2025-11-18- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 5: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, November the eighteenth Champions Classic Day here in Lexington, Kentucky. And you give Sean the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. That's eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We will take your calls today. We did not take any yesterday. So if you got stuff to say about basketball, football or live a vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four in thistition sponsored by the t J. Smith Office. If you call TJ he'll make them pay. We're back in Lexington. I have Drew uh and Shannon Ryan is running late because he had some sort of doctors something, but he will be here very soon. And tonight is a champions class at Kentucky and Michigan State. But Drew first of all, good to be back in Lexington. The drive to Buffalo was I didn't feel like very far. But the drive back, it's a The coming home from an adventure always takes longer than getting there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah that the excitement usually takes off a couple hours on a trip wherever you're headed. I always say Nashville is an hour and a half there before getting back. The excitement get you know, helps get there. But on the way home, we're a little slower than.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Ohio was bigger that way.

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Speaker 5: I don't think if people I don't think people realize Ohio is longer when you go south than if you go north.

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Speaker 2: It's expanding daily, it is. So it was Ohio, lot of Ohio.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: But we got back and now right back to it.

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Speaker 5: This is the time of year where it feels like there is a Kentucky game every day of some point, and tonight it's a big one against Michigan State.

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Speaker 2: Are you feeling are you feeling confident? Confident? Ish? I'm very excited about it, I'll say that. But why are you excited? Just big games?

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Speaker 6: Another I'd love to be there, love New York, love the Champions Classic, even though they usually lose when I show up. But no, I'm just excited to watch a game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, people, people were honest for for for not going. I mean we talked about like it's not close, you know, I mean it's it's not close at all. I would challenge everybody shit and pull out a map. Yeah, just pull out a map and look at Buffalo and then look at New York City. It's not It would be like saying, oh, you're in Fulton, Kentucky. Why don't you just swing by Pipeville.

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Speaker 4: It's like a four hour difference.

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Speaker 3: Like if you were to take off here and go to New York City, it's like eleven eleven and a half. It's like, what's seven and a half to Buffalo from Louisville.

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Speaker 5: Yes, but even bigger is Drew and I were figuring it's seven and a half from Buffalo to Lexington.

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Speaker 2: But if you drove to New York during traffic hours.

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Speaker 5: Forget it's basically seven to seven and a half from Buffalo to New York, so would essentially have been the exact same drive. The other thing is, you know, we uh, we've got we just decided not to do it.

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Speaker 2: I did notice all of our bosses, Shannon are there.

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Speaker 5: Which continue It continues a theme of mine, which is over the years, our bosses get to go to these Champions Classic games and they don't send us.

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Speaker 2: I've been to zero hearty man, Sorry, man, we can't go to the Champions Classic. By the way, Hey everybody, we're hanging out at the Champions Classic.

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Speaker 5: It just goes to show you because I don't I don't believe Shannon, they're covering the game, do you?

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Speaker 4: I don't think so. Are in the post game show post.

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Speaker 2: The post game show.

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Speaker 6: We also couldn't go because we had the key to the whole radio broadcast in our car with no Billy r Sports sitting in the See, people don't real it wouldn't have been a game without Billy.

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Speaker 5: So so just so people know when you turn on the radio broadcast. In addition to hearing me say for all y'all, the the thing that keeps it on is Billy. They had to essentially call in the National Guard to have the get the Tennessee Tech football game because he was gone, so there would be no basketball game tonight without it.

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Speaker 2: But you feel good, ish, I do feel good. It's three and a half point favorite, four and a half.

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Speaker 4: It's gone up, okay five and a half a minute ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it just went down, up, down, moving around.

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Speaker 4: They should win.

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Speaker 6: I know they need to bounce back from Louisville. They need to bounce back from New York last year where they just got completely waxed by Ohio State right before Christmas. Just Michigan State's physicality worries me with we haven't been be able to handle that well. But Michigan State can't shoot the ball very well. So if Kentucky's shooting and playing with some pace, they'll be okay.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think it's one of these games. If there's a point number we can hit and we will win. I mean, don't want to turn into a fight. Michigan State beat Arkansas because Arkansas couldn't shoot, So if we can make shots, which hasn't been guaranteed most of the year, we should be okay. Now now, I was thinking about Champions Classic games over the years against Michigan State. The last time we played Michigan State in New York was the famous Tyres Maxie game, which was probably one of the most consequential nights that I can remember, because in the same night Maxie goes for was it thirty thirty five something like that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 5: I can't read a huge amount, but sheer beat Bevan and I got fired from the radio.

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Speaker 2: Big huge night. That was a huge night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot happened there.

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Speaker 5: That was a huge night in Kentucky, at least in my personal Kentucky experience.

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Speaker 2: That all happened the same evening.

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Speaker 6: You're hoping for a less eventful Champions Classic in New York tonight.

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Speaker 5: Well, what would be the equivalent of the three things?

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Speaker 2: Our comments about being jealous that we don't get to go to.

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Speaker 5: Things, Yes, so then we get fired, Yeah, and then it's the Basher beats Bevin.

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Speaker 2: What else is going on tonight?

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Speaker 5: We'd have to think about what that would be, but we'd have what uh Oway goes for twenty five or thirty?

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Speaker 2: Now we need a freshman needs to be Jasper Jasper.

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Speaker 6: Goes for thirty Oh, Jasper goes for thirty. Then we gotta take whatever happens around that.

