2024-12-17- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Thursday, Tuesday, December seventeenth, eight days before Christmas. I am in Louisville with Shannon, Ryan and Drew are in Lexington.

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Speaker 5: This is our one day this week.

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Speaker 4: We are not at the Ksbar and Gril will be there Tomorrow Thursday and a rare Friday without without a remote. This week you can give a shout Clarks Papa shall phone line. I can see the phone line, so I'll get to pick who comes on good News Shannon for Bob and Jamestown eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. A vision auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this disition sponsored by the T J.

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Speaker 5: Smith Lovus. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. Shannon.

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Speaker 4: Every time I come to downtown Louisville to this building, which ends up being once every I don't know, two three four weeks.

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Speaker 5: Uh. Two things I noticed. One, there are fewer and fewer people in this building.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, other people wandering around.

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Speaker 4: There was a time there were a lot of people in this building. That time is no longer the case. The second thing, and this is sadder to me, is there are no longer people in downtown Louisville at all, you know what I mean, like like the it is amazing to me. You know, I used to work down here, uh as a lawyer, and then we moved down here a few years ago. Like, no one is downtown. That's that tick. Cannot be good for the city.

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Speaker 2: I don't get to wander out around, you know, ten o'clock. Back I'm in here at six thirty in the morning, so nobody is out at that time anyway.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that's not good. It's not good this time. Nobody is walking around the streets.

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Speaker 5: That makes me. It makes me sad.

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Speaker 4: Is the city, you know, I don't think it ever completely whereas in Lexington that's not the case, but in Louisville it is.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of Lexington, I wasn't gonna leave with this, but it's a good transition.

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Speaker 5: Ryan, do you know what what Bloomberg is? Do you know what that is?

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Speaker 6: The Bloomberg Report?

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Speaker 5: What does that mean?

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Speaker 6: Business news report?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a it's a business like economy website.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 4: I told you there was a time I subscribed to the Bloomberg magazine, but then they cut it. Unfortunately, I guess it was I was the only person Ryan subscribing. But yesterday they still have a website and they released the twenty five places in the world that you want to make sure you visit in twenty twenty five. Now, Drew, that sounds exciting, right. You could pick any twenty five places in the world that you want to visit in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 5: Doesn't that seem exciting?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 7: I love to travel. I'd love to see this list all right.

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Speaker 4: On the list are four places in the United States, and then a lot of places around the world, and on this list Ryan Lim of where you should go in twenty twenty five, one of the.

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Speaker 5: Places is Lexington, Kentumy.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Does that surprise you that we would be one of the twenty twenty five places that you would want to visit in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 6: This is my feeling about it. I get it because Lexton is a beautiful town and with Keenland, the horse farmed it is. The brewery is absolutely beautiful. But when people come here in the middle of the summer and they ask me what they should do, I always draw a blank.

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Speaker 5: Given you draw blank, you can't really have one thing for them to do.

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Speaker 3: Don't put them on the Tourism Commission.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding. They didn't interview you for this article, did they.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So when they come in there like, hey, you know, Kentland's not in session. We did the brewery. What else is there to do in Lexington? Crickets?

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Speaker 5: You can't think of anything else?

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Speaker 6: Am I gonna tell them go to the Henry Clay Home.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know, the Mary Todd Lincoln House, Mary Todd Wenday afternoon.

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Speaker 6: Just go to the horse park, right, it's expensive?

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Speaker 5: What do you mean it's expensive.

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Speaker 6: It's like sixty dollars a person.

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Speaker 7: These days, we're assuming these people you're talking to.

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Speaker 5: All over the world.

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Speaker 4: I feel like if they got on a plane and flew from Argentina, Shane, and they can pay to go to the horse park.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right.

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Speaker 2: And you just paid fifty dollars to go up in the space needle at Seattle.

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Speaker 6: Well that was worth it.

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Speaker 5: Did that cost fifty dollars? Oh yeah, yeah, you paid fifty dollars to go up in the space.

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Speaker 2: It was pretty awesome once you got up there, like, the view was amazing. They had a glass floor, it rotated.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't cool. I wouldn't have done that. You all spent fifty dollars to just stand somewhere tall.

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Speaker 6: When we got up there, we got a drink that was twenty dollars. All your drinks are twenty dollars a piece up there.

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Speaker 3: I did get an old fashioned was twenty two dollars.

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Speaker 5: You are the two stingiest people I know, and you paid fifty dollars to ride in Ellen.

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Speaker 3: When are we ever going to be in Seattle again?

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Speaker 4: Well, THEA tournament is there this year, so you might go right.

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Speaker 3: Back well back up on the space.

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Speaker 5: Well you have.

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Speaker 4: There Anyway, the twenty five best places to go in twenty five it includes the other places in America were San Diego, but it's like the r Valley in Germany, Rome because it's fest of all Alaska was on there.

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Speaker 5: Cuba.

