2025-11-10- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Beer Knows Pizza in New Albany, Indiana, on Charlestown Crossing for our annual Uku of l Remote. It is the serving Louisville style pizza since nineteen seventy seven. Here at beer Knows. It is the site a Beer Knows in Southern Indiana of our first remote and we are glad to be back again. Let me hear from this crowd this morning. Let everybody know this is an absolutely packed house. If you're not here, well you're missing out. You can give U seot the Clark's pumping shot full nine eighty five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A vision auto glass text machine is seven seven to two seven seven four five two five four in this diition sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office. If you call TJ, He'll make them pay. It was I guess it was fall two thousand.

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Speaker 3: And eleven eleven.

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Speaker 2: When Ryan Lemon and I did our first remote out in public. It was this game, so but it was in December and we did it and there were a lot of people there, not as many people as here today, but a good crowd, and Ryan, who I thought would be mister public uh, stood with his back to the crowd, nervous. And now all these years later, here we are and once again a great packed house today. First time I we've ever done it on a Tuesday. We usually do these on Friday, but now because of the weird game, this year a Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: I don't know why we ever doubt this fan base on a Tuesday morning and is packed that we're here.

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Speaker 3: Early pre show was packed. I want to tape. I remember that first show. Handsome Jimmy was there and you put Handsome Jimmy on you and him had.

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Speaker 2: A back of Jimmy on baby. That's right.

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Speaker 3: That was good Restrict.

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Speaker 4: Our friend kal Madero's just reminded me this morning he was there. It's a hungover twenty one year old. Now he's married in his like he' his thirties.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing, it is amazing. And that was that was a different location, but it was the same same beer nos And now this morning it is weird with with with a Kentucky Louisville game in November and on a Tuesday, on Veterans Day, and big salute to all of our veterans out there across the state, across the area and Big Blue Nation. But it is it's odd to have this game this day, but you know what, it's on the schedule, so you got to go win it. And right over there across the River Drew is a chance to do. I read your post last night and you still thank you and you said that since since two thousand and nine, there's only two wins that count that Louisville has ever beaten us in that amount of time as they try to get number three to more, both by three points. Actually, the last four times Louisville has won, even going farther back, all been by three points. So even when they're able to pull it off. It's been one spread is it's three and a one in one book and two and a half in the other one.

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Speaker 5: Again us up to four and a half now, dang early.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting. We'll talk a little bit about that. I mean, Louisville, I think is I listened to a lot of the national guys last night. Louisville's kind of considered definitively the favorite. We'll see if that's the right decision. But I think about all the times that we've done these shows over the year, and I think about specifically the games over there, because I actually think you could make an argument that outside the NCAA tournament, the biggest Kentucky wins since Cal got here have all been Ryan in the jmsen Okay, start with Jeordes and the game where I don't think anybody thought we were gonna win that season, and when not only won, we absolutely dominated him, Terrence Jones and George crushed them. I watched it with Paron Johnson at the TV station and laughing at him the entire time. I think of twenty the twenty fifteen team, when you know Willie was pointing at Montres Harrell over here and mocking him as he as he hit the ground after dunking on him. You had the Tyler Eulis game of course, that well, that was the same game I think with the with the blood coming down his face. This I think this place has actually produced more of the good games, Ryan than the ones that have been a ruugh, which we generally just won going away. Every time you.

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Speaker 4: Mentioned when you said about games that over here at the Umpster that I immediately went to that twenty fifteen Gamecuse that's the one they just totally dominated. I think we all realized at that point this team is special. The way they came in there and just dismantled a good Louisville team. We thought, oh my goodness, this team could really seriously do that forty and oh run we were talking about.

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Speaker 2: Now. This year's game has had Sheddon more trash talking than probably and so you know, it was always very important to Kada act like this game was different. Uh they started it right, But I loved otaga Oway yesterday he had like like a sly grin on his face. They said, I'm not trash talking. I'll talk after we win, which in and of itself is kind of trash talking. I loved it.

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Speaker 6: He also said, I just want to see him face to face. That tells me there's going to be some fireworks. There's going to be a dust up at some point of this game. I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the first five minutes of the game.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're gonna start it, but we have some guys that will continue it. I mean, I think you can guarant I'd like to have the over under point five technicals on Brandon Garrison over. Yeah, over, I think I would take the over if I was gonna bet that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we saw this last year in Rupperena Garrison mixing it up. There was the moment over on the sideline where Poping's up putting Pat Kelsey in a in a headlock, like he's.

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Speaker 2: A little forgot about that little doll over there.

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Speaker 5: But you know, sometimes for all of Pope's good, sometimes I worry if he's got that fire to really, you know, get him round up for something like this. And then our boy prior him making that comment, and then we saw how the guys reacted yesterday. You know, Pat Kelsey kind of infended him. So that's his personality. But I'm sure on the inside he's like yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean you can see Kelsey was like he didn't like it. Here's what I would say, right. A consistent theme of all Kentucky teams in the last twenty years that have been really good is this, they show up on the road as like dogs that want to win. I mean, they don't always win every road game, but they come out ready to punch people in the mouth. I mean, I sit there and think about DeMarcus Cousins, the twenty fifteen team, Anthony Davis, Fox, Monk Okay. So I just named you what I think are the four best teams in the last fifteen years. One of the things is you could see in their eyes before they started a road game, they were like, I love this. I love this environment. I love that everybody screaming at me. I love that everybody hates me. They embrace the hate. I'll be interested to see tonight, Ryan, And this is the earliest I can remember us ever having one of these games. Will this team be like that? And I think they will, but it'll be interesting.

