2026-01-09- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: I see marsh over there, just got her bag.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk a little football for a second. Uh.

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Speaker 4: Will Stein plays tonight against Indiana. Are you all are we quacking? Are you for the Ducks? I mean we don't. Indiana is a great story, but it's still Indiana. I can't root for Indiana to win national championship. I think that would hurt me. If Indiana wins a national championship. They're fun to watch, their great story, but I cannot root for Indiana to win the national championship.

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Speaker 2: What about you?

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Speaker 6: All my family and friends pounding that chest, They've never been Indiana football fans in their life. Now all of a sudden, they're all Indiana football fans. But you know, you take that name off the jersey. They ran Ohio State they ran Alabama, they won at Oregon.

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Speaker 2: No, they're good.

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Speaker 4: Look there, I think you know they played Oregon up there, beat him on the roads at Oregon. You know they they're clearly good.

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Speaker 2: Signetti is like smug, so smug.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, but he.

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Speaker 4: Did say google me and I and everybody mocked him, and like now his Google is even better than it was before. I mean, you know, sa, I think it's the best coaching perform I think you could make a strong argument's the best coaching performance in the history of college football.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 4: And the argument is before he got there, they've been awful for fifty years. He turned them around in two years, and at a time where people are stockpiling talent on nil, he didn't even do that and they still want. I mean, they got some guys, but most of his players came from James Madison. Like he just brought a group of kids from James Madison, moved to the Big Ten, made the playoffs, and then in the next year has a shot at the national championship.

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Speaker 2: It is. It's an amazing sort.

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Speaker 5: He's smug. He looks like an evil genius. Over on the sideline, I kind of like him. Man side, I would, And I'm conflicted here because it would be nice to have a coach coming in who just won a national title. But I look at Indiana and I think Kentucky football because I think if Indiana can do this, Kentucky can do this. So I'm kind of torn on who to tear for tonight.

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Speaker 4: I guess Indiana the Revshare world, because you know, it's very complicated and we're in a live show and I don't want to bore people. But I've spent a lot of time thinking about the Revshare nil world, like looking at it from a legal perspective and also it from a business perspective. There has never been a moment in the history of Kentucky football, except maybe in the fifties where Kentucky's got a better chance to be good than now.

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Speaker 2: You know, in IL.

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Speaker 4: In basketball, it's a little different basketball, and INIL, I think you're gonna see haves and have.

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Speaker 2: Nots separate quite a bit.

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Speaker 4: But in football, because every team is getting seventeen million dollars, every team, you got a better chance to be a bad program and be good than in history. Go find you a good quarterback and then spend the rest that money and just get good players around him. You can be Indiana, you can be Indiana. So I find Indiana kind of inspiring. But in tonight's game, we got will Stein on the other side, and I see it as like a win win because if will Stein wins, then we're gonna be able to say we have the coach of the offensive coordinator of potential national championship. If will Stein loses, he can get his ass back to Lexington and finish this roster out. Look at it because part of the problem is we got a bunch of commitments right at the beginning, and now he's not here and it's becoming.

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Speaker 2: A little harder. So I kind of see it as a win win, right.

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Speaker 4: Whatever happens tonight, we can spin to make good for us.

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Speaker 6: No doubt it's a win win if they do win and get to the National Championship Game, and if they win the National Championship Game, we probably should feel lucky we got him when we did, because other teams will probably be coming after him hard well.

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Speaker 2: Whether he wins or loses. I've been told he's in this game is.

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Speaker 6: In Atlanta, Atlanta right Peach Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Whether they win or lose, I'm told he's coming to Lexington for like, they got a lot of people coming here Saturday that he'll be in Lexington Saturday, win or lose, and then Sunday goes to Miami. Or excuse me, sad, I think you'd be here Saturday and Sunday and then Monday goes to Miami to start.

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Speaker 2: The for the national Championship if they win.

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Speaker 4: So this weekend coming up as you're watching for UK, I mean, this is a big sports weekend at UK. You got UK basketball in Mississippi State the women. They lost last night. He had not a good performance. But they play Oklahoma a five versus six Sunday Immemorial Coliseum. I don't know if people realize how big that game is. It's in Lexington Sunday in Memorial Coliseum. But it also is a football recruiting weekend. They got a ton of guys coming this weekend and it's and and will Stein will be here for either for good or for a couple of days before the Nations.

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Speaker 5: I love to have a camera crew following him around. Does anybody have a busier schedule than will Stein? Having to try to balance being the OC at Oregon and head coach here.

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Speaker 2: I can talk about did you hear he did?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: I think WDRB went down to the to the Peach Bowl and they interviewed him specifically to talk about what he.

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Speaker 2: Was doing, and it was interesting.

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Speaker 4: He said that when he was in Lexington that was his full thing because the team was taking a break. Then when he went to Oregon, he was like, I spend all of my day preparing for this, except I have a set block of time that I deal with the Kentucky stuff. And he said, I take that block out of time.

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Speaker 2: Out of sleep.