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Speaker 4: But Ryan also Lexington, Kentucky, So we should be proud of the state. The city that we do this show in is one of the places you should be.

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Speaker 6: Like I said that the beauty of the Lexton is what attracts people. I think so much. But I just have trouble telling people what to do once they get especially they have kids. We have kids. What do we do we become to Lexington.

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Speaker 7: If we've run a budget of you can't afford sixty dollars.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, then you to be honest with you and then you should just stay where you are because I don't think I don't think it's going to work for you.

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Speaker 5: All right. So yesterday Ryan, after the show drew.

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Speaker 4: All anybody wanted to talk about online, and when I ran into into people in person, was this hohle do you sit.

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Speaker 6: Down or not? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: It is amazing how this issue, which is percolated for fifteen years since we've been doing this show really seems to have hit its breaking point with Caleb the Stander.

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Speaker 5: Drew.

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Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but looking around, it seems like most people are on Caleb the standard side, although I will say there is a loud minority of people who don't like the idea of standing. I had somebody who sat in that section who said to me that he didn't like it because he thought Caleb was just standing to stand, that it wasn't cheering, he was just standing.

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Speaker 5: But Drew, you're.

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Speaker 4: Out and about do you think most people are pro the stander?

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Speaker 7: I do, and I also think it is it is everywhere. Not ten minutes after the show, I went to Kroger and someone talk to someone in Kroger about the standing debate. I mean, right after we ended yesterday. I've gotten messages from people that are pro Standerd and pro sitting. Just from section fifteen. I've had them split on that, but overall, I'd say it's like ninety percent in favor of the standing. And to be honest, anyone that has been against the standing, they've been a little older. Yeah, So I think it's a lot of Asian.

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Speaker 4: And I think this was far more than the dude that got his picture taken. And this guy, I think all of Section fifteen was at war because I've had I feel like every seat in the section has contacted me to tell me what I mean. First of all, I didn't know how many people I knew that's set in that section. And secondly, they all had an opinion. But here is the opinion, so I have some news on.

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Speaker 6: It, Ryan that I thought, Okay, all right, this is.

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Speaker 4: The opinion that I think is the most important. One of the questions we had shenon was what are you gonna arrest him for?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 8: Like?

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Speaker 4: What what is the what is the crime? This is apparently the committee of one oh one, that's the blue coats, apparently got an update to what they're supposed to be doing. So I had a blue coat, Shannon reach out.

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Speaker 5: To me anonymous.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this is hopeful.

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Speaker 4: This person is a blue coat, but they didn't want me to say their name, which I understand.

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Speaker 5: And here I'm going to read you the email.

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Speaker 4: I am a blue coat and as such, I'm asking you not to reveal blah blah blah blah blah. The correct correct action we have been. We have been told by the committee. Bitever should have been to tell the complaining fan that Caleb, the fan that was standing, was allowed to stand as long as he was in his assigned seat. We cannot tell fans at football or basketball games or any other events they're not allowed to stand unless they're standing in the aisle, so that we aren't compliant with the fire Coat.

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Speaker 5: Should the fan.

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Speaker 4: Become unruly, there's a chain of command to follow with would then get in touch with our section leader, who would go to a UK rep, who then could go to the police. It looked to me on the video like Caleb was not unruly, so the police should have never been called in the first place. And threats to have fans removed is not something we as Blue Coats are allowed to do individually.

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Speaker 3: So there you have it. He's allowed to stand as long as he's allowed to stand.

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Speaker 4: Then I had somebody from the police reach out Ryan. Yes, and here's what they say. The cop in question should have never done, should have never threatened arrest. The Blue Coats are the ones that decide the policy and rupp Ana. If they say he has to go, the cop can cite for criminal trespass if he were to refuse, they could arrest, but ultimately it's the Blue Coats who would decide. The officer doesn't decide on his own because it is a UK event. So it sounds to me like ultimately this is a UK decision out a cop decision, and ultimately the Blue Coats should not be able to should not tell a person who is just standing and not being unruly that they can't do it.

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Speaker 5: So it sounds like to me Ryan that unless the Caleb kid was doing something unruly, according to UK policy and according to police policy, he has a right to stand during the game.

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Speaker 6: And I'm glad you put that out there because we talked about on the pre show. I feel like UK can't come out and mandate that people can't stand up, and if they've given the Bluecoats the authority to dictate that, I think that's the best move. You can't tell people to sit now, you can't tell people they can't stand up and cheer.

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Speaker 5: And as I suspected, you can't just say I'm gonna arrest you, Drew, and I'll figure out what it is when we get in the car on the way right like there, it would have to be a trespass and it's only a trespass if UK tells him he can't sit.

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Speaker 4: And it sounds like to me that whatever blue coat told him he couldn't sit was in the wrong. At least if you listen to their paws.

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Speaker 7: That's good policy, especially if you're just in your own seat in the with the you'll go to jail. It's a little threatening. And my favorite part in all of this is while he's telling him to sit, everyone in Reparina stands up because oh yeah, it's a basketball game. Yeah, people stand up during basketball games. But as he's trying to handle it is when the whole crowd goes wild, just showing how silly it was that he's trying to get it got to sit down.

