2024-11-04- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 6: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Monday, November the fourth.

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Speaker 5: I am Matt Jones.

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Speaker 6: It is college basketball opening day here in the state of Kentucky.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's exciting. I'm the big day. College basketball starts today.

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Speaker 6: The UK women's team plays at five, the men's team plays at seven.

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Speaker 5: We are here at Chaos.

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Speaker 6: Bar and Grill where today we will have our pregame show at four point thirty. We'll show the women's game at five, men at seven. All in Lexington College Basketball. The first game starts at noon today. There'll be games all night long. It is the start of something new in Kentucky, and I'm excited. You can give us a shot on the Clark's Puppet Shop full line eight five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven a vision auto glass text machine seven seven two seven four five two five four in this diition sponsored by the T. J.

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Speaker 5: Smith Lobbins called TJL make them pay.

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Speaker 7: Ah.

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Speaker 6: There, you know, we got a depressing football game on Saturday night, not as pressing as.

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Speaker 5: I thought it would be, but a little depressing. We got basketball.

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Speaker 6: So I'm sitting here going you know, we've had this issue for three weeks, basketball football, basketball football. We've led every day with basketball. I think in order to pump the show up and get the momentum in the second hour going into the rest today, I'm gonna do basketball in the second half so that we get ourselves preview. I think we'll talk about the football game, we'll kind of put it to rest, which is maybe what most people are doing for the season, and then we'll go to basketball for the second half.

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Speaker 5: So Ryan, we'll start with football.

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Speaker 6: When the game was over Friday night or Saturday night, I sort of posted like.

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Speaker 5: Could have been worse. I actually think they.

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Speaker 6: Played decent uh and and and some people agree with me, but a lot of people didn't like that. Oh mister, moral victory, moral victory. I don't know what everybody else was expecting. I was expecting us to get absolutely pounded. And when you consider all the injuries and Brock went out, I thought a ten point loss wasn't the worst thing in the world. But I've already given my opinion on the post game show, et cetera.

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Speaker 5: What did you think?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it could have been worse, you know, thank me. Their kicker missed three field goals.

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Speaker 5: They was good for us.

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Speaker 2: They dropped the touchdown past the end zone, past the end zone. But our guys came and showed a little little heart, little fight, little attitude, and I don't you know, that's been missing the past couple of weeks. So I was overall pleased to hold him to an ten point game. Really, you're down three and have the ball when Brock got sacked and the fumble on the lito, But you had a chance right then to maybe even take the lead lead in the game.

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Speaker 6: I called Ian Fitzsimmons last night, who who called the game for ESPN Radio. He's their field reporter. So I just asked him what because the first time he had been seen Kentucky play. They hadn't had a game of Kentucky's in two years. And I said, what was it like on the field And he said, Matt, I want you to just tell your fan base this. That team fought as hard as a team could fight. He was like, they left it all in the field. He goes, they were all hurt, they were all done. He said, Brock got as knocked out as I've seen a dude get. He was like, that was he He goes, I felt sorry for that guy, and he said he was just like, look, they they're not a great team. He was like, but they did play as hard as they could play. And that's kind of how I felt after the game, and he saw it up close. I was worried they were just checked out for the year. I mean, they were thin and still managed to show up and play well. I also thought the offense would had no hope of finding the end zone, and they.

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Speaker 5: Got it once.

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Speaker 8: And I also liked they drove down the field. I mean, it was fourth and two and it gets broken up. But I even liked that Stoops went for it there did you like that. I was yelling at my TV go for it. It didn't work out. I'm not gonna look back and change anything. I wanted him to go for it in the moment.

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Speaker 5: We weren't gonna win that game with field goals. We just weren't.

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Speaker 8: And it'd be great to land that first punch if you just had a great drive down the field. Even the play call wasn't that terrible. It's just Tennessee defended it really well and broke up the pass. So I loved it on the first two drives an offense that I had no faith in, first when they had a chance to score. In second, when they actually punched in a touchdown to go up.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, what I was most excited about with the team was the fight.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what any of it means for the future. I mean, we had a lot of dudes out. Barrion was out. Who knows if we even see barring again, you know, I mean, a dude that has to go to the hospital, that's not a little thing. I kind of wonder even with Brock, I mean, if he really was kind of knocked out, what does that mean? You had five starters out on defense, and then you lost another one during the game.

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Speaker 5: At one point.

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Speaker 6: I saw an article this morning that said at the end of the game, we only had two healthy scholarship cornerbacks on the roster that were active, that we were playing a couple guys who didn't even play cornerback there at the end. I did think there was a dude that would be chasing Tennessee receivers and I was like, that guy's too big to be a cornerback. And it turns out he wasn't. He was a linebacker that was having to play cornerback. So again, you know, I get the frustration of the season. I'm frustrated with the season. I don't know what you do with this program going forward, and I think there are serious questions. But just that night, I actually, I mean me, before the season, we were gonna go nine to three, but we lost it to Tennessee by ten, I would have gone, well, that seems about right right. I mean, I don't know, did people think we were gonna win this game?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think if you'd won a couple of those that Auburn Florida, Andy, if you'd won a couple of those Saturday night would be like eh.

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Speaker 6: But if we had won all those games and then we went and lost to Tennessee by ten, would anyone have been surprised?

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Speaker 2: I mean, we wouldn't be up up six.

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Speaker 6: I mean they're the seventh or eight team in the country playing at night. I mean I I thought we could lose by forty. I really did going into the games. We'll never have the answer, but it is. This has the been the weirdest team to have three playoff contenders on the ropes in the fourth quarter, you win one of them. How about we three Top hill three. This is the stat that will define this team for me. We played three top ten teams and we led at halftime in every game, and then we lost by double digits to three teams that stink like you led. There is a I don't think oh Miss makes the playoff, but Georgia and Tennessee, one of them certainly would make the playoff. They might both make the playoff. They do play each other, so that may eliminate one of them. But those three teams are all playoff worthy, and we led all three of them too, of them.

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Speaker 5: On the road.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think it's any coincidence in those three games it's because our defense played really, really well in all three of those And it's no coincidence. The reason our defense played well because the guys upfront played well in those games. They brought it man. That mean that that they play with some attitude.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's not crazy the play. The game changed on the Brock play. I mean, they get the first ball, they drive down the field, they miss a field goal, and I thought to myself, it's ten to seven and we have the ball.

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Speaker 5: If we score here, the butts.

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Speaker 6: Are gonna get tight, right like they're gonna start, because especially if we scored a touchdown.

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Speaker 5: But even if we had gotten a field goal, I think.

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Speaker 6: There's a sense of uh oh, and you would have made it where their next drive was their most important drive of the season, and it's third and one or third and three, and not only do we does Brock get he gets knocked out. It's not just that we lose the ball. He gets kind of knocked out. And then you know, then it was in.

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Speaker 7: That they got a short field and they scored.

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Speaker 5: They got a short field and they scored.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I think at that point it was inevitable and that play to some extent symbolizes the season. He didn't have a chance, now he did. The guy was coming right at him. So I guess there's an argument, but I think he was getting hit no matter what. Maybe he could have kept it from fumbling, but he was getting rocked either way. The offensive lineman just got completely beat. I'll say this about the offensive line. First half is as good as they've played all year, to their credit. Now in the second half, they got blown up. I mean they got blown up.

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Speaker 2: They think got worn down. Man. Because defensive the Tennessee's defensive front pretty good.

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Speaker 6: Oh, there's like the second best front in the country. But I do have to give him credit. They were better in the first half. I wish they'd given bald to Willcox more. Yeah, do you agree?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: And it was frustrating after the game when Bush Hampden was like, we've probably waited too long to focus on Willcox.

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Speaker 7: You think his average is insane.

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Speaker 8: Every time he touches it, he seems to break a good play if he can keep his shoes on. All right, So we played that hurt Brock that's a top fifteen pick, one of the best defenders in college football, and the left side of the line just said, here you.

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Speaker 6: Go, man against the red shirt freshman. I mean, like a red shirt freshman who has really struggled. Although to his credit I thought was better this week than he was last week when he got that grade.

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Speaker 8: That on that one play, the whole line just left it open for him to tee off on Brock.

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Speaker 6: And you're right, top fifteen pick. He just didn't have I mean, he didn't have a chance Gavin Wims that came in. This is my only regret about the game. I felt like they said on the broadcast, the first fifteen plays were scripted.

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Speaker 5: Yes, boy, we look good in those fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Had some rhythm, had some rhythm. Yes, fifteen plays looked pretty good.

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Speaker 6: And then apparently the first Gavin the gav the first ten Gavin.

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Speaker 5: Plays were scripted.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't know that, and they looked pretty good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, can we script the whole game?

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Speaker 6: Because I will say the two times that our offense looked good were the times that they said those plays were all scripted.

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Speaker 2: I love the fact they gave it Gavin, you know, at a chance to get his confidence and can connect a couple of passes through the beautiful pass to Macklin and the end zone and even their two point conversion to Macklin was was a dot, but.

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Speaker 8: It is have we wasted Macklin? Those are two great catches been targeted all year, Those were some pro catches.

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Speaker 6: So you do wonder, Drew if the if the scripted plays, that's the best the offense has looked since the old miskeit where those were the were the beginning of the game with Brock because not I mean not only did we the first two drives we got inside the ten and then we scored a touchdown.

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Speaker 5: Those are two great drives.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and then the first drive by whims It it was three and out, but then the next drive we score a touchdown.

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Speaker 5: You do kind of wonder, well, maybe we just need to take all.

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Speaker 6: The decisions out and just go by the script because at least that worked.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Did anyone have fifty yard run on the first play from scrimmage? I mean, yeah, nice little I guess it's a little bit of a drawing right up the middle, absolutely untouched, setting them up and you know they didn't score, but that was a positive start for a team that's really struggled.

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Speaker 6: So all right, so where are we We're not gonna we probably after today. It's very unlikely anybody will bring up football for the next two weeks. I just know how this show goes. I think when you consider we have a basketball game start tonight, we got one next Saturday. Duke is Tuesday. Chances are football is going away for two weeks. So before it goes away, where are we in terms of what do you think the future is? What's the rest of the season, what's the future? Lose a lot of starters at the end of the year. Mark was kind of surprisingly honest when he said, basically, I got to use this group break to see.

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Speaker 5: Who's gonna be here next year. And I don't think he.

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Speaker 6: Said it, but I think part of that is whether he's gonna be here next year. These two weeks, we won't know what happens unless it leaks, but they're probably gonna decide the future of this program in the next two weeks.

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Speaker 5: So what's it gonna look like?

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Speaker 2: That's they'll keep it quiet. We definitely won't know anything what's going on. I want Stoops to want to be here. I want him to be my coach. I want him to be So you do.

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Speaker 5: Want him to return? Yes? Do you think he will that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know because because it's his call, it's not even Mitch Barnhardt's call. It's gonna be his call. I hope he gets mad and fired up and doesn't want leave the program the way on this four win season. If they win for win, forgetting you're.

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Speaker 6: I hate to put you on the spot, but I just did, Ryan, do you want him to be here?

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Speaker 8: I hope he can win the Louisville game and shake our hands and say I've taken as far as I can. That would be my favorable outcome at this point.

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Speaker 6: I've just so you are quesing towards you think there needs to be a separate So I question his energy before this year started, before they had lost a single game, before he had made a single complaint about night games or in IL.

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Speaker 8: I just it's twelve years in an SEC football job. I just wonder how much he has left. But as the year goes on, I've just added to that wondering even more if he's still all the way in.

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Speaker 5: Do you think he will be back?

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Speaker 8: Sure I would have said yes for one more ride before losing four straight, but I think he's really got a question where his team is right now.

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Speaker 7: In the work it's gonna take to save it.

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Speaker 8: Whatever happens, we're in for a long November because if he leaves, obviously you have a coaching search, but it's gonna there's gonna be a lot of roster moving. I think I think it'll be guys leaving and he'll be searching for answers for next season. If not, so, we're we're heading for some chaos.

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Speaker 5: The last thing you said is how I make my decision.

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Speaker 6: I do believe Stoops been a good steward of the program, and I do believe he wants it to be left back.

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Speaker 5: I need to know what.

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Speaker 6: Is gonna happen at the end of the year. I'm just gonna be up front. If Dame Key, barry On Brown and a lot of these young guys are like, hey, we gotta go somewhere else, then I think it's time for the transition. I mean, I think you need now. If you find out that these dudes are gonna come back, that you have some money to go get an offensive line, then I can be talked into it. But if I if what I think is gonna happen, which is we're gonna lose most of the people that are good and we're gonna be starting new, then we might as well just start new.

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Speaker 5: That's kind of how I look at it.

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Speaker 6: But let's but I think a lot of it does depend on what like like Cutter Bowley, is he gonna stack? I don't know that we can assume that completely. To be honest with you, I have you know, I had a conversation this weekend. I'm not saying it will or not, but I think they're gonna consider. Well, I think everybody's gonna consider what they're gonna do, So I would want to know the answers to that those questions and then make the decision of what's going forward. And the other thing is I would say tomorrow, if you think you want to be here three or four more years, okay, if you want to be here one more year, then does that really make sense?

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Speaker 7: Because are we.

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Speaker 5: Gonna be good next year?

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Speaker 7: Like really good? Hard?

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Speaker 6: That schedule's hard and we're losing a ton of starters. So if you think you're almost done now, that's that's the way I would look at a FIB nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four we'll take your calls about the game. There's a ton of stuff to get to all around elections tomorrow. Uh, there's some news on the non revenue UK sports that I'm kind of hearing that I think is important to chat about because there's a lot they're no UK athletics and just college athletics as a whole has about two or three months of massive change coming that hopefully sets up the next twenty years.

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Speaker 5: But it's gonna be a huff two or three months and we'll take a break and Mary back. It's KOSR.

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Speaker 2: Walk.

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Speaker 5: I'm back.

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Speaker 6: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at ks bar. A lot of folks here. We got people from Owensboro, Paducah, Wayne County, Centerville, Ohio, and uh from Right State from Dayton, So people from all over talking from right state background knowledge with you guys. Now. I've been to Right State who we played tonight, have been there twice. I saw Butler play at Right State. That guy reminded me I thought it was Dayton, but it was Butler. That was when I worked at CBS and then Shannon. I saw Rusted Root play at Right State when I was in college. Do you remember Rusted Root Simme i'm away, Simme i'm away.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I know that.

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Speaker 5: All right, Well, you're.

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Speaker 6: Gonna look it up and play it in the next segment. You'll know the song when you when you hear it. I guarantee Shannon.

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Speaker 5: At least with you.

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Speaker 2: Guys drove up from Trancy to Right State to go to this concert.

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Speaker 6: Me and Chris Tomlin I think went to Chris liked that kind of music and I like that song.

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Speaker 5: It was very hippie like.

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Speaker 2: This was.

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Speaker 6: This was late nineties before every concert smelled like weed. Now they all smell like weed, but back then that wasn't the case, and that one did.

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Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, so it's gonna be that kind of thing.

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Speaker 7: Sounds like good time on campus.

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Speaker 5: That's on campus, isn't it. Or it's yeah, that arena.

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Speaker 2: It's it's it's bigger than you would think.