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Speaker 5: I find it somewhere.

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Speaker 4: So he didn't say how many hours you're sleeping, but he was like, I have a routine schedule and it includes this much sleep. It now has like an hour and a half less because I do the UK stuff during that.

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Speaker 6: It's amazing he's able to do this, get this team ready to play in the tetemifinal of the National Championship Football Series, and yet you're still got to rebuild your whole, brand new team as a brand new head coach for the first time thousands of miles away in Kentucky.

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Speaker 5: Maywhile if I'm an Oregon I'm going wait a minute, we're about to play for a national championship game and you're in Lexington this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Let me tell you one thing I am impressed about with this new regime. I mean, you know, I don't know will Stein at all. We had him on the show, I've never talked to him. Besides that, we've talked to his mom. Gave some great cakes. Ryan at them all, but otherwise it was fine. I'm probably gonna go by there today just so I can actually eat the cake they're supposed.

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Speaker 2: To be given to me.

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Speaker 4: But here's what I can tell you about the way they're organized.

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Speaker 2: It is and this is I think a positive.

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Speaker 4: This is not a criticism. It is a top down organization. What I mean by that is I wanted to bring on either the OC, the defensive coordinator or the head of recruiting. And I wanted to bring him on to debt because I was like, look, let's get some football news. I talked to the UK people. They said, will Stein has said until I'm there, no interviews with anybody I want to get there. We all need to be on the same page, talking on the same message. I respect that. Actually, I think that's good. I mean, I think it's good to kind of you know the whole staff hasn't even been together yet. I think it's good to do that. And even though I'd love to have one of them on Ryan, I actually think it shows organization. I am really, really, really really impressed by this group's organization. Talk about analytics. They are taking every player, and they are taking every player on the UK roster and every player in the portal, and they are assigning them a value. And they are saying Ryan Lemon is a two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars player, and I'm going to offer him two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm not gonna tell him he's a two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars player.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I'll offer him two hundred and hope he signs for less than his offer, and maybe I'll agree to give him two fifty.

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Speaker 2: But if he comes in.

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Speaker 4: Here and asks for three hundred thousand dollars, I must say no. And if he doesn't like it.

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Speaker 6: Okay, and make the way it goes.

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Speaker 4: And Kirk Herbstreet last night, I don't know if any of you watched the post game.

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Speaker 2: To the game, kirk Herbstreet was advocating for just that system.

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Speaker 4: He said, I want you to look at the four teams that are playing in the semifinals. All four of them looked at guys who wanted more money, money than they would.

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Speaker 2: Pay and said bye. And he was like, that's what you have to do.

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Speaker 4: And from what I've talked to with people at will Stein's program, Ryan, I think that's what.

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Speaker 2: They're doing well.

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Speaker 6: When he spent the weekend here two weekends ago, they were very successful, I think. And then that getting the guys they wanted to get and go after. If you're telling me this is another big weekend, he's got a lot of guys coming in. I expect we'll probably get a lot of commitments first the next week.

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Speaker 4: And so when you've seen some guys leave Kentucky and you wonder why, that's the answer. They evaluate them as being worth X amount and they wanted more, so take Hardly Gilmore. I think UK wanted Hardly Gilmore, but they thought Hardly Gilmore was worth an amount of money. And Louisville decided we're gonna give you more than that money. And they said, you know what, we like you Hardly Gilmore, but we can go find a full.

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Speaker 2: Gilmore, not a hardly Gilmore.

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Speaker 4: And we can pay them the same amount of money. And Shannon, I think that's why he ends up at LOT.

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Speaker 5: I wonder, though, if you'd be willing to negotiate more with a top tier player, like the best of the best, a guy that they really really want.

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Speaker 2: I mean they answered.

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Speaker 4: I was told by someone that would know, we will overpay for studs because you win with studs. Yeah, and I think that's what they'll do. I think they will overpay for a quarterback. I think they probably paid a lot of money for that center from Baylor. They're like, you gotta have a center that's really good.

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Speaker 2: I think they probably will overpay for a receiver or something like that.

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Speaker 4: But they're like, and I think maybe Todd Bryant did really well just from what I'm hearing. I bet Willie Rodriguez did pretty well. But I think they're like, we'll pay for five or six studs, but the rest of everybody, we gotta get value.

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Speaker 2: And I actually think Ryan at Kentucky that's the way you do it.

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Speaker 6: So I don't know enough about it. Do the other like high profile, high powerful teams, is that how they approach it? They kind of go out and spend on a great receiver, a great running back at three.

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Speaker 2: So I think that's a good question.

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Speaker 4: It's like Ohio State has the money, they can pay for everybody. Okay, so that's what they're doing. So Ohio State's gonna pay for everyone. But other schools like US Louisville, what they're doing is they're paying for like fifteen guys or seventeen and then the rest of.

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Speaker 2: The team's going to be whatever whatever.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe that works as long as you don't have injuries or you don't get any butt. By the way, that's what Mark Stoops did. Mark Stoops did that. We paid last year. Probably we paid our starting lineup quite a bit of money, and some of those starting line guys ended up not even being in the starting line upcause they weren't good, correct and our second string did not. We were not deep, and you saw the result.