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Speaker 5: So here's why I think it's gonna happen, Shannon. At this next game.

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Speaker 4: Right now, they're lucky that Christmas is coming, and like some people will forget this right like when people will move on with their lives. But the next home game is the thirty first New Year's Eve, a date that I don't know, if you know, Shannon, people.

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Speaker 5: Tend to drink.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a party day.

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Speaker 4: It's a party day. Now, the games at two in the afternoons. It's not that late. I think Shannon, people are just going to be standing for the sake of standing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, right, I think they're going to be.

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Speaker 4: I think there's going to be a bunch of people who decide I am making my literal stand on principle here, and I think you're gonna have the potential for more of these little interactions, which is why, ultimately I believe that UK probably should send out some kind of statement, because otherwise I think you're asking for little fan fights all over the crowd at the next home game.

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Speaker 5: Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 2: Well, what kind of statement are you going to send out just to say, hey, reminder that fans are allowed to stand.

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Speaker 3: I mean, what kind of statement would you put out?

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Speaker 5: I mean yeah, I would say that.

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Speaker 4: I would say a reminder, we encourage our fans to be considerate, but they also have a right to stand in cheer for their team.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I like that. Just so you know, if you get behind a guy that's or a person that stands, it's bad luck. Well, yes, but that is allowed. Just so everybody's on the same page.

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Speaker 4: Would you send out a statement Ryan if you were if you were UK.

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Speaker 6: Only to say fans had the right to stand. You can't restrict from standing, and I and we talked about theesty. The one thing Caleb did, he said he checked with the people behind him, and the people sitting right behind him were okay with it, that he was being respectful to the fan.

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Speaker 5: That I did have a couple of people, to be fair say in the group that maybe Caleb was being a little chesty drew about standing and that he stood. He apparently stood at the beginning of the game, then he sat, and then he stood at the entire end of the game. And so there were some people that were like.

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Speaker 4: You know what, he wasn't being unruly, but he was also trying to get a reaction.

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Speaker 5: It was what some people in the section said. I wasn't there, so I.

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Speaker 7: Don't know, and I could understand a little bit of that. I mean, there are different levels of standing. I mean, some people stand a chair. Some it's a little more attention seeking, maybe to provoke something like this. Maybe you're like me and you have to stand up because your back hurts and you got it, you feel ninety years old. But if he's just up there kind of trying to get a reaction, by standing. That's different than if he's just upstanding and trying to cheer on Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: But what you just said there, he didn't stand the entire game.

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Speaker 2: He stood at the beginning, at the beginning, at the end, and that's what I want my fan base to do, like you're not going to stand the whole game to getting an end at least.

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Speaker 4: Well, so that is the official like what the rules are, okay going forward? That's from the Blue Coat. It sounds like maybe the Blue Coat overreacted, the cop overreacted, and now we'll see what ends up happening in the future.

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Speaker 5: But I just kind of have a feeling we're gonna see.

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Speaker 4: More of this through the year because certainly online the reaction is pro Caleb.

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Speaker 6: I tell you one thing, I think you talk about the Brown game, there'll be a lot of people look straight at Section fifteen and see what's going on.

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Speaker 5: You know, Section fifteen, Shan and what's where it all goes.

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Speaker 3: Down A bunch of troublemaker.

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Speaker 4: I'll say this Section fifteen's got a lot of leakers because there's a lot of Section fifteen.

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Speaker 5: Riders that were out there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there are, and I'm we're gonna have the cameras situated on section fifteen eight F. I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven to seven two seven to seven four five two five four.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna talk a little football.

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Speaker 4: And I got to ask Shannon about the drones because it's all any but he's talking about around the country, this chaos.

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Speaker 5: There you go, that's what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: I think, Shan on the thirty first, people are gonna stand for something or they'll fall for anything.

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Speaker 5: I really like Aaron Tippin.

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Speaker 3: Then you work what was the story you always?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, asked me to spotting, and I think that was a bad idea because he was lifting a lot more than I could spot.

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Speaker 5: I asked him to spot for me, didn't see for him.

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Speaker 3: His life was in your hands in that moment.

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Speaker 4: I know, and I would not have been able to save him if he had collapsed on him. He was in trouble. But I just just he was, you know, for that period of time, shann he was like a manly guy.

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Speaker 3: Right if you have all the people in the gym to spot.

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Speaker 5: I'm standing next to him.

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Speaker 4: I don't think he looked at me with my goggles and thought, that's who I would.

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Speaker 5: Like to have spot me. That kid right there, that kid right there, he's the he's the tough one. Some of the pro standing contingent Ryan is writing in. One person goes, I'd like to know if Caleb spent thousands of dollars on his season tickets.

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Speaker 9: Why.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that matters, right, Like, as long as he has the ticket, Ryan, it's not ours to judge, why, whether it's valid or not.

