2025-06-13- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Broway Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Jones here live and Hamburg celebrated the Army's two one hundred and fiftieth birthday right outside the five eleventh five to one one? Is that what we call it?

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Speaker 4: Five one one, five to one one.

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Speaker 2: Always be ready store here in Hamburg the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the US Army This weekend. You give Shannon Clark's Puppy Shop full line a f I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this edition is by the TJ.

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Speaker 3: Smith Lowus. You call TJ He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 2: Ryan. June fourteenth, seventeen seventy five, the US Army was founded, and if you're good at math, that means that Tomorrow, June fourteenth, twenty twenty five, is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary the oldest branch of the military, and we are out here to celebrate it.

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Speaker 3: We have a cake and a lot of good folks joining us. Is a very exciting day.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, think it's gonna be like celebrations across the country celebrate the Army's big turn in fiftieth.

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Speaker 3: Birthday going tomorrow in Washington, DC. That's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: And Shannon, we were talking about a lot of stuff out here, all right.

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Speaker 3: First of all, they have this cake.

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Speaker 2: I just tweeted out. You need to get on Twitter and see this cake.

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Speaker 3: That is a cake.

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Speaker 2: It has on it the various types of soldier uniforms going back to the Revolutionary War to now wow, And we're gonna ope, We're gonna cut it and everybody will get a piece at eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but we're gonna give it an hour because it looks so nice. I don't want to break it up.

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Speaker 2: But if you come here before eleven you can get a piece of the Army cake celebrating the anniversary.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, shout out to cake. And I can't wait to see what we're going to cut this with.

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Speaker 6: This.

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Speaker 5: This is like a brass knucks with a blade on the end that used in World War Two.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, there is a brass for talking about old cool weapon, although.

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Speaker 3: It scares me to look at it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a knife with brass knuckles on that they said I could cut the cake with. I'm a little nervous to do that. I'm probably gonna let I feel like I would hurt myself. I did go through a window, what's true. But they're gonna do that at eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to that. We'll have a piece of that and some other stuff out here as well. We can.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So there's another thing, and Ryan, I this is for this for you see him there?

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Speaker 3: What that guy's doing? He's deadlifted?

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Speaker 2: Yes? He? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Is that two hundred pounds? S? Are you just deadlifted? Doesn't know?

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's one fifty Okay, So that we were I was talking to Sergeant Adams here a second ago. He said that that's one hundred and fifty pounds and I and he I asked him, how much do you think Ryan Lemon can deadlift? And he was like probably one fifty And I said, oh, not Ryan Lemon.

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Speaker 3: He's stronger than that. So my question for you is, do you think you can deadlift two hundred pounds?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not deadlifted in probably forty years even better.

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Speaker 2: So we have no basis of comparison. It is just straight like, who knows what will happen? Do you think you can dead lift two hundred pounds?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Look they're putting on right now?

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, that.

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Speaker 5: Looks is Ryan gonna leave with a hernia today?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? They're gonna teach you the right the right frame of how to do it.

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, that looks like a lot.

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Speaker 2: So do we think you can do two hundred pounds? I need confidence from you. If you don't have confidence, I don't know how you are.

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Speaker 5: You can do this, buddy, You got this.

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Speaker 4: I know I can do it. I can do it twice.

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Speaker 3: Oh do it twice?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 5: You all right?

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Speaker 2: So I have no basis to know me neither, but you know it's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Army. It feels like some one of the things to celebrate shaaning, it would be showing your physical acumen. This guy right here is built like a brick house.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Charles Atlas right now, or at.

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Speaker 3: Least at least a house. And isn't it Tony Atlas?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Maybe it is?

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Speaker 5: Is it Charles or Tony Tony Atlas? Tony's at wrestler.

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Speaker 2: Either way, Atlas shrug. We'll see if you're gonna be able to do it, Shannon, do you think you will?

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Speaker 5: I think he can. And then I think we put on another fifty and make it an even two fifty for the birthday, one pound for.

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Speaker 3: Every year of the U two hundred. Let's see if you can get two can do it?

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Speaker 5: He can do it.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward.

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Speaker 2: So we will have you do that during the breakover there, Mario is gonna film it all right, Get yourself ready?

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Speaker 4: Where's the ambulance? Is there a hospital nearby? Out here? The new hospital will be here.

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna get hurt.

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Speaker 5: We'll put you in that hump V and does it cart you out of here.

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Speaker 2: It'll be okay to the army. You guys, don't look a day over two forty. I'm gonna be honest with you. You guys have worn your age very very well, and I appreciate. By the way, the Army is looking for motivated people do want to be full time active duty or part time at the reserve. You can go to go army dot com and the local Army recruiting station here in Lexington is one twelve Mount Tabor Road.

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Speaker 3: So if you want to go by there. I was talking to this sargan.

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Speaker 2: He was like, people think you have to just go and you're gonna be off in war.

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Speaker 3: That's not it.

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Speaker 2: They're kinds of for whatever you want to do. Uh, there are jobs you could have in the army, maybe even just talking and if so, I could be in it. You never know, but that.

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Speaker 5: Would That's a good Good morning Vietnam.

