2025-10-14- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Tuesday, October fourteenth. I'm Matt Jones here in studio. You can give Shallon Clarks puppet shop fuld line. That's a five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two s four five two five four In this edition sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Uh, Shannon, here's how I know that I'm with old. Everybody's gotten old on me. What's up? We're sitting here talking about basketball and football. Pregame shows. I'm in a room full of people, Ryan, Drew, Billy, Ryan who's been doing these shows for fifteen years, Billy who's produced them for years. Drew's been on for a few years as well. None of them could remember the times for the pregame shows that we've always done. Everyone but me was going we started our basketball pre game show three hours before and I'm like, no, two and a half, and Billy's like, it's three. Ryan's like it's three. Idn't and it's it's always been to it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not even on the show, and I know it's two and a half.

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Speaker 3: It's always been two and a half. So but but it's now that time. We're doing pregame for Purdue basketball Ryan, next weekend. We played the number one team in the country next Friday. That was the conversation.

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Speaker 4: We got all these pregame shows for football, basketball postgame shows, trying to get a lank, and they all started different times. Y'all have different links.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're getting into that time where like we'll be on I want you to just get just think about it. And I'm not complaining. I'm complaining on behalf of the audience. I want you to think about how much you could hear my voice if you wanted to next weekend. Okay, just think about this Friday morning KSR, you know are remote. Then Basketball pregame Show three pm, Basketball postgame show whenever the Predudy game's over, Saturday, Kentucky Tennessee Football pregame Show two hours, Kentucky Tennessee Football postgame Show, Sunday morning, Matt Myron on ESPN Sunday Night Cover zero.

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Speaker 4: That's a lot of radio. It's a lot of mass.

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Speaker 3: If you listen to me that whole time, then your wife has to hate you or your husband has to hate you. That's too much me. It's too much me for me.

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Speaker 5: I'm in the same boat with the football podcast a happy hour now. I'm like people. At some point, I don't want to just be talking at every moment of every day.

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Speaker 3: But hours, that's four, three six, I mean, that's that's a lot out. I'll do that every day. See I love this. Yes, you always do that. You do three hours a day. But then you do your music. You're not doing the whole show. You're introing the song. Yeah, but I'm talking. But you I love you, Shannon, But you tape that in twenty minutes. But I'm talking, though, is my point for twenty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Whatever, It's fine, tough guy.

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Speaker 3: Twenty minutes you're like, welcome back, this is food fighters.

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Speaker 4: You know what, what's crazy?

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Speaker 3: You said that though?

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Speaker 4: There there will be people though that will listen to every second of all your shows.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am very grateful for them doing That's just a lot. That's just a lot, a lot of Matt, a lot of Matt. And by the end of that week and then we come right back your Monday morning, another full week. So I'm probably gonna give the Tennessee football post game. Let Billy do it because Billy likes doing it, because Billy's angry at people during the postgame show. And I think that I think that's to be a post game show after Tennessee where people will want to just be angry. So Billy might be the vibe drew for it. Actually, well, I had.

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Speaker 5: The South Carolina game and you talk about talking the whole time. There were so many calls and people so angry. It's one of those just let them go. And I think Tennessee might be the same. Willy might be a good person for the just let everybody. Let everybody go.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday, Ryan, I want to thank the listeners who did come out to hear the Wendell Ford lecture about it, and I all thought it went really well good. It was good. We had a big crown, you know. I I put on a jacket. Yeah you mentioned the pants. You know, it was fine. I have reress pants. I mean these I couldn't do the formal thing. Well, I just don't do it very often anymore. I have all these suits from my TV days and I don't get to wear a lot.

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Speaker 4: So was there a moment where it got a little tense and you're questioning them back and forth?

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Speaker 3: Or I'm going to be tense. We're not fighting each other. It was just about trying to teach people about NIL. It wasn't like let's go to war, so.

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Speaker 4: Like a lot like a political debate, you weren't.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing political about NIL. It's just do you It's just like college sports rules.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I just asked him. I was there was a situation where somebody asked a question. Question.

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Speaker 3: It was not heated, not heated at all. I did have a moment though, that was a little worrisome. So I got there early because you know campus, you can't park there. You try to drive on Euclid Avenue at four thirty in the afternoon. Just forget it. Let me just forget it. They had saved us spots in front of the singletary, so that helps. So it had in big letters VIP and our name.

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I almost took a picture of it VIP Matt John. So I was the first one there. So I parked, I went and they had a dressing room for us. Really right, Shannon had a dressing room makeup.

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Speaker 4: Did you know you get a writer?

