2025-08-22- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Back out number two Techie Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: Here at the Volunteers of America Mid States Community Care Campus on East breakin Ridge Straight Street, Louisville. We've got by the way back there free Penn Station for everybody. Thanks to Penn Station for coming, and you can head to any of the twenty two Louisville Penn Station location Shannon.

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Speaker 3: Seven ninety nine Pen Pair Field. That is what this weekend.

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Speaker 4: So seven ninety nine plus three grilled sandwiches and fresh cup fry for just seven ninety nine at Penn Station this weekend. Beat it the bible you gotta do to get your donut and get that. We are now joined. Everybody, please welcome the Mayor of Louisville and my friend Craig Greenberg.

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Speaker 3: How are you.

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Speaker 5: I'm doing wonderful. Great to be with you in the team, Matt.

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Speaker 3: Craig guy.

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Speaker 4: So I met you a number of years ago, and then like five years ago you kind of changed my existence by calling me up and saying, hey, what do you think about buying a wrestling company? And then the next thing you know, I found myself in that world. So I guess so thank you for that.

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Speaker 5: It has been a great adventure. I know that you.

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Speaker 6: I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have. It's it's well, it was neither one of our primary focuses in life. It certainly was one of our market.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it felt like it though, that is, sometimes it felt like what did you think? By the way, on with with with OVW there's a lot of people that say wrestling is kind of like politics in life, especially now you know Trump being president. He was in both for a while. You're in politics, you've been in wrestling. Do you think wrestling and politics have a lot in common.

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Speaker 5: I definitely think they have a lot in common.

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Speaker 6: I mean definitely, sort of the public persona and the aspect that's certainly critically important. And people, you know, gravitate towards those who they like and who they don't like very easily, you know, And preparation is everything. We saw how much preparation all these and that helps also in politics. So there is a lot more in common between professional wrestling and politics than I think any.

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Speaker 5: Of us would like. But that's the world.

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Speaker 4: Do you find it weird when the came were following us around and to have your life, I mean, I know you're in a public eye, but that was a little bit different.

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Speaker 3: Did you find that odd at all? It was?

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Speaker 6: It was definitely weird and so, but that was also four years ago that that happens. So now I'm a little bit more normal usually used to it in my life than I was back then. I was just getting into it at that point.

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Speaker 4: So right four years ago, Craig looks at me and says, or four and a half years ago, I think I'm going to run for mayor of Louisville. What do you think? And I gave one of my great terrible predictions of all time. I said, why in the world would you want to do that? And you have no chance of winning? And I was very wrong about the no chance of winning. Now that you've done it, I mean, was it what you thought you'd it'd be.

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Speaker 6: I have loved every day of it, and that's certainly it's the most challenging thing I've ever done in my life, but it's also been the most rewarding. And nearly three years in the momentum that we have in Louisville is wonderful.

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Speaker 5: We are there's so much positive stuff.

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Speaker 6: Going on, including this project right here at VOA and the city have partnered on with other private partners.

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Speaker 5: I'm really proud of where Louisville is.

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Speaker 4: So one of things we've talked about a lot on this show because I think it's become kind of a big issue in Lexington, and to be honest, it was an issue in Louisville for a long time, and I actually think you've made some good strides on it. Is what does a city do about the homelessness situation? I mean, Lexington is actively dealing with this. They have new parks being built and they're trying to figure out how to handle it. I think anybody who lives in Lexington knows that. It feels like to me, the situation has gotten better in Louisville. I know this is part of it. Talk to me about like what does a city do? How do you think, like how do you handle it? Because it seems like such a tough issue.

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Speaker 3: To figure out.

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Speaker 5: It is challenging.

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Speaker 6: I mean, people who are homeless are struggling, they're dealing with addiction and mental health issues. So we have found that by providing more services and shelter, that's the ultimate solution. That's what people need. They need help and they need support. So we start just like this project right here, aiding services and shelter to families. It's providing medical respite for people who get in the hospital that are homeless so that they don't go back out on the streets, and all the other great services.

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Speaker 3: That VOA does.

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Speaker 6: You know, we're working with the private sector is also putting in money to this. They're going to have some great announcements about some other funders for this long term the solution, it's more housing units, it's more mental health providers, it's more people who help with drug addictions. You also have to enforce the laws, and that's something that we did here in Louisville. I mean, we really no longer have an encampment problem in Louisville. We used to when I became mayor. That's no longer the challenge. Now we're helping people who are.

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Speaker 4: How do you balance that though, I mean, enforcing the laws also requires people like how do you balance that?

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Speaker 5: Every day? There are a lot of people.

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Speaker 6: I mean, the police, are social service providers, our housing developers, everybody is contributing, and you make judgment calls on a daily basis.

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Speaker 4: You Rischie Farmer was here a minute ago. You said you went to Ballard in nineteen what is at eighty eighth? Well, come on now, Matt, that it was nineteen ninety one. Maybe, come on, no, it wasn't, was it.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Richie, graduate, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. Yeah, I heard you doing a math problem earlier. My math is worse than yours, that's right. I graduated in ninety one, but that was because Alan Houston was a couple of years ahead of me, And so I was there at Ballard during those great rival days. And I recently traveled down to Clay County with my good friend Senators Stivers and all the folks from one Clay County, many of.

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Speaker 5: Them are here today.