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Speaker 3: So one twelve Mount Tabor Road.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's over there, close to p Rats right there and then little shotting Center Mount Tabor Road.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Uh so a couple thanks here friends of morning, our guy Vince Marrow, that are gone anymore we listen? Well, that's it. Maybe that's the question, all right. Vince Marrow went on The Louisville Show this morning, Drew Drew Diener and Drew Drews a friend of mine. I like Drew. And he was asked about the but about the going to Louisville. He talked seemingly mostly about Louisville, but there was one a couple of things I want I wanted to bring up. First of all, let's talk about why he left here part of the reason, and he said, and this was exactly what was reported.

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Speaker 3: But sometimes when people.

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Speaker 2: Don't believe the beat writers and the insiders on this case, apparently they were exactly right. Vince said that part of the reason he left was because they had kind of taken away some of his authority and when it came to recruiting, in terms of it used to be, Vince would kind of pick guys, work with the coordinators, yes, or knowing whether to get them.

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Speaker 3: That Now some of that had moved to the position coaches.

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Speaker 2: That they were letting wide receiver coaches have a big say in who the wide receiver was going to be, and they're letting defensive line coaches do that with the defensive line. And that's especially true in the portal that was what was reported.

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Speaker 3: Do you does that? Do you like that philosophy. Not do you understand Vince being upset?

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Speaker 2: Not? What do you think?

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Speaker 4: I think? Knowing Vince the way we do, I can see why he was upset. You know, he was the guy that was his baby recruiting bringing in these players, well, they took away some of the power and game, the transfer portal power to Eddy Grant and then the position players. They gave that power to, like the position coaches. I can see what he feels like that maybe they're taking away what I'm good at, what I'm known for. I'm the king recruiter.

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Speaker 2: King, I think. Yeah, No, in the time at Kentucky, No, You're exactly right.

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Speaker 4: He brought in people here that I never thought Kentucky could ever have a chance at getting.

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Speaker 2: Now, you know, Nick Rouse and Adam Luckett did like a review of all of his his recruits and basically, if you look at it through history, the best players we've had here a lot of them Vince got. But his hit rate rate, Shannon has been worse in recent years. Whereas he was Let's say he brought in ten in the years past, and seven or eight would be hits, two or three would be missus. It's now kind of gone more to four or five or hits six or misses, and then with that miss going down, I think Raush and Luckett's point was it made sense to not give him final authority on all this. What do you make of that?

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Speaker 5: I still think though, that he didn't lose his touch. The numbers might suggest that, but I still think do you think the numbers mean?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm thinking that maybe some of this where he lost his power had to do with this. Are we sure that didn't go in the other order?

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Speaker 3: Now? I think he's had until the last year or so.

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Speaker 2: I think last year he didn't have wasn't given quite the free Yeah, but I mean, just just name the name the star Power Kentucky's hat. You're gonna be front ended, right, You're gonna sit there and say Lynn Bowden, Benny Snell, Mike Edwards.

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Speaker 3: Well, I love those guys.

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Speaker 2: But those guys haven't played here in five years, Like it's been a long time since a lot of those dudes. And then you go to the dudes who've been better more recently. One or two of them have been from Ohio, but most of them haven't. Most of them have been from the transfer portal et cetera. You know, he he was the chief leader recover Maxwell Harriston, Uh, where was he in Ohio? So there's that's probably his most recent big time star gift.

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Speaker 4: And I guess, if I don't know, maybe this was in the article, like if they say about the guys that end up going to the NFL, the star power players that he got here went to the NFL, that probably Kentucky would not have gotten him without him. Yeah, look at that angle of it.

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Speaker 2: I believe right now. I love Vince. But there was a quote about me in there. So I was, so I do so, I do have to. I have to read you this quote. Yeah, and then tell me if you think this was fair. I actually didn't hear him say this because I only got to listen to like a minute of the interview. But so Matt mcgavick, uh said, Uh, no, excuse me, Maxwell Harrison was a Michigan guy. He was, Yeah, okay, Matt mcgavick said, this is what Vince Merrill said on Deer Matt Jones has a calling show. He basically said people should be mad that Vince is leaving to go to Louisville. I started a text Matt and say, man, quit trying to just whip people into being mad at me because he was getting mad that a lot of people were not mad.

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Speaker 5: I think that was like one or two cass share.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And I, by the way, was not saying he should be mad.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying we can't say, well, we understand, That's all I'm saying. I'm not mad at him. But also I'm not gonna act like going to Louisville as normal. I mean, Vince could have gone anywhere he chose to go to Louisville. When you choose to make the heel turn and wrestling chain and you're gonna get boomed. You can't make the heel turn and then all of a sudden go, hey, why are you people booing me? You made the heel turn. So like, I understand, I'm not mad at him, just like I'm not mad at the John Cena when I boo him in wrestling. But I'm just telling you, I'm gonna boo you and say you decided to go to Louisville.

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Speaker 5: Vince could have gone anywhere else in America and we still would have wished him well. But you cannot go to your bitter rival and go to Louisville directly like he did. That's unforgivable.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 2: It is on a professional level unforgiveable. On a personal level for what you know, it's fine, but on a profe yes, so I'm not whipping people up. Jerry was the first caller, and Jerry was like, eh, lish him the best, and we don't remember. I'm like Jerry, he's going to Louisville. He's not going to work for your grandma. He's going to work for the for you know, the football enemy.

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Speaker 4: I know some fans are really mad and upset, but for me, I'm not really mad. I feel more betrayed. I feel more.

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Speaker 2: But isn't that that's a worse emotion.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it is, but that's how I feel. I feel like, you know, how can you leave us what you did for us, for our arch rifle down the road of which trying to beat their brains.