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Speaker 3: Uh? I did not get a writer. I bought a coke zero out of the machine and then I said it and waited. Well, all the all the people that are on the panel get there and we're all We're all sitting there in the room, and then this woman comes in and goes, man, can I speak with you for a second. I walk outside and I'm like, oh, what are they gonna say? And there's a cop there and they go, uh, this is officer blah blah blah. And I was like, and he goes, uh, he's going to take you after this is over. And for a minute I was like, take you where What did I do? Yeah, this is a frank what happened? And they go, no, no, he's going to escort you to your car when it's over. And I was like, oh, well, I guess who's escorting and every and they're like, no you and I was like oh, and they go we just thought it would be good. Well that kind of got me parano Yeah, for sure, Shannon. You know, like, what was there a threat on me? Walk car? Yeah, I've been on I come on that campus all the time, and so they had this guy like kind of walk me out. And then somebody mentioned as I was leaving, you know, they're doing this on campus now for anybody who is at all people could see as political post the Charlie Kirk thing. Wow, and that was really like, I mean, it was very nice. The guy was nice, but like there was a co I have to admit it kind of got me paranoid. Like so then I'm starting to look around. It was it's the weirdest thing. Somebody gives you something to make you feel more comfortable, and I was completely comfortable, and then it almost switched it off.

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Speaker 5: Because it's something you don't need. It's like, what, why do I need that, well.

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Speaker 3: Certainly something I didn't think i'd need. But then when they tell you, they presumably would know what I need more than I know. Does that make sense?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's kind of sad that think that's the world we live in now. Or you got to have an escort to walk to your car because you potentially a political person.

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Speaker 3: So I guess my initial thing about you was was there any argument? And I was like, now, that would be ridiculous. They probably were like, you is gonna is there gonna be something something wrong? Ron was on it, so Ryan, you were actually on it. You could have been in the administration.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad they took this the step to protect you.

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Speaker 3: But it just when I walked out, there was no one there. It was me and Jen Smith that used to work at the hair Leader and unless she was plotting something, you're good was there for she's a professor there.

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Speaker 4: Josiah has her in class.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for people who don't know Jen Smith, she was the football writer for UK for many many years. She's now a professor at UK. So anyway, I enjoyed it. A lot of you all listeners came saw you in the craft and some of you came up and said hello, so appreciate that. And in talking about, of course the conversation, one of things Matt's Mark story said about and I all thought was interesting. So I thought a test to you, how many sports at UK has UK committed to giving Nile money rev share two? So let's uh, let's let's just let's talk about how many? Because I don't think Mark said this during the thing. I don't think I had heard it. So this was Mark from Mark's story. Take a guess how many sports at UK are getting rev share in ale money? True?

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Speaker 5: Trying to run through sports in my head, just say them out. You think, well, I mean you get the big two, then you got women's basketball, volleyball, what would be next? Baseball? Okay, that's a surefire thing.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna take even men's and women's soccer, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's golf.

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Speaker 3: So what's your total? I'm gonna go eighteen eighteen sports at UK? What do you think? Ten? Ten? Shannon, what do you think? Twelve? The answer is six six. They're giving it to men's basketball, men's football, women's basketball, baseball, volleyball and softball and that's it. Track, yeah, getting it even though we have like a national mealyptics go soccer not getting it. I thought for sure, golf not getting soccer. Golf don't surprise me. Track surprises me. Should have gotten softball. Now, so we have six guess I mean.

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Speaker 4: Louisville has well, I'm not just say that four.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, five, Louisville's not giving it to softball. So Louis's down to giving it to only five sports, which means one of Louisville sports at least is getting money that is going to UK softball is going to another. It's an interesting thought because on the one hand, you go, well, that stinks for the other programs. But on the other hand is Mark pointed out every dollar you give to baseball or to softball, or to volleyball or to whatever is dollars, you're not getting mean to your football and basketball team, and that this is the constant balancing that schools have to do. But I think it was it was kind of startling to me to hear that we're only doing six, because I guess I would have thought Ryan, they're gonna do a lot more, but at six, and apparently at six we are doing more than most other schools. Most other schools, by the ways, are doing football, basketball, women's basketball, baseball, and then they're picking one other one other one. They're picking one other one. Maybe it's for them for like Oklahoma softball, for another school it might be this, but they're just picking another one.

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Speaker 4: I really thought, knowing Mitch Baron artaway he is with his other Olympic sports, he's trying to be fair. I thought he would kind of. It's just can't be fair in this world.

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Speaker 3: Can't be fair in this world. You just can't. If you're fair, you're losing. This is a competition. It's not fair. I mean, this is a socialist sport that has had to enter into capitalism. People don't like when I use that phrase, but it's the truth. College sports has been socialism for eighty years. And it's always funny to me that the people who were the most athletes should be paid, people like me are people who people think are on the left. We take the capitalist position oddly, whereas the people who wanted athletes to be paid the least are often people on the right who are taking a socialist position, which is share it between the things, etc. And this college is that college sports are socialists that are now having to become capitalists.

