2025-09-19- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome in Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Matt? We'll do a roll call here, see if you can find him.

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Speaker 4: You go and our cars pumping shop phone numbers eight five nine two eight oh two two eight seven. We are live at the New Wild Eggs in Tates Creek. It's kind of their grand opening today. We already did the pre show here, but we're gonna kind of christen it. We've got a great crowd here, a lot of giveaways. Come on out and join us. If you eat an entree, you got a chance to win a big gift basket. We've got Eric Church tickets to give away, We've got gift cards to give away, a lot of stuff to give away. So coming out and join us live here at Wild Eggs. Well, Shannon, yes, will, let's do our little row call Matt Jones not here, true, Franklin absent, Billy are sports Nope, Shannon the dude, I'm here, all right, Yeah, Shannon the dudes here. Yeah, so we've called out of the bullpen from Channel thirty six. Also JMI, also the UK Radio Network. Also a long time lectioningon resident a Tates Creek Commodore, Ladies and gentleman. Let's give it up to Jeff Picoro.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 3: You know I went to school with TJ.

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Speaker 2: Smithat a UK.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He was a cheerleader, yes, and you were a football player. Yeah, so he made fun of him probably.

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Speaker 3: Well he was the wildcat, so yeah, he was the I didn't know that he was the mascot. I thought he was like the guy at the bottom of the pyramid. You're telling you he was the wildcat Wildcat.

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Speaker 5: I don't think he ever told me.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know that either, And also joined us this morning, ladies and gentlemen, the birthday.

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Speaker 5: Boy Mario Maitland.

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Speaker 2: It's today's his birthday.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I thought that was Cam Newton.

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Speaker 6: Cam Newton.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there we go.

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Speaker 6: That's a better to.

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Speaker 3: Start wearing clothes like Cam Newton does. Dude.

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Speaker 6: Oh with the hats. I couldn't pull off the cowboy hat. I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 2: You got the fit.

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Speaker 6: I have to fit. It's a little birthday fit.

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Speaker 4: So we wish you a very happy birthday coming out and which Mario a happy birthday. So listen, guys, we got I mean, we've already talked about it on the pre show. But the number one topic, and it's my favorite topic of the week, maybe my favorite topic of the month is the little dance as you called it between Mark Pope and Pat Kelsey that happened a couple weeks ago. So if you don't know the story, Jacob Polachick from KSR on three Sports kind of broke the story that a couple of weeks ago, at midnight the recruiting period it opened, like maybe it was like September second, September third, at midnight the recruiting period opened. So Taylor Kenny is this kid from Newport, Kentucky that has now playing for Overtime Elite in Atlanta. Six seven six seven six seven, I had take Kenny. So Mark Pope had a schedule visit at twelve like oh one, like a minute after midnight. Pat Kelsey had a scheduled visit like at twelve fifteen, like right after that. So they want to get in first to the turn of midnight. Well, the story goes that Mark Pope was running a little late. Shannon and I figured they must have got caught in Mount Vernon travel.

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Speaker 5: That happens. I was only two hours late for my show on Double Q yesterday, so it happens, I understand.

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Speaker 4: So since Mark Pope was late, Pat Kelsey was already there. Kelsey kind of cut the line.

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Speaker 6: You can't do that.

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Speaker 2: Cutter cut her peanut butter cut right in front of him.

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Speaker 5: That's the third time we've already heard that this morning.

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Speaker 2: That's what we used to say it, sire.

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Speaker 4: And then So when Pat Kelsey came out, Pope and Pat Kelsey, as you called it, Jeff and Dance dance, they had had words, did not get physical, they did not put hands on each other. All those reports were ridiculous. Take Kenny's dad did not get out and separate him. As a matter of fact, I think the report I heard from Jackie Pilgrim's point, and they may have even hugged it out and it was over.

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Speaker 2: I don't want Tom hugging it out.

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Speaker 4: I want him leaving it, driving off and pointing at each other and telling each other who's number one.

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Speaker 5: So when Pat Kelsey hugs Mark Pope, he just hugs his waistline, I guess.

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Speaker 3: So. So if any you know, you know I thirty one years I was in Cincinnati and used to do Xavier basketball, and I knew Pat when he played actually high school ball was Ole High School in Cincinnati, and then when he was at Xavior when Skip Prosser was the coach. Yeah, and Pat Kelsey is one of the great kids. I call him a kid. I'm sixty three years old, so I'm allowed to call him a kid, but just one of the great guys in sports. He's a wonderful motivator, he's a sensational coach, great recruiter, he's everything you would want. And it's almost like what Mark said Stoops when Louisville hired Brahm, he was like, oh, I like Jeff. He's a really good coach. Pat is a really likable person. Now that being said, Mark is kind of the same way. Yeah, great guy, wonderful person, great recruiter. But there are rules in the recruiting game and you just can't break those type of rules. And Pope had the first, you know, twelve o'clock. He was supposed to be ill to be there, Kelsey, and then we're sitting in the car outside, looked at his watch at twelve o'clock. I don't see any blue bandwagon here. Let's go boys, and in they went. Hey, I got handed to him. Now, what Mark says is he thinks he got in there before midnight, which is a violation. So that's the gray area, that's a bigger That's where Kelsey was like, no, no, no, no, no, we weren't. You weren't here at twelve o'clock. Our watch at twelve o'clock, we went to the door. So that's kind of the gray area and where all the infighting starts. But it makes a great story for you guys that the guys in Louisville that are the Redbird Reporter where ever heck those guys are. So it's just gonna be in. The fans love it, love it.