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Speaker 5: And he went from taking shots at Louisville to now taking shots at Kentucky in the first INTERVIEE.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of that's what kind of makes me sad about it, because all right, so what was Vince's best Vince's is at his best chest out L's down those people down the road, Burber Burber bro to do that job effectively for Louisville.

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Speaker 3: Now he's gonna have to do it to us. Yes, Like he's gonna have to do it us.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna have to call us the school down the road, and he's gonna have to do all that. That's what Vince does, right, That's what makes him so good. So he's gonna do it to us. And I think a lot of these people that are like like Billy over there, going oh give her he's gonna be wish him professional success. Well wait till he starts like throwing the UK down and he starts saying that's school down the road, Like that's gonna happen. You know, that's just his personal.

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Speaker 4: Before or after the Kentucky Louisville game this year, it will be a picture of him giving L's up. It'll it'll just come out.

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Speaker 2: Probably will be at the press conference, it will probably be whenever they have that.

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Speaker 5: And I don't want to get ahead of you on the quote because you might be bringing us up.

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Speaker 2: This is the that's the only quote I had, So okay, So.

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Speaker 5: He said that he didn't have a whole lot to sell at Kentucky, but he does at Louisville.

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Speaker 2: No, he didn't. He did.

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Speaker 5: Billy read the quote. Billy read the quote on the pre show. Well, let's fight it exactly because he read it. Come on, yeah, see.

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Though he's gonna he's gonna say stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: Do you mean you didn't have a lot?

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Speaker 5: I mean, come on, conference in football.

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Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. We've been bad, we were bad last year, but don't have a lot to sell.

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Speaker 3: What's he gonna sell at Louisville losing to a seven straight time?

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Speaker 5: It is ksr from one hour ago. Sometimes I haven't had much to sell at Kentucky in certain years and still brought in four stars. But this is easy. This is going to be real easy to sell at Louisville once.

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Speaker 2: The one thing about me, once that contract was signed, it's war. We're gonna be in some battles. I know that. So all I would say to you is to Kentucky fans, and I get it. There are only a handful of people in the world listening to this that we're better friends with him than I was. But from now on, stop the sympathetic We wish Vince the best on this.

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Speaker 3: Dude.

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Speaker 2: He he is gonna say this, He is gonna treat this as war. He literally said one thing about me once it signed its war. Okay, here's what we don't do in a war. It's two hundred and fifty of the anniversary of the Army, right, Yeah, when we're in a war, do we sit and go You know what, Let's just make sure the feat of the other people are okay, you go with Yeah, you can't back down. You go win fight, and you gotta go fight. I was feeling hisitanck because I didn't know. I don't know exactly what the opinion is, but you get my point. So I'm just I'm more convinced than ever that while I like him, it's he's the enemy now. And just like when I see uh Jeff Bram and I shake his hand on how you doing, man, how you doing? You can still be personally nice, But when it comes down to it, if he's gonna say quotes.

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Speaker 4: Like that, we have to do the same we said for a couple of years, the rivalry needs a new little spark. Well, this is this is It's a flaming and infernal Although.

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Speaker 2: If we lose to Toledo in Game one, it ain't gonna be much of a spark shit, it's gonna be you know.

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Speaker 5: Man, you got bigger problems on your hands if you can't beat Toledo.

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Speaker 2: We are here in Hamburg, we celebrating the Army's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

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Speaker 3: Here in Lexington. We will take a break, very back to Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Working back.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Here lie outside. Five to one one.

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Speaker 2: That's five to one one, right, that's right, right, okay, all right, A.

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Speaker 3: Couple of things. First of all, shaded. Let me let me say one thing.

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Speaker 2: A couple of people on the text machine, and one texter says to me that when Vince said he didn't have a lot to sell, he was talking about the offense.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I guess that makes a little bit more sense.

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Speaker 2: But one of his offensive coordinators is now NFL head coach, so it's not like it was. It was. Yeah, it can't be the worst offense in the world when you had a when you have a head coach. But yet, okay, so that's a little more narrow Again. I didn't see the context of that in Matt in the statement for.

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Speaker 5: Me, though, I don't know that it changes it a whole lot because you're still talking about the University of Kentucky football program. I don't care what aspect of it you're talking about.

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Speaker 2: Bottom line, he's he's a trash talker. He should be a trash talker. But now he's gonna talk trash about us. It won't feel quite as good. But I'm gonna shift gears for a second. Ryan Lemon is standing over there at the wait at the deadlift. Yep. Now you know we said it's the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Army. We should see if he could deadlift two hundred and fifty pounds. Well, they don't have the weights exactly like that. They have one sixty and two forty. Yep, so we've initially put it at one sixty. He has not deadlifted, he said, in twenty years. But they've been working with him forty years. You were deadlifting at like fifteen, Okay, all right, fine, you were deadlift. Last time he was deadlifting was when I went right before after I was born. All right, So we're gonna start with one sixty before he does it, Shannon, will he get this with e.

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Speaker 5: I believe Ryan will do this.

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Speaker 4: He's got he's.

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Speaker 5: Got old man strength.

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Speaker 3: He does.

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Speaker 2: He is built like he's got old man strength. All right, one sixty, give him the round of applause.

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Speaker 3: Let's see if he's able to do it.

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Speaker 5: Stretch.

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Let's hope he stretched. It's been filmed by Mario.