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Speaker 6: That's true, That's exactly right. I think Caleb even said an he's call yesterday. It was his first ever game at UK. He was excited to be there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean you don't get to if you have a ticket, you don't get to decide. Well, I spent more on this one than you.

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: One person writes, Matt, I think we should stand to cheer but sit to watch.

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Speaker 5: True, do you agree with that? Stand to cheer, sit to watch.

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Speaker 7: I do not agree with that. I think at some point you should take breaks. If you're standing the entire forty minute game, you might be attention seeing a little bit, but no, you can stand up. But certainly when the game gets tight late in the game, stand up the whole time if you feel like if the team needs it when.

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Speaker 4: You when you stand, whatever you're doing, if you stand, you you project more authority. Right, And that's why I have a stand at remotes.

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 5: What are you laughing at?

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Speaker 7: Uh? He's not exactly standing.

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Speaker 5: Are you laying down?

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Speaker 6: I have a fire.

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Speaker 5: It is a natural thing that if you stand or sit up straight, you will be more interested, you will project more authority if you lay down like a like a sloth, which is what.

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Speaker 4: Ryan I'm sure is doing right now. Shannon, You're inevitably not gonna be as mentally engaged.

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Speaker 5: You're just not.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna fall asleep.

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Speaker 5: Ye, so so Ryan.

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Speaker 4: I don't expect you to stand, but will you sit up with a decent posture.

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Speaker 7: I didn't say he's lying down. I'm just saying we have a nice, comfortable environment.

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Speaker 5: Can you sit up with a good posture?

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Speaker 6: Okay, I'm sitting at Drew told him my son told on me. Now I got i'm's gonna laugh.

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Speaker 3: I had to say something I could tell on a cozy couch.

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Speaker 5: I could tell that's exactly what he was doing. All right?

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Speaker 4: For this for the next before we go, the phones eight five nine eighty seven. Uh, do me a favor, Drew for this topic. I need you to turn Ryan's mike down.

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Speaker 7: Okay, all right, I got it right here in front of me.

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Speaker 4: Ryan, you because when I say this, you're gonna say something offensive and Shannon, I don't need that, okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, probably best that you he doesn't talk here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Ryan, mike off. This is just for Drew and Shannon.

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Speaker 4: Mark Pope said yesterday that he wants his team to have a championship chest.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I heard that.

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Speaker 4: Now you can see why I turned his microphone off. He wants Kentucky to have a championship chest. And here's what he meant by that. And I love this he said. And he's right about this.

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Speaker 6: But if you play.

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Speaker 4: Defense with your chest, like they teach you in the military how to stay in shitting right, chest out, if you play defense with your chest out, you can be physical. You can even sort of bump into the guys and they are very unlikely to call a foul. But if you reach and hit them with your arm, they'll call a foul. So he teaches his players to bump up against people with their chest because they're unlikely to call a foul, and he said, Oway and Butler and Noah of all people, are the best at it, and he's trying to teach the whole team to do it. He specifically was talking about a Maury Williams, don't slap at people, get a championship chest.

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Speaker 3: Do you like that makes sense to me?

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Speaker 2: I mean, because you know, most of the fowls that are called are when guys that are defending start fleeling with their arms.

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Speaker 3: So if you chest up, you get a little leeway.

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Speaker 2: You can bump the guy around, be physical that way, as long as you don't get in with your arms. Usually you see that reps won't call a foul there, So I think it makes sense.

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Speaker 4: Due the championship chest makes sense to me. Does it make sense to you?

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Speaker 7: Absolutely? Another example of Pope being a lot smarter than everyone else. The way he explained it, he went of the rules. I couldn't even keep up with it during the show last night. But what I do know is that you don't beat Duke without the championship chest. Because in that Journey video at halftime, they were screaming, use your championship chest. In that especially Coach Brooks, the assistant he was just shouting championship chest and that comeback. So that helped him beat Duke. So of course I'm gonna believe in it.

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Speaker 4: And you know when they got in that little fight, Channon, it was a championship chest.

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Speaker 5: None of them threw a punch. Jarison was just walking over there with his chest out going bam bam bam.

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Speaker 2: What was the other part that he said? A positive step? He made a positive step towards the level bench and chest up.

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Speaker 3: Championship chess and no harm, no foul.

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Speaker 4: So I am going to be watching in the next game, and I'm going to be counting the championship chess that I see the players do. Of course, at the time, now that I he says it, I think about it. Butler does that a ton, and I'm going to be watching for it in the next game. All right, now you can turn Ryan back. Welcome back, right, welcome back. I knew he was going to say something like about Dolly Parton or something like that.

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Speaker 5: Turn down, all right, Jeff, go ahead, Jeff.

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Speaker 10: Hey, guys, uh make one pro stands UK grab from two thousand and six. I've been asked to sit down by Blue Coats multiple times.