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Speaker 3: I think they will too.

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Speaker 4: I think we've got a couple of guys that have been on the road in some rough environments before. You know, Aberdeen's played in some rough environments when he was in Florida. Diabate played some rough virt tis in Alabama more exactly.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait last year. Yeah, Jalen Lowe at Pitt. Jalen low when he was at Pitt, everywhere they went, he was the person they yelled at because he was the only good player they had. Right. You mentioned Brandon Garrison. So there's a lot of those guys.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the five guys. Those five guys.

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Speaker 4: I go to war with those five guys tonight, going into the hospital environment like that.

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Speaker 3: Lowe's played here.

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Speaker 4: He knows what it's like to be to beat Louisville here, so he knows how to handle the crowd.

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Speaker 3: I'm not worried about it.

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Speaker 6: I'm just glad that the trash talking has started, because that's what we need to throw some gas on the fire in this robbery. I think that there's too much mutual respect between Kelsey and Pope. I don't think they're gonna be the ones that start it. But that that's all we needed that comment from prior after the last lovel game.

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Speaker 2: All Right, so let's talk about this game being this early in the year. First of all, I think it stinks. I hope these two programs don't ever do this again, as I understand that the reason this has to happen is that when we play at Louisville, it's the ACC schedule that just dictates the game. The ACC does not have slots on ESPN on Saturdays in December, so basically, if you're gonna play an ACC home game, it's gonna have to be in November. Kentucky apparently his petition to ask if they can flip one of their slots to for Louisville so that in the future this will always be in December. But this year it's the third game in November. How does that affect the game?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 5: You know, for the fans, we don't love it. It's weird being before the football game. I like, you know, we normally win this, and it's right around Christmas. I love spoiling Louisville' Christmas. It's truly my favorite part of the holiday season. I don't love it today, but I'll be honest, I don't need a calendar.

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Speaker 3: To hate Louisville.

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Speaker 2: Hated him yesterday, I hate him today, I'll hate him tomorrow. I'll hate him when Christmas gets here, so we'll get up for it. But it doesn't feel right like we didn't have the build up.

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Speaker 5: We've only played two basketball games, so I hope he gives moved back, but I'll still be fired up tonight.

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Speaker 2: I listened a little bit to Mike Rutherford, who is the kind of one of Louisville's big reporters. I listened to his podcast and he said that he thinks, and I think this is a good true that if you ask the two fan bases, Ryan, on Thursday, what do you think is gonna happen? Louisville fans would have been certain they were gonna win, and we wouldn't have felt great about it. Then we come out pound Valpo, look like that offense that we thought it would be. They then lose the football game to Cow and now they're like, they're gonna beat us again, aren't they? And I think Ryan, there's a little bit of that. I think they have a little bit of are you kidding me? They're gonna come in here and beat us again?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think we all thought they might be Kentucky might be limping into this.

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Speaker 2: Game and we'd be Florida football too.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Amen, Yeah, I gotta throw that in there.

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Speaker 4: The fact that you know, Low came back and looks so well, Aberdeen played came in and playing so well. I think they just adds to our optimism about what can happen tonight.

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Speaker 3: Maybe scare Louis a little bit.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they may have the best guard on the floor, but our backcourt is better than their backport.

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Speaker 2: They have the most talented guard on the floor, but he's just in his third game, right, and he hasn't I mean, I think he's gonna be great. Like, I'm not trying to downplay him, but you know, I'm kind of glad we're catching him now because I think by the time you get to January and February, that kid's gonna be really good. This is just his third game, Shannon, this is his first big game, so it's a little bit of a different situation.

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Speaker 6: Both teams also trying to figure out manage minutes, try to figure out their rotation, so it's gonna be, you know, a learning curve I think for both teams tonight. But regardless, this game just means so much to this fan base.

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Speaker 2: Now, how many of you are going to the game tonight. Now, I mean, you can just see that's a pretty good crowd of hands. I think, Drew, there's gonna be more Kentucky fans in that building. I'm going to the Young Center for the first time in like eight years tonight. I haven't been there.

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Speaker 8: What are you out of your mind trying not to get punched?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I haven't been there. I haven't been there for a UKU of L game in a long time. But you know what, I was like, why not, I'll go down to the studio, I'll do show. I'll walk over there and uh, the last time I was there, their students section chanted, f you, Matt as I walked into the game into the arena, and so, uh, we're gonna try to do that again. Mario's going to He's gonna have to protect me. I've never covered a literally only five seven bodyguard in the entire He's got his chain wallet throughs.

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Speaker 8: Don't forget your letter of pants tonight.

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Speaker 3: That'll really intimidated.