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Speaker 6: And I saw in the Clay County Historical Museum there is a great retrospective of the Ballard versus class.

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Speaker 4: Those are the great great high school basketball rivalries of all time. So you made a decision for the University of Louisville that you decided to bring the banner back right at you avail. Now we're at Kentucky show. But like their are rivals. So you brought the banner back to you Ofvil. You know, I don't know what we think about that, What was the reason to do that?

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Speaker 6: So I think the two most popular things I have done as mayor were number one bringing the banner back, and now there are calls for me to get involved in formally restoring the twenty thirteen championships.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that'll happen, By the way, I would like to see it happen.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what's going on with the NCAA these days, but if I can help lead the charge, I'm going to.

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Speaker 5: So we're looking into that.

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Speaker 6: And then the other most popular thing I did was when we had an honorary street naming in honor of Tom Jurich just a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I got.

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Speaker 5: You that.

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Speaker 4: I just I interviewed Andy bar Yeah, a couple of days ago. Gave him a hard time. I gotta give you a hard time. How you going to name a street after Tom Jurich.

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Speaker 6: He did a lot for this city, in this rug and this athletic program here.

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Speaker 5: Come on, he built up the entire campus.

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Speaker 6: Now, he certainly delayed the foundation that U of L Athletics is building on top of today and Josh Hurt and his team are doing an amazing job.

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Speaker 4: Do you think that the change in the NCAA now, like the fact that players can be paid, etc. Does that make you think people look back at that time a little bit differently.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, I think it definitely changes the perspective of everything. I don't know if it's good or bad for college sports. I'll leave that to you guys as the experts, but it certainly is changing things. I was thrilled yesterday though, Speed. I know you're talking about uf L, but UK. So your coach, Coach Pope was at the hand breakfast yesterday.

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Speaker 5: Morning of the fair.

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Speaker 3: Have you Mark Pope?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I met Mark Pope and his wife Leanne. They're wonderful people. They had me to a UK basketball game with my family.

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Speaker 3: Right you did.

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Speaker 4: Now, let me ask you a question. You were at a UK basketball and I wore blue. I believe you were li like in like the second row or something. Did U of L fans give you a hard time about that?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely they did. I was going it was great though. You know, I'm not one of those haters. Though I'm support. I am definitely to support UK athletically and academically.

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Speaker 3: It's great for our state. I say I'm a hater.

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Speaker 4: I am, but I also have said over the years, and I believe this this city as an economic unit and I think most.

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Speaker 3: Of you here live in Louisville.

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Speaker 4: This city needs U of L basketball, especially sleep A football as well, but especially basketball.

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Speaker 3: To be competitive for the downtown.

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Speaker 4: How much, just as a mayor, how much of what this downtown does.

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Speaker 3: Where we are requires Louisville to be good.

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Speaker 6: It's incredibly helpful. I mean, think about it. It's twenty plus games a year at the UM Center. If you have twenty thousand people coming versus eight thousand people, that is a big difference for all the restaurants and bars that are downtown. When our women's team is doing well, also, that helps tremendously. Also, so you have like forty days a year we have three volleyball games that sell out each year. Also because we've had a great volleyball program. It's critical to the success of downtown Louisville. And it just makes people feel better when Louisville's doing well. When the football program's doing well, people are in a good mood in Lotutle.

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Speaker 4: For years, there was a problem that Jurch did not want UK to be able to use the Youm Center for a game. Would you be willing if Kentucky wanted to to have you allow UK to use the Young Center.

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Speaker 3: For a game. Absolutely, that'd be great for our city'd be great for our state.

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Speaker 5: I'm all for it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's good. There's a remember when we had Greg Fisher on that time and I asked you that question. I remember it very You want to talk about an awkward interview?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it wasn't very receptive though, he was not very receptive.

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Speaker 4: You've been big on trying to bring sporting events to Louisville, Like, do you have any hints of things that might be to come for people?

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Speaker 6: There is one very big international event we are working on right now that if we get it, we're in the final two, would be wonderful.

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Speaker 5: Wow, it would be in a couple of years from now.

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Speaker 3: Final two it would be.

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Speaker 5: It would be one.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, come on, man, it is an Olympic sport, an international it is in.

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Speaker 5: I can't get too much. But what the other grade?

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Speaker 6: Next month we're going to celebrate another great event that we're having in twenty twenty eight. If it happens, it would be in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 5: That's a hint.

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Speaker 6: Okay, But the Solheim Cup, which is basically the women's version of the Ryder Cup, that's coming to Valhalla in twenty twenty eight. That's going to be a really wonderful event.

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Speaker 4: Let me ask you about the about the golf thing, because now the PGA, he does not own Valhalla. Do you think will be and then obviously there was the Scotti Scheffer incident last year, remember that. Do you do you think we'll be able to get some PGA event?

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Speaker 3: I know the Solheim Cup is PGA.

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Speaker 5: But we'll TELPGA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you think we'll be able to get something back here?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely?

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Speaker 6: We had a great relationship with the PGA of America and I know you know, everything that happened on that Friday, between the tragic accident and the arrest of Scotti Scheffer, in some ways that brought us closer together. Jimmy Kirchdorffer and his team, the owners of Valhalla, stayed in close touch with the PGA. So I'm really hoping that we get another twenty thirty something PGA championship and I think we have a really good shot to do it.