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Speaker 5: They just thought, Yeah, you know, I wish we've had some great tennis players. I wish they could get paid, But you just do sports don't have attendance when you go to them, and they're not bringing anything in Meny and them aren't even on SEC network plus. So if people aren't going to the games, you hate it for those athletes. But the slice of the pie, it's just hard to show.

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Speaker 3: You Do you think that six goes down to five or four in a few years. Do you think there comes a point where Kentucky says, well, we're not even gonna do you know? Mark Story made the point, if you're a softball player and you're choosing between Kentucky and Louisville, how do you choose Louisville. Now Kentucky by the very nature that they're giving money is saying that are taking softball more seriously than Louisville is.

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Speaker 4: But to answer your question, I think it's highly possible that that number could get smaller as the years go on.

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Speaker 3: I do too. I mean, you could have a world where it's two.

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Speaker 7: Football, basketball or I think they probably have to have one women's sport, but you could see a world where it was three, right, yeah, three maybe four, where you have one school that's been good at something for a long time.

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Speaker 5: But I agree with it not including those others, even though it stinks to say that out loud, that those kids don't get it.

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Speaker 3: It's just they're not doing anything in scholarship. They're not getting like, rather not share money.

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Speaker 5: They don't have the big cash in their pocket. But they're also not bringing much cash in.

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Speaker 3: So it was interesting. It is interesting because I wouldn't have said eighteen, but I probably would have been like Drew, I would have probably said ten. I thought for sure to hear that at six and at Louisville it's five. And they also said, by the way, Bellerman did not opt into the REV share, Wow, really and would you like to know why? Yeah? Because bell because part of the REV Share you have to cut your scholarships down. And Bellerman is so focused on keeping male students enrolled that they want to keep their sports programs with big numbers so that they can keep male students enrolled. So they'd rather keep the scholarship numbers big and give no money. Wow. So Bellerman is the only school in Kentucky, uh Division I school that is not doing ripshare. I guess probably any sport.

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Speaker 4: Interesting, there's probably some other smaller schools in other states.

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Speaker 3: Just like Carl's point is, schools with like small Catholic or small Liberal or not liberal arts schools are going to have to do that because such a huge portion of their student body is now student as athletes. Sure, and they don't want to see this. The scholarship numbers get reduced because then like Trancy, I think fifty percent of the students that go to Trancy now play a sport. Georgetown's like that where I teach.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Kentucky Weslin's definitely like that.

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Speaker 3: That's so that's why Bellerman, I guess apparently opted out of it. If I'm nine to two eighth twenty two eighty seven, Texa Machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four, will take a break very back, sorry, quarterback of this Coday Sports Radio. I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. UK has just announced a rep Arena is announcing after the UK Perdue exhibition game Friday, there will be a postgame party right outside the arena. What Cam Thompson singer. Who's Cam Thompson. Do we know Cam Thomas do not? You know what Cam Thompson's song, Shannon, No, Well, Cam Thompson's gonna be out rocking. It's free. So as you walk out Vine Street, so I guess that's walking out what walking out where the fountains are? Yeah, apparently Cam Thompson will be out. They'll have concessions and it is a UK basketball postgame party after the Purdue game.

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Speaker 4: Well, the Purdue games at six, so it's early in our Friday game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So the PDU game is actually at six. It's not at seven like people think. So it's at six and then I guess starting as soon as the game's over, Uh, they will have Downtown part of it. I guess they're gonna have Downtown closed.

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Speaker 5: I don't look, but excited to have Cam Thompson in the background of the Thompson's gonna be here, Shannon, That's right, it's exciting. I can't wait to be there for that.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you don't know Cam tom maybe is yeah, I mean doing something music is? What kind of music is? I'm gonna say it's bro country just by Yeah, I would say so. Maybe that's some news. All right, Let's talk about some uh, some chatter from yesterday. Last night, Virginia Tech version of Kentucky Sports Radio, so they're kind of number one website for sports listed said a hot name for Virginia Tech right now behind the scenes as the coach is Mark Stoops. Kentucky fans heard that news after it was put out by KSR and reacted with I think excitement. It is fair to say there's a little bit of j believe. I think the problem is people are gonna get excited, which is going to make Virginia people not be interested. But this conversation, for what it's worth, I don't think he's gonna be the Virginia Tech coach. But are we just gonna keep having this? Is this a case where Kentucky fans are already like, hey, someone b R John Tyson in Arkansas. That and just the fact that Stoop's name was in this report made me think that his agent has maybe thrown around that he'd be interested in something. Oh you think this is Stoops' his agent throwing his name out there while he would be considered for it.