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Speaker 5: So the vibe or like like vibes around here, not not around KSR.

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Speaker 2: In fact that iHeart is at the game and we're not chatting, not.

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Speaker 5: That uh those vibes, those vibes, put those vibes to the side, the uh.

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Speaker 2: The vibes around the fan base. I feel like the fans have taken the Louisville loss harder.

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Speaker 5: Than they should have. And I was and I was trying to think of what those reasons why are? Okay, So we always lose a game in the non conference. I mean there's only been what two years, one year we haven't lost twenty fifteen and a lot of the first true game, and it's often the first true road game. The difference this year.

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Speaker 2: Is it's Louisville.

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Speaker 5: If we had lost to Louisville in December, I don't think you get this reaction.

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Speaker 2: Do you know? It's first market game, first.

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Speaker 5: Mark, so I think that's number one. It's the first Marquee game. I think that's very important. It's the first Markeee game. So it's the first time people get to decide are we.

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Speaker 2: Real or not? Yeah, last year they beat Duke in that spot, it's exactly right, and this year we lost.

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Speaker 5: Secondly, we were down the entire game, right, so we get down early and so it feels like we're constantly behind and a lot of the game behind by big numbers. And then, of course, so I think that's part of it. And then it was that I think Louisville had the guy that we're used to having. We're used to having the Michale Brown kind of guy over the years, and now they have it. I mean, when's the last time Louisville had definitively the best talent on the court?

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Speaker 6: Has that happened before cal got here? I mean, Christy Snyder had a big game, but he wasn't the most talented guy.

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Speaker 2: You know, maybe when Russ Smith.

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Speaker 5: But but I think even with like Russ Smith, we would have said, Okay, well maybe he's the best. He's better right now. But the Twins are gonna be good. You don't pick whatever rand like, we're gonna be there. And there's not a guy on this team that you say, well, by the end of the year, he's gonna be a superstar. So I think all of that has combined to make us take the loss maybe worse.

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Speaker 2: Than we otherwise would. Would you agree? I agree?

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Speaker 6: And we've just been so spoiled beating them. It's like we don't even know how to react. Even their last one before that was like the coaches were wearing mask, the arena was empty. We just kind of like whatever, We're just trying to go see our grandparents right now. So just now, I was just gonna add, now there's we have a little some big concerns on another Marquee game, and that one at the end of Louisville they were trying to hand it to Kentucky. I think that added it to it too. How often do you see a team miss seven straight free throw and then Kentucky.

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Speaker 5: And then you get the Low injury. Now we still don't have any word on Low. I assume he'll have to address it today right after the game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I mean I would expect him to play. Pope's gonna get asked.

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Speaker 5: But he's gonna get asked whether or not he's playing. He said they were gonna meet on the weekend and talk theory.

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Speaker 2: We should know. I expected to know yesterday.

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Speaker 5: I mean I expected to even get even if it wasn't official, the kind of probably not playing or think he will. So we'll probably know that tonight. So I would ask you two things. Let's say we win and then we hear he may come back, different fan base tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I think they get excited about that. It'd be hard not to.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Michigan State's ranks got a big win over Arkansas. They're tough team toiz. Oh, and then if you can win that in the garden that got you last year, and then you hear you know a lot of people myself included, are worried he could be out for the season. If you hear he's gonna give it a go, you gotta be thrilled about everything that could happen tonight.

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Speaker 2: So that would be best possible ops. Yes, all right? What about worst possible ops?

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Speaker 5: What if you lose and then in the post game Pope says not gonna play this year.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be an ugly scene around here. I'm worried.

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Speaker 6: I don't think Kentucky's gonna get loose to night, and if they do, I don't think it'd be by much. If they were to play bad and Michigan State get them pretty good, and then you get some bad low news. It's gonna get uncomfortable around here. People are gonna be very upset in your two big games you lost, and then your point guard's not playing.

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Speaker 5: It would go from I mean, I think it would be funny at that point, Shannon, to think about the two programs two weeks ago. Oh yeah, two weeks ago Stoops was essentially fired and we had beaten Purdue, you know, right, and then go to now. It would just show you how quick the roller coaster, Shannon, for any coach can go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you lose that game to night, all of a sudden, and there's pressure on you too, because you still got a tough schedule non conference, you just go still got Saint John's, you got Gonzaga, you got North Carolina, and we were talking about maybe one or two non conference losses, and now all of a sudden, you're well, there's not a game or five.

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Speaker 4: Losses in that.

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Speaker 5: There's not a non conference game amongst the six difficult games, there's not one now that you say is definitely a win. With that, I mean, every single one of those games is now hard.

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Speaker 6: This might be the easiest of the bunch. Ucral Court I mean, Michigan State's good that everybody's got.

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Speaker 5: It's not a mite. This is the easiest one of the bunch. I mean Indiana. I guess you would say it's at home. Indiana and North Carolina are at home. But if you're just talking about quality team, I mean, think about this. We our six non conference games are against six teams that.

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Speaker 2: Are all ranked.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't consider Indiana. That might be the answer, but still, this is one you need to get.

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Speaker 2: And Gonzaga looks like a just juggernaut. Now they could be number one when we go to Nashville.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they last night they beat team some team like one hundred and ninety.

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Speaker 2: Five thirty three.

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Speaker 4: Is that official?

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Speaker 5: I mean I may have a number all yeah, but I think it was one hundred and ninety.