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Speaker 2: Here we go, your legs one two, all right, so that was easy.

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Speaker 3: He did have that that way, Manue, you ain't going anywhere.

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Speaker 2: Hang on just a second. You gotta do two forty now was that was? So?

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Speaker 3: This is really for the anniversary. We can't give him exactly two fifty, that's right. But if he loves our.

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Speaker 2: Armed forces like he claims to do, he will be able to do this too forty. So here we go.

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Speaker 5: It could be a lot of straining. I think he might do too fauty.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: I put his hat on backwards, all right, ready on my count of three one two three?

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Speaker 4: Ah oh boy, well, I got to just holding it there.

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Speaker 5: Look he's just posing. That's exactly he's making it look easy.

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Speaker 3: He's like mister wonderful Paul Orndor just posing.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations to Ryan Lemon.

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Speaker 2: See when you are celebrating Americans, America's warriors and military. You get, you do, you can do things that.

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Speaker 5: Will beyond I think that he did that without even a proper warm up. I don't even think my guy stretched one bit. Good job, I was impressive. Good job.

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Speaker 2: Not gonna make you do three hundred, but I feel like you probably could with a stretch like that. You really do kind of have.

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Speaker 4: Old man straight I am. I'm Charlie, Charlie Atlas.

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Speaker 2: Did it?

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Speaker 3: Give me Charlie Atlas?

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Speaker 4: He's old bodybuilder from back in the day?

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 3: What's his name?

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Speaker 2: Charles out Lists?

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Speaker 5: You're gonna wake up sword tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there's no doubt. I don't know if you saw it or not. But the very first one I almost tumbled forward. Oh when I lifted it up, like whoa, I almost went forward.

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Speaker 3: Because it was too light. Too light?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, give me the first time your face planet this year?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 4: Was that?

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Speaker 2: It's true?

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Speaker 3: If I'm not too twenty two eighty seven, Who's up first?

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Speaker 4: Got Nico up first?

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Speaker 3: Nico?

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Speaker 2: Go ahead?

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Speaker 8: Nico, Hey, Nico from North Carolina. Hello, So obviously the Pacers is pacers? Okay, se do you hear me, I got your Nico just talk Oh okay sory uh the Pacers okayc series if if Shay and a thunderwin and he gets finals MVP along with the MVP trophy already has Where does that rate came on all time casts to the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a great question. All time cats in the NBA. Let's do the list of best five cats in the NBA in history. All right, I'm gonna throw in the ABA. So number one is probably Danissel in terms of NBA ABA success. If you combine NBA and ABA, I think he's one of like the twenty all time leading scorers of all time. So Danisl's gotta be one. One Off the top of my head. Ryan is Anthony Davis number two? I mean his career is not over yet, so it's hard to but I my inclination is he would be number two.

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Speaker 4: I think Frank Ramsey is the only former player in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Louis Dampiers in the Hall of Fame. Isn't he is lou Dampers the Hall of Fame, Louis Dampiers in the Hall of Fame. Anthony Davis is gonna be in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think you gotta include Frank Ramsey.

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Speaker 2: Okay, won, I'm gonna put Anthony Davis second, Frank Ramsey and Louis Dampier. I'll do third, fourth, because you're right there in the Hall of Fame. Shay Alexander is he fifth? Do you not put him ahead? Because next probably John Wall? So are you putting Shay ahead of John Wall yet?

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Speaker 4: I mean he won an MVP, He was the MVP of the league.

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Speaker 2: Think you have to make to so you would go, I would go Isle Davis. I'm gonna go Dampier, then Ramsey, then Shay. That's that's my initial inclination, although I can be talked out of that if somebody gives me another one.

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Speaker 3: Do you what do you think.

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Speaker 4: I like that? I like a list. I'd probably put Ramsey number two behind Issel. I mean, he was six man in the Boston Celtics. But I mean you just.

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Speaker 3: Said he was sixth man on the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 2: I mean Anthony Davis was a multiple time All Star Olympic gold medals. I just don't take this as a criticism because Frank Ramsey is awesome, but he's in the Hall of Fame. From the time that they put all the players on the Celtics in the Hall of Fame and all the players on the Lakers in.

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Speaker 4: The Hall of Fame, it could be fair.

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Speaker 2: He still should be in there, absolutely, But that's why I'd actually put even Louis Dampier a hill.

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Speaker 4: And you'reright, because Anthony is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Anthony's gonna be in the Hall of Fame, and Anthony again has his Hall of Fame resumetionnon is gonna be unbelievable. Think about this college basket because it's college and pro and international.

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Speaker 3: The basketball Hall of Fame is everything.

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Speaker 2: College basketball, National Champion, college basketball MVP, excuse me, Player of the Year, college Basketball Freshman of the Year, college Basketball Player, defensive Player of the Year. He's the only player in history to take all of those awards, NBA not MVP, but multiple time All Star, NBA Champ, Olympic Gold Medalist. The amount of people that have that resume is like magic Jordan. There's only like fifteen guys, or maybe even ten. If you throw in the national championship in college, there may be less than ten that have that resume.

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Speaker 5: So he's going to be He absolutely belongs there. And then you know, I think on what happens in the finals here, maybe Shae gets bumped up a notch or two. If we're looking at longevity itself in the NBA. Maybe not in the top five, but I think top ten is is Rondo. I think you gotta throw them in there.