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Speaker 5: I thought I never covered a Kentucky Louisville game, football or basketball in this in the city. I always thought I'd stay away, But then last summer I thought you know what, I'm a tiptoe win. I'll go to the TBT game just see how I fit in their community. You're gonna eat and I got hit and I'm like, you know what, that's why I don't go to their events. So I will be at home on the couch. I'm o for one on being in the same building as I did.

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Speaker 2: I didn't request a credential till yesterday, so I don't have a seat, so I may have to roam around and maybe that I don't know if that's the smartest move in the world, but I think that's what I'm gonna have to do.

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Speaker 3: But I feel like you're right.

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of Blues is gonna get in, so you may have a lot of people there to protect.

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Speaker 6: You know, how much do you think, by the way, if we're gonna go like percentage wise Kentucky fans get in today, Well, there have.

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Speaker 2: Been games in there. I mean there have been games in there where I think they've had twenty five percent of the crowd. I'd say tonight won't be quite that because because they're they're more excited about their team with Kelsey. But I think it'll be a lot and I think as you go to the top, it'll be a ton of Kentucky fans. Yeah, because those are the tickets that went on sale to the general.

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Speaker 6: This is the one game that Pat Kelsey doesn't have to go out and beg fans to actually come see them play.

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Speaker 8: They'll show up voluntarily tonight.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean they have not had good crowds so far. No, sure, but I actually but tonight it will. It will be full. Do you expect this group to be a group that the crowd impacts, meaning our team?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think so, and in a negative or positive way. Positive. Okay, both of these teams are new.

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Speaker 5: But on the Kentucky side, you still have Old Way who had seventeen points in this game last year. You have Brandon Garrison who tried to break someone's face last year. Jayla Loewey tho it was a different team. He's played Louisville plenty of times, played well. Pat Kelsey has lots of good comments about him. So you know, Louisville's got freshmen. They're pretty new team. We're a new roster, but we have more guys that have actually been in this specific rivalry game, and I think they'll be ready for the moment and at the.

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Speaker 2: End of the day. One thing to remember. Since the series restarted in nineteen eighty three, Kentucky is thirty one and fourteen. Even if you allow them the games that they have over the years had taken away by the NCAA, we are still eleven and three in the last fourteen. We absolutely own them, and there's no reason to think it won't continue tonight. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, the text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. We're gonna take a break. We are here at Beer Knows in Southern Indiana. We'll be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Warner back, it is Kentucky Sports Radio. Herelve at Beer Knows in Southern Indiana. I do want to take a second to just sit here and like I want you to look at this crowd on a Tuesday more. I mean, it's Tuesday in November. It's barely college basketball season, and we're not only closer to their home city, we're in a different state and this place is absolutely full. There is nothing like the Big Blue Nation anywhere. I would argue anywhere in sports, but certainly Drew anywhere in college basketball.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I like the show off HANSI earlier of who's going to the game too. That gives me more optimism about the crowd. Even liked that some of those people are already having a beer and it's not even ten thirty, so it should be a good environment tonight.

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Speaker 2: You know, Drew and I are going this weekend to Buffalo for the Bills. We're going to Tampa Bay and Buffalo, and that's obviously a fan base that has a unique set of passion. I'm interested to see and compare it. Are you going through a table this year? I'm so excited. Well, there's a balance because I want to join the mafia. Bill's MafA.

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Speaker 5: We do have to work, but we have to do a podcast that evening, So got to be a pitch count that we'll figure out in there somewhere.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to get up there. Let me also apologize to people about the audio on cover zero. It's Billy's fault. You should blame him. No, it's not Billy's fault. It just I'm just kidding. It's not Billy's fault. It just it just said if looks could killers, But no it just it didn't for whatever reason, the studio did not work well, which stinks because I actually think it was like our best episode. But you could hear it, but it doesn't sound the best because of it. The line Drew has jumped to now Louisville by six and a half. It it started, It started on Draft Kings at two and a half. It started on the other one at three and a half. It's gone up to six and a half. Now, you rarely, rarely in a college basketball game absent an injury, see ah see a move on the line that much? Are you? Is there something we don't know? Or is it just like early Like what do you? What do you make of that? That is extremely rare. That's weird.

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Speaker 5: And I hammered the three and a half. I'm kicking myself now. I didn't think i'd get a better number. I'ma have to get my money up with Garrett and double down on this. I can't believe it's six and a half without truths coming out and I haven't.

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Speaker 2: Seen or heard of anything. Yeah, so I would say to you promo code KSR, I mean you, six and a half is a heck of it. I can't imagine it stays at that. Normally, if I were to see a six and a move of four points this far before a game, you would have to think there's some piece of news that has leaked out. I have not seen anything. I've not heard anything, but Shannon, that is a really surprising move. And I don't think Louisville. I think Louisville could win, but I don't think they deserve to be a six and a half point move.

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Speaker 8: Two points.

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Speaker 6: Just this morning, it was four and a half when I woke up. Now six and a half. I just threw some money on it, So let's go. I hope I'll get tuck three of course, three leg parlay o way fifteen or more.

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Speaker 8: I did under on the one seventy four and a half. That feels kind of high.

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Speaker 2: I actually think this will ryan not be a high scoring game because I think both teams are still fining their offense. I think these teams are built a lot of like, to be honest with you, and actually I think under is probably a smart move.

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Speaker 3: They are very similar, especially on the offensive end.