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Speaker 4: But now we know they can't do that. Now we know that unless you're being unruly, they can't tell you to sit down, and everyone should take that knowledge into the game.

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Speaker 10: But go ahead, well, and I think we've got a major opportunity to redefine what it means to come to a prena. Maybe create a family friendly zone. Right, you can see that out if if you've got a young one with you, if you've got an elderly person with you. But like a huge opportunity to redefine what it means to come to reparena for a game. Second is on the chest down. My my biggest critique of where we could potentially become elite is a Maari Williams playing with his hands up on both sides of the ball. He plays with his hands at his knees. He got a often foul on the low block.

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Speaker 4: He does often and that's why he didn't play in the second half. He had there's that play it was early in the second half where he didn't even have his hands up. The guy got the rebound and made the layup and Pope didn't put him back in after that.

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Speaker 10: So I think, you know, let's ride the ride with him and support him, but there's some major opportunity there to just become more imposed for him.

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Speaker 4: Totally agree. Appreciate the call. Championship chess, Shanon. I'm gonna come over there right now and give you a championship chest.

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Speaker 3: Let's go, let's go.

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Speaker 5: We'll take a break, be right back. This is KSR.

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Speaker 5: You know this song, Shannon or Ryan?

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Speaker 6: Oh, I absolutely know this song sanging a lot in church.

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Speaker 3: I've heard it.

00:23:17
Speaker 4: Yes, Okay, nobody wants to hear you sing the the It's it's like an old mountain song. This is not the version that I would that I that I would be, you know, used to, but standing on the promises of God. Uh, that's good. Mountain him Drew. Are you from They sing this in Madisonville.

00:23:39
Speaker 7: I don't think this was on our playlist, but I'm enjoying it. Okay, it sounds it sounds a lot like others we had. I don't think we had the specific.

00:23:46
Speaker 5: One, Okay, Shannon, you know we had this British guy down last week.

00:23:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, how did that go?

00:23:51
Speaker 4: So it went well, but I had to drive him from Louisville to Country Boy in Georgetown, right, and you know, he's not the most talkative guy in the world.

00:24:00
Speaker 5: So I just put.

00:24:01
Speaker 4: My my music my like CD was not CD, just what's on my phone right, all the my library on my Spotify. I just hit it, put it on like skip right, and I wasn't really thinking, and then all of a sudden, this old gospel hymn came on called that washed in the.

00:24:19
Speaker 5: Blood of the Lamb.

00:24:20
Speaker 4: You know, we've played that before on him, which is kind of a really weird song. It comes from the Bible, but it's like are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb? Which is kind of gross if you just take it literally, you know, I mean it's metaphorical, right that I.

00:24:38
Speaker 3: Was probably ready to do.

00:24:39
Speaker 4: But this dude was not a religious guy, I don't think. So he just hears this Sawi plane are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb? And I'm taking him through rural Scott County to Country Boy, and I could just see a look on his face where he was like, do I want to get involved in it?

00:25:00
Speaker 3: I'm not about to get slaughtered on the lamb.

00:25:03
Speaker 5: So I said to explain to him what washed in the blood of the Lamb was Ryan, because I don't think he knew.

00:25:09
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, it's in the Bible. It's in the Bible. We don't I'm not really washing you with blood of the Lamb.

00:25:15
Speaker 5: It's a metaphor.

00:25:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you had no idea what was going on, that is kind of a strange, weird song to hear.

00:25:24
Speaker 2: So you didn't feel compelled to, like, maybe play some British music for him, Like why would.

00:25:29
Speaker 5: You do that?

00:25:30
Speaker 3: Because that's where he's from.

00:25:31
Speaker 5: But you don't.

00:25:32
Speaker 3: If I was in Britain and they play people do.

00:25:35
Speaker 4: Not want when you visit India. You don't want people to play music from Kentucky. You want to know about India, right, I don't know.

00:25:43
Speaker 3: I'd probably like something I'm familiar with.

00:25:45
Speaker 5: So you just go to India and eat Hamburgers and.

00:25:48
Speaker 3: Put on some stone triple possy.

00:25:50
Speaker 5: That's what That's what's wrong with you all. That's what I was talking about yesterday. Don't you want to feel the culture you're in? You don't go to Arris and order a hamburger.

00:26:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would.

00:26:09
Speaker 5: I didn't say slaughter. First of all, it's not slaughtered by it's washed. That's different than slaughter, Drew, aren't you? Am I not right about that? That these these two they would just like to go to McDonald's in whatever country they're in.

00:26:23
Speaker 7: I know they'd be it Hooters India as fast as they could get there. I'm a little more like you. I would I would prefer to hear the local Indian radio go to the local Indian restaurant. I want to see how I could see.

00:26:35
Speaker 4: I could see right at Hooters. Bye, I could see it. Brent, go ahead, Brent, hey man, what's up?

00:26:44
Speaker 8: Are you guys?

00:26:45
Speaker 5: Good?

