2026-02-02- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Quarterback Hour number two Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. There's people like trying to say that the ad is good. Shit out there, it's not.

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Speaker 3: Now, Well, we have a couple of female callers, and I think it's probably over this.

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Speaker 5: All right, Well let's just spot out. Okay, Yeah, who's up first? All right?

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Speaker 6: We got Beverly.

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Speaker 5: Beverly. How are you, Beverly?

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Speaker 7: I'm good?

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Speaker 8: How are you good?

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Speaker 5: What do you think, Beverly?

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Speaker 9: I think he needs to be changed, he needs.

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Speaker 4: To be tanged. I agree, he's having it. It's a it's a rough two or three day period.

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Speaker 5: Well, there you go. All right, Thank you, Beverly. Who's that one?

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Speaker 6: All right, Let's let's go to Katie.

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Speaker 5: Katie, Go ahead, Katie.

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Speaker 9: Hey, Matt, I'm a teacher on my one thousandth snow day, so I figured i'd call in first time. Long time.

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Speaker 5: Who are what's up?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 9: I'm actually going on a subject change here so we all know that, you know, we won both have this weekend. And Mark Pope said in his postgame pressor that Alvin Brooks was the one that came up with the game plan. So if I'm Mark Pope, don't I just go with Alvin Brooks from this point forward. I mean, he's the one that created the game plan. I was just curious if you knew anything about how.

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Speaker 5: Usually picked it up. Every coaches does it differently.

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Speaker 4: So usually coaches, we'll have two different coaches who do the game plan right and they'll alternate between them.

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Speaker 5: Really it's more of a timing thing.

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Speaker 4: So they're like, so you you basically have a week to get a game plan for each team, and everybody gets to each other. Now that's not always the case. When Robick was the coach, Cal had him do.

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Speaker 5: All the game plans.

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Speaker 4: He basically would do every game, So you know, I mean there's an argument.

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Speaker 5: The thing we don't know is we don't know if in the uh.

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Speaker 4: In these other games where we've played, well like at Tennessee, we don't know who who's done those game plans. But you know, I mean it's it depends on the coach. And I appreciate the call. Sometimes Drew the coaches. Coaches have two guys do it, sometimes they have one. It just depends on on what their comfort level is.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, at the end, a lot of them have like a defensive coordinator offensive coordinator. Sounds like Brook's been doing the defense and Pope game of shout out saying that was the toughest scout they've had all year, you know, with the way Arkansas plays in Acuff. So yeah, credits and Brooks forget it done. And I don't know if Chen did the defense for Arkansas, but that's all I have to say about that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope they did. I do think you can.

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Speaker 4: You know, from a from a X and O standpoint, I do think Mark Pope is better at it than cal nowadays.

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Speaker 5: From a talent perspective.

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Speaker 4: I saw somebody say before the game, Ryan, is there any position where you would take Kentucky's guys over Arkansas's And I'm not sure that there's a yes to that. And yet we still won the game, which I think is a big testament to how they played.

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Speaker 1: And you hit on the first hour, A big part of the reason why Otega frustrated Acuff from the very beginning, Like even the cameras caught a cup a couple times, like shaking his head because you could tell he was frustrated, and that's because what Olway was doing to him defensively. So whatever that game plan was the defensive end, the decision they made to do on the defensive end was definitely a positive.

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Speaker 5: What person rights, Matt?

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Speaker 4: Now that we've won the game and we are officially halfway through the SEC schedule at six and three, what is everybody's prediction as to what our SEC record will be? All Right, so we're six and three. That is, even if you had the best possible.

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Speaker 5: Rosy view of our league, I don't.

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Speaker 4: Think you would have said, looking at the fact that we played at Alabama and at Tennessee and at Arkansas, I don't think you would have thought we would do better than seven and two, And we've ended up doing six and three, which is a pretty I think amazing run, Drew, where do you see us being?

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Speaker 5: What is our final record? Ne SEC?

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Speaker 7: I'm so conflicted like everyone else right now because of just the night and day difference of this team. What do they they go to Alabama and Vandy and lose by like twenty and twenty five. But they win at Tennessee a ranked team going in as an underdog, and they went at Arkansas going in under to a ranked team as underdog. I'm hoping that they've flipped some kind of switch and can keep playing somewhat to the level that they played in Fayetteville. I'll say I'll say they win the next to the too at home, which would include Tennessee. I don't see him getting Florida. Maybe in both the Florida games. Florida looks so good this past week, so I'll say, you used to have losses in both Florida games at A and M. In either Georgia or Vandy, they lose four more. Sorry, that was a long way playing out my head. Don't lose to Florida twice twice.

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Speaker 5: Eleven and seven? Yes, all right? What about you?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I was kind of look at the schedule. I think they go five and four these last nine games. I kind of agree with Drew that the two Florida games, what does a bad matchup for Florida. Those big guys down low I think are much better than our big guys.

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Speaker 7: They killed Alabama yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm gonna go five and four the rest of the way, what about you, shit.

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Speaker 3: Eleven and seven, given where they are right now, sounds about right. But this team is just so unpredictable. Just to be different, I'll say ten and eight.