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Speaker 4: They like to push the pace, get it up and down the floor, so on that aspect.

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Speaker 3: You'd think they would scrore a lot of points.

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Speaker 4: But Kentucky's defense to me, I believe is elite, elite, elite. So I think they're gonna shut them down tonight.

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Speaker 2: Because it's a big game. I brought out drew. These are the oh it must be the true blue customs. These nearly not. This is the shoes, the exact same kind of shoes Ashton Hagen's war. You may remember when he when he destroyed them in that game. Here this is not the exact same pair, but it's the same ones. I brought them out. Haven't worn these in a number of years as well.

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Speaker 5: Just shows how important this game is. We all have to do our part. And I know you're putting on your big, your game day shoes there to get fired up.

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Speaker 6: Your shoes look like cake. Have you seen these things on the online words? Is it cake? And it looks like you can cut right through it? What do you mean those shoes look like have you not seen that before? No, it's like things that look very realistic, but it's called is it cake? And you just show they just showing like cutting a nire through it. Your shoes look like that.

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Speaker 2: That's a nice Instagram algorithm that you're on who's the key player tonight for us? By the way, I mean, I think, oh to me, always a given. You can go ahead and sign up away for thirteen to sixteen points tonight. Right now, he'll be in that you said fifteen. Yep, that's where he's gonna be. I don't want to keep saying Jayalen Lowe is important, but he's important. But if you go back and look, I'm gonna assume those two guys play well. Jayalen Low's played well against Louisville multiple times, always oh way. But if you look at Kentucky's wins over the year against Louisville, there's always another guy. There's always some guy that's a secondary player like Dominie Hawkins was Georg's was that one year?

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Speaker 4: Who woo woo coush wukush that's right, So who is that guy?

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Speaker 2: Who? Do you think.

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Speaker 5: There will be one of those guys? Because there always is. And for me, I am gonna look towards the mountains and go with trenton Oa. Do you think he's playing from three?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 5: I was gonna add as long as he's healthy, because we don't know anything officially. If Trent know what plays. That's a guy who knows plenty about this rivalry. I don't think he even got in much at all last year though. So one of those under radar guys that I think you surprised everyone is Trent Noa getting hot.

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Speaker 4: How about I go Yellovich. I think then we need to Ma needs some outside shooting tonight, and that's one thing he can do.

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Speaker 2: He would be a surprise if he can't.

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Speaker 4: Maybe get somebody Cedric Jenkins and gonna big guy George who cost a big guy usually does something surprising.

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Speaker 8: Yellow Itch Moreno has been my guy from the beginning. You can ask Billy.

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Speaker 6: I was telling him, I think he's gonna be the guy that's gonna surprise some people off the bench. Of course, he just had eighteen last games, so it might not be that big of surprise if he has a big game tonight, but I think that he will tonight.

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Speaker 2: If you listen to this show, you're gonna be very surprised with my answer. I see three three pointers from a guy who's only made one all year. Cam Williams is gonna come in because he's gonna get the looks. Okay, he's gonna get the looks tonight, he has not made them. What would be more of a way to drive Louisville fans crazy than a guy who has not made a shot all year to come in and hit three against them. That would be to me, that would eat at them more than anything else, which is why I'd like to see.

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Speaker 5: It, not even one of the guys they're looking to. It'd be nice, you know, I still think he needs to break out of his shell. It'd be nice for him to have a big game. And you know, we always have the pictures of the guys that play well doing the the l's down, they get that MVP trophy.

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Speaker 2: I'd love for him, for him to be in that conversation. I also remember Antonio Reeves did it. He Antonio Reeves did it two years ago when he wasn't Antonio Reeves yet or you know, you know, not his senior year, he's junior year. He actually hit a couple of big shots in this game Ryan before he was Antonio Reeves, and then the next year he went off in this game. He was a guy who did really well in this series.

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Speaker 4: Can Williams is a good pick because we don't know Trent. No one's gonna play. If Trent doesn't play well, that gets cam minnies maybe some more minutes to get out there, maybe help him and do something.

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Speaker 2: Eight five, nine, two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna talk more about the game. I do want to take just a second because you know that nobody loves UH. If you think about the history UK basketball, the people who hated Louisville the most. Number one was Bill Kiteley, but number two was probably is probably Oscar Combs. And yesterday Oscar announced that his wife, Donna, Combe's wife of sixty one years, passed away from cancer. I just want to take us out. It's very very sad. But also on this UK U of l day, just to note because there's a whole generation fans. I'd say a lot of people in here know this, but there's a whole generation of fans who listen to us who don't realize Oscar Combe's history and his wife was a big part of that started. The Cat's pause basically made modern UK fandom. Modern UK fan media started with him, not just at UK, He and the and the place at Notre Dame started the whole notion of fan media all over the country. They had two of it. They were like, we can market directly to fans. It doesn't just have to be newspapers. His wife did a ton of the business stuff around Cat's pause. Oscar was the face, but like a lot of wives, she was in the background doing a lot of the work. He would be the most nerd. You think I'm nervous during uku of L games, you should have seen Oscar back in the day. He'd be backstage, pacing, nervous about it. That couple really is, in my opinion, the first couple of UK media and KSR would not be here. Without Oscar Combs and you folks here in the crowd, this would not have happened. So I want to take a second to honor her passing. Please everybody pray for Oscar. Nobody was closer with their wife than he was. And I hope tonight they get a win in her honor because I'd love to see Oscar Combs happy after the game this season. We're gonna take a break and we'll be right back here to talk more about the game. Little football news as well. This is Kentucky Sports Radio Live at Beer Nos in Southern Indiana. Workome back It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live, and Beer Knows, Beer Knows has the Mama Beer knows, pizza, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, green Evers, black Olls, blue black Holls, greenolves, top with the finest mozzarella cheese or their delicious sandwiches. Check it out. It is Mama Beer Knows. I love Beer Knows pizza. Leave aside the black olives, but the pepperoni and the rest. I'm a huge us.