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Speaker 5: And we need to get back to where we were with Caliperi and Patino, when those guys were just at each other. It's more fun for the fans, it's better for the robbery. But everything you said just made me like Pat Kelsey, I'm trying to hate the guy had and whether of these guys just have a likable personality. They're kind of goofy, they're light hearted. So that's the complete opposite what we had with Patino and Caliperi.

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Speaker 6: Man I thought, honestly, I've seen so many stuff on social media with you know, Mark Pope hugging Pat Kelsey and he's kind of like sunning him a little bit, you know, palm in his head and everything like that. I wish it was true, Like I wish they actually did get in the scuffle. Obviously they did it, so you know, I like to see their kind of you know, going back at each other a little bit. It's good. It's not where we really want it to be, but it's headed and right.

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Speaker 5: When you say there are rules, is that like an unwritten rule or are their actual rules?

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Speaker 3: Well, and you know, I was just gonna ask you guys what you thought about that. I think it's the unwritten We were supposed to be first, you know, you weren't supposed to be there to twelfth.

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Speaker 5: See. Now, look, if it's unwritten, I'm saying rules like that could be broken.

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Speaker 3: What's the difference. You're still gonna give him your speel?

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Speaker 5: You are? You are, But it's probably midnight is getting late. He's like, I don't want to be here all night, so he just goes right on in. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, so Shannon brought this point up on the pre show. What if the roles were reversed and Pope cut the line in front of Pat Kelsey, We'd all be like, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That's good coaching. It's a great job. Out of my way to be assertive, way to you know, be forward thinking.

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Speaker 3: Watch the kid go to North Carolina or something.

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Speaker 4: This is like the big leader right now here with our final But I'm with you, guys. The rivalry we need this. I don't want to like Pat Kelsey, then we don't want to. I don't care if it's a nerd fighter, geek fight, or whatever.

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Speaker 3: I need this.

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Speaker 6: So why Kansas, though I know that he's the leaderboard.

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Speaker 5: Probably the end I all has a lot to do with that. I don't know that they have significantly more I need to offer the Kentucky or Lobell does. But that always factors in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they offered him more money. They're in Adida school, indeed school and overtime elite.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, makes sense.

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Speaker 5: By overall takeaway on it is, though, if it's an unwritten rule and Mark Pope's not there, I don't know. If we took the names out of the scenario and I'm there and the other coach isn't, I'm probably gonna walk on in too. You know. It's like, well, if you don't like it, don't be late. Exactly.

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Speaker 4: I agree, but you cast so you called it a dance. It's kind of I guess Miller a little bit of an argument, But I think not only does the fan base need it, I think the announcers need it.

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Speaker 2: We need that.

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Speaker 4: Not we don't want to like him. He's been lik him up to this point. I don't want you.

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Speaker 2: He's a how he likes somebody cuts cuts line man, No way like that.

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Speaker 5: Pope wasn't there though. That's the problem. Pope wasn't there. It's not like there. It's not like there. Here's here's take Kenny's apartment door, and there's a line, and there's Mark Pope, and there's all these other people. And then Pat Kelsey just went up and opened the door and walked in. Pope wasn't even there though. That's the that's the thing. I think that's what makes it different.

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Speaker 4: You know, for a long time, Kentucky and Louisville were probably the leaders for this kid, and he grew up in Newport and then he's played for Overtime and lead the last two years. Kansas kind of snuck in and got him. Yet, you know what I mean, Pope's not gonna give up and quit recruiting.

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Speaker 2: The kid. Does this? If you're a recruit, does it make a difference?

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Speaker 4: It off you look at your living room window and there's two coaches pointing their fingers and arguing with each other out here out in your driveway.

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Speaker 3: I actually would think, how would you feel? I mean, if you're coaches, you said to look and you're like, damn, somebody.

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Speaker 5: If you're in your apartment, you look out and there's two beautiful women that you love and they're both arguing over you. Right, I'm sitting my popcorn makes me feel special.

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Speaker 4: I'm sitting no matter what, my popcorn watching it go happening. But if you're a recruit and you look at your window.

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Speaker 6: I'm loving it. Two coaches fighting over me, I think so too. Oh yeah, I'm that dude.

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Speaker 5: The beggar takeaway is now we at least have a little bit of fire between these two coaches, and that's the thing I think that this rivalry needed. And if it comes down to one person cutting in front of another to get that spark going that, I'm for it.

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Speaker 4: And we're talking about two teams that Jeff Goodman said earlier this week, Final four bus kind of for both program. I mean, both teams are gonna be really really good this year. And Kentucky's got.

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Speaker 2: To play at Louisville in early November.

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Speaker 3: Before the football game, Before the football it was the basketball game.

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Speaker 2: You got it? Not like that?

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Speaker 3: That's no. I I think it's really weird the way that the fall schedules are set up because look, football is a beast all across the country. Basketball is a beast. Ok, why would you overlap those? Why can't you just back that up two weeks until football ends and then basketball.

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Speaker 5: Polk lames Kelsey. So maybe there's another thing you know, got just nudge at the other one.

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Speaker 4: So we're gonna be here at Wild Eggs. We're getting a lot of free food to get a free gift card to give away. Look at Travis, you see him.

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Speaker 6: Look a couple.

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Speaker 4: You said, free food, free gift cards that you can buy the food with Travis. That's a big way to do it. We've got a big gift basket here. If you order an entree, you get in the running for the big gift basket. We got Eric Church tickets to give away a lot. I do need to say if we go to break Drew was gonna try to make it today. He was a strong Maybe he woke up this morning. Hearts still hurting. If if you have Instagram, go to what Drew posted on Instagram yesterday about his buddy Manning that passed away. It's it, it'll if you don't tear up, get you some clean exit before you read it. But uh, it's just a great testimonial to a dear friend who passed away way too early, way too young. So drew since his regards. Sorry he couldn't make it, but we I know, I expeak for everybody. We all completely understand. He's got to take care of himself. So all right, well take our break, come back, go to the phone lines eight five nine two eight two two eight seven. This is Kenteky Sports Radio. All right, welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio live from Wild Eggs in Tates Creek.