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Speaker 6: So this philosophy of going out and get the studs.

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Speaker 4: I think the idea of their money, there's two different philosophies. Pay six guys a lot and pay forty five.

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Speaker 2: Guys market value.

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Speaker 4: The second philosoph would be paid seventeen guys a lot, and then just.

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Speaker 2: Fill the rest of the roster with well, with whatever.

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Speaker 5: I'd would rather have six really good players.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the way they look at it. I think the way they.

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Speaker 7: Look at you, give me a great quarterback, give me a great receiver, give me a couple great offensive linemen, give me a great edge rusher, and maybe a great guy.

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Speaker 2: In the secondary, and let's go.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's kind of what they're doing. That's and and we'll see if it works. But I think that but according to Kirk karb Street, that's kind of what these teams that were playing in the National Championship are doing.

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Speaker 2: So it seems like a good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, load up on your best players and let the market see what happened.

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Speaker 2: Who's up next? Bruce is up next? Bruce? Go ahead, Bruce.

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Speaker 8: I have a rumor control question and then a music video.

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Speaker 9: You guys forgot.

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Speaker 8: Rumor control question is does the j M n IO deals? Does it guarantee certain players basketball player specifically guaranteed minutes. That's why our lineups have been no different.

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Speaker 4: I've not heard of any deal guaranteeing anyone any minutes, and I would be shocked if that existed.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that happens.

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Speaker 8: Okay, and then the music video you guys forgot to add to your list yesterday. You remember when day flaming within that video with Laura Bell Bundy and he was loading the drinks up.

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Speaker 2: That's very nice.

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Speaker 4: That's not very nice, all right, that's not very nice. That was a good music video. I was a good actor.

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Speaker 2: I loaded uh cooler into a truck and uh it was. It was. It was a lot of people still talk about it.

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Speaker 6: So that was way back early in the KSR days.

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Speaker 4: And he did Laura Bell Bundey buddy a friend of mine, and she put me in the video and she wanted me to ride a horse, and I was like, I don't think that's a good idea, uh, because I'm.

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Speaker 2: Too tall for a horse.

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Speaker 5: So been on a horse?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Well I got up there and like they kind of but she wanted me to like gallop.

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Speaker 5: She wanted you to gallop or the horse.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I guess it would have been the horse gallop. Yeah, And I was like, I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 5: That's not for me.

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Speaker 6: So you don't want to get thrown from one here, then take this cooler and put it in the back of the truck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so then then they got me the real work.

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Speaker 5: Here's the next manliest thing we can do. Pick this cooler up and put it in the back of a pickup truck.

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Speaker 2: And I think I did that very well, don't you? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Very well?

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Speaker 2: Go, Eric Cornbrett hamp in Louisville.

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Speaker 4: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven one person rights, Matt, do you think we've missed out on players? By will Stein having to play for Oregon. Yes, I think we have. But that's part of the deal. I mean, that's when you when you hire the guy, you know that that may end up happening.

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Speaker 2: But yes, I do think that has.

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Speaker 4: Uh we've lost a couple probably because of that, But that's part of the trade.

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Speaker 5: I'm okay with that because let's play this out. Let's say, however, many years from now, Kentucky is in the playoffs and he's about to go to another school. You know that you have somebody that's loyal enough to stay there and finish out the season.

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Speaker 4: Like like what Lange Kiffen, I' like what happened with h with Lane Kiffin? You think Lane Kiffin breathed the big sav relief last night when Old Miss didn't win without him he lost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. But he also I mean it would have been a bad sign if they were able to win without him.

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Speaker 5: It's true, Yeah, I think I would have rather rather than win and take the two hundred fifty thousand dollars. Though for free you get a ring.

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Speaker 6: I kind of seely think he was kind of hoping they would lose. He could make him not look so bad because if they were winning without him, and he wants to be the savior, he wants to be the guy Georgia without him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they be. They beat Georgia without him, So I don't know. I think he probably wanted them to lose deep down. Yeah, he would never say it, but I think he did. NFL Playoffs, Let's make some DraftKings picks. Go to DraftKings, use promo code ksru make you DraftKings bet bet five win three hund in bonus bets.

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Speaker 2: Let's go through them. Uh, six games, Rams at Panthers. Who you got?

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Speaker 5: I think the Rams win this one.

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Speaker 6: I'm going Panthers. Really, they've been surprising people this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. By the way, this is the only time I can never remember the playoffs. Six games.

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Speaker 4: I think any of the six teams could any in any game, anyone could win. I don't think that's ever been like that before, but I do think it is this week. I'm gonna take the Rams to win, although they do go to the East Coast. It's in our relatively early game, et cetera. Saturday night. That's Bears, Packers.

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Speaker 2: You got you?

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Speaker 5: You know who I'm gonna pick. But this is years for both you and I.

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Speaker 2: It is during the Kentucky game.

