
Speaker 2: Wait, these Christians and Catholics are taking gods on their side.

00:40:36
Speaker 5: They play Murray. The last time Murray was in the state finals, who did they play, Middlesborough? Middlesborough, Yeah, we meet them.

00:40:44
Speaker 3: That was in like nineteen ninety eight. I think that was one side of the state versus the other. Uh, And I understand it Isn't Christian Academy of Louisville like a juggernaut.

00:40:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, they've won several state times.

00:40:55
Speaker 3: Even though I'd like for Murray to win, I think probably the cow is gonna win.

00:41:00
Speaker 6: I think Murray's even undefeated. But I'm still picking col.

00:41:03
Speaker 7: Cal in the postseason. I'm betting against that Gold and Murray.

00:41:06
Speaker 4: Kristin Academy.

00:41:07
Speaker 8: I like Raceline, they can win the big one Academy.

00:41:13
Speaker 2: Shannon so harsh on race, All right, who's next? Ben, Ben? You got forty seconds? Go ahead, sir, you got correct. This is Drew being a girl. Dad, awesome, thank you. That's an abbey.

00:41:28
Speaker 3: The second thing is I was feeling down about Pope and then I got on TikTok last night and I.

00:41:32
Speaker 11: Saw highlights from Cal's press conference.

00:41:34
Speaker 10: Then he pulled one of those did you.

00:41:36
Speaker 2: To what I did?

00:41:36
Speaker 7: Oh?

00:41:37
Speaker 8: You didn't do I did you?

00:41:38
Speaker 2: Guys are probably making the sandwich.

00:41:39
Speaker 8: The crucial point of the game was when so and so going to block.

00:41:42
Speaker 5: So.

00:41:42
Speaker 9: I'm just really glad that we got rid of him, and there's some positive positivity for you.

00:41:46
Speaker 3: Obviously, Arkansas beat Louisville and that's led to a couple of people going, oh, we shall I wish we still had. Just remember, like the divorced couple that goes and finds new love.

00:41:57
Speaker 2: He wasn't going to do that here.

00:42:00
Speaker 3: Whether he does it in Arkansas, we'll see, but it wasn't gonna happen at this place.

00:42:04
Speaker 2: We'll take a break, come back. I re number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.