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Speaker 8: I'll take the black olives loaded up, man, I love beers.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's there you go. Eight five nine two eight zero twenty two eighty seven. Uh, somebody sent me a message. I think this is true. Tonight, Kentucky and Louisville fans, right or excuse me, Kentucky and Louisville players will be wearing a black band on their jerseys in honor of the victims of the crash with the ups flight, the fourteen victims that occur, which I think is a really nice thing for the for the game tonight.

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Speaker 4: Nice touch for both teams to do that step up because it affected all of us and in this state, so good job.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Eight feb nine, two twenty two eighty seven. Still don't know why it went to six and a half, but a chance to make some money. Let's quickly before we go the phone stoops. It was announced, Drew said Zach Calzada. He basically insinuated he didn't play in the last game as a punishment, but that all is good now. He took responsibility and he basically said, hey, we're good. And then he also kind of took a shot I think at Garrett he was. He essentially said, we don't need fans trolling the players. Uh So, I thought, I thought, kind of the reaction we had, it looks like Calzada will be going forward if he needed to play, be able to play.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought it was interesting he added that part at the end. I mean, I agree with him, you shouldn't do that. But to hear, you know, a coach said that in the press conference. That's not normally a stoops is He's mister, I don't want headlines, you know, he's usually sticking to the script. But he made a point to say we will not surrender to trolls.

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Speaker 2: Is that Yeah, that's how he said it. We will not say that exact, but something like that. Yeah, I'm gonna say, he said, we won't give into the trolls attention to the trolls. Is it possible, Ryan, that they use this as a rallying point that as weird as that went, part of me wonders if the Garrett phone call might not have been a little bit of a rallying point like this, dude, you know this, dude, what's he he did it? Because you know the fact that the players did it and didn't, I mean, our starting quarterback did it like they they clearly didn't think they were going to get in trouble for it. I wonder if they used that whole thing as a rallying point.

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Speaker 4: I have no doubt it's been a rallying point and as unified that locker room, maybe a little bit more than even was, because you know, that is not.

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Speaker 3: The only player that gets trolled like that. Most of them do.

00:25:22
Speaker 4: If you play, you're getting trolled by some redneck hillbilly fan out there.

00:25:25
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa? What are you getting all worked up for?

00:25:32
Speaker 3: I'm back in my home state today, I can say how I feel.

00:25:36
Speaker 2: But that's right. Yeah, I read.

00:25:40
Speaker 4: Garrett's He issued an apology last night. Garrett, No, it was Okay, I'll get.

00:25:48
Speaker 8: It for you have to read it.

00:25:49
Speaker 2: But first of all, everybody's Garrett enough of a public figure to need to apologize.

00:25:54
Speaker 6: He's enough of a public figure for buzz Baker to retweet them.

00:25:58
Speaker 3: Well, I wonder until I saw it, I wonder for a reason to get it because he was getting so much pushback. People were clapping back at him.

00:26:04
Speaker 2: Okay, so what a Garrett say, I haven't got a patol? All right, Well you're looking it up. Do you think it may have been used as a rally?

00:26:11
Speaker 6: I think that we've got Garrett's picture up in the locker room, and that's gonna be the guy that we're gonna use his motivation to finish the season and go to a bowl.

00:26:18
Speaker 2: Very long tweet. It's a very long tweet. I'm gonna do the short version. Hey everyone, I've thought about my actions, and the message I said was uncalled for and very immature. It does not reflect on me as a person, and I'm sorry to Zach for putting it out there. It makes me and our football program look bad as a whole. Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm the biggest Kentucky fan in the world, and it makes our fan base look poor. I will do better and I will continue to cheer on the Cats. Now it's time to go get my money up and watch Kentucky take down the Cards tomorrow.

00:26:46
Speaker 3: Not I like that part.

00:26:47
Speaker 2: I did like that. That's a good way to end it. Maybe maybe we all learn something through all this, Drew Franklin.

00:26:53
Speaker 5: Well, we all need to be more financially responsible. We've learned that we need to get our money up.

00:26:58
Speaker 2: I like Garrett.

00:26:58
Speaker 5: He's replying to a lot of people, well, kind of being self deprecating. He's like, I gotta go back to just getting my money up. I mean he's looking to it too. So everybody, it's become fun.

00:27:06
Speaker 2: Now maybe everybody will score a w off this, which I wouldn't have necessarily seen. All Right, who's up first? God, Brant up first, Brent, go ahead, Brant.