00:22:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Rondo's probably in the top ten. Who else would even be in the discussion. I think you'd probably throw Rondo's not a bad one.

00:22:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tahawn wanted to what you say, Kevin Greevy.

00:22:23
Speaker 3: Kevin Grevy, Yes, yeah, Kevin Greevy.

00:22:25
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:22:25
Speaker 3: I like Tayshawn in there, Devin Booker.

00:22:29
Speaker 4: Mashburn, and Chapman where he had success but.

00:22:31
Speaker 2: They didn't if they were kind of but they kind of had short periods where they were really good.

00:22:35
Speaker 4: Maybe Mashburn Kenny Walker won a slam dunk title.

00:22:39
Speaker 2: That's a that's great, that's enough. I don't know, Maybe somebody can give me another one. I like our top three two. I think I do think Shae probably has put himself in the top five, which pat Riley's actually.

00:22:50
Speaker 3: A really good one.

00:22:51
Speaker 2: He'll be our coach if you put coach, he's in He's the coast. We'll take a break. You're right back, KSR Quarterback Kentucky Sports Radio. We did a pretty good job with that NBA list. I think we left one person out that I definitely think should be on there, and.

00:23:05
Speaker 3: That's Cliff Haygen.

00:23:06
Speaker 4: He should he should, he.

00:23:08
Speaker 2: Should be on there. He should be somewhere on that list. I'm not as familiar with his NBA career, but I'm told he was a five time All Star, so he definitely needs to be on the list.

00:23:18
Speaker 4: I think he played for the Saint Louis Hawks, and didn't they win a title, an ABA title or something one year? It seems like they did.

00:23:24
Speaker 3: Yes, Andrew people, I'll tell you what. He won a college title.

00:23:28
Speaker 2: How many Kentucky players, Well, let's just start in my lifetime, starting seventy eight. How many Kentucky players won a college title and an NBA title? All right, anybody on the set, just let's go through him. He Bey on a seventy eight team, win both Rick Roby, Yes, he win a state title. Not a state title. I said a college or college Rick Roby did came by. Think of anybody from the twenty twelve team only Anthony Davis.

00:23:53
Speaker 3: Did you know there's somebody from the ninety six.

00:23:55
Speaker 4: Team that won both Derek Anderson and an swin Walker and Antoina.

00:24:00
Speaker 3: It was on the heat as well when they won it.

00:24:03
Speaker 2: One of those yepes, right, so another one h one Walker had a really good NBA career, right, like doing the shimmy and all that when he would shoot the threes only because he can't shoot fours.

00:24:13
Speaker 4: Was nausey on the Spurs when they won. They he was he wanted title the Spurs, so he won both.

00:24:18
Speaker 2: See I wouldn't have gotten good call, all right, if I'm nine two eight, twenty two eighty seven, I'm gonna go back to phones real quick.

00:24:24
Speaker 5: Though.

00:24:25
Speaker 3: Everybody's all in on Murray State.

00:24:26
Speaker 2: This weekend, right like we're all play Saturday afternoon against UCLA. You know they have that challenge in Omaha, the shot challenge where you see this bar brilliant by the way, ks bar. We've been talking about initiatives. When we come back next year at the Sweet sixteen, we're copying that for high schools, by the way, which is not I mean that's for the parents, for the parents, not for the players.

00:24:55
Speaker 3: For the parents and for the fans.

00:24:58
Speaker 2: But they're doing the you know they which this says which teams by the most shots right now, Murray State's in second, are they? It's pretty impossibly. Local people adopted them as the team. But nevertheless, they play UCLA. This is the game they need to win, schinning because win or lose, they have to play Arkansas or LSU next, which are probably the two best teams in it. So need to win it.

00:25:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, to your point, being the adopted team, I think they're gonna have a lot of fans, probably more so than any other team that they play, because you got to think about all the fans that are there that are neutral. Of course they're gonna pull for the underdound.

00:25:28
Speaker 3: More than LSU in Arkansas, but they will have more than UCLA.

00:25:31
Speaker 2: Sure when they play them in that first game, Murray State, well, it'll be a home game for them. When they play UCLA, LSU, and Arkansas fans will flood that place.

00:25:40
Speaker 4: But Murray State, well, like you said, all the casual fans, local fans, they're all gonna be for Murray State tomorrow. They're not gonna be for UCLA. They want the little guy to win.

00:25:48
Speaker 2: Louisville Place tonight. We're rooting against them, absolutely rooting. They play Oregon State. You got your I Love Beaver shirt for it?

00:25:55
Speaker 5: Oh? I can get one. Yeah, if somebody's got one, I'll put it on.

00:25:58
Speaker 2: I assume you already had that. So let's go Racers. Let's go Racers. Let's get the victory. That's good. I'd like to see who bought it. Who's next?

00:26:10
Speaker 3: Then? Is up next? Ben?

00:26:11
Speaker 2: Go ahead? Ben?

00:26:13
Speaker 9: Hey, guys? So two questions. Number one, Jacob Tammy has been announced as one of the board members on the new LLC that's created a few athletics. Does that make you all feel any more confident in going forward like the football program and stuff? And then another question I think that I saw was Jeff Bedett and somebody else. We're talking about one thing that Mark Stoups hasn't done the greatest job of is including alumni. And I think that's something that's super important because Mark Pope's done it, and I think it's kind of working for the basketball team. How do you all feel about that?

00:26:41
Speaker 3: I that's the fair creditism about though.