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Speaker 2: This is their new location.

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Speaker 4: They're located by the neighborhood Walmart here in the Tates Creek area. And now they're a third location. They've got one Hamburg, they've got one of Palomar. Now this one of Taates Creek. This is probably maybe their biggest one. Is this your biggest one?

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Speaker 6: Travel us?

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Speaker 2: I think? Then they got a big nice bar here, got.

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Speaker 3: The garage dooral Crotch stores and all school.

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Speaker 2: Is that right behind us.

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Speaker 4: So so come on out and join us this morning or whenever it's breakfast, brunch and lunch with a bar.

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Speaker 5: That's right, Wold egg, I didn't know this place existed until this morning. I went to the wrong location. You know that, like two minutes before the show started.

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Speaker 6: How did you go to the wrong location?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I mean we don't have communicator. I mean we're communications business, right company, and we don't communicate. Nobody told me where to go, so I just assumed it must be where we did the last one at. But I was wrong. I walked in there and she looked at me, like, no show here.

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Speaker 4: We only said it on the show this week four or five times, but you.

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Speaker 5: Got to keep in mind, I don't live in Lexington, so when you say Tate's Creek, that doesn't mean anything.

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Speaker 3: This morning.

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Speaker 5: What time did I'll leave seven o'clock this morning? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Well, we've got some specials on the fall Men. We got pumpkin pie pancakes and apple cider mimosas.

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Speaker 2: If you want to come on.

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Speaker 5: Are we doing a in case when you're drinking?

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Speaker 4: We're supposed to do a pancake flipping contest with Mario back in the kitchen.

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Speaker 6: Win it. I'm winning. I'm the best cook out of everybody on it.

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Speaker 5: So have you been a cook at a restaurant before? Mario?

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Speaker 6: Have I been a cook rest the rut.

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Speaker 5: Yeah no, okay, Ryan, I assume you haven't.

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Speaker 2: I have not, but I am an excellent cook.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Well we'll see who wins that later on today.

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Speaker 4: Then from Navy's a glass text machine. The Pope versus Kelsey thing is funny. Now, what if it was Matt Jones versus Captain Sontan. What would Matt have done?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Wow, well take a picture of it. He would have taken a picture of him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean those two have had their run ends over the years. They have, but on TV and level right, Yeah, John Ramsey, Yeah Ramsey, Yeah. I think Ramsey challenged Matt to a fight. He did one time. I think Matt backed down from that. I don't think that wanted to fight anybody, but I would like to see it though. I don't think that robbery really exists anymore. Though, kind of it kind of died down.

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Speaker 4: We've got a lot of football stuff we want to get to with Jeff since he's here, but I kind of.

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Speaker 3: Want to talk more about Captain sunt.

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Speaker 2: Henderson.

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Speaker 4: One time in the press boxing at Kroger Field, he got a little icy really between the two guys. Yeah, Matt, I'm go give him at credit. He was completely innocent.

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Speaker 2: He was not.

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Speaker 4: I I'm sure he's completely right there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 5: The crazier thing for me, though, is, you know, back in the early days of KSR, Matt had his list of enemies and he would go with the room every day and just whatever the topic was, it was just Jeff Goodman's fault. It was Jeff Goodman's fault every day. And now Jeff Goodman works under the same umbrella o KSR with on three. So now those guys are buddies all these years later.

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Speaker 4: But Patino came back on the show. They kind of made nice nice. Jeff Goodman's made nine nice.

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Speaker 5: I guess we all get older and a little more soft over the years because he doesn't have those those uh. I guess Rovalry is on in through media anymore like he used to.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: So this on the Avis and Glass text Machine asked Jeff about the music at kroger Field. Pacoro even said during the broadcast, what is this yacht rock? Return to the music in Crokerfield.

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Speaker 3: The thing that kills me is before the game. If you're a player and you're getting ready to come out, what do you want? I want you know, flirting with disaster. I want something that's gonna charge you up right at you pulling that out out of Floyd. I want something like that where I'm getting ready to run through a wall, right, you know what? We play a Kentucky You're like, yeah, yeah, through the hills of Kentucky all the way from Ashland and you're like, what is this?

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Speaker 5: Somebody reading poetry?

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Speaker 3: Yes, and it.

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Speaker 6: Goes on.

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Speaker 3: All roots lead to lex.

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Speaker 4: And the players are like, yeah, well, we've talked about this. They need to play the music that the players want to hear. And you know, Myrios talked about this, you know, the hip hop, the rap music, the they.

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Speaker 6: Don't even got to be hip hop. Is this something that you got it?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 6: That's that? Pump them up, get them going, get the student section like riled up.

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Speaker 3: But it was yacht rock right, they were playing some it was Christopher Cross or something.

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Speaker 6: I'm like, what is this?

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Speaker 4: Well they always mix in a cotton eyed Joe, which is fine, but they always mix in uh walker.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: If that's after the game though, I think it's okay. I'm talking about before the game especially, and then end the game too, So.

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Speaker 4: What can what can you talk you do about This has been a theme for many years, but it really kind of come to a head this year.

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Speaker 2: What can they do?

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Speaker 6: You know what else?

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Speaker 3: I hate? I hate it every time I've been especially basketball games done done dum eighties Hey, and I'm like.