00:26:47
Speaker 8: So I just want to call in about the standing things. I know a lot of people are saying that therefore, and I feel the same way. I live like two and a half three hours wait, I'm getting come to a lot of basketball games because they're during the weekend, and because of the price and how hard it is to get tickets. If I pay for a ticket and I drive all the way there and it's against our biggest rival, Louisville, and that is an important game for us, I am standing I pay for that ticket just as much as that other person, and I have the right to stand. And if that police officer were to come down.

00:27:18
Speaker 4: And you don't have the right, you hang on a second, Hang on a second where you hang on just a second. You can't just start saying stuff when you said I have a right to do it. Just for the record, no you don't unless u K says you do. All right, there is no god given right to go into a building that you are not the owner of and do whatever you want. If u K says you have a right, then you do. If u K says you don't, then you don't. So I do think it's important to understand UK decides this, and so while I think I agree with you, they should decide that you don't just have a right to have a ticket and do whatever you want.

00:28:03
Speaker 5: UK still gets to decide.

00:28:06
Speaker 8: Matt, Matt, that's within reason. Everyone understands that. But if that person has a right to sit in that seat because they bought the ticket, then I have the ability to stand.

00:28:14
Speaker 5: Only a few K says you do. Only a few K says you. If you that.

00:28:20
Speaker 8: We couldn't. So that person is making a statement and getting upset about something that you K never said that we couldn't do that.

00:28:26
Speaker 4: I think that part is correct. You're exactly right. But that's why I think Ryan it's important for UK and I appreciate the call to make clear because I just don't want to see our fans fighting each other on the thirty first.

00:28:40
Speaker 6: And that's what's called kind of hinted to. You know, the fact that this was a huge rivalry game, I think makes this story stand out even more because you want your crowd to be you want the home court advantage, you want your crowd to be into the game. You're playing Louisville for crying out loud?

00:28:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike, what's up? Mike? Mike?

00:29:01
Speaker 9: Hello?

00:29:01
Speaker 4: Go ahead, sir, Hey, who are what's up? Take me off speakerphone and go ahead?

00:29:10
Speaker 9: Okay, how's that?

00:29:12
Speaker 5: Not much better? But go ahead?

00:29:17
Speaker 8: Okay, Now I'm a speaker, So there you go.

00:29:20
Speaker 5: There you go.

00:29:22
Speaker 8: I just had an idea for nickname. How about the im portables?

00:29:29
Speaker 10: The what.

00:29:31
Speaker 9: The im portables?

00:29:33
Speaker 5: What does m come from the portal? But what does import Yeah, but importables would mean like we're importing them from another country.

00:29:43
Speaker 8: Well, they all came out of the portal.

00:29:45
Speaker 4: Okay, the im portables, Yeah, okay, all right, Well I appreciate the call.

00:29:54
Speaker 5: Ed, what do you think, Shannon Importables?

00:29:56
Speaker 3: No, No, not gonna work.

00:29:59
Speaker 2: We haven't had a nickname since Devastation Incorporated, straightcas the Devastation in Corporation.

00:30:04
Speaker 5: Sreycash was wonderful. All right, I got a question for you, Ryan Ready.

00:30:08
Speaker 4: Oklahoma state coach Mike Gundy agreed to give one million dollars back of his salary every year for nil. Florida State coach Mike Norville has three years left on his deal, agreed to give one point five million back of his contract for nil. Both of them said they both had very, very bad years last year, and both of them said they were doing it because they didn't think they had earned that salary and it would be better off going to the players because they didn't earn it. Are you surprised a coach would do that? And do you think when coaches don't do well that should be something that they do.

00:30:54
Speaker 6: I think it helps their relationship with the fan base if they make that sacrifice, say hey, look, this was not to our standards. I didn't do a good job. This is what we're going to do to solve the problem.

00:31:06
Speaker 7: Drew, It's it's really weird.

00:31:14
Speaker 5: That they did that.

00:31:14
Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's cool, but I would say ninety nine percent of people wouldn't do that. I'm kind of shocked they did it.

00:31:21
Speaker 5: On some of them did though.

00:31:22
Speaker 7: I know that's why I'm saying I'm surprised, And if I'm a fan, that would go a long way with me. But to have an expectation or to think it would continue, I wouldn't think so. But again, the fact that the two have already done it, would.

00:31:33
Speaker 5: You all do it?

00:31:35
Speaker 4: Okay, So let's just let's put yourself in their shoes. They're making whatever number they're making. I don't know what those two guys are making. But they also think a big part of their problem is they can't get guys in the portal. They can't get guys that are good enough.

00:31:47
Speaker 5: Would you sacrifice your money in the short term to try to have success that could then potentially get you more money in the long term or would you just say, this is what you said, you're paying me.

00:31:59
Speaker 3: You're paying me, that's why you have contracts, Shane, and I know you money I'm getting.

00:32:06
Speaker 5: That is no doubt in my mind you would pay the money. What about what about you? Ryan Drew The.

