2025-10-31- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Friday, December the thirty first. I met Jones here live at Whiskey Thief just.

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Speaker 2: We are here.

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Speaker 5: It is a packed house, and it is there's a lot of stuff going on. Kentucky played a poor basketball game last night. They have a worry some football game tomorrow. And it's also Halloween, and we have folks dressed up, including the people up here. We'll start with the guy next to me, Ryan Lemon. I'm dressed as Elie de la Cruz. But I need help, shann and I have. I need accoutermonts. I woke up this morning and realized I need gold chains.

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Speaker 4: You need that.

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Speaker 5: So if anybody has gold chains or EyeBlack, I would like to borrow it.

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Speaker 2: I was not able to get it last night.

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Speaker 3: Maybe a baseball glove, maybe a bat, maybe just a baseball.

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Speaker 2: But I have a hat in a jersey. That's a good start.

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Speaker 5: But I would love the gold chains in the EyeBlack. I think I could do it. Accessories matter, the accessories matter, and someone was supposed to bring him to me, and then they texted me this morning said I can't get up and do it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, because you are a referee I am. If anybody gets out of hand here. I know a lot of people are probably gonna be drinking here at whiskey. If anybody needs to be thrown out of here, I can do it.

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Speaker 4: I'm the guy.

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Speaker 2: Drew is a draft king. Yes, the crown is yours, but the.

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Speaker 5: Winner of the winner of the contest is Look at Mike Ditka here, everybody give him a round and applause. Right, that is a top level costume. You literally have not gone out of character. You've got the mustache, I would argue, the slick back hair look is a good one for you.

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Speaker 6: Uh it's coach Dick to you. Helly, don't forget that.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 7: This is Bill Meck's sweater. Bill Meck, I've seen him, go Bill, Bill Meck, Mike Ditka sweater. So shout out to chief Meteorologist Bill Meck.

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Speaker 2: Well you look great, and uh Bill.

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Speaker 6: Great Bill Gray Ellie.

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Speaker 3: So, Ryan was just hanging out during the pre show back here, and I legitimately did not know that that was actually Ryan until he turned around and I thought, I.

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Speaker 2: Hear wonder if if it was him. Shannon was the only one.

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Speaker 4: Well Belly didn't know either. He was like, is that Ryan?

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Speaker 3: And then he turned around we saw the back of his head. Okay, yeah, that's Ryan.

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Speaker 2: So while I do.

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Speaker 5: Think Ryan wins the people on the show costume contest, I got to give the winner of everybody here to these two women dressed as nerds, gummy.

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Speaker 3: Clusters pandering right there. That is pandering to you, Matt. They know your favorite candy.

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Speaker 5: Maybe it is pandering, But like our current president, I can be bought. And so I'm glad to Uh, I'm glad to do it because those are excellent costumes.

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Speaker 2: Drew, you got to give those ladies.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, leave aside just the nerd connection. That's just a great creative costume. Really got the little clusters in their hair, they got the actual logo.

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Speaker 2: That's not a question. They're the winner today.

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Speaker 6: Ask you a question, Yes, is Mario Browny.

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Speaker 5: Mario is Bronny. He is dressed as Bronnie James. That's why he's sitting down on the bench right now, because he is That's a that's a great singer, but I like it he's dressed as Brownie tonight. By the way, if you are in Lexington, Mario and I are doing a rare I'm doing a rare getting out in public tonight. Mario and I are going to be looking for the top ten costumes in Lexington tonight. We're gonna do man on the street interviews and find the top ten costumes in Lexington tonight. I'm open for suggestions. Is to wear besides like bars, where are people tonight? Like where are the Halloween things? Because Mario and I are gonna be out on the street tonight.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure there's gonna be plenty of neighborhoods. You could just wander around.

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Speaker 2: I'm not wander around people's neighborhood you.

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Speaker 4: Can treating, you know, and find some adults.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's what we'll do.

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Speaker 5: Maybe we'll look But it would be weird though for us just to roam around people's neighborhoods.

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Speaker 8: But nevertheless, there's ever a night to do it. I'd say this is the one you can get away with it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so Mario and I are going to do that tonight. I would say you would be a contender in your outfit.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate that.

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Speaker 7: But tonight, for trick or treading, I will take off my Dicka costume and put on my scary demon costume to scare the living daylights out of the kids when they come to get their candy from me.

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Speaker 2: Why do you want to dress as a demon?

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Speaker 7: I get a big kick out of it. I'd like to see him run off screaming and crying.

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Speaker 2: That's really what age are we talking about, twenty seven.

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Speaker 6: Anywhere from a newborn to about third.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, good are good luck? Good luck scaring the children tonight. Well, I was scared last night by the Kentucky basketball performance. I hate to start with this, but I think we have to Cats play at home against Georgetown. Continues the streak of we've never beaten Georgetown in a regular game or an exhibition game now oh to three over the years, lost in nineteen twenty, lost in nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 2: Four, and now lite lows this year.

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Speaker 5: It was a bad game from start to finish through I mean Kentucky was down. I think they went down twelve to eleven and then never caught up again. That Georgetown dominated on both ends of the floor. I thought Kentucky was completely outphysical, They were not able to play offensively. They were never really been able to get into their offense, shot the ball a very poorly, turned it over a lot, and then just on the defensive end, especially in the first half, easy shots for Georgetown, physical, taking it to the basket. I said on the postgame show, it reminded me of the Ohio State game last year in Madison Square Garden, where you got a kind of introduction to oh, Okay, this is what it's like to play against men, and you're gonna have to be ready for it.