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Speaker 4: When you got success, yeah, no, when you got that phone call that morning, because I know, like as a mayor, you're just sitting there thinking, Shannon, yeah, please don't have something happen. Yeah, please don't have something bad. When you got that phone call, were you just like, oh, well, here's actually so, here's what happened.

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Speaker 6: So I woke up, as I do many mornings write at like six o'clock to hop on the treadmill usually for my day get started.

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Speaker 5: That day, I was planning to go.

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Speaker 6: I had a nice day out of Valhalla, and I wake up to more text than I've ever seen on my phone at six am, and I'm like, what the heck is going on? So I start scrolling at first, and I it just was so because it's real, right, because it had both the tragic death plus the arrest, and the first things I was getting did not mention Scottie Scheffer by name. It was just that we had arrested the golfer. And then it was more information. So literally what I did, which I've never done before or since. Then, I just like on a group FaceTime with our chief of police and some of my deputy mayors at like six ten am, and I literally sat on the top of my stairs. I didn't even go downstairs for like forty five minutes, just trying to get information because that was one of the challenges in any real time.

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Speaker 4: We were out there on the course that day doing our show, and you remember, I mean, were you there?

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Speaker 3: You were there right there.

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Speaker 4: I was like, we were trying to figure out what was going on, and you're at the course, and that was what that was about.

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Speaker 5: Yes, coming in quickly. It's hard to stay on top.

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Speaker 6: Of it, it was, you know, So we all did go out. We went out, everyone went out to the course. We met there, we were able to deal with it. And again I'm glad everything worked out the way that it did. But that was quite a day.

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Speaker 3: It's also your birthday.

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Speaker 4: Happy everybody, Happy birthday, birthday to thank you, mayor, to Mayor Craig.

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Speaker 3: We actually have present and cake for you.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Jennifer.

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Speaker 6: This is the amazing Jennifer Hancock who leads the team in VOA that's doing a great job here at the community care campus.

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Speaker 4: And so so yeah, well Ryan's was last week. Mine's next week. So uh so, happy birthday for you.

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Speaker 3: Birthday.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much, very much, thank you, and thank you very much for coming real quick.

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Speaker 3: For people listening. Give the thirty second plug for this place.

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Speaker 6: Well, VOA has this amazing project here that I think is a national model the Community Care Campus. It's providing more services and shelter for individuals who were homeless at risk of being homeless, starting with helping families, providing medical respite, and all sorts of services to help people who were in thee That's one of the best things we can do as a community is to help others that are in need. We're addressing the homelessness crisis, but also as importantly helping these people get a new lease.

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Speaker 5: On life, a new path in life.

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Speaker 6: Thanks to Jennifer, our team at VOA comprine with our private sector donors, the state, the city have all contributed funds and we're gonna keep making it going perfect.

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Speaker 4: Mayor and more importantly co minority owner of OO and wrestling with me, Craig Greenberg, thank you very much. We appreciate it. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, uh text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four here at the Volunteers of America in Louisville.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk a little bit about the Since we're in Louisville.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, Vince Marrow has switched sides and has gone from the Kentucky side to the Louisville side.

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Speaker 3: He did an interview a.

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Speaker 4: Couple days ago where it was with a different newspaper, but once again, uh Ryan brought up ks R said that he was frustrated not by us the radio, but by the website and insinuation. If you remember, Nick Rouse wrote a kind of behind the scenes article where he said basically that working with Mark Stoops was almost like Game of Thrones and that Vince had been kind of pushed to the side for Eddie Grant, et cetera. He took exception to that said that's not what happened, and uh yeah, it was just he once again, he was obviously very frustrated by that.

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Speaker 3: What did you make of his comment?

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, we all love Vince, and I'm only we'll all con through of a friend.

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Speaker 3: He may or may not be at that party tomorrow night. By the way, just before you say that, I hope he does. I mean, I really like that I.

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Speaker 4: Was invited and I have a I have a I have an RSVP maybe a maybe.

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Speaker 3: He and Joe, He and Joe sire, the two maybes that.

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Speaker 7: Are like they are, the two don't say anything bad, But wouldn't it be it'd be fun to see him and you know, just catch up on life, not just sardly football.

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Speaker 3: But are you what are you gonna say to him about that comment?

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Speaker 7: I think there's a lot of truth to that that they gave some of the power, the transfer portal power Eddy Grant, and they gave them the recruitment of freshman, gave some of that power to the position coaches, and I think that hurt Vince's feelings. I think he thought, Look, I'm the guy, I'm the guy that brings in all these players. Why are you giving away some of my power to these other guys.

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Speaker 4: Do you think Shannon Ryan will say that to his face tomorrow night if he if he runs into him, or will Ryan find a reason to go hide under the bar.

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Speaker 5: If you were to repeat what Ryan just said for Ryan to Vince, Ryan would be underneath the table. But you guys don't. I don't think that Vince ever came across as a guy with a big ego. But you have to have an ego to work in that in that field, right to be a football coach. I feel like you have to have that and to hear those words said by Ralsh or whoever it was that wrote it, probably did.

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Speaker 4: Reading the article about how he's being paid, because he's actually being paid less of a salary that he makes at Kentucky, but it says he's like getting the difference. It says from a private source, which I thought was kind of interesting, and like, there's a so there's some I don't know if it's a person or if there's some someone that looked like but some of his money Ryan is coming from a private source.