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Speaker 2: Five to three, one hundred and twenty two to fifty. That's close.

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Speaker 6: They also destroyed a ranked creating team by thirty, beat Oklahoma by almost twenty.

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Speaker 5: They're killing people, so they're really good. Yes, So the point is we need to win the night. Now, the games at six thirty, we're not kind of used to playing that early six thirty game.

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Speaker 6: That's the Michigan State tax we get pulled down because you did them.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. When you when you play Michigan State.

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Speaker 5: It's like when you drive for the first time in Pennsylvania after you've been in Kentucky, Ohio, you're like, oh, you got to pay tolls by the way. I don't know what happens, Shannon, with these tolls in Pennsylvania and New York.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like what, we'll send it to you. I'll just tell you if they send it. I don't ever respond.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you have to worry about it. Are we gonna be in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: Next No, I'm just saying, right, why have to pay.

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Speaker 4: One here in Louisville going to Indiana?

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Speaker 5: Well, that one you have to because it's like sent by Louisville, right, But I don't know who the Pennsylvania and New York people are sending the thing to, and it might be in the mailbox and I just say.

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Speaker 6: Eh, it's there with your Gettysburg parking ticket.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, I.

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Speaker 5: Had to pay that one. But Gettysburg parking ticket came back. But the Pennsylvania New York tolls, Shannon, when do you find out about those?

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Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna double down, Like they're gonna send it to you one time. If you throw it away, I don't think you're gonna get another one, but ever, I mean you might. What if all that is accumulating over the years.

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Speaker 5: You remember, you remember when Obama ran for president. We've talked about this before. All of a sudden it came out that he had like ninety eight parking tickets across America due yeah, like no, remember he had like like every town he just had a parking ticket and he had to go one by one and pay all these parking tickets. Day. You're never gonna run for anything, but that would be me. They'd be like, by the way, you one time had a parking ticket. Layer me wolmbe And I'd be like, that's exactly right. Shannon wanted to go to that bar and pulled over and then I just parted there was a ticket, and I was like, who needs this?

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Speaker 2: It's a wow, mean parking tick. When's this ever gonna come up?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 3: I mean, what's the punishment If you don't pay that? They're not gonna throw you in jail. So what's the motivation you'd have to pull over.

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Speaker 5: And physically pay it once Drew and I didn't have any cash, and they made us like we're gonna attained.

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Speaker 2: I had to mow around these we.

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Speaker 5: Had to work on the sid road because between us we had no cash.

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Speaker 2: And we were like, they were like, all right, move these rocks and we'll let you go.

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Speaker 6: We were like sixty cents short too. I just stood on the interstatedent.

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Speaker 5: Now they're like, I will send it to you, but I don't know if they ever do it. But if they do, I know I haven't paid it. If I'm not two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Uh, the text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. We'll take your calls. Uh, talk a little more about the trip, hopefully Righte'll be here soon, Chaz, welcome back. Take you sports radio. If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven four five two five four. One person writes, Matt, Uh, part of the problem is you are all doom and gloom. I love your show, but your glass is at half full. It's empty. Get some rest and come back tomorrow with a better attitude.

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Speaker 2: What are they talking about?

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Speaker 5: I We laughed more yesterday on the show, than I have laughed and forever, I had the most fun two days.

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Speaker 7: What what is the Where.

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Speaker 2: Are we coming off as doom and gloom?

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Speaker 6: Sunday was one of the best days of my life. In fact, when I walked into iHeart this morning, three people said, we're surprised you're here, like we thought you were staying Shannon.

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Speaker 2: Do you do you think we sound doom and gloom?

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Speaker 4: No? No, I don't think so at all.

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Speaker 2: What's wrong with you? Randy? Come on, Randy? Yeah, yeah, Randy.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's just excited about the game. Maybe that's a you problem. Randy.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you think.

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Speaker 5: Randy projecting his home doom and gloom onto.

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Speaker 2: Other people think so that may be the case.

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Speaker 5: Well, if I'm if I've come off at all negative, I'm not. I want to win tonight, though, I do think it's important for the for the for the.

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Speaker 2: For the fan base.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think people, you know, a lot of life is about expectations, and I think there was a big expectation with this team, and if you don't hit it, then.

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Speaker 2: It just leads people to be a little bit more negative.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna say some positive things about the games. Good matchups. Yeah, uh, they're gonna want to turn this into a fight. Maybe we get a lot of fouls. They don't have any depth. Kentucky has all of the depth. So it might be a good night to have some whistles because once they're big guys get in trouble, they don't have much behind.

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Speaker 5: Yeah that that that that would be good. And you tend to have a lot of fouls in Michigans.

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Speaker 6: And if you speed them up and use your depth, that's an advantage. Also, Michigan State can't shoot, so uh, Louisville got Kentucky by knocking down a lot of shots.

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Speaker 5: Michigan States they're incapable. One person rights cry cry cry. All Kentucky fans do is cry. You wind about playing the cards in November. Now you're crying about playing at six thirty.

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Speaker 2: I don't mind.

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Speaker 5: I'm actually ever playing me two thirty. And one of the problems about this game is he goes so late at night. I mean, you know, it sometimes doesn't endull two in the morning. So I'm I'm I'm actually very happy about the game time. It's just gonna be weird because you know, six thirty. We don't play many games at times.