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Speaker 5: What it's got this crowd going.

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Speaker 3: And then when they do that thing where they they just make a pyramid standing there the cheerleaders, it's like the greatest thing in the history of crazy. They played two thousand and one a space outly because they're holding a flag.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're like, well, this, so, what can we do at Crogerfield to help?

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Speaker 2: Do you have any ideas?

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Speaker 5: Get a better playlist?

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Speaker 3: See, you're trying to get me in trouble.

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Speaker 2: Okay, take your JMI hat off.

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Speaker 3: I can't though what you take that Kentucky hat off, because the administration of Kentucky, I think, is the one that says this is what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: Well the rumor and I also believe this.

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Speaker 4: I think most people feel like it's gotten better to the game the last much.

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Speaker 3: Could you imagine if he was running it.

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Speaker 5: Well, Matt has said that for years and he just lets Shannon do it. Hey, I mean I've already got seven other jobs. Why not, Hey, money talks.

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Speaker 3: They'll pay you like they pay me twenty five bucks a game.

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Speaker 5: Jami, Kentucky, whoever you are, whoever's listening out there for the right price, Yeah, I'll come, I'll come to Krogerfield.

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Speaker 4: Well, the best Jeff Piccarel is when Jeff Picarel takes off his broadcaster hat and wears his Kentucky hat, and you can tell you as as if you become a fan sometimes during the broadcast.

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Speaker 6: I love that.

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Speaker 2: I love that when you become Jeff the fan.

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Speaker 3: I just think for me growing up, the guys that I like, the Harry care He's the the Summer Alls and guys like that. Just it was like two of us sitting at the bar watching the game on TV. And that's the way, because look, I could sit out there and tell you, guys, they're running cover seven and they're doing a double roll up zone, and they're bracket and there's and everybody's gonna be sitting going hell.

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Speaker 5: The average fan has no idea what that is.

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Speaker 3: Nobody wants to hear that. All they want to hear is Shannon missed that block and that's why that guy is on a Gurney being taken off the field. You know, that's that's all.

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Speaker 4: Some of the best Jeff of Coral though, is like during the commercial break, that's when fan Jeff really comes out. Sometimes you get happy, you get frustrated, just like we do.

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Speaker 3: So happy they don't have the old sub when there's that called on the satellites, Like.

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Speaker 5: There used to be feeds back in the day where you have the giant satellites and you could, you know, just go around on your on your TV channels and you would find a feed that was live. Even when it was off the air. You can still hear what the commentators were saying. And this is like an old nineties thing. I don't think. I don't know that he still existing, yes, but yeah, if they had that.

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Speaker 3: Well it existed in Cincinnati when I was there. He still doesn't have a job, but oh no he is. He's on wlw R.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's right, Toman, Yes, I didn't know that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was interesting.

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Speaker 4: Before we really get into the weeds about football and stuff, what are your thoughts about what you've seen just so far the first three games.

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Speaker 3: I'm very disappointing, and Brad will be the first one to tell you, the defense I thought was going to be fantastic, and I think in the first three games it hasn't been. Yeah, and I'm like, wow, what's the problem. And DJ Wallers was playing great. He'll probably play next week, I hope. But you know, he's cornerback and they're getting killed on the outside because they know that ter Ryan and some of the youngers that are playing at their corner, they don't want to get beat deep, right, So they're eight yards off the ball and what's killed Kentucky six yards? Stop turn around and misstap And that's all ole Miss does. I mean, Ole Miss's whole game is just a little five six yard passes and hope that one out of every eight of those they're gonna break it and it's gonna be a what coach calls a chunk play. But to me, the defense just hasn't lived up to what I thought it was going to be. I think Zach tries to be too perfect when he's out there. He wants to perfect.

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Speaker 2: Play yeah, safe.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And again cutter Is it's just seems so much more comfortable now, bigger, stronger his second year in the offense. I think he knows it pretty well, and you saw there were he only twelve passes, but two hundred and forty yards, So that means he's going down the field. And that's exactly what this offense needs because now the safeties can't play eight yards off the ball if you're going down the field, They've got to play twelve to fifteen and that opens up the running game.

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Speaker 5: Do you feel like this is Cutter's job to lose at this point in the season with Cals out of still nursing that injury, or do you think that maybe stupids You want me to.

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Speaker 3: Answer this with a Kentucky hat on or as a broadcaster.

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Speaker 5: Just honest, I really, honestly as you can.

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Speaker 3: I really think that when you spend seven figures to bring someone in, that person's gonna get every chance to fail. And I think that's in every sport now in college and it's unfortunate. But if I'm the coach and I'm looking at the production, I get and again, you have to you have to temper it a little bit because it's Eastern Michigan. Hell, we could take nine of you guys and us up here and beat Eastern Michigan. But you know, let's see what happens.

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Speaker 2: Look you're looking at here.

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Speaker 3: Look that's my left tackle. He's my right guard. Yeah yeah, uh tight end.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: There's even got a Red's head on, so I know he's a big fan.

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Speaker 5: But even if Cutter maybe looks better than Calasada, you think that he's still gonna stick with Calzada because of the nil money and he being the guy that you brought in originally to b QB one.

00:21:53
Speaker 3: Well, it's really interesting to me with this program that they can't manufacture a quarterback, right. Yeah, this is the fifth straight year they've had a.

00:22:03
Speaker 4: Different transfer in a ya and they spend a lot of money on Larry Calzada.

00:22:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, And and Cutters a guy that's from here. He's been here since he's a freshman. He's getting getting into it and he's playing better. I go with the hot hand until he falls on his face. You know, you've always got Zachness the backup.