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Speaker 3: But you don't hear about a lot.

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Speaker 4: But I do wonder if that happens in the future, if like there's there there are ways where you almost have people sponsoring coaches or something and some of the money does come from private stuff.

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Speaker 7: You know, Vince was what the highest tight end coach in the history of college football.

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Speaker 3: The highest highest paid, highest paid. You don't know what to say.

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Speaker 4: He's the highest tight end coach that was. I don't think that's a good I don't think that's nice.

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Speaker 7: He would not have gone to Louisville if the money was not at least comparable. He just wouldn't have to. He's earned the right to be the highest paid coach. He's not gonna give that up. I don't think uh.

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Speaker 3: Kentucky High school football starts tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: I asked you a few days years ago if you had a preview, you had three days to get one.

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Speaker 3: Do you have some previewing?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I got got a little bit. You know, the rich get Richard. It's gonna be the same schools. We're looking at Boyle County, Trinity, Saint X. But Paduka Tillman's got a really good team. They've got one of the best players in the state, a big offensive lineman. It's like one of the top players in the state. But I think the best player in the state is a junior Seneca Driver at Boyle County. He's the He's the next NFL.

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Speaker 4: Goodah Seneca Driver. You see a potential UK football recruit.

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Speaker 7: Well, I know he was being recruited. Vince was recruiting him for UK when Vince was here as a sophomore.

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Speaker 5: Now is junior.

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Speaker 7: But the guy I think he's the next, like I said, NFL caliber player to come than he's just a junior.

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Speaker 5: I hate to tell you though, they're gonna lose tomorrow. They don't play it tonight. They play tomorrow. They play Bullet East and Boldest is gonna take him down.

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Speaker 4: Ryan said that he was the announcer uh tonight for Woodford County versus quote a team from Illinois.

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Speaker 3: I was told by somebody.

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Speaker 4: On the text machine that you might need Did you know that game is not till next weekend?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not. It's not this Friday.

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Speaker 7: It's a week from from your plans has opened up.

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Speaker 5: Now you have another lonely night at home free night tonight.

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Speaker 4: So but here's my question, Shannon, if I hadn't told him that.

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Speaker 5: He would have showed up, do you think he would have just showed up to the game. Yeah, like, where's everybody at?

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Speaker 3: Where is everyone? Yeah, she's supposed to be playing football today.

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Speaker 5: There's no doubt he would have done that. You need somebody to like schedule your your itinerary.

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Speaker 3: It's like plan enough time now to do it.

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Speaker 7: Yoga girl said the same thing. Agaus, she goes, I guess you're busy now your high school football. I'm like, may have missed that up. I do want to mention one more high school football note. Fort Thomas Highlands. They're tight end. We all need to keep an eye on. His last name is Lorenzen and he's gonna be a superstar. So it's a Jared's kid. Yes, how what year is he? I believe he's be a junior. He's legit, like really good. Yeah, he's already got offers from like Miami, Ohio and some schools like that. So but we all got to pull for Fort Thomas Highlands and taydu Lorenzen.

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's I cannot see again you talk about it. That kid is now a junior in high school.

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Speaker 7: Nit crazy, little Tatan I think was maybe that is ten years old?

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Speaker 4: Wild to meet Jared's junior in high school.

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Who's up next? Hagen is up now? Hagen? Go ahead? Hagen?

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Speaker 8: Hey guys, first time calling.

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Speaker 3: Who what's up?

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Speaker 8: I just want to let you know I got a dental school interview at Kentucky on next Wednesday, and right after him, stop by the bar and check it out.

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Speaker 3: That'll be awesome.

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Speaker 4: Like we open on Tuesday at KS Bar, we'll be doing the show's there.

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Speaker 3: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Come on out.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna be having all kinds of specials and then of course Saturday the game and we'll open for breakfast.

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Speaker 3: It should be a really fun week. I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 4: It's been awesome being back in there with all the energy in the vibe in the last couple of nights.

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Speaker 8: Awesome. I'm excited also for Ryan. Next year, I'm gonna be living alone for the first time as well. So I'm just praying for you. I know it's gonna be hard.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate it, Cal you have had I've had more people come up to me and talk about you being alone. I've had like therapists reach out to me and want to help you. Like I'm sure it's been even more overwhelming for you.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, we were talking last night at kas Bar and you said, as anybody come up and talking about it, I said, every table, every single table i'd stopped by, is that they've gone through it, they're getting ready to go through it. They dread the fact they got to go through it. I'm telling you, for the people that are empty nest syndrome, it's a real thing and it's awful. I hate every second of it, and I'm just gonna have to start have more kids.

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Speaker 5: Like there you go go to the adoption clinic. Come on with two more kids.

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Speaker 4: I would guarantee you that's not the prescribed thing that you should do.

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Speaker 7: I think I need to go adopt. Like Shannon said, four or five more kids. Give me a starting lineup for basketball. All about six, five, six, seven, six, eight kids, and let's go.

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Speaker 4: One person writes on the text machine, Matt Rank. Everyone's ranked their top five scores for UK basketball this year in order. All right, well you all think I'll go first, top.

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Speaker 3: Five scores in order. I'm gonna go Jalen Low one, Otago Way two. Oh, this is where it gets hard.