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Speaker 5: Like I think most people were surprised his name was on there. And the only thing I could think of that would kind of get it on the list is if behind the scenes somebody's talking, because I don't think Virginia.

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Speaker 3: That would be good. But I mean, if you're someone who wants to see a change, it would be good that Stoop's agent is trying to promote him out there.

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Speaker 5: But I took it is that that might actually be happening behind the scenes. On the Stoops end, you took it as good news. Most people would say, yeah, that's good news. Stoops might even with it through his AI might be looking around for a backup plain.

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Speaker 4: You know, there are so many jobs open and gonna come open. A name like Mark Stoops for a job at Virginia Tech, they probably would jump at the chant. I think to be interested in Mark Stoops because who else they gonna get get?

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Speaker 3: Some guys say, who else are they gonna get? You got a chance to get an SEC? I have to I have to push back on that. I think our fans sometimes overvalue this job. Like, what makes you think Virginia Tech's a better job in Kentucky? I don't, Okay, So why would Virginia Tech want a coach that Kentucky fans want gone.

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Speaker 4: I think a guy who's had success in the n SEC, even know they hadn't had success last a.

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Speaker 3: Couple of years. But do you think by Virginia Tech standards, that's a team that played for the National Championship twenty five years a.

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Speaker 4: Long time ago. Still though it's a football school and they've been they've had to struggle a couple of years.

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Speaker 3: And you think they'd want the coach that Kentucky fans don't want. I'd say, would would we want the coach Virginia Tech doesn't want? No, Well, you already you think they're a better program than that. I didn't say that, you think we're a better program than them? Yes, and Stoops had success here in the SEC. Why do you think we're a better program than them?

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Speaker 4: I think because we're in the SEC. We had we've had we had a couple of ten win seasons now not on the history, I mean like right now, last ten years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think there's a little truth to it. I mean, we're in the SEC that's a lot better than the ACC. Yep, we could probably pay as much or more than their coach. But Drew I would not say we're a better program, not a better program.

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Speaker 5: I can agree with Ryan. I might be a better spot right now with SEC money, And if you're a coach you want to get in the SEC.

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Speaker 3: We're not historically a better programmer, not even really close. Yeah. I mean I saw someone list the thirteen or fourteen jobs that are likely to be open, and I saw a Kentucky fan say, well, we're the fifth best job of that group. I don't know what the standard for that is. I mean, if you just want to say the sixteen best the sixteen jobs in the SEC are the sixteen best jobs, then that's fine. I don't think most coaches look at it like that. I mean I think coaches partially look at it and go can I win there? And by the can I win their circumstance, this is a hard still a hard job, right because we have to play against those other teams. You could go to Virginia Tech and if you get that rolled or turned around, how many teams in the ACC are definitively better than you as a program Clemson in Miami, Florida State.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you could be next, and you would jump at the chance to get back to the SEC.

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Speaker 3: Let's say you get Kentucky at its best. Let's say you get us peak rolling. Gotcha, where do we rank our program in the top sixteen? Even at our peak? We're not going to be higher than Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Texas, Texas A and m Tennessee, Oklahoma. Those are ten schools that there will be nothing we can do that our job is more attractive than their. Probably never. So then really you're like, Okay, is our job more attracted than band? Probably? Is our drive more attracted the Mississippi state? Yeah? Probably? But then like South Carolina, Old miss Arkansas, Missouri, we're kind of in that group, aren't we.

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Definitely. And if I put myself in Virginia Tech's fans shoes right now that list that came out of the eight names on it, I like Mark Stoops as a person, I would not be excited compared to the other names that were on that list. So I doubt there's many Virginia Tech fans that saw that and thought, ooh, we should get Stoops of this bunch because it had James Franklin, H. Gaulish at South Florida, some Raw Mullin, and had all these hot.

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Speaker 3: Names, So I think if you're a Virginia tech, I mean, Beemer is probably the one they want the most because his dad was a coach. Here, Eric, go ahead, Eric.

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Speaker 8: Oh, yes, they're every time.

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Speaker 9: I'm couching on the spot, and I pretty much love where I'm at. But yesterday I called in and I was I forgot my main point about REP. Is there anything that you could see possible doing to make it easier on older folk?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 9: Or because I mean I mean I'm just sitting there for REP and it's just there.

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Speaker 3: I mean, what would you do that?

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Speaker 9: And you just feel so? Can you expand it and make it a little flatter?

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Speaker 3: I mean, do you how much? Say a couple college? I mean, we're sitting here trying to figure out what we're gonna do about now. Yeah, I mean we're we're we're about to start paying players twenty one dollars a year. The government is shut down. Where are we getting the money to make REP flatter?