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Speaker 4: Let'll say they I'm gonna say ten and eight just because I think the back end of the schedule is a lot harder than the front end, and we're gonna end up with a situation where we will probably end up playing the top five teams in the air CEC on the road, right, which I bet no other no other team in the in the in the league does that. We're gonna end up playing Florida, Tennessee A and m Arkansas and Alabama on the road, So that will be arguably an unfair schedule.

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Speaker 5: And we will, we will.

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Speaker 4: I think that's gonna ultimately be what does us in. I think ten and eight, though, considering how things have gone, that would get us a buy in the SEC tournament. I think it would probably have a seated seven to eight in the NCAA. I think it would be. I think it would still actually be a good accomplishment. All right, let's talk about a couple of other things here. First of all, Ryan my Red signed e. Who Hey, Neo Suarez.

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Speaker 2: I know that would have probably make you very happy, didn't it?

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Speaker 4: Yes, seven letters, five syllables, my favorite, my favorite name in sports. Hello, Jim Day. That's what he always says after after the games.

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Speaker 5: He uh.

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Speaker 4: He played well uh for the Reds for a number of years. Then he got traded as part of their sell off of everybody, and now he's back back. He's the power hitter lineup in the lineup that we needed. So Ryan, now I'm all in on the Reds. I wish we had one more I wish we had one more outfielder, but I'm not gonna be picky. I like the lineup. I love the pitching rotation. Let's go red You needed a big bat.

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Speaker 1: They're hoping this guy can maybe can win and be that person to provide a little more power in that lineup. Of course, you still got my favorite player. Ryan Friel is gonna play center field again. Lead off?

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Speaker 2: Isn't he?

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Speaker 5: Who?

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Speaker 2: Ryan Friedel?

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Speaker 4: It's not not even close to his name.

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Speaker 2: I thought his name was Ryan Friel.

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Speaker 5: It's TJ Friedel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, TJ Friedel.

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Speaker 4: That guy Ryan Frill you got.

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Speaker 5: It's hard to get neither name correctly.

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Speaker 6: Ryan Frill. Yeah, he retired in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 7: I think saying he was your favorite player really hurts you.

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Speaker 2: That did hurt me, down Red.

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Speaker 5: You also met him, if I remember correctly, TJ.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he came over and shook her hands.

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Speaker 6: He did play for the Reds back in two thousand and three.

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Speaker 2: Here we go, So your your.

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Speaker 5: Favorite player is a person who played twenty two years ago.

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Speaker 2: I just got a little confused on the name.

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Speaker 5: His name's TJ.

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Speaker 2: Frieda, that's him. It's Cal's cousin, right, it is Cal's cousin.

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Speaker 5: R It is Cal's cousin, Ryan Frill.

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Speaker 4: All right, well that's not a person that plays on the team, but uh, DJ Friedel does.

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Speaker 5: He's good.

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Speaker 4: And then the guy whose dad we met, Sal Stewart, he'll get to play a lot now. He remember he's from Cuba and his dad his dad, we met his dad, right yep?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he stood right beside us and we're watching batting practice.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well there, But so I'm excited through season tickets now purchased and we're ready to go.

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Speaker 7: I enjoyed the Red's excitement online seeing y'all have some optimism Honestly, when I saw the news yesterday, I thought our first segment was gonna be about this signing because I knew how excited you be.

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Speaker 4: We beat our It's all. Uh that's that is better. So yeah, I'm I'm happy about that. Uh, we still had this weekend, Shannon, I knew you would like.

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Speaker 5: A boxer got.

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Speaker 4: His two pay knocked off during the during a fight at Madison Square Garden.

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Speaker 5: He Uh, A couple of things about this story are interesting to me.

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Speaker 4: First of all, he had a to pay. He said he had only gotten it two days before that. He normally doesn't get two pays, but he decided to add one two days before. Odd decision to me, Shannon, to add a to pay two days before a nationally televised boxing fight at Madison Square, I don't think that's a I don't think that's a time to try out a two.

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Speaker 5: Pays, No, he said.

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Speaker 3: He said he went to his mom's house and used her shampoo and it had ammonia in it, and then all his hair fell out. So then he quickly said, I have to have a two pay for this match.

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Speaker 5: Oh that's what happened, so hair because.

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Speaker 6: He used a different shampoo at his mom's house.

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Speaker 5: So is ammonia in shampoos?

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Speaker 6: Dude, I don't think so.

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Speaker 5: But I don't bet the story.

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Speaker 6: I don't believe it at all.

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Speaker 3: But the fact that this guy's two pay was flapping in the wind after too punched in the face. I laughed for fifteen straight minutes yesterday when I saw that, the last.

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Speaker 6: Of I laughed that hard at watching that videos.

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Speaker 5: To pay flapped up in the air. Yeah. And then so that was just in the second round.

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Speaker 4: So then he he during the break between the second and third round, he just ripped it off his head and.

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Speaker 6: Threw it into the crowd.

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Speaker 4: And he threw it into the crowd for the rest of the fight. The crowd was passing me in the round.

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Speaker 6: I felt like taking selfies with Drew.

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Speaker 5: I am. That to me is the best part of the story.