00:32:11
Speaker 7: Thing is you have to put yourselves in their shoes. They're so wealthy. That's money that they will likely never realistically see at the end of the day. They've already made so much. It's probably a little easier for them to make that call than me or Ryan sitting here. But I still think I don't know that I would do it, and I think it's a big ask of someone.

00:32:28
Speaker 5: Well, it's about it.

00:32:28
Speaker 4: In the percentage of let's say Ryan, you're making one hundred thousand dollars, I mean this is like ten percent of their salary. Would you give back ten in order to try to make it to where you could do your job better to potentially make more and have more success down the road.

00:32:45
Speaker 6: See, that's it. I think you know you You take the hit now with the hope it's going to pay dividends in the future years.

00:32:52
Speaker 3: With the hope. There's no proof.

00:32:54
Speaker 5: There isn't proof.

00:32:55
Speaker 6: But I could another bad year, I could get fired and.

00:32:57
Speaker 5: Have you and have nothing.

00:33:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then you'll have your buyout.

00:33:02
Speaker 5: You will, but then you might not be able to get another coaching job.

00:33:07
Speaker 3: Well, if you're coaching at that level, you'll find another player.

00:33:10
Speaker 4: I don't know if Mike Norville will I don't know if Mike Norville will get another big time coaching job if he fails at Florida State. If he completely fails at Florida State, I think teams will go. If you couldn't win there, why do we think you're gonna win here?

00:33:23
Speaker 6: And I think he's a guy that's a good example because Florida State has this great tradition. So he's like trying to say, hey, look, I'm going to donate this money from my own salary. We're going to turn this around. His hope is they do turn it around, so he stays the Florida State coach.

00:33:36
Speaker 4: I certainly would do it, and I have done versions of this over the years many times, Like the first four or five trips we took across the country. I paid for all of those. Yes, you did, because I knew it would be good content. I knew it would help us build the brand of the show, and I knew it would pay dividends in the future. Now, when you finished that and you've paid six to eight thousand dollars, you go, man, that was a lot of money for us to drive around the country. But Ryan, the goal is to create a better product for them going forward. And I kind of think that's what they're doing, just on a much larger level.

00:34:16
Speaker 6: So you know, I gotta ask you this.

00:34:18
Speaker 5: I know you're gonna say, what about Stoops?

00:34:20
Speaker 6: He has gone on record and he said that one time, but he said he.

00:34:24
Speaker 4: Used to be you weren't allowed to do it exactly, And there were a lot of coaches that would say I would do this if given the chance.

00:34:32
Speaker 5: Yep, well now you can.

00:34:35
Speaker 6: So we're coming off a bad season, so now you can do it.

00:34:38
Speaker 5: I mean, would you do it if you were like do you think stupid? First of all? Do you think Stoops would do it?

00:34:43
Speaker 8: Like?

00:34:44
Speaker 5: Stually? Hold that thought?

00:34:45
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00:35:53
Speaker 6: If I sit here and put my fanhat on, and I see my coach after a four and eight season, after he's already said he would do it, go ahead and do it, it would resonate with me.

00:36:05
Speaker 5: Yes, you think it would help his standing? What about you, Drew?

00:36:09
Speaker 7: I think it would help a little bit because one of the things I see working against him most is a lot of people want to say nine million a year, top ten highest paid coach. Well, if he gives a million back, it's only eight million a year, so he's not getting paid as much and he's at least acknowledging that I didn't live up to what I'm paid to do in that season, and I'm gonna, you know, put it back towards helping.

00:36:29
Speaker 5: It would be kind of ponying up.

00:36:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, he would be taking his own words right and putting him into practice.

00:36:36
Speaker 5: Do you think it would make a difference though, for the fans, because the worst would be to give back a million dollars that it doesn't changing body's mind.

00:36:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the worst, you know it would be.

00:36:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it would build up a lot of good will for the fan base considered.

00:36:48
Speaker 6: I think it would too. Yeah, especially if you see maybe other coaches in the SEC, like if Shane Biemer did it.

00:36:54
Speaker 4: Well, I saw apparently Chip Kelly did it, which I did. I guess he's in Ohio State as the offensive coordinate.

00:37:00
Speaker 3: And if you do it, do you do it quietly, like behind the scenes or do you make a production?

00:37:04
Speaker 5: I think that's a good question. Do you go you know, I'm phoning it up everybody? I mean, I think you would have to do it publicly. If you did it privately, nobody would even care.

00:37:13
Speaker 4: I will say, part of the reason gundhy And and Norville did it is it's in the conferences that are not making as much money as the SEC, so there's probably less reason to do it in the SEC, to be honest, But it is it live is like an interesting question.

00:37:29
Speaker 5: And in Michigan, go ahead, and.

00:37:32
Speaker 9: Hey guys, good morning. So I was thinking, out of the two quarterbacks in town, which one do we would prefer to have?

00:37:43
Speaker 4: And when you say the two quarterbacks in town, what do you mean? There's the kid from Duke Malik Murphy. And then is there another one here?