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Speaker 9: I mean that is a very valid point.

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Speaker 3: I'm just I didn't know, so No, I agree with you. It is very hard for older folks to get around reppery. It really is. It's very steep. But I don't really think. I think if the things that are gonna happen soon, major changes at RUP are probably not anytime soon. We're gonna take a break. If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty cent, it's KSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 2: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones, Cam Thompson, this is Cam Thompson.

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Speaker 3: That's what you're gonna get. Give me, give me like ten seconds of it here, all right, So not my thing, but but people like this, right, Like if I turned on ninety eight one to Bull, I could hear this, yes, right, Like this is he's got like probably a T shirt, hat, jeans, right, something about whiskey truck. Yeah. I mean there's a woman laughed team. But he's gonna get him back. And ain't no more country than he is. Like that's no, I mean this, I'm not I'm not even mocky, like this is this is what people like. So he's from Owensboro apparently, so I'm let's go cam Thompson.

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Speaker 5: Ryan's hometown. I'm not familiar with him, but I I as I said when you first mentioned it. I just like that they're doing it. Whether it's someone I've heard of or not, they're just adding more and more for fans to experience. Totally, pat him on the back for that, totally. Who is nine twenty two eighty seven. A couple open lines, Uh, give us a shout out? What you what would you do if you were the football indoor basketball coach?

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Speaker 3: One person writes, Matt, I don't think Virginia Tech would want stoops, but there probably are schools that will. The question is do we think he will want to go somewhere. I can't imagine he's gonna want to do this again. But then again, like we say all this, you beat Texas Saturday, it's a completely different conversations, completely different, completely different conversation, Which is what's weird about sports in general, is like you can have this whole strong opinion.

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Speaker 5: If he won next week, then everybody go, well, I mean, you know, James Franklin had Oregon down just three weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, again, that's a great point. James springs up at halftime over time and he'd be the number one team in the country. And two and a half weeks later, he's fired, he's.

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Speaker 4: Gone, you know, so things can change, you know, That's what I was saying. There's so many jobs open, like this year, high level jobs. They're gonna go get the high level candidates. Is that elevate stupids? That Stoops is a better candidate in some school's eyes?

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Speaker 3: Who I still I don't understand what you're asking me. Who do you think is out there that's got a good job that wants Mark Stoops.

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, like guys like Pinch State in Florida, they're gonna get the high level guys.

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Speaker 5: Okay, he said, someone's gonna have to settle because there's just too many of them.

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Speaker 3: Agree with. But I think the but the kind of coaches we want is gonna be what schools like Virginia Tech one they're gonna want Will Stein ye right, or John some roll Like, don't you think that's who they're gonna want or.

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Speaker 5: They're gonna want them? It's there will be some schools where there's been Virginiajack Hey, maybe Kentucky might be us that make a higher That's a little disappointing just because there's not enough candidates out that I can.

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Speaker 3: Completely agree with the Bears won last night. Thrill. It was a thriller. Normally we lose that game. We won it last night. Caleb Williams. The Commanders fumbled it, uh due to a northeaster? What is that northeaster? Channing? Do you know what a northeaster is? Having a nor eastern like we're.

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Speaker 2: It was like a ton of rain that came through nor easter, Like I hear that with like.

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Speaker 3: Rain that phrase, But what makes it any different than like what we had here a week and a half ago? What is it? Northeastern? Just that the Northeasterners decided if it happens where they live.

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Speaker 5: It's something with their wind up there. I don't that's the farthest I can go.

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Speaker 3: What does it do? It spins?

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Speaker 2: And what a storm or wind blowing from the northeast, especially in New England as a nor'easter.

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Speaker 3: You so it's just wind and they named it. Yeah, see that's what that is what gets me about the Northeast. They just mean they just call it like a yes, we have a bad storm, and then that's the name of a type of weather. And then people will be like, well people in Kentucky get wind and it's tough to live in Kentucky. They get the bluegrassers. Yeah, that's what it is. So anyway, well the northeaster hit and then they fumbled fumbled it, and well it was very wet and rainy and they fumbled it.

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Speaker 5: Did you have faith in the field goal in the middle of the North diastry because they on the wind and the rain and that guy they just signed him that day?

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Speaker 3: Did you see that The Bears just signed the guy that afternoon, kicker, and he kicked. They interviewed the player at the end. They interviewed Kayleb Williams. They said, what do you think about the kicker? And he said, I didn't know who he was.

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Speaker 5: Well, he's the one that the Niners let go because he couldn't make anything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a few weeks. But Shannon, how would you like that if you're the kicker they got, they interview the guy. He goes, well, I didn't know who that guy was, but I'm glad he made.