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Speaker 4: The Madison Square Garden crowd decides let's all just have fun and passes two pay a round.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I saw a selfie a woman wearing it in the front row. She put on her head. This is maybe my favorite boxing match of all time. And I have to give a little credit to him because he seemed to laugh it off that that had to have been a mortifying moment for him, but the fact that he's still won and kind of I mean, I don't believe his excuse, but he smiling and joking about it. So I give him a little credit for being a good sport because that has to be one of the most embarrassing things that have ever happened in sport.

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Speaker 4: He called him, he calls himself big baby, So I didn't realize that shited. So he lost his hair because of his mom's ammonious shampoo.

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Speaker 3: They asked him that in the post fight interview, you know, while he's still in the ring, and that's what he said, that he used her shampoo and it caused.

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Speaker 6: All of his hair to fall out. Baloney, so he had to go get a run.

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Speaker 5: But his mom's hair doesn't fall out.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what they got going on over there. I don't know, but the story is wild and I absolutely love it.

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Speaker 5: It's an interesting time to debut attached.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and I would say he doesn't go to Bill Self's tupey guy, I don't think because his.

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Speaker 6: Is not getting punched in the face though.

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Speaker 5: Well that's true.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe maybe being a boxer and wearing a toupey is not something that works together.

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Speaker 6: Well, I just wonder like did he not think this through?

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Speaker 3: Like why would you just not going to be bald, you know, like if it really happened, just just be bald.

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Speaker 6: He had to look good he was at the end of the match, regardless of.

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Speaker 4: But it's gonna actually think be a good career move for this guy because he's gonna he's now known, he's gonna be the.

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Speaker 5: Guy in that. Yeah, that who's to pay? I think he should do it every match different to pay.

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Speaker 7: Next time different.

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Speaker 5: And that's his gimmick, is that he has what different one single?

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Speaker 1: When else are we ever going to talk about this guy or boxing? But not for this event that happens, So yeah, why not embrace it?

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Speaker 6: Gorilla glue on that thing.

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Speaker 4: I like every match different and then you'll know when he got hit hard because it'll come off.

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Speaker 5: That's true, Drew. I think it's a great idea.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Darrell, hair piece Miller can be a thing. I feel bad for the opponent. Think if he had won that he would have a highlight forever, Like I knocked the dude's head off, like this knocked his two pay off his head. That would be a highlight he could keep forever, but he couldn't win the match.

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Speaker 5: Right, Who's up next, ship, Glori, Laurie, Go ahead, Laurie.

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Speaker 10: Oh, good morning guys. So just a couple points about the game, and I'm sorry, I'm not gonna talk about boxing or the Reds. I'm gonna bring us back around. Okay, So I am you know, number one of the win was incredible, but I found it really frustrating that those boosters get to line the court. To me, that is like asking for an accident number one.

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Speaker 5: To them, it looks like they sit on a couch too.

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Speaker 4: Did you notice that like they had like they had like leather seats on the front row.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they're they're big time boosting there Also, was it.

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Speaker 4: Tyson's wife that had on the real like thigh high boots.

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Speaker 5: Did you see that woman? Yes?

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Speaker 7: I don't think I noticed her, Yes, it did.

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Speaker 10: It was it was the Tysons and the Waltons, so we weren't just fighting Arkansas where we're fighting the rest the Tysons the Waltons anyway, So that was just one point. And then is there anything we can do about shouts? I mean, like calling the n C double A. Is that not?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: No, not really no, yeah, I appreciate the call. He still can get a sign. There's only one referee that that wasn't allowed to be assigned to the UK Games anymore, and that might have been because of the show, although he is now retired. That woman, Channon, you need to look like I think it was Tyson's wife.

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Speaker 5: She was wearing like knee high boots on the front row.

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Speaker 4: It was there was, it was a whole thing. And they were sitting in leather seats. I could not believe they had leather seats.

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Speaker 5: On the front row of the of the area. Well look at it. It's and I think they were right next to UK's bitch.

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Speaker 4: They were like, go, if you see a replay where Mark Pope is, there's a couple that's right next to them, and they are a saucy couple. He's wearing like an all white suit and she's wearing like knee high boots and they're in leather, like patent leather seats.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, man, you that's gotta.

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Speaker 6: Be If anybody should get leather seats, it should be them.

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Speaker 6: What do we got?

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Speaker 4: The woman with the boots is not Tyson's wife. It's a woman named Marcia Martin. She she has a cosmetics company. She invented the bath bomb.

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Speaker 6: Wow, Wow, she invented it.

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Speaker 5: She invented the bath bomb.

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Speaker 4: She's donated five million dollars to Arkansas Athletics.

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Speaker 5: And she is a private jet.

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Speaker 4: And the tale of a private the private jet looks like a high heel.

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Speaker 6: Well there you go. She must like high heels.

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Speaker 4: So man Arkansas has, like I mean, so that's the Walmart people, prison people, and now the people that invented the bath bomb.

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Speaker 6: You ever take a bath and throw a bath bomb in there?

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Speaker 5: I have?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, kind of cool.

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Speaker 5: It's actually, it's actually really you're exactly right.

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Speaker 6: At the end.

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Speaker 3: You get like a little like figurine sometimes that's in the middle of it that I've never seen that get a big It depends on the back bomb.