00:22:20
Speaker 2: I go with the hot hand and just run with him. If your quarterback, that's the thing.

00:22:23
Speaker 5: If you're calling him your quarterback of the future and you truly mean that, yeah, then show him that and give him that.

00:22:28
Speaker 3: If you're only going to win and again coming into the season. A lot of people are saying four or five wins. If you'll get win four or five, then get some young kids in there who are.

00:22:35
Speaker 5: Going he's got out to throw everything he's got against the wall.

00:22:41
Speaker 4: All right, we are live Wild Eggs out here in Tates Creek. It's the new Wild Eggs location. They've got one out Hamburg, one in Palomar, and now they've opened this one appear in Tates Creek.

00:22:48
Speaker 2: Coming out.

00:22:48
Speaker 4: Got a great crowd and the food is fantastic if you won't be disappointed, So we'll take our break. Come back, Ryan Mario, the Birthday Boys, Shannon and Jeff Picarol Kentucky Ports Radio. All right, welcome back Kentucky's Ports Radio live from Wild Eggs in Tates Creek. Of course, Wild Eggs is the official breakfast of KSR. Breakfast, Bunch and lunch with the bar of Wild Eggs. Will come on out and join us. We'll be out here for the rest of the day, well the rest of until till noon.

00:23:09
Speaker 5: Speaking to yourself, you can stay at her all day if you want it.

00:23:12
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:23:12
Speaker 4: I love them, I love their workers, I love Travis and Scott. Then run the place. Josiah works at Wild Eggs.

00:23:18
Speaker 6: Who doesn't like Wild Eggs.

00:23:19
Speaker 4: But there is one of their servers walking around wearing a Louisville shirt.

00:23:24
Speaker 6: What I did see that? Wait?

00:23:26
Speaker 4: You see when he comes back out, we all have to boom him. And here's the catch. His name is Sam Mitchell. It's Mary Joe Pirino's son. What marry Joe Ford her son walking around with the Louisville shirt on? Back here, So when he walks out, we'll all boom when he comes he think he's back in the kitchen.

00:23:43
Speaker 3: Right now, Shannon's got a Louisville shirt on.

00:23:46
Speaker 2: Double Q. It's not a Louisville shirt.

00:23:51
Speaker 6: All right?

00:23:51
Speaker 2: Day eight five nine two two seven.

00:23:53
Speaker 4: After our cars publish out phone number, Uh, we got some calls on right now, it's going to take there he is.

00:24:02
Speaker 2: If he's handling it like a champ.

00:24:03
Speaker 3: I thought that was a QMTH shirt double Q.

00:24:06
Speaker 5: Why am I qmmth and double Q? You know I do like seven jobs.

00:24:09
Speaker 3: The Show with No Name.

00:24:10
Speaker 5: One of the greatest shows of the history of radio was that Terry Miner back in.

00:24:14
Speaker 4: The day, way back in the day. Uh, what's gonna call Rick? Who we got first?

00:24:22
Speaker 2: Rick? Corey is up first, Go ahead, Cory, what's up?

00:24:28
Speaker 3: Guy?

00:24:32
Speaker 7: So I'm with you guys on the all roads lead to Lexington. So we had a good run in Commonwealth, but it's more of like a mall walk out. So I have an idea to kind of upgrade that. So you know how Tennessee took uh Rocky Top and slowed it down and made it kind of creepy before the team runs out, We could do the same thing with Never.

00:24:53
Speaker 8: Leave Harlan Alive. Put that with the blue light.

00:24:59
Speaker 5: No make it.

00:25:00
Speaker 7: You know how Tennessee makes you Rockey Tops the cree kind of creepy.

00:25:04
Speaker 5: But the same song, Never Leave Harlan Alive is already slow.

00:25:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, slow it down to it.

00:25:12
Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe it sounds better in my head, but yeah, like make it kind.

00:25:15
Speaker 3: Of dark, just speeding it up, Dude, I don't want to get to Corey's head if that's what he wants slowing it down.

00:25:22
Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Cory. I mean, people I think love that song.

00:25:26
Speaker 4: I don't know when you play it at a football game, at an event like that, you know, I think that the first time they did it, like in between the third quarter and fourth quarter, I remember they did it. It was it was cool. I got goosebumps. You does it still work now?

00:25:37
Speaker 5: I think you can use that song if you use a clip of it and then go into like a grow Street party, Uh huh, Like if you can intro it with that and then like it's a part of it, you know what I mean, Like if you you kind of mesh those two together or I guess it's called a mash up. You know, if you do something like that, it could work.

00:25:52
Speaker 2: You know.

00:25:52
Speaker 3: I think every college in America is trying to find the perfect Like Virginia Tech and Sandman. The entire stadium seventy five thousand people and when that starts, they all and it's awe. I mean I get goosebumps because if you've ever been there live and that it is ridiculous. Sweet Caroline, and I mean all these different schools, we've got to find that that song because it.

00:26:19
Speaker 4: Grow Street Party, that's the song, right, and then they didn't play it the first game, but that that's our only thing we've gotten close to that.

00:26:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's been here, right, he was in the game couple time.

00:26:27
Speaker 4: I think he's coming to a game this year. You got a contract on a Friday night in Lexington, I would say he'd be there in the next game on Saturday.

00:26:33
Speaker 5: Even Florida take it. I walked back down by Petty before the fourth course. It's just you gotta find that song that just gets everybody and raises the energy of the stadium.

00:26:43
Speaker 4: This from the Vision Last Tech Machine them Reds As since the REGI made a lot of dumb moves over the years, but the one, the worst one was moving Jeff off the broadcast.

00:26:51
Speaker 2: I hear a lot of that. They loved you doing the Reds broadcast back in the day.

00:26:54
Speaker 3: Well, there was a situation there where Fox had to sell because of the have been a monopoly with ESPN and everything because Disney bought Fox and so when Ballely's took over, it was a it was really bad situation, only because it was twenty twenty in it was the uh what did we even call COVID COVID, Yeah, whatever, it was called the COVID. So we didn't travel and yeah, the COVID, we you know, there was no travel. We did the games out of a studio downtown even you know, we couldn't we couldn't interview the player had to be. We were interviewing him on a computer. So, I mean I was sixty years old. It was time. I mean twenty twenty six years is a long time and I had a blast doing it. But you know, I'm kidding people.

00:27:37
Speaker 2: I think miss you on the broadcast though, Well sure, I.

00:27:39
Speaker 3: Just like I said, I just tried to have fun. I baseball is is a lot of fun. I don't you know what. I don't miss the games. I miss everything around the games. I miss spring training, I miss hanging out with the You know, Bronson Oroya is one of my good friends, and he lives my house in northern Kentucky. He lives in the two streets over for me, he's you know, going out on his boat and stuff like that. I mean, those guys, you're to me, it's the greatest job in all of sports. And Bob Trumpy and I talked to one time and he said, you have the best job in all of sports. And Trump he did the Masters, he did NFL football the other day, he did everything the Olympics. And he said, well, we do football. And I know that you flying on on Friday, you meet with the coaches. If you're doing a national broadcast, you meet with the coaches. On Friday, the athletic director of the home team take takes you all the you know, the broadcast crew out to dinner, You go to your hotel, You wake up in the morning, you go to the stadium. As soon as the game's over, boom, you're on a plane. You fly home. Yeah, baseball, you've got a four game series, so you're spending five nights in that city. Were we were allowed to bring our golf clubs, Me, Chris Wells, Jeff Brantley, Marty Bredman. When Joe was alive, Joe Joe and Marty Joe was the greatest guy in the world. Yeah, just the greatest guy. But we would go play and I played six Ryder Cup courses. I played some of the best golf courses in the country, all for free, which is read David Better, unbelievable. But that's what I miss about not doing baseball. But it was. It was a lot of fun and I appreciate that.

00:29:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, now are the Reds gonna make the playoffs? They're two back with nine to go.

00:29:11
Speaker 3: They they've got just the look. The problem with them is they just can't keep Hunter and Nick Lodolo healthy, healthy, last night for Hunter Green and once he does won the game, he throws a shutout. Yea right, complete game. Just that kid could be awesome. But they've got to keep They've got to get thirty starts from each of those two somehow. Lodolo is we call it like a guy with a glass jaw. I mean, you go like that and he's out for two weeks, you know, but when he's.

00:29:38
Speaker 2: When he was out with blister on his finger.

00:29:41
Speaker 3: He had a blister, he had a grown pool. I mean, it's just little things. If they could stay healthy. And I think the one thing that they're missing on this team is they don't have a veteran leader. They don't have a guy that wears the sea on a shirt that's been around to tell these guys the magnitude of of a game against who wasn't to just weapon a week ago or whatever it was.

00:30:02
Speaker 5: You're like, for it wasn't the car, it wasn't Ryan's Cardinals.

00:30:05
Speaker 3: How do you lose to you know, Miami, Miami three straight games and the turnaround and you know, uh, it's just it's weird. And I think that's all that they're missing, a veteran presence.

00:30:16
Speaker 4: A five nine two seven to get another phone called Rick. Who we got Alex is up next?

00:30:21
Speaker 2: Alex go ahead, Alex.

00:30:24
Speaker 8: Hey guys, this is Alex Green Ryan. I'm the one that times you were Oh, I know you're running that Nonsense Central that year. Okay, I'm calling six publicity.

00:30:37
Speaker 5: How fast it was a Johnson.

00:30:39
Speaker 8: Central belfree Halloween game. The uh the University of Kentucky wrestling team. We have some SEC champions we have some n Cuba All Americans. We had two SEC championships back in the seventies, and I would love to get up with like Tyle or Drew or Nick or one of the KSRO Riders and just give them the information the sport of wrestling in our states. Gromans, we have the Rainy Twins, the Jaden Rainey just competed this week in the World Championships in Croatia. I think the Big Blue Nations would really enjoy some of the history that we have with.

00:31:18
Speaker 2: Joe Car Alex.

00:31:20
Speaker 4: We appreciate the Yeah, Joe Car from Woodford County, We appreciate that. The appreciate phone call.

00:31:26
Speaker 2: Alex.

00:31:26
Speaker 5: There you go, Tyler, if you're listening, get to work write.

00:31:28
Speaker 2: That article for it. There we go.

00:31:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he did mention the Randy Twins from Union County. They're probably the best wrestlers ever come out of this state. They're world champions right now out of Union County High School.

00:31:37
Speaker 5: Though, I feel like volleyball is taking over right now.

00:31:39
Speaker 2: We gotta talk about the volleyball games.

00:31:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a match last night.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: It was awesome.

00:31:43
Speaker 4: Volleyball team goes to the YOUMP Center to play Louisville. Louisville ranked the country, Kentucky ranked sixth in the country. It goes to the fifth game, that fourth game. In fifth game, Kentucky just dominated offense.

00:31:54
Speaker 3: Their offense was ridiculous. Four forty four is what they hit in the fourth game, which is redigulous. Most team said about two seventy five, four forty four. And then in the fifth game, when you only go to fifteen, they hit over five hundred percent.

00:32:07
Speaker 2: It was over early.