00:27:17
Speaker 7: Hey Mack, good morning, guys. Hey, two things real quick first. After the louisvill player said that about Kentucky, I feel like the Kentucky guys on this team, the ones that are you know, from Kentucky, They're gonna come in and play very motivated tonight. I feel really good about uskating that win. And then secondly, on the football side, Steeps is gonna beat Louisville. I just I'm gonna already feel it. Vince left him to go to Louisville. He already hates Louisville. I feel like that's gonna be another win and he's gonna get to six and six. Thanks guys, Go Cats.

00:27:46
Speaker 2: I want you to think about just a second, like we can do this tonight, because who knows if we'll be able to do it tomorrow. Drew, I want you to think about the psyche of a Louisville fan if over the next two weeks we beat them in basketball and football, Okay, because they would have like they basically would have thought the football game was a given even ten days ago, and then with the basketball game, maybe especially after we lost to Georgetown, they probably thought, hey, we got what if we took them down Drew in both of these games in the next two weeks, both of them on their home field, home court. I think that would be pretty nice from the psyche.

00:28:24
Speaker 5: Pat Yeah, they've been very cocky lately now, not since the weekend, but just a week ago. Play off, this playoff that Kelsey's gonna get Pope Kentucky, you know, complaining about their roster, saying we don't have any stars. We've all seen all this stuff on Twitter, and now their tone has changed, and this morning, I know it's a lot of more of the Kentucky optimism and confidence online than what we're hearing from Louisill fans.

00:28:46
Speaker 2: For someone, it's not just that there's a little segment of Louisvill fans Ryan you know this, that think they're gonna get Cutter Bowli next year. I mean there's a segment of little they think that. There's a segment that believe all because you know, Vince was the main recruiter of Cutter when he was in when he was in Lexington. There are Louisville fans that think that if you were to go in and beat them twice, I think that would be absolutely only.

00:29:08
Speaker 3: I think we all agree with Kentucky fans.

00:29:10
Speaker 4: We cannot wait to win this game at the Ump Center and then come back in a couple weeks and beat them on their home football field and just ruin what they thought was gonna be a special season.

00:29:17
Speaker 3: Cannot wait.

00:29:18
Speaker 5: I gotta give them a compliment though, It's amazing how they talk themselves into stuff, only to lose all the time. It is really truly incredible how they get up in the morning and talk themselves into things. You cut up, Bowie is not going to Louisville. But the fact that they would even dream that just added to the list of them being delirious.

00:29:33
Speaker 2: You do have to give them some credit for delusional self confidence. I mean, they really are Charlie Brown kicking the football. I mean they lose, and they lose, and they lose, and then they get up Shannon and they're confident. Well, you know this year because their argument always flips. You know, for years they were like Col's freshman will never be able. We're experienced, and now this year they're going had those experienced guys they're not as good as our talent, Like they just don't they find a way to talk themselves into.

00:30:00
Speaker 6: Couple of years ago, you know, the fan base kind of got quiet, really wasn't chesty.

00:30:03
Speaker 8: But now i've kind of since that's coming back. That's true. Yeah, that was just pathetic what happened there.

00:30:09
Speaker 6: But then they came back, you know, and now they're they're kind of back to where they were before.

00:30:12
Speaker 8: But I think we shut them up tonight.

00:30:13
Speaker 5: And Kelsey's got a good roster. But they gave all the recruits they said they were getting and zero of them went there. They were gonna get DJ Wagner and then they were gonna get them to transfer there. What's the everybody was like bidding on some recruit last fall.

00:30:27
Speaker 2: I don't even remember.

00:30:27
Speaker 5: I didn't really get involved in that where you could like pay and the kid would maybe go to your school. I remember that Caleb Wilson somebody they thought they were getting him, the kid that just went to Kansas. But all of these guys, they had them already playing for Louisville in their minds, just to lose.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: Again.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: Let's talk about their actual team. So they they're a lot like us. I mean, they've got a lot of guards who can who can get around. They've got the kid from Virginia is a pretty good shooter. Prior has not played much. You've got Michael Brown there. They got a lot of unknowns. They really have not played well this year yet. I mean they lost to Kansas by a lot. There of course saying well, kanns a lot better than Kentucky even their two games, their first two games have kind of been. I mean, they have not looked good yet, so Ryan, it's hard for me to know what they are because I haven't really seen them play well yet. We've at least played well in a couple of games.

00:31:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know a whole lot about him yet. I did listen to one of their games, was on the radio, because I had him on eight forty an whas after your post game show again the next day in the game was.

00:31:27
Speaker 2: By the way, that's you want to talk about. For those of you from the Louisville area, how about this, how about Kentucky's gotten to the point that our pregame and post game show preempts their games? Okay, no, I mean think about that for a minute. Yeah, when I started on the radio, Louisville games preempted Kentucky games. Now the KSR postgame show preempts their actual game. Nevertheless, go ahead, and I know.

00:31:55
Speaker 3: They got three guys that are pretty Goodhooter Brown. I think one name's.

00:31:57
Speaker 2: McNeely, I mean me, he's a guy from Virginia.

00:32:00
Speaker 4: And then I got a third guy. And they like to play temple, which kind of that's what we like to do.