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Speaker 6: You never know what could be inside of it.

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Speaker 2: Inside of it, Wow, I've never seen that one.

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Speaker 1: How soon does UK get a leather seats for the craft and people would sit on the front row of there?

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Speaker 5: Then maybe soon?

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Speaker 4: She don'ate five million dollars and the naming rights of the basketball practice facility are the Marsha Martin Basketball Performance Center. I think that's got to be one of the bigger female donors to a sports program, don't you think.

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Speaker 6: I mean, who else would even be?

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Speaker 4: I mean, most really rich women probably don't want to give it to a basketball program.

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Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, they're way smarter than us guys.

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Speaker 5: They're not like, give it to Kansas State basketball.

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Speaker 4: You know, They're probably gonna be like, why do not give it to a Charity. All right, well, there you go, Marcia Martin. That's who that woman was that was doing it on the on the front row. Uh. We leave tomorrow, Drew for the Super Bowl. Me you, Billy and Mario. Are you getting excited?

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Speaker 7: Very very very very very excited. Been talking about it here with Billy and Mario this morning. They're excited as well. We're all ready to get out there. And it's gonna be a bit of a grind with these early morning shows, but we're ready to do it. Team, no sleep, Let's get out there and have scratch.

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Speaker 4: We'll be very early in the morning, but we're gonna do it, and it's looking forward to I'm not looking forward to that flight. It's a long flight. We go from Louisville to Atlanta to San Francisco. That Atlanta to San Francisco fight, it's like six hours, which I'm not looking forward to.

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Speaker 6: But imagine one you'd be driving out there.

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Speaker 5: That's true.

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Speaker 4: So we will be doing the show from out there Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and then doing uh we'll do so we'll do KSR probably in our hotel room, and then we're walking to media row and we will do the cover zero at Media Row Drew, which should be a lot of fun. We'll have Well, I have a lot of a lot of content coming Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and we're.

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Speaker 5: Gonna be doing the pre and postgame show.

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Speaker 4: So the pregame show for Wednesday we'll be out there, and then the postgame show.

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Speaker 5: I don't know where it'll be, but we'll be doing that as well.

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Speaker 7: And Mario. Mario and I were just talking about remember on the on the Seattle road trip, all the like food review videos and all the side content we'll have on social media too. So we're excited to do a lot of work, but fun work and put a lot of good stuff out there.

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Speaker 4: So San Francisco, Uh, here we come. I'm trying to think, what's a big what's a good San Francisco song?

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Speaker 5: Mmm? Is there a song called I Left My Heart in There is? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Little Tony Bennett, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we were just I think we talked about that the other one. What else? What else is this same San Francisco treat?

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Speaker 6: The rice aroni? That's what that's my mind when you said that.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm sure there'll be more. Who's up next?

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Speaker 6: Let's go to Super Dave super.

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Speaker 5: Dave, how are you hey?

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Speaker 8: I'm good. I was real excited about to win, and I didn't think we could do it either, But the lady kind of stole my thunder when she said, can we do something about Doug chaff It seems like we have a lot of games where we have him. Why is it? I mean, is there not enough referees to go around?

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Speaker 4: Well? I think that the actual probable reason is the SEC. So when Kentucky plays in a game, it's usually on that national spot. The SEC, like all conferences, wants to put its highest rated officials in the games that are going to get the most attention, and whether like, even though we are not a fan, and I think a lot of fan bases aren't, he is a highly rated official.

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Speaker 5: He gets to do the.

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Speaker 4: Final Four a lot, so I think he ends up getting a disproportionate amount of our games because we're playing in these nationally televised ESPN games, which he tends.

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Speaker 5: To do a lot of.

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Speaker 8: Okay that I can understand that, but I think that this guy has an agenda against Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: I always thought he didn't like I always thought he didn't like cal So when he was there, I always thought he didn't like cal but but then I heard that wasn't the case. I've only thought one official ever had an agenda, and we know who that is. I think Doug Shows is a prisoner of the moment. I think a lot of these referees they like to be on television.

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Speaker 5: College basketball referees like to.

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Speaker 4: Put on a show, and I think they like to be the centerpiece of the action. I don't think Doug Shows is anti Kentucky. I think he's pro camera, and I think he's pro being involved in the in the hoop law and so.

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Speaker 5: And I think he falls. A lot of refs do this Ryan.

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Speaker 4: They fall to the home crowd, so they get wrapped up in the crowd and that leads them to make calls.

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Speaker 5: That's what I think happens.

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Speaker 1: And to his credit, I mean, it's been a couple of years since we've talked about him. It's like he'd kind of think could maybe calm down a little bit. But boy, he sure came back with a vengeance on Saturday. But if there's a big SEC game, it's gonna be him or who's the one guy. Joe Lindsay, Pat Lindsay.

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Speaker 4: Pat Adams, Drew people wanted me to pull out the picture, but I'm not doing that.

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Speaker 7: No, it's it's in the vault.

00:23:23
Speaker 4: But it was quite a picture. Yeah, that's old school KSR. I can't do that. Now we'll take a break. Very back.

00:23:31
Speaker 5: It's Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:23:33
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00:23:37
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00:23:41
Speaker 6: Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:43
Speaker 5: Is this a San Francisco song? Yes?

00:23:45
Speaker 3: This is Lights by Journey, which was written about San Francisco.

00:23:49
Speaker 5: That's exciting.

00:23:50
Speaker 6: Uh, it's not that exciting.

00:23:53
Speaker 5: It's kind of exciting. Is it not exciting at all?

00:23:57
Speaker 6: I mean I love this song. I don't know that it's exciting.

00:24:01
Speaker 5: Apparently.

00:24:02
Speaker 4: Uh.

00:24:03
Speaker 3: The Grammys were last night, Shannon, they.

00:24:07
Speaker 5: Were did you not Okay?

00:24:12
Speaker 4: So Bad Bunny one Album of the Year, Big year for Bad Bunny does the super Bowl next week, wins the Grammy the week before.

00:24:19
Speaker 5: That's pretty big for him. Right. Record of the Year went to Kendrick Lamar Luther. I never know the.

00:24:26
Speaker 4: Difference between record song. I've heard it, but I always forget Billy Eilish. One Song of the Year, Tyler Childers One Country Song of the Year, Shannon for a.

00:24:41
Speaker 6: Biting list Your Boy.

00:24:46
Speaker 4: And My Guys Zach Top one Traditional Country Album of the Year.

00:24:51
Speaker 6: So many categories it's hard to keep up with.

00:24:53
Speaker 4: What was My two guys won my two of my favorite artist one one one Grammy.

00:24:59
Speaker 5: So that's excit.

00:25:00
Speaker 6: Yeah, congratulations to start of it.

00:25:03
Speaker 1: And Trevor Noah was get introducing like the newcomers of the year, the best new artist I knew zero I've never heard of, I've never heard of.

00:25:12
Speaker 4: How you wouldn't know? But I mean just the ones I just said, the major winners, Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, and Billie Eilish, and I think it's a good sign I still heard of all three of those.

00:25:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, not saying we can name a song about them, but we know.

00:25:27
Speaker 5: You got you got.

00:25:29
Speaker 3: Kendrick Lamar's not like us, Okay, yeah, I know that one.

00:25:33
Speaker 5: Bad Buddy's got that one. It's like, say, hallam.

00:25:39
Speaker 6: But what's the name of the song.

00:25:40
Speaker 5: It's a good one. That's a good You can't.

00:25:42
Speaker 6: Name a song by him, okay.

00:25:43
Speaker 4: Billy Eilish, I think doesn't she have a song like Wildflower?

00:25:50
Speaker 5: See if that's a song I think that's I don't know.

00:25:54
Speaker 4: Looking up, See if there's Billie Eilish, See if she has a.

00:25:58
Speaker 5: Song calles that look at you time to hip to the music scene today. I know all three of those people.

00:26:07
Speaker 7: Impressive.

00:26:08
Speaker 5: You know.

00:26:08
Speaker 7: When Tyler's album came out, I loved biten List, But when I heard it, I never would have thought it would even be in a Grammy conversation. So that's a big win for him. Maybe I just don't know music. Obviously I don't, but I didn't think that was Grammy worthy, even though I love it and I'm glad to see it.

00:26:22
Speaker 5: You want to be worth.

00:26:23
Speaker 4: Did you see yesterday they played another one of those hockey games outside right. It was the Tampa Bay Boston in the NHL, and they had a goalie fight.

00:26:32
Speaker 5: Did you see the goalie fight?

00:26:34
Speaker 2: I didn't see it.

00:26:36
Speaker 5: It was great. It was great.

00:26:37
Speaker 4: I love when goalies fight because there's no reason for them to fight. They don't even interact with each other, they have no reason to talk to each other. But I guess one goalie kind of got into it with one of the players, and there's kind of a it's a known apparently, like hockey etiquette that Goalies don't fight players.

00:26:56
Speaker 5: Goalies fight other goalies.

00:26:57
Speaker 4: So Shannon, if you're a goalie, you see the other goalie getting in a fight, you have to fight him, even if you have no beef with it.

00:27:05
Speaker 6: I'm wondering.

00:27:06
Speaker 3: Let the other players are relaying messages from one end to the other, like, oh, he says you're a sissy.

00:27:12
Speaker 4: The two goalies, the two goalies went from either side and they met in the middle and just started punching each other, and there was a good old fashioned goalie fight.

00:27:21
Speaker 2: Goalie fight.

00:27:21
Speaker 3: It makes sense because they have like more padding and stuff that they're wearing than everybody else.

00:27:26
Speaker 6: So yeah, if you fight another guy, he can't hurt you.

00:27:29
Speaker 4: It's generally speaking, if a goalie sees another goalie fight with his guy, he has to go fight him.

00:27:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta defend the honor of the team.

00:27:37
Speaker 4: So there was a good old fashioned goalie fight. And uh, Hockey's hilarious that they drew. They just let you fight. Every other sport loses their mind to stop you from fighting, but in hockey they're like, all right, just go.

00:27:51
Speaker 7: And this the I guess it was the Boston goalie was the aggressor and just punching random players, but then he ended up getting whooped by the Tampa goalie. The Tampa goal it came all the way across the ice and settled it, but it was the Boston goalie that was trouble from the beginning and he ended up on his back.

00:28:05
Speaker 3: I think part of the reason too, is they're on ice, so like, if you don't have skates, who's gonna r out there and stop them?

00:28:11
Speaker 5: Well, I mean the referees have skates.

00:28:13
Speaker 6: Have the refeeation between those two big guys, Yeah.

00:28:16
Speaker 5: Well they don't.

00:28:17
Speaker 4: And the rule basically is you can fight until someone falls down. Someone falls down, then they jump to stop it, but as long as you're both on your feet, they will let you uh wail.

00:28:28
Speaker 6: So if you're a cowardly goalie, just fall on your back.

00:28:31
Speaker 5: That's what you would do.

00:28:32
Speaker 8: That.

00:28:32
Speaker 4: But it's generally known, because I've watched enough caroll On Hurricanes games, it's known if you have to fight, you have to fight, Like like if the rule kind of is if one of your players gets cheap.

00:28:45
Speaker 5: Shotted on a hit, you have to fight.

00:28:48
Speaker 6: The costant cheap shots, is there not?

00:28:50
Speaker 5: Though?

00:28:50
Speaker 6: Like when I've watched hockey, the cheap shots.

00:28:52
Speaker 4: In hockey art, if you get hit with your back to the player and you hit your head on the board.

00:28:58
Speaker 5: That's what's considered a cheap shot.

00:29:00
Speaker 4: So if you get a cheap shot, if you're next to the guy that does the cheap shot, under hockey etiquette, you have to fight him, you have to. And so like you gain respect of your teammates by fighting, even if you don't want to.

00:29:14
Speaker 5: I'm not a sport I would be good at because I don't want to fight.

00:29:18
Speaker 6: Can I just take his picture instead? Isn't that good enough?

00:29:21
Speaker 5: I would pull out a big camera snap.

00:29:24
Speaker 4: I got you, Kevin, Go ahead, Kevin Matt.

00:29:31
Speaker 11: I love the fact that the first guy who called in uh, I'll give you the backstory on that. So my wife and I went down to Vietnam for this game, and on the way back yesterday, connecting through her hair, the fan that saved him approached us in the gate. And while the guy told the story correctly, he did omit a few things. Okay, he may or may not have been on his worst behavior while he was up there, so it might have been warranted. I think he was firing up the fans a little bit. But what are you gonna do.

00:30:01
Speaker 4: So You're saying, maybe it wasn't like totally a cheap shot, maybe he earned a little bit of the aggression.

00:30:09
Speaker 11: Well, yes, yes, no doubt about it.

00:30:11
Speaker 8: Yeah.

00:30:11
Speaker 11: I mean, for the most part, we had great interactions with all the Arkansas.

00:30:15
Speaker 8: Fans, with the exception of the ending.

00:30:18
Speaker 11: People got a little little testy and they were throwing their white towels at us, which was just fantastic.

00:30:25
Speaker 7: I loved every second of it.

00:30:27
Speaker 5: Now I do too, though.

00:30:27
Speaker 4: That's the thing when you win a game on the road and the other team gets mad, it's awesome because like there's nothing they can do and you can soak it in.

00:30:37
Speaker 5: I love those moments.

00:30:39
Speaker 6: I can't say enough about Bud Walton Arena.

00:30:41
Speaker 11: That's the greatest environment.

00:30:42
Speaker 2: I've ever been to.

00:30:44
Speaker 4: It's just it's a true.

00:30:45
Speaker 11: College basketball environment, right ruff is tough to kind of graze the line between a pro stadium and a college seal. That's a true college legendary stadium.

00:30:55
Speaker 8: It was.

00:30:55
Speaker 5: It was great.

00:30:57
Speaker 4: I agree, I agree, we appreciate the call. Glad you glad you enjoyed the game.

00:31:02
Speaker 5: It is.

00:31:02
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the hard thing about Rup Drew. You and I have been to arenas all over the country. In a big moment, in a big game, RUP can be as loud as any of them. But the problem is it's hard to kind of keep it going on a regular a regular time. And you see it when you see a game like that Arkansas game.

00:31:22
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it was just as good watching them leave early too. Also, for years we hear the T shirt game Kentucky coming into your town super Bowl. He got a taste of his own medicine that we heard about there forever. I can't believe he even let them do a T shirt game in that spot. He should have gotten out in front of that after fifteen years of him having that statement when he was here at Kentucky. But kind of got even though that's a great atmosphere, got their number there lately, you got the Reeves game. You steal this one three in a row. Now there we kind of own Arkansas, even though they bring their fastball.

00:31:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, the fact that they did a T shirt game only makes it better. Like that all the thing he used to make fun of then they end up doing it. Ryan tell me about Stockton Mortgage.

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00:32:28
Speaker 4: We will take a break and be right back. Final segments, KSR. This is Billie Eilish, Right, Yeah, this is the song.

00:32:35
Speaker 5: You know, it's Wildfla. No, I mean, I don't know it well, but I've heard this. Yeah, I don't. I don't know if I know any of the words.

00:32:43
Speaker 4: You just have to understand, Shannon, when we those of us are kind of hip to the music.

00:32:48
Speaker 6: The fact that you still use hip to describe it yourself.

00:32:50
Speaker 5: As so hip is now back cool.

00:32:53
Speaker 6: Oh it's back at oh Okay.

00:32:55
Speaker 4: It's like groovy was a long time fifty years ago, right and now it's uh and now it's back to back to cool. One person rights, Matt. I'd like to hear you guys rank Mark Pope's biggest wins while he was at uk.

00:33:11
Speaker 5: Okay.

00:33:12
Speaker 4: So I think big wins are different than big moments, okay, because like a big moment is a shot or something that really lives on, but the win, so like the biggest moment maybe the Malachi Moreno shot against LSU.

00:33:25
Speaker 5: But I don't know that that game is necessarily the biggest game.

00:33:28
Speaker 4: So I would say if I were ranking games, I think the Duke win is number one, because you know it was it was kind of the first moment where you're like, Okay, maybe Kentucky's back, the new coach can work.

00:33:44
Speaker 5: You beat Duke. So I just think when that happened, that mattered.

00:33:47
Speaker 4: I'd probably say second is Illinois in the tournament because you get to the second weekend of the tournament, and I think that was a very important for Mark. You may remember that, you know, the Arkansas and there were a lot of SEC teams that were making the second weekend. I think it was important for us to make it. I'd probably put this game third for a variety of reasons. I think this one's next. I'd say fourth, maybe the I'm gonna combine the two road wins at Tennessee this year and last year because they were both unexpected. They both came at big times. They both came with depleted rosters and you still won. And then maybe I'd say fifth last year against Gonzaga after that twenty point comeback to win late at night out on the road out there, I think those were that's probably my five.

00:34:37
Speaker 5: Is there anything, Drew? Would you change anything in that group or reordered?

00:34:43
Speaker 1: Uh?

00:34:43
Speaker 7: That's pretty good, I'll add I don't know if you put in fifth spending what you think Beating Florida in that eleven AM game in RUP last year than Florida going on to win the national championship was pretty big win. And then they got Louisville last year when Lamont Butler was like perfect for the field for thirty three points. I don't know if it would crack five, but it's six or seventh right there in the conversation.

00:35:03
Speaker 4: Do you like my top three? Like that order that I have of Duke, Illinois, Arkansas.

00:35:09
Speaker 7: Yeah, hard to change anything there. I mean, maybe want to put more emphas on a tournament win. But I still they had only beaten Kentucky, had only beaten Duke once since nineteen ninety eight. I mean, Duke had Kentucky's number for a long time, so that one was special, and being so early in Pope season kind of answered a lot of questions that people had early on.

00:35:27
Speaker 5: Ryan, would you change any of that?

00:35:29
Speaker 1: I had Duke one, but I had at Arkansas this when they just got his number two to beat cal to get that monkey elf, he's bad as number two. And then actually I had the Florida game three and then Illinois four.

00:35:39
Speaker 4: You don't care about the tournament win against Illinois that was a big one. I mean, if you lose that game, I think people look at that season differently, don't.

00:35:48
Speaker 1: Theyk it's quite possible. Yeah, they could do. But I did think about it in the moment. I had at number four.

00:35:55
Speaker 5: All right, there you go.

00:35:57
Speaker 4: Good list the women's team last night I won at Arkansas as well.

00:36:02
Speaker 5: Tianni Key is back. Yes, so that's a big deal.

00:36:05
Speaker 4: You know, they had lost a couple in a row and really had not looked good. And since she's been out back win by twenty. You think, Ryan, the women's team is back to where they were a few weeks ago.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: I hope.

00:36:17
Speaker 1: So obviously they desperately missed her. They were just a little out of sync. It seemed like a little out of rhythm without her out there, but adding her to the lineup obviously made dividends last night to win by twenty on the road at Arkansas.

00:36:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, Arkansas is not very good, but it's still nice win and it's good to see the women seeing Claire Strack scored her thousandth point at Kentucky, you know, quietly, not that quietly, but it's gone down.

00:36:41
Speaker 5: Was one of the really really great players to play here. Who's up next?

00:36:45
Speaker 6: Peggy?

00:36:46
Speaker 5: Peggy?

00:36:46
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Peggy calls today, go ahead, Peggy.

00:36:51
Speaker 12: Yeah, I am a little bit.

00:36:54
Speaker 5: You're a little bit of a female. That's right. Wow.

00:37:00
Speaker 12: Three three three one. When he just lost Jeth Greenberg and dudshells up in a room and never let him out.

00:37:09
Speaker 5: All right, let me stop you right there. I'm gonna let you do the others.

00:37:11
Speaker 4: But Seth Greenberg drew, Seth Greenberg went on his He does it about twice a year, rant about how Kentucky's fans expectations are too high. He does that all the time. Here's why I hate that comment by him. First of all, he doesn't get to tell us what our expectations are. Secondly, it's not unreal for Kentucky fans to expect to be good. But here's the thing. He says stuff like that so that no matter what, he can act like he was right. If we don't succeed, then he says, oh, your fan expectations are too high. You are ridiculous. If we do succeed, then what he'll say is, see, I told y'all to calm down. Why are you all so ridiculous? He makes that statement, and then either way he crowns like he's correct. It's part of why he drives me absolutely insane.

00:38:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's personal for me because he has ruined Saturday mornings. I don't even turn on Game Day anymore. The ESPN product of game Day on the basketball end is sad. Football season, you give me Pat McAfee, Nick Saban in that group that is a must see TV. These guys look so unhappy to be there from the moment comes on. There's no energy, there's no excitement. And then I have to listen to Seth Greenberg, which again on the football side is Nick Saban. I have to listen to him tell me what to think about my own team. It's unwatchable. I mean, I caught the comments online. There's no part of me that thinks, oh it's Saturday, I should turn on ESPN. That part of me died years ago.

00:38:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Nick Saban is the greatest coach of all time. Seth Greenberg couldn't make the tournament in Virginia Tech, so it's not exactly that, and he's not entertaining.

00:38:45
Speaker 5: I don't know why he's on that show, to be honest with you.

00:38:47
Speaker 4: I mean, Jay Billis and Jay Williams like I get, but I do not under Seth is just a stick in the mud. That show lacks fun, and I think it's in large part because they don't have Ryan people who seem to love the sport the way that Herb Street McAfee corso over the years.

00:39:04
Speaker 5: The way they loved the sport.

00:39:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no energy that these shows. It's boring, and I like, I'm with Drew. I'm tired of Seth Greenberg trying to tell me how to be a fan. Try to tell me what I can and can't do, what makes them a fan special? Dude, you wish you wish you had UK fans when you were coaching, you wish you had.

00:39:20
Speaker 4: There's no person that I care about, Shannon, what they think about fandom of UK less than Seth Greenberg.

00:39:27
Speaker 5: I mean that, like he has, I'd listen to any UK fan over him.

00:39:32
Speaker 12: Now go ahead, Peggy, do your other one, okay, and SAYCE we can't fill charges against Doug. Can we ask that he not charge to our game?

00:39:44
Speaker 5: Yeah? I don't know. I don't think you can do that.

00:39:47
Speaker 4: There was a time that there was a time that there was supposedly a you could ask for not having people, but I don't think that's true anymore.

00:39:56
Speaker 12: Okay, And my final thing, I don't know if you have Well, I know y'all saw the end of the game, but did you notice that Cal walk Doug chefs back off the floor and they were grinting at each other.

00:40:14
Speaker 4: No, but let me just say I used to think Doug shows and Col hated each other.

00:40:20
Speaker 5: So I mean, I.

00:40:23
Speaker 6: You think, so declare them friends?

00:40:26
Speaker 5: Declaring them? Okay?

00:40:28
Speaker 4: Well, all right, all right, I appreciate the call Peggy. Peggy's calling friends there.

00:40:35
Speaker 7: Well, Cal started using him in camps and stuff, which I always thought, don't have a You know, he wouldn't go hire the guy for side gig if he didn't like him.

00:40:43
Speaker 4: By the way, That's one of the crazy things is that you can pay the pay the.

00:40:48
Speaker 5: Refs in the off season. You know, yeah, it's kind of crazy to come do your camps.

00:40:55
Speaker 2: Put them in a nice hotel, feed them.

00:40:57
Speaker 5: That's kind of crazy that you're that you're all to do that, all right?

00:41:01
Speaker 4: Draft Kings go to Draft Kings. Bet five win two hundred dollars on Draft Kings. I'm looking at games tonight. I guess the big win is Kansas at Texas Tech, Kansas when they play every Monday night, Kansas at Texas Tech. Both teams are ranked. It's actually a good matchup in Lubbock. It looks like the spread. Texas Tech's a four and a half point favorite. Darren Peterson dominated De Bonsa in their first game, but then he got hurt, So I don't know what's happening tonight.

00:41:29
Speaker 5: Ryan, who you got.

00:41:30
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Texas Tech at home. You said it was four and a half. I take Texas Tech at home.

00:41:36
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take. I'm gonna take.

00:41:38
Speaker 4: If you're give me four and a half and I get Kansas, I'm gonna take Kansas against the spread. But I think Texas Tech wins. I think it'll be that'll be. You want to talk about an awesome environment, Drew. That will be an awesome environment in Lubbock tonight.

00:41:49
Speaker 7: Yeah, and they just got a big win over Houston was a top team, top team also, so they're they're riding high and gotten a lot of excitement there. But I'm gonna take Texas Tech because the only thing more inconsistent than can is whether or not Darren Peterson feels like playing. So I just don't know how many minutes he'll play, what he'll look like, if his agent will get a call saying his legs are hurting today. So I will take a team that at least know will show up with their full roster, and that's Texas Tech.

00:42:13
Speaker 5: By the way, some news major League Baseball is taking over the Reds media rights and so the games will be available on MLB TV. That's good for Reds fans. Actually, for those of you.

00:42:25
Speaker 4: That had YouTube TV used to not be able to even get the Reds games.

00:42:29
Speaker 5: Now, I actually think you'll be able to get them.

00:42:31
Speaker 6: So they're not gonna block it out on me when I'm trying to watch it.

00:42:33
Speaker 5: I think that's right.

00:42:34
Speaker 4: So I actually think for Reds fans, depending on what the deal is, that's actually probably pretty good news for those of you like me that had YouTube TV or whatever.

00:42:45
Speaker 5: We will see you later. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio