2024-12-19- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones walking back.

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Speaker 3: It is our number two Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: I F I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machines seven seven two seven seven.

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Speaker 3: Four five two five four.

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Speaker 4: One person writes, Matt, what do you think about the Netflix documentary coming out about SEC football?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we learned more about that yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Sixteen teams in the SEC, ten of them agreed to be in the documentary, one of which is Kentucky. They filmed us for two games. Would you like to know what two? They filmed us?

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Speaker 6: For?

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Speaker 4: The South Carolina loss and the loss at Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: No, no, it's Louisville, Louisville, South Carolina, Litvill even worse. Oh with South Carolina Louisville.

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Speaker 5: Would prefer to the actually oh no, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Shit, what are you laughing at?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Those are not gonna be good week.

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Speaker 4: So that's gonna come out summer next year, So right before the season.

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Speaker 5: Are you excited about watching that?

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Speaker 1: No, it's gonna make Kentucky look bad to lose those both those home games, one against your big in state rival.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not good.

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Speaker 1: There's no way they can spin that positively. I don't think.

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Speaker 3: And somebody's been through that process.

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Speaker 4: I got a sense of what they're looking for, and it ain't gonna be good for us.

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Speaker 5: It's not gonna be good.

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Speaker 3: It's not like, you know, we get behind the scenes with things where UK has got a little control and it's like, yeah, we'll hit that part out. No, they're the parts that UK would cut out. Is what Netflix is looking for. Yeah, we're behind the scenes.

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Speaker 4: It's not gonna be not gonna be good for us at all, but it's the way it goes. Shout out to the people from Sayer back there State champs eating lunch here. Yeah yeah, Saar Spartan State champs and like they're only their tenth year of existent.

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Speaker 1: Chad Pennington, their head coach, did a great job. We had a Racelin ram fan in here yesterday, Mike Fannon who was complaining about losing him for the third straight year in the final. Raceland's been to the finals three years in a row, lost a Pike pikeplone, then this year lost us here.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about the college football playoff here for a second college football playoff, first time they've ever done it like this.

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Speaker 3: Four games at home fields.

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Speaker 4: Some interesting draws because of who got to host all three of the four games are in very cold locations. They're gonna be in South Bend where the weather is supposed to be seventeen degrees at kickout a kickoff for Notre Dame Indiana. It's late at night.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: The good thing about that when it's two teams in state, that's gonna be a wild game. They never play each other. That one will be fine. Then you have Texas Clemson. That game's in Texas, That'll be fine. Tennessee Ohio State's gonna be interesting because Ohio State fans are mad at their coach, so they're expecting maybe thirty to forty percent of the crowd to be Tennessee fans. Tennessee fans are like taking it on as a challenge. How many people can we get in that stadium. Knoxville's not far from Columbus, so it's an easy trip. Those teams never play Drew. That'll be a really interesting environment.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm I mean, I'm a Tennessee hater obviously, but I'm looking forward to that one more than anything because i think there's a chance that Orange I mean, they're not gonna take over, They'll they're gonna make a big Dent. I even saw yesterday they changed the horseshoe on Google Maps to Nayland North. So if you went to the Ohio State stadium for a while on Google it said Nayland North as the title. So I mean Tennessee is doing everything they can to get in there.

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Speaker 4: So and by the way, Saturday, we're gonna have we obviously the Kentucky game will be here.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna do it.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna do the postgame show here and then during the postgame show that game will be on for Tennessee Ohio State if you want to uh to come. But then I think the biggest story is actually what on paper to me is the worst game, which is at SIMU and Penn State. I don't really care about that game at all, But there are insiders this morn at Penn State saying they're worried it's not even going to be full. They're worried that their stadium is going to have like ten thousand unsold or at least unused tickets. The university is encouraging their fans trying to say come now. They're in a unique spot at Penn State because their students are gone. It's kind of an isolated place. It's not easy. If you've ever been to college or state college, it's not easy to get to We've been there. It's like an hour off the main roads, not a lot of flights in. It's going to be frigid cold. I mean they're thinking it's going to be like fifteen degrees at kickoff.

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Speaker 3: What will it be like?

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Speaker 5: Ryan.

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Speaker 4: For a program that alleges itself to be one of the powers of college football, Penn State, to have a playoff game on their home field and they can't sell it out, that's a little.

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Speaker 1: Slap in the face. I mean, that's a fan base that takes a lot of pride in their football program. You know, they had those lightouts all the time, and it looks like it's a awesome environment to go to a college football game. And here you're hosting a playoff game, and if you can't sell that out, I think that's a little slap in the face.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: Then the other part of Penn State that's interesting is their backup quarterback. So their starting quarterback is good. He has said he's coming back for another year, but their backup quarterback was also pretty good. He's not gonna get to play and since the starter said he's gonna come back, the backup has decided to enter the transfer portal. But not only is he entering the transfer portal, he's transferring now before the game, so they're in the playoff, he's skipping the playoff. If the starter gets hurt, they're gonna have to go to a true freshman third string because the backup left the team before the playoff. I get it if you're that kid, but I'm really really surprised Drew that he would leave the team before the playoff. If the starter gets hurt and he was supposed to go in and he's not there, I don't know, man, that's what do you think of that?