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Speaker 4: I mean you could go a lot of different ways for the other three. All Right, so I gotta pick a big because I'm gonna say Mohammed Diabate three. I'm gonna say Jasper Johnson four, Colin Chandler five.

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Speaker 3: But three, four and five could be eight different people. What about you?

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Speaker 7: Okay, I'm gonna go Otaga one and Low two. I'm gonna flip flop your top two. Flip fop around Tago one, Low two, Aberdeen three. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Yellovitch four Wow, and I'm gonna go Brandon Garrison.

00:22:50
Speaker 3: Five. You just picked three completely different people. You said to three four five? What are you doing? All right?

00:22:56
Speaker 5: So I've got Low one, Otega two, Aberdeen three, I'm gonna go Jasper Johnson four five Brandon Garrison.

00:23:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, it's hard.

00:23:09
Speaker 4: That is starting at number three. There are eight guys who could do it. Absolutely there really are like that is. I think the top two are gonna be the top two.

00:23:18
Speaker 3: I think so. But after that, what Yellowitch number four?

00:23:23
Speaker 7: I think he's gonna be the surprise.

00:23:24
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00:23:58
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00:24:20
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00:24:24
Speaker 4: Some some people were riding me and telling me that UK's basketball team is at Natural Bridge State Park today.

00:24:33
Speaker 3: Nice.

00:24:34
Speaker 4: Now I've heard of Natural Bridge. I think I've probably even been there. But what does Natural Bridge do? Like, what do you do at Natural Bridge?

00:24:41
Speaker 7: It's a big rock that the winds. The hole was about the size of a quarter and the wind through erosion finally made it this huge gap underneath it. So there's a natural bridge. The rock has shaped into like a bridge on top a bridge from what to what? Well, you just hike up. The hike up the side of the mountain. They got like a path. It's about a mile and you're gonna go up to the bridge. It's beautiful views of the valleys.

00:25:03
Speaker 4: But when I think of a bridge, like I'm thinking of a bridge over air.

00:25:08
Speaker 7: It's like a rock bridge over space.

00:25:11
Speaker 3: Okay, so it's a bridge, yeah, all right, but it's natural, it's natural. Yeah, okay, is it nice? I like it.

00:25:18
Speaker 7: There's a chair lift you can go up. You don't want to take the hike.

00:25:20
Speaker 4: So so this is like, I'm clearly a team building outing.

00:25:25
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:25:25
Speaker 4: So Mark Pope seems Shannon to be big at those. He seems to be big on this sort of let's do things as a group and let's all.

00:25:32
Speaker 5: You're bringing in an all new team every year. You gotta do something to beat build the team chemistry. So that's that's kind of cool. I've never been to it before.

00:25:39
Speaker 4: For the folks here in Louisville, this won't matter to you quite as much. But in Lexington ten am tomorrow they're opening that park. They are expecting, uh, thousands of people there. I'm really looking forward to having all those people outside my house tomorrow.

00:25:54
Speaker 5: Will you be there to catch the babies falling off the playground.

00:25:57
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna tell you right now, if you block my drive play, I'm gonna have you toad.

00:26:04
Speaker 3: That's my one. That's do not block my Otherwise, do what ever you want.

00:26:08
Speaker 4: But uh, there's gonna be a lot of people there tomorrow and hopefully there will not be kids falling in despair off of the playground.

00:26:15
Speaker 5: What's the parking situation like over there? Do they have enough space? Do you think or is it gonna be I don't know.

00:26:20
Speaker 3: I don't know what run over there. It's like it's just like any UK game.

00:26:23
Speaker 4: I mean, you just probably park wherever you do for U.

00:26:27
Speaker 5: For for you, I want you out there like counting the number of injuries so we can go like, you know, X amount of days since Satury.

00:26:33
Speaker 4: I don't want to be seen as the like guy that's against the playground. I'm just telling you I'm a little nervous about the playground and I just want to have my reservations noted.

00:26:44
Speaker 7: Well, I'm playing on I'm not gonna go tomorrow, but I'm planning on going and parking in your driveway and walking over there.

00:26:50
Speaker 4: You can park in my driveway. Other people cannot block my driveway. College football Playoff we talked about this on my ESPN show. I don't think we talked about it here. The Big Ten says they want to have twenty eight teams. The SEC yesterday said they want to have sixteen teams. So I think because the SEC and the Big ten both want to have more teams.

00:27:13
Speaker 3: There are definitely gonna be more teams.

00:27:15
Speaker 4: Would you rather have sixteen or would you rather have twenty eight? Now, when I said twenty eight, I saw you, sir shake your head. No, let me make the case for twenty eight. We might make it.

00:27:29
Speaker 5: That's my thought. Do you want the chance a Kentucky macks.

00:27:32
Speaker 4: My case for twenty eight is we have a shot of making it now. I think we have a shot at sixteen, but I think we'd have a real shot not this year, but we'd have a real shot some years at twenty eight. So I'm actually not against it. I think twenty eight probably doesn't happen. I think it ends up being sixteen. But what would you prefer if you had a chance.

00:27:54
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you're a Kentucky football fan like we all are, you want to go twenty eight. There's been a couple of years we would have been in the play off to twenty eight, to maybe even sixteen, So I'm off for twenty eight to go as a chance.

00:28:04
Speaker 4: They also so here's what just for just so people know, a sixteen game playoff. The argument for it is, if you're one of the top four seeds, you still get a home game, right, You could still have a game on your campus with the revenue that's associated with that. Because the way the system is now, the best four teams don't get a home game, right, right, So this is the reason you would do that is so everybody gets a home game. Now, one of the games would probably stink. You'd have a one seed probably against like two lane or something like that, but in general, everybody gets a home game. What would happen with the twenty eight is the top four seeds would get a bye, but then the first and second round, so basically the round to thirty two and the round of sixteen would both be home games. So some schools would get two home games on their campus.

00:28:48
Speaker 3: Which would you prefer?

00:28:49
Speaker 5: You know, I think twenty eight pills like a lot, But when you start to think about it and play it out in your mind, having a home game in a college playoff like that, the atmospheres would be crazy, right, And I was gonna say, like you said, Kentucky would have a chance. And then lastly, you know, we put such an emphasis on the top twenty five, it feels like the top twenty five should have the chance to play for a playoff.

00:29:13
Speaker 4: I'll do one more thing. See if this convinces you, sir, No, I mean, like, I get it. My initial reaction is twenty eight seems to me. But what if I told you that there are three hundred and forty teams Division one in basketball and sixty eight make.

00:29:27
Speaker 3: It, which is a little less than twenty percent, right?

00:29:31
Speaker 4: Then what if I told you there's one hundred and thirty eight Division one teams in football, twenty eight would be about twenty percent, right, It would be the It would be kind of the exact same thing as in basketball, about twenty percent of the teams.

00:29:46
Speaker 3: Would make the playoffs. And then I'll go even further.

00:29:49
Speaker 5: Look at the pro.

00:29:50
Speaker 4: Sports leagues NBA, NFL, NHL, and Major League Baseball. In all of those sports, more than twenty percent of the teams make the playoff. It's more like thirty five to forty percent of the teams make the playoffs. So the argument is, of all the sports, the sport that has the smallest percentage of the teams that play it. And this includes all college sports, baseball, volleyball, all of them.

00:30:17
Speaker 3: College football is the sport that has.

00:30:19
Speaker 4: The smallest percentage of teams in it make the playoffs. And if you wanted to put it in line with the other sports, Ryan, you would have twenty eight make it. So again, I'm not advocating for that, but that isn't I hadn't thought of it like that, but that's an interesting way to look at it's coming.

00:30:34
Speaker 7: We got to just accept the fact that the playoffs were going to expand. It's coming, and I love what you're talking about the home field advantage. I mean, that's one one thing that makes college football great is that home game environment. That atmosphere of these college stadiums can imagin if it's a playoff game, it's gonna be awesome.

00:30:48
Speaker 4: Well, let's just say we went on the road to I don't know, Penn State to play a playoff game.

00:30:55
Speaker 3: It would be kind of awesome.

00:30:57
Speaker 5: I mean it would be yeah.

00:30:58
Speaker 4: And if we ever got to year that we were able to host, it'd be like the best night in Lexington of all Timore.

00:31:05
Speaker 3: So, I mean it is. I don't think they'll go to twenty eight, but I don't think it's a crazy idea. Is maybe idea? When I first heard Who's up Next, Adam is up next? Adam, Go ahead, Adam.

00:31:17
Speaker 9: So that totally against twenty eight. If you're not, you know, one of the best sixteen, which you know Kentucky usually isn't, then you don't deserve to make it.

00:31:25
Speaker 5: Do you feel the same.

00:31:26
Speaker 4: Way about Do you feel the same way about the NCAA Tournament, Because if you were going to do percentages, only thirty two teams would make the NCAA Tournament.

00:31:37
Speaker 9: And most tiers Kentucky is one of the best thirty two.

00:31:39
Speaker 3: Correct, But I.

00:31:40
Speaker 4: Mean you would if you would advocate for cutting the NCAA Tournament from sixty four to thirty two.

00:31:47
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I don't. Why don't I see a team that went seven and eleven in the ACC as.

00:31:52
Speaker 4: You know, because I I would argue the first two days the NCAA Tournament of the best days of basketball of the year.

00:31:59
Speaker 3: That's just me. But go ahead?

00:32:02
Speaker 9: Yeah?

00:32:02
Speaker 3: Uh so? U.

00:32:04
Speaker 9: I sawyer heard you talking to Mary Greenberg about having a game in Louisill as long as it's a marquee game. You know, when we got into when it was UK and I U in Freedom Hall every year, that was awesome. When it got to the IONA and UA, the and UNC Asheville, like we can do without that. It's actually crazy to think in today's world, Like, can you imagine that we used to play SEC games? Yes, Freedom Hall and in Cincinnati, Like that just blows my mind now that you know we played I didn't.

00:32:40
Speaker 3: We played SEC games in Cincinnati.

00:32:42
Speaker 5: Kentucky and Vandy one year played up in Cincinnati. I think that's when Derek Anderson got hurt.

00:32:46
Speaker 4: See, you know, I didn't even know that. I didn't even play a game in Cincinnati. Well, thank you appreciate the call. That By the way, that was a little piece of news from Mayor Greenberg that he said they would he would let Kentucky use the Young Sinner. Would you want Kentucky to use the um Center for a game if they had the if they had the ability, because for.

00:33:04
Speaker 3: A long time they were kind of banned from doing it, I.