00:32:03
Speaker 3: Offensively. I just think Ard Bennage is on the defensive end. I just think we're so elite defensively.

00:32:08
Speaker 4: I don't know how much you're able to get inside and get those shots off.

00:32:11
Speaker 2: We have a text from a woman Karen Blondell, that's my mother. I've heard of Karen blonde saying, please tell Ryan to be careful with dispirit disparaging hillbillies. Even though I do like him, I am myself to apologize.

00:32:24
Speaker 3: No, because I'm myself a hillbilly.

00:32:25
Speaker 2: You're not gonna apologize to my mother.

00:32:27
Speaker 3: Oh, I apologize your mother all day long. Yeah. Absolutely.

00:32:29
Speaker 8: I don't think she was offended.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: No, I think she was offended on behalf.

00:32:33
Speaker 4: I think since I am a hillbilly, can I make fun of other hillbillies?

00:32:37
Speaker 2: H Yeah, you're gonna give him? Let him? Yeah, all right, fair enough.

00:32:43
Speaker 8: I was like, it's a way with things that other people don't, you know, listen.

00:32:46
Speaker 2: When it comes to especially when it comes to misogynistic.

00:32:49
Speaker 8: Comments like oh it's just Ryan, Oh.

00:32:51
Speaker 2: It's just right.

00:32:52
Speaker 3: He's an excitable boy.

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00:33:52
Speaker 4: You've not been over there and see not well Indiana then, But I thought you said Indiana's flat and cornfields.

00:34:00
Speaker 2: The word hill billy implies hills.

00:34:03
Speaker 3: If you live in it, you're a flat billy.

00:34:05
Speaker 4: Half of Indiana's hilly is the part you're from, Hilly half and half we got.

00:34:13
Speaker 3: We got a good solid four hundred residents in Otwell, Indiana.

00:34:16
Speaker 2: We're proud of it.

00:34:17
Speaker 3: Damn it.

00:34:17
Speaker 2: Uh twenty two eighty seven. Uh, let's what Brian Kelly? Okay, so did you see? Just interesting to watch? Probably's not gonna matter now for Kentucky after these two wins. I don't think we're gonna get to a situation that we thought we would. But Brian Kelly was owed fifty four million dollars. Apparently LSU went up to him and said, we'll give you thirty just to drop everything and go. Brian Kelly said, you owe me fifty four, you're giving me all fifty four. So now LSU is apparently is considering saying that they fired him for cause. I don't know how their argument is, we haven't actually fired you yet. We are going to fire you for cause. I don't know how they get away with that since they haven't let him coach. So he has now file a lawsuit asking for his fifty four million dollars. He's filing it this morning. Chinnon. This there's an alternate world where if we had lost to Auburn and Florida. This could be our life, Okay, I mean there's an alternate world that that could have happened, but that Brian Lsu had this issue with Orgeron, now with Kelly, and Brian Kelly, who seems like such a nice guy he is, he is like saying, I want all of my money and he's asking.

00:35:35
Speaker 6: For all fifty four million, and I'm glad we would you do the same, you know, I mean if it's in the contract, why are we signing the contract that says fifty four million? It's there? So I feel like Lsu owes him that money. That the thing is, how are they going to find a cause they're gonna make something out of the blue, you know that.

00:35:50
Speaker 8: Uh Okay, Well I would.

00:35:52
Speaker 2: Say to Brian Kelly, I hope you haven't done anything wrong in the last three or four years, cause I mean that's that's what they'll you know. That's why this starts to get dangerous is because you know, I mean with Orgeron, when he started fighting it, they were like, hey, who was that woman that went to all the practices? That was not your wife? Like like that's the you know you better like you better make sure because it sounds like LSU finds a way to find stuff.

00:36:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm not here to defend Brian Kelly. He seems like an arrogant jerk. But I will say they made an agreement, and you know, I would probably work with him by firing his shoes. But I completely understand why he hold his ground. Some piece of paper they signed said fifty four million.

00:36:29
Speaker 2: I'll ask you, guys, Let's assume you had done nothing wrong, because in your mind, if you do something wrong, maybe you would sign it. Yep. Let's assume you've done nothing wrong. They owe you fifty four million. They say, we'll give you thirty and we won't fight it. Are you taking the fifty four?

00:36:42
Speaker 3: You?

00:36:42
Speaker 2: Are you taking the thirty? You're fighting for the fifty five?

00:36:44
Speaker 8: Fighting for the fifty four?

00:36:45
Speaker 2: What about you?

00:36:46
Speaker 3: I'm fighting for the fifty four. I don't know LSU anything.

00:36:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you am me you had fifty called fifty. I'm not going to thirty. Yeah, that's a big jump.

00:36:57
Speaker 8: In that situation, Matt.

00:36:59
Speaker 2: I mean, if I haven't done anything wrong and I think the contract is right, I'm gonna say I might be like Drew. I mean, I literally might be like, all right, we don't want to pay for the legal fees, so go to forty eight or fifty, but like you owe me the money.

00:37:13
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean thirty is a big difference.

00:37:14
Speaker 2: It's a U and it's not like Mark Stoops here. Mark Stoops has good will with Kentucky. He'd like to come back and get the Rich Brooks Tubby Smith treatment. He'd like to have that. Brian Kelly has no good will. He's like, you all just threw your middle fingers up at me. So all the more reason I wouldn't want.

00:37:33
Speaker 8: This is not LSU for signing a lucrative deal.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: It is so.

00:37:37
Speaker 4: I got a question though, Yeah, if they're removing from his coaching duties, how can they come back later?

00:37:41
Speaker 2: And that argument seems ridiculous to me. Let me ask you a question. Just the thought here. If I were to say historically number one card killer in UK basketball history, when I say who is the card killer? Who's your top three in UK basketball history? Who would you put in the list? Rex? I think Rex has gotta be on it. I don't know if he's number one, but Rex has got to be on it because Rex was he had what two really good games against.

00:38:12
Speaker 3: All times he played Louisville.

00:38:13
Speaker 2: He dominated both times he played Louisville, so Rex would be one who else?

00:38:16
Speaker 5: So hung up on the calio where most of them only played him one time, trying to think of somebody who multiple games.

00:38:21
Speaker 2: Kyle Us had two really good games against them, if you wanted to if you wanted to do it that he had two, two really excellent.

00:38:29
Speaker 5: Aaron Harrison went undefeated against them and hit the the shot that knocked him out of the tournament.

00:38:33
Speaker 2: That's and that was their beloved team because Aaron, because that team, we beat them twice that year. I mean, we obviously remember the tournament, but a lot of people forget that we also beat him in the regular season. Surprised him that year in that one.

00:38:47
Speaker 5: As well, the Harrison's where they go four and oh against him, because then they won him the TVT. So they just they just kept there's your answer out harrowing in the tv T. Yes, still ask my job about the TVT. I still feel it, so of course I'm counting it. I think Eron Harrison has to.

00:39:06
Speaker 2: Be in it. You know, that's interesting how many people in the UK history have gone for and oh against the against Louisville. Probably not many.

00:39:12
Speaker 5: With a buzzer beater in the tournament that sent him home or not a buzzer beater, but I'll take.

00:39:17
Speaker 2: The Harrisons as one of them. That's good. What about older I mean we always remember Cedric Jenkins made the tip, But what about just in general? Who was the guy that you knew would play play well against Louisville.

00:39:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, we mentioned Wukash, I mean, is kind of a role player, but you always seen to have his best.

00:39:30
Speaker 3: Game out of the year against Louisville.

00:39:32
Speaker 8: So it was only one year. But Patrick Sparks Sparks.

00:39:38
Speaker 2: That's a really good one. That's a that's a great uk U of l moment when k Tubby comes up to him, goes, what are you doing for Thanksgiving? And then he just hits all those free throws. Do you think he walked? No?

00:39:48
Speaker 5: No, who's up the new Burg County?

00:39:53
Speaker 2: Who's up next? David is up next? David? Go ahead, David?

00:39:58
Speaker 9: Hey are you doing?

00:39:59
Speaker 5: Man?

00:40:01
Speaker 2: You just gotta have to talk Dad and I. We can't go ahead. You just gotta go because we've can't We've got feedback, so I can't cut, you know, go back and forth.

00:40:09
Speaker 9: Oh, Okay, I just want to say another I just want to say this about this rivalry. I think it is, in my opinion, it is better than Duke Gorcun because we played once a year and we get a four year bragging rise. Well, Duke and Carolina played twice and and it's not as fun. And if you split it, you know what I mean?

00:40:34
Speaker 2: All right, So I appreciate the call, David. I'm let me. I've been part of both. There's very few people, I would say, in the in the country who who've been on ground zero of both of those riffers. Here's the difference, all right. The quality of the Duke Carolina games is usually better because it's late in the year. Both those teams are usually really good. They're right down the street from each other, and usually the opposing does not get in. When you're at a Duke game, it's all Duke fans. When you're at Carolina, it's all Carolina fans. With that said, they don't hate each other as much as we do. They just don't. They they go to the same If you go to Duke and Carolina, y'all go to the same bars. Everybody dates each other, you know each other, it's not. Hey, this is different, Okay, this, I would say their games are better, but drew. The hate of Duke Louisville to me is much higher than it is of Duke Carolina, having spent times in both US.

00:41:31
Speaker 5: Oh, definitely, and there's been national people say that too, just not our opinion. The one thing I'll give them the edge though on their rivalry is that it's a little more balanced, Like Louisville is really not holding up their end of this rivalry, so it takes a little the fun out. So I don't ever want Louisville to win, but at least in that one they should put up a fight.

00:41:48
Speaker 2: This one's getting a little lopsided. True. They never beat us in Lexington, and we beat them more than they beat us in Louisville, so it's hard to call it a rivalry.

00:41:56
Speaker 3: And the hate is greater here.

00:41:57
Speaker 4: You people here that have to live at every single day fighting those people over there.

00:42:00
Speaker 5: That's exactly Did you know the scoring margin is double digits in the last fifteen years?

00:42:04
Speaker 2: Is it a rivalry game? That's embarrassing? Louisville figured out it is. So I would say Carolina Duke may have better games, but The better rivalry is Kentucky Louisville. We'll take a break, come back our number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.