2024-12-2 - KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone to Kentucky Sports Radio our Drive to Seattle. We are live in Iowa City, Iowa, at the Pizza Ranch on Highway One, with a wonderful set of Kentucky fans here in the party room at the Pizza Ranch on Highway One. Ready to start our drive to Seattle. You can give it Shalla Clark's Puppy Shop Pham line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Avis an Auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four. This distion sponsored by the Tea J. Smith Lovas you call TJ, I'll make them pay. Look, there are a million things going on right now. We played basketball on Friday, we lost to Louisville on Saturday. There are rumors, there are all kinds of stuff going on. We're gonna go over as much of it as we can, but we're also on a road trip where we're having fun and we'll try to balance it all as much as we can. Rick, We're not gonna answer the phone for a little while, Okay, it makes it easy for you. Is that all right? Sounds good to me. Yeah, it sounds like you're already excited. Rick, That's what I like to hear. We are here in Iowa City, Ryan Lemon, already four people here with us right now. You got Matt, you got Austin, you got give me your name again, him Anita, and you got Devin, all who've made the trip from the Iowa City area.

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Speaker 3: Really, there's no better place to be in Iowa City than the party room at a Peacher n party room. Party room is very party tastic, it is.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of snow on the ground, so big shout out to the four of these people that came. And you know, when I woke up this morning, I thought, Drew, I think we'll have people. But it's snowing a lot, but it's Iowa. These people are tough.

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Speaker 4: I'm impressed with the number four here. I figured, you know Devin over there. He usually makes our Iowa shows. I was counting on him. But it's great to see three others. And we'll call this a good crowd given the circumstances outside.

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Speaker 2: Channon, you love going on these trips every year. I see the excitement. Oh your face. Are you glad to be in Iowa City?

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Speaker 5: I am. I mean, of all the places in the world I could be right now, Iowa City is the one place I want to be here right now with all this snow and a pizza ranch.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you to the pizza ranch for opening up early for us so that we could be here. That was very nice of a Max. Your second KSR road trip. You were part of the drive yesterday from Kentucky to Iowa City.

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Speaker 6: How are you enjoying it? I'm enjoying a lot. It's never too early to party, so I'm happy you were in the party room. You know, there's Universal, there's you know, Disney World all that, but this is where the kids want to come. Pizza Ranch, they got the arcade I'm just worried about one thing. Yeah, if you look out there, it says maximum occupancy thirty eight persons. I've counted in here has seventy two eight. I'm not showing that math works out, and I don't know if you know. I don't want to get any trouble. But that's thirty four over the limit.

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Speaker 7: There's still still a social distances.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is from the distancing Well. All right, so here's what we're gonna do. I want to talk about what's happened, because we had a lot happened yesterday, but we also need to talk about the news. So from ten to ten thirty, we're gonna talk about the game, the football situation. Then at ten thirty we're gonna switch to a little bit of our trip. I think we're gonna have a guest at eleven o'clock. I'll I'm trying to get that worked out, but I'll let you know and then we'll do more. Let's let's let's start with this. I don't even want to talk about the uku L game. Who cares we lost?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: You know, if you want to, if you want to hear more of it, you can well listen to the postgame show on podcasts. We lost to U l uh it's stunk. Well, we'll not worry about that. I think the story to talk about is what happened after the game, which is Mark Stoops saying uh not just saying he was going to return, being very definitive about it. Oh look we have number five.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, be closer to thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but Stoop says he's gonna stay. And then yesterday a lot of stuff stuff starts happening. We lose two commitments. Josh Cattis's brother d Commits goes to Clemson. Our four star running back Marquise Davis. The commitment that was a big commit for Kentucky. D Commits is going to Missouri. Our recruiting class ranking went from twenty three to twenty eight. Then yesterday some reports that Vince Marrow was considering going to Louisville. If you checked your social media this morning, I was able to confirm this morning that yes, that was true, that Louisville pursued him. This is the second time they've done it, and he has ended up deciding to not go to Louisville. A lot to digest. Let's start with number one Mark Stoops is returning. I'm gonna go through all four of you thoughts. We'll start with you Ryan. I gave my thoughts on the post game show.

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Speaker 3: And he was very definitive, like, you know, hey, I gonna be back at work tomorrow, be in my office tomorrow. We're gonna work and build this up. I needed to hear that because there's some uncertainty I think about his future.

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Speaker 5: Way he's gonna do.

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Speaker 3: I want to hear that he wants to he's gonna be here, he wants to be here.

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Speaker 4: I'm pretty worried of how it's gonna look because his comments did he say something like, I know a lot of people want me out.

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Speaker 2: He said there's a lot of people who uh are rooting fish, something like sorry, it's not happening or something.

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Speaker 7: I'm worried it's like a spiteful return, you know.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: We've talked a lot about how much he has a head, and he got a lot harder yesterday losing two key pieces of his freshman recruiting class. I'm just worried how it's gonna look if if he's truly committed. I mean, it's a huge task in front of him. I'm doubtful can be pulled off at all. I'll root for him, but I'm just worried he's just coming back to just say you don't want me here. I'm gonna be here just because you don't want me to. And it's kind of like the spite thing we're getting chanton.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 5: I'm happy if he's coming back. Eight straight Bowl games can't be ignored. I think that's really good for Kentucky. I was broken though it was, but I mean, does the guy not get one bad year? I know it was really disappointing. He's had a lot of talent on this team, so really underachieved considering the amount of talent. But I mean, if there's a guy that I want coaching the team next year, for me, it's still Mark Stoops.

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Speaker 2: I'll still believe the three of you kind of all over the spectrum. I mean, you're kind of happy he's coming back. I am, yeah, Ryan's kind of like eh, but at least he's excited. And then Drew, I don't just I don't think it's gonna work. It's this is a big rebuild. This is a multi year rebuild, and he's I mean, he's already coached twelve years.

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Speaker 7: He's not a coach here forever. So is he committed for a two to three year rebuild.

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Speaker 5: With the portal being what it is, though, I mean, it's easier now to take a team from nothing to a top twenty five teams, so it also optimistic he can do it.

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Speaker 2: That's I think you're right that it is easier. It's also for easier for it to all fall apart, you know what I mean, Like it can I think it can go. I mean, look at yesterday, there was a moment where we felt like the whole thing was gonna fall apart. I mean, I think Evince had decided to go to Louisville. Maybe it does.

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Speaker 5: Fall apart and he ends up staying here. That's a big movement going towards next year and keeping this together.

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Speaker 2: Max.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he was never just going to walk away from this forty four million, so, I mean we all thought he'd definitely come back unless they came up with some sort of offer, our guess to try and bridge that gap. But I'm excited for him to be back. I'd love to be in that coaches meeting yesterday. I mean, it's got to be a very harsh review of all positions, including himself obviously, but all coaches, all players, all staff members. And I think we'll see some change over this week. I mean, at least in philosophy, but maybe in personnel. I mean he already talked about we're gonna have to have some conversation with some players and say, hey, you got to hit the road. So I think it's going to be interesting to see what comes out this week, what coaches have moved on, who leaves, who stays.

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Speaker 2: That review would have been pretty harsh. I consider this almost like a two part show. I think, if you want, I had a long review of the season and where I think the program stands. I kind of did all that on the postgame show, so I would suggest to you listen to that. I don't want to just repeat myself and spend this whole trip going into it. I'm probably somewhere in between Ryan and Drew in the sense of, like, look, man, I don't think he deserved Like I don't mind him having another shot, but you gotta show me Mark you're you're in, Like, you gotta show me not only you're in, but like, are you gonna are you gonna bring some discipline into the program. The program was a disaster in the last six to eight weeks of the season. And that's why I thought I picked Louisville for the first time ever. I thought Louisville was gonna win. The result did not surprise me at all. I thought that's I thought that was what was gonna happen. They. I think, in my opinion, the Vandy loss broke the team. I think they I was saying this to somebody yesterday. I think they got shocked by the South I think they thought they were gonna be really good. They got shocked by the South Carolina game, and they were like, uh oh, and then everybody pressed and then you got the good performance against Georgia and the win against Old Miss, and then I think some arrogance creeped in. Yeah, the South Carolina think was a fluke. It's no big deal. We had a bye week after Old Miss, if you remember. I think that's that those two weeks, I think things kind of broke down. I think arrogance kind of creeped in. I think a lot of stuff. Some stuff happened with players not getting in trouble, but there were just some bad apples that I think spoiled the it's not bad apples spoil the broth. What is it?

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Speaker 3: One bad apple, don't spoil the whole bunch of girls. That was Jackson five.

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Speaker 2: One bad apple, don't spoil the bunch of.

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Speaker 5: Girls, don't zero.

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Speaker 2: That's not even English Jackson.

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Speaker 5: Michael Jackson.

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Speaker 2: He said there one bad apple, doesn't spoil.

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Speaker 3: One bad apple, don't spoil the whole bunch of girls.

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Speaker 2: That's a song. Okay, I don't all right, But my point is there were some players, and I think the Vandy loss in some ways not only broke the season, but broke the morale of the program twice. I think it hurt the fans, but I think it also hurt that and then I think it just starts slipping down there. I think everything kind of was a rolling train down. I think at the bye week there was a lot of suggestion around the program maybe a change needs to be made, which then made Mark defiant. I think got him like I'm coming back. I think he's been saying that for two or three weeks. If you talk to people four or five weeks ago, they would have told you they thought he was gonna leave or so it was gonna end. Then I don't know, he decided to be defiant. I'm kind of with Drew. Defiance is really not always the way to make things work. But he's a dude. That whole Youngstown thing that maybe that's what does it. I am told that the like meetings yesterday started early in the morning and went like after I went to bed, we'll just have to see. I mean, he's coming back, so I'm with Drew. I'm gonna support him. I don't like how this year went down, and it culminates in that video of jeral Minci going to the concession stand during the game. I mean, it's funny in some ways. I laughed about it on the ESPN, But if you want a symbol of what was wrong with the year, we had a player in his uniform walked to the concession stand during the Louisville game. Now, Granty was wearing sweatpants, but still like that to me was a symbol of the thing. They brought in a lot of guys. It hurt the culture. Mark was not engaged enough to keep it going. A couple of the coaches tried, but they didn't have his definitive head coach power, and it slipped away and then it got out of control. They've got to turn that around. Ryan, I know you're probably closer to the players than anyone amongst us. You saw it coming, You've been talking about it for weeks. Do you think it can turn around.

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Speaker 3: I think it can turn around. Everything you said to I agree with. It was a disappointing end to a disappointing season. And I think Mark did lose the locker room somewhere in the middle of the season because there was some of the star players were not doing what was expected of him, you know, And I think he did. He kind of lost the locker room. And if if Vincent decided to leave, were talked about this in the car last night, that would have been like this, it's a sinking ship.

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Speaker 2: If Vent's left, especially for Louisville, it's over. Yeah, it's over. I mean it's over. If you have lost a third of the players, at least, I think the fan base would have been done. So. I mean, and you know, I know that there's people who like to joke around. All the Vince Job rumors happened all the time. For me, I'll speak as much as I can speak. There have been three times that I kind of thought he really considered it once. Was the Michigan state time. I think that was the closest one, right when the or was it Michigan, Michigan the first one that was the closest one. We've talked about. That was a wild day. That's the closest one. Now. I think the Michigan State when he did seriously consider, and I don't know that I don't know how sick, but Louisville made I think a serious run at him here, and I don't know that it was decided he was gonna stay until this morning. That's huge if we'd woken up this morning and he had taken the Louisville job. I didn't speak last night because we all got to this hotel and we sit there and looked at each other and we're like, if he leaves, it's over.

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Speaker 3: Seeking chip.

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Speaker 2: But I do think if Mark was gonna get this thing back going, that's a step one. There are other steps though, I mean, there are other steps that we have to wait and see.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just with the vents Louisville thing, and the wind was blown at that direction last night, I thought if that happened a the reaction to Vins is gonna be more than he probably realizes. I mean, he has beloved in Lexington. I don't think that would have been the case moving forward if you just leave directly for arrival. I mean I was prepared to call him little dog. I told you all this last time I'm gonna call him little I'm gonna have to start calling him little dog.

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Speaker 7: It will hurt me more than it will hurt him. But he will be the little dog if he.

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Speaker 2: Does that, give this same you were gonna sign.

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Speaker 7: But uh, big dogs still here. We don't have to get it that. It's gonna hurt me more with him.

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Speaker 4: But I genuinely thought if he does go to Leisville, not just the reaction to Vents, I thought it'd be the end of Stoops because I can't see Stoops starting this mountain. He's gotta climb without Vents beside him, because you assume Event's left.

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Speaker 7: You know, there's whisperers about Brad White.

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Speaker 4: I just don't know how Stoops could walk in that room to having to rebuild everything and not having those guys around him.

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, well, there's a lot more parts of this, and I want to do one more segment on it. Then I want to talk about yesterday just in general because it was a wild day. And then we hope to have a guest on to start the second hour. We are here in Iowa City. We got five people. What's your name? What Tim? Tim? Five folks at Iowa City in a snowstorm at the pizza ranch. That's why the man is the best. We'll take a break. Me right back. This KSR, welcome back. It is the Kentucky Sports Radio here on the road trip Pizza Ranch at Iowa City. By the way, I'm a huge pizza ranch person. Can't wait for that Buffetoh, we're on Central Time here, so soon as this show opens at eleven, the buffet opens and we're gonna go. Plus, we have a member of the Iowa Basketball Managers. Yes, Iowa Basketball Managers here.

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Speaker 5: You can the party room.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the party room. We're not getting party right. The Iowa Basketball Managers is here and he's gonna take us to show this the Iowa basketball facility. When it's over, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be shooting just like Caitlyn Clark.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna be Luke Garza.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be Luke Garza. I'm gonna be b J. Armstrong.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna be one of the mccaffreys.

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Speaker 3: Can't we talking about what he said to the Kaitlyn Cardok effect, what it's done for the IOWA facilities and everything.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, the women's facility has been way upgraded, so they deserve it. So yeah, it's it's awesome, all right. Not surprisingly, Max Shannon Ryan got the lyrics wrong. I wonder if, first of all, it's the Osmonds, the Jackson.

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Speaker 5: Fopman brothers, and what did you say?

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Speaker 3: It was one bad apple, don't spoil the whole bunch of girls.

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Speaker 2: That's what I said, not the lyrics. One bad apple, don't spoil a whole bunch girl.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Comma Comma girl.

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Speaker 2: He's talking to the girl. It's not one bad apple, doesn't spoil the whole bunch of girls. It's one bad apple, doesn't spoil the whole bunch Comma girl.

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Speaker 5: Underestimate the importance of a Comma Comma house.

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Speaker 2: And there's a completely different scenario Wax without the Comma.

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Speaker 6: Yes, skip baglass that this year with the coma remember his weight. But I was looking forward to the Jackson five from Rick, and then he didn't play it. So Rick obviously picked up his mistake early.

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Speaker 2: And the Jackson five and the Oddsman's not alike at all.

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Speaker 3: They were both really popular at the same time, but.

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Speaker 2: They don't do the same kind of music, and they're like, they're not the same.

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Speaker 3: I think, once you hear the song, though, you'll really enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Rick, see if you can find it, Okay, I will.

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Speaker 7: Our guy with the ryanism needs to add that line that was great.

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Speaker 2: One bad apple. Don't spoil the whole bunch of girls. I don't know why you would have thought that that.

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Speaker 5: Eight year old Ryan heard that as well, you heard it.

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Speaker 2: Wrong, Okay. So so back to what we were talking about in terms of the year, Max, you were there when the culture was the best. I know you not there now, but talk to me about the difference of when the culture was the best versus some of the stuff I've talked about that.

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Speaker 6: Happened this year to me and I bring this up all the time, but you still can't discount the impact of losing coach Sliman, Like, seriously that in that locker room, in that whole facility, how good he was leading men. Obviously Stoops is great, but that O line is the power of that team. Like that big blue wall used to be our identity. All those guys were NFL draft picks or future NFL players, and they led the locker room. They would tell guys when to do things, how to do things. They just led from the front. Since then that's fallen off. I mean, our old line is probably the worst group we have right now. And if you if the big blue wall is crumbling, then everyone around it crumbles. And it's very hard for wide receivers to lead the pack.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just playing. The offensive line probably should be your like best character guys, yes, And I think you could make an argument that a couple of them were our worst character guys this year.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you saw Mincy at the concession If you can't do that, I'm not trying to crush the kid, but he's at the concessions.

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Speaker 2: He walks up in the gate. It's not even halftime, the game is going on. It's in the middle of the third.

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Speaker 5: Do they not have snacks in the locker room? He could get and so many as well, Literally you do. That's the bigger problem for me is the discipline. I mean, you can. If you don't have discipline in your locker room, you have lost the entire team, and then once you lose the locker room, you can't get it back.

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Speaker 6: We don't know the circumstances around it. But also Walla's Instagram story about him, like what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: And maybe that's a family situation. I'm not trying to crush the kid, but he DJ Waller posts a picture of him at a party in Florida the night before, so he wasn't he met.

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Speaker 4: It was during the game on Instagram. It was like, where's the party tonight in Miami or something like that. And those are two guys you went in the portal and probably paid good money for Mincy, especially he was supposed to be one of the guys come save the line and he's in line getting hot dogs.

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Speaker 2: Mincy. You know, a lot of people focus on Barryon and Dion Walker. I think those guys could have worked harder Ryan, without question, But I don't think they're the people that spoiled the locker room, do you know. I think it was some of the other ones. But again, I can't I'm not gonna just put on those kids. The coaches let them do that, Ryan, like they let him do that.

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Speaker 3: I think it's something that has been building over the last couple of years, and for whatever reason, this year it just seemed to finally catch up to him. You know, I think they kind of let some of their superstars slide over the years. I mean, we've talked about Lynn Bowden, Boden can do whatever he wanted, and they kind of just let it go.

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Speaker 2: I've talked about this, Max, But why was it Why were you guys able to overlook when Lynn did that stuff? I think you've mentioned it before.

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Speaker 6: Maybe Cali Perry says you can have one and he he was that one for us. Like we're fine with you doing whatever you want to do, but if you go out there on Saturday and don't perform, then you're not gonna be He went out there in Brushford two forty a game through for you know, full of touchdowns, run for six. Like, if you want to do that, then we're happy because you're producing on the field. But if you know producing on the field, you can't just do whatever you want.

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Speaker 5: He wasn't out there getting hot dogs. That would happened, right, and.

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Speaker 6: The majority of the team was also leading really well, and I don't know, it's just it's obviously slips. Stoop said it slipped, like he said, it's my fault.

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Speaker 2: I let it slip. He did say that, do you think they can turn that around?

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Speaker 4: It's about saying, I thought Macklin in the interview, a guy that came from another school has been here one year. His post game, he even said, like someone asked, how's this change, He's like, the leadership has to change. And just hearing a player say that who had just gotten here. I know he came from a mid major, but he probably seemed like he had an eye opening experience of just how out of control it might have been behind the scenes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you know, I mean a lot of the quarterback position. I think Brock seems like a good guy. But when you're getting when you're getting beat up Shannon by offensive line getting beat up in part because of offensive linemen who were at the concession stand, it's hard to feel really excited about it. I mean, I will tell you, I don't know if this is true, Brock will not be here next year. I won't be shocked if he doesn't play football next year. And that's a pretty sad statement for what some of the other folks let happen. To be honest with you, Yeah, mean, i'd be like, I'm just being real. I I kind of feel bad for that kid, I do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it didn't work out here and he's not coming back to be second string. So if he goes somewhere else, he's gonna have to be the starting quarterback wherever he ends up.

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Speaker 2: All right about that?

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Speaker 4: He took a Tennessee they let a top fifteen draft pick go untouched, crushed him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he really wasn't the same after that. Okay, So let's say Vincis is stay. What else has to happen to give you confidence next year? Like? What else? What are the other pieces that need to fall into place?

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Speaker 3: Just for me as a fan, I would think I want to see some staff changes. I think he's got to at least give the impression and make the effort to improve the staff. I think that'll go.

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Speaker 5: A long way for me.

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Speaker 3: You know, you're gonna lose some of your superstar players this year. Some of them are gonna go to the NFL Draft. But I think you need to lock up though, some of these guys that are kind of on there about Wilcox.

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Speaker 2: There's old miss boards are saying they think will Cox will go to old min.

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Speaker 3: He's the one I was going to say, you gotta lock him up. You got to keep him here.

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Speaker 2: Willie Rodriguez, I think you need to make sure you.

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Speaker 5: Try to keep you He's got to be changes at the offense.

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Speaker 3: You got to make sure you try to keep hotly agree, you're gonna lose to the other guys, but those of the younger star you got to keep them here.

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Speaker 2: I'm told Waller was not in Florida that even though that said that. Okay, so that's why are we posting during the game about yeah, you shouldn't be posting during the game. Yeah, yeah, no matter what. But I mean, yes, that's to your point, whether or not he was there or not, he's posting during the game. You know that's not the good. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, some of these stories and you just add them all together just shows like, how is there zero discipline? And then we're mentioning a lot of the people that came in out of the portal that we thought were good additions, and we don't have a lot of great things to say about what they brought to the program, and they were probably very expensive. All right, so we're gonna talk about that.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Now, I want to talk a little bit about this trip. We've had a lot of fun. Uh. And I gotta tell you about the ESPN show yesterday, which was insane. We'll take a break and be right back. This KSR that was clearly a comma. No one, bad apple, don't spoil the whole bunch.

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Speaker 3: Girl right into it. There was no comma. It's a whole bunch of girls.

00:23:11
Speaker 2: Did the word of it made girl plural?

00:23:14
Speaker 3: I think I think Donnie Osmond singing it that way a couple of times.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he ever sang it. Uh, eight five, nine twelve. We're not answering the phone right now. Okay, So one one kind of sad note, But I do want to note since we have a guy here who's a manager for the University of Iowa basketball Austin. He said, Matt, my friend Brett passed away this weekend. He had a wife and two young kids. He said he lived in Kentucky, but he was actually an Iowa fan. All his buddies were UK fans, but he loved Iowa basketball. So I think it's cool you guys are in Iowa City and going to tour the Iowa facilities today. So that's kind of that's kind of neat for So for Brett, we will do his honor. We will, we will tour the facilities today.

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Speaker 6: I'm just worried when they go to practice this afternoon, the uniforms aren't going to be washed and dried. Right, He's saying, as he's taking the day off to come and listen to Oh.

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Speaker 2: That's not his job.

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Speaker 4: It says, that's not all right.

00:24:05
Speaker 2: Let's talk about what happened yesterday. We got up left Lexington like seven fifteen in the morning, got off towards Cincinnati. Uh. I was doing ESPN Bingals pregame at Jefferson Social. I got to say to you Bengals fans, and I know there's a lot of you that are also UK fans. Y'all are the drunkest people I've ever seen it. I mean, the Bengals play the Steelers there Jefferson Social. Well, first of all, when we get there, first I asked the waitress, I'm like, will there be a lot of people here today? And she goes, oh, wait and see she was like, starting about eleven thirty it's a club in here, and I was like, oh, come on, it's eleven thirty in the morning. Stop it. And you know, I gotta do a radio show, and uh, you know, Shannon, a lot of times I don't even like people.

00:24:49
Speaker 5: To talk during I've heard yeah, got another one. At least what's remote? Hey, man can keep it down back there there down.

00:24:58
Speaker 2: But I understood, Okay, there's gonna be a lot of seat first. This all ton of Kentucky fans came by. Probably had fifty people come by right of the course of the thing. So thank you all to all that did. It was awesome to meet people, including thank you to the young woman who who we had a John Daily life size stand up in our bar and it disappeared and we didn't know where it was. She told me that she was there partying so hard once time. She woke up the next morning with the John Daly thing in her bed next to her.

00:25:25
Speaker 5: I'm a big John Daily fan. I would have loved to have seen it, but.

00:25:28
Speaker 2: She said, I looked up and I turned around and there was a John Daily life size figure. That would be scary if you didn't know that.

00:25:33
Speaker 4: You know, we're really worried about someone stealing that ended up in a frat house.

00:25:37
Speaker 7: But I think that's the way our John Dolly status. You need to go out. It went home with someone.

00:25:41
Speaker 2: But I want to tell you right now, if you got some time today, go download the Sunday Mornings with Matt Myron podcast. If you haven't subscribed and downloaded anyway, do that for me, just as a just because it's good. ESPN likes our numbers, but you need to listen, especially our one's fun. But two and three, how loud was it? There?

00:26:01
Speaker 5: For a while?

00:26:02
Speaker 3: It turned into MTV spring Break at Daytona Beach. I mean it was rocking in there.

00:26:06
Speaker 2: And I was trying to do a radio show.

00:26:09
Speaker 5: I couldn't hear.

00:26:10
Speaker 3: I was two feet away from you, and you couldn't hear a word you ad Myron.

00:26:13
Speaker 2: I just couldn't. I could barely hear Myron. I could not hear my producers. There's people dancing, grinding on each other. Mario was drunk by eleven to fifty five, am. He has a fireball, Mario, did you say he almost threw up on someone?

00:26:28
Speaker 7: Oh?

00:26:28
Speaker 4: I can't tell on my guy, but I'm gonna tell on. We met some friends at a big table. We were hanging out with them KSR listeners, and they were like, hey, before y'all go, let's do a little fireball for the road. So we do a fireball together and Mario's almost came back at But that it happens, it was early.

00:26:45
Speaker 2: I could tell that Mario has a look when he's drunk. Shit. Yeah, his eyes get a little happy and he starts.

00:26:50
Speaker 5: Going, well, the Fagels and the sailors.

00:26:53
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's not even noon and we're driving to Iowa today. Mario got a quick start, He's.

00:26:58
Speaker 5: Got more fireballs. I think it back seat, we need to, like, you know, slow the pace a little bit.

00:27:03
Speaker 3: His day started. He couldn't even walk up your driveway at your house. He slipped and filled shot and quick for snow. He could not walk off my driveway. He fell down multiple times trying to get up my drive.

00:27:12
Speaker 5: And I just want to go back to how loud it was on that bar when I walked in. I mean, and it's like the bass is rolling. They've got the music turned up to eleven, and I'm going, howl in the world are they doing a radio show?

00:27:24
Speaker 2: It was very loud. It didn't really come through the mic. Now, my producer was terrified because they were not playing the radio mix the songs. The good thing was it didn't really you couldn't really hear the words through the mic. You could just hear the noise, so you couldn't really hear. But my producer is freaking out. You can tell He's like, what's going on, Myron is? I mean, we can't hear each other. And then my producer be like, talk about the jaguars and I'm like, hey, my like it was it was, you need to listen to it. It was circus.

00:28:00
Speaker 6: We got out of there for a little bit because it was too loud for us, Me and Drew, and then we almost froze to death. But no, it was an awesome experience.

00:28:07
Speaker 2: So then we drive. We drove last night. This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. We have this thing where who picks the restaurant is gonna rotate. Drew was up first. I won.

00:28:17
Speaker 7: I got this first.

00:28:19
Speaker 2: I thought we'd get to like Bloomington or normal Illinois. But then I was making such good time. I made good time, good time. We were we got through there. Then I was like Peoria and then we got through there, and then I said to Drew, looks like we're gonna be around Gailsburg, which I didn't even know was a place Gailsburg, Illinois for dinner. I said, pick us a place in Gilsburg, Illinois. He says, nothing in Gailsburg. But there's a barbecue place called Big Cats Barbecue in Knoxville, Illinois.

00:28:46
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, I was excited about it.

00:28:48
Speaker 2: We pull in and again Ryan doesn't know his name a lot of the time. And when we pull in, Ryan goes, we've been here before, and you go, we have. We've been to Big Cats Barbecue in Illinois. And then all of a sudden, I look and I go, wait a minute, we have been here. We have been here before. I don't know how this happened, but many of you may remember our trip to the Caucuses in Iowa. Yes, we did a postgame show in Knoxville, Illinois, and a girl, only one person came. We didn't know we were gonna stop there, and we were like, hey, if you're close by it come. A woman drove. She got there. We couldn't get service. We had to do the show sitting in our van, and she got in the van she did, which they probably don't say you should do. Don't get in the van with a bunch of guys, But she did, and the four of us did the postgame show with her sitting in the van. And that was at Big Cat's Barbecue, Big.

00:29:46
Speaker 3: Cats Parking Lot. Yep, no doubt about it. We ate barbecue and went out in the parking lot to do the postgame show. She said she left her husband at home and came to sitting with her.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: World like, what are the odds that you would end up in a tiny We had to drive five miles off the interstate to find the restaurant, and we would end up at the exact same restaurant Drew that we ended up at five years ago.

00:30:08
Speaker 7: Listen, you want me to pick a restaurant, I'm gonna pick the best one.

00:30:11
Speaker 5: For the road. It's consistent at least, you know.

00:30:13
Speaker 4: Even when I was looking at it had a picture and I was like, that looks like that place we were at that one time, and I thought it was like New Mexico, because you know, we're everywhere. And then Ryan spotted at the little nose perked up to Susie stepped out of the ven.

00:30:23
Speaker 7: He's like, I've been here, So you.

00:30:25
Speaker 2: What did you think? You know, you're you're traveling across the country, Max, what did you think of Illinois? It was good. It was obviously very cold.

00:30:32
Speaker 6: We I know a lot of people commented on Twitter that they thought it was stranger. Were all still wearing our snowjackets in the car. Matt did keep the air conditioning down to sixty for some reason.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: That's like, yeah, but no, it was. It was great.

00:30:43
Speaker 6: I know Drew thought there was possibly niq will and he's been so I know.

00:30:46
Speaker 7: I do feel like I was given something I didn't need.

00:30:49
Speaker 6: And then rip to the staff member that passed away mid setting up the Christmas decorations in there. There was Christmas decorations, but they were half done and all the boxes were left out.

00:30:57
Speaker 2: You really really really liked Chris miss decorations. Why is that? I don't know.

00:31:02
Speaker 6: I just really like Christmas. I've always liked Christmas, like Christmas, lights, Christmas people do.

00:31:05
Speaker 2: That in Australia. Did they put up lights and stuff?

00:31:07
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Christmas exists.

00:31:09
Speaker 2: But why are you so you're enamored by it? I don't know, I just like it. I guess whenever I was growing up.

00:31:15
Speaker 5: I just like Americans do Christmas lights better.

00:31:18
Speaker 6: Well, you do it better because we don't get the snow and we don't get the cold.

00:31:21
Speaker 2: We do it in the warmth.

00:31:23
Speaker 6: So like the sun never goes down, so you never really see the lights. Like over here, it's there's snow, there's darkness, there's lights.

00:31:28
Speaker 2: It's awesome. Yeah. So we and then we got to Iowa City last night and here we are. Now, to those of you listening, I need your help. The way this works, we're kind of in between places, all right, we're trying. There's no clear place to go. We were gonna go to my buddy's ranch tonight, but we can't because the UK game on Tuesday. The timing doesn't work. So we think we're gonna stay tonight in Kearney, nebraskaurney Arney, Carnal So Carney Nebraska. It looks like Kiarney. Why did they say Carney It has an e? Did they not know what these are? In Nebraska? They have lots of weird people. Okay, So Carney, Nebraska is where we're gonna be k e A r any. Why I'm a little worried because it's in the middle of nowhere. And but we need a person. I'm not worried about like I'll find a place to stay and eat. I need something. We need someone to continue the street. The streak's been going on for a decade.

00:32:31
Speaker 5: Can you just follow us to the next That's.

00:32:33
Speaker 2: A long way for you, though, isn't it. Yeah, Well, you're welcome to come. But if you are in Carney, Nebraska, I would love to have you come so we can continue the street. I don't know where it'll be. I'll tweet it out tonight. Probably would be in the lobby of whatever hotel we stay at. But uh Ryan, Carney, Nebraska. That one rural place in New Mexico is where we thought the streak was gonna end. And somebody called their dad and told him to come, and he came, and he didn't even know who we were. I'm a little worried about Carni, Nebraska tomorrow night.

00:33:03
Speaker 3: I've never heard of Carnie, Nebraska. Don't even know where that is in Nebraska. So I gotta go do with my own research.

00:33:08
Speaker 2: You had a Boddy to coach there.

00:33:09
Speaker 6: I was gonna say home the Lopees. Tristan Yomas, my former long snapper, was a coach to ask so we're Kentucky Park former Kentucky Plasts. So we do have maybe a get out of Jeffrey Cott. He said he might make a few calls if we if we get desperate.

00:33:20
Speaker 2: I don't want people, though, who I don't know who we.

00:33:22
Speaker 6: Are to feel like I know who Tristan is in Tristan by default knows who I am.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: So you know roundabout way? Yeah? All right, well either way, tomorrow we will probably be uh in Carnia, Nebraska. A F I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna take a break and we will be right back. We are on the road here in where are we? This is? This is Kentucky Sports Radio walking back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Af IM nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We are here in Iowa City some Carnie, Nebraska facts. All right, let's go sand Hill cap sand Hill Crane, Capital of America, corporate headquarters of the Buckle.

00:34:06
Speaker 5: The Buckle.

00:34:06
Speaker 7: I forgot my belt.

00:34:07
Speaker 2: Could you remember?

00:34:09
Speaker 5: Remember the bull and there's a.

00:34:11
Speaker 2: Buckle store that's right? How about that?

00:34:14
Speaker 3: I didn't know what that was. Now when you say that, I'd store in the mall of course.

00:34:17
Speaker 2: Is that still around?

00:34:18
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:34:19
Speaker 7: Them all still has a bucket.

00:34:20
Speaker 5: Get some skinny.

00:34:21
Speaker 2: Jeans, go, I bet they have a good buckle there.

00:34:25
Speaker 5: If that's the cap, sure, yeah, better than all those other knockoffs.

00:34:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we will we will be doing that now. The snow. What do we think of the snow? We didn't expect to encounter this snow?

00:34:36
Speaker 5: Do you mean we didn't? Who didn't going out in the Midwest in the middle of winter? You didn't There was no forecast for snow. Well, I mean there was if you checked. It has brought boots. A couple of us didn't bring. Look'st snow boots on.

00:34:48
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about it. These are Joe Fresh Goods shoes. They're gonna be good. They're gonna be fine.

00:34:53
Speaker 4: There's a moment yesterday we were driving and you were like, Roight, why don't you look up the weather?

00:34:56
Speaker 7: And I kind of thought, is this our first time looking at the weather on this this trip, And.

00:35:01
Speaker 3: It looks like where we're going it's gonna be butt cold, but no snow.

00:35:05
Speaker 5: It's but cold here. It's but many degrees right now, it's going.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: To be very What did you think, guys, I'll start with you, Max, of the this weekend, all the fights over the flags on the field.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: It was it was crazy, wasn't it. I mean there was four or five of them. It wasn't just one. I think probably the first few teams did it and then the other teams thought they'd get involved. If I was to give my honest take, I don't see the point in. You gotta be gracious when you win, right, just leave the flags away, leave them out of the logos. Like I know you won, but is that not good enough?

00:35:34
Speaker 2: Like I don't know.

00:35:35
Speaker 6: I just think be gracious when you win. Don't put the flag in there, and don't stuff.

00:35:38
Speaker 5: If you beat us, you can plant your flag, but you got to replace your divot. It's just like golf. But yeah, I mean, if you don't like it, beat the team is what I always say. So I mean there was pepper spray involved in one of the fights was at the Michigan Ohio State.

00:35:49
Speaker 2: First of all, I wait, I'm shocked at that reaction from you, Max, Like I love the flag planning. If you don't like it, if you don't like it, beat them frying about the people going around and pushing each other, beat them. Beat them. They're on your home field. They beat you. Now, it's kind of silly to plan a flag drew into artificial turf because you can't plan it, Like it doesn't really work. But like I'm kind of with chickan God, they gotta learn how to lose.

00:36:17
Speaker 4: I'm not anti celebrating on the other team's field, but also like the Ohio State player that lost his mind trying to get the flag, I can see why he would also take offense to it and lose his mind.

00:36:27
Speaker 2: Also, I mean, I don't mind the fights. I'm for it. Let him go. Now, the pepper spray, I think the like it feels like they overreacted with the pepper spray, right, Like, don't.

00:36:35
Speaker 3: You think that's a little bunch. Now, you guys may know the answer to this. From what I thought, the only people that got pepper sprayed were the Michigan guys, like the y.

00:36:46
Speaker 2: Pat fordy got pepper sprayed. Columbus police, they know who they're in.

00:36:50
Speaker 6: The policeman seemed like he just closed his eyes and just held the bike down like it was just going everywhere.

00:36:54
Speaker 2: He was pepper spraying everybody. Like it feels like there is I don't know. First of all, Gus Johnson way over he way over reacted. He was like going. And then Gus Johnson's call he lost his voice. He lost his voice in the middle of it. That was, Yeah, Rick, you gotta find that. It's on my Twitter account. Rick, you think you can find that Gus Johnson calling the uh the interception. I'll do my best.

00:37:21
Speaker 5: You'll find it.

00:37:21
Speaker 2: You'll find it. It was on It was on Saturday. The Gus Johnson going. He sounded like a boy going through puberty. When Ohio State got that interception. That was great, Like Peter Brady when he lost his voice. How embarrassing? Like was it for you Drew who likes to talk so much trash to Louisville to uh W when we got just destroyed.

00:37:46
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say embarrassing is the word, because I was more just upset with Kentucky's own problems. If it had been a one off situation, Louisville just coming here and stolen one, I think that'd be embarrassing. But it was we had other issues like, as we said, a player getting a hot dog, or what's the few of Kentucky's You know, I'm not dodging the Louisville trash talk. But it's like I got enough problems to worry about Louisville celebrating.

00:38:07
Speaker 2: I've never been less nervous or sad about a loss to Louisville, probably Ryan because I expected it from moment one. I just expected it, and then for me it was all about what are we doing for the future. I wanted to hear what Stoop said on the post game? Baby, what did you think about what he said? I mean it was it was like, I know there's some people with wishful thinking want me gone. Well they're gonna be disappointed. My butts back to work. It was very he was He took responsibility, but he was also very defiant as well.

00:38:41
Speaker 3: Yeah that's what, Like I said earlier, I wanted him to take didn't you like that? But almost like he was like just telling everyone else he does pay attention to the noise. He hears the noise. You can't be doing that. You're the head football coach.

00:38:53
Speaker 2: We gotta But what about like saying, I know some of you want me gone, so he shouldn't say, but I ain't going anyway.

00:38:59
Speaker 5: It's kind of like Billy, like I'll take responsibility. But I'm not saying I'm sorry. Okay, that's what happened, and here we are.

00:39:04
Speaker 2: Do you like that? Like it's weird to say with such definitiveness. Y'all gonna be upset that want me gone? I'm here.

00:39:14
Speaker 5: It shows a commitment to me. It's better than last year when he was flirting with Texas A and M. I kind of like that, yeah, because I want him back. Now.

00:39:20
Speaker 8: If you don't want him back, you don't like that answer. But for the people he do, I know, but I can't. I can't articulate what I'm trying to say. I mean, here's what I would look Stoops is coming back. I want him to do well. I will support him in his attempts to come back. Stoops considered certainly and almost went and maybe even tried to go, depending on who you talked to to Texas A and M last year. And he did it, And if he had decided to do it, he wouldn't care that he made a lot of people say, I think it is kind of wrong to sit there and go, I.

00:39:55
Speaker 2: Know a lot of y'all want me gone, but I'm coming back. Well, a lot of us wanted you to stay last year when you thought about leaving, right Like, I just thought that was a little much. I think I said to somebody I thought eighty to ninety percent of his postgame comments were dead on and what you need to say. But Drew, I didn't love that one because I felt like it's just a little chesty for me. Dude, you went four and eight like you went four and eight. Now, he did say I get why you all are upset. I appreciate that. It wasn't like cal who was always like, why are you getting upset? But then he also what's weird to me about Mark Stoops is he will say one thing that's exactly right and then counter it with the exact opposite opinion. So he'll say, I understand why people are upset. I feel like I let him down. I'm gonna fix it. But by the way, I've done a bunch of stuff here nobody else has. Well. I thought you said you understood why they were upset, Like do you understand? Because if you understand, you wouldn't say that second part. I don't. It's almost like there's like two sides of him at war, and he ends up saying both of those things.

00:40:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I brought it up right away in our in the first hour of the conversation.

00:41:03
Speaker 7: I didn't love the just I know you want me gone part.

00:41:06
Speaker 4: It's I mean, these people are supposed to be supporting you, and you're kind of like, I'm coming back anyway, whatever you think. And I just don't feel like that's a good way if you're really trying to fix this and rally everyone behind you. Kind Of just saying I'm doing this regardless didn't seem like the greatest way to get everybody behind you.

00:41:21
Speaker 6: When he said he was taking his butt back to work the next day, I wanted a Mike Tyson style video of him walking into work that day. I wanted him to kind of have the butt chakes out. But uh, I agree with you, though, Matt. It kind of sounded like he was like almost you know, when you're fighting with your girlfriend or something, you admit to it, but you're almost doing a billy. You admit to it, but you don't fully admit. You don't always and then and yeah, it wasn't. So that's why I mean, he's embarrassing what happened against Louisville, and we never want to say that again. So there's gonna be changes, and hopefully he makes a hush review and make some changes.

00:41:50
Speaker 4: There's just so much to do, including the offensive line. And he's he's said with a pretty detailed plan a week or two ago. You know, Wolford's a great recruiter. We're gonna go out with gonna this offensive line. And then the first piece of news is an offensive lineman leaving. You're going the wrong way already, concession stamp.

00:42:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we will take a break, come back our number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio on the road.