00:32:08
Speaker 3: It was crazy. But fifteen to seven, I mean, that's like a sixty two to seven game in football.

00:32:13
Speaker 4: I'll sent by Mario last night. A ks bar had the game on. That fifth game went by so fast he looked up like is it over?

00:32:18
Speaker 2: Like you didn't even know it ended?

00:32:20
Speaker 6: It did they were down for a little bit in a series like two to.

00:32:22
Speaker 2: One, right, yeah, yeah, two to one.

00:32:24
Speaker 6: Bag in Brooklyn delay. She had a few big plays, so.

00:32:27
Speaker 4: Huge plays time.

00:32:29
Speaker 6: Went for Kentucky.

00:32:30
Speaker 2: We got talking about we watched the game with an older gentleman.

00:32:33
Speaker 6: Yeah, who was that?

00:32:34
Speaker 4: I don't know who he was, but he was living and dying with every point.

00:32:38
Speaker 6: He was definitely carrying all the energy in the bar. He was leading the ship.

00:32:42
Speaker 4: He was parked right in front of the big screen that had the game on, living and dying every point, doing his own Jeff Picoro commentary Sandboy commentary during the game. But it was kind of fun to be there and watch with such somebody who was such a big fan.

00:32:54
Speaker 6: I didn't even really need to look up. I would just hear him and whatever he would say. I would learn from whatever is going on in the game.

00:33:00
Speaker 2: It's gonna havether call Rick. Who we got?

00:33:01
Speaker 3: Ryan?

00:33:02
Speaker 2: Is up next? Ryan?

00:33:03
Speaker 5: Go ahead?

00:33:04
Speaker 2: Ryan?

00:33:06
Speaker 9: So on Calzada. Is he's a guy that we were going after and we paid him that money because that's what he was worth. Or is he a guy that just kind of failed to us. We ended up painting you know that, right, because we hope he would live up to it.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: Fair fair question. Appreciate the phone called Jeff Well.

00:33:29
Speaker 3: I think that there's tiers when you're talking about some of these players. For instance, Uh, the kid that was Georgia's quarterback last year is now at Miami. I mean he's making obscene money. Carson back to go to Miami. I mean he's making like four million dollars this year. That's why he went, and that's why when Kentucky doesn't have that kind of money. So you're not going to get the tier one guys. So now you go to tier two and you say, okay, which of these guys fits our offense? And and they sif they they actually have three or four coaches that they're call coaches, maybe GA's, I'm not sure. But all they do all day is sit there and sift through the transfer portal. And each of them have different positions. Okay, Ryan, you've got the defensive backs, all right, and Mario you've got the defensive line, and Shannon you've got the offensive. So these guys every day are going through and seeing who the fits would be next year, to guys that they think will be going or who are in the portal so they sift through that tier two or tier three and they say, Okay, I like, this guy's got a chance, this guy's got a chance. Okay, Now how much is it going to take for us to get this guy or this guy? And you can price yourself out of a market, or maybe you overpay somebody to come. But that's why I'm just kind of leery of this. And you look at like Nico is a great example of this. I mean, you know, eight million dollars to go to Tennessee and now he's at UCLA and he's only making one So you know, he thought he was going to get a ton of money and he's getting half of what he was getting at Tennessee. He was getting two million a year for four years and now he's only getting a million. I just it blows my mind. And people are looking at me at here like with their eyes open. It blows my mind. I mean, we got twenty bucks on the weekend and that was to eat because our yeah yeah, our training table was only up Monday through Friday. So we get twenty bucks and Derek Ramsey I only got fifteen. So yeah, but you know, we couldn't have a job or anything.

00:35:22
Speaker 2: Like that.

00:35:22
Speaker 3: You even't have any money? Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't fathom walking around campus with a bank account that has ten or six five figures and they all do it. And like the other day I was, you know, I lived right over here off Tate Spa. Went into the malones at Drake's and the whole the offensive line was in there, and they're eating like kings. We used to go to a loud to square.

00:35:50
Speaker 5: Somebody bought us, bought us sandwich or anything. Yes, now you know you're breaking a violation, you know.

00:35:56
Speaker 3: And how about did you see where Wafford got six players suspended?

00:36:00
Speaker 5: If you saw that.

00:36:02
Speaker 3: And some of them was for less than eighty dollars and you're paying and it was for impermissible what what? What does that mean?

00:36:12
Speaker 5: It's the wild West right now, it is.

00:36:14
Speaker 3: And now they would you know what if that Wafford was Ohio State, you think those guys, Oh no, it's like we're see this is what you can't do. Uh oh no, Kentucky. See see you can't do that, but you can do what you're doing. It's okay, that's just wrong.

00:36:31
Speaker 5: That's the NC double A or nutshell. It's been like that for a long time. I think that's that's the frustration with the NC double are they treat it could be the same situation, different school, You get different punishments depending on who you are.

00:36:42
Speaker 4: We are live at Wild Eggs and Tates Creek kind of the grand opening the new Wild Eggs here at Tates Creek. We appreciate you guys. Everybody came out to join us. We got lots of giveaways to give away at some point, so hang around for that.

00:36:52
Speaker 2: We'll take our break.

00:36:53
Speaker 4: Go back to the phone lines eight five nine two eight oh two two eight seven. That's the Clark's Publish op phone number eight five nine. Okay, this is the Kentucky's Portradio. Welcome back to take a sports radio live from Wild Eggs and Tates Creek, the new Wild Eggs location out here in Tates Creek. It's a really nice facility, probably their biggest one of all of them. And the bar here is fantastic. Here you can get your apple cider, mimosa, your Bloody Mary's. So it's breakfast, bunch and lunch with the bar. Wild Eggs, Ryan Lemon, Jeff Piccoro, Shannon the Dude, and super Mario on his birthday today. But how about my boy Chris out here. Chris is turning fifty years old today. Happy birthday Chris. Yeah, we have our sources, Chris.