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Speaker 6: Everything you've said, people are on the wrong side of the argument. I'm thrilled at six thirty eighty two I might get some sleep tonight. I would have hated the nine o'clock. So your text machine needs to shut up. We're in a great place.

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Speaker 5: Wow, all right, Ryan's here. How are you welcome back to k Why? Boys, we had a good time. It was a lot of fun. Missed you. You missed a lot. You've You've been replaced by Billy on these trips. Guess he you never brought a veggie tray. I never one time.

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Speaker 7: I do have some thoughts about your trip. Show yesterday was awesome. Giddy shows on the road are the best.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you.

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Speaker 7: But the videos you guys put out probably even better. The videos with you with the players drew in the parking lot, Marios, videos I thought were outstanding.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question about the videos.

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Speaker 5: First of all, I had a lot of comments from people saying that I looked uncomfortable interviewing the players in the locker room. Mario, you're shaking your head. Why did I How do you think I looked uncomfortable? First of all, I was, I was uncomfortable, so I may have.

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Speaker 4: Looked it maybe because they didn't have any clothes on.

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Speaker 5: I'm part of it is the claque of club behind the camera where Mario is.

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Speaker 2: They're just offensive linemen walking around. There's just too much nudity.

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Speaker 5: It reminded me of when I used to go to the old y m C A gym in Louisville and these old men would just walk around nude all the time, and I'm like yeah, and they'd like I was like, that's not But then these guys, those.

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Speaker 2: Guys should have had more clothes on.

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Speaker 5: These guys I think are for the most part proud, but there are too many abs shennon and there are too many accessories, and I just I'm I probably was uncomfortable. I used to that because like that doesn't happen in these college things. This is a crow like opening the locker rooms. I just wasn't used to.

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Speaker 7: But I was going up to the Bengals like for seven years in a row, and into the locker room after every home game, and the receivers, the running back, the quarterbacks, the guys, the good bodies, they seem to always cover theirself. It was a big fat lineman.

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Speaker 2: You are exactly you said it, I'm not gonna say it. That's true.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 8: It is no larger the person, the less closed, the less clothes they had one, and the fact that they're like, yeah, I mean Ray Davis, I like Ray Davis.

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Speaker 2: Do not telling Mario has been telling him. We don't like him, we like him, Come on, Mario, come on, Mario. But Ray Davis. I was like, hey, man, I wait, nope, I'm good. I'm good. We'll throw on this washcloth. Now's the time. And it's like and it was like a Motel six washcloth. It's not even it's not even plush.

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Speaker 7: So if you felt a little uncomfortable, then you had a good reason why.

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Speaker 5: It looked like somebody said I held the microphone like I was, uh, you know, wink Martindale and Bob Barker. I was trying to keep my distance from between them.

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Speaker 7: It is a different world when you walk into that NFL locker room. Then if you walk into a college, it's like that. I'd never been in the NFL locker room NBA a couple of times.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I just I mean, I'm not people don't have to I'm not modest.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying you don't. I just wasn't used to it.

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Speaker 6: My big takeaway on that, and it's happened before, it's gone viral when people are doing news interviews. How does that not pop up in the background, because the times it has.

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Speaker 7: We went up and interviewed Tim Couch when they played the Bengals in the Browns locker room, had this great interview with him. We couldn't use it because, like we got home and put the tape in, we realized there's a big, fat offensive lineman drawing himself off with a towel the whole interview.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going when you started, what's what's What's what? What's what's What's he gonna say? And thankfully it didn't end up. Just a little side note, a little behind the scenes. Keon Coleman, he's a receiver for Buffalo. I guess he had missed a practice so he had to miss the game. He was suspended for the game. He walks out of the locker room before they open it, and the media all descends on him and he decides to talk to him. So the media is sitting there interviewing Keon Coleman, and then I realized I'm like right behind him, and I'm in everybody shot. So if you watch the Buffalo Media's interview with Keon Coleman, I'm kind of behind him going because I didn't realize where I was, and so I'm right. There's got a video. Well, I made my own video yesterday.

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Speaker 6: I tried to do my best Mario, and I included where you turn around and realize.

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Speaker 5: You have like a reaction scared, like, oh, nice to see you, David. Go ahead, David, David, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead, I'm ready for the gage to that.

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Speaker 9: And I was thinking too. We had some really great gags. Did you can say through the years, We've got to mention in this one game the basketball game where we were in Detroit and we broke the world record for the most attend the game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true. I forgot about that. We played him in the dome up there.

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Speaker 2: That was quick.

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Speaker 5: Michigan State regular season games. Obviously we had the big win in the tournament. Regular season games. The Maxi one sticks out, you got that one.

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Speaker 2: That was a good one.

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Speaker 5: We wore silver uniforms one time against them.

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Speaker 7: They beat us at Ruperena. I think the year they won the title. And what was that ninety nine or Gerald Fitch hit.

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Speaker 5: A shot at the buzzer against him one time to beat him? WHOA David me?

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Speaker 9: No, Ryan, we beat him that year? They went they beat him all.

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Speaker 7: I just remember being at the game. It was at Repperena. Don't argue right Acthlely Judd was sitting court side.

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Speaker 2: Didn't we hit? Didn't Gerald Fitch like hit a three to beat him one year?

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Speaker 5: And Rob.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna say yes, I feel like that happened.