00:37:50
Speaker 6: Drew?

00:37:50
Speaker 5: I don't is there another one visiting right now?

00:37:53
Speaker 7: The Calzada's visiting today?

00:37:55
Speaker 5: Who's that? I don't know? Incarnate he played at A and M.

00:38:01
Speaker 7: That's where he was really shunned.

00:38:03
Speaker 4: For me, I'd like the Duke kid because he went nine and three, and so I know that kid can win and I know he can play.

00:38:11
Speaker 9: Uh.

00:38:12
Speaker 4: Hell, he started his career at Texas, So for me, I'd like Malik Murphy over it. But the Incarnate word kid, he had success, but it was at a different level. So go ahead, all right.

00:38:24
Speaker 9: So, and as remarked Stoops, the more money he gets back, I would be very happy. And the more he gets happier, I would get.

00:38:36
Speaker 5: So So if he made no money, he'd Hay.

00:38:40
Speaker 9: And these cats everybody trying to come up with a name. You know, these are older cats, you know, And so I came up with cat daddy.

00:38:51
Speaker 4: I'm not calling cat. I'm not appreciate. I'm not calling it. I know you're not calling a twenty two year old kid my cat daddy. I'm just not I'm just not doing that. I have about three come on, I have, I have the lines. I'm not calling twenty two year old. I'm not looking at Jackson Robbins and going, hey, can't daddy like I'm not doing Bill? Go ahead, Bill, Bill, that's you Bill. No Bill, Let's go to Joe. What's up, Joe?

00:39:22
Speaker 11: Hey, how's it going? Guys? So, looking at the stats for Kentucky basketball shooting, I think we're wildly underestimating this seat ceiling from a three point perspective, Kobe Bray's career average is forty four percent, shooting fifty three. Lamont Butler's thirty three percent for a career, And so you're shooting forty eight percent this year. The rest of the roster is shooting at their percentage or a percent below minus Jackson Robinson, which is thirty three percent for his career and thirty percent this year. You have to be that our team is gonna shoot better than thirty six percent. I'm agree for the year and they're all going to improve on those numbers.

00:40:07
Speaker 5: I think that's a great point. I appreciate the call, Drew.

00:40:09
Speaker 4: Are you worried at all about the fact that outside of Brea and Butler, the rest of the guys really have not shot well from three since those first three or four games.

00:40:23
Speaker 7: I'm not worried, but I can't say that many more times. It's been what six out of seven games now they haven't shot it well. The percentage wasn't batting as little, that just didn't take as many as they typically take. It still seems very uncharacteristic. Like Coller said, the numbers just aren't lining up with what these guys have done in the past. So I'm not worried yet. But in three weeks if they if it hasn't got any better, I think you can't ignore it anything.

00:40:45
Speaker 5: It's been a number of games in a row, Ryan, where we've not shot the three.

00:40:48
Speaker 10: Well.

00:40:49
Speaker 4: I mean, Lamont hit six for six, but if you took that out, it's been a pretty terrible run of three point shooting the last few games.

00:40:56
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm I'm still on the boat that the good shooting's coming. I mean, Otega and Jackson and Andrew Carr, these guys are better shooters than what we've seen, and so I think it's coming. I think they're gonna have some hot days where they're gonna just light it up from outside.

00:41:10
Speaker 5: We're still not shooting threes well, and yet we still lead the country in score.

00:41:14
Speaker 3: That was my thing.

00:41:15
Speaker 2: Didn't shoot the ball particularly well against Lovell, still score ninety three points.

00:41:19
Speaker 3: What happens when you do You're gonna.

00:41:20
Speaker 5: Shoot well against Gonzaga.

00:41:21
Speaker 4: Didn't really shoot well against I mean, we've had a bunch, You're right, I mean, we're gonna We're gonna have an.

00:41:27
Speaker 5: SEC game where we absolutely murder a team. I don't know who it's gonna be.

00:41:32
Speaker 4: I think that's coming, but we're gonna have some team that we absolutely destroyed.

00:41:38
Speaker 3: I don't kind of like those nineties Kentucky teams.

00:41:40
Speaker 4: Yes, now, there's probably gonna be a game where we lose by fifteen to somebody, we shouldn't because we're ice cold, but we're gonna have a team that we absolutely destroyed. By the way, somebody who knows this better than me says that they prefer the incarnate word. Quarterback Zach what's his name?

00:41:58
Speaker 2: He uh?

00:41:59
Speaker 7: He led A and M and a comeback against number one Alabama through like the game winning touchdown tied it up. So before he stepped down to FCS, he he had a good year at A and M. Was Calzada, Calzada, exact Calzada. So so his A and M tape is where you where you want to watch?

00:42:15
Speaker 4: Okay, well, incarnate word. He took him to the playoffs and over the numbers. They've never been there before. So height five nine, two oh twenty two eighty seven, we will take a break, very backs, KSR