00:27:31
Speaker 2: If you're the kicker, you're barely on the team until they need you to kick a field goal to win the game.

00:27:35
Speaker 3: Then is that they ignore you the rest of the time? And it's got to be a hard job because they either love you or they want you to just go away. You miss a kick, you're done. You miss one kick and you're over. I mean it's over.

00:27:51
Speaker 4: You don't even practice with the team or anything.

00:27:53
Speaker 3: You know your own you look not like them.

00:27:56
Speaker 5: Well, how about just a few weeks ago, the Falcons kicker kicks a game winner and all on the field. She's like, do you even know your teammates? He's like no, and he's staying an interview and he shakes his hand out. He's like, hi, I'm so, and so he met them in the postgame interview after kicking the game win.

00:28:10
Speaker 3: The kicker for the Packers yesterday was a substitute teacher two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, he was substitute teaching. Then he's kicking for the Packers and has a game winning Kickers are so weird.

00:28:22
Speaker 5: The Cowboys Brd Aubrey could be one of the best kickers ever and he just got tired of soccer because he got old and couldn't run anymore. And he's like, well, I'll go try to play football, and he's automatic.

00:28:31
Speaker 3: I mean, think about Max moved across the world to play a sport. He'd never watched uh because they were like, well, you'd be good at this, and then he won the award for best kicker in the country.

00:28:42
Speaker 5: This tells me in America, our youth are not practicing enough.

00:28:46
Speaker 3: I'm trying to be quarterbacks. If you want your kid to be an athlete, why would you not just teach him to be a kicker? Again, U's Max Stuffy. This would be the equivalent of like me going, somebody going, you know, you'd be good cricket moving to Australia and then I win the National Cricket Player of the Year award two years ago. He did not even watch football.

00:29:07
Speaker 5: My favorite thing is he visited Memphis and Alabama and didn't know there was a difference between the programs.

00:29:12
Speaker 3: No, he visited Memphis and Alabama and he was like, well, Memphis is a bigger city, so it must be better.

00:29:18
Speaker 5: So he got there obviously, but on his way over he had no idea there was a difference in Memphis and Alabama.

00:29:22
Speaker 3: His stories about when he met with Nick Saban, and Nick Saban was like, I don't know about these Australians, and you know, then he ended up winning the award and Saban went up to him and said I was wrong. Oh he did.

00:29:33
Speaker 4: I didn't know that part of the store.

00:29:34
Speaker 3: He said, I wish I because because he want Max wanted to go to Alabama. Basically that guy brought back. Then they bring these Australians over here. Yeah, and it was I think I think Drew's right. It was Memphis, Alabama, Kentucky, but Kentucky was like third. He went to Memphis and Alabama and he was like, well, I guess I'll probably go to Memphis. It's a bigger city. Then he got there and he's like, oh, Alabama's better. He tried out for saving and I think Saban was like, eh, Australians and then later saving them, and that's how we ended up with wow and then later saving apologies.

00:30:09
Speaker 4: Saban did apologize to him.

00:30:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Kyle, go ahead, Kyle.

00:30:14
Speaker 6: So, last year on the basketball team, Robinson was the only guy that really knew Pope system. This year we got about four guys I think that are pretty familiar with what we're gonna run. You gotta imagine that's going to lead to some early season dominance like the like of which we haven't seen since like Fox and Monk and I'll hang up and listen.

00:30:33
Speaker 3: Well, we were pretty good early season last year. I mean remember we beat Duke Yeah in one of the early games. I do think this team will be cohesive quicker due to the guys coming back, wouldn't you think so? Yeah.

00:30:45
Speaker 5: In a couple of times this offseason, Pope has really gone out of his way to talk about every team he's ever had his freshman make big jumps to his sophomore year, just and how he coaches him and how he teaches in his system. He says that's always the biggest jump. I mean that's kind of natural anyway, freshman is sophomore. But he's talking about he's like, look out for Colin Chandler, Trent Noa. I have a history of doing this. Second year guys have big breakthroughs and just the way I have it all set up, So I would expect that of even Brandon Garrison being a second year guy, even though it's not a sophomore. I think a lot of the returning players will see it.

00:31:16
Speaker 3: Oh taga Away was named preseason SEC Player of the Year. I looked at the preseason SEC Players of the Year. The list is fascinating. Yeah, First of all, only one freshman in the history of the SEC has been named preseason SEC Player of the Year. Can you guess the only freshman to ever be named preseason SEC Player of the Year.

00:31:42
Speaker 4: I guess I'll take John Wall.

00:31:43
Speaker 3: Then you take John Wall.