00:26:43
Speaker 2: I mean, Mark Poppet, Do we have any alumni on the basketball staff? No?

00:26:50
Speaker 9: But I think just being like having like having them be included.

00:26:53
Speaker 2: Yet I think they are still I mean with stoops, I think alumni are still included. I love Jeff Badett, but I would note Jeff Bidett didn't he leave here, he finished school, so I love him. I love Jeffidett, but he's actually not an alumni at the school. He played here. But he's a great player. I'd love to have him around. He was a great player here. I actually think Mark has had players around. He's also hired former Kentucky guys on the staff. Remember I mean Freddy was on the staff. Uh Jackson.

00:27:29
Speaker 3: Jackson was on the staff. CJ.

00:27:31
Speaker 2: Conrad was on the staff. So you know, I'm a Stuart and mar Stewart. That's exactly johns Laarman, Josh, So I understand what I mean Badett. He has a right to his opinion, but I actually think that's kind of sir an unfair criticism of Marks.

00:27:47
Speaker 3: Tuobs appreciate appreciate it. I mean they've had a lot.

00:27:53
Speaker 2: I think sometimes football players, I'm not saying this is Jeff Pidett, but I think sometimes football.

00:27:58
Speaker 3: Players are like, why don't you hire me?

00:28:01
Speaker 2: But they have hired a lot of former UK guys ryan over the year.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, they definitely have. And like you said, Jeff Bennett left us, you know, so maybe.

00:28:11
Speaker 3: There is a little bit.

00:28:12
Speaker 2: Man, you left for your senior year and then you're like, why don't they hire former UK players?

00:28:17
Speaker 3: Well, you did leave. I mean there is a part of that.

00:28:19
Speaker 5: What's a cat always a cat? Right?

00:28:21
Speaker 3: Well they are.

00:28:22
Speaker 2: But that's a little different than like, why don't you hire a former alumnus?

00:28:26
Speaker 3: I mean, you graduated from Oklahoma.

00:28:28
Speaker 5: What do you think about CJ. Conrad possibly filling in?

00:28:31
Speaker 2: Well, I think he's already started his season at Kids Stay. I put the name out yesterday. I was told someone named like Derek Shay is the person. I don't know who that is, but he was on staff as an offensive consultant or analysts, and I think he will be as well.

00:28:46
Speaker 4: You know, it was such a weird time of year, man, this is a huge high school recruiting month. June is so you gotta you can't deally dot, you gotta get somebody quick. Shay's already in the building and he's already worked at Gank with Bush handed before, so I think that's probably where they're gonna go.

00:28:59
Speaker 3: I think it's very hard to move. I think it's very hard to move.

00:29:03
Speaker 2: I get a new person in a month and a half before the sharing starts, So I'm okay with that. Who's next? Jacob is up next, Jacob, go ahead, Jacob.

00:29:14
Speaker 6: Hey man, if you all have already talked about this before, but I wanted to talk a little bit about the vent situation. You know, I think if there's anybody in the world that would understand the fact that you can't go from Kentucky to Louisville, it would be events like six months ago. So you know, I think he's been and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he's been the most probably outspoken hater of Louisville. So you can't just you can't just like switch it up now and you know, ask for support or whatever. Be confused why people don't support your move. To me, I think that Louisville and Tennessee are probably two schools that are just like on the on the blacklist, Like he can't go from coaching at Kentucky to either one of those schools with schools that are kind of on that list.

00:30:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just them.

00:30:09
Speaker 2: I mean, Duke basketball maybe, but you know, Jay Lucas did it. I don't know that people hate Jay Lucas. I think I think Louisville and Tennessee are it. I appreciate the call. It's like I said, Shannon, you have a right to do what you want. You have a right to go to Louisville, but you don't have a right to demand that we like it.

00:30:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you know, I mean.

00:30:32
Speaker 2: You you don't have a right to say like, we shouldn't be mad about it.

00:30:38
Speaker 3: We're gonna be mad now, we're gonna get over it.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: But I think about John Calperry, Okay, think about what John Caliperry did at this school, the successes, okay, and what happened when he walked in here at Reparina with Arkansas, who, by the way, is not Louisville.

00:30:56
Speaker 3: What happened.

00:30:59
Speaker 2: Boot out of the gym exactly.

00:31:01
Speaker 3: Now, if John cal Perry did that, Vince.

00:31:05
Speaker 2: Merrill's gonna like, you're gonna get the same reaction.

00:31:07
Speaker 6: Ryan.

00:31:08
Speaker 2: I mean, John cal Perry was beloved here too. It ended more poorly with cal But that's just what happens when you go to a rival and Arkansas is not even our rival.

00:31:18
Speaker 4: And like the color said, nobody probably understood that more, it seemed like, on the UK football staff than Vince. He was always throwing little shots in jabs, especially with the recruiting world. You know, Louislle would say something about a recruit they got, and Vince would like, yeah, but I got four of the last five or something like that. You know, so he understood it better than anybody.

00:31:34
Speaker 2: What Kentucky coach Shannon has talked more trash to Louisville over the last fifty years than Vince Marrick.

00:31:39
Speaker 5: Nobody, I hope in any sport. No, I think he's number one. You know, It's not like Vince was only here for a year or two. He lived and breathed this Robvalry for twelve years and then to just turn around and leave like that. It's hard to understand, it is. It's hard for me to understand.