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Speaker 5: And then we had the game in twenty fourteen where we had all those freshmen and we thought we were going to crush them, and then they beat it well and kind of crushed us that year. That was a wake up call. So we'll see ef. I'm nine two eight twenty two a cent. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 7: A good triple.

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Speaker 2: TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage.

00:23:24
Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:25
Speaker 2: Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio.

00:23:26
Speaker 5: I think the other part about it it's about the awkwardness, is it's the nudity is part of it, but it's also that like I haven't done that in a long time, and I don't know what to ask these people in those situations, Like I'm I feel like I'm pretty good at one on one interviews when they come in here, but when you're in that situation, like I don't really care about the.

00:23:45
Speaker 2: Game, you know what I mean? So like I came, what did you think of darre on third and one?

00:23:49
Speaker 5: Like I don't really, you know, I don't care, And so that also is part of it.

00:23:52
Speaker 2: I'm kind of like, what do I ask these guys? You know what I mean? Yeah, Plus I don't know who's who That would be part.

00:23:58
Speaker 5: Like there's all those people in there, and except the guys that played at UK, I don't know who they are.

00:24:03
Speaker 4: So it's like, don't they have their nameplates right about their lockerdow?

00:24:05
Speaker 5: But sometimes they move around and you don't know. Yeah, they do have the name if they're sitting in their locker, I can guess who it is. But I mean if they're not, I don't know who they.

00:24:14
Speaker 2: Are, you know, And they definitely don't know who we are.

00:24:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, they see billy shoes and they're like, you're not supposed to.

00:24:22
Speaker 4: Be dressed to be in here.

00:24:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, I didn't appreciate all the Billy slander yesterday on the show. A lot of Billy slander. He was just doing his job being the GM.

00:24:29
Speaker 2: Yes on the lot.

00:24:30
Speaker 5: But I also think this was the best for Billy's Q rating. This was the best trip that's happened. Yes, it was very good. One person writes, mad I used to go to the gym in Lexington a lot and the person I saw who was most comfortable being nude was Alan Cutler.

00:24:45
Speaker 2: No filter was the interviewing filter.

00:24:52
Speaker 7: There are some classic color stories of being in the sauna and oh he's big on being nude. I never saw it, never witness it, just heard stories.

00:25:01
Speaker 3: Well, the thing about the sauna, you're in, like in an enclosed space with this person.

00:25:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're not walking around.

00:25:06
Speaker 4: That kind of makes it worse. Though.

00:25:07
Speaker 2: He feels like to.

00:25:08
Speaker 5: Me, though I don't have anything, he feels like the kind of guy who would be fine, just like I'm Cutler.

00:25:15
Speaker 2: No filter.

00:25:16
Speaker 6: I dabble in sauna's. I kind of like the towels they give you. Maybe throw those. Yeah, I think the towels are good. There's certain there's things, you know.

00:25:22
Speaker 2: One person.

00:25:22
Speaker 5: Rights are there any other times you almost got fired besides Mitch McConnell and Cal Well McConnell. We did get it was temporarily fired Cal. I think if Cal comes back, maybe would have gotten fired. Uh.

00:25:38
Speaker 2: They threatened to fire me when I did Hey Kentucky.

00:25:42
Speaker 8: Yes, and it's.

00:25:45
Speaker 5: It's scared Ryan. Ryan started doing like he started. He went on go Daddy, Is that the website?

00:25:52
Speaker 10: What?

00:25:54
Speaker 8: Uh?

00:25:54
Speaker 2: No, he went on zip recruiter all that, like he was starting to be.

00:25:58
Speaker 7: It was just you and me in the car.

00:25:59
Speaker 5: I mean, and I were really mad that I decided to do the TV show and didn't tell him.

00:26:04
Speaker 7: We pulled over the hotel into Hopkinsville.

00:26:06
Speaker 2: They told us to come home.

00:26:07
Speaker 7: Yeah.

00:26:07
Speaker 5: We were our way to Hopkinsville to do a remote and they told us to pull over and turn around and come home.

00:26:13
Speaker 7: Yep.

00:26:14
Speaker 2: That the sketch.

00:26:14
Speaker 7: The scaredest I've been. I thought for sure it was over that day.

00:26:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was.

00:26:19
Speaker 7: I was hearing, you know, just half of the conversation, So hearing your side of the conversation. Oh, it's done, he is, he's in trouble.

00:26:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, well we got through it. Let's go to uh, Daniel, go ahead, Daniel, Hi, guys.

00:26:34
Speaker 11: I'm just getting on Interstate seventy eight outside of Allentown heading up to the game today.

00:26:40
Speaker 2: I've made that drive a lot. Where are you gonna park?

00:26:42
Speaker 5: That's always the question when you go to New York is where are you gonna park your car?

00:26:48
Speaker 11: Oh, it's easy. There's a garage. I think it's thirty first treat right across the streets in the Garden. I think it's in the past. It's been a flight rate of fifty dollars.

00:26:58
Speaker 9: It's really not that hard.

00:27:00
Speaker 2: So you're just gonna go.

00:27:01
Speaker 5: You're gonna literally drive into Midtown into the Garden area and park there during rush hour.

00:27:11
Speaker 11: Well, I'm on my way now, so I'll be in the city by like one o'clock.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: All right, Well, good luck, sir.

00:27:17
Speaker 5: I mean, there's no worst place in New York to drive than around Madison Square Garden. And I think they're doing like construction on Penn stations. So I love driving in New York, even in the city. But like that's the worst few blocks you could drive right now. So I wish you the best in finding parking.