00:31:44
Speaker 5: What do you think I'm gonna say? It's not even a Kentucky player?

00:31:47
Speaker 8: What is it?

00:31:50
Speaker 5: But I can't think of one. I guess I'll just have to say Davis to not have dead air here.

00:31:53
Speaker 3: But what do you think?

00:31:54
Speaker 5: I don't believe it's him?

00:31:55
Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neill, Ben Simmons, Simmons.

00:31:59
Speaker 3: Ben's Simmons is the no Kentucky player has ever been. Would you like to know the Kentucky players of the cal era named preseason SEC Player the year? We've had three? Okay, this is a great trivia question. I'm doing trivia tomorrow at ks Bar. If I did this one, I don't think many people would get. I can't believe I'm giving this one up because this would be a great one. Can you give me the three Cow players? Oway is the first one of the Stoops of the Pope era. Give me the three cow players named preseason SEC Player the year. Oscar Oscar is one I'm gonna say Terrence Jones, Karrence Jones. When Terrence Jones in twenty twelve, when Anthony Davis was pre was player of the year, Terrence Jones was preseason Player of the year. Can you get the third?

00:32:49
Speaker 8: You have one? Run?

00:32:52
Speaker 3: No trying to Harrison twins. Yeah, Actually, you know what, there are four. Aaron Harrison was one of Aaron Harrison was preseason Player of the Year in twenty fifteen. But that wasn't even the one I was thinking of. There were four because Aaron Harrison was one.

00:33:11
Speaker 5: It's got to be just anyone that made a surprise comeback.

00:33:15
Speaker 3: Patrick Patterson, way about. Patrick Patterson was the other SEC Preseason Player of the Year under cow So why of the last twenty preseason players of the year, guess how many one preseason.

00:33:27
Speaker 4: Player but one player of the it actually won the award?

00:33:29
Speaker 3: Yeah? Only three? Not many. So while I'm excited about Otega, the history of that award has not been great. But Mark Sears last year got it, uh huh. But in general it doesn't happen. So just an interesting piece of fact. Terrence Jones, I didn't think anybody would get Terrence Jones. Well, I knewdn't have given you the hint that there were no fresh.

00:33:49
Speaker 5: Well, I knew there were any freshmen, I said Davis, But I could just couldn't think of another SEC freshman. But I knew Kentucky didn't have one. Yeah, Ben Simmons is the only one. And of course he didn't win it to win the award either.

00:33:58
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00:34:39
Speaker 5: The Texas game? Is that what it's supposed to supposed to rains. I haven't seen that.

00:34:42
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it either of it. Would that help or hurt us? Help?

00:34:46
Speaker 2: No?

00:34:47
Speaker 3: You think so?

00:34:48
Speaker 4: If we can get it where all we gotta do is run the ball, that's our best advantage. Slow them down. Let us run the ball and running over here.

00:34:54
Speaker 5: I mean there's probably some truth to that, right. I don't think I'm worried we could get shot out their defense. I know they have arch their defense. We just saw what they did Oklahoma.

00:35:04
Speaker 3: It's a game where we cannot fall behind. Oh, if we're behind, it's it's our over under.

00:35:09
Speaker 5: Team total is fourteen points on DraftKings. You gotta think to beat Texas, you're gonna need a lot more than that.

00:35:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I do think Lexington, by the way, the next two weekends are going to be Lexington at their finest. Yeah. I would say to you like this, if if you just think about the next two weekends in Lexton. You start with this weekend, which is Parents' weekend, Parents Weekend, Keenland Blue White game UK Texas for the first time in forever. Right, this weekend's awesome. The next weekend, Purdue number one team in the country in basketball Keenland. I think they have some sales during that, and then Tennessee Tennessee and it's Halloween weekend or the lead into Halloween. Like, these next two weekends in Lexington are going to be pretty great. And if you don't have a hotel, forget it.

00:35:59
Speaker 5: This is one of those stretches where sometimes I consider AIRBNBM owned house just going to someone's couch because Lexing is gonna be made.

00:36:05
Speaker 3: I mean, it's gonna be Mayhem, It's gonna be Mayheim. Starting Thursday. Adam Sandler's here Thursday. That's true, He's here this week, you know, so you get Adam Sandler Thursday night. I mean Rupp's got Adam Sandler, Blue White Thompson Thoms Jones Trivia starting Matt Joms Trevia Wednesday, and I mean at the party just starts one person rights. Matt could UK use a violation in a clause to get to the stoops his contract to justify his firing. No no, and even the clause that like he can't go talk to other schools. I think UK probably gave there's something. There's basically a rule and contract law that if you've let him do it in the past, you can't then later use it as the justification. So remember with cal he had a thing that he couldn't talk to other schools, but he had never officially done it. Then he admitted he did it, and and UK was like, all right, you're going can't do that with Stoops because Stoops acknowledged he talked to Texas A h and we didn't do anything about it. So I think if he did it again, UK couldn't say anything.