00:31:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand why I did it, But I also understand that people are gonna be mad, and and I'm I'm not mad, but I'm gonna be booing. And I hope they lose every game. I mean, that's just I hope they My Louisville dislike is such that I was watching the women's track and Field steeple chase last night, and there was a Louisville person in there and I was rooting against her. And she may be the most wonderful person in the world, but there was a girl from northern Arizona.

00:32:27
Speaker 3: And I was like, past her, go get her right, Like that's just what it is.

00:32:32
Speaker 4: I didn't hear the interview this morning, but somebody said Vince referred to Kentucky as we in Louisville as day a couple times within that interview.

00:32:39
Speaker 5: Well, that's that's old habits.

00:32:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's old.

00:32:41
Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard to that's gonna.

00:32:43
Speaker 5: You know, old habits like you are hard to break. Thank you song.

00:32:47
Speaker 3: You're gonna.

00:32:49
Speaker 2: By the way, I will say this to Louisville fans, He's gonna love us more than he loves you. That's just how it is. Like the we're the we're the love of his life. You're the current girlfriend. That's just how it is. And he'll still take the current girlfriend on a beach trip, etc. But deep down, the old wife will still be the one that pulls at his heartstrings.

00:33:08
Speaker 3: Same thing with Cal.

00:33:09
Speaker 2: By the way, you think Cal really loves Arkansas as Rick Patino, who did he he coached it both places? Want to title it both places? Who does he love more?

00:33:18
Speaker 5: Kentucky? He admitted it regret.

00:33:21
Speaker 3: That's just what it is.

00:33:22
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00:34:04
Speaker 5: We're gonna give this away. It's a weight at vest. They're giving this away.

00:34:07
Speaker 2: We're giving this away from it's five eleven. It is not five one one. We're giving this away.

00:34:13
Speaker 4: Nice.

00:34:13
Speaker 5: Wow, you could put some plates on there and have Ryan run around the building.

00:34:16
Speaker 4: Well, that's okay.

00:34:18
Speaker 2: We will do this at the end of the show. If you want to come have a piece of this cake. You got about twenty minutes. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio working back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live. I if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two to eighty seven celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the of the Army. My grandfather was in the Army. My mom said he would be very proud that we're doing this today, So shout out to My grandfather served in World War Two.

00:34:45
Speaker 4: My brother went to West Point State Army for thirty years, so we're an army family.

00:34:48
Speaker 2: Also. Yeah, the local station here in Lexington is on Mount Tabor Road one twelve. I'm gonna put the helmet on here during the break while we're cutting the While we're cutting the cake.

00:34:58
Speaker 3: Why's that funny?

00:35:01
Speaker 4: It reminds me you bought that big Russian pabuca whatever it's called.

00:35:04
Speaker 3: Claim that the army had is like a Russian pebuka.

00:35:07
Speaker 4: Walk around with that big thing now saying that we're gonna laugh at you walk around with that helmet on.

00:35:13
Speaker 6: Hey.

00:35:13
Speaker 2: The other question that guy had which I missed and going to his other thing, was about the new UK board that was created. So remember they have created an LLC to govern UK athletics.

00:35:26
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:35:26
Speaker 2: They're calling it like the what they call it Champion Champions something. Yeah, and they've they've picked a handful of the board members they have. They're gonna be more, but they announced three yesterday. It was the president of Keenland. It was a guy who used to work for Nike and Fanatics, and then Jacob Tammy, who of course played at Kentucky and as a financial advisor. I thought all three of those made sense to me as picks. Uh. I think, to me, this is more of a business thing than it is a like you used to play here thing. And Jacob though binds that I think really well by doing financial stuff but also having played here. Nike Fanatics guy, I'm assuming knows the endorsement slash, you know, marketing part of it. Keenland guy certainly knows the Lexington business area.

00:36:16
Speaker 3: So from what I saw, it felt like a good start to the board.

00:36:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, good start. I love the fact that they've got Jacob Tammy on there. For the football inter side. Do you think they'll get a Jamal Mashburn or somebody.

00:36:26
Speaker 2: Who I think we got to move our minds from let's get dudes who played here. That to me has nothing to do with what we're talking about. We're talking about business. This is about money when it comes to this stuff, and being like, hey, let's have Joe he's a good guy. Now Jamal Mashburn is a good business person. So if you want to have Jamal Mashburn because you say, well he he was good at business.

00:36:49
Speaker 3: But I'm very much in the mindset of this, Shannon.

00:36:53
Speaker 2: This is like when baseball quit becoming with general managers. Who's the guy that knows how to feel to ground ball?

00:37:01
Speaker 3: And like, do you understand math?

00:37:03
Speaker 2: Right?

00:37:04
Speaker 3: This is to me what we're looking at.

00:37:06
Speaker 2: So if they can also have been a former UK player, great, But I don't care if they've been a UK player, right.

00:37:11
Speaker 5: We need some guys who know know their know their stuff. This is business and you're you know what, you're a good business man.

00:37:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think they're gonna put me on it.

00:37:18
Speaker 2: I'd probably talk about whatever happened. But uh, but I will say this, man, I've been on UK and on Mitch Barnhart for the last few years that being behind the times of the new NI l et cetera era.

00:37:30
Speaker 3: To their credit, they are way ahead on this.

00:37:33
Speaker 2: Every school in the country is going to be doing what we're doing, Ryan, and we're doing it first and we're being proactive. And salute to Mitch for that. I think he sort of realized, Look, I can fight it, but now it's the law.