00:27:40
Speaker 11: Okay. I think the Michigan State Games a couple of years ago was the later game. Okay, we're in the early game today because I can. I'll get home by like midnight. If we were in that late game, oh boy, I don't want.

00:27:54
Speaker 2: To think about.

00:27:57
Speaker 5: But go ahead almost better.

00:28:00
Speaker 11: Better be a better game than last year as the Garden because that was a stinker gate.

00:28:05
Speaker 2: Yes it was.

00:28:06
Speaker 5: I mean that was our last I appreciate the call, and it looked like we didn't we're not doing any of the go to Hambleton visit Jack Lugers Like, we're not doing any of that stuff right now. It looks like they realize that might not be the way to go.

00:28:19
Speaker 2: We're not throwing away our shot on this trip. You're gonna be focused.

00:28:22
Speaker 6: A pro tip for anyone driving might be a little late if you're on the road. I always park outside of the city at one of the train stations.

00:28:29
Speaker 2: That's what everybody free parking. But you just hop on for twelve bucks. Yeah, but whatever it is.

00:28:33
Speaker 5: That's a tough trip too, I mean, because you know you got to get on the train. You gotta do all that. I mean, that is a most people do that. That park all the way back track on Jerseys money. You're not gonna drive into the city because you're gonna to pay fifteen dollars to just get into the city, or twenty dollars and then he's gonna pay fifty for parking. I'm just thinking about the traffic because it's a you know, especially right there at the garden.

00:28:57
Speaker 2: It's it's awful. It's gonna be getting there.

00:29:00
Speaker 5: It is broad now Broadways a little farther up, but you're gonna get like it's just gonna be bad.

00:29:04
Speaker 6: I have a trade station in Trenton, New Jersey. They do oil changes and it's free parking, and you just get on the train. Probably takes an hour, drops you out of Penn station, leave your cart, well Lit, brings you right back and drive on home.

00:29:15
Speaker 2: They do oil change. Yeah, you can get is that whether you want it or not.

00:29:18
Speaker 6: If you want it, I lit, it's well lit cheap.

00:29:21
Speaker 2: You just pay them to get on the train.

00:29:23
Speaker 6: It's probably ten stops, I don't know, but takes you all the way into the middle of the city.

00:29:26
Speaker 2: Who's up there, he's enough, Sparky, Sparky, go ahead, Sparky.

00:29:32
Speaker 10: Good morning, Matt. I've heard you talk a lot about veggy trays and locker room munity, but I want to switch topics for a minute and ask your comments on Paul Feinbaumbs potentially running for Senate and what that would do to the sports media landscape and if he does that you think might end up filling some of that airtime.

00:29:52
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I.

00:29:52
Speaker 5: From what I understand, just from the people that I've talked to, I think it's very likely that he's gonna do it. You know, good luck to him. I mean, he's running in Alabama. Apparently he's now a Republican. That's yet another person that was a Democrat that decided they wanted to run so became a Republican.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't know if he can win or not. But I mean if he.

00:30:16
Speaker 5: Leaves, then you know that show, there's a couple people I could see getting that show. I think the leaders would probably be maybe Marty and McGee is, Cole Kubrick, and Greg McElroy. I think those would be the ones that I think would be most likely to get it. That's just my own personal opinion. I mean, to me, the obvious successor for him would be to do Marty and McGee and I think I don't know if they would want to do it or not. But that strikes me as being the most because you know that they have a connection with those folks, and honestly, probably would be a good refresh to that show because those guys are I love both those guys.

00:30:58
Speaker 2: So that's just my guess. Though.

00:31:03
Speaker 10: It's good to talk about the coaching domino effect. And I'm wondering what the radio carousel will be, and you'd have some insight.

00:31:08
Speaker 9: So look, well the radio I.

00:31:10
Speaker 5: Mean, yeah, that's that. That would be the I appreciate the call. That would be the radio carousel to me. People have asked about us, like, I think we're not football centric. I think they would want someone football centric for that show, and I think those guys would would make the most sense.

00:31:26
Speaker 7: Marty and McGee. That's they kind of relate to that audience, seems like the most. But you were maclroy and cole. One's an Alabama guy. One's an Auburn guy. I can see that kind of works.

00:31:34
Speaker 5: And they already have a show. Yeah right, they already have a show. It's very successful. I'm on it quite a bit as a guest.

00:31:40
Speaker 7: You might be invited back.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, that's true. Many I'll get to go back on those shows. A little bit.

00:31:46
Speaker 5: And uh, and I like both those guys a lot, so I think they would do a great job.

00:31:50
Speaker 6: I like Cole a lot as much as I like Marty and McGee. You want to get me to tune in, I would tune in for Colekeepling.

00:31:54
Speaker 5: Would you be sad to see Fine Bomb Ghoshann And I know you're a big.

00:31:58
Speaker 4: Oh so sad. It's like watch him paint dry watching that show.

00:32:03
Speaker 2: But I mean, would you miss it?

00:32:04
Speaker 3: Like if I wouldn't miss it at all, we might have to listen to it on the road trips at all.

00:32:08
Speaker 4: I mean that would be great.

00:32:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, Senator five bah, good luck.

00:32:14
Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean I don't know who else is. I don't know who else is going to run for that, but.

00:32:17
Speaker 7: Uh, yeah, he's your running against.

00:32:19
Speaker 5: But the problem is, I think I don't even know what he thinks about anything, do you? I mean, I don't know what he thinks about anything, Like State Michigan.

00:32:26
Speaker 4: He has a radio show and doesn't talk.

00:32:28
Speaker 11: I mean, he.

00:32:28
Speaker 5: Literally never gives his opinion about anything. The only her opinion I've heard him say is that arch Maning would be the best players since Tim Tebow.

00:32:35
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why he's leaving radio.

00:32:38
Speaker 5: So I don't know. I mean, but yeah, good luck to him if he decides to do it. Let's go to Isaiah. Go ahead, Isaiah, Hey, you can hear me, Yes, go ahead.

00:32:50
Speaker 9: Hey, I think we might need to up Druids. And I know Money. I wasn't too convinced he was gonna come back. I thought he's gonna put Abby through a table just to join the Bill's mafia.

00:33:00
Speaker 5: I've never seen anything like what he was like like he he It's hard to describe.

00:33:05
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think what the thing like that would be for me.

00:33:08
Speaker 5: But like you were in heaven and you were like giddy and I it's it's what.

00:33:14
Speaker 2: I don't know why it was.

00:33:15
Speaker 5: I think it was the combination of it's good people drinking tables.

00:33:22
Speaker 6: Well, I don't get to telgate. I genuinely missed tail game. I love our pregame show, but it kills me. I don't tailgate for any football games ever. So I got to actually go out and tailgate, and I jumped all the way in.

00:33:34
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I agree, But there's nothing like bb Andrews. I don't forget it. And also with tonight's game, against this state. I feel like Brandon Garrison, this is kind of like his life big game to say, you know, I've improved over the off season, you know, give me the minutes. Otherwise I could see Mark Pope turning Yellowch's.

00:33:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, Brandon Garrison, I think that's a good call. I appreciate the call. I mean, on paper, this is a game where Brandon gar Garrison matters a lot because he's physical.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: Hopefully they're physical.

00:34:05
Speaker 5: There's probably gonna be a lot of fouls down low.

00:34:08
Speaker 2: So I agree with you.

00:34:09
Speaker 5: I think if you're looking at Kentucky players that need to have a big game, I would start with Brandon Garrison and then Otegaway. This is another game in theory that should be built for him because it's going to be about finishing through contact and playing physical. So I think both those guys need to have a good game. If you're looking for a great holiday gift, get a no Chay Linda gift card. They have a Black Friday deal. You could get twenty percent off your purchase November eighteenth through the thirtieth by an existing no Chaylenda Beef gift card, and you will pay only eighty percent.

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00:35:35
Speaker 2: Is gonna be excited?

00:35:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, our record in the chav Classic in New York though, is not good though? Right?

00:35:40
Speaker 2: Ah? You know, I don't know.

00:35:43
Speaker 5: I mean we we we that one year that we beat can I mean the wait a minute, we beat where?

00:35:48
Speaker 2: Where Where did we play Duke last year? Where was that game? Was that in New York?

00:35:52
Speaker 5: At?

00:35:52
Speaker 2: It was in Atlanta? A right? So we beat Kansas that one year by like.

00:35:55
Speaker 5: A thousand in New York right in like that? Well, all these games maybe I just don't know where these games are. Uh.

00:36:04
Speaker 7: The game that Jamal Murray had like thirty in the second halfened.

00:36:07
Speaker 2: I Also, I wasn't the Champions Classic either.

00:36:08
Speaker 7: It wasn't Chamions Classic.

00:36:10
Speaker 5: Ohio State's not in the Champions Classic. That was a CBS class. Last time we were in New York lost to Duke. Okay, yeah, we beat him in Michigan State. I know that. That was the only one I was at, you know cal game a year there? Yeah, we played Monmouth there one time, if you remember.

00:36:26
Speaker 6: Well, there's a confusion. We get smoked in the CBS Classic in New York A lot. The Champions Classic hadn't been good to us overall, but the CBS is where we've lost to UCLA up there. Ohio State. Uh, it's Ohio State twice. Yeah, it's the worst of the two. Okay in New York, Yeah, in New York.

00:36:42
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:36:42
Speaker 5: Well we did break that little Champions Classic curse by winning last year, so hopefully we can uh, you know, we we can do that again. A Fi'm nine uh two eight oh twenty two eighty seven on the text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. Let's talk just one second about the sort of coaching carousel. James Franklin takes the job at Virginia Tech. They owed him forty nine million dollars. The report is that he settled the buy out for nine million so he could coach it at Virginia Tech. Odd decision to me, because now he's essentially coaching Virginia Tech for free. Basically, I would have thought he could have gotten more than the nine But he's basically coaching.

00:37:26
Speaker 6: For free now, and I would have done that maybe at a different school. I'm not going to Blacksburg, Virginia if I could just do anything else with all that money. I'm sure he's got the competitive juices, but but Penn State gets a huge, I mean a huge break.

00:37:40
Speaker 2: Let him off the hook.

00:37:41
Speaker 5: I mean they let him off the hook nine million dollars. I don't know what he's making at Virginia Tech. I don't think that's come out, but.

00:37:47
Speaker 7: Not nine million dollars, is it?

00:37:50
Speaker 2: Maybe?

00:37:51
Speaker 5: But I'm saying he gets so he was gonna have five years forty nine million dollars. He takes nine. And now he goes to Virginia Tech. If they pay him eight a year, he's coaching for free. If they pay him nine a year, he's coaching for a million dollars a year. Just an interesting I would have thought he could a buyout like that. I would have thought he would have gotten like twenty to do it.

00:38:15
Speaker 7: And he could have got that at Penn State. Don't you think if he just fought.

00:38:18
Speaker 5: It, maybe, well, but there wasn't anything to fight. If he wanted to coach, he had to do the bile. Yeah, but I'm just surprised he only got nine. Now, what about the Lane Kiffin situation? This is interesting to me. So Lane Kiffin's like apparently Shannon his family flew to LSU like two days ago to look around Baton Rouge and then somebody, I mean it was in Florida yesterday. Maybe his family as well. So his family is looking at the cities Baton Rouge in Gainesville. But who are his family? I thought he had dated like a twenty five year old girlfriend.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: He's got a daughter that's about that age, could be hers.

00:39:01
Speaker 7: The LSU football players.

00:39:02
Speaker 2: She can live anywhere she wants. Why does she have to go look at these cities like she's a grown up? I understand, I guess.

00:39:08
Speaker 6: So just the family that's looking, he's got a son, they're all old enough. They're not gonna be living under his So all.

00:39:14
Speaker 2: The people looking are not living there.

00:39:16
Speaker 6: I don't know the specific people going, but his kids are getting pretty old. So check out elementary school.

00:39:21
Speaker 4: I think they're just looking out for dear old Dad. They're starting you.

00:39:25
Speaker 5: But they're also making news. So old Miss comes out yesterday and says, by the day of the egg Bowl, which is a week from Friday, you gotta tell.

00:39:35
Speaker 2: Us are you here or not? Wow. So he's going to have to before.

00:39:40
Speaker 5: What's interesting about that is that's before they're gonna make the playoff, probably yeah, and he's gonna have to tell old Miss I'm leaving or not before the playoff. And then presumably let's say he says he's leaving, they're gonna lame him coach the playoff.

00:39:56
Speaker 4: It's weird.

00:39:57
Speaker 6: If I were old Miss, they need to be rolling out the red car in recruiting him, not giving him ultimatums.

00:40:02
Speaker 7: I agree with that they need to do everything they can to keep him.

00:40:05
Speaker 6: They still have a puncher's chance, but I feel like put him on a deadline and the ultimatum is only going to push him further out.

00:40:12
Speaker 5: You're probably right, but let me play devil's advocate. If you're old Miss. If he were to wait and do the playoff and then leave, they won't have a team next year. With the transfer port, they won't have a team. Yeah, So is there a situation where he could go, Okay, I'm gonna go to LSU, but if you want, I'll coach the playoff and your new coach can recruit your team next year.

00:40:36
Speaker 7: That's not a good scenario to be in at all.

00:40:39
Speaker 5: But he finish the playoff for the first time ever and then not have him coach it.

00:40:45
Speaker 2: He's got to finish the year. He's in the National Championship conversation off the goal.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: But if he says I don't, they're giving him the ultimatum. Let's say he wants to go to LSU is old Miss gonna tell him you can't coach his team.

00:40:57
Speaker 2: No, they can't do that. They're not big enough.

00:41:00
Speaker 6: They can't hand it to an interim for the playoffs when they are truly a contingent.

00:41:03
Speaker 2: So you're gonna have l. S U's coach coaching your team in the playoffs. Maybe, I mean, that's Kiffin's team.

00:41:07
Speaker 6: He wants a ring just as much as his players finish the year.

00:41:11
Speaker 4: If I'm kiffing or if I'm old Miss.

00:41:13
Speaker 2: If I'm old Miss, I think you, Yeah.

00:41:15
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be giving him that ultimatum. I mean, the guy, like you just said, has a chance to win a championship, and you're gonna say, you got to give us an answer now.

00:41:23
Speaker 5: So they So let's say that they the answers. No, are you letting him coach the team in the playoffs?

00:41:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I am.

00:41:30
Speaker 3: He's our coach till the end of the season. Anyway, at least it.

00:41:33
Speaker 6: Would be malpracticed to try out an interim when you're in the playoff, right, old Miss.

00:41:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:41:37
Speaker 3: I mean any school, though, is dealing with this on any given year. Potentially a coach can leave at any.

00:41:43
Speaker 7: Time throughout the whole playoff run. He's going to be talked about as the next LSU head coach during the preparation for the playoffs. You're right, he's recruiting for his l s U team next year.

00:41:57
Speaker 2: Wow, So what do you think he does.

00:42:01
Speaker 4: Stays.

00:42:03
Speaker 2: I've always thought he would stay. In the long run. I think he'll probably stay.

00:42:08
Speaker 5: But I mean, also, he's the kind of guy that I mean at LSU, he would win everything.

00:42:14
Speaker 6: If I were picking, not staying, I would take l s U over Florida ten times out of ten.

00:42:20
Speaker 2: Me too. Yeah.

00:42:21
Speaker 5: But it is wild though, And it's wild that his family is taking private jets that can be tracked to go visit these.

00:42:29
Speaker 7: Like Shannon said, they're the scout team. They're scouting stuff out for him.

00:42:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a wild situation. But you can't you can't not have him coach the team if it goes to the playoffs. I mean, he's got you.

00:42:40
Speaker 2: We'll take a break. I remember two Kry