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Speaker 5: It's like, it's a decent sized little imember.

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Speaker 2: When Kentucky played Right State in Cincinnati maybe during the Tubby era, Okay, it's one of mile my links. We played him in baseball.

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Speaker 6: One of the reasons I always know Right State is the Horizon League, which is the league they play and that's the first conference tournament to start. So you know, I really like brackets, and that's always the first bracket release, and I'm like, okay, Milwaukee versus. And then they like I think Valpo was in that league for a while, and Detroit and Ooey Pooey and Right State and like, I know all those schools because I would look at those early Horizon League brads.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to get your take on the Sun Belt bracket when we get to that topic.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I had that to talk about to day. I love the Belt bracket, by the way. I think it's great one person rights. Matt.

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Speaker 6: When did rugby scrums become legal in football? I don't remember games have allowing that. I had that same thought, Like that touchdown Tennessee scored at the end, I don't remember. I thought they used to blow the whistle on that stuff drew and now they just kind of let them go for a while.

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Speaker 8: They should have blown a whistle there. That's sound like a sore loser in defeat, but that that should have been stop dead. You go back to Florida, same situation with Kentucky a few weeks ago, and they blow it dead immediately where Kentucky didn't even have the chance to do that.

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Speaker 6: But I don't remember they because they used to always worry about people getting heard, and now they just let them turn into rugby scrums.

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Speaker 2: I thought the rule was maybe you got something, can tell me different. As soon as forward progression is stopped, you blow the whistle.

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Speaker 7: So stopped.

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Speaker 5: But that looks stopped.

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Speaker 6: I mean it looked like a scrum, and it looked like they were kind of stuffed.

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Speaker 2: Did look like it did stop there for a moment. Well, that isn't that when the whistles should blow the play dead?

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Speaker 6: You know in the NFL sometimes they'll have like a quarterback sneak and they'll have a lineman run behind the quarterback and almost push him in as they do it push push, no, no, Well, the touch push is just the guy goes forward and then the running back comes behind. But I saw one the other day where the dude almost like knocked his quarterback over to pick me in. Almost It's almost like, why don't they just pick him up and carry him in?

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Speaker 8: Well, just last week and Lexing and Brock with the running start and helped get that touchdown in It was either demmy or Wilcox.

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Speaker 7: He just yes, that was a little different.

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Speaker 8: The play was still going on, but I thought the one had Uh Tennessee, that should have been blown dead.

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Speaker 6: How did they not call that penalty on the guy on the sideline?

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Speaker 2: Obvious pands to the face.

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Speaker 6: It was obvious, and like when they showed it on replay, he clearly did it on purpose, Like it was like, if you want to protect him, you just catch it.

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Speaker 5: But he went yeah, like come on, how was that?

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Speaker 2: And the ref was right, they like what did he see? Well, then the Tennessee guy like held his hands up like you know, I'm trying to stop him.

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Speaker 7: I trying to stop you.

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Speaker 5: No, you weren't.

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Speaker 2: You watch him. I couldn't believe they didn't call that.

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Speaker 8: That was full extension into his head. That's the same person that left the game of the head injury later. Couldn't believe they did. The end the screenshot, the ref is like right next to the guy doing.

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Speaker 6: And then what First of all, it's not the biggest thing in the world, but they gave Tennessee four timeouts in the first half. They did go back and watch, go look at the game log. They gave them four timeouts when they called their final timeout, which set it up which they would have had a field goal if they didn't screw everything up. When they called that final time out, they were out of timeouts and they just gave him the time out. And if you watch the ESPN broadcast, it showed them as having no timeouts and then after they called it they put a time out up and took it off. Go watch, but forget about all that the TV could be wrong. Look at the game log. The Seed took four timeouts in the first half they did.

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Speaker 7: There was the clock issue where the reff was so lost. I was like, are we balling?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Is this game interrupted something?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: And he was like, my mistake, things happened.

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Speaker 6: Nothing to see here, forty six seconds not thirty six ex.

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Speaker 2: Between the white hat and the clock operator. There was a lot of miscommunication going on during that game. They yeah, they were, they were completely lost. It felt like a lot of it. I do have to say Tennessee fans are are the worst.

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Speaker 6: I mean, just on a scale of one to one hundred, they are nine hundred and twenty three, Like they are the absolute they're the worst. And the chance at the players on the ground, you know, I mean It's one thing to kind of go, oh, you're faking injuries. Boom when you chant what they chanted. Don't act like that's anything, but you know that's a cherk move.

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Speaker 5: And our dudes were hurt. I get it.

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Speaker 6: The whole faking injuries people have done against against Tennessee a lot. Tennessee is probably the team that has received it the most, so.

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Speaker 5: I get it.

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Speaker 6: But those guys weren't the ones. I don't think any of those Kentucky dudes that went down were faking it, do you well?

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Speaker 8: Ripka got rolled up, that's the one where they were chatting that his of all of them, looked the most like an injury because he was piled up and his knee kind of went back.

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Speaker 2: And when Zion, I don't think he returned.

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Speaker 5: Did he?

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Speaker 7: He did eventually, but he missed several several players.

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Speaker 2: With Zion Childress is laying there, you can tell you obviously in pain. It was hurt. They're clapping and yelling and making fun of him.