00:37:10
Speaker 4: That's you know, it's so interesting you think about that that he almost left his for Texas A and M and.

00:37:15
Speaker 3: It might be the reason they can't get rid of and they can't get rid of him. Mitch has done many things well. The negotiation of that contract will go down as a low point David, probably second only to maybe the Billy Gillespie. Are you doing map? Yeah? Go ahead, Yeah.

00:37:35
Speaker 10: So I think there's no way Stoops is really even a candidate for Virginia Tech with his Beamers, with his in Shane's relationship as a father, Frank Beemer is a god at Virginia Tech. I went on a soccer visit with I coach a large soccer league here in Georgia. And when I went there, I coached Jake ke Hardaway And when I went there, Frank Beinger was just walking around. So he's like the godfather there.

00:38:06
Speaker 9: No, he is.

00:38:06
Speaker 10: He don't like my kid, I don't like you.

00:38:08
Speaker 3: But there's been some talk that Shane doesn't want that job because he doesn't want to be in his dad's footsteps all the time. Now, he may lose the South Carolina job if they don't do better, and then he'll probably take any job he could get. But that's always been the statement about Shane is that he kind of didn't want to be in his dad's shadow.

00:38:27
Speaker 10: So on James Franklin, could a school pay him one hundred thousand a year, let Penn State pay the rest of his salary and use that money for nil It's a great question.

00:38:37
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call that has been done in the past. I don't know what the rules are. It depends on the wording of the Penn State contract. But yes, it has been suggested over the years that schools would go I'll get James Franklin. He's getting eight nine million dollars a year from Penn State. We'll pay him one hundred and fifty thousand and let Penn State pay the rest.

00:38:56
Speaker 4: Of the contract, and if he wants the job, of course he'd take it.

00:38:59
Speaker 3: And then we'll use that nine million to get in an ail. Wouldn't be the dumbest thing in the world.

00:39:02
Speaker 5: I've wondered that too, even lower, like can we sign you for a dollar and just let them cover your entire salary and.

00:39:09
Speaker 3: Anyway, and now I can actually get players at the other school.

00:39:13
Speaker 5: Hitting my bank account one way or another.

00:39:14
Speaker 3: Mike, go ahead, Mike, Yeah, man, uh.

00:39:23
Speaker 8: This deal with Stups. I was there thinking about it last couple of days, and I just don't think we can afford to pay my office, you know, just a firing because if you're a young and up and coming coach, are you coming to Kentucky?

00:39:36
Speaker 3: I mean that seems like, yeah, okay, So if I'm an established coach, I think that's a harder thing. But if you're a young up and coming like, let's just think about when we hired Stoops. I mean he was coming from Florida State when Florida State was Florida State, never been a head coach, and he wanted the job. So yeah, I do think like take will Style, take will Stein at organ I am certain Finish. Yeah, I am certain will Stein at Orgon would take this job unless a better job was offered. Now, if a better job was offered, he might take that one. But if it was will Stein was offered this job, he would take it. I'm I know for a fact he would take it. Now, if he's offered Florida, he might take Florida over Us. But but so yes, I do think they're up and coming coaches who would do it.

00:40:29
Speaker 8: But don't you think States kind of stay too long? Because you know, we all thought he did that. Nobody could ever correct.

00:40:37
Speaker 3: I did not think anyone could win him. Yeah, I think he stayed too long. I think I do.

00:40:44
Speaker 8: I do.

00:40:45
Speaker 3: I think you're right, and I appreciate the call. I think that there is a shelf life for coaches, and you have to decide. I look at coaching his ten year grooves. Okay, everybody's got ten years in him if they're good. But then about your ten or eleven, you got to look in the mirror and say, now, am I ready for the second ten years? Because you've got to restart. Ryan, Chances are you gonna have to lean relearn some rules. The game's gonna have changed. You're not gonna be able to have rested on your laurels. Now, am I ready for number? Two? Remember? Nick Saban did this? He got through ten years, kind of hit a bump and he said, you know what I'm gonna do it? Hired Lane Kiffin changed, changed everything. Then he had a great second ten year run. Cal Perry amazing ten year run, got to twenty twenty, could change, decided not to as hired as boys stoops great ten year run, gets to twenty what twenty two, twenty three? Time to change doesn't happen. I think guys get ten years and then they got to decide, am I ready to be a different version of myself for the next ten And if they don't, that's when things start to fall apart. That's my thesis. Take a break talk basketball right after this. KSR