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Speaker 2: What did you think of it?

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Speaker 8: Very disappointed like everyone else, you know, you have cold night shooting, but also they threw in last night. We're not gonna guard either. They couldn't shoot or defend. The moment, we were a couple of minutes into the game and I was just seeing that Georgetown's two guards both are all Conference, they were doing whatever they wanted. Just never had a good feeling. I never really thought we were gonna hit another gear because it was just looking too easy for Georgetown and Kentucky was just throwing up brick after brick the whole game. Well one point, they were ten for twenty from the free throw line. Yeah, Kentucky, Yeah, the free throw line.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we had guys who should be eighty five percent shooters up there missing free throws. I mean, Cam Williams is zero for two. Noae missed free throw, Chandler missed a free throw. Away miss free throws. Like, you're like, come on, guy, I mean, it's one thing if our biggs miss free throws, but you guys, the guards ran. I mean, I look, it's an exhibition game. I'm not gonna overreact. It doesn't really change a lot of how I see about the team, especially with Low and Aberdeen out.

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Speaker 2: But it was very disappointing.

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Speaker 7: You're right, with Low and Aberdeen out, their guards were just better than our guards, and we saw without a true solid, strong point guard out there, offense just seemed out of SNK. You mentioned the night couldn't hit free throws, couldn't hit a three point in the second half, oh.

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Speaker 5: For thirteen, by the way, exactly like nineteen eighty four, couldn't hit a shot in the second half.

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Speaker 2: They went three for thirty three. Last in nineteen eighty four, they went oh for ten or oh.

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Speaker 7: For thirteen from three in this one, so even you know, Travis Ford said something like this during the broadcast, these are the type of teams they're gonna see.

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Speaker 6: In the SEC.

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Speaker 2: He's exactly right.

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Speaker 6: So is that any alarm bells go off?

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Speaker 5: Well, Mark Pope said. Mark Pope said after the game, basically what I said. He said, the Ohio State did that to the last year, and then we learned how to play against those kind of teams and by the end of the year we were good against them.

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Speaker 2: And so I think, Shannon, that's what you hope. He said.

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Speaker 5: This is hard for us to replicate and practice because we don't have guys like this, he said, but we will be able. And you know, maybe there's an argument it's good to get this out of the way here then take a regular season loss in a similar game.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I know the shooting was bad last night, but I think that this is a really good team and really good shooting team. So I think that those things will work themselves out as we go throughout the season.

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Speaker 2: Well, I hope it is. I I mean, are we certain it's a good shooting.

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Speaker 4: Team from everything we've heard?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I haven't seen it yet. I mean, I you know, when I looked at the roster they built. My worry Drew was shooting. That was my worry. And then I've seen them in practice make a lot of threes. But we've now seen them three times in game competition and they really haven't shot the ball in any of them. And there is a part of me that worries that this Mark Pope's offense requires you to make open threes and can.

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Speaker 8: We I'm a little worried, and I think we need to have a difficult conversation.

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Speaker 2: I'll be the one to say it.

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Speaker 8: That I think we need to calm down on the Trent and Noah can't miss conversations I've participated in.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll get to that one too. But last summer, remember Travis.

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Speaker 8: Perry hit one hundred in a row and it wasn't just media, the players were saying that Pope was saying that this kid can't miss, and then he didn't really shoot well in the regular season. I'm worried we're doing that to Trent Noah because all summer player interviews us, uh, Pope, Trent know what, Trent know what, Trent Noa cannot miss. And I'm worried we're doing what we did to Perry last year. I don't know if it's putting too much pressure on him or they're hyping him up too much, but he hasn't been knocking it down.

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Speaker 2: When you watch him in practice action, he does not miss.

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Speaker 5: But there's a difference we making it, and as Josh Carrier would tell you, there's a difference making it in practice and making it in games. Right, and you cannot beat good teams if we're gonna play these guys a lot of minutes. If Trent, I want you to think about this stat Trent, Noah, Colin Chandler, and Cam Williams. In theory, those should be your three best three point shooters, and they went two of fifteen last night and most of them were open. So if you go two of fifteen with open threes with those guys, that's gonna be tough.

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Speaker 7: So you know, we overreacted after the win over Purdue. Do we overreact after the way we shot the ball and lost to Georgetown? I think as a fan base, we probably do because I think it's a legit concern about the shooting.

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Speaker 5: The shoot Okay, so some of the stuff that went wrong yesterday, Shannon, I'm not worried about Yeah, Okay, Colin Chandler is not is not at this point in his career point guard. We saw that last year. I think Drew and I had hoped it changed. I don't think that's changed. I think he's got to play the two or the three. I think when you get low and Aberdeen, some of that stuff's gonna take care of itself. So like, I don't think we're gonna have as many turnovers when Lowe and Aberdeen are playing. I don't think we're gonna have We could not guard the ball like we could not guard the ball. Part of that was Colin Chandler, you know, Trent, Noah, even Jasper, they could not guard the ball. Aberdeen's gonna be able to guard the ball.

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Speaker 2: Oh Way. I was shocked how bad the oh Way played.

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Speaker 5: I thought that was maybe the worst game I've seen o Way play at Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: He'll be better, right, still let the team in scoring, though he did what I was driving at going though, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, saying I wasn't that worried about the offense.

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Speaker 3: Is I'm more concerned what I saw last night about the defense and the lack of physicality, because in the sec if you're not physical with these teams, you're just gonna get beaten up night in and night out.

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Speaker 4: So they've got to have some toughness they do.

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Speaker 5: It looked to me Ryan, I can't believe I'm saying this, because I hate when fans say this after games. If you've listened to me over the years, I usually go, I don't think that's a fair criticism. But I'll admit even I was thinking, it just didn't look like they wanted to be out there last night, Like they just didn't. They didn't have the energy.

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Speaker 2: They just did it.

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Speaker 5: Just it felt like Georgetown was much more into that game than we were, which I don't think is.

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Speaker 2: An you can't do that.

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Speaker 6: They did seem just out of sync, out of sorts.

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Speaker 7: Maybe that was because the change at point Guarden, but especially on the offensive end, they just didn't seem to have any fine tuned execution at all we thought we'd see.

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Speaker 5: It was one of the most listless performances that I can remember, and even though we won, I kind of feel like Matt Paynter after.

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Speaker 2: The game, it could have been worse.

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Speaker 5: Georgetown shot badly in the second half. Now, they played well in the first half, but they shot pretty badly.

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Speaker 2: It could have been.

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Speaker 8: Worse, could have gotten a lot worse, Becuzuck, you had a little mini run that got the crowd kind of into it. I think they cut it to ten, which is embarrassing to say in Raperina. Also not the crowd's best effort. I didn't expect it would be perdue because Purdue was insane. If you were there, that was crazy to be an exhibition game. But I thought it would be better than last night. Was that upper end zone was just completely empty, lots empty roads throughout the stadium. So just across the board, it wasn't everyone's best effort.

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Speaker 5: So do we think it matters long term? I mean, wait, we played Tuesday night against Nichols and then we got Valpo Friday. They're both bad, so you know, but then you got Louisville a week from Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: H Do you do you think this is just a blip on the radar or is this something that worries.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't worry me at all.

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Speaker 3: I love that we're playing these games though in the preseason too, because we're still zero and zero. But we find out a lot more about the team playing these type of teams than an athlete's an action morehouse. Remember when we played those with beating about seventy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that was that. No, Actually, you're right, yeah, yeah, So I like.

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Speaker 4: That they're playing.

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Speaker 3: You have to learn about your team early in the season, as you wouldn't, you know with the other schedule.

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Speaker 7: Pope said it, you know all these postgame press conference and I love this result. Now he had some tape to show our guys.

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Speaker 6: I didn't love working.

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Speaker 2: I didn't love I mean, I will say this, I didn't love the result.

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Speaker 6: I didn't either, No.

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Speaker 8: And it was very disappointing. I mean, they look bad. There's no way to sugarcoat it. But you also have to remind yourselves that's not the team we're gonna watch all year. The moment Lows back and aberdeener back, We're not gonna just have to watch Colin Chandler get taken off the dribb all night because that's not his job. Everybody was taking on a roll that's not gonna be their role when it really matters.

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Speaker 2: We did get some good news.

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Speaker 5: Low and Aberdeen will both be able to uh he Pope says they're both close, and then he hopes to play them next week. I've kind of gotten the since we might see one of them might not. I don't know that they'll both be playing Tuesday. I think the goal is to have them both play Friday so that you can have one full game before Louisville.

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Speaker 2: Ryan and I think that's that's the goal. We'll see if they're able to do it.

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Speaker 7: And that's why I'm not going to rush the judgment until we get those guys back, because obviously last night with no I hate to slam Colin Chandler, but he just played bad lives. He had a bad he was I mean, we can't win with him.

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Speaker 5: He was awful and he and it looked to be in his head. I mean you could see it on his face. For those of you who watched it at home, I mean you could see it on his face. Five turnovers or some bad shots. Five turnovers one of six from three, could not guard like. That was a bad Colin Chandler game. Your stock with WA good.

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Speaker 5: We are here at Whiskey Thief, the tasting room opening New lou in October twenty twenty four, and here is one hundred and twenty seven acre farm, and we always have one of our best remotes. They are literally taking bourbon directly out of the barrel, all right, and like, are.

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Speaker 2: You that's the thief? She's holding that's the thief. Now are you? You're putting in cups? You don't just shoot it directly in their mouth, do you? If you want it, you could, but they're not doing that. They got little cups.

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Speaker 5: And are there any more cups will get to give away or are they already all gone?

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Speaker 2: So they're gone? All right?

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Speaker 5: Well, thanks to the pokes folks who got here earlier. They got their shot glasses. Will take a break and be right back. It's KSR here at Whiskey Thief. Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Here live a Whiskey Thief.

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Speaker 6: Some bourbon got a little distracted there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, bourbon comes. Everybody gets a little worked up at the farm. Here at Whiskey Thief. They have live music on weekends, they have food trucks, they got jazz nights and it is Halloween. Nah. I got a message a text here that says, don't let Ryan act all tough. He does not scare all children. He's very nice to toddlers and medically uh, fragile children.

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Speaker 2: That's very nice. That would be mean if you were not.

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Speaker 5: So he does have some limits, although he will schedule other scare other children.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yoga girl kind of gets behind me and she'll hear which it goes, there's somebody.

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Speaker 5: Coming up with the locks and you don't well, yeah, it says two years ago he almost scared a kid on oxygen riding in a wagon.

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Speaker 2: And now I have to make sure did you really do that?

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Speaker 6: I did? I?

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Speaker 7: You know, because I'm there in my demon costume. I can't see who's coming up.

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Speaker 2: I can't see a kid in a wagon.

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Speaker 4: Huh.

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Speaker 6: And then like down to the right in front of me, and then I really let him have it.

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Speaker 4: God, it's a torture place to go to.

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Speaker 2: Why would anyone want to go to your house? That sounds awful.

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Speaker 7: My neighbor brought his little boy over and I had him in tears. I felt so bad as my neighbor.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, you're you're saying all this with glee.

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Speaker 9: I love it, actually all sides of a psychopath. I want those kids to go remember, hey, remember that bald old man. He's the scares at Halloween.

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Speaker 6: Why do you want them.

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Speaker 2: To remember that? That sounds like an awful memory.

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Speaker 6: That's a great memory.

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Speaker 8: All right, Well, don't they want to remember the candy they had with their.

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Speaker 6: Fil getting so scared you pee your pants?

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Speaker 5: Well, see, everybody always acts like he's the nice guy in the group. Could you hear any of the rest of us ever saying that that's something that only Ryan Leman would say if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Uh, text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four So bottom line fan base fan base was overreacting online last night. Uh, not too bad of an overreaction on the postgame show relatively calm, but online it went crazy. Just does your overall outlook on the season change at all? Shannon already said, no, what about you?

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Speaker 8: No, I have some like individual concerns, like I don't know that Cam Williams light bulb is gonna go off when we needed to. He just he's hesitating a lot. He turned down good threes to take bad threes yesterday. So there's like little individual things that I wish looked better, But the big picture, as I said, that's not the team we're gonna be watching this year hopefully. And if you have injured guards all year, that's another issue. But once Low and Aberdeen back, that should help with the not being able to stop the ball that they had issues with last night.

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Speaker 5: I'm legitimately worried about Cam Williams. I mean I I I think that guy. I haven't seen anything yet from him. We practiced and we saw the family practice. He looked a little better, but I'm starting to put him. You know, there's got to be two guys that don't play when everybody gets healthy. I'm starting to put him in that that group, because you know, he's a three and D guy that's not making threes or playing defense. So that's he'd be the person that I would say is the most troublesome to me.

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Speaker 7: And it's probably the biggest headed head scratcher. We said, we heard this some of the TVT guys that he's the best shooter. When we saw family practice, he was the best shooter. And in the games situation, we've got right now, he's just kind of a non factor out there.

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Speaker 8: He looks like the im I don't wanna say the moment's too big for him, but if all the people that hasn't adjusted yet. I mean, he still looked kind of wide eyed when he got the ball last night, like, oh my, I'm in Reperina right now.

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Speaker 2: I see a little bit of that.

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Speaker 8: That's why one he had an open shot, pump faked into a contested shot. There were just a lot of things where I he were comfortable he would have taken that right away.

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Speaker 2: I think there's also you gotta remember.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know how to exactly put it, but the whole city kind of felt depressing yesterday, Like I don't know what it was even starting you were there in the morning, like it was just it was rainy, it was cold. Pregame show, we had a lot of people in the bar, but it just didn't feel like people were energetic, and it was.

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Speaker 2: Rainy and it was cold, and then you get.

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Speaker 5: To the game and it just it just felt and I just felt like the whole city, team included.

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Speaker 2: Just was not awake yesterday.

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Speaker 7: I'm the I'm just gonnat. We got to hold off judgment. So we got our full roster back. Now we get those guys back and we're still strug one hitting the three, and we're still struggling on offense, then maybe even raise some concerns. But right now I'm still just we gotta hold off judgment a little bit.

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Speaker 5: All right, let's talk about something much more positive. We play a football game tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Shit, I was about to say, if you're depressed yesterday, wait till tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So he played Auburn in the probably the loser leaves town football game. Yep, Mark Stoops and Hugh Freeze. The loser of this game is not gonna be the coach next year. The winner may not be either, but the loser is definitely not gonna be. And if in Auburn's case, if they lose, he won't be the coach on Monday.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's true of Stoops, but that's just the case.

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Speaker 5: If we go into Auburn and win, Hugh Freeze might as well go ahead and hire the moving company because it is not He ain't.

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Speaker 2: He ain't making it home if we But let's talk about us. If we lose.

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Speaker 5: I'm of the opinion that if we lose Saturday, the decision is basically made.

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Speaker 2: At that point. They won't announce it's made.

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Speaker 5: It won't be, but like there will be meetings that start Sunday or day that will begin the process.

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Speaker 2: Of how do we let this thing end? And that's a very complicated question.

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Speaker 5: They're gonna need a few weeks probably to figure that out, to be honest with you, which is why it's a good thing to start. But I think that probably starts happening if we lose on Saturday. Do any of you think we're going to win tomorrow?

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Speaker 4: I actually kind of do, because you do.

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Speaker 3: Mark Stoops historically at Kentucky has always found a way when his back's against the wall to pull out a win.

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Speaker 4: He's done that a few times.

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Speaker 2: Get one of the easy year for sure, like the.

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Speaker 3: Lovell went at, you know, the last game of the year, just enough to get us hanging on for the next season. So I feel like he is going to win tomorrow and then we're gonna have to kind of change what we What do you.

00:21:42
Speaker 2: Think you think you think we get this one? I'm glad Shannon said it first. I also, I don't know people think I don't know about win.

00:21:50
Speaker 8: My prediction will not be a win, but I'm betting the ten and a half and I think they're gonna be in it until the very end. I could see of Auburn's games have been low scoring. They just got their first win last week.

00:22:00
Speaker 4: Beat last week. Yeah, other than that, it's been low.

00:22:03
Speaker 2: And you know, bullying.

00:22:04
Speaker 8: The offensive turned a corner even though they're not winning, and Auburn's defense hasn't done well against the past. So I actually think this is gonna be a court.

00:22:10
Speaker 5: Let's do a let's do a crowd vote. How many of you think we're winning tomorrow?

00:22:15
Speaker 2: Raise your hand? All right? Fifteen percent something like that.

00:22:20
Speaker 5: Uh, that's better than It's better than the amount of people when I did the thing and said how many people?

00:22:25
Speaker 2: Do you know? How many want Stoops to stay? So that's good. Yeah, Uh do you think we're winning?

00:22:30
Speaker 7: You know, before Aubert made this quarterback change, they kind of played the way Snoops likes to play. And that's why I thought, man, they got a fighters puncher chance at this game. Now Albert's made the quarterback change and they had it.

00:22:40
Speaker 5: I wonder if though, he's just like I make it fired. Let's just go at it at which poot that's bad for us. We'll take a break right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:22:48
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00:22:56
Speaker 5: Here's Matt Jones, wor come back and is Kentucky Sports here live in at Whiskey Thief. It is a cold day, but a nice day here and let and well we're out side of Frankfurt, Kentucky A five nine twenty two eighty seven one person rights. Matt, is there any good news coming from the game, Drew, you said you had some have some good news. I'm a big silver lining guy, so let's look at the silver lining.

00:23:24
Speaker 8: Kentucky has lost three exhibition games in forty years. Last the fourth, the most recent was in the Bahamas and they won the next thirty one games and went thirty one to Oh remember that team lost their last game down there because they were born out the one before that two thousand and two.

00:23:40
Speaker 2: They went undefeed in the SEC in two thousand and three. Thatst athlete today.

00:23:44
Speaker 8: Actually they won the SEC tournament, got upset in the big tournament, but they were one seed, and then the third exhibition loss was nineteen ninety five with Mark Pope, and then they.

00:23:53
Speaker 2: Went on to win the national championship.

00:23:54
Speaker 8: Really, so they've had three exhibition losses before last night and thirty years and all three on to do something special.

00:24:01
Speaker 5: I mean that's the ninety six, the two thousand and three and the twenty fifteen team.

00:24:05
Speaker 2: I think we would take it if we were that good Soles. Yeah, let's do it.

00:24:09
Speaker 3: This is all part of the plan. We've been talking about number nine. How do we get there? We got to make history repeat itself and lose a preseason game.

00:24:15
Speaker 2: Also, I like the staff of the game.

00:24:16
Speaker 5: It was Kentucky's largest exhibition loss since we lost to the Soviet Union in nineteen ninety one.

00:24:22
Speaker 4: Soviets got us.

00:24:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, so people were shocked online that we had played the Soviet Union.

00:24:27
Speaker 2: We've talked about that on the show.

00:24:29
Speaker 7: I guess that's why Pope said, you know, he went the exactly way he hoped for league. I can get him in the tape room and kind of show him what they did wrong.

00:24:35
Speaker 5: We played the Communists from DC versus the Communist Communists from the from from Russia nine two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. One person writes, Matt, what is wrong with Aberdeen? I don't really know. They said it was a leg injury, but we really I don't think he said anything about it.

00:24:53
Speaker 2: The one.

00:24:55
Speaker 5: My first quibble with Pope is the way he talks about injuries. I think we're now back to the cow thing where we're gonna have no idea if guys are playing or not. And I know there's gonna come a point, Drew where the SEC and the NCAA is gonna make these coaches just say what's happening with injuries? Because it's not with the gambling part of it. You just cannot play around with this. Cal did it in a worse way, But Pope's doing it too, where it's like, well he's okay, we hope. I mean like you're gonna have to say, like in the in the in the pro sports, you have to say he is out for two weeks, he is going to play. I mean in the NFL, they have distinct categories for each type of thing.

00:25:33
Speaker 2: We're gonna end up having to do that in college sports.

00:25:36
Speaker 8: Yeah, Pope been doing the I haven't seen him, but he's doing the uh Oh, it's beautiful what he's doing for our team wise out and it's gonna be a special week.

00:25:42
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't do that.

00:25:43
Speaker 8: And we've seen how you know, we've had two cis or one and a half seasons of the SEC injury reporting football and that's gone well. I mean, it's nice just laying it out there. This is our roster, and I think they would go to that basketball o.

00:25:52
Speaker 3: We have a lot of football players out for this game tomorrow, like ten, ten scholarship.

00:25:56
Speaker 5: Ten scholarship players out, including everyone who's last name is smith. We have like we have like four guys whose last name is Smith and they are all out for this game.

00:26:06
Speaker 2: But a lot of guys out.

00:26:07
Speaker 5: I think we only had four for the game against Tennessee and now it's ten, including macklin. Uh will Cox, he was already out. But the bunch of guys, I.

00:26:15
Speaker 6: Guess you get McCallon back though he's supposed to play.

00:26:18
Speaker 2: He's a big one. We don't know yet for sure, probably one that's good.

00:26:22
Speaker 6: So that's that's what they missed him, probably the most. In the running game. I would have loved to have had him, you know, back there in the Texas game for sure.

00:26:28
Speaker 5: But if they can't win with them, look, well that gets another question. People are asking, can we beat Louisville without Low and Aberdeen?

00:26:35
Speaker 2: They are point guard us. That will be tough. I think so. I'm not nearly as confident.

00:26:42
Speaker 8: Obviously, you mentioned us on postgame that's your only road atmosphere and it's now eleven days away, so we need them, I said, without no, no, but I'm saying that game, it just by itself is the only road, true road test.

00:26:53
Speaker 2: It's right in front of us, So they need them back if they don't have them. My warrior a little.

00:26:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think if we didn't have either one of them, Ryan, I don't think we win. If we have one or two, then yes, I feel good about it. But if we don't have either, then yeah, I think we probably lose. Before in that environment.

00:27:08
Speaker 7: Before last night, I probably was still felt pretty good about our chances that those guys were out, But after last night, seeing how they struggle without Low and Aberdeen both out there, it'd be tough.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: It would be tough. Who's up first, Jay and Lindon? Jay and Lindon go ahead.

00:27:23
Speaker 10: Hey, I'm not bummed out about last night but I'm definitely down from the hive of the Purdue game. Let me trying to be the optimist here. I think from a fans perspective, this is the downside of playing a Power five exhibition game. If we were playing the Georgetown Tigers last night instead of the Georgetown Hoyas, we might have been down there for four minutes and win by thirty. And we don't even think about this. This will ensure that we followed Georgetown's first couple of games this year.

00:27:47
Speaker 5: Though, No, that's exactly right, and you're exactly right about that. I mean, I think for a lot of people, this is the downside of having of playing.

00:27:57
Speaker 2: These good games. I mean, it just is.

00:27:59
Speaker 5: It's the down side of playing good teams is that you might lose. But I'm glad we did it. I was shocked how many people did not know we were playing Georgetown the University. There were a lot of people yesterday and Lexington Ryde who thought we were playing Georgetown College. I think part of it was people gave tickets because they thought they were playing Georgetown College. I got I had people sending me tickets to give away, and I had one person put in the box not interested in watching us play a team we're gonna beat by fifty from Kentucky, And I was like, you realize that's not who we're playing today.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: I think some people didn't even know you joked.

00:28:33
Speaker 7: We were at the restaurant last night. There was the people there at the restaurant going ready to go to the game, who thought we were playing Georgetown College Tigers.

00:28:40
Speaker 3: So would you rather have played a team like Georgetown and Kentucky and beat them by fifty or find out what you got with the challenge against them if we play.

00:28:48
Speaker 5: If we don't play that game yesterday, then I would say you get that in the regular season, forget, we would have gotten that maybe against Drew Michigan State in the Champions Classic or something. We would have got one of these teams that was that was athletic, that would have done that to us in the regular season, just like Ohio State did.

00:29:08
Speaker 2: Maybe it's North Carolina. I don't know.

00:29:09
Speaker 5: I don't know how teams play this year, but there would have been a team who would have done that exact same thing to us during the year.

00:29:16
Speaker 8: Yeah, Stink's walking out of Rapperena being disappointed what you just saw. I mean Pope was rocked in his postgame press conference. He's like, it is unacceptable to lose love.

00:29:24
Speaker 4: How serious he takes it though being an exhibition game.

00:29:27
Speaker 2: He lost his voice and he sounded like he was gonna cry.

00:29:30
Speaker 8: But now that it's behind us, we'll move on. We'll watch football tomorrow when Pope gets them in practice and he has that film. And now that we know Pope can yell in practice, we heard that the other day. It'll be good for them in the long run, taking that loss that doesn't actually hurt them, learning a few things and having some teaching moments.

00:29:45
Speaker 2: How many of you all here have YouTube TV?

00:29:47
Speaker 5: Raise your hand? Oh wow, do you know that you lost ESPN this morning?

00:29:53
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:29:54
Speaker 5: So ESPN and ABC are off YouTube TV at least temporarily. The contract expired last night at midnight. Now, of course, there's a lot of games tomorrow on ESPN, including, by the way, the Kentucky game is on the SEC network. So there are the Kentucky game tomorrow is on ESPN and ABC SEC network. Right now, all of those games are off YouTube TV. Fifty percent of this crowd has YouTube TV. If they don't fix it now, I expect they'll fix it today. I expect, knowing that those games are tomorrow, the contract will get fixed today. But if it does not, a lot of people are gonna get up tomorrow, Shannon and not realize that none of these games are on and they might freak out, including our Kentucky fans. We'll have the game at the bar and we don't have YouTube TV, so you can come watch it. But I do think fans need to realize if that something changed, you're not gonna have the UK game tomorrow.

00:30:47
Speaker 3: I feel like it happens at least once a year, and it's greed on both sides trying to figure out the contract thing.

00:30:52
Speaker 4: But the people who lose are the subscribers.

00:30:54
Speaker 5: But worries me a little bit about this one though, just from like a business perspective. ESPN has now launched their app. They're direct to consumer app, and I think they have some incentive to play hardball with these YouTube TV people and and cable companies, saying we want people to subscribe directly with us, why give you a portion of it through the middleman. So there's I could see a world where this one goes longer because in the past people didn't have other options. Now they have other options, and and Ryan, I could see ESPN saying we just want them to subscribe directly with us.

00:31:27
Speaker 7: Yeah, YouTube TV subscribers, you probably all got an email last night and I started reading it's like, you know, the Disney family of stations.

00:31:32
Speaker 6: I'm like, well, that's okay, I don't watch Disney. Then they said it also includes ABC.

00:31:36
Speaker 7: Well that's all right, but then knock the bubble, like and the ESPN family of stations, Like, oh snap, you know, I didn't realize this was even coming.

00:31:42
Speaker 5: A lot of people are gonna try to watch college game day tomorrow or they're gonna try to watch one of those early games and go, wait a minute, I didn't know this was happening, right, Well, you're gonna find out it's it's it actually happened.

00:31:54
Speaker 2: At midnight.

00:31:55
Speaker 5: I was watching a hockey game and it just went off, like and literally in the middle of the game.

00:32:00
Speaker 2: Because it was on ESPN.

00:32:01
Speaker 5: It just went off, and so I had to log in to basically I have because I work at ESPN, I have an ESPN Plus account.

00:32:08
Speaker 2: But it was middle of the game with Blake right in the middle of it.

00:32:13
Speaker 5: They were not messing around, who's who's up next, Trevor, Trevor, go ahead, Trevor.

00:32:21
Speaker 11: How you guys doing today?

00:32:22
Speaker 5: Matt doing great. And by the way, you don't have to ask me how I'm doing. We we have to turn the volume down. So like, just go for it. I'm doing Just assume I'm doing great.

00:32:34
Speaker 11: Me and two buddies are currently driving down seventy five to the universe or offer going to the game where we are going disguise as Kentucky fans, particularly we are War Eagle this weekend.

00:32:51
Speaker 2: Is that because you're wanting a coaching change.

00:32:56
Speaker 11: Well, I think it's just gonna be a terrible game all the way around.

00:33:00
Speaker 2: That.

00:33:01
Speaker 5: That's not what I asked you. That's not what I asked you. I didn't ask you what you thought the game went. Hang on, I didn't ask you what you thought the game was going to be. You're saying you're a Kentucky fan and you're rooting for Auburn. You're not rooting for Auburn because you think the game is gonna be bad. Let's be honest. You're rooting for him because you want a coaching change. Am I correct?

00:33:20
Speaker 11: Yes, that is correct?

00:33:22
Speaker 2: All right.

00:33:23
Speaker 5: So it's very important to be honest about your opinions, not be passive aggressive like a politician. So how do you justify as a Kentucky fan rooting against your own team.

00:33:38
Speaker 11: I just want to go to another bowl game, so can't do that.

00:33:43
Speaker 5: But what if I said to you, you could still go to a bowl game this year. You could win this game, you could win the next game, and then you know, pull off a game against Louisville.

00:33:51
Speaker 2: What's wrong with that?

00:33:55
Speaker 11: I just don't think that's going to happen because we run the three same plays on the goal.

00:33:58
Speaker 5: WI all right, well, I appreciate the call. Appreciate the call. I mean me, do you think there is any okay? By the way, I was, I wanted that guy to explain the position, because Drew I don't think he's a person that has it.

00:34:11
Speaker 2: Do you think there is any justification for even.

00:34:14
Speaker 5: If you want a coaching change, which, by the way, if we lose tonight tomorrow, you're gonna hear me probably say on the postgame show, I think it's time to make a coaching change. Tomorrow night is my night if that happens, because I think we're essentially out of contention.

00:34:27
Speaker 2: For the Bulls if we do it. But do you think there is any reason that you could root for that to happen?

00:34:33
Speaker 8: Me personally, No, but I'll admit I know others that are like that. I have friends that are like that right now and want to lose.

00:34:40
Speaker 2: I just can't do that. I mean, I can't look at.

00:34:43
Speaker 8: Cutter Bowley in the face and say good luck this year, or interview Josh Gattison, see him in town and be like man rooting for you, and then get on here and say I hope they lose to Auburn. I mean, I think about the guys wearing the jersey at the school I went to, and I just I'm not capable of rooting against them. It's not the Titans. We don't get the number one pick. If you stink, you actually are probably gonna have it harder getting players in recruiting, So there's no reward for stinking. So Shandon, you get that people want to change, But I can't root against you.

00:35:07
Speaker 2: Feel like the kind of person though I could see justified.

00:35:10
Speaker 3: No, I can't not against your own team. I mean, if he's on his way out, it's going to work itself out eventually anyway. That's the way I see that, so I don't think there's any scenario you ever pull against your own team.

00:35:19
Speaker 2: I'm with you on there too.

00:35:21
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00:35:27
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00:35:27
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00:37:00
Speaker 5: One person writes on the text machine, Matt, what do you think the most Kentucky costume you will see out tonight in uh Kentucky for Halloween is well, I'm hoping to see some with Mario.

00:37:10
Speaker 2: I think the answer is Mark Stoops.

00:37:12
Speaker 5: I think there's going to be a lot of people dressed as Mark Stoops. I expect to see the Shannon the cigar cigarette.

00:37:19
Speaker 2: Not even a cigar with the cigar.

00:37:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is you know, the famous cigarette dark shirt. I think you're gonna see a lot of people with the cigarette picture recreating it. Oh that's fair to Mark, but I think that's coming in a lot of places tonight.

00:37:33
Speaker 3: Bags under the eyes, looking a little disheveled, wrinkled shirt.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: I think that's coming tonight, Ryan, I do.

00:37:38
Speaker 6: I saw what picture of one.

00:37:40
Speaker 7: I don't know the lady, but she's going as like a nurse and she's carrying a dead raccoon that she's gonna give mouth the mouth to.

00:37:45
Speaker 4: During the Kentucky.

00:37:48
Speaker 5: She's giving mouth to mouth to a dead rack huon, a toy stuffed raccoon. Yeah, if you don't know that story, that would seem really strange.

00:37:57
Speaker 2: But that. Actually, I really like that.

00:37:59
Speaker 6: That's a good Kentucky themed costume for sure.

00:38:01
Speaker 5: Andy Basher was dressed as mister Rogers, and I have to tell you I could. I didn't know it was a costume. I thought that was perfect. Yeah, I literally thought that's just what he wore. He dressed up to do his press conference as mister Rogers. I was like, well, that's odd. It's a red sweater. Didn't even occur to me. He was being mister Rogers.

00:38:17
Speaker 2: Same here.

00:38:17
Speaker 8: And I didn't know he's still doing those those videos. Yeah, I guess has that just still been going since twenty twenty?

00:38:23
Speaker 2: Is he not doing daily video?

00:38:25
Speaker 5: I don't know.

00:38:25
Speaker 2: That was my big takeaway.

00:38:27
Speaker 4: And change his shoes during the press he did.

00:38:30
Speaker 2: He did. He did the shoe thing.

00:38:32
Speaker 4: I always wondered why he changed his shoes, like, what, what, what's up with that?

00:38:35
Speaker 5: Well, no, he didn't like yeah, mister Rogers wore outside shoes. He didn't want to bring dirt into his house, so he would change. I mean, I think people used to do that in.

00:38:44
Speaker 2: The olden days. That's the whole Yeah, that's right.

00:38:46
Speaker 8: I do that currently. I'm mister Rogers. Every day I sit on my little bench, I have my house shoes, I take off my boots and I'm mister Rogers into the house.

00:38:55
Speaker 5: I will tell you I don't like and I understand like people have a right to do it, but it kind of annoys me.

00:39:00
Speaker 2: Shehinn.

00:39:00
Speaker 5: And when I go to people's houses and they're like, you have to take your shoes off.

00:39:03
Speaker 4: That's why I don't have carpet. I'll have all hard.

00:39:05
Speaker 5: Work that I mean, you do it, you don't do it. I just I think it's kind of it's a little presumptuous. Now, granted, if somebody walked in with a big flob of mud all over their shit, I get it. Yeah, But like I just I hate people just think, well, I have to be in socks to be well.

00:39:21
Speaker 4: That was when I was a kid. That was my dad. You came into the house, you had to take.

00:39:25
Speaker 3: The shoes even stranger, yeah, if not, then he was giving you the stink guy.

00:39:28
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm not like that at all, but I know a lot of people are.

00:39:31
Speaker 8: I'll use this opportunity to tell the story I've told ten times. I'll tell it again. When showing me houses and they asked us to take off our shoes and he just had four exposed toes my realtory walking around with this broken song.

00:39:41
Speaker 5: Always a good chance to get a good deal when your realtor has fourks full of bows toes. Who's up next, Nathan, Nathan, go ahead and Nathan.

00:39:51
Speaker 10: Hey, what's up?

00:39:51
Speaker 2: Guys?

00:39:52
Speaker 12: So the first thing I want to say is, if you're still taking applications, I definitely want to join the Colin Chandler fang club. I think that he was forced into a role he's not meant for. He's still a good player, but more importantly, I do want to say that I am not a super big fan of Brandon Garrison. I just think that he's got a lot of lazy effort on both offense and defense. He's not a great shooter, and they're kind of forcing him to be in a Mario Williams that he's not meant to be.

00:40:21
Speaker 5: I think as the year goes on, you're gonna see that Amari Williams role will be more and more diabate, and I appreciate the call because I think it fits him more.

00:40:30
Speaker 2: Brandon Garrison. We'll see.

00:40:32
Speaker 5: I mean, it depends on if the other guys like step up and if the other guys do their roles.

00:40:38
Speaker 2: You know.

00:40:38
Speaker 5: Pope said something interesting I appreciate to call. He said something after the game that I think is really good. He said, we are not a great collection of individual talent, he said, but we are a great team. And some people got really upset at that quote, Ryan and they were like, we spent twice by the way, every time we lose. Get ready for the we spent twenty two million dollars. And it's not just from other people. Our fans are doing it too, Like people are acting like they spent their own money. Like the people. There's a lot of we spent twenty two millions out there. But I think what he's saying is and this is what we said the other day. We don't have any first round picks on this team, at least that are playing right now.

00:41:17
Speaker 2: But when they work together, they can be elite.

00:41:19
Speaker 5: But if it just becomes beating your man off the dribble one on one, they're not gonna be very good.

00:41:24
Speaker 7: And I think that's how and why he constructed the roster this way. He saw the weeks we had last year, he went and doubled down, got too deep at each of the spot. So we don't have those weaknesses bite us in the butte this year like they did last year.

00:41:36
Speaker 2: But when we lose. I saw it all night last night.

00:41:39
Speaker 5: Twenty two million is gonna be ingrained in every person's head because that is being like, there are a lot of people that every loss.

00:41:46
Speaker 2: Drew, that's what's gonna come up. You can just see it.

00:41:49
Speaker 8: I saw a lot of it online line last night. Someone even yelled at during our rapid reaction, I would just say back, that was only like seventeen million last night. There are a lot of millions sitting out, maybe even like a sixteen million dollar team at least get it right. That wasn't the full twenty two million there. There were a lot of millions in street

00:42:04
Speaker 2: Clus say that was only about fifteen million