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Speaker 6: I mean, do you think that the you know, the SEC released that thing about faking injuries Friday? Yeah, they did Friday. Kentucky would didn't decide the next day. Let's start faking injuries. The day after the SEC says we're gonna start, you know, coming at you about.

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Speaker 8: It, even if you think they are to chant that when a guy's on the ground holding his knee, you gotta be sure he.

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Speaker 7: Shouldn't do it any better, better be real sure.

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Speaker 6: Like you gotta be Matt Jones the running back at Old Miss where you just see him flop down.

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Speaker 7: Even then you're still a jerk.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we will take your calls after this.

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Speaker 5: We got talk about Kelsey. Yes, I think that's the most interesting story of the day. Kelsey in the phone. We'll be right back. Skaz TJ.

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Speaker 4: Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.

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Speaker 2: He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: All right, so you know this show? I do?

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Speaker 3: I know it though from a commercial, an enterprise commercial and enterprise.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how I know this song.

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Speaker 2: You don't remember this song.

00:23:25
Speaker 6: It's like during the whole I don't know, ninety eight, ninety nine, two thousand, kind of hippie Same Masters music Renaissance.

00:23:34
Speaker 4: Now I just know it from the commercial. Somehow I missed it when it came out.

00:23:37
Speaker 5: Do you know this song? I do not. I'm sorry, yeah, turn it up. Oh boy, oh boy?

00:23:47
Speaker 2: You don't remember this? Whun a Caran King?

00:23:50
Speaker 6: No, it was kind of like it's not in the Lion King. It's a it's a it's a good song. I don't know how you don't remember that.

00:23:57
Speaker 2: What's the name of the group again, Rusted Root? Rusted Root. Isn't that the name of it? Yeah, Rusted Root.

00:24:04
Speaker 4: It's in the triple A category.

00:24:06
Speaker 5: That's what I know.

00:24:06
Speaker 4: What type of music it is.

00:24:08
Speaker 5: A triple A music. Yeah, I don't know what that means.

00:24:11
Speaker 6: But I went and saw them at Right State and they're one of those bands that, like you just stand there and listen them to him play a bunch of junk and then go just play send me on my way so you can send me on my way home, Like I just came here to hear this and.

00:24:25
Speaker 5: Then let's go.

00:24:26
Speaker 6: And that's what you had because they do a lot of likely like that little flute and stuff, and it was you know, it's not my scene. I'm just saying, all right, before we go the phone, it's Kelsey. I think everybody has an opinion on this, all right. So, so Jason Kelcey is walking, He's got like a six pack of beer, twelve pack of beer.

00:24:45
Speaker 5: He's just walking.

00:24:46
Speaker 6: He decides to go the Penn State game, Penn State, Ohio State. He's like tailgating with the boys. Like he's just tailgating out in the crowd, which, by the way, is the thing I think I like the best about Jason kelce He like doesn't think he's better than anybody else. He's just out. Uh, he's just out tail gaty. He's walking, and then a dude just decides to be a jerk on him. So can all of us agree that dude was being a jerk?

00:25:09
Speaker 2: We start with that, Yes, you do.

00:25:11
Speaker 5: Everybody. Everybody agrees he's being a jerk.

00:25:13
Speaker 6: All right. So guy's being a jerk. He's holding up the he's holding up the phone, et cetera. Then he starts he says, like something awful to him, right, he says you your brother is a is a blank? Uh for for dating Taylor Swift. Now one thing to say something bad about him, another thing to bring in the brother yep, and then another thing to bring in the slur like You've done the triple Crown of jerkness right there. You've been you've been rude to him in person, you've talked about his family, and you've used the slur. Now everybody will say, Jason Kelsey, you gotta be the bigger man, and I will say exactly what I said on ESPN, spoken like someone who's never had people do that to them.

00:25:57
Speaker 5: I have nothing like that. Well, actually, yeah, something like that. Oh yeah you have.

00:26:01
Speaker 2: I have.

00:26:03
Speaker 6: And you can say all you want that you should be the bigger man. But when somebody is yelling at you, and somebody is following you and they will not stop, I'm just telling.

00:26:16
Speaker 5: You it's hard to keep walking. It's hard to keep walking.

00:26:21
Speaker 6: And I ain't a three hundred pound dude who's used to beating up NFL lineman. I don't want to get in a fight with anybody, but it's hard to sit there and take that. And you everybody can say all they want to be the bigger man, but you ain't never had anybody do that to you like that. So Jason Kelsey turns around, if I'm that dude, when he turns around, my life.

00:26:41
Speaker 5: Flashes before me.

00:26:44
Speaker 6: Okay, because that's a big man, and he was clearly very angry. He takes the phone, throws it on the ground and quickly yeah right, it was good. It was a good spike. If you look at the video from the side, you can see that guy's face and he's like, oh uh oh.

00:27:05
Speaker 5: He throws the phone down.

00:27:07
Speaker 6: Then there's a later video where the kid like comes chasing after him and I can't tell did he push him down the kid Kelsey.

00:27:17
Speaker 2: I'm not seeing the second video.