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Speaker 5: I know, right, So what are you gonna do? You're gonna watch it?

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Speaker 4: Probably watch Bears Packers on MyPad. Watched Kentucky on TV, but go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Packers are struggling, They've got a lot of injuries. Jordan Love is back, though, I'm gonna say the Packers win. I can't kick against the Packers. I know, I know you got the Bears.

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Speaker 4: I kind of think the Packers are gonna win. But I'm gonna pick the Bears just because I'm not gonna pick against my team.

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Speaker 2: But I'm worried about it. What about you? Man?

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Speaker 6: The last time they played I still don't know how the Bears won that game. That was an exciting, fun finish to that game. When the Packers and Bears play each other win into overtime. It's in Chicago.

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Speaker 4: But we haven't beaten the Packers ever three times in a year really because we've never beaten them.

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Speaker 2: In the playoffs. We've only played them twice.

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Speaker 4: We've only played the pack Think about that, We've only played him twice in the history of the NFL, and we've never so we've never beaten them three times and we would.

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Speaker 2: Have to do that.

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Speaker 6: I'm picking the Bears, Bears at home.

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Speaker 4: Bill's Jaguars in Jacksonville. Who you got, Liam Cohen? Yeah, I am going in Josh Allen Yep.

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Speaker 5: Gonna be tough on the road for Buffalo, but I'm still going with the Bills.

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Speaker 2: Battle of the Josh Allens.

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Speaker 6: I can't believe Jacksonville has done as well as they have. Buffalo still to me a team to be I'm going Buffalo.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take Buffalo. But you know they keep winning. They did, I mean they keep winning. Forty nine Ers Eagles.

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Speaker 5: I hate the Eagles, but I think at home that they're just too good at home. I'm gonna go with Philadelphia.

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Speaker 6: Both teams kind of underachieved this year, I think, but the forty nine Ers need to be kind of found themselves here lately.

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Speaker 4: Forty nine has been hurt all year, like they did. You see the conspiracy theory about that. No, their practice facility is next to like a power station, and there are people online who think the power station causes their players to get hurt more because of like radio electrical I'm serious. The forty nine Ers fans are buying it like they were because they've had like a disproportioning amount of guys get injured in practice.

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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you. I don't believe it, but I'm telling you it's out there anyway. Who you got?

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Speaker 5: Who is the team? Ady said?

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Speaker 4: Alady picked the Eagles, all right, I'll take the Eagles since they are at home the Sunday night game.

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Speaker 2: Chargers at patri or Patriot. Yeah, Chargers at Patriots.

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Speaker 5: Patriots have been had a great season. Surprisingly, I think they keep it rolling. I think they win.

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Speaker 6: I haven't with the Patriot tills all, they had a great year. Drake may has done great things.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take the Chargers to win under Old up my it's my Matt Jones upsets pick of the Week. And then finally Steelers Texans Monday Night Football.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a good one. Aaron Rodgers got him to the playoffs. I think he at least wins one game.

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Speaker 2: Texas got the best defense. I'll take Houston.

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Speaker 6: I can't believe they beat the raven jail last weekend, So I'm going Texans.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 4: By the way, we found out yesterday we got official word we're going to Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Mario and Billy back. They are very excited.

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Speaker 4: I talked him into letting us stay until Sunday, but we do have to fly out before the game.

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Speaker 5: They gonna send you there, but not let you watch the game.

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Speaker 4: So we're gonna be there Tuesday through Sunday, probably watch this game on the flight back.

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Speaker 5: Is there at least a good party on Saturday night?

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Speaker 2: Well that's what I was gonna say.

00:21:01
Speaker 4: Okay, they don't know this yet, but we have a listener to this show.

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Speaker 2: I am amazed at the listeners to this show.

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Speaker 4: I got invited and I didn't end up going because I just it's too many people.

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Speaker 2: But I got invited to go to the official New.

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Speaker 4: Year's Eve Ball drop in tom Square because the person in charge listens to this show. It is from Kentucky. We got an invite for the four of us. The person who is in charge of Throwing Shacks party on Friday night and the Sports Illustrated Party on Saturday night has invited us and given us VIP status.

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Speaker 2: For both for both events. Listener to this show from Kentucky.

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Speaker 5: That is awesome. So you four are gonna be VIP at a Sports Illustrated party.

00:21:51
Speaker 2: That sports Illustrated party. I've seen it before.

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Speaker 4: That is the party, Like, that's the one you'll see like Tom Brady making out with Alex Earle.

00:21:58
Speaker 2: So you might see Mario with like Tate McCrae or something.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna be like TMZ. The paparazzi over, they're gonna be.

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Speaker 4: Like, who's this guy? And Billy you talk about dud Who's gonna be awkward, like like like what are you gonna wear? Billy to the team to the Sports Illustrated.

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Speaker 5: He's got a pair of khakis.

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Speaker 2: What you're gonna be past than Mario? I don't know. Mario're looking forward to seeing that these.

00:22:24
Speaker 5: Two have already got a robbery going on. I want to see if they can, like, you know, one up each other on this.

00:22:29
Speaker 2: We are exciting.

00:22:29
Speaker 4: We found out we'll be doing we'll be doing our podcast front We will be doing our podcast on the NFL network studio. They have two studios, one for TV and one for radio and podcast, and we're gonna we're gonna be there.

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Speaker 2: It's it's very exciting. I want to do our.

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Speaker 4: Show here there, but we can't because it's in California. So it's seven am and it won't have opened yet, so it doesn't It doesn't open until we can do it.

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Speaker 5: Ryan and I will be living back curiously through you guys. They're at the sports of.

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Speaker 6: The We're looking at marios Instagram to see what inspirational quotes us from.

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Speaker 2: The super party. What, by the way, is like an electric music party.

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Speaker 4: I hate that kind of music with a passion.

00:23:13
Speaker 2: So I don't know how long I will stay at that one, but I will at least I will at least go forget your club and shirt.

00:23:19
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00:23:43
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00:23:46
Speaker 4: I see people all have their bags where they got their cornbread hemp goods. It's always nice to be out here in Louisville and see uh all the Louisville fans, the Kentucky fans who live in Louisville. If you're a Louisville fan, you now basically have Kentucky's football team from last year. They've signed now six guys who played for Kentucky last year.

00:24:05
Speaker 2: Kind of odd to me. I didn't feel like we were that good, Right.

00:24:09
Speaker 6: Did you get any clap back that a couple of those guys are Kentucky kids, played a high school ball right down the road from Lexington and packing bags and going to Louisville.

00:24:18
Speaker 4: I mean, I haven't like let them Look, I mean, these are all guys that came here to Kentucky because of Vince Ye, right, Like every single every single guy who has signed with Louisville was a dude Vince recruited to the UK.

00:24:33
Speaker 2: So I'm not shocked that with Vince at Louisville.

00:24:36
Speaker 4: One of the things that makes Vince successful is he keeps relationships with people after they go to another school. That's how we got one Den, and that's how we've got a lot of people over the years. So I mean, I'm fine with it. I just don't understand if you're Louisville, like, none of those we weren't good.

00:24:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're bron going wait a minute. Those guys lost, Why do I want those One of.

00:24:56
Speaker 4: Those guys didn't play, and the ones that did play aren't good. So I'm just kind of surprised they've taken so many of our guys.

00:25:03
Speaker 5: Shows their loyalty to events though. Yeah, you know, he's a great recruiter, and.

00:25:07
Speaker 6: I think Vince is probably a smiling you know, put a feather in his cap. He taking these kids away from Kentucky just to bring him the Louisville.

00:25:13
Speaker 2: All right, I have a question for you.

00:25:14
Speaker 4: You know, so you know when players go to games, some teams have dress codes, some dope. The NHL used to have a dress code that in order to go to a game, you had to be wearing a blazer and tie. And then some players complained. And now in the last three years, this past year, excuse me, they said, okay, no more dress code. Teams can do their own dress codes. And there was a story that some teams are asking their players to still dress and some teams are letting them go ragtag.

00:25:52
Speaker 2: And they did a study. The teams that have dressed.

00:25:56
Speaker 4: Up to go to games are having better seasons then the teams that have no dress code. So Ryan Leman let's say you're the coach of a college football, college basketball, NHL, whatever team. Are you making your team show up to the game in the dress? I saw one player said, we wear anything to practice, but we wear suits to the game because we're going to work and it helps us be focused.

00:26:23
Speaker 6: What do you think, Yeah, I grew up in that era, or even in high school, we all wore the blazer. When my dad was the coach to high school, gamet Will Millers wore the Otwill blazer and he still got one of these closet. But man, in this day and age, I don't know if you can force guys that are making millions of dollars or you can.

00:26:40
Speaker 2: They're doing it. I don't.

00:26:42
Speaker 6: I'm over it. Agains. I would not be that coach. I'd be the guy you say whatever you want you want.

00:26:46
Speaker 5: I think this is one of the dumbest roles in sports. Why do you have to dress up to show up to a game? To put on an oversized shirt and a helmet If you're a hockey player in skates, so why do you need to be wearing a blazer and tie just to walk into the arena. I don't think it has anything to do with how you perform on a wild surprise you.

00:27:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pro dress code. Wow. And again this is what I was.

00:27:09
Speaker 5: The guy who wear the hoodie every day.

00:27:11
Speaker 2: This is what I wear most of the time.

00:27:12
Speaker 4: But here's the reason you that I agree with the idea that there are certain things you do that there's a professionalism involved.

00:27:21
Speaker 2: I've talked about this a lot.

00:27:22
Speaker 4: I don't think like John Fetterman wears a hoodie to the Senate boo dress up like that's a that's a job where you show profession. I don't want to see the President of the United States looking like dressed like me. I want to see the President of the United States dressed well. Similarly, when I go to church, I've talked about it. I don't like when ministers are up there in jeans. I don't like it. Now if people in church are wearing jeans, I'm okay with that. But like the minister, you're speaking to people right, same thing you're walking into a game.

00:27:54
Speaker 2: You are representing your franchise, the city.

00:27:57
Speaker 4: I'm especially in the PROS College I don't care as much about, But in the pros I like it.

00:28:01
Speaker 5: I hear you on the priest and on the president, but we can't compare a president to a hockey player.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: I think a Detroit Red Wing is the same as the president of the United States.

00:28:12
Speaker 6: It is a little different where the head coaches they all wear the suit and tie.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: I know, this is like I think these coaches. I kind of don't like these coaches and pullovers.

00:28:23
Speaker 2: It's weird. Granted it is weird, like we let baseball coaches wear.

00:28:28
Speaker 4: Uniforms, which I think is dumb, but I kind of think the coaches, you know, he's ride. In hockey, they still wear suits, but in basketball now we've kind of gotten away from that, and I kind of like it.

00:28:39
Speaker 5: You know, Pope wears the suit if he goes to what he would call, like, you know, an important and important place. But now imagine you're playing Pope and and he's playing at your arena and he's wearing a pullover. Now I feel disrespected. You don't think my place is good enough to wear a saying.

00:28:53
Speaker 2: Like I'm in Startville. Yeah. Yeah.

00:28:56
Speaker 6: The little more thing the NBA guys, it's become like a fashion show as they walk into the arena with what they're wearing that night coming to the game.

00:29:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, on my team, I would say we at least, whether it suits or not, we at least don't dress like slops.

00:29:11
Speaker 2: That's what I would That's what I would do.

00:29:12
Speaker 5: I hope iHeart has like a dress code.

00:29:14
Speaker 2: Next week radio is different. Who's next? Steven is up next? Steven? Go ahead? Steven?

00:29:22
Speaker 10: Hey, Matt, longtime listener, first time caller, who are what's up?

00:29:28
Speaker 2: Hey?

00:29:29
Speaker 10: Thinking about your conversation with Ryan yesterday and talking about the Kentucky team going six and twelve, So it got me to thinking, this is Kentucky's ninety third year in the SEC. So over the last ninety two seasons, how many times has Kentucky finished with a sub five hundred record.

00:29:47
Speaker 2: It's a great question. I have no idea. Do you have the answer? I do?

00:29:52
Speaker 4: Okay, So, ninety two seasons, how many times have we had a sub five hundred SEC record. Let's take a guess before you get the answer. I don't know the answer. What do you think it is?

00:30:02
Speaker 9: Right?

00:30:03
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go eight?

00:30:05
Speaker 2: All right?

00:30:05
Speaker 5: Shit ten?

00:30:08
Speaker 2: So let me just go through my lifetime.

00:30:11
Speaker 4: We had it in the COVID year, we I don't even think we had a losing record. The Neurlands year, we didn't make the tournament. But I don't think we had a losing record. We did not have it last year. We had it the year right before we went on probation. We had it probably rix first year. No, maybe we were five hundred. So I'm gonna say, like five, what is it?

00:30:39
Speaker 9: Three?

00:30:40
Speaker 2: Three? Wow? Wow?

00:30:41
Speaker 10: Okay wow, sixty sixty six, sixty seven, season eighty eight, eighty nine, and twenty twenty one.

00:30:49
Speaker 4: Well I picked two of the three. I didn't know the sixty six sixty seven, so.

00:30:54
Speaker 10: One more thing.

00:30:54
Speaker 6: Man.

00:30:55
Speaker 10: Yeah, So since the forty eight forty nine season, can he has consistently played double digit SEC conference games. So since forty eight forty nine we have won at least eight games. So if we only win six this year, that's another record. I don't think Mark Pogram Oh wow.

00:31:17
Speaker 2: So wait a minute.

00:31:18
Speaker 4: You're saying we've never We've never won less than eight games.

00:31:24
Speaker 10: Correct, since the forty eight forty.

00:31:25
Speaker 4: Nine And what's amazing is we played two more games this year than we've ever than we've ever played.

00:31:30
Speaker 2: We play eighteen. We've only done that in the last three years.

00:31:33
Speaker 4: So you're telling me if we lose, if we win less than eight, it will be the worst conference season in the history of UK basketball.

00:31:45
Speaker 10: Correct, because we've always at least won eight games.

00:31:49
Speaker 4: Wow, since the appreciate call, that's an amazing stat and it is. I mean, that's what seven and eleven and that is definitely on the table. I mean it's not seven and eleven is on the table. That could happen, and that would be. Well that the COVID year we didn't plays many games. But wait, mante, he's saying we did win eight games in the COVID year, because that's right.

00:32:15
Speaker 2: We played a full conference schedule. We didn't play as many.

00:32:17
Speaker 5: In the non costly only one nine that year. They're nine in sixteen.

00:32:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, he may be wrong about the COVID year, but regardless, it would be either the worst or second worst that I had not that. Now, that's a perspective ride I hadn't thought about.

00:32:33
Speaker 6: And the fact they're zero and two, I mean, it'd have to go seven and nine from here on out to get finish seven and eleven.

00:32:37
Speaker 5: That makes that game tomorrow like you have to win tomorrow.

00:32:41
Speaker 4: Well no, I mean, look, if they we haven't even really talked about that game tomorrow night.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: If they lose tomorrow night, seasons.

00:32:50
Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's over, but it's over. I mean, if you lose tomorrow night, with the schedule that's still.

00:32:55
Speaker 5: To come, those are yoursiest games, and.

00:32:57
Speaker 4: You've lost twice at home to Missouri and Mississippi State, it's it's.

00:33:03
Speaker 5: Not good because then you got to go on the road and get some major upsets to even offset those two losses.

00:33:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even want to think about if they lose.

00:33:10
Speaker 6: It's depressing.

00:33:11
Speaker 4: No, I mean I really don't like our pregame show tomorrow, by the way, starts at six. Would love everybody to come out. Will be at the bar. Yeah, come out before the game. Let's let's eat, drink and be merry, because for if we lose tomorrow, we will all die. I mean, like there is a if you like, you can't you can't lose that game tomorrow night. But that stat is very sobering. It is if we've only had a losing season in Kentucky Basketball and conference three times ever, one cow year Eddie Sutton, and one rough year, and this is the fourth. And they were extenuating circumstances in all those years. I mean COVID probation the year after reps runs. I don't know if there was an extenuating circumstance there, but it didn't work.

00:34:05
Speaker 6: Out clearly, and we're staring at that possibility, at being the four season right now in the face.

00:34:10
Speaker 2: Well, I don't like thinking about that. We'll take a break. Be right back.

00:34:14
Speaker 4: We're here at Corn Brett Hamp this is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wow warterback Tucky Sports Radio, Hairlive. All right, I got a question for you all. By the way, the caller was right. Even in the COVID year we won eight SEC games. We only won one non conference game, went eight and nine in the SEC, and then went one and seven in the non conference.

00:34:37
Speaker 5: I forget how bad that year was.

00:34:38
Speaker 4: Non conference we lost to North Carolina, Kansas, Louisville, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, and Richmond that year.

00:34:49
Speaker 5: Who's the team we beat?

00:34:51
Speaker 6: Who did we beat?

00:34:52
Speaker 2: Eight? We still won eight conference games.

00:34:57
Speaker 5: That's pretty impressive.

00:34:58
Speaker 2: Actually, all right, I just I saw this.

00:35:00
Speaker 4: Sports Business Journal just released the one hundred most watched television broadcasts of.

00:35:05
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five.

00:35:05
Speaker 4: Okay, eighty five of them were NFL games. What eighty five of the top one hundred TV broadcasts of twenty twenty five were NFL games. Let's see, nine were college football games. So that means ninety four of the top one hundred games were either or top one hundred television events, not even just sports or either NFL or college football games.

00:35:31
Speaker 2: So now I ask you, what were.

00:35:33
Speaker 4: The six television broadcast besides football that were the most watched things in America last year?

00:35:42
Speaker 2: Can you get them all?

00:35:45
Speaker 9: Right?

00:35:45
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five? So would this include like concludes anything?

00:35:50
Speaker 5: I would say State of the Union.

00:35:52
Speaker 2: State of the Union was in the Yes, that's one.

00:35:55
Speaker 6: Five more go ride turn something with Taylor Swift. Scene with Taylor Swift behind the scenes document you remember behind the scenes documentary. I don't watch real TV if it's not a sporting event, So I don't have any idea what Wils was on.

00:36:12
Speaker 2: There is nothing with Taylor Swift.

00:36:15
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think if there's one, like really popular show, but I don't think that there's one show that's popular enough to be in the top one hundred with.

00:36:23
Speaker 6: The finale to like The Survivor or.

00:36:25
Speaker 4: Everybody want to gain. These two were not doing well. Sarah, not Live Reunion, not on the list. That's a good gift, Jake Paul fight not on the list. What the Oscars is one of We have four more? What stranger things? No World Series Game seven is their three? World Series Game seven? The what Stanley Cup? No anyone else?

00:36:58
Speaker 2: The Derby one in this city.

00:37:03
Speaker 4: How do we not get the Derby? Guys, that's our state. You have two more. Billy's gotten two of the four. Anybody?

00:37:14
Speaker 2: Come on? What is this show about sports? What would it be?

00:37:21
Speaker 4: The National Championship Game is one of them?

00:37:24
Speaker 2: College basketball? And then one more.

00:37:27
Speaker 4: Which would be unique to last year. The Inauguration is the other one. Those are the six non NFL and college football, The Inauguration, the State of the Union, the Oscars, Game seven of the World Series, the NCAA Finals, and how about the Kentucky Derby? People forget about the Kentucky Derby gets massive ratings. Interesting all of those events, even the sporting events Derby, NCAA title game, and World Series. No NBA games, no NBA Finals games are are part of now. Granted, I don't think this. Did the series go seven last year? Usually actually it did go seven, so shockingly that's.

00:38:08
Speaker 2: Not on there.

00:38:09
Speaker 5: But so NBA doesn't. That's interesting, not as much as the others.

00:38:13
Speaker 2: Who's up next? Mark is up next?

00:38:15
Speaker 4: Mark go ahead, and Mark all right.

00:38:19
Speaker 9: I got a question. I remember some comments that about Trent Noah and anyway that from the movie The Matrix. Do you remember that movie very well?

00:38:34
Speaker 4: I mean, I remember it exists. I don't know how it applies to Trent Noah.

00:38:37
Speaker 9: Okay, there's a point where he goes to be evaluated by the oracle and she says, you got the gift. But it seems like you're waiting for something, and some of our I don't know, it just seems like, well.

00:38:52
Speaker 4: It's hard to know with Trent Noah. I mean, it's hard for me Ryan to know. Is Trent Noah like, is he not playing well? Does he not have confidence? Is he not very good? I don't I honestly, I really don't know the answer, do you know.

00:39:09
Speaker 6: I think it's a big mystery. He was starting when the season started, he got hurt. When he came back, he seemed like he's never the same. But he's not even played the last three games. He's not even taking his warm up off. That's what he's waiting for. He's waiting for playing time.

00:39:20
Speaker 2: But I mean, to be fair, he played.

00:39:23
Speaker 4: He played a lot in some of those early games and did not play well.

00:39:28
Speaker 5: So I mean, do you just abandon that. I mean, I think still he's still a good shooter. I think you've got to go back to him and give him a chance.

00:39:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

00:39:36
Speaker 4: I will say, if you look at the Kentucky teams through the years, I felt like most of the years I have a pretty good handle on them.

00:39:44
Speaker 2: This one baffles me. This one baffles me. I don't know why. I don't know why we're so bad. I really don't. At the time.

00:39:52
Speaker 4: I know why we're not great because we don't have a lot of guys who can get their own shot, and we can't shoot.

00:39:58
Speaker 2: But we still shouldn't be this bad. I mean, we shouldn't be.

00:40:03
Speaker 4: Just standing around in mud like we seem to do a lot of the time.

00:40:07
Speaker 2: I don't understand why were this man? I don't either.

00:40:09
Speaker 6: And when you're struggling to shoot the basketball and shoot the three, why not give him a chance. I don't understand how he's not played. Why did Jasper not have one minute in the game.

00:40:16
Speaker 2: You just you're not gonna get over the Jazzper one.

00:40:18
Speaker 6: I just don't understand how that you can leave him on the bench that like that.

00:40:22
Speaker 2: Well, it's that one's good.

00:40:24
Speaker 4: Of all the things that have happened when it comes to recruiting next year, the minutes that Jasper.

00:40:30
Speaker 2: Has not gotten, that's one that I think is gonna stick.

00:40:33
Speaker 4: So all right, Cats Mississippi State eight thirty Tomorrow night. Pregame show starts at six, will be at ks bar Shannon.

00:40:41
Speaker 2: What do we think is gonna happen?

00:40:42
Speaker 5: Kentucky's gonna win. They have to win this game, so I think that they win eighty three seventy one. If you're looking for an MVP, it's like the obvious answers. Oh way, he goes for fourteen or fifteen every game, So i'll take away.

00:40:54
Speaker 6: You know, Josh Hubbard is still sharp shooter from missions.

00:40:57
Speaker 2: He's still there.

00:40:58
Speaker 6: Yes he is, Yeah, Josh.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: He's been there since the Clinton admits.

00:41:02
Speaker 6: That he always does well against Kentucky. Thing he always has. Again, he's been a cat killer almost Shannon. Kentucky wins a game. I think it's another low scoring game. First one to seventy one may win the rule of seventy one back in place, So I go seventy two sixty eight Kentucky and I'll take I'll take Quayton. Come on, man, he's got to do something right.

00:41:18
Speaker 4: Last year, the game in Stark Vault was really a big game for Kentucky.

00:41:23
Speaker 2: They won.

00:41:23
Speaker 4: You may remember that was the famous one where Mark went into the stands afterwards and met the Kentucky fan that was in the wheelchair and went up. I thought it was a that was a really cool Kentucky moment. I'm hoping we get this vibe back. I mean, the only positive I saw from Wednesday is that Mark Pope seemed like he was back to being himself and not kind of the way he'd been before. I'm gonna say Kentucky wins. I think it's gonna be ugly. I think it's gonna be not fun. But i'm gonna say seventy five seventy and Kentucky does what they didn't do against Missouri and finishes it down the show stretch and wins.

00:42:02
Speaker 2: At least I hope they do, because if they don't, it's not gonna be good.

00:42:05
Speaker 4: Thank you all very much, all you folks here at Cornbread Him, We do really appreciate it. If you get a chance, listen to my interrupted episode. I had a guy that talk in Venezuela. He was great and we'll be back tomorrow. We will see you later. Enjoy your weekend. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Cornbread him