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Speaker 5: Like, would you do it if you were him?

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Speaker 4: I know I understand entering the portal, but what can't you enter it and then say I'm still gonna finish the season.

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Speaker 3: And you know he's gonna go take his visits and move on with the process. I couldn't do that. I know he might be a little more money at stake, he could lose out on another opportunity, but you just went through a whole season with these guys and you're in the playoff. It's right in front of you. How can you not see it through even if you are the backup?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Western Western played yesterday, they said during the game, Western had six guys who were in the portal who decided to stay and play their last game even though they were in the portal, including maybe the center that comes to Kentucky. According to Santa CON's girlfriend and Ryan, he played the game yesterday. You know would if you were this quarterback? Don't you stay through.

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Speaker 1: The end of the playoff? Don't I don't know this. It just gives the impression to me that maybe there's something else going on. Maybe he was just so unhappy all year long, and maybe he felt like he deserved a chance and didn't get it, and he's just gonna stick it to him now.

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Speaker 4: And what if they gonna win a national championship and you were gone, they.

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Speaker 3: Shouldn't give him a ring.

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Speaker 1: He didn't get a ring, then no ring, no ring.

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Speaker 3: You're out, You're done. He's from Pennsylvania too. I don't know if he grew up a penn State fan. But that's just another ele element to me of why you'd want to stick around and potentially win the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: I just feel like you got you gotta stay if you especially in the playoff.

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Speaker 5: Then you have Marshall.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Marshall has twenty five guys in the portal, so many guys that they backed out of their bowl game. They were supposed to play in the Independence Bowl and they said we don't have enough players to play.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 4: I think that's a little lame of Marshall because they still have sixty guys on the team.

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Speaker 3: It feels like to me they could still play.

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Speaker 4: But the NCAA, to me, Ryan has got a find a way to wait and open the portal after the balls.

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Speaker 5: Now they have a.

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Speaker 4: Problem, which is school starts at a lot of these schools right at the start of January, So if you wait till after the bowls, you're only gonna have like a week or two for teams to do it. But I mean, don't you think it would be better or move the bowls up so that they're played, because like, I don't think it's good for anybody that, like a team would have to withdraw from the bowl game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you you want to get in the portal, but your team makes the National Championship game, you're gonna be playing after school's probably already started it. Maybe a school you're considering, well, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, it's a really okay. So let's say let's say Georgia plays.

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Speaker 5: Oregon in the championship game.

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Speaker 4: Without question, they're going to be players at Georgia and Oregon that enter the portal. But that National Championship game is not till January twentieth, so school's already.

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Speaker 3: School's gonna have.

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Speaker 4: Been in session for like two weeks at these other schools.

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Speaker 3: I think what's gonna end.

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Speaker 4: Up happening for Georgia and Oregon players is that if they enter the portal, they're just gonna have to spend another semester at the school they're leaving because they won't have a choice.

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Speaker 3: It's very hard to navigate on both ends of all the portal players in the playoffs, because if you're a school wanting to get one of them, you just keeping your fingers crossed that they're gonna follow through and they finally get out of the playoff, and if they back out, you've now missed out on everyone's And then the same case with the players going into the portal, maybe they think they have a spot, things change, then you're left just kind of not many options out there, so the rule almost needs to change a little bit on how they can move around as the season gets longer and longer into January.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about two more things that happened yesterday that I think are interesting. So quarterback of Vandy Diego Pavia, who completely crushed us, he filed a case in court arguing that because his two years at JUCO should not count against his eligibility in college, basically saying the NCAA his legal argument is implicated, but it's basically this. The NCAA has the ability, according to Diego, to say kids can only play for four years, but they can't say that the two years at JUCO count because those two years at JUKR in a different organization. His point was, you let Mormon missionaries go do something for two other years, You now let people play professional basketball and then come over, why does JUCO count against me?

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Speaker 3: The court gave him an initial.

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Speaker 4: Restraining order allowing him to keep playing while they make the decision.

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Speaker 5: Here's why I think this is huge.

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Speaker 4: If that decision stays and then ends up becoming the rules, high school kids are going to all of a sudden have a completely new incentive.

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Speaker 3: If you're a.

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Speaker 4: High school kid and you know you could go to Juco for two years and play and it not count against your eligibility. I think a lot of kids would do that, wouldn't you. It would make it to where you would enter college more mature. If you don't get the offers out of high school you want, you could go to Juco. You're not hurting yourself by going to Juco. Juco becomes almost like a prep school. And if you're a college I think you would really want to go recruit Juco's because you will have already seen kids playing at the college level.