00:27:18
Speaker 6: There's another video where I don't know if they pushes him down, but it's a weird angle. And then he starts, ye and give me my phone back, Kelsey, and I think Kelsey then drops it on the ground or something. My view is the kid had it coming. Should you walk away? Yeah, I guess, But I don't blame him. Dude, you have to sit there and listen to that about your brother, and it's from like some little punk kid.

00:27:42
Speaker 5: He's lucky he only got his phone broken.

00:27:45
Speaker 6: And I actually am totally fine with what Jason Kelsey.

00:27:48
Speaker 2: Did you know Jason Kelsey, He's he's from Ohio, Ohio State's playing at Penn State, where he played for the Philadelphia Eagles. This is a fun event for him. He's trying to just to enjoy something like.

00:27:58
Speaker 6: Goes and hangs out with the gin public. Like, why do you punish people who are actually trying to be normal?

00:28:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, so i''m glad this kid's been exposed for being a jerk. And like, if they were just saying that about Jason, he probably would have walked away. But when you say something about your brother or your boys, then you almost got a man up stand up for him.

00:28:17
Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree that, uh Jason needed to be the bigger man here, but sometimes the bigger man needs to shatter a phone.

00:28:22
Speaker 7: And he did exactly what he needed to do.

00:28:24
Speaker 8: If he just keeps walking, maybe that kid keeps talking, or that kid gets to go live his life bragging, probably getting a bunch of likes about it, probably does it to the next celebrity. But in that case, Kelsey had to let him know not acceptable go to the Apple store. I'm sure, uh Jason'll probably own a little money at some point if he pursues anything.

00:28:41
Speaker 7: But he did exactly what he needed to do.

00:28:43
Speaker 6: Shannon, You're from Mount Washington and and you Bullock County has one thing in common with Bell County, which is people will fight. Right when I was in high school, because I'm not a fighter, I was a dork. But I also have a smart mouth, and so I learned. I learned learned exactly how far you could push people without getting pushed in them out right, Like I learned that you you can't just go around saying anything people will hate. I agree with Brandon Walker who said there's a lot of people in this world who you can tell have never had to excuse my language, had their ass beat and you could tell this kid's never really been confronted.

00:29:23
Speaker 5: And Shannon, I would assume you're like me. You were on Jason Kelsey.

00:29:26
Speaker 4: I was, Yeah.

00:29:27
Speaker 3: I mean, if I were to watch that video first with no audio, I would go, come on, Jason Kelsey, you gotta be better than that. But when you hear what the guy said and he just kept on and he wouldn't shut up, I probably would have done the same thing in that situation.

00:29:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not like he just said it once. It's true he was following him and saying it over. And if he just says it once, okay, Jason, just keep walking. But if you just follow and follow and follow, you've been with me. Ryan when I've been in like a restaurant or a bar and somebody just won't stop. They just will not stop. And for me, it's been Louisville fan, Tennessee fans, Republicans, like cow fans. I've had all different groups that just will not stop, and there just comes a point. And when I was thinking about running for office, my mom was like, one of things I worry about if you do it, is you don't suffer fools well. And she said, I'm worried that somebody's going to try to go to you and you'll fall for it.

00:30:23
Speaker 5: And she was right to be worried, because.

00:30:25
Speaker 6: You just like you can say you can handle that, but it's different if it happens to you.

00:30:31
Speaker 5: And he didn't seem to have any security around it there.

00:30:33
Speaker 7: So that's a just thing about him. He's walking with a cheap twelve facted beer just through people.

00:30:38
Speaker 2: Just trying to go tailgate before the game. Is one enjoy himself.

00:30:41
Speaker 5: So who's up first?

00:30:41
Speaker 6: Shit, Tommy, Tommy, Go ahead, tom.

00:30:46
Speaker 9: Hey, what's up?

00:30:47
Speaker 5: Matt?

00:30:48
Speaker 9: I didn't want to go to something that was on before you run here. But when I was at UK, I was a student here in seventy two, and one of my favorite friends that I met when I was That's Holmes Hall, was Reggie Warford. He was one of the coolest guys I knew and the first black African American that I had graduated from the University of Kentucky. And I was just wondering if you all had thought about him as another of the really good left handed point guards we've had.

00:31:18
Speaker 6: Well, I wasn't part of that conversation, so I don't know, but he was he left handed?

00:31:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I appreciate the call.

00:31:24
Speaker 2: It came up about because of Kayt and Lewis is left handed. Jasper Johnson's left handed. Shannon ask, Yeah, I.

00:31:29
Speaker 5: Don't think we've ever had an all left handed backcourt.

00:31:31
Speaker 6: We've been thinking of one. I'm sure we haven't. I bet we've I bet we've never had one. That'll be very unique if those two guys, if they end up playing together, we'll talk about it. Kayt and Lewis in a minute in the second hour, who's next?

00:31:41
Speaker 4: Mark?

00:31:42
Speaker 5: Mark? Go ahead? And Mark.

00:31:45
Speaker 10: Hi. I've been thinking about whether Mark Tups could win the fans and the supporters back if he really wants to. He's got forty million plus coming if he decides to say, and I'm thinking, if I'm him and I really believe in this, I told him in a speech, I believe in these coaches, I believe in these players. I believe that we can do this. Now, I told you a couple of years ago to pony up, I'm I need to practice what I preach and I'm committed.

00:32:16
Speaker 5: They're not allowed to do that. Coaches.

00:32:17
Speaker 6: Coaches, Yeah, coaches are not allowed to contribute to the Nile funds cause.

00:32:22
Speaker 5: If they let me explain the reason.

00:32:25
Speaker 6: Let me explain, and I'll explain you the reason why I appreciate the call. If a coach were to be able to contribute his own money, schools would find a way to get around it. They'd say, Okay, I'm paying Mark Stoops sixteen million dollars, wink wink, and then he goes and donate seven million denial And basically it would be the school paying the anile, which is not under which is not allowed under the rules. But let me when I talk about the next three months being changed, I want you to just think about what's going to happen this offseason. And this is why I would ask Mark Stoops you're either all in or you're not. Because just this offseason, the NCAA is about to change the way they do everything, and you're gonna get to now have one hundred scholarships. There are now going to be fifteen more players on football scholarships, fifteen more. So just take everything else. You're gonna go get thirty players this offseason. Starting next year, twenty two million dollars a year in revenue is going to be shared with athletes. I am told at Kentucky, my quote unquote sources say say seventy percent of that money will be towards football. I think at other SEC schools it may even be eighty percent, But at Kentucky it's gonna be seventy percent, with like fifteen to twenty basketball and then fifteen to twenty the other sports, seventy percent to football. So not only are gonna have twenty, you're gonna have fifteen new scholarships. Plus you're gonna have like what I don't know what that math is, but sixteen, fifteen, sixteen million dollars to give away in money. You are going to be setting the standard for the next decade of how we're gonna do football at this school.

00:34:10
Speaker 5: This off season.

00:34:12
Speaker 6: This off season, I would tell dudes think about going to the draft, maybe wait a year, because this next year the whole financial thing changes.

00:34:23
Speaker 5: We gotta have a coach that's all in because this.

00:34:27
Speaker 6: Thing's changing a lot, and chances are very high it's changing this offseason. So Mark Stoops thinks I got five more years in me, let's go okay. But if you really think I have one last ride, this ain't really the time to have the last ride, because you're setting up your next decade this offseason.

00:34:48
Speaker 2: I can see where the football coach would be upset if you sees the other schools of the SEC getting eighty pos.

00:34:53
Speaker 6: You can get over that because we have a basketball program that has to be good, and we have a women's basketball program that they're going to invest in, and we have a baseball team that goes to College Worlds.

00:35:01
Speaker 2: If if he doesn't want.

00:35:02
Speaker 6: To be here over two point two million dollars more than Alabama that has.

00:35:05
Speaker 5: The nuts, then you just can't coach it.

00:35:07
Speaker 6: Contect because we're not gonna be the only coach that picks seventy percent Duke Will, Kansas will, North Carolina Will.

00:35:12
Speaker 8: There'll be other schools that do it, maybe even other schools in the SEC. Yeah, and that's only one thing that'll be on his plate. I mean, if he wants to come back and ask for give me this, get behind me one more time, or however long. I think the roster is still very flawed. That won't get fixed to one offseason because the offensive line that's gonna need a lot of work, whether the young guys get developed or you find more which hasn't been working, pluging with transfers.

00:35:36
Speaker 7: And then the schedule so hard next year.

00:35:37
Speaker 8: So even if you handled that well and think give me one more chance, it's still a big climb just to get Kentucky football back where he's winning games again.

00:35:44
Speaker 5: So I do think everybody, this is this December.

00:35:48
Speaker 6: Buckle up in December, first college football playoff, you got signing Day, and you also have all this happening like there's gonna be this December is to be the wildest December in college football probably ever. Coming up here in the next couple months, we'll take a break.

00:36:06
Speaker 5: Be right back. This is KSR. Welcome back Tay Sports Radio.

00:36:10
Speaker 6: We are here at KS Bar and Grill already got folks here and we haven't even opened yet and they're being nice and already taking their orders. How nice is that? That's what we do here at it's a friendly establishment. Let me just tell you today, if you're in town for the women's game, stop by before.

00:36:28
Speaker 5: Here's what you could do.

00:36:29
Speaker 6: You could stop by before the women's game, or after the women's game and watch the men's game. Or if you're going to the men's game, you could come before and watch the women's game.

00:36:38
Speaker 5: Look at that.

00:36:39
Speaker 6: You get to be You get to be for all genders right there by watching both of them. Or you can even come after the men's game and watch whatever is on the television. College basketball the way starts at noon. That's the field of sixty eight thing. Jeff Goodman has has three games at twelve, two thirty and five and they're on YouTube for free for people, and they're all three pretty good mid major games. Some of the best mid major teams in the country playing late tonight Baylor and Gonzaga. As you're after the postgame show at like eleven thirty tonight, you get two top ten teams, Baylor and Gonzaga playing each other.

00:37:15
Speaker 2: Curious cy have Gonzaga is really as good as they're projected to be this year, since they've come up on the schedule, since we're.

00:37:20
Speaker 7: Playing them, I'm about nineteen of the top twenty five. Play to night. You got more head at Louisville.

00:37:25
Speaker 8: Florida's got a big game if you want to scout some of Kentucky's opponents, A lot them play tonight.

00:37:29
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00:38:11
Speaker 5: Matt.

00:38:12
Speaker 6: The Kelsey event was staged. It was not spontaneous. They wanted the clicks and it was on display in an election year in a swing state, and you fell for it.

00:38:19
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

00:38:20
Speaker 2: Really, what would the Kelsey thing have anything?

00:38:23
Speaker 4: Make anything political? Anything?

00:38:26
Speaker 5: Like? What would any I don't even know how it could.

00:38:29
Speaker 2: What does him in the parking lot have to do with being a political? Issues being that?

00:38:34
Speaker 5: Do you like my hoodie?

00:38:36
Speaker 2: We need to talk about your hoodie. Matt walks in with a Taylor Swift hoodie, the kind with auber picture on the back.

00:38:42
Speaker 7: Yeah, the official eras tour hoodie?

00:38:44
Speaker 5: Aras tour.

00:38:45
Speaker 2: Are you a swiftye?

00:38:46
Speaker 5: No?

00:38:46
Speaker 6: But somebody went and they bought me a hoodie, and so I was like, why not you wear a Taylor Swift hoodie?

00:38:54
Speaker 5: Sometimes? Don't your T shirt? Don't you have one?

00:38:56
Speaker 7: I have a T shirt? Yeah, actual T shirt.

00:38:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably was either.

00:39:02
Speaker 5: What it probably wasn't cheap and it's very comfortable.

00:39:05
Speaker 2: You maybe get together college, tell you wear your own Taylor Swifty shirts and go out.

00:39:09
Speaker 6: Two hundred and twenty thousand people went over the course of three days in Indianapolis.

00:39:13
Speaker 2: Time's at by what those tickets cost. That's a lot of money brought into that stat.

00:39:17
Speaker 5: That's a lot of money.

00:39:19
Speaker 2: Wow.

00:39:19
Speaker 6: I mean they said they they opened up the merchandise stand on Thursday, probably to a long line of I mean, that's probably a lot of people that aren't even going to the concert. Shout out to my man here in the bar in his Pope costume. Look, it's opening game and he addresses in the Mark Pope costume, tweet out his picture.

00:39:39
Speaker 5: There will youa Mario you get it out? Look at that.

00:39:41
Speaker 6: This is not the guy that was at the game. We're gonna talk about that guy in a minute. But uh, shout out opening game tonight wearing the Pope costume.

00:39:49
Speaker 5: Big good stuff. Who's up next? Shit? Ray? Ray? Go ahead, Ray?

00:39:54
Speaker 11: Hey, what's up guy?

00:39:56
Speaker 7: What's up?

00:39:56
Speaker 10: He? I mean, here's my opinion on something.

00:39:59
Speaker 11: Man to the postgame show the other night, and I have a strange opinion on Bush and not knowing about the personnel, and that would be this that as an offit the coordinator. You have to adjust to fit your personnel sometimes correct and you know, so that is one thing and another thing. I think this goes back to last year. If you'll recall with me going into the Louisvill game last year, we were short of if he on Stoops last year, and he won the Louisvill game last year, which changed a lot of opinions. That being said, you know, we all a lot of people get on Cohen for leaving again after one year. Why are we getting on Cohen after him coming back for one year and Stoop's calling his staff together last year and saying, hey, I want to go to Texas A and L.

00:41:00
Speaker 6: Because I don't mind who's getting on Cohen for leaving. Cohen should have left. If you can offer the Tampa Bay job, you should leave. I mean, but he did promise Stoops he would stay. Now he backed out on that promise. Whether you think that's understandable or not as your personal decision, but both those things are true. He promised Stoops he'd stay two years. He didn't do that. But you could also say Stoops nearly went to A and M. He was gonna take Cohen if he went, if Cohen wanted to go, So like, I don't you know, but I can understand why people would would be frustrated about Stoops doing that.

00:41:35
Speaker 5: But I don't think these coaches. I appreciate the call. Ryan. These coaches are always gonna do what's best for them.

00:41:41
Speaker 6: They just are, and so we might as well accept that that's always going to be the case.

00:41:45
Speaker 2: And I think like head coaches like Mark Dude, they understand it. They get it because they've been through that, that climbing the ladder to get where they are.

00:41:52
Speaker 6: So Yeah, when Stoops called his coaches for going to I know this for a fact. When Stoops called his coaches and said, are you guys going to A and M with me?

00:42:01
Speaker 5: If I go?

00:42:02
Speaker 6: He was shocked that there were answers of Noah. He had some people saying no, and I think that was something that surprised him.

00:42:11
Speaker 5: Now, I don't know.

00:42:11
Speaker 6: If that was because they didn't want to work at A and M or whatever Drew, but that did happen.

00:42:18
Speaker 8: Yeah, mccohen that dude just hated college. I mean, we got to just accept that for what it is. He was leaving the moment he could get another.

00:42:23
Speaker 5: You don't think he'll ever be back there. I think it'll be unlikely that he comes back to college.

00:42:28
Speaker 6: We'll take a break basketball time when we returns KSR