00:33:06
Speaker 7: Would love it. I really think the UMP Center is one of the best college basketball venues I've ever been in. I think it's an awesome venue, and we would pack it. It would be blue Richie. Would you wanted to play a game here?

00:33:16
Speaker 4: Here's I actually would And I'll tell you when I'd really like it. It's when they host the first and second round the NCAA tournament.

00:33:23
Speaker 3: Yep, because when.

00:33:24
Speaker 4: We're good, if we're ever really good and they're hosting the first and second round, we'll be.

00:33:30
Speaker 3: There, right.

00:33:31
Speaker 4: Louisville last year was put in Roup as an eight seed, so that may tell you that they would even put us.

00:33:36
Speaker 3: In their chain.

00:33:37
Speaker 4: And even if we weren't one of the top seeds, I think it would be a good idea to play a game in the Young Center if we know the NCAA Tournament that year is in the Center.

00:33:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, and as long as we're getting enough marquee games in Lexington at Roperna, because there's some schedules where you just don't get enough you know, big name teams in there. So I wouldn't want to substitute it out for that though.

00:34:00
Speaker 4: But part of why I like the games at the Young Center or at Freedom Hall was not just because it's in Louisville. I mean, it's an hour away, that's not a huge difference. It's that you got a different crowd than you get in Rubbery. Yeah, those tickets were up for sale, and usually even against the bad teams, the atmosphere was better in Freedom Hall because you had people who.

00:34:22
Speaker 3: Just didn't get to go all the time.

00:34:24
Speaker 7: You know, these big five year deals were playing with Gonzaga in Indiana. Why would you want to play one at the um Center instead of going to Nashville.

00:34:29
Speaker 4: Those games against Indiana at the um Center were ass at Freedom Hall.

00:34:34
Speaker 3: Those were awesome. The environments were awesome, Like.

00:34:37
Speaker 7: They were half and half half blue, half red.

00:34:39
Speaker 5: If you're a Kentucky fan living in Louisville and you had them play here, I think you're just probably by default a bigger fan, you more more excited to be there.

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00:35:12
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00:35:15
Speaker 4: Let me hear it from those of you the Kentucky fans see all the all the casuals didn't stay around because they laugh, but the Katrue Winds are here, will be ready back Skaza work a back final segment here Kentucky Sports Radio at the VOA Mid State Community Care Campus. We thank them for having us out today for their event. Good to see all the folks from Clay County who made the drive and as Mayor Greenberg Ritchie Uh. Keep in mind this is a public private prop partnership and they need your help. Fundraising still going on at voamid dot org click on it and the Community Care campus. It's been great for the city of Louisville and I'm sure it will it will continue a I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven one version rights Matt, What about Jaden Quaintance, How are you not picking him as one of your top scores? Well, I mean I'm not picking him for me. I'm not picking him as one of my top scores because I don't know if he'll play enough. And I also think there'll be a few even if we're doing points per game, I think there'll be a few games where it takes him a while to get to sort of get a customed So that's that's my reason exactly.

00:36:19
Speaker 7: He may be the highest NBA draft pick when it's all said and done, but he's gonna gonna limp into the season a little bit. You know, they'll take it a little easy on him before he finally gets going and then me pick it up.

00:36:28
Speaker 3: A little bit.

00:36:29
Speaker 5: I don't think he would play. I mean, I don't know this, but I would guess that he probably won't play a whole lot in the first couple of months of the season just because of that injury.

00:36:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's my thought. It's really more just like a playing time kind of fail. But in terms of talent, by the end of the year, he's gonna be If he advances like you want, he's gonna be one of the most talented folks going. All right, Let's college football begins tomorrow with some actual games, including a Top twenty five matchup. So I'm gonna go through here as part of our Draft Kings. You go to Draft Kings promo code KSR. We're gonna make our picks. Are you ready to go?

00:37:03
Speaker 3: Go?

00:37:04
Speaker 4: This is just gonna be a quick who wins. Let's get started. Idaho State UNLV.

00:37:11
Speaker 5: Give me Idaho State.

00:37:12
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Idaho States beg to have a big year.

00:37:15
Speaker 3: They're twenty six and a half point underdogs, So I'm gonna go ahead and take UNLV.

00:37:20
Speaker 4: I think I think going with Idaho State's probably not the best early week.

00:37:24
Speaker 5: Zero anything happen.

00:37:25
Speaker 7: I mean they cover, they cover the twenty six.

00:37:27
Speaker 4: Oh did you okay? Yeah, I didn't think that's what you said. Friendsno State plays Kansas. Kansas with its new three hundred million dollars donation, they will they hold survey went at home against Fransno State.

00:37:40
Speaker 5: I'd say they had better otherwise there's gonna be a lot of questions asked. Why why can't you win against Bresno. Gimme Kansas?

00:37:46
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I got Kansas all day, every day.

00:37:48
Speaker 3: All right, Sam? You I am too, Sam.

00:37:51
Speaker 4: Houston State playing against Billy and Western Kentucky, the Hilltoppers debuting their season.

00:37:58
Speaker 5: I gotta go with Western Kentucky on this one.

00:38:01
Speaker 7: Toppers Toppers, toppers. Yeah, they got a big season coming.

00:38:04
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Western as well.

00:38:05
Speaker 4: Stanford gets on the road and crosses the Pacific and heads to Hawaii.