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Speaker 5: You would have seen if faith matured.

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Speaker 4: I think this if Diego pave Is ruling stays in place, I think it's massive for Juco football and actually has the potential to really ryan change college football and make it a lot older.

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Speaker 5: It would also apply to basketball too.

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Speaker 1: As a Diego pavia A fan, I'm glad to hev him back, But as a UK fan, I'm not happy he'd be back at Vanderbilt the way he tours.

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Speaker 3: I believe pap out of it the bigger potential.

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Speaker 1: I was getting to that. Can I go ahead, go ahead? But it is and the Argomizge going to make it is like a prep school. Some of these kids maybe they graduate high school at seventeen years old. You know they're not ready to go to a four year school. Well now you can go develop at a and there's good football these junior colleges in Kansas and we saw in the Mississippi. I mean there's good football than junior college level that you can kind of develop your skills a little more before you go, maybe even get a bigger scholarship.

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Speaker 3: Think about last chance you that school down there.

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Speaker 4: If those kids can go play and then lose no eligibility and you have a twenty I mean that'll lead to twenty four to twenty five year olds being in college football on a regular basis. I just if it. If it stays, I think it's a big deal. And then the other thing, Drew they just announced they just gave players their passwords. So if you played college football from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, so like Max was in school during that part, think about who our teams were. Those people yesterday got a password that lets them log into the NCAA settlement. You've heard a lot about the NCAA settlement, the House Settlement, and it basically tells them, here's how much money you're gonna get.

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Speaker 5: I was shocked when I heard the numbers.

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Speaker 4: I heard of about six UK players that logged in yesterday. We're talking about I mean, Max was one of them, but also Offensive Lineman. I'm not talking Josh Allen, Benny Snell. I'm talking about guys in the big Blue Wall, kickers, punters. The amount of money the settlement said they were gonna get is anywhere between seventy five and two hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: No way, Holy ca.

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Speaker 4: Now that's at UK, So if you went to Western or some of those, it might not be as much.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you a kid wrote.

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Speaker 4: In he was a walk on long snapper at Western who didn't even play, and even he got two thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: My goodness, it's a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Yes it is.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's a lot of money that for some of these kids that didn't make it to the NFL. That could be life changing money if you just if you weren't able to get two hundred thousand dollars. I'm shocked the payments that much.

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Speaker 3: True, I was too, and I immediately thought of Max and other guys I know in that era, and I'm so happy for them whatever they're getting, you know, that age range. Most of those guys not far out of college, just getting things figured out. That can go a long way on that first mortgage. And I don't know what Max, god, but I'm excited for him and everyone else to gets it because I mean, people were making money on their backs for a long time. I'm glad they're getting a big slice of the pie.

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Speaker 4: And if you finished your college at twenty fifteen, sorry, you.

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Speaker 3: Hit the world right now.

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Speaker 4: You do shitt it, don't you Like, if you graduated in twenty fifteen, you just have to be cussing up a storm.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But for the other kids, I mean, hey, that's an early Christmas gift seventy five thousand dollars for some of those kids.

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Speaker 5: And the dudes that won the most are people like Max.

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Speaker 4: If you graduated college in twenty because you only get credit for the years between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, So if you played all of those years, you get more money, You get the most money. So the people that graduated the COVID year that kind of stunk as a year to graduate, but it actually gets you the most money, so those people will end up being the ones that make the most.

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Speaker 3: I think about anyone who in that cutoff year left early and took a gamble and ended up and nothing like I'm gonna throw our name out there. I don't even know if this line's up, but it probably like a Boom Williams, I think that timeline might be close someone that thought I'm gonna just go take my chance in the NFL. But if they had done one more year and been a star, they never would have known this check would.

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Speaker 4: And they picked the money based on there's a formula how much you played and how good you were, So somebody like Boom Williams would have probably paid a lot of mind.

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Speaker 3: A lot of juniors that left and it didn't pan out and they're wondering what they would have been paid.

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Speaker 5: Sorry.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, statute limitations was out on those. They don't get to go back and pay Louis Damfier. Unfortunately you have to. You know, Jared Prickett's not getting his money twenty sixteen. If I was twenty, if I was a twenty fifteen kid, though, Shannon, I would be frustrated, Like if you were a one year cutoff away, they got to.

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Speaker 2: Cut it off somewhere Otherwise if you don't, then you're going all the way back to the beginning of the NCAA.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's two point six billion dollars being distributed, so it's quite a bit of money being.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea. Was that a big amouth that you tell you?

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Speaker 4: Rick Patino this morning announced Drew that Saint John's will no longer take part of postgame handshakes because he thinks it gets too tense for the players, that it's gonna be like the NBA, they all just go back to the locker rooms. Or if somebody wants to say Hi, they can, but the lineups they're not gonna do anymore because he thinks it's leading to too many fights.

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Speaker 5: What do you think of that?

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Speaker 3: I saw that, and I'm wondering, have I been missing all these fights? I mean, occasionally there's one or a little blow bob, But is it that big of a problem. I didn't, I hadn't noticed it. Have you seen a lot of fights?

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Speaker 1: So you see like what maybe one a year or something where something happens in the handshake line, But for the most part, there's never an incident whatsoever. A lot of these kids they know each other, they've played against each other growing up in the Au circle for years and years and years. Anyway, I feel like I like it.

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Speaker 4: It feels like Rick has a solution looking for a problem because it just I agree with you, Drew. It doesn't seem like there's been a lot going on. Yeah, I thought maybe I missed something crazy that happened. I was doing some googling.

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Speaker 3: Every once in a while you get a little you know, bumped shoulders or jawing, But I can't think of anything. It's been so extreme, I'd stop doing it.

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Speaker 2: Cod when we just waved at each other.

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Speaker 4: Just like, yeah, well it looks like that yet, is what we're going back to. Who's up next, Kelly, Kelly?

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Kelly.

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Speaker 7: What's going on? That running That running back that's coming in from Nebraska's visit? And I really hope he comes here. But his last name is pronounced dal Dell like cal Bell, except with two d's. All right, yeah, I know, because that's that's my last name. He comes here. If he comes here and he's pretty good and they make a jersey of him, I'm I'm buying one for everybody in my family.

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Speaker 5: You should.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if there's if you, that's a unique name. If you get that and the kid plays at Kentucky, you've got to get the jersey.

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Speaker 7: And to be quite honest with you know, whenever Drew said it, I mean, people have the problems for pronouncing our name. He came about the closest out of anybody that's ever tried to say it.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I think, well, I hope he does for you as well. I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 4: By the way, ESPN's Kirk karp Street just said, I have major doubt Tennessee Vall fans can get into the game in Columbus for Ohio State. That's only gonna make them want to do it more.

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Speaker 3: Someone was on the fence and just looked at their friends said, yep, we're getting in the car.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, spoken like a true Columbus native Ohio State Buckeye.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know he's had a time.

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Speaker 4: He Herbstreet had to move out of Columbus. He moved to Nashville because of how harsh the fans were to him, because anytime he picked against him, you know that they would get mad. But I can see that because they're like, you played for us, why are.

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Speaker 5: You doing this? But I don't know. I think that's gonna make Tennessee fans want to do it even more.

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Speaker 3: As much as I don't like him, you gotta give him credit. Their fan base. They're not us, but they can hold their own and get a little crazy too. I think they're gonna show up there.

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Speaker 4: Did you see the Doug Gottlieb stuff yesterday? Yes, dude, Doug Gottlieb, what a disaster. So Doug Gottlieb right now is coaching for IF. Remember used to be on TV a lot. We've had a lot of interactions with him. Over the years. But right now he's coaching at Green Bay. They are two and eleven. Okay, he's a first year coach. He made the bizarre decision to be the coach at Green Bay but still host his afternoon radio show on Fox Sports Radio. So he coaches Green Bay and hosts a national radio show. He also talks a lot. He responds on Twitter like he tries to act like he's still a sports announcer, so he'll respond on Twitter Ryan to anything that happens. Adam Schefter went at him. He like questioned one of Adam Schefter's reports. So Adam Schefter responded, Hey, Doug, you're two and eleven, maybe focus on your season, which was a little harsh. And then yesterday they played me Michigan Tech, which is a D two school, and there was a clip of him before the game saying, look, I like playing hard teams. I don't really particularly like it when nobody's come in here and play, it doesn't help us. Well, Michigan Tech was the next game, and that nobody beat them yesterday on their home floor. Seventy two seventy. Doug Gottlieb been announced I'm gonna stay off Twitter for a while because y'all aren't being a little mean. It's like, well, dude, now you know what it was like when when you were talking trash over those years.

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Speaker 5: What do you think about gottlieb struggles?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, call this team nobody you That's all they needed to get ready. But how can you how can you do your team any justice if you're not three hours a day you're doing this radio show. I just as a head coach at a Division one school, I don't know how he has the time to do this radio show.

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Speaker 4: I think his argument was drew that like by doing the national radio show, he would be getting his team publicity.

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Speaker 3: Oh he is. He's getting all the publicity. I know more about Green Bay basketball than I've ever known.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's not positive. Right.

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Speaker 3: Shout out Michigan Tech assistant coach Zach Fleeener from Kentucky, Like I played at Murray and now calls Lexton hometown. So little Kentucky connection is that?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Beat Doug last night, but what a week Schefter doesn't even reply to people on Twitter and dunked on him. Then he turns around and loses that game. They're up ten at halftime and he choked it away.

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Speaker 5: I meant.

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Speaker 4: The other thing is gottlieb will still do you know that field of sixty eight where they talk about the games at night?

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Speaker 3: He'll still do that to other teams.

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Speaker 4: Can you imagine Mark Pope doing a daily radio show and coaching Kentucky basketball, Like that's crazy.

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Speaker 3: TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ.

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Speaker 5: He'll make them pay.

00:23:43
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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones worker back.

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Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. The Nebraska running back is visiting today. By the way, he was one of the three best running backs in the country. Drew in short yarded situations he hit. He hit every third and one he attempted this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what we need. Looks like, if will Cox is hanging around, you got a little speed there. They need to get back to someone of that mold Kentucky said.

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Speaker 5: That's good, just.

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Speaker 4: Biting them right in ahead, little bit of a bully. Uh Shannon, some breaking news that you'll like.

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Speaker 2: Uh No, I don't think it needs that.

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Speaker 4: The uh the Federal Aviation Association has said for what has banned commercial drones over an area of New Jersey for the next month to quote calm hysteria.

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Speaker 5: Okay, well that's good, but so do you think that'll help.

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Speaker 2: Well until the aliens come over and then they don't care if you've got a regulation or not.

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Speaker 5: The aliens will follow the regulation that.

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Speaker 2: So they do what they want. So yeah, when that happens, then everybody's gonna start for any way.

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Speaker 3: I think that'll I think that's good.

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Speaker 4: Get everybody to calm down, stop acting like goobers think it saying there's aliens everywhere, and just get everybody to chill. Although apparently some of these commercial drones are Amazon delivering packages.

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Speaker 5: What if they can't deliver packages right before Christmas? Ryan, that's not good.

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Speaker 1: No, that's a bad time for that to happen. So does this mean did they find that radiation piece?

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Speaker 5: It was there was not a radiation piece. That's enough.

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Speaker 1: What the mayor came out and said, some missing radiation piece of some boat from the harbor from Did they find it?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah, it's just it was just it was down the street. But now if they've banned uh, personal drones, when we still see them more. No, it's a problem.

00:25:30
Speaker 5: Well, then they'll know it's either a government one or it's aliens. That's right.

00:25:33
Speaker 3: I can ask someone who believes in aliens. I can actually shut down aliens on this particular issue. If you see the drones they have like red and green lights and headlights. I don't know that aliens up there are in code with our regulations and fit our you know, our light schemes. So I don't think it's aliens on this one. They're out there, but not this particular case.

00:25:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, well they're not out there.

00:25:53
Speaker 4: And as I said, I thought this was uh was was ridiculous. Jordan Dingle, who played it can was a tight end from Kentucky, ends up going to South Carolina, interesting because he basically didn't get the ball here and it was kind of like just assumed, you know, didn't play a lot all of that.

00:26:15
Speaker 5: Do you that? Do you find it weird that he ends up at South Carolina.

00:26:19
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have guessed that destination, but he almost left last year for Tennessee, so it's not shocking that he was shopping himself around the SEC.

00:26:26
Speaker 5: Again.

00:26:27
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a guy you feel like had potential and just I mean, not many stats at all last year, so I kind of understand why.

00:26:34
Speaker 4: He was South Carolina has been a good program. Are you surprised they would want to bring in him? I mean he was like fourth on our depth chart last year.

00:26:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, that tight end room was so deep with Catus and Kamarai and Dingle and now Willie Rodriguez.

00:26:48
Speaker 5: You know.

00:26:50
Speaker 1: They ain't really like South Carolina when they recruited him. I mean, there's that fan base is even though they punched me in the face last time I've done here, that's a pretty cool place to go.

00:26:57
Speaker 3: What I just don't want to see.

00:26:58
Speaker 4: But I'm did we read him wrong or did South Carolina rewrung because like we didn't use him and now he gets a scholarship from South Carolina.

00:27:08
Speaker 3: Well that's my big fears. If he goes it has some monster season and a bunch of touchdowns, It just didn't throw it to the tight ends this year. I'm looking at the stats. He had twenty catches his sophomore year, twelve his junior year, and nine his senior year. Just kept going the wrong direction.

00:27:23
Speaker 1: He probably thinks they're gonna maybe lean more towards Rodriguez next year, maybe he gets bumped down even a little further.

00:27:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure who's I don't want to see him go off against us though.

00:27:33
Speaker 5: Who's up next? Eric, Eric? Go ahead?

00:27:35
Speaker 7: Eric hey Man.

00:27:38
Speaker 8: So yeah, I called in a little while ago about the volleyball team and my daughter, and of course they've lost. But today I was calling in because we're gonna be in Toronto this weekend and we're gonna go watch the Houston Rockets and watch and hopefully Reid gets to play. But that brings me to my point of when you were talking earlier about coach Patee saying that you know the fans and all that stuff. Earlier in the season, I said, you misinformation of Chasley and you're being on my flight.

00:28:06
Speaker 6: It was actually Ansley Almanor. I just didn't with her hair. I thought it was the same guy. But we do we overreact when we see a coach coming down the escalator at the airport. We go who was on that flight?

00:28:21
Speaker 5: For sure?

00:28:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then we should though, But I think Cope was saying that's a positive. He wasn't saying that was a negative. He was saying it was good to have fans do that.

00:28:30
Speaker 6: Oh No, it was awesome. It was just that flight was so turbulent. I can't wait to meet Ansley again and say, hey, do you remember that flight because we were both holding on because it was very, very turbulent getting into Lexington.

00:28:45
Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate the call Ansley.

00:28:48
Speaker 4: You know, he's not playing as much anymore, but I still feel like sometime when he has an open corner three, I mean, he's Mario's guy. Mario has he missed the next durant, but when he when he has an open corner three, I still feel pretty good that it'll go in.

00:29:04
Speaker 5: If he's wide open and he's.

00:29:05
Speaker 3: Got one of the quickest triggers on the team, he does not think about it. He gets it off quick, it goes in. I just think defensively he can be a little bit of a liability. So recently they've had some messages.

00:29:14
Speaker 4: Mario's girl sent me He's got two Almonor posters on in his in his house, which is a weird thing to have because like, why would you have but he does posters.

00:29:24
Speaker 3: I wasn't gonna say this, but I had to pick Mario up one day and I was kind.

00:29:27
Speaker 5: Of has his shirt off, which is weird.

00:29:29
Speaker 3: Mario. I was sitting on Mario's couch awaiting from to get ready, and he had gone through and taken out all the frames pictures of his girlfriends and traded out. No, he did not have his girl.

00:29:37
Speaker 5: He had he almanor and a dog.

00:29:40
Speaker 4: Wow, that is kind of strange. Mark Shannon Sharp. Uh, Shannon the dude. I will tell you about Shannon Sharp. He said earlier today that he has a cell phone that he uses, but he has no apps at all. His cell phone is completely blank.

00:29:59
Speaker 6: Live.

00:30:00
Speaker 5: So my question he does have Instagram lives, So he's lying, isn't it?

00:30:04
Speaker 4: Because he didn't film himself having uh having something fun happen. What would you use your cell phone for? I guess just calls.

00:30:16
Speaker 3: Larry has the same Larry and Shannon Sharp.

00:30:19
Speaker 5: I guess it's true. Larry does not have any apps.

00:30:21
Speaker 1: He has no apps, Lee.

00:30:23
Speaker 3: That's true, Larry has.

00:30:26
Speaker 4: Larry has a cell phone with no apps and only two numbers in it, Mom's and mine.

00:30:33
Speaker 3: Those are the only two people he called. That's that's when a phone is a phone, nothing else to it.

00:30:38
Speaker 4: I guess Shannon Sharp. And there there are other things Shannon Sharp does that Larry does not do, but I guess they have the I guess they have the same. Theory about phones is.

00:30:47
Speaker 1: That Shannon Harp's saying he has actually two phones, one for the apps and one.

00:30:51
Speaker 5: For the girl. He says, I don't have apps. They distract you from life.

00:30:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lie.

00:30:56
Speaker 1: It's definitely a lie.

00:30:57
Speaker 2: We know why why are you lying about that?

00:30:59
Speaker 5: We seen you runs, We know.

00:31:03
Speaker 3: We have literally heard your gruns.

00:31:05
Speaker 4: Yes, Alabama's ad came out yesterday and said, Hey, Bama Nation, the rest of the country is stealing.

00:31:14
Speaker 5: All of our players with nil.

00:31:16
Speaker 4: We've got to step up on nil or we're gonna lose our whole roster. Did you ever think you'd see a day where Alabama football was.

00:31:25
Speaker 3: Crime, poverty, the empire's crumbling. He asked the fan base to fight back against all these other teams. We got their coach wearing T shirts to games. Now they're not.

00:31:34
Speaker 5: In the playoff, they did wear a T shirt. The shirt They're on.

00:31:37
Speaker 3: Their way straight down and it's happening right before our eyes.

00:31:41
Speaker 1: Greg Byrn, a Mitch Barnhardt disciple, he was here at UK. I know Greg Byrne. I'm shocked though, that the Alabama football they almighty Kingdom of all college football has to put a letter out to their fan base urging them to help support.

00:31:53
Speaker 4: See this is why people when they were predicting inn il, they predicted the exact op thing that happened.

00:32:01
Speaker 5: Everybody believed Alabama.

00:32:05
Speaker 4: Georgia, Ohio State were only gonna get better, and the opposite has happened. It has opened up the doors for other teams to participate. I mean, Indiana's in the playoff, as sim you is in the playoff. It's different now like Arizona State is in the playoff Boise State. I mean they had to have somebody from that, but it has been and in basketball, I mean in basketball, look at the top teams in the country, Tennessee, Auburn, Iowa State, Marquette, Like it's not the North Carolina stinks in theory they should have the biggest NILT of almost there's six and five.

00:32:49
Speaker 5: Kansas is not as good as you would have thought. Like it.

00:32:52
Speaker 4: I think it has almost drew democratized sports.

00:32:56
Speaker 3: It has and with Alabama, they're learning that when wl your advantage of having all those Nick Saban car dealerships all across the state, that doesn't work anymore. Got to find a new formula. And on the basketball end, where there's not as many players, I think with like a Kansas or even in North Carolina, you're seeing some schools give way too much to one person, like a Hunter Dickinson.

00:33:16
Speaker 5: And BYU Kansas State can't.

00:33:19
Speaker 4: I mean, so before you just think, especially in basketball, you spend.

00:33:24
Speaker 5: Money the wrong way, you're done.

00:33:26
Speaker 4: Kansas State spend all that money on guys and they're awful and their players are like, why did I come here?

00:33:32
Speaker 3: This is terrible?

00:33:33
Speaker 5: Like it. I actually think it has made it to where more.

00:33:40
Speaker 3: Schools have a chance.

00:33:41
Speaker 4: Now you do have to have a base amount of money, but if you do, I think it'll be different.

00:33:46
Speaker 1: So do you think by this letter that Greg Burns sent out, the Alabama fan base will respond because they are so proud of their football program they want it to succeed.

00:33:53
Speaker 5: I don't know.

00:33:54
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna learn they I mean, they still have a lot, but they're not gonna be what they were.

00:33:59
Speaker 4: I agree with you. They don't have Texas money. They just don't. I mean Alabama doesn't have Texas money. And I mean Kentucky's got the same problem. But we've got like two people.

00:34:11
Speaker 5: With Texas money.

00:34:12
Speaker 3: We've got Mark Pope.

00:34:14
Speaker 4: But you know, it is interesting to me. I said this last year, and it's becoming true. This is a a seismic shift in college sports is happening right now, and they are going to be people that take advantage of it, and they're going to be people that get left behind by The last seismic shift left Nebraska behind, It left Tennessee behind, although Tennessee is now catching up with this one. It left Notre Dame behind. This shift is going to leave teams behind. And it's crazy to think Alabama could be one of them, but if they're not careful, Drew, they could be one of them.

00:34:53
Speaker 3: I mean, right now, they obviously had a great year or two losses they didn't have. They're not in the playoff, but you do got a couple more times. We saw how craz that fan base went over one loss. They could just start imploding and eating themselves on fun bomb every Monday morning.

00:35:05
Speaker 4: If they told people of your generation, Ryan that Nebraska football would stop being good, they'd never believed little laugh that. I mean, they would have never believed that they were good every single year.

00:35:16
Speaker 1: Yep.

00:35:16
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden when the national television where every team was on TV happened, Nebraska got left behind. Maybe that's what happens to one of these schools like Alabama.

00:35:26
Speaker 1: Do you think it could happen to Alabama?

00:35:28
Speaker 4: Happened Nebraska, happened to Notre Dame, happened to Tennessee.

00:35:34
Speaker 3: Why couldn't it happen to Nebraska.

00:35:36
Speaker 4: I mean, those schools are a Tlabama, those schools in your generation were the way we look at Georgia and Alabama and Ohio State.

00:35:43
Speaker 5: Now right, that's very fair, So it could.

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00:36:23
Speaker 5: It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back.

00:36:27
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00:36:51
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00:37:24
Speaker 1: Running Yeah, Chris Gettlefinger.

00:37:26
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00:37:50
Speaker 5: Who you got.

00:37:51
Speaker 3: It's a big one for me. I went one to one yesterday, so it's just determines if I'm greener red and bowl season. So say Sam Houston covers the number. I don't think you said three and a half.

00:38:03
Speaker 5: Three.

00:38:04
Speaker 3: Oh, they're definitely covering that. Are they the favorite or they're the underdog?

00:38:06
Speaker 5: Definitely?

00:38:07
Speaker 3: Oh, easy money.

00:38:09
Speaker 4: Now you're getting three and a half. I'm taking Sam Houston as well. He was one of the great renegades of the wild West, and so he can certainly take down Southern Georgia.

00:38:18
Speaker 1: You got the whole southern part of Georgia playing one guy, Sam Houston. I'm taking Georgia Southern.

00:38:22
Speaker 3: Okay, well, his whole state, Sam Houston State.

00:38:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, but the same Houston is not a state.

00:38:28
Speaker 3: So Georgia Southern should win Texas.

00:38:30
Speaker 4: It's in Texas, but it's not in and of itself state. There's also an NFL game tonight. You've got the Chargers and the Broncos. I don't know if you saw this story. Broncos fans are very sad. They moved this game from Sunday till Thursday, and because it's at the Christmas holiday, a lot of Denver fans from around the country had made plans to come Sunday as part of the Christmas holiday and watch the game, but then they moved it to Thursday, and now they can't get to the game. They only moved it two weeks ago go, and there's Denver fans threatening to file a lawsuits against the NFL, saying you can't two weeks before the game changed this. I had hotel reservations, I had tickets, and you just changed it.

00:39:12
Speaker 3: Denver says.

00:39:13
Speaker 4: If you look on your ticket, it says events may change times. Sorry, but it's become a big deal in Denverton this weekend.

00:39:21
Speaker 3: Right, If this impact your friends.

00:39:22
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, the Keys obviously, Devin plays for the Broncos and O this affected them absolutely.

00:39:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, what happened.

00:39:29
Speaker 1: Well, they're you know, they're scheduling visits for Dane and they're trying to you know, spread out, thinking this game would be on a weekend where they could go out there to see their grandsons and see Devin. So it definitely paid. And also the Broncos game up in Cincinnati got changed from Sunday to Saturday, so it's infected Broncos fans start.

00:39:44
Speaker 4: Next week's game. It was supposed to be Sunday and it got moved to Saturday. But Bronco fans are really mad. They're like, this is the Christmas holiday season. I wanted to go take my family and now we can't get to the game at all.

00:40:00
Speaker 3: Suck I you know, probably prepaying for hotels that you can't cancel or change flights. That's a that's a rough situation Broncos fans. I feel bad for him. I kind of feel bad for him too, right, I already cocourage them to use that free time to go check out the airport. A lot of weird things going on there, but overall that does stink.

00:40:17
Speaker 4: Oh eight two eighty seven, Chait, we don't apparently don't have a caller.

00:40:21
Speaker 5: I guess, so that's okay.

00:40:22
Speaker 1: I guess could go check out the witch House, and we went to because they did.

00:40:27
Speaker 5: It was a store and obviously has worked so far, and it did work all right.

00:40:30
Speaker 4: So with Kentucky and Ohio State Saturday, are you confident the spread is not out yet?

00:40:34
Speaker 5: Are you confident about the game?

00:40:36
Speaker 4: Uh?

00:40:37
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm very confident. With Ohio State playing football that night, will they have any fans related to a player.

00:40:44
Speaker 4: That will actually will be I don't know that there's gonna be that many people at the game. North Carolina is six and five. They played a major game in Charlotte Wednesday night that presumably a lot of their fans went to UCLA. I don't know if you saw their home crowd for their game last night. It was friends and family only at the UCLA game. They are certainly not flying across the country to the game. Ohio State has a playoff game that night night in Columbus.

00:41:12
Speaker 5: We're gonna be the only fans there. And to be quite frank.

00:41:15
Speaker 3: With you, you.

00:41:16
Speaker 5: Well you said you think a lot of Kentucky fans are going.

00:41:19
Speaker 3: A lot, but I mean to make a big impact in Madisons, where I don't think we're gonna be filling the place or anything.

00:41:25
Speaker 4: I think I think there are good seats available if you were wanting. If you've ever thought I'd like to go see Kentucky play in Madison Square Garden, this might be a good time because I'm not sure North Carolina, UCLA and Ohio State fans probably have ever cared less ryan about.

00:41:42
Speaker 5: This event than they're gonna care this year.

00:41:43
Speaker 1: I know Jack Dempsey's put out a pro other inviting fans to come by. They think they're gonna have a good turnout. Is Aaron Bradshaw playing or not?

00:41:51
Speaker 4: Aaron Bradshaw is eligible to play for the game, I would assume that he would play.

00:41:56
Speaker 5: What do you think that's gonna.

00:41:57
Speaker 4: Be like Bradshaw just to playing against a guy who was here last year.

00:42:03
Speaker 3: I care just as much about this Coffee Cup as that matchup. I don't even know if they play. Wow, I mean.

00:42:10
Speaker 5: You're horsh on Aaron Bradshaw.

00:42:11
Speaker 3: No, I mean I hope he does well, but I have not thought once about him looking forward to this game. I don't know if we'll play. They lost Miechi Johnson, who's a good player for them.

00:42:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, one of their best players.

00:42:19
Speaker 3: He's actually killed Kentucky at South Carolina the last couple of years. So their teams just kind of their teams weak fans aren't focused.

00:42:25
Speaker 4: Will probably be don't you think eight to ten point favorite?

00:42:29
Speaker 3: Probably? I think it'll be single digits. Yeah, I'm probably around there.

00:42:32
Speaker 4: I'll think you just beat him by forty though, right, Yeah, I would say eight nine ten, that's probably what we're gonna be a favorite.

00:42:38
Speaker 3: There is one matchup I like, one of the only players in the entire country is shooting better than Kobe bray Is on Ohio State, John Mobley Junior. I mean, they're both shooting like fifty five percent.

00:42:47
Speaker 4: Let's start him. Let's make sure we guard him. Hey, thank you all very much. Good to see everybody here today. We will be back here for a rare Friday show at KS Bar tomorrow as well, getting ready for Christmas weekend. This is Man Kentucky Sports Radio.