00:37:30
Speaker 2: They call me Scoop Lemon for a reason.

00:37:32
Speaker 3: He gotta like his T shirt, don't you have?

00:37:34
Speaker 2: Teacher says I still hate Latner on.

00:37:36
Speaker 4: So happy birthday to Chris fifty birthday into Mario as well. We want to give a shout out to to a guy's friend of ours, Gary Ball.

00:37:45
Speaker 3: Oh.

00:37:45
Speaker 4: Gary Ball has been doing the Scholastic Ball Report in Lexington for twenty three years. He's going to retire, but he helped kind of get the high school sports scene back in the forefront here in the Lexington AIO the last several years. And heels. I think we owe him a lot of credit for what he did for high school sports.

00:38:03
Speaker 3: Oh, he's he's a guru in that. I mean, you're asking about any that's something that's really hard and you have to really study that. Yeah, and he knows the schools, he knows the superintendents, he knows athletic director's coaches. He's just done a fantastic job. You know, he's had some health issues and he's he just powered right through it.

00:38:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, a guy that, uh, single handedly you know, got that network going.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: This classic Ball report.

00:38:27
Speaker 4: He started out on the radio and then to have a TV show out there at ky t so. Uh, a little tip of the captain Gary Balls. He rides off into the sunset eight five nine two two eight seven. That's our cars pumping shop phone number.

00:38:38
Speaker 9: Uh.

00:38:39
Speaker 4: They're going to announce Kentucky's permanent SEC opponents next.

00:38:43
Speaker 2: Week Tuesday, Tuesday, next week. We who do you for a call? Three of you guys? Who do you want and who do you think that they're going to get?

00:38:52
Speaker 6: Well, what do you mean permanent football?

00:38:56
Speaker 4: You're gonna have re permanent six rotating and I guess Tomas this morning that will be reevaluated every four years.

00:39:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they will rotate. You may get different, you may get three teams for year.

00:39:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I guess Vandy would obviously be the first one you would pick. I love the Tennessee rivalry, So I mean, even though they beat her brains and it feels like every year, I still like to play them every year. And then I don't know, like you were talking on the pre show, Missouri looks at Kentucky like we're a rival. I don't look at Missouri as a rival. I would rather play a team like Florida every year. But if we're we're ranking them in the tiers, the top pier team, middle tier team, bottom tier team. I think Georgia would probably be your your top tier team, yes, for your permanent a play. I think South Carolina would probably be your middle tier. And then maybe I don't know how Vandy's situation works out, but possibly Vandy as your bottom tier team, or I don't know, maybe maybe Mississippi State. I'm not really sure on that one.

00:39:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I think for sure it's Georgia. I think when you do this, you have to look at the other team's rivalries. Tennessee's got the Tennessee Florida is a huge game every year, right then the Georgia Florida is a huge Alabama, you know, So those type of things you got to Okay, that's there, Mississippi, Misissippi State.

00:40:08
Speaker 5: You know, Tennyson is gonna get bandig correct.

00:40:10
Speaker 3: Correct. So I think it's Georgia. And then either a combination of these two, either Missouri or South Carolina would be the middle tier. And I think Vanderbilt would be the other one that Kentucky gets.

00:40:21
Speaker 2: Oh, Georgia. Both of you guys think it's gonna be Georgia. I don't want to.

00:40:25
Speaker 5: I mean, it's gotta be somebody. I'd rather be. Georgia. Well, I mean it's Georgia, Alabama. I mean it's gonna be somebody one of those two you got and Alabama.

00:40:33
Speaker 6: I want to switch it up a little bit.

00:40:35
Speaker 2: You want Alabama to be our permanent appoint opponent for the next three I.

00:40:37
Speaker 6: Feel like we never really play Alabama though, disappointing. I mean, just switch it up a little bit, play Alabama.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: So if you if you had to pick your three teams, who would it be?

00:40:47
Speaker 6: Probably go Alabama Florida order for sure.

00:40:51
Speaker 5: I don't want Alabama.

00:40:53
Speaker 6: Lastly, I'm probably going to Mississippi State.

00:40:54
Speaker 3: I'd be Arkansas, Mississippi State, Candy, Yeah, let's go.

00:40:58
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:40:58
Speaker 4: Well I did see that one. I projected kind of what Mario just said. I think he said Georgia, South Carolina and Vandy. That's I think that was a strong possibility.

00:41:08
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. You know, there's there's eighteen teams and you're playing nine every year, so you're gonna play every team within a two year span. Yeah, and home and away every four years, you'll play. So we've we've been to Texas A and M one time. We played Texas A and M once since they've been in the league once.

00:41:25
Speaker 2: They've never been here every one time. They've never been never been to Lexington.

00:41:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've already We're gonna play Texas twice. They've only been in the league for two years and we've only played Texas A and M one time in the whole time they've been in the league.

00:41:37
Speaker 4: So we're gonna take our break, come back. We're live here at Wild Eggs in Lexington. Of course, they just got their just in, their pumpkin pie pancakes, their apple cider, mimosas. It's breakfast, brunch and lunch with the bar. They're also known for their all their signature breakfasts. It's it's really good, a fantastic So I'm get you guys coming in. We'll take our break. We've got a pancake flipping contest. DraftKings Odds says I am the favorite by far. We're doing that now right now, We're right back. This is Kaseuckuve Sports Radio