00:37:45
Speaker 3: We got to make it work.

00:37:45
Speaker 4: And you know, we got frustrated at times when he drug his feet, like on the alcohol and so the nil. But now it seems like they are they embrace it and accept it and are all trying to be proactive with this.

00:37:54
Speaker 3: I heard one time.

00:37:57
Speaker 2: A few years ago when somebody had it was in Kentucky and someone I won't say who, but somebody had gotten elected that the person that was talking didn't like, and they said, I got two choices. I can sit here and complain on and on and on about the fact that we lost, or I can sit here and try to make things the best they can be for the next few years.

00:38:14
Speaker 3: Mitch Barnhart has it.

00:38:15
Speaker 2: Seems like, gotten past complaining that he doesn't like in Ile and has decided how do we make this work for Kentucky?

00:38:22
Speaker 5: And that's what I complaining. He's not gonna fix anything. So you guys, look, get on board and try to work together and do the best you can.

00:38:28
Speaker 2: Did you see the picture just a second ago. There's a semi truck fall in Louisville that is hanging off the edge of a bridge on fire at the Spaghetti junction there where all the interstates come together in downtown Louisville.

00:38:41
Speaker 3: First of all, prayers everybody involved. It looks awful.

00:38:45
Speaker 2: How did but that didn't The only difference between that Remember that happened earlier, Yeah, about a year or two ago. Now luckily it wasn't on fire, but it is on fire right now.

00:38:53
Speaker 4: Those photos look very scary, scary for everybody involved in. Like I said, I thought, some prayers go to that man's family or d women's family, whoever was driving that truck, maybe the people even below that. So it's going to devastate downtown traffic for a.

00:39:05
Speaker 2: Day, Yeah everybody, But it's gonna if you're going through Louisville, get ready for it to take a while, because it doesn't look like that's gonna be something cleaned up quickly. And that's in an area you can't get away from it.

00:39:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, close to the radio station. I would be down there if I weren't at the remote today. So maybe if you're trying.

00:39:19
Speaker 2: To go west or no, like people trying to go to the Louisville baseball game in Omaha, hopefully they've already left.

00:39:26
Speaker 3: Who's next?

00:39:27
Speaker 2: Bruce is up next? Bruce? Go ahead, Bruce, mad Is.

00:39:32
Speaker 7: It possible that the Netflix company that done your show knew that Vince was leaving?

00:39:37
Speaker 6: Spelling his name Vince Pharaoh.

00:39:41
Speaker 5: That's right. What about that he has felling Vince Pharaoh in the Netflix show?

00:39:46
Speaker 3: Oh, that's right in the Netflix show.

00:39:48
Speaker 2: They made that two years ago, so I don't think they foresaw him leaving at that point. But yeah, you.

00:39:56
Speaker 6: Know, professional wrestling storylines go, they can go and go and go. Remember the Aka Powell was come together at WrestleMania four, exploded at WrestleMania fives.

00:40:05
Speaker 2: Well, maybe something what if he go ahead, Bruce, he's got what what if he what if he came back?

00:40:14
Speaker 3: Would you invite him back?

00:40:16
Speaker 8: Well?

00:40:16
Speaker 4: That's why I threw that question out to you yesterday. You know, he had Liam Cohen come back.

00:40:20
Speaker 2: He had Liam Cohen went to the Rams, he didn't go to.

00:40:23
Speaker 4: Louis Yeah, that's true, Eddie Eddie Grant and let him go and then invited him back. And now I went to the Wolford he left, came back. I think Vince is a guy.

00:40:32
Speaker 2: That woe was interesting because Mark Stoops was livid when Wolford laughed and then ended up right back here.

00:40:39
Speaker 5: You don't ever want to burn a bridge, but I felt like that was burning a bridge when you just up and left and went to Alabama. And then I kind of felt like going to Louisville was sort of the same with Vince.

00:40:48
Speaker 2: Might be who's next?

00:40:50
Speaker 4: Brady James?

00:40:51
Speaker 2: Is up next? Brady James? I got about a minute.

00:40:54
Speaker 3: Brady, Hey, what's going on?

00:40:57
Speaker 2: Fellas?

00:40:57
Speaker 7: I was on vacation and I just read the article about Vince and as far as Stoop's, uh, you know what, you know, allowing Morrow to come back. You know we should be celebrating, guys. We've gotten half of the dead weight of this football program off our shoulders. You know, it's gonna take money and fundraising. It's not gonna take blowing hot air and things that work ten years ago. Things are different now and Vince and Mark just aren't up to the cask. And that's okay, But there's no reason to ask is he gonna come back? No, he's not gonna come back, coach. Some are all's gonna get us out of this after next year, and we're gonna be a really good football program. But it's gonna take coach. Some were all doing it.

00:41:42
Speaker 3: All right, I appreciate the call. Well, there are people that think like that.

00:41:46
Speaker 2: Yes, there, I mean, there's that that is a that is a mindset that is definitely out there. We will Uh, Mark's gotta win this year or that mindset will only get get louder.

00:41:56
Speaker 3: All Right, We're gonna take a break while we're gone.

00:41:58
Speaker 2: We're gonna cut into this seventy fifth anniversary, Kate, Give the people here, Give the people here, abide.

00:42:04
Speaker 3: If you want to come take a picture before we cut.

00:42:06
Speaker 2: Go do it now. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.