00:38:11
Speaker 3: Who you got give me? Hawaii is a two and a half point favorite the Rainbows.

00:38:16
Speaker 5: Hawaii.

00:38:16
Speaker 7: Yeah, they'll have jet lag and their legs will be tired, So give me Hawaii.

00:38:21
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take Stanford on the road. Smart kids are gonna do it. And then finally the big game in Dublin, the aer Lingus College Football Classic.

00:38:31
Speaker 3: Kansas State Iowa State.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: Did you see, by the way, all the bars the city of Dublin.

00:38:38
Speaker 3: This is kind of funny.

00:38:40
Speaker 4: The city of Dublin decided to adorn like bars all over the city in the flags of the two teams. Right, So they ordered Iowa state flags. They got the right one, but when they ordered a Kansas state flag, they accidentally ordered the state flag of Kansas. Oh no, I order the Kansas State So all across the city it's like the Iowa State Hawkeyes, and then the state flag of Kansas, which is kind of like Kentucky's too. I think it's like people shaking each other's hand or something. So they didn't quite get the middle.

00:39:15
Speaker 5: That's bad, No Joe for Kansas State. Give the Iowa State.

00:39:18
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that made my mind. I was kind of on the Peter Totter. I'm going to Iowa State.

00:39:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, Kansas State's a three and a half point favorite.

00:39:24
Speaker 7: Oh Iowa State load up win and covers.

00:39:27
Speaker 4: My feeling is, if you can't get their flag right, there's their team is not going to be pumped up.

00:39:31
Speaker 3: There's no way they're going to be excited. I will take the Cyclones.

00:39:34
Speaker 4: Iowa State, by the way, a team that's supposed to be like a sleeper.

00:39:38
Speaker 3: For the I do that.

00:39:39
Speaker 5: That's why Shannon and I picked Yeah yeah, might be in the college football playoffs this year. Yeah good?

00:39:43
Speaker 3: Who's next? Cynthia's next, Cynthia? How are you, Cynthia?

00:39:48
Speaker 10: I'm good.

00:39:49
Speaker 1: How you guys doing doing good?

00:39:51
Speaker 10: My husband and we flew out to Arizona. We're going to catch a red game against them.

00:39:57
Speaker 3: That's a nice stadium.

00:39:58
Speaker 4: They got really good food, a lot of like tacos and stuff, really good food in the Diamondback Stadium.

00:40:05
Speaker 10: Okay, we're looking forward to it. We nerve been so. But we've had two ridecare experiences and we wanted to get your opinion on them. The first one is we ordered one of those driver lest cars, the d in it. Have you all ever done that or would you.

00:40:20
Speaker 3: Order the driver No?

00:40:21
Speaker 4: But they're all they're all over the place out there in Phoenix. I don't like that that, you know. I haven't really seen them a lot in other places, but when we were in Phoenix for that barstool party, there's a lot of the driver list cars are everywhere out there.

00:40:35
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've seen a bunch of them. I think the only other place I've seen them was when we were in Austin. But and then our second one was later in the day. We ordered an Uber and when our Uber driver pulled up, just two dogs were in the front seat.

00:40:48
Speaker 5: Get out of the car once.

00:40:52
Speaker 3: You can't be Uber drivers can't.

00:40:53
Speaker 4: They can't bring their dogs or their babies, Like if it's a grown child. I'll accept it because they got a working pair and I get it, but like, no, I'm not.

00:41:02
Speaker 3: I'm canceling the ride. No offense to them, but I'm not getting in a car with the dog.

00:41:06
Speaker 5: It's less room for passengers too, if you're putting your dog in there.

00:41:09
Speaker 4: I appreciate the call when you see let me, have you ever been in a place with the driverless cars?

00:41:14
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen them? I haven't.

00:41:16
Speaker 7: I'm not ready for that yet. I don't think I can do it.

00:41:18
Speaker 4: You know, when you see them, like it's it's all it's like weird and like they do they drive. I mean, I'm not saying they drive bad, but it's just like I can sit like it's just I don't know, I.

00:41:29
Speaker 5: Would feel like I'm breaking anything somebody's car if it's just a car that's empty and I'm just getting in there.

00:41:35
Speaker 3: And you just get in, and then how do you.

00:41:37
Speaker 5: Know you're in the right What if there's multiple ones and you get in their own car.

00:41:40
Speaker 4: Well it has a license plate, but like it's got a big sensor on top, and it just it threw it threw me off.

00:41:47
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna you've been in one and you've well I know I haven't been in it, but you see them, yeah, all over the streets there.

00:41:54
Speaker 5: There was one story of the guy that was just driving around in circles because his car wouldn't stop and he was late for a flight. I'm just the car just took him to a parking lot and started driving in circles. The guys like, somebody stopped this, I'm gonna be late for my flight.

00:42:09
Speaker 4: Thank you guys very much for coming. All you Kentucky fans that made the trip. Thank you to volunteers of America doing great work for having us. Here's our schedule next week. We'll be in studio Monday. We're at the restaurant Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and then our remote before the first game Friday. Remember first football game is at is it twelve thirty on Saturday. We will have our pregame show at eight point thirty, serving breakfast at the bar.

00:42:35
Speaker 3: Is that time of year, Ryan Linze.

00:42:37
Speaker 7: You're not excited, It's time to get turned up.

00:42:39
Speaker 